Chapter 299

Nearly a hundred mechanism crossbows were fired in unison, and the rain of quenched golden arrows was as terrible as a storm. Even the most elite heavy armor cavalry could not resist its power. Kong Peng's command was dominated by light armor crossbows and gun cavalry. Naturally, he did not dare to approach Nanjian gorge easily, but it did not mean that Kong Peng, who supervised the battle in Yuchi city as a rebel governor, was helpless.

In addition to being the only strong man in the four Avenue Danjing of Pinglu oasis, Kong Peng had worked in the northern army for a long time before becoming an enemy. Not only he, but even the leaders of several major bandits under his command, have rich experience in military management.

In view of the strong penetration of quenched gold arrows, they chose solid wood grown for thousands of years in Yuchi city to make a large number of double-layer or even multi-layer tall towers and shields.

This kind of tower shield is also extremely heavy, but it is mounted on the wheels of the car and pushed forward by three or five strong Jianrui. It can also effectively resist the accumulation of mechanism crossbows.

This kind of tower shield car made of Millennium solid wood is still much lighter than the precision cast iron shield with the same defense power. However, under the strong suppression of the logistics supply line by the Jingjue army and poultry camp, Kong Peng wants to build enough iron shield cars or Tower Shield cars in Yuchi City, but it can't be completed in three or five days.

Ye Qinglin, ye he and other generals still hope that before Kong Peng, Zhang Xiong and other thieves create enough targeted weapons in Yuchi City, Tianai mountain and the King City of Western Qiang, they can make use of their existing advantages to carry out a devastating attack on the more than 30000 rebels gathered in Yuchi city.

Ye Qinglin's consideration has its own rationality. The divine aircraft chariots and mechanism crossbows are strong, but the number is still too limited. Once the iron shield chariots built by the rebels form a scale, on a battlefield with a larger number of people, less than 100 mechanism crossbows will play an extremely limited role.

The counterweight catapult crossbow has low technical content and is easy to copy. Once the rebels can build catapult crossbows in Yuchi City, their advantages in this regard will be weakened.

In addition, although it is unlikely that the demon temple will directly participate in the war, the rebels can still recruit anti bird friars from the depths of the desert West of Pinglu to strengthen their war bird camp, and their absolute advantage over tiele ridge will be gradually weakened.

Chen Hai doesn't want to take risks at this time, and is eager to fight with Kong Peng in Yuchi city.

Although Chen Hai and Dong Ning handed over the battlefield command of the West foot of tieleling to Ye Qinglin, ye Qinglin could not command the Jingjue army deployed at the west entrance of Nanjian gorge.

After deducting the elite troops at the west entrance of Nanjian gorge, ye Qinglin expanded his troops to 30000 after recruiting children of four surnames. It was difficult to talk about his advantages in the face of the troops led by Kong Peng, a black mountain martial Zun.

Chen Hai still hopes that the real decisive battle can be postponed until after next spring, or later.

With the support of the demon temple and the Tibetan and Qiang countries, the Zhang family has won the Western Qiang King City and established themselves as king. In the past six months, they have not been able to effectively control the Pinglu oasis. Most of the cities remain neutral, which means that ye has ruled the Western Qiang country for more than 400 years and still has a strong foundation in the Pinglu oasis.

At this time, they took a foothold in tieleling and formed a direct confrontation with the rebels. It was in their interest to delay.

A more important reason is that Chen Hai wants to take advantage of the current war pressure to forcibly promote the government soldier system in Lucheng.

Although Zhao, Zhou, Yang and Gu agreed to move to the west of tieleling after the war, it is difficult to say whether they will lead most of the clan's children out of Lucheng and whether ye Qinglin will abide by his promise once there is no pressure of war.

In particular, the secret of lake mud and sand deposits is hidden at the bottom of Tianxuan lake on the inside of Lukai gorge. Once the curtain is officially opened, all commitments will become pale in the face of huge interests.

To ensure that the Jingjue capital guard can have absolute control over Lucheng after the war, we can only forcibly promote the government soldier system under the great pressure of the war and the minimum resistance.

Chen Hai's first step was to transfer Ding Shuang from Montenegro and take charge of reorganizing the forces left after expelling Zhang from Lucheng.

As one of the five surnames in Lucheng, although the Zhang family can only be regarded as a small ethnic group in Jinyan prefectures, it has 170000 mu of cultivated land and several times the area of pastures between the West Bank of Luhe River and tieleling.

On the West Bank of Luhe River and the east foot of tieleling mountain, Chen Hai assigned twelve military houses to govern the land under the former Zhang clan. He incorporated more than 5000 slaves and affiliated people and more than 30000 people belonging to the former Zhang clan into the military house and rewarded officials and soldiers with military merit.

Without affecting the current farming and animal husbandry production, this move alone will recruit more than 6000 strong new soldiers for the elite army.

Jingjue army had previously recruited 12000 elite from Montenegro, 6000 elite to guard Lucheng, and 6000 elite to guard the west entrance of Nanjian gorge together with Ye's Royal Army.

Chen Hai did not intend to spend half a year or more to train a single army. Instead, he directly sent them to the west entrance of Nanjian gorge, which was taken over by Wu Meng, ran Hu and fan Dachun, and directly distributed them to each small camp in the proportion of one to one, so as to directly expand the strength of the elite army at the west entrance of Nanjian gorge to 12000.

In a short time, the average strength of the elite troops stationed at the west entrance of nanjianxia will be reduced, but as long as there is no large-scale war before next spring, the new soldiers can quickly adapt to high-intensity training and get familiar with the battlefield; At the same time, a number of grass-roots military officers will be trained, and these grass-roots military officers are the basis for the implementation of the government soldier system.

