Traveler Major League

Chapter 60

At the end of the field of vision in the valley, several black dots popped up.

Slowly it became clear that the black dots were in groups of two, two groups were at the foot of the outermost hill, and the other group was at the middle flat ground. These were the cavalry sentry posts of the Ming army.

The so-called cavalry scouts are sentries on horseback, and they are also the modern version of "scouts". The sound of footsteps and horses, observing the number of enemy banners and supplies, etc., can distinguish the enemy's horse infantry and touch the number of the enemy.

Ordinary county towns usually only have one hundred households, but this place in Yijun County is a bit special. After all, it is the main road connecting Xi'an and Yan'an, so as early as the Hongwu period, there was a thousand households of Yijun Wei, which has been there ever since. .

After the sentry sentry, the infantry of the Ming army followed for a mile, and they were divided into three parts. At the front, there were more than 40 family soldiers led by deputy Liang Qianhu with bright armor. Everyone rode horses and carried swords and bows. The most core and most elite part, they receive full military pay, so the desire to fight is also the strongest and most tenacious.

Then there are more than [-] ordinary guard soldiers, lined up in four rows, with oxen, carts, mules, horses and other luggage mixed in the rear. He is very good at standing and yelling at the scene of supporting property.

Then followed by Li Dian's official Li Dian led by the county's arresters, Zhuangban, and Minzhuang, together with more than [-] people from the townships, the wise and strong, Dingxiangyong, and there was no order at all. Human hedgehogs are gathered together. Although they have fighting experience and have undergone basic military training, it is difficult to describe them in a fight.

At this time, Yijun County has not rained for nearly half a year. Although there were signs of rain in the past few days, it still did not fall. So looking around, the river is dry, the vegetation is dead, the ground is cracked, and the birds and animals are almost dead. Trees usually die because their bark is peeled off by hungry people. Because it is a year of famine and there is not enough food, it is not surprising to eat bark and swallow stones. Even if there is more bark eaten, the common people will know Which kind of bark is more delicious, and which kind of bark is choking.

The inner bark of the maple tree can be either chewed or boiled.

The inner bark of the poplar tree is soft and can be chewed or made into tea.

The birch's inner bark can be boiled to make a sweet soup, or dried and used in flour.

The inner bark of the birch tree is thick and rich in nutrients, and can be dried the next day and boiled with water to make bark soup.

The basic elm bark is the best product. The elm bark is rich in carbohydrates and various trace elements necessary for the human body, and its nutritional value is relatively high; it also has no peculiar smell and is sticky. So far, some areas in Shaanxi still have the custom of making elm noodles;

The most important thing is that many barks in nature are poisonous, and the safety and non-toxicity of elm bark has been tested by hungry people for thousands of years. Except for a slight impact on the digestive system, it has no other toxic side effects.
The elm bark is not just torn off and eaten, there are also ways to eat it.

First you need to tear it off, then wash and dry it, wait until the water in the bark is removed, then you can use a stone mill to make a crushed powder and sieve it to remove hard fibers that are hard to eat, and you can get elm Skin flour, you can mix it with flour or corn flour, this method is the most delicious, the only disadvantage is that it is a bit laborious to make, and you can’t get constipation if you eat too much, but just eat some oil After all, this disease is starvation disease.

So even though it was summer, the entire land was devoid of vitality. Compared with the modern winter, it felt even more bleak.

A gust of wind blew by, bringing up a cloud of dust, covering the 600-man anti-insurgency team. It was getting closer and closer. The Ming army's left-wing sentry post turned a corner and just reached the edge of Baimugou Village. Riding on horseback at the top of the hill on the edge of the village, he observed for a long time, and found nothing unusual.

After waiting for a long time, one cavalryman went down to the village, and the other was on the top of the hill to support him. The scout who went down to the village rode his horse and galloped in the village. The two scouts continued to drive forward side by side.

"Commander, fortunately those two sentry posts didn't check carefully, otherwise the ambush we hid in the house would be exposed." Yang Zeming said from the side.

