The Sacred Ding Chapter 299: Procrastination
Nearly a hundred organs fired a volley of crossbows, and the rain of quenched gold arrows was as terrifying as a storm of extinguishing the sky. Even the most elite heavy-armored horses could hardly stop its power, while Kong Peng used light-armored crossbows and spear Lord, naturally he didn't dare to approach Nanjian Gorge easily, but it didn't mean that Kong Peng, who was supervising the battle in Yuchi City as a rebel captain, was helpless.
In addition to being the only remaining strongman of the Four Dao Dan Realm in the Great Oasis of Pinglu, Kong Peng has served in the Northern Army for a long time before being a bandit. Not only him, but even the few big bandits under his command, they have rich Yejun experience.
In view of the strong penetrating power of the quenched golden arrows, they chose the hard wood that grew over a thousand years in Yuchi City to manufacture large numbers of double or even multi-layer tall tower shields.
This kind of tower shield is also extremely heavy, but it is mounted on wheels and driven by three or five strong Jianrui, which can effectively resist the continuous shooting of the organs.
This kind of tower shield vehicle made of thousand-year-old solid wood is still much lighter than the precision cast iron shield of the same defensive power. It is only under the strong suppression of the logistics supply line by the elite war bird battalion, whether it is an iron shield vehicle. It was still a tower shield car, Kong Peng wanted to build enough in Yuchi City, but it couldn't be done in three or five days.
General Ye Qinglin, Ye He and others still hope to use their existing advantages before the thieves Kong Peng and Zhang Xiong can build enough targeted weapons in Yuchi City, Tian'ai Mountain, and Xiqiang King City. First of all, a devastating attack on the more than 30,000 rebels assembled in Yuchi City.
Ye Qinglin and their considerations have their own rationale. The sacred chariots and the organ reambow are strong, but the number is still too limited. Once the iron shield vehicles built by the rebels take shape, they will be on the battlefield with a larger number of people. Above, there are less than a hundred organs, the role that can be played will become extremely limited.
The technical content of the counterweight sling crossbow is low and it is easy to imitate. Once the rebels can build the sling crossbow in Yuchi City, their advantage in this respect will be weakened.
In addition, although the Demon Temple is unlikely to participate in the war directly, the rebels can still recruit monks from the deep desert west of Pinglu to strengthen their poultry camp, which they temporarily possess over Tieling. The absolute advantage of will slowly be weakened.
Chen Hai did not want to take the risk and rush to fight Kong Peng in Yuchi City at this time.
Although Chen Hai and Dong Ning handed over the command of the battlefield at the western foot of Tieling Mountains to Ye Qinglin, the elite troops deployed at the west entrance of Nanjian Gorge were not controlled by Ye Qinglin.
After deducting the outstanding army at the west entrance of Nanjianxia, Ye Qinglin expanded his army to 30,000 after recruiting the children of the four surnames. Facing the soldiers and horses led by Black Mountain Wuzun Kong Peng, it is difficult to talk about superiority.
Chen Hai still hopes that the real decisive battle can be postponed until after next spring or even later.
The Zhang family seized the King City of Xiqiang and established itself as a king. With the support of the Demon Temple and the Kingdom of Tibetan and Qiang, they have not been able to effectively control the Pinglu Oasis in the past six months. Most of the cities remain neutral, which means Ye clan ruled the Western Qiang State for more than 400 years and still has a strong foundation in the Pinglu Oasis.
At this time, they stood firmly in Tieling and directly confronted the rebels. The delay in time was actually in their favor.
A more important reason is that Chen Hai wants to take advantage of the current war pressure to forcefully promote the military system in Lucheng.
Although Zhao, Zhou, Yang and Gu both agreed to move to the west of Tieling to rule a city after the war, if there is no war pressure, will they lead most of the clan’s children out of Lucheng and whether Ye Qinglin will keep the promise , It is hard to say.
