Chapter Eighty-Eight: Long Live the Great Handsome!
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Tens of thousands of recruits were gathering around the huge training ground, staring intently at the middle, and near the gate, there were many blonde and blue-eyed ghosts, also staring at each other with their eyes wide in disbelief.
And where their eyes were focused, Yang Dashuai was standing with his hands on his face arrogantly.
The wind blew his scarlet robe, and he hunted in his clothes.
And forty meters away from him, it was......
Uh, an angry Indian rhinoceros.
Well, this is the mount that Yang Dashuai ordered from the British, his weapon is too heavy, not to mention dancing on the horse, even the big white horse in his hand can be pressed down, after all, plus himself, the weight steadily exceeds the weight of the big white horse. British pureblood can bear this weight, but the problem is that as soon as he dances, let alone British pureblood, even Sharma may have to lie down, after all, carrying hundreds of kilograms and letting a few hundred kilograms dance on his back is not a concept at all.
In this way, we have to find a way to do it on other mounts.
There is no problem with the natural weight of the elephant, and the elephant is also spectacular enough to ride, but the problem is that the elephant is relatively slow, he has to ride on the battlefield to charge, at least not too much slower than the war horse, so that only the rhinoceros meets his requirements, the explosion speed is almost the same as the war horse, more savage than the elephant's temperament, and the rhinoceros horn is more practical than the majestic ivory on the battlefield.
Ivory can be easily broken, but rhino horns are much stronger.
As for the weight, no problem either.
So when he asked the British to help him get a batch of war horses for breeding, he asked these guys to catch a few rhinoceros for him, and the British got him a total of six, and in front of him this was the largest of them, with a shoulder height of two meters and a weight of more than two tons.
The rhinoceros was captured from the wild, then locked in a cage, and tossed at sea for almost two months, and he had not eaten enough today, so it can be said that the anger at this time has been raised to the extreme, and the eyes are almost red when he sees people. It lowered its head, and the terrifying single horn moved forward, constantly panting there and scraping the ground, especially Yang Feng's scarlet robe was particularly stimulating to it, just after Yang Feng raised his hand and hooked his finger at it, it roared as if telepathically, and suddenly crashed straight at him.
The sound of heavy hooves was like a war drum on the battlefield, and then a scream rang out all around.
Yang Feng did not move.
The rhinoceros, which quickly increased its speed to more than 40 kilometers per hour, was like a tank charging at full speed with its barrel, and it instantly reached him in a cloud of dust.
At this moment, Yang Feng suddenly staggered, and then roared, almost at the same time both hands hugged the single horn at once, the golden dragon that had almost caught up with his big tui thick suddenly entangled the bull's head, and as he twisted his body to the left, he heard the rhinoceros scream, and the entire bull's head was directly pressed to the ground, and the heavy body was even lifted from the back up because of the huge inertia, and then smashed down heavily.
The entire training ground was silent.
Everyone was dumbfounded and looked at Yang Feng, who was holding the single horn in both hands and pressing the nearly 4,000-pound giant beast to the ground.
"God, is he the resurrected Samson?"
After almost a minute, Howard, who was also watching the excitement next to him, subconsciously exclaimed, it was obvious that this game was too impactful for him.
"Long live the handsome!"
At the same time, all the recruits of the surrounding Wan Ming Army knelt down, kowtowed their heads and let out a deafening chant in unison, and the piety on their faces was really like worshipping a god.
Only then did Yang Feng let go.
The rhinoceros lay there gasping, and at the same time looked at him with frightened eyes, it was estimated that it had been completely conquered, but I was afraid that it would not have the ability to get up for a while, after all, the damage to it was not light.
"Get up, train hard, and go to the battlefield as soon as possible to follow Ben Shuai to kill the Tartars."
Yang Feng took the handkerchief handed by the guard, and said to the soldiers who knelt on the ground while wiping his hands.
"Xie Dashuai!"
Immediately followed by another neat shout, those soldiers quickly stood up one by one, and under the leadership of their respective instructors, they reorganized themselves according to the formation, and then continued their training, while Yang Feng walked up to Howard and the others and said, "Let's go, go and see the war horses you brought me." ”
Howard not only brought him a rhinoceros this time, but also brought eighty war horses, including forty stallions and forty mares, and three cubs, but not British horses, war horses must consider the ability to adapt to the environment, British horses are indeed tall and mighty, but whether they can adapt to the environment of China, especially the hot and humid environment in the south is still difficult to say, but there is no horse that cannot adapt to the environment.
Arab.
