After a poor road has its own clever plan, Chai Lao Dao strode out directly, although he didn't know what he wanted to do, the group quickly caught up with Chai Lao Dao's pace.

From the collapsed courtyard, to the door of the Jade Void Temple, and after seeing the majestic and murderous dozens of soldiers at the entrance of the Jade Void Temple, Chai Lao Dao stopped abruptly, stared at his own master and nephew, and then shook his head a few times, his mouth seemed to be chattering, old, old......

Originally, Chai Lao Dao was going to take them there in person, but at this moment, under the impact of a sense of loss, Chai Lao Dao's pace of tiger standing on the dragon plate stopped.

When the wind-like figure stopped, it became a pine tree and stood proudly upright.

After standing at the door, Chai Laodao smiled and looked at Xiao Junpeng, who looked confused.

"Senior nephew, do you know why I finally chose to stay here after traveling to the clouds?"

"Not because of a serious illness......"

"Of course there is a serious illness, but it is only one direction, because the Taoist of the Jade Void View has a deep attainment in the way of the pill, and it is also because there are mountains, water, people, seas, and mines here!"

"Guanyang here, there are many wind and rain in summer, wind and snow in winter, under the damp, hot and frosty, the mountains and rocks here are mostly red, can the master and nephew know why?"

"Iron?"

Chai Laodao smiled with satisfaction, raised his hand and pointed to the east.

"It's a valley where the food is red, but at the same time it is accompanied by sulfur!"

Hearing that there was sulfur, Xiao Junpeng's eyes lit up suddenly, sulfur is one of the three basic raw materials for the configuration of black powder, which cannot be found in ordinary places, but he didn't expect that there was a vein associated with sulfur here.

Although it is not a finished product, it is already precious, not to mention that he has so many brothers and sisters, and he has a long army of money, so it's a big deal to prepare now.

Looking at Xiao Junpeng with a satisfied smile and a satisfied heart, Chai Laodao smiled, very satisfied with the performance of this nephew.

After learning that there are ore veins, not directly usable sulfur, not everyone can be as satisfied as Xiao Junpeng in front of him.

They're going to complain, they're going to be dissatisfied, they're not going to think why, they're just going to feel like they're not making fault for not giving the sulphur directly to them.

As for Xiao Junpeng, Chai Laodao could clearly feel that Xiao Junpeng was already eager to refine the sulfur himself.

Not to mention anything else, in terms of heart, in terms of simplicity and frankness, Chai Laodao feels that his nephew has crushed the vast majority of Taoist priests.

Chai Laodao believes that with the development of the current situation, when Xiao Junpeng completes his experience and completes the goal of "Weijia Hainexi returns to his hometown", he may have a bright future when he returns to Daomen.

"In this case, the sulfur is solved, and the charcoal should not need me to teach you!"

Charcoal is obviously the raw material that you don't need to worry about, whether you are a Taoist priest or a craftsman, burning charcoal is the basic skill of the Changying Army Engineer.

Although there are no coal mines, there are mountains, forests, and a sapper to provide technical guidance, leading dozens of people, and it is too difficult to make up the required number of two or three.

Xiao Junpeng nodded like a chicken pecking rice, originally thinking that his uncle would finish what he needed in one breath, but he didn't speak after talking about charcoal, so he had no choice but to ask himself.

"Uncle, but what about saltpeter, saltpeter is not easy to find......"

Halfway through the words, seeing the not very serious smile on Chai Laodao's face, Xiao Junpeng said Shi Ran.

"Uncle Shi, do you have inventory?"

"Smack!"

Xiao Junpeng, who was slapped hard again on the head, complained bitterly, he knew that he would not be clever from the beginning, and this fire has not been finished yet!

But Xiao Junpeng can only bear it honestly, if he can satisfy his uncle with two more slaps, after all, saltpeter is easy to find, but if it is obtained on a large scale, it is difficult to compare, but it is much higher than sulfur.

Then, after a slap, Chai Laodao didn't do it.

"Uncle Shi, now the military situation is urgent, if Uncle Shi has any other requirements, please speak up, but whenever possible, Junpeng will definitely do his best."

"Ahem!" Gently concealed the embarrassment.

"Breeze, Bright Moon!"

With Chai Lao Dao's angry call, the two Dao boys came to Chai Lao Dao.

"Master!"

"You go and help me inform the villagers, and ask them to help transport the things I asked them to collect before to ......."

"Nephew, where is your camp?"

"Five miles northeast of the old county of Guanyang."

"Hear that, Qingfeng Mingyue, let the villagers send those things directly to my Tang Army camp five miles northeast of Guanyang Old County."

"Uncle Shi, what are you ......?"

"Practice medicine to help the world, give medicine to medicine, by the way, please ask the villagers to help me in front of the house and behind the house, pigsty, sheep house, drowning place saltpeter is not very strange, although Guanyang is not as prosperous as Guanzhong, but the entire Guanyang mountains, forests, lakes and seas, there are tens of thousands of people, is it difficult to obtain a thousand catties of saltpeter?!"

