Hengdao Sixteen Kingdoms

Chapter 47 Cavalry
The heavy armored soldiers smashed trees and stones every day, which was regarded as training.

The smashed trees can be used as firewood, and the opened stones can be used to build docks, and can also be used as lapping stones for storage.

With the heavy armor, the cavalry must follow.

Including the war horses sent by King Zheng's family, there are a total of 53 war horses on the mountain, and there are more than 170 mules and donkeys combined.

Li Yue allocated twenty war horses to the ten most elite scouts.

The rest got together with mules and donkeys to form a cavalry of 200 men.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. Having cavalry and not having cavalry are completely two concepts.

Just like the Mongolian navy in later generations, let's hang up the name first.

At that time, Shi Le gathered eighteen Hu cavalry to join Ji Sang, and he and Ji Sang led more than 200 cavalry to join the Gongshi Fan, and then gradually started to make a fortune.

The war horses and donkeys and mules in the Central Plains are not much stronger.

The high-quality war horses are in the hands of the Tuoba family and the Murong family. The Central Plains has been tossed for so many years, and people can't survive, so naturally they can't afford war horses.

The stamina of the wild donkey is not bad, it is easy to feed, and its combat effectiveness is sturdy. There is a folk saying that the donkey is the enemy of the three wolves.

Now there is only this condition. If a person is poor, he must use his brains more to survive. It is really impossible. In the future, he can also be a mobile infantry, which is better than two legs interspersed on the battlefield.

Some scouts felt that wild donkeys were easy to feed, easy to feed, and it would not be a pity to lose them, so they asked for wild donkeys, and Li Yue let them.

Basically, Li Yue doesn't need to worry about training, just fight with the beasts.

The tiger is in the south of Sichuan, on the boundary of Songshan Mountain, the forest is vast, and wild animals are everywhere.

Wild sheep ran all over the mountain, and wild boars and rabbits arched everywhere.

These things are extremely prolific, and when there are fewer people, there will be more of them.

With mounts, the scouts can travel far. Every time they go on patrol, they will always bring back some prey.

Over time, the cavalry and wild donkeys gradually got used to each other.

As long as you follow their temper, the effect is not bad.

The temper of the donkey is not all bad, it dares to rush into the mountains of swords and fire, and is more daring than a war horse. When a war horse sees a wolf and leopard, its legs tremble, but the wild donkey is not afraid of them, and rushes up to bite them in a hurry.

As for the equipment, a few layers of straw mats were used as saddles, and a few tree branches were chopped as stirrups.

The quality of the leather armor Fangtou sent was not high, it was obviously a discarded item, but it could still be used after mending it.

The cavalry wore leather armor, carried short spears, and rode on it, and it was the same thing.

Anyway, Li Yue personally thinks that the equipment of an army is very important, but it is not decisive.

The rich play the rich, the poor play the poor.

As long as the thinking is not slippery, there are always more ways than difficulties, and it is better to be poor. Barefoot is not afraid of those who wear shoes, and dare to fight and kill.

How about well-equipped?
In the Battle of Kuxian, Sima Yue, king of the East China Sea, led more than [-] troops to attack Shile, and suddenly died. Trampling on each other, the dead are like mountains, no one is immune...

The equipment of the Jin army is not as good as that of Shi Le?Not as strong as Shi Le?

In the final analysis, it was still a matter of people. Wang Yan was a commander in chief and had a heavy army in his hands, but he was afraid of taking responsibility and did not dare to go to war. Sima Yue is more important than 10,000+ soldiers, more important than the Northern Kingdom, and more important than thousands of people.

In the end, the hope of the Han people to restore the country was wiped out, and more than [-] troops were buried with them...

Wu Huanhua, Shi Le is not invincible in all battles, and his martial arts strategy is only above average. The reason for his success depends on his peers. Try every means to feed it mouthful...

No matter how good the equipment is, it can't support a bloodless body.

Li Yue personally felt that the defeat of the Jin Dynasty was due to the spirit first, and the so-called romanticism in the Wei and Jin Dynasties was just a joke.

"General, there is not much salt on the mountain, so we need to find a way in advance." Zhou Qian said with a worried face.

