At this time, the armor soldier in cold forging armor shouted loudly and began to run, "Shoot!" "The escort team also gave the order to shoot.

Twenty Divine Arm crossbows were fired together, and twenty crossbow arrows came out of the string and shot mightily at the armor soldier who had already rushed eighty paces away.

The black-armored soldier suddenly stopped running, brandished his sword-chopping sword and slashed at the oncoming arrows, only to see a flash of cold light, seven arrows were split away, but there were still thirteen wistling crossbow arrows shot at the armor soldier, many people couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and turned their heads.

The powerful crossbow arrows caused the armor to take two steps back, and a miracle happened, the arrows fell to the ground, but none of them were nailed to the armor, and the black armor man shouted and began to run.

The crowd burst into thunder of joy and enthusiastic applause.

At this time, the armor man walked to Li Yanqing's side, took off his helmet, and it was Guan Sheng, who was the commander, and many people exclaimed.

Li Yanqing smiled slightly: "General Guan is the commander of the heavy armored infantry battalion from now on, the army has been training for four months before this, and the completion of the thousandth piece of cold forging armor means that the heavy armored infantry battalion has been officially established, and how much its military strength can be expanded to is in the hands of the monarchs." ”

The craftsmen applauded warmly again, and Guan Sheng bowed deeply to the craftsmen, thanking them for the cold-forged armor they had made.

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Leaving the armor workshop, Li Yanqing came to the bow and crossbow workshop next door, the bow and crossbow workshop covers a larger area, mainly all kinds of large-scale siege equipment are also made here, Li Yanqing is not short of bows and crossbows, there are more than 20,000 divine arm crossbows in his army, and there are more than 100,000 ordinary military crossbows.

What he lacked now was large siege weapons, including large fire cannons and giant trebuchets, and now craftsmen were making a super-giant trebuchet, and Taiyuan City once had three, but it didn't work.

Since the beginning of last year, Li Yanqing, who was still fighting in Taiyuan City at that time, ordered the craftsmen of Jingzhao Mansion to start making the throwing rods required for the super giant trebuchet, which generally takes two to three years to complete, even if the rapid drying method is used, it will take at least a year, and the craftsmen live up to expectations and use one year to create hundreds of ultra-long throwing rods.

Each throwing rod is eight zhang long, and the super giant trebuchet made of this throwing rod can throw a hundred catties of boulders to 450 to 500 steps away, which is an absolute weapon for siege.

Li Yanqing asked to complete the production of fifty super-giant trebuchets before the end of February, and walked into the crossbow square, more than 100 craftsmen were busy installing this super-giant trebuchet, and Sun Qigong, the commander of the Ordnance Department who accompanied Li Yanqing, said to Li Yanqing: "At present, the manufacture of forty-seven trebuchets has been completed, because the time required by the strategy is very tight, so the large artillery can only be suspended, and the artillery has only caused ten so far, and the subsequent thirty have been stopped." ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "Ten cannons are enough, the key is the super giant trebuchet." ”

Speaking of this, Li Yanqing pointed to the two super giant trebuchets that had been built in the distance and said, "Didn't I say that I would disassemble and carry them?" Why assemble it? ”

"After a little unknowing, trebuchets must first complete the original product, test it correctly, and then disassemble it and wrap it in oiled paper and cloth."

"I see!"

Only then did Li Yanqing understand the necessary process for making trebuchets. He slowly walked up to the two giant trebuchets and looked up at the two behemoths as if he were looking at two prehistoric dinosaurs, two long throwing poles as if they were their tails, the two trebuchets were at least four feet tall, and the four trunk brackets were as thick as elephant legs.

"Now there are forty-seven, when will three more be completed?" Li Yanqing asked the foreman in charge of the trebuchet.

The foreman was an old man, and he replied respectfully: "The materials we have prepared now can still make eight trebuchets, three trebuchets can be completed in two days, and if there are eight, they can be completed in ten days." ”

Li Yanqing nodded and said: "Just make three, and the rest as accessories, which can be replaced at any time when damaged, I recommend preparing more accessories." ”

"The villain understands, and we will do our best."

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After the military conference in October last year, the Jingzhao Army recruited 120,000 new troops in Bashu, Shaanxi Road, and Hedong Road, bringing the total strength of the Western Army to 350,000, of which the Jingzhao Army reached 280,000, making it the veritable first army of the Great Song Dynasty.

The Jingzhao Army has seven large battalions near Chang'an City, the largest of which is the Northwest Battalion, with a garrison of 50,000 people, the conditions of this battalion are the best, and the quality of the garrison is also the highest, all of them are veterans of a hundred battles.

