Nearly a hundred mechanisms of crossbows fired volleys, and the rain of gold-tempered arrows was as terrifying as the storm of the sky. Even the most elite heavy-armored cavalry could not stop its power. Kong Peng's command was dominated by light-armored crossbows and spears, so he naturally did not dare to approach Nanjian Gorge easily, but it did not mean that Kong Peng, who was the rebel general, was helpless.

In addition to being the only remaining four major Dao Dan Realm powerhouses in Pinglu Oasis, Kong Peng had worked in the Northern Army for a long time before becoming a bandit. Not only him, but even the major bandit leaders under his command had rich experience in the army.

In view of the strong penetration of gold quenching arrows, they selected strong wood grown for thousands of years in Yuchi City to create large quantities of double-layer or even multi-layer tall tower shields.

This kind of tower shield is also extremely bulky, but when mounted on the wheels, it is driven forward by three or five powerful Jianruis, which can effectively resist the shooting of the mechanism crossbow.

This tower shield car made of thousand-year-old solid wood is much lighter than the fine cast iron shield with the same defense. However, under the strong suppression of the logistics supply line by the Jingjue Army's Battle Bird Battalion, whether it is an iron shield car or a tower shield car, Kong Peng wanted to build enough quantities in Yuchi City, but it could not be achieved in three or five days.

Ye Qinglin, Ye He and other generals still hope to use their existing advantages to launch a devastating strike against more than 30,000 rebels gathered in Yuchi City, Tianai Mountain, and Xiqiang Royal City before Kong Peng, Zhang Xixiong and other thieves created enough targeted combat equipment in Yuchi City.

Ye Qinglin and his friends have their own reasonable considerations. The Divine Machine Warriors and Mechanical Crossbows are strong, but the number is still too limited. Once the iron shield chariots built by the rebels form a scale, on the battlefield with a larger number of people, the role that less than a hundred Mechanical Crossbows can play will become extremely limited.

The counterweight catapult crossbow has a low technical content and is easy to imitate. Once the rebels can build catapult crossbows in Yuchi City, their advantages in this regard will be weakened.

In addition, although it is unlikely that the Demon God Temple will participate directly in the war, the rebels can still recruit the monks of the Imperial Bird from the depths of the desert west of Pinglu to strengthen their battle bird camps. The absolute advantage they have temporarily above Tiel Ridge will be gradually weakened.

Chen Hai didn't want to take the risk and rush to fight Kong Peng in Yuchi City.

Although Chen Hai and Dong Ning handed over the battlefield command on the western foot of Tieling to Ye Qinglin, the Jingjue army that was deployed at the west entrance of Nanjian Gorge was not something Ye Qinglin could command.

After deducting the Jingjue Army at the west entrance of Nanjian Gorge, Ye Qinglin expanded his troops to 30,000 after acquiring the children of four surnames. Facing the troops led by Kong Peng, the Heishan Wu Zun, it was difficult to talk about their advantages.

Chen Hai still hopes that the real decisive battle can be delayed until after next spring, or later.

The Zhang family seized the Western Qiang royal city and established itself as king. With support from the Demon God Temple and the Tibetan and Qiang Kingdom, they have not been able to effectively control the Pinglu Oasis in the past six months. Most cities remain neutral, which means that the Ye family has been in charge of the Western Qiang Kingdom for more than 400 years and still has a strong foundation in the Pinglu Oasis.

At this time, they gained a foothold in Tieling and directly confronted the rebels. If time delays, it is actually beneficial to them.

A more important reason is that Chen Hai wants to use the current pressure of war to forcibly promote the system of the palace in Lucheng.

Although Zhao Zhou and Yang and Gu Du agreed to move to the west of Tieling after the war, it is difficult to say whether they will lead most of the clans to withdraw from Lucheng and whether Ye Qinglin will keep their promises if there is no pressure on the war.

Especially the secret of the lake mud and sand mines hidden at the bottom of Tianxuan Lake inside Lukai Gorge. Once the curtain is officially unveiled, all promises will become pale and powerless in the face of huge benefits.

