Chapter 52: Bandits
When Tu Lichun hurriedly walked into the workshop, Li Zezheng was satisfactorily stroking a pair of leather armor that had been made, after more than a dozen processes, the best cowhide was concocted through more than a dozen processes, and finally became an extremely simple leather armor in his hand, a hole in the middle, so that the head could drill through, on the edge of the front and back pieces, a rope was wound around it in a figure-eight shape, when wearing it, you only need to tighten it on the bottom rope and then tie it, even if it is to protect the key points of the front chest and back.
Don't look at this thing is simple, but for the ordinary army of this generation, it is already a good protective gear, armor, which is only available to elite troops, and a pair of iron armor requires too many iron ingots, and it is more troublesome to make, and the cost is high, even Li Ze's Laozi, the dignified Jiedu envoy who ruled the four states, only has 3,000 armor soldiers under his command.
As for the other soldiers who were temporarily recruited before the war, they will still give you a set of clothes, but the armor, sorry, that is not there.
The people even prohibit the private possession of armor, if anyone dares to violate this ban, then his head is basically shaking. Of course, things are not completely absolute, there are some places where the big tycoons have a few pairs of iron armor hidden at home, and the big guys are all blind and blind.
Li Ze's current leather armor is already very precious to the most ordinary soldiers. Li Ze is now not a small person, but he can't equip his subordinates with iron armor, and he needs to take a lot of risks to get iron ingots, and after he has provided for the people in the secret camp, he really doesn't have the resources to make iron armor for his soldiers anymore.
Therefore, he aimed at the iron armor in the arsenal in Wuyi County. It's a pity that there are only twenty of them.
Of course, even if there are only twenty bodies, it is a lot of wealth for Li Ze.
After making the leather armor, the corners of the cowhides, of course, could not be spared, and the ingenious women made them into a pair of wrist guards, knee pads, and elbow pads, which more or less had some protective effect on the warriors.
"The leather I got this time made a total of 300 pairs of leather armor." Li Ze looked at Tu Lichun happily and said, "Tu Er will never let me down, this time, he has made a great contribution."
Tu Lichun smiled and said: "Compared to these leather armors, I prefer the horses he sent back, Childe, I want one."
"I guess you have a crush on that fiery red warhorse." Li Ze smiled, "Isn't it?"
"It's really not, that horse is the best horse Tu Er got back this time, naturally it belongs to you, Gongzi, I want that cyan one." Tu Lichun shook his head and said.
"No, the best one belongs to you, the BMW is a hero, in our group, you are the only one worthy of that war horse, I want to ride on his back, maybe he will turn me upside down, I will definitely not be able to control him." Li Ze shook his head and said, "Under my crotch, it will bury its ability." Li Ze said: "Don't shirk, it's yours."
Tu Lichun, who was overjoyed, said: "Son, if you want to talk about bravery, Shi Zhuang is only afraid that he is stronger than me."
"Or not!" Li Ze said casually: "But you are closer to me, good things, shouldn't you give them to your relatives?"
Tu Lichun took a deep breath, and his eyes suddenly turned a little red. The more casual Li Ze was, the more he was moved.
"Thank you Childe, I'm not pretentious, but please give it a name!" Tu Lichun Road.
"Let's call him Huoyun, his whole body is red without a trace of miscellaneous hair, and when he runs, he must be as gorgeous as the burning cloud in the sky." Li Ze smiled, "What do you think?"
"It's called a fire cloud." Tu Lichun nodded heavily.
"When you turn around, you will take it and get close to it, the better the horse, the more difficult it is to surrender, but once you are convinced, it will be your best partner. I look at the horse, it's very spiritual." Li Ze raised his feet and walked out, and Tu Lichun followed closely.
"Childe is right."
The two walked out of the warm leather workshop and walked towards the bow workshop against the wind and snow.
"Look at you, what's wrong?" Li Ze asked.