Hearing that Chai Laodao could let the entire county count and tens of thousands of people to help him collect materials, Lu Xiaobing was also very surprised!

As a senior general of the Changying Army, Lu Xiaobing once heard Guo Rong say a noun once, and he was fooled.

In the past, Lu Xiaobing didn't understand the essence of this so-called fool, but today he seems to understand it all at once.

Although it is a way to give medicine to the doctor, it is driven by tens of thousands of people willingly, which is a fool.

In a sense, this Qingxuzi Dao Changdao, who looked a little crazy in front of him, had far exceeded his expectations, and most of them had already reached the realm of great flickering.

What is my biggest lack now, manpower, manpower!

Lu Xiaobing doesn't need the same trend of tens of thousands of people as Chai Laodao said, he only needs 10,000, or even 5,000 young people, and he doesn't even need them to participate in the war, he only needs to help himself participate in the transportation and supply of logistics.

Looking at the front of him, this one can fool most of the people in the county, Lu Xiaobing's eyes are more pleasing to the eye than looking at women.

Chai Lao Dao's requirements are actually not high at all, but he hopes that the main hall used for his alchemy will be repaired.

This thing may indeed be very troublesome for Chai Laodao, after all, he needs to find someone to design, collect materials, find someone to construct, and complete the repair, which is indeed very troublesome for ordinary people.

However, for the Changying Army, which has a standard engineer battalion, it is not too simple to build a house!

So, Xiao Junpeng had just finished thanking him, and Lu Xiaobing came up directly.

"Senior Qingxuzi, what regulations do you think your hall needs to be repaired?"

"Huh?"

Chai Laodao lightly crossed, and the next moment he raised his eyebrows, he heard Lu Xiaobing's words very clearly, and the key details naturally would not be missed, and they were repaired directly, rather than giving money.

In fact, this situation is obviously a better choice for Chai Lao Dao, after all, even if he has the money and completes all the preparations, it will take months or even half a year to build the new hall.

If this general is willing to help his family directly, it will be even more unwanted.

"According to the opinion of the last general, it is just a simple restoration that is not worthy of the profound mystery of the Taoist, and I secretly think that more than 100 years have passed since the construction of the Yuxu Palace since General Wei Chi Jingde was built, and it should be completely renovated on a large scale, I don't know what the Taoist will do?"

Everyone is catching up, what else can this mean, it is naturally a good word, but Chai Laodao glanced at Lu Xiaobing meaningfully, and he was courteous and attentive, either a traitor or a thief......

"This general, the general's kindness is understood by the poor Dao, and the poor Dao is indeed willing to accept the general's kindness, but some things are still clear."

"The general is willing to do this, there must be something he wants, and Poor Dao does not dare to guarantee that he can meet all the general's ideas, and asks the general to tell Poor Dao what he needs to do, and allow Poor Dao to think about it carefully."

"Lao Lu, just tell Uncle Shi directly what you want to do, with Uncle Shi's character, if you can, you will definitely not refuse."

"Since that's the case, then I won't say much, I need people, I need at least 10,000 strong men!"

Hearing the words 10,000 strong men, Lao Dao's face changed directly.

Nearly sixty years old, he has seen too many things after traveling most of the Tang Dynasty, in his opinion, no matter what army, the use of strong men essentially has only one purpose, then let these so-called strong men go to death!

He likes to be clever, likes to play some scoundrels, is he also swaggering, and his actions are not above board, but those are all trivial in his heart, and they are absolutely non-negotiable in this kind of matter, whether the main hall is repaired or not, and whether the house is built or not is a trivial matter.

In order to cultivate a Taoist temple for himself, so that the people who believe in themselves and trust themselves will be sent to death, he can't do it!

In fact, even Xiao Junpeng was shocked at first glance, 10,000 people, but after thinking about Lu Xiaobing's plan and the logistical support needed to complete the plan, Xiao Junpeng was quickly relieved.

However, what Xiao Junpeng understands, Chai Laodao doesn't understand, after all, after all, it's really troublesome to explain things like technical auxiliaries to Chai Laodao.

Although Xiao Junpeng himself has not experienced it personally, it does not mean that Xiao Junpeng does not understand, just because it is too common for ordinary feudal towns to pull Zhuang Ding as cannon fodder.

On the contrary, it is too rare for the Changying Army, which has a complete set of professional auxiliary troops, from logistics to supply, to medical care, reconnaissance, and engineers, to serve the army with only a small number of soldiers.

Chai Laodao actually still doesn't know Xiao Junpeng's true identity in the Changying Army, only that Xiao Junpeng is from Zhongnan Mountain down the mountain to practice.

Seeing that Xuzi's eyes were getting colder and colder, Xiao Junpeng knew that his uncle must have misunderstood, and Lu Xiaobing obviously hadn't seen that his uncle was already angry.

