Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 312 Every family has a difficult scripture to read
After discovering this open-pit iron mine, Gao Jingzong ordered people to mine it in the severe cold.After preparations throughout the winter, the iron mines in Jinan County have now entered the excavation stage. It is estimated that in the fourth year of Shengping, [-] million catties of iron ore can be mined and one million catties of iron can be smelted.

Of course, a million catties of iron is only 20 tons. In later generations, any small workshop can produce ten times or a hundred times this amount. However, in this era, it can be called a super astonishing figure.If only armor is produced, [-] pairs of high-quality iron armor can be produced every year.This speed can basically meet Xia Jun's current consumption.

Gao Jingzong's most advantageous thing at present is that Qingzhou is close to the sea. He has an outlet to the sea and can deploy troops to attack the Xianbei's hometown of Longcheng from the sea at any time.This is the real purpose of Gao Jingzong at all costs, preferring to sacrifice the precious time for the whole army to change clothes, to build a navy. What is more beneficial is that the warships owned by the Xia Guo Navy are all naval forces controlled by the Xin'an Business League and the Jiangnan Gentlemen Group. The ship is fully capable of telling the truth about Gao Jingzong's strategic intention of cross-sea strikes.

The unfavorable factor for Gao Jingzong is also very prominent, that is, time.Although it is a warship in the age of sails, converting a merchant ship into a warship also requires reinforcement of key troops, repainting tung oil, replacing worn-out sails, and the most important thing is to train sailors.It will take at least one month, and Gao Jingzong's Xia Guo Navy can be replaced by one-third of the ship's refitting work.However, Gao Jingzong adopted a method that was not a solution.After refitting one, immediately arm one, and then carry out combat readiness patrols while training.

Fortunately, the naval forces of Yan State are only symbolic, with less than a thousand naval officers and soldiers, and the warships are still from the Ranwei period.However, Ran Wei's warships came from the captured or uprising post-Zhao Guochang Navy.That is to say, these warships of the Yan State were veterans of the Zhao, Wei, and Yan dynasties.

The aging of the warship is extremely serious, according to the information obtained by the inner guard.Of the warships of the Yan State Navy, there are only more than 15 warships that can be launched, and the thousands of officers and soldiers of the Changshui Army are all veterans who have served in the army for more than [-] years.Such a navy unit can hardly undertake any combat tasks in battle.

The navy is also Gao Jingzong's confidence to make such a crazy plan.Because this Xia Jun Navy, which is about to become an army, carries too much hope from Gao Jingzong.As for the strategy proposed by Yang Shi to unite Qin and resist Yan, Gao Jingzong also knew that forging iron still required his own hard principles, and he did not place too high expectations on whether Fu Jian could cooperate.

However, Yang Shi's proposal of surrendering Yan to attack Qin was just a threat. If Fu Jian insisted on not submitting, Gao Jingzong would not be able to directly surrender to Yan to take revenge on Qin.What matters is how much Fu Jian can bear in his heart.

In fact, Gao Jingzong's strategy is not very clever. As long as Fu Jian's secret operations in Yecheng, Gao Jingzong sent people to conduct contact negotiations with Yan State, we can judge whether Gao Jingzong really wanted to pull Qin State into the water, or threatened .Gao Jingzong didn't know whether Fu Jian had placed a secret operation in Ye City of Yan State, but Gao Jingzong was still betting. He felt intuitively that Fu Jian should not sit back and watch Yan State destroy Xia State and strengthen himself. strong interests.

The army of Yan State looks very bluffing.There are as many as 80 troops. In fact, such a huge army, let alone in ancient times, even in later generations, supporting such a large-scale army is also a very heavy burden for a country.

