Chapter 468. The way of the other
The wind swept the grassland violently, and the grassland that had grown to the height of a person's thigh was blowing forward with the strong wind and a green wave, and more than a dozen horses were galloping forward like a lone sail in the sea, controlling the horses galloping, looking at the grassland around him retreating rapidly, Mao Jue's heart was full of spring breeze and horses' hooves, and he saw the pleasure of Chang'an flowers in one day.
The Wa Kingdom is too small, and the limited plains are all cultivated, no wonder the Wa State cavalry is few and small, not that the war horses can't let go, only when they return to this vast and vast Liaodong, this makes people happy.
But it's not just him who came to ride a horse, the female family of the Mao family is dispatched in addition to Xijing's plain clothes, one person and one rouge horse, especially Adriana, although she also did civilian work before Mao Jue set off, but this year's life at home did suffocate her, galloping, this girl actually whipped the horse, so that the jujube red horse under the seat also overtook Mao Jue in front of her, and the special status cowboy hat was blown and hung behind her back.
On the right side of Mao Jue, it is Chiyohime, who has newly joined the girl group! The ups and downs of the past six months, the twist of fate, and finally came together with a person she had never loved before, it seems that she also needs to vent urgently, a pair of pony boots in the coquettish call are clamped between the horse's belly, the whip is thrown back, she is also controlling the horse and galloping, a dark and gorgeous hair fluttering in the air.
On the other side of the sea of grass, tens of thousands of horses also galloped forward spectacularly, and the gray smoke trampled by the horses' hooves could be seen for several miles, and the shepherd holding the horse pole could not help but let out a loud shout from afar.
Crazy morning, lunch was also opened in this pastoral area, in the cauldron, the Songhua River water that was freshly beaten stewed the unlucky lamb that was cut down, the fragrance was overflowing, although there were no special ingredients and spices, a few girls who were tired of playing were still eating fragrantly, especially Chiyohime, a small spoon snorted and filled the small mouth, looking at the corner of Mao Jue's mouth on the other side couldn't help but hook obscenely.
If this girl is placed in the next generation, it still belongs to the transition period from illegal Lori to legal Loli, it is the time to develop, feed more high protein, and encourage this girl to jump, it is estimated that it will not be long before a child-faced ** wild Loli can be freshly baked, thinking, Mao Jue also laughed obscenely.
Sensitive is a woman, listening to Mao Jue's lewd laughter, the red-haired Sister Na immediately smashed her eyes hard.
That's right, this time Mao Jue took his own woman out to play, but his identity is like him, even if he is relaxed, he has to participate in the work.
For more than a year, the Qing army was fighting fiercely between Songjin and Xing, and the Dongjiang River did not do nothing, and the invasion of the Horqin Department sounded the alarm for Fan Wenju, and after moving south, the Dongjiang River once again expanded more than 100 kilometers to the south, taking advantage of the Qing army's timeless efforts to look north, and stretched its tentacles into a large no-man's land formed by thinking that the Jurchens were going south.
Now the outpost at the forefront of the Dongjiang River is close to Hetuala.
It's just that these lands are completely prepared for war, and the Dongjiang River here cannot be cultivated for the time being, but this Songhua River basin is also one of the best lands in Liaodong, and it is a pity to be abandoned.
Thanks to the Horqin Ministry, they came to the Dongjiang border to send people's heads, not only contributing slaves of tens of thousands of people, but also contributing more than 100,000 horses, dozens, almost millions of sheep, directly doubling the Dongjiang war horse reserves.
Before, in Tieyi, Mao Jue's war horse reserves did not exceed 60,000, there was no way, the terrain around Tieyi was too narrow.
You must know that as ruminants, horses eat for a very long time, even up to 17 to 18 hours a day, in addition to eating is sleeping, which requires a large amount of forage in the vast grassland to supply.
This is also why it is easy and simple for the ancient nomads to raise millions of horses, but hundreds of thousands of horses in the Central Plains Dynasty have been able to exhaust the national strength, and there is no sufficient forage to feed, so the Central Plains Dynasty can only use millet and wheat to raise horses, and reduce the eating time of horses with concentrate feed.
But now, everything is settled, fertile pastures, galloping horses, and with it, lean and strong, skilled cavalry!
Grunt~
The cauldron was bubbling, the white raw goat's milk, the milk began to dry up little by little, and finally turned into the powder of the white flowers at the bottom of the pot, and she was full of food, Chiyohime's big eyes were curious to smash it on the side, she ate a lot of toffee, but it was the first time to see how toffee was produced.
On Mao Jue's side, there were more than a dozen nomadic thousands of households reporting their work in front of his horse, and behind him, on the flat horizon, there were constantly short-stature Japanese slaves who used wheelbarrows to push carts of broken stones and smashed them on the ground with a roller, and then, the sleepers of Changbai Mountain and the I-shaped rails from the Iron Mountain steelmaking furnace were stuck on the ground one by one.
