In the riverbank valley named White Horse Mountain, White Horse River, and White Horse Bridge, there is a half-human-high mirror standing in the tent of the Chinese military camp.

Across the mirror stood a man with a thick beard, a beard and a half-inch of short hair on his head called 'Beiyang Head' in the northern Ming Dynasty, and small patches of skin on either side of the raised cheekbones that were slightly lighter-colored, scars from the burning of the iron armor that had been worn through the sea of fire.

His head was as thick as his neck, and he was dressed in a short, unbuttoned white coat, and the muscles of his upper body made his bulging chest almost flush with the general's belly, which was covered with fat outside the muscles.

The perennial stone lock makes his shoulders very broad, and his chest muscles are a little smaller than the latissimus dorsi.

Through the oblique mirror, Shao Tingda clearly knew for the first time why his well-cut pants always fell down.

He patted his bulging belly, which was the source of the general's strength, stared at himself in the mirror and said to Fu Ge'er who was standing on the side: "This mirror is good, how do you do it?" ”

"The latest process in Venice, made of mercury and glass, is expensive."

Fu Geer expected to see the appreciation and excitement on Shao Tingda's face, and the nobles of Europa would be very excited when they received such a mirror, such as Herrera, who got this mirror half a month ago, but Shao Tingda didn't seem to react.

The burly Ming Dynasty general just nodded slightly, raised his hand and shouted: "Sick Yang'er, let someone go to the woman who repairs the clothes in the White Horse Department, and I want to make two straps on my pants like a skirt tie!" ”

Although his face was impassive, he remembered it in his heart, mercury.

European mirrors are clearer, since ancient times, a large number of copper mirrors in the Han Dynasty began to be popularized, and the manufacturing process used by people is that Xuanxi is attached to the copper mirror to polish and smooth to shine on people, and there is some difference between them, then what they are missing is the glass that Chen Mu has in mind.

Shao Tingda believed that with their expedition, the Ming Dynasty would possess all the things of civilization in the world and develop them more maturely.

Just as the Europeans developed the fire gun into a bird gun.

Pouting, Shao Tingda buttoned his shirt, put on his official robes, and buttoned his armor skirt, arm binding, and cuirass layer by layer, and said to his subordinates while wearing armor: "Have all the departments finished taking a bath?" ”

"There is also a hundred households of soldiers to wash in the afternoon, and General Hei's cavalry scouts have been fortified on the official road thirty miles away, and it will be fine."

After putting on the iron arm binding on his left arm, Shao Tingda raised his hand to scratch his scalp and complained: "I've been stationed here for seven days, why haven't the Spaniards moved at all?" ”

The soldiers hugged their helmets and wiped them carefully, and said with a smile: "Maybe I'm scared, I can't help but wipe out one of the communist legions, and I don't know our reality, so it's normal not to come." ”

It's not just that the Spaniards don't dare to come!

Shao Tingda sighed silently in his heart...... He didn't dare to go!

Through the Battle of the White Horse River, the Ming army had contact with the native tribes led by the White Horse Department in the north, and some of the Western Army armor collected on the battlefield was provided to the White Horse Department, and the Ming army generals conducted a short-term training for the tribal warriors who used these armors.

In return, the White Horse Department acted as an agent of the Ming army to collect some food from the northern tribes, and at the same time sent some women from the tribes who could sew clothes outside the camp to help repair the damaged uniforms of the banner army.

However, more of the forces gathered by the White Horse have returned to their respective tribes, leaving only 600 men, and the Ming army is trained to fight with birds, crossbows, and spears.

It's funny to say that the Ming army taught the Indians what they saw as the Spanish phalanx.

The Ming army himself doesn't know it, and he uses it to teach people!

In addition to the 600 new clan troops, there were also 600 people in Almansa's headquarters and surrender, but there were all infantry, cavalry, and artillery, but there were few cavalry and artillery.

