In the forest, farmers from the Xiliang camp were walking in the snow carrying a heavy basket of iron ore. Twenty people were sent here to transport the ore.
With this batch of ore brought back, within a few days all the people in their Xiliang camp will be using iron tools, which will make it much easier to cut down trees, reclaim wasteland, and hunt wild animals.
There was a lot of ore in the Qingzhuzhai camp, which was piled up into a small hill. Li Xiang had the urge to build an arsenal next to the iron mine, but he finally resisted.
Qingzhu Village has not been destroyed yet. If Qingzhu Village suddenly sends a group of troops to kill them, and the Xiliang camp does not have the power to stop the enemy, won't the blacksmith shop fall into the opponent's hands?
It would be safer to leave the blacksmith shop over at the camp, but it would be a bit troublesome for the farmers to transport the iron ore back and forth.
It is very convenient to be near the iron mining area, but Xiliang camp is safer. Except for Zhang Qingyun who knows the approximate location of Xiliang camp, no one else in Qingzhu Village knows it yet.
This is one of their advantages. Now they are weak and time is precious. Everything is dead in winter. Most of the cottages are preventing attacks from other cottages. This gives Li Xiang a good development time.
Li Xiang was sitting in the Qingzhuzhai camp. Early the next morning, farmers from the Xiling camp came to transport iron ore. Li Xiang and his soldiers took these miners to dig.
More than 90% of the people in the northwest land are not worthy of sympathy. The remaining nine layers are the descendants of sinners whose ancestors came to survive in the northwest land.
People like Zhou Hangjie and Mr. Zhou are the smallest group left. They were expelled from Daqian because they offended others and were not worthy of death.
There are very few such people. There are probably no more than 1,000 people among the hundreds of thousands in the northwest.
So Li Xiang oppressed these people without any burden in his heart!
The six people who surrendered still acted as their supervisors. The main reason was that these six people still had some strength. The cultivation of these people who were mining was completely useless, and their strength was nothing. They were just like ordinary people. Their speed, strength, and physique were the same as those of ordinary people.
Comparing several supervisors, the gap is huge.
However, Li Xiang still took some safety measures and built another wall inside the cave.
It is not that there are no weapons in the cave. There are tools such as iron picks used for mining in the cave. The lethality of these tools is sometimes more terrifying than swords.
Therefore, before coming out, these tools must be placed where they are stacked before they can get out of the mine.
Prime Minister Li really couldn't rest assured about these people. There were not many people in Xiliang, and every one of them was a valuable asset.
Li Xiang personally stayed in the camp for a few days, waiting for the farmers recruited in the town center to transfer to soldiers and arrive at the mining area. Then Li Xiang left with the soldiers in the mining area.
One hundred stones of grain in the camp, after conversion, can be used as 6,000 units of grain. Take half of the grain and fifty stones of grain to recruit thirty farmers, and then take out 500 units of grain from your own warehouse to recruit five people.
Ten transferred militiamen, and fifteen were handed over to Li Yi.
In this way, the number of militiamen under Li Xiang reached fifty, and the number of farmers under Li Yi also reached fifty. There are still fifty farmers left before he can be upgraded to the next era.
The Xiliang camp is developing rapidly, and lumberjacks, farmers, and construction workers have a clear division of labor and each perform their own duties.
At the edge of the mine, I watched the militiamen in the mine with Li Xiang. They were practicing the exercises every day. Every soldier who transferred to another class received the exercises. They also gained experience by practicing the exercises. It was slower than fighting on the battlefield.
A little bit better than safety.
Without fighting, Li Xiang would practice exercises in his room and improve his proficiency in martial arts. It is difficult to improve martial arts. He can run a small Zhoutian to gain a little proficiency and a little experience.
In the beginning, it took him half an hour to run Xiao Zhoutian once. Now it takes two cups of tea (half an hour) to run it once. In one hour, he can get four points of experience and four points of proficiency.
This is the normal speed. If there is a battle, using true energy in the battle will gain a lot of proficiency. Wen Hou's skills will grow in the battle.
If those people in Daqian knew that there was such a skill, they would definitely be labeled as demonic skills. Countless decent people worked to stabilize the world, surrounded and suppressed the demons, and destroyed (brought away) the demonic skills.
Xiliang has entered a period of stability. There is no need to worry about food, wood, iron, and stone, and it has developed steadily.
