Chapter 374 Although there are blast furnaces to make steel, and there are open hearth furnaces that can process steel into blades, or knives and guns, there is no gunpowder factory and cannot produce gunpowder.In the face of the sea of people attacked by these rogue captives, the day when the gunpowder of the Fair Army will definitely be exhausted, once it loses its sharp artillery and firearms, the Fair Army will run out of ammunition and food, and eventually become a grasshopper in the hands of Hong Chengchou.He wants to use these hungry rogues to consume the gunpowder and bullets of the Fair Army, and Chen Ying decides to play a game.The next day's attack began after the sun had risen, and the rogues with rudimentary weapons, driven by the Ningxia army, began to attack the camp outside the town of Huaiyuan.This is a routine business, Hong Chengchou is to kill these rogues who surrendered to him, and use the knife of the Fair Army to kill them all, and at the same time, it can not only weaken the combat effectiveness of the Fair Army, but also eliminate the unstable factor of the Rogue in the bud.This kind of battle is very easy, and Hong Chengchou also feels very comfortable.Of course, he was not even in the mood to watch, but to watch the fair reclamation of the fields."
Mr.
He, have you noticed that the land here is particularly fertile?"
Hong Chengchou looked at the boundless fields, and the growth was very gratifying, even much better than the fields in Ningxia and Yanzhou.Of course, these fields will belong to him in the future, and all the benefits here will also belong to him."
I found out, but I just don't know what's going on!"
Hong Chengchou bent down and grabbed a handful of soil from the ground, he carefully distinguished, there were plant ashes, bone meal, cow dung, horse manure?"
Hey, how come the Fair Army has so many livestock?"
In fact, the Fair Army did not have many livestock, and since they did not have access to chemical fertilizer, they had to resort to the soil method, using bones (which contain phosphorus), and once the bones were smashed and placed in the soil, the crops could grow better than those of ordinary fields.The people did not know what the principle was, but they knew that bones, whether human bones or animal bones, were useful for farming, and of course, that manure was a very valuable fertilizer.After the alliance with Lin Dan Khan, the two sides opened up a large market, and in addition to buying horses, war horses, cattle, sheep, and camels from Lin Dan Khan and his tribes, the fair army also used briquettes and briquette stoves to exchange a large amount of horse manure from the Mongols.For the Mongolians, horse manure is their fuel, if not enough horse manure is stored, they will also freeze to death in winter, of course, the burning value of horse manure is too low, if you want to meet the needs of a family of five to cook and heat, at least a large car will be burned a day.However, a maximum of five briquettes is sufficient, and relatively speaking, the briquettes are clean, hygienic, and have no odor, unlike horse manure, which is stinky and disgusting.Of course, it is still the sheep bones, cow bones and so on that the Mongolians have eaten, these things, in the eyes of the Mongols, are originally waste, but they can be exchanged for briquettes from the fair army, especially bones, and the exchange rate is very gratifying, one pound for one pound, unlike cow dung and horse manure, which are usually exchanged for five pieces in one car.More and more Mongolians have used briquette stoves, and it is very convenient to take them away, the key is that the briquettes are less burned, and hundreds or thousands of briquettes are stored, and two or three large carts are loaded, which is enough to burn for a winter, which is too cost-effective.However, the Fair Army also obtained a large amount of horse dung, cow dung, and all kinds of bones, which they smashed into pieces, ground them into powder in stone mills, and sprinkled the bone meal into the fields when it rained.Despite the lack of chemical fertilizer, the wasteland reclaimed by the Fair Army still grows better than the crops in the fertile fields elsewhere.At this moment, a cavalryman came over: "Tell Lord Hong, those rogues have been defeated!"
”"So fast?""
Let Marco send another 3,000 men!"
Hong Chengchou looked at He Huchen and chuckled: "That is to say, those thieves are a waste of food when they live, how much effort they have, and the three thousand people didn't even hold on for half a morning!"
”The point is that neither Hong Chengchou nor He Huchen heard the sound of artillery and gunfire, and they were not even worthy of being shot by the fair army.On the city of Huaiyuan Town, Luo Shiming looked at the scene in front of him dumbfounded.In fact, the fair army didn't shoot at all, or opened fire, they threw the prepared wowotou and vegetable dumplings towards these rogue formations, and these rogues immediately stopped charging, no matter how the Ningxia army behind them drove them, they all squatted down and picked up the wowotou or vegetable dumplings on the ground.This kind of vegetable dumplings have almost no food, so they are cooked in water with alfalfa grass and other wild vegetables, then put in a noodle soup and kneaded into balls by hand.The function of noodle soup is actually to bind the leaves so that they do not fall apart.Despite this, in the eyes of the soldiers of the Liukou Surrender Army, who were deliberately starved to the point that their eyes were green, this was simply a life-saving ration.About 300 wowotou and vegetable dumplings caused more than 3,000 rogue prisoners to collapse directly, of course, they did not run, but turned to surrender to the fair army.The Fair Army soldiers guided the rogue captives from the southern camp through the back camp to the open space north of Huaiyuan Town, and these unarmed rogues, the Fair Army was not worried that they wanted to do something.Anyway, the camel cavalry of the Fair Army can easily deal with them with a single charge.At this time, the second group of attacking rogues also rushed up, led by a very stout woman, she carried a guillotine as a weapon, looking at Mo about thirty or forty years old, her height was not weaker than that of a man, she shouted at Luo Shiming: "King Fair, in Fan Saihua in Xiayanzhou, give me three hundred stone of grain, and our lives are yours!"
