I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 233 Spring Offensive
Bao Leer and Aqi Dolan, two Han-Mongol mixed races, lived a comfortable life after becoming Huang Yi's concubines, serving Huang Yi with all their heart.

They selected more than 300 women who can ride horses to participate in the training.

Within a few days, more than a dozen women could not bear the pain of practicing riding and archery, and retreated.

The military law of the base area is stricter for men, emphasizing that making a revolution is not about treating guests to dinner and coming and going as they please.

Militiamen who dare to be passive in military training will be punished, and auxiliary soldiers and regular soldiers who miss training without reason will be dealt with as deserters and beheaded!
However, the female militia is relatively lenient, and basically adopts the principle of voluntariness.

Not only do you not force yourself to shrink back because you can't bear the hardship, but you are too stupid to actively persuade you to quit, and you can't learn it no matter how you teach.

The final result was that half of them were eliminated, and the remaining 160 were all aged between 25 and [-], and they all looked strong and strong.

The 160 female cavalry galloped past like a gust of wind. They looked pretty good and should have some combat effectiveness.

But who knows!Can't be sure without actual combat testing.

Both Aqi Dolan and Bao Leer hoped to go out with Huang Yi, but unfortunately Huang Yi firmly disagreed, no matter how much they begged, they would not let go.

The task given to them is to patrol the territory every day, to identify the sentries and arrest the bandits.

There are Wang Baishan, Zhang's, Qi Dashan, Lan Jinkui, etc. in the base areas. Civil affairs are not a problem, only military affairs are almost weak.

Therefore, Huang Yi also left Huang Dazhi and Huang Daquan in charge of defense, guiding the auxiliary soldiers and militia to participate in training.

They definitely wanted to follow Huang Yi to fight, and they didn't want to stay behind, but they both knew that soldiers must obey orders and obey orders, so they dared not object.

Huang Yi told the two of them that maybe by the end of the year, all the auxiliary soldiers would have to turn into regular soldiers, and if they couldn't pass the equestrian skills, they would hold back the main force.

The two of them immediately understood, and they both stood at attention and saluted loudly, saying that during the days when the large army was going on an expedition, they must train the auxiliary soldiers as required by the regular soldiers, and train the militia as required by the auxiliary soldiers.

Will things be reversed because the requirements are too strict?

Probably not, the base area is under military control, and the military comes first.

Besides, the slogan of the base area now is that it is the most honorable to be a soldier. As long as you are a soldier, you can get one tael or five silver coins and five buckets of wheat every month on time.

The treatment of cavalry soldiers is even higher than that of cavalry infantry, and they get two taels of snowflake silver and five buckets of wheat every month.

Artillery received the same treatment as cavalry.

To become a regular soldier, not only the whole family can be respected, but also the military families are given priority in choosing good jobs in the base area.

The promotion of civil officials is also as much as possible to select the children of the army.

However, the regular soldiers are selected from the auxiliary soldiers, and the auxiliary soldiers are selected from the militia.

Therefore, even though the militiamen can only receive three buckets of miscellaneous grains as a food subsidy for a month of training, young and middle-aged people in the base area who do not have any skills still actively sign up.

The reason is very simple. Craftsmen with special skills are treated exactly the same as regular soldiers.

What's more, craftsmen are treated preferentially in the same base area, and they are called the working class, which is a class group that can lead everything.

Whether the army can win or not depends on how much clothing, steel, and gunpowder the working class can contribute, and how many muskets and artillery can be produced.

Women in the base area not only spin woolen sweaters, but also weave woolen felt and woolen cloth.

This autumn, the outer layer of wool cloth, the inner layer of cotton cloth, and the coat lined with duck down or cotton can equip all the main soldiers and auxiliary soldiers.

There is no cotton planted in the base area, and the land is not suitable for planting cotton. It is all sold by the Li family business from within the pass.

Today's base city, oh no, the base city has a name - Xinghe City.

Huang Yi couldn't afford to wrestle with Governor Xuanda and the future father-in-law for the innocuous matter of naming.

Not only recognized Geng Ruqi's naming, but also sent Wang Baishan to Xuanfu on business, presented himself as a token of gratitude for his participation in making gold monoculars, and asked the governor of Xuanda to write the three characters of Xinghe City.

Geng Ruqi was very happy to learn that Huang Yi was going to engrave his name on the four gates of Xinghe City, but he did it after bathing and changing clothes.

In total, only ten eight-fold monoculars were made, and only one was made of pure gold, which was a gift for Governor Xuanda.

The other two were made of silver, which were given to Geng Zhanghua and Geng Zhangguang respectively.

Seven of them were reserved for military use, all made of brass, and one was given to Hu Xiaochuan, who was the first to follow Huang Yi.

One was given to Bi Daxi, who often participated in setting up ambushes to capture enemy sentry cavalry.

One was given to Li Wanquan, the Chief Instructor of the Artillery Corps and the Governor of the Township, and the remaining four were not assigned, and were kept by Bao Zhide, the Governor of the Chinese Army Guarding the General Banner.

These four monoculars can only be registered and used.

There is no way, the telescope is too important and the number is too small, so it can only be given priority to the officers performing the mission.

Huang Yi did not bring three fixed telescopes when he set off. This kind of telescope is placed in the fortress and used to observe familiar places more efficiently.

The four city gates in the southeast, northwest, and north of Xinghe City have all been completed.

Under normal circumstances, two fixed telescopes are set up on the watchtower on the highest floor of the city gate building to observe the northwest, true north and northeast.

There is also one deployed at Beishan Pass, [-] miles away from Xinghe City, where a watchtower-style beacon tower has been built, and a hundred auxiliary soldiers are stationed in rotation all year round.

The auxiliary soldiers who can be sent to garrison Beishan Beacon Tower means that they can be converted into regular soldiers in a minimum of three months and a maximum of six months.

Therefore, the auxiliary soldiers were all eager to get this task, and they all enthusiastically signed up for the selection.

Huang Yi's soldiers, even the auxiliary soldiers, are cavalry or mounted infantry. They are not stationed in watchtowers every day to watch the stars.

They are constantly patrolling in units of two small flags and twenty cavalry.

With fixed binoculars, it was possible to establish dozens of observation points marked with quicklime scoured by the cavalry.

The telescope is an artifact in everyone's mind, and the town governor is responsible for looking through the telescope and keeping and maintaining it.

When it came to a critical moment, it was also up to the town governor to decide whether to smash the telescope to prevent it from being captured by the enemy.

With a reference object, the governor only needs to use a telescope to observe the eye-catching marks several times a day to determine whether he has encountered a cavalry raid.

It's very simple, the quicklime circle on the ground can't stand the trampling of tens of hundreds of horses, and the disappearance of the circle is enough to prove that an enemy cavalry has passed.

Because the cavalry of one's own side circumvents the circle carefully. If they can't get around, they will repair the circle after trampling on it.

Anyway, practice has proved that the fixed telescope on the rack can not only observe whether there are large groups of cavalry within seventy or eighty miles outside the mountain, but also communicate with Xinghe City with semaphore.

As long as it is not heavy fog, heavy snow, or heavy rain, Beishankou and Chengmenlouzi can communicate no matter day or night.

In fact, when a fire is ignited in the dark night, even if it is 32 miles away, the telescope with a distance of [-] times can still see the semaphore clearly.

(End of this chapter)