In late April, the farming season ended, and the Northland began to enter the slack period of conscription and practice marksmanship.

In order to prepare for the use of troops in the coming year, the Northland County Governor's Mansion has been very busy recently, and Heifu often gathers the county lieutenants, lieutenants, and priests to hold meetings for them to arrange tasks, and some golden sentences come out from time to time at the meeting.

For example, this one.

"There are three people who are in urgent need of battle, one is to get the terrain, the second is to serve the soldiers, and the third is to use the tools!"

As soon as the lieutenant said this, the scribes and penciers who were present in charge of the minutes of the meeting immediately copied it onto jute paper.

Heifu asked the officials to digest this sentence well, and he picked up the cup, drank a sip of wolfberry chrysanthemum water that his wife had soaked for him, and after a while, he said slowly:

"The art of war says that people often die what they can't do, and they lose what they can't do. Therefore, the method of using soldiers, teaching war first. ”

The so-called soldier service practice is to increase the training of soldiers, so that they know the golden drum banner, be proficient in fighting skills, and go to the battlefield without panicking and not being at a loss.

Beidi County is a border county, so there are standing county soldiers, county soldiers, but not many, the county capital Yiqu City has 1,000, Xiaoguan and Wushi Sai two border passes each have 500, and the remaining six counties also have 500 each, and the total number is only 5,000.

These county soldiers and county soldiers can be transferred at most half of them when fighting, so the main force of the war is not them, but temporary conscripted soldiers. There are more than 30,000 households in Beidi County, and the number of mouths is less than 200,000, which is much inferior to Heifu's hometown of Nanjun, and half of them are the people of Rongdi. Fortunately, the people here are fierce, and the people are more active in joining the army.

In addition to the county soldiers and soldiers, there are also cavalry followers of Rong tribes such as Dayuan, Wushi, Chaona, and Yiqu, who can make up 3,000 people.

In this way, the maximum number of soldiers that can be dispatched in Northland County is 15,000 people.

According to Qin Shi Huang's orders to Longxi and Shangjun, the war may start next year, and Heifu must hurry up and train them.

"The land outside the fortress, the earth mountains and hills, the Manyan belonging, the plains and the wilderness, this place for the chariot to ride, the infantry is not one in ten."

Heifu had already set the tone for this war, and whether or not he could win a big victory, the chariot and cavalry would be the decisive factor, so he decided to increase the number of chariot and cavalry in Northland, especially the cavalry.

The 3,000 cavalry from the various Rong tribes belonged to a temporary conscription, led by the tribal governor to participate in the battle, and there was no need for the county lieutenant to train, and Heifu did not want to rely on them too much. He planned to train a cavalry composed of pure Qin people equipped with high-saddle stirrups on the pastures of Yuzhi, Yiqu, and Jingyang with 300 skilled cavalry and archery from the Liangjiazi of Beidi as the core. There are not many soldiers in the fine, a thousand can be!

Heifu's plan was to let Yuzhi County Lieutenant Gongsun Bailu train three hundred good sons in half a year, teach them the tactics of cavalry, and familiarize themselves with high-saddle stirrups. When the autumn comes, we will further recruit hundreds of young men in the county who can ride horses and shoot arrows into the army, so that the sons of the good family can teach two people by themselves, and they can become an army in the summer next year......

As for the training of other officers, armor soldiers, and apprentices, Heifu decided to take care of it himself.

After talking about "pawn suits", Heifu emphasized "instrumental benefits".

"If the blade is not sharp, how is it different from a bare hand? If the armor is not hard and tight, how is it different from the cloth cloth? If a crossbow cannot shoot from a distance, it is no different from a short soldier; If you can't shoot and can't get in, what's the difference between being without a arrow and without a arrow? Therefore, the art of war says: The equipment is unfavorable, and the enemy is also punished with its pawn! ”

Heifu Kaichun County, carefully inspected the arsenals of each county, on the whole, it was more than satisfactory, the location of Beidi County is important, Xianyang has not less to transport blades and feather arrows here, but these blades are mostly bronze, and there are fewer iron soldiers.

When the forging of iron weapons in the six countries of Shandong was relatively mature, Qin still used bronze, because it could be mass-produced, although it reached the pinnacle of bronze blade manufacturing, but there was a problem: Beidi County lacked copper and tin!

This means that the blades of Beidi County can only rely on the Xianyang arsenal and the iron ore of Qi County, although it is not far away, but once the war starts, the battle line stretches for thousands of miles, and there is no arsenal in front to supply blades and arrows in time, or it will become a hidden danger.

When Heifu inspected the counties, he found that there was an iron mine located at the intersection of muddy water and Jingshui in Niyang County, a place called "Yiju". There are also small workshops in the area that can make iron farming tools. After exploration, the scale of the iron mine is not small, if it is mined on a large scale, it can produce tens of thousands of catties of iron every year!

Therefore, after consulting with the county guard, Heifu made a request to Qin Shi Huang: to set up an iron official in Beidi County, and to migrate Kanto blacksmiths to Beidi, open mines and smelt iron, and produce iron weapons nearby, so as to make up for the lack of front-line weapons......

By the way, there was an iron workshop in Northland, and it was convenient for Heifu to ask craftsmen to make some small inventions for himself that would shine during the war against Hungary.