Grain is equivalent to gold and silver, and the salt in the Central Plains is more expensive than gold and silver. Especially in this troubled world, salt represents strength, not only for people to eat, but also for war horses to be fed every once in a while.

The mountains have been very economical.

A tripod of corn porridge is sprinkled with a little bit of salt for a salty taste.

Others can make a living, but salt can't make a living.

Li Yue looked at the sand table. There are iron and coal, mountains and water around Xingyang, but there is no salt. "Go to the surrounding counties to exchange some grain."

Zhou Qian shook his head and said, "As far as my subordinates know, the nearby counties are also short of salt."

The world has been in turmoil for decades, stone tigers expropriate violently, and the commercial system since the Han and Wei Dynasties has long been destroyed.

There are no people, so naturally there will be no salt.

"Then I can only borrow some from King Zheng's family." Li Yue rubbed his forehead.

It is not easy to be a village owner. The eating, drinking and drinking of more than 1 people must be planned in advance, otherwise it will be a disaster.

In the last exchange of favors, Zheng and Wang's family took their own money and silk, so this face should be given.

They are all in the boundary of Xingyang, and you can't see them when you look up.

Zhou Qiandao: "This is not a long-term solution."

"Do you have a good strategy?" Li Yue was at a loss. Xingyang did not rely on the sea or the salt lake, so it was difficult to find salt.

"The subordinates passed through Hedong County when they fled. There is a big salt pond in Xie County. We can enter Luochuan in the east, enter Mang Mountain in the north, cross the river, enter Wangwu Mountain and Leishou Mountain (Zhongtiao Mountain) to get the salt. , On the return journey, there are mountains and mountains, and there are waters and waters.”

This plan was quite bold, and Li Yue hesitated for a while.

Zhou Qian cupped his hands and said, "The salt transported back can solve internal worries, and can also be sold to Xuchang, Nanyang, Jingxiang and other places to feed the soldiers and civilians of Heiyun Mountain with salt!"

On the sand table, the straight-line distance between Heiyun Mountain and Hedong is actually not far.

At that time, Li Ju retreated from Pingyang to defend Xingyang.

There are thousands of miles of people these days, and the management of Jiezhao is very rough. Its rule is limited to the city, and it has no control over what happens outside the city.

Therefore, the feasibility of Zhou Qian's plan is very high, and he escaped from Guanzhong with a thousand people, so he is familiar with the path.

It is a good thing for Heiyunshan to be self-reliant, but it is too slow.

Li Yue only remembered that as soon as Shi Hu died, the sound of killing on both sides of the Yellow River shook the sky and the world boiled.

How much can you accumulate by honestly farming?

"Where does the salt in other counties come from?" Li Yue wondered.

"It's also private salt!"

"Since that's the case, let's do it too!" Li Yue made up his mind.

A horse without night grass is not fat, and a person is not rich without windfall.

In the stage of primitive accumulation, of course, everything should be used to the extreme.

Dong Zhuo started his business and dug all the way from Liangzhou to Luoyang. All the places he passed along the way were "the mausoleum of the first emperor was published." He dug the mausoleum of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

When Wei Wu made his fortune, he set up Mojin Xiaowei and Faqiu Zhonglang.

Sun Quan dug the tomb of Changsha king Wu Rui in Jiangdong, and searched for the tomb of Nanyue king Zhao Tuo several times, but failed to find it. He dug up the tomb of the third generation Nanyue king Zhao Yingqi...

Compared to them, Li Yue's business is nothing.

"This subordinate is willing to bring a hundred old troops there." Zhou Qian volunteered.

Li Yue knew that he was also poor and crazy.

He is responsible for the eating, drinking and drinking of more than 1 people in Heiyun Mountain, so he is under more pressure than anyone else...

"100 people are not enough. I will send Cao Kan to lead [-] armored soldiers to go with you, and bring the mules and donkeys on the mountain. If you can't dig salt quietly, then you can grab it directly!" Li Yue slapped his thigh and said.

"This subordinate takes orders." Zhou Qian had a strange smile on his face.

(End of this chapter)