The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 205 Next Step

The people who rushed to Kaiping to sell sweet potatoes and potatoes also got a piece of news that made them feel more at ease.

The Huang family actually arranged that the two taels of silver deposit paid would be deducted only when the people sold their output for the last time.

Comparing your heart to your heart, the common people have nothing to say, and store the remaining sweet potatoes and potatoes carefully. If you don’t understand, you should quickly ask those officials who often guide the fields and Mr. Xu’s servants. If you can’t find these people, find the "Red Banner Army "Xue Bing can also get his wish.

The common people's thoughts are simple, if the hard-earned sweet potatoes are rotten in the cellar, wouldn't it be a waste of joy?
Young apprentices went from village to household to promote the correct storage of potatoes and sweet potatoes, and also warned everyone that sprouted potatoes are poisonous and should not be used for practical use, otherwise they may kill people.

Some of the purchased potatoes and sweet potatoes are used to make shochu, some are processed into vermicelli and vermicelli, and some of them are of course followed by women selling roasted sweet potatoes and fried potato chips into all towns in Northern Zhili.

It is estimated that it will take one and a half months to digest 50 shi of potatoes and sweet potatoes, and it will not be a problem to sell all the salable output of growers before summer.

There is no doubt about the enthusiasm of the soldiers who have been around for more than 760 years. They performed outstandingly when harvesting potatoes and sweet potatoes, and a small half of them got the opportunity to follow their mentors to the capital to see the world.

The selected 360 students are actually seeds left behind, and the upcoming battle will not bring them.

More than half of these children have never been to the county seat, and everyone was delighted to have the opportunity to go to the capital this time.It is no wonder that more than 300 of them are under the age of 14, but only half a child.

Now, together with four or five hundred women, they are happy to push 180 baked sweet potato carts and [-] wheelbarrows full of potatoes and sweet potatoes on the official road. They are expected to arrive in the capital in three days.

Huang Han intentionally did not arrange for the knights of the "Red Banner Army" to escort them. Nearly 360 of the 40 ​​students were teenagers who had been on the battlefield.

These people are junior banner officers and general banner officers. They have 360 ​​young men with [-] guns in their hands. If such an armed force cannot win against bandits and bandits, then there is no need It has grown.

In the past few months, due to sufficient human resources, and due to the rapid increase in steel production and quality, the quality and quantity of weapons, farm implements, and tools produced by Huang's have increased rapidly.

Huang Han's equipment has also been upgraded. Tailor-made all-steel breastplate is essential. The horse-chopping knife in his hand is carefully crafted by Yang Laoshi himself with a hammer and forged steel. The quality exceeds the level of hundreds of forged steel.

What needs to be mentioned in particular is that Huang Han personally made a stainless steel pulley bow with the help of Yang Laoshi's team. The back of the bow is made of high-quality steel similar to the spring steel of later generations. Made of silk.

The mulberry silk used as fishing line is not the fine silk that silkworms spit out naturally, but the ancients mastered the technology of taking out the silk pulp from the silkworm body and pulling it into a single thick silk. This artificially thickened silk is dried and made into fish The thread is tough and soak resistant.

The stainless steel pulley bow is somewhat similar to the modern compound bow, using a single pulley system, because the pulley system is too complicated, and Huang Han can't do it.

The structure of this pulley system is a single pulley in the upper part of the bow, and another pulley with an elliptical shape to provide energy is in the lower part of the bow.This bow feels good, is reliable and is easy to maintain.

It is really not easy to make modern products with ancient crafts. Huang Han participated in the production himself, but a lot of them were scrapped. Now there are five bows that meet the equipment standards in Huang Han's mind, but it is not realistic for such bows to become common equipment for troops.

Because Yang Laoshi can't predict whether the selected steel fully meets the standards, it is completely luck to make the finished product that is not easy, the cost is too high, and there is another reason that it needs frequent adjustment and maintenance, so it is not suitable for military standard weapons.

The fine steel pulley bow has the advantage of saving half the effort, and the convenience of being able to use it around the clock. Huang Han no longer has to worry about the possibility that his bow will become a waste product if it is poured by heavy rain for several hours.

Huang Han now uses the stainless steel pulley bow to practice hard every day to find the feel, and now the accuracy has reached the state of using the traditional Kaiyuan bow of the Ming Dynasty.

The advantage of using a stainless steel pulley bow is that compared with the traditional Kaiyuan bow, it is not afraid of moisture and has an effective range of five steps. It can shoot thirty arrows with lethal power one after another with Huang Han's physical strength.

Huang Han did not set off with the large team that entered the capital. He set off one day late and held a coordination meeting in Kaiping. The officials and assistants of the "Red Banner Army" system were given different tasks.

During this time, Song Pengfei, Zhao Kun, Yang Jian and other infantry officers hurriedly organized the infantry musketeers to conduct live ammunition shooting training.

Because the monthly production of bird guns has been increasing, there are now more than [-] guns equipped with infantry. Song Pengfei's seven hundred bird gunners have a surplus of one, and those with outstanding marksmanship even own two.

In fact, it is relatively easy for a hot-weapon army to form combat effectiveness. As long as they are not too stupid, they can easily load and fire the gunners who have been trained for three to six months. Besides, Song Pengfei still chooses people with a certain foundation to form the army.

Hanzi, Yang Guoen, Liu Fenyong, Yang Danian, Wang Zhanpeng and other cavalry officers led all the cavalry for long-distance raids and training almost every day.

It is not so easy for the cavalry to form combat effectiveness. Although the recruits are all men with riding skills selected from the military servicemen who have experienced battlefield training, they still need to go through actual combat tests to become real knights.

In the past few months, the cavalry often went to Funing, passed Santun Camp, and then went to Longjing Pass, and then went directly to Da'ankou and Hongshan Pass via Zunhua. They were very high-profile during the training, and basically everyone knew it. Gradually, the soldiers and civilians nearby were not surprised. .

Huang Han assigned a task during the meeting, and all the officials and assistants led their troops to Da'ankou to assemble. The number of laborers with the army was selected according to the basic principle of voluntariness. The next move will be known when Huang Han comes in person.

Zheng Xiaowen, Huang Yong, Huang Yi, and Gao Youmou were responsible for diverting and arranging for the refugees temporarily living in Kaiping to go to the newly built "Red Banner Army" base camp fortress.

This fortress of 2 people has been built for less than half a year, and now it has begun to take shape. The circumference of the city wall is seven miles, the height is three feet three feet, and the width is one foot. Although the scale may not reach a relatively good county in Daming, it has adopted Bastion design, more defensive.

Bastion is a kind of ancient fortress. Its essence is to change the fortress from a convex polygon to a concave polygon. This improvement reduces the dead angle of defense, so that no matter which point the attacking side attacks the castle, it will expose more than one square to the defenders. Bastion surface.

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