The cavalry of the Mongol tribes stopped to the side, treated the wounded, fed the horses, fed and rested. After that, he drove a small number of slaves to clean up the camp of the horse hunters, gathered up all the skins, food, ropes, etc., and tied them to the shoulders of the captives, and let them carry them south.

On the side of Lin Ruins, today's casualties are not small, and forty or fifty people have paid with their lives. But the living are happy.

They slashed more than 800 enemies and captured more than 500 people. After this battle, the Horse Hunter was greatly damaged. The rest of the people fled and scattered, and there should be nothing to fear.

They really broke up the horse hunters and bought time for the tribe to grow. This is beyond the expectations of them when they came out to fight. So they have no reason to be upset.

When I came out, I only walked for three days, and when I went back, I walked for ten days. The captives did not have horses, and even with whips, thirty kilometers a day was the limit.

The wounded, captured horses, and good news returned to Juyingpo first. The situation of the Mongolian tribes has also been reported in the past few days. The tribe accepted several groups of wounded, and the scouts who went out to patrol in the past few days found a group of scouts, who were completely wiped out by the people led by Bayang. Besides, everything is fine. This also made Lin Ji and the others relieved, but walked more slowly.

Back at the tribe, the whole tribe flocked to the grassland to greet them.

The more than 300 people who survived were hugged and caressed. For those here, it's a win like never before. As the Mongolian tribesmen of the forest trails, they felt an honor they had never felt before.

Almost all the people here have fought with the horse hunters, but there are few victories, so the victory of less is more, and the great victory of capturing the horse hunters is naturally unheard of.

They want to use all their enthusiasm to express their welcome and respect for the people of Lin Ji.

The celebration seemed to be at its peak from the beginning, and the scene was lively...... Horses can't stand it.

In the forest trails and other efforts surrounded by the crowd, Bai Ma and Xiao Bai had already squeezed out of the crowd and ran up the hillside. They can't stand that. And the white horse likes to eat tender corn with skin, and after a few days of delay on the road, the corn is almost old. Xiaobai took his big knife to dig sweet potatoes, and then washed them by the stream and ate them crunchy.

The grand celebration showed no signs of stopping, and after Lin Ji was fed too much to hold on, he himself escaped. Fortunately, there was no wine, otherwise he would have had to lie down.

He went to the stream to remove his heavy armor, and took a beautiful bath in the stream and lay down on the grass by the stream.

Bayang stood beside Lin Ji, trying his best to block the gaze of Su Erge looking at Lin Ji's figure. Lin Ji has not taken off his clothes and armor for more than ten days, and his body is obviously growing flesh, which used to be slim, but now he has begun to become stronger.

Lin Ji went out to rescue dozens of people from the Huerge tribe, and after seeing Lin Ji, Huerge's posture was completely unsightly. Bayang suspected that if he hadn't watched it, this stupid woman would have pounced right now.

After his woman has an idol, don't mention how aggrieved her life is.

"Just came back from the battlefield, don't get too close to me, beware of holding a gun and don't get you." Lin Ji squinted his eyes and reached for the gun.

There is no woman here, there is no caring. I washed it myself, and no one sent me clean clothes. Lin Ji sighed and got up, turned over and entered the small city, and ran out after getting dressed in the small town. I don't care if I disappear in the middle of the day, this kind of thing will scare people.

When Lin Ji came out, he found that Bayang was still standing by the creek and asked, "Is there something?" ”

Bayang said: "We have a few people here, do you think we should get more people?" ”

"Isn't the liaison team already out? It's not that fast to come back. And these hundreds of captives should be able to be used for a while. Lin Ji collected his clothes and armor by the stream, and prepared to wash them in the stream. I haven't changed it for a few days, and it stinks a little badly.

"Didn't you say that the man of the horse hunter was almost dead?" Do I want to get their girls and children back? ”

Lin Ji's laundry hand paused. This is long-term enough. Because it will take at least a few years for the child to grow up. And if you want to get women to increase the population, it will take even longer. These are all things that can't see results in a short period of time, and there is no reason for Bayang to be so concerned.

"What do you want to do?" Lin Ji turned his head to look at the roasted sun.

"I want to go on a campaign."

"What are you doing with so many people?"

"I don't want to go back." Bayang gritted his teeth and said the words.

In the Mao tribe, he was elected as the leader, and naturally he had countless respects. But he knew that it was his mother's aura that he wanted to continue, and some things would make him feel that his life was a little restricted. He felt that with his own ability, he could become as high as his mother. Here he sees such hope. Especially after learning a lot from Lin Ji.

In addition, after falling out of love with Cai Fu, he has a different perception of feelings. Now, he felt that there was another sweetness in riding a horse on the grassland with Huerge. He didn't want to give it up.

