Chapter 225 If you don’t succeed, you will be benevolent.
The reason why so many barbarian cannon fodder came to Hongbai Mountain in such a short period of time.
That's because the Hu people have a natural instinct to follow and obey the strong; they also have a habit of living more accustomed to looting than building.
Yang Dongli and others undoubtedly perfectly satisfied the above two points.
After hearing the news for a while, among the many small tribes of Hu people around, it turned out that as long as they could hold weapons and ride war horses, they were men.
They all rushed to Hongbai Mountain as soon as possible, with the intention of participating with a little bit of tribal strength and making a fortune together.
So much so that Fengrui, who was counting the data, kept reporting astonishing data to Yang Dongli.
"Lao Yang, 600 barbarians have come to report now. There is still one day left to gather. This time the cannon fodder unit may be able to gather a thousand people~"
"Good news, Lao Yang, there are now 923 people. The situation is quite gratifying~"
"These small tribes are crazy. They are planning for the future. Almost all the warriors who can fight have come; there are more than 1,100 people, and there is still a steady stream of people coming.
I lit myself the last remaining golden leaf cigarette that I had been reluctant to smoke for a long time.
Dozens of sheep and seven or eight cows were put down one after another in the evening before departure, and then they were roasted in the same way as whole sheep and whole cows.
Specifically, it just depends on which side your butt sits on.
So, what could happen?
For Yang Dongli, such a scattered cannon fodder is simply Han Xin's order of troops, which is of great benefit.
After the army set off, there were only a hundred or so Hu women left in the huge Hongbai Mountain camp who had been robbed during this period.
Then, before the remaining match was burned out, he threw it on the low eaves of a thatched house in front of him.
The Hu people will not be allowed to bring these powerful weapons to harm the Han people in the Central Plains.
"Northern History·Biography of the Western Regions" records the oil situation in the Qiuci area of the Western Region: "In the mountains in the northwest of the country, something like ointment flows out into the river and flows for several miles into the ground. It looks like glutinous rice and is very smelly."
Because I thought about leaving here, I was afraid that I would never have the chance to come back, at least in this mission world of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there would be no chance to come back.
I guess I can't figure out why the leaders would slaughter craftsmen like them who were treasured no matter which tribe they belonged to.
It was rare for the hard-working barbarians to even have a full meal. They usually had no chance to eat and drink so freely. While they loudly agreed, they also cheered loudly.
That's right! Theoretically, the craftsman team that now has forty or fifty people will also stay in the secret iron-making base.
As long as all the craftsmen and prisoners in the iron smelting base are killed before they leave completely, and the related facilities are burned down immediately.
Damn it! For these poor guys, even if they didn’t grab anything on this trip, just the meal and drink tonight is enough for them to participate in the bald bandit’s action this time...
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In short, for the native Hu people, the night when the army was officially dispatched was a night of carnival for them.
But I thought about it. If the method of using this thing is exposed, China will definitely suffer a lot because it does not have much oil resources. Instead, it will give the foreigners in the Western Regions an advantage.
What needs to be explained is that they obtained the fierce fire oil from a lair of horse bandits, and those horse bandits were snatched from a group of businessmen from the Qiuci Kingdom.
Everything was agreed upon before they established this base.
"No, it's nothing."
In fact, the fundamental reason why Lang Qing and the others did this was to keep it secret.
It was night! Many barbarians were so drunk that they fell directly next to the fire with the smell of alcohol all over their bodies, and fell asleep like that.
Even now, there are already two earthen blast furnaces, but they have been demolished into a ball of mud.
At the same time, the stolen drinks were moved out of the temporary warehouse as if they were free of charge.
None of the other leaders, including Lao She, Wu Zu, and Er Pang, who would take part in the operation every time they went to clear out the horse bandits and sand bandits, showed up today.
Even at this moment, Yang Dongli made it clear to the cannon fodder that after drinking tonight, he would kill anyone who drank during the operation.
All the craftsmen and prisoners have lost all their vitality long ago.
In an iron-making base surrounded by mountains on three sides and adjacent to water all the way.
The relevant knowledge was kept secret along with the deaths of those craftsmen and slaves.
Not to mention that on the night before leaving, the number of cannon fodder reached 1,732, even if there were another three to two thousand people, he, Old Yang, would not be timid at all.
Just when an army of nearly 3,000 people set off, Fan Lie, who was now an officer leading fifty people and a team leader, was surprised to discover a detail:
The current army of Zhihong only has four leaders including Yang Dongli, Fengrui, Lao Hei, and Ali.
They suppressed the idea of using these fierce fire oils forcefully.
Brother Langqing had a livid look on his face, and poured some of the refined fire oil from a large water bag into various parts of the base.
With everyone's hard work, all the final preparations were quickly completed, and the rookie soldier saw Lang Qing look like this.
But for such a key action, Lao She, Lang Qing and others will naturally not be absent.
Therefore, I saw that there were many stolen cattle and sheep in the camp.
In addition to making part of it into dried bacon to be used as dry food for a period of time in the future, Yang Dongli simply let everyone eat and drink the remaining cattle, sheep and grain.
The Hu people have already made some primitive uses and trades of oil.
These include various wooden sheds, walls, waterwheels, and even the corpses of craftsmen and prisoners in a large pit that were built with great pains.
His eyes were also full of disbelief and huge fear.
At first, Yang Dongli and the others wanted to use the fierce fire oil that they had saved once to process it into some incendiary bombs to surprise the Huns.
Based on this concept, even simple tools such as fire tongs have been thrown into the river and have long since sunk into the mud at the bottom of the river.
Thinking of the hardships of the little bit of construction in the beginning, I feel a little reluctant to start.
"Don't panic, if you have the ability, keep coming for two thousand people." After hearing this, Yang Dongli looked calm.
They are not present in the army now. They just need to be busy with some other very important things for the time being and must leave no consequences...
But even so, when everything he had built with his own hands was about to be completely destroyed, Lang Qing still felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.
This momentum is even more lively than supermarkets handing out free eggs."
"What the hell! There are already 1,400 people, and people are coming one after another; Lao Yang, with so many native people gathered together, nothing will happen..."
After figuring out the joints, I couldn't help but suggest:
"Lang Qing, if you really can't do this, or are really reluctant to do it, why don't you and the warehouse manager leave first, and leave this place to us."
Although the number of Hu people's cannon fodder is large, they come from dozens of small tribes, and the largest tribe has only seventy or eighty warriors.
Fortunately, when we set off on the second day, no one was left behind.
Let Fan Lie and other close men, as well as war slaves, cannon fodder and others start eating and drinking. They can eat as much as they want, as long as they can get up when setting off tomorrow.
After saying this, Lang Qing first took a deep breath, and then polished a match.
It's not unusual at all for this thing to appear.
It's just that because of the long-term high-pressure training from Fengrui, Lao Hei and others, or because of the lustful power, he could only keep it in his heart. On the surface, this guy didn't show any abnormality at all.
In short, such a practice is a devil to the Hu people, but to the Han people in the Central Plains, it is as noble as an angel.
In the end, it was just used as a burning substance to prevent fire at the end of this episode.
The thatch, which was originally abnormally dry, caught fire immediately after it was contaminated with kerosene. The fire that then spread burned everything in the base.
Under such a background, Lang Qing and others got on their horses and chased in the direction where Yang Dongli and others left.
The position behind them was already a sea of fire.
The blazing flames represent their determination to fight to the death. If they don't succeed, they will die...