Especially, the secrets of lake mud and sand mines are hidden at the bottom of Tianxuan Lake inside Lukai Gorge. Once the curtain is officially lifted, all promises will become pale and weak in the face of huge interests.
To ensure that the Jingjue Duhufu will have absolute control over Lucheng after the war, we can only now take advantage of the great war pressure and when the resistance is minimal, to forcefully promote the military system.
The first step Chen Hai did was to transfer Ding Shuang from Montenegro, and first be responsible for reorganizing the forces that remained after the expulsion of Zhang from Lucheng.
As one of the five surnames of Lucheng, although Zhang family can only be regarded as a trivial tribe in the Jinyan prefectures, it has 170,000 mu of cultivated land between the west bank of the Luhe River and Tieling Mountain. Area of pasture.
Chen Hai organized twelve military villages on the west bank of the Lu River and at the eastern foot of the Tieling Mountains to govern the land under the original Zhang clan, and more than 5,000 slaves and attached people to the original Zhang clan The households and more than 30,000 people were assigned to the military mansion, and the officials were rewarded with military merit.
Without affecting the current situation of farming and animal husbandry, this action alone will recruit 6,000 more elite soldiers for the elite army.
Jing Juejun had previously recruited 12,000 elites from Montenegro, six thousand elites guarded Lucheng, and six thousand elites coordinated with the Ye's royal army to guard the west entrance of Nanjianxia.
The newly recruited six thousand new pawns, Chen Hai did not plan to spend half a year or more to train an army alone. Instead, they were sent directly to the west entrance of Nanjianxia, where Wu Meng, Ran Hu, and Fan Dachun took over. The proportion of matching one is directly divided into the small camps, directly expanding the force of the Jing Juejun at the west entrance of Nanjianxia to 12,000.
In a short period of 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 pawns can quickly adapt to high-intensity training and familiarization. The battlefield; at the same time, there will be a group of grassroots military officers trained, and these grassroots military officers are the basis for the implementation of the military system.
For the slaves and subordinates belonging to the four clans of Zhao, Yang, Zhou and Gu, the Jingjue Duhufu’s approach cannot be so straightforward and rude. Instead, it implements a redemption policy that is acceptable to all aspects; The slaves and vassals who were willing to join the Jingjue Army were all redeemed from the four surnames at the expense of the Jingjue Duhufu.
Jingjue Duhufu’s bid for every elite slave and his family is ten catties of hardened iron material. This is a very high price in the slave market of the Pinglu Oasis; after all, in a large-scale After the war, the four-surnamed clan can also take a large number of people from the enemy and serve as slaves.
On the one hand, Zhao Yangzhou and Gu's four surnames hope that the Jingjue Army will become stronger, and will be able to fight more effectively with the royal army in the future, and fight the rebels more effectively. On the other hand, they cannot refuse such an offer.
As well as the fields and pastures of the four clan families on both sides of the Deer River, the Jingjue Duhu Mansion also offered for redemption.
For the whole winter of the 76th year of Emperor Yitian, more than 200,000 catties of hardened gold and iron materials and more than two thousand sets of armor were directly imported into Lucheng from Juquanling. They were used as slaves and family members of seven thousand families and hundreds of thousands. The redemption of the field was transferred to the children of the four surnames.
Ye Qinglin is also willing to accept such a redemption policy. After all, a large number of armors, bows, and gold-hardened iron materials have been transferred from the Jingjue Duhufu to the hands of the four clan clans, which directly strengthens the strength of the Ye clan army. Increase Ye's debt to Hexi.
During this period, not only the elite troops stationed in Lucheng were expanded to 10,000 people.
Chen Hai also took over an iron quarry and a smelting plant left behind by Zhang's expulsion from Lucheng, and moved half of the craftsmen and craftsmen in Black Mountain to Lucheng.
Chen Hai also requisitioned manpower to dig up the stone stairs leading to Lukai Gorge from Luheyuan.