So, he had to think about the situation here after Lin Ji left. The population was too small, and he was naturally afraid that the horse hunters would gather again to attack. Taking advantage of the lack of horse hunter men now, it is naturally best to eliminate their old nests.

"Got it figured?" Lin Ji asked.

One of his purposes in bringing the roasted yang out is to bring the roasted yang crookedly. It should be considered a success now. But when he saw the results, he didn't feel much sense of accomplishment. Bayang is a person with a true temperament, and he is still very reliable as a friend. Moreover, he had already thrown himself under Lin Ji, and Lin Ji felt that he was somewhat reluctant to leave him in this bitter cold place.

"Uh-huh." Bayang nodded earnestly.

As a duke of Huaxia, Bayang wants to stay here, and Lin Ji has to make some periodic arrangements for him. But this matter has to be done slowly, and the top priority now is to listen to Bayang's advice and go to the horse hunter's den.

Thinking of this, Lin Ji said: "Let's call the centurion a meeting in half an hour." We'll arrange it, and we'll take care of the rest. ”

Lin Ji washed his clothes and armor and hung them on a wooden pole, and called out Xiaobai and Baima, who were still in trouble in the field. No one dared to take care of these two goods, and the women in charge of the farmland were happy to be courteous in the back, and Lin Ji didn't want to raise these two goods into pigs.

When there is no alcohol, it is not a hassle to call people out of the celebration.

Half an hour later, everyone was sober except for hiccups.

The meeting agreed on the list of commendations and rewards for tomorrow's military exploits, arranged the following battle summary and experience sharing process, and decided to take another 500 people to the expedition in Bayang three days later.

The commendation list has been discussed by Lin Ji and others on the road, and now it is just the final finalization. The content of the reward, as Lin Ji said before, was mentioned by themselves. But these people don't have much interest, they usually just want to order drinks or something, and those who order clothes and mirrors for women are considered bold. Only one centurion asked Lin Ji for a watch, and Lin Ji ...... That's right.

This made the remaining centurion scream. Even in the city, the watch is only 20 yuan a year, and you can get one in a few days here, how cheap it is, how can they not work hard?

Combat summary and experience sharing are the next big heads. Lin Ji hopes that the experience gained by the blood of the previous 500 people will be shared with the other 500 people who have not yet participated in the battle. So that they can bleed less.

So, the event lasted for two days. In addition to having people who didn't play, you also have to play against people who have been in battle. Let them gain experience in drills.

Three days later, Bayang led the troops with Huerge, and Dunmu brought the ghost eagle as his deputy to help.

Before the team set off, Lin Ji nailed horseshoes to the horses of several big leaders such as Bayang, which was a special concern. Because during this expedition, it was found that the young horse was running with a load, and some hooves were seriously worn. After these horses are brought back, it is estimated that they can only be used as pulls, and cannot be ridden.

After the departure of Bayang, Lin Ji stayed in the tribe, and he was also trying his best to find a way to build a horseshoe, rest the team, tame the captives, etc.

The appearance of horseshoes allows the service life of horses to be extended a lot. Especially after leaving the grassland and entering other terrain. Without the cushion of the turf and under the conditions of loading, the horse's hooves can be severely worn in just a few days.

If you need to run for a long time in the grassland, the protection of the horse's hooves is also indispensable. At this time, there is no way to think of any technical secrets. However, if Lin Ji can control the production of steel in his hands, it is estimated that there will be no problem for the horseshoe to get out. Without the right steel, it's useless to know the truth of a horseshoe.

The rest of the team is a big problem.

Mainly went out to fight for half a month, and the number of 500 people was reduced to more than 300. A small number of wounded people can return to the team after their injuries. However, the personnel gap is still relatively large.

Fortunately, after the liaison team went out, because they brought enough horses, the new batch of people who came to vote came back quickly. Although there were only a few dozen people, there were also more than a dozen men who were arranged by Lin Ji to join the team.

For others, Lin Ji could only find a way out of the captives. Five hundred captives, Lin Ji began all kinds of brainwashing on the way back. After returning, some of the "stubborn" ones were sacrificed to the heads of the owls, some of the people with poor attitudes were thrown into the mountains to cut wood and burn charcoal to do heavy work, and some of the people with good attitudes about current affairs were left to help herd sheep and feed horses and plough the land.

Within a few days, Lin Ji selected more than 100 people from those with good attitudes and assigned them to various teams to follow the training. And the prisoners who had made mistakes were singled out and executed in exchange for their surrenders.

