For the Taoist Yi Alliance Lord, by the way, I made a bet with the Eastern Emperor of the Heavens, and the five more alliance masters, everyone is looking forward to it......

Wen Fei smiled and said, "In your opinion, who will lose and who will win in this battle between Yelu Yanxi and the Jurchens?"

Ma Zhi smiled bitterly: "I naturally thought that Liao Guo won, but the last time Father Shang said this to Ouyang Shilang, I was also confused. There are 20,000 Jurchens and 700,000 Daliao, I can't think of how the Jurchens can win!"

Wen Fei laughed, if it was before, he naturally couldn't figure it out. But he personally brought it in the Northern Song Dynasty for so long, and even led troops to fight in person.

The Great Celestial Master Wen now understands why the Battle of Guandu, the Battle of Huangshui, or the Battle of Hubu Gang that will take place in a few months. Why are these wars with a huge disparity in strength between the two sides winning with less?

The reason is simple, under the conditions of antiquity. Organizing a great campaign of hundreds of thousands of people, the difficulty of Cheng dù is simply incredible. It can be said that the chain of command simply does not have the means to command such a large force.

In this era when communication is basically based on roaring, it is an extremely difficult thing to pass an order from the mouth of the main general and let the whole army know. I don't know how many heralds are needed, riding fast horses, announcing one unit after another, passing orders.

You must know that it is impossible for hundreds of thousands of troops to gather together, and just camping will have to stretch for hundreds of miles.

Although the opposite side is small in number, it is an elite soldier, and the command is as good as it should be.

It's like a guy with a strong punch all over his body, and a guy with a huge body, slow movements, and slow reactions. The battle between half-paralyzed giants is the same.

In addition, Yelu Yanxi is unpopular, and the country is already in turmoil. The internal rebellion made this huge army even more chaotic. In this case, losing the battle is simply too simple a matter.

"Kill...... Kill...... Kill," Seeing Wen Fei, the Shang father, walking by, the trained soldiers sold even more strength.

Wen Fei couldn't help but nod. It can be seen that the morale of this team has not been affected too much because of the breakup and reorganization.

After this winter's training, presumably by next year, the army will have passed the run-in period, and it will be time to send troops.

"Huh...... What are these soldiers smashing and training?" Ma Zhi pointed curiously to the corner of the playground.

I saw rows of soldiers standing behind the white lines drawn by the lime. One by one, they threw the stones in their hands.

"Oh...... , those are the grenadiers!" Wen Fei said with a smile. These soldiers are the soldiers who are looking for soldiers with great arm strength, and they throw grenades on the battlefield.

After the battle of Fang La, Wen Fei especially found that those originally inconspicuous earthen weapons actually had the most practical value.

Even if Wenfei can be in modern time and space. A steady stream of munitions. But if you want to equip an army of 100,000, plus the consumption of bullets in all aspects, the money required is also astronomical.

And crucially, it is far more difficult to train soldiers with hot weapons than soldiers with cold weapons.

Therefore, Wen Fei found that some local methods are still much easier to use. For example, during the conquest of Fang La, Wen Fei found that during the battle, hundreds of homemade grenades were thrown out. It even looks much louder than a salvo of hundreds of guns together.

And the shell of this kind of earthen grenade, in the hardware factory, is very simple to make. Although it is definitely not as powerful as a modern grenade, it is better to be more expensive in quantity.

In real war, this kind of power is gone, the price is cheap, and the manufacture of simple weapons is the king.

So. Wen Fei simply decided that except for his own personal guards, the other troops would not be equipped with modern weapons.

When training, it is natural to use stones of the same weight instead. Under Wen Fei's order. Baskets of grenades were brought up.

The shells of these grenades were all processed in Wenfei's own factory, but the gunpowder inside was loaded in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Under the demonstration of several soldiers, these grenades were thrown thirty or forty paces away, and exploded with a bang, and the body of the projectile was broken into dozens of pieces according to the pre-engraved fragments, and the additional iron sand inside exploded several steps away, blowing up a cloud of dust.

Immediately made Ma Zhi gasp, you must know that the ancient military formations were almost densely arranged. If such a grenade goes down, at least two or three people will fall. No better than the skirmish lines of modern space-time.

"How's that? not bad?" Wen Fei said with a smile. This is just one of the weapons he has prepared for this unit, and there are many more that have not yet been shown.

"Thank you Father Shang for trusting me so much, Xia Guan is grateful......" said with tears welling up.

Ma Zhi only regarded these powerful weapons as a secret in the army, and in his opinion, this grenade was stronger than the Divine Arm Crossbow. For Wen Fei to trust him so much, he didn't guard against him, a courtier who surrendered from the Liao State. Naturally, he was full of gratitude!

