For more than a month, the surroundings of Heiyun Mountain were full of life.
There has been too much rain this year, and the crops in the fields are growing well. With heavy heads lowered, the sadness on people's faces is gradually disappearing.
In plowing and fighting, you can only plow the fields, but you can't do it. There are wars and chaos everywhere, and wild beasts are raging. You must master certain military skills.
There are 14,732 people in Heiyun Mountain. Apart from more than 2,300 old and weak people, there are still more than 12,400 people who can hold swords and resist spears.
It is necessary for all the people to be soldiers.
Now that we have taken up the banner of expelling the Jie slaves and restoring our country, we will definitely fight against the Jie people again in the future.
It is impossible for Heiyun Mountain to remain in the small area of Xingyang forever.
During the off-season, Li Yue and Zhou Qian divided the mountain people into twenty groups, with each group ranging from 500 to 700 people.
The reserve officers all went out to organize their training.
Spears, ring-headed swords, bows and arrows, shields...
Anyone can do this these days.
Even women and half-grown children can charge with swords, and some soldiers with broken hands and feet are even more diligent.
Li Yue simply took out the bows in his arsenal and cut some wood strips to use as arrows for them to practice.
Try to eat dry meals for two meals a day. The scouts caught wild sheep, wild boars, and wild deer from Huju River. The meat was given priority to satisfy the soldiers, but the bones and offal were boiled into soup and shared with them, which could also be stained with some oil and water.
When a person is full, he has strength.
Some fierce women can run around Heiyun Mountain twice with bare feet and still not be out of breath when they come back.
Li Yue immediately organized a female battalion of 200 people and gave it to Yue Ji to lead. They usually patrol the mountains for hunting, maintain public order on the mountains, and mediate disputes.
This is not Li Yue’s first initiative.
Shi Hu ordered several times to forcibly summon tens of thousands of female officials to Ye, and set up female officials in the palace, divided into 24 ranks, 12 ranks in the East Palace, and more than 70 Jieren dukes and princes were divided into nine ranks.
Prince Shi Xuan and various Jie princes privately ordered to select nearly 10,000 beauties.
Shi Hu selected thousands of girls to serve as his nuns and set up a women's camp. They all wore purple silk scarves, brocade trousers, gold and silver hollow belts, and five-text woven boots. However, the meaning of their existence was just to accompany Shi Hu in his lustful pleasures...
When you get busy, the days fly by.
In less than half a month, the militiamen had a decent appearance. They were hardly elite, but assisting in guarding the mountain was not a big problem.
Looking at their weapons, Li Yue suddenly felt something in his heart.
The Jie people are all heavily armored, and ordinary swords and spears cannot hurt them. The quality of the swords and spears on the mountain is really worrying. They cannot even split a stone and break easily.
The thing that breaks the armor is either long or hit by a heavy object.
Don’t think about growing tall. It’s not easy to build, and it’s even harder to train, so you can only consider heavy objects.
Rocks became his daily essential training. A stone weighing fifteen or six kilograms was moved from the mountainside to the mountain.
The carpenters also made four or five simple catapults, which were heavy and rough, had a short range, and often caused problems. The mountain was not open to begin with, so placing them would block people, and they were not as effective as moving stones and throwing them down.
Li Yue didn't consider it and asked the mountain people to pile more stones at Wubao and several intersections.
There aren't many mountain people who have been trained to this level. We can't expect them to go down the mountain and form an array to fight bloody battles with the well-equipped Jie people, right?
Therefore, those who need improved weapons most are combat soldiers.
This naturally does not trouble Li Yue as a time traveler.
Bones, hand hammers, and maces came into being.
Guduo and hand hammers are traditional weapons that have existed since the Shang and Zhou dynasties. They were reduced to ceremonial instruments in the Han and Wei dynasties and were also used as tools for killing cattle. They are simple to make and do not require the trouble of growing a spear.
The lighter one weighs seven or eight kilograms, and the heavier one weighs fifteen or six kilograms.
Guduo is actually a long-handled hammer, also called a pumpkin.
The most ferocious is the mace. The head of the club is made of iron and has a wooden handle running through it. It can be long or short.
