Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

"Don't worry, I'm not interested in hemp sticks!"

It took a long time for Tang Liuniang to realize that Chen Ying actually disliked her small breasts.

Tang Liuniang looked down at Xiaohe's sharp chest, her little face flushed with anger.

"I'll kill you!"

Tang Liuniang threw herself on Chen Ying's arm, opened her mouth and bit it.

It's just a pity that Chen Ying was wearing armor at this time, and it was a general-level Mingguang armor weighing 23 catties. Not to mention teeth, even the light bow used by cavalry could be ignored at a distance of thirty steps.

Even though her mouth was bleeding from the nail blade, Tang Liuniang was still steadfast.

Seeing Chen Ying being bitten by Tang Liuniang, the surrounding guards immediately raised their swords and guns.

"Go back!"

All the guards retreated angrily after hearing the words.

Chen Ying secretly sighed and said: "If you don't let go, this general will not accept you as a soldier!"

"Oh!"

Only then did Tang Liuniang let go of her mouth, and stuck out her tongue towards Chen Ying.

Chen Ying ordered the guards to take Tang Liuniang to dinner.

Tang Liuniang looked worried, and said stubbornly: "I'm not hungry!"

"If you don't eat, you won't be recruited as a soldier!"

"Oh!" Tang Liuniang reluctantly followed the guards to the kitchen to get dinner.

"General, do you really accept her?"

"Otherwise, what should I do?"

"But... his origin is unknown!" Liang Zan said with a worried face, "Who knows if she is a spy of the rebel army?"

"Is there such a spy? I can tell whether it's a human or a ghost!" Chen Ying said disapprovingly, "Go and see how the recruitment is going!"

Walking to Chen Ying's big tent before leaving, he met Wei Wenzhong, who was red-eyed and like a rabbit.

"How's the recruiting going?"

"It's better than expected!" Wei Wenzhong rubbed his face, cheered up and said, "They are all seedlings of elite soldiers, and there are more than 1000 to [-] soldiers."

The so-called elite soldiers in this era specifically refer to elite soldiers, meaning young and strong men between the ages of 16 and 45.Chen Ying was secretly surprised that the entire Xi County was only a middle and lower county.The so-called middle and lower counties mean that the number of households is less than 1000 and more than [-].A middle and lower county in Xixian District can recruit more than [-] soldiers, which almost empties out the men in the entire county.

From this aspect, it can also be seen that the prosperous Tang Dynasty can dominate the world. The whole people advocated martial arts.

Chen Yingdao: "Allocate these new recruits immediately, and first complete the formation of the four regiments of the Honorary First Regiment, the Second Honorary Regiment, the Shesheng Regiment and the Honored Guard Regiment. As for the Yueqi Regiment, we don't have so many horses, and we are just temporarily Leave it empty!"

Wei Wenzhong took the account book and said: "General Chen, the Yueqi regiment can be filled to full strength now. The gentry and celebrities in Xixian County donated 57 horses, and more than a hundred people joined the army with horses. The Yueqi regiment is fully staffed." That's enough!"

Chen Ying said happily: "Then hurry up and assign the old to the new, and train while marching. When we arrive in Shizhou, these recruits can also go into battle!"

Wei Wenzhong stammered, "It's just..."

"Just what?"

Chen Ying looked at Wei Wenzhong curiously and said, "Old Wei, we are all life and death brothers begging for food in a ladle, what should we say?"

Wei Wenzhong said: "It's just that we don't have enough weapons. The Xixian government treasury doesn't have any decent weapons at all. There are only twenty pairs of leather armor and fifty spears, and they are all rotten by moths. There is nothing we can do about it." use!"

Chen Ying said without hesitation: "We don't have weapons and armors, so let's build them ourselves, gather all the blacksmiths in the city, collect iron and pig iron, and make armors and weapons!"

"But the purchase of iron requires money!" Wei Wenzhong said with a mournful face: "Xun Erfu's account has less than [-] yuan for oil and salt, so you can't use the oil and salt money of brothers to buy iron!"

"Is there any money in the treasury of Xi County?" Chen Ying asked doubtfully, "No matter how poor Xi County is, it's not like there is no money at all, right?"

Wei Wenzhong said in anticipation of Ai Ai: "There are, and there are quite a few. There are more than two thousand pieces!"

"It's easy to do if you have money. Two thousand guan is enough for us to buy iron to make weapons and armor!"