”Perhaps feeling that 300 stones of grain is a bit much, Fan Saihua is a little weak-hearted: "100 stones is okay!"
”Chen Ying asked people to throw wowotou and vegetable dumplings at Fan Saihua and the others, Fan Saihua put away the guillotine and said to the rogue beside him: "Surrender!"
”"Big boss, let's just drop like this?""
You don't see, the dolls are crazy hungry!"
As Fan Saihua stretched out his hand, an eight- or nine-year-old child picked up a vegetable dumpling, bit it down, and rolled his eyes, Fan Saihua stepped forward and slapped the child's back twice, and finally let the child's anger go down.In one morning, the Ningxia army commanded the Liukou army to launch two attacks, totaling more than 6,000 people, and as a result, there was almost no blood, and all of these people were tempted by food to take refuge in the fair army.Now the question is back in front of Hong Chengchou, continue to send Liukou to attack Huaiyuan Town?
They will all become Fair Army, and the Fair Army will be joined by the Rogues, and the longer it lasts, the stronger their fighting power will be.If he doesn't attack, these rogues are also a big hidden danger for Hong Chengchou.Luo Shiming looked at Chen Ying with some puzzlement: "We don't have much food, and you have suffered more than 6,000 people, how can you feed these more than 6,000 mouths?"
”These rogues were all starved by Hong Chengchou, everyone was so thin that they could fall to the ground when they walked, and in this case, it was difficult to transform them into combat effectiveness.Maybe, this is Hong Chengchou's real purpose.Use these people to consume the food of the Fair Army."
Lao Luo, don't forget who we are!"
Chen Ying said angrily: "Don't you think that you are the real king of fairness, right?"
”"What do you mean?""
Humph!"
Chen Ying said coldly: "We are all people of the whole master, after following the whole master, when have you ever lacked food?"
I have already written to tell Master Quan about these things, and Master Quan will definitely solve the problem of food!
”However, Chen Ying didn't know Quan Xu's problems in the later life, and Quan Xu also ran into trouble, during this time he quietly returned to the afterlife several times, but no materials were transported, just turned around and returned.Of course, Quan Xu didn't know anything about Huaiyuan Town, and the Third Brigade of the Whole Family Army sent troops to Shuangchengwei in late March, and since early April, after more than a dozen small-scale battles, with the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, it has fully occupied Shuangchengwei, as well as the stone castle south of Shuangchengwei, and the surrounding 57 large and small tunbao.Shuangchengwei became the station of the 3rd Brigade of the Whole Family Army, and Vladivostok became the 2nd station of the Liaodong Naval Division, and a port was built in Vladivostok.In the process of regaining the Shuangchengwei, the whole family army captured more than 1,700 people, Hu Renyu did not kill the prisoners, but drove them to Vladivostok to repair the port, although these savages are not good at building technology, but under the whip, they should quickly learn how to build the port.In May, Quan Xu arrived at Xingkai Lake with the personal guard brigade.Xingkai is a Manchu word meaning water rat.Quan Xu didn't like this name very much, in fact, he didn't bother to spit out the problem of place names, many place names in Xinjiang have actually been changed beyond recognition, for example, Jimsar County, in the Han and Tang dynasties, it was called Beiting, and the Northern Xiongnu were single in the royal court, how simple and direct is the name?
Of course, the name of Xingkai Lake, Quan Xu did not like it, he asked people to carve a stone monument, changed back to the original name of Xingkai Lake, called Meituo Lake in the Tang Dynasty, famous for its abundance of "Meituo's crucian carp", at the same time, it was also the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty Andong Protectorate.It's just a pity that the Andong Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty was stationed in Pingxiang.In the northeast of Meituo Lake, he built a huge temporary camp with the Guards Brigade near the lake, and officially announced to the Liaodong Ministry, that Quanxu, the general army of Liaodong, was here.Quan Xu hopes that the Jurchen ministries will directly trade with him, and at the same time, he can also divide the Jurchen ministries, so as to pull one faction and fight another.Of course, the leaders of the various departments did not arrive at Meituo Lake so quickly, so Quan Xu and Sanniang fished by the lake, or opened their nets to fish, and they could taste the taste of Meituo's crucian carp.The crucian carp of Meituo, Quan Xu didn't have time to taste it, but Fan Wencheng came to the door.Shuangchengwei and the surrounding Jurchen tribes, Dajin, who was nominally subordinate to Huang Taiji, sent people to occupy Shuangchengwei and the vast area south of Meituo Lake without making a sound."
Uncle Xiu Wu, it's not authentic for you to do this!"
Quan Xu said with some disapproval: "Things are selected by heaven, the strong are respected, if you are not convinced, you can come and grab it!"
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