Lukai Gorge is located more than 3,000 meters above the source of the Luhe River, with extremely dangerous terrain.
In the past, Lucheng would never think of trying to build a city on Lukai Gorge. Naturally, it would not have thought of digging a stone staircase with a height difference of more than 3,000 meters, but the disciples of the Demon Temple once approached the deer from the mountains in the south. He, Chen Hai built a fortress on Lukai Gorge at this time, and also took down a defensive array in Lucheng and deployed it on Lukai Gorge, which seemed justified.
Of course, before the stone stairs were dug out, a large amount of manpower and materials were directly carried on the back through the giant eagle.
The smelting furnace was directly dismantled from the Zhang's iron smelting yard; it was just the smelting of the quenched iron material, which required extremely high furnace flame temperature, but at this time, Juquanling secretly gave a set of advanced It is also something that people don't realize when the flames gather.
On the first day of the seventy-seventh year of Emperor Yitian, the foundry in Lukaixia successfully produced the first furnace of quenched hot metal and poured it into the preformed halberd blank mold.
Of course, these actions cannot be hidden from Hexi.
Hexi controls the opening to the west to the desert, and can roughly count the gold-quenched iron imported into the desert. Two-phase and one calculation can tell where the problem is. So when Lukaixia produced the first furnace of gold-quenched iron Chen Hai also specially invited Ge Xuanqiao and Du Linan to observe the scene.
"..." Du Linan looked at four to five thousand catties of hot red hot molten iron, which was divided into molds and cooled to form. The blanks of fifty quenched halberds and war spears were soon cast out in front of his eyes. Don't know what to say.
The gold-tempered iron material is only a general term. Even the mysterious iron bow used by Chen Hai at this time is strictly a gold-tempered iron, but the content of the mysterious iron is relatively higher. If such an iron bow is made of pure iron, the bow body alone will weigh 20,000 to 30,000 catties. Who can use it?
In the world, quenched gold iron was divided into nine grades based on the content of extremely precious gold and iron such as Xuantai fine iron and Zichensha gold.
The ninth-level gold-tempered iron material can usually be used to forge the most top-level mortal armor; the eighth to the sixth level, corresponding to the yellow-level inferior to the high-level mysterious soldiers, can be refined into the Taoist seal and the magic circle prohibition .
The Xuanbei Zichen halberd used by Chen Hai at this time is based on the eighth grade hardened iron material, which is refined into three hundred catties of Xuanbei refined iron and two hundred catties of Zichen placer gold~IndoMTL.com~War Halberd It weighs more than one thousand and two hundred catties, but it can only be considered the fourth-class hardened iron.
The pure Xuantai fine iron and Zichensha gold are several times more precious than the top quenched iron, but a piece of Xuantai fine iron, which is not much bigger than the broad bean, weighs nearly a hundred catties. It's fine to make thin and light spirit swords and magic weapons, but don't think it can be used to cast large mysterious weapons.
The placer lake mud mined at the bottom of Lukaixia Lake is of higher quality than Juquanling. It can directly produce close to the eighth grade hardened iron material. Du Linan suspects that the Demon Temple knows the secrets of the bottom of Lukaixia Lake. Will the intestines be regretful.
Hundreds of elite disciples of the Demon God Temple were so close to this unimaginable sect resource that they were finally bluffed by Chen Hai?
"Old ancestor Ge, half of the quenched iron material produced here can be supplied to Hexi, but this secret may not be kept for a long time." Chen Hai said to Ge Xuanqiao.
"You give the Demon Temple a condition to allow them to segregate Changle City on the west side of the Pinglu Oasis. It is nothing more than leaving a back door to facilitate Taiweizong to build a Taoyuan here," Ge Xuanqiao sighed softly." It makes no difference whether I stay in Taiwei Mountain or submerge in Lukai Gorge. Besides, Dong Ning has also watched her grow up since she was a child, and I don’t want to see any accidents to her..."