However, Shao Tingda did not think that the 1,200 troops added to the military strength could offset the 300 banner troops that had lost their combat effectiveness in battle.

What's more, their rockets were almost empty in the Battle of the White Horse, and there were not many grenades left, so they didn't have to rely on them less and less.

It doesn't have the strength to storm Mexico City, but it can fight a few more battles in the field.

What's more, the local natives don't seem to have any big picture, and the White Horse believes that this is the territory of the White Horse, and if the Ming army as a friend is attacked here, their army will join the battlefield, but if they leave the White Horse River Valley, it will be a matter for the Spaniards and the Spaniards themselves.

This kind of thinking is difficult for Shao Tingda to understand, but there is no way to change it for the time being.

In a short period of time, the White Horse Valley is the home of the Ming army, and if Bernal takes the initiative to attack this, the Ming army will have the greatest advantage.

"Brother Fu, when will the iron arrowhead I want be delivered?"

Fu Ge'er stood aside and watched Shao Tingda put on the armor, a little idle, suddenly heard Shao Tingda ask, thought for a while, and said: "It should be here this afternoon, my people went to Taxco to ask for arrows, there are many good smelters there, and they will be shipped back quickly." ”

Shao Tingda sold a batch of Western army armor damaged in battle to Fu Ge'er, and asked him to get 8,000 iron arrows to arm the 400 archers of the White Horse Division.

In addition to letting Fu Ge'er buy it, there are also crossbow and crossbow clusters harvested in the baggage, and the warsmith has opened a kiln to melt iron and make arrowheads in the past seven days.

This came from Chen Shigong's suggestion, in addition to taking his assistants to practice the autopsy records in ancient books in the past, he also served as a wound examination of the corpses killed in the battle on both sides, recorded the causes of death of more than 2,000 corpses in a few days, and submitted a very complete report to Shao Tingda.

The causes of one's own casualties were in line with expectations, mainly cold weapons such as war horse collisions, swords and spears, and very few died from firearms.

The Western Army was already poorly equipped with muskets, and they fired at a long distance, and if it were not for the cavalry assault, they would have been able to defeat them with one-third of their forces.

Thirty percent of the Western Army died from small wounds caused by firearms such as bird guns, rockets, and palm mines, among which the main ones were bird guns, which was much smaller than the reckless people imagined.

Nearly 900 of his subordinates fired 13,000 strange lead pellets in the battle, and as a result, only 1,400 enemy soldiers were killed and wounded, excluding rockets and palm mines.

The other forty percent is the result of cold weapons such as spears, sabers, iron melons, and spurs, and a large part of this is the result of chasing and killing the rout, and one percent is the result of drowning and trampling each other on the White Horse River.

The last one is the most miraculous, it was killed by a bow and arrow, and it was a stone and bone arrow, from the Indians.

Chen Shigong said that these wounds appeared on the neck, face, armpits and other places that could not be protected by armor, indicating that a considerable number of the Turks were very accurate in their marksmen, and they would be very effective assistants when they had iron arrows.

For this reason, Shao Tingda also specially found a fir bow for aborigines from the war booty, which was not long and the bow power was not too large, but there were many of them, and almost everyone had a bow.

Shao Tingda is now eager to contact Chen Mu and ask Chen Mu to tell the fleet returning to Daming at the end of this year that the Beiyang Military Government can start to collect the bow and further replace the bow and arrow with a bird, and the extra bow can be obtained here for the use of the Asian clan army of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Fugoer's men did not return with iron arrows, and the Spanish mulattoes galloping on horseback stumbled into the camp and muttered a lot to Fugoer.

Shao Tingda only understood one sentence.

"Silver City has been occupied by the rebels!"

He sharpened his chin and thick beard, a pair of copper bell eyes full of the psychology of approaching scientific inquiry, eyebrows raised one high and one low, with an uncontrollable smile in his tone, and asked, "Hey, hey, Yincheng?" ”