I really don't want to be a rebel [infrastructure]

After hearing this, Luo Shixing frowned and asked, "What do the Baimu tribe want to do so far away from the Tuha tribe? Do they have any collusion with Mengshezhao?"

For example, if the Tuha tribe is defeated, the Baimu tribe will be able to support Mengshezhao.

Cheng Jingwei pondered and said: "It's not necessarily that they have any connection with Meng Shezhao, and the drought has no effect on Lingnan."

Drought will affect many animals and plants, plants will decrease, herbivores will also decrease in number, carnivores will not find food sources, and the entire food chain will be affected.

Luo Shixing built a canal and built a large pond in the manor to store water, which basically guaranteed the irrigation of the farmland, so although the drought caused a slight reduction in production, the three-season rice would not starve people, and he even had the ability to sell it. Give Bing Sui an edict of some food.

But what about other tribes who don't do farming?

The tribes along the Belt and Road can buy food in the market, but the Baimu tribe is shut out.

The Baimu clan has been having a difficult time these days.

Luo Shixing didn't do anything against the Baimu clan, and didn't even trouble them.

But the reason why the Baimu clan became the largest clan in the south in the past is because there are many younger brothers behind them.

Now Luo Shixing and the others are waving banknotes and various resources to pry all their little brothers to their side.

The Baimu clan didn't want to provoke the current Ouluo clan, not because they were really afraid of the strength of the Ouluo clan, but mainly because they were worried that if he beat the Ouluo clan, they would really hurt the children of those aristocratic families. Disappeared.

Who would have thought that the Ouluo clan would gather all the children of five surnames and Qiwang without making a sound.

Coupled with this situation and the drought, the Baimu people actually farmed, but they did not have talents who were good at building water conservancy. Those priests talked about water control well, but the water control that the Central Plains paid attention to was generally related to the Yellow River.

Because the floods in the Central Plains were basically brought about by the mother river, the Yellow River. After all, this mother had a really bad temper.

The experience of harnessing the Yellow River is not applicable to Lingnan, so after so many years, they have not found one that suits them.

Another point is that tribal leaders can accept the construction of water conservancy facilities, but they cannot accept too much cost.

As we all know, infrastructure is always the most expensive, especially water conservancy, he is not willing to spend money, no matter how capable the worship is, it is useless.

Therefore, if the weather was good and the weather was good, the Baimu people would have a lot of harvest, but if the weather was not good, there might be no harvest. It really depends on God's face.

On the one hand, the Baimu tribe began to be short of food, and on the other hand, those small tribes relied on the Ouluo tribe to survive the crisis smoothly, so it was no wonder that Li Chun was not in a hurry.

Can't he beat the Ouluo tribe or other small tribes?

The Baimu tribe needs to re-establish their status, so that these younger brothers are afraid that they will be obedient, and grab some more food by the way.

This is why the life of small tribes is difficult. As long as there is a slight improvement, they will be plundered by big tribes.

However, this time the Baimu tribe was kicked on the iron plate. Li Chun originally thought that he would send people to make a surprise attack, and he would be able to take down the Tuha tribe within two days.

Because the Tuha tribe itself is not very young and strong, and even the entire tribe has a small population, with a total of more than 1000 people.

Li Chun directly sent 2000 people there, with the idea that if the Tuha tribe surrendered and were obedient, then they would be left alive, and if they were not obedient, they would be exterminated directly.

And because the Tuha tribe is far away from the Ouluo tribe, even if the Ouluo tribe wants to help, the distant water cannot save the nearby fire.

The old priest who followed Li Chun carefully asked: "But didn't you say that the Ouluo tribe has garrisons in these small tribes?"

Li Chun sneered and said: "I have inquired about it. The garrisons are all from other tribes, and few of them are from our own tribe. The Ouluo tribe is worried that the soldiers trained by their own tribe will increase their strength, but they probably didn't think about it." But when it comes to the real war, these people will not fight to the death to save each other, and it is already good if they don’t run away when something happens.”

After thinking about it, the Li family treated him well, but if he really encountered a life-and-death event, he might not stay to be buried with the Li family, no.

So a thousand soldiers of the Baimu tribe were blocked outside by the garrison of the Tuha tribe.

At the beginning, the patriarch of the Tuha tribe didn't expect the garrison to be so powerful, and he didn't even expect the garrison to help.

As a result, when he was still gathering young and strong men to fight against foreign enemies, the colonel with the highest rank in the local garrison had already assembled the soldiers, and took hundreds of soldiers out to meet the enemy.

In terms of the quality of the individual soldiers, the quality of the garrison is definitely good, but their number is small, even if the young and strong Tuha tribe came to guard, there were still many casualties.

They can resist for a while, but it is difficult to beat the 1000 people back directly.

Especially when Li Chun found out that he hadn't taken down a single Tuha tribe in two days, and even the young men led the garrison with only 500 men, he was almost blown away, and immediately sent another 500 men over.

The pressure of 500 people was really great. Fortunately, the patriarch of the Tuha tribe knew the Baimu tribe very well, or he knew Li Chun very well, so he sent someone to the alliance to ask for help on the first day he was attacked.

Luo Shixing turned to look at Cheng Jingwei, Cheng Jingwei said calmly, "Let Wang Antong bring people to support."

