Chapter 373

By the middle and late October, Huayang ridge also began to snow heavily and the rivers were frozen. At this time of year, the situation in the north of Tianshui County became suddenly severe, and this year is no exception.

Hengshan defense line, although the defense area of Tianshui county's local military equipment accounts for two-thirds, in addition to 150000 soldiers of Tianshui county and 150000 auxiliary soldiers Minyong stationed in the Western defense line, thousands of disciples of Huayang sect also gathered in Hengshan defense line to assist in defense in winter; On the second line of defense in the rear, there are still 100000 reserve troops and horses to gather before winter, which is much more reliable and thick than the defense of less than 30000 soldiers and 50000 auxiliary soldiers in the East.

After Chen Hai led Longxiang camp into Hengshan, he didn't mean to ask Tianshui County for help at all. Instead, Tianshui County couldn't sit down first. He appointed Wu Jinglin as the liaison envoy and led 3000 County soldiers into Hengshan.

The families of Tianshui county still have their own thoughts about the arrival of Chen Hai and Longxiang camp, but everyone still knows that if Hengshan is really missed, it is the families of Tianshui County who will suffer great difficulties. They thought that if there were big mistakes in Hengshan, they wanted Wu Jinglin to send back the news in time. At the same time, the troops assembled on the second line were inclined to the east line as much as possible.

Wu Jinglin led his troops into Hengshan in mid November. He was catching up with Fengyan airship to transport two Township Tianji chariots and Longxiang camp, which finally stayed in Lianshui Prefecture, into Hengshan city.

Zhou Jingyuan was also transferred to Hengshan this time to join the army as Hengshan government and preside over land reclamation and workshop construction.

At this time, Chen Hai officially handed over Lianshui mansion. Of course, Wen Boyuan directly sent his direct lineage to take over the military and political affairs of Lianshui mansion and completely bring Lianshui mansion into the sphere of influence of Su Wei army.

After all, under the rule of Chen Hai, Lianshui Prefecture resettled millions of people within a year, all abandoned fields were rehabilitated, and the first batch of grain harvest after autumn was also great. It can be said that the financial resources and potential soldiers that can be tapped in Heyang County are concentrated in Lianshui Prefecture.

Only when the Su Wei army controls Lianshui Prefecture, can it have the financial resources to continue to restore people's livelihood to the south, until Yu zonghu stationed in the north of Lichuan County, and sent direct officials to operate the prefectures and counties along the Chu River to qinglongyu in the eastern part of Gyeonggi, so that it can really have the foundation to compete with the patriarchal valve of Jingjun.

Operating Lianshui mansion is one of Chen Hai's great achievements for the Su Wei army.

In order to resettle millions of refugees, Chen Hai raised hundreds of millions of kilograms of grain, tens of thousands of farm cattle and almost the same number of mules and horses from all over the country in less than a year. These resources were traded by Tianji school palace with war equipment and secret map of Tianji. Then Chen Hai moved Longxiang camp to Hengshan and handed Lianshui over to Yanran palace for direct takeover.

Loyalty is nothing more than that; Wen Boyuan, Zhao Zhong and others, even if they are picky, can't pick out any problems and "infidelity" from Chen Hai.

Wu Jinglin really liked it when he saw two mounds of iron pimples unloaded from the wind flame airship and the signs of "Scorpio 1" and "Scorpio 2" engraved on the side.

Although the Tianji academy palace announced a new method of quenching miscellaneous materials, which can directly use ordinary gold and iron to refine step by step and smelt more advanced gold and iron materials, a township chariot, based on ordinary gold and iron, costs a total of 120000 to 150000 kilograms. It is still a luxury for Tianshui County, which is weak, narrow and densely populated.

Even though Tianshui county has the advantage of being close to the water and the tower to get the first month by relying on the Western foot of Qintong, there is now a supply of nearly one million jin of quenched gold and iron every year, but it is also given priority to the casting of quenched gold grade armour at this time, unlike Hexi, which can be extravagant to large-scale manufacture of heavenly weapons.

Of course, the two township level Tianji chariots were first captured from the Guoling camp of the Xiyuan army. Since then, they have been incorporated into the fifth war camp led by Wu Meng of the Longxiang camp. Chen Hai also incorporated another heavy township level Tianji chariot and Liucheng light Pavilion level Tianji chariot into the fifth war camp led by Wu Meng.

Although Tianji school palace had previously manufactured a large number of Tianji war weapons, it mainly focused on external sales and exchange for resources, and the equipment level of Longxiang camp was not immediately raised.

Some Tianji chariots are equipped with Taoist guards to strengthen the defense of Tianji school palace. This time, they are also temporarily taken out and handed over to Longxiang camp for use.

The fifth battle battalion has 6000 soldiers, but together with Huwei camp, it will be the most important mobile combat power in the hands of Longxiang camp.

Both heavy and light Tianji chariots have been completely closed after several improvements. A new shooting tower with large elevation and full angle rotation is added at the top, while the shooting position at the bottom is reduced to two in front of the side. The number of war crossbows is reduced from four to three, but the new heavy bore crossbow is preferred.

It was also the Tianji academy palace that felt the severity of the defensive war in Hengshan in winter. Core figures such as Guo Hongxuan, Xue Cun, Ji Yuanren and Zhao Ruhui all temporarily put down their affairs and took action in person. Within a month, they rushed to build twelve Tianji heavy bore crossbows to strengthen the combat power of Longxiang camp

At this time, it really reflects the power of Tianji learning palace.

