Chapter 71: Iron Pagoda

As the New Year approached.

Dingning Pass also received the gift sent by Chu Feng.

Dingyuan General Zhao Ping had not only shown him kindness by recognizing his talent, but had also taught him martial arts and saved his life.

To be precise, Dingning Pass was his family.

On this day.

One hundred jars of Life-Day were delivered to Zhao Ping's residence.

Along with a letter sent by Chu Feng.

Zhao Ping opened a jar of Life-Day at his residence and drank freely with his various Deputy Generals.

"Wow, what excellent wine!"

"This is the kind of wine a real man should drink; all other wines are just made of water!"

The generals expressed great satisfaction with the wine sent by Chu Feng.

They loved this wine too much.

It was a thousand, no, ten thousand times better than the wine outside!

"Heh heh, good lad, you still remember us!"

Zhao Ping gave a faint smile and swallowed the wine in his bowl in one gulp.

The spicy, stinging sensation burned his stomach, and an incomparable fragrance filled every one of his cells.

Such a marvelous feeling, as if he were living in heaven.

Before they knew it.

A jar of wine had already been completely finished by them.

"General, this wine..."

Zhao Ping glanced at his subordinates, the few Deputy Generals: "Each of you gets three jars, the rest belong to me!"

"Don't do this, General!"

The generals cried out that it wouldn't do.

With so much wine, only giving three jars to each person was truly a bit unreasonable.

In the end!

Under the tyranny of Zhao Ping.

The few men silently and cautiously carried away their three jars of wine.

The remaining wine was taken directly into Zhao Ping's possession.

"Sigh, I truly regret sending you lad to Anwu County, otherwise..."

Zhao Ping chuckled.

The letter Chu Feng wrote mentioned Xu Hu.

He asked if Xu Hu was still in the military camp.

Zhao Ping recalled the instructions Xu Hu had left behind back then.

Helpless, he had no choice but to respond to Chu Feng that Zhao Hu had gone missing.

"Sigh, old Zhao!"

"It's a pity you won't be able to drink this lad's wine!"

Zhao Ping sighed.

Afterward, he silently opened another jar of Life-Day and drank by himself.

Anwu County.

Today was the New Year.

Everyone had rarely given themselves a holiday.

Everyone gathered together to enjoy the joy and relaxation brought by the New Year.

The soldiers in the barracks also set up large pots, boiling fragrant beef and mutton.

Except for the soldiers who needed to be on duty.

Chu Feng also gave every soldier a certain amount of Life-Day.

Firstly, to ward off the cold.

Secondly, to let them relax a bit.

Inside the barracks.

Chu Feng, Lu Shuwan, Zhu Kang, Xiang Yuan, and Qiu Ming.

The five of them sat in a circle.

They toasted and drank.

The table was filled with all kinds of dishes.

Some were even dishes Chu Feng had cooked according to his own memories.

After tasting them, everyone praised them endlessly.

They exclaimed that Chu Feng was an all-around talent.

"Sigh, what a pity, fine wine and good food, but missing a beautiful woman!"

"Hahaha, old Zhu, your true colors are showing, aren't they? And to think you're a scholar."

"So what if I am!"

Zhu Kang hiccuped from the wine, "The Sage said, food and sex are human nature; this is just common sense. Besides, I'm not a monk, why shouldn't I be able to take a wife!"

"That is true, but I wonder which young lady you have taken a fancy to, Master Zhu?"

"Sigh!"

Zhu Kang sighed, "I fell for Lady Ziran of Wangyue Pavilion, but it's a pity she is gone, and Wangyue Pavilion was destroyed in one fell swoop!"

Seeing Zhu Kang so dejected.

Chu Feng told Zhu Kang about the situation he had encountered in Yizhou.

Upon learning that Ziran was actually a fox demon, Zhu Kang's state of mind completely collapsed.

"Ah!!!!"

"My Lady Ziran!"

"Ah ah ah ah ah..."

Zhu Kang, a grown man, wept bitterly.

Watching him, Chu Feng felt a pang of heartache.

Aside from urging him to grieve in moderation, there was nothing else he could say to him.

"Come, Old Chu, drink to your heart's content with me today!"

Zhu Kang turned his sorrow and anger into drinking capacity.

He naturally understood the point that humans and demons are of different paths.

So he could only use the power of alcohol to forget the beauty in his heart.

