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The Black Iron Factory is located in this section in the middle, in a mountain nest. According to Wu Chenglong, this is an iron factory with ten thousand people, and Yang Hao doesn't know how he calculated it. In short, the iron factory does not look large in scale, not the imagined ten-mile steel city, and I haven't even seen several tall iron smelting furnaces. Yang Hao really wants to know how much iron such an iron factory can produce in a year. Among his entourage are three iron smelting experts from the Ordnance Department, the Military and Political Department and the Military Academy.

Yang Hao asked them about this question. The number observed by the experts of the Ordnance Department was 200,000 jin, the Military and Political Department predicted that it was no less than 500,000, and the number of the Military Preparation School was 350,000 jin.

Attacking the iron plant was simpler than imagined. The Hu Camp was from the west and north directions, and the Polu Camp was from the east and south directions, forming a four-sided encirclement, but the focus was only on the west and south directions. The reconnaissance teams of the two battalions conducted detailed tactical reconnaissance in advance and drew a detailed map of the factory area. The Polu Camp took the lead in attacking the factory area, but did not encounter the expected tenacious resistance. The Iron Factory Guard abandoned its weapons and surrendered after a little resistance.

Yang Hao remembered the situation when he attacked Meishan Coal Mine with Meng Bochang a year ago. In that battle, the Tiande Right Army took half an hour and killed and injured 130 people. This time, the two battalions lasted nearly an hour, but there were zero casualties. The owner of the Black Iron Factory had fled without a trace, not only the owner, the accounting manager, the supervisor, the guard captain, the technician and other relevant management personnel were also missing.

Three thousand and five hundred slave workers were locked in the cellar. For three days and two nights, there was a shortage of water and food, and the air was not circulating, hundreds of people died. While Yang Hao ordered the rescue of the injured, he ordered people to block all iron smelting equipment. According to the test by the three experts, most of the iron smelting equipment was intact, and a small number of damaged ones could be used after a little repair.

A hundred thousand kilograms of iron ingots and a large number of semi-finished products were found in the warehouse of the iron plant. Yang Hao asked three experts to carefully calculate the actual output of the iron plant. This time the three people's views were generally consistent: 350,000 kilograms, and the error of the left and right will not exceed 10,000 taels. A senior foreman told Yang Hao that the output of the iron plant last year was 348,000 kilograms, which was very close to the first prediction of Zhan Tianzuo, a young teacher at the Wubei Academy. Yang Hao immediately appointed Zhan Tian as the leader of the preparatory group of the Yongfeng Iron Plant, responsible for using the existing site and equipment of the Black Iron Plant to prepare for the Yongfeng Iron Plant.

Most of the 3,500 slave workers survived and asked about their identities. Most of them were refugees in the Guan area who were abducted by horse bandits. A small number were Uighurs and Tubo prisoners of war. The Tubo people sold Uighur prisoners of war to the iron plant, and the Uighurs also sold Tubo prisoners of war to the iron plant.

As the war was about to come, Yang Hao had no time to liberate slaves. He dispatched students from the two battalions of teaching brigades to the slave labor to find out the components and structure of slave labor, and relied on the original foreman to organize slave labor to protect equipment and protect the factory area, preparing for the early recovery of production.

After solving the iron plant problem, the rest will be dealt with that strange heavy cavalry regiment.

Because the iron plant managers fled in large numbers and the slave workers knew nothing about this cavalry regiment, Yang Hao could only arrange battles against the enemy according to his own judgment. He set up the main battlefield on an open space south of Jiulian Mountain outside the north gate of the iron plant. This was the best location to send troops from Jiulian Mountain to attack the iron plant.

The cavalry of the Tiger Camp and the Polu Camp were concentrated and handed over to Suo'e to command. Suo'e divided it into two groups, east and west, ambushed in a small wood in the northwest corner of the iron plant, and stood on standby to attack. The infantry was commanded by the Tiger Camp's commander, divided into three parts, and camped in a V-shaped formation. The right wing camped on a soil bundle on the east side of the north gate, and dug a trench around the camp for cover. The inside of the trench was filled with sharp wooden stakes. The left wing was close to the north wall of the iron plant, and trenched outside the camp and wooden stakes were also dug. The central army laid the camp outside the north gate of the iron plant to fight head-on. Each battalion dug pits in front of the position and set up tripscars to block and weaken the strength and degree of the Knights' charge. The archers of each battalion were deployed in the form of echelons, and were matched in length, so as to form a concentrated firepower area that does not affect each other.

In addition, each camp is equipped with a team of light infantry holding hook and sickle guns. Once the heavy knights break through the trenches and horse-resisting formations, the light infantry can counterattack.

Yang Hao judged that the number of Skeleton Knights would not be large. After all, Jiulian Mountain is just such a large place and cannot accommodate too much population. After the arrangement was completed, he brought a group of staff and entourage to the city tower at the north gate of the iron plant, which could not only observe the battlefield situation from a high place but also facilitate commanding the battles of each battalion.

Just after noon, the Skeleton Knights sent a scout, which made Yang Hao feel a little excited. The armor worn by the knights is indeed very similar to the outfits of the medieval European heavy-armed cavalry. As for why they appeared in the Tang Dynasty, Yang Hao was not interested in verifying it. Wang Qun and Soe's tactical command ability was definitely not inferior to him. With their command, he was relieved. He was full of confidence in winning, and was even considering how to use this heavy-armed knights of unknown origin in the future.

"Knights, heavy armored knights, how can people believe that they are invincible?"

