Two days later, Jiuyuan County Ya.

After listening to Lu Bu's report, Liu An selected a more capable Xianbei man from the captives he brought back and used the Death Card.

They are all people who have already surrendered, and Liu An can directly use the Death Card.

Then Liu An called the man who had used the dead card to a separate room and asked:

"What is your status in the tribe?"

People with high status can know more information than people with low status.

The reason why Liu An chose a person with outstanding ability was that he felt that this person's status should not be low.

And although those captives surrendered, their loyalty was similar to nothing, and before the death card was used, Liu An thought that even if he was interrogated, he would not get the information he wanted.

When the man heard Liu An's question, he replied honestly: "I have forty or fifty people under my command, according to Dahan, it is considered a team leader, and the leader of our squad was beheaded by General Lu at the beginning. ”

When Liu An heard this person speak Chinese, which was not fluent, he knew that this person's status was not low.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xianbei and the Han Dynasty had frequent contacts, and in some places, the Xianbei people even had transactions with the Han people.

Therefore, although the other party has its own language, it is also actively learning the Chinese pronunciation in order to communicate with the Han people.

It's just that most of the people who have the opportunity or need for this are Xianbei people with a certain status, such as those ordinary Xianbei soldiers brought back by Lu Bu, most of whom can't actually speak Chinese.

Since this person knows Chinese, it is much easier for Liu An to interrogate.

Next, Liu An asked many questions, and this person answered them truthfully.

From this mouth, Liu An learned a lot of information about the Xianbei people.

It turned out that at the beginning of last year, the major tribes of Xianbei were unified, and the Xianbei royal court was established in Danhan Mountain, and Tanshi Huai, who ruled the Xianbei people for nearly 20 years, died, and his son Helian succeeded to the throne.

But Helian, both in terms of ability and courage, is far inferior to his father, and many of his subordinates are dissatisfied.

Moreover, this person was greedy for money and lustful, and soon after he succeeded to the position of leader, he was shot to death by local officers and soldiers when he attacked the northern land of Liangzhou.

After the death of Tanshi Huai, the Xianbei regime, which had been slightly loosened, gradually separated, and the western Xianbei west of Youzhou Daijun was directly separated from the rule of the Xianbei royal court, and since then it has been in its own way.

In addition, Liu An also learned that there were more than a dozen large and small tribes in the western Xianbei, and the largest of them was the Xianbei tribe to which the soldiers Lu Bu encountered.

This tribe has more than 30,000 people, including men, women, old and children, as well as Han people who have been taken captive from the Han Dynasty in recent years, among which there are more than 6,000 capable warriors.

In addition, there are two smaller tribes, with more than 10,000 people and between 2,000 and 3,000 capable warriors.

The rest of the tribes are all small tribes with less than 10,000 people, but there are more than a dozen of them.

It's just that the leader of the tribe to which this person belongs is not as capable as Tanshi Huai, and the separation time is too short, even if this branch is implemented well, it still has not unified the western Xianbei.

At this time, there was no unified voice among the Xianbei tribes in the west.

But the nomads' sense of respect for the strong is engraved in their bones, and a consensus has been formed between them that the strongest give priority to the best resources.

According to this person, after the autumn harvest, their tribe was the first to go south to plunder, and after they searched the Han land, they were the two large tribes under it, and then according to their strength, the other small tribes went south to plunder food and materials either alone or together with other tribes.

After getting the information he wanted, Liu An arranged this person into his personal guard, and the rest of the soldiers who did not use the dead card were all dragged to work in the mountains in the north.

Next, Liu An asked Zhang Fei to take 1,400 cavalry, led by Lu Bu, and go to the iron mine discovered by Lu Bu to check.

Behind the large army, there were also several wagons pulled, on which were placed some of the tools for digging and digging, as well as a lot of dry wood.

After Lu Bu found that there was iron ore in the big pit, it was naturally impossible for people to bury the big pit, so he threw the body aside and returned with the captive war horse and the corpses of his subordinates first.

Among them, there are family victims, Liu An asked his subordinates to send a pension of 40,000 yuan each, and those who have no family members are buried alive.

In the evening, Liu An and his party found the place where Lu Bu found the iron ore.

A few days had passed, and the corpses of the dead Xianbei had rotted in a stinking state.

The weather in August is like an oven, even if the sun has set, it is still hot and sweaty.

In the distance, Liu An saw a swarm of buzzing flies on the rancid corpse.

Before he came, he had expected this situation, and deliberately asked people to bring a lot of dry wood, under such high temperatures, burying them on the spot would also breed a lot of bacteria, and the best way was to burn the corpse directly.

Fortunately, Lu Bu had not yet thrown the corpses into the pit, otherwise he would not have been able to carry out the excavation work at all.

Liu An had all the corpses burned with wood, and the fire burned until midnight, when all the corpses were burned.

