The heavily armored soldiers smashed trees and rocks every day as training.
The smashed trees can be used as firewood, and the broken stones can be used to build docks and forts, or they can be stored as pounding stones.
Now that we have heavy armor, the cavalry must keep up.
Including the war horses sent by the Zheng and Wang families, there were a total of fifty-three war horses on the mountain, and the total number of mules and donkeys was more than one hundred and seventy.
Li Yue allocated twenty war horses to the ten most elite scouts.
The rest were put together with mules and donkeys to form a cavalry force of two hundred men.
Everything is difficult at the beginning. Having cavalry and not having cavalry are completely different concepts.
Just like the Mongolian navy in later generations, the name should be hung first.
At that time, Shi Le gathered eighteen Hu cavalry to defect to Ji Sang, and he and Ji Sang took more than 200 cavalry to defect to Gongshi Fan, and then gradually started to rise.
The war horses of the Central Plains are not much better than donkeys and mules.
High-quality war horses are in the hands of the Tuoba family and the Murong family. The Central Plains has been tortured for so many years. People can no longer survive, so naturally they cannot afford to raise war horses.
Wild donkeys have good stamina, are easy to feed, and have strong fighting power. There is a saying among the people that one donkey is the enemy of three wolves. The only shortcoming is that they are stubborn, have a bad temper, and do not listen to others' orders very much.
Nowadays, this is the only condition. If you are poor, you have to use your brains and make ends meet. If that doesn't work, you can work as a mobile infantry in the future. It is better than walking on the battlefield with two legs.
Some scouts felt that wild donkeys were easy to feed, save trouble, and it would not be a pity to lose them. They took the initiative to ask for wild donkeys, and Li Yue let them.
Li Yue basically didn't have to worry about training, he just had to fight the wild beasts.
To the south of Huchuan River, on the border of Songshan Mountain, there are vast forests and wild beasts everywhere.
Wild sheep are running all over the mountain, wild boars and rabbits are everywhere.
These things have extremely strong reproductive capabilities. When there are fewer people, there will be more of them.
With mounts, the scouts can travel far, and every time they go out on patrol, they always bring back some prey.
Over time, the cavalry and the wild ass gradually got used to each other.
As long as you follow their temper, the effect will be pretty good.
The temper of a donkey is not all bad. It dares to charge into mountains and seas of fire, and is bolder than a war horse. When a war horse sees a wolf or a leopard, its legs tremble, but the wild donkey is not afraid of them. It gets anxious and rushes to bite them.
As for the equipment, a few layers of straw mats were used as saddles, and a few tree branches were chopped as stirrups.
The quality of the leather armor sent by Fangtou was not high, and it was obviously a discarded item, but it could still be used after being mended and repaired.
The cavalry were wearing leather armor, carrying short spears, and riding on them, it was the same thing.
Anyway, Li Yue personally thinks that an army's equipment is very important, but it is not decisive.
The rich have a way to play, and the poor have a way to play.
As long as your thinking does not slip, there are always more solutions than difficulties. No matter how poor you are, you are not afraid of those who wear shoes when you are barefoot, and you dare to fight and kill.
So what if it’s well-equipped?
In the Battle of Kuxian, Sima Yue, King of the East China Sea, led an army of more than 200,000 to attack Shile. He suddenly died. The army elected the famous scholar Wang Yan as their commander. More than 100,000 Jin troops were hunted and killed by Shile's 20,000 light cavalry like wild beasts. The Jin army Trampling each other, the dead are like mountains, no one is spared...
The Jin army's equipment is not as good as Shi Le's? Not as powerful as Shi Le?
After all, it is still a human problem. Wang Yan is a commander and has a lot of troops, but he is afraid of taking responsibility and does not dare to go to war. He just wants to escape. He carries Sima Yue's coffin to Donghai Kingdom for burial. It seems that in his eyes, a dead person Sima Yue is more important than hundreds of thousands of soldiers, more important than the country in the north, and more important than thousands of people.
In the end, the Han people's hope of restoring their mountains and rivers was extinguished, and more than 100,000 troops were buried with them...
During the Wuhu chaos in China, Shi Le was not victorious in every battle, and his military strategy was only above average. His success was all due to the support of his peers. The Wang family, the leader of the world's noble clans, also made great contributions, including Wang Mi, Wang Jun, and Wang Yan. Try every means to feed it bite by bite...
