Great Martial Arts Auxiliary System

Chapter 349 Wushan Iron Mine

three days later

Noon
Wushan Iron Mine

This is the largest iron mine in the barren state, and the mine covers a very large area. The barren state has always been an export place for iron ore in southern Xinjiang.

About [-]% of the iron needed by the five states in southern Xinjiang was produced in the barren state. The reason why Dayu had to take the barren state back then.

The main reason is that the barren state is rich in iron ore resources.

Huangzhou was the hometown of Nanman back then. Because of the rich iron ore, Nanman's refining and management industry was very developed.

This also caused Dayu to crown the iron tools of all ethnic groups, and once met his opponent in Nanman.

At that time, because the Nanman had the advantages of fighting and fighting, and because the Nanman tribe was easy to kill and lighten their lives, the Nanman was once the foreigner who was under the northern captives and made Yu the most jealous.

That's why Dayu mobilized his army to attack the Nanman with all his strength, and even directly drove the Nanman into the deep mountains and occupied the vast barren state.

Over the years, although the Nanman clan did not have a large source of iron ore, the art of smelting and curing has not been lost, by purchasing raw iron from Dayu traders.

In order to be able to smelt the few iron ore to produce better weapons, so that their family members can not lose the wind when fighting Dayu's army.

After a hundred years of continuous research, the weapons held by the Nanman clan are even better than those used by Dayu's army.

Before the Wushan Iron Mine was occupied by the Nanban, no less than 10 people mined here all the year round to provide iron ore, the raw material for ironware needed by the people and the army in southern Xinjiang.

After the Nanman occupied this place, they were also afraid that Dayu's army would come over soon, so they increased the number of people here by more than ten times.

In order to increase the speed of mining and iron smelting, Nanban placed most of their own iron smelters and blacksmiths in the Wushan Iron Mine.

The purpose is to be able to forge weapons as soon as possible for the soldiers of the Southern Barbarians fighting on the front line.

However, unfortunately, not long ago, due to sudden changes in the situation in southern Xinjiang, the Nanban suffered heavy losses in Qiguan.

In order to prevent accidents, most of the Nanban refiners and blacksmiths left with most of the iron ore and returned to the mountains.

Only a small number of Nanman refiners and blacksmiths and soldiers guarding the iron mine remained, but basically, the refined iron would be transported away every few days.

And every iron mine in the barren state has a refinery, which is specially used to smelt raw ore and extract iron. The seven iron mines in the entire barren state add up to no less than tens of thousands of refiners.

Such a huge iron-making team, Shangguan Qiuyu would not let it go, he learned from Iron One that although there are iron mines in his fief.

However, they didn't mine it. The reason is that they have no experience in this field, and all their weapons are purchased through the four major merchants, Lieutenant Chi's.

Every few years, my family would spend a huge amount of money to buy a large number of various weapons from Yuchi's family, which made Shangguan Qiuyu couldn't help complaining.

In this way, the strength of one's own family may have been clearly known by interested people, which is extremely detrimental to the development of one's own family.

The army is the capital of one's own life, and weapons are the capital of soldiers' life. This is related to one's lifeline, and it is best to be able to control it in one's own hands.

I don't want to make money from it, I just want to be self-sufficient, so that I can not be restricted and manipulated by others.

Moreover, in this way, the number of their own troops will not be known to outsiders, making it difficult to figure out. This makes those who are interested in not knowing their own strength dare not take action easily.

Therefore, after capturing the Wushan Iron Mine, these refiners and Nanman blacksmiths were all isolated by Shangguan's Qiuyu.

He would not let one of these people go, let alone give them a chance to escape.

In an iron mine, Nanman even arranged [-] Nanman soldiers to guard it. This shows how much Nanman attaches importance to Wushan Iron Mine.

According to subsequent statistics, there are nearly 50 Dayu soldiers and nearly 90 young men in the Wushan Iron Mine.

What Shangguan Qiuyu didn't expect was that in less than two months, nearly 10 people died tragically in the mining process due to exhaustion.

Nanman respected Dayu's soldiers who dared to fight to the death, but they were extremely strict with those who surrendered.

Among the dead, soldiers accounted for almost half of them, and the number of dead people was much higher than that of ordinary people who were forcibly plundered.

The reason is that the working time of the soldiers is one-third longer than that of ordinary people, and at the same time, the rest time is also one-third less than that of ordinary people.

Therefore, when Shangguan Qiuyu entered the Wushan Iron Mine, a group of soldiers discovered that someone had come to rescue them.

Almost fearless of death, they all rushed towards the Southern barbarian soldiers regardless of life and death. Because of their weak bodies, every time they killed a Southern barbarian soldier, they often had to pay the price of several people.

However, even so, these soldiers who had been tortured by the soldiers of the Southern Barbarians still could not be timid.

In the end, nearly 50 soldiers were killed, and nearly 20 people died. The reason why so many people died was because Shangguan Qiuyu finally stopped all his own iron guards.

Asking those soldiers to fight the Southern barbarian soldiers by themselves, Tieyi and the others didn't understand why their major general stopped them halfway through the fight.

Of course, Shangguan Qiuyu didn't explain that much to them.

Surrendering pawns, what is surrendering pawns, in addition to the generals who are afraid of death and ordering surrender, the soldiers themselves are timid and afraid of death.

That's why the meaning of surrender came into being, and the word surrender came from the loss of blood.

And the reason why Shangguan Qiuyu didn't let his own Tiewei and Yinglao take action was that he wanted to use this to stimulate their inner blood.

Let them have the courage to take up arms again and fight the enemy. Only a bloody army is what Shangguan Qiuyu wants.

What he wants is a pack of bloodthirsty wolves, not a pack of lambs to be slaughtered.

After saving them again, Shangguan Qiuyu asked his iron guard to tell the soldiers and common people his identity.

At the same time, he also told them that they would be moved to their own fief, and the soldiers and common people who heard the news were a little surprised by Shangguan Qiuyu's identity.

He didn't have any resistance to being relocated to the Shangguan family's fief, after all, it was better to be there than to be in this precarious mine.

Shangguan Qiuyu didn't tell them that they were already his slaves and their life and death were in my hands.

After all, everyone knew clearly in their hearts, but Shangguan's family had a good reputation in Dayu.

In addition, if they didn't become slaves of Lord Zhen Guo Shangguan's family, they would either die of exhaustion here, or be sold to other places, and they still couldn't escape the status of slaves.

As for escaping, there are wars everywhere in southern Xinjiang, where can he go, it is better to stay in the fiefdom of Shangguan's family, with the protection of the Shangguan's family, the Lord of the Town, at least he can live a peaceful life.

This is the voice of the common people. In troubled times, people's lives are like worthless, common people who live in the frontier and have suffered from foreign invasion for generations.

For them, a stable life is what they yearn for most.

As for whether some people would be reluctant to part with their wives, children, and children, Shangguan Qiuyu hoped that after they were resettled, their wives, children, and children could also move to their fiefdom.

Of course, these are things to follow.

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(End of this chapter)