"Yes, there is news from the secret camp, Xinyue Fox has found a large number of bandits in Daqing Mountain, and the preliminary investigation is that it is the rioting people on the side of the Heng Navy that Yang Kai is worried about, they have fled into Daqing Mountain, and now they have entered our Wuyi territory." Tu Lichun Road.
"Is the Henghai so useless?" Li Ze sneered: "How many people are there?"
"More than a thousand people."
Li Ze suddenly stopped: "So many?" He was taken aback.
"Childe, it's not what you think, among these people, there are more old and weak women and children, and there are about four or five hundred young and strong!"
Li Ze let out a sigh of relief, rolled his eyes and looked at Tu Lichun: "Don't pant for breath when you talk in the future, there are really thousands of young people, and you can't scare me to death."
"Even if it's thousands, it's not in the way." Tu Lichun said with a smile: "According to the information fed back by Xinyue Fox, they are basically untrained farmers, and their weapons are even less pitiful."
"Just such a group of people, and let them escape to our side, the Henghai Navy will really cause us trouble!" Li Ze frowned and said: "So many people have entered Daqingshan in such a season, lack of food and clothing, they must not have the courage to go to Shiyi, our side was born in Wuyi and there is no garrison, they will inevitably come to fight our idea, it will be a headache to think about it."
"The only way to send out the secret camp is to clean them up." Tu Lichun Road.
"That's the only way, let Xinyue Fox pay close attention to the whereabouts of these people and find their whereabouts, and we will catch them off guard." Li Ze said: "Go back and send this news to Yang Kai and ask him to send me twenty pairs of iron armor, by the way, don't tell him that so many people are coming, otherwise he will be in a panic and ask Cao Xin for help, just say some little thieves, I will send him."
"Okay, anyway, the last time he came to see that our Zhuangzi was training farmers, he also praised a few words, saying that these farmers are already strong pawns, and when the time comes, we will say that we will take these farmers out to fight, and he will believe it, and then let him report to Cao Xin, saying that he gathered the soldiers of Wuyi to exterminate these bandits, and he has face." Tu Lichun said with a smile.
"That's a good idea!" Li Ze said with a smile: "This person is now on our ship, and it is okay to have the opportunity to arch him up, but the premise is not to harm our business."
While talking, the two walked into the bow workshop, and on the shelves in the house, dozens of bows had been made, Tu Lichun casually picked up a pair, pulled it, and shook his head: "It's softer."
"You can't think of it by the strength of your arms!" Li Ze also took a pair and pulled a full bow with all his might, but his face was already red.
"Childe be careful, put it slowly, don't flash your arms!" Tu Lichun hurriedly stepped forward and took a hand.
"Archers are not easy to train!" Li Ze said with some regret: "There are hundreds of people in our secret camp, and now there are more than 20 people who are barely usable."
Li Ze tilted his head, and his mind couldn't help but think of a movie he had watched in his previous life, the overwhelming feather arrows covered the sunshine in the sky, and he felt chills all over his body when he thought about it.
"I'll pick out some of the farmers when I go back, and there are a few of them who love to hunt, but they usually use soft bows, and they only need to practice diligently, and they should make rapid progress." Tu Lichun Road.
"That's it, archers are a kind of troops, you still have to train a little more, unlike pikemen, who will stab people after a few days of practice, they have to have a little appearance, and if they don't work hard for a year, they won't be effective at all." He took one out of the bundle of feather arrows, held it in his hand and looked at it, and finally nodded with satisfaction: "The masters in our Zhuangzi are still very attentive. It's just that there are not enough people, you see, now just a few feather arrows are enough for dozens of our archers to shoot four or five rounds and then they are gone."
"Childe, on the battlefield, it's good to shoot three rounds." Tu Lichun said with a smile. This is still a veteran, when facing the impact of the enemy's cavalry, the heart is not panicked, the hand does not tremble, and the novice is not accurate. ”
Li Ze nodded, his concept of the battlefield basically came from those movies and television in the previous life, and it was unreliable to think about it, Tu Lichun naturally had more right to speak.