Qingzhu Village on the other side cannot sit still.
The white snow is pressing on countless bamboos, making these arrogant gentlemen lower their heads. Qingzhu Village is built in the middle of the bamboo forest. The roads are winding, one after another. If someone who is not familiar with them walks in, they will soon get lost in this bamboo forest. between.
In the deepest part of the bamboo forest, the tall green bamboos held their heads high, but Bai Xue could not make them bow down. Mysterious green lights flashed from time to time on the green trunks of these bamboos, and bursts of spiritual energy emanated from the bamboos.
These bamboos are not ordinary bamboos. Each one is a low-grade spiritual bamboo. It is a layer of protection around the Qingzhu Village. Each one is more than three feet tall, covering the Qingzhu Village.
In the Juyi Hall of Qingzhu Village next to a top-quality spiritual bamboo worth tens of thousands of gold, five people were sitting on the bamboo made of bamboo with heavy faces. The people standing behind them did not dare to make a sound.
Sitting on the main seat was a middle-aged man with a white face and a beardless face, who seemed to be very kind. He said to the middle-aged man sitting closest to the main seat with a black beard below: "Strategic Advisor, what do you think?"
Tiezhu set out with more than a hundred people. More than twenty days have passed since the departure. Even if it is snowy and the sky is covered with snow, the time for one trip and one trip is enough.
Now they don't even know what's going on outside the iron mine. The iron mine is very important to them, and a quarter of their combat force has been sent to the iron mine cave.
If there is a problem there, it will be very serious for the entire Qingzhu Village. Other cottages are getting stronger. If they don't get stronger, they will most likely be annexed by other cottages.
The middle-aged man touched his beard and said in a deep voice: "Send someone to investigate first. The people who know the news about the iron mines are all close associates of the heads of the family. The people sent to the mines are also trustworthy old people. Other forces should not be so quick. Just know the news about the mine!”
Hearing the middle-aged man's words, the pale-faced headmaster nodded: "Then follow what the military advisor said, second brother, third child, you two will send a few people to the mine cave!"
"Go back now and guard everywhere!"
"yes!"
The middle-aged man looked at the three leaders and lowered his head with a trace of ridicule on his face. He didn't know whether he was mocking the leaders or himself.
After walking out of Juyi Hall, before returning to the house, a voice came: "Dad, is Brother Qingyun back?"
Zhou Yulan ran out of the house and looked around hopefully, but did not see that familiar figure.
"Dad, will something happen to Brother Qingyun and the others?" Zhou Yulan clearly remembered the time Zhang Qingyun left. It had been twenty-three days since he left.
She has also been to the mining area. She helped Zhou Hangjie design the camps and warehouses there. From the mining area to Qingzhu Village, even if the road is blocked by heavy snow, a round trip can take up to seventeen days, but now it has been twenty-three days.
The most dangerous thing in the northwest is not the big cottages, but the ferocious beasts in the endless snow forest. Otherwise, given the ambitions of the big cottages and town owners in the northwest, wouldn't they head north?
Although cold is not one of the reasons, the bigger reason is the ferocious beasts in the snow forest. No one knows how many ferocious beasts there are in the endless snow forest.
The purpose of the Great Wall built in Daqian is not to block those who were expelled from Daqian, but to block countless ferocious beasts in the snow forest. Every ten years or so, the ferocious beasts in the snow forest will launch a ferocious beast craze. Drive the extra ferocious beasts in the snow forest out of the snow forest and rush towards the Great Wall.
The Great Wall was built to deal with those ferocious beasts!
The Great Wall Legion has therefore become one of the few legions in the Daqian that can still fight. Each generation of them has grown in war. Compared with the local legions, the combat effectiveness of the two is not at the same point.
"Something must have happened!" Zhou Hangjie glanced around and walked towards the house: "Let's talk inside!"
"Yeah!" Zhou Yulan nodded, walked into the house, and closed the door.
"Dad, Brother Qingyun should be fine!" Zhou Yulan's face was full of worry.
Zhou Hangjie frowned when he saw his daughter's appearance. He did not approve of his daughter being with Zhang Qingyun. He had bigger ideas in his mind. Although Zhang Qingyun was his disciple, it was just a tool he used to make his name. That's all.
But now is not the time to talk about this. He said in a low voice: "If it is really those people who do it, Qingyun will be fine!"