A battle of more than 1000 people does not require Cheng Jingwei to fight in person.

And Cheng Jingwei also believed in Wang Antong. In his previous life, Wang Antong was able to defend Lingnan without anyone teaching him. In this life, he and the little lynx held Wang Antong's head and let him learn a lot. It is impossible that he is not as good as in the previous life, right?

Wang Antong was obviously also very excited, and immediately ordered five hundred soldiers and left.

Strictly speaking, this was the second expedition. The first expedition was too hasty, so Cheng Jingwei took people away immediately.

This time, an expedition ceremony was held, which was a simple oath, and Luo Shixing and Cheng Jingwei came forward to encourage them.

Generally speaking in this kind of situation must be high-level, Luo Shixing thought about it and handed over this task to Cheng Jingwei, let the big cat go up and say a few words first.

Then when he went up, he didn't need any speech papers and the like, and said with a wave of his hand: "You can rest assured to defend your home and country, and don't worry about other things. Your parents and wives alliance will take care of you."

Crowd: ...

This is too real, right?

But it is this reality that makes people feel at ease. In life, what you really care about is the life security of those people and the future.

The Union Army does not need to worry about living security. Even if they die, the pension will be sufficient, and their own children will be given priority in hiring when they enter the factory, and there will be corresponding bonus points for exams.

If you are not dead or disabled, you will be given a job, and you will be sent away if you don’t get a pension.

These guarantees are well done, and everyone is highly motivated to go to war. Without him, war is the only way to advance.

When there is no war, it is rare to be promoted to a senior officer. It is easy to go from an ordinary soldier to a non-commissioned officer, but it takes a certain amount of strength and luck to go up from a non-commissioned officer, and it is very difficult to go up.

Having a war means having military exploits.

So everyone was full of energy, shouting slogans in unison and leaving.

The bosses followed and stood on the terrace to watch the soldiers leave, feeling a little overwhelmed for a moment.

Is their army... so powerful?

Even if you haven't seen their performance on the battlefield, their spirit is different from other soldiers.

With so many salutes on his back, running looks easy, and even when he is running, he keeps his chest up and his head up.

Not to mention that it must be the only one in terms of orders and prohibitions.

At the same time, Li Youdao, who had the best eyesight, asked in surprise, "What are they carrying?"

Luo Shixing said casually: "Salute, and there are some dry rations for the army."

Li Youdao waved his hand: "It's not that, the one on the back... the strange thing, and the one on the chest, what are they?"

Luo Shixing understood: "Oh, the one behind is a newly developed engineering shovel, and the one hanging on his chest is a hand crossbow."

When Luo Shixing was struggling with the generator, Cheng Jingwei stared at the people and made these.

In comparison, these two things are actually not difficult to make, because they are not made out of nothing, because there are prototypes, craftsmen can better understand the above pictures when looking at the drawings.

The difficulty of the hand crossbow lies in the ballistic and loading design. It is impossible to expect craftsmen to understand it. In the end, Cheng Jingwei and Luo Shixing spent a long time in the study to make a model.

The ballistic problem is solved. There is also a quiver under the hand crossbow, which can hold five arrows at the same time. After one arrow is shot automatically, the ballistic can be opened from the middle through a mechanism, and the arrow in the quiver can be pushed upwards. The trajectory closes as the arrow pushes in.

This is the loading method that Luo Shixing came up with after losing countless hairs.

Don't even think about automatic loading, he doesn't have that ability, at least not with the current level of technology.

After it was finished, Luo Shixing still had some regrets: "It took a long time to load the arrow, and the arrow box was a little short."

Cheng Jingwei quickly comforted him: "This is already very good. Even if we face the cavalry, the range of the hand crossbow is enough to have time to reload. After five rounds, we can directly disable the stormtroopers in front, not to mention that we don't have to face the cavalry now."

Luo Shixing thought so too, even the musket was time-consuming to load when it first came out, let alone the hand crossbow.

Moreover, the research and development of weapons actually requires a dedicated person. Luo Shixing only knows the direction of weapon evolution. He knows where the end point is, but the process is not so clear, or even if it is clear, if there is one thing that can't be done, he will be stuck. "Invention and creation" process.

Under such circumstances, Luo Shixing was looking forward to the graduation of the first batch of people who entered the school every day, but it was a pity that such things as teaching and educating people could not be rushed.

Fortunately, their weapons are already at the crushing level in Lingnan.

Li Youdao and others who saw the hand crossbow for the first time did not know the power of this thing.

Wang Antong knew it very well, so he brought those 500 people without mobilizing other troops at all.

Before he left, Cheng Jingwei had given him half of the Tiger Talisman. This half of the Tiger Talisman could mobilize less than [-] troops. If the surrounding garrison received an order, they needed to rush to help immediately.

In this way, Wang Antong took 500 people and spent two days to determine the location of the Baimu tribe's garrison, and arranged 300 people to help the Tuha tribe's garrison defend the city. Then he took 200 people to the opponent's garrison, and went directly to Tree fired a round of fire at the garrison.

Many Baimu soldiers were shot to death by random arrows in their sleep. The most terrifying thing was that even those who reacted in time, after running out to light the torches, they seemed to be guiding the direction of the dark hand.

For a moment, all the soldiers of the Baimu tribe felt insecure and panicked.