After the craftsman in Feihu County practiced iron, it could use extra manpower to forge it, and it could be used to make fine iron. The fine iron could forge various iron tools. Li Chongjiu first wanted to forge armor. The Cangtou Army had 300 iron armors from the Wu Benlang General Wang Zhibing. Except for 200 armored cavalry, the rest were equipped for the team's generals and above. In addition to zero losses in the war, the number of armor was already very scarce.

Now that homemade fine iron is available, Feihu County Craftshop can create iron armor, helmets and helmets. A piece of iron armor costs at least 20 kilograms of fine iron. In addition to fine iron, it also requires leather. Li Chongjiu's most unabundant appearance is leather. After defeating the Turkish Aduo tribe last year, countless horses and sheep were slaughtered. In addition to the meat filling, the skin was made of nitro and made into mature skin. At present, it was no pressure to make a thousand pieces of cooked skin to extract a thousand pieces of cooked skin. Li Zuojiang estimated Li Chongjiu that after organizing the craftshop, he could produce ten armors a month, and then his proficiency could be improved to fifteen.

Before the winter snow melted, Li Chongjiu led 200 cavalry and two newly trained 400 county soldiers to return to Huaihuang Town from Feihu County. This time he passed through Lingqiu County again and found that it was no longer the original desolate. On the way, he had found that many refugees returned to Lingqiu County and began to return to the old land for spring plowing. When the team arrived at the county town, the inside and outside of the city were still very broken, but some people had already begun to repair the four cities.

In addition, Li Chongjiu also saw the flag of the Sui army on the wall of the county town. After entering the city, he discovered that Chen Xiaoyi, the county magistrate of Yanmen County, was here. You should know that the meaning of the county magistrate of Yanmen County, Wang Que, wanted to defend Wang County and temporarily give up the outer Great Wall with the inner Great Wall as a defense.

Li Chongjiu immediately went straight to the county government office to meet the county magistrate. Chen Xiaoyi was from Hedong and was upright. He once contradicted the prefect Su Wei for not being vain. He said that the prefect wanted to sentence the prisoner to death, so he killed himself first. After Su Wei was promoted to prime minister, he admired Chen Xiaoyi very much and believed that he was a rare strong official. He was promoted to the censor first, and then asked him to come to Yanmen County to be the county magistrate. After he was appointed as the official, he was upright and regarded as the parents of the Qingtian for the people.

It was not the first time that Li Chongjiu and Chen Xiaoyi met. After the two took the seat, Li Chongjiu couldn't help but ask why he had disagreements with the county magistrate and was not in Gan County, but opened a yamen in Lingqiu County.

However, when Chen Xiaoyi heard what Li Chongjiu said, he stood up and bowed far away to the east capital, saying, "I am on the order of the emperor to defend the territory for the court. The people have not abandoned the territory. As a parent, how can I abandon it?"

Seeing Chen Xiaoyi's solemn and upright look, Li Chongjiu couldn't help but feel ashamed. He could only follow him to bow to the south and said, "The emperor has been forever!"

After the two sat down again, Chen Xiaoyi heard that Li Chongjiu was going out of the Great Wall again and went to Huaihuang Town. He couldn't help but be careful and said, "After the battle of Yanmen, the Turks all found that the Turks went south to herd their horses. According to the Hu people's usual strategy, spring was the time when cattle, sheep and horses were the thinnest. If they suddenly fought south, it would definitely cause a large number of livestock to die. Therefore, in spring, they took the opportunity to go south to chase grass. In autumn, when the horses were fat, it was the time when the Turks launched a large-scale invasion of the south."

Although he didn't say it very clearly, he knew the elegant meaning when he heard the song. Chen Xiaoyi's meaning was sought to persuade Li Chongjiu to give up Huaihuang Town and move Yingyang Mansion to Lingqiu County. He first defended the outer Great Wall line, and at the same time leaned against each other with Feihu County, taking care of the two counties of Yanmen Shanggu. Chen Xiaoyi talked about it, but saw Li Chongjiu smiling but not answering, but understood his meaning and sighed. It was obvious that he regarded the other party as a virtuous person who refused to give up the court like him.

After Li Chongjiu led his army to rest in Lingqiu for a day, he set off the next day. Chen Xiaoyi sent Li Chongjiu out of the city and supported him thirty-year-old posts before leaving. Chen Xiaoyi said, "This trip to Huaihuang is different from Yanmen. Please be more careful and beware of the Hu people. If it is not good, you can retreat to Yanmen at any time."

After seeing these thirty Zhang Bizhang crossbows, Li Chongjiu looked at the ruined Lingqiu County County behind him. There were less than 200 county soldiers guarding the city, and Chen Xiaoyi with a righteous look on his face, and said nothing. Li Chongjiu bowed deeply to Chen Xiaoyi again and then whipped away.

After Li Chongjiu left the city, he did not set out to Huaihuang Town immediately. Instead, he waited for two days and took this opportunity to recruit refugees, lobby for Huaihuang Town and Yuyi Town, and promised to have two meals a day to eat. This treatment has attracted a thousand refugees and are willing to go with him.

