Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Zheng's young and strong drove the carts, which were loaded with food, money or supplies, and the carts marched mightily towards Paomaling.

Guo Luo looked at the invisible convoy, took three steps at a time, and arrived at Paomaling where the Chinese army was in the tent.In the Paomaling camp at this time, Chen Ying was very leisurely. He dug a pit outside the tent to serve as a stove, put some stones on it, stuck a few carp with small wooden sticks, and was grilling.

I don't know what the rumors are. Chen Ying vaguely remembers that later generations said that the people and gentry were forbidden to eat carp in the Tang Dynasty because Li and carp have the same pronunciation. This is pure nonsense.According to this statement, wouldn't the emperor of Zhou want to forbid the people to drink porridge?Comrade Lao Zhu forbids the common people to eat pork?Does Yang Jian want to ban the common people from eating mutton?

Chen Ying asked Li Xiuning specifically, but Li Xiuning didn't know about it at all.

Chen Ying took Li Xiuning with a spear to catch fish in the creek at the foot of the mountain, but Chen Ying's skills were sloppy, and he didn't catch a single fish after a long time. The arrow shot down and hit seven fish.

Chen Ying took the carp he shot and went back to Daying to cook the fish with Li Xiuning.

The fly in the ointment is that there is no chili powder and cumin, the taste is not satisfactory, but Li Xiuning is very happy to eat.

Chen Ying looked at the grilled fish and murmured: "Chili, when will we eat chili!"

Li Xiuning asked curiously, "What pepper?"

Chen Yingdao: "Chili pepper is a condiment..."

America, Chen Ying's brain instantly became active when he thought of this place.Chen Ying once watched "Discovery" in later generations and remembered that there was an ocean current in the Pacific Ocean, which could float from the Pacific Ocean to America in a month.

There are so many things that Chen Ying can only dream of in America, such as peppers, sweet potatoes, peanuts, tomatoes, potatoes, and of course delicious crayfish...

However, the origin of the dream is unknown. When Chen Ying fell into his beautiful fantasy, Guo Luo was shaking Chen Ying vigorously: "General, general, wake up..."

"Stop shaking, I'm about to fall apart!" Chen Ying said angrily, "What happened?"

"Money, food, and a lot of soldiers!"

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Chen Ying received the first batch of materials from the Zheng family, more than [-] catties of steelmaking and about [-] pairs of refined steel armor, and more than [-] young and strong men, although these Zheng's under the banner of "tenants" Young and strong, in fact, Chen Ying found out at a glance that these young and strong were well-trained sergeants, wearing battle armor, they could be pulled out to the battlefield, and they had somewhat murderous looks on them.

"How about the young and strong General Chen?" Zheng Jian proudly introduced to Chen Ying.

Chen Ying nodded and said, "Not bad, very good!"

The physical fitness of these young and strong people is quite good. They are all above the age of 35, and very few are around 40 years old. In fact, although the Zheng family in Xingyang passed on their poems and books to their families, they had money, people and food. As early as the beginning of Li Yuan's army, they also began to build their own private soldiers. The composition of these private soldiers was very complicated. The fugitive rebel soldiers also include the fugitives of the Sui Dynasty when Yang Guangdong conquered Goguryeo, and the Wagang army taken in by the Zheng family when Wagang and Li Mi were defeated.

Zheng Jian said triumphantly: "Our Zheng family treats our tenants well. Although natural disasters and man-made disasters have continued in recent years, and the grain has not been harvested, our Zheng family has always withheld food from the tenants. , is a rare spirit... Recently banditry has been serious, they often fight with bandits and rogues with knives, they are not only majestic, but also tough."

Of course, Zheng Jian didn't say anything, as long as the weaker ones were killed by the rebels!

Zheng Jian continued to show off: "The most rare thing is that they have very personalities. If you order them to move forward, they will charge forward even if there is only one person left; if you let them stop, they will not surrender even if they hit the last person!"

