In the following period, Li Laoer led his veterans and recruits to wipe out seven large and small horse thieves in the surrounding mountains, attacked and wiped out more than 600 horse thieves, seized more than 4,000 taels of silver, more than 500 taels of gold, more than 1,500 stones, more than 1,000 cattle, more than 500 sheep, more than 500 war horses, more than 600 weapons, more than 200 sets of armor, and more than 200 prisoners were willing to join Li Laoer's team.

Li Laoer still accepted these surrendered horse thieves. After all, they were short of staff at present and had seized a batch of food, which was enough to support them.

After seizing these horse equipment, Li Laoer could already form a cavalry of 700 people. He had a thousand herd slaves under him, and there were already 700 war horses available, leaving only 300 people still infantry, and the rest had been incorporated into cavalry.

"Equipment depends entirely on fighting, and becoming a weapon and equipment depends entirely on the captured beggar army." Li Laoer said to himself. A beggar army that depends entirely on the captured beggar army will also be greatly limited in the future development speed and scale, so in the end, you still have to build your own weapons.

First of all, we must consider the issue of Da'ankou. Li Laoer decided to take a knife behind Huang Taiji and guard his own village. More than 200 surrendered horse thieves were incorporated into auxiliary soldiers by him. Under the supervision of 300 infantrymen, they went to the mountains to cut wood and prepare to build a batch of catapults.

Li Laoer planned to build a cavalry of a thousand horse lances, because the cavalry is the king of weapons, the cavalry can directly impact the formation of heavy-armed spearmen. With the cavalry that is longer than the spearmen in his hand, he can lift the spearmen before the war horses hit the spears. Moreover, the cavalry of heavy-armed cavalry is also the nemesis of various cavalry. The cavalry is not like the cavalry spears used by the cavalry. The cavalry is a disposable weapon and thrown away after using it. The length is not long enough to fight against the spearmen. However, the cavalry not only has a length greater than the spears of infantry, but can also be used repeatedly.

The important raw material for making horse lances is mulberry wood, which is the wood for making bows and arrows. It grows in large quantities in the north. Li Laoer asked someone to look for the tulle tree and cut down wood that was enough to make three thousand horse lances and go back to the village to make horse lances. And so much wood, in fact, can only make more than one thousand horse lances, because the yield rate of making horse lances is only 40%.

It would take three years to make a horse lance. Li Laoer decided to adopt the batch manufacturing method, and three thousand horse lances started construction at the same time. In that way, he would get one thousand horse lances in three years.

As for the armor, although the iron-inserted cotton armor seized from the Jurchens is a kind of armor with good protection, the weight of the iron-inserted cotton armor will greatly increase the burden on the war horses. Therefore, Li Laoer planned to make a batch of rattan armor by himself.

The vine required for the vine armor is a special vine in Guizhou. This vine is produced in Waizhai Village, Guizhou. It takes two years to complete a set of vine armor. First, cut the green vine to weave the vine armor and then soak it in tung oil. The purpose of soaking in tung oil is to make the vine armor more tough. After soaking for two days and two nights, take out the vine armor and dry it. It will take at least two months to dry it, and then soak it in pomelo oil. This will be repeated 5 times before a set of vine armor is considered to be completed. Such vine armor is invulnerable to the sword.

However, because the vine armor is soaked in tung oil, it is very afraid of fire.

Li Laoer has a way to improve the vine armor: when the tung oil is not dry, cover the semi-dry vine armor with yin soil, and then dry after it penetrates into the gap, so you will not be afraid of fire.

To buy pickle armor, Li Laoer could not enter the pass and go to Guizhou, so this matter was naturally left to Wang Quan, who opened a store in the west entrance.

It will take at least three years to build a cavalry with a vine armored horse and a lance.

Before leaving the west entrance and going to Guizhou to do business, Wang Quan had already obtained the specific time for the eight Shanxi merchants to go to the west entrance. He immediately reported this important information to Li Laoer.

Although the Tumote tribe was also an ally of the Ming Dynasty, the famous Sanniangzi, was a member of the Tumote tribe. In the early years of Wanli, with the efforts of the Sanniangzi, the Tumote tribe made good friends with the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Wanli named Alatan Khan the King of Shunyi and Sanniangzi as Mrs. Zhongshun. The current Tumote tribe is still a nominal ally of the Ming Dynasty, but it has begun to turn to the Later Jin Dynasty and is preparing to stab Lin Danhan in the back.

We must oppose everything that the enemy supports, and we must support everything that the enemy opposes. Li Laoer is to remember what a great man said.

Since Huang Taiji planned to win over Tumote's troops and had sent Yuetuo to Guihua City, Yuetuo brought a lot of gold and silver, intending to buy food, iron, cotton and other important materials from Shanxi merchants to give to Tumote people, then Li Laoer would destroy Huang Taiji's plan.

Therefore, after Li Laoer obtained the information, he immediately rushed to the Chahar tribe and told Lin Danhan about this important information.

"Huang Taiji is really generous. He pays money to help Tumotes buy goods from Shanxi merchants! Didn't he want to use Tumotes to stab Ben Khan in the back? Hahaha! Ben Khan not only wants Huang Taiji to waste all the money, but also wants Huang Taiji's money to be used for me!" Lin Danhan laughed at the specific time when Shanxi merchants left the west entrance.

"Da Khan, the grass people are not enough food here. Can the grass people also participate in this operation? I just want to get some food from the Shanxi merchants? After the matter is completed, the hairs people will take away 90% of the food, and the grass people will only have 10%." Li Laoer tentatively made a request to Lin Danhan.

Although Li Laoer seized more than 1,500 stone grains to eliminate the horse thieves during this period, the amount of those grains for his more than 1,000 people was only half a year. Li Laoer calculated that it would take at least three years to wait until he had the opportunity to accept the Ming Dynasty and join the Ming Dynasty. This little grain would definitely not be enough to last until then.

Lin Danhan agreed to Li Laoer's request: "Yes! The information was provided to Ben Khan. Ben Khan is very generous to his friends. Please let your people come too! Let's do it together!"

On September 27, the second year of Chongzhen, Li Laoer brought his seven hundred cavalry and followed Lin Danhan's 10,000 Mongolian cavalry to the grassland outside the west entrance to wait.

I don’t know what purpose Lin Danhan also brought Wu Keshan, who was captured some time ago.

When it was almost noon, Lin Danhan finally saw black crowds and animals appearing on the grassland in the southeast, slowly moving towards his ambush.

"Here!" Lin Danhan couldn't help but be excited. He pulled out his scimitar and pointed in the direction of the Shanxi merchant caravan: "The sons, there is the caravan of the Jurchen allies in front of him. They want to traffic in the Tumotes, with the purpose of stabbing us in the back! The sons, follow Ben Khan! Kill them all, steal their food, and make Huang Taiji's food ours!"

"Kill!" Ten thousand Mongolian cavalrymen rode their horses and rushed towards the Shanxi merchant caravan.

"Kill all these Southern barbarians and Jurchen barbarians!" Tashhai shouted and rushed to the first one.

Ten thousand horses were galloping, and more than 40,000 horse hooves stepped on the grassland, making a thunderous roar. From the perspective of the Shanxi merchant guards, I saw the overwhelming Mongolian cavalry rushing towards me. Looking around, there was a large area of ​​blackness, connecting the sky and the earth, and I could not see at first sight.
Chapter completed!