(I had insomnia last night, and my braincase was dizzy today, so I updated it late)

"Lao Hu, Lao Hu, there's the latest bad news......

When such a sentence sounded in his ears, Hu Biao, Yang Dongli, Fengrui, AT, Dayu and others were standing on a hillside, looking at the flat ground below, and the training of a group of heroes from the rivers and lakes.

More specifically, it is in the various commands of 'stand upright', 'take a break', 'turn left', and 'walk in unison'.

A team of 55 people, under the high-pitched orders of the instructor's mouth, began to constantly make corresponding reaction actions, and it was quite timely and correct.

From a distance, it really looks like a scene of hands like arms and fingers.

After seeing such a scene, the expressions of Hu Biao and the others were a little strange; How so? They are all relieved, and they have a look that is really not easy.

Today's time is the third day of December in the first year of Kaiqing in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Hu Biao and the others arrived at this place, and more than a month had passed.

In this is the most important festival of the Han people every year, it has been less than a month; The current total number of people in the Xuange camp has reached 2,839.

Even if the two of them are removed, the people who went to various places to prepare funds, and the people who followed Xu Feng and others to send pensions; There are also intelligence teams, logistics teams, and these related personnel.

The heroes who were directly incorporated into the combat unit also had 2,310 people in number.

These people were organized into three battalions, A, B, and C, and it can be said that the abundance of manpower exceeded the initial expectations of Hu Biao and others.

At the same time, it exceeded their expectations, except for the number of people.

In addition, in the training of these heroes, some unexpected problems have also erupted.

What's the problem? To put it nicely, that is, these heroes are too romantic and unrestrained by nature, and they are very unaccustomed to strict military life.

If you have to listen to it better, these people are too face-saving.

It's all some guys who want to save face and suffer alive.

So much so that the rule of going to bed and waking up on time every day, and not drinking or gambling is even more uncomfortable for them than killing.

More importantly, they are not accustomed to the training methods and means of the new barracks

The training staff officers such as sharp and big fish, the original kind of kicking at every turn; Or maybe that kind of scolding is endless, which is a little inappropriate for them.

Joke! These heroes walked the rivers and lakes before, and what they paid attention to was their face.

Many times just for a word, or even a look, they think that they will lose face and pull out the guy and fight hard.

It's still a trivial matter to get a brain and blood, and many times your life is gone.

Therefore, where can a group of heroes stand this kind of abuse and beating, even the so-called instructor is the hero of the Xuange Battalion, these heroes they originally admired very much.

So it was only two days after the training, and there were more than a dozen brawls in the recruit camp, and hundreds of them found Hu Biao and Hu Daxia, shouting to leave.

Seeing this, Hu Biao had a good explanation.

Explaining that the rules in the army were originally strict, and the instructors were right about things and not about people, and after they must pay attention to ways and means in the future, these people temporarily stabilized them.

In the following time, Feng Rui and other instructors could only suppress their temper and conduct daily training during the day.

On the one hand, in the evening time, some ideological education was carried out.

In short, after almost a month, they always completed the queue training, and let the heroes develop good obedience and discipline.

After thinking of this, Feng Rui and Da Yu and the others almost cried out without excitement.

Fortunately, after the queue and discipline are completed, the remaining training subjects are relatively easy for these heroes with strong individual ability.

It is precisely in this way that Hu Biao and others breathed a sigh of relief.

Special! When it was the hardest, they finally got through it; It's just that they soon found out that they seemed to be happy a little early.

Because Yuanhai, a rookie, this game worker of the modern plane, ran over out of breath, and opened his mouth to have bad news......

After turning his head to look over, Hu Biao shouted at the rookie Yuanhai:

"Don't be so flustered, just pant out and then talk about it; There are so many people here, rest assured, the sky can't fall~"

Under Hu Biao's words, in the recent period, he is in charge of intelligence statistics and analysis, and he is more or less contributing part of his own strength to the team.

It took half a minute to calm down my breath and mood.

In front of Hu Biao and others, it was revealed that a spy from outside Xiangyang City had just galloped all the way and urgently sent back a bad news:

The offensive and defensive battle of Xiangyang City has officially opened.

To be more precise, that is, about five days ago, a total of 30,000 Mongolian vanguard troops, with the huge smoke and dust raised during the march, all the way to the city of Xiangyang.

And in the following period, every day there were thousands and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses arriving.

On the third day of today's lunar month, the total strength of the Mongolian side under the city reached 100,000; Standing on the city wall, I saw the huge camp that stretched out.

The hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city were all terrified.

Originally, they were still imagining beautifully, because the grain, grass and gunpowder accumulated by the Mongols in Nanyang City for many years were burned by Yang Guo, the Condor Hero.

The Mongolian side is short of food and grass, so this war against the Song Dynasty will be temporarily stopped.

Unexpectedly, the Mongolian side frantically collected grain and grass from ordinary people on the territory controlled by themselves in the north, and then transported it to the front line of Xiangyang in a steady stream.

In their hearts, the idea that they could live a peaceful year this year was completely ruined.

