Chapter 181
Nowadays, the Kuanhe Textile Factory of Liujiajun can produce cotton, linen, kudzu and today's wool cloth. In ancient times, kudzu and linen were the real civilian fabrics.
It is strong and durable and has a low cost. However, kudzu and linen have a relative disadvantage, that is, it cannot keep warm. To keep warm, cotton must be the best effect. However, although cotton is cold-proof and comfortable to wear, it is very expensive, almost the same as silk price.
The wool cloth of Liujiajun Kuanhe Textile Factory is first mixed with wool and twine to form thicker threads, and then woven into cloth with a human-powered textile machine. Although this cloth has wool, it has good breathability and warmth, but it cannot be worn close to the body, which will cause the skin to feel pruritus and itchy.
However, this continues the durability of kudzu and linen. Moreover, because the purchase price of wool is relatively low, the amount of wool is used more and more, so it produces wool sweater cloth similar to later generations. It is thick and warm, and is sold inside the city, which is very popular among the people. Due to market reasons, the demand for wool in Liujiajun Textile Factory is increasing, and the price of wool is getting higher and higher.
Like the original wool of a sheep, which is only three or five pounds, it can be sold for 80 cents of silver, which is quite eighty cents, which is similar to the three-day salary of ordinary workers in Kuanhe City. Nowadays, Mongolians have to pay attention to wool. You should know that every Mongolian family raises hundreds or thousands of sheep, and a hundred sheep is eight taels of silver, and a thousand is eight taels of silver.
The price of grain sold to the Mongolians is much more expensive, about two taels of silver per stone of wheat, which means that one thousand wool can add forty stones of grain. Even the wool of five hundred sheep is enough to ensure the living expenses of a family of five.
With the increase in the production of wool cloth, products have also become diverse, such as wool scarves, wool jackets, wool sweaters, wool coats, wool sleeping bags, wool bedding, wool blankets, wool cloaks, etc.
In the eyes of all Mongolians, sheep and wool are the silver for walking.
The cavalry under Lin Dankhan appeared on the grassland, and the Mongolians also saw this army. Although the cavalry of Lin Dankhan's troops had not yet started their operations, the Mongolian herders were in panic. The children drove the flock to run desperately, taking out their horns and whispering. A Mongolian man rode his horse and whistling towards this side, preparing to fight with a sabre and a horn bow.
However, the strength is too different. Lin Danhan has tens of thousands of people on his side, and there are only seven or eight hundred of them. Before the victory or defeat is decided, you can see the desperate expressions on his distorted faces from a distance.
Lin Danhan laughed and said, "It's a rebel minister of the Tatar tribe!"
There were 16 tribes of the Khalkha Mongol, and all of them surrendered to Jiannu after Lin Dankhan's death. Now there were 39 lords of the twelve tribes including Tatar, Wengjila, Merqi, Oyila, Kelie, Naiman, and Wanggu who surrendered to Jiannu.
Lin Danhan laughed and said, "Don't let people say that Ben Khan bullies less. Bao Ketu, you can take 800 people to deal with them immediately!"
"It's a big sweat!"
Bao Ketu raised the recurve compound bow in his hand and raised it, and rushed up with the eight hundred knights under his command in a formation of ox horns. At this time, the cavalry of Bao Ketu had completely replaced the Ming army's standard equipment. The bow was a recurve compound bow, although it was longer than the horn bow of the Mongols, and it was a bit inconvenient when riding a horse.
However, the problem is that this recurve compound bow requires a stone of pulling force, and the range can reach up to 120 steps. For armor-free targets, it has a strong lethality in eighty steps. It enhances one-third of the lethality than their original horn bow.
Both cavalrymen approached quickly with their skillful cavalry. When they were still 150 steps away from the other side, Bao Ketu shot an arrow. The eight hundred knights under his command all pulled out the reflexive compound bows and aimed at the target. When they approached about 100 steps, with a roar, the eight hundred bows reflexive compound bows made a vibrating sound at the same time. More than 800 sharp arrows were shot out, pulling out short parabolas in the air, covering the cavalrymen who were guest stars of herders!
The herders widened their eyes in horror. Their horn bows were not allowed to touch the other party, let alone how to cause too much damage to the other party!
However, Lin Danhan's knight's recurve compound bow can be easily achieved. The sharp arrows broke through the air. The muffled sound of the sharp steel arrowhead tearing the flesh and blood makes people chill all over, their hair and bones are thrust, and screams are loud. Nearly 200 riders and horses are shot into hedgehogs and rolling into a ball!
Without a chance to breathe, the second wave of arrow rain came over again! This time, the distance was shortened by twenty or thirty steps, and the accuracy was higher, causing greater damage to these unlucky herders. After the arrow rain swept over, more than 300 riders fell down like harvesting wheat.
The herdsmen finally couldn't help but wiped their hands in the patriarch's continuous roar, and smeared three arrows from the bag, pulled the horn bow into a full moon shape, and three waves in a row, and three arrows shot out in a line. This is the special skill of the Mongolian cavalry: continuous pearl arrows.
Some excellent archers shoot arrows even faster than semi-automatic rifles. One bow can be used as several bows, but more than two hundred bows are shot at the same time, creating a dense rain of arrows.
Unfortunately, there was nothing useless. In fact, those riders who were struggling desperately knew it was useless, because the demons were wearing shiny breastplates and dome helmets, and even masks. The arrows they shot were nailed to the steel helmets and breastplates, and sparks splashed everywhere and bounced away.
The arrows shot at the horses also did not work. These horses were covered in thick paper armor. With the pitiful tension of their bows, it was not easy to shoot through the paper armor at a distance of fifty or sixty meters.