Guan Suo suddenly heard Yang Hao muttering something.

"Master, what did you say?"

"Oh, nothing," Yang Hao's thoughts were suddenly disrupted, and his expression was a little unnatural.

"I have an idea in my mind. Forget it, let's talk about it after the battle. I can't explain it in a few words." Yang Hao paused, "Have the spy sent out heard the news?"

"A castle appears in the hinterland of Jiulian Mountain, surrounded by cultivated fields, orchards and breeding farms. The castle style is very strange and should not be owned by Middle Earth. I asked them to verify it again, and images will come back soon." The ability to sketch and draw some important reconnaissance targets is a requirement that Yang Hao puts for the intelligence room. After training, most of the spies in the intelligence room have mastered the skills of drawing with tombs. Although the lines are a bit rough, they are much more direct than the plain text narration.

"After verifying, I'll report it to me." Yang Hao's face was full of red light. Guan Suo's description of the situation around the castle further confirmed his previous guess. They were indeed from the distant West.

"——General, the skeleton group came out." The soldiers in charge of looking out appeared in front of them and sent back in flags.

Yang Hao hurriedly looked north, and an infantry wearing five-colored clothes came out of the woods on the southern foot of Jiulian Mountain, with drummers in the queue. Yang Hao was far away and didn't feel anything strange. However, the soldiers of the Right Camp could see clearly and were all shocked. Wang Qun was in command of the Right Camp. Seeing the soldiers in the unknown, he smiled slightly and said to the messenger beside him: "Call the Changbow Team to give them a meeting."

The longbow team of the Tiger Camp was formed in the imitation of the Hedong Army's longbow formation. The number of people was only more than fifty. The establishment time was too short and the soldiers lacked training and were far from reaching the combat power of the Hedong Army. However, it was more than enough to deal with this group of infantry without armor protection.

"Longbow preparation, head-burning, shooting!"

A hundred feet away, a rain of arrows flew out of the right camp, covering the strange colored infantry team. The biggest advantage of the longbow is that it has a long range and can kill enemies from a distance. The weakness is its poor accuracy. When there are too many people, this weakness is not outstanding, and when there are too few people, it is fully exposed.

Many soldiers in the colorful clothes were shot by arrows, but few were injured. They were still dancing strange dances, dancing with dazzling colorful flags, and pounding the iron drum to charge forward.

Wang Qun shook his head and reminded you with a long bow. He still retreated without knowing the difficulty. If there is a way in heaven, you don’t go, and if there is no way in hell, you have to break through. Don’t blame me for being ruthless.

"Switch to the short bow!" The Xining Army's longbow team is two-in-one with ordinary archers. When you pick up the longbow, you will be a longbow team. If you change to the short bow, you will be an ordinary archer. The longbow operation is too difficult and you are still not familiar with it for a while, but you have already mastered it.

"Prepare, put your head in, put it on!"

The arrow rain was round and covered with a cover. The colorful warrior did not have the good luck this time. He shouted for a while and suffered heavy casualties. He fell down the flag, threw the drums, and fell into a desperate situation.

The second wave of arrows was ready again, and the flag officer was ordered to look at Wang Qun and wait for the order. Wang Qun did not raise his hand: "Don't move for now, wait to shoot the cavalry."

Seeing the colorful warriors retreating calmly under his nose, the soldiers were puzzled: Why should the general let them go? Wang Qun naturally didn't need to explain to them. He actually did this because Yang Hao meant: try to hurt people's lives as little as possible, and these people will be useful in the future. Besides, these infantry soldiers who don't even have armor are not a threat at all, and it is really not worth wasting bows and arrows for them.

The long-awaited Skeleton Knights finally appeared. More than 300 people charged in the form of a vanguard. The heavy iron armor made a clanging noise when charging, which shocked the earth. The infantry hiding behind the trench felt frightened.

"Prepare, put your head in, put it on!"

"Prepare, put your head in, put it on!"

"Prepare, parallel, release!"

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I don't know if it was because the soldiers' hands shaking their bowstrings and their iron armor could not be penetrated, but in short, the dense arrows as dense as raindrops did not cause any harm to the charge knights. The blood-colored skeletons drawn on the knight's breastplate swayed and jumped as if they were alive as the war horses ran. Hundreds of blood skeletons rushed towards them with grinning, and the momentum was enough to make the timid soldiers cry.

Although he was prepared in his heart, when Yang Hao saw the Heavy Knights Group charge, he was still very shocked. Especially the hundreds of beating blood skeletons had an indescribable effect. Guan Suo, Feng Yi and others couldn't help but scream in horror at the same time.

Yang Hao coughed twice, and he was very dissatisfied with everyone's performance. The old saying goes, "The generals collapsed in front of him, but his expression remained unchanged." A few skeleton cavalry scared you like this, how could you expect you to give me advice on the ever-changing battlefield?

Everyone felt Yang Hao's dissatisfaction and put away the horror on their faces, but the fear in their hearts still did not diminish at all.

After confirming that the opponent's bows and arrows did not cause fatal damage to their heavy armor, the Knights began to line up and charge to the right battalion.

Wang Qun ordered the hook and sickle gunman to line up to meet the enemy. Yang Hao told him that the biggest weakness of the heavy armored cavalry was the four bare legs of horses. As long as the legs were injured, the horse's knights would become a pile of unmovable scrap iron. Not to mention using a knife to use a sword, even if they were burned by firewood, they could kill them.

"Kill!" The hook and scythe gunman and the heavy armored cavalry had their first head-on collision.
Chapter completed!