No matter how good the equipment is, it cannot support a bloodless body.
Li Yue personally felt that the defeat of the Jin Dynasty was first defeated spiritually, and the so-called Wei-Jin romance was nothing more than a joke.
"General, there is not much salt on the mountain. We need to think of a way in advance." Zhou Qian said with a sad look on his face.
Food is equivalent to gold and silver, but salt in the Central Plains is more expensive than gold and silver. Especially in these troubled times, salt represents strength. Not only people need to eat it, but war horses also need to be fed every once in a while.
The mountain has been very economical.
A pot of corn porridge, sprinkled with a pinch of salt to give it a salty taste.
Everything else can work, but salt can't.
Li Yue looked at the sand table. There were iron, coal, mountains and water around Xingyang, but there was no salt. "First go to the surrounding counties to exchange for some food."
Zhou Qian shook his head and said, "As far as my subordinates know, nearby counties are also short of salt."
The world has been in chaos for decades, Shihu has conquered and extorted money, and the commercial system since the Han and Wei dynasties has long been destroyed.
There are no people, so naturally there will be no salt.
"Then we can only borrow some from the Zheng and Wang families." Li Yue rubbed his forehead.
It's not easy to be a village leader. You have to think about what to eat, drink, and eat in advance for more than 10,000 people, otherwise it will be a disaster.
In the last favor exchange, the Zheng and Wang families took their own money and silk, so this face should be given to them.
They are all in the boundary of Xingyang. You can’t see them when you look up.
Zhou Qian said: "This is not a long-term solution."
"Do you have any good ideas?" Li Yue was at a loss. Xingyang is not close to the sea and salt lakes, so it is difficult to find salt.
"My subordinates passed through Hedong County when they were fleeing. There is a large salt pond on the boundary of Jiexian County. We can enter Luochuan to the east, Mang Mountain to the north, cross the river, and enter Wangwu Mountain and Leishou Mountain (Zhongtiao Mountain) to get the salt. , on the way back, there are mountains and rivers."
This plan was quite bold, and Li Yue hesitated for a while.
Zhou Qian cupped his hands and said: "The salt transported back can solve internal worries, and can also be sold to Xuchang, Nanyang, Jingxiang and other places to feed the soldiers and civilians of Heiyun Mountain with salt!"
On the sand table, the straight-line distance between Heiyun Mountain and Hedong is actually not that far.
At that time, Li Ju retreated from Pingyang to Xingyang.
These days there are no people in the country, and Jie Zhao's management is very rough. His rule is limited to the city and he has no control over what happens outside the city.
Therefore, the feasibility of Zhou Qian's plan is very high, and he has escaped from Guanzhong with a thousand people and is familiar with the route.
It is a good thing for Black Cloud Mountain to become self-reliant, but it is too slow.
Li Yue only remembered that as soon as Shi Hu died, the sound of killings on both sides of the Yellow River shook the world.
How much can you accumulate by farming honestly?
"Where does the salt from other counties come from?" Li Yue asked doubtfully.
"It's also private salt!"
"In that case, let's do it too!" Li Yueheng made up his mind.
A horse will not be fat without night grass, and a man will not be rich without windfall.
In the primitive accumulation stage, of course, we must do everything we can.
Dong Zhuo started his career and dug all the way from Liangzhou to Luoyang. "The tombs of the late emperors were all found along the way." He dug the tomb of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
When Wei Wu made his fortune, he set up Mojin Xiaowei and Faqiu Zhonglang.
Sun Quan dug up the tomb of Changsha King Wu Rui at the Minghuo Battle in Jiangdong. He searched several times for the tomb of Nanyue King Zhao Tuo, but failed to find it. He dug up the tomb of the third generation Nanyue King Zhao Yingqi...
Compared to them, Li Yue's business is nothing.
"My subordinate is willing to take one hundred old troops to go." Zhou Qian volunteered.
Li Yue knew that he was also crazy because of poverty.
He is responsible for the food, drink, and diarrhea of more than 10,000 people in Heiyun Mountain, so he is under greater pressure than anyone else...
"One hundred men are not enough. I will send Cao Kan to lead 300 heavily armored soldiers to go with you and bring the mules and donkeys on the mountain with you. If you can't dig salt quietly, then grab it openly!" Li Yue slapped his thigh and said.
"I accept your orders." Zhou Qian had a strange smile on his face.
