Gai Xun is a good player in the army. Sometimes professional or unprofessional can be seen at a glance.

The eight thousand soldiers who had just been recruited could no longer see traces of the new army after two days of training.

The army was solemn, the sword armor was shiny, and the momentum was echoing.

Living in the back of the northwest, it is a big problem to have to travel a long distance to Longxi.

After discussing with Gai Xun, Liu Yun decided not to transport grain, and the soldiers brought their own food for seven days.

In other words, this battle must be decided within seven days.

Otherwise, the soldiers may starve to death and have the risk of mutiny!

Before the army set off, he secretly sent out sixty people to the 100 guards who came with Liu Yun.

A large number of these sixty people will sneak into Jincheng and Yuzhong as merchants and refugees, spread news, and at the same time do damage and support the army's attack.

Liu Yun intends to establish a spy department, Kyumiyaji, which mainly focuses on assassination and intelligence spy.

This was a small test at the beginning of its establishment.

The remaining six people went to the road in batches.

The mission they shouldered was the same as the news, informing Wang Zhi, who was stationed in the shore of Fengdao at this time, led his troops to lurk in the Yuzhong area.

In order to successfully pass the news, Liu Yun had to use this extremely careful strategy.

In the winter month, the end of the year is approaching, and the cold wind from the depths of the Eurasian continent becomes more and more intense.

Dunhuang County, which is located in the northwest border, ushered in the coldest moment.

The agreed time for dispatching troops has to be delayed due to the cold weather.

After visiting the business in Guangzhi County, Liu Yun endured the pain and exchanged the horse he had just exchanged for, and bought a large number of wool and other animals such as cows, camels and other animals.

In Dunhuang, there is little hemp, and silk fabrics become even more rare.

The materials used to make cold-proof objects can only be found on animals.

Woolen sweater, a popular clothing that was popular in major rural areas in the 20th century.

Liu Yun was forced to pull it out more than a thousand years ago and picked it out through several smooth red willow branches.

Although what came out of Liu Yun's hand was impressed, it didn't look like a wool sweater.

But it can also be used, at least it is a piece of clothing or a piece of wool made of clothes, which can barely be called a wool sweater.

The point is, it’s really warm, it doesn’t matter whether it looks good or not, after all, novices are on the road.

It is extremely difficult to knit the sweater of eight thousand soldiers with a few people, and it will take at least a few months.

So Liu Yun thought of another way, everyone supported themselves and weaved their own.

After trying to knit one, Liu Yun successfully became a teacher.

The original horse farm of the Gai family was now on the training ground, and more than 8,000 people sat on the ground in formation.

Liu Yun sat in the front, twisting the wool with his hands very skillfully, "Be careful with me. You have to make this wool evenly and tightly, otherwise the things you knit will be stretched out for you in minutes."

"You must be good at your hands, and use that skillful force. This is not a marching and fighting. Don't use your own efforts to make it."

...

Gai Xun was right next to Liu Yun, and he was knitting, and he had already knitted half of his trousers.

The moon is the first to get close to the water. Gai Xun stared at Liu Yun when he started trying to knit his first sweater. Now he is very skilled in craftsmanship.

The scene of nearly 10,000 people knitting sweaters is still very grand.

It is in this society where men are superior to women and women are inferior to men, a group of big men are squatting on the training ground to knit sweaters. They look more or less strange, and the picture is really too beautiful.

The female family members of the Gai family were also weaving, but it was strange that they were not as fast as a group of big men to learn this.

In the end, I had to become a starting point, doing some cleaning and sorting wool.

Six more days later, on the eve of Laba Festival, the troops finally set off.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, there was also a custom of celebrating Laba Festival, which gathered all things to seek out the devotion. It was the day of worshiping the gods, and it was called La Festival at that time.

But it is not fixed on the eighth day of the lunar month, but on the third day of Xu after the winter solstice.

Among the army that went to war, there were several special figures, who were local merchants who were familiar to Gai Xun.

They were very interested in the salt in Liu Yun's hands.

Even in such years of rampant wars, their enthusiasm for business can not be erased.

The caravan that was protected by 8,000 troops was probably the safest caravan now.