After the fire was smaller, Liu An had already asked people to dig under the pit by the light of the fire.

There were enough people to bring this time, and it didn't take long for the dirt to be dug up, revealing a large area of iron ore.

In this way, Liu An can already be sure that this is indeed an iron ore mining area.

But unfortunately, this place is not the Han realm, it is too close to the Xianbei tribe, if Liu An wants to start digging iron, he must always be on guard against the Xianbei people who may come at any time.

Until the Xianbei threat is resolved, the iron ore in this place will not be able to be used.

After confirming, Liu An asked his subordinates to fill back the soil, cover all the exposed iron ore, sprinkle a layer of dry soil on it, and then rushed to Jiuyuan with everyone in the starry night.

If Xianbei can be defeated after the autumn harvest, and the results of the battle can be expanded, and all the western Xianbei will be subdued, then the huge amount of iron ore contained here will become one of Liu An's other capitals to compete for the world!

At the same time, it is also crucial to obtain information from the Xianbei soldiers, at least Liu An has a position on the strength of the first wave of enemies he ushers.

The opponent has more than 6,000 capable fighters, so if the difficulty is the largest, if the opponent pours out, he will face more than 6,000 cavalry.

With Liu An's current strength, facing the enemy head-on, there is little hope of victory.

Sure enough, it was right to take out the medium-sized throwing car and adopt the strategy of defending the city.

And Jiuyuan, as the county of Wuyuan, is the richest and most material city, and the other party goes south to plunder and prepare for the defense of the Han people, and will directly take the richest Jiuyuan.

On the contrary, when the Han people heard the news, they made preparations and fled south with money and food, which was more convenient than it lost.

Therefore, in the past, Xianbei went south, after the autumn harvest, without giving the Han people time to prepare, quickly plundered Jiuyuan, and then swept away the materials that could be scavenged elsewhere.

On the morning of the second day, after returning to Jiuyuan, Liu An rewarded Lu Bu with five horses of silk, ten catties of fine salt, 10,000 yuan, and 100 yuan per person.

And let them rest for a day, and the next day go back to the barracks to merge with the Gao Shun Department and train together.

Zhang Fei's 1,400 cavalry was assigned to Lu Bu 700 and trained separately.

In the past few days, under Liu An's heavy recruitment, the eight hundred township warriors and one hundred women recruited before were all in place, and Liu An asked them to replace Liu Bei's soldiers, and they were still handed over to Liu Bei to be responsible for metallurgy in the northern mountainous areas.

And the replaced soldiers, Liu An was also handed over to Gao Shun for training.

can train generals who have fallen into the camp, and Liu An has given great trust in training troops.

After receiving Liu An's reward, Lu Bu went home to make up for sleep, and came to the barracks in the evening to accept his own 700 cavalry.

Since he was a child, he has been powerful and martial arts, and he has long dreamed of being able to lead an elite cavalry to gallop across the country.

Now that Liu An has given him this opportunity, he is very excited in his heart, and today's dream is full of highlights when he led his cavalry to charge and kill the enemy and take the head of the enemy general.

Zhang Fei did not play tricks on the division of troops, the soldiers for Lu Bu were completely arbitrarily drawn, he would not despicably give all the weak soldiers to Lu Bu, and the strong soldiers were kept for himself.

After Lu Bu checked his soldiers, Zhang Fei took the newly acquired divine weapon, the Zhangba snake spear made of divine stones, and found Lu Bu.

"Wu Na, dare to fight with me Zhang Fei for another 300 rounds!"

Lu Bu was happy at this time, and glanced at Zhang Fei angrily, ignoring it.

Immediately afterwards, he noticed that Zhang Fei had changed to a new weapon, and with the intuition of a martial artist, Lu Bu instinctively noticed that this spear was extraordinary, and couldn't help asking:

"Is this the weapon made of the Divine Stone?"

When Zhang Fei heard this, he raised his eyebrows proudly, and stood the Zhangba Snake Spear in front of him, but he didn't answer Lu Bu's words.

Seeing this, Lu Bu already had the answer in his heart, he ordered the cavalry under his command to disband, gather here early tomorrow morning, and couldn't wait to get on his horse and go to the north of Jiuyuan City.

At this time, it was almost evening, and Lu Bu originally only planned to come over to see the soldiers and train him, but he was not prepared to start training today, since the divine soldiers had been built, he naturally took the weapon first.

The four weapons, Lu Bu's Fang Tian Painting Halberd, Zhang Fei's Zhangba Snake Spear, and Liu Bei's Male and Female Double-strand Sword, are all very common ancient weapons, and only Gao Shun has created an ordinary spear that is a little longer.

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In the next half month, Liu An used the gold produced in the northern mountains to buy a large amount of iron raw materials from all over the country, and transported them to Jiuyuan to hand over to the craftsmen of this subway, and hired them to make various agricultural tools at a daily wage of thirty wages.

