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Chapter 740 Silver City
In the riverside valley named Baima Mountain, Baima River, and Baima Bridge, there is a half-person-high mirror standing in the tent of the Chinese Army.

There is a man standing opposite the mirror. He has a thick beard, and his beard is connected with the half-inch short hair called "Beiyang head" on his head in the north of the Ming Dynasty. The small patches of skin on both sides of the raised cheekbones are slightly lighter. , that is the scar left by the burning of wearing an iron mask through the sea of ​​fire.

His head was as thick as his neck, and he was wearing an unbuttoned white short singlet. The muscles of his upper body made his bulging chest almost level with the fat-covered general's belly.

Years of lifting stone locks made his shoulders very broad, and his pectoral muscles were a bit smaller compared with his latissimus dorsi.

Through the slanted mirror, Shao Tingda clearly understood for the first time why his tailored trousers always fell down.

He patted his bulging stomach, which is the source of the general's strength, stared at himself in the mirror and said to Fu Geer who was standing beside him: "This mirror is not bad, how did you make it?"

"The latest workmanship in Venice, made of mercury and glass, and expensive."

Fu Geer expected to see appreciation and excitement from Shao Tingda's face. The nobles in Europa would be very excited when they received such a mirror, such as Herrera who got this mirror half a month ago, but Shao Tingda didn't seem to respond.

This burly general of the Ming Dynasty just nodded slightly, raised his hand and shouted: "Sick child, send someone to the woman from the White Horse Department to mend clothes. I need to make two suspenders on my trousers like a skirt tie!"

Although he was calm on the surface, he remembered it in his heart, Quicksilver.

Mirrors in Europe are clearer. Since ancient times, a large number of bronze mirrors have been popularized in the Han Dynasty. The manufacturing process used by people is to attach Xuanxi to the bronze mirrors and polish them to illuminate people. There is a difference between them. The difference between them is what Chen Mu is thinking about. glass out.

Shao Tingda believes that with their expedition, Ming will have all the civilizations in the world and develop them into a more mature state.

Just like the Europeans developed the fire gun into a bird gun.

Cursing his lips, Shao Tingda buttoned up his coat, and the soldiers put on official robes, with skirts, armbands, and breastplates buttoned up layer by layer. While putting on armor, he said to his subordinates, "Have all the ministries finished taking a bath?"

"There is also a soldier from a hundred households washing in the afternoon. The black general's cavalry scouts have set up defenses on the official road thirty miles away, and nothing will happen."

After putting on the iron armband on his left arm, Shao Tingda raised his hand and scratched his scalp, complaining, "I've been stationed here for seven days, why haven't the Spaniards moved at all?"

The soldier held his helmet and wiped it carefully, and said with a smile: "Maybe he was afraid of being beaten. We wiped out one of the three legions, and we don't know our truth, so it's normal not to dare to come."

It's not just that the Spaniards dare not come!

Shao Tingda sighed silently in his heart...he didn't dare to go either!
Through the Battle of the Baima River, the Ming army established contact with the indigenous tribes headed by the Baima tribe in the north. Some of the Western Army armor captured on the battlefield was provided to the Baima tribe, and the Ming army generals used these armors against them. The tribal warriors of the tribe will conduct a short-term training.

In return, the White Horse Department, acting as an agent of the Ming army, collected some food from the tribes in the north, and at the same time sent some women from the tribe who could sew clothes outside the camp to help mend the damaged uniforms of the Banner Army.

But more troops assembled by Baima have returned to their respective tribes, leaving only 600 people, and the Ming army trained to use bird guns, crossbows, and spears to fight.

It's funny to say that what the Ming army taught the Indians was the Spanish phalanx in their eyes.

The Ming army didn't even know how to do it, and even used it to teach others!
In addition to the 600 new suzerainty troops, there are also [-] people from the Almansa headquarters and surrenders. They have infantry, cavalry, and artillery, but there are very few cavalry and artillery.

But Shao Tingda didn't think that the [-] troops added to the army could offset the [-] banner troops who were killed and lost their combat effectiveness.

What's more, their rockets were almost empty in the Battle of the White Horse, and there were not many grenades left, and their lack of luggage made their reliance less and less.

It doesn't have the strength to storm Mexico City, but it can fight a few more field battles.

What's more, the local natives don't seem to have any overall view. Baima believes that this is the territory of Baima. If the Ming army as a friend is attacked here, their army will join the battlefield. It's people's own business.

This kind of thinking is difficult for Shao Tingda to understand, but there is no way to change it for the time being.

In a short time, the White Horse Valley will be the Ming army's home field. If Bernal takes the initiative to attack here, the Ming army will have the greatest advantage.

"Fu Geer, when will the iron arrowhead I want be delivered?"

Fu Geer stood aside and watched Shao Tingda put on the armor, a little idle, suddenly heard Shao Tingda's question, thought for a while and said: "It should be here this afternoon, my people went to Taxco to ask for arrows, there are many good ones there smelter, and it will be shipped back quickly.”

Shao Tingda sold a batch of western army armor damaged in the battle to Fu Geer, and asked him to get [-] iron arrows to arm the [-] archers of the White Horse Division.

In addition to letting Fu Geer buy it, there are also crossbow clusters harvested from the luggage, and the military craftsman has opened a kiln to melt iron in the past seven days to make arrows.

This point came from Chen Shigong's suggestion. In addition to bringing his assistants to practice the anatomical records in ancient books, he was also responsible for the wound inspection of the dead bodies of both sides. In a few days, he recorded the causes of death of more than 2000 dead bodies, and submitted a special report to Shao Tingda. complete report.

The cause of our own casualties is in line with expectations, mainly due to cold weapons such as horse collisions, long swords and spears, and very few people died from firearms.

The western army was equipped with few muskets, and they fired from a long distance. If it weren't for the cavalry assault, they would have beaten them to flight with one-third of their troops.

[-]% of the Western Army died from small wounds caused by firearms such as bird guns, rockets, and palm mines. Among them, bird guns were the main ones.

Nearly [-] gunners under him shot [-] strange lead pellets in the battle, but after removing the rockets and palm mines, they only killed [-] enemy troops.

The other [-]% are the results of cold weapons such as spears, sabers, iron melons, and thorns. A large part of this is the result of chasing and killing defeated soldiers, and [-]% is the result of drowning and trampling each other in the Baima River.

The last [-]% is the most miraculous, shot to death by bow and arrow, and the stone and bone arrowheads came from the Indians.

Chen Shigong said that these wounds appeared on the neck, face, armpits and other places where armor cannot protect, which shows that quite a few of the local people are very accurate shooters, and they will become very effective assistants after they have iron arrows.

For this reason, Shao Tingda specially found a fir bow used by the aborigines from the war profits. It was not long and the bow strength was not too great, but there were so many of them that almost everyone had a bow.

Shao Tingda now urgently wants to contact Chen Mu, and ask Chen Mu to tell the fleet returning to Daming at the end of this year that the Beiyang Army can start to collect bows, and further replace bows and arrows with blunderbusses, and extra bows can be obtained here. Used by the Asian suzerainty army of Ming Dynasty.

However, Fogel's men didn't come back with the iron arrows. The Spanish half-breed who was galloping on horseback stumbled into the camp and said a lot to Fogel.

Shao Tingda only understood one sentence.

"Silver City is occupied by rebels!"

He was smoothing his thick beard, and his copper bell eyes were filled with the inquiring mind of approaching science. His eyebrows were raised one by one and the other was lowered. With an unstoppable smile in his tone, he asked, "Hey, hey, Yincheng?"

(End of this chapter)