Chapter 941 Support Arrived
In order to speed up the march, Ye Ying and Mo Xin discussed and finally decided to let the craftsmen from the Han tribe follow the caravan on foot. Instead,
some of the old, weak, women and children in the Qiao family's migration team squeezed into the car.
There were four cars in the caravan, one of which was used to transport the sand table model of the imperial palace, the other two were used to carry people, and the last one was loaded with food, firewood and cooking utensils. But now, except for the car used to carry the model, the other cars were full of people, especially the last car used to carry food and cooking utensils. Although the food was not moved, the pots were taken down and a few pot-carriers were found to carry them with them to increase the space for pulling people.
The whole team reorganized and rested for a while. Basically, all the children who could not walk fast were put on the car, and some women with poor health were also put on the car. Most of the men, even their elders, followed on foot.
On the Han tribe side, the craftsmen also followed the car. Although they did not ride in the car now, they were also the focus of protection.
Of the twenty cavalrymen led by Ye Ying, except for one who went to report the news and ask for support, and one who contributed his warhorse to become an infantryman, the remaining eighteen people all moved forward at a distance. While protecting the team, they also had to expand the search range as much as possible, hoping to catch some prey to make up for the lack of food in a short period of time.
This hunting method is much more efficient than the Qiao hunting team using their two legs to measure the ground.
The elder also followed the car team, leaning on a cane with one hand and holding the wheel with the other, looking at the excited and screaming children sitting in the car, with a smile on his face.
If it weren't for these cars of the Han tribe, I'm afraid they would still be walking hard, right?
Looking at the wheels rolling around him and the two strong draft horses pulling the car in front, the elder pulled out his hand, asked Mo Xin beside him, and gestured to him.
"Master Mo, are you specialized in making this kind of vehicle in the Han Tribe? How many of these vehicles are there
in the Han Tribe, and how many horses are there?" After all, in the eyes of the elders, this kind of four-wheeled carriage is a magical tool. Such a vehicle can hold thirty or forty children. Such a terrifying transportation capacity, how can people not be surprised and envious? In his mind, this is probably the most powerful magical tool of the Han Tribe, right?
"We do have a lot of such vehicles in the Han Tribe, but I don't know the exact number, but there are at least tens of thousands of them. As for horses, there should be about 20,000 draft horses for pulling the carts, and there should be more horses for riding, maybe tens of thousands.
"Because the Han Tribe attaches great importance to the training of cavalry, there are no less than 10,000 warriors who ride horses like Ye Ying in the entire tribe, and the cavalry are also divided into levels. In the front-line combat troops, many cavalry are equipped with two or even three horses. Ye Ying and his team are on an escort mission, so each person only has one horse. "
After introducing the situation of the horses, Mo Xin then introduced the situation of his craftsmen.
"Most of the dozen of us are carpenters, there are also bricklayers, kiln workers, stonemasons, and even artisans who specialize in painting. If we want to make this kind of carriage, we can certainly try, but I have never made a carriage before. Most of us used to build ships."
The elders of the Qiao family and the people in Yan's hunting team were shocked to hear what Mo Xin said.
The Han tribe actually has tens of thousands of carriages like this, and there are about 20,000 horses for pulling the carriages. There are also tens of thousands of warriors like Ye Ying who ride horses. Such a tribe is too terrifying, and one warrior actually needs several horses? They obviously have only one butt, this, can they ride it?
The people in Yan's hunting team couldn't help but envy them. They also hope to be able to ride on horses to hunt prey like Ye Ying's warriors, and even have found an excuse to ask them for horses.
You only have one butt, why do you need so many horses? Can't you give me one?
Emmmm, it seems that there is nothing wrong with people who don't understand horses thinking this way.
In fact, Mo Xin underestimated them. If the Han tribe really has 10,000 four-wheeled carriages, then the draft horses pulling the carriages must be more than 20,000. This is just the right number, no more, no less.
