Chapter 45: Heavy Troops
For more than a month, the surroundings of Heiyun Mountain were full of life.
This year, the rain was too abundant, and the crops in the fields were growing well, and the gloom on people's faces gradually faded with heavy bowing heads.
Ploughing and ploughing war, only ploughing the fields can not be done, everywhere there is chaos, wild beasts are raging, you must master certain military skills.
There are 14,732 people in Heiyun Mountain, in addition to more than 2,300 old and weak, there are more than 12,400 people who can hold swords and resist spears.
It is necessary for all people to be soldiers.
Since we have carried the banner of expelling the slaves and recovering our rivers and mountains, we will definitely fight again with the people in the future.
Heiyun Mountain can't succumb to Xingyang forever.
During the slack time, Li Yue and Zhou Lian divided the mountain people into 20 divisions, ranging from 500 to 700 people each.
The reserve officers all went down and organized their training.
spears, ring-headed knives, bows and arrows, shields......
In these days, as long as you are human, you will play these games.
Even women and half-grown children can carry knives to kill, and some of the remnants with broken hands and feet are even harder.
Li Yue simply took out the bow in the arsenal and sharpened some wooden sticks as arrows for them to practice.
The scouts also tried to eat as dry as possible for two meals a day, and the scouts caught wild sheep, wild boars, and wild deer from the Huju River, and the meat was given priority to meet the soldiers, but the bones and internal organs were boiled into soup and distributed to them, which could also be stained with some oil and water.
When a man is full, he has strength.
Some of the women were able to run around the Black Cloud Mountain twice barefoot and come back without panting.
Li Yue immediately organized a women's battalion of 200 people and handed it over to Yueji to take with her, and usually patrolled the mountains to hunt, maintain law and order on the mountains, and mediate disputes at all.
This is not the first of its kind to Li Yue.
Shi Hu has ordered several times to forcibly recruit tens of thousands of women into Ye, set up female officials in the palace, divided into 24 ranks, 12 in the East Palace, and more than 70 princes of the people are divided into nine ranks.
The crown prince Shi Xuan and the princes of various people have recruited nearly 10,000 beauties by private order.
Shi Hu chose thousands of women as the Lu book, set up a women's camp, and all wore purple scarves, cooked brocade pants, gold and silver belts, and five-text woven boots, but the meaning of their existence was only to accompany Shi Hu for sexual pleasure......
Get busy, and the days fly by.
In less than half a month, the militia has a decent appearance, not to mention how elite it is, but it is not a big problem to assist in defending the mountain.
Looking at their weapons, Li Yue suddenly felt something.
The people are heavily armoured, ordinary swords and spears cannot hurt them, and the quality of the swords and spears on the mountain is really worrisome, and even a stone cannot be split, and it cannot be broken at every turn.
Armor-piercing objects are either long lances or heavy objects.
You don't have to think about it, it's not easy to build, and it's even more difficult to train, so you can only think about heavy objects.
The stone became his daily training, and a stone weighing fifteen or sixteen pounds was moved from the mountainside to the mountain.
The carpenters also made four or five simple catapults, which were heavy and crude, had a short range, and could cause problems at every turn, and the mountains were not open in the first place, and if they were placed, they would block people, and it would be better for people to move stones and throw them down.
Li Yue didn't think about it, and asked the mountain people to pile up more stones on the dock fort and several intersections.
The mountain people have not practiced much to this extent, so they can't be expected to go down the mountain to line up and fight the well-armed Qiangren, right?
Therefore, the most important ones in need of improved weapons are the soldiers.
This naturally makes it difficult for Li Yue, who is a traverser.
Bones, hammers, and maces came into being.
Bone duo and hand hammer are traditional weapons, which have existed since the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the Han and Wei dynasties have been reduced to ceremonial tools, and have also been used as cattle killing tools, which are also simple to build, and do not need to be so troublesome as a lance.
The lighter ones are seven or eight pounds, and the heavier ones are fifteen or sixteen pounds.
Guduo is actually a long-handled hammer, also called a gourd.
The most ferocious is the mace, the head of the stick is made of iron throughout, with a wooden handle running through it, which can be long or short.
