I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 83
It's just that after allocating walking bows to the nine young mountain people, Huang Yi no longer has bows and arrows in his hand.

He didn't want to spend money to buy bows and arrows, but wanted to capture them through horse bandits.

In Huang Yi's yurt, a huge sand table seven feet wide and one foot long gradually took shape. This is a thumbnail of a 150-mile radius centered on the base.

The lairs of Shubudai, Luobuqi, Beitianwang, Cheng Cyclopedia, Mayaozi and other seven-legged horse thieves are clearly marked.

Horse thieves do not distinguish between races, there are Han people, Mongols, Qiang people, and Tungus people.

Among the seven horse thieves, two of the horse thieves are headed by Mongols, and the other five should be Han Chinese. It is estimated that they all used fake names or gang names.

During this period of time, no horse thief came to the base area to provoke at all, and it could be regarded as having no enmity with Huang Yi.

It's a pity that "the people of Sri Lanka are not guilty, but they are guilty of carrying jade." How can there be less gold and silver treasures, food, weapons, and armor in the horse thief's lair?
With a large population, Huang Yi, the head of the family, must plan ahead. The more money, food and weapons, the more at ease.

Therefore, the fight against horse thieves must be regarded as a win-win move for training troops and generating income.

Don't worry about being beaten by horse thieves?
If you can't even defeat mere horse thieves, what development are you talking about?
Huang Yi also fantasizes about starting from scratch, eventually overthrowing the slaves, annexing Mongolia, exterminating bandits, swallowing the Ming Dynasty, sweeping Europe and Asia, opening up North and South America, and creating a new era for the Han people.

With lofty aspirations and a difficult road ahead, the most urgent task is to operate the base areas.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Huang Yi felt that he should go to Zhangjiakou.

That's because the blacksmiths ran out of materials to use.

Huang Yi has gold and silver treasures worth several thousand taels of silver in his hands, and there are 97 heads of young and middle-aged Tartars, who will definitely be able to buy and exchange steel and grain.

Now the base area has a population of more than 1000. Although a lot of cattle, sheep, horses, and food have been plundered, and food has been demanded from the slave owners who surrendered as compensation, it is not enough for the autumn harvest.

In fact, it is not quite accurate to say that.

According to the standard of the slavery period of the Han people, the grain, cattle and sheep in hand would definitely be able to last until after autumn.

But what's the point of living half-starved?
Huang Yi wanted to train everyone under him to be stronger.

How to be strong when you are hungry every day?
You have to eat at least two meals. Only when you are [-]% to [-]% full can you have the strength to train, cultivate, build reservoirs, burn cement, and smelt steel...

Book friends may find it strange, why do they always say that they eat two meals, shouldn't they have three meals a day?

In fact, before the Republic of China, most areas ate two meals a day.

In post-liberation China, there are still many places where people eat two meals a day.

There is an ancient town in Huang Yi's hometown. Before the 78s, he still had two meals a day.

There are also two birthday banquets, breakfast at eight or nine in the morning, and dinner at four or five in the afternoon.

When he was about ten years old, he went to the ancient town to celebrate the birthday of an elder, which made Huang Yi starve to death.

He thought he would have lunch soon, so he didn't eat much breakfast. Who knew he would eat dinner directly without lunch.

Huang Yi before the time-traveling had been eating two meals a day instead of three meals for seven or eight years in order to control his weight.

So in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, there were two meals a day, [-]% to [-]% full, and meat every now and then to satisfy the gluttony. These days are simply beautiful.

Seeing that the Han people who were no longer slaves regained their vitality, their bodies seemed to be improving day by day.

Huang Yi decided to continue his military training, and it would not be too late to start the job of beating horse thieves after he went to Zhangjiakou to buy grain, iron, and gunpowder.

He is a modern man, superstitious about firepower.

At this time, it is impossible to make a machine gun, and it is impossible to talk about firepower, but it is absolutely possible to use black powder to blast and attack fortifications.

Huang Yi, the old lair in Horse Bandit Mountain, has studied carefully, and they all have dangers that are easy to defend but difficult to attack.

