When Wei Leweng set off for Jinghu, the entire Jinghu area was under the strategy of the Mongolian cavalry. The prefectures and counties were trembling before the enemy's bloodthirsty killing, and the people died or were displaced by the nomadic cavalry. When Wei Leweng began to return to the capital, the situation of Jinghu North Road and South Road had basically settled down. Although the losses were heavy, their vitality was not exhausted. The damaged prefecture city was quickly renovated, and the scattered people were quickly resettled. What made him feel even more gratified was that a group of young generals led by Zheng Yunming stood out in the conquest of blood and fire. The Song Dynasty could withstand the attacks of many years of Mongolians, but what they feared the most was losing hope. Zheng Yunming, Wang Deng, Yang Xuan, and Bai Yijie, the youthful young people were the hope of the Song Dynasty and the bright and brilliant future of the Song Dynasty.

This is also the most important thing he was anxiously preparing to return to the capital and face the emperor's retribution in person. After all, the emperor also needs hope.

When Wei Leweng was about to set off, important officials and tens of thousands of people from the entire Xiangyang City came to see him off. He had been in Xiangyang for less than a month in total. Of course, the people were not grateful for his kindness in governance. Instead, they hoped that this rare court official could reflect the on-site situation here to the central government in a timely manner. Since ancient times, the sufferings in the local area have been understood by the words and words in the memorials. If a central official could directly listen to what he saw and heard directly to the heavens, the effect would be much more real than the thousand memorials in Jinghu.

Before boarding the boat, Wei Leweng shook hands and said goodbye to the officials one by one.

To Zhao Kui, his farewell message was urged. Zhao Kui's family was carrying the shame of Zhao Fan inciting the Xiangyang rebellion, and could only wash away the deeds of serving the country with loyalty.

For Zheng Yunming, there were more encouragement and warnings.

"Young talents from ancient times have been trained through many twists and turns to develop a strong character and sufficient talent." Wei Leweng said with Zheng Yunming's hand: "The first step you took is the entire Song Dynasty. No, from ancient times to the present, there are only a handful of people who can be as smooth as you, but the journey of life is very long. Some people start well, but the ending is miserable, some people are depressed for decades, but they shine brightly in their old age. I hope you don't become arrogant because of your current achievements and relax your efforts. You must know that this is Xiangyang, the gateway to the world. Any complacency you can see not only in the court, but also in Mongolia."

Zheng Yunming bowed and said, "How dare you not do your best and be trembling and guard Xiangyang for the country!"

In fact, at this time, the entire Jinge Deputy Chief Commander General Office was probably Zheng Yunming himself who did not do his best for Jinghu.

Yang Yu was entangled in the affairs of the city defense reconstruction and did something else. He squatted on the construction site from morning to night every day. Under his strict supervision, Xiangyang City changed little by little. There were fewer and fewer areas exposed to rammed earth on the city wall, and the brick-packed areas gradually increased. The towering bell and drum towers in the city have gradually taken shape. Not only in the city, but the moat outside the city has been widened to dozens of feet. Not to mention that the ladders cannot reach the city wall, the moat has truly become a moat. The craftsmen under Yang Yu invented a three-boat bottomless boat, connected by three sampans, connected by wooden beams and laid with wooden boards, which can freely travel in the moat and transport military supplies.

Wang Deng urged the Xiangyang City defenders to practice day and night, and had to worry about dealing with the various quarrels and complaints caused by this. Under heavy physical training, the officers and soldiers of all military personnel complained, and even the Jinge Army began to be legendary about Wang Deng's new nickname "Living King of Hell". However, Wang Deng did not give in and insisted on strict training. In addition to training the soldiers to jump into the deep trench in double armor, he also urged them to practice building fortifications under the rain of arrows and attacking the high ground. Every day, generals took the soldiers' petitions to the Zhengsi Office to complain to Zhao Fan, asking the Living King of Hell to take his methods lighter and give the Xiangyang defenders a chance to take a breath. The Zhengsi only pushed everything to the Jinge Army. So King of Heaven trained his troops during the day, and at night, he went from Ge Huai to various military camps to invite the soldiers to drink and have a meal, and finally maintained the relationship between the Jinge Army and the army.

Lu Xunzhi was busy replenishing armor and weapons to the armies. Until the beginning of the war, the Tulong Army had only 5,000 people, while only 200 infantrymen could wear armor. The rest had no armor protection and could only rely on shields to protect themselves. In the last year's war, there were actually not a small casualties. It was just that because the Tulong Army had strict military discipline and there was no frequent collapse of the Song army, so there was no large-scale casualties. After the second recruitment of troops, the scale of the Tulong Army was more than doubled than before, and the armor and weapons were naturally shortened.

After Zhao Kui took office, he opened the Siku Armory for the Jing-E Army, including a hundred famous divine arm crossbows, with a total length of three feet and two inches, made of mulberry wood. The string length was two feet and five inches, made of wire with hemp rope. The crossbow machine was purely cast with copper, the arrow wood was very short, only a few inches long, and various fancy arrows made of iron were used.

This is the first time Zheng Yunming has seen such a famous weapon in legend. He asked Lu Xunzhi to organize crossbowmen to perform. The so-called crossbow crossbow is called stepping on the crossbow, pulling the crossbow body up against the ground, and using the power of the whole body to open the bowstring. When firing, you can hold it in your hand or place it on a rack to launch it. Zheng Yunming taught people to fire ten crossbow arrows in a row, five out of ten arrows, and they can still penetrate the thick elm wood outside 200 steps.