However, afterwards, Heifu felt that these were all precautions, and even a bit of icing on the cake, because he heard from Wushi that the metallurgical industry of the Xiongnu was more than a little behind that of the Central Plains......

As early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties on the grassland, there are many relics of bronze civilization, and the Xiongnu will also smelt bronze, and weapons and harnesses such as copper knives, copper swords, copper axes, copper axes, and copper horse chews are very common.

However, relative to the demand, its quantity is really scarce, the Xiongnu's copper and iron, a few self-produced, most of them are imported from the Central Plains and the distant Altai Mountains, and they are worth a lot. In the hinterland of the Xiongnu, sometimes a small copper knife can be exchanged for a cow, and some ordinary Xiongnu herdsmen have to use stone as a blade and bone as a cluster.

Therefore, in terms of armor soldiers, it can be regarded as the short of the Huns and the long skills of China.

Since transporting copper and iron to the outside of the country can make a windfall, when the Central Plains Crown Belt Seven Kingdoms were fighting, the copper and iron of the three kingdoms of Qin, Yan and Zhao all flowed out of the border fortress. But with the destruction of Yan and Dai by Qin, the copper and iron obtained by the Xiongnu from the Central Plains decreased rapidly!

When Heifu arrived in Northland, he dealt a bigger blow to the smuggling trade.

"Even a needle is not allowed to flow out of the gate!"

At the end of this meeting, Heifu gave the thief Cao Peng a death order, the Great Wall guards, once they find someone who intends to cross the border, they can kill them without reporting!

Forget it, Heifu added another article: "The smugglers can take all the stolen goods and goods!" ”

The thief Cao Peng was stunned, his teeth chattered a little, this county lieutenant is really ruthless!

In this way, the frontier guards will be glad to shoot any smuggler who dares to cross the border and seize their goods. Until the start of the war, no one dared to approach the Great Wall in a grand manner, and the Wu clan would become the only merchant qualified to trade through the customs.

This harsh order will definitely make the border merchants complain, but Heifu has no time to pity them, the border merchants can be used by the Qin, but also by the Xiongnu, if these smugglers for profit, sell the information of the mainland, it is also a troublesome matter.

Not every businessman can be as patriotic as Xiangao.

Heifu drank a pot of wolfberry chrysanthemum tea in his hand, and this meeting was over, and he had arranged for everyone to handle the two things of serving and using the instrument, but Heifu did not mention the first "terrain".

This matter, Heifu was handed over to Chen Ping and the Wushi caravan to investigate, they went out of the fortress at the end of last month, and now it has been more than a month, they should have gone deep into the south of the Xiongnu River, and I don't know where they are now?

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Chen Ping and his entourage still stayed in the Xiongnu grazing land under Helan Mountain, Chen Ping was not worried about his intentions being exposed, after all, the Wushi caravan came every year, and Toumandanyu also invited Wushi to go to Toumancheng for a trip, not afraid of not letting go.

What he was interested in was that before the caravan set off, Wu Shiyan was invited by Mao Dun to the big tent, and it was said that there were only two of them in the tent, and this kind of scene of avoiding outsiders was usually used for secret talks......

The two county soldiers who were arranged by Heifu to protect Chen Ping were a little worried.

"Will Wu Shiyan betray us?"

Chen Ping was not afraid at all, and said with a smile: "If the Wu clan doesn't understand which party is more profitable to do business, it won't have today's wealth, but it's ......."

He thought maliciously: "In the past ten years, the goods brought out of the customs by Wushi are probably also mixed with copper, iron and other contraband......

These are the words that Chen Ping took out of Wu Shiyan's mouth yesterday, and Wu Shiyan insisted that this was reported to the Shaofu, and occasionally brought some copper and iron things to the Xiongnu to win their trust, and also to facilitate trade and survey the enemy.

With the permission of the county guard and the county lieutenant, the Wu clan brought a hundred small copper cuts to Maodun, but the Huns still thought that this was too little, not enough for a tribe.

Therefore, Chen Ping guessed that this time, Mao Dun invited Wu Shi Yan to go to the secret talk, and the conversation was whether Wu Shi could transport another batch of copper and iron tools to the Xiongnu in the second half of the year......

In the afternoon, Wu Shiyan came back, full of the smell of mare's milk wine, and after entering the camp, he did not speak, and waited until everyone set off, and when they were halfway through, there were no eyes and ears of the Huns, he let Chen Ping come over, and said to him:

"Prince Maudun came to me to talk about it, and it was really about the smuggling of copper and iron and gold utensils!"

Chen Ping smiled, he guessed correctly, who expected Wu Shiyan to say again: "But this time is different from usual, what Mao Dun wants is not only ready-made copper and iron tools, he actually asked me if I can bring some craftsmen who can mine, smelt iron, and cast tools from the Central Plains to the Xiongnu!" He will buy it for a great deal of money! ”

Chen Ping's laughter stopped, and he couldn't help but be surprised when he looked back at the Huns in Helan Mountain, where the camp tents were continuous.

"In time, Maudun may be the majesty of the grassland? At the age of eighteen or nineteen, he can understand the truth that it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish!? ”

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