The strange place name aroused Geng Yueru's curiosity, and she asked: "'Basic Area'? What is that place?"
"Huang Yi rescued hundreds of thousands of Han people from the Mongols some time ago, and he took those Han people to find a place to settle in the mountains.
It is said that there is nothing there, and they will use their own hands to cultivate fertile land, build water conservancy and build a city! "
"Is he so ambitious?"
"I don't think so! On the contrary, I think he is just whimsical!"
"Why?"
"How miserable is it outside the Pass? There are so many Tatars. Building cities, reclaiming wasteland, and building water conservancy facilities, which of them is a day and night effort?
There was no city to defend, the Tatars came and everything was lost.
If your father and mother really promise you to him, I will definitely ask him to come and serve as an official in the pass. "
"What if he refuses?"
"If we can't help him, how can my sister suffer outside the customs? Let alone be in danger!"
"Third brother! I'm not afraid of hardship. I think it's quite interesting to build a city by myself!"
"You are so young, you can't even imagine how difficult this must be! How dangerous!"
"Husband and wife are of the same mind, no matter how hard and dangerous they are, it doesn't matter!"
"Ah? My parents haven't agreed yet. Do you think you and your husband are of the same mind?"
"Third brother..."
That was the day when Geng Zhanghua and Geng Yueru talked about the base area.
The men, horses and carts from the base area met Huang Yi's large army.
Good guy, there are three hundred carts coming to the base, and all the horses are dispatched.
In addition to Huang Dapeng, Zuo Guanghu, Li Wanquan, Exun Zhaqin and other eighteen armored knights, there were also four hundred young adults, more than half of whom were equipped with leather or cotton armor.
Huang Yi has been in high tension these eleven days.
He actually asked for it.
The main reason is that Huang Yi is really reluctant to throw away some of the supplies.
Therefore, all the carts are fully loaded or even overloaded, and many young and middle-aged people even take the initiative to carry some food on their backs.
Those women without bound feet refused to ride in the car, and dozens of relatively strong women even walked with some supplies on their backs.
Although everyone worked hard, due to road conditions, even if they got up early and stayed late, they could only walk more than forty miles a day.
Huang Yi gets up the earliest every day and goes to bed the latest.
Because he wanted to explore the road, he had to climb high to search within a radius of fifteen miles. After camping at night, he had to climb high and use night vision binoculars to search the surrounding area to prevent being attacked by night.
The leader is the backbone of a team. Huang Yi, the leader, is not only brave and good at fighting, but also endures hardship before enjoying himself, and is loved by everyone.
I don’t know if Huang Yi’s work of eliminating traces when sweeping up, deliberately leaving horse traces to mislead the direction, etc. was effective.
All in all, the retreat was relatively smooth. After eliminating the Jian Nu who were following them, no new enemies were discovered.
With the addition of more than 400 young and middle-aged men, 300 carts, and 800 to 900 oxen and horses, the team suddenly felt much more relaxed. All the women could ride in the carts, and no one needed to carry them on their backs.
Huang Yi suddenly felt relieved. The next trip home was much easier.
This place is already more than 400 miles away from the battlefield, and there are more than 400 subordinates who have been training for several months. If Jian Nu is really chasing them, Huang Yi can lead two thousand people to fight with them.
According to the current combat effectiveness, of course it is impossible to fight openly, but it is completely possible to cut down trees and make temporary fortifications to defend a mountain pass.
Even if Jiannu brings a Jia La troops, they may not be able to defeat Huang Yi's team.
Because Huang Yi had always been cautious and spent no less than two hours climbing and searching every day, there was no way he would suddenly be surrounded by a large enemy force.
Huang Yi must be the first to discover the enemy and have at least more than an hour to deal with the enemy.
We carry a lot of carts, and if we have to use carts to block the mountain pass, an hour will be enough.
If Jiannu cannot break through the mountain pass, Huang Yi will be invincible and buy more time for the rest of the Han people to evacuate...
On the seventh day after the emperor's imperial edict arrived in Zhangjiakou, Huang Yi's men returned to their base.
A lot was seized, plus the heads were exchanged a month ago and the gold and silver treasures were used to buy food. After calculation, the existing food is enough to feed more than 3,000 people for half a year.
If you have enough food at home, you won’t panic!
When the Jin Army camp was captured, many large boxes with seals were seized.
After Zhang Dong asked Bao Zhide and other seven wrapped slaves, he found out that these boxes were from Jia La E Zhen, five Niu Lu E Zhen, and a dozen Fen De Bashku entrusted by Kamuge and Choketo to escort Liaodong. spoils of war.
Since the seal was well affixed, Huang Yi did not ask anyone to open the box for inspection. After returning to the base area, Zuo Fanglian and Zhang were responsible for the inventory.
Half of the main harvest of one Jia La and five Niu Lu should be packed in these boxes.
After opening, the box full of jewels is simply dazzling.
There was very little silver in the box, but more gold, jewelry, jade, agate...
The final statistics showed that a total of more than 11,000 taels of gold, 80,000 taels of silver, and a lot of jewelry and jade were seized. It is not yet certain how much silver they are worth.
The seizures included 536 oxen, 670 war and draft horses, and a total of 745 oxcarts and carriages.
A total of 3,500 shi of grains, mainly wheat, flour, millet and beans, were seized.
There are also a large amount of silk, cotton, tea, iron pots, clothes...
Although food was expensive in spring, and although Huang Yi's food reserves were enough for more than 3,000 people to eat until the autumn harvest, Huang Yi still felt flustered. He decided to go to Zhangjiakou again, this time to get at least 5,000 shi of wheat back.
Moreover, he still didn't know whether Geng Ruchi had been released from prison or whether he had been reinstated or promoted.
He also has the heads of level 40 real slaves in his hand, each with a waist card, and one of them is a white-armored soldier named Bashku.
Use these heads plus several thousand taels of silver to exchange for and buy back 5,000 shi of wheat, 50,000 jins of refined iron, and 10,000 jins of gunpowder.
The reason why expectations for this time are so high is because it stands to reason that Geng Ruxi will at least be reinstated.
The third son of the governor of Shanxi is Huang Yi's comrade-in-arms, so getting more gunpowder shouldn't be a problem.
It was impossible to rush to Zhangjiakou immediately, repair it for at least three days, and then take back the armor and redistribute it.
Now there are many vehicles and large animals, and the transportation capacity is strong. If one large vehicle is fully loaded with twenty-five shi of grain, 300 large vehicles will be needed to transport the planned supplies back.
The population of the base area suddenly increased by more than 2,000, and housing was definitely not enough.
Fortunately, there were many yurts seized before and many marching tents seized this time. In addition, the weather was getting warmer and there was enough coal in reserve.
So Huang Yi can do it without freezing to death.
