There are more mountains and less land in Yaoshan.
Although the stone walls on both sides of ape leaping gorge are extremely steep, the bottom of the valley is flat and there are stone streams flowing. It is a rare place at the southern foot of Yaoshan to accommodate tens of thousands of people and tens of thousands of slaves in Tieya.
In addition to building defensive fortresses around the ape Leaping Gorge, the land in the ape Leaping Gorge should be used every inch of land and every inch of money. Large groups of cattle, sheep, mastiff wolves, horses and more than a dozen huge grassland wasteland elephants all rush into the ape Leaping Gorge to ensure that the enemy will besiege it on a large scale and that there will be enough food at the iron cliff.
Of course, the simitiao gorge is extremely narrow, and the rugged terrain of Yaoshan is not conducive to grazing. The production and lifestyle of tieyabu people must be changed.
Herds must change from stocking to captive, and even use marginal land as much as possible to plant crops such as beans, millet and millet to supplement the lack of food; As far as possible, we should also arrange the people in the Tieya department, the picking of spiritual medicine and grass in Manyao mountain, and the search for suitable copper and iron ore veins near the ape Leaping Gorge to mine ore and smelt copper and iron, so as to ensure that tools and armour weapons can be cast in batches in the future.
This actually means that the tieyabu people will enter the agricultural era from the traditional nomadic civilization in an instant.
Although the power of inertia is extremely great, before life and death, the tieyabu people moved into the ape Leaping Gorge and accepted this great change in production and lifestyle without much resistance.
In particular, the bloody killing of the blood devil puppets made the tieyabu people who used to live scattered by water and grass happy to live together in several designated dense villages.
Of course, in order to make the tieyabu people more suitable for farming life, Chen Hai suggested that tiekun allocate 10000 Yanzhou slaves to tieyabu people to assist in reclamation and cultivation, farm tool construction and captive breeding of cattle and sheep.
This is not conducive to directly improving the situation of Yanzhou bitter slaves, but what Chen Hai really wants to do is not to rescue hundreds of thousands of Yanzhou bitter slaves enslaved in the depths of Yaoshan. At present, he wants to make use of all existing conditions to fully excavate the strength of Tieya.
Whether a tribe is strong or not is closely related to the average cultivation level of the tribe, but many times, the change of production organization also has a decisive impact.
The tieyabu people were forced to give up the loose nomadic mode of production and gather at the south foot of Yao mountain, which directly provided convenient conditions for the implementation of the military household system.
This also fully ensures that every adult and strong male and some female barbarians in Tieya become potential soldiers that tiekun can directly requisition. Tiekun had expected that he could recruit up to 6000 or 7000 soldiers from the people, but the Junhu government could really go down completely. When the great enemy pressed the border, the Tieya department could integrate up to 13400 barbarians into the army.
This does not include more than 10000 Yanzhou slaves who had served in Hexi army, Liangyong army, Tianshui County army and Yanmen County army and were captured in the Han sea because of setbacks in the war.
Of course, with the implementation of the military household system, the number of adjustable troops in the iron cliff Department has nearly doubled, but the blades and armor are extremely scarce.
The elite and bold are all powerful and heavy. Ordinary iron or bronze weapons can no longer give full play to their strength, but there is no ready-made gold quenching iron ore along the Hanhai coast, and they do not master the process of smelting gold quenching iron by traditional infiltration.
Most of them were captured through the war. They obtained some quenched gold soldiers from Yanzhou Zong valve forces such as Hexi army and Liangyong army, but the number was quite limited.
Even the most elite thousand brave soldiers in the iron cliff department want to be equipped with quenched gold armor, which is extremely unrealistic at the current stage.
Although there is no news of troops gathering in Heishi city to reinforce Yaoshan, this is very angry and frustrating. However, due to the problem of logistics supply, it is estimated that nearly 100000 troops gathered in the territory of Krieg department and Tuoba department will not enter the scope of Yaoshan until one month at the earliest.
In this month''s time, the wall formed by ramming stone slurry soil on the outside of apetiao gorge will be more than four meters high. At that time, together with the three stone fortresses embedded in the wall, it will initially form a defense system facing the grassland on the outside of the south foot of Yao mountain.
At that time, the tieyabu people who moved into the ape Leaping Gorge will also be able to adapt to the new life. At that time, tie Kun is still confident to block the enemy outside the ape Leaping Gorge.
