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Chapter 8 Gains and Losses 1

It was not until a long time after the battle, everyone cleaned the battlefield almost all. Even Old Man Hu's stupid son happily asked two bowls of mutton soup with the familiar villagers. Old Man Hu was really convinced that the attacker was indeed his burger who was under 16 years old and could only be considered a half-din.

Moreover, he actually led these farmers to defeat the brutal Tartars!

What's even more exaggerated is that these fort militias seem to have won before they have suffered particularly serious casualties!

This made Hu Lanshan feel more and more that the world has become unreal.

However, no matter how much impact his worldview has been, Xu Shiyang just sat in front of him like that, and he couldn't believe it.

But what should I say in front of such a "violent" castle lord?

In the past, Hu Lanshan, who used to be a versatile man, Tartar, and large refugees, claimed to be versatile, suddenly felt that he could not see clearly the fortress in front of him who chopped the Tartars like chopping vegetables.

"Old Hu." Xu Shiyang looked up at Hu Lanshan who was restless.

"Young Master!" Although Xu Shiyang's tone was very plain, the look was still scared that Old Man Hu jumped up from the ground.

In the heart of this old man, Xu Shiyang, who can kill the Tartars, is naturally more fierce than the Tartars, and is naturally worthy of his care.

A very simple truth.

"Don't be dazed here, you didn't participate in the battle." Xu Shiyang ordered lightly: "Go and count the spoils."

"As for the order!" Old Man Hu was eager to disappear from this god of killing now.

As for other issues, why did Xu Shiyang send them axe to deliver things to the Tartars first, and then attack the Tartars. Do you want to use a knife to kill people? Old Man Hu can't think of it for the time being, or he dare not think about it.

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For a small dock, the fruit of this victory was extremely sweet.

Not to mention the things the Tun Dings collected from the Tartars, but only the materials that fell into Xu Shiyang's hands, even if they were digging land in a Tun Bu village for ten years, they might not be able to earn money.

First of all, the horses. The Jurchen Tartars are different from the grassland Tartars. They are actually fishing and hunting ethnic groups, and the proportion of cavalry is not high among all the Tartars.

But this low height is also compared with other nomadic peoples. For the exhausted Han fortress, the Jurchen Tartars' war horses are definitely a jealous treasure.

In this battle, since none of the enemies could escape, the entire horse stake was completely seized by Xu Shiyang. There were as many as 12 war horses alone, as well as 15 pack horses, 8 cows, 22 donkeys and 15 mules.

In addition to horses, the other large animals should have been stolen by this group of Tartars from other Han forts (including two mules led by Old Man Hu). Now, all of them are naturally cheaper than Xu Shiyang.

These large animals are rare property, such as carts, mills, farming, and firewood. With these cattle, horses and mules, the fort will be easier to plow in the spring next year. Maybe it can reclaim a few more wasteland and feed more people.

Well, the people who came from the Tartars were good, with a total of 580 people, all of them were strong men and women (or women of some beauty), otherwise they would not have survived the abuse of the Tartars.

The population is also a huge wealth. Xu Shiyang's Tun Castle currently has only more than 300 males. If these populations can be digested smoothly, his strength will double!

And weapons.

All industries in Jiangbei have withered, and craftsmen are rare and precious, especially blacksmiths. In Xu Shiyang's house was only a blacksmith sent to him by his father. The old and young father and son were raised in the fort like a treasure. He just made a blacksmith every day and didn't have to do other work.

Xu Shiyang asked them to drill the barrel of the fire door gun for himself, but he only made 12 shots in 10 months. He took two shots hard and let the half-aged children practice shooting every day, which had long exceeded the life of the barrel. Therefore, in the past 10 months, the iron weapons Xu Shiyang got from the blacksmith actually had only 10 fire door guns.

Don’t be unsatisfied. Making weapons is not the main business of the blacksmith. Their main job is to maintain one of the few iron farm tools in the fort. It is already a blacksmith who can make him 10 muskets.

In this case, it is no wonder that Xu Shiyang's peasants had to fight with hoes and sickles.

In fact, all Han forts are similar. Weapon replenishment is not only limited to craftsmen, but also limited iron should be considered first to make agricultural tools or weapons.

Now Xu Shiyang has seized a large number of well-made iron weapons from the Tatars, which naturally makes him very happy.

The most satisfying one is the iron armor that was turned out from the Tartar Mouke. The armor leaves are shining with silver light, strung together with beef tendon or leather rope, reaching straight to the knees, and there are iron arms like lobster shells on both sides.

The entire set of armor gives people a majestic feeling, as if no weapon in this world can penetrate it.

Such a suit of armor can be sold for 100 taels when you go to Jiangnan. It is a priceless treasure in Jiangbei!

Then there are 5-piece chain mail, 5 sets of cloth armor, and 12 pieces of leather armor.

There are a total of 23 sets of armor, as well as heavy cold weapons such as big swords, spears, maces, and long bows and waist knives. Each Tartar has one set.

A huge fortune, in a place like the mountainous areas of southern Shandong, so many armored wars can even bring about a whole trest!

Xu Shiyang still couldn't expect the militia to fight with the Tartars one-on-one with the iron sword, but with these, his fort soldiers had at least three more chances of winning when facing refugees, bandits or other hostile forts.

In addition to population and horses and soldiers, the wealth that the Tartars plundered along the way naturally fell into Xu Shiyang's hands.

He couldn't sleep in a dangerous area. In order to divert his attention, he could only take two half-old children who acted as personal soldiers and Old Man Hu and his son to count them. He probably counted about 120 pieces of miscellaneous cloths (with silk, silk, linen and cotton), and had more than 300 taels of silver, more than 20 taels of gold, a small amount of jewelry, jade and jewelry, and a large amount of copper coins.

A portion of the food was taken out and a bowl of porridge was made for each of the Han people who were looted by the Tartars, and the remaining one was still more than 210 stones.

In addition, there are also some livestock for meat such as pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, etc.

This amount is already quite a lot. Save some food and the food stored at home will at least make it impossible for Xu Shiyang to survive until the harvest next year.

It's just a pity that some of these foods were sent by Xu Shiyang deliberately sent someone to paralyze the Tartars.

Fortunately, they all returned to his hands.

With this food, Xu Shiyang felt that he should be able to expand his personal army and train more children.

There are also some pots, pans, iron farm tools, etc. The Tartars' own productivity is not developed. Because there are Goryeo to plunder, the Jurchens also have farming people such as the Xi people, Khitan, and semi-agricultural peoples. The situation is somewhat better, but they still need to rob a large number of daily necessities to supplement the domestic gap.

For Xu Shiyang, the situation is similar.
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