Chapter 769

"It seems that it is really for our three states, and now, the silver and Xia lands are building a lot of construction, building ladders, rushing cars, ramming rams and other siege equipment, if it is not for our three states, is it that they want to use these siege weapons to fight with the 200,000 troops of the Liao State in the wild?" Wang Yang threw the information in his hand on the case table and let out a long breath of turbidity.

This is the third day that Wang Yang has arrived in Youzhou, and the entire Youzhou is now in a tense and orderly state.

The arrival of a large number of paper armor, as well as the arrival of Yuan Youjia and Yuan You's crossbow that Wang Yang personally went to Yanzhou to beg, and the stationing of 5,000 border troops in Yanzhou.

At this moment, in the city of Youzhou, there are 15,000 border troops, 25,000 box troops, and 3,000 elite cavalry, of which 1,000 are Yuan Youjia cavalry.

In addition, with the supplement of 5,000 yuan of crossbows, plus a patchwork, there are 13,000 crossbows and 13,000 bows in Youzhou City. In addition, a large number of crossbows and arrows have been filled into the arsenal, and 1,000 of the 2,000 craftsmen who have been transferred are making crossbows and arrows at a rate of 30,000 per day.

In addition, there are 30,000 pairs of paper armor that have arrived in Youzhou, and at present, Youzhou is also rushing to make paper armor, in addition to making paper armor. There is also a group of about 300 craftsmen, who are divided into several departments, each of which makes various parts of the Yuanyu stone throwing machine.

And its core components can still only be taken care of by the dozen or so old craftsmen, and the safety of these dozens of old craftsmen is directly responsible for Wang Yang's personal soldiers, as well as the seed division and the two hundred personal guards transferred.

"It is estimated that there will be three more days before five Yuanyou stone throwers can be produced, and the rest will have at least ten days, after all, the difficulty of making this weapon is already high, and now in order to keep it secret, many complicated procedures have been added...... "Although the seed master has not been able to see the power of the Yuanyou stone throwing machine with his own eyes.

However, he personally rushed to the ancient city of Wuyan, which was waiting to be restored, to enjoy the picture of the ruins destroyed by Yuan You's stone throwing machine, which was absolutely shocking, and he also understood why Wang Yang, the pacification envoy of the Three Prefectures, would strictly guard the secrecy of this long-range weapon to such a level.

After all, if this kind of thing falls into the hands of the Liao State or the Western Xia, it will inevitably become a nightmare for the Great Song Dynasty to defend the city in the future.

"Slow down, slower, in short, everything is based on secrecy, and it must not be neglected." Wang Yang was also very helpless, but for the sake of secrecy, he had to do so.

In fact, he had already proposed to the Son of Heaven before that the important core components of the Yuanyou stone throwing machine be built under the supervision of military weapons, but the speed of the court was really not in a hurry.

For this reason, the Son of Heaven specially allowed Wang Yang to act cheaply, otherwise, when the Ordnance Supervisor arranged manpower and trained himself to become an old driver, he would start work, maybe the land of Sanzhou would already be full of war.

Youzhou's Xiang military dependents, most of them followed the advice to leave Youzhou to go to Hongzhou, and only a few stayed, in addition, the original Han people in Youzhou, not many left, now, there are less than 20,000 people in Youzhou, but the Xiang army and the border army are more than 43,000, far more than the people.

It also turned the entire Youzhou into a real military fortress, and when he received the news that siege weapons were being built on a large scale in the Yinxia area, Wang Yang immediately summoned the Youzhou defense envoy and Tang Xuncheng, who communicated with Youzhou, and informed these two of the information content.

Seeing this information, the two of them no longer had the slightest doubt, and the planter took a deep breath and stood up, not only did he show his timidity at all, but he had the strength to grind his fists. "It's a good time, to be honest, I was really afraid that they wouldn't come, so we worked so hard to prepare for so long."

Tang Xuncheng was different from the seed master, and his face was very sad. "Now the grain stored in our city is enough for the army and the people for half a year, and there are enough dried meat and pickles, but the number of doctors you asked for is too big, and so far, the total number of doctors and their apprentices we have hired is less than seventy ......."

"There's no problem with the accumulation of medicines, right?" Wang Yang nodded and continued to ask about various preparations. Fighting a war is about logistics. And he found the other party's target from the clues of the intelligence, and made preparations nearly a month in advance.

As for the lack of recruited doctors, the biggest reason is that gentlemen do not stand under the dangerous wall, you fight a special war, it is a matter of human life, and those doctors will save the dead and help the wounded, but there are definitely still a few people who really have the spirit of dedication.

In addition to more than a dozen medical officers, the doctors who paid for money were less than 70 apprentices. According to Wang Yang's previous consideration, an army of 40,000 needs at least 2,000 medical soldiers, and the number of doctors must reach at least 100 to 1, that is, 40,000 defenders need at least 400 doctors.

But now it seems that the shortage is too big, and Wang Yang doesn't want the soldiers who could have been rescued by that time to die in Youzhou because of the lack of manpower.

"In this way, you can think of a way to see if you can recruit some more doctors to come over, and in addition, tell those medical officers not to hide their personal secrets from their own officials, let them bring apprentices, and be sure to train 2,000 medical soldiers who at least know how to stop bleeding, how to treat wounds, and how to bandage wounds before the big war comes."

"Two thousand...... Isn't that kidding? Healers' methods are not so easy to learn, and besides, there are not so many wounded people who let them learn these skills these days. Tang Xuncheng's eyes were about to come out in circles, this was definitely a joke.

“…… To the official, forget it, tell all the doctors, this afternoon, go to the North Gate Medical Center to gather, since the soft one is not good, then come to the hard one, and the official will let you see whether their bones are hard, or the gold and silver in Wang's hand are harder. Wang Yang raised his eyebrows, but in the end he still suppressed the fire, now is not the time to rush to the fire.

After that, he asked a lot of questions in detail, and sorted out all the preparations and materials that needed to be done before the war.

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At noon, after a hurried lunch, Wang Yang rode his horse with the officials and generals to the Chengbei Medical Center.

The streets of Youzhou City are still pedestrians, but they are much sparser than before, and there are more young men led by errand officers, cleaning ditches or digging wells.

In addition, almost all the utensils that can hold water in the city have been filled, and in addition, Wang Yang has specially built nearly 50 water tanks made of cement masonry in Youzhou City, each of which can store at least more than ten cubic meters of water.

Although they are not large, they can at least ensure that if the underground water is polluted, at least the population in the city will have clean drinking water.

Youzhou was divided into five medical centers by Wang Yang, four of which were set up in the courtyard near the city gate, so that the wounded could be treated as soon as they left the city wall.