Hua stared coldly at the silent Yingguo soldier at his feet.
"Do you know why your monarch wanted to rob this cargo?"
"I don't know.
I'm just following orders.
I hope you will be merciful."
"Where did the rest of the goods go?"
"The only thing I know is that all the copper tools were taken to the smelting and foundry in Yingguo for recycling.
I don't know anything else."
When Hua heard this, his heart moved and he immediately asked: "Oh, when did you build the smelting and foundry?
Where do the usual bronze materials come from?"
"The smelting and foundry was built just a few months ago.
As for where the bronze material comes from, I really don't know.
Uncle, please forgive me.
Please forgive me."
After Hua Ren took Ying Guo Xiaowei down, they summoned Mr.
Mai.
They inquired in detail about the changes in the copper materials and copper tools market in Qiqiu City during this period since Xia State suspended the sale of agricultural and hunting tools.
Since the caravan was robbed, although this business has been suspended, Hua still asks Mr.
Mai to meet with Mr.
Wan regularly to understand the situation in Qiluo City.
"Sir, sir, during this period, the price of copper tools has dropped slightly, but the price of copper materials has also dropped, and the drop is greater than that of copper tools."
Mr.
Mai looked at Hua in confusion as he spoke.
I know what the Lord means by asking these questions.
"Haha, it's true."
Hua smiled.
Through the information provided by Mr.
Mai, Hua became more confident in his guess.
That is, Ying Guo discovered copper mines, which explains everything.
The copper materials used in the newly built smelting and foundry came from bronze ingots smelted from Yingguo's own copper mines, so it did not cause the price of copper materials in Qiluocheng to rise.
On the contrary, it caused the price to fall because they sold bronze ingots nearby.
In order to obtain more additional profits, I spent a lot of money to build this smelting and foundry not long ago.
After it was built, I found that the market share was all in the hands of the Xia Kingdom.
If there was a price war, I would lose money, so I robbed the Xia Kingdom's caravan. , it is reasonable to end the Xia Kingdom's bronze trade.
It is not surprising that bronze mines were discovered in Yingguo, and it would not be surprising if more other minerals were discovered in the future, because that was the Pingdingshan area in later generations.
Hua was in the workshop, instructing the craftsmen to assemble a huge instrument.
A frame of thick timber rests on a base with eight thick solid wooden wheels.
These eight wheels don't even have spokes.
They are made from a single piece of hardwood, with copper rings on the outside.
A huge copper hammer hangs on the thick copper shaft at the left end of the frame.
The hammer weighs five thousand kilograms to maintain balance.
The handle of the hammer is as thick and thin as the mouth of a sea bowl, half a rod long, and made of a whole log.
There is a ring welded to one end of the metal hammer head, which is pulled by a rope, around the highest pulley of the frame, and then wrapped around a winch on the right side of the frame.
Next to this frame, there is also a hood to be installed.
On the school grounds of the military camp, the first batch of 150 Tiger and Ben warriors were sweating profusely and receiving instruction and training from the Dunge infantry.
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Due to the rapid increase in population, Hua began to recruit strong men from among the civilians in Beicun who were willing to join the army in the first two months.
If those who join the army have land for farming, the village chief is responsible for arranging for someone to harvest it on his behalf.
Now, Hua divided the entire army into two parts.
One was a systematic soldier named Qilin Guards, and the other was the newly formed Tiger Guards.
The leader was Yu, the husband of Qiu, the slave girl Hua had rescued in Nanshan City.
Width.
There is a significant difference in the clothing of the two armies.
The former is mainly white, while the latter is mainly red ocher.
Huben did not live with the Qilin Guards, but built another large camp in the basin by the Ru River.
The weapon systems of these first batch of Tiger and Ben soldiers are all based on the standards of the Dunge tribe.
All produced by workshops in the city.
Ding Main mission 7 "Formating an Aboriginal Army" is completed.
Congratulations to the lord for awarding 300 event points.
When the autumn grain was put into the warehouse, a team of more than 400 people set out from Huayi, rode a bamboo raft, went down the Ru River, and headed for Yingguo.
Before setting off, Watson gathered 55 shield infantry and 55 horn archers.
Now, Faying's strength is 50 shield infantry, 100 horn archers, 100 halberd warriors, and 10 bronze shield guards.
The other 150 Huben soldiers were also brought along.
Iraq will also send 500 militiamen to respond from the south and will meet with Xia Guo in the countryside of Yingyi, the capital of Ying.
Forty bamboo rafts went down the Ru River in a mighty manner.
They arrived at the territory of Yingguo in one day and landed in the countryside of Yingyi.
Spies from Yingguo had already flown to report to Uncle Ying.
The sound of drums and trumpets sounded intensively in Yingyi.
People who were harvesting crops in the fields put down their farm work and ran to the gate of the palace in Yingyi to line up to receive the Changge issued by the ministers.
Ying Bo's garrison also began to prepare for battle.
