Steel Armor, Home Battle!
Two hours later.
Yongzhou Governor's Office.
"What did you say? The Empress might have been captured by the Mountain Dragon Su Yan?!”
Guangyi Lu stood up abruptly.
" How dare you!!!"
However, Liu Jindao's expression was solemn as he said,"Viceroy, the Empress has been captured. It's not a pity for Su Yan to be cut into pieces. However, the Qinling Mountains are high and dense. Moreover…" Su Yan had annihilated Zhang Ehu in a battle a few days ago. He could not be underestimated!”
Lu Guangyi paced back and forth.
He also knew that it was not easy.
But in this situation, even if it wasn't easy, he had to take it head-on!
The Empress was captured by bandits, and it was in his jurisdiction.
If this matter wasn't resolved properly…
Forget about official career.
He might not even be able to keep his head!
He had been extremely anxious these past few days.
"Pass on my general! The soldiers of Yongzhou Prefecture quickly assembled! Send the soldiers to the Dragon Gorge!"
Lu Guangyi did not hesitate!
Even if the journey was difficult, he had to go!
...
"Great King! Your Majesty!"
Luo Liangce rushed into Su Yan's study.
There was a hint of urgency on his face.
"Yongzhou Prefecture soldiers, one out of every two, have gathered 15,000 people and have already set off from Yongzhou City!”
"Liangce, calm down, calm down!"
Su Yan took a towel from the table and wiped his sweat.
Although it was autumn.
However, the temperature in Qinling Mountain was still very high at this time.
It didn't look like the future at all.
The temperature in this era was much higher than in the later era.
Su Yan had once seen the weather data of the Tang Dynasty.
At this time, the Yellow Plateau was lush and lush, with abundant rainfall.
That was why Li Tang could use Guanzhong as his foundation. If Guanzhong was as dilapidated as later generations, why would Li Tang use it as his foundation?
In this era, the world was in an era of rising temperatures, increasing rainfall, and warmth and humidity.
East Asia had ample water, and the Great Tang had thus entered an extremely prosperous era.
The picture of the Tang Empire's golden age unfolded along with the warm water vapor of the Pacific Ocean.
The deserts of Central Asia had also turned into oases due to the abundant rain, giving birth to an unprecedented Arabian empire.
"Your Majesty, those are 15,000 soldiers!”
Luo Liangce said anxiously.
"There's no hurry. We'll block the enemy when they come.”Su Yan casually threw the towel into the basin, his face still calm.
The prefectural military system was a military system that integrated soldiers and farmers. The advantage was that the central government didn't need to spend a lot of financial resources to raise soldiers and connect them to the land.
This was a military system created by Cao Cao and carried forward by the Tang Dynasty.
The Wei system of the Ming Dynasty also referred to the military system to a certain extent.
When he was just starting out, his combat strength was very strong.
The so-called rise is very vigorous.
However, the prefecture military system was the same as the Wei system. The disadvantage was that as time passed, the prefecture military system would soon collapse.
Therefore, in the later period, the Tang Dynasty basically relied on mercenaries to fight.
Now, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were basically the first or second generation.
The annexation of land was not serious, and the soldiers were basically small landowners. They had money to prepare their own weapons and armor, and sufficient food made their bodies strong.
It was the time when their combat power was at its strongest.
However, Su Yan was not too worried.
The distance between Yongzhou City and the Fallen Dragon Canyon was at least 150 miles.
In fact, the roads in the mountains were not suitable for the army to march.
In reality, the distance they had to travel was probably more than three hundred miles.
Even with the marching speed of the most elite infantrymen of this era, they could advance thirty miles a day.
It would also take ten days!
And just a few days ago, Su Yan had already ordered the establishment of a spearman training camp and an archer training camp.
After that, he selected 3,500 young men and 700 old men from the 4,000 miners and the slaves that Zhang Ehu had enslaved.
The regular army was directly expanded to 5,000!
The system's barracks were indeed very useful.
In just a few days of training, the spearman had already become well-trained.
Moreover, the loyalty of the soldiers could be seen to be increasing!
Therefore, Su Yan wasn't afraid of the prefecture soldiers of Yongzhou.
There were already twenty people in Wudang Fei's army.
It was barely enough to support a reconnaissance team.
During this period of time, apart from sending Shan Ying to suppress the bandits, capturing bandits as coolies, liberating serfs and increasing the population.
Su Yan was more concerned about the steel mill.
Now that the first blast furnace had been built, the first batch of steel should be ready!
This was what Su Yan was most concerned about.
....
Clang!
A crisp sound rang out!
A hundred steel sword that was glowing with green light was directly cut into two!!
And what cut it was just a sharpened steel plate!
In the afternoon, the first batch of steel came out of the blast furnace!
The production was not high, only about 400 catties.
However, in this era, it was not easy to obtain so much steel.
He used a piece of forged steel without a handguard or a hilt. He wrapped it with a cloth and slightly sharpened it.
Su Yan used it to cut off a Hundred Refined Sword!
" It's really steel!!"
"400 catties of steel can be produced from a furnace, one furnace every ten days! One thousand and two hundred catties a month!!”
Yang Tiesheng did a quick calculation. The beard on his face was trembling.
A blast furnace could produce more than 1,000 catties of steel a month!
What if he built ten?
If that was the case, wouldn't the price of steel be as low as iron?!
He ignored the excited Yang Tiesheng.
Su Yan took out a blueprint.
This was a plate armor forging blueprint that he had exchanged for 100 points from the system store.
The structure was simple.
It was a large piece of chest armor, paired with hand guards, helmets, shoulder guards, and crotch guards.
It wasn't the Western European canned food.
The advantage was that it was light.
And if it was all made of steel, its defensive power would be very shocking!
It was basically impossible for the big horizontal saber to move now!
If there were hundreds of such steel-armored soldiers…
Not to mention the Governor of Yongzhou sending out 15,000 soldiers.
Even if Li Shiming sent the imperial guards of the Northern Yamen of Chang 'an…He wouldn't be able to gain any advantage!
"First, follow this pattern. 400 catties of steel should be able to forge 20 sets. In the future, the steel that comes out will be prioritized to forge steel armor.”
Su Yan instructed.
Of course, the Steel-armored Soldiers wouldn't be able to deal with the Yongzhou Prefecture Soldiers this time.
However...
Su Yan didn't really care about these Yongzhou Prefecture Soldiers.
He was playing on his home ground.
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