"Zhao Fei, don't play this trick for me!" Gao Shuban was not polite to him, stretched out his hand to lead Dong Ce, and said: "This is Dong Ce Dong, who has been famous in Hebei Province for a long time, you should have heard of his reputation!" Tell you, Lord Liu asked Lord Dong to come over to get a batch of armor weapons, and Lord Ji sent me over! If it weren't for the fact that Master Ji was busy right now, he would have come here in person. ”

"Oh? It turns out that this is the famous Lord Dong! Look up for a long time, look up for a long time! Zhao Mancang looked him up and down a few times as if he had just seen Dong Ce, grinned, and showed a mouthful of snow-white teeth that were rarely seen in this era: "Hey, it turns out that Lord Dong is also the same as us, with a brain on both of them, we thought it was a three-headed and six-armed Yaksha like a character before!" It seems that Jiannu is not as powerful as the legend! ”

"I should be humiliated by such a villain!"

When Dong Ce heard this, he was already unhappy and angry, but his scheming has been much deeper these days, he took a breath, but there was a smile on his face: "Lord Zhao said that he was laughing, he is also a human being, where to go with three heads and six arms?" ”

Zhao Mancang snorted lightly and stretched out his hand: "I want to get something, what about the handpiece of the Lord of the Soldier's Dao?" ”

Dong Ce said: "It's a metaphor order, and there is no hand. ”

"That's not going to work!" Zhao Mancang sneered, shook his head and said, "I was going to sell you face, but I didn't have a note and still wanted to come and get something?" I really don't know how to lift! ”

Gao Shu [1] [Ben Read] novel xstxt said angrily on the side: "Zhao Mancang, who are you talking to with this yin and yang weirdness?" Can Lord Dong pretend to pass on the order of the Lord of the Soldiers? ”

Zhao Mancang sat down again, filled the big Taishi chair, took a sip of tea, and sneered: "This is not ready!" ”

Dong Ce took two steps forward, put his hand in his sleeve and stretched it out, and said with a smile: "I'm tired of Lord Zhao's hard work, be careful, and take it to eat some tea." ”

Another twenty taels were handed over, Zhao Mancang turned upside down, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and nodded at Dong Ce: "You know something!" ”

He pulled himself out of the Taishi chair with difficulty, and staggered out of the door: "Come with me!" Go in and see for yourself, but there are some things you should take and some things you shouldn't take, and you have to have a number in your heart. ”

In addition to Dong Ce, Shi Jin and the others were waiting outside, and seeing these dozen big men, Zhao Mancang couldn't help but be startled, and re-evaluated Dong Ce's strength.

After Gao Shu's errand was finished, he was about to go back to report, Dong Ce sealed him two taels of silver, and sent the person away with a few good words.

Zhao Mancang called the soldiers guarding the warehouse and opened the gate.

This arsenal is more than two zhang high, with a radius of more than ten meters, and there is a large stone barrier below, and the top is made of green bricks, which is extremely strong. On the top of the arsenal, a wall of children was built, on which soldiers were stationed and sentry. On the periphery of the arsenal, where Dong Ce and the others came, there was also a circle of outer walls. This arsenal is actually similar to a small fortress, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The gate was more than a foot high, made of wood, and was nailed with brass nails the size of a bowl, and when pushed open, it made a creaking sound.

Dong Ce and the others strode in, and after entering, there was immediately a gasp sound.

Although there are no windows on the walls of the arsenal, there are skylights on the top, and a stone shed is built on the skylights, but the visibility inside is okay.

The crowd could clearly see that the huge arsenal was full of large and small wooden shelves, platforms, wooden dummies, crosses, etc., on which were slowed down large swords, spears, iron armor, cotton armor, bows, feathered arrows, sacks, and saddles............ Wait, you name it, it's got you covered!

The weapons and armor inside are afraid that they are enough to arm an army of more than a thousand people!

Right in front of Dong Ce, a wooden cross-shaped bracket was placed on top of a pair of armor. This is a heavy iron armor, similar to Dong Ce's iron valve armor, it is also made of rectangular iron sheets, but the iron pieces are smaller, only two inches long and one inch wide, Dong Ce looked at the edge of the armor, which was two millimeters thick. Where is this iron armor, is it clearly an iron deck! It's a full-body heavy armor, from the helmet all the way down to the armor skirt underneath! The armor leaves used in this armor must be as many as thousands!

Dong Ce unceremoniously took the iron armor over, and as soon as he started his hand, his hands fell straight down, and this pair of armor was afraid that it would have to be sixty catties to count up!

Looking back at the stunned subordinates, Dong Ce scolded with a smile: "What are you still doing in a daze? Grab it! If you grab it, it's your own! But remember, there has to be a sense of proportion under your hands, everyone can only take what they use, not more! ”

As he spoke, he threw the iron armor to Yelu Lihe, and said with a smile: "Then, you barbarian, you lack a pair of iron armor that can charge into battle!" ”

The crowd was overjoyed and howled and rushed to all parts of the arsenal......

