"Uncle Sangou, let's draw a line, and the people in the rear will find a way to let them build some forts. There is only one way for the people in front, the real army is coming, and the only way is to retreat immediately. Even if the fort is repaired, do you think that if the Western Xia wants to attack, can it be defended? And every time they invaded, they plundered as supplies, and these people did not evacuate, leaving a large amount of food and livestock for them to supply. Wang Ju said.

"That's a way to do that, too."

"This will have to wait."

"I'll care," Li Sangou thought he was waiting for money.

In fact, Wang Ju is waiting for Sun Wei, and the biggest mountain in front of him right now is Sun Wei!

…………

The weather is getting cooler.

Wang Ju and the craftsman were staring at the huge monster in front of them.

Now ordinary caster armor is beaten with a sledgehammer to remove impurities, and a small hammer is shaped. In fact, the process of sledgehammer to remove impurities is also the process of making the steel structure more dense. Therefore, the more times you refine it, the better the quality of the steel, and of course the greater the loss.

The cold-forged armor of Western Xia used cold deformation to improve the hardness and toughness of the metal and strengthen the metal. Tubo Qingtang Qiang's scarlet armor can also be regarded as cold-forged armor.

However, it has many limitations, one is that it has strict requirements for materials, there can be no more impurities, and the sulfur content can not be more, the second is that the cost is very high, and the third is because it is forged at room temperature, the labor cost is high and the efficiency is low.

Therefore, Shen Kuo later recorded this craft in "Mengxi Writings", which was not promoted in the Song Dynasty.

Including the Xixia side, even more so, where is it willing to equip the soldiers with cold-forged armor, and there is no financial resources to sell Li Liangzuo.

Therefore, Wang Ju took a compromise approach, and there are some foundations, including quenching process, under the leadership of Wang Ju, Wangjiazhai 6 continued to introduce some original normalizing, tempering, quenching, annealing processes. In fact, the quenching process is very complicated, but it is not possible with the technology and foundation of the Song Dynasty.

In addition, the simple carbide technology has also been improved.

And after debugging, Wang Ju also judged which pits had low iron sulfur content, which is the basis.

What has never been touched is this cold forging.

It was only now that Wang Ju began to come into contact with this cold forging.

It's not like the Tanguts, who use a big hammer to fight slowly.

After a lot of adjustments, he came to know a primitive hydraulic press.

There are many sections of Huachi water with turbulent currents and many reefs, which are not conducive to navigation, but the water resources are abundant.

Wang Ju installed this press in a turbulent place in the water of Huachi downstream of Huachi Town.

This original press alone cost more than 1,000 yuan from research to finished product.

The huge water wheel pulled the noose, and the noose twisted nearly a thousand catties of square iron hammer to a high place, and Wang Ju shouted: "Release." ”

A craftsman let go of the bracket, and the giant hammer fell violently, and the iron on the large iron plate below immediately smashed into a flat persimmon.

Wang Ju slapped his palm: "It's done." ”

As long as these technologies are combined, a batch of high-quality steel will be obtained, and thick weapons can also be forged by cold forging.

Moreover, the steel composition is uniform, the grain is refined, and the steel is more tough.

Now it's just an experiment, and we have to wait for the finished product to come out. And this technology must be continuously improved. Wang Ju carefully explained the precautions to the craftsmen and rode back to Huachi Town. The next day, Yao Ji escorted a group of mountain bandits to Huachi Town.

This is the second batch of bandits.

However, this group of mountain bandits did not do a lot of evil like Yang Si, so they only killed a dozen people in the battle, and captured the rest.

"Wang Zhixian, poor to death."

"What poor died?"

"This group of mountain bandits is so poor, if you count the loss of weapons, this time the bandits will lose money."

"Haha, Yao Inspector, how much money can be made by bandits? Yang Si: They are exceptions. Can't think about it from the perspective of money, if the mountain bandits are wiped out, Meridian Mountain will be quiet, no one dares to fight the idea of business, and they have also trained soldiers. But you're just in time, let's talk about it again, and I'm going to unleash all those plans. ”

The first plan was to buy a horse.

The horses of the Xinbo cavalry itself, if possible, also armed the horses of the camp of Liyuan Fort, and the cavalry was still the strongest military branch of this era.

The rest of the horses will be handed over to the other cavalry teams in Gyeongju.

But how many horses can be obtained, everyone has no bottom in their hearts. Only the gap in Huachi County is not large, and more than a thousand horses can be satisfied. But the number of gaps in the entire Gyeongju horse is too huge, and no matter what you do, you can't meet it.

This fee seems to be the most expensive place, the actual subsidy is not large, if you exchange wine for horses, you can still have a slight surplus, if you barter for horses, then a horse will have to lose several dollars. In general, to keep the peace.

The second plan is to strengthen the body, that is, the food subsidy, which is a hard subsidy, but the cost can be afforded, and it will only be 10,000 yuan until the end of next year.

The third plan is the subsidy, the new Tibetan cavalry wants to recruit more soldiers, it is not tempting to rely on the salary of the imperial court alone, there must be additional subsidies, in order to attract more strong Tibetan people to sign up, and finally select a strong Tibetan cavalry.

The soldiers of the other eight battalions will also have subsidies, but not to individuals, and all these money will be handed over to their families in the end, which alone will cost twenty or thirty thousand yuan, but the family members in the rear are safe, and their morale will be improved.

In addition, this subsidy is not evenly apportioned, but is a table of training and progress, divided into grades, so that the soldiers can actively train.

