The soldiers of the Hexi Jiedushi ate and continued to build the stronghold. There was still some time before the sky turned dark.
They took the opportunity to build another line of defense to provide support for the following troops.
The Winged Knights raised the hot air balloon and looked around to see when Qin Li's team would return.
They were not worried. Qin Li was calm. He would rather not have any military achievements than take risks.
Qin Li led the team to rush back. They had traveled too far. They were in a hurry and had to take care of the horses on the way back.
They ate some food on the horses. When the horses were resting and eating grass, they picked up mushrooms, wild vegetables, and medicinal herbs.
One of them carried a thin booklet with him. There were pictures printed on it, introducing mushrooms and medicinal herbs.
They were not allowed to touch the things that were not on the picture.
Before they left, the Li Family Zhuangzi gave them the booklet. Li Yi picked the common local things, which could be eaten and which could only be eaten when cooked.
"I found a clump of roseroot. Dig it out and bring it back. Li Dongzhu knows how to use it."
"I saw fritillary. Dig it out. It's the right month now."
"The Tubo people don't know how to live. There are so many good medicinal herbs, but they don't pick them."
"If Dongzhu didn't give us the booklet, we wouldn't know that there are treasures everywhere."
"In the future, as long as the locals dig, their lives will be better."
"If they want to plant it, they will dig it out. Plant it yourself."
"This is caterpillar fungus. Li Dongzhu said that it can be used to stew it. He doesn't know if it's good for treatment."
"The Li Family Zhuangzi's skincare products are suitable for local use. When the wind blows on the face, it's all dry. It hurts to talk."
"The leaves like celery and coriander are Chuanxiong. We have to dig them out. Li Dongzhu is too good. He is in Chang 'an. He knows what is here."
Qin Li brought people to look for things when the horses were resting. They picked the mushrooms that were introduced in the pictures.
When they were harvesting, they were not so tired. They recovered from the tense state of fighting.
The sentries on the mountain looked around with binoculars. They also wanted to dig.
Some of the horses were eating when they realized that their masters were squatting on the mountain doing something. They trotted over and tilted their heads to look.
"Medicinal herbs. Li Dongzhu named the medicinal herbs. Take them back. If Li Dongzhu is happy, he might give you a few more pieces of candy to eat. Go and eat grass."
The soldier who was digging explained the situation to the horse and continued digging.
When the horse saw its master digging, it used its hooves to dig at the side. When it dug out something, it put its mouth on it, sniffed it with its nose, and smacked it on its nose.
"Ah! You dug up Codonopsis pilosula. It should be from autumn. Not bad. Okay, go back and tell Li Dongzhu that it was you who dug it up. He will reward you with candy. "
Just as the soldier was about to say that it wasn't time yet, he realized that it was really thick.
Those that had been wild for many years were still better than those that were planted, even if the season was not right.
The horse looked at it again and felt bored. It turned around and continued to look for grass to eat.
When the horses were almost fully recovered, Qin Li and his men hurried back.
Zasykuzé's condition had improved a little, but his fever had not completely subsided. His cough was not that bad.
The Qianhu killed a yak and roasted it for him. Guan Lin's family was given a leg of the yak.
The family was very happy. After the last tunnel was dug, they only needed to wait for the soldiers of the Tang dynasty to come and then they would immediately go in.
Now, they stored food and water. The food was fried and smoked and sent in first.
Some herbs with a strong smell were also placed in the tunnel. They were worried that the Tubo people would find them by following the smell of the herbs.
Now, the tunnel was full of the smell of herbs. The Tubo people would not be able to distinguish them.
As for the water, it was boiled and poured into the water bags. Some of it was sent over. If no one came in two days, a new batch of water bags would be sent over.
"Commander, we have chased them for hundreds of miles. We only saw traces, but we did not find the Winged Knights." The Qianhu reported while Zasykuzé was eating roasted meat.
Zasykuzé stopped, looked at him, and shook his head slightly. "No need to search anymore. Contact other places and prepare for battle."
He could see that the other side did not want to use the Qianhu people to hunt down the Winged Knights. It was his people's fault for talking too fast and making the Winged Knights sound so scary.
Besides, even if they found them, it would be useless. There were nearly 3,000 Winged Knights. The horses should have recovered by now.
It was impossible for a Qianhu to mobilize more than 5,000 people to kill 3,000 Winged Knights.
Even if they all rushed up, it was not certain who would kill who.
Previously, the Winged Knights' horses were tired. Once the horses were no longer a problem, how could the Winged Knights hunt them down? At that time, he had a lot of people.
"We have sent people. They should be migrating and joining us. We are not afraid of the Tang dynasty."
The Qianhu's words were obviously not confident.
The Tang dynasty had hot air balloons, explosives, and sky-scraping monkeys. The commander's personal guards said that the hot air balloons flew in the sky and could not be hit.
When the explosives were detonated, the horses would be frightened. When the sky-scraping monkeys fell to the ground, a large number of people would die.
In the face of weapons that they had never seen before, how could they fight a war?
The enemy was floating in the sky and using telescopes that could see very far. The scouts were under the enemy's eyes.
The Qianhu thought, stood up and went outside. He looked at the clouds in the sky and was worried.
"Fu Qian, look at the arrows of the Winged Knights." A person from his tribe brought two arrows over.
The arrows that were inserted in the bodies of people were now removed.
Fu Qian was the name of the Qianhu's officer. Fu was the Fu of the Governor. Qian was the Qian of the Qianhu.
The local was actually called "Dongben", and the commander's transliteration was "Maben".
The Qianhu took the arrows and observed the arrowheads. The arrowheads were made of good iron. There was no curve in the shaft and the feathers were neat.
His first thought was that they were rich. The Tang dynasty was really rich.
His tribe did not have such a good shaft and tail feathers, not to mention the arrowheads.
There must be a lot of inferior products to make this kind of arrow shaft. The feathers, how many birds did they have to choose from?
No, the Tang dynasty could raise geese. This was goose feathers.
He did not know that the arrows made by the Li Family Zhuangzi were made with new technology.
Of course, the wood was good wood, hardwood.
Then there was the lathe, and the poles came out of the lathe.
The poles were easy to deform, unless they were dried.
At this time, there was a mold, an iron mold. The arrow shaft was soaked in tung oil. It was heated in the mold and then cooled down. This was the shape.
It was not shaved bit by bit with a knife and then discarded when it was found to be deformed. Or it was soaked in water and then pressed.
The lathe was first split into wooden strips, and the wooden strips were inserted into the place where the rotary knife was.
The Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Military Weapons, and the Ministry of Works all had second generation individual lathes made by the mother lathe.
They made more useful weapons for the Tang dynasty soldiers. They did not use bamboo arrows anymore. They all used wood. There was a way to solve the problem of tension and deformation.
The Li Family Zhuangzi's lathe was moving toward higher precision. As long as there was a mother lathe, the rest would be easy.
This was the advantage of technology and industrialization. As long as the Tang dynasty had enough arrows, they could kill the enemy with arrows.
The only thing the enemy could do was to pick up the Tang dynasty's arrows. It was very pitiful.
"Fuqian, there is no rust on the arrowheads. They are easy to cure. The soldiers said that the Military forces of the Tang dynasty used wooden feathers. The arrowheads are rusty."
The Qianhu's subordinates sighed when they said this. Sometimes, they would also think of ways to fix the arrows.
But the enemy had alcohol and knew how to suture. They dug out the arrows and washed the wounds. They were not afraid of rotting.
They did not have alcohol. It was said that Zhanpu had alcohol, but it was burned later.
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