"Old Zhu, let's get drunk today, and in the future, please pull yourself together; we still have many things that need to be done!"

"Rest assured, I can handle it!"

Zhu Kang stood up and said, "I am still waiting for you to lead the army to wipe out the Turkic, recover the lost territory, and revitalize the Anwu Army! I leave it to you all!"

"Well said, cheers!"

"Cheers!"

The few of them drank it all in one gulp.

The atmosphere suddenly became lively.

"General, thank you for your promotion and cultivation; without you, there would be no today for me, Xiang Yuan!"

"That's right, General, everything we have was given by you; in the future, even if we have to climb a mountain of blades or descend into a sea of fire, we will never frown."

"Haha, we are our own brothers, why be so polite!"

Chu Feng gave them both a punch; they were his own people, so why use such polite words.

Next came the round of competitive drinking.

Zhu Kang was the first to be defeated.

He was carried home by two attendants.

Next was Lu Shuwan.

She could not hold her liquor either, so she had no choice but to excuse herself and go back to rest.

Then came Qiu Ming and Xiang Yuan respectively.

Both were drunk under the table by Chu Feng one after another and were also carried away by soldiers to rest.

Only Chu Feng remained sitting by the wine table.

"Sigh, I didn't expect the Squad Leader to have gone missing!"

Chu Feng could not help but think of the figure of Xu Hu in his mind.

This man who taught him martial arts and cultivation techniques.

He had also thought that the other party was no ordinary person.

Now that he had gone missing, he did not know what he had actually gone to do.

Another period of time passed.

The Heavy Armor forged at the workshop had already taken initial shape, and Chu Feng immediately set about building the Heavy Cavalry.

The Heavy Cavalry was the trump card force in the army.

Every soldier had to be the elite of the elite.

Even their mounts had to be top-quality horses.

After all, what they had to carry was heavy armor.

On the drill ground.

The Heavy Cavalry had already begun to assemble.

Every Heavy Cavalryman was equipped with three auxiliary soldiers and a configuration of three warhorses.

Even their food and treatment were the best in the entire army.

To build such a formidable force, one naturally had to pay a high price.

Just to build this unit, Chu Feng had already spent a lot of money.

Fortunately, there was the ransom from the Turkic, the treasure he snatched from the Wolf King, and the money earned from selling wine recently.

Only in this way could he maintain the consumption of the Heavy Cavalry.

Soon, the Heavy Cavalry displayed their majestic power.

Wherever they passed, not a blade of grass grew.

Ordinary soldier units simply could not block their charge.

"Is this the power of the Heavy Cavalry?"

Lu Shuwan said with a face full of surprise.

She was not unfamiliar with Heavy Cavalry; there was a unit of Heavy Cavalry at Pingjing Fortress, but it was a pity she had never seen them.

Seeing them for once today, it brought her a very huge shock.

"Old Chu, have you given this Heavy Cavalry a name?"

"Naturally, I have."

"Oh? What name?"

Lu Shuwan asked curiously.

"Iron Pagoda!"

"Iron Pagoda!"

"That's right!"

Chu Feng nodded and said, "Each of these Heavy Cavalry is like an iron tower; in the future, they will become a nightmare for those alien tribes!"

In a dynasty from his past life.

The Iron Pagoda was the Jurchen's great weapon against the Central Plains dynasties.

It brought immense destruction to the Central Plains dynasties of that time.

Here.

He wants to lead this Iron Pagoda to teach these alien tribes a good lesson.

Let them also experience the taste of being trampled by the iron hooves of the Pagoda.

"Although the Iron Pagoda is powerful, they are a minority after all. Most of our soldiers are ordinary people newly recruited; I'm afraid it will be very difficult to form a massive combat force in a short time!"

"Yes! You are right!"

Lu Shuwan pointed out the difficulty within the troops with pinpoint accuracy.

This Iron Pagoda was still the group of veteran soldiers Chu Feng had brought out initially.

The remaining soldiers were all ordinary grain farmers recruited within Anwu County.

Although they had undergone a period of training, I am afraid there is still a long way to go before they can be trained into an elite force.

"If only there were Pills, that would be great!"

Pills can increase strength in a short period of time.

It is just a pity that they do not have many Pills left on their side.

"Report!"

"General, someone has come from outside to find you, saying they are an old acquaintance of yours!"

Just at this moment.

A messenger soldier came to report.