If there is enough gunpowder for blasting, seizing the lairs of horse thieves and bandits can greatly reduce casualties.

Even though Huang Yi already has a population of more than 1000, he is reluctant to make unnecessary sacrifices.

Buy more gunpowder and fill the wine jar with some stones to make earth bombs.

When the horse thieves' lair was facing a critical attack, the iron shield was held by the knife and shield hand to cover the bomber's approach, and the fuse was ignited when it was more than ten meters away from the bandit village wall and thrown out.

How could the mere horse bandits and bandits be able to withstand the damage caused by this thing?
Now Huang Yi has Han people and Mongols minus the young children and the elderly who are in poor health, and the number of people who can become combat power when defending the soil is no less than [-].

Several groups of horse thieves nearby were also observing the base while Huang Yi was observing them.

Huang Yi has actually discovered it many times, but in order not to startle the snake, but also to avoid enmity before the foothold is not stable.

So Huang Yi just drove away, and didn't bother to capture the horse thief's spies.

It was different after the big plan to beat horse bandits started, as long as they found sneaky strangers around the base area, they would be arrested and tortured slowly, and those who dared to resist arrest would be shot to death.

According to the scorching scene, hundreds of people lined up, ran, practiced stabbing, archery, and shooting guns, horse thieves must have seen it.

It is absolutely impossible for them to rob a group that is almost all soldiers and whose number is much larger than them.

Even so, when Huang Yi went out, he had to leave a few real Mongolian knights and half of the Han people who could fight.

Zuo Guanghu, Huang Dapeng, Ersun Zaqin, Dumb, Yamoboli, Gubuer and other elites equipped with armor and rich in combat experience stayed behind.

Zhao Yong and Li Wanquan, including the thirty musketeers they trained, stayed behind.

Bring Huang Dazhi and Bi Daxi, but the nine young mountain archers led by them stay.

That's because these nine people have ridden too few horses and have no riding skills.

Bi Daxi was different. He often rode horses when he was a child, because Bi Zitong had a war horse when he fled to the mountains.

Later, the war horse died of old age, and Bi Zitong's family, who were barely able to survive, had no more horses.

If the base area is attacked, Huang Dapeng, Wang Baishan, Zuo Guanghu, etc. who stayed behind can organize hundreds of troops to fight back.

It is estimated that the nearby horse bandits and bandits came in groups and couldn't get any bargain.

Huang Yi set off with 150 people.

Including Zhi, Yong, Shuang, Quan, Zhang Dong, Yue Mufei, Hu Xiaochuan Brothers, Tsarahat, Gerda, Langeha, etc., there are eleven armored knights, and 61 of them are equipped with leather armor or cotton. First.

In order to be able to transport more grain and refined iron, 270 war horses and pack horses were brought along, and 120 carts were pulled.

The purpose of the trip to Zhangjiakou before spring plowing is to try to buy and exchange a thousand shi of wheat, ten thousand catties of refined iron, and a thousand catties of gunpowder. .

There are a few more important things.

Buy the seeds of vegetables, fruits, broad beans, peanuts, sunflowers and other crops, and buy bamboo in large quantities.

Moso bamboo is not worth much, but there are moso bamboo forests everywhere in the pass but not outside the pass. The moso bamboo is dried and split into strips, and after some anti-corrosion treatment, it will be used as concrete reinforcement in the future.

There is another idea that I don't know if it can be implemented.

Huang Yi likes to read history books, and he likes to read the materials in the late Ming Dynasty most. He knows that during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, there were people in Fujian who planted sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn.

Of course, these crops were not called by this name in the Ming Dynasty.

This is not important, what is important is that Xu Guangqi has already tried to grow these new crops in Gyeonggi.

In the late Ming Dynasty, officials really had fewer people and more animals.

Xu Guangqi should be one of the rare bright spots.

He is not only a master of the past and present, but also a great scientist who sees the world with his eyes open. He does not cultivate new crops for profit, but really wants to benefit hundreds of millions of people.

(End of this chapter)