To ensure that the Jingjue Protectorate can have absolute control over Lucheng after the war, we can only forcefully promote the system of the mansion under the extreme pressure of war with the minimum resistance.

What Chen Hai did the first step was to transfer Ding Shuang from Heishan and be responsible for reorganizing the forces left behind after expelling Zhang from Lucheng.

As one of the five surnames of Lucheng, the Zhang family can only be considered an insignificant tribe within the Jinyan prefectures, but between the west bank of the Lu River and Tieling, it has 170,000 acres of farmland and several times the area of ​​pastures.

Chen Hai arranged twelve military patrols on the west bank of Luhe River and the eastern foot of Tieling Mountain to govern the land under the original Zhang clan, and organized slaves to the original Zhang clan, more than 5,000 households and more than 30,000 people into the military prefecture, and rewarded officials and soldiers with military merits.

Without affecting the current farming and pastoral production, this measure alone has collected 6,000 new soldiers for the Jingjue Army.

The Jingjue Army had previously recruited 12,000 elite troops from Heishan, 6,000 elite troops to defend Lucheng, and 6,000 elite troops to cooperate with the Ye royal army to guard the west entrance of Nanjian Gorge.

Chen Hai did not intend to train a new army alone for six thousand new soldiers after spending half a year or even longer, but instead sent it directly to the west entrance of Nanjian Gorge, which was taken over by Wu Meng, Ran Hu and Fan Dachun. In a proportion of one, it was directly inserted into each small camp, and directly expanded the strength of the Jingjue army at the west entrance of Nanjian Gorge to 12,000.

In a short period of time, the average strength of the Jingjue Army stationed at the west entrance of Nanjianxia will be reduced, but only if large-scale wars do not occur before next spring, new soldiers will be able to quickly adapt to high-intensity training and become familiar with the battlefield. At the same time, a group of grassroots military officers will be trained, and these grassroots military officers are the basis for implementing the system of military troops.

The practice of the Jingjue Protectorate could not be so straightforward and rude to the slaves and peoples belonging to the four clans of Zhou, Zhao, Yang and Gu, but instead implemented a redemption policy that could be accepted in all aspects; that is, for the slaves and people belonging to the four clans and willing to join the Jingjue Army to fight, the Jingjue Protectorate would invest in redemption from the four clans.

The Jingjue Protectorate's bid for every strong slave and family was ten kilograms of gold quenching iron, which was an extremely high price in the slave market in Pinglu Oasis. After all, after a large-scale war, the clans of the four surnames could also seize a large number of people from the enemy side and act as slaves.

On the one hand, the surname Zhao, Yang, Zhou and Gu Si hope that the Jingjue army will become stronger and will be able to cooperate with the royal army more effectively in the future and attack the rebels more effectively. On the other hand, they will not refuse such a quote.

The fields, pastures, and Jingjue Protectorate of the four clans on both sides of the Lu River were also redeemed for the price.

During the entire winter of the 76th year of Emperor Yitian, more than 200,000 kilograms of gold quenching iron and more than 2,000 sets of armour were directly imported from Juquanling from Lucheng. It was a redemption for 7,000 slaves, family members, and tens of thousands of land and was handed over to the four clan brothers.

Ye Qinglin was also happy to accept such a redemption policy. After all, a large number of soldiers, armor, bows and iron materials were transferred from the Jingjue Protectorate to the four clans, which directly strengthened the strength of the Ye family's royal army, and at the same time did not increase the Ye family's debt to Hexi.

During this period, not only did the Jingjue army stationed in Lucheng expand to 10,000 people.

Chen Hai also took over an iron mine and a refining farm left by Zhang after expelling him from Lucheng, and moved half of the craftsmen and craftsmen in the Heishan camp to Lucheng.

Chen Hai also recruited manpower and dug a stone stairway from Luheyuan to Lukai Gorge.