When Chen Ying heard this, an unnatural look appeared on his face.There was also a turbulent wave in my heart, no matter what the battle was, the last person would rush forward. This was not an ordinary tenant at all, nor an ordinary private soldier, but a real dead soldier.Chen Ying felt that it was an exaggeration for the Hou Mo Chen family to secretly raise three thousand fierce tigers, but compared with the Zheng family of Xingyang, the Hou Mo Chen family who started with military merits and martial arts was simply childish.

Tens of thousands of dead soldiers, what is this concept?It takes about ten guan a year to feed an ordinary soldier, or even at least ten times that of an ordinary soldier.After all, the dead men did not pop out from the cracks in the rocks. If you want the dead men to work hard, you must give them enough housing allowances, so that the wives and children of these dead men have no worries about food and clothing. That is to say, the ten thousand dead men , The annual cost of money and food will be as many as one million.

In fact, Chen Ying was wrong. Most of the dead men of the Zheng family were adopted orphans or the children of Zheng's shady families. Not only were they very loyal to the Zheng family, but they also paid a lower price.They were all almost one-time buyouts, and they didn't spend a lot of money. For the tens of thousands of dead soldiers, Zheng's annual expenditure did not amount to about 30 to [-] guan.

In fact, the Zheng family of Xingyang's calculations are more shrewd than anyone else's.Chen Ying is a well-known general in the world, known for his bravery and military training, as long as the soldiers Chen Ying has led, they will not die in a battle, and all of them are elites.Therefore, the Zheng family clearly knew that Dou Jiande's army had all retreated, leaving only Liu Jintang with less than 2 troops to defend Xingyang.

The materials and wealth to be given to Chen Ying are not three melons and two dates, but no less than 30 yuan of materials, and there are still [-] young adults.Just thinking about Zheng's makes her flesh hurt.But Mrs. Zheng still gritted her teeth to fulfill the contract, of course not because she was afraid of Chen Ying's revenge, but because she wanted to use Chen Ying's hand to train Chen Ying an elite army.Only with elite soldiers who stand against ten in hand, can the tragedy of Dou Jiande's army looting the Zheng family not be repeated.

Chen Ying was not polite when he got the materials and manpower. Although he knew that the Zheng family was using Chen Ying, Chen Ying didn't care.Under Chen Ying's ideological education and spiritual bombardment, only God knows how much loyalty they can retain to the Zheng family.

Of course, what surprised Chen Ying the most about these young and strong men was that they could pick out more than [-] strong and powerful men with a height of eight feet. A very small part is not enough to meet Chen Ying's needs. Chen Ying is also unceremonious, and with a wave of his hand, he has drawn out more than [-] giant men with a height of eight feet to form four reserve armies of the Modao Army. .

There are many people who can ride horses in the Central Plains. Especially in the Sui Dynasty, the families of the common people were very wealthy, almost the same as those of later generations. As long as the average family background, every household has a horse, so there are many people who can ride horses.These people are treasures, and Chen Ying also unceremoniously used more than [-] people as cavalry reserves.

The other dead soldiers all acted as jumping soldiers and shooting soldiers. In this way, in a short period of time, Chen Ying's trilogy has expanded by more than [-] people.

With the follow-up of [-] war horses and rough horses in place, Chen Ying's hook and sickle cavalry grew legs again.

As the saying goes, with a knife in hand, I have the world.

With the materials and manpower supported by the Zheng family, Chen Ying immediately started preparing for the battle, preparing to recover Xingyang and end this troubled world by the way.As long as Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong are eliminated and the world is peaceful, Chen Ying can live the peaceful life he wants to live, and most importantly, he can embrace the beauty.

The reserve of the shooting army followed the training of the shooting army, and the cavalry reserve army followed the hook and sickle cavalry for restorative training. The old rules lead the troops.The Modao Army reserve army followed the Modao Army for training, but there was really no way to solve the Modao Army's equipment.

