After Liu Xiang entered the city, he took a look at the yellow book, which recorded that there were 9,170 households in Youbeiping with a population of 53,475.
This is different from what Liu Xiang observed. There should be a lot of hidden people and they need to be counted slowly.
Tuyin needs to be managed well. It will be the advance base for attacking Liaoxi, and there will be a large amount of supplies stored.
Moreover, to the southwest of Tuyin is Tangshan in later generations, where iron is produced. Further to the west, there is Kailuan, where there is coal, and they are all good places.
Liu Xiang was preoccupied with many things in Tuyin, and the right army, front army, rear army and civilians from all walks of life gradually gathered towards him.
On June 23, the third day after Liu Xiang entered the city, he received good news.
Cold-forged fish scale armor has been successfully trial-produced. The complete set has more than 1,600 armor pieces and weighs 48 kilograms. To facilitate comparison, a set of the same hot-forged armor was also made and delivered together.
Liu Xiang was very excited and took Cui Yi to inspect the cold forged armor.
"Zian, I ordered the armor workshop to trial-produce new armor. In the future, armor and riding equipment will be equipped with such armor."
"It's too expensive, I can't afford it!" Cui Yi still didn't like the armor and riding equipment.
Liu Xiang was too lazy to pay attention to him and ordered two sets of armor to be fixed. The blue-grey one was cold-forged armor, and the silver-grey one was hot-forged armor.
Order someone to take a bow and crossbow to test fire.
The bows and arrows used by the Han army were horn bows, usually one stone to one and a half stones.
I tried firing ten arrows from the horned bow at fifty paces, but none of them could penetrate the armor.
Take a crossbow and shoot it. The cold-forged armor will not penetrate, but the hot-forged armor will break through three arrows.
He also took four stones and stretched the crossbow to shoot. Six arrows pierced the cold-forged armor and penetrated an inch of the armor. All ten hot-forged arrows were broken and two arrows passed through the armor.
The pros and cons are clear at a glance.
Liu Xiang did not use his waist to guide the crossbow and tried to fire it. This kind of armor could not stop it.
He also ordered people to use swords, spears and halberds to chop and pierce, and the advantages of cold-forged armor became even more obvious.
He asked the accompanying craftsman: "How is the output of cold forged armor?"
"Twelve blacksmiths and four skilled craftsmen can make one set in a month."
It's too time-consuming, and it doesn't include horse armor.
It is impossible to find so many craftsmen in a short period of time, and there is no good way to expand production. The application and development of new technologies cannot be achieved overnight.
Liu Xiang was a little autistic, ignored the snickering Cui Yi, and walked back sadly.
Cui Yi came over with a shy face, pulled Liu Xiang's sleeve and said, "Master, how about giving this armor to someone?"
"You can ask a craftsman to fix it, then take it."
Abandoning the happy Cui Yi, Liu Xiang returned to the government office. He was in a bad mood and had to take a nap to relieve himself.
Yan Rou came back in the afternoon and reported that Wu Yan, the Wuhuan master from Youbeiping, was coming to join Liu Xiang.
Wuhuan was beaten into submission during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu moved them to the outside of the border county of Youzhou and placed them under the jurisdiction of the Wuhuan school captain.
Together with the southern Xiongnu, they formed the first northern defense line of the Han Dynasty.
In the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Wuhuan moved south again, and many Wuhuan tribes entered the border counties and lived together with the Han people.
During the Guanghe period, their leaders were Qiu Liju, a master of Wuhuan in western Liaoning County, Nanlou, a master of Wuhuan in Shanggu County, Su Puyan, a master of Wuhuan in Liaodong, and Wuyan, a master of Wuhuan in Youbeiping County.
Later, Boss Cao came and destroyed Wuhuan in the three counties. The remaining Wuhuan tribes were gradually absorbed by the Han and Xianbei, and this nation disappeared from history.
Wuhuan is a nation with many tribes coexisting. They do not have a unified king, and each tribe is constantly fighting.
This Wuyan probably couldn't withstand Qiu Liju's intrusion and wanted to find Liu Xiang as a backer.
"I intend to completely Chineseize the Wuyan tribe. Can Ziming control this Wuyan tribe?"
Yan Rou nodded and said affirmatively: "The Wuyan tribe is oppressed by Qiu Liju, and its power is getting weaker and weaker. It is not difficult to control it."