It was also from early this morning that the Mongolian side launched its first attack on Xiangyang City.

Even if it is only the Beidi Han army under his command, a total of three thousand troops have been dispatched; The attacking troops had no siege equipment of any kind, except for a few simple ladders.

One glance tells you that this is just a tentative attack.

In fact, in a burst of fire with the defenders of the city, the attacking Northland Han army only lost 100 people in battle, and then retreated in a hurry.

It's just that in the face of such a victory in the first battle, none of the soldiers and civilians in Xiangyang City were happy.

Because they understand that this Xiangyang City is related to the safety of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the offensive and defensive battles have been opened; And they can't wait for other reinforcements except themselves.

After hearing the above bad news, Hu Biao and the others, who had made Yuanhai not panic a few minutes ago, also frowned.

Even if they are based on the plot, they actually know something like this:

That is, under normal circumstances, around March 10 of the following year, before the arrival of Mengke Khan Mengke, the offensive and defensive battles in Xiangyang City were not actually very fierce.

The Mongols only occasionally launched some tentative attacks, and more importantly, they were mainly besieged.

It wasn't until Meng Ge arrived at the Xiangyang battlefield that Meng Ge launched a frantic attack, as if it was the first real siege, and tens of thousands of people were killed on both sides.

The problem is that if everything is really prepared according to the development of the plot, they don't know when they will suffer a big loss.

The reason is very simple, the grandson of the system will be in it, secretly poking and poking to make some tricks, which can be regarded as burying some mines for them.

It's like the highest level of lying, with one or half a lie mixed out of ten truths, making it harder and harder to tell the difference.

The system buries such mines, and the lethality is becoming more and more deadly.

In the end, Hu Biao frowned and thought silently, and then he already had an idea in his heart.

Turning his head to the people around him, he said: "These heroes, the level of subject training in the queue is basically enough.

That's why I've decided that from tomorrow the troops will start practicing battle formations and the coordination between the various arms.

Anyway, in the next month, the troops must have basic combat effectiveness; In this way, if there is any emergency, we will not be in a mess.

After the troops pull it up, they can go directly to the top.

If there are no emergencies, it would be better if everything continued according to the original plot; It's just a matter of strengthening training for the problems that have been exposed. ”

In the face of Hu Biao's statement, everyone did not have any objections.

Only Yang Dongli raised a question in other aspects:

"Since you have to train in other subjects, you naturally can't do without the corresponding weapons and equipment, how are the preparations on the side of the martial arts? That's more than 2,000 sets of armor and weapons. ”

"It seems that the situation over there is quite good, why don't we go over and have a look together?" Hu Biao's mouth was so proposed.

At such a suggestion, everyone nodded their heads.

Immediately, everyone walked in groups, along the winding mountain road, towards another canyon a few miles away, straight over......

******

Wudao Gorge, as the name suggests, is composed of five gorges.

With the foot strength of Hu Biao and others, even if they didn't use the light skills that are now the entry, they soon came to the equipment manufacturing base that was personally selected by the martial arts after some inspection:

Xiangshui Waterfall.

The reason why this place was chosen is, of course, because relying on the drop force of a waterfall here, some large waterwheels can be built to provide relatively sufficient power for the hydraulic forging hammer.

After Hu Biao and the others arrived, they immediately saw more than a dozen hydraulic forging hammers lined up all the way.

In a very rhythmic movement, 'Jingle Bell~' is constantly beating the red-colored steel rough on the iron felt, allowing them to take shape quickly.

In terms of overall efficiency, it looks pretty good.

Seeing Hu Biao and others coming, who was instructing a blacksmith on how to rely on the hydraulic forging hammer, the warrior who made plate armor saw this, and immediately greeted him.

Far away, a sentence came out of his mouth:

"Hey, what kind of wind is blowing today, but our Hu Daxia, as well as many other heroes, have been blown to the broken place of our equipment group, and they are shining."

"Don't talk nonsense, we're about to go to war if we can't do it, so let's see how your equipment is prepared, and how much is in quantity?"

After hearing this, Hu Biao replied angrily.

After hearing that 'I can't do a good job of going to war', the owner of the small hardware store also knew the severity, and immediately put away the hippie smile on his face.

didn't even need to reminisce at all, just like a few treasures, a string of data exploded:

"In terms of armor, the number is a little less, a total of 219 sets of full-body plate armor have been built, and a total of 410 sets of cloth armor and related accessories have been made.

In terms of weapons, the situation is a little better in comparison.

There are 392 Mo knives, 1,095 throwing spears with armor-piercing cones, 877 throwing axes, 191 iron-inlaid one-handed shields, 355 one-handed axes, and 366 other blades.

Auxiliary equipment such as thistles and horse rejection did not have time to be built at all.

However, as the craftsmen become more and more proficient, if they are asked to work three or four hours a day, they should be able to complete eighty percent of the equipment in a month.

If it is two months later, there will still be a considerable amount of excess equipment in reserve~"

After hearing such a statement, Hu Biao and others breathed a sigh of relief; At such a rate, it should be too late to manufacture equipment.