After training like this for more than a year, it may not become an iron army when the big war comes next year, but it will become a strong army.

The fourth plan is the armor.

Many of the weapons and armor in the barracks were shoddy and unqualified, and even many soldiers wore paper armor and leather armor to fight.

Wang Ju plans to phase out these armors and replace them with new armor and weapons.

But this is placed in the last place, the Song army is weak not because the weapon is not good, if so, wouldn't it be even worse on the Western Xia side?

The experiment at the workshop on the banks of Huachi was successful, and the first batch of products was made not armor weapons, but stone cannons.

This cost is borne by the imperial court, and the remaining cost will continue to be donated to produce a batch of weapons and armor, and the armor will be the kind of armor taken out by Wang Ju, weighing no more than thirty catties. But the cost is too high, from armor to weapons, bows and arrows, a set of equipment, at least sixty or seventy yuan. The officers and soldiers of the Eighth Battalion and the Xinfan Cavalry may reach more than 4,000 officers and soldiers, and Wang Ju will be killed, and they will not be able to make so much money.

So I can only do what I can.

What started now has nothing to do with armor, but the third step plan, the training subsidy.

"What about these bandits?"

"Build roads."

"Only about 30 people can build roads?"

"Aren't there still a few bandits in the mountains?"

"I'm afraid the number of people won't be large, as long as they continue to fight twice, it is estimated that they will flee to other places together."

"If there are not enough soldiers, draw up soldiers to build roads."

"There is only a battalion of soldiers."

"It's not a box soldier, this battalion of box soldiers escorts grain and grass, it's very hard, how to let them build roads, I mean the forbidden soldiers, Baojie, and Fan Cai."

"It's not good."

"With so much money thrown down, can you still complain about building a road? Yao Inspector, if you continue to increase the intensity of training, it is estimated that most of the soldiers will beg you to let them build the road by then. ”

"Haha," Yao laughed.

"I will issue another document of devotion, and those who do not return to cultivate within half a year will have their cultivated land handed over to others to cultivate. Then in the spring of next year, they went into the mountains to arrest the fugitives and force them to build roads. ”

"Will there be controversy?"

"If there is a controversy, you have to do this, many people in Huachi County have fled, a large amount of arable land is barren, and the wine consumes grain, if it is strict, the imperial court may have to transport a large amount of grain from the rear again, it is okay not to transport grain and grass from the rear, once the grain and grass are transported from the rear, the cost is astronomical. That's when the controversy will be even greater. Road construction is the key, not only for the convenience of private business, once the Western Xia officially invaded Gyeongju, there will be a lot of troops, if the Fengchuan to Dunzhou, Huachi to Pingrong, Fuzheng these two roads are built, the Dunyan Road will be able to send a large number of materials and troops to Gyeongju. ”

The three important places of Jintang City, Xinjiang Ballast Village, and White Leopard City were occupied by the Western Xia people, otherwise Yanzhou and the security army would be able to form a line with Yuanzhou and Gyeongju, and at that time they could not carry out an effective attack on the enemy, but they could carry out an effective defense.

But Wang Ju looked at the east and thought: I have to thank the capital for the heavy rain.

"Let's build the white team." Wang Ju said again.

With Sun Wei here, it is impossible to form a Tabai battalion, but it can form three or four brigades.

In this backward era, they are the eyes of the army, they have bad eyes, and they can still fight?

"I think it's time too, autumn is coming, the crops are starting to be harvested, maybe the Tangut people will come and plunder again."

Before Yao Ji's words fell, a soldier who stayed in Liyuan Fort hurriedly rode over, came to the two of them, turned over and dismounted, and said breathlessly: "Report, report to Yao for inspection, Wang Zhixian, the Western Xia army has come to plunder again." ”

"Order, out." Yao Yan's eyes widened angrily and he shouted loudly.

Xixia was so unsightly that Yao Ji felt very suffocated.

At the sound of the order, he turned on his horse and prepared to lead the army into battle.

"Yao inspection, you can't be in a hurry," Wang Ju grabbed him.

Yao Yu was anxious and asked, "Why did Wang Zhixian stop me?" ”

Wang Ju thought a lot more than him, not only tactics, but also strategy, for example, there is a group of crazy wolves on the other side of the mountain, once they suffer a big loss, will they send a large army to retaliate. It's not that I'm afraid of wolves in the front and tigers in the back, but I really have to think about it this way, in case the battle of Dashun City is provoked in advance, Gyeongju is Sun Chu's town, and Hwachi is not ready for anything, and he will end up miserable at that time.

However, he immediately vetoed it in his mind, the Xixia side wanted to gather a large army and also prepared, the army came less, he was strong and clear, insisted on the fort, he was not afraid at all, he came too much, did the Xixia have any plans to officially turn his face with the Song Dynasty? First of all, the first one, that mutual market and the year of the rest wanted.

But you can't play blindly either.

Wang Ju asked repeatedly: "Yao Patrol, how many enemies have come, where are they located, and how can we fight?" ”

Yao Ji held back in his heart, it just so happened that the army in his hand was gradually getting stronger, and he wanted to fight, but how to fight, he also had to think about it, right?

Yao Ji was asked to calm down, and immediately changed the password: "Summons the scout, immediately go to the front to investigate, and then come back to report." ”

"That's right, and then order Liyuan Fort to prepare for defense. But the main army did not leave Huachi Town for the time being, and was ready to act at any time. Wang Ju added. r1152

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