The chief general of this military camp is Wang Gui, Wang Gui in Chengdu Fu Road to normal, then handed over the command of the army to Tang Huai, by Tang Huai led 30,000 troops to sit in the Bashu Third Road, nominally to protect the smooth progress of the new sales system, in fact, firmly control the Bashu Third Road.

After learning the lesson of Zeng Xiulin's plan to interrupt military spending, Li Yanqing decided to send troops to station in the Bashu Third Road to ensure that the Northwest Army's military expenses and food sources would continue to be cut off.

At this time, Wang Gui led more than a dozen generals to come out to greet him, and Li Yanqing turned over and dismounted in front of the barracks, and smiled at everyone: "I am the commander of the army, and now it is like I am a guest, and I still have to come to greet him." ”

Everyone laughed, and Wang Gui muttered in a low voice: "If we don't come to greet us, the capital will say that we are the supreme again." ”

Among the generals of the whole army, only Wang Gui dared to say this, Li Yanqing smiled dumbly, and gave him a punch in the shoulder socket, "Let's go!" As far as you have a lot of opinions. ”

Everyone surrounded Li Yanqing and walked into the barracks quickly, a lively atmosphere suddenly came to their faces, only to see the vast training ground, at least 20,000 soldiers are training, they are not training together, but divided into five separate training, at this time, Li Yanqing was attracted by the training in the southwest corner, it was three thousand soldiers training swordsmanship in the array, and they held big swords that were invincible swords.

Guan Sheng, who had returned from the armor workshop in the morning, was standing in the first place, leading the soldiers to contact the sword technique.

At this time, Wang Gui whispered to Li Yanqing, "They are practicing the master's sword technique. ”

Li Yanqing also saw that it was a combat knife technique that was once taught to them by their master Zhou Tong, with only eighteen moves, which was very concise and practical, and suitable for fighting on the battlefield.

Zhou Dong was once the head of the 800,000 forbidden army in Tokyo, and Guan Sheng was also the general of the forbidden army, so it was completely normal for him to learn this set of sword techniques from Zhou Tong.

Li Yanqing stepped forward slowly, this army of 3,000 people was formed by him in October last year, called the heavy infantry battalion, 3,000 soldiers were selected from the 200,000 army, all of them were burly and tall, with long hands and feet, full of strength, only the burly physique frame could support the heavy cold forging armor and the thirty pounds of horse chopping sword.

At present, there are already 1,000 soldiers wearing cold forging armor, becoming the first batch of heavy armor infantry, but the other 2,000 soldiers also have heavy armor, which is a kind of cold forging armor created during the Song Dynasty Shenzong, and it is also a kind of cold forging armor.

Wang Gui was peeking at Li Yanqing's face, and when he saw that Li Yanqing was about to speak, he hurriedly said: "Dutong, we said okay, this heavy infantry is under my command, and you are not allowed to change your hexagram again." ”

"You kid is greedy, you want the cavalry, you want the crossbow army, and now the heavy infantry battalion also wants to take it down, believe it or not, the other deputies will definitely look for you when they hear your words."

Wang Gui is the general of the Jingzhao Army, with 50,000 people, the left and right deputy generals are Cao Meng and Gao Chong, Liu Jian is the general of Hu Benwei, and his command is also 50,000 people, the left and right deputy generals are Yang Zaixing and Liu Tie, in addition to Wu Jie's Leopard Taowei, Liu Ziyu's Flying Bear Guard, Cao Xing's Ying Yangwei, Tang Huai's Wu Dewei, and finally Li Yanqing's Tiance Wei.

Cao Xing's Ying Yangwei is a new guard, with the largest number of people, 80,000 people, responsible for sitting in Jingzhao Mansion, and Tang Huai's Wu Dewei is in Bashu.

As for the Tiance Guard under Li Yanqing's direct jurisdiction, it is composed of an intelligence battalion, a women's battalion, and a firearms battalion, with a total of 20,000 people, and now Li Yanqing is preparing to include the heavy infantry battalion in the Tiance Guard.

Wang Gui also knew that he was a little greedy, the heavy infantry was a special army, and it couldn't be placed in any guard, so it could only be placed in the Tiance Guard.

He had no choice but to whisper: "I have no opinion on Tiance Wei, but I can't put it in other Wei." ”

"Of course, that's in Tiancewei, if you need to, you have to apply, and I can approve it at my discretion."

At this time, Wang Gui asked in a low voice: "Dutong, when is the Northern Expedition?" ”

Li Yanqing sighed and said: "In half a month, it will be officially announced to the states tomorrow, and the mobilization of the people will begin in five days, and your side will also actively prepare." ”

Wang Gui quickly calculated the time, "That's the northern expedition on the second day of the first month of March, right!" ”

"The official northern expedition on the first day of the first month of March, this time has been approved by the official family!"