However, after allocating walking bows to nine young mountain people, Huang Yi no longer had bows and arrows in his hands.
He didn't want to spend money to buy bows and arrows, but wanted to capture them by hunting down horse bandits.
In Huang Yi's yurt, a huge sand table seven feet wide and one foot long gradually took shape. This is a thumbnail of a 150-mile radius centered on the base area.
The lair locations of the seven horse thieves including Shu Budai, Luo Buqi, Beitian Wang, Cheng Duyan, Ma Yaozi, etc. are clearly marked.
Horse thieves do not distinguish between races, including Han, Mongolian, Qiang, and Tungus.
Among the seven groups of horse thieves, the leaders of two groups are Mongolians, and the remaining five groups should be Han Chinese. It is estimated that they all used fake names or bandit numbers.
During this period, no horse thieves came to the base to provoke, so they had no grievances against Huang Yi.
It's a pity that "this man is not guilty, but he is guilty of having a jade". How can the gold and silver treasures, food, weapons, and armor of the horse thieves' lair be missing?
With the population increasing, Huang Yi, the head of the family, must take precautions. The more money, food and weapons he has, the more peace of mind he will have.
Therefore, the fight against horse thieves must be regarded as a win-win move for training troops and generating income.
Aren't you worried about being beaten by horse thieves?
If you can't even defeat a mere horse thief, how can you talk about development?
Huang Yi also fantasized about starting from scratch, eventually overthrowing the slaves, annexing Mongolia, annihilating the bandits, swallowing up the Ming Dynasty, sweeping across Europe and Asia, opening up North and South America, and creating a new era for the Han people.
The ambition is high, but the road ahead is difficult. The top priority is to run the base area.
After the twentieth day of the first lunar month, Huang Yi thought he should go to Zhangjiakou.
That's because the blacksmiths ran out of materials.
Huang Yi has another gold and silver treasure worth thousands of taels in his hands, and the heads of ninety-seven young and middle-aged Tatars. He will definitely be able to buy and exchange for steel and grain.
The base area now has a population of more than a thousand. Although a lot of cattle, sheep, horses and grain have been plundered, and grain has been demanded from surrendered slave owners as compensation, it is not enough to eat the autumn harvest.
In fact, this is not quite accurate.
If according to the standards of the Han slave period, the food, cattle and sheep in hand can definitely last until the autumn.
But what’s the point of living half-starved?
Huang Yi wanted to make everyone under his command stronger.
How can you be strong when you are hungry every day?
You have to eat at least two meals. Only when you are 70% to 80% full can you have the strength to train, reclaim land, build reservoirs, bake cement, smelt steel...
Book friends may find it strange why they always say to eat two meals, shouldn’t they be three meals a day?
In fact, before the Republic of China, most areas had two meals a day.
After liberation, there were still many places in China where people had two meals a day.
There is an ancient town in Huang Yi's hometown. Before the 1970s and 1980s, people still had two meals a day.
There are also two birthday banquets, breakfast at eight or nine in the morning, and dinner at four or five in the afternoon.
When he was about ten years old, he went to the ancient town to celebrate the birthday of an elder and Huang Yi was starving.
He thought he would have lunch soon, so he didn't eat much breakfast. Who knows, he actually had dinner without lunch.
Before traveling through time, Huang Yi had skipped three meals a day and switched to two meals a day for seven or eight years in order to control his weight.
Therefore, in the late Ming Dynasty, people had two meals a day, which made them 70 to 80% full, and they had meat every now and then to satisfy their cravings. These days were simply wonderful.
Seeing that the Han people who were no longer slaves gained energy and spirit, their bodies became better and better day by day.
Huang Yi decided to continue training his troops, and he would wait until he went to Zhangjiakou to buy grain, iron, and gunpowder before starting the job of fighting horse thieves.
He is a modern man, superstitious about firepower.
It is impossible to build a machine gun at this time, and there is no firepower, but it is completely possible to use black powder for blasting.
Huang Yi has carefully studied all the lairs in Ma Thief Mountain, and they all have dangerous points that are easy to defend but difficult to attack.
