Early the next morning, a low trumpet sounded in the village.

With the endless sound of horns, five or six thousand remaining soldiers of the Chu army crawled out of the straw sheds and wooden houses, and gathered in the open space outside the village like ants going out for food.

The more than 2,000 remaining soldiers from Jiangdong showed no signs of instability.

After all, the target of loyalty to the entire Da Chu, not Xiang Han. In the eyes of these newly recruited soldiers, the General was undoubtedly a larger general than Xiang Han. If the General wanted to kill Xiang Han, what ability did they have to stop them? Therefore, more than two thousand remaining soldiers in Jiangdong accepted the fact that Xiang Han was killed very calmly.

As for the personal soldiers loyal to Xiang Han, there are only a few dozen people, what kind of climate can they become?

Nearly 6,000 remaining troops of the Chu army were assembled, and Jing Qian, Gao Chu began to pick people without hesitation.

The trap camp was the main force of the Chu army's field battle, so Jing Qian was the first to pick people. This guy honestly and unceremoniously selected a thousand strong soldiers from the veterans of the hundred wars who escaped from Gaixia. Even the personal soldiers of Huan Chu, Ji Bu and other generals were not spared. As long as they fell in love with each other, they would still choose them. Although Huan Chu, Ji Bu and others were reluctant to leave, they could only pinch their noses and recognize them.

After Jing Qian selected the people, Gao Chu then came. The Nufeng Camp did not need to compete with the enemy, so Gao Chu did not select people from the veterans, but selected 500 tall and strong men from more than two thousand new recruits in Jiangdong. This was also a prerequisite for becoming a longbowman. If he was too short and too small, he would not be able to pull the longbow.

Since there was no candidate for the lieutenant in the camp at the moment, Xiang Zhuang had to come forward to pick people in person. He also selected more than 200 soldiers from the veterans of Gaixia. In addition, the more than 200 personal soldiers led by Jing Qian and Gao Chu were collected in just 500 people. He personally served as the lieutenant in the camp. At the same time, Gongsun Sui was appointed as the left Sima of the camp in the camp and acted as the lieutenant in the camp.

Finally, it was Jing Qian who selected a thousand auxiliary light soldiers for his military soldiers who were trapped in the battle!

After Jing Qian was finished, Xiangzhuang distributed the remaining 2,700 people equally and reorganized them into the five armies in front, back, left, right, and middle. The five generals of Huan Chu, Xiao Kai, Zhonglimei, Yu Ziqi, and Ji Bu led one army. However, it was said that it was a single army, but in fact there were only more than 500 people, and only one unit had a force.

After the troops were allocated, each army and battalion began intense training.

It is already mid-March, and the weather is about to warm up soon. There is not much time left for the Chu army. The Chu army must complete the training within ten days, and then cross the Dabie Mountains to start a long-distance expedition!

It was late at night, but the thatched huts by the river were brightly lit and the jingle sounded endlessly.

Behind the thatched hut, a stove about two meters high was built on the mountain. More than a dozen interfaces were left slightly upward at the bottom of the stove. More than a dozen huge cowhide wind bags were connected to these interfaces through brick holes. At least two strong men with a belly standing beside each cowhide were desperately agitating the wind bags.

I don't know how long it took, a strong man stepped forward and pulled out something at the bottom of the stove with the iron pliers. In an instant, fiery red iron gushed out from the bottom of the stove and slowly flowed into the groove of the pre-built sand mold. When the iron gradually cooled down, it turned into a handful of ring-headed blades.

Next, several strong men sent these cast-formed hairs into various thatched huts for the next step of forging. Others of the strong men uncovered the top cover of the stove and put the excess or damaged iron swords, armor, iron helmets, iron halberds and iron cauldrons into the stove. After filling them, dozens of strong men mobilized the wind bags again.

In the row of thatched huts, more than a hundred Chu army blacksmiths were working hard to build a ring-headed knife. Shouchun was flooded, and the Chu army only stole two things, one was the flooded Han army rations outside the city, and the other was the blacksmith utensils in the city. Then, it took a lot of manpower and material resources to finally transport wind bags, anvils, hammers and other utensils into the mountains.

Yu Ziqi was sweating profusely, and was using the small hammer in his hand to guide the sledgehammer in the hand of the strong man opposite, and he tried hard to hit the thick horizontal knife on the anvil. The battle in Dabie Mountains allowed the Chu army to taste the sweetness of the ring-headed sword. In order to improve the combat effectiveness as much as possible, Xiang Zhuang decided to create more ring-headed swords. He also planned to match all the generals with horizontal swords!

At this time, the ring-headed sword was not comparable to the ring-headed swords of the Han Dynasty due to the defects in gold control technology, neither the processing technology nor the material materials were compared with the ring-headed swords of the Han Dynasty in later generations. However, due to its unique thick back shape, it had the upper hand when facing the double-edged thin swords. When the swords cut each other, most of the swords were cut, and not the double-edged thin swords with thick back single-edged ring-headed swords.

Even the double-edged heavy sword of the Han army general was inferior to the ordinary ring-headed sword!

As for Xiangzhuang's so-called big horizontal knife, the processing technology is far from that of later Tang swords. However, although Xiangzhuang's big horizontal knife is simple in workmanship, it is better than longer, wider and thicker, thus making up for the difference in material hardness and toughness. Compared with the swords and halberds of the Qin and Han Dynasties, Xiangzhuang's big horizontal knife is definitely a magic weapon!

