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"Look, my lord, it goes north through Pingxing Pass, Yanmen Pass and Ningwu Pass, and after leaving Pian Pass, it enters the nomadic areas in the northwest. Xie Xuan, "My lord, you should know this."

Xie Xuan nodded. The arms trade in the northwest must pass through the pass, and the gatekeeper is naturally Yinjia.

Lu Chuan pointed to Taiming Mountain to the east of Jinyang: "Go east through Juyongguan, then pass Taiming Mountain, and transport it to Bohai Country. This is the second line."

"The land of Bohai is small, and its national strength is not considered strong. How could it need such a large transportation line?"

"My lord doesn't know that the Bohai Kingdom usually buys a lot of raw materials to make some light weapons. The country is surrounded by seas to the east, so there is no need to fortify it. In order to protect their own safety, they will try their best to maintain a close relationship with the only neighboring country, which is us. long-lasting trade relationship."

Xie Xuan thought for a moment, then asked: "Then the third line is Yu Rizhao?"

"Yes, the arms line with Rizhao is the largest trading chain. Rizhao has a strong economy and can only transport raw materials from Dawei, so the annual purchase can basically account for [-] to [-]% of Dawei's export of arms raw materials. "Lu Chuan pointed to three different ports on the southeast coast, and continued, "Chiyun Port, Dongdu Port, and Wuxia Port, these three ports are all trading ports. Of course, they have been suspended several months ago. gone."

This is natural, the two armies exchanged fire, there is no reason to continue to sell arms to the enemy.

Xie Xuan didn't have a detailed concept of the arms trade, but he also knew that the raw materials purchased from Wei's roads every year were not enough to make Rizhao's military strong enough to compete with Wei's.What's more, in terms of weapons and equipment this time, Rizhao is obviously better than Wei.

"Are there only these three? Vice General Lu, do you know if there is any private transaction route?"

Lu Chuan understood Xie Xuan's meaning, and said: "There are only these three on the surface. The excavation and production of arms raw materials are all through the central government. No private person dares to do arms business too ostentatiously. But the prince also knows that since ancient times, civilian officials and generals There are not a few arms smugglers, and they usually do small things to earn some gray silver taels, and they just turn a blind eye and it’s over, if they really pursue it, it’s something that can’t be explained clearly.”

Of course Xie Xuan knew it, and it was precisely because of this that he knew how complicated the arms deal was.

Seeing Xie Xuan's serious face, Lu Chuan probably guessed something, and asked, "My lord, is Rizhao's military equipment sufficient this time?"

Xie Xuan said: "Yes, and the enemy has a new type of weapon. The commander-in-chief led the army to fight fiercely with him at sea, and he has already suffered a disadvantage. Today when I went to the palace to face the emperor, I proposed to the emperor that I want to send the Wujia army to station at Taiming Mountain and Wucang Mountain respectively. , It’s okay to be mediocre, you have to make a plan early.”

Lu Chuan immediately said: "This subordinate understands, and I will inform Huang Yu later to organize the army in advance."

Xie Xuan smiled: "Don't be so anxious. By the way, how is the situation of the Light Armored Army in the past two months since Deputy General Tao took office?"

Xie Xuan had long wanted to inquire about Tao Jiang's affairs, but because he was the regent and the commander of the Silver Armor Army, it was really difficult for him to intervene in the military affairs of the Central Army camp.But since it is time to mobilize troops at this moment, it is impossible not to understand the lieutenant general in light armor.

The corners of Lu Chuan's mouth twitched imperceptibly: "My lord, this Tao Jiang is indeed quite talented, and he is a man who has read military books." Xie Xuan heard the meaning of these words, "Oh", and waited. Lu Chuan continued.

Sure enough, Lu Chuan sighed, and said, "On this battlefield, the most taboo thing is arrogance, self-satisfaction and conceit, and he took them all."

It's true that misfortunes never come singly. Now, not to mention internal and external troubles, even the Central Army camp can't make people worry.

"You don't have to worry about the prince, there is the last general and the deputy general Huang, and I will lead the troops to go separately."

Xie Xuan said helplessly: "Master Zhang Yu will not agree."

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"I heard that the more than 100 warships of the Great Wei Dynasty have lost [-] ships! We have gone to more than [-] ships in total, and now there is almost no damage!" The blue-clothed soldier said excitedly to his companions while gnawing steamed buns With the latest battle situation.

He Yun held a piece of white flour cake in his hand, and moved to the side of a group of people who were discussing in full swing.

Some people are saying: "This time the Great Wei is going to suffer. They have always boasted that their military power is strong, and they probably have never encountered such a situation before!"

"That's not it! It's a big country, and its eyes are always higher than the top, and it doesn't pay attention to the small countries around it. I am the biggest in the world! I think my black, silver and red armies are invincible in the world, so why would I spend time studying how to improve?" Weapons, how sophisticated are the warships! When our warships swing over there, they collide with each other, and I think their warships are the first to rot into pieces!"

He Yun understood, not only the firearms, Rizhao even improved the warships.

He leaned in again, and asked with a cheerful look: "Hey, you said, our warship is so powerful now, what exactly is it so powerful?"