At this time, Li Hu, Su Su and Lin Dangfeng led the 500 Li Family Escort Agency escorts and a caravan organized by 2,000 people to set off from Taiyuan County to Yanmen. This time, in addition to bringing silk, tea bricks, and iron tools from the Central Plains, they also had various materials in short supply in Huaihuang Town. Learning from the last robbery of Aduo's tribe, Li Chongjiu did not dare to take it lightly this time and led the team to escort.

He went all the way to Huaihuang Town. Before he could leave the Great Wall, he had already found the nomadic shadows of the Hu people. The feces of sheep and horses were everywhere on the grass, and one or two vanguards who were staring at them occasionally appeared in the distance. When Li Chongjiu saw this, he ordered the cavalry to surround him and grab his tongue. However, these vanguards were all slick, with five or six good horses taking turns to transfer, and ran several miles in the blink of an eye. The cavalry of the Cangtou Army was beyond the reach of the dust.

After several times, the cavalry finally captured a shepherd. At first, the shepherd was stubborn and refused to explain. After tortured half of his life, he honestly explained. From him, he learned that they were a Hun tribe who was attached to the Turks and went south to explore the way. The Hun tribe was stronger than the Adu tribe. Last year, after he swallowed the remnants of the Adu tribe, there were 30,000 people, controlling 8,000. Now he has migrated thousands of miles from the tribe's former place, and Shi Jin has moved the tent to the south of Daihai. In addition, there are several small Turkic tribes near Daihai. After Li Chongji explored the details, he understood that the Hu people really did as Chen Xiaoyi said, and he wanted to take advantage of the weak opportunity of the Sui Dynasty to go south.

Li Chongjiu stepped up his escort to the caravan and continued to move forward. After leaving the Great Wall, he did not just meet the Hu people. Instead, he met one or two small Turkic tribes and their tents. They suddenly saw the flag of the Great Sui Dynasty and the caravan carriages, all of which reacted. The fierce Turkic people held horn bows and rode horses and followed the group of uninvited guests who suddenly entered their pastoral area. When they found out that it was a large caravan, they couldn't help but look salivating again.

Li Chongjiu had only 200 armored cavalry, and the escort cavalry team had less than 200 cavalry, so he did not dare to go out to pursue the Turks of these dozens of cavalry and dozens of cavalry, so he just tolerated them silently. When the Turkic cavalry saw it, they advanced to several miles of land to observe, estimating the chances of robbery. After several times, Li Chongjiu waited for the other party to relax his vigilance, and ordered Etu to lead the cavalry to attack decisively. After killing the two, the Turks' arrogance was relieved and they retreated far aside.

That night, the caravan went to the ground to station, and the appearance of a large Hu cavalry showed that their den was not far from here. In the past, when they left the northern part of the Mo River, the caravans had never encountered such a situation. Even if they met Turkic people, there were only sporadic things. You should know that as long as Mayi County was still in the hands of the Sui army, the Hu people would not dare to bypass this line of defense and go south easily.

But now the other party is unscrupulous and even moves the tent. One night, Li Hu, Su Su and many merchants are worried.

Lin Dangfeng entered Li Chongjiu's tent and asked worriedly: "Mr. Marquis, I took all the merchants to the grassland again this time, but I became a risk. It all depends on trusting you alone. You must know that the caravan was attacked by Adouben's troops last time, and nearly a hundred people were injured. If they were attacked by Turks again this time, the death and injury would not be a problem for hundreds of people. And the mule horse was also a large number of goods, which was enough to make more than a dozen business associations lose their money."

"Many business managers say they want to return to the Great Wall. They only take a day off. At worst, they will lose this trip, and their lives are more important."

Li Chongjiu sat under the oil lamp and was writing a letter. He put his pen aside and said, "Please rest assured that the business road is not easy to walk, which means that several merchants belonging to the clan dare not go out to the north. As long as we do this business, the profit will definitely be twice as good as before."

"There is no risk in business. I have written a letter to mobilize troops from Huaihuang Town, and reinforcements from Xi's army arrived together. At that time, it is enough to ensure that the goods are fine." After hearing Li Chongjiu's words, Lin Dangfeng felt a little relieved.

That night, the sound of Hujiao was whimpering at night, and horse hooves seemed to be heard around the camp. The merchants were worried, holding swords and holding swords to the fire, staring at the surroundings in horror, and everyone was panic.

The next day, it was just dawn and there was silence on all sides. I thought that a large number of Turkic cavalry would be surrounded by a large number of Turkic cavalry did not appear, which made everyone who had been struggling all night be careful and at ease. Everyone began to hurry up, and Li Chongjiu sent a team of twenty people to investigate on all sides.

In the afternoon, Li Chongjiu's ranger found a large amount of horse manure and scattered horse hoof prints five or six miles to the left of the caravan. Li Chongjiu immediately asked his experienced etude to come forward and investigated it himself and determined that the number of cavalry was no less than 500.

On the third day, the ranger returned again and found a cavalry of more than 1,000 people behind the team, which was more than ten miles apart and fell far behind the caravan. In the afternoon, a Turkic cavalry of more than 2,000 people was found in the north, and had reached ten miles apart.

In panic, Li Chongjiu decided to go to the village early and ordered refugees to cut down trees, grass and grass to build a horse-defying fortification. When building horse-defying fortifications, Li Chongjiu led his army to stare vigilantly, with five or six strands ranging from a distance, and Turkic cavalry belonging to different tribes gathered more than ten miles away from the caravan.
Chapter completed!