This is the best magic weapon in the Song Dynasty. The Jin people started with their archery and horses and cavalry. They had great shooting skills. In the battle with the Song army, they all shot with every arrow. The style of the Song army's shooting was the first. Many brave soldiers could drive a hundred pounds of strong bows and several stones on their waists, but they did not pay attention to shooting. That is, the practice of aiming. When fighting against the enemy, they often only used strong bows and hard crossbows to shoot volleys, hoping to repel the enemy with the rain of arrows. Therefore, they always suffered losses in fighting with the Jin people. Only the divine arm crossbow was in front of the formation, and the launch of short arrows was both accurate and ruthless. The Jin people were extremely afraid and listed them as the two strongest weapons of the Song Dynasty together with the heavy axe that broke the iron cavalry and rushed to the hard.

Even the Mongolians could not take this kind of weapon lightly. In several tough battles northwest of Fancheng in the west of Xiangyang City, the divine arm bow burst into fire, and the person rushed forward and rushed forward. Many Mongolian cavalry killed the divine arm bow. Even the Mongolian troops returning north all told each other: "There are general artillery in Jiangling and the divine arm bow in Xiangyang, and neither place can be accessed."

Zheng Yunming handed over these hundred powerful crossbows to the generals who were already itchy. He selected one hundred crossbowmen from among them to equip the Divine Arm Bows and transferred them directly to the personal soldiers in front of the tent, which was controlled by the deputy commander himself.

This is an example of the Jinghu Commander's practice. Zhao Kui got 300 magic arm crossbows and selected experienced crossbowmen equipment from the various armies, and was called the personal arm archer. Zhao Kui's Ya Gang Hu Bao commanded him and stayed under the command of the Control Office as a personal soldier.

Zhao Kui has added more than these personal soldiers. Jiangling's deputy commander Bie Zhijie sent a hundred utility soldiers, all of whom were brave men wearing full sets of armor. Moreover, their armor bodies were slightly different from ordinary armor. In addition to the normal armor, iron armor bodies, iron arms and ring guards, they also came with face armor, large heart-covering mirrors, handguards, leggings, and even copper wire and iron gloves. This set of equipment was entrusted by Bie Zhijie at that time. Bie Zhijie believed that the future war between Song and Meng would be the most likely battle to attack and defend the city, in order to break the road. To break the city defense of the Song army, the Mongols would inevitably form a large number of heavy armored infantry used to siege. The best way for the Song army to restrain these monsters was to establish their own heavy armored infantry team, so they commissioned Zheng Yunming to make equipment to strengthen the protection of existing infantry. Zheng Yunming then used the armor of the Italian city-states during the Renaissance in the Western Regions as a model. It should be made in the shape of China, and then successively produced iron handguards, iron armguards, chest guards and leg guards, and then combined with the old armor to create a first-class infantry armor with better protection than the Xining Dynasty infantry armor.

However, this kind of armor is also extremely bulky, and its weight is roughly equal to the Xining Bing Man Armor. It must be a powerful man who can wear it in battle. In addition, the price of the flat-back armor is also very high. Even if he is a different position as a deputy envoy of Jiangling and Jinghu, he can only be equipped with 200 people, 100 Lord Zhao of Xiangyang and 100 of him.

This is not surprising. Even in the Renaissance Milan and Venetian city-states, where the economy is prosperous, the national strength is at its peak, and the gunpowder weapons are beginning to show their strength, and the status of heavy armor on the battlefield is beginning to rise. Heavy warriors equipped with a full set of infantry armor are only a very small number of elite soldiers. These people are usually used as aces at the most critical moments, such as the samurai who rushed straight to the enemy's army in infantry battles, and the combat soldiers who first climbed the city walls in siege battles.

Zheng Yunming personally created the Duanpingbing Man Armor, but the headquarters did not have the opportunity to be equipped. For the military soldiers of the Deputy Chief Commander of Jinge who worked hard to equip the three thousand iron armor bodies, the number was the first requirement. These gorgeous armors were suitable for use to show off their military power, but were not suitable for large-scale replenishment of the front-line troops that were almost naked to fight against the enemy. Fortunately, under the strict supervision of Lu Xunzhi, qualified armor and equipment were continuously produced, and all the new weapons were carved with the names of craftsmen. When the best of these weapons made great achievements, the reputation of their makers would naturally spread far and wide.

Lu Xunzhi did more than that. His greatest achievement was to extensively check the accounts of the civil servants in Jinghu, and formulate a Baojia training plan and a mobilization plan for husband and servants according to Zheng Yunming's arrangement. In the past, the government recruited husband and servants either temporarily hired or forced them to be transferred to the countryside at will. It was not only inefficient, but also slow to act and disturbed the people. Local Baojia used the name of the government's forced husband and servants to be blackmailed and robbed at will. After one recruitment, the village was like a war disaster.

Now Lu Xunzhi compiled a detailed mobilization plan for the men in Jinghu according to the household account book. Each man received a mobilization card for the husband-in-law who represented the identity. After the war began, the army sent special mobilization officials to work with local governments to go deep into the countryside to mobilize the husband-in-law. The means were simple and the mobilization was very fast. In the first simulated mobilization, 200,000 men were concentrated in Xiangyang. The significance of this method was so great that later historians linked the results of the previous Xiangyang War with this method being extended in Jinghu. "Without Lu Xun's rule of conquering the people, there was no Xiangyang, and without Xiangyang, there was no Song."
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