Ask if it's his uncle Xiao Junpeng, who doesn't dare to provoke him!

After thinking about it, his uncle can't afford to mess with him, Lu Xiaobing can afford to provoke him in total, and the most important thing is to use the fastest way to shut up Lu Xiaobing, so he ......

Before his uncle completely turned his face, Xiao Junpeng rushed to Lu Xiaobing with an arrow step and kicked him in the crotch.

"Oh!"

After a scream and wail, Rao was blocked by the skirt armor, and Lu Xiaobing still fell to the ground, lying on the ground and talking about convulsions and silent moans.

Seeing this scene, Chai Lao Dao also felt that his Yuanyang body felt an inexplicable pain.

"Uncle Shi, let me tell you, things are not as ...... as you imagined"

For most of the day, when Lu Xiaobing finally stood up from the attack, the anger on Chai Laodao's face had dissipated most of it.

"You mean, he," Chai Laodao pointed to Lu Xiaobing, who had just stood up and his face flushed, "He needs two thousand people to support a mere four thousand people for a whole night?" ”

"Uncle Shi, now there are only four thousand, but General Guo's reinforcements are also on the way, and there will be 10,000 soldiers in a few days."

"But there are too many auxiliaries, 10,000 soldiers with 12,000 auxiliaries."

Listening to Xiao Junpeng's explanation more than once, Chai Laodao still felt incredible.

"Not so much ......"

After barely standing up, he understood what Xiao Junpeng was telling Chai Laodao, and Lu Xiaobing trembled and explained to Chai Laodao the so-called Changying Army.

It stands to reason that this kind of thing should not be told to Chai Laodao, but Chai Laodao was born in Taoism.

Zhongnan Mountain, Longhu Mountain, Maoshan Mountain, and Qingcheng Mountain, several major Taoist gates, for Li Tang and Changyingjun, need people to give people, need things to give things, need technology to give technology, and the strength of support can be called sparing no effort.

In addition, the old Taoist priest in front of him does have a unique influence at the moment, rather than letting Xiao Junpeng explain it half-understood, it is better for Lu Xiaobing to explain it thoroughly to Chai Lao Dao himself.

“…… Just like Xiao Junpeng, he doesn't belong to the professional auxiliaries in my Changying Army, and of course he is also very special among the auxiliaries......"

Sure enough, Lu Xiaobing's understanding of the formation of the Changying Army to the establishment and tactics is far beyond the ability of Xiao Junpeng as a technical troop.

Hearing the end, Chai Lao Dao understood, but he raised one last question.

"One way of gunpowder, different paths to the same end, can the poor road know why General Lu needs so much gunpowder?"

Looking at Chai Laodao's serious appearance, Lu Xiaobing hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke.

"Actually, there is nothing to say, there may be no living Tang people in Wendeng County and the Tang land east of Wendeng County."

Chai Lao Dao: !!

Xiao Junpeng: !!

At the same time as he said this, Lu Xiaobing's whole person seemed to have been relieved of a heavy burden.

"Lao Lu, what you said is true?"

Looking at the shocked Xiao Junpeng and the solemn Chai Laodao, Lu Xiaobing shook his head gently.

"That's not what I said, it's the general's speculation!"

"However, when I left Jimo, the general just asked me to obey your arrangement, and he didn't indicate this at all!"

"Lao Xiao, that's Jimo! The foundation of my future navigation in the Tang Dynasty, the general didn't want Jimo to fall into panic, so he wrote his speculation in the letter. ”

"The general said that the people of Dongying seem to be modest and harmless, but they are all human-faced and beast-hearted, ferocious, violent, evil, and do everything, although birds and beasts are unmatched."

"The people of Jiaodong sea, facing the waves, have a tough temperament, and the Japanese occupy their land, and they will not give up, and then half a year has passed, but there is no voice of Wendeng Haimin in the whole world."

"At least the people of Jimo haven't seen any sea boats from Wendeng for half a year, and in the past two days, in Guanyang, during the inquiry, they have also not seen any fishing boats from the east for at least half a year."

Chai Laodao, who had not spoken again, silently closed his eyes, he knew that it was impossible for Lu Xiaobing to deceive himself, that is to say, most of the speculation of the general named Guo Rong was true, and most of the people of the Tang Dynasty east of Wendeng might have died.

Compared with those bald people who like to open the door to collect money in the name of eating fasting and reciting Buddha, the disciples of Taoism prefer to find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to prosper and hide in the world.

Of course, not every true monk is greedy, and not every Taoist disciple has a righteous and chivalrous heart.

However, at this moment, when the old Taoist opened his eyes again, the person was still the same person, but what Lu Xiaobing felt was a kind of bloodshed and depression that could not be described in words.

"Senior nephew Xiao, send someone to send a letter to Zhongnan Mountain!"

"It's Uncle Shi, please speak!"

"It's time for the Taoist priest to go down the mountain!"