In the river bank valleys of Baima Mountain, Baima River and Baima Bridge, a half-person-high mirror stands in the tent of the Central Military Camp.

A man stood opposite the mirror. He had a strong beard. His beard was connected to his half-inch short hair on his head, called the "Beiyangtou" in the north of the Ming Dynasty. The small pieces of skin on both sides of the raised cheekbones were slightly lighter in color. It was the scar left by burning through the sea of ​​fire with iron armor.

His head was as thick as his neck, and he was wearing an unbuttoned white single dress. His upper body muscles made his bulging chest almost level with the fat-covered general's belly.

The long-term stone locks make his shoulders very wide, and his chest muscles are a little smaller than those of the lats dorsi.

Through the oblique mirror, Shao Tingda clearly understood for the first time why his tailored single pants always fell down.

He patted his bulging belly, which was the source of the general's power. He stared at himself in the mirror and said to Fu Ge'er standing beside him: "This mirror is good, how did you do it?"

"The latest Venice process, made of mercury and glass, is expensive."

Fu Geer expects to see praise and excitement on Shao Tingda's face. The Europa nobles will be very excited when they receive such a mirror. For example, Herrera, who got this mirror half a month ago, but Shao Tingda seems to have no reaction.

The burly Ming Dynasty general just nodded slightly and raised his hand and shouted: "Sick, please come to find the woman who is repairing clothes in the White Horse Department. I have to make two straps on my pants that look like a lace-up strap!"

Although he was silent on his face, he remembered Mercury in his heart.

Mirrors in Europe are clearer. Since ancient times, a large number of bronze mirrors have begun to become popular in the Han Dynasty. The manufacturing process used by people is to attach Xuan tin to the bronze mirror to polish and smooth it to reflect people. There is some difference between this, so what they are missing is the glass that Chen Mu longsome to miss.

Shao Tingda believed that with their expedition, all the civilized things in the world would be owned by the Ming Dynasty and would develop them more maturely.

Just like Europeans developed muskets into bird guns.

Sighing his lips, Shao Tingda tied the buttons of his shirt, put on his personal soldiers' robe, armor skirt, arms tied, and chest plaques on his body layer by layer. While piercing the armor, he said to his subordinates: "Have all the troops finished taking a shower?"

"There is another hundred families to wash away in the afternoon. General Black's cavalry scouts were already in defense at the official road thirty miles away, so there would be no trouble."

The iron arm on the left arm was worn, Shao Tingda raised his hand and scratched his scalp, complaining: "I have been stationed here for seven days, why is the Spaniards not moving at all?"

The personal soldier hugged his helmet and wiped it carefully. He smiled and said, "Maybe he was afraid of being beaten. One of the three legions of the gangs was destroyed by us. I don't know what we are, so it's normal not to dare to come."

It’s not just the Spanish who dare not come!

Shao Tingda sighed silently in his heart... He didn't dare to go either!

In the battle of Baima River, the Ming army had contact with the Turen tribe headed by the Northern White Horse Division. Some of the Western Army's armor confiscated on the battlefield were provided to the White Horse Division, and the Ming generals conducted a short-term training on the tribe warriors who used these armor among them.

In return, the White Horse Division, as the agent of the Ming army, solicited some food from the northern tribes, and sent some women from the tribe who could sew clothes outside the camp to help sew the damaged military uniforms of the flag army.

But more troops gathered by the white horses have returned to their respective tribes, leaving only 600 people, and the Ming army was trained to fight with bird guns, crossbows and spears.

It's funny to say that what Ming Jun taught the Indians was the Spanish phalanx in their eyes.

Ming Jun himself doesn’t know how to do it, so he even teaches others!

In addition to the 600 new vassal army, there were also the Armansa headquarters and the surrendered 600 people, but there were all infantry, cavalry and artillery, but there were very few cavalry and artillery.

However, Shao Tingda did not believe that the 1,200 troops added to the military force could offset the three hundred flag troops that had lost their combat effectiveness.

What's more, their rockets were almost empty in the Battle of White Horse, and there were not many grenades left, and their lack of supplies made them rely less and less.

He does not have the ability to attack Mexico City, but he can fight a few more games in the field.

Moreover, the local natives did not seem to have any overall view. Baima thought it was Baima's territory. If the Ming army, as a friend, was attacked here, their army would join the battlefield, but if they left the Baima River Basin, it would be the Spanish and the Spanish themselves.

This kind of thought is difficult for Shao Tingda to understand, but there is no way to change it for the time being.

In a short period of time, the White Horse Valley was the home court of the Ming army. If Bernard took the initiative to attack, the Ming army would have the greatest advantage.

"Brother Fu'er, when will the iron arrow I want be delivered?"

Brother Fu stood aside and watched Shao Tingda put on his armor and was a little idle. Suddenly, he heard Shao Tingda ask for a question and thought for a while: "It should be here this afternoon. My people went to Tasco to ask for arrows. There are many good smelting plants there, and it will be transported back quickly."

Shao Tingda sold a batch of Western Army armor damaged in the battle to Fu Ge'er, asking him to get eight thousand iron arrows to arm the four hundred archers of the White Horse Division.

In addition to asking Fu Ge'er to buy it, there are also crossbow clusters harvested from the baggage, as well as military craftsmen who opened kilns and melted iron and made arrows during the seven days.

This comes from Chen Shigong's suggestion. In addition to taking his assistant to practice the anatomical records in ancient books, he also conducted the wound inspection of the dead bodies of both sides. In a few days, he recorded the causes of deaths of more than 2,000 corpses and submitted a very complete report to Shao Tingda.

The causes of our own casualties were in line with expectations, mainly due to war horse collisions, long swords and spears and other cold weapons. Few died from firearms.

The Western Army had few muskets and fired at a long distance. If the cavalry had not attacked the gun-fired flag army, they could have defeated them with one-third of their troops until they fled.

Thirty percent of the Western Army died from small wounds caused by bird guns, rockets, palm thunder and other firearms, mainly bird guns, which is much smaller than the rookie imagined.

His subordinates nearly 900 bird gunners fired 13,000 strange lead balls during the battle. As a result, they removed the rockets and thunder in their palms, and injured 1,400 enemy troops.

The other 40% are the results of cold weapons such as spears, sabers, iron melons, and guns. A large part of them are the results of chasing and killing the defeated soldiers, and a further 10% are the results of drowning in the White Horse River and trampling on each other.

The last one is the most magical one. It was shot to death by bows and arrows, and it was a stone and bone-made arrow, from the Indians.

Chen Shigong said that these wounds appear in the neck, face, underarms and other places where armor cannot be protected, which means that a considerable number of local people have very accurate archers. After they have iron arrows, they will become very capable assistants.

For this reason, Shao Tingda also found a cedar bow for the indigenous people from the victory. It was not long and the bow strength was not too large, but it was numerous, so almost each of them had a bow.

Shao Tingda is now eager to contact Chen Mu and ask Chen Mu to say to the fleet returning to the Ming Dynasty at the end of this year that the Beiyang Military Palace can start to collect the bow and further replace the bow and arrow with bird guns. The extra slight bow can be obtained here for the use of the Asian vassal army of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Fu Ge'er's people did not come back with iron arrows. The Spanish mixed-race man who was riding a horse stumbled into the camp and said a lot to Fu Ge'er.

Shao Tingda only understood one sentence.

"Silver City was occupied by the chaos!"

He grinded his jaw with a thick beard, his copper bell eyes were filled with the exploration of science, his eyebrows were raised high and low, and he asked with an unstoppable smile in his tone, "Hey, hey, Yincheng?"
Chapter completed!