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Chapter 270 100% armor

There were five hundred fishing boats in total.

It has to be said that if a city of 10 people cooperates, the power it will unleash is terrifying. Under the pressure of Yang Chao, craftsmen in Haizhou worked day and night to build ships. In just a few days, they built five boats. Hundreds of punts.

Of course, this is also related to the simplicity of Yang Chao's requirements. There is no requirement for tung oil and hemp thread buttons to be sewn, and no paint is required. It is only required to be able to pull ten people and the necessary weapons and equipment, and to be able to float on the water without falling apart.

Therefore, the carpenters in Haizhou kept taking the planks and nailing them piece by piece. They were forced by Yang Chao to take care of the planks one by one day and night, and those who nailed the hull of the ship day and night. , I was forced to come up with an assembly line operation.

Fortunately, a city like Haizhou that is close to the river and the sea does not lack carpenters with experience in shipbuilding. If it is placed in the Gobi in the northwest, Yang Chao will have no choice but to do nothing.

At this time, in the vast ocean outside the city, there are chasing death and fishing in the north everywhere, ah no, it is a small boat to kill Tartars.

The city was crowded with onlookers, and they pointed and pointed:

"Ah, that idiot, he almost ran away to the Tartars!"

"And that one, hurry up, I saw him hiding behind the horse."

"That's so fierce, you can still shoot arrows in the water! Yes, just kill him, and let him shoot arrows!"

"Look quickly, the boat is dead, you have to come back quickly, or it will capsize!"

At this time, the common people no longer had any fear, and all of them were watching a good show in the city, which was more lively than any big stage.

"Wow, another boatload of Tartars was caught, that's amazing."

"Hmph, that's right, you don't know that the second dog next door to my house is on that boat!"

Yang Chao listened to a few commoners bragging beside him, pointing to a small boat that caught a boat full of Tartars and was the first to return to the city.

Yang Chao's order was to bring back both dead and alive, so the space on each ship was limited, and it was impossible to fight infinitely.

The best choice is to catch enough people, come back immediately, then let go, and continue to go out of the city to catch people.

The enthusiasm of these people is very high, because Yang Chao made an exception today and promised that if the ship catches it, it will be remembered by that ship, and each Tartar will offer a reward of 30 taels of silver, regardless of life or death, but there is one thing that cannot be searched without authorization. Loot the property of the Tartars.

Yang Chao felt that he should not lose money. With the temperament of Tartars, everyone has the habit of hiding property privately. As long as one person can recover 30 taels of silver, it is enough. Last time, more than 300 taels were found on 20 people. With the market price of [-] taels, Yang Chao didn't think he should lose money.

Yang Chao said that he would watch from the city, and probably no one would search secretly. Of course, with such easy money to earn, there is no need for everyone to take the risk of searching privately. Hurry up and pull back a boat, and then go out to catch it again. .

So boats came back one after another, docked at the pier next to the city bridge, threw the dead, living, and half-dead Tartars on the pier, and then watched the clerk Huang Fengfu write down their names After getting a number, he jumped into the boat, cursing and urging his men to row and attack.

The pursuit of Tartars in the west was in full swing, and in front of the [-] boats, there was no way to catch them. Such a fierce competition did not end until the barracks in the east also collapsed in the flood, because the cause of arresting Tartars in Haizhou was finally opened. Entering the second front greatly eased the pressure of competition.

But the bad news is that Yang Chao really lost money.

This group of captive soldiers from Shandong is really poor. According to the current market situation, on average, Yang Chao found that he could only find 23 taels of silver on one person.

This is unscientific. The last time the three hundred people under Boluo were killed outside the city of Haizhou, more than 20 taels were collected, and there were also some unvaluable pearls and treasures.

It can only explain that the captive soldiers in Shandong will not be robbed by the captive soldiers near Haizhou, and it proves that Haizhou is indeed richer than Shandong.

In fact, what Yang Chao didn't expect was that the scattered captive soldiers who looted in Haizhou had already looted in Shandong, and they belonged to extra money in Haizhou, so it made sense that they were richer than the captive soldiers from Shandong.

"broken!"

Song Lian, who was watching the fun in Haizhou City, suddenly yelled, and rushed down Haizhou City, eager to find Yang Chao who was settling accounts by the stone bridge.

"Master Yang, Master Yang!"

Seeing Song Lian coming in a hurry, Yang Chao couldn't help sighing: "Master Song, why are you panicking? I'll wait until I figure out the account, but the compensation is huge."

Song Lian waved his hand: "Hey! Don't settle accounts, let's release the flood quickly!"

Yang Chao was taken aback for a moment, yes, he actually forgot about this matter, but those gate soldiers have all gone to Huai'an.

Yang Chao sighed: "The gate guards at Linhongkou have gone to Huai'an!"

Song Lian pondered for a while: "Haizhou is also in charge of Linhongkou. I know that there are a few small officials in Haizhou City who understand water conservancy!"

Yang Chao shook his head again: "But there is no boat!"

Yang Chao is very helpless, the boat is busy catching tartars now, whoever snatches their boat now, Yang Chao can't guarantee whether these red-eyed money grabbers will stab someone with a gun.

