My thoughts flashed by. The three major cities were still too far away from me. I'd better talk about it before my eyes.

Since they had just identified six bandits who pushed stones down the mountain, they were now more scared than others, because they also saw that the attacking soldiers were smashed to death.

"Kill the three of us bandits, and no one of them will be left."

I glanced at them and gave the order lightly.

"Ah... Give me your life!"

"don't want!"

Before they could shout a few words, they were cut off their heads by a group of vicious three**s. The remaining twelve people were terrified, fearing that the next one would be their turn.

The bandits don’t want to run, but there are more than a hundred soldiers holding swords and guns around them. Where can they run?

Fortunately, I didn't kill them either, but just ordered: "You go and carry valuable things, throw away all other garbage for me, and follow us!"

A group of bandits looked at each other and thought to themselves that this is the case, and they were spared so simply?

However, it was only after two quarters of an hour that the bandits on the road sighed and realized that it was not that simple.

Except for a bandit who was carrying a car with three dead soldiers, the rest were tied up. Although they were convenient for their hands and feet, they were strung together and had no weapons in their hands. The fierce army had horses and could not escape, so they could only carry their belongings on their shoulders and carry their backs and follow the team with difficulty.

I was walking in front of me and I was in a good mood. Two soldiers died in the first formation. Although they were from the former "Zengmao Army", they faced less than twenty bandits, and they still sounded the alarm for me.

The battles on the flat ground and on the hills are indeed a little different. When facing a fortress with danger, the large number of people is not the main factor, but the tactics are more important.

If there are twenty more bandits and their preparations are more abundant, we will suffer more than two casualties today, at least a dozen.

Speaking of which, the bandits are so lucky. They don’t even have a silver verdict here. Who would have thought that a large number of troops would have nothing to do when they are full and they are here to fight such a hamlet without any money?

It is precisely because the bandits are too poor that they are too lazy to even defend, otherwise we would not be so relaxed.

I also understood this point. After summarizing the experience and lessons, my face regained a smile, turned over and shouted in front and behind the team.

"The first battle was good! Everyone keep working hard. If our results are better than the other four squadrons, I will treat you tonight, and each of them will carry ten kilograms of rice home, and give you another ten kilograms of bamboo shoots!"

Everyone was happy when they heard this. Ten kilograms of rice and ten kilograms of bamboo shoots were already a great reward. If it weren’t for war, only a dozen people would receive such rewards every day because of their hard work. It seems that it would be better to fight!

With rich material encouragement, everyone's morale immediately rose and continued to head towards the second bandit den.

...

At the end of the day, until we set up camp at night, our results were fruitful.

From the beginning of the formation, we broke five parishes and captured a total of 130 livestock. There were very few things seized. But the key is that these 130 people are all young and strong, all of whom are between twenty or thirty years old, and their bandit spirit is not very strong. If you train for a few months, you will definitely become a regular three-* soldier.

We actually suffered a lot of losses. A total of fifteen people were killed in battle, and the remaining half were injured. Even myself, my shoulders were hit by gravel, and they were still wrapped in thick gauze.

In fact, the losses were not large when fighting the first four copycats. Because we had experience, neither of them lost a single person. However, the last copycat had more than fifty people. Not to mention the rugged mountain road, there were also one large and small stone crushers.

We were exhausted and were immediately attacked by gravel rain. Several of us were unlucky and died directly. If I hadn't pulled Tucker and Zhang Zhuoqiang threw down all Dayou, they would have been killed on the spot.

When we were attacking the mountain village, we also encountered fierce resistance. It was up to Li Xiya and Uemorino to remove heavy armor from the horse, and with a few dead soldiers in armor, they broke through the wooden gate and fought a bloody way. We couldn't even enter the gate, let alone killing the enemy.

The final result was that we died and injured twenty-five people, of which ten were killed on the spot, captured twenty-three enemies, and the rest were killed to resist desperately.