Even the cavalry knew to ride on different horses. When one horse got tired, they would ride on another one. The carriages were more diligent in changing horses.
In fact, the Han tribe's carriages rarely had fixed horses. They were all used in rotation. A two-horse carriage would have at least three to four groups of horses for rotation at any time, which means six to eight horses.
After thinking for a long time, when the elder understood how many there were, he asked curiously.
"Master Mo, what are the boats you are talking about?"
"A boat, a boat is, um, a means of transportation similar to a carriage, but it runs in the water and cannot go ashore. It does not need horses to pull it, but relies on sails. As long as there is wind, the boat can always sail on the water.
"Sailboats come in different sizes. The small ones are equivalent to the carrying capacity of four or five carriages, while the large ones can carry thousands of people or even hundreds of horses at a time. They look like a city floating on the water." Mo Xin described the function, shape and size of the sailboat as much as possible, but he had neither the blueprints nor the models of the sailboat, so the people from the Qiao family still couldn't understand what a sailboat was.
However, they did understand a concept, that is, a ship can be made much larger than a carriage. After all, Mo Xin just said that a small ship is also the size of several carriages, and a large one is even larger, capable of carrying thousands of people and hundreds of horses. How big would this thing called a ship be? !
"When you get there, you should have a chance to see a sailboat. Our capital is also by the river, and the place where you come back to farm must also be settled by the river, so that it is easy to use the natural environment to transform the paddy fields. If there are sailboats coming to the capital to send people or things, you will see it." Mo Xin reminded them again.
Since the introduction is not clear, let them go and see it for themselves.
After waiting for a while, the elders of the Qiao family and Yan and his people digested the concept of the ship, and the elder asked Mo Xin again.
"Master Mo, the sailboat is so big and can accommodate so many people and horses. It should be the largest means of transportation in the Han tribe, right?" The elder has temporarily understood the definition of a means of transportation. Whether it is a carriage or a sailboat, as long as it can carry people and goods for travel, it is called a means of transportation in the Han tribe.
However, Mo Xin was not sure. Maybe they might have said before that, yes, the boat was indeed the most powerful means of transportation for the Han tribe, but they had just taken the train from Xingang County to the dock of Weishan County a few days ago.
He had seen with his own eyes how terrifying the train's carrying capacity was, and heard from the group of people who built trains in the tribe that this was only the most basic model of train. When the technology matures in the future, they can build a train twice as large as this one, with a carriage of 25 meters long, and a locomotive can hang at least 20 carriages.
This is so special, a carriage can catch up with a two-masted sailing ship, and a train is equivalent to a cruiser fleet on land. The carrying capacity is simply amazing. No wonder the leader was willing to consume so much steel and must make this thing.
And according to the shipbuilding history of their Han tribe, the small boat that the leader led people to build at the beginning was only eight meters long, and it didn't even have masts, sails, stern rudders, etc. It was a purely manual rowing boat. But look at it now? !
The 80-meter-long Fubo warship can carry a thousand people, and has 120 large-caliber cannons on both sides. There are countless two-masted and three-masted sailing ships. Now even the five-masted small flying fish is going to be mass-produced, and the large flying fish over 100 meters long has also begun to be designed and built.
According to this development trend, it is still unknown how shocking the railways and trains of the Han tribe will develop in the future.
After sighing for a long time, Mo Xin said to the elders of the Qiao family.
"At present, in terms of water transportation, sailing ships are indeed the most powerful means of transportation in the Han tribe, but in terms of land transportation, our Han tribe already has something that surpasses sailing ships. It is a train made of iron, as long as hundreds of carriages. They are connected in a string and then pulled by a burning stove. It can carry things that can only be transported by thousands of carriages at a time.
"However, there is only one such train in the entire tribe at present, but soon, I estimate that by this time next year at the latest, the capital will also use trains. "Mo Xin calculated in his mind while introducing.