Bao Ketu was shot three times, but nothing happened. Without saying a word, the powerful general pulled the rewind bow into a full moon shape, aiming at a rider with a cat on the horse's back. With a whoosh arrow, the sharp arrow shot through the horse's neck like eyes, hitting the unlucky guy's left chest. The unlucky guy screamed, threw the horn bow far away, and fell from the horse's back.
Bao Ketu's subordinates also pulled out the compound bow, and another rain of arrows poured out. The rain of arrows intersected, and people were leaning on their backs, but most of the opponents were Bao Ketu's opponents.
A rain of arrows poured out, and the 800 cavalry were killed and injured. Bao Ketu shouted happily, put away his compound bow and pulled out the horizontal sword. The knights under his command were also experienced. After approaching thirty meters, they stopped firing arrows, and drew their swords or raised their spears to speed up!
According to the usual tactics of the Mongols, at this time, everyone should turn back and lure their opponents to pursue, and then use the horse-return arrow to continuously kill and damage the enemy and bleed the enemy!
Bao Ketu's savage collision was beyond the expectations of his opponent. They didn't even have time to turn the horse's head, and a stream of fire rolled over. The goose feather knife waved and fell down, and plasma splattered everywhere!
Running and shooting? I'm running to your grandma. We are all thousand-year-old fox monsters. What are you talking about to me about? You can kill you by killing me by directly rushing to death by pigs!
Without any suspense, this fire stream easily swallowed the nomadic riders. The geese feather cut the scimitar and arms like a sugarcane cut, the spear went in the front of the chest and the back of the chest, and even nailed the man and horse together.
The soldiers under Bao Ketu swept by like a strong wind, leaving no chickens and dogs, leaving only dead bodies.
Bao Ketu still felt that he was not satisfied with the killing. After dealing with the opponent, he whistled and rushed towards the herdsmen who were running away with blood and murderous intent.
There is nothing warm to say about the war on the grassland. Once it is defeated, the entire tribe will often disappear from the grassland. At least this tribe will definitely disappear from the grassland.
Bao Ketu shouted loudly: "All men who are higher than the wheels will be killed and all the women will be taken back!"
"Let's wait!"
Lin Danhan ordered: "Champion Hou needs these people, he cuts it off with an old age, don't waste food!"
The knights laughed and replied: "Okay!"
In just a few words, they intercepted the herdsmen who had given up the herds and fled for no time, ignored the other party's pleading and crying, and slashed the blood-stained swords hard on their heads.
It was so easy that a victory was achieved, and all the Mongolian knights were excited.
However, Lin Danhan frowned and murmured to himself: "What's wrong!"
Bambu Taiji asked in confusion: "Shan, what's wrong?"
"How many cattle and sheep are there? How many war horses are there?"
"Less than two thousand war horses, fifty or sixty thousand sheep, and more than eight hundred cows!"
"Is this the cattle and sheep that a small tribe should have?"
Lin Danhan smacked his lips and picked up a bag of horse milk wine. This horse milk wine was not brewed by Mongolia itself, but was made of white wine purchased from Liu Jiajun. They added milk or goat milk themselves and then blended it.
"Besides, Ben Khan sent troops to attack the deceased officials, and this news has been spread long ago. Don't these rebel officials know how to escape? Just a little bit of people are driving cattle and sheep all over the mountain to migrate? There are problems, there are big problems!"
This really made Lin Danhan guess.
This is actually a game set up for him by Huang Taiji. Once the Mongolian cavalry and the Jiannu cavalry are in a duel, it is very easy to decide the winner. But the problem is that they are all four-legged cavalry, and both sides belong to the terrain here. If you chase and escape, it is difficult to catch up with the other side.
As early as the first year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji led the elite troops of Jiannu, plus the Mongolian servants from Khalkha, Korqin and other tribes to fight against Lin Dankhan. The battle lasted for more than seven months from March to September. Lin Dankhan lost tens of thousands of troops. However, not many of the deaths of these troops were directly killed by Jiannu. Most of them were exhausted or starved to death.
Lin Danhan's ability to fight was not very good, and it was a joke on the Mongolian grassland, but the problem was that his ability to escape was really not revealed. Huang Taiji and Lin Danhan had fought for many years, but in the end, Lin Danhan died of illness and was not killed by Huang Taiji.
But Huang Taiji was also very cunning. He found that Lin Danhan was snatching people and cattle and sheep, so he deliberately let go of water and threw some of the cattle and sheep to Lin Danhan. Originally, Lin Danhan killed the cattle and sheep that he could not take away, but now that Liu Mingyu had traded with him, he was reluctant to kill the cattle and sheep.
Greed is an original sin.
But the sheep's speed is actually not slow, especially the yellow sheep on the grassland, which is even faster than the horse, but the sheep cannot last long. Even if it is driven away, it can only travel dozens of kilometers a day.
In this way, Lin Danhan's speed will inevitably be delayed. As long as Lin Danhan's speed is slower, it will be his death.
Huang Taiji spent more than 20,000 Mongolian lives and finally found out Lin Danhan's true strength. He had already had the scope of his troops, and a large net began to tighten.
Lin Danhan has a very keen sense of smell. He told Jettu Taiji and others: "We are now trapped in the mud, and as time goes by, it will only sink deeper and deeper. If we can't find a solution, this grassland will be our grave!"
Bao Ketu said: "The Khan means..."
"We retreat and return to Qilian Camp!"
Lin Danhan said: "In the past month, we have grabbed enough supplies to spend the winter. It's time to gain weight!"
The Mongolians burst into laughter.
To be fair, Lin Danhan's reaction was not slow, but it was too late to retreat now.
Chapter completed!