Cowboys, railroad tracks, revolvers, seventeenth-century Liaodong already has the flavor of the eighteenth-century American West. No matter how powerful the horse is, no train can resist the pull, and if you want to grasp this land, Dongjiang still has to repair the railway.
In the distance, there was a train from Heilongjiang that transported the building materials into the wagons, and following the train, there were several Dongjiang disciples who were unconvinced and drove the war horses to gallop wildly.
"In this way, with four horse farms and twenty regiments, when needed, twenty regiments of cavalry could have been drawn!"
"General, there are more than twenty regiments, the brothers in our racecourse, up to sixty or seventy-year-old old men, down to eight or nine-year-old dolls, everyone can get on the horse and set the sheep, if the age is lenient, the guard is marked, and the two regiments are more than enough!"
"Is it really that powerful?"
"You have no jokes!"
The treatment of the pro-soldier field regiment and the garrison regiment is completely different, if all the cavalry under his command are cavalry, then it is not impossible to upgrade to the war corps, those garrisons are full of confidence, puffing their chests, but Mao Jue's eyes can't help but squint, and he turned his head to the south.
"In that case! Prove it to Ben!"
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Later generations of the Great Wall from the east of Shanhaiguan Laolongkou, west to Qinghai Jiayuguan, but this era in Liaodong, there is more than 2,300 kilometers of the Great Wall of Liaodong, since Xu Dabei drove Mengyuan to build, from the interior of the migration of soldiers Shibian, Kaiyuan Tieling, are a part of the important fortress on the Great Wall of Liaodong.
When Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, was the border commander, he also opened up the six forts of Kuandian outside the Liaodong sphere of influence formed in the past few hundred years, and in the territory of Dandong City in later generations, the development direction of the Jurchens was curbed.
It is already close to the Dongjiang defense area, and it is also very important to the border defense of the Qing Dynasty, a row of wooden fortresses in the direction of the Yalu River, more than a dozen pigtail soldiers patrol back and forth, and the fields behind the fortress are Manchu and Han mixed houses, and the Jurchens are generally landlords, even if they are not clothed slaves, the Han people are also hired farmers and tenants, and they work hard to cultivate other people's land.
This year's cultivation task is heavier, although the Songjin War was won, but for the Qing State, which is not strong in national strength, it is also a particularly heavy burden to support the front line of the 110,000 army for a full year, not only the Liaoning Yizhou generation of grain is consumed, Shengjing and Liaoyang are also consumed, the entire Qing State is in a state of emptiness, and the warehouses everywhere continue to be replenished.
On the ground, the cattle of Kuandian are really smoking cigarettes, and some are worried about looking at the weak seedlings in the field, after all, the cultivation technology is not as good as the Han people, and the production enthusiasm of the coaters and tenants is not high, and the weather is dry as soon as spring begins this year, and it is too difficult to achieve this year's grain handover!
"Hey! I hope that in the autumn of this year, the emperor can still take the big guy to harvest in the land of Daming, or how will I live this year? ”
"Amma! To attack the Ming Dynasty? Our neighbor's third, fourth, and fifth children all died on the battlefield, and the seventh child's thumb was all cut off by the Ming dog and became a wasted person, why are you still looking forward to fighting the Ming Dynasty? ”
The one who spoke was the youngest son of this Niu Lu Ezhen, who had just turned sixteen this year, and the money rattail braid on the back of his head was also very thin, and he had not yet been on the battlefield.
Listening to his stunned question, the old Niulu, who was already in his fifties, took another heavy puff of cigarette and exhaled it deeply, even if he had a little fear on his face, he had a little aftertaste, and then shook his head and replied.
"You kid don't understand, the Ming in the Guannai and the Ming east of the Yalu River are not the same thing, the Daming in the Guan, there are people everywhere, there are states and counties everywhere, and the county town is full of cloth, silver and grain, and the Ming people in the Guannai are as soft as tofu, you take a knife and shout a few times under the city gate, and their officials are so frightened that they run away, and let those two-legged sheep let us rob them!"
"This little girl who is a coat for you is the one who snatched it from the customs a few years ago."
"So good?"
The young little Tartar's eyes also showed a look of excitement and greed, and he glanced at the little Han girl who was picking up the fish caught in the river in the yard of his house, and he was shouting with interest there.
"Waiting for my son to go to the gate with Ama to loot!"
The cigarette butt was thrown, and the boss was happy, and the old Niu Lu reached out and hugged the back of the little tartar's head, smiling happily.
"This is Lao Tzu's seed!"
A father-son relationship, the father taught his lifelong experience, and the family drama that the son went to learn from was not finished, suddenly, the shocking sound of gongs and drums broke the warmth, and the whole Niulu village was in chaos all of a sudden, and the women and children of Jianzhou ran around like flies without a head, and put their ears on the ground in amazement, and the sound of heavy horses' hooves suddenly reached the ears of this old Niulu.
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(End of chapter)