Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 493

"Don't worry about him. Ma Bansong was frightened. He knew we were not to be messed with. He sent money on purpose. He went back to transport food."

Zhu Wu said: "Fang La has a lot of generals and a lot of masters. It will be a great help if he can surrender."

Chai Lin shook his head: "Fang La thinks the same way. The more important thing is that they are organized by sects. The sect has a strong ability to continue. It has been quietly spread among the people for dozens or even hundreds of years, so it is still impossible to subdue them. , not to mention that our foundation in the south of the Yangtze River is too shallow, and the army is not used to fighting in the south of the Yangtze River, so if we come here rashly, we will lose our troops and lose our generals."

Zhu Wushen believed that Cangzhou was dominated by military weapons, and the south was rainy and humid, and there were mountains, rivers, streams, rice fields, etc. everywhere.It is difficult for the Cangzhou Army to launch a strong attack here with the northerners as the main body.

Chai Lin, Zhu Wu and others first returned to Yangma Island to start a comprehensive rectification of the industrial park, agriculture, fishery, and horse breeding.The industrial problems are the most prominent, and other industries also have some problems.

Agriculture is planted by immigrants, mainly rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn.Things like sweet potatoes and corn are basically grown for raising horses.

The winter in Yangma Island is very cold, and it rarely snows. Generally speaking, there is no shortage of forage.But there are many horses in breeding, more than 2 mares, and more than 1 ponies. It is very fierce to eat grass every day.

Therefore, corn stalks, sweet potato seedlings and peanut seedlings should be supplemented to them in winter.

Chai Lin and Zhu Wu came to No. [-] horse farm located in the east of Yangma Island. It is located relatively close to the sea, where the water and grass are abundant and there is a wide sandy beach.

More than 3000 iron-hoofed mares, more than 100 black-headed donkeys, and about [-] iron-hoofed mule foals.

The iron-shoe mule is a new breed created by the black-headed donkey and the iron-shoe horse. The iron-shoe mule grows extremely fast, and basically surpasses the height of the iron-shoe horse when it is about one year old. Its normal weight is about [-] catties, and it has great strength. The most notable feature is that the hooves are very hard and no shoes are used.

Little mules live with a large group until they are more than one year old and then slowly start training, pulling carts, carrying things, and pulling plows.

It is not enough to just raise them, and systematic training is also necessary, because raising them is not for eating meat, but for labor.Little mules start working when they are over two years old, they can basically reach their peak at the age of five, and they can continue until they are 20 years old. There are some old mules who are still able to work when they are 25 or [-] years old.

In addition to mules, the most here are horses.

Although they are both iron-shoeed horses, the horses raised on Yangma Island are ten centimeters taller than the iron-shoeed horses on the grassland.

It is mainly due to the richer forage here, and there are compound feeds such as wheat bran, corn, and salt.

"It can support [-] light cavalry, and Cangzhou, Yizhou, and Yangma Island are all places where horses are produced. The huge expenditure at the beginning has finally paid off." Zhu Wu said.

"After taking Jingdong Road, we will not lack horses. The reason why the Song Dynasty is weak is that it is too serious to emphasize civility over military affairs. In order to facilitate the rule, the officials have castrated the blood of the people. In fact, there are too many ways to deal with the cavalry. Now, the cavalry is not a perfect unit, and its main feature is its fast mobility. Shi Jin's light cavalry will exceed [-] next year, and now Wu Song's horizontal sword army is changing to cavalry infantry." Chailin said.

"Then there are so many horses that can't be used up?"

"It doesn't matter if the army can't use it up, the common people use it. Didn't we put forward a concept of animal power in agriculture, and we are now developing in this direction. Animal power is used for plowing, pulling carts, and carrying things, which greatly improves the development level of productivity. The main purpose of our horse farm is to breed purebred iron-hoofed horses. Most people will breed mules when they buy them, and even if they breed horses, they will breed very well."

The horses are grazing leisurely on the grass, occasionally fighting and biting each other.

A group of people rode iron-shoe horses, galloped quickly on the beach, and galloped past.Only Dian Zhengnan was too big to ride an iron-shoeed horse, so he held his halberds and watched anxiously.

A group of people ran for several miles. Seeing the scene of tens of thousands of horses galloping, Chai Lin sighed: "It seems to be a good job to raise horses here. The sea, the horses, and the grassland."

Zhu Wu said with a smile: "I dare not delay here, it has been delayed for a long time, brother, Princess Jinzhi should be anxious. General Fang La can't accept it, so let's accept Princess Jinzhi first."

"Is this okay?" Chailin was also a little moved.

"Okay, there's nothing wrong with it. Fang La's failure is a foregone conclusion. After my brother marries Princess Jinzhi, it's justifiable to accept a few Fang La's generals. After all, Jiangnan is an important part, and it is impossible to lose Jiangnan. Listen. People advise, if you have enough food, you should wrong yourself a bit, and sacrifice a bit for the development of the Cangzhou Army."

"Let's take one step at a time."

The First Fleet did not delay at all, loaded 1000 million catties of rice from Yangma Island, and set out for Hangzhou Port again.

Fang Lajun dispatched [-] elite soldiers to attack Hangzhou under the leadership of Fang Tianding, Shi Bao, and Deng Yuanjue on the second day after Chai Lin left, and took Hangzhou in one fell swoop.

Hangzhou was once again baptized by the flames of war, but Fang La's army was a local army after all, and had never harassed the people and businesses. The military discipline was strict and they did not harm the people.

Princess Jinzhi brought her maids down to the pier every day to wait for the lucky boat from the Cangzhou Army. For four days in a row, she had nothing to gain, and she never saw the arrival of the fleet.

On the morning of the sixth day, Princess Jinzhi brought people to wait again.

In fact, Jin Zhi was not waiting for some food, but for that person.

The person who has been dreaming and dreaming, walked into the atrium with a thumping heart, knowing that this person may have already married a wife and had children, but he still flies to the fire without hesitation.

The maid said: "Princess, the sea wind is strong here, let's go back. That Mr. Chai may not come again after taking the money."

"Shut up, how can a little girl understand the thinking of a hero? Such a character values ​​credit more than life, so how can she care about this 1 taels of silver?"

The maid was too afraid to talk back when Jin Zhi said it.

At this time, several black spots suddenly appeared between the sea and the sky, and the black spots were emitting white smoke.

"Miss, come, come."

"It's coming, it's coming. Hurry up and tell my brother, let him bring someone to receive the food."

There is actually food among the people in Hangzhou, but Fang La was born in the south of the Yangtze River, and he couldn't bear to do anything to the people, so he went to great lengths to buy food and grass from other places.

Last time, Ma Bansong acted as a middleman and sold half to the imperial army and half to Fang Lajun, earning a lot of money.

This time, Princess Jinzhi bought 1000 million catties of rice directly from the Cangzhou Army, which can last for a long time.

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