It wasn't long before someone came out and took them in, and when they entered the valley, the scouts realized how huge the workshop was, with black smoke blast furnaces towering over the roadside, where the workers were busy, the cars were coming and going, and the air was filled with the smell of coal.

There are guards on the surrounding hills, and they know how closely this inspection is on the way here. One of the scouts asked curiously, "How many teenagers have been working in this workshop?" ”

The man who led the way did not answer directly, but asked, "Is the army in trouble?" ”

The scout listened to him, and his words froze: "How do you know?" ”

"This time, the Tibetan Turks joined forces to advance eastward, of course we have to pay attention, after all, if such a big scene as ours is known by them, it will definitely be the strength of the whole country to rob it, and the fierce cavalry and sharp weapons will not only increase the combat effectiveness by three percent?"

"Then why put the workshop here? Isn't it safe to be in Datang? The scout said: "Who in Datang dares to get along with the Duke of Lantian County?" ”

"Where do I know, I only know that there is iron and coal here, and it is very cheap to ship, I guess that's the reason."

A group of people talked and walked, and soon they came to a large number of houses, which were not made of wood and adobe in the mainland, and the houses here were all made of a kind of red bricks, although they were not large, but they were neat and uniform, and they looked good.

The scouts were taken directly to a house in the middle, and there was no decoration in the house, except for a simple table, a few chairs, and some cupboards by the wall. It was full of all kinds of account books and the like, and the scout knew that this was the person in charge of the workshop, so he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Yang Bin, the scout of the right martial guard, has seen Mr. Li. ”

This title has also been thinking about it in his heart for a long time, and when he comes in, he sees that this person is also dressed as a scribe, or he is called sir, this will definitely not be wrong.

This scribe is Li Ting, who was arranged by Li Dongsheng to stay here for nearly ten years, just to develop artillery, and these refined irons or steels are only produced and sold as research and development funds.

Artillery is not something that can be easily obtained, and it requires a lot of resources. Li Dongsheng is just a mouthpiece, he can only talk about anything, give an idea, and he won't know anything about the specific operation.

The power of the artillery was huge, and this thing had to be tested step by step, and it took ten years and countless failures to finally succeed in a batch and equip it on the seagoing ships.

When Li Ting received Li Dongsheng's news that he wanted him to support Su Dingfang, he was actually very reluctant. What was finally obtained after spending so much energy and countless amounts of money, it would be exposed to the eyes of the people of the world after this war, and no emperor would allow his subordinates to have such weapons.

So the question is, what do you want to do when you Li Dongsheng privately develop such a powerful weapon? Once this matter is exposed, the imperial history of the court will be impeached like a mad dog, and those families will fall into the ground like crazy, and the situation of Li Dongsheng's family will be very miserable.

But now that Li Dongsheng has to do this, Li Ting can only carry it out, everything he has is given by Li Dongsheng, and he has become accustomed to listening to him for so many years. looked at Yang Bin and said, "Let's talk about the current situation." ”

On the wide river beach, the Tang army is in full array, tens of thousands of people are ready, this is already the third attack, after the Turkic and Tibetan coalition forces surrounded them, they began to use wheel warfare to exhaust them, like a cat catching a mouse, slowly playing, and when the mouse does not have the strength to give up completely, it will bite off its throat.

Lu Dongzan looked at the battlefield below from the mountain, and he was in a very happy mood. His son Non Qinling was also very happy beside him: "Father, this time the Tang army is in a catastrophe, surrounded by our 300,000 people, even if there is a god of war from heaven, it can't save them." ”

The general next to him also patted his ass: "Daxiang's method is powerful, don't those Tang troops rely on firearms, now we are attacking from all sides, these Tang troops don't know that we are attacking from that direction, and can consume their firearms, these guys come from afar, and they will definitely not bring too much grain, grass and firearms, just surround it for a while, it is estimated that it will collapse when there is no food and weapons, this time we are fighting with them with a consumption word." ”

"I can't wipe them all out this time, how can I be worthy of those soldiers who are bait." Lu Dongzan was also a little embarrassed: "In order to ensure the authenticity of the sneak attack, I didn't tell them the real situation, so let Tang Jun be martyred for them." ”

They watched the battle on the mountain, the fierce battle had begun again under the mountain, countless arrows rained down like dark clouds covering the sky, the Tibetan Turkic coalition army had launched an attack on the Tang army in two directions, in the earth-shattering shouts of killing, from time to time there was a loud sound of grenades, the two sides were desperately fighting, one side for survival, one side for victory.

Su Dingfang felt remorse in his heart, the first time he was the commander, he actually went to kill in person and forgot that he was the commander, and now he trapped the entire team here, seeing where the Turkic Tubo people kept harassing and attacking, these were originally the Tang Army's forte, but now it is his turn to bear it.

"Boss, are we passively trapped here waiting now?" The middle-level generals who were originally very confident in Su Dingfang began to waver a little, and anyone who was surrounded like this would be anxious.

"Now that the enemy's morale is high, if we break through, we will definitely suffer huge losses." Su Dingfang muttered: "We are now under siege, and it is unrealistic to break through on our own, we have already gone to find reinforcements." When the reinforcements attack outside, our center will blossom, and the Turks may be able to go back by then! ”

Those middle-level generals looked at Su Dingfang like fools: Big brother, we are surrounded by 300,000, what you want to do now is to eat people, do you want to exaggerate so much? Reinforcements? It seems that there is still a way in Songzhou, where is it not with us at all, okay, those guys in the Anxi Prefecture can protect themselves, where can they free up their hands to save us.

"The chief manager, how many reinforcements do we have, and when do they expect to arrive?" For the sake of everyone's lives, they still asked a few more questions.

"The reinforcements will definitely come back, but I really don't know how many people there are and when they will arrive." Su Dingfang said with great certainty: "He won't lie to me!" He always does what he says! ”

The hearts of the generals present are cold, it's over! The original reinforcements were just a promise, how many troops would it take to withstand this 300,000-strong cavalry? Let's just wait to die on the battlefield!

In the steelmaking workshop, scout Yang Bin was also surprised: "You guys are going to rescue this little person? ”