Back in Los Angeles, he spent the whole winter comfortably in the castle, except for Yulia, who lost her beloved bedroom and was annexed to the side of the leader of Yang, there was no other project to break ground.

Therefore, Yang Li will say, I have a prescient fireplace, and this ruling territory still pays attention to an open source and reduce expenditure, do you see if it saves the cost of building a fireplace, and achieves the same effect.

Yulia twisted Yang Li in the quilt, and the leader was confident this time, and immediately fought back, but the sun was on the three, but the bedroom did not stop, and the physical strength consumed was just made up for by lunch.

The snow covered the mountain, and the tribesmen were all nested in their homes, except for hunters and a few lumberjacks, basically no one went out, except for the guards and cavalry of Luohe Castle.

Yang Jiao selected nearly twenty people from among the clansmen and asked the old soldiers to bring one with them to quickly improve their combat effectiveness.

So the cavalry expanded to forty-five people, plus himself and Mao Mei, a total of forty-seven people.

The river is frozen, and boats are not working, but it is a convenience for the communication between the mountain collar and Los Angeles, standing on the main fort, you can occasionally see people using logs to stitch into plank-like tools, putting goods on the ice and dragging them forward.

So Yang Li asked Wangcai and Xiaoqiang to try the work of the sled dogs, the effect was average, they did not have the size and endurance of the Siberian wolf, pulling the sled they built, running near the castle was fine, but it was not fast to pull the goods.

Winter passed quickly, and news came from the Dugu clan.

Dugucheng was taken away by the new eldest cousin again, this time it was not the previous cooperative relationship of Jiang Wansui, but a mysterious partner called joining.

The rules of the Great Chief of Jiang Bin are very simple, as long as you take out a part of the population and materials of your tribe and put them with him, and he uses these materials to expand, and after the expansion is completed, everyone has a share of the looted goods.

This trick is much more effective than Jiang Wansui's previous method of force suppression.

When Jiang Bansui was in power, the black-blooded clans were mainly deterred by his strong troops, and it was impossible to fight, and the explosive troops would not, so they had to be coerced together during the war, but after Jiang Bin took the throne, everyone didn't need to be oppressed, for example, you only need to hand over a hundred catties of grain and fifty stone axes to him, and the new leader will send you half a catty of grain and a few pieces of flint interest in two months.

What, flint doesn't count as a tool? Forget it, it's a good axe to build.

In short, the tribes are happy, and there is no war in the autumn and winter, and the development of the settlement villages is quite stable.

When Jiang Bin sent someone to the Dugu clan to raise money, he was rejected by Dugu Cheng, and the fat man said that you haven't expanded externally, how can you get interest, are the materials falling from the sky.

It is nothing more than to finance the materials of the back family, to pay interest to the people in front, and in the cycle, the most beneficial thing is yourself who is the white wolf with empty gloves.

Jiang Bin said of course not, let's take a step to speak and analyze this set of principles.

Dugucheng was invited to play in the Black Blood River, but his family was tied up.

The Dugu clan had no leader, so they were also controlled by Jiang Bin.

This was how Yang Li's caravan was delayed, everyone was used as coolies, the pottery was confiscated, and only a young man with sharp hands and feet escaped and fled back to report.

This young man is still an acquaintance, of course not Yang Li's acquaintance, but Xue Pijiang's.

Zhang Dengyun was a hunter of the Greywood tribe and one of the supporters of the old chief, and he preferred to dig traps, place bait, and organize hunters to round up rather than hunt alone.

Xue Bijiang had a conflict with him, because he hunted alone all the year round, and occasionally encountered beasts walking according to inexplicable paths, and he didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and went up and shot two arrows to death.

As everyone knows, this beast is being bewitched by Zhang Dengyun's bait and heading in the direction of the trap.

So the two occasionally argued, and sometimes divided the hunting results equally, the strange thing is that Zhang Dengyun seems to be acutely bad, obviously the last time the prey was robbed by Xue Pijiang, this hunt will also find Xue to cooperate, such as letting him release arrows to lure the enemy.

