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"Well, these bunkers seem to have been settled. But my elite soldiers in the dangerous mountains can't always squat there to defend the fort! ”

Listening to the report of the ten blades under his command, Li Rusong was relieved and couldn't help shaking his head and said:

"Go back to the forts and order that every fort, every man between the ages of eighteen and thirty-eight, must be trained in the militia. For each Tunpu, I sent an instructor, a calmer, and a commander from the mountain. Fifty soldiers were stationed to supervise the militia drills and manage the civil affairs of the Tunpu.

With the gradual expansion of the territory, Li Rusong's troops also began to make ends meet, and the bitter cold and troubles in Liaodong were rampant, and each tunbao needed a certain number of men and horses to garrison to ensure safety.

But in Li Rusong's view, these Tartars and horse bandits who came and went without a trace were just a group of rabble, and the people of Tunpu could easily defeat them with a little training.

And the Liaodong Iron Cavalry and the Chiyan Legion, such elite troops, if they lack training and combat in guarding the tunbao for a long time, they will gradually wear down their sharpness, making them gradually become weak troops like ordinary tun troops.

"At the end of this year, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry and the Chiyan Legion will follow General Ben and take the initiative to attack the nearby Jurchen Tartars, and all personnel must return to the dangerous mountains as soon as possible to participate in military training. You should carry out militia drills as soon as possible, and if you disobey the order, you will be expelled from the tunpu and left to fend for themselves! As soon as Li Rusong's words fell, the lieutenant general was in his heart, and his brother was going to come this time.

At the same time, a large number of Liaodong Iron Cavalry and Chiyan Legion soldiers also excitedly got rid of the boring town guard work, handed over the Tunbao to the ordinary infantry from the dangerous mountain, and returned to the dangerous mountain camp with some luggage.

Xilie Station:

"I'm not a soldier, I came to Liaodong to farm to support my family and have something to eat, not to sell my life to you people, and fight hard with the Tartars! Folks, we must not join the army casually, the Tartars are fierce and tight! A man with five big and three rough men stood under the stage and roared and kept inciting the people nearby, looking like he would rather die than join the militia.

Dozens of young people stood up in solidarity with this man, scolding and scolding that they were only willing to farm, and resolutely did not fight with the Tartars, and whoever was not afraid of death would go.

Among the people who did not participate in it, the local people in Liaodong looked at this group of people with disdain on their faces, as if they were looking at dogs. The displaced people who have migrated from all over the world are at a loss one by one, and they have the intention to join it, but they are a little afraid and hesitate.

"Cut, Sekinai soft bones. It's not as bloody as my local old and weak women and children in Liaodong, my brother is right, it's good to get rid of such a guy" A trace of murderous aura flashed in his eyes, Cheng Yi hugged his arms and said coldly.

"We just don't fight with the Tartars, let those who are not afraid of death fight hard. How good it is for us to farm at home with peace of mind, and a lot of grain for the official family" The man was still inciting without knowing whether he was alive or dead, with an arrogant smile on his face, as if he was the leader of the people.

"Tall and strong, Tian Erxi, Wang San smelly...... There are a total of thirty-eight households, are you sure you don't want to join the militia, you'd rather farm, right?" sneered and took the household registration register, Cheng Yi asked coldly while reading the names of these people who were unwilling to join the army.

"Hehe, General Cheng. The small people are tall and strong, we are a group of ordinary people, we don't have the ability to fight with the Tartars, this kind of thing is better to leave it to those who are not afraid of death. We promise that the taxes that should be paid in the coming year are not a lot" Hearing Cheng Yi say this, although Gao Dazhuang felt a little bad, his greedy character and fear of death still drove him to say boldly.

"Jiji, my dangerous mountain military temple is small, and I can't accommodate you big Buddhas, aren't you only willing to farm? Go elsewhere and farm! Don't want to join the army? What who is not afraid of death and who joins the army? Should others fight for you people who are greedy for life and afraid of death? I'm CNMLGB, you think of yourself as a moth in my dangerous mountains? When I am in danger, are other people your shield for life and fear of death? Cheng Yi suddenly jumped off the high platform and smashed a fist on Gao Dazhuang's face, the latter screamed and fell to the ground, Cheng Yi sneered and stepped on his head, and said in a fierce voice.

At this time, the families who were standing on the tall and strong side just now all showed frightened expressions on their faces, and they curled up one by one, trying to hide in the crowd.

"Someone! All the people I just read about, including their families, will be expelled from the tunpu, the land will be confiscated, and the love will go wherever you want! I don't need these selfish bastards, I don't need these moths who just want to be comfortable regardless of their safety! It's a pity that it's too late at this time, Cheng Yi gave an order, and countless dangerous mountain troops like wolves and tigers pounced into the crowd, dragging out the person who was standing with the tall man just now like a dead dog.

Later, under the leadership of Zhenfu, these people were escorted home, and the bewildered family members cried loudly one by one when they heard that their family had been expelled from the tunpu. The old ones even pick up their crutches and beat up ignorant men, but what's the use of that?

Even if they knelt down and kowtowed and begged for forgiveness, Cheng Yi's cold order would not change in the slightest. In the end, under the abuse and contempt of the surrounding people, these people braved the biting cold wind of Liaodong and under the supervision of a team of soldiers, left the Xilie station, and went to Tieling, Fushun, and even more distant places alone in the cold wind.

