Chapter 773: Material Restrictions
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The war was destined to be a massacre, and the densely charged cuirassiers urged the horse platoon to rush towards the barbarian cavalry.
Moments before the two sides collided, the cuirassiers collectively drew their crossbow arrows and fired them, then threw them as weapons at the other barbarian soldiers.
The moment they saw the face, the barbarian cavalry fell one after another, causing confusion in the formation.
Seeing this, Qi Guangyi immediately commanded the cavalry to wrap the barbarian cavalry in dumplings from both sides, and after an hour of fighting, the barbarian cavalry was wiped out, and only wandering war horses were left on the battlefield.
"Clean up the battlefield and collect all the horses." Qi Guangyi was covered in blood, and Aqige didn't know that he died at the hands of that soldier, but he didn't bother to look for it.
Now he needs to be just a barbarian war horse, as far as he knows, the barbarians have entered Bashu this time a total of 63,000 people.
Among them, 3,000 people either died or fell behind after entering Tibet, and only 60,000 people entered Bashu.
But even so, the total annihilation of 60,000 barbarian cavalry this time was a great victory.
Because in previous wars, it was mainly barbarian slave soldiers who were eliminated, and real barbarian soldiers died very rarely.
So, the defeat of that kind of war did not have much effect on the Golden Horde at all.
For the barbarians who are now short of food, it does not matter how many slave soldiers die, in their eyes, slaves are not people at all, but goods.
But the barbarians who lost 60,000 iron horsemen this time will definitely feel pain.
On the contrary, Qi Guangyi is afraid that he will wake up laughing when he dreams now.
With these 60,000 cavalry horses, excluding the number of losses, he could at least raise another 40,000 cavalry, so that each army of the Great Yu Kingdom could be equipped with a sufficient number of cavalry.
Smiling at the horses on the battlefield, Qi Guangyi suddenly remembered something, and he immediately called the soldiers and asked him to send the good news of Aqige's ambush back to Qingzhou.
In this way, the Bashu Rebellion was completely pacified.
Five days later, the news arrived in Qingzhou.
After reading the news sent by Qi Guangyi, Xiao Ming finally breathed a sigh of relief, what he was most worried about was the continuous destruction of the Great Yu Kingdom by this group of cavalry.
Now that all these people have been cleaned up, the country of Dayu has stabilized.
"Your Majesty, you can rest assured now, no one expected this time." Qian Dafu said with a smile.
Xiao Ming nodded, the Great Chongqing Kingdom is very big, so there are so many loopholes to drill, and he didn't pay enough attention to Bashu before, and his precautions against Tubo were too low.
Now he must be vigilant and stabilize the territory in the southwest, because in addition to being the country of Tianfu in the Great Chongqing Kingdom, it is also the area with the highest chromium reserves in the country, especially the location of Tubo is a rich mine.
And the reason why he needs chromium is simple.
Because the development of muskets in Dayu has reached a bottleneck period, according to the test data provided by Song Changping, this batch of fire cap firing guns has a low probability of exploding after using smokeless gunpowder.
And this phenomenon has never been seen before, Xiao Ming actually expected this problem, so he asked Song Changping to strictly limit the dose of smokeless gunpowder, produce a small number of smokeless gunpowder paper shell bullets, and still use black powder paper shell bullets on a large scale.
The reason is simple, he expected that the mass of the barrel would not be able to withstand the dose of gunpowder explosion, after all, with the appearance of smokeless gunpowder bullets, firearms began to use barrel materials such as chromium-molybdenum steel, which he could not produce at present.
Therefore, when it was not yet possible to produce this alloy suitable for the barrel, the muskets of the Great Yu Kingdom could only stop there.
Technically, it can only be developed into the breech, which requires precision parts to achieve.
After thinking through these problems, Xiao Ming felt that it was time to lay out, the southwest of Dayu was also an area rich in various rare metals in contemporary times, and he had to firmly control this place in his own hands.
And if he wants to do this, he has to deal with the enemy in the southwest, Tubo, and this time Tubo has given him a pretext for war by letting the Golden Horde into Bashu.
Once he finds time to conquer Tibet, he can take it out at any time and use it.
"Although the rebellion in Bashu has been pacified, the culprits are still at large, and I will clean them up one by one." Xiao Ming said in a deep voice.
After a pause, he continued: "By the way, this time Qi Guangyi captured 60,000 barbarian slave soldiers, these slave soldiers are the strong labor needed by the mine, you talk to the Mineral Division, and let them send someone to Bashu and Tubo to secretly find chrome ore." ā
Qian Dafu is proficient in prospecting, and he understands this nature, he said: "Yes, the emperor, the old minister will go to the Mineral Division later, these 60,000 people can't be wasted, and now the slaves of the Great Chongqing Kingdom are in short supply." ā
After deciding on the matter of prospecting, Xiao Ming felt that he had to go to Lutong, and after the chrome ore was found, it would be related to smelting, and it would have to rely on them to do it.
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In the vast grassland, the merchants who set out from Shanhaiguan had arrived in Shengdu, and along the way they also publicized the methods of executing barbarian generals in the Great Yu Kingdom.
"Khan, this is the bones of Hakata Taiji." The merchant fell to the ground and wept.
In front of the Golden Horde, Dolgo's face was as pale as paper, and Hakata's biological mother, who had rushed to hear the news, was already crying diligently, and at the same time, many nobles of the Golden Horde were also crying sadly.
This is the first Taiji of the Golden Horde to die in the Great Chongqing State since the war with the Great Yu State.
Wushu Bone, Bei Shan, Amba and other Taiji were all present, and they were silent when they looked at Hakata in the shroud.
Hakata had been dead for a month, and now the body had changed shape, but they still recognized it as Hakata at first sight.
"Khan, Hakata died for the Khanate, you must avenge Hakata!" Hakata's mother cried out as she hugged Dolgo's legs.
Dolgo has always liked Hakata very much, so he sent him to Bashu this time, he thought that this time it would be easy, but he didn't expect such a mistake.
At this time, he looked at Bei Shan, who had no guilt.
He knew he couldn't blame him, because it was Hakata's own greed that delayed the evacuation.
Because according to the appointed time, Hakata should have led the army to withdraw from Songzhou Castle a long time ago, but the soldiers who were outside did not see them come out at the appointed time.
"My son, Father Khan will personally slaughter the emperor of the Great Yu Kingdom to pay tribute to you." Dorgo's nails were embedded in the flesh from too hard, and intense anger brewed in his heart.
All the humiliations he has suffered since his ascension to the throne of Khan have been brought by this emperor of the Great Yu Kingdom, and now he is going to lead his empire to destroy this enemy who killed his son!