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The equipment of the Jumping Soldiers, the Shooting Soldiers, and the Long Soldiers are all easy to deal with. There are some supplies sent by Zheng, and some equipment captured by Chen Ying. It is barely enough to repair and repair.But for the four regiments of the Modao army's reserve army, Chen Ying really didn't have so many spare Modao and Mingguang heavy armors.

It must be too late to transport it from Chang'an to here.With the horses, the hooked and sickle cavalry can go into battle after three to five days of adaptive training and familiarize themselves with the temper and habits of the new horses.After much deliberation, Chen Ying decided to make his own armor. Anyway, Chen Ying had more than [-] jin of steel resources and more than [-] craftsmen. Zheng also knew that Chen Ying needed craftsmen who made armor and crossbows, so these craftsmen were mainly blacksmiths. .

After much deliberation, Chen Ying decided to build a furnace on the spot in Paomaling to forge armor.Of course, there is definitely not enough time to make the Mingguang heavy armor. The full Mingguang heavy armor has more than 300 armor blades. If all of them are molded and polished by a hydraulic lathe like Chen Ying did in Qinglin, they can naturally be produced quickly. , But under that circumstance, it would take ten days and half a month to produce more than 300 sets of Mingguang heavy armor.

In Paomaling, where there is nothing, there is no possibility of realization.Chen Ying thought for a long time and decided to build plate armor. Compared with fish scale armor, zip armor, and chain mail composed of small metal pieces, plate armor not only has stronger defensive capabilities, but also is more convenient, fast, and efficient to build.

Of course, the difficulty of plate armor manufacturing is naturally higher.At present, Chen Ying does not have an impact machine. In later generations, the plate armor with the curvature of the human body uses a steel billet and puts it in the abrasive tool of the stamping machine, and it can be impacted in one shot.

Even if it is impossible to manufacture a [-]-ton cold forging machine, Chen Ying will adopt the hot and hot forging process. Relatively speaking, the hot forging process does not require super high pressure. Of course, it also requires thousands of kilograms.

From Chen Ying's point of view, this is not a problem.Isn’t there a ratchet? Make a pulley block, set up a frame, use a large steel billet weighing [-] jin as a hammer head, and use crucible steel casting to cast a mold to form a model of the human chest and back curvature.Put the red-hot high-carbon steel into the mold, and use a manual press to smash it into shape.Then take advantage of the dark red of the plate armor, and then dip in the fire...

This kind of plate armor is actually a curved breastplate, shoulder armor, and greaves made of large steel plates. It is formed one by one, one by one, and some of them are damaged, as long as they are replaced, they can continue to be used!

Since the breastplate and greaves are made of large steel plates, the number of armor leaves is much less, and the weight is relatively reduced a lot, but the defensive power will not be weakened much.More importantly, this kind of large plate armor is much faster to build than Mingguang armor. As for the serious shortage of ordinary armor blades?

In Chen Ying's view, this is not a problem.In his hand is the captured bright light armor bird hammer armor, and more than [-] pairs of refined steel armor sent by Mrs. Zheng. Chen Yingdu dismantled these armors without hesitation, and then assembled them into new plate armors. .

This kind of ugly plate armor didn't even bother to paint it after it was built. It wasn't because Chen Ying wanted to save trouble, but because Chen Ying didn't have any lacquer in his hands. In this era, lacquer was actually a valuable commodity, and Chen Ying didn't have time to ask Chang'an for it.

On April [-]th in the third year of Wude, everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.A thousand sets of plate armor were built. At this time, Chen Ying couldn't wait any longer. Without Zheng Cui, Chen Ying received urgent reports from Yu Chigong of Mengzhou, and also received urgent reports from Li Shimin. Before Chen Ying could give an order, there was a quarrel.

