Ma'anshan on the other side of Wujiang River.
Xiang Yu asked his followers and local officials to stop and rode up the mountain alone.
From here, he can overlook the Wujiang River on the opposite side, but he is not here to pay homage to himself in another parallel time and space, but to build a smelting site.
He explored the mountains on foot for a long time and finally found the large open-pit iron mine that he had known about for a long time.
This place is less than a hundred miles away from Jinling, the main city of the system, and is connected by waterways.
It is perfect to build a smelting site here.
Xiang Yu immediately called up the system panel and spent 800 points to build a smelting site next to the open-pit iron mine.
Seeing the craftsmen in the site getting busy, Xiang Yu came down from the mountain and ordered the county magistrate to supply supplies to the smelting site, and to build a riverside dock and a road down the mountain leading to the dock.
The county magistrate looked at the mine and smelter blankly, scratched his head and said in confusion: Why have I never heard of an iron mine here?
But how dare he ask more questions.
Just do as you are told.
When the Overlord first returned to the east, local officials in Jiangdong thought that taxes would be greatly increased to finance the war, but they did not expect that in the end the taxes were not increased but were reduced by half.
The condition is to supply iron, wood, coal and other resources to the small city built at an unknown time where the Overlord is stationed.
Now there is no need to offer iron as an offering, which is a good thing for the place no matter what.
As wood, iron, brown linen and other raw materials were continuously transported to Jinling, the two-row galley warships in the dock slid into the water one by one like dumplings.
The riverside of Yongjangpo was lined with these warships.
The eight divisions in the Huben Camp have also been redressed one after another.
In Dongchu, there are many manpower suitable to serve as battleship sailors.
They were recruited in batches by Xiang Yu with a high salary, and were trained in batches by the systematic sailors, and then the old ones would lead the new ones.
This high salary is made up of cash and land stamps.
The so-called land ticket is the overlord's promise.
After winning the country, he will redeem the land with the ticket.
As for the source of money, Xiang Yu still generated fifty merchants as in the previous era.
They can earn a lot of silver by operating the items produced by the workshops in Jinling City.
In addition, the Chu army also promulgated detailed regulations on military merit awards, clarifying the conditions for obtaining titles at all levels.
These measures have made the morale of the Huben army unprecedentedly high, and both generals and soldiers hope to go into battle as soon as possible to kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds.
The soldiers of the Huben Army were also reorganized, and the old and weak were transferred to the reclamation army or local county garrison.
The vacant staff have been replenished.
The military merit award regulations also apply to both the settlement army and the county army.
The scale of the reclamation army also expanded to a total of 100,000 troops.
The soldiers were mainly refugees from the Huaisi area of Western Chu.
Once they joined the army, their family members could also be allocated farmland for farming with the army.
In the summer of 201 BC, Xiang Yu and Yu Ji came to Moling County to watch the annual dragon boat race.
This is a custom formed in the vast Chu land to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan of Chu State.
Now it has been decreed as a legal holiday by the overlord.
On the river, more than a dozen dragon boats galloped hard, leaving white trails in the water.
In the end, the championship undoubtedly fell into the hands of the Huben Navy.
Xiang Yu, Zhong Limei, Ji Bu and other generals all stood up to cheer for him.
At this time, a messenger hurriedly came forward to report: "Your Majesty, the Pigeon House in Jinling City has received urgent military information."
Xiang Yu took the letter and read it.
It turned out that the Han army had begun a large-scale attack on Linjiang Kingdom.
Linjiang King and Lieutenant had to urgently ask for help from neighboring Xia Yue.
Xia Yue immediately sent a pigeon to inform Xiang Yu.
In the previous confrontations between Chu and Han, King Linjiang at that time, Gong Wei's father, was the only prince who stayed in the Chu army camp and was not attacked, although he did not actually send troops to help Chu.
So no matter what the considerations are, Linjiang must be saved.
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For more than half a year, Xia Yue lived up to Xiang Yu's expectations and successively conquered large areas of territory in Lujiang and Cangwu counties.
The southernmost point is already close to Zhao Tuo of Nanyue.
In addition, more than 50,000 standing troops were developed in the two counties, and all counties south of the river in Hengshan County were conquered.