"Your Excellency, this is all an absolute purebred Arabian horse that we bought at a high price in Persia!"
Howard also said with a smile on his face with a smile on his face that shocked this guy.
"Yes, they're all good horses!"
Yang Feng patted a red war horse with satisfaction and said.
And Lu Yi's eyes beside him were straight, his cavalry brigade used captured Qing army war horses, not that Mongolian horses were bad, but the Qing army, whether it was the Eight Banners or the Green Battalion, was a hereditary soldier, and the above gave subsidies to buy horses and raise horses, if it was a war year, of course those cavalry had to serve wholeheartedly, but the vast majority of the troops under Kang Mazi had not fought for many years, and the northern army had occasionally had a little war, and the south had been peaceful for a long time, and those cavalry had long lost this consciousness, and good horses needed more forage, and bad horses needed less forage, the subsidy is the same, so the unspoken rule of these cavalry is not to have a good horse, so as to save the subsidy.
In this way, it eventually became those donkey cavalry in the late Qing Dynasty.
Although it is not yet that time, this horse is not a good product, Lu Yi looked at these tall and handsome Arabian horses, of course, his eyes straightened, and it was good to say that he didn't drool.
"Don't look salivating, this can't be given to you for the time being, this is for breeding, don't think about it in a short time!"
Yang Feng said speechlessly.
"Uh, Dashuai, what if I pay for these red-haired ghosts myself?"
Lu Yi looked at Howard and asked.
"I don't care about that, but I can tell you that these red-haired ghosts have people who are about the same height as that rhinoceros at the shoulders, and weigh more than 1,500 catties."
Yang Feng said with a smile.
"Shoulder-tall as that rhinoceros? Wouldn't the whole thing have to be a foot tall? Is that a war horse or an elephant? ”
Lu Yi exclaimed.
"It's called the Elephant Horse, but this horse is best used as a pull-back, and their cavalry is usually of another type, a little smaller, but still bigger than these Arabian horses, and if you have the money, let them get you one."
Yang Feng said.
Lu Yi did not hesitate to go to Howard, this guy as a general and cavalry brigade commander plus various subsidies, up to two hundred dragon yuan per month, plus the status of the Ming army is different, it is estimated that there is no problem in buying a few British pure-bloods from Howard at a normal price. Anyway, now the merchant ships of the East India Company often come over, and these guys mainly purchase silk, tea and other goods from China, and the areas controlled by the Ming army are all the main production areas of this kind of thing, and they are all the main export ports originally. Yang Feng played free trade again, and the Ming officials were much more honest than the Qing Dynasty officials, and it was much more comfortable to do business here than to do business in the Kang Mazi control area, and now not only the British East India Company, but also the Dutch East India Company and the French East India Company also liked to come here.
Yang Feng also encouraged this kind of behavior of officers buying war horses from abroad.
Anyway, as long as he gets the horse to China, it doesn't matter what the way is, if the road transport is started in the future, it is not bad to encourage businessmen to buy elephant carriages from the British, anyway, it is impossible for him to get the car out in the short term, and the road transport still has to rely on the carriage, and now he has got the four-wheeled carriage out, and then he is going to build a large number of sandy roads, and this thing will definitely be used in large quantities for at least twenty years in the future.
And the Mongolian horse-drawn carriage is not at the same level as the elephant horse-drawn carriage.
Howard and Lu Yi had a very happy conversation, and it didn't take long for the two of them to talk while walking up to Yang Feng, who was admiring those war horses, and then this guy said somewhat cautiously: "Your Excellency, if our missionaries come to preach, can you allow it?" ”
"Not allowed."
Yang Feng said very simply.
"Well, Your Excellency Marshal, I think you are a very enlightened leader, a very respectable monarch, completely different from the barbaric Tatars, even your former Ming Emperor allowed missionaries to preach, but why did you refuse?"
Howard said.
"I am not against proselytizing, and in fact I have great respect for your faith, but the problem is that you yourself are messing up this issue now, so how can I trust my people to believe? Which family should they believe? Rome? Anglican? Protestantism? Orthodox? You see, you're all making a mess of yourselves, this one says this is right, that one says that's right, so which one is right? Shall I take a look first? When you figure it out for yourselves, or explain it to these messy sects, then it's not too late for me to allow you to preach, but it's still early. ”
Yang Feng said.
I am afraid that this issue will not be resolved until Judgment Day.
Howard sneered.
However, Yang Feng disagreed and he was helpless, anyway, he just asked, and this result was already expected by him, and the Anglican Church was not as enthusiastic as several others on this issue, as for Rome......
Rome is about their!