Song Lian hopped and took a few government servants to Haizhou City to find a boatman.

However, Yang Chao really felt that it was time to put the flood discharge on the agenda. There was already water under his feet, and the low-lying areas in Haizhou City had already been soaked in water for more than a foot. It is estimated that the entire Haizhou City would be able to sail boats soon.

In addition to flood discharge, we have to find a way to block the gap in the Qiangwei River. I hope the rain will pass sooner, and then it will be easier.

As soon as this idea came to his mind, Yang Chao couldn't help but raised his head. He couldn't help but realize that the rain was really light. There was a white cloud in the sky, and only small raindrops were beating. It might really clear up.

Yang Chao couldn't help lamenting that everything goes smoothly when the people are smooth. If the captive soldiers could persist for one more day, they would have a different ending. Unfortunately, they didn't dare to stay a few more days in Qushan, where the mountain god was angry, so they gave Yang Chaoshui Flooded Sea State opportunity.

Song Lian couldn't find the person he was looking for, because their house was empty, and the water conservancy officials probably ran to the city wall to watch the fun.

When Song Lian found someone, his ship was also there, because the Haizhou battle was over.

Five hundred ships, one ship dispatched to pull back ten people at a time, less than [-] captive soldiers, on average, not enough for one ship to go back and forth twice, so except for a few lucky guys, or fast-moving and high-handed, fighting Few people with rich experience in fishing can be fully loaded twice. Of course, most of them are fully loaded on the first boat, and then come back after pulling a few casually on the second boat. Loaded.

Huang Fengfu, Hu Quan, Li Feng and Chen Jiujin, Yang Chao's personal soldiers, and even the officer Lu Mo were all busy at the pier, even though Song Lian asked for a few knives and pens and borrowed a few from Li Rui. account room.

After three or four hours of busy counting, sorting, and boxing, the results finally came out, and Yang Chao lost money in the end.

A total of more than 300 Tatars were captured, and a large amount of gold and silver, as well as some jewelry, were seized from them. The total value was about 16 taels of silver. On average, each Tatar barely had 25 taels. Yang Chao promised One of the tartars was 30 taels of silver, obviously losing money. If one person pays 6000 taels, more than 3 people will lose more than [-] taels.

Of course, it can't be regarded as a full escort. When you are free, the soldiers who still have spare energy will come and chop off their heads immediately. Each of these heads is also silver. If the normal market price is used, a head should be 20 taels of silver, and Yang Chao can still earn five taels.

In addition, the iron armor and cotton armor on the Tartars are of great value. Yang Chao unexpectedly discovered that the armor of the captive soldiers was even better than that of the Ming army. Learn from the Ming army, but they insist on doing better than the Ming army.

For example, the cotton armor. The cotton armor of the Nanjing Bingzhan Bureau in the Ming Dynasty should be filled with seven catties of cotton and water forged into thin sheets according to the requirements. However, under normal circumstances, the cotton armor in the Bingzhan Bureau is almost a layer of single clothes. No lint.

However, the armor of the captive soldiers is not only strictly made of forged cotton and filled with cotton skin, but also a layer of iron sheet is added between the two layers of cotton skin. Yang Chao has done experiments. , otherwise the bows and arrows would really not be able to seriously injure them.

This result made Yang Chao blush a little. Just kidding, a force that has just come out of the mountains not many years ago. The Ming Dynasty has overshadowed it, and it's really hard to say it.

Did the Ming Dynasty really have no good technology?

It's because the Ming Dynasty never had the intention to make good use of these technologies!
Yang Chao, who had no interest in the armor and weapons of the captive soldiers, is now very happy to strip the armor of the captive soldiers. Unfortunately, the armor rate of the captive soldiers is not high. Fang, obviously there is no upstart situation like Yang Chao, everyone's iron armor.

In fact, the armor-wearing rate of the captive soldiers is already higher than that of the Ming army. Needless to say, the army in the interior, even the frontier army, except for the Guan Ning army, which took away most of the Ming Dynasty's taxes as military expenses, other armies are really better than the Ming army. If you don't go to the captive soldiers, even after the corruption, the number of soldiers armored by the Guanning Army is not much better than that of the Manchus.

In short, in the end Yang Chao pulled out [-] iron armors, [-] cotton armors, and [-] leather armors, chain mails and other miscellaneous armors.

Judging from this armor-wearing rate, it is really quite high. If you count the captive soldiers who were killed by Yang Chao and their armor was recycled and reused, the armor-wearing rate of this group of more than 1 captive soldiers is also more than half, probably Except for Yu Ding and Bao Yi, all soldiers are in armor.

No wonder the captive soldiers were able to fight against the Ming army. Leaving aside their personal military accomplishments, they couldn't even match their weapons and equipment. It would be hell if they could win.

Harvesting the armor of captive soldiers, plus the military supplies squeezed out from Haizhou, Yang Chao estimates that he can equip at least three or four thousand armored elite soldiers when he goes back this time, and more than three thousand auxiliary soldiers such as cotton armor can also be dressed up. On the issue of 100% armor penetration rate, Yang Chao strictly enforced it without hesitation.

(End of this chapter)