After the Beggars' Sect gathered 100,000 young men to bring Yuzhou, he also intensively allocated people directly. The infantry gave 60,000 yuan and the cavalry gave 40,000 yuan. He put all the 50,000 taels of silver brought by the Beggars' Sect into the warehouse of the Yuzhou Military Command. There was no way, he didn't even have a financial candidate now. In fact, he was very optimistic about Yang Kai, but Yang Kai was the city guard appointed by the court. He had to take charge of the security of the city and surrounding affiliated areas, and had to deal with some complicated and trivial matters in Yuzhou City. He could not ask others for help in everything. After all, he belonged to the general of the imperial city guarding city, and he was the commander of the Yuzhou Field Army, and he had no right to dispatch others, so he could only manage the military expenses himself.

He left the command post and headed straight to the mountain city to see if the second batch of arms had been built. He had to go there, and the military expenditure of the more than 100,000 troops was hanging on those arms. Although the Beggars raised him 50,000 taels, he was still a lot less than 50,000 taels. After arriving at the mountain city, the construction of the second batch of arms was as he thought in the early stage, much faster than the first batch.

In the entire Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau, there were a total of thousands of masters and apprentices. In two or three months, a total of 12,000 swords were built, with nearly 30,000 spears, with fewer bows and crossbows, more than 5,000 light crossbows and more than 100 large-scale sieges. The giant crossbows were used to defend the city. This giant crossbow was a new equipment and he proposed. Last time, he asked a group of craftsmen whether there were any other weapons other than trench machines. The craftsmen said that there was no one. At that time, an apprentice suggested that if the light crossbow could be made bigger, then a single shot at the top of the city would not die. The apprentice said casually, but he didn't expect that he would really do this, so he changed the light crossbow and became bigger. The bigger the better, but there must be a way to pull the bowstring.

Now! Then a large group of craftsmen changed this and then, and finally changed the so-called light crossbow to this giant spudger crossbow machine.

He was very surprised and asked someone to try the power. When he saw the arrow of the giant crossbow, he was really shocked. The thing was called a rifle? It was simply a spear. After trying it, he really realized that the power was not comparable to that of an arrow? The tree poles with thick thighs were penetrated by an arrow. Seeing this power, damn it! You can't sell this thing, you have to use it yourself. The output is too low, only one hundred frames. After asking the craftsmen, he realized that this thing is just a bow string that is too difficult to handle. If the bow string of the light crossbow is installed, it will break if it cannot be opened. The bow string of the one hundred frames is refined from the height of the thick iron and made into steel wire (weird steel). The requirements are too high, the steel wire is not as thick as it is, and it is easy to break when it is thin. It is good to build these hundred frames.

He brought all the newly built equipment to Shacheng, and except for the one hundred giant crossbows, all the others were handed over to He Chengfeng. He installed twenty giant crossbows in the mountain city, thirty in Yuzhou City, and the last fifty were all installed on the head of Shacheng City. Now that money is not enough, it is impossible to build Shacheng, so it is necessary to install the most powerful weapons in Shacheng.

After waiting in Shacheng for several days, I looked at the training of the recruits to wait for He Chengfeng to come back. In order to test the individual combat capabilities of the recruits, I specially found a soldier to compete. The recruit could actually survive more than ten moves in his hands. He was so happy. Who is he? He had fought several major battles in person. He couldn't say that his skills were good, but he couldn't say that he was very poor. It was all skills he had mastered by himself and he almost lost his life. So his kung fu only wanted to kill him, without any tricks. It was very powerful to be able to survive more than ten moves in his hands. How could he pass more than ten moves on the battlefield? It was all one or two moves to divide life and death, and he could hold up more than ten moves in his hands. If the enemy wanted one or two moves to divide life and death on the battlefield, it would definitely be the enemy's death.

He went to the cavalry training site again to see the cavalry training situation. What was depressed was that Yang Chengyu was training cavalry? He asked the soldiers to ride horses all over the school field, running around and round, and then changed to another team to continue riding on horseback. He scratched his ears and heads strangely and ran to ask Yang Chengyu what he was doing. As a result, Yang Chengyu said: Just do something around, just do something casually, and said that the cavalry was practicing this way at the beginning. Asked Yang Chengyu why, but Yang Chengyu didn't say it. Seeing that he was really uncomfortable, Yang Chengyu explained to him and stabbed him.

He was inspired to say that the ten thousand cavalry he had before were infantry riding on horses, and there was no combat power of cavalry. He also retorted that he had brought these ten thousand cavalry to drag down Tuoba Potian, but Yang Chengyu was despised once again. Yang Chengyu said that Tuoba Potian was all cavalry riding off horses, and if there were five thousand cavalry left, he could destroy his ten thousand cavalry. The reason why the recruits were riding on horses was to practice soldiers' proficiency with horses. It was okay to ride horses, not to let go of the reins and fall off, so they had to train their proficiency with horses.

Let soldiers ride horses and move as they please. Holding weapons with both hands is much more powerful than holding one hand. Catching horse reins with one hand and killing enemies with the other is not skilled at horses. If there are no stirrups, they can fall off even if they grab the horse reins. They will just tilt their bodies and fall off the horse, which is a big deal. Only then did he realize that if the soldiers were asked to run away on horses, he would not talk about the soldiers. Even if he turned over, he would probably fall off the horse. After understanding, he would not care about how the soldiers were training.