At this time, Liaodong has entered the bitter cold, and when fierce beasts, Tartars, and horse bandits are rampant, their fate may only be death!

At this time, the people in the audience, who took the initiative to join the militia, raised their heads one by one, their faces full of pride. And those people who hesitated before but still decided to join the militia were relieved at the moment, secretly glad that they had made the right choice, otherwise it would be a dead end.

The same thing was also happening in Zhenning Fort and Ningyi Fort, but after such a shock, no one resisted joining the militia, and under the leadership of the instructor, the 5,000 militia began to practice.

At the same time, at this time, Li Rusong encountered a trouble: saltpeter refining was too expensive to spend.

The Liaodong Iron Cavalry and Chiyan Legion of the Dangerous Mountain Army are now invincible and invincible, and the most critical factor is advanced firearms. The large-scale use of firearms is accompanied by the production of gunpowder.

The manufacture of gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty was divided into:

Nitrate refining:

1. Put the saltpeter in sweet water (fresh water without impurities) to dissolve, and preliminarily precipitate and remove impurities such as sediment.

2. Use egg whites, carrots and other adsorbents to boil in a nitrate solution for many times to adsorb the salt and alkali and slag in it

3. Put the water glue into the nitrate solution and boil it again, then put the solution into the porcelain urn to cool and solidify, the waste water floats on the top, the sediment sinks down, the pure nitrate is in the center, the water is removed after the most slag, and the pure nitrate is taken out to dry.

After refining, the pure nitrate is white crystalline, and only 30 catties of pure nitrate can be obtained per 100 catties of saltpeter.

Vaporized sulfur:

1. Mash the sulfur and pick up the sand and debris.

2. Put the mashed sulfur into a pot and boil it with fresh water, remove impurities, pour it into a porcelain basin and precipitate it for a day, and then remove the sediment to obtain crude sulfur.

3. Cook according to the ratio of 10 catties of sulfur, 2.5 catties of butter and 1 catty of sesame oil to make the swim non-sticky sulfur, and then add cypress leaves to the pot and cook with sulfur to absorb the black slag in the pot.

4. Put the coarse sulfur removed from the slag into the boiling oil and decoction, after the oil surface is covered with yellow foam, put it into a basin to cool, remove the yellow foam and impurities after the most, and obtain lemon-colored lumpy crystals.

Powder dispensing:

1. Nitrate, sulfur and charcoal are ground into powder with a stone mortar.

2. Put the three powders into the mortar in proportion, add pure water or soju, mix the mixture into a puree and pound it thousands of times, when the mixture is almost dry, add water and pound it again, so that the mixture is fully uniform and delicate, and then take out the sun.

3. Test the finished product, take a sample on the paper, ignite the gunpowder, the gunpowder burns out without damaging the paper is the best product, and the unqualified ones need to be smashed again until the pass is passed.

4. Screening the medicine blocks into different drug granules.

In this process, refining high-purity saltpeter is the most expensive and troublesome step, although saltpeter mines are found near the dangerous mountains and can be mined for free. But refining saltpeter, which can be used to make gunpowder with high purity, is really a black hole that swallows money.

"Alas, even if there is such a cash cow as the Wufeng fleet, you can't waste money so much" Lying on the table helplessly, Li Rusong touched his head painfully and said.

It's really not a good family to know the price of firewood and rice, the previous few battles with the Tuman, Jurchen, Liaodong Iron Cavalry and Chiyan Legion's hearty firearms attack, indeed hit the enemy with a head and a rat, wolf rush, but then brought a huge consumption of silver, basically most of the silver snatched from the hands of the Tartars was consumed on this.

"Alas, let alone unify Liaodong like this, if you fight a few more battles, you will be poor, what should you sell" When Li Rusong was having a headache how to solve the problem of high saltpeter purification cost, a cheerful voice came:

"Brother Li! There's a way to get saltpeter that doesn't need to be purified! With a terrible stench, Niu Hua ran in with a large ball of saltpeter, and then was gorgeously kicked out by Li Rusong:

"Don't bring poop in!"

"It's not, you see this is a saltpeter with high purity that doesn't need to be refined!" Niu Hua didn't get angry, he got up from the ground, felt like he had walked into the room, put the saltpeter in his arms on the desk and said.

"Hmm, really? I'll take a look" Li Rusong was stunned when he heard this, and regardless of the foul smell emitted by these saltpeters, he picked up a saltpeter and asked.

"Hehe, it's indeed saltpeter with a high purity, but this collection method is a bit like that" Standing aside with a smile, looking at Li Rusong licking the saltpeter in his hand, Niu Hua said with a strange smile.

"Huh? How did you get it? It does look like the purity of saltpeter obtained is much higher than that of saltpeter ore obtained by us," Li Rusong didn't pay attention to Niu Hua's smile, and asked differently.

"Hehe, I found that the ground under the dung heap of the toilet will condense saltpeter, so I dug some up" With a strange smile on the corner of his mouth, Niu Hua's voice did not fall:

"Wow! You bastard! Wow! Poor Li Rusong understood the source of the smell, and directly lay on the ground and vomited.

"Rub, in order to usurp the throne and train troops to fight the Tartars, it is easy for me, master!"