Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

Soon, when the 5000 people gathered together, these people looked at His Highness standing there, and they all dismounted on their own initiative, and none of them sat on the horse.

"Change clothes." Li Ke pointed to the boxes piled up in front of him and said, following Li Ke's order, the cavalry behind him rushed out hundreds of people and quickly opened the wooden boxes in front of them one by one.

And Murong Shun also started to greet these Tuyuhun soldiers to line up in a random line to start receiving weapons here.

Inside the box was a machete with an extremely curved handle. Murong Shun had already checked it, and it turned out that they were all high-quality steel knives!

Every soldier walked over and received a steel knife, and then the armor. When he saw those armors, Murong Shun's expression was somewhat strange. This armor...isn't this the Mingguang Armor?Oh, it seems that there are no sleeves. This is the Mingguang armor without the sleeves, but judging from the degree of wear and tear of these armors, it should have been worn by the Datang army before.

But even if it was worn by the Tang army, it was also a bright light armor, which people like them had no chance to wear!Now everyone has a set!

Sure enough, when these armors were exposed, all the soldiers were overjoyed. Although they didn't mind fighting for His Highness, they thought they were just wearing their own cowhide armors as before, but now they have iron armors!They have fought against the Tang army, this kind of armor...they often have no effect at all.

After everyone put on their armor, Li Ke asked them to lead arrows again.

"Each person has sixty arrows. You can use them as you see fit. After the battle, you can recycle them as much as possible. When the number is about the same, I will replenish them for you when you come back!" Li Ke said with a big wave of his hand. They are all iron arrowheads, which is actually a luxury for these Tuyuhun people, because many of the arrowheads they used before were a mixture of wooden arrowheads and iron arrowheads.

Tuyuhun doesn't have that much iron.

But now Li Ke is using triangular iron arrowheads for them. Judging from the shape of these arrowheads, the quality is very good.

Li Ke has no shortage of pig iron now. The first blast furnace has begun to smelt pig iron, and the second blast furnace will be built soon. The mold made of cast iron modules allows the production of arrowheads faster than the traditional way of making, and has already Although the ceramic grinding wheel mastered by the craftsman is incomparable with the later generations, it has also been improved into a manual grinding wheel with belt drive and human pedaling.

This polishing speed is more than a little bit higher than Datang's traditional polishing progress.

To be honest, Li Ke really didn't participate in this new type of grinding wheel. He just provided the method of making a rough grinding wheel. He was the one who came up with the initial hand-operated grinding wheel.

But I didn't expect the craftsman under his name to quickly pass this thing through the large and small gear ratios, and then drive the belt, turning it into a human-powered grinding wheel for human pedaling.

The appearance of this thing is a bit like a bicycle. It can only be said that as long as they are given sufficient power and funds, these craftsmen will really have a lot of whimsical ideas for improvement.

"Yes!"

"You and the thousand cavalry around you have already mastered these scimitar-dragging tactics. You can teach the rest of them. Then, I have found some targets for you. You can attack these people first. "Li Ke said with a calm expression, and while speaking, he asked someone to bring over two maps.

These maps are redrawn versions, and the fineness of the terrain has not been weakened much, but the place names on them are marked according to the traditional way of calling Tuyuhun.

"The thirteen points marked on it are your next goal." Li Ke pointed to the thirteen points marked on the map.

"Your Highness, what are these?" Murong Shun asked curiously looking at these points.

"Horse thief." Two words came out of Li Ke's mouth.

Horse thieves or robbers are not uncommon in this Western Region. To be precise, these horse thieves and robbers are the most numerous in the entire Western Region, and they are also the biggest threat to various caravans on the Silk Road.

From the Tang Dynasty to Persia, there are almost all of them. For example, there are actually quite a few in the territory of Tuyuhun, and Murong Fuyun didn't solve many of them before.

It's because they don't know the lairs of many horse thieves. These horse thieves not only rob caravans, but also often rob various small tribes and so on. However, there is one business house they never dare to move, and that is Yuelai Trading Company.

Without him, there are enough guards, and the point is...the guards are not afraid of death.

The guards of other commercial firms threatened and killed one or two people, and the rest might just run away. These horse thieves are always out for money, because they will die if they fight with others.

No horse thief is willing to risk his life.

But Yuelai Trading Company's is different, so he really dared to risk his life.

That's all for the caravan's guards, and even some of the guys in the caravan, the shopkeepers, none of them flinched, and none of them were afraid of death.

Later, the reputation of Yuelai Trading Company gradually spread among the horse thieves, and the caravans who encountered Yuelai Trading Company hid far away. This trading company is rich in thieves, and the armor worn by each of them is worse than theirs. Not to mention, the weapons are also made of high-quality fine steel, and there are various protective measures to protect long-range bows and arrows. The key point is that they are not afraid of death.

Really fighting with you, many people can suddenly fight back after being hacked a few times, this kind of people...horse thieves are also really afraid!Desperadoes do not mean that they are not afraid of death. Desperadoes are because they have become horse thieves, so they have no choice, but fools know which one is easy to grab, hard stubble or soft ideas.

With so many businesses, why can't you get along with me?

Later, when the horse thieves saw Yuelai Trading Company showing its flag, they stopped robbing it. Many horse thieves even did business with Yuelai Trading Company, because they also wanted to eat, and they needed to buy food and things for the property they robbed.

So gradually, these horse thieves did not dare to say that all the old nest Yuelai Trading Company knew about it, but they definitely knew the approximate scope of their old nest.

What?You say credibility?Are you kidding, when did my Yuelai Trading Company do business with horse thieves, we just passed by this place, someone came over to exchange things with us, so we just exchanged, as for their identities, who knows.

This is a tacit understanding.

Looking at the horse thieves' dens on the map, Murong Shun felt chills in his heart. These horse thieves, who are mainly nomads like Tuyuhun, have no good way. How could His Highness get all their dens?

Li Ke gave him all the dens of horse thieves in Tuyuhun, a total of twelve.

"Remember, these horse thieves, I want none of them to stay. By the way, I will train you. Their scale is not large. The approximate number of people is marked on it. Your [-] cavalry is enough. During the battle , try out the knife-dragging method, and then improve it yourself." Li Ke urged.

"Yes!" Murong Shun looked serious, and then bowed to Li Ke.