Of course, no matter how simple the craftsmanship of the Daheng Knife is compared to the Tang Knife, it is not something that ordinary blacksmiths can master, so Yu Ziqi has to do the hammer himself. Speaking of which, Yu Ziqi is really a bit miserable. Other generals can sleep, but he still has to work hard to make irons here. Most of the time, he is like a blacksmith.

While she was busy, Xiang Zhuang suddenly walked in surrounded by Gao Chu and Jing Qian.

Yu Ziqi quickly put down the hammer and bowed to Xiangzhuang. Xiangzhuang waved his hand and showed no need to be polite. Then he mowed a white cloth out of his sleeve and handed it to Yu Ziqi. Yu Ziqi reached out to take it and saw a pattern on the white cloth, which seemed to be a sharp and thin spear, but it was different from a spear. The spear had no barbs, but this thing had barbs.

At this moment, Yu Ziqi said in a daze: "General, what kind of weapon is this?"

"This is called a javelin." Xiang Zhuang explained, "It is cast according to the pattern, and there must be a wooden pole behind it."

As a time traveler, Xiang Zhuang certainly knew that javelins were important infantry weapons in the West, whether it was Ancient Xi or Ancient Rome. However, in China, the emergence of powerful crossbows has become a useless weapon, because the javelins are far from comparable to powerful crossbows in terms of range, rate of fire, penetration or hit accuracy.

However, javelins still have advantages over powerful crossbows, which are their cost and are easy to carry!

Given the current conditions of the Chu army, they have neither the technology nor the ability to make strong crossbows, so javelins have become the first choice. Xiang Zhuang has decided to list javelins as a standard weapon for the Chu army, and at least light troops must be equipped!

After the Chu army equipped the ring-headed sword, large shield, long halberd, javelin, and long bow, the field battle mode was basically taken.

The Chu army's field model is basically like this. When the enemy infantry enters within 100 steps (about 1.4 meters per step), the first round of killing is first carried out by the long archers of the Nufeng Battalion; when the enemy infantry enters within 20 steps, the auxiliary light soldiers of the camp use javelins to perform the second round of killing. When the two armies meet, the front row of the military soldiers holds a ring-headed sword and a large shield, and are close to the enemy infantry. The rear row of the military soldiers uses long halberds to attack, while the auxiliary light soldiers continue to shoot the enemy with javelins.

Yu Ziqi closed the pattern and said to Xiang Zhuang: "General, this style is simple. As long as you cast and form a shape, you don't need too much forging. It just takes some effort to pull the edges. However, it should not be difficult to build fifty branches a day, but I don't know how many branches the general needs?"

"Fifty branches are far from enough. I need five thousand branches, and I will take them in ten days!"

"In this way, more people will need to pull the cast gun tips."

"This is no problem. How many men do you need? Even if you go to each army to choose, including the personal guards!" After saying this, Xiang Zhuang said, "However, the creation of a javelin must not affect the creation of a horizontal sword and a ring-head sword, because the importance of these two weapons is far above the javelin!"

"No!" Yu Ziqi bowed and said loudly, "In ten days, there will be 10,000 triangular arrows, 5,000 javelin heads, 300 ring heads, and twenty horizontal swords! The last one will never be humiliated!"

Xiang Zhuang patted Yu Ziqi on the shoulder and said with regret: "General Ziqi, I can only work hard for you."

Yu Ziqi said: "As long as the Great Chu can be revived, what's the point of being exhausted in the blacksmith shop?"

"Okay, I'll write down General Ziqi's words!" Xiang Zhuang nodded and said solemnly, "After the revival of the Great Chu in the future, I will definitely remember you great achievements!"

After saying that, Xiang Zhuang turned around and left.

Watching Xiang Zhuang's figure fade away, Yu Ziqi's eyes quickly dimmed. To be honest, he did not think that the Great Chu still had the possibility of revival. As the military advisor said, King Liu Bang of Han had become a force to sweep the world. It was impossible for the six thousand Chu troops to turn the overall situation around. However, no matter what happens in the future, Yu Ziqi will not betray the Great Chu!

While Yu Ziqi and the blacksmiths were busy building weapons, Gao Chu and his Nufeng camp were also rushing to make longbows.

Gao Chu was bare and had a thorny belly, and his muscles were tied with Jing Qianzhu, a century-old mulberry tree with two hands in his arms. The longbow had extremely high requirements for materials. An old mulberry tree that could be used for longbows was only a small part close to Muxin, so he could only make two bows at most, but the outer part could be used for the gun bar of a javelin.

Several veterans who had worked as bow maker were carefully cutting the bow material next to them.

Speaking of which, Xinmu is actually not suitable for making bow materials, but time is tight and I can't care about so much. Even if the longbows made are not as good as the lethality and range direction, they are still better than nothing.

Not far away, bundles of javelin gun rods had piled up like mountains, each of which was seven feet long, about two inches thick in the middle, slightly thin at both ends, and the surface had been completely shaved. In the distance, Qin Ji was carrying more than a hundred female soldiers to rub brown lines and twine lines from the bundles of storing storing saps and twist them repeatedly, and twist them into strands of brown ropes and hemp ropes.

Further away, the cut bow materials are stuck on specific slots, and tied to both ends with hemp ropes, and bent into different arcs. This is the last craft before the longbow is turned - the bow taming.
Chapter completed!