Wang Shanbao smiled lightly: "These scouts are fooling too much, we can't do that."

"It doesn't make much difference even if you find it. Anyway, when the Ming army comes here, the ambushes in the village will also come out to guard. We can't let the Ming army occupy the village, it will be difficult to fight." Liu Ze explained, "Everything is here. This place is here, the Ming army will not retreat, nor will it enter, it will definitely attack the village."

This place is a hilly area, with many hills on both sides, but the front of the hills is too flat, with a clear view, and there is no way to hide people.

Therefore, Liu Ze's military deployment is to allocate 500 relatively young and strong men to ambush in the village to prepare for a defensive battle against the village, 900 men on each side of the hills on the other two sides, and another 500 men behind the two hills three miles away.

As long as the village in front is fighting, they will encircle them on all sides with the sound of suona.

On the side of the road, Li Dianli and Liang Fuqianhu rode side by side.

"Master Liang, we are not far from Wuli Town, why don't we see a mob?"

"Lord Li, those are just local bandits. Maybe they ran away when they saw my army." Deputy Liang Qianhu didn't take Liu Ze and these local bandits seriously at all. There are people who make trouble, but basically they don't make a big impact, so he thinks that Liu Ze is no exception.

Although the military system of the guard is dilapidated now, and the 500-man establishment has been exhausted to only more than 200 people, but the swords and guns that should be there are still fully equipped, not to mention the nearly 50 guards under his command. Not to mention everything, they are all cavalry, and it is no problem for these family members to attack in formation, one against ten.

Among the remaining 60 soldiers, nearly [-] were wearing cotton armor. Although most of them were crudely made, with thin and few iron pieces inlaid inside, the armor was armor, and it was different from the mob wearing civilian clothes. language.

Not to mention there are also firearms such as tiger crouching guns and firecrackers.The tiger squatting cannon here is a commonly used artillery in the Ming army. It is 2 feet long from the beginning to the end, and 7 iron hoops are added around the body. The cannon head is supported by two iron claws, and there are iron trippers. When Qi Jiguang led the army to exterminate Japanese pirates along the coast, he found that although the blunderbuss were accurate but weak, it was difficult to defend against large groups, difficult to defend against dangerous obstacles, and difficult to display power.

From this, the tiger crouching gun was designed, which is better than a bird gun, one can be used as a hundred, lighter than a Francophone, more portable, and has strong mobility, which can be used in field battles, and can also control dangerous passes.

Before firing, the gun body must be fixed to the ground with big iron nails. Each shot can be loaded with 5 small lead or pebbles weighing 100 qian. The bullets fly out together, the lethality and radiation range are very large, especially suitable for field battles, bombarding dense crowds, and has a miraculous effect on unarmored targets.

The surrounding entourage all echoed: "Hahaha, what your lord said is very true. We have nearly a thousand troops, with cavalry and firearms. I don't think they dare to resist. They must have gone home and cried for their parents."

Several landowners and squires from Wuli Town also laughed and said: "Then Liu Ze only has a spear, a wooden shield, and no armor. In front of my imperial army, how can a local chicken and a tile dog be called a soldier?"

Li Dianli is very vigilant. He was in charge of the work of arresting theft, interrogation, supervision, and prisoners in the county, so he could always find some details that others could not. He looked around, and then asked solemnly: "Master Liang, there are hungry people digging wild vegetables and peeling tree bark to satisfy their hunger, but now there are no hungry people near the mountain ridges on both sides, I guess it must be a fraud! "

"Oh? What's your opinion, Master Li?"

Deputy Liang Qianhu heard this, and turned around to look around, and found that, as Li Dianli said, there was no hungry person around. It was a bit strange that the hungry people did not come out to look for food in broad daylight.

"Since the front is Baimugou Village, why don't our troops line up here to rest now, and I'll send some people to investigate nearby, how about it?"

(End of this chapter)