After waiting for a few days when I returned to Shacheng, I was so bored that I went to Shancheng to chat with Mr. Gong, and by the way, I saw how Mr. Gong was in good health.

He was quite happy to see Gong Ming's health, but he was a little inconvenient to move, so he had to hold a crutch. When Gong Ming saw Liu Yi coming to see him, he pulled him to drink a few times. He had no choice but to drink less. In the mountain city for a few days, Mr. Gong liked playing chess and had to let him come every afternoon to play a few games, but Liu Yi made half of the chess game that he probably couldn't win.

Joke, how could the top scholar of the Great Wei Dynasty be won by an old man who just learned to play chess? That would be too shameless.

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While he was running to the mountain city to pass the time, news came from the sand city, saying that He Chengfeng was back. He rushed to Shacheng overnight without stopping. He was so excited when he heard that he was coming. He Chengfeng was so excited that he didn't even eat lunch, so he came to report to him. As soon as he sat down, he didn't even drink a cup of tea, and He Chengfeng knelt in front of him half-kneeled in front of him.

"Report to the general, the arms are sold."

"Yeah! How much money did you sell?"

"Not less than four hundred thousand taels."

"Puff!" He just drank a sip of tea in his mouth and was shocked and sprayed out.

"What did you say? Four...4...400,000 taels?"

"Yes, less than 400,000 taels," He Chengfeng replied affirmatively.

"Why are there so many?"

"I was also shocked when I handed over the handover. I was shocked for 400,000 taels of silver. It took me half an hour to come back to my senses."

"How come the price is so high? Have you raised the price with others? Or is it that Halena who is your old lover?" he asked happily.

He Chengfeng shook his head, "How can it be! When his subordinates traded, they knew the prices of various arms. Halena told me that 10 taels of war knives are 120,000 taels of 12,000 taels of real price. Five taels of spears are 150,000 taels of 30,000 taels of light crossbows are 100,000 taels of 5,000 taels of 100,000 taels of 5,000 taels of total. Halena also said that if we can provide more arrows, then arrows will really make money. Although an arrow costs less than one tael of silver, it is a lot of quantity! She told her subordinates that she can swallow as much goods as we have."

After hearing He Chengfeng's words, he walked back and forth around the house, stomping his feet excitedly, "It's so profitable! It's so profitable! The sword in the mainland is only less than five taels, the spear is less than two taels, and the light crossbow is only seven or eight taels of silver. Damn it! The price in the desert has more than doubled."

He Chengfeng also agreed, "Yes! The price of resale of arms in the desert is higher. Equipment merchants like Halena have fixed delivery points, and there are many suppliers, but none of them are as large as ours. So if we can provide her with arrows, she is willing to raise the price of crossbows for us."

He was a little excited again, "Damn it! She was transported in the desert. I guess she could sell a light crossbow at least 25 taels, making a full 5 taels of silver. The arms dealer is really profitable."

"Yes, I am going to report to the general this time. Can we provide her with crossbow arrows? The larger the number, the higher the price she will give us."

After thinking about it, the price of crossbow arrows is relatively low. The cost of crossbow arrows for light crossbows should be two cents of silver, and the cost of crossbow arrows for heavy crossbows should be five cents of silver. Then he asked, "Did she say, what price can crossbow arrows give us?"

"If the crossbow arrow is light, she can give five cents of silver. The deep crossbow arrow is even more in short supply in the desert, and she can probably give one or two cents," He Chengfeng replied.

"Mom sells the money, a soldier's monthly salary is only three taels of silver, which is too fucking low. When I return to Yuzhou, I have to pay more silver. One tael, one ounce, one ounce, one soldier's life is only worth three crossbow arrows. These bastards in the court will not die well in the future." I don't know how many times they scolded the court.

Looking at He Chengfeng, "Chengfeng, you are going back to the desert and telling the woman that we have supplied crossbow arrows. Also, you are asking her how much armaments she can eat and what kind of equipment she needs. Well! Let's go tomorrow and take the 500,000 light crossbow arrows stored in Shacheng to sell to her."

"Yes, my subordinates don't have to go tomorrow. After lunch, I will lead the team to set off immediately."

He Chengfeng stepped back, walked around the room, then sat on the chair again, picked up the tea and took a sip, and said silently:

"Desert, desert, I must occupy the desert, not only these small countries on the periphery, but also deeper. Chechi Kingdom, I want to settle the Kingdom of God, Liu Yi, I will set aside. I will block my wealth. I will destroy you.

Cavalry, cavalry! I need a large number of cavalry, a large number of cavalry! One hundred thousand is not enough, I want half a hundred thousand."

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If he wanted to march into the desert, 100,000 was indeed not enough, too little, and the desert was too big. In fact, 500,000 cavalry was not a big or small cavalry in his opinion. There were hundreds of countries of all sizes in the depths of the desert, with a large population of millions and a small population of only tens of thousands. Over the years, I don’t know how many powerful countries there were. All the great powers wanted to control the desert countries, but none of them really did it. Just like the old emperor Simon, they fought in the desert throughout their lives. At most, they brought 800,000 troops into the desert, but in the end they failed. It was not that they failed to conquer the desert countries, but that they encountered another powerful country. No one won the war for more than a year, and they each left hundreds of thousands of corpses and returned to their country.

He had never thought that he could control the entire desert, and he only needed to control a small part of it. What he had to do now is to train the troops well and then fight the forces of the Western Liao people from Che Chi and Yu Shen.
Chapter completed!