"Captain, the enemy was found on the left, and the number did not exceed a hundred."

"The first and third shes set off, block the enemy, defeat the enemy, the second and fourth shis guard the prisoners, and all the prisoners who dare to resist will be shot directly!" After a few breaths, the snake proverb immediately gave various instructions.

"Whoa"

The commander personally rode a total of 23 horses to meet the enemy, and the number of enemies was not more than 100, to be more precise, there were only 81 people, which was more than three times the cavalry of the Xia Kingdom, but the cavalry of the Xia Kingdom who met it was not afraid at all, and even many cavalrymen thought in their hearts that "the opportunity for their own meritorious service has come again".

One hundred zhang

Fifty zhang

Thirty zhang

The Xia cavalry began to turn, and when the distance between the two sides was less than twenty zhang, the Xia cavalry and the incoming White Horse Tribe cavalry were already moving in the same direction, and the Xia cavalry deliberately suppressed their speed, so that the distance between the two sides was slowly approaching.

Eighteen zhang

Fifteen zhang

Twelve zhang

"Free Fire!"

Sou! Sou! Sou!

Xia Guo held a bow and arrow, turned around, aimed, let go, and a fragmented arrow shot at the cavalry of the White Horse tribe who was pursuing them.

On the other side, the captives became excited when they saw in the distance what seemed to be their own people coming to their rescue.

"They're here to save us, it's great."

"Defeat the enemy, you must defeat the enemy."

But a small number of people are well aware of the current situation.

"The enemy is too strong, they can't beat the enemy."

"Maybe now our homes have been breached by the enemy."

Several captives watched the number of Xia cavalry guarding them decrease, and even wanted to unite to kill a few Xia cavalry, but they were discovered in advance by the Xia cavalry and shot them one by one.

The battle between Snake Proverb Yitun and the remnants of the White Horse Tribe did not last long, and when there were still more than 30 zhang away from the position of the Snake Proverb, the 23 Xia cavalry crushed the 81 cavalry of the White Horse Tribe and shot nearly half of them.

The remnants of the White Horse tribesmen knew that they could no longer afford to return the captured tribesmen, and even themselves were in danger of being shot, so they could only flee quickly on horseback.

The tribe has been breached, so many of their own people have been captured, even the leader has died, and there are only forty or so of them left, what should they do next?

Half an hour later, a group of cavalry sent by Mu Shi joined up with the snake proverb, and it was not until it was dark that they escorted the captives back to the residence of the White Horse tribe with cattle, horses and sheep.

The next morning, the cavalry of the Xia Kingdom took prisoners and animal skins, drove cattle, horses and sheep, and embarked on the way home.

After a while, something unexpected happened to Mu Shi, five women from the White Horse tribe rode over and took the initiative to surrender to the Xia cavalry, who put the five women and the captives together, and then saw the five women each holding together with a number of children ranging from one to three.

After careful inquiry, it was learned that the husbands of the five women had been shot by the Xia cavalry, and the five of them were supposed to work with their clans to find other tribes to join, but thinking of their captured children, and thinking that women would not be killed in general, they chose to surrender to the Xia cavalry.

Except for the fact that the women of the five White Horse tribes took the initiative to surrender to the Xia cavalry, nothing else happened along the way, and the huge team stopped and stopped along the way, and soon entered the area where cattle, horses and sheep were grazing in the city.

The cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom went deep into the grassland for four days, wiped out the White Horse tribe with a population of more than 1,500, captured more than 1,000 people, obtained more than 17,000 cattle, horses and sheep, and an unknown number of animal skins, and their own losses were pitiful.

It took four days to go deep into the grassland, but it took half a month to return, and the captives and a large herd of cattle, horses, and sheep seriously slowed down the speed of the team's march, but there were so many harvests, even if it was a little slow, it didn't matter.

When the grazing residents of the city saw a large team returning, they happily greeted them, and Mu Shi sent a group of cavalry back to the city to inform the city of Hunan that the cavalry troops had returned victoriously, and the city lord also needed to prepare the prisoners and the placement of cattle, horses and sheep in advance.

In the evening, bonfires were lit in the city, which was a celebration feast to celebrate the return of the cavalry town from victory.