Lukai Gorge is located more than 3,000 meters above Luhe Source, and the terrain is extremely dangerous.

In the past, Lucheng would never have thought of building a city on Lukai Gorge. Naturally, he would have thought of digging stone stairways with a height of more than 3,000 meters. However, disciples of the Demon God Temple once approached Luhe from the mountains to the south. Chen Hai built a city barrier on Lukai Gorge at this time, and also removed a defensive magic array in Lucheng and deployed it on Lukai Gorge. This was justified.

Of course, before the stone stairway was dug out, a large amount of manpower and materials were carried directly through the giant eagle.

The furnace was directly removed from the Zhang iron smelting field; it was just that the furnace flame temperature was required to be extremely high, but for Juquanling at this time, it was not until people could know that they secretly sent a set of advanced flame collection talisman arrays.

On the first day of entering the seventy-seventh year of Emperor Yitian, the casting workshop in Lukaixia had successfully refined the first furnace of gold quenching iron and poured it into the halberd mold that was made into shape in advance.

Of course, these actions cannot be hidden from Hexi.

Hexi controls the entrance to the desert westward, and can roughly count the gold quenching iron materials input to the desert. With two phases and one calculation, you can know where the problem lies. Therefore, when Lu Kaixia refines the first furnace of gold quenching iron materials, Chen Hai specially invited Ge Xuanqiao and Du Linan to the scene to observe.

"..." Du Linan looked at four or five thousand kilograms of red high-temperature molten iron, cooled and formed in a separate mold, fifty gold-tempered war halberds, and the blank of the war spear was soon cast in front of him, and he opened his mouth wide and didn't know what to say.

The metal quenching material is just a general term. Even the black-fatal iron bow used by Chen Hai at this time is strictly speaking, it is just gold quenching iron, but the content of black-fatal essence iron is relatively higher. If such an iron bow is completely made of black-fatal essence iron, the bow body alone will weigh 20,000 to 30,000 kilograms. Who can use it?

In this world, based on the content of extremely precious metal iron such as Xuanfei essence iron, Zichen Sand Gold, etc., gold quenching iron is divided into nine levels.

The ninth level of gold quenching iron can usually be used to cast the top-level iron armor; the eighth to sixth level, corresponding to the yellow level of low to top-level Xuan soldiers, can be refined into Taoist seal and magic array bans.

The Xuanfeng Zichen Ji used by Chen Hai at this time was based on the eighth-level gold quenching iron material, and 300 kilograms of Xuanfeng Jingyi and 200 kilograms of Zichen Sand Gold. The battle halberd weighed more than 1,200 kilograms, but it can only be regarded as the fourth-level gold quenching iron.

The pure black fetal essence iron and purple chensha gold are several times more precious than the top quenching metal iron. However, a piece of black fetal essence iron that is not much larger than broad beans weighs nearly a hundred pounds. It is possible to make small and light spiritual swords and magic weapons, but don’t think it can be used to cast large Xuan soldiers and heavy weapons.

The sand ore and lake mud at the bottom of Lukaixia Lake is of better quality than Juquanling, and can directly refine iron materials close to level 8. Du Linan doubts that the Demon God Temple knows the secrets at the bottom of Lukaixia Lake, will he regret it if he regrets it.

Hundreds of elite disciples in the Demon God Temple were so close to this unimaginable sect resource, but in the end they were frightened by Chen Hai?

"Old Master Ge, half of the gold quenching iron materials produced here can be supplied to Hexi, but this secret may not be kept for a long time." Chen Hai said to Ge Xuanqiao.

"You have given conditions for the Demon God Temple to allow them to rule Changle City in the west of the Pinglu Oasis. Whether it is to leave a back door, it is convenient for Taiwei Sect to add a Taoist temple here," Ge Xuanqiao sighed softly, "It is no difference between staying in Taiwei Mountain or seizing in Lukai Gorge. Besides, Dong Ning has also seen her growing up since she was a child, and I don't want to see any accidents happen to her..."
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