The whole cottage is now in a state of looseness on the outside and tightness on the inside.

On the surface, everything seems to be very calm, everyone is still doing what they should do, but the consumption of food has increased a lot unconsciously, especially in meat, the prey that comes back from hunting every day is consumed, and the meat storage accumulated before is also decreasing at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Others may not know what happened, but Liu Jing knows it. In order to improve the combat effectiveness as soon as possible, in addition to the 20-member personal guard, Bailijian expanded the horse bandit team to 80 people, and there was also a reserve team of 100 people, and these people had to conduct additional training in addition to normal work. As a bonus, these people are fed much better than others.

"Mangula, is there any news that you haven't received lately?" Bai Lijian asked the man who was standing on the side.

Ever since Mangula was appointed captain of the Guard, Bailijian gave him the task of scouting information. This task was a little unfamiliar to him, so at the beginning, it was a reconnaissance mission arranged by Bai Lijian himself, and even the matter of training spies was personally carried out by Bai Lijian. Due to the short time, Bai Lijian didn't ask too much of them, as long as he could bring back a little useful information, he was very satisfied.

"Childe, lately, people who have not collected at night have been wandering around our village frequently, although we have caught a lot of them, but there are still many who have slipped away with the familiar terrain." Mangula said in a deep voice.

Seeing that Mangula was a little annoyed, Bai Lijian comforted: "Well, it's done well, it's already very good to have such results at the beginning." ”

After getting Bai Lijian's affirmation, Mangula's complexion was a little better.

"Have you found out the overall strength of the night?" Bai Lijian continued to ask.

"Hui Gongzi, according to our investigation these days, it can be basically determined that there are about 1,000 subordinates who do not accept at night, of which there are about 600 capable horse bandits, and the rest are old and weak women and children. However, they had a limited number of horses and could only maintain a cavalry of about 100 men. But they also had two hundred archers. ”

"Have you confirmed all the news?"

"Well, it's all taught by Gongzi, and I've confirmed it with different captives, so I shouldn't be wrong."

"Looks like our opponent isn't weak." Bai Lijian worried.

"Childe, don't worry, although they are more numerous, their combat effectiveness is not as strong as ours. Their cavalry did not even have the most basic leather armor, and most of the archers were equipped with soft hunting bows, which had a short range and little strength. Mangula said comfortingly.

Bai Lijian looked up at Mangula, a look of surprise in his eyes. Mangula has always given Bai Lijian the impression of a reckless man, but he didn't expect to have such a delicate side.

This Mangula is a manufacturable material.

Bailijian's biggest headache now is the problem of talent. Although Bailijian has attached great importance to the acquisition of talents, and has gathered all the children under the age of twelve in the cottage and taught them personally, it will take a lot of time for these people to become successful. As for the rest of the people in the cottage, they are all reckless men who can only fight and kill, and the literate people can even count on one hand.

At this time, Bailijian especially missed Bailixuan who raised himself. Although Baili Xuan's knowledge is not deep, it is still possible to teach people to read, write and write, and he is fully qualified for the work of lifting illiteracy for people in the cottage. In this way, Bailijian can also get rid of the whirlpool of teaching people to read and do more meaningful things.

"I don't know how the war went, so I have to send someone to investigate." Bai Lijian muttered to himself.

"Childe, what did you say?" Bailijian's voice was very low, and Mangula didn't hear it clearly, and subconsciously thought that he was talking to himself, and hurriedly asked.

Baili Jian pondered for a moment, and then instructed Mangula: "You send two clever people to my original tribe to inquire and see if there is any news of my father Baili Xuan. By the way, let's see how the tribe is doing now. ”

"My subordinates know, let's do it!" For Bailijian's orders, Mangula has always carried out them conscientiously.

When Mangula left, Bai Lijian went straight to Liu Jing.

Due to the extraordinary moment, the construction progress of the cottage has slowed down to a certain extent, and the prisoners who should still be working outside at this time have already returned to the cottage at this time. At this time, Liu Jing was training the newly recruited pro-guard team.

Next to the guards, there were eighty other men who were being trained, and they were carefully selected to be able to ride horses or shoot bows, all of which were skilled in a single skill. Due to the shortage of time, these people can only strengthen the training of specialties for the time being, and those who can ride horses will be added to the cavalry team, and those who can shoot bows will form another team and be organized into an archery team.

Among the personnel replenished this time, the captives of Feiyu Village accounted for the majority, and these people were all proficient in opening bows, so the number of archers was thirty, and the remaining twenty were mostly Su Heluo's subordinates, who were selected because of their good performance. These are veterans who are accustomed to war, and only need a little training to be able to obey orders.

Besides. Bailijian also organized the remaining strong men and set up a reserve. For the requirements of the reserve, Bailijian is very clear and very simple, he only needs to be able to line up and understand military orders. When you are in battle, you can have the courage to rush forward with your weapon.

In this way, the combat force in the cottage has initially formed a scale, and the personal guard of twenty people, including the combat team of eighty cavalry, thirty archers, plus a reserve of one hundred people, is also equivalent to infantry. These people will be the backbone of the cottage, and they are also the most powerful weapons in the hands of Bailijian.

After Bai Lijian inspected the team, he was particularly concerned about the team's food. According to Bai Lijian's previous instructions, the team that needs to train has better food than the others. But this is only good enough to be able to eat.

Due to the increase in the number of combat teams, the consumption of food in the cottage has also increased a lot, and in order to reduce food consumption, Liu Jing has very strict control over the food of the troops, especially the consumption of meat.

However, the army needs a lot of training, and training requires a lot of consumption, and it also needs to maintain meat and fat, especially at such a critical moment. Therefore, Bai Lijian specially ordered that those who performed well in training should add a piece of meat to each meal as a reward. This can not only maintain Liu Jing's food control, but also increase the enthusiasm of the team for training.

Liu Jing generally does not particularly oppose Bailijian's order, but before Bailijian left, he specially mentioned that according to the current food consumption, I am afraid that he can only barely survive this winter. Without timely replenishment, it is difficult for the cottage to sustain.

Liu Jing's worries are very understandable, but at present, the cottage is in a time of life and death, if it can survive, food will not become a problem for the development of the cottage, if it can't survive, then the cottage will naturally have no worries about food.