"However, those are all autumn taxes. Those who want to go to Chang'an embezzle the national tax without permission. This is a serious crime that requires beheading!"

"Huh!" Chen Ying said, "If we don't have weapons and armor, do we expect us to go to the battlefield with wooden sticks to suppress the rebellion? That's almost like sending us to death. If something happens, the general will take it and take the money from the Xixian government treasury first. Take it out and use it, at all costs, buy the nearby iron and pig iron with all your strength, and make weapons!"

"But what if the court asks for the crime?"

"Then we have to wait for this general to come back!"

Chapter 53血色战旗

Chen Ying originally thought that embezzling the taxes and taxes in the treasury of Xi County would perfectly solve the problem of insufficient armor and weapons, but when he searched the whole city, he almost smashed the iron pot, and he only got more than three thousand catties in total. iron.

The more than [-] catties of iron also included the weapons and armor of the rebels captured on the battlefield, otherwise the gap would be even bigger.But this is only iron, not steel. If you make a weapon, you need to consume [-]% of the iron material, which means that it is less than two thousand catties that can be actually used.To make Mingguang armor, there are no more than a hundred pairs at most, and if it is made to make horizontal knives, it is only more than two hundred handles.

In fact, Chen Ying thought a little too ideally.This era is no better than later generations. Even in the Tang Dynasty at the peak of its national power at the beginning of the Kaiyuan period, the country’s steel output was only ten million catties. Ten million catties sounds like a lot, but it is only five thousand tons. Even a small steel black workshop in later generations , The monthly output is definitely more than this number.

According to the Tang army system, the four main types of arms are spears, sword shields, crossbows, and light cavalry. With Chen Ying's current five regiments fully organized, nearly [-] horizontal knives, [-] sets of armor, and [-] sets of armor need to be supplemented. There are only spears and spears, and at least four hundred shields are needed.However, in fact, no matter how the three thousand catties of iron are deployed, it is far from enough to meet the needs.

Just when Chen Ying was at a loss, he suddenly saw a dark-skinned blacksmith who was over half a century old, with the help of two apprentices, swung a sledgehammer and forged it on the steel billet, knocking on the billet randomly. , the billet gradually took shape, and Chen Ying was stunned for a moment.

I saw that the billet made by this blacksmith was rectangular, with an arch in the middle, curved sides, a flat front end and a round back end.

Chen Ying was inexplicably surprised, what is this thing?

Although Chen Ying is not an expert in ancient weapons, and he can't name the eighteen types of weapons, he can be sure that this steel billet is definitely not any of the eighteen types of weapons.

The blacksmith slapped his forehead with a big slap, and said angrily: "Oh, look at my brain, I usually beat it smoothly, but I accidentally beat it into a hoe again!"

"and many more!"

Chen Ying instantly thought of a solution to the problem.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Shizhu Chieftain Ma Qiancheng and Qin Liangyu's couple recruited the children of Shizhu's hometown and formed a military force with great military exploits, named "White Soldier". The soldiers suffered heavy losses and became famous all over the world.In fact, when Ma Qiancheng formed the white-armed soldiers, it was also because he had no money to build a well-armored army, so he could only use local materials for cheap.

Ordinary long spears only need four taels of iron as the blade. Although it is cheap, the power of the long spear is not high. When encountering well-equipped armor or heavy troops, they can only stare blankly.Equipped with spears with weak lethality, the price is too expensive, but in the middle is the hook and sickle spear of the white soldiers.

According to legend, white pole soldiers use hard white wood as their pole, equipped with a hook with a blade, and a hard iron ring underneath. When fighting, the hook can be cut and pulled, and the ring can be used as a hammer weapon. When necessary, dozens of spears hook When the rings are connected, it can be used as a tool for climbing over mountains and walls, and cliffs can be climbed in an instant, which is very suitable for mountain warfare.

I am about to enter Shizhou to quell the rebellion. Shizhou is the Jianmen Pass of later generations. The land of Shu is mountainous. Using a white hook and sickle gun as a standard weapon is the best equipment.

Originally, Wei Wenzhong was still having a headache, how to get steel to make armor and weapons, this idiot blacksmith actually hit a hoe, Wei Wenzhong was about to lose his temper.

Chen Ying suddenly grabbed Wei Wenzhong's hand and said, "What's your name?"