For the slaves and dependent people belonging to the four ethnic groups of Zhao, Yang, Zhou and Gu, the practice of Jingjue capital guarding the government could not be so straightforward and rude, but implemented a ransom policy acceptable to all sides; That is, the jingjuedau protectorate will pay for the slaves and dependent people who belong to the four surnames and are willing to join the jingjuedan army to redeem them from the four surnames.

Jingjuedau protectorate's bid for every strong slave and his family is 10 jin of quenched gold and iron, which is a very high price in the slave market in Pinglu oasis; After all, after a large-scale war, the four surnamed clans can also take a large number of people from the enemy as slaves.

On the one hand, Zhao Yang and Zhou Gu Si hope that the Jingjue army will become stronger and can cooperate with the Royal Army more effectively in the future to fight against the rebels. On the other hand, they can't refuse such an offer.

As well as the fields and pastures of the four surnamed clans on both sides of the Luhe River, the Jingjue capital guard is also ransomed at a price.

Throughout the winter of 1976, Emperor Yitian directly imported more than 200000 Jin of quenched gold and iron materials and more than 2000 sets of armour from juquanling into Lucheng as ransom money for 7000 slaves and their families and more than 100000 fields, which were transferred to the children of four clans.

Ye Qinglin was also happy to accept such a ransom policy. After all, a large number of military armor, bow weapons and quenched gold and iron materials were transferred from Jingjue capital to the four surnamed clans, which directly strengthened the strength of Ye's Royal Army and did not increase Ye's debt to Hexi.

During this period, not only the Jingjue army stationed in Lucheng was expanded to 10000.

Chen Hai also took over an iron mine and a smelter left by Zhang after he was expelled from Lucheng, and moved half of the craftsmen and craftsmen in the crafting camp in Montenegro to Lucheng.

Chen Hai also enlisted people to dig up the stone stairway to Lukai gorge from the source of Luhe River.

Lukai gorge is located more than 3000 meters above the source of Luhe River, with extremely dangerous terrain.

In the past, Lucheng would never have thought of trying hard to build a city on lukaixia. Naturally, it would not have thought of digging a stone staircase with a height difference of more than 3000 meters. However, the demon Temple disciples once approached the Luhe River from the mountains in the south. At this time, Chen Hai built a city base on lukaixia and dismantled a defense array in Lucheng and deployed it to lukaixia. It seems that he has a good reason.

Of course, before the stone stairway was dug out, a large number of manpower and materials were carried directly by giant vultures.

The smelting furnace was directly dismantled from Zhang's iron smelting yard; It's just that the smelting of quenched gold and iron materials requires extremely high furnace flame temperature, but for juquanling at this time, it's also a matter that people don't know to send a set of advanced flame gathering Rune array secretly.

On the first day of the 77th year of emperor Yitian, the foundry of lukaixia has successfully refined the first furnace of quenched gold and molten iron and poured it into the preformed arrow halberd mold.

Of course, these actions can't be concealed from Hexi.

Hexi controls the entrance to the desert in the west, and can roughly count the gold and iron materials imported into the desert. Once the two phases are checked, we can know what the problem is. Therefore, when lukaixia smelts the first furnace of gold and iron materials, Chen Hai specially invited Ge Xuanqiao and Du Linan to the scene.

"..." Du Linan looked at four or five thousand kilograms of red hot molten iron, split mold cooling and forming, and the blanks of 50 rods of quenched gold halberd and spear were soon cast in front of him. His mouth didn't know what to say.

The gold quenched iron material is only a general term. Even the xuantai iron bow used by Chen Hai at this time is only gold quenched iron in a strict sense, but the content of xuantai refined iron is relatively higher. If such an iron bow is completely made of black fetal fine iron, the bow body alone will weigh twenty or thirty thousand kilograms. Who can use it?

At that time, according to the content of extremely precious gold and iron such as xuantai refined iron and Zichen placer gold, quenched gold and iron were divided into nine levels.

The Ninth level gold quenching iron material can usually be used to cast the top iron armor; Levels 8 to 6, corresponding to the Xuan soldiers from the lower level to the upper level of the Yellow level, can be refined into Taoist seal script and forbidden by the Dharma array.

The xuantai Zichen halberd used by Chen Hai at this time was refined into 300 kg of xuantai refined iron and 200 kg of Zichen placer gold on the basis of the eighth grade gold quenching iron material. The battle halberd weighed more than 1200 kg, but it can only be regarded as the fourth-class gold quenching iron.

Pure xuantai refined iron and Zichen placer gold are several times more precious than the top quenched gold iron, but a piece of xuantai refined iron, which is not much larger than broad beans, weighs nearly 100 kilograms. It is OK to prepare and refine light small spiritual swords and magic weapons, but don't think it can be used to forge large xuanbing heavy weapons.

The quality of the sand ore and lake mud mined at the bottom of lukaixia lake is better than that of juquanling. It can directly refine nearly eight levels of quenched gold and iron. Du Linan doubts whether the demon temple will regret if it knows the secret of the bottom of lukaixia lake.

Hundreds of elite disciples of the demon temple were so close to this unimaginable sect resource that they were finally bluffed back by Chen Hai?

"Ge Laozu, half of the quenched gold and iron materials produced here can be supplied to Hexi, but this secret may not be kept for a long time." Chen Hai told Ge Xuanqiao.

"If you offer the demon Temple conditions to allow them to separate the Changle City in the west of Pinglu oasis, it's just to leave a back door for taiweizong to add a Taoist temple here," Ge Xuanqiao sighed gently, "It doesn't make any difference if I stay in Taiwei mountain or sneak in lukaixia. Besides, Dong Ning has grown up since she was a child, and I don't want to see anything happen to her..."