The troops marched rapidly across the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and went straight to Xiping.

Under the cold iron armor, thick sweaters, trousers, and velvet hats were put on. In this cold weather that could freeze people to death, the extremely warm soldiers were filled with a boiling fighting spirit.

If Gongsun Lu were here at this moment, he would definitely say that this was Liu Yun's trick to win over people.

This is indeed a trick to win over people, but Liu Yun came out clearly.

People's hearts are more heart-to-heart, and Liu Yun gives them all guarantees, and the soldiers will also know how to repay with courage to kill the enemy.

...

When Liu Yun led his army to run in the snow and ice, the workshop organized by Gongsun Lu on Mount Izumo was finally completed.

The general who was originally temporarily under the supervision of Zhao Deng is now in charge of a person named Zhuo Gang.

This was promoted by Gongsun Lu. It is said that this person was a descendant of the Zhuo family. He was good at smelting iron and calculating steel, which made him stand out from the many craftsmen.

In addition to the iron smelting workshop, next to the original mine, three workshops, salt workshop, paper workshop and garment workshop, were also built and successfully put into operation.

Today, Izumo Mountain is particularly hot even in this cold winter.

At the foot of Mount Izumo, the Zhang family Wu, which was originally built vigorously by Zhang Ling and intended to expand his power, naturally returned to Liu Yun after his death.

There is now the most secret place in Hanyang, guarded by five hundred soldiers, and people are not allowed to enter.

That place is now the highest-standard gunpowder workshop among several workshops in Izumo Mountain.

All the manufacturing, process improvement, and manufacturing-related industries of black gunpowder are carried out there.

Liu Yun, the hand-off manager, did a thorough job. He only mentioned his ideas in these matters and ignored everything else.

In his words, he is just an outsider and he really doesn't understand these things.

But he has seen and used these things, and probably knows how they came about.

So, he only mentioned his ideas and did the rest of his work, and he couldn't do it anyway.

Both ancients and modern people are equal. It is not ignorant that the ancients who can make the flowers bloom in spring and autumn and have such complicated writing.

They may just be missing a point of inspiration.

Even in Liu Yun's view, the wisdom of the ancients was even more amazing in some aspects.

Liu Yun repeatedly mentioned the ideas about the workshop many times during chatting, so Gongsun Lu also remembered them many times.

In the end, Gongsun Lu discovered that just Li Yun's thoughts had piled up bamboo slips in half a room.

In iron smelting, Liu Yun mentioned hundreds of steelmaking, steam engine, seamless steel pipe, etc.

In terms of making salt and garment, Liu Yun mentioned a lot of salt water, sewing machines, cotton clothes, leather boots, etc.

However, the ones Liu Yun mentioned the most are definitely the ones, including glass, telescopes, cannons, and big snipers.

But Gongsun Lu recorded all this in detail, and some of it had sketches.

This means that Liu Yun is the master here, otherwise he would definitely be beaten to death as a lunatic.

Not to mention recording these things, no one will listen.

But precisely because Liu Yun was the master of the entire Hanyang County, Gongsun Lu not only listened and remembered these words, but also gradually began to be implemented.

After unifying Hanyang County, Gongsun Lu summoned almost all the craftsmen from the county to Izumo Mountain.

All of this started almost at the same time, just like Huangfu Xian's implementation of a series of agricultural policies.

Even if no one has heard of those ideas and those things, the lord ordered that these craftsmen must rack their brains to think about that aspect and find ways to make things.

...

The atmosphere in Jincheng suddenly became a little chaotic.

I don’t know where the news came from, but it actually said that Gai Xun had raised an army in Dunhuang County, gathered nearly 100,000 troops, and pointed directly at Jincheng!

This news, just like the heavy snow in the sky over the past few days, has spread everywhere.

Whether it is rich, big merchants, or peddlers, almost everyone seems to know it.

But they lived in that towering palace, holding tens of thousands of powerful soldiers, and the people on the northwest frontier had no news.

It feels like someone who should have known all the news is isolated from this world.

After countless quarrels, Han Sui finally sent a scout.

The spy range was 80 miles north of the country, and almost reached the Po Qiang.
To be continued...