Eight days later, Mu Shi's deputy, Kong Chang, came to Zhongjing City with a report on the destruction of another tribe in the cavalry town, and reported to the king in person.

Hearing Kong Chang's report, Su Yan said with a smile on his face: "The cavalry town has done a very good job, and now what our Xia country lacks is cattle and horses, well, this time give the cavalry town eight first-class merits, sixteen second-class merits, and thirty-two third-class merits, and you will allocate them yourself." ”

"Whoa"

The last time the cavalry troops and battlefield troops annihilated the Wind Tribe, Su Yan gave a total of fifteen first-class merits, thirty second-class merits, and sixty third-class merits, and this time the number of meritorious services was almost halved, which was given by Su Yan according to the number of enemies killed and captured by the cavalry town and the number of trophies obtained.

You must know that the last time the Wind Tribe had 3,000 people, and after the destruction of the Wind Tribe, 38,000 cattle, horses and sheep were obtained, and this time the White Horse Tribe was destroyed only more than 1,500 people, and the number of cattle, horses and sheep obtained by the cavalry town was only more than 17,000, and the spoils of war were less than half of the last time.

Considering that it was the first time that the cavalry town went deep into the grassland to conquer the nomadic tribes, Su Yan gave those meritorious places, and even if the cavalry town destroyed a nomadic tribe with the same number of people as the White Horse tribe in the future, and obtained the same amount of loot as this time, the number of meritorious service places would be reduced.

After dealing with the matter reported by Kong Chang, Su Yan asked Kong Chang to go down to rest first, and wait for tomorrow or the day after tomorrow to return to the city by boat.

Kong Chang left the study, the smile on Su Yan's face did not recede, the cavalry town won a big victory for the first time in the grassland, which gave Xia Guo a good start to get involved in the grassland area, as long as it continues like this, Xia Guo will have enough cattle, horses and sheep, and the people of Xia will not lack animal meat to eat in the future.

The cavalry unit still needs to be expanded, but it will not be possible to carry out the national selection in the future, and the people who have the ability to become cavalry have already entered the cavalry unit after two consecutive national selections, and then the national selection will be carried out, and there will be many unqualified people, which is too much waste of time and manpower.

In the future, the cavalry unit will expand its scale, and it will be good to select it directly from the war colleges, the senior schools in each city, you must know that the number of adult male nationals in the Xia Kingdom every year is close to 3,000, and they are assigned to the three major colleges of war, technology, and management, with the technical college having the most students, the management college having the fewest students, and the number of students in the war college ranking second, but there are also about 1,200 people.

The students who graduated from the War College basically joined the city defense army directly in each city, and now they have some time in the city defense army, and when there is a vacancy in the city field/war army, they will select the best soldiers from the city defense army to supplement.

Now the Xia Kingdom will build four cities every year, and the four cities should have a quota of field/war army and city defense army, they are all directly transferred from other cities, and there will naturally be vacancies in other cities, and the city defense army will fill the vacancy of the field/war army, and then the students who graduated from the war college will fill the vacancy of the city defense army.

It can be said that the army of Xia has formed a fixed system now, and only students who have graduated from the war college can join the city defense army and the field/war army.

It doesn't matter if you're young, you should remember that in the early tribal era, teenagers as young as twelve or thirteen years old would be involved in hunting or fighting.

One thing to note is that the soldiers of the Xia Kingdom are not completely out of production, and in the spring ploughing and autumn harvest seasons, field/war armies and city defense armies without tasks must be involved.

Only students who have graduated from the War College can join the City Defense Army, and similarly, only students who have graduated from the War College can join the cavalry unit.

The War College offers cavalry-related courses such as horsemanship, mounted archery, and cavalry slashing, and the students of the War College can participate as long as they like, and when the cavalry unit is expanded after graduation, they can be selected directly from these war college graduates.

However, the cavalry unit cannot be expanded indefinitely, considering the number of students graduating from the war academy every year, as well as the vacant number of vacancies in the defense army of each city, there are now five teams in the cavalry unit, and Su Yan plans to make the size of the cavalry unit reach ten teams in two towns in two years next year, that is, the size of one regiment, and then the cavalry regiment will take the town as a unit to conquer the grassland.