Looking at the rebellious eyes of the remaining bandits, I was furious and had no intention of leaving a living. With a wave of my hand, a group of three ** immediately rushed forward and beheaded them all, hanging their bodies on the wall of the village. The prisoners were so scared that they were trembling.

Seeing that many of us were injured, I did not let them go overnight, but decided to camp and rest next to a hill on the way back.

In order to save manpower, I also used the trick I had used before, released twenty more honest prisoners, gave them wooden sticks, and let them guard the dozen prisoners who were tied together. If there were any escapes, then kill them one escaped. If there was no escape, reward one tuna meat pie tomorrow morning.

Before this, I didn't give the prisoners anything to eat, and it was a good way to consume their physical strength and prevent the prisoners from escaping.

When the tent was tied up, several fires had already been set up there, wild vegetables, fish and meat porridge were cooked, and cold tuna meat patties were roasted. As for salted sea urchins and octopus, they would be taken out of the bag and eaten, and all of them were swallowed in one breath.

If war is really hard, if there is no special logistics support, can you imagine a group of bitter soldiers wearing armor, holding swords and guns, carrying bows and arrows, carrying dry food, dragging tents, and hiking dozens of miles to fight?

Come on!

If this is the case, if the enemy doesn't see him, he will be exhausted.

So this time, most of our fifty horses are responsible for transporting equipment.

Although some of the abilities are useless, fortunately, the journey this time is not long and the burden is not heavy, so the horse is not very tired. Moreover, before the camp was established, a special soldier took them to the side, took them out the prepared wheat bran, fed them, and then took them to the small pond to drink water.

Raising horses is really not a job that poor people can do.

At first, I thought that Liuyin Harbor and Zengmao Harbor had too little vision, and they only had 178 horses in total, which made us unable to develop the legendary invincible cavalry.

Now I know how much energy and money it takes to raise a horse.

If you raise cattle and donkeys, because you don’t do much work, you just need to feed them grass and wheat straw, and at most you can mix a little wheat bran.

However, for war horses, because they often run dozens of miles and consume too much, in addition to grass and wheat straw, at least half of them are wheat bran. If they consume too much combat, they must also eat soybeans and noodles. They need to add some rapeseed oil or honey from time to time. If there are vegetables, eating some vegetables in three to five days is also a good measure to keep the war horses strong...

Well, I admit that horses are more expensive than people, and they are really too expensive.

But the horse has a lot of appetite. It doesn’t matter if you eat ten kilograms a day on weekdays. If you get to the battlefield, you have to prepare five kilograms of soybeans, noodles, etc. every day, which is directly equivalent to the appetite of three adults.

The most exaggerated thing is that horses do not eat meat, which makes all our rich meat completely useless and can only consume all kinds of food.

So much so that after watching the recipes made by a group of horse-raising people, the three mothers turned against each other and cursed. If it weren't for the fact that the group of horses was not easy to come, they would have suggested slaughtering them and eating meat directly.

After seeing the horse's appetite, I was even thinking about it. I asked the Matsumoto group to quickly divide up a group of people to plant soybeans for me. The soybean seeds added up to several villages were enough for two or three hundred acres. I didn't ask us to eat tofu, soy milk, etc., as long as we can fight the horses during combat.

Fortunately, the farmers in the Matsumoto Group are involved in a lot of planting, and the villagers from the newly arrived villages also have many directions they are good at. Therefore, in addition to soybeans, the planting of rapeseed, cucumbers, eggplant, etc. has begun to prepare one after another.

We also have rewards in terms of planting. If anyone works hard, the family will be able to eat and drink. If anyone is lazy, they will wait for the family to go hungry.

The fifty or sixty farmers who are generally considered to be the best skill have moved into bamboo houses and left their lives in tents or hilly stone houses.

The master may make a promise that when the harvest season, whoever planted something good will directly reward it with rice or even gold and silver. This has further increased their enthusiasm for work, making the entire black soil full of busy people and a prosperous scene everywhere.
Chapter completed!