However, it is not to block the enemy outside the ape Leaping Gorge. Even if it is the most successful, if the iron cliff department can not contain a large number of enemy forces, it will eventually be unable to bear it. If it is captured by the enemy, the iron cliff department will be reduced to an isolated army. The living space at the south foot of Yaoshan will become narrower and narrower, and it will not escape the fate of being annihilated in the end.
How can the iron cliff Department rely on ape Leaping Gorge to contain more enemies?
Tie Kun thought hard for several days and went into the blood devil gorge - the blood devil gorge is located in the deep part of ape jump gorge. A few days ago, dozens of elite marquis in the iron cliff found the blood devil puppet here and was torn up by the blood devil puppet. Finally, tie Kun LED his soldiers to capture the blood devil puppet here, which was later named blood devil gorge.
After the blood devil incident, Chen Hai promised to teach the secret method of controlling the blood devil puppet to the wuman of the iron cliff department. The only condition is to delimit the blood devil gorge, which is not deep enough to Lishu, as his private territory, and allow him to select a group of craftsmen from the slave of Yanzhou, so that he can create elite armor and weapons for the iron cliff department.
Tie Kun went into the blood devil gorge to find Chen Hai. In addition to seeking a better strategy to increase the combat effectiveness of the iron cliff department, he also wanted to see where the blood devil puppet was refined again.
In just a few days, the blood devil gorge built several wooden houses outside the stone cave where the blood devil puppet hid.
The four potential Witches of the young generation of the iron cliff clipper, tie Ho, tie you, Tie Mu, and tie Fu are sitting at the outside of the wooden hut. They are sitting on the outside of the wooden room and sitting on the knees. They are practicing the method of metaphysics by Chen Hai, to destroy the essence of the whole body and Qi, and turn them into the true yuan, such as the surging springs, and finally enter the Linghai secret palace. In the process, they also strengthen their spirit and soul.
Although the original spirit of the blood devil puppet has not been completely dispersed, Yao Wenjin and four iron cliff witches need to refine again with their own spirit. This refining method of flesh puppets does great harm to Yao Wenjin''s own spirit. Therefore, it needs some mysterious methods of consolidating the foundation and cultivating the yuan and strengthening the soul to refine the new puppet spirit step by step, It is enough to drive a seven or eight meter high blood devil puppet with a weight of three or four thousand kilograms.
Only when the spirit of the newly refined puppet is strong enough, can the blood devil puppet give full play to its fighting instinct more thoroughly, and the more terrible its combat power is. Otherwise, the blood devil puppet can only move mechanically and slowly. No matter how indestructible its body is, what combat power can it have?
Seeing that Yao Wenjin can drive a blood devil puppet to move slowly, tie Kun doubts whether it is possible to completely control the blood devil puppet in front of him with Yao Wenjin''s low cultivation, but Chen Hai handed over the other four blood devil puppets to Wu man of Tieya department after all. He can''t say that Chen Hai is too greedy at this time.
Tie Kun walked into the cabin and saw Chen Haiji sitting on the straw mat made of Pucao, calculating what. Dozens of scattered pictures and texts on his body looked like some kind of Taoist seal character array. However, tie Kun had no chance to learn the art of seal character. After watching Chen Hai for a long time, he didn''t know what he was calculating, but politely didn''t interrupt Chen Hai''s calculation.
After waiting for a long time, Chen Hai came back from the calculation. It seemed that he was surprised to see tie Kun around. Of course, tie Kun doubted Chen Hai''s pretend.
Tiekun spoke out the difficulties encountered by Tieya at this time and asked, "what can Cao Gong do to teach me?"
"Tianji Hou will soon agree to sell several heavy bore crossbows to Tieya department, but Tieya department does not have a large supply of quenched gold and iron, so it is unable to cast a large number of Heavy Crossbow bullets, and several heavy bore crossbows have no chance to exert their power," Chen Hai said, "But as far as I know, in addition to a large number of quenched gold and iron materials produced in Liquan, there is also a certain amount of quenched gold and iron materials produced in the Jingjue capital protectorate of the Western Qiang state. As long as the caravan in the Tieya department can enter the Jingjue capital protectorate through the vast grassland and sand sea, with the friendship between tieye and the God Hou and Jingjue''s wife, it may be possible to buy quenched gold and iron from the Jingjue capital protectorate..."
"That''s why the divine Marquis let Cao Gong mix with the bitter slaves in Yanzhou and find me?" tiekun asked.
Chen Hai calmly faced tiekun''s aggressive gaze. Although tiekun said that he was indifferent to his old master, he still wanted to protect the interests of Tieya department first, so he and Yao Wenjin will continue to cover up as Cao Wen and Cao Jin, and will not directly expose his real identity for the time being.
