Xu Beiyou wandered in the middle capital city for a few days, accompanied by Li Yanliang, in addition to the palace that belonged to the royal family, he took a general look at the huge inner city of the middle capital, and even went to the military camp.

Xu Beiyou recalled the unforgettable scene he saw when he first went to the ancient battlefield, the cavalry spread all over the land, and the momentum of the charge was like a tidal wave, and the earth trembled under the trampling of the horses' hooves, and the smoke and dust were filled. Although there was silence at the time, one can imagine the sound of horses' hooves like rolling thunder. The tide of cavalry on the two fronts advanced head-on with rolling thunder, and then collided with each other violently, penetrating into the flesh and bones for three points.

After that, the two armies were tragically strangled, and people died and fell from their horses all the time. It made Xu Beiyou, who was still shallow in cultivation at that time, shake his heart, only to feel that he was in it, it was really like a leaf of duckweed in the rolling torrent, incomparably small, and he would disappear without a trace when he whirlpooled.

In the face of such a torrent of cavalry, even if it is Xu Beiyou today, it is difficult to rise up to the idea of blocking the road with a single sword.

One body fights for millions of miles, and one sword can block millions of divisions.

Xu Beiyou is still far from such an invincible sword immortal realm.

On the tenth day of the eighth month, Xu Beiyou left Zhongdu with a secret letter written by Zhang Wuzhi to Han Xuan, and traveled in the direction of Yanzhou Mansion, stopping at Danxia Village and Xiaofang Village on the way, and then leaving the customs from Hanoi Mansion to the small hills in the grassland.

The more you go outside the pass, the more sparse the population, because of the recent opening of the door of the ancestral court of Qishan, all kinds of strange people are also more and more, along the way, Xu Beiyou can be regarded as an eye-opener, there are jumping and jumping drooping children, there are half-black and half-white hair withered old people, there are young women with revealing clothes and graceful figures, and there are burly and strong men like mountains, Xu Beiyou has even seen a female strong man with at least 400 catties or more, so that an iron rod that looks like about 200 catties is daunting, here, it seems that a white hair is nothing, Xu Beiyou simply no longer wears the big hat, and walks openly with the sword box on his back。

This time Li Yanliang also traveled with Xu Beiyou, he was ordered by the military to go to Yanzhou Mansion to urge a batch of ordnance, Yanzhou Mansion has always been the armament logistics of the Northwest Army, Tianji Pavilion, the Ministry of Industry and the War Bureau are stationed here with a large number of people, as large as Shenwei General Cannon, as small as bows and crossbows and arrows, all of which are directly made here, while supplying the Northwest Army, it will also take into account the Chinese army and the front army.

It stands to reason that Xu Beiyou, a "Bai Ding" who has no half-merit and fame official body, cannot enter this place, but since he has the title of Han Ge's old righteous son and Zhang Wuxi's warrant, it is unimpeded.

Along the way, Li Yanliang introduced the situation of this Yanzhou Mansion to Xu Beiyou in detail, just as the Zhongdu City is not the same as the Jiangdu City, the Yanzhou Mansion is also very different from the ordinary state capital, this place is not so much a government city, but a military town, in addition to being heavily guarded, most of the people have been craftsmen for generations, serving in the name of the War Bureau.

Among them, the relationship is even more complicated, in addition to a young supervisor of the War Bureau and two directors of the Ministry of Industry stationed here all the year round, the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and the Left Army Governor's Mansion also sent people here, and Tianji Pavilion even sent a master craftsman to sit in person.

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Among them, the War Bureau is in charge of all the craftsmen, the Ministry of Industry is responsible for the overall planning of the details of the expenditure and reporting to the Ministry of Households, the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is responsible for supervising the acceptance, and the Left Army Governor's Mansion is taking advantage of the geographical advantage and performing the duties of security.

The reason for this arrangement is that Emperor Xiao felt that the major border armies of the previous dynasty were so powerful that Da Zheng died in the rebellion of the feudal town, so after Emperor Xiao ascended the throne, all the armies were divided into five forbidden armies and local capitals in various states, the five forbidden armies directly belonged to the imperial court and the local capital, and the local capital division belonged to the military department, and the responsibility of the forbidden army was to "guard the imperial capital and prepare for the conquest", and the local capital division was "to defend the location", so that the two echoed each other," To make it internal and external, to control the upper and lower levels, and to cut off but not to be violated, is to correct the evils of the feudal town, and the punishment is profound. ”

In this way, the forbidden army could not interfere in local government affairs, and all food, ordnance, and horses had to be dispatched by the imperial court, so naturally it could not form a feudal town.

The amount of the entire forbidden army is about 800,000, although it is called the forbidden army, but it is very different from the forbidden army of the previous dynasty dedicated to defending the imperial capital, it is impossible to be stationed in the imperial capital, in addition to about 100,000 Chinese troops stationed in the imperial capital and Zhili Prefecture, there are also 100,000 Chinese troops stationed in Yanzhou, 230,000 left troops stationed in Shaanzhou and Xiliangzhou, 150,000 right troops stationed in Liaozhou, Jinzhou, Youzhou, 150,000 former troops stationed in Shuzhou, and 120,000 rear troops stationed in Huzhou and Jiangzhou. According to the locations where the major forbidden armies are stationed, they are also named common names such as the Son of Heaven's Army, the Northwest Army, the Jiangnan Army, the Northeast Army, and the Southern Xinjiang Army.

Because of the important status of Yanzhou Prefecture, the Northwest Army sent 30,000 heavy troops to guard it.

There has always been an unwritten rule in the Metropolitan Governor's Palace, the soldiers are divided into upper, middle, and lower grades, and the inferior treatment is the worst, and the auxiliary barracks are engaged in labor service, and the middle treatment is slightly better. Of course, in addition to this, there are also elite troops such as the Dark Guard Mansion Ti Cavalry and the Tiance Mansion Tiger Battalion, which are not among the top three.

According to the Northwest Military System, there are about 230,000 soldiers, that is, the so-called 230,000 Northwest Iron Cavalry, and the auxiliary soldiers are generally about three-tenths of the number of soldiers, not included in the total number of troops.

Although the 30,000 heavy soldiers guarding Yanzhou Mansion are not cavalry, they are all high-class soldiers, plus the city built by the Ministry of Industry with a lot of silver and countless various types of ordnance in the city, even the 100,000 army may not be able to easily capture this city, and Zhongdu can also send cavalry to support at any time, so this place can be called impregnable.

According to what Li Yanliang said, the 30,000 people stationed in the city will be scattered within a radius of ten miles outside the city in normal times, forming a line of defense to check the people who come and go, because they are also in the northwest army, so they take advantage of some advantages, and they will not be too troubled.

After the group entered the territory of Yanzhou Mansion, as Li Yanliang said, it took about two hours to go through layers of investigation, and the group finally saw the city wall of Yanzhou Mansion.

Li Yanliang and Xu Beiyou rode side by side, and asked with a smile, "Young Master Xu, how do you feel?"

Xu Beiyou said: "Although I haven't seen what kind of scene is inside the city, just seeing such a formation outside the city can already be seen." ”

Li Yanliang said: "There are a total of five such military towns, and the essence of Tianji Pavilion is all in it, except for the imperial capital that is personally in charge of Lan Xiang, the remaining four are built by a master craftsman, and they are all cultivators above the tenth floor of the Earth Immortal. ”

Xu Beiyou said softly: "Such a place should indeed be visited." ”