In the base area, all the Han people did not live in winter and practiced, studied, and worked every day.
Because you can eat mutton every now and then, you can eat two dry meals every day until you are 70% to 80% full, and many people have become strong.
Huang Yi takes some people around every day, and rarely comes back empty-handed. He always hunts gazelles, goats, rabbits, roe deer and other prey.
The blacksmith workshop was built in the abandoned military fort, and it was steaming every day. Lan Jinkui, Qi Dashan, Qi Xiaoshan, and seventeen or eight young Han men were all sweating profusely.
Half of these young adults had been apprentices in the blacksmith shop, and two of them had already graduated.
The young blacksmiths were all making farm tools. Lan Jinkui and Qi Dashan, the most skilled, made mini guns according to the drawings drawn by Huang Yi.
It is relatively easy to make farm tools, but the gun barrel Huang Yi requires is not simple.
First, the Su steel must be repeatedly forged with a sledgehammer to increase the density of the material, and then the gun barrel can be drilled.
The two old masters tried while researching, but unfortunately they worked for nearly a month and still couldn't make one that met the quality requirements.
Huang Yi was not discouraged. If he couldn't do it in one month, then he would give it two to three months. As long as he completed a rifled barrel when Su Gang ran out, it would be victory.
He has realized that the current rifling drill bits are not hard enough and the craftsmanship is not good enough. The rifled gun must be made carefully by masters like Lan Jinkui and Qi Dashan. Whether it can be completed depends not only on craftsmanship but also on good luck.
This production method is not only too costly but also directly makes it difficult to mass produce.
Therefore, Huang Yi recognized the reality and did not expect to have a hot weapon army using rifled guns in a short time.
Bows and arrows, bird guns, Lumi guns, lifting guns, squatting tiger cannons, French cannons and other equipment that the Ming Dynasty had are the mainstream.
In fact, Ming Dynasty's weapons were not backward at all. The main reason for its failure was that it was extremely corrupt.
Soldiers who serve the country are despised, their military pay is deducted at all levels, and they are unable to eat enough to feed their families. They naturally break up when they confront Jian Nu. How can we expect them to be loyal to the country?
Huang Yi believes that if he shares the joys and sorrows with all the soldiers and tells them heroic stories every day, such a team will be able to fight bravely.
There has always been education in the base area.
Women are also learning and training with Huang Yi and Wang Baishan. They are still sewing backpacks out of cowhide and sheepskin according to the shape of Huang Yi's backpack.
Huang Yi's request is that everyone should have a share of this kind of backpack, and first ensure that young adults and young men can wear backpacks and participate in battles.
There is no cotton on the prairie, but there is a lot of wool. Women basically spin wool and weave felt.
Huang Yi once instructed Zhang to knit a natural sweater with wool and wear it on top of the stab-proof jacket. The inside of the jacket suddenly felt much warmer.
Knit a pair of woolen trousers and add a body armor and cotton armor, and you won't have to worry about the severe cold of -20 degrees Celsius.
Huang Yi doesn't know how to knit sweaters, but he knows how to do so because he often saw his wife using bamboo needles to knit sweaters.
The vast majority of Han women are ingenious and know that sweaters are very warm when worn close to the body and can be woven by hand using a few thin bamboo sticks. They all come to Zhang to learn the technology.
Then everyone's ingenuity came to light, and many women used their imaginations in their labor.
In less than two months, there were several types of needles, including Zhi, Yong, Shuang, Quan, Peng, the brothers Hu Xiaochuan, Wang Baishan, etc. all had a white and slightly yellow sweater.
This is the natural color of wool.
Humans are social animals and are actually most afraid of loneliness.
The settlement area in the base area was crowded and lively. In the large and warm classroom, women gathered together to knit and talk and laugh. Of course Bi Gu liked it.
The three children finally had a new playmate, and they refused to leave once they arrived.
The six members of the Bi family no longer live in the thatched huts on the mountain col, but have moved to the base area to live in small nests.
