A few months after Lu Xu took the village, in March of the following year, even the people of Qinfeng Road knew that the people of Beiting were about to go south.
Many border traders have seen Beiting people gathering troops on the grassland. Some tribes in remote areas have also disappeared. As for where they went? No one knows, but everyone knows them.
The disappearance of the tribe is probably inseparable from the war.
Therefore, the entire Qinfeng Road is now shrouded in the dark clouds of war. Lu Xu's Wei'an Castle is no exception, but... Now there is almost only an empty shell left in Wei'an Castle.
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Now there are only 50 old brothers from Lu Xu and 600 team members who are training on defense in Wei'an Castle. The others have retreated to the newly built village of Lu Xu.
After several months of construction, the new village has basically been completed. Lu Xu named this village Xin'an Village, and this place will be Lu Xu's nest in the future.
Now Xin'an Village is no longer visible in the shadow of the bandit nest in the past. There is a main village and three battle forts in Xin'an Village. Lu Xu also built a cable bridge between the main village and the battle fort.
The cable bridge was built by Su Gang and was covered with wooden boards. With the strength of Su Gang, Lu Xu believed that even if the Beiting people used a trench machine, they would not be able to destroy the cable bridge.
First, it is difficult for the trencher to hit the cable bridge accurately. On the other hand, the large stones around were basically smashed by Lu Xu and used to build the village wall. It is difficult for the Beiting people to find stones with sufficient power.
Even if they traveled thousands of miles to get stones, it would be difficult for Beiting people to arrange large trenchers with large sizes at the foot of the mountain. As long as the trenchers are not big enough, even if the stones emitted by the trenchers hit.
With the cable bridge, the cable bridge with the strength of Sugang will not be damaged much.
Not to mention the catapult that is not powerful enough, what if it is a modern hot weapon?
In later generations, there was a famous cable bridge called "Luding Bridge". It has actually experienced the baptism of modern thermal weapons. What was the result? Isn't it still standing there?
There is a village wall, a battle fort and a cable bridge. Lu Xu believes that as long as the Beiting people don’t gather 100,000 troops to come, it will not be enough to threaten his safety.
Moreover, in Xin'an Village, Lu Xu also reserved enough food to last until this winter. Lu Xu was not afraid of Beiting people coming to waste with him!
Over the past period of time, many people left their hometowns due to the threat from Beiting people. Lu Xu also took the opportunity to gather some refugees to Xin'an Village.
However, the work of gathering refugees is much more difficult than Lu Xu imagined.
Because the location of Xin'an Village is too remote, many refugees gave up when they heard that Xin'an Village is deep in the Qinling Mountains. Even if some refugees don't mind traveling through mountains and rivers into the deep mountains and forests, they will hear that Xin'an Village is going to be with Beiting people.
They all gave up after all their efforts.
After all, the reason why they became refugees is because they don’t want to face the people of Beiting directly.
As a result, Lu Xu planned to accommodate 10,000 people in Xin'an Village, but now, the population of Xin'an Village is only barely close to 8,000.
Fortunately, among these eight thousand people, there are between 3,500-4,000 males who can fight. This makes Lu Xu not lacking in military strength at least.
Moreover, these male men are fully equipped. After Han Yidou's full production over the past period of time, Xin'an Village has saved 6,000 pairs of armor and 6,000 eagle bows, and the number of arrows is tens of thousands.
However, in terms of other weapons, Han Yidou's creation is different from before.
Previously, the main combat weapons of Lu Xu's soldiers were the Eagle Bow and the Sword. At that time, Lu Xu's troops were actually the archers.
The reason why Lu Xu equipped the troops like that at that time was because he lacked enough troops and had to take as much responsibility as possible for every soldier.
Now that Lu Xu's hands are getting more and more soldiers, Lu Xu has begun to build other equipment. Anyway, the Eagle Bow, as Lu Xu's trump card, is absolutely impossible to give up.
Therefore, in addition to the necessary six thousand horse-knitting sabers, Lu Xu has now begun to build equipment such as horizontal swords, round shields and spears.
According to Lu Xu's estimate, after the war begins, Xin'an Village will soon emerge. Even Xin'an Village is very likely to become the only or strongest resistance force on Qinfeng Road in the future, and Xin'an Village may attract
More knowledgeable people will be able to expand the army next time.
At that time, Lu Xu planned to train the people who expanded their troops as swords, shields and spearmen.
In short, in addition to Lu Xu, he is just a small group training. Over the past few months, Lu Xu's strength has grown rapidly.
Of course, this is inseparable from the support of Wen Yuanzhong and Qingliu. In order to support Lu Xu to expand his strength, Qingliu even spent a lot of money on Lu Xu in the later period, otherwise Lu Xu might not have been able to complete the development so quickly.
During this period, the court's attitude was basically determined. Although Qingliu and Wen Yuanzhong insisted on the war, because Qin Fenglu had become the territory of Qingliu and Wen Yuanzhong, the Wu Party firmly wanted to give up Qin Fenglu in other places.
Local decisive battle.
As for the emperor?
He was extremely dissatisfied with Qingliu and Wen Yuanzhong's complete drive of the Wu Party's forces out of Qin Fenglu. The emperor did not feel sorry for Wu Yuanqing, he just felt sorry for this place.
The removal of Wu Yuanqing's power means that Qin Fenglu is nominally the land of the court, and in fact the royal family basically has no control over it.
From the emperor's perspective, he hoped that Beiting people would come to Qinfenglu again to cause disaster. If Beiting people could also clear the power of Qingliu and Wen Yuanzhong, then he might have a chance to take back control of Qinfenglu.
So the emperor finally decided to determine the national policy, which was to consume the Beiting people on Qinfeng Road and then fight the Beiting people outside Qinfeng Road!
To be honest, although his decision can indeed maximize the interests of the royal family and himself.
but!
For the people living on Qinfeng Road, his decision undoubtedly pushed them into the abyss.
As for the Qingliu people? They finally won the land all the way, so they naturally couldn't give up easily, so they strongly supported Lu Xu.
In short, before the Beiting people went south, the situation was probably like this. Lu Xu felt that it would be no problem to drag down the Beiting people with the power of Xin'anzhai.
Leave the rest to the emperor's main force to solve. Anyway, after making these preparations, Lu Xu believed that he and Xin'an Village should be as stable as Mount Tai. So even if the war is approaching, his life will be very good.
The comfort of
Until one day, he received an emergency order from Wen Yuanzhong, asking Lu Xu to go to Qinzhou Prefecture to meet him as soon as possible. Lu Xu knew that the war should begin soon!