It doesn't matter if there is no train, you can lay the railway first, but laying the railway requires rails. At present, the southern part of the Han tribe does not have the ability to produce rails, and can only be transported by water from the north. The Han tribe does not have a ship that can carry a hundred-meter-long rail, so we still have to wait for the big flying fish to be built. After the first ship of rails is delivered to the capital, we can officially start paving the railway.
At this rate, the big flying fish will be built in the summer of this year, and the rails will be transported and the railway will be laid in the second half of the year. The locomotive factory will build the locomotive in the first half of next year, and by next summer, we will definitely see the train in the capital.
The people of the Qiao family were shocked again after hearing Mo Xin's introduction.
My God, hundreds of carriages strung together?! How long is this carriage?
So many things are actually carried by a stove that burns fire? A child came to pull the cart. What kind of monster is this stove? Why does it have such magical power? !
However, Mo Xin also didn't have a model, not even a photo, so he couldn't explain what the railway and train looked like. Anyway, he just let them know that the thing called a train was the most used thing in the Han tribe's land transportation.
Everyone chatted while marching forward. When it was dark, Ye Ying and his friends didn't encounter any other prey. Maybe the wild animals smelled the scent of such a large group of people and scared them away? !
Fortunately, the nearly 30 sheep hunted in the morning have not been eaten yet. After processing the internal organs and offal, they can have two more meals.
In order to save food as much as possible, they didn't eat rice at night. They took all the rice and boiled it into meat porridge with mutton, which was enough for one night.
But this can't last forever. In order to catch prey, Ye Ying left eight cavalrymen to protect the convoy, and the other ten cavalrymen were all dispersed to see if they could catch some animals drinking water by the river at night.
Especially in summer, many wild animals will not come out to move around during the day. They are all looking for places to escape the heat and only come out to find food and drink water at night.
Ye Ying's decision was right. In the middle of the night, the sound of horse hooves woke up some people in the camp. It turned out that the small flag that was sent out to hunt in the evening came back. Everyone had a good harvest. Not only did they shoot seven or eight wild geese, but they also got thirteen red deer. Four of them were dead, shot through the chest by an arrow, and died of bleeding and suffocation. The remaining nine were still alive and were tied up with ropes by several soldiers who were good at riding.
This result was a happy ending for everyone, because if they were all dead, they would not be able to eat them all. If they were not, the meat would not only be difficult to preserve, but even if they were brought along, it would consume a lot of space in the vehicle, or they
would have to be carried by people. However, it would be good if there were still a few alive. They could follow the team and be killed when there was no food. The prey obtained in time solved their food shortage problem to a certain extent. The people saved food while marching forward quickly. Finally, one afternoon two days later, a cavalry team of thirty people came from the west, as well as six carriages carrying food and ten empty carriages, all of which were used to transport people.
The leading cavalrymen held high the large Chinese flag and the military flag with the words "Jinwuwei", which made Ye Ying recognize the other party's identity at a glance.
The two sides met smoothly, and the little soldier who went to deliver the letter also returned safely, and excitedly told Ye Ying and Mo Xin and others.
"Commander You already knows what happened. He said that he would give each of us a great credit. Now we just need to get the people there safely as soon as possible. Commander You also said that we must protect the safety of Master Mo and the others, as well as the safety of the sand table model. If anything goes wrong, we will be subject to military law. "
Okay, let's just do it. Ye Ying didn't care at all. They originally had 20 cavalrymen, and now the cavalry team has increased to 50. With these 50 elite cavalrymen, even if they encounter a small nomadic tribe, they dare to take the initiative to fight the other side. If they are only used to protect people, then there is no need to worry.
Moreover, they are not far away from the capital construction site now. It is expected that they will reach the destination in another three to five days.
Because of the new carriage, the people of the Qiao family also let more people sit in the carriage, even Mo Xin and the other craftsmen and the elders of the Qiao family are no exception. They all sit in the carriage.
In this way, the team's forward speed is accelerated again. In addition, there are 50 cavalrymen accompanying and escorting. It is estimated that it will reach the destination in two or three days.
(End of this chapter)
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