After Luo Buqi learned that Huang Yi was a military attache of the Ming Dynasty, he had an idea in his mind.
He wanted to become Huang Yi's subordinate, so he took the initiative to participate in the elimination of other nearby horse thieves gangs, and confessed some of the information he knew to Huang Yi.
In this mixed area of mountains and prairie, the names of Shubudai and Luobuqi are well known among the horse thieves.
In the face of the encirclement and suppression, the two men had different approaches. Shu Budai, who had stubbornly resisted, died, while Luo Buqi, who surrendered, was not only alive, but also equivalent to being recruited and became a Ming army member who participated in the suppression of bandits.
This contrast is so stark, and Luo Buqi and Yu Shaoshan are equivalent to speaking out from their own experience, using their freedom to prove that surrender will definitely not lead to massacre.
Most horse thieves who are surrounded can make wise choices.
It is necessary to hug the grass and hunt rabbits.
Of course, scattered yurts can be found when wiping out horse thieves, but any herdsmen who are not affiliated with Hedanbaatar must be allowed to become troops under the flag of the base area.
Death to those who resist!
The main purpose of this encirclement and suppression was to ensure that only the forces of Hedan Battelle and Huang Yi existed within a radius of 150 miles.
The results were satisfactory. It only took Huang Yi less than a month to complete the plan to suppress the bandits. Except for the one-eyed gang who could not understand the situation, the rest of the gangs chose to surrender.
A carrot in one hand and a stick in the other, a combination of kindness and power is a must.
After trying to persuade them to surrender to the one-eyed gang to no avail, they simply refused to accept surrender and chose to attack by force.
Including the newly attached horse thieves, the number of people who could shoot arrows to provide cover for the attacking warriors reached more than 300, plus the volleys of sixty gunners.
Cheng Duyan, who thought he had the strength to fight, immediately regretted it the moment the battle started.
That was because he was arrogant, thinking that by gathering dozens of Mongols whose tribes had been wiped out during this period, his strength would greatly increase and he should surpass Shubudai and Luobuqi.
In addition to the original more than a hundred young and middle-aged men, the number of men and horses who can fight is close to two hundred. If we defend according to the danger, we should be able to withstand the attack of hundreds or even thousands of people.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the fighting started, his second-in-command was shot dead, and half of the minions were killed or injured.
Later, Cheng Duyan was unable to surrender even if he wanted to. The newly-attached horse thieves such as Luo Buqi and Yu Shaoshan who were killed were cut into pieces.
There must have been casualties on our side, and that was because the newly attached horse thieves were eager to serve and volunteered to be the vanguard.
Although Huang Yi organized iron armor, cotton armor, and leather armor, and made all the vanguard equipped with three layers of armor, four horse thieves were killed and seventeen horse thieves were injured, half of whom were seriously injured.
There is nothing absolutely bad. Having so many injured people has better trained the treatment skills of Li Yongtai's team.
In the late Ming Dynasty, the medical conditions were so poor that there was no battlefield treatment. Injuries were only bandaged, and whether they could survive or not depended on their survival.
Huang Yi's goal is to cultivate an excellent medical team with the army and reduce the casualty rate of the sick and wounded to the ratio during World War I.
It is very important to have clear rewards and punishments. Every one of the horse thieves who took the initiative to be the vanguard received preferential treatment after the war and became regular soldiers who trained every day.
Not only training physical fitness and combat skills, but also spending no less than two hours a day studying culture and correcting thoughts.
There are many horse thieves who are skilled in bow and horse. If you make good use of these people, you can expand the number of cavalry by two to three hundred.
But it can’t be done overnight, it must be done slowly.
Therefore, sixty horse thieves were selected through active registration and equipped with three layers of armor. They were the first to carry the ladder and climb the wall of the one-eyed lair.
After the war, Huang Yi made a high-profile announcement that he would accept these horse thieves as cavalry, and their treatment would be the same as that of the original members of the base area.
Do other horse thieves also want to become regular soldiers?
Huang Yi pointed out the way. Anyone with a correct attitude, positive work, serious study, and meritorious service can do it!
In order to prevent the bad habits of horse thieves from contaminating the team.
Therefore, the proportion must be controlled. The fifty horse thieves who have just become regular members are assigned to the general banner or the hundred generals managed by the brothers Zhi, Yong, Shuang, Quan, Peng, and Hu Xiaochuan. Each general banner has about ten, and one small banner does not More than two.
Of course, the task of helping these fifty horse thieves learn was implemented by everyone, and they even stipulated how many new words they must master in one month.
Teaching Datoubing to read and write is a novel model that Luo Buqi, Yu Shaoshan and others love and hate.
Love is because reading and literacy are so advanced. I never thought that they would also have the opportunity to read about the beginning of human beings and their inherent goodness...
I hate it because every seven days there is a class to write down new words by dictation. If you make more than half of the mistakes, you will be punished by copying them a hundred times.
They are not afraid of being beaten, they are afraid of being punished, but they have no resentment in their hearts. On the contrary, after studying, they feel that they are no longer confused and have a bright future.
After completing the plan to exterminate the seven groups of horse thieves, the population of the base area increased by more than 1,800, the number of horses increased by more than 1,000, and the food supply increased by 4,500 dan.
They also obtained nearly a hundred pairs of iron armor, more than 500 leather and cotton armors, and more than 150,000 taels of precious metals in terms of silver.
During this period, mountain villagers gradually came to join us. When spring plowing began, the total population in the base area reached over 5,400, and the number of large livestock exceeded 4,000.
While Huang Yi was busy conquering a 150-mile radius with the base area as the center, he did not forget to contact the Li family business every ten days.
At the end of the conquest, a total of more than 110 heads were sent to Li Weida, of which more than 50 were real Tatars.
Of course, Li Weida reciprocated and gave Huang Yi a lot of grain seeds, not only wheat and beans, but also millet and sorghum. What satisfied Huang Yi most was that he got a lot of sweet potatoes, corn, and potato seeds.
Most of these seeds came from Xu Guangqi's experimental fields in Tianjin Wei.
The steward of Xu Guangqi's family who was responsible for the experimental field was not only enthusiastic about providing seeds, but also sent several planting manuals.
As long as you follow the manual and do not encounter natural disasters, the new crops will definitely yield a harvest much higher than that of wheat, millet, and milt.
Huang Yi has seen all the seeds. The so-called millet and sorghum should be millet and sorghum in later generations. At this time, these grains were staple foods.
Huang Yi knows that in order to ensure a harvest, the land must not be planted with a single variety, but must be rotated. The acres of cultivated land planned to be cultivated are rotated with corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, soybeans, millet, and wheat.
Of course, Huang Yi didn't know anything about farming and could only copy the information about crop planting downloaded on his mobile phone.
It doesn't matter if he doesn't understand. More than 80% of the people in the base area know how to farm and are good at farming.
There is no way, the Han people are a farming nation, and farming is the main occupation of the vast majority of people. Too many officials have farming experience before they are promoted to scholar-bureaucrats or Jinshi.
Therefore, the farming knowledge mentioned by Huang Yi is only a reference. As for how to plant seeds, when to plant seeds, how deep to plow the ground, and how to apply fertilizer, it is all decided by Zhang, He Jiye, Liu Shifu, etc.
Preparations for spring plowing have been completed long ago, and when the ground thaws, full-scale reclamation will begin.
