Chapter 14 The Enemy Comes to Attack
The intelligence has increased from 60 to 75 because Hu Li reads some books on the art of war every night, plus Hu Li has been integrated into the Three Kingdoms era, and he has already understood the basic knowledge of this era, as a college student in the 21st century, his learning ability is still very good, and after many battles commanded on the grassland, his intelligence has unconsciously improved to 75 points. And the charm value gained 200 points because of that drunken disorderly sex possession of Zhen Mi, a beauty with a face value of 99.
Hu Li decided to use 100 charm points to strengthen Xiaobai, the king of wild horses, after all, in this troubled world, the life of a BMW with superior speed is still very guaranteed, didn't Liu Bei and Cao Cao rely on the speed of the BMW to escape death again and again. As for the remaining 100 charm points, Hu Li decided to keep them for now, anyway, whether you want to strengthen your pet or exchange for a pet quota, it will be something that can be completed in an instant. After canceling the owl's pet quota, Hu Li domesticated Xiaobai, and then chose to strengthen, after a faint white light flashed, the strengthening was completed, Xiaobai's shoulder height rose from one meter seven to one meter eighty-five, and the whole body was also a big circle, and the muscles near the two ribs were faintly raised, as if to grow a pair of wings, Hu Li had a strong premonition, when Xiaobai carried out the second strengthening, he would definitely grow a pair of wings and evolve into a Pegasus. Hu Li stepped on Xiaobai, whose back was taller than himself, and after galloping around, he felt that Xiaobai's speed had increased by nearly three percent, although Hu Li had never seen the Red Rabbit Horse, but he felt that his Xiaobai must be better than the Red Rabbit, and Xiaobai became smarter, even if Hu Li changed Xiaobai's pet quota to an owl, Xiaobai could still understand Hu Li's various instructions, which Hu Li couldn't do before. Zhao Yun and Xia Houlan also noticed the changes in Xiaobai for the first time, but the two of them, who had long been accustomed to Hu Li's incredible actions, only had a strong look of envy in their eyes, after all, as a military general, their love for BMW was undoubted.
Hu Li asked people to count the population and materials of Niutou Mountain, the 100 combatants of Niutou Mountain, plus the 50 lightly injured wolf riders who escorted Han Nu back and the 750 wolf riders brought back by Hu Li, there were 900 combatants, and they were all veterans who had experienced war and seen blood. And Niutoushan originally had more than 1,100 logistics personnel plus the 5,000 Han slaves saved by Hu Li in the last battle on the grassland, and the non-combatants reached more than 6,100 people, in addition to 500 craftsmen of all kinds among these 6,100 people, the remaining 5,600 people were basically young and strong, Hu Li selected 2,100 from the 5,600 young people to be incorporated into the Changshan Wolf Ride, and the Changshan Wolf Rider reached 3,000 people, and the remaining 3,500 people selected 1,500 people as the apprentices of the 500 craftsmen. The last 2,000 people are used as reserve combatants, this model of almost all soldiers can be applied to a military base like Niutou Mountain for the time being, the grain stored before and the food plundered from the Zhen family this time are enough for 7,000 people on Niutou Mountain to eat for more than five years, and the iron ore mined during this time can also be equipped with sufficient weapons, arrows and iron armor for three thousand wolf horses, but the iron armor of the war horse has to continue to mine iron ore, according to the reserves, it should be no problem, but it still needs a period of time to mine and build. There is no big problem in terms of horses, there are tens of thousands of war horses, and the rest of the horses also have 5,000, which is enough for logistics.
In terms of weapon building, after Hu Li and the craftsmen experimented with the hand-pulled bellows to increase the furnace temperature, and designed a simple forging and pressing ironware composed of simple pulleys and levers, a lot of labor was saved, and the production concept of the assembly line was proposed, allowing the craftsmen and apprentices to carry out simple processes, thus greatly improving the production efficiency, and the construction of Niutou Mountain and the ordnance reserve are rapidly improving.
When the craftsmen were in full swing, Hu Li was not idle, he, Zhao Yun, and Xiahou Lan each led a thousand wolf horsemen to sweep away the surrounding bandits and the landlords who bullied the people, not only in order to clear the surrounding unstable factors and eliminate harm for the people, but also to let the newly recruited wolf riders experience fighting and achieve the purpose of training.
Every time the wolf rider swept a cottage, he would get rid of the bloody bandits, move the people who had been coerced from the thieves back to Niutou Mountain, plunder the supplies, and burn the cottage to prevent the bandits from breeding again.
For those landlords who bullied their neighbors, they got rid of the first evil, returned the money they forcibly seized to the victims, distributed their land to the people, and sent the surplus property to the Niutoushan base camp together with those young people who volunteered to join the army.
In a month's time, the cottages within a radius of 100 miles of Niutou Mountain and the landlords who bullied the people were all eliminated by wolf riders, while Niutou Mountain harvested enough food for 10,000 people to eat for two years and 5,000 gold, and the captured weapons and armor were enough to equip 3,000 troops, and there were more than 3,000 young people who volunteered to join the army. Since then, the number of soldiers in Niutou Mountain has reached 8,000, craftsmen and apprentices 2,000, food is enough for 10,000 people to eat for more than five years, and the money has reached 20,000 gold, Hu Li decided to divide these 8,000 men into 1,000 heavy armored iron cavalry, one man and three horses, 3,000 light cavalry, one man and two horses, and 1,000 heavy armored infantry, equipped with a war horse and a horse to carry armor and weapons in peacetime, and finally 3,000 are divided into 1,000 sword and shield soldiers, 1,000 pikemen and 1,000 archers. One thousand heavy armored iron cavalry was led by Zhao Yun, three thousand light cavalry was led by Xiahou Lan, all the infantry was led by Hu Li himself, and all the armies were collectively called the Changshan Army.
On this day, the soldiers on Niutou Mountain were training in full swing, and suddenly Hu Li discovered through the vision of the golden eagle that an army of 8,000 people came from the direction of Zhending County, and the direction of its march was Niutou Mountain, and there were only more than 40 miles left from Niutou Mountain. Hu Li hurriedly called Zhao Yun and Xiahou Lan to discuss, Hu Li said: "Second uncle, Uncle Xiahou, an army of 8,000 people has come from the direction of Zhending County, the target should be our Niutou Mountain, I reconnoitred through the Golden Eagle, they only have five hundred cavalry, the rest are infantry, how should we fight this battle?" ”
"Zijin, the second uncle thinks that we should make full use of this advantage that we have discovered the enemy first, let your uncle Xiahou take three thousand light horsemen down the mountain and be guided by your golden eagle to the back of the enemy army, and the second uncle will lead a thousand iron horsemen to rush to their position condescendingly, and disrupt their formation when they have time to build fortifications in the future, and then hand over to your Uncle Xiahou's three thousand light horsemen." Zhao Yun replied.
"What Zilong said is very much in line with me." Xia Houlan nodded.
"Okay, then let's do it, and leave everything to the second uncle and Uncle Xiahou." Hu Li said.
"No, the two of us will live up to our mission."
After the discussion, Zhao Yun and Xia Houlan hurriedly went down to arrange, while Hu Li sat in the base camp, manipulating the golden eagle to guide Xia Houlan on the way, which was quite a bit of a strategizing from thousands of miles away.