The hooked and sickle cavalry held back for so long, and finally got the horse, and immediately sharpened their swords, ready to go all out.Make new achievements, open up the land, shade his wife and seal his son, but whether to fight Wang Shichong first or Dou Jiande first has become a topic of dispute among the generals under his command.

In fact, at this time, neither Dou Jiande nor Wang Shichong was active.After all, whether it is Wang Shichong or Dou Jiande, their main force is there, and there is no loss at all. At this time, it is difficult to beat anyone, and they have advantages in fighting anyone.

Luo Shixin plausibly said: "Wang Shichong's army is only [-]. We now have more than [-] people. The difference in strength is not too big. There is [-]% certainty that we can win. Moreover, defeating Wang Shichong can save King Qin and the [-] besieged army. It will skyrocket, and you can take advantage of the victory and advance northward, and attack Dou Jiande with Prince Li Jiancheng!"

Chen Ying, who is familiar with Luo Shixin's personality, knows that despite Luo Shixin's nice words, he is actually a person who does not recognize people. He is nervous about Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie in Cijian, as well as Niu Junda, especially the relationship between Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin. , It's simply a life-and-death friendship.

Feng Li refuted Luo Shixin mercilessly: "Although Wang Shichong has fewer troops than Dou Jiande, Wang Shichong has won a new victory and his morale is like a rainbow. More importantly, Wang Shichong has deployed a large number of fortifications in Cijian at this time, and he will fight Wang Shichong in a decisive battle. It’s the tough battle, we have to solve it first, Wang Shichong’s defense line of tens of miles, in this case, the troops will inevitably suffer heavy losses, even if we can break Wang Shichong’s defense line in one fell swoop, how can we rescue Mengjin’s Yuchi Jingde?”

Wei Wenzhong also supported Feng Li's opinion: "Besides, Yuchi Jingde only has more than 20 soldiers and horses in Mengjin. How long can he last in the face of Dou Jiande's nearly [-] army attack? If Yuchi Jingzong can't resist Dou Jiande's army, how can he What a pity?"

Luo Shixin slapped the table with a blushing face and stiff neck: "Dou Jiande's army is in Hebei. If we want to attack Dou Jiande from the north, it must be difficult for us to cross the river. If Dou Jiande deliberately lures us to cross the river and takes the opportunity to attack halfway, then we will not only be unable to save King Qin, but also the king of Qin." Without Yuchi Jingde, wouldn’t it be a dilemma? I think we should first go from the easy to the difficult, and from the west to the north!”

Feng Lidao: "General Luo's words are wrong, not to mention that Luoyang Cijian is still more than three hundred miles away from Hulao Pass, and how can Dou Jiande turn a blind eye to our attack on Xingyang? If we attack Dou Jiande's Xingyang first, we can gain The support of the Zheng family in Xingyang can also solve the problems of our army’s food, grass, and horses and horses. General Luo wanted to conquer Wang Shichong when he was hotheaded, not to mention that Wang Shichong is so easy to defeat? Liu Jintang in Xingyang will sit back and watch us attack Wang Shichong? Stalemate, our soldiers and horses are trapped between the Cijian in Luoyang, Liu Jintang will lead his troops westward, attacking back and forth, and it will be difficult to turn back at that time, what if Wang Shichong takes the opportunity to counterattack?"

Luo Shixin widened his eyes, spread his hands and said, "The front is afraid of wolves, and the back is afraid of tigers, so there is no need to do anything."

Seeing the stalemate between the two sides, Zhang Shigui hurriedly said: "Generals, Wang Renze can be used? This man is very ambitious. If we send someone to approach him and make him a leader, will he cooperate with us in the Tang Dynasty? Now If Wang Xuanying sits in Luoyang, if Luoyang is not chaotic, Wang Shichong will continue to replenish his troops. If we can persuade him to mobilize troops to attack Luoyang, and allow him to help him, we will take Luoyang together, and crack the earth to seal the king against Wang Shichong, then Wang Shichong will not be enough. Concern. Hey, "