Outside the city of Fanhe, small groups of men and horses were still dispatched in shifts to carry out sentry and raids to the north and east.

Needless to say, this kind of high-risk mission must be dominated by the Dao soldiers under Wei Ye's command.

For the first batch of Dao soldiers under his command, Wei Ye did not say that he regarded them as treasures, at least he was quite conservative in the matter of putting them into battle.

In the deduction and actual combat of the Dongyang Eight Yan Formation, Wei Ye found that the Taoist Formation Technique he developed was the foundation of the Taiping Dao Technique, and there were still many similarities with the original template of the Five Yang Rune Array.

The first one is that there is a connection between the Dao soldiers who make up the Dongyang Eight Yan Transformation and the formation master. The so-called Tongqi Lianzhi, in the operation process of Dongyang Eight Yan Change, is by no means an empty word.

In the general magic circle, the cultivators who are part of the formation echo each other's mana, that is because everyone is basically a monk from the same lineage, and the Dao method practiced is generally the same, and the nature of the mana is naturally very similar.

However, the formation of the Five Yang Rune Array is a bit different from the root, in addition to the requirements for the cultivation of the Dao Law of the opponent are quite strict, there are basically no cultivation requirements for the Dao soldiers who form the magic array. Mortals who didn't even have the slightest mana in their bodies, as long as their blood and qi were strong and their bodies were strong, they could become a part of the Five Yang Divine Rune Array.

However, these Dao soldiers who form the formation, in spirit, must have a high degree of loyalty to the formation master - in the basic design of this Taiping Dao formation, the requirements for the Taoist soldiers are not only as simple as loyalty, but simply based on faith, so that from the formation master to the Taoist soldiers are consistent in the spiritual wavelength, thus giving full play to the greatest effect of this formation.

After the baptism of so many cold weapon wars, Wei Ye's vision was not bad, how could he not see the core value of this set of formations? According to the current speed of the Taiping Dao, as long as Zhang Jiao's great sage and good teacher can train enough spellcasters, and then through the popularization of the Five Yang Divine Rune Array, he can easily transform all the rural peasants and market scoundrels who believe in the Taiping Dao into real elite warriors.

And Gan Wantang, who shared this formation with Wei Ye, was not at all worried that Wei Ye would sell this formation to the Big Gun Mansion or even the Northern Lieutenant. For one thing, neither the Big Gun Mansion nor the Northern Lieutenant had enough spellcasters, and even reserves were lacking. In the era of cold weapons, how can it be so easy for the two to make the spiritual wavelength of generals and soldiers converge?

The soldier's method of encircling the hearts of the army is nothing more than to reward them with kindness and gentleness, and to deter them with military law. If you follow the path of your grandson, the best result is only to share the same desires, and the generals will be promoted and the soldiers will be rich. If an army is financially tight, the army will make some wishes from time to time that the soldiers will not seal the sword for three days or half a month in order to arouse the soldiers' desire to fight, and the soldiers will burn and loot.

In such an army, there can occasionally be some outliers with faith. For example, King Yue's Beiwei army, under his command was mostly the Hedong Righteous Army, who did not have a few blood feuds with the Jurchen Tartars? For example, Zeng Guofan, who was known as a "perfect man," in addition to keeping a diary, was also quite capable of inciting the hatred of the Tujia Hakka, and with the slogan of "Hunan people guarding Hunan soil," he simply raised a Hunan army on the basis of the landlords' regimental training. It's just that the military discipline of the Hunan army was quite strict when it defended the territory, and as soon as it left its hometown, it immediately turned into another bandit army in the late Qing Dynasty.

But none of these conditions, whether it is the Big Gun Mansion or the Northern Lieutenant, do not have any. If you want to overwhelm the Taiping Road in the matter of arming and arming, whether it is Zhao Yalong or Kong Zhang, the last road you can take is to put aside the inherent military system of the Han Dynasty and start a road full of bumps and thorns.

Literacy classes or political commissars must be erected to some extent, right? Political commissars or instructors must always preach any major righteousness and "reasons for fighting"? Basic queues and army drills with a German flavor must always be trained, right? In order to cultivate the pride of the soldiers, military uniforms should also be designed.

The most important thing is that in order to level the gap in strength between the two sides, although flintlock pistols and other things cannot be smuggled from the gate of the astral plane, gunpowder manufacturing and steel refining must be indispensable. Not to mention, in order to maintain such a post-classical army, from military industry to civilian use, it is necessary to create a large-scale production system, right?

Similarly, the Taiping Dao side is very concerned about the training of spellcasters, at least the Luoyang branch is very concerned about the training of spellcasters. For Wei Ye, a peer who had the best relationship with them among the adventurers and had in-depth research on magic, the principals of the Luoyang Branch Altar also gave a considerable degree of courtesy.

In the end, I am afraid that the army pulled up on both sides is the brilliant Taoist troops on the one hand, and the post-classical era legions with musketeers and lobster soldiers on the other......