"Did Wu Yan put forward any conditions?"
"He wants to learn from the Nanlou Department in Gu County."
Liu Xiang said with a smile: "Nanlou in Shanggu is the main force of the Wuhuan School Lieutenant Department coming to support. With the support of the School Lieutenant, their power has greatly increased, and they can compete with Qiu Liju.
We can also set up the Huwuhuan Xiaowei, Ziming went to talk to him, use the Wuyan tribe as the source of troops, and expand it into the Huwuhuan Xiaowei on the basis of Hu Qiying.
Ziming, if you take control of the Wuyan tribe, you will be the Colonel Protecting Wuhuan."
Yan Rou couldn't hide her excitement. She stood up and cupped her hands and said, "Thank you, Lord, for your trust. Rou will definitely live up to your trust."
"Go ahead and tell Wu Yan to send troops to accompany us to conquer western Liaoning. Afterwards, I will give him the pastures in western Liaoning to herd horses.
However, we must warn him that he must not plunder the Han people again in the future, otherwise the whole nation will be massacred."
"only!"
Yan Rou went to contact Wu Yan, while Liu Xiang was waiting for the army to join together.
He did not rush to attack the counties in western Liaoning, although he was very anxious in his heart.
The two counties of Lingzhi and Haiyang in Liaoxi County are facing Tuyin in the south and north. When Liu Xiang attacks Lingzhi, Haiyang's troops will send troops to Tuyin, and if he attacks Haiyang, Lingzhi's troops will arrive.
If you attack rashly, your retreat will be cut off. This is not a wise move.
He needs the army to gather together, hold the retreat, and then find a way to break their terrain advantage.
Only in this way can we confidently send troops to western Liaoning to achieve the goal of capturing Linyu and building cities and passes.
Looking at the four counties of Lingzhi, Haiyang, Feiru and Linyu on the map, I thought of Gongsun Zan who was the long history of the Liaodong vassal state, Zou Jing and Cheng Zhiyuan who were fighting in Guangyang County, and Huangfu Song and Liu who would arrive in a few months.
Xiang knew that he could never get into a long fight and must end the war as soon as possible.
His eyes were fixed on Lingzhi County, which was the most difficult place to conquer in western Liaoning, not because of the steep terrain of Lingzhi, but because of the Gongsun clan there.
The Gongsun family lived in the three counties of Liaoxi, Liaodong and Xuantu for generations. They occupied a large area of land and countless people were driven by them.
The current governor of Xuantu, Gongsun Qi, and the governor of Liaodong, Shi Gongsun Zan, are both from the Gongsun family.
In the future, Gongsun Zan will occupy the western part of Youzhou, and Gongsun Qi's adopted son Gongsun Du will occupy the eastern part of Youzhou. Their family can be regarded as fully occupying Youzhou. Although Gongsundu turned around and destroyed them, they still had a glorious life.
With the support of such a wealthy family, Lingzhi is extremely difficult to capture, but in Liu Xiang's view, this has become the biggest flaw in western Liaoning.
The flaw is not military, but political and human.
Once other factors are mixed into a military operation, all kinds of messy things will inevitably happen, and there will be many flaws that cannot be compensated for with tactics.
Attacking Lingzhi is a threat to the Gongsun family's ancestral hall. How dare other counties not save it? They knew it was a trap, but they had to jump.
This is a very interesting thing. Just like when Sun Bin surrounded Wei and rescued Zhao, even if Pang Juan saw through Sun Bin's plan, would he dare not to save him?
Pang Juan is not an incompetent person. He is a famous general who has repeatedly defeated powerful enemies by attacking cities and plundering territories. He is the greatest contributor to Wei's victory in all directions. It is he who brought out the world-famous Wei soldiers.
But Sun Bin's plan was not based on the military at all. Sun Bin took advantage of his political reputation and the safety of Pang Juan's family to force Pang Juan to reveal flaws, which were irreparable with strategies and tactics.
Finally, Pang Juan was ambushed on his way back to the army, and a log was erected on the road with the inscription Pang Juan died here.
This is not a taunt, this is a strategy to attack the heart.
Sun Bin told Pang Juan, even if you break out of the siege today, you will be a defeated general. Your reputation and political prestige are all over, and you are socially dead.
A few words shook Pang Juan's mind, so Pang Juan committed suicide.
Liu Xiang also wanted to imitate the wisdom of his ancestors.