The rebel army's foremost master craftsman forged a million iron pylons!

Despite his reluctance, Old Man Yu still provided portraits of Li Tian and others.

I have to give it to them.

The lives of the villagers depend on these few pieces of paper.

After finishing the portrait, Old Man Yu seemed to have lost all his energy and collapsed to the ground.

"Is that all? Nothing missing?" Zhao Wu looked at the portraits and then turned to look at Old Man Yu on the ground.

"It's gone! It's really gone!" Old Yu was almost in tears.

"Chen Feng, have several more portraits drawn and post them all over the surrounding towns and villages. A reward of ten taels of silver will be given for any clues provided, thirty taels of silver for anyone who captures a person alive, and fifty taels of silver for anyone who kills a person!"

Zhao Wu triumphantly handed the drawing paper to his personal guard, then mounted his horse and shouted, "Go!"

A dozen or so fast horses galloped south like the wind.

Target: Wolf's Head Fortress!

……

"Wow!"

After the group of fierce-looking armored soldiers left, a deafening cry erupted from the crowd. Some people threw themselves on the corpses and wept bitterly, while others hugged their surviving relatives and wailed.

"Good heavens! Why is living so hard!"

Upon witnessing this human tragedy, Old Man Yu's vision went black, and he collapsed to the ground.

……

"Captain Su, we've found them. There are six in total, and their portraits are here."

Wolf Head Castle,

Zhao Wuxing hurriedly handed several sheets of drawing paper to Su Xiong, his face beaming with pride.

"Wu Laoliu, Chen Jing, Zhao Erbao... Li Tian!"

Su Xiong read out the names on the portrait one by one, but when he read Li Tian's name, he suddenly froze.

The image shows Li Tian with an ordinary face and deep eyes, carrying a broad-backed sword on his back.

When Su Xiong saw the knife, his eyes narrowed sharply.

He suddenly remembered the man and horse corpses with their gear torn apart on the official road of Eagle Beak Ridge.

"This person..." Li Tian pointed to the portrait with his finger, "Have you all heard of him?"

Several squad leaders around him, including Zhao Wu, all came over to look, but none of them recognized him.

"Could it be a new recruit? Wolf Head Fortress has always been garrisoned by new recruits from the rebel army." Su Xiong muttered to himself, but how could a new recruit have such great skills as to kill more than thirty iron cavalrymen in succession?

After thinking for a moment, Su Xiong gave instructions to his subordinates.

"Zhao Wu, take this portrait back to the Sanshui Military Headquarters and ask General Qin to investigate these people's backgrounds. Return to me before nightfall!"

"Li Yu, lead your troops to seal off fifteen nearby villages and set up watchtowers at each intersection!"

"Draw several copies of these portraits and paste them on every wall. I want those traitors from Wolf Head Fortress to have nowhere to escape."

The order was quickly passed down.

Soldiers in full armor patrolled the dozen or so villages near Wolf Head Fortress, and would stop and question anyone they saw on the road.

Have you seen these people in the portrait?

The area around Wolf Head Fortress was filled with an atmosphere of extreme tension and fear.

Su Xiong lived in Wolf Head Fortress, using it as a makeshift military camp.

As expected, Zhao Wu returned before dark, bringing news of Li Tian and the others.

The message was written on a parchment scroll and placed in a bamboo tube.

Su Xiong opened the parchment scroll and took a look—

Squad Leader of the Sixth Platoon, Third Battalion, Right Wing Army of the Loyal and Righteous Army

Zhao Erbao – A new recruit!

Wu Laoliu—a new recruit!

Chen Jing – a new recruit!

……

At the very bottom of the parchment scroll is written: Li Tian is skilled in blacksmithing, possesses immense strength, and is a blacksmith!

Upon seeing this line of small print, Su Xiong's eyes lit up.

It seems the murderer who killed Zhao Deshun has been found.

"Zhao Wu, pass down the order: the reward for Li Tian is increased to one hundred taels of silver, and anyone who finds him will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver. I want him to have no chance of escaping!"

As the orders were issued one after another.

The search for Li Tian and others became even more thorough.

Su Xiong not only brought his own hundred personal guards, but also a thousand soldiers from the Sanshui Military Prefecture, which he scattered around the Wolf Head Fortress.

They conducted daily inspections, almost turning more than a dozen nearby villages upside down.

To Su Xiong's disappointment, Li Tian and his group seemed to have vanished into thin air, and he couldn't find them no matter how hard he looked.

"Damn it! This is really weird."

Su Xiong was so angry that he started cursing.

"Where did those bastards, Li Tian, ​​hide? Did they escape back to Nankai City?"

Criticism is fine!

General Qin's orders, however, must be carried out.

Su Xiong then transferred another thousand men from the Sanshui Military Prefecture to begin plowing the land three feet deep.

There was no trace of them.

one day.

Two days.

……

Seven days passed, and Li Tian and his group still hadn't found a single shoe print. Su Xiong was so anxious that blisters appeared on his lips.

"Keep searching, keep searching for three more days. If we still can't find Li Tian, ​​then we'll go back to the Sanshui Military Prefecture."

Su Xiong became ruthless and issued a death order.

At this moment, inside the ancient tomb,

Bang bang bang!

"Sixth Brother, if this knife is quenched three more times, look how thin the blade is."

"Chen Junshan, give me the pliers over there. Wu Tian, ​​when you're forging, follow your breathing; it'll save you some effort."

……

Inside the ancient tomb, Li Tian was sweating profusely, frantically hammering away at the iron with a large iron hammer, while occasionally giving pointers to the other apprentices.

Behind them, forty-odd blacksmith furnaces were burning brightly, the intense heat causing the air to swirl back, and forty-odd young men, shirtless, were forging all sorts of weapons.

The arsenal has been officially operating for seven days, and a large pile of weapons is stacked in the corner. These weapons were all produced by the arsenal working day and night in recent days.

Inside the ancient tomb, time was completely lost. The blacksmiths only knew how to keep forging and making weapons, completely unaware that Su Sanxiong's men had been searching for them for seven days.

Boom!

When the last longsword was thrown to the ground, the iron provided by the third master of Zhoujiazhuang was used up. Although Li Tian's extraterrestrial meteorite iron was not added, it was still much sharper than ordinary weapons under Li Tian's skillful forging techniques.

Li Tian counted them; there were exactly one hundred and sixty.

"Old Wu, harness the carriage, let's deliver this batch of weapons to Zhoujiazhuang today."

Li Tian called out to Wu Laoliu, and the two hitched up a carriage, placed their weapons on it, and leisurely walked out of the ancient tomb.

Call ~

As soon as I stepped out of the ancient tomb, a mountain breeze blew by.

Wu Laoliu and Li Tian immediately took a deep breath of the fresh air.

"Damn it, I don't know how many days I've been underground, I was so bored."

Wu Laoliu laughed and cursed as he led the horse.

Li Tian smiled slightly, "Stop complaining. We came out here for two reasons: first, to investigate the situation, and second, to go to Zhoujiazhuang to buy some grain."