Chen Ying originally thought that embezzling the taxes in the treasury of Xixian County could perfectly solve the problem of insufficient armor and blades, but after looting the whole city, he almost smashed the iron pot, and obtained a total of more than 3,000 catties of iron.

These more than 3,000 catties of iron also include the blades and armor of the rebel thieves captured on the battlefield, otherwise the gap will be even greater. But this is only iron, not steel, if you build a blade, you need to consume forty percent of iron, that is, less than two thousand catties that can actually be used. In order to create Mingguang armor, there are no more than 100 pairs at most, and if you build a horizontal knife, there are only more than 200 handles.

Actually, Chen Ying thought a little too ideal. This era is not compared to later generations, even in the Tang Dynasty at the beginning of the Kaiyuan Dynasty when the national strength was at its peak, the country's steel output was only 10 million catties, 10 million catties sounded a lot, but it was only 5,000 tons, even if it was a small steel black workshop in later generations, the output of a month was definitely more than this number.

According to the Tang Army's system, the four main types of troops, including spears, swords and shields, bows and crossbows, and light cavalry, are fully staffed with Chen Ying's current five regiments, which need to be supplemented with nearly 400 horizontal knives, 600 sets of armor, 600 spears and spears, and at least 400 shields. However, in fact, no matter how many catties of iron are allocated, they are far from meeting the needs.

Just when Chen Ying was at a loss, he suddenly saw a blacksmith who was over half a hundred years old and had dark skin, with the help of two apprentices, picked up a big hammer and forged it towards the steel billet.

I saw that the billet made by the blacksmith was rectangular, arched in the middle, curved on both sides, flat at the front end, and round at the back end.

Chen Ying looked inexplicably wonderful, what is this?

Although Chen Ying is not an expert in ancient weapons, he can't name the eighteen kinds of weapons, but it is certain that this billet is definitely not any of the eighteen kinds of weapons.

The black blacksmith slapped his head and said angrily: "Oh, look at my brain, I usually play well, but I accidentally hit it into a hoe again!" ”

"Wait!"

Chen Ying instantly thought of a solution to the problem.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, Shizhu Tusima Qiancheng, Qin Liangyu and his wife recruited the children of Shizhu's hometown and formed a team of soldiers and horses with outstanding achievements, called "White Pole Soldiers", the White Pole Soldiers fought bloodily in the Hunhe River, recovered the four cities outside the Guanwai, and made the Eight Banners suffer heavy losses and became famous all over the world. In fact, when Ma Qiancheng formed the white pole army, it was also because he had no money in his hands and could not build a well-armored army, so he could only use cheap and local materials.

Ordinary spears only need four taels of iron as the blade, although cheap, but the power of the spear is not high, and when encountering well-equipped armor or heavy troops, you can only stare dryly. It is too expensive to equip the less lethal spear, but in the center is the hook and sickle of the white pole soldier.

Legend has it that the white pole soldier takes the hard white wood as the pole, with a hook with a blade, and a hard iron ring under it, when fighting, the hook can be cut and pulled, and the ring can be used as a hammer weapon, if necessary, dozens of spear hooks and rings are connected, it can be used as a tool to climb the wall over the mountain, and the cliff can be climbed instantly, which is very suitable for mountain combat.

He was about to enter Sizhou to quell the rebellion, and Sizhou was the Jianmen Pass of later generations, and Shu was mountainous, and the use of a white-pole hook sickle as a standard weapon was the best equipment.

Originally, Wei Wenzhong was still having a headache, how to get steel to make armor and blades, this stupid blacksmith actually hit a hoe and came out, and Wei Wenzhong was about to be furious.

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

Although the black blacksmith is a lowly blacksmith, he has a lot of eyesight, although he doesn't know what Chen Ying's official position is, but looking at everyone's attitude towards Chen Ying, he knows that Chen Ying's identity is extraordinary.

The blacksmith said to Chen Yinglian: "The little old man's name is Hu Dog Stick!" ”

"Dog stick!" When Chen Ying heard this name, he almost choked on his own saliva, he wanted to laugh but was afraid that this dog stick would be embarrassed, so he couldn't hold back his laughter, and after a while, he calmed down and asked curiously: "Why did you choose such a name?" ”

Hu Dog Stick is probably used to it, but he said very calmly: "My father took my mother to escape from the famine and ask for food, when my mother gave birth to me, there was a dog beating stick in his hand, and my father gave me a name Dog Stick." ”

Chen Yingdao: "This general will change your name, the stick is also a stick, Mencius said: Wang Rushi is benevolent to the people, provincial punishment, thin taxes, deep cultivation and easy to raise." The strong man cultivates his filial piety and loyalty in his spare time, enters his father and brother, and goes out to his strength, so that the system can be used to tart the strong armor of Qin and Chu. The stick is a soldier of the poor, a dog is a dog, and he is a guard, so you will be called Hu Guard in the future! ”

Hu Dog Stick knelt on the ground and said happily: "Hu Guard, General Xie gave the name!" ”

"Get up!"