These prisoners were often watched by eight or nine people in the ranks, and they were the most rigorously trained and the hardest, and some of them could not stand up and were eliminated. Some gritted their teeth and persevered, were recognized by their peers, and slowly integrated into the team.

In the following period of time, Lin Ji used this method to basically make up for the number of people lost in the battle. Because of the baptism of battle, the team's combat power has also increased a lot. At this time, if he faced another 3,000 infantry, Lin Ji felt that the casualties could be reduced.

Seeing that summer is over and autumn is approaching, the forest trails make people take turns to go out on a large scale to hunt for enough fur and meat.

He also began to take people to remodel the tents. The seized low tents were made with movable wooden frames, making yurts that were taller and spacious, easier to dismantle and stronger, and could make fires inside.

Lin Ji then fired a small pottery-style charcoal stove with ventilation up and down. This makes it more convenient and safe to cook food in the yurt.

These two initiatives were an instant hit with everyone. We all have a variety of ways to survive the winter, but what is better to feel warm than a warm stove and a sturdy tent?

With the new yurts, people go out hunting more often. There were a lot of hides recovered from the horse hunters, but it was not enough for all the people who did not live on the hillsides to live in these yurts.

Even the captive slaves tried a lot when they saw this yurt. As long as you are obedient, not to mention being able to become a glorious warrior here, and living in that kind of tall tent, this is very worthy of people's desire. You must know that as soon as the summer passes, the temperature of the grassland will drop to more than ten degrees at night, and it will get lower and lower, and they can only squeeze into the iron fence with ventilation on all sides every night, which will really be cold to death.

Lin Ji counted the days, and estimated that Hu Yi'er was about to give birth. In his melancholy, he wrote a letter, singled out two guards who were not appointed centurions, and drove back with twenty or thirty men and more than a hundred horses to report safety.

The procession passes through the Black Mountain and Mao tribes. Will bring a letter to Shaohuan of the Black Mountain tribe. There are also people from the Mao tribe who accompany him, and they will also give the people of the Mao tribe the news of Bayang.

In the letter, Lin Ji said that Bayang was subdued, and that Bayang might stay in the grassland. However, he asked the people who went back to keep the news secret for the time being, so that the Mao tribe would not suddenly know about it and let someone with a heart take advantage of it. Regarding this point, Lin Ji discussed with Bayang, and Bayang also agreed.

Seven or eight days after the departure of Bayang, good news came. He led people to break up the gathering place in the east of the horse hunters, captured thousands of women and children of the Tiger Clan, and was on his way back.

They originally wanted to attack Hu Xiao's headquarters, but when they got there, they found that Hu Xiao had already run away with everyone first, probably fleeing to the depths of the grassland further north.

Bayang did not dare to pursue, so he turned east and attacked the gathering place of the Tiger people who did not follow Hu Xiao.

The Tiger people were originally going to return to the mountains and wilderness to the east, but after the number of men decreased, their mobility was greatly reduced, and they were taken away before they could make the trip.

These women and children were moving slowly, and Lin Ji sent people to drive hundreds of horses to meet them, and finally after more than ten days, these people all returned to Juyingpo.

The return of these women and children seemed to be a signal, and the news of the defeat of the horse hunters by the forest trails spread throughout the grassland, and in the time since, until the snow fell, there was an endless stream of people who came to Juyingpo to take refuge.

Some of them are tribes that believe in horses that have been notified by the liaison team. Some are loose tribes that are separated from the hunters and guards. Some are tribes such as shepherds, who raise sheep and cattle or donkeys. At the back, Lin Ji also saw a tribe with only twenty or thirty people, but seven or eight camels, which was said to have come out of the Gobi.

At the time of the autumn harvest, there were already nearly 7,000 people under the Juying slope, including the captives. The yurts are mixed with low tents at the foot of the mountain, which is spread out for several kilometers.

There is no shortage of people who can train sheep, horses, cattle, donkeys, camels, and even tigers. In addition to the people brought by Lin Ji himself from the Central Plains, there are also elephant tamers and reindeer.

Young and strong filled the army, bringing the number of the army to 2,500 men.

Lin Xi went out to hunt horses for a while, and brought back nearly 5,000 wild horses, which were kept and tamed by different people. The rest of the people, according to their own strengths, hunt wild beasts on a large scale and domesticate them.

This year, nearly 5,000 acres of corn were planted, and a lot of potatoes and sweet potatoes were also planted. The overall harvest of grain in the autumn harvest exceeded one million catties. With these grains as the base, Lin Ji made corn stalks and sweet potato seedlings into green storage fodder, and suddenly the confidence became enough.

A new grassland tribe was formed, which combined agriculture and animal husbandry and diversified development, which also became the basis for his dominance of the grassland.