During this period, Fu Zhao took the time to return to Jiuyuan, gathered all the blacksmiths in the city, taught them by word and deed, and taught the steel filling method and the double-liquid quenching method free of charge.

If there are enough farm tools, it can greatly increase the speed at which farmers can harvest grain, and can buy Liu An precious time to prepare for the battle with Xianbei.

During this time, Liu An gained the loyalty of many Jiuyuan people, and after paying off the 100 contribution points overdrawn by the lottery plate during the war, he saved another 183 contribution points.

Liu An, who is familiar with the matter of throwing a medium-sized car, has not forgotten it, and he specially took two days to let the sergeant actually operate the throwing car.

And among the soldiers, more than 200 people who are talented in throwing the car were selected, and they spent a few days to familiarize themselves with the throwing car and be able to achieve accurate positioning, and then let them return to the barracks to continue training.

During this period, Liu An was pleasantly surprised to find that during this period of time, Zhang Fei's force value actually increased by 3 points.

I don't know if he is really talented, or because he is obsessed with martial arts and works tirelessly, of course, the biggest possibility is both.

In addition, Liu Bei and Gao Shun's forces only increased a little.

And Liu An himself has also made great progress, at this time his attributes are 60 in force, 69 in intelligence, 52 in command, 55 in politics, and 60 in charisma.

Towards the last days of the autumn harvest, Liu An asked the cavalry to stop training.

The cavalry was scattered across the border, closely monitoring the movements of Xianbei, and if the enemy had a tendency to move south, they would pass the news to Liu An as soon as possible.

Liu An drew a total of 130 carrier pigeons in the last draw, which was more than enough for the cavalry.

In terms of crops, the spinach that Liu An asked Meng Lan to plant had been harvested, but he followed Liu An's instructions to wait for the spinach to bear seeds and take the seeds before harvesting them, and then planted the seeds in the farmland.

On Cheng Ze's side, all kinds of domestic animals are also growing up healthily, female mammals have been conceived, and the first cubs of carrier pigeons have grown up.

After the news came from Luoyang and Zhuoxian, Liu An asked people to bring more than ten adult carrier pigeons to the two places by the way.

During this period, the person Liu An had previously sent to deliver letters to Cai Yan also returned, and also brought back Cai Yan's letters and the second batch of books, as well as more than ten adult carrier pigeon chicks.

This time, Cai Yan transcribed three volumes of "Liutao", "The Art of War" and "The Art of War" for Liu An.

In the reply, Cai Yan expressed doubts about what Liu An mentioned last time she did in Wuyuan, and she didn't believe that Liu An could have such great ability and charm at a young age.

Secondly, Cai Yan told Liu An about some major events in the DPRK and China that he had heard.

For example, the ministers of the DPRK and China advised to open warehouses for relief in areas where the drought was severe, but His Majesty did not allow it today.

For example, Yuan Kui was demoted too often, Wei Wei Dong Zhong was demoted, and so on.

The people sent by Liu An from Zhuo County also returned during this period.

From this, Liu An also learned that the last time the lottery plate was opened, it was a group of blind thieves who attacked the manor and were easily defeated by the Zhuang people.

In that battle, more than 300 enemies were killed, more than 200 soldiers were surrendered, and a number of weapons and horses were captured.

Later, Xiahoulan also led people to raid the thieves' den, and collected more than 800 thieves, as well as a number of money, food, and materials.

Red peppers, carrots, corn and soybeans have been harvested in the field.

Among them, the average yield of red pepper per mu is 25 stones, and a total of more than 1,500 stones are harvested.

The average yield of carrots per mu is nearly 60 stones, and a total of 600 stones are harvested, which is only 10 acres of pineapples planted in spring, and the other 10 acres are not yet ripe.

The average yield of corn per mu is 30 stones, and a total of 300 stones are harvested.

The average yield of soybeans per mu is 12 stones, 240 stones.

The harvested crops, Xiahou Lan are all saved, please tell Liu An what to do.

In addition, alfalfa has been harvested twice, and both have been fed to BMW's breeding according to Liu An's instructions.

When the messenger came to Wuyuan, the cotton was also ripe and was being picked under the organization of Xia Houlan and others, but the specific harvest had not yet been counted.

Similarly, the carrier pigeons in Zhuoxian County have also grown up, and more than 20 of them have been brought to Jiuyuan this time.

Liu An was also happy to see the crops in the field being harvested one after another.

Among them, only corn and soybeans belonged to the grains recognized by the Han Dynasty, and one stone was about 14 kilograms in modern times, and one stone of carrots and peppers was 30 kilograms.

After receiving the news, Liu An immediately replied, asking Xia Houlan to dry and grind the peppers, carrots to eat as vegetables, and corn and soybeans to be kept as seeds when the season is right.

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