In the afternoon, about three o'clock in the afternoon, a huge convoy left the north gate of Zhenqiang Fort and headed for Hongci Fort in the northeast.

The main body of the convoy was dozens of large carts, on which the things were stacked high, all covered with thick felt cloth, loaded with a very large amount of supplies. Each cart had two drivers in rotation, and in the middle of the convoy was an old-looking manned carriage, in which Liu Ruozai was in it. Dong Ce and Xie Dingkun combined forty people gathered around the carriage, covering it tightly. On the periphery of the convoy, there were about 100 soldiers guarding it.

On the towers of Zhenhe Fort, the two women looked at the distant convoy and were silent.

After a while, the woman on the left, wearing a lake-green skirt and a gown of the same color outside, asked in a low voice, "Zichuan, Daddy will come back safely, right?"

The cute little girl next to her, who was only twelve or thirteen years old and still had some baby fat, clenched her fists vigorously: "Miss, don't worry, it will definitely be!" Didn't the master have that Dong Ce to protect him? This is the world's most famous Dong Erlang, one person can kill more than a dozen Tartars! ”

"Dong Erlang, Dong Erlang?" The beautiful woman dressed in the green of the lake muttered softly a few times, and her eyes found the tall figure on the horse like a mountain in the crowd.

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The sky had gradually darkened, and it looked like it was about to get dark, and the sunset was far away in the sky, turning into a bright red egg yolk, floating in a fiery red cloud.

However, from a distance, Dong Ce finally saw the tall city wall of Hongci Fort.

It was about three o'clock in the afternoon, and it was now about half past five in the afternoon, and the team had approached Hongci Fort.

Near Hongci Fort, the terrain is open and unobstructed. As far as the eye can see, it is a withered yellow, and the vegetation coverage here is very low, and there are very few weeds. When the wind blows, it is a piece of sand.

From time to time, there was one or two huge gaps in the ground, and the convoy had to take a detour. Not long ago, this place was ravaged by Jiannu, and many villages were passed along the way, and the brigade was already dilapidated, leaving only a ruin, full of desolation. The houses had burned down, and a charred black ruin stood in the wind. The population, livestock, and poultry have all been taken captive, and the original Jiannu was more focused on robbing things, but in the last few times, they have begun to rob a large number of people. According to the official newspaper that just came out a few days ago, as many as 170,000 people were taken captive in the two towns of Xuanda this time, and more than 300,000 camels, horses, cattle and sheep.

Jiannu has also become smarter, knowing that the population is the greatest war resource, the war potential. 、

This is also reflected in another aspect, in fact, Xuanda is not as poor as he thinks, at least many people still have some wealth.

Occasionally, you can see a field of crops, and only the stalks of corn are lying in the wind, withering and withering.

Dong Ce sniffed, the wind here seemed to be different from that of Rock Castle.

There are stone mountains to the north of the rock fort as a shield, and in the farther north, dozens of miles away, there are also the mountains where the Great Wall is located, which covers the wind and frost in the north, plus there is water and grass, so the temperature is slightly higher, and the wind is not so strong. And here the four fields are sparse, the wind blows from the north, and the thin ones are already a little cool.

Dong Ce squinted his eyes and glanced in the direction of the carriage, his gaze was a little meaningful.

The humble carriage rolled in the wind, and the coachman sat on the wheel, calm as a mountain.

It wasn't until after he set off that Dong Ce knew Liu Ruozai's purpose - it turned out that this lord was going to Hongci Fort to reward the soldiers, and personally distribute food, clothing, salaries, and so on to the soldiers. By the way, he inspected the military situation, inspected the army, eliminated redundant troops, and checked the situation of empty salaries, hoping to gain an understanding of the combat effectiveness of the officers and men of North Hebei Province through this trip.

Dong Ce could only sigh in his heart: "It's so ruthless!" ”

"This trick is so ruthless!"

He personally distributed the salaries and paid them in full, and the officers and men knew how much the generals had deducted from them, so they were bound to be dissatisfied with the generals, and those who had been deducted too much hated were not a problem.

And Liu Ruozai gave them a lot, and with the five grades of civil servants, the punishment was so condescending to the dignity of the secretary and the soldier, and it would win the hearts of the officers and soldiers and make them respect and love.

Now the generals of the nine sides are up and down, and there is almost no one who does not eat empty salaries, Liu Ruozai must be a quasi-child, so that many generals are caught in his hands. He may not be able to tell these generals how to - with Liu Ruozai's shrewdness, he also knows that things must not be made big, these generals are deeply rooted behind them, and once they are poked out, I am afraid that Datong Town will cause great turmoil. And eating empty wages is almost a customary rule, if Liu Ruozai goes to move this forbidden area, I am afraid that he will die ugly.

The soldiers loved it, the officers obeyed the orders, and with Liu Ruozai's means, he promoted a few more cronies and suppressed some dissidents, and it was not difficult to take the northern Hebei Province into his hands.

When the time comes, it will naturally be possible to show its ambitions.

These points mentioned by Liu Ruozai can be described as fatal, and every blow hits the key points of the generals.