More than 5000 craftsman apprentices from various counties in Yanzhou have no obligation to be loyal to and even to Chen Hai. Chen Hai and Tianji apprentice palace have no position on craftsman apprentices, requiring them to live and die for Longxiang camp. Even more than half of the craftsman apprentices may be sent by various county Patriarchs to steal their masters, but each craftsman apprentice is required to work in one month, Ten or twenty qualified heavy crossbows were made by hand and bounced out as an academic assessment, which the craftsman apprentices could not refuse.

In this way, when Wu Jinglin led 3000 elite soldiers from Tianshui county to Hengshan, 12 Tianji heavy bore crossbows, 100000 heavy crossbows and 100000 ordinary crossbows were also transported to Hengshan, giving priority to strengthening the combat strength of the chariot battalion of the fifth war battalion.

The eastern defense line of Hengshan is located under the Jueling at the north foot of Qintong mountain. It is less than 300 miles from east to west. Seven defense strongholds are built between mountains ranging from 3500 meters to more than 1000 meters to block the gap going south; The main city of Hengshan is built outside the seven defensive strongholds, which has become the most important support point of the eastern defense line.

Once the demons swarm, Yokoyama city will bear the greatest pressure.

Considering that the demon barbarians are also quite skilled in the use of various tactics and not only killing monsters, Chen Hai not only led the fifth battle battalion, Huwei battalion and 20000 auxiliary soldiers under Wu Meng to guard Hengshan city in person, but also ordered Zhou Jun, Wang Gongchen and Wang Yu to lead the second, third and fourth battle battalions, other auxiliary soldiers and min Yong to guard the seven defensive strongholds in the rear to ensure that the main force of the demon barbarian army is blocked, Twenty old-fashioned Tianji crossbows were also assigned to seven strongholds to strengthen close-up defense.

Of course, at this time, thousands of craftsmen and apprentices from Tianji academy volunteered to come to Hengshan to assist in defense and help make more simple and practical defense weapons.

If a small number of demon barbarians bypass the city and Fangzhai and directly climb over the mountains that are not steep enough to enter the hinterland of Tianshui County, Chen Hai plans to equip ten old-fashioned Tianji crossbows and the Hu Wei battle poultry camp with more than 100 spirit birds for mobile annihilation.

After all, the troops of Longxiang camp are still too few to maintain multiple lines of defense and block all infiltration.

More than 5000 elite riders from the first World War battalion led by Le Yi were still stranded in zhemaling, together with the North County coalition army led by Miao; At this time of year, Beiliang County, Yong County, Yanmen county and Liaoyang County have to bear greater pressure.

Wu Jinglin led his troops into Hengshan city and met Chen Hai. He saw that Chen Hai was still seven or eight miles north of Hengshan City, digging earth to build a long low wall more than ten miles long.

The wall is only a meter high and low. It is rammed in sections, leaving a gap for soldiers to advance and retreat in the middle. Then two small fortifications are built on the left and right wings of the wall to expand the defense surface of Hengshan city.

The walls of two small fortifications are by no means solid. After all, they can only be rammed three or four meters high in more than a month. How can they be solid?

In the defensive fortress and Hengshan City, close to the foot of the city wall, 80 light stone throwing crossbows have been deployed. At this time, more stone bullets are mined as much as possible and transported into the city for storage.

At this time, you can see the demon man outpost haunting in the snow field north of the Tong River. The nearest distance is only 20 or 30 miles from the North Tower of Hengshan city.

Demon man is a descendant of the ancient human race and monster. He was once the ruler of this land. With the rise of the human clan patriarchal power, he was completely driven to the cold wasteland north of Taiwei mountain more than 2000 years ago.

The blood traces of ancient monsters can be clearly seen from their strong body shape, rough and ugly faces, limbs, hairy or natural scales; Some demons even have huge scale wings and can fly in the sky.

Demon barbarians are naturally brave and capable of large-scale mining and ironmaking. They are generally equipped with iron armor and refined iron spear. They can also use meteorite iron to make more powerful xuanbing treasure armor; Large scale domestication of war horses, which are even more powerful than the excellent war horses in Yanzhou; He also mastered the powerful blood sacrifice witchcraft, which has been the biggest threat to the north of Yanzhou since the past dynasties.

Wu Jinglin has traveled in Yanjing for two years. After returning to Tianshui County, he has to go to Hengshan defense line to participate in defense every year. He has rich experience in fighting with demon and barbarian soldiers. Even if he has stepped into Mingqiao at this time, he is still haunted by the thought of the crazy killing power of demon and barbarian soldiers after stimulating their orifices through blood sacrifice and witchcraft.

No army wants to fight with the demon barbarians in the field. If it is not based on the strong stronghold defense and the tactics of attacking the city and pulling out the stronghold, Wu Jinglin suspects that the patriarchal lords of the northern counties have the ability to stop the demon barbarians from going south

When Wu Jinglin arrived, the generals of Longxiang camp had had several small-scale contact battles with the demon man outpost, leaving pools of blood in the snow covered land.

Chen Hai only wants to suppress the demon barbarians who enter the gap in Hengshan to the north of Tonghe River, and resolutely intercept and snipe the demon barbarians who cross the Tonghe River and want to approach Hengshan city or other anti stronghold outposts.

Although many outposts of demon barbarians have been wiped out on the snow field between Tonghe River and Hengshan City, it is not enough to curb the ambition of demon barbarians to tear the gap from here. In the North farther away from Tonghe River, tens of thousands of demon barbarians are gathering, and simple animal skin tents are connected into one piece