Steel-Making Method and Mine Detector
"Great King, Zhang Ehu has moved out!"
Luo Liangce came back to report.
"That Zhang Ehu has basically mobilized all his forces. Only the old, weak, and slaves are left in Tiger Fiendish Mountain!”
When Su Yan heard this, he immediately gave the order to assemble the army.
Currently, Fallen Dragon Gorge was mainly equipped with swords, shields, bows, and crossbows in consideration of fighting in the mountains.
The eight hundred soldiers were divided into one hundred personal guards, three hundred swordsmen, and four hundred archers.
800 soldiers were neatly arranged into 16 columns and stood in front of Su Yan. Their military appearance was neat and orderly. Every soldier was serious and carried the calmness of a veteran who had been through hundreds of battles.
They were all soldiers who had once died on the battlefield.
It could be considered Su Yan's most basic skill.
They all knew that Li Shimin had killed all of Wang Shichong's men.
There was no way to surrender, no way out.
The remnants of the army from three years ago had now set up camp in the Fallen Dragon Gorge, and their days were pretty good.
Especially since Su Yan had led them for three years, there were almost no casualties.
For a group of big-headed soldiers, a senior officer could solve their daily needs and even bring them to war without dying.
This was simply too perfect.
Therefore, after patrolling the military camp for the past few days.
Su Yan discovered that none of his subordinates had a loyalty level lower than 70.
The morale of the army had been fully restored!
With this group of veterans, he could immediately use 800 of them as the backbone of the army if he had the chance. It would be easy for him to support an army of tens of thousands!
However, this army was now prepared to adapt to mountain warfare.
If one looked carefully, one would notice that all the archers had a long handle wrapped around their waists... Grenades.
Of course, it was a homemade drawstring grenade.
It was not very powerful and mainly relied on shrapnel attacks.
However, this was also the only widely used gunpowder weapon that Su Yan had created in the past three years.
As a transmigrator, Su Yan attached great importance to the construction of the technology tree.
After arranging for the craftsmen to start building the village administrative center and the Wudang Flying Army barracks according to the construction blueprint, Su Yan set off with his subordinates.
"Ding! The system has detected the host's thoughts and issued a side mission: Destroy the bandits of Tiger Fiend Mountain and take over Plum Blossom Manor!”
" Mission reward: 1000 points, construction blueprint of the indigenous steel-making blast furnace x1, entry-level mineral detector.”
[Blast Furnace Steelmaking: A very outdated steel-making technology. A blast furnace can produce a batch of steel every seven days, and a batch can produce up to 2,000 jin of steel!]
Steel-making method!
This was what Su Yan needed the most at the moment!
Even if it was made using local methods, it was still steel!
Now, there was a saying that one tael of steel and three taels of silver.
[Entrance-level mine detector: Able to detect all mineral deposits within a radius of ten kilometers!]
Su Yan was shocked!
This was an absolute divine artifact!
With this detector in hand, there was no need to send a large number of people to look for ore.
Moreover, the Qinling Mountains were extremely rich in resources. It was not a problem to find one or two small iron mines and coal mines.
This place was close to Guanzhong and not far from Taiyuan, the coal capital of later generations. Although it was hard to say if there were large coal mines, there were definitely small ones.
As long as there was an iron mine, he could immediately make steel!
Originally, Su Yan thought that even if he was a transmigrator, it would be very difficult for him to fight against Li Shiming, who had already unified the world.
Unexpectedly…
With the system in hand.
Defeating Li Shi Min was only Su Yan's short-term goal.
When he was reading novels in the future, Su Yan was very disdainful of transmigrators who would kneel and lick Li Shimin's boots.
Now that he had this opportunity, he was definitely not here to be a bootlicker!
For a time, Su Yan's ambition soared.
However, it was not easy to complete this mission.
This was because two conditions had to be met in order to complete the mission.
Defeating Zhang Ehu was easy.
The problem is to take over Mei Village.
Su Yan felt that taking them in would be more difficult than defeating them.
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Mei Village was located at the foot of a stone mountain. It was a village surrounded by rammed earth walls.
But Plum Blossom Manor was different from the surrounding villages.
The reason why they chose to build their village in this area that was not suitable for farming was because they had discovered a small copper mine here.
However, after decades of mining, the copper mine had been exhausted.
Since ancient times, the Central Plains had been short of copper. Even if there were some copper mines, they were small ones like Plum Blossom Manor.
To the imperial court, such a small copper mine was of little significance. Even if it was fully mined, it would only be a few hundred thousand catties of copper.
For a country, it was like putting out a cartload of firewood with a drop of water.
However, to the Mei Village, this copper mine was their lifeline.
However, they had finished mining the copper mine and were about to find a way out.
Zhang Ehu, who had his eyes on this batch of copper, immediately went down the mountain to pick peaches.
"People of Mei Village, listen up! Hand over 500,000 catties of copper and contribute 1,000 women so that the four plum blossoms can warm our king's bed. Otherwise, there will be no one left in Grandpa's village!!”
In front of the tightly shut gate of the Mei Village, a tough bandit brandished his saber and shouted.
Within the Mei Village.
The faces of all the Mei Village's men, who were armed with various weapons, turned ashen.
About a hundred feet away from the stronghold walls, Zhang Ehu had brought two thousand old bandits, three thousand new ones, and three thousand bandits from the various strongholds.
The total number of troops was more than 10,000!
This number of people scared everyone in Plum Blossom Manor.
The four plum blossoms also paled.
"Big sister…It seemed that the four of them would not be able to escape this time. This Zhang Ehu actually had 10,000!!”
The evil bandits who had tens of thousands of people could already be considered a large force.
If such bandits rebelled, even the imperial court would find it troublesome.
"This Mountain Dragon Su Yan did not come…However, even if he came, it would be useless.”
Mei Yueqin sighed.
"Zhang Ehu won't let us off…We can only fight. If we lose…" Mei Yueqin looked at her three younger sisters.
If he lost…Naturally, he could only commit suicide.
Otherwise, with their looks, if they were caught by the bandits, one could imagine what kind of treatment they would receive…
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The second chapter came.
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