In addition to spear training, Xu Wei purchased a large number of crossbows, and even asked his carpenters to make crossbows. With the lessons learned from the last attack on Zhao Zhong Manor, Xu Wei also knew the importance of long-range firepower.
With black powder, he would not be able to capture the manor even if he recruited tens of thousands of refugees, and Xu Wei, a modern man, prefers to kill enemies from a distance.
However, it takes three years to train an archer, while it only takes three months for a crossbowman. Relatively speaking, the training time for crossbowmen is shorter, and it is easier to develop combat effectiveness. Especially Xu Wei also taught them how to set a ruler and make a protractor. As long as they find
For a crossbowman who can shoot accurately, let him determine the angle, and others can imitate this angle and shoot in a covered manner. Although the accuracy cannot be guaranteed, the killing range is really wide.
Moreover, the lethality of crossbow arrows depends on the number of arrows. The price of arrows in this world is generally 10 yuan, but now it has increased to 20 yuan. Even the imperial army did not prepare too many arrows, and Xu
Wei used two rough iron rods to make a human-powered lathe. He only had to cut out wooden sticks of the same length, and then put the lathe to stir. In a few seconds, straight and round arrow shafts were produced. Using the human-powered lathe
The cost of making arrow shafts will not exceed two yuan, and the efficiency has been improved dozens of times. The carpenter team can make thousands of arrows every day. If more manpower is added, the output can be doubled several times. The arrows are sufficient and greatly enhanced.
The combat effectiveness of Xu Wei's crossbow archers.
Therefore, Xu Wei attaches great importance to crossbows. If the production was not insufficient, he would like every soldier to be equipped with a crossbow. But even so, Xu Wei still obtained thousands of crossbows, and his army was completely equipped with crossbows.
After a month of intensive training like this, Xu Wei and the others spent all their money. They had 3,000 armed escorts and spent more than 100 million on Xu Wei. Even so, Xu Wei could not equip them all with cowhide armor. He could only
It can make cowhide armor popular among senior officers. Most soldiers still use rattan armor and rattan shields.
But this is much better than the original Yellow Turban soldiers. They can be considered fully equipped and barely look like soldiers. Now it's time to see their effects.
So Xu Wei's equipment allowed them to fight in actual combat, and the targets of the actual combat were the powerful men at the foot of Hukou Mountain.
March 1, the second year of Zhongping.
Xu Wei led a convoy of 3,000 people and surrounded the Wubao family named Huang Haoqiang at the foot of Hukou Mountain. Behind Xu Wei were tens of thousands of refugees.
When the refugees saw Xu Wei's escort coming out of the mountain, they immediately followed them. I don't know where these refugees got the news from, but their speed was not much slower than Xu Wei and the others. When Xu Wei surrounded Wubao, there were actually people behind him.
There are already tens of thousands of refugees, and they have the appearance of the leader of the martial arts alliance in Wei County.
Xu Wei was shocked. Where did they get the news?
And Xu Wei would know that his generous act last time had shocked the people at the bottom of Wei County. As long as they surrounded Wubao, they could get a stone of food. This was a great thing, so the refugees saw Xu Wei coming out of the mountain again.
They would gather behind Xu Wei, and they were not allowed to attack the city anyway. Based on their experience last time, they surrounded the other three directions to help Xu Wei and the others contain the troops in Wubao.
As for the deterrence created by the Wei Commandery Governor in Jingguan, it is simply a joke. People are almost starving to death, but they still care about the threat of death. In the eyes of the refugees, having a full meal is more important than death.
Not to mention that after the last time the prefect returned, the government began to collect taxes again. Tax collectors came to the door and demanded food, even the seeds and grains of the family members.
The common people were dissatisfied and asked: "Didn't you mean that the imperial grain tax for one year was exempted!"
The tax collector said fiercely: "Who told you about tax exemption? Who did you go to? Anyway, the prefect said that this year's tax must not be less, and what I collected was last year's tax!" After saying that, he robbed the people.
Only rations and seeds!
The last person who said he wanted to be exempted from taxation was Jizhou Muhuang Fusong. Unfortunately, he became the state pastor of the world for less than 2 months before he went to fight the rebels in Xiliang, and his tax-free policy ended naturally.
The prefects and county magistrates who have taken office now all pay Zhao Zhong to sell the officials. Of course, Zhao Zhong is very sensible. He and the Ling Emperor split the money from selling the officials 30/70, with the Ling Emperor taking the lion's share. This made the Ling Emperor very happy.
He believed that Zhao Zhong was loyal to his duties and much more obedient than Huangfu Song.
Huangfu Song would not only take money from him, but also reduce his income. Jizhou was the most important source of finance and taxation for the imperial court. The tax reduction and exemption in Jizhou reduced the imperial court's income by a quarter. Wouldn't this mean that
I lost hundreds of millions of dollars in income!
After having this source of money from selling officials, Emperor Ling became dissatisfied with the officials who occupied official positions because of their contribution in suppressing the Yellow Turban Uprising. This did not cut off his financial path, so he issued another order, such as those who became officials because of their military merits.
People must be selected and eliminated, leaving only qualified people.
Emperor Ling’s intention was to let these people buy official positions with money. But unfortunately, the powerful powerful people who are willing to work hard are all paupers and cannot afford millions or even tens of millions of official fees!
Therefore, many of the heroes who suppressed the Yellow Turban Uprising were dismissed. For example, the poor man Liu Bei was dismissed from the position of Anxi County Captain because he could not afford the money, and was replaced by a corrupt official who bought his official position.
The corrupt officials here in Wei County are particularly bad. They want to pay enough for the money that Zhao Zhong was robbed, so they don't even want to wait for the summer harvest and collect it directly in the spring. These corrupt officials' actions have added tens of thousands more refugees to Wei County.
, these refugees have defected to Thunder God, who is said to know the thunder method, so Xu Wei was able to gather tens of thousands of people so easily this time, because Xu Wei came here and they could survive!
After Wubao was surrounded, Xu Wei first used refugees to disperse Wubao's troops, and then washed the ground with bows and crossbows, shooting tens of thousands of long arrows. The suppressed private soldiers on Wubao couldn't lift their heads, and then rushed towards the city car.
Go up to the city wall, use the crowbar to dig out the wall bricks, make holes, and place gunpowder!
"Boom!" A Wubao was breached by Xu Wei and the others, and the escort rushed in through the breach. Then, using the village as a unit, they killed and wounded the private soldiers in the captured Wubao!
But what Xu Wei encountered this time was fierce resistance. Even though the city wall was blown down, the Huang family's servants resisted desperately with the help of the head of the family.
Different from Zhao Zhong's manor, Zhao Zhong only hired some servants to look after his manor. The servants were all workers. Naturally, they lost morale when they saw the city wall being breached. Few people were willing to sacrifice their lives for the boss's wealth.
The Huang family's Wubao is inhabited by members of the Huang clan, and everyone is a family. Wubao is their home, and the cohesion is naturally higher. They also know the consequences of Wubao being breached, so they naturally resist with all their might. Xu Wei
It took them more than 200 casualties to conquer this fort!