After Xu Qing and his group were sent out of the stronghold with gifts, accompanied by two expressionless guards, they angrily walked all the way to Weize Pass, which was being built in full swing. The two guards sent the five people out of the east gate and handed them back.

After completing the mission, he turned around and left without saying a word.

Wang Jin groaned and spat hard at the backs of the two guards: "What the hell! A yellow-haired boy appeared out of nowhere and was promoted to the position by Guan Er and Liu Wei'er. He thought he was a

A character!"

The leader of Songfengling Village, Yu Qi, who had been silent all this time, said sadly: "It seems that it's time to teach that boy a lesson to open his eyes."

Pingsan pulled out the wrist-releasing knife, circled it around his wrist a few times, and said harshly: "Xu Shouhu, go back and ask Master Jiao for instructions. As long as Master Jiao says the last word, I, Xiaoshiling Village, will be a pawn."

Xu Qing's face was gloomy, and he kept looking at the weird Wei Zeguan, his eyes flickering.

At this time, Wang Youyi from Xianju Mountain asked angrily: "Pingsan, have you really seen that Tianping Village has brought back a lot of things?"

Heizo almost swore: "When my brothers told me, I didn't believe it, so I went to the corridor to observe in person. There were groups of cattle, horses, mules and sheep, and the carts were one cart after another. The transportation manpower was terrible.

It doesn’t cost thousands, and it took me three or four days to go back and forth..."

Xu Qing spoke slowly: "What Ping San said is true. Look at Weize Pass. There were no less than two thousand soldiers who built it. The Song army occupied this pass, the Jin people occupied it, and we and other Taihang heroes also occupied it one after another.

, but no one has the strength to rebuild. Now, this boy named Di is able to do something that even a state and an army cannot do. It is conceivable that he must have made a lot of money..."

"A huge fortune?" The wrinkles on Wang Jin's face kept trembling, and his eyes showed greed. "They are all in the same way. Those who see it will have a share, and those who see it will share the meat."

"That's the truth." Heizo gritted his teeth and said, "That Leng Touqing didn't even give us any soup to drink... It's so humiliating. How does that sentence say - feces can be tolerated, urine cannot be tolerated!

"

"Yes, do it! Do it now!"

Xu Qing shook his head: "Not now. Our strength is not enough."

"What?" The four village leaders looked surprised, "Although there are thousands more people in Tianping Village, the strength has greatly increased. But look at the skills of these servants. They are good at work, but what use can they be used in fighting?

?We unite the five villages, are we still afraid that we won’t be able to eat?”

Xu Qing stretched out his finger and shook it: "Otherwise, in the meeting hall of Tianping Village just now, didn't you notice how sophisticated the heavy armor the guards wore and how sophisticated the weapons they used were. I'm sure that these equipment were definitely made by

The imperial army’s treasury of the Song Dynasty…”

The four village leaders also remembered at this time. They took a breath of air: "Yes, that armor is really extraordinary. Xu Shouhu, what do you think of this kid's origin..."

Xu Qing smiled coldly: "I don't care where he came from. Now that the Song Dynasty has been eliminated, the world is in chaos. These thousands of miles of Taihang Mountains are our world. Since he has come to our land, he is a dragon.

He has to coil up; it's a tiger, he has to lie down. He wants to challenge us mountain tigers... Hehe, I'm afraid I made the wrong idea. Let's go. Let's go to the village to add up, and see if we can pull in more villages.

...Since it is a big fat piece of meat, we are not afraid of many people sharing it..."

Half an hour after the five uninvited guests left, Di Lie, accompanied by Guan Zhongyong, quickly arrived in front of Weize Pass.

From the beginning of June when Di Lie ordered the construction of the pass, to mid-July now, Weize Pass has been built for more than a month. What appears in front of Di Lie now is no longer the dilapidated pass that existed in name only and has almost lost its defensive function.

city.

The rammed earth on the inner layer of the city wall has been rebuilt, and the square stones, each weighing hundreds of kilograms, are piled up like tofu blocks and neatly built on the outer wall of Guancheng, which has already covered most of Guancheng.

The five-foot-high inner city defense wall has also been built, and is also in the stage of being covered with bricks and stones. The shooting holes required by Di Lie were also cut out in the rammed earth wall according to the size, and then inlaid with stone slabs on all sides.

People like Xu Qing and five other people who don’t know the function of those densely packed one hundred shooting holes will only find it strange and incomprehensible. But in the eyes of people like Guan Zhongyong who have seen the power of musket volleys,

These shooting holes are like the eyes of the God of Death - when you see them, you are already dead.

Today's Weizeguan has a city wall that is one foot thick and a city that is four feet high. There is also a small arc-shaped building on the top floor made purely of boulders on the city wall. There is a wall of sheep and horses in front to resist the enemy, and there is an inner city with a double murderous intent behind it.

Defensive City. The entire Guan City looks like a gray crouching monster. Such a bunker-shaped level can truly be called a Xiongguan.

Accompanied by Tian Laozhong, the foreman in charge of building the customs, Di Lie inspected everything up and down, inside and out, and marveled at the skill level of the craftsmen of this era. Then he issued new instructions: "You must speed up the progress.