Bi Daxi was the happiest during this period, because he had friends of similar age such as Zhang Dong, Qi Xiaoshan, Huang Dazhi, etc., and he could read and listen to stories.
This young man grew up in the mountains and climbed mountains and ridges as if on flat ground. He had learned archery since he was a child and was talented in this area. His skills were not inferior to the Mongolian "Zhebie".
Huang Yi discovered his specialty and rewarded him with a powerful walking bow and two full arrows.
Although the base area was simple and crude, Bi Zitong felt an indescribable feeling...
how to say?
He is uneducated and cannot speak!
This is actually a positive spirit!
Bi Zitong saw that Huang Yi seemed to like Bi Daxi, so he shamelessly asked Huang Yi to accept Bi Daxi as his disciple.
Huang Yi originally started with the mode of taking in servants, and changed the names and surnames of Zhi, Yong, Shuang, Quan, and Peng.
Later, I felt that he was a time traveler and should have the mind to look at the world and embrace all rivers. There was no need to do this, so I didn't change anyone's name.
In ancient times, the relationship between teachers and students was very important, and those who deceived their teachers and destroyed their ancestors could not survive.
Huang Yi taught everyone literacy and arithmetic, so he was naturally their teacher.
Bi Zitong asked Bi Daxixing to worship the master to further strengthen the master-disciple relationship, and Huang Yi certainly accepted it.
Bi Daxi's apprenticeship ceremony was a leopard he hunted after getting a strong bow.
Huang Yi accepted the meeting gift and gave him a pair of leather armor in return.
In the following days, everyone was either working or practicing combat skills, and Huang Yi was hanging around all day long.
Bi Daxi is a local and has lived in this mountainous area for more than ten years. Of course he is the best guide.
In addition to Bi Daxi, Huang Yi sometimes brings fully armed Zhi, Yong, Shuang, Quan, Hu Xiaochuan, etc. when he goes out.
Sometimes I take Huang Dapeng, Hu Xiaogu, Zhang Dong, Zhao Yong, Zuo Guanghu, etc., anyway, I take at least ten people with me every time I go out.
It’s impossible not to bring so many people.
Because Wang Baishan had already learned from Bi Zitong and his son that several groups of horse thieves had their dens in the mountains.
He was worried that Huang Yi would be killed by horse thieves when he went out, so whenever Huang Yi went out, he must bring at least ten guards with helmets and armor.
Little did he know that Huang Yi searched the mountains several times just to find and observe the lair of horse thieves, and that hunting was just a side trip.
Bi Zitong was familiar with the nearby mountain people and had introduced the situation to more than a dozen households. During this period, seven households of mountain people came to seek refuge with their families.
There are eleven people in these seven households, with a population of thirty-seven.
They all longed to live a pastoral life where men farmed and women weaved, and they all came because of Huang Yi's promise to allocate acres of land to those who participated in land reclamation.
These families have lived in the mountains for many years, and are actually unbearably lonely.
When they came to the base area, just the popularity here made all the young people no longer willing to go back to the mountains.
Huang Dazhi and Bi Daxi became chief and corps commander respectively, and their subordinates were all young mountain men.
These people have good physical fitness. They are all hard-working children who have participated in hunting and gathering wild fruits since childhood. After getting the powerful walking bow, they all couldn't put it down.
After just a few days of acclimatization training, these teenagers who have been hunting with hunting bows for a long time can master the walking bow proficiently.
Their archery accuracy was only inferior to that of Bi Daxi and Bi Zitong, but was on par with the brothers Huang Dazhi and Hu Xiaochuan.
Of course, this is just foot shooting. If it is better than mounted shooting, these young mountain people are far behind.
Huang Yi does not insist on mounted archery, because the power of the mounted bow is much smaller than that of the foot bow.
He hopes to acquire excellent archers and then mix them with musketeers. They can throw feather arrows, shoot horizontally with muskets, and shoot shotguns from the Crouching Tiger Cannon to form a three-dimensional long-range strike, making it difficult for the enemy to parry.