If there is enough gunpowder for blasting, seizing the lairs of horse thieves and mountain bandits can greatly reduce casualties.
Even though Huang Yi already has a population of more than a thousand, he is reluctant to make any unnecessary sacrifices.
Buy more gunpowder and fill the wine jar with some stones to make a soil bomb.
When the horse thieves' lair was faced with an attack, the sword and shield hand held the iron shield to cover the approach of the bombardier. When they were more than ten meters away from the bandits' stronghold wall, they lit the fuse and threw it out.
How could it be possible that horse bandits and mountain bandits could withstand the killings caused by this thing?
Now Huang Yi has no less than eight hundred Han people and Mongolians, minus the children who are too young and the elderly who are too weak, who can become a fighting force when defending the territory.
Several groups of horse thieves nearby were also observing the base area while Huang Yi was observing them.
Huang Yi has actually discovered this many times, but in order not to alert the enemy, but also to avoid making enemies before gaining a firm foothold.
Therefore, Huang Yi only drove away the spies and did not bother to capture the horse thieves.
Things were different after the big plan to suppress horse bandits and bandits was started. As long as strangers were found sneaking around the base area, they would be arrested and slowly tortured. Anyone who dared to resist arrest would be shot to death.
Judging from the heated scene of the geothermal heat, the horse thieves must have noticed the scenes of hundreds of people lining up, running and practicing, practicing thrusting, archery and spear throwing.
It is absolutely impossible for them to start robbing the whole people and their numbers are much larger than theirs.
Even so, Huang Yi had to leave behind a few real Mongolian knights and half of the Han people who could fight when he went out.
Zuo Guanghu, Huang Dapeng, Exun Zhaqin, Dumbu, Yamoboli, Gubul and other elites equipped with iron armor and rich in combat experience stayed behind.
Zhao Yong, Li Wanquan and all the thirty fire gunners they trained stayed behind.
They took Huang Dazhi and Bi Daxi with them, but the nine young mountain archers led by them stayed behind.
That's because these nine people have ridden horses too little and have no riding skills.
Bi Daxi was different. He often rode horses when he was a child, because Bi Zitong owned a war horse when he fled to the mountains.
Later, the war horse died of old age, and the Bi Zitong family, who could barely survive, no longer had any horses.
If the base area is attacked, Huang Dapeng, Wang Baishan, Zuo Guanghu, etc. who stayed behind can organize hundreds of troops to fight back.
It is estimated that the nearby horse bandits and bandits will not get any advantage if they come in gangs.
Huang Yi set out, taking one hundred and fifty people with him.
There are eleven armored knights including Zhi, Yong, Shuang, Quan, Zhang Dong, Yue Mufei, Huxiaochuan brothers, Zarahe, Gerda, Langeha, etc., and sixty-one people are equipped with leather armor. Or cotton armor.
In order to be able to transport more grain and refined iron, they brought 270 war horses and pack horses and pulled 120 carts.
The purpose of the trip to Zhangjiakou before the spring plowing is to buy and exchange another thousand shi of wheat, ten thousand kilograms of fine iron, and one thousand kilograms of gunpowder. If possible, I would like to buy some bird blunderbuss or Rumi blunderbuss. .
There are a few more important things.
Buy seeds of vegetables, fruits, broad beans, peanuts, sunflowers and other crops, and buy moso bamboo in large quantities.
Moso bamboo is not valuable, but there are moso bamboo forests everywhere in the pass but not outside the pass. The moso bamboo is dried and split into strips, and treated with some antiseptic treatment, and will be used as concrete reinforcement in the future.
There is another idea that I don’t know if it can be implemented.
Huang Yi likes to read history books, especially information about the late Ming Dynasty. He knows that during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn were cultivated in Fujian.
Of course, these crops were not called by this name in the Ming Dynasty.
This is not important. What is important is that Xu Guangqi has tried to grow these new crops in Gyeonggi.
In the late Ming Dynasty, there were really few officials and many animals.
Xu Guangqi should be one of the rare highlights.
Not only did he know a lot about the past and present, he was also a great scientist who opened his eyes to the world. He cultivated new crops not for profit at all, but because he really wanted to benefit hundreds of millions of people.