At the same time, quality must be ensured, and the construction of the southeast and southeast gates must go hand in hand. I hope to see a complete Xiongguan by the end of this month, or at the beginning of next month at the latest.”

Tian Laozhong replied firmly: "The owner of the village can rest assured that it will be completed on time in early August."

After inspecting Weize Pass, Di Lie rushed back to Tianping Village without stopping, found Aji, who was in charge of gunpowder manufacturing and raw material management, and asked about the storage capacity of sulfur and saltpeter.

Aji's answer made Di Lie feel a little relieved: "There are still more than 320 stones of sulfur, and less saltpeter, 280 stones. They are mainly medical package materials, especially the giant medicine package of 20 kilograms.

, others such as mines and thunderbolts use relatively less materials, while muskets use the least amount of materials..."

This is of course, the fixed ammunition for muskets is calculated in grams, while the gun bag is calculated in pounds. The consumption rate of raw materials between the two is almost disproportionate. Based on this inventory calculation, even if Di Lie gives all

Each infantryman is equipped with a musket, and the ammunition base can still reach more than 200 rounds. Each musketeer is equipped with 200 rounds of ammunition, which is enough to fight a medium-intensity battle.

But Di Lie was also helpless. There was less saltpeter. You must know that saltpeter accounts for more than 60% of gunpowder. Now there is obviously more sulfur than saltpeter. There will be no shortage of sulfur in the short term, but saltpeter is a bit nervous.

Di Lie had no choice but to suspend the production of gunpowder packages. Several hundred landmines were enough, but the production of thunderbolts had to continue. After asking some craftsmen of the gunpowder team, he learned that most of the saltpeter and sulfur in the Song Dynasty were purchased from Xining.

Prefecture, Jishijun, Chengdu Fulu and other places, after comparing them on the map, I realized that they were Gansu, Qinghai, and Sichuan in later generations. These places are not far away from the Taihang Mountains. Even if you travel thousands of miles to buy them,

Even if you can buy it, you may not be able to safely transport it back.

It’s really troublesome! It seems that we have to produce and save ourselves. The refining of sulfur is very troublesome. It is not possible to produce it on our own for the time being, but nitrate is possible. Di Lie’s military academy was not in vain. I remember reading military history before.

When I was there, I saw articles about the Eighth Route Army's self-reliance, production of ammunition, and local methods of making saltpetre. Where is the base of the Eighth Route Army? Isn't it in the Taihang Mountains? Since Tuba Road in later generations does not have any industrial foundation, it can be collected using local methods.

, processing, boiling, and producing nitrate, and finally basically solved the problem of weapons and ammunition for hundreds of thousands of troops. Then, with sufficient manpower, material resources, and technology, the demand for weapons and ammunition is far less than that of Tianping Village, which has a large army in later generations.

, is there any reason why it can’t be done?

Di Lie decided to take a good look back and sort out the steps for making saltpeter using the unearthed method in order to solve the bottleneck problem of raw materials.

On the large campus, the sound of galloping iron hooves, the vibration of bowstrings, the sound of arrows piercing the air, and the sound of swords and axes clashing still echoed in the sky above Tianping Village every day. On the shooting range in the valley a few miles away, a series of gunshots,

The sound of explosions also continued to roar like muffled thunder in the clear sky.

In the midst of these intense preparations, Liuhuo August came quietly. At this moment, the newly established Second Intelligence Group of the Secrecy Bureau sent a group of old people from Tianping Village as spies, and they also brought back an unexpected person.

Among them, there is also some unexpected news:

Taihang Village is finally going to take action against Tianping Village!

It was expected because Di Lie had already seen from the day when the five villages jointly threatened him that this matter would not go easily.

Who is Di Lie? How can he compromise with these local snakes when he is a man who broke out among the thousands of troops in the Jin Army? Come and fight if you want! Anyway, these soldiers have been training for almost two months, and they just happened to be taken out to practice.

.The ultimate goal of military training is to fight, isn’t it? Come on, fight in groups as you like...

It was unexpected because... not only did the other party choose to fight in a group, but it was also a big group...

In addition to the previous five villages, five more villages have been added: Fushan Village, Huangpo Village, Shuangfeng Village, Baishui Village and Hongshiling Village, making a total of ten villages. Among these ten villages, most of them are

There are only two small villages that are waving flags and making soy sauce, and they are really important: Heiya Village and Fushan Village. With these two powerful villagers joining in, the total force attacking Tianping Village this time has reached three of the Taihang Villages.

one part.

Half of the four major Taihang villages were involved in the engulfment plan, which somewhat made some of the elders in Tianping Village, such as Liu Erping, Guan Zhongyong, Gao Liang, etc., feel a little nervous. Liu Erping, in particular, had repeatedly offered to act as a messenger for negotiations.

Guan Zhongyong and Gao Liang are military personnel. They know very well about the strength of Tianping Village and are very confident in this aspect. It’s just that they have been in Taihang Mountain for a long time. Under the prestige of these old-style copycat villages,

I still feel some pressure to some extent.

Di Lie, however, has no such worries. No one knows his own strength better than him - or, in other words, has confidence in the soldiers he has trained.

Very good! Are these guys the first ones to eat crabs? Come on then! See if you can crack open the crab shell or have your fingers removed by the crab claws! (To be continued...)

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