"Yes!"

"How's your craft?"

"It's not that the little old man is boasting, there is no one better than my old Hu ...... in these ten miles and eight towns" The freshly baked Hu Weibing closed his mouth in embarrassment.

"Will the Hook Scythe be built?"

"This ......," Hu Weibing was embarrassed.

In fact, it is not surprising that Hu Weibing has not heard of the hook sickle, in fact, the hook sickle is a weapon derived from the development of ancient halberds, which began to be completed in the Song Dynasty.

Chen Ying recalled the appearance of the hook and sickle, found a slender strip from the charcoal, filled it with a pencil, and then found a piece of paper to draw the style of the hook and sickle. Of course, Chen Ying is not a professional painter, and the hook and sickle he painted is miserable, but he can still see the general outline.

Although Hu Weibing has no culture, but his brain is very smart, he only pondered for half a day to create the hook and sickle gun that Chen Ying wanted, this kind of hook and sickle gun is not too scrap iron, a spear head only needs twenty-six taels of iron, relying on the existing iron materials, enough to build more than a thousand, can barely solve the urgent need.

Reluctantly solving the equipment problem, Chen Ying began to assemble troops for lectures.

The Xun Er Mansion, which was already full, was extremely happy with the veterans, and they did not have the tension that they had before the big war. Now I finally don't have to be an empty officer. Chen Ying distributed these recruits to various regiments, and originally there were only four empty regiments in Xun Erfu, but now they formed five regiments of Xun I, Xun II, Xun III, Shesheng and Yue Cai, each regiment has three brigades and 300 people, plus the pro-soldier team, the whole army has 1,573 people.

Chen Ying cleared his throat and said: "Soldiers, you have also seen the rebel thieves, they are all a group of crazy dog mongrels, they don't even let go of the newborn baby, there is nothing to say, when you meet the thieves, cut his mother!" ”

"Fuck it!"

The soldiers shouted in unison.

Especially these recruits, they are all indigenous people in their hometown, because this rebellion has destroyed the home they rely on for survival, and they have a deep hatred for the rebels.

"But ......"

Chen Ying stretched his voice, and his voice suddenly rose an octave: "Let's go to quell the rebellion, not to send them to death, let's fucking have a snack with Lao Tzu and train hard." Don't fucking go into battle and have a strain......"

Outside the city of Xixian County, more than 1,500 soldiers carried out intense training with white poles. Chen Ying didn't even know that he had no intention of making a move, and actually created the only iron-blooded division of mountain warfare in the Tang Dynasty, twelve years later, the Tubo invaded the Tang Dynasty, and the white pole army galloped five hundred miles in three days and nights, setting a record for the rapid march of this era, and then without resting, he directly entered the battle, won all twelve battles, and defeated the Tubo army twelve formations in a row.

Seven days later, on October 12 of the first year of Tang Wude, more than 1,000 hook and sickle guns were built, and Chen Ying put these hook and sickle guns into the hands of the soldiers. Outside the city of Xixian County, more than 1,500 soldiers carrying dry rations for the seven-day march were ready to go.

Chen Ying stood in front of the army, and Ryazan brought the cattle and sheep to Chen Ying and asked Chen Ying to cut off three animals and sacrifice the flag.

At this moment, an ox cart slowly stepped out of the city gate. The ox cart was pulling a corpse covered with a white cloth. Chen Ying stepped forward and asked, "What's going on?" ”

The woman who was driving the car was dressed in filial piety clothes and had a sad face.

Ryazan walked up to Chen Ying and said, "General, the auspicious time is almost over, and if you miss the auspicious time, the sky is to blame!" “

Chen Ying pushed Ryazan away.

The filial piety woman choked up and said, "Husband, he didn't survive!" “

Chen Ying lifted the white cloth on the corpse, and a monstrous hatred flashed in the eyes of the filial woman.

The Chinese pay attention to the greatness of human death, and the behavior of disturbing the dead is a common hatred.

If it weren't for Chen Ying being a dignified general, I'm afraid that this woman would also come up and fight with Chen Ying, in the incomprehensible gaze of everyone.

Chen Ying slowly pulled out the horizontal knife and cut a knife in the palm of his hand, and the blood dripped onto the white cloth, revealing a bright red color.

Chen Ying shouted: "I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood, and the blood debt needs to be repaid with blood!" “

Seeing this, Ryazan pulled out his dagger, slashed it across the palm of his hand and shouted: "I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood, and the blood debt needs to be repaid with blood!" ”

Duan Zhigan, the captain of the First Regiment, also shouted: "I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood, and the blood debt needs to be repaid with blood."

"I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood, and blood debts need to be repaid with blood"

More than 1,500 soldiers shouted this slogan, and the white corpse cloth had turned into a blood-colored battle flag.

This blood-colored battle banner without a single font hunted in the wind,

Chen Ying led more than 1,500 soldiers and rushed towards the city of Sizhou with resolute steps.