"Those people?" Zhou Yulan was a little surprised: "Dad, did you say those guys from Xuanshui Village took action?"
"The third master has long been dissatisfied with the first master. The news from the mining area should have spread to Xuanshui Village. The second master has his heart set on Black Tiger City, but with his character, he should not choose to spread the news to Black Tiger City. Go away!" Zhou Hangjie's eyes were blazing: "The boss thought that his two brothers were with him, but he didn't expect that the two brothers were already thinking about how to sell Qingzhu Village and give himself a new skin!
Behind Xuanshui Village stands the Yin Yang Sect, and it is difficult not to destroy Qingzhu Village!"
"But they all need you, dad, don't they?" Zhou Yulan said with a smile: "In five years, the northwest will be under your control, dad!"
When Zhou Hangjie heard his daughter's words, a trace of pride flashed across his face. If others had said this, he wouldn't have felt anything, but this was said by his daughter, a martial arts genius.
Zhou Yulan continued: "Dad, how about we rescue Brother Qingyun first? Brother Qingyun should be scared half to death!"
Zhou Yulan thought of a few years ago, when Zhang Qingyun was called to kill, the hand holding the knife was shaking, and he did not recover for a few days after the killing. She has not forgotten that situation to this day.
Zhou Hangjie felt a little helpless when he saw Zhou Yulan's constant words to Zhang Qingyun: "It can't be done for the time being, so don't worry! He is safe!"
"Yeah, then I'm relieved!" Zhou Yulan smiled when she heard Zhou Hangjie's assurance: "Dad, what do you want to eat? I'll call!"
"Just get whatever you want, be safe!"
"OK!"
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On the other side, Li Xiang and his men were hiding in the forest not far from the mine, wrapped in a thick layer of clothes. These were clothes obtained from the camp. The Qingzhu Village camp not only had food, ore, but also
There are clothes, not many in number, just fifty sets, and they are clothes prepared for the people who live in the mine.
Now that those who were stationed in the mine had been killed by Li Xiang, these clothes naturally fell into the hands of Xiliang soldiers.
Originally, Prime Minister Li and the militia were supposed to be practicing comfortably in the mines and camps at this time, but just in the morning, Prime Minister Li discovered a large group of red dots at a sentry post in the forest.
The mine was very important, and Prime Minister Li didn't want to lose the mine, so he sent construction workers to set up sentry posts in the forest south of the mine. A sentry post was set up wherever it was suitable for people to walk.
As for the north, west, and east, there is nothing built. The land they are currently in is the northernmost of the entire northwest land forces.
Establishing a sentry post only requires a large number of construction workers. In just half an hour, ten construction workers, under the protection of the militia, established a sentry post contact network in the Nanbian Forest in just a few days.
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There are many beasts in the forest. These beasts are all yellow, but most of these beasts are alone. Li Xiangrang's system will remind him when it finds more than five yellow dots.
More than five yellow dots, even if they are wild beasts, are worth sending people to hunt. With sentries set up, the prey can basically not escape their surveillance.
Just in the morning, Li Xiang received a reminder from the system and found a lot of yellow dots, which were coming towards the mining area.
Li Xiang immediately summoned his men, and all fifty militiamen gathered together. Based on the direction the opponent was walking, they calculated the path the opponent must pass and ambush on both sides.
All in all, it has been more than ten days since they obtained the mining area.
The iron ore they obtained was used to make crude knives, and now all the Xiliang militiamen have replaced them with iron broadswords, carrying javelins with iron spearheads on their backs.
The power of the javelin is very strong, especially with the iron head. It can easily penetrate the fur of wild animals, and it is even easier to penetrate the human body.
Li Xiang climbed up the big tree, followed by five people who had been upgraded to the first level: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.
They were about fifteen meters away from the ground. A rope was tied to a branch, which was a tool for them to get down later. Five spears were placed in front of each of them, and Prime Minister Li's long bow stood on the side.
It's easy to stand down and use his bow skills to kill the enemies below.
Just when everyone including Li Xiang and his entourage could not stand it any longer, a voice finally came from the distance.
Each soldier mobilized the little vital energy in his body, warmed his body, and at the same time prepared for battle.
Li Xiang poked his head out of the tree and took a secret look at the team in the distance. The opponent's team was sparse, his hands were inserted into his clothes, and the weapons around his waist were covered with a layer of ice.