There are 7,000 kilograms of iron in the Sishui Fort. More than 1,500 kilograms were used to forge farm tools. There are still more than 5,000 kilograms left. In addition to the broken blades, broken spears, etc. collected on the battlefield, they can all be returned to the furnace for smelting.
Whether it is a bone, a hammer, or a mace, the quality of the iron is not high, and the forging skills are not needed. There is no need to worry about the unexpected shape, as long as it is stupid, big, black and thick.
In two days, the three blacksmiths produced seven samples.
Li Yue picked up a mace, found a stone and hit it with the stick, causing stone chips to fly.
Wei Shan and Xu Cheng immediately saw the value of this thing on the battlefield. It was tailor-made for the Jie people. Wei Shan often suffered in front of the Jie people's soldiers, "If there was such a thing that day, how could Jie Nu Rampant! There is no need to lose so many brothers on the mountain."
Xu Cheng said: "Anyone who can move this thing on the battlefield must be a strong man."
Li Yue said: "Then select strong men and train them rigorously!"
The soldiers ate well and drank well. After two months, they became much stronger.
In fact, the physical fitness of the Han people has always been good. During the Han and Wei dynasties, they were often eight feet tall. Li Yue thought it was just a boast of the literati, but when he came to this world, he discovered that it was not the case.
Many people are as tall as later generations, but they are malnourished, so they appear thin.
One Han is against five barbarians. In addition to the equipment advantage, the physical advantage cannot be ignored.
Li Yue met the Jie, Di, Qiang, Wuhuan and other ethnic groups. On average, they were one head shorter than the Han people.
Of course, in the past few decades, the Jie people have been riding on the head of the Han people, enjoying popular food and drinking spicy food, and their physical fitness has caught up.
More than 6,000 kilograms of iron were melted into a total of 400 heavy weapons. The remaining iron was used to make triangular armor-piercing arrows according to Li Yue's requirements.
Li Yue remembered that there were iron mines in the Funiu Mountains. Among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, South Korea, a small country, was called Jinhan because of the powerful crossbows built in Yiyang Iron Mountain.
Su Qin said: "Han is more than 900 miles away, and there are hundreds of thousands of armored men. All the powerful bows, powerful crossbows, and sharp swords in the world come from Han."
Yiyang is to the west of Luoyang and out of reach of Li Yue, but Luyang to the south of Xingyang, where Li Ju fell off the cliff, is the famous Pingding Mountain in later generations. It not only has iron, but also coal!
Regardless of ancient or modern wars, the battles are fought with steel.
Jie Zhao's dominance in the world also relies on strong armor and sharp swords.
However, it is a bit difficult to capture Luyang now. Mi County, Xinzheng, and Gaofeng (Dengfeng) in the south block the way, and Xuchang is also eyeing it in the southwest.
Jie Zhao's Yuzhou governor was located in Xuchang, with a heavy garrison.
There is no need to think about it at this stage.
Li Yue could only send scouts to look for it in the Funiu Mountains. It didn't need to be big, a small iron mine would be enough.
There are more than 10,000 people in Heiyun Mountain. It is not difficult to find 300 strong men. Zhou Qian found 700 men.
Li Yue could only add one more thing, he wanted to have a life-and-death blood feud with the Jie people. Even so, there were still 500 people.
"The words are spoken in front of you. In the future, when you are in battle, you will escape from death. You must think clearly!"
Not one of the five hundred people retreated.
Cao Kan roared angrily: "We have considered ourselves dead for a long time. All I want is to kill more Jie slaves and avenge our dead parents!"
He was already tall, but now that he could eat food and meat, he quickly became stronger.
During this period, Li Yue actually let the scouts observe him secretly. He was still a useful person, quite brave, and actively cooperated with Li Yue's various orders. He worked hard in both training and reclamation.
There was really no one available around him, so he didn't have time to pick and choose, so he directly promoted him to a hundred-man general.
The other two hundred will be selected from the reserve officers.
A group of heavy armor directly belonging to Li Yue was formed.
Each person carries more than forty kilograms of iron armor, and carries more than ten kilograms of bones, hammers, and maces, like human-like iron beasts.
If you don’t have heavy weapons, you can first practice with a stone stick or wooden stick. If you don’t have iron armor, you can first wear two layers of leather armor to deal with it, and then add it later.