However, the future with such a beautiful picture is left to those who are still loyal to this Han Dynasty to think about it slowly, and it has nothing to do with Wei Ye.

It's just that when he was training in the past few days, the immortal warlock still couldn't help muttering: "Jin Ma Chao is just gone?"

The Taoist soldiers who listened to his lecture below all looked at their lord with awe, but it was really difficult to understand what kind of mystery was contained in the lord's words.

I can't understand the mystery, but I can understand the command. At least now, no one questions the task of harassing the camp of the Qiang army, and on the other hand, almost everyone is gearing up for such an errand.

Especially the guards who had followed Wei Ye to fight in the city, they were the most familiar with those half-human, half-corpse monsters, and they knew the weaknesses of these things better than others.

The Ma Jun who went out on the mission this time was led by He Wu, although this guy failed to choose the qualification of the Taoist soldier, he still had a different treatment for a veteran like Wei Ye who had followed Wei Ye for a long time, and the weapons and armor staff were all the best selected. Riding on the horse, he held a pair of rough corrugated iron shovels, and gestured to the horse:

"Brother Ma, do you see it? This pair of gongs, all four sides of the Danzao altar have added the runes of Taiping Dao, and when they see the corpses in the Qiang army's horse team, they greet those monsters!

The shape of the iron shovel in his hand was actually quite crude, and although there was a wooden handle, it was just a pair of stubby square sticks cast from pig iron. In fact, according to Wei Ye's original design, this kind of military system of breaking evil spirits, even if you don't get some fancy dragon head swallowing mouths and lotus bud gauntlets, it should also be made into the shape of bamboo whips and keel wedges according to the regular iron whip and iron mace, and on each section, it must be marked with an evil breaking talisman, and there is a faint aura rising in the hands of the Fang family, which can be regarded as qualified.

It's a pity that no matter how good the weapon design of the Immortal Warlock is, it can't ignore the current material foundation. The blacksmiths who can be made up by the small iron officials in Fanhe County, even the small workers who mend pots and sharpen knives in those small private iron shops, are less than 100 people, where can they have the extra manpower to produce this kind of bamboo whip and keel hammer that requires forging and labor, and has to be specially shaped?

Not to mention that the number of Taiping Dao sacrificial wines he used under his hands was only a few, even if Wei Ye improved the process of magic weapon sacrifice and greatly increased the output efficiency, the total number of people responsible for attaching magic to weapons still did not change, and the output was still miserable. Until now, Wei Ye could only follow the subordinates above the rank of the team to equip first.

Ma Teng held a spear in his hand, and there was also a spirit rune on the tip of the spear that appeared and disappeared from time to time, this kind of point steel spear was much rarer in the entire Fanhe defenders, except for Wei Ye's pro-army, others should not expect to be equipped. This alone shows how much Wei Ye values Ma Teng, a big man. However, how many of these entanglements of "can't recruit a son, it's not bad to recruit his father" is a matter of opinion.

However, the lord's dim sum is tangled with divine knowledge, and it is difficult to infect his subordinates. In addition to He Wu, among Wei Ye's personal guards, most of them were not convinced by Ma Teng, a newcomer, who suddenly got the blue eyes of a certain counselor. The atmosphere in this new army pulled up by Wei Ye is to pay attention to convincing people with strength, Wei Ye is naturally the one who can fight the most, Li Daxiong's strange strength, Tieshan's skilled horse warfare and foot combat kung fu are also the basis for convincing people, and in the same way, if they want to agree that a new man suddenly gets sent by the army, they have to fight first!

Ma Teng can be regarded as living up to Wei Ye's expectations, and he is proficient with a big gun, but he is not under the Iron Mountain. The origin of the martial arts family, at this time, is particularly attention-grabbing.

However, such a smooth situation made Ma Teng even more silent. During the day, he followed He Ming to practice the drills in this new army, and at night, he crowded among the Taoist soldiers to listen to Wei Ye teach the Taoist method. He Ming's one-and-a-half-trick formulas that he didn't know from the army drill code of which era, and Wei Ye's Taoist introduction that started from the Book of Changes and often went off topic in the middle, were absorbed by his sponge like water.

It can be seen that in the history books, the land that occupies Liangzhou, rejects Hu riding in the north, and resists the princes of Guanzhong in the east, can achieve a reckless dragon and snake climate, and it is not all thanks to God's luck. The martial arts talent and the potential of a famous general in Liangzhou Ma's bones are clearly vividly expressed in him.

At this moment, he was on the horse, and he didn't hold the reins, so he relied on his crotch to hold the horse's belly, and nodded to He Wuyi: "Wulang, in the past few days, we have been ordered to attack and harass the Qiang camp, except for killing and dispersing the people who are not collected and run at night, no one has seen the real majority of the military horses. They camped and settled inexplicably, not besieging the city nearby, but twenty miles away from Fanhe City...... This thing is strange everywhere, I always feel that my heart is not very stable, today you and I take a role, and then run forward four or five miles more to explore the depth of these Qiang thieves?"