He faced Wu Rui, the king of Hengshan, across the river.
It became a powerful barrier to the east and west of Chu.
The moon and stars are sparse, and the dark river is rolling eastward.
Twenty centipede ships and thirty stern ships sailed up the river, escorting hundreds of large ships in the middle, and small boats patrolled around the periphery of the fleet for reconnaissance.
This centipede ship is the common name given to the galley warship by the soldiers and people of Jiangdong.
At this time, Xiang Yu stood on the bow of the boat, staring at the shore motionless.
A navy soldier came to report: "Your Majesty, twenty miles ahead is the mouth of the Han River where the water camp of the Hengshan Kingdom is located."
"Send me the king's order to conduct a reconnaissance.
If there is nothing abnormal, prepare to land."
"promise" Hundreds of large ships docked one after another, and five thousand Chu troops landed one after another.
Then the formation quietly moved forward.
In the process of galloping thousands of miles, Xiang Yu drove close to the left bank in order to avoid being noticed by the Han camp sentry scouts on the other bank.
He hid in the internal water of the left bank's tributaries during the day and only started sailing at night.
Even in order to cover this operation, in Lujiang, the two counties of Kuaiji sent small groups of troops to sneak into the area along the other side of the river, deliberately exposing their traces and attracting most of the scouts.
At this time, because there was a war in Linjiang, Wu Rui, the king of Hengshan, issued a war preparation order early.
All military camps and camps within the territory are on high alert.
The naval camp at the mouth of the Han River is no exception.
A group of soldiers patrolling the outskirts of the camp first spotted the Chu army.
After shouting an alarm of "enemy incoming", these soldiers on the outskirts were killed by the overlord and the Chu cavalry who were leading the way.
Soon, the sound of drums and trumpets sounded urgently in the camp.
The garrison soldiers jumped up from their beds one after another.
Amidst the noise, they took up their weapons and crossbows and started to defend against the wooden fence of the village wall.
The blast archers began to shoot their arrows at several arrow towers in front of the camp.
Amidst the screams, people kept getting hit by arrows and falling.
At this time, a large number of arrows began to be shot from behind the fence.
"The shield cavalry retreats," Xiang Yu used his halberd to deflect a few arrows and shouted loudly.
Four thousand heavy infantrymen with tigers, swords and shields had already formed a tight shield shell with four-foot large shields in their hands.
Seal the front and top of the head tightly.
The soldiers of the Chu army continued to advance rapidly under the cover of the shield formation.
The three hundred Gale Archers also used the turtle shell array as a cover.
When the opponent's arrows flew towards them, they could dodge the arrows by squatting behind the turtle shell array.
At this time, Xiang Yu and a thousand cavalrymen had also turned their horses back to their own formation, out of range of the enemy's archers.
When the Chu army approached the camp, three hundred gale-force shooters began to throw rockets.
The flying fireballs drew dazzling trajectories in the night sky, throwing themselves at the Hengshan National Water Village.
Soon the barracks, military tents, haystacks, etc. in the village quickly burned, and the fire gradually spread.
Amidst the noise and shouts, the ships in the water village began to sail out of the camp one after another, heading towards the mouth of the Han River.
The naval captain's reason for letting the warships evacuate toward the river instead of upstream of the Han River was also very simple.
At this time, there were only sailors and boatmen on the ship, and there were no soldiers.
If they were to go slowly against the current in the narrow Han River, they would have no choice but to evacuate.
It is easy to be picked up by enemy ships and join forces to seize the ship.
On the contrary, it is easy to avoid on the wide river surface.
At this time, five hundred meters upstream from the mouth of the Han River, twenty centipede ships and thirty cockroaches were moored near the shore.
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Like fifty crocodiles lurking.
Points: 1900 System population: including warriors: 2000, shield and sword heavy infantry: 100, spearmen: 100, blast archers: 300, inland sea soldiers 120, merchants 50, a total of 2670 people Population balance: 17530 Building facilities: Iron Age primary palaces, military camps, workshops, Bronze Age high-end residences, pigeon houses, rammed earth city walls, warehouses, primary wineries, primary stables, ordinary shipyards, smelting yards: