In the era of cold weapons, Tiefutu even people and horses were covered with iron armor, ordinary bows and arrows, and even knives and guns did not harm it, with high attack and strong defense, it is difficult to imagine that this kind of heavily armored cavalry still has shortcomings

Chao Gai said: "As the most powerful cavalry combination, Tiefutu and Kidnapping Horse also have many shortcomings, the first is poor mobility. The armor of Tiefutu is heavy, and a cavalryman needs two war horses, and generally in the actual equipment, a medium-sized horse will be equipped as a combat horse, and a Mongolian horse will be equipped as a riding horse, so that the heavy cavalry can have enough horsepower when charging. There are more horses, and the dependence on logistics has increased, and of course, some barbaric nomads grab wherever they go, so they don't feel the pressure of logistics. Second, the offense is strong, but the ability to attack is poor. Barbed wire, trenches, tripwires, and traps were fatal to heavy cavalry. Third, the defensiveness seems to be very strong, but there are actually many ways to crack it. There are many weapons that can restrain the Iron Float, such as heavy knives and axes, crossbows, artillery, and even the Vulcan spear that can penetrate the armor of the Iron Float. ”

Yuan Lang said: "The regimental training said that these such as strong crossbows and artillery are relatively advanced weapons, and if there is no such advanced weapons, how to break the enemy in the field." ”

Chao Gai said: "There is a method that is more cruel, there is a way that no matter how high the kung fu is, you are afraid of kitchen knives, and no matter how good the armor is, you are afraid of fire." Fill a porcelain bottle with fierce fire oil, throw the bottle at the enemy during the battle, and then throw the torch to turn the horse into a fireball. ”

Lu Fang was stunned when he heard this, it turned out that this Iron Floating Slaughter was not omnipotent.

Tang Bin said: "Although the method is good, but its own casualties will definitely be very large, in case the fierce fire oil gets on yourself, won't you burn yourself to death." ”

"Yes, the oil burns so hard that it ignites in an instant, and it is likely to burn the user to ashes. The last time I broke the enemy, I used smoke bombs to make the Iron Floating Massacre formation messy, but that method can't be used often, the artillery field is researching a new weapon, the cavalry is very convenient to use, and with the light cavalry, it can completely fight against the Iron Floating Massacre. ”

Everyone wrote them down one by one, and Chao Gai said to Lu Fang: "Although the Iron Floating Slaughter has shortcomings, it is still much stronger than other troops, so you must practice the Iron Floating Slaughter well and don't let everyone down." ”

"If you can get my brother's love, Lu Fang will practice Tiefutu even if he is crushed to pieces." Lu Fang said.

If you think about it carefully, although there are many methods of breaking the Iron Floating Massacre, almost all of them are heavy weapons of the artillery type that are very effective. If you want to rely on a big axe, hook sickle and other weapons to break the iron floating slaughter, that is a dream did not wake up, the soldier is faced with the impact of thousands of horses and horses, almost can not do the same face with a hook and sickle to cut the horse's legs, at most there is a fierce general, but the war can not rely on a few fierce generals, relying on the strength of the collective team.

The next day, the generals gathered in the army and announced the expansion of the 6th Cavalry Battalion led by Tang Bin and Hao Siwen, and announced the direct expansion of 900 people to 1,000 cavalry. But the sources of soldiers are all selected from Zhuangding, and their hometowns are all men from Shandong and Hebei. Instead of being like Yuan Lang's camp, there are many nomads on Black Dragon Island itself.

In this way, the difficulty of training has increased a lot, Tang Bin and Hao Siwen knew that Chao Gai must have his intentions in this arrangement, and immediately started from scratch, and there were many steps to train from a strong man to a cavalry. First train the strong men to be infantry, be able to distinguish between left and right, understand the basic military orders, and then train to ride horses, and only when you are skilled in riding can you be trained to use weapons such as cavalry knives, and as for archery on horseback, that is a matter of a few months later. Tang Bin and Hao Siwen didn't have to say anything about their martial arts, they were very good at marksmanship and archery, and they could also control the scene. What's more, the recruits are all selected from the strong men, and there are no thorns.

For a time, Heilong Island was also star-studded, there was only one reclamation camp for Liu Tang, but now there are several more battalions, and Pang Wanchun, Li Kui, Yuan Lang, and Tang Bin have been transferred over, and there are many generals, and the fierce bull grassland is really lively.

Chao Gai mainly focused on military training, day and night super training exercises of soldiers and horses, focusing on cavalry, because the terrain in the north of Heilong Island is flat, mostly flat land, the infantry marches slowly, and it is very easy to be disturbed by cavalry.

There was also a special group of people in the barracks, a thousand people, who were not soldiers, but dressed in the clothes of infantrymen. The age is only twelve or thirteen years old, regardless of the young age, they can do any job, processing horse feed, grinding flour and grass, helping the Huotou army pick vegetables and cook, in short, they do all the work done by the miscellaneous servants in the army.

Child laborers do not work all the time, they usually work in the morning and morning, and in the afternoon they have to learn military knowledge and read and write. These people were recruited by the old Taoist Gongsun Sheng when he recruited people, and some of them were orphans, and their families could not survive due to disasters and were helpless. Some of the parents are here, but the family situation is really difficult, and there is no choice but to come out to work as child laborers to eat.

Gongsun Sheng came to see the children in the afternoon, and on the school field, the children had just finished learning the cultural class, and found a Taoist priest with a whisk.

"Uncle Daoist, why are you here?" A black boy said.

The other children also saw Gongsun Sheng and gathered around.

Gongsun Sheng said: "I'll come to see how you are doing here, whether you are suffering here, whether you are tired or not." ”

"It's not bitter, it's not tired, I have delicious food and good drink every day, and the chores are much easier than at home." The children said.

Chao Gai specially arranged Liu Tang, don't ask too much for this group of child laborers, count as much work as you can do, and don't make trouble. However, the poor children are in charge of the house early, and the children do a good job of doing grass and flour, washing vegetables and cleaning. It's just that such a big child is very sensible, behaves in a proper manner, and looks a little unlively.

"The army is a place where rules are spoken, and you must pay attention to the rules in peacetime, and you must not mess around. I will stay in the army for a while, and if you have any difficulties, you can come to me. Gongsun Sheng said.

"Okay, okay. We'll have a football match with the master of the heavy cavalry cooking class in a while, do you want Uncle Taoist to come and see it? The kids said.

Looking at the innocent smiling faces of the children, Gongsun Sheng said, "Okay, I'll cheer for your team." ”

"Oooh." The children were delighted.

After training, Chao Gai and Gongsun Sheng returned to Baiyu Harbor to see how the farm was developing.

The group only brought more than 100 cavalrymen and went around to watch the situation on each farm. The first 20 or so farms are in the best condition, almost more than 300,000 acres of land, the king rice in the dry land is more than one person tall, the ears of rice are the size of beer bottles, the strong men on the farm can not sleep at night when they look at the joy of the upcoming harvest, they take turns to send people to watch the night, there are often wild boars and so on at night to harm the crops, and locusts can be easily caught at night.

Corn and soybeans are growing very well, and now they are in the peak growth stage, and the green ones look very cute. What is even more unexpected is rice, the rice grows so well, the green rice has grown to the height of the calf, because there are not so many fish fry, the rice field fish farming is only partially promoted, even if there is no special stocking of fish fry in the rice field there are a small number of fish.

Wang Lun is not a down-and-out scholar, there is still a set of actual management, and many immigrants also have real talents and real learning, and they are still very good at farming, and they are promoted to leaders with good crops, and their enthusiasm for farming is also high. Heilong Island has truly developed into a production base based on Tianwang rice, soybeans and rice. Don't look at the lack of grassland in agricultural areas, in fact, there are a lot of cattle and sheep raised, Tianwang rice straw, soybean straw, and all kinds of weeds are good feed.

Jiao Ting said: "I think it's okay for this rice to yield 400 catties per mu, this land is really fertile, but there are a lot of weeds." ”

"400 catties is certain, this year five new fish fry breeding fishing grounds, next year the rice field can be stocked grass carp weeding. The fertile land also needs fertilizer, and the breeding of pigs, cattle and sheep needs to be strengthened. Chao Gai said.

Chao Gai thought about it and said: "Recently, 5,000 mares have been mobilized from various tribes in the Fierce Cattle Grassland, and 200 male donkeys have been transported from Shandong, and they have been mixed together, and I think there will be more mules next year." ”

"Oh, this is a great thing, although there are a lot of mules raised in the Yuncheng agricultural area of Jeju, but after all, it is relatively slow, I heard that the horse market can now recover thousands of small mules every year."

"Heilong Island has a vast area, and the southern mountainous areas can also be cultivated with fertile fertile land, and there is a great demand for draft animals. Mules have the strength of an ox and the speed of a horse. Chao Gai said.

Gongsun Sheng said: "Brother cultivates a large number of mules or for artillery, the current tiger squat cannon is very small, but the future artillery will gradually use larger cannons, three or five hundred pounds of cannons are obviously unrealistic to carry people, the best way is to pull the mule cart." Mules have more strength than horses and are reasonably fast, so they are the best choice. ”

Chao Gai nodded, although this matter was confidential, Gongsun Sheng was a person in the inner circle.

Gongsun Sheng said: "Brother, Poor Dao has a request, I hope my brother can agree." ”

Chao Gai said: "Mr. Gongsun is polite, if you have something, you can just say it." ”

"This year's harvest on Heilong Island and New Jeju Island is a foregone conclusion, in the case of leaving enough of our grain and grass reserves, I hope my brother can allocate more grain and grass to relieve the refugees in Shandong, some people are really old and weak, although they are old and will die after all, but it should not be starvation to death." Gongsun Shengdao.

"There is no problem, it is a little inconvenient to transfer grain from these two islands, only our Liangshan Island has hundreds of millions of catties of grain stockpiled, this year, the disaster situation in Shanxi and Hebei is very serious, Hebei Tianhu took the opportunity to develop forces, Bian Xiang released grain in Jingcheng County for disaster relief, and at the same time recruited strong men, so as to fundamentally disintegrate the development of Tianhu." Chao Gai said.

Gongsun Sheng said: "Luda has been ordered to build a new battalion of 500 infantry, and now it is estimated that he has rushed to Jingcheng County to support Bian Xiang, and Jingcheng County should be foolproof with these two." ”

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