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In fact, as Gao Jingzong expected.After learning that Gao Jingzong was the first to attack Beihai County in Jizhou, the senior officials of Yan State panicked.Although Yan State has been stationed in the Central Plains for eight or nine years, the Xianbei people have not escaped from the thoughts of the Xianbei nomads. They have also launched a crazy enclosure movement since they went south. The Jizhou Plain is the ideological choice of the nobles of the Yan State. Nearly 400 million of the land was seized by the Xianbei nobles and developed into pastures.There are more than three million grasslands, hundreds of pastures, large and small, more than 300 horses, and millions of cattle and sheep. Once the Xia army invades Jizhou, it is hard to say how much Yan State will suffer, but Yan State Nobles, big and small, will definitely suffer heavy losses.

Dozens of hundreds of nobles, big and small, knelt in front of the Taiwu Hall of the Imperial Palace in Yecheng, wailing.In particular, Dazai Murong Ping cried the most. He is a good money maker, and he occupies a full third of the fertile land in Jizhou.He has more than 100 million grasslands, more than 12 horses, and hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep.There are nearly 20 war horses and [-] sheep in Beihai County alone.Once Beihai County is lost, the money he Murong Ping worked hard for eight or nine years will be cheaper than Gao Jingzong.

Murong Ping cried with snot all over his face, clasped his fists against Murong Jun's thighs, and refused to let go: "Your Majesty, you must rescue Jizhou!"

"Save, save... I know I have to save!" Murong Juan was furious by Murong Ping, and roared, "How to save? What should I use to save? I can't count on my war horse to grow wings and fly to the world. North Sea."

The Minister of the Yellow Gate of Yan State, Feng Fu said: "Your Majesty can order General Murongqian of the Central Army and General Pingxi of the Guard Army to lead an army of [-] cavalry from Youbeiping to the south of Beihai to prevent Xia's army from going north."

General Murongqian of the Central Army and General Pingxi of the Guarding Army are both mighty generals of the Yan Kingdom.In the first year of Shengping, the Jile people invaded south and Murong Jun ordered Murong Chui, Murongqian, and Pingxi to go to Saibei Jile at that time. In this battle, the Yan army defeated the strong with the weak, and captured hundreds of thousands of prisoners alone.General Murongqian of the Central Army and General Pingxi of the Protecting Army were stationed in Youbeiping and Lingzhi respectively, and were responsible for guarding the north of the Great Wall.Of course, nomads have the traditions and habits of nomads. They usually fight in autumn and winter, and rarely fight in spring.

After a winter of rest and recuperation, the war horse lost weight very seriously.If the horsepower is excessively consumed at this time, it is easy to waste the horses and lose a large number of horses. For nomads, it is equivalent to the Han people missing spring plowing.This is the fatal problem.Murong Juan was about to agree to Feng Fu, and ordered Murongqian, the general of the army, and Pingxi, the general of the guard army, to fight, but inadvertently saw Shang Shupushe, and Huangfu Zhen, who was always on horseback, blinked.

Murong Juan knew that Huangfu really had something to say, so he muttered lightly: "Let me think about this..."

Murong Ping looked upset, and Feng Fu was helpless.

After Murong Juan appeased Murong Ping and other nobles from the Murong tribe of Xianbei to leave the Taiwu Hall, Murong Juan looked at Huangfu doubtfully and said, "What is Chu Ji's opinion?"

Huangfu really said: "Your Majesty, the Youzhou army cannot move!"

"Oh!" Murong Juan frowned, "Why can't you move?"

Huangfu really said: "If the Youzhou army doesn't move, Tuoba can still be stable, if the Youzhou army goes south, the Tuoba tribe will definitely have a relapse."

"This..." Murong Juan also had to think carefully.The Youzhou Army's defense area is very large. From the Great Wall to the area south of Lake Baikal, Yan State has 600 Youzhou Army on a land of [-] million square kilometers.In fact, there are [-] infantry and [-] cavalry.The main duty of this army is to Weizhen Beisai. Once the town's rocks disappear, there is no guarantee that Zhuhu will not have a different heart.

Regardless of the fact that Yan Guo seems to be enjoying unlimited scenery at this time, it is actually in a dilemma.

Murong Juan asked: "Based on Chu Ji's opinion, isn't this Beihai County going to be saved?"

(End of this chapter)