Soon, when the five thousand people gathered together, these people looked at His Highness standing there and took the initiative to dismount. No one was sitting on the horse.
"Change." Li Ke pointed to the boxes stacked in front of him and said. Following Li Ke's order, the cavalry behind him immediately rushed out with hundreds of people and quickly opened the wooden boxes in front of them one by one.
Murong Shun also began to greet these Tuyuhun soldiers, who lined up in random lines to receive weapons.
Inside the box was a scimitar with a very high curvature. Murong Shun had already checked it and found that they were all made of fine steel!
Each soldier came over and received a steel sword, and then armor. When he saw those armors, Murong Shun's expression was somewhat strange. This armor... isn't this the Mingguang Armor? Oh, it just seems to have no sleeves. This is the Mingguang Armor with the sleeves removed. However, judging from the wear and tear of these armors, they should have been worn by the Tang Dynasty army before.
But even if it was worn by the Tang army, it was Mingguang armor, which people like them had no chance to wear! Now everyone actually has one!
Sure enough, when these armors were exposed, all the soldiers looked happy. Although they didn't mind fighting for His Highness, they thought they were just wearing their own cowhide armor as before, but now they actually had iron armor to wear! They had fought against the Tang army, and this kind of armor... many times their hacking had no effect at all.
After everyone put on armor, Li Ke asked them to receive arrows.
"Each person has sixty arrows. You can use them as you see fit. Recycle as much as you can after the battle. When the number is about the same, I will replenish it for you when you come back!" Li Ke waved his big hand and said simply, all these arrows They are all iron arrowheads, which are actually very luxurious for these Tuyuhun people, because many of the arrowheads they used before were a mix of wooden arrowheads and iron arrowheads.
Tuyuhun doesn’t have that much iron.
But now Li Ke uses three-sided iron arrows for them. Not only do they have three-sided iron arrows, but it can be seen from the shape of these arrows that the quality is very good.
Li Ke now has no shortage of pig iron. The first blast furnace has begun to smelt pig iron, and the second blast furnace will be built soon. The mold made of the cast iron module allows the production of arrowheads faster than the traditional manufacturing method, and it has already been Although the ceramic grinding wheels controlled by craftsmen are incomparable to those of later generations, they have also been improved into manual grinding wheels driven by belts and pedaled by humans.
This polishing speed is more than one and a half points higher than the traditional polishing progress of Datang.
To be honest, Li Ke really didn't participate in this new grinding wheel. He only provided the method for making rough grinding wheels. He came up with the original hand-cranked grinding wheel.
But I didn't expect that the craftsmen under his name would soon turn this thing into a human-powered grinding wheel through large and small gear ratios and then belt drive.
The appearance of this thing is somewhat like a bicycle. It can only be said that as long as they are given sufficient power and funds, these craftsmen will have many wonderful ideas for improvement.
"yes!"
"You and the thousand cavalry around you have mastered these scimitar-drag fighting techniques. You can teach the rest of them. Then, I will find some targets for you. You can attack these people first. "Li Ke said with a calm face. As he spoke, he asked someone to bring over two maps.
These maps are redrawn versions, and the precision of the terrain has not been reduced much, but the place names on them are marked according to Tuyuhun's traditional naming method.
"The thirteen points marked here are your next goals." Li Ke pointed at the thirteen points marked on the map.
"Your Highness, what are these?" Murong Shun looked at these points curiously and asked.
"Horse thief." Two words came out of Li Ke's mouth.
Horse thieves, or robbers, are common in this Western Region. To be precise, these horse thieves and robbers are the most numerous in the entire Western Region, and they are also the biggest threat to the caravans on the Silk Road.
From the Tang Dynasty to Persia, there are almost all of them. For example, there are actually many in Tuyuhun. Murong Fuyun has not solved many of them before.
It's because they don't know the home bases of many horse thieves. These horse thieves not only rob caravans, but also often rob small tribes, etc. However, there is one trading firm that they never dare to touch, and that is Yuelai Trading Firm.
Without him, there are enough guards, and the point is... the guards are not afraid of death.
The guards of other trading houses would intimidate and kill one or two people, and the rest might just run away. These horse thieves are always out for money, because they will die if they fight for their lives.
No horse thief is willing to risk his life.
But Yuelai Trading Company was different, they really dared to risk their lives.
The caravan's guards were nothing more than that. Even some of the guys and shopkeepers in the caravan didn't flinch. None of them were afraid of death.
Later, the reputation of Yuelai Trading Company gradually spread among the horse thieves. The caravans who encountered Yuelai Trading Company stayed away. This trading company was rich, and the armors they wore under their clothes were better than theirs. Not to mention, the weapons are all made of fine steel, and there are various protective measures to protect long-range bows and arrows. The key is to avoid death.
I really fight for my life with you. Many people even suddenly fight for their lives after being slashed a few times. This kind of people... the horse thieves are really afraid of them! Being desperadoes does not mean that they are not afraid of death. Being desperadoes means that they have become horse thieves and have no choice. But all fools know which one is easier to grab, hard and soft.
There are so many business houses, why are they so hard on themselves?
Later, when the horse thieves saw Yuelai Trading Company showing its flag, they stopped robbing them. Many horse thieves even did business with Yuelai Trading Company, because they also needed to eat, and they needed to buy food and groceries with the stolen property.
So gradually, these horse thieves dare not say that they know all the Yuelai Trading Company's lairs, but they definitely know the general scope of their lairs.
What? You mean credibility? Are you kidding? When did my Yuelai Trading Company do business with horse thieves? We were just passing by this place, and someone came over and wanted to exchange things with us, so we just exchanged them. As for their identities, no one knows.
This is a tacit understanding.
Looking at the horse thieves' dens on the map, Murong Shun felt chilled. These horse thieves, mainly nomadic people like Tuyuhun, had no good way to deal with them. How could His Highness actually get hold of all their dens?
Li Ke gave him all the horse thieves' dens in Tuyuhun, twelve in total.
"Remember, these horse thieves, I will not leave any of them behind. By the way, I will train your troops. Their size is not large. The approximate number of people is marked here. Your five thousand cavalry is enough. During the battle, , try the drag-knife fighting method, and then you can improve it yourself." Li Ke warned.
"Yes!" Murong Shun looked solemn, then bowed to Li Ke.