However, tiekun puts the interests of Tieya department first, which does not prevent him from speaking more thoroughly about some matters that can be cooperated and conducive to Tieya department.
"If three-quarters of the quenched gold and iron transported by the caravan of Tieya department from jingjuedau protectorate can finally arrive at Tongkou City, I believe this is an important reason why the LORD God asked my uncle and nephew to come to assist Lord tie." Chen Hai said.
At present, due to the restrictions of Hexi, the eight grade quenched gold and iron materials transported from Lucheng to Tianji school Palace are only 30000 or 40000 kg per month, which is far from meeting the needs of Chen Hai for casting Tianji war equipment such as heavy bore crossbow and Tianji chariot in Hengshan. We must immediately open up a new transportation channel outside Hexi.
This is also Chen Hai''s main purpose of going north this time.
The grassland on the West Bank of the vast sea is full of demon barbarian tribes belonging to the Heishi Khanate. Only the iron cliff caravan belonging to the Heishi Khanate can secretly transport the quenched gold iron from Lucheng from the north line, neither disturbing Hexi nor other tribal forces of the Heishi Khanate.
"Can only a quarter of the quenched gold and iron be left in the iron cliff as a reward?" tie Kun asked in a deep voice.
"Iron master thought it would be rare to transport quenched gold and iron from Jingjue capital protectorate, so he felt that a quarter of the amount as reward was not worth the risk?" Chen Hai asked with a smile.
"How much should that be?" tiekun asked.
"In the end, we need to see the caravan of the iron cliffs organization, which can transport most of the hardened gold and iron at a time, but also hide the eyes of other tribes, but the amount is small enough to make the iron cliff part the overlord of the thousand miles of Yao Shan." Chen Hai said.
"The territory of Heishi Khanate is not peaceful. Even if the secret of quenching gold and iron is not leaked, the caravan of Tieya Department frequently haunts the depths of the grassland, which is likely to cause the greed of other tribes. At this time, Tieya department can''t divide much combat power to protect the caravan." tiekun sighed.
"As long as Lord tie is willing to do this, not only the escort of the caravan, but also three or five hundred elite slave soldiers disguised as Yanzhou slave soldiers can be transferred from Longxiang camp -- in addition, in the wars of Tongkou, Longxiang camp also captured more than 4000 barbarians, and Lord tie can also redeem them in batches to supplement the lack of combat power of Tieya Department..." Chen Hai said.
The redemption of prisoners has always been carried out secretly between Yanzhou and Hanhai departments. Even though most of the barbarians captured in Longxiang camp are from MengWu departments, as long as they are redeemed by Tieya department, these prisoners of war can not go back to their original tribes.
Either these tribes hand over the same or even more ransom to Tieya department, or these prisoners of war serve for Tieya department for decades and can''t return to their original tribes until they are old and frail.
This is also a rule on the grassland. It will not be trampled on at will because the MengWu department is stronger.
"What if the iron cliff department wants to make Tianji war weapons?" iron Kun asked.
"Maybe you can hire some craftsmen from the Tianji school palace to help the iron cliff Department build Tianji war weapons, or you can teach mechanism puppetry..." Chen Hai said.
"If Tianji learning palace sends Tianji war weapons to the vast sea, it''s not afraid to touch public anger?" tiekun asked.
"The secret map of heavenly weapons has long been spread to all the valves in Yanzhou. Who can confirm that the heavenly weapons were transmitted to the Han sea by the gods? Lord tie is convinced that the Heishi Khanate and the Tuoba department do not have the manufacturing Atlas of heavenly weapons?" Chen Hai asked with a smile, "In addition, the iron Lord is based on Yaoshan mountain. He can threaten Tianshui county to the south in the future. The more stable the God marquis will be in Tianshui county. You don''t need to worry. Just because you touch the public anger, Yanjing city can take the God marquis. You just need to know that the God Marquis has no disadvantage to the iron cliff."
Yaoshan is located on the South Bank of the Hanhai sea. In fact, the straight-line distance from yuchengling is only more than 9000 Li, which is more than half closer than the distance from yuchengling to Blackstone city. Only because the Tonghe River and other major rivers melt first in the South after the spring of each year, these northward rivers will flood in the spring of each year, and the road is blocked, which makes the distance between Yaoshan and yukou city look different It''s very close.
Of course, even if there is a flood, even if tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops are bad at travel, there is no way to find a road for hundreds of large-scale business trips after the beginning of spring.