Back at the palace, Zhao Bin called Carpenter Sun to the palace and asked how everyone was doing with their carpentry skills recently. In fact, Zhao Bin had a certain prediction in his heart. In such a short period of time, he can only be regarded as a beginner. If he wants to judge according to the standards of a real carpenter, I am afraid he is still far behind. But the time is urgent right now, so we can only rush the ducks to put it on the shelves.
Carpenter Sun gave an overview of the situation, because the objects produced were not too difficult. A few people learned quickly and have mastered the basic essentials. In addition, during this period, a batch of simple single-shot I have some practical experience with crossbows.
Zhao Bin told Carpenter Sun that there might be plundering by the Jie tribe after the beginning of spring. In order to prevent the enemy from attacking, it was now necessary to make a batch of simple single-shot crossbows and distribute them to the people outside the city for use to enhance the people's strength. Defense capabilities.
Carpenter Sun was a little surprised when he heard the news that the Jie people would attack, but he still said that he would lead people to make a batch as quickly as possible.
After Carpenter Sun left, Zhao Bin sent someone to call Wei Xiang. Zhao Bin no longer asked Wei Xiang to focus on digging iron ore. The defense of Yancheng was more important now, and there were many things that needed to be done. Zhao Bin handed over a few sets of remaining crossbows to Wei Xiang, and ordered him to train the government officials so that they could master the skills of using crossbows as soon as possible. After a while, these government officials would be sent to the countryside to teach bows in various villages and towns. At the same time, Zhao Bin taught Wei Xiang some tactical skills in street fighting in later generations. During the Anti-Japanese War, great men created many classic combat methods, such as sparrow warfare, shooting to change places, or building underground defense facilities, such as tunnel warfare, to effectively hide when the enemy attacks to reduce casualties. , and at the same time, tunnels can also be used to effectively kill enemies.
In order to prevent Wei Xiang from absorbing so much at once, Zhao Bin wrote all the battle plans on paper and drew some drawings so that Wei Xiang could see them more clearly. Most of a day later, Wei Xiang left the palace happily. This somewhat subverted Wei Xiang's concept of traditional war. He did not expect that war could still be fought like this. In the past few years, Wei Xiang has always wanted to kill the Jie tribe, but he did not have this chance. His duty is to protect the security in the city and arrest thieves. Every time the Jie tribe attacks, they can only huddle in the city. This time it seems This was a chance to have a real fight with the Jie tribe. Thinking of this, Wei Xiang felt excited again.
Wei Xiang, who returned to the government office, summoned the officials of the government office and taught everyone King Yan's tactics in a step-by-step manner. In a few days, these people would all go to villages and towns in the countryside for on-the-spot teaching. To be honest, many people are unwilling to go, because no matter what the tactics are, as long as people face war, people will die. This is an inevitable problem. However, after they listened to Wei Xiang's explanation, they seemed to have discovered a new continent and were full of curiosity about these strange tactics.
One of the yamen servants asked: "Wei Dutou, there are basically no strong laborers in the village now. There are only some old, weak, women, children and children. Although this tunnel battle is good, it may be difficult to dig so many tunnels in a short time." .”
Wei Xiang glanced at the yamen servant and said: "Hey, you boy, you do have some brains. Our prince said that this tunnel is a long-term project. He wants to connect all the tunnels in series. I really don't agree to complete it in the short term. But if you want to dig out some secret passages for hiding and escaping, it won't take long, and it doesn't require young and strong laborers. The old, weak, women and children can dig it. Those Jie tribesmen all show off their skills immediately, and they have two legs even when they dismount. If they dare to enter the tunnel, they will be stabbed to death with spears or shot to death with crossbows."
Just when Wei Xiang was teaching combat methods in the government office, the iron smelting plant received a new task order to make a large number of swords, guns and arrows. When Han Tie heard this task order, he broke into a cold sweat. Privately manufacturing ordnance was a serious crime. It was going to be a head-scratcher, but after hearing the uses of these swords and guns, Han Tie led all the workers without hesitation to start busy production. The swords and guns produced this time did not have such high requirements. The key was to be fast, but having said that Yes, even if the requirements are not high, with the quality of steel in the current iron smelting plant, these swords and guns will not be much worse.
At one time, the entire iron smelting plant was activated, and the iron smelting furnace started working at full speed. A large number of arrows were polished and packed into boxes and transported to the workshop that produced arrow shafts. The female workers installed the arrows one by one on the arrow shafts. A group of ten arrows are bundled and boxed again. The same is true for the production of crossbows in the men's workshop. Different parts are manufactured under different divisions of labor and then assembled. At the same time, a large number of government officials left the city and headed towards the villages around Yancheng in small groups. Their mission was to teach new warfare methods and some skills in using swords, guns, bows and crossbows, and lead the villagers to start fighting with all their strength. Dig tunnels. Every household strives to dig out an escape passage within a month, so that they will not be blocked in the tunnel.
At the horse training ground outside the city, Qin Fang, who received the equipment, selected 200 soldiers with better riding skills to form a scout unit. During this period, some of these people were training on the ground, and some of them had already begun to go out for on-site investigation. Once they got familiar with Draw more detailed maps of the mountain trails that may enter the Yancheng boundary and plan the path for transmitting information.
In the next two months, the entire Yan City was in turmoil, especially in the villages outside the city. You could see dust flying, and every household was digging tunnels. There were often government officials or scouts rushing past on the official roads, making Good bows, crossbows, swords and guns will be distributed to villages near the western and northern mountains first. When the Jie people enter the territory of Yancheng, these villages and towns will be attacked first. Wei Xiang hardly lived in the city during this period. He went back and forth in the surrounding villages to inspect the progress of the people digging tunnels and the training of crossbows. What worried him was that the people training were basically under the age of fifteen or sixteen. There were teenagers or old men over fifty, some were young and strong, but there were very few. He was worried that these people would become timid when they saw the Jie people and would not know how to fight at all. In fact, he underestimated the villagers' psychological endurance. The fear was real, but they had endured it for too many years. They had seen the tragedy, their relatives fell under the iron hoof of the Jie people, and they had seen some villages being destroyed. After being slaughtered, they also resisted, but they had no weapons in their hands and it was difficult to injure the enemy with sticks. Now that they have crossbows and knives and guns, they no longer want to be lambs to be slaughtered. They are eager to grow sharp teeth to bite and fight. Even if they die in the battle in the end, that is better than being slaughtered. .