On the south bank of Ru River, the Eagle Flag and the Dragon Flag kept approaching, and finally stopped twenty battles away.
Both sides began to form their own formations.
On Yingfang's side are a garrison of 300 people, a militia of more than 800 people, and five chariots.
When Xia's army was arrayed, Ying's army had not yet formed its formation.
"Go forward" Hua ordered.
"What a scoundrel.
Our side has not yet formed a formation, and both sides have not called each other before the battle.
We started attacking."
Ying Bo said bitterly.
One hundred halberd warriors skilled in formation fighting were in the center, followed by thirty shield infantry skilled in individual combat.
Finally, there are the horned archers, one hundred and fifty tiger soldiers and twenty shield infantry on both wings.
Hua and ten bronze shield guards held the position.
He quickly rushed towards Ying Guo's military formation.
The arrows of the horned bow archers were the first to fly towards the Ying army.
In the chaos, some militia fighters with relatively simple equipment fell to the ground after being hit by arrows.
The guards raised their large shields to cover each other.
The formations of the two armies were getting closer and closer, and the archers on the corresponding side also began to fight back.
Five chariots have already rushed out, seemingly unstoppable.
If it were any other ordinary soldier in this era, seeing a behemoth like a chariot coming towards him, his normal behavior would be to panic and scatter to both sides, and then the swordsmen on the chariot would wave their long swords to harvest the heads on both sides.
If the opponent cannot dodge, he will be knocked down by the wheel hub and then crushed to death.
However, Hua's halberd warriors all calmly used their three-meter halberds to poke the chariot's horses or slash the horse's legs.
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The horn archers also fired volleys at the horses pulling the cart.
As the horses roared and neighed, all five carriages lost control.
Four of them fell to the ground due to the casualties of the horses.
The archer Ge Shou in the carriage fell a few strokes away and was stabbed to death by a random halberd.
One was far away, and the draft horse was frightened by many arrows.
It made a big circle, turned around and rushed towards its own camp, disrupting its own soldiers.
The hub of the cart also brought down several of its own soldiers who had no time to dodge.
Xia's tiger warriors have engaged the opponent's militiamen on both sides.
Apart from being cheap, the Changge Shou unit does not seem to have any advantages.
This kind of Chang Ge with a length of 16 to 18 meters has inherent flaws.
It can only chop and pull, but cannot stab.
The range of the chop is also very limited, only the narrow space of the Ge blade.
As long as the opponent crosses the narrow killing range, he will enter Changge's killing blind spot and be massacred by the opponent.
At this time, there is only one way to avoid massacre, which is to support each other with nearby comrades to provide cover and counterattack, but this requires the soldiers to have very skilled cooperation.
The Yingguo militiamen obviously do not have this quality.
When the Xia Kingdom's Hu Ben warriors were taught by the system's shield infantry, they were repeatedly indoctrinated with a concept.
When encountering a long-armed swordsman, forget about the shield in your left hand.
The best defense is to do one thing and get close to him.
The disadvantage of this kind of arms means that although the Yingguo army has many soldiers, it cannot get any advantage on both wings.
One hundred and fifty Tiger soldiers, 20 Dunge infantry and more than 600 Yingguo militiamen on both wings fought together in a stalemate.
However, in the formation, a hundred-meter-long array of halberd soldiers advanced steadily forward with their three-meter-long Rulin halberds, and the Ying Guo's swordsmen in the formation were stabbed to the ground one after another.
Some Yingguo short-armed shieldmen approached from the gaps in the halberd forest, but were immediately intercepted by shield-armed infantry or bronze shield guards who jumped out from behind the halberdmen, and were killed by the opponent after a few rounds.
The horned bow archers were not idle either, following behind the halberdiers, and kept shooting precise cold arrows at the enemy soldiers.
But the archers on the other side did not dare to do this.
The Xia Kingdom's halberd warriors kept rushing forward.
It was impossible for them to get in front and shoot.
If they ran far behind the formation and shot, their archery skills could not guarantee that they would not accidentally hurt their own side. .
Because Ying State was close to Yi State, Ying Bo had heard how Xia Bohua easily captured the former monarch of Yi State, so he had no choice but to lead his troops to fight outside the city this time.
If you just stick to the palace city, what should you do with the food waiting to be harvested outside the city?
But now it seems that if the Xia army's true tiger and wolf soldiers are exhausted in the countryside, they will end up like the former king of Yi.
At this time, Ying Bo's will had begun to waver.
Summary of data so far in this chapter: Points: 508
System population: including 50 farmers, 10 strong bow hunters, 2 traders, 3 witch doctors, 10 bronze shield guards, 100 halberd warriors, 150 horn bow archers, 100 shield infantry, a total of 425 people Population balance: 2633 Building facilities: Bronze Age intermediate palaces, military camps, residential buildings, workshops, pigeon houses, wooden structure city walls, warehouses: