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Chapter 125

A typo in the previous chapter, please correct it.

Yuyi Town is to the east of Huaihuang Town. Well, there are three hundred armors in total, not two hundred. I'm very sorry, please forgive me.

The four walls of Huaihuang Town are still being repaired under the labor of two thousand garrison troops.

After everyone took responsibility for the responsibility system, the work of building the city wall was greatly accelerated. Liu Yi reported to Li Chongjiu that the construction period of the previous two months was greatly shortened, and now within one month, the four walls of Huaihuang Town can be completely repaired.

This is also the advantage of having a ready-made city wall to repair. If a city is built on the dam for nothing, it will take at least a year at a construction speed of 2000 people.

This is also the advantage of Li Chongjiu's choice of Huaihuang Town.

The guards were sweating hard, and the peasant women on the side stacked baskets of freshly cooked pancakes like hills, while several big-eared thick porcelain pots on the side were full of The ground is filled with clear water, and a wooden ladle is placed on it, and the garrison troops drink it by themselves.

According to the regulations formulated by Li Chongjiu, all water must be boiled before drinking, and unboiled water is not allowed. Although this consumes a lot of firewood, it is still a rule, and it is not allowed to defecate anywhere, as the two health systems of Huaihuang Town. .

In addition to the continuous construction of the city wall, Liu Yi, as Cangcao, submitted a report on the existing materials to Li Chongjiu.

Right now, in Huaihuang Town, there are 2000 shi of corn, 150 shi of wheat, and [-] shi of rice.

According to the current standards in Huaihuang Town, Zhuang Dingyue has four buckets per month, and women and children have two buckets per month. In Huaihuang Town, there are four thousand men and three thousand women and children. Even if they live frugally, they can only last for three months.

In order to build the town, these grains and grasses were transported thousands of miles from Yanmen and Shanggu.Just the rice grain and the toll cost almost consumed Li Chongjiu's original fundraising of tens of millions.

Among other things, in this troubled world right now, only corn can be sold for five hundred pennies a stone.

Right now, Huaihuang Town is still operating at a loss. Fortunately, the Li Family Security Bureau and Lin Dangfeng's merchants have been supporting them. In addition, the wheat fields cultivated on the south slope have also achieved a bumper harvest. Otherwise, the people in Huaihuang Town would have been hungry for a long time. You have to do the same thing as a human being.

However, Liu Yi told Li Chongjiu that the hay reserves for the winter were not enough.

When Li Chongjiu heard this, he couldn't help being awed. Cutting hay for the winter is a very important thing on the grassland.

Covered with heavy snow in winter, it is impossible for cattle and sheep to go outside to graze grass as usual, so a large amount of hay must be prepared for the winter.

Especially the hundreds of war horses in Huaihuang Town, it is well known that raising horses consumes hay.

No wonder in history, in order to support Li Mu’s cavalry who swept the Xiongnu and strengthened Qin, the people of Zhao State cut off the wheat that had just grown in the field and fed it to the horses.

At present, Li Chongjiu ordered all the idle personnel to mow the hay together, and at the same time, he considered killing weak horses, cattle and sheep to save forage for the winter.

In addition to preparing sufficient hay for cattle and sheep to survive the winter, it is also necessary to beware of black and white disasters on the grassland, or even plague.

If you really obeyed that sentence, if you have a lot of money, those with hair don't count.

Li Chongjiu newly appointed a trio of civil servants headed by Ji Chuan, as well as [-] passers who passed the examination as servants in the yamen, almost all of them were divided into several people, and all of them broke their legs.

Seeing their bitter and dusty faces, ready to come and complain to him, Li Chongjiu was very unkind, and immediately pulled his horse and left.

There are many things to do to build the city, but the most important thing is the formation of the cavalry of Li Chongjiu's three regiments.

These three regiments of cavalry will be Li Chongjiu's starting army that will strike three thousand miles across and swallow thousands of miles like a tiger.

Therefore, Li Chongjiu had to bring it up with his own hands, train together with the soldiers, and share the joys and sorrows together, so that this army will be deeply branded by himself in the future.

This is the necessary way to conquer the world. Except for a few of them, the founding emperors of all dynasties were mostly from the background of great warlords, and they all had extremely high prestige in the army.

In the future, no matter what the future holds for the team he brings out, he will definitely be devoted to the first chief officer.

Therefore, among the three regiments, Li Chongjiu led all the cavalry and joined one regiment himself, Wang Mahan led one regiment, and Yinghe Fu led one regiment.

Xibu and the cavalry of the Cangtou Army mixed together and practiced together, practicing bow horse riding and shooting by means of safari.

The cavalry of the Cangtou Army mainly learned from the Xibu cavalry, horse archery, cavalry tactics, how to outflank left and right, and archery while running.

Li Chongjiu also told Yinghefu about the mangu evil tactics of the later Mongols, and asked him to train the light cavalry of the two regiments.

After hearing Li Chongjiu tell him that there is such a method of warfare, Yinghefu showed a look of great interest, and immediately decided to train the Xibu cavalry first, and then teach Wang Mahan's Cangtou cavalry.
As for the group of cavalry equipped with iron armor, Li Chongjiu personally trained them.

This regiment of cavalry was a mixture of Hu and Han cavalry, and it was named the Tuqi regiment, which reminds people of the Youzhou Tuqi regiment started by Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty.

Armored cavalry is different from armored cavalry. War horses don't have armor. It's not that Li Chongjiu doesn't have armor, but that his existing war horse can't bear heavy loads. Wearing iron armor, he can run, but his explosive power is lacking.

However, Li Chongjiu still covered the armored horse with a layer of leather armor made of cooked cowhide, which also enhanced the protection to a certain extent.

The practice of armor cavalry is to charge into the formation. The so-called charge into the formation is not a round, but after a round of attack, regroup and carry out another round of attack, and so on.

According to later generations, if you don't fight a hundred rendezvous, you can't be called a horse army.

If you don't train a tough armored cavalry, how will you stand out among the powerful armies in the world in the future, and compete with such powerful troops as Li Shimin's Xuanjia Jingqi and Luo Yi's Youzhou Iron Cavalry.

Right now it is on a grassland under the Yin Mountain.

Ah Dianbu Qijin was drinking a pot of buttermilk.After drinking a pot, the man exhaled hot air from his nostrils.Suddenly the other party put the porcelain pot on the ground, wiped his mouth, and said: "Very well, I live in Dexibu, and there are Han people in Huaihuang Town who killed my son. We want their blood to pay for it."

A person who looked like a general stood up and said: "Jin, but right now our Turkic ministries are all waiting and watching because of the Khan's serious illness and the selection of the new Khan's successor, and have no intention of going south to attack the Sui Dynasty. .”

"I'm afraid we'll have to wait until next year."

"Fool, now is the time when darts are fat and horses are strong. If you don't take advantage of this to use troops against the Han people, don't you have to wait another winter?" Ah Tuobu turned around and said: "With the three thousand soldiers of our Ah Tuo tribe , enough to wipe out the Han Dog and the Shi De Xi Department."
Seeing that Jin Jin's decision was very firm, the warriors in the big tent of the Ah Dian tribe also looked like they wanted to avenge the deaths of their fellow clansmen.

The person who suggested earlier changed his mind at once, and said: "Qin Jin, if you want to send troops, it's okay. I heard that the Khitan people and the Shide Xi tribe are enemies. Since we can't invite other ministries, why not find these Khitans?" How about the barbarians sending troops together to destroy Huaihuang Town?"

When Ah Tuobu's eyes lit up when he heard this, he laughed and said, "That's right, a good idea. Let's do it this way."

(End of this chapter)