The blue-clothed soldier just said immediately: "You don't know that!"

He Yun took a bite of the cake, nodded repeatedly and said, "Tell me quickly!"

The blue-clothed soldier said: "This one, the material for making warships has improved a lot. It is said that the number of screws on each warship is twice as much as before. Now it is extremely strong. Not to mention collisions, even It takes a lot of effort to bombard the cannons! Otherwise, if the two sides are facing each other, the opponent will lose more than us!"

"Hey, isn't our country in Rizhao always short of resources because of its small size? Where did the materials come from to make such a good warship, as well as those cannons, mines, and flying falcons?" Another soldier happened to ask He The thing you want to ask the most.

However, He Yun licked his lips. As the name suggests, this hidden mine is probably the shell that can explode underwater that he saw before. So, what is the flying falcon?

The blue-clothed soldier swallowed a steamed bun, waved his hand and said, "Don't interrupt me yet! I haven't finished talking yet. Didn't I just say that the warship is much stronger, and there is one more important thing! You know Where can the previous voyage go?"

A soldier said: "I know! It's almost a round trip from Rizhao to Dawei."

"Then do you know where you can go now?"

Everyone shook their heads to express their ignorance. The man felt a sense of accomplishment, and raised his head and said, "At least I can reach the Bohai Sea area of ​​Great Wei! Do you know where Bohai Sea is? That's the northeast area of ​​Great Wei, let alone how far it is! Now We can go if we want to!"

He Yun opened his eyes wide, Bohai, that is the east of the imperial city, where the Bohai Kingdom is located.

Great Wei hardly fortified the Bohai Kingdom, if he invaded from there, he would be caught off guard. Rizhao is clearly a warship designed according to Great Wei's weakness.

It seems that they are still planning to march to the north, and they don't know if the capital will make any moves.Fortunately, he left the Golden Tiger Talisman to Xie Xuan, as long as Xie Xuan can mobilize the Wujia soldiers, he will be at ease.

"Hey, what did you just ask? Oh, the raw materials, right? This is even more exciting! We don't have enough raw materials, so we naturally ship them from other countries! In our position, we don't have access to the village or store, and we can get what we can get." Great Wei is the only country. The transportation of raw materials like saltpeter has not been interrupted in these years, and there are even more amazing ones!"

The man looked around at the people around him in a mysterious way, whetted his appetite, and said, "I heard that the Firearms Bureau transported in batches of ready-made firearms from the Wei Dynasty, and then modified them on the basis of these firearms. Those that can be kept are directly improved, and those that cannot be kept are dismantled and remanufactured.”

The eyes of the person next to him lit up: "Isn't that just Dawei cheating himself!"

"Isn't it? Hahahahahaha!" All the people in this group laughed together.

He Yun couldn't laugh.

A person next to him slapped He Yun several times and said, "Why don't you laugh hahahaha?"

He Yun glanced at him and said, "It's nothing, I was just thinking, how did so many raw firearms come in?"

As soon as he finished speaking, He Yun immediately looked at the "Knowledgeable", expecting to get some clues.Reluctantly, that person also waved his hand: "I don't know about this! This is a military secret, at least you have to be a lieutenant general or above to know it!"

lieutenant?He Yun suddenly remembered that that night in the warehouse of the main ship, in the small room where the hostages were held, the lieutenant seemed to know something about the word "Han" engraved on the broken arm.

There was a long whistle from outside, which was not the usual whistle for military training.The soldiers' chat was not over yet, they all turned their heads and glanced outside the door, then stood up in a hurry.

He Yun clapped his hands, and quickly walked out of the dining hall with the large army.

Sure enough, a lieutenant general in black was already waiting at the door, and said to the captain at the side: "Send five hundred soldiers to carry the armaments, and send another thousand to follow me to the front line immediately."

Moving armaments?Isn't that going to the arsenal!What a stroke of luck.

He Yun poked his head to look at the sea in the distance, and there were indeed several landing ships docked there, returning to transport supplies.He suddenly realized that it was only seven days away, why did he come back so soon to make up supplies?

He Yun panicked, could it be that he is about to log in?He knew that Rizhao's idea of ​​fighting this time was to make a quick decision, but why so fast?How could the three hundred warships of Wei Dynasty be repelled in just a few days?

This is impossible.

Walking among the [-] soldiers going to the arsenal, he suppressed the doubts in his heart. He didn't need to think about the battle situation on the front line, what he needed to consider was the ammunition.

The different types of arms used by different arms of the Great Wei Dynasty were different, and even the same type of arms had different symbols and depictions due to their different affiliations.A layman doesn't know this, but He Yun watches soldiers training in the artillery battalion every day, he knows it all too well.

As long as he can touch the arsenal, even if he sees a little disintegrated body of the big Wei firearm, he can roughly judge it.

What a stroke of luck!

The author has something to say:

The names of the passes mentioned in this chapter are directly taken from our Nine Passes of the Great Wall. The specific geographical location is not accurate, so don’t worry~

Also, because this article is empty, there will be some weapons that were not available in ancient times. You don’t need to research, this article is empty.