Thinking of these things in his mind, Su Yan took a brush and wrote them all down, don't forget, Su Yan is the king of the Xia Kingdom, managing a country with more than 30 cities and a population of more than 200,000 people, even if the small things are handed over to the ministers and city lords to deal with, there are still more important things left, sometimes Su Yan will also miss some things, if you don't want to omit things, just write them in a special notebook.

The destruction of a nomadic tribe by the cavalry town was a good thing for the Xia Kingdom, and Su Yan was also happy, but Su Yan also had a very irritating thing in his heart, that is, the matter of making glass.

Making compasses and making glass are the two more important tasks that need to be carried out this year under Su Yanlie, the cavalry troops conquer the grassland, the fleet foreign trade, can use the compass and glass, the compass can make the cavalry troops and the fleet not lose their way, the glass is ground into a convex lens, concave lens, and then made into a telescope, which can find the target from a distance.

Compared with the manufacture of glass, the manufacture of a compass is a simple thing, Akagi Iron Mine has found a magnet, with a magnet, it is simple to make a compass, the magnet and the iron needle rub, so that the iron needle magnetization, and then use a smaller copper disk as the chassis, engraved with the direction mark, the middle area of the chassis has a tiny tip for placing the magnetic needle, so, a compass or compass appeared.

The rough compass had already been made, and Su Yan needed a more delicate and accurate compass, which was expected to be available next year for use in cavalry units and fleets.

Now it remains to make glass, and it is important to remember that the manufacture of glass and the compass (compass) began at the same time, and the plan to make the compass has been completed for the most part, but the plan to make glass cannot be carried out because of the lack of a raw material.

According to Su Yan's limited knowledge, Su Yan knew that glass could be melted into glass by quartz sand and soda ash at high temperatures, quartz sand was very easy to obtain, and quartz sand could be obtained by "washing" it several times with river sand, but it was difficult to obtain soda ash, another raw material for making glass.

Soda ash, that is, sodium carbonate, before the artificial synthesis of soda ash, ancient people found that after some seaweeds were dried, the burned ash contained alkalis, and brown lye could be obtained after leaching and filtration with hot water for washing.

A large amount of trona comes from minerals, mainly buried underground or alkaline lakes, and the highest grade of trona ore exists in the sedimentary layer, which is widely distributed.

The lack of raw materials led to the suspension of the plan to make glass, and the trona must be found first, Su Yan sent people to focus on finding salt mines, and the salt mines that had been discovered in Xia Guo also focused on exploring to see if there was associated trona, just to see when they could find trona.

On the third day of coming to Zhongjingcheng, Kong Chang took the commendation order stamped with the seal of the Xia King and took the ship to the direction of the city, and returned to the city for another seven days.

During the period from the return of the cavalry town to the return of Kong Chang to the city with the commendation order, Snake Jiao was smiling every day, and his companions congratulated Snake Jiao, because in the war to destroy the White Horse Tribe, Snake Jiao made great achievements, and the leader of the White Horse Tribe was shot by Snake Jiao.

At the end of that battle, the leader of the white horse only had an arrow stuck in his neck, and the end of the arrow was engraved with the name of the snake, indicating that the leader of the white horse was shot by the snake.

In addition to shooting the leader of the white horse, Snake Jiao has three other results, just the result of the leader of the white horse is almost enough for Snake Jiao to make a first-class merit, plus the other three results, everyone knows that Snake Jiao's first-class merit is stable.

First-class merit, reward three women, as well as animal meat, bronze, cloth and other rewards, at the same time, in the next expansion of the cavalry unit, the snake pride who has made a first-class merit will be given priority to promotion, now the snake pride is long, the next time at least will be the deputy commander, the woman has it, the status has it, and the snake pride can wake up with a smile when he sleeps.

In his free time, Snake Jiao often goes to the prisoners' residential area to visit the captives, to find their favorite target, young, beautiful, and gentle personality, and then communicate with them in advance, often bring things to visit them, enhance the relationship between the two parties, and wait for the commendation order to come down, Snake Jiao has a high chance of bringing home the woman he likes.

Not only the snake arrogance, but also many cavalrymen who felt that they could make meritorious contributions looked for the woman they liked in advance.

Until Kong Chang returned with the commendation order, Mu Shi and Kong Chang set the list of meritorious personnel.

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