The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 119 Arsenal
"The doors of the aristocratic families mentioned by the general are all open. The sergeants went in and searched and found that there were only a few servants inside."

"really……"

These aristocratic families can last for so many years, and they are all as cunning as foxes.

But that's good too, Xu An doesn't need to think about how to deal with these aristocratic families.

After all, the capture of Jinyang City was not only difficult for Zhang Yi, the governor of Bingzhou, but also for the aristocratic families in the city.

The two great families in Taiyuan County, the Wang family and the Guo family, are located in Jinyang City.

Xu An sent troops from the Taihang Mountains to capture Shangai and Zhan counties, and then when he marched into Jinyang, he had already understood the general situation of Jinyang.

The two families are quite powerful in today's Han court, and their roots are intertwined. When Dong Zhuo was in chaos, Wang Yun, who offered a beauty trick to get rid of Dong Zhuo, was a member of the Taiyuan Wang family.

As for the Guo family, there are many high-ranking officials in the court, and there are not a few serving in the army. Guo Zun, one of the eight heroes of the Eastern Han Dynasty, came from the Guo family in Taiyuan. After the early Tang Dynasty, the Guo family in Taiyuan developed into one of the eight surnames in the Central Plains.

No matter which side the heroes are, there are shadows of these families behind them. If Xu An slaughters these families, it may even lead to even crazier revenge than after killing Zhang Yi.

Xu An didn't want to draw too much attention before he was fledgling.

"It is impossible for them to take away all the belongings and food in a short period of time."

Xu An cast his eyes on the chaotic city of Jinyang, and ordered in a deep voice.

"Pass down the order to take away all the belongings left by each family. Those servants are also hard-working people like us, so don't embarrass them."

"promise."

After the scouts of the Yellow Turban Army sang a promise, they immediately turned around and walked down the tower without stopping.

The sound of horseshoes sounded again, and the knight had already disappeared.

Xu An turned around, and besides the guards led by Xu Da, there were more than a dozen messengers with feathers on their backs on the tower.

"The order!"

"exist!"

An orderly on the far left stepped forward to accept orders.

"Order Li Heng not to count anything. First search for all the carriages and livestock in the city, first transport the armor in the arsenal, and then the food and grass. We will leave Jinyang within two days!"

Standing beside Xu An, Zhang Ji took out a small apricot flag from his waist and put it in the hands of a messenger.

"promise!"

After the orderly sang a promise loudly, he turned around and walked down the tower quickly.

"The order!"

"exist!"

The second messenger also stepped forward.

"Order Gong Du to lead five hundred cavalry to approach Langmeng and guard Yanmen County."

"promise"

The messenger took over the small flag and quickly left the tower.

Xu An issued several military orders, one after another small flags were handed out, and one order after another was dispatched.

The rapid sound of horseshoes resounded continuously on the city wall of the East City.

Until dusk, the entire Jinyang City was finally completely controlled by the Yellow Turban Army.

The city walls on all sides, all the important places and government offices, all fell into the control of the Yellow Turban Army.

……

Even if he can't live in Jinyang for a long time, the harvest in Jinyang is still far beyond Xu An's imagination.

As the sky was getting darker, Xu An was on the tower of the East City, watching vehicles loaded with armor and weapons passing through the Urn City of the East City, the joy on his face could not be concealed at all.

Speaking of the arsenal, I have to mention the Donghai County arsenal in the Western Han Dynasty.

This report from the Arsenal of Donghai County was produced in the fourth year of Yongshi Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty (13 BC)
Just in the winter of the previous year, the Tieguantu uprising broke out in Shanyang County. The mobs of the uprising moved to the 19 eastern counties of the Han Empire and "sent out soldiers from the arsenal" to rob the arsenal of weapons to equip themselves.

Therefore, the central government urgently ordered that the weapons and armor of the counties invaded by the mob be concentrated in Donghai County (not invaded) for protection and registered.The so-called Donghai County arsenal inventory includes about 20 arsenal inventory of the counties
In the "Arsenal Collection Book of Weapons and Weapons in the Fourth Year of the Yongshi Fourth Year of the Arsenal" on the inventory of Donghai County's arsenal in the fourth year of Yongshi Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty.

It is recorded that there are a total of storage in the arsenal:
99910 shields, 142322 leather armors, 63324 iron armors, and 587299 armors;
There are 97584 sets of horse armor and more than 5000 sets of cavalry armor
The total number of crossbows reached 537707, the total number of spears reached 52555, and the number of Youfang (ge weapons) reached 78392.

156135 ring swords and 99901 swords

Although Jinyang is not the location of the important arsenal of the Han Empire, it is still considered a frontier state and county. The military equipment it possesses is not so exaggerated, but it is not too small. Counties get a lot more.

Even if it wasn't for the strange movements of the alien races in the north, Jinyang City had mobilized part of its military equipment to arm the defenders of Yanmen County. I'm afraid there would be more equipment in the arsenal.

Although Shangai County and Zhan County say they have arsenals, they actually have very little military equipment, which can only barely maintain the cost of defending the army.

According to Li Heng's simple statistics when he was about to load the car, there were about 4000 iron armors from the city, but they were not heavy armors that covered the whole body, but only protected the vital parts. Knowing the quantity, there are four or five large vehicles loaded, but the number is really impossible to count.

There are 6000 curved edge shields, 1000 tower shields, 8000 spears, 3000 halberds, more than 3000 ring-shoulders, 2000 Han bows, 10000 crossbows, and countless feathered arrows.

It's no wonder that the Han army's defense in Dongcheng had almost never cut off their arrows, and those temporarily recruited men were all wearing leather armor, and the weapons they held were much better than those of the Yellow Turban Army.

As for the bed crossbow in the arsenal in Jinyang City, there are some spares, but the delivery of the bed crossbow is really inconvenient, and the bed crossbow in the Taihang Mountains is enough for the Yellow Turban Army to defend the Taihang Mountains.

So after receiving Xu An's military order, Li Heng simply burned all the bed crossbows on the spot.

What surprised Xu An the most was that there were more than 100 cavalry armor hidden in the arsenal of Jinyang City, which were equipped by the most elite Sanhe cavalry in the Han Empire.

The horses are selected for the horses, and the candidates are the athletes. Not only the riders are covered with iron armor, but also the horses are also covered with horse armor. This kind of heavy cavalry is called "armored heavy cavalry."

In the face of light cavalry, even if the knights wear armor, infantry can still use bows and crossbows to cause mass destruction to cavalry, and dense spear arrays can also block cavalry attacks.

But in the face of this kind of armored cavalry with all men and horses wearing heavy armor, the damage caused by bows and crossbows to them is greatly weakened. Even if groups of heavy cavalry directly attack the spear formation, the spear formation cannot stop the heavy cavalry. The charge of the cavalry.

But even if the heavy cavalry can rely on a strong impact to destroy the enemy, they will suffer considerable damage.

The value of heavy cavalry is extremely high. Whether it is training or maintenance, it will consume a lot of money and resources. Even war horses are several times more precious than ordinary war horses. Therefore, few people will be so prodigal and use heavy cavalry to charge straight into the spear formation.

(End of this chapter)