In order to cope with the discovery of the grassland and the large sale of rattan shield rattan armor by the Dragon Tribe, Su Yan is ready to gradually reform the military system of the Dragon Tribe.

Now the army of the Dragon Tribe uses the three names of hunting team, reserve team, and reserve team, and divides all the combat power of the dragon tribe into three levels.

The main battle of the hunting team, the reserve team is more as the reserve of the hunting team, as well as the defense of the city, the reserve team is the reserve of the reserve team, almost will not perform combat missions, once the reserve team is needed to perform combat missions, it means that the city of the dragon tribe is attacked by the enemy.

In Su Yan's military reform plan, Su Yan will take out the hunting team and reserve team to form a relatively regular army.

The hunting team was changed to a field/war army, which is the main battle army on the front line, and the escort fleet mission and the foreign conquest mission are the main tasks of the field/war army, and the daily hunting is a secondary task.

After all, the population of a city of the dragon tribe is about 5,000 people, and large-scale hunting has greatly reduced the number of beasts in the area around the city, and the prey obtained by daily hunting is getting less and less.

However, daily hunting missions cannot be canceled, and hunting can effectively maintain the combat effectiveness of the army.

The reserve unit was changed to the city defense army, and the name clearly defined the main tasks of the city defense army, and in the case of a shortage of field/war soldiers, the city defense army should cooperate with the field/war army to carry out the tasks of escorting the fleet and the tasks of foreign conquest.

The regular army should be completely separated from agricultural production, and the dragon tribe with insufficient labor force cannot do this, the army of the dragon tribe can only be said to be a relatively regular army, and agricultural production will be carried out when necessary, and daily hunting can supplement a part of the tribe's food, and spring plowing and autumn harvest also need their joining.

Also because of the lack of labor, the establishment scale of the field/war army and the city defense army remained the same, with two cantonments in each city, a total of 94 people, and four cantonments in each city of the urban defense army, a total of 186 people.

Also limited by labor shortages, the field/war army was composed entirely of adult males, while the city defense army consisted of two male and two female cantonments.

For the time being, it seems that it is only a name change, but from next year, Su Yan will gradually eliminate spearthrowers in field/war armies and city defense armies, and replace spearthrowers with longbowmen.

The spear thrown by the spearman has more power than the recurve bow (short bow) at medium and close range, and can penetrate the dragon tribe's vine shield and rattan armor, and the distance is the biggest disadvantage of the spearman.

The arrows fired by the longbow have almost the same power as the short spear, but the longbow has no range, and the longbow has a longer range than the short bow.

The Dragons traded with other tribes on a large scale with the Vine Shield Rattan Armor Bronze Weapons, as well as the exploration of the grasslands, and in the event of a conflict, as long as the longbowmen were used to bring spearmen, the Dragons could continue to maintain their superiority, destroying the cavalry and the enemies equipped with the Dragontribe's Vine Shield Rattan Armor at a long distance.

In this way, a field army or a city defense army will be composed of a shiten armor soldier, a long pikemen, a long bowmen, and a short archers.

In addition, the dragon tribe's tanning process has just made a breakthrough, waiting for the development of the tanning process, it will not be long before the vine armor soldiers will be cleared from the sequence of the field army or the city defense army, and the vine armor soldiers will be replaced by sword and axe hands wearing leather armor and holding copper shields.

Not only axemen, but also pikemen, longbows, and archers can wear leather armor to increase their own protection, and the leather armor of both will be different, and the defense will increase or decrease according to the thickness of the leather armor.

With the regular army, the remaining adult clansmen of the dragon tribe are all incorporated into the reserve army, in addition to a separate youth army, and those who enter the senior school to study must be incorporated into the junior army.

If there is a vacancy in the field/war army and the city defense army, they will be promoted from the reserve army, and the clansmen from the war academy in the junior army will be supplemented into the field/war army and the city defense army according to their strength and skills when they become adults.

The three-team system of hunting team, reserve team, and reserve team was changed to a four-army system of field/war army, city defense army, reserve army, and boy army, which will be the second military reform of the dragon tribe, but it will never be the last.

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In the blink of an eye, nearly half a month had passed, and the second trading fleet had returned with a large harvest, fifty-eight servants, more than two thousand animal skins, and five sacks of wheat.

Now that it is summer, it is too late to plant wheat, Su Yan is not at ease for the time being to eat the wheat directly exchanged from the Leopard Tribe, endure it, wait for a few acres of wheat harvested by the Dragon Tribe in the autumn, and wait for the Leopard Tribe and the Yan Tribe to harvest the wheat, and the trade fleet will have to go over again to trade some wheat back.

In addition to the various things that were traded, one of the most important gains was the information about the Japanese tribe.

The information obtained by the trading fleet during the first day tribe transaction, everyone thought that the Japanese tribe was a large tribe with a population of 3,000 to 4,000, but they didn't expect that the strength of the Japanese tribe was not only that, but the Japanese tribe also had seven subsidiary tribes, and how much the strength of all the Japanese tribe camps would be combined.

According to the information brought back by the second trade fleet, Su Yan guessed a little, the population of the Japanese tribe is not as large as a city of the dragon tribe, but the population of the Japanese tribe camp is definitely more than a city of the dragon tribe, and the number of adult clansmen in the Japanese tribe camp is even more than the number of adult clansmen in the two cities of the dragon tribe, after all, the underage clansmen in the dragon tribe occupy a very large proportion.

In addition, the Sun Tribe camp is also waging war with another night tribe camp that is no less than its own size, it is conceivable that the population of a powerful tribe plus its affiliated tribes will even exceed 10,000, and there will be many such camps, and there are also tribes that do not need affiliated tribes and are strong in their own right.

The population of a faction can exceed 10,000, but it is very difficult for a tribe to have a population of more than 10,000, the first one is like the dragon tribe, and the second is to completely enter the agricultural era.

When the dragon tribe was slowly developing in the north of the Yellow River, Su Yan set a standard for the tribe based on the number of people, with a tribe of ten to twenty people being a miniature tribe, a tribe of twenty to fifty people being a small tribe, a tribe of fifty to two hundred people being a medium-sized tribe, a tribe of 200 to 500 people being a large tribe, and a tribe of more than 500 people being a giant tribe.

Now, as the Dragon tribe continues to explore the situation in the south of the Yellow River, there are many tribes with a population of more than 1,000, and in order to apply to the situation in the south of the Yellow River, Su Yan came up with a second set of standards.

Tribes with less than 500 people are miniature tribes, 500 to 1,000 people are small tribes, 1,000 to 2,000 people are medium-sized tribes, 2,000 to 3,000 people are large tribes, 3,000 to 5,000 people are giant tribes, and more than 5,000 people are overlord-level tribes.

There is little information about factions or tribal alliances, so they will not be divided for the time being.