It should be noted that because of the strong individual combat effectiveness of the heroes of the rivers and lakes, the composition and combat methods of their Xuange Battalion this time are very different from those in all previous missions.

There were no cavalry units at all, and all the combat units were infantry.

The more than 300 war horses captured last time were also divided among the spies and logistics, and there was no trace of forming a cavalry unit at all.

To go into more detail, it looks like this:

First of all, this time the people in front of them were not sword and shield men.

Instead, Yishui was wearing full-body plate armor on the outside and a light chain mail on the inside, like a tin can, heavy infantry, and the weapons in their hands were all famous Mo knives.

Just like the Mo Dao team of the Tang Dynasty in the past, the fat and round-waisted people were selected to play and stand like a wall in front of the team; No matter what rushed up, it was a knife down, and they were all broken.

Secondly, the troops behind the heavily armed Modao team were not crossbowmen, but lancemen from Yishui.

On the one hand, it is mainly a bow and arrow, and there is no long-term water grinding work, and it is impossible to practice a quasi-head.

On the other hand, how can the spear throwers played by these martial arts heroes be the same as those played by ordinary people; The terrifying arm strength they possess completely gives the throwing gun a long range and lethality.

Finally, there are melee combat teams with one-handed shields and one-handed battle axes, as well as various weapons.

Whether it is a spear thrower or a melee fighting team, the armor they are equipped with is a lighter cloth armor.

Such a lightweight, but also relative; Because in such a cloth armor, it is inlaid with a 1 mm thick piece of 100 steel armor.

With such a thickness of armor, the Mongolian archers were within thirty or fifty paces, and it was difficult for them to penetrate even with heavy arrows.

The sharp scimitar in the hands of the Mengren, even if it is based on the speed of the horse, it is estimated that it can only cut a spark of smoke on it.

In addition, helmets, shin guards, and bracers are all complete, and the thickness may not be too thick, but the defense is quite good.

In short, this is the power and crushing of the Mongolian side in science and technology.

Of course, even if the team has enough trust in the teammate of the martial arts; But since they have come, how can we also test the quality of these equipment.

The problem is that Hu Biao picked up a Mo knife with a good blade, and when he was going to cut something to experiment, he found that there was nothing to start.

Then, Yuanhai, a little clever, said in his mouth: "Logistics got a lot of big fat pigs today, and they can be used to try the knife." ”

"Then what are you waiting for, hurry up~" Hu Biao's mouth shouted like this......

After taking a deep breath, the word 'kill' suddenly burst out of Hu Biao's mouth.

At the same time, a Mo knife that was infused with at least eighty percent of the physical strength and six success powers in his hand turned into a cold light and slashed fiercely.

The next second later, a big fat pig that was said to have been fed for more than two years had grown to almost 300 pounds.

Starting from the Tianling cover with a huge pig's head, all the way to the tip of the tail, it was cut in half alive, and it was directly killed neatly.

Suddenly, on the ground, there was blood flowing all over the ground, and there were still steaming internal organs soaked in blood.

After ignoring the above point, Hu Biao took the Mo knife, which had long blades on both sides, to his eyes.

I clearly saw that under the knife, even if there was a block of the entire pig's vertebrae, the big fat pig was split in half.

But there is no trace of residual blood hanging on the knife body, and it is still very bright.

On the sharp blade, there was only a gap the size of half a grain of rice, and suddenly Hu Biao drew a big thumbs up to the soldiers on the side.

In his mouth, he also praised it without a mouth:

"Warrior, your boy's craftsmanship and skills are getting better and better; After this mission is over, open the blind box and open a 'Level 8 Fitter Skill Book', which is no worse than the senior old bird of Wolf Qing. ”

At the moment when Hu Biao was speaking, the team Zhengfeng Rui, AT and others picked up some other strange knives or other weapons, and slashed at the big fat pig on the side.

It's basically one knife at a time, and there is never a need to make up for it.

When you slash it, the overall feel can be said to be very smooth.

When I thought of such a strange knife and weapon, which would be used in the future battle with the Mongolian iron cavalry, that beautiful picture of cutting people like chopping vegetables.

Immediately, there were satisfied smiles on their faces.

Sadly, the smiles on their faces didn't last long.

That was when the chef of Fan Zhu's team died in battle, because of the reason for making a good spatula, Barong, who was temporarily serving as a chef, arrived after hearing the news.

After seeing the blood and internal organs all over the ground, he immediately jumped to his feet and scolded:

"You guys, aren't you cheap? If you want to test whether the weapon is good or not, you go and chop the wooden stake and find a stone to split.

I begged the concubine, and finally got these big fat pigs, but I still thought about the pickled sauerkraut some time ago; Pour some blood sausage today and get some pig-killing dishes.

As a result, now the pig's blood is bleeding all over the ground, and it has eaten a wool, isn't this a bad thing? ”

In Barong's scolding, everyone immediately looked at each other......

(End of chapter)