"From now on, your lives belong to me, the Pei family army. I will give you one hour to pack your personal belongings. After one hour, everyone must follow us, otherwise they will be killed without mercy." Pei Xiaoer said "viciously".

People always bully the weak and fear the strong, and it is always easier for people to give in to evil people, especially at this critical moment.

Sure enough, Pei Xiaoer's trick worked very well. When the craftsmen saw the "ferocious" bandit leader and the well-equipped soldiers surrounding them, they were too frightened to speak. They obediently chose to obey Pei Xiaoer's orders, and even some

When people want to take their own pots, pans, and other large and worthless things with them, the soldiers watching from the side can make them put down these rags obediently with just a look.

Pei Xiaoer saw the orderly scene and nodded, believing that it wouldn't take long to vacate this place.

At this moment, a soldier ran over and said: "General, General Song has made an important discovery. Please come over."

"Oh? What is it?" Pei Xiaoer said, and followed the soldiers to a cave. Song Meng was guarding here personally. When he saw Pei Xiaoer coming, he took two steps forward, welcomed Pei Xiaoer in, and at the same time said to the soldiers

They ordered: "Guard this place and no one is allowed to enter."

Pei Xiaoer was a little curious. Song Meng had discovered something so extraordinary that he needed to be so cautious. However, when he walked into the cave, Pei Xiaoer immediately understood what he had found. He saw that there were several people in the rather wide cave.

Endless weapons were neatly placed, including not only spears and broadswords, but also fire blunderbuss, three-eyed blunderbuss, and a huge number of armors. The amount of equipment made Pei Xiaoer speechless.

After a long time, Pei Xiaoer regained his senses and immediately noticed something strange, which was obviously not in line with common sense. Pei Xiaoer had just ordered someone to count the number of craftsmen in the village, and he clearly remembered that the number of craftsmen in the village was only about three hundred.

But there are so many soldiers and armors in this cave that more than 300 people can produce them. Even if more than 300 people keep building them without eating or drinking, they still can't build them within three years. So this

Where did the batch of weapons come from?

Pei Xiaoer fell into deep thought and suddenly remembered that he had captured a steward, Xu Chengzhang, who had fled to the village. He immediately ordered someone to bring Xu Chengzhang over.

Speaking of which, Xu Chengzhang was quite unlucky. He finally encountered Pei Xiaoer who had other plans, and deliberately let him go, allowing him to escape back to the village. However, within a day, he was captured alive by Pei Xiaoer and his men again.

"Let me ask you, where did the weapons in the cave come from?" After receiving Pei Xiaoer's signal, Song Meng walked up to Xu Chengzhang, raised his head and asked.

"I don't know what weapon you are talking about." Xu Chengzhang cried sadly. It was pity that he was just a small outside steward responsible for delivering supplies to Hidden Spring Mountain. There were any internal secrets that he could not touch.

"You won't say that, right?" Song Meng is naturally not an easy person to deal with. Seeing his harsh words, he will immediately use severe punishment.

"General, general, I really don't know." Xu Chengzhang was about to cry and looked at Pei Xiaoer pitifully. He knew that only Pei Xiaoer present could save his life.

It just disappointed him. Pei Xiaoer just stared at him quietly, without saying anything about taking action or letting him go.

Ah! Song Meng's long knife directly saw Xu Chengzhang's thigh, and blood suddenly flowed out.

"If you are being arrogant, the next cut will not be as simple as drawing some blood," Song Meng put the knife on Xu Chengzhang's neck and threatened. At the same time, the hand holding the handle of the knife gradually tightened and slashed Xu Chengzhang's neck.

A trace of blood appeared.

Under the threat of death, Xu Chengzhang's mind was spinning rapidly, and he suddenly seemed to remember that when he and Fan Shili were drinking together, Fan Shili once boasted that the Fan family had recently done a big business. If this business was successful,

Everyone followed suit and hurriedly said: "I...I remembered, General, please stop it."

"explain."

"Manager Fan from Hidden Spring Mountain once told me that the Fan family wanted to start a big business with foreigners. He didn't say what the business was at that time, but I guess it has something to do with these armors."

"What kind of business are you doing with Guanwai?" Song Meng was a little confused and continued to ask, "Not honest? Do you think my knife is not fast?" After saying that, he raised his knife to chop at Xu Chengzhang.

"Song Meng, stop it first." At the critical moment, Pei Xiaoer stopped Song Meng with words. He didn't know what big business the Fan family had with Guanwai, but he did. After saying that, Pei Xiaoer quickly walked to the armor and took out

After looking at the armor carefully, I saw that the armor is in the form of a top and lower skirt. The top has a round collar and a double placket, with left and right shoulder pads, left and right armpit protectors, front crotch and left crotch. The lower skirt is divided into two pieces, left and right. The armor is made of silk.

Its surface is regularly covered with gold-plated copper cap nails at regular intervals, covered with moon white cloth, and lined with thin silk cotton. The helmet is made of cowhide and painted with black paint. A tassel tube is planted on it to place the helmet tassel.

.

This was obviously the armor style of the Eight Banners outside the Pass. It was just far away. In addition, the armor of the Eight Banners Army was also developed from the armor style of the Ming Army. Pei Xiaoer did not react for a while, but at this time, he saw that this was exactly the armor style of the Eight Banners.

The Eight Banners armor he saw in later generations.

Pei Xiaoer's face was as dark as water, and he said to Song Meng: "No need to ask, I have roughly guessed it. These weapons and armors are probably produced by other weapons workshops. They were originally intended to be sold to slaves outside the pass, but later the King of Zijin Liang

He called the rebels to gather in Wen County.

If transported at this time, this batch of weapons and armor would be too big to target, and we were afraid that they would be robbed by the rebels, so we stored them in Hidden Spring Mountain, which is relatively close to the plains, but we didn't expect that they would be intercepted by us."

"This...Fan's family has been favored by the country and there are still children in the family. They shouldn't collude to create slaves, right?" Song Meng said in disbelief.

"What's impossible? There are not many people in this world who can betray their ancestors for profit. Having him in the Fan family is not much, and having him in the Fan family is not much." Pei Xiaoer sneered,

Song Meng was speechless. He thought about how many people had died since the war started between the soldiers and the slaves in Liaodong. How many wives had been separated from each other? As a result, the people in the rear actually sold all their weapons to the enemy. Song Meng sighed, sincerely feeling sorry for him.

They feel unworthy.

With a thought in his mind, Song Meng hurriedly said: "General, what if the Fan family gets the news? They will fight us until death."
Chapter completed!