Gu Qing cursed and shouted: "Come out soon. No one is allowed to fight. When the trumpet is blown, we will retreat to the city. I am watching from the top of the city. If anyone gets angry and refuses to return to the city, I will kill him."
That bitch."
"Regiment leader, please remember it all." The animals of the cavalry division agreed one after another.
There was a sound of teeth grinding, and the city gate slowly opened to the inside.
With a bang, the front suddenly lit up, and the city gate opened. Smoke and dust were everywhere outside, and the Khalkha people attacked the city wall from all sides. There were sounds of cannons on the city top, the sound of firecrackers, shouts of killing, screams, wails, and rolling logs.
The loud noises of rocks falling down were heard all over the place.
Gu Qing pinched the horse's belly, chirp! After a low groan, the war horse immediately understood and rushed out. Seeing him charging out at the lead, the others immediately drew their sabers and rushed out after him.
With a loud bang, the suspension bridge was suddenly lowered, and the time was perfectly timed. Dust was flying for a moment. Just at the moment when the city gate opened, the cavalry division's two thousand cavalry galloped past the suspension bridge and headed towards the bottom of the city while they were desperately climbing.
The city of Khalkhas.
"Don't worry about those who are climbing the city. Follow me and kill all the big archers first." Gu Qing roared and rushed towards the secret phalanx of big archers and trebuchets behind the siege troops.
Only then did Quitu Khan see clearly that these people were not here to break out of the encirclement, because they went directly to the big archers. He was stroking his beard and marching into the city proudly. Now he looked at these desert warriors riding tall horses.
The Southern Mongolian rushed towards his most elite archers. Suddenly, he pulled off a strand of beard in a hurry.
"Hejia, hurry up and take three thousand troops to stop them." Butu Khan became anxious and shouted quickly.
Because they had to fight at the Kunlun Pass, their war horses were all placed outside the pass. Where the altitude was too high, the horses could easily die due to violent movements. Now they could only use infantry to resist the cavalry. This was not a good job.
Hejiata Bu Nang looked bitter and had no choice but to bite the bullet. After all, his old father-in-law was watching from behind.
Three thousand people immediately carried spears more than two meters long and rushed forward with the Hejiata cloth bag, trying to block the Monan Mongolian cavalry rushing out from the south gate.
Now the cavalry division veterans from Monan Mongolia who surrendered have also been replaced with new war horses that are hybrids of Arabian horses and Mongolian horses. These war horses are shorter than Arabian horses, but larger than Mongolian horses.
These war horses not only have the explosive power of Arabian horses, but also inherit the advantages of Mongolian horses that are resistant to rough feeding, severe cold, and have endurance. If you pick one, you can run on the grassland for a day and a night without eating or drinking.
They had never ridden such a good horse before.
It is natural for Mongolians to love horses, and they all scratched their heads with excitement. Their loyalty to their new owners has also been greatly enhanced.
They were soldiers before, but they were the subordinates of the Nayans. After the Nayans went to the island to dig up bird droppings, they surrendered to Yang Fan. This is also the rule on the grassland. The only difference is that Yang Fan did not chop down all the men who were taller than a wheel.
.Assign women and children to your own warriors as slaves.
He just dispersed the adult men who surrendered and organized them into second-line troops, and transferred them away from the original grasslands to carry out tasks in distant places. Yang Fan felt that as long as he controlled their family members, he would not be afraid of their rebellion. Their family members were all incorporated
Animal husbandry team. And their treatment has been greatly improved.
Yang Fan did not trust them as much as those liberated slaves and herdsmen. However, Yang Fan planned to continue to test them. If they fought bravely and had no second thoughts, he would still give them full trust.
Yang Fan concentrated these people into unimportant units, and their equipment was different from the main force.
They did not have stab-proof clothing, and they were still equipped with iron armor. They also did not have flintlock rifles, gunpowder-propelled grenades, hand grenades, and double-barreled flintlock muskets.
But there is no difference in the horses, they are all newly improved and good horses.
Their armors were all captured before, including piles of Mongolian quill armor, ring armor, and pierced armor captured by the Mongols from the Han during hundreds of years of war.
Most of these armors were rusted and badly damaged. Especially the parts hit by artillery and muskets, the armor pieces were deformed.
Yang Fan identified many blacksmiths from the refugees, as well as blacksmiths captured from the Mongols, and formed a blacksmith camp. All these armors were dismantled into armor pieces. The usable ones were sorted, the deformed ones were repaired, and the decayed ones were reforged.
Then, according to the most scientific and reasonable way of weaving, use steel rings to rejoin them together like chainmail. After all, the silk tape of the tripod armor is silk fabric, which has a certain strength but is still easy to be cut. Replace it with steel rings and not only
The flexibility is much better if it is tightened. After all, the friction between the silk rope and the nail plate hole is large, which affects the flexibility.
For comfort, a layer of leather armor is added to the inner lining. This makes it much more comfortable to wear. Cavalry armor focuses on flexibility. Infantry armor focuses on strengthening the shoulder armor and collar. After all, infantry are most afraid of cavalry, shoulders and necks.
It is the most vulnerable place to be chopped.
Because Qinghai is a cold plateau area, you need to wear a military coat with an extra hood to keep warm.
Yang Fan simply added a hood to the military coat and at the same time, wrapped a layer of chainmail lining made of small steel rings around the outside of the military coat. This would prevent the enemy from damaging the cotton coat when fighting with swords.
In this kind of climate, it is quite a disaster for cotton-padded clothes to get damaged.
Everyone is also given a raincoat, which can be worn outside when it rains or snows.
This type of chainmail is very flexible.
Yang Fan has no shortage of high-performance steel wires. He uses machines to press them into small steel rings and gives them to the families of railway workers or family members of herdsmen and Han people on the grasslands. They set up small workshops at home as a family unit.
Using pliers and special tools, he assembles the city armor by himself according to the pattern. At the same time, he also takes on various tasks that can be done at home. Now under Yang Fan's system, many military orders are made by family workshops.
This is an important source of income for housewives.
Now in Yang Fan's system, almost everyone has the opportunity to make money. They get the raw materials from the community service station and make them at home. Then they return the products to the community service station. The service station will pay processing fees based on the number of sets. They earn piece-rate wages.
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Now, under the Yang Fan system, weapons and materials that are not confidential can be distributed to the community. The family workshop management group of the community is responsible for organizing each family to receive raw materials for production.
Now including old-fashioned silk-wrapped fixed shells, fixed bullets, cast lead bullets,...many weapons and supplies can be produced at home. They receive the raw materials, hand in the finished products, and receive piece-rate wages after passing the inspection. In this way, they are raising their children
Besides doing housework, you can make money in your free time.
After women have the ability to make money, their family status has also been greatly improved. Some women are even skilled in making armor, and their monthly income even exceeds that of men.
In this way, the officers and soldiers of the cavalry division actually wore triple armor. Unlike Jiannu, their triple armor was lighter in weight and had better protection and warmth.