There are 7,000 catties of iron in Bishui Fort, more than 1,500 catties were used to forge farm tools, and there are more than 5,000 catties left.
Whether it is a bone, a hammer, or a mace, the quality of iron is not high, and the forging technology is not needed, nor is it used in the accident type, just be stupid and black.
In two days, three blacksmiths made seven samples.
Li Yue picked up a mace, found a stone and went down with a stick, and the stone chips flew everywhere.
Wei Shan and Xu Cheng immediately saw the value of this thing on the battlefield, it was simply tailor-made for the Karma people, Wei Shan suffered a lot in front of the armor of the Karma people, "If there is this thing that day, why not allow the Karma slaves to run rampant!" There is no need to lose so many brothers on the mountain. ”
Xu Chengdao: "Those who can make this thing move on the battlefield must be a wrestler." ”
Li Yue said: "Then choose a wrestler and train strictly!" ”
The soldiers ate and drank well, and after two months, their bodies were much stronger.
In fact, the physical fitness of the Han people has always been good, during the Han and Wei dynasties, they were eight feet long at every turn, Li Yue thought it was just the boasting of the literati, but when he came to this world, he found that it was not the case.
Many people are no less tall than later generations, but they are malnourished, so they appear thin.
In addition to the advantages of equipment, the physical advantage is also a reason that cannot be ignored.
Li Yue has seen the Qian, Di, Qiang, Wuhuan and other ethnic groups, and they are on average one head shorter than the Han people.
Of course, in the past few decades, the Liang people have ridden on the heads of the Han people, eating fragrant and drinking spicy food, and their physical fitness has caught up with some.
More than 6,000 catties of iron, a total of 400 heavy weapons were melted, and the remaining iron, according to Li Yue's requirements, was made into a triangular armor-piercing arrow.
Li Yue remembered that there was originally an iron ore in the Funiu Mountains, and the land of Korean projectiles among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period was called Jinhan because of the Yiyang Iron Mountain to build a strong crossbow.
Su Qin said: "There are more than 900 miles in Han, hundreds of thousands of armor, and the world's strong bows, crossbows, and sharp swords all come from Han. ”
Yiyang is in the west of Luoyang, Li Yue can't reach, but Luyang in the south of Xingyang, that is, the place where Li Ju fell off the cliff, is the famous Pingding Mountain in later generations, not only iron, but also coal!
In ancient and modern wars, steel is fought.
Zhao is rampant in the world, and he also relies on strong armor and sharp blades.
However, it is a bit difficult to take Luyang now, Mixian, Xinzheng, and Chonggao (Dengfeng) in the south block the way, and Xuchang in the southwest is eyeing the tiger.
The history of Yuzhou Thorn of Zhao Zhao is located in Xuchang, and there are heavy soldiers.
Don't think about it at this stage.
Li Yue could only send scouts to look for it in Funiu Mountain, and it didn't need to be big, a small iron mine was enough.
There are more than 10,000 people in Heiyun Mountain, and it is not difficult to find 300 wrestlers, and Zhou Lian has found 700 people.
Li Yue can only add one more, to have a blood feud with the Qianren, even so, there are still five hundred people.
"The words are in front, and in the future, when you are in front of the war, you must think clearly!"
None of the five hundred retreated.
Cao Kan roared angrily: "I would have thought I was a dead man a long time ago, and I just wanted to kill more slaves and avenge my dead father!" ”
He was already tall and tall, but now he was able to eat food and meat, and he quickly became stronger.
During this time, Li Yue actually let the scouts observe him secretly, and he was still a usable person, quite brave, and actively cooperated with Li Yue's various orders, both training and reclamation were relatively hard.
There is really no one around him, so he has no time to pick and choose, and he is directly promoted to a hundred generals.
The other two hundred will be selected from among the substitute officers.
A heavy armor soldier directly belonging to Li Yue was formed.
Each person has more than 40 pounds of iron armor on his body, and then carries more than 10 pounds of bones, hammers, and maces, as if he is an iron beast of human nature.
If you don't have heavy weapons, you should first take a stone stick or a wooden stick to practice, and if you don't have iron armor, you will first put on two layers of leather armor to deal with it, and then make up for it later.