But in Wen Fei's opinion, there really is no secret. And judging from the history of the bill, this Ma Zhi was originally planning for the Great Song Dynasty wholeheartedly!

Wen Fei waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's just a trivial matter!"

Ma Zhi asked, "Father Shang's grenade is filled with gunpowder?"

Wen Fei nodded, after the explosion of this grenade, the smell of saltpeter that permeated the air could not be clearer.

"Why is gunpowder so powerful?" Ma Zhi was a little surprised.

In fact, China has never been able to come up with a really correct formula for gunpowder itself. The gunpowder formula of the Great Song Dynasty was better known as smoke gunpowder and was used as a poison gas bomb.

Wen Fei smiled: "If you are curious, you can go with me to see how the gunpowder is made!"

Hearing this, Ma Zhi was suddenly shocked, and hurriedly bent down and said, "Xia Guan is just curious, not intentional, to spy on such military secrets!"

Wen Fei shook his hand and said, "It's okay! The official family will also be ...... at that time."

Ma Zhi saw that Wen Fei really didn't mean to blame, so he was a little relieved. At the same time, I keep reminding myself that I must be more cautious in the future. Don't be taboo.

At the same time, the trust in Wenfei is even more grateful. Even a military secret like gunpowder was willing to be seen by his subordinates.

But I don't know, Wen Fei has his own ideas!

After visiting the school grounds, Wen Fei took Ma Zhi to the outside of the city.

Today, the color is getting colder, and the wheat in the field is lush and green. The large pieces of land that are connected here are all the land in the name of the Wenda Heavenly Master, but this year they have planted the high-quality wheat brought from modern time and space.

Just by looking at the dense wheat seedlings, you can know how good the yield is when the summer harvest comes.

The yield per mu of these lands can reach at least seven or eight hundred catties, which is almost double the yield per mu in the Northern Song Dynasty.

It's a pity that there is no way to promote these improved varieties of wheat. The fertilizers needed for modern crops were simply impossible to achieve in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Dozens of tons and hundreds of tons of fertilizer are transported from modern time and space, and Wenfei can still do it. If it is supplied to the whole country, it is simply a fool's dream.

However, neither farm manure nor the soil and chemical fertilizers used in the countryside in the past can guarantee fertility. This makes it impossible to spread it on a large scale.

Wen Fei is now thinking about whether to try to plant some high-yield crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins and corn next year. Although the Great Song Dynasty is not short of food, no one will have too much food.

Moreover, the most important thing is that the original foundation of the Northern Song Dynasty without food shortage was established under the condition that those poor and backward areas were not included in the territory and did not lag behind.

With the recovery of Qinghai, Ningxia and other northwest regions, plus the recovery of the north, the original Hebei and Shanxi regions have been recovered one after another. The yield per mu of these relatively barren lands is much less than that in the south.

When Wen Fei was researching materials in modern time and space, he found out. The gap between the north and the south in later generations began to widen in the Song Dynasty.

During the Han and Tang dynasties, the north was richer than the south. After the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, the two sides gradually reversed. And in the Southern Song Dynasty, it completely overwhelmed the north.

The biggest reason is that the introduction of second-grade rice has made the yield per mu in the south far exceed that in the north. The economic center of gravity began to shift southward, and the gap between the north and the south became wider in later generations.

Before he got close to the place, he had already encountered several groups of sentry posts. It seems that this place is very well guarded. Ma Zhi thought in his heart.

After a pause, Ma Zhi said: "Actually, in Liao, there are also people who actually make gunpowder!"

"Oh?" Wen Fei was intrigued and asked, "How?"

Ma Zhi smiled bitterly: "There were also people in Daliao who were interested in this gunpowder back then, and later I heard that the Western Xia side tried to make gunpowder, but somehow it exploded, and even the whole place was trapped. Since then, he has never dared to fight this gunpowder again, and even invited a monk to recite the Buddhist scriptures for seven days and seven nights......

Earthquake? Wen Fei's heart jumped, it's not so exaggerated, is it? This catastrophe, even the earthquake came.

Wen Fei remembered the demon-slaying pestles in the hands of those monks he encountered when he was in the mule and horse set. It was simply a primitive musket. Thinking about these guys from Western Xia, they have always had a soft spot for gunpowder. No wonder there is a trial production of gunpowder.

Just looking at such a big movement, in fact, you can know that Xixia may have found the right formula.

The carriage came to the bottom of a small stone mountain, which had changed its appearance greatly. The rocky mountain, which was originally bare, is now covered with buildings, and is surrounded by a whole courtyard wall. The buckets are so crowded with sentry posts that it looks like even birds can't fly in.

It seems that although the gunpowder failed that time, it met a catastrophe. But Wen Fei did not completely abandon this place, and even built this place into a fortress.