So after Zhang Dengyun was brought into the castle, Xue Bijiang put down the wooden strip he had sharpened, raised his eyelids and glanced at him, and said mockingly: "Yo, Dengyun, didn't the trap be placed this time." ”

Zhang Dengyun was a little injured, his arm was still wrapped in bandages, and he was also hungry and thin, but fortunately, he was in good spirits, and he said without showing weakness: "Brother Xue, I am dealing with the new leader of the Black Blood River this time, and escaping from him is much more exciting than you taming horses and herding cattle here." ”

"Yes," Xue Bijiang threw away the half-made longbow in his hand, stepped forward to check Zhang Dengyun's bandage, and found that it was fine, and said with a smile, "Come on, it's worse than this to let a wild wolf bite, do you mean that Chief Jiang Bin is not as good as a wolf?" ”

"Hehe, you'll know later." Zhang Dengyun means that there is no time for you to talk nonsense here now.

Xue Bijiang waved his hand to signal the guards at the gate of the main castle to get out of the way and let Zhang Dengyun in: "Go, the big leader is in the hall." ”

After listening to Zhang Dengyun's story, Yang Li decided to launch a new round of mergers and acquisitions of the surrounding clans.

The black blood clan can't let it go, but the labor expedition is not in the interests of Los Angeles, because between the two clans, it has not yet reached the point where the border is densely populated and the land can no longer be accommodated.

In fact, between the sphere of influence of Los Angeles and the black blood clan, there are more than ten tribes of all sizes, called the Beiyang tribe, they have no clear belonging, and they are still in the state of occupying the mountains as kings.

The first thing Yang Li had to deal with was the Beiyang tribe in this middle zone.

Of course, he also had a reason to deal with, that is, Falcon Wing brought a hundred people to invade a few days ago, although they were all soldiers who were used to fighting, they were still not afraid in the face of twice as many enemies, and they still suffered a big loss and came back from a rout.

Yang Li decided to take the lead in Los Angeles this time, and ordered Falcon Wing to come with reinforcements to launch a territorial expansion operation to annex the Beiyang tribe before the Black Blood Clan.

Of course, there is another reason for annexation, at present, the vassal lords only have Falcon Wings, and their expansion is limited, and Yang Li needs more land to strengthen the power of feudalism.

As for the candidate for the new lord, Zhang Dengyun is currently secretly tentatively selected.

Why is it Comrade Xiao Zhang, because he has a good relationship with the hunters of the original Gray Wood Clan, and everyone's hunting success rate has increased greatly under his organization, and he can be described as a natural leader.

In addition, Yang Jiao observed the relationship between him and Xue Pijiang, and found that this young man basically did not act according to his personal likes and dislikes.

This kind of person is the easiest to control.

It is easy to control, because their behavior is easy to judge, as long as they can always ensure that their interests are maximized, and that the gain of each action is greater than the pay, he will naturally be loyal and do betrayal.

At the same time, he is also smart enough, although the enemy can open higher chips in the short term to lure, but he judges by the ability of the hunter to strategize, and it is naturally not difficult to distinguish the difference between short-term and long-term interests.

In addition, he had a mass base in the city, so Yang Yu ordered him to recruit more than 50 soldiers to form a temporary corps to participate in this operation.

As the spring cold weather is steep, but the ice of the mountain rivers is beginning to melt, a battle unfolds on the land on the west side of the mountain territory, the five tribes scattered in this land form a coalition of more than 300 people, the last time defeated Hayabusa, they are good at using the terrain to fight, usually let the scouts scout the enemy first, let the later estimate the path, rush to the enemy army must pass the favorable terrain ambush.

When the enemy army passes through a col or depression, they will ambush their troops, striking from all sides with javelin bows and arrows from a high place, while using infantry to launch a swift charge.

However, this mode is only suitable for small-scale battles, large corps operations, never won by guerrilla warfare or kite flying, Yang Jiao just lined up an elite army of more than 400 people and pressed it up, scouted to open the road to reconnoitre, drew topographic maps, planned the march route, approached the settlement from the flattest terrain, and there was no room for ambush or guerrilla attack on the opposite side.

At the beginning, the Mongols were indeed unparalleled in cavalry and archery, but they mainly relied on heavy cavalry with absolute quantitative and qualitative superiority.

The Mongol heavy cavalry of the twelfth century far exceeded the weight of the best chain mail knights in Europe, and the number was even more comprehensive, as for the appearance of European knights with full plate armor, it was actually two or three hundred years later, in the late Middle Ages and even the Renaissance.

The victories of the Mongol conquerors were almost all won by the iron cavalry charge, and there was no situation where a large group of mounted archers went up to shoot angrily, and light cavalry lured the enemy, but it was mainly for the purpose of choosing the battlefield and creating a favorable environment, not how many casualties were caused by mounted archery.

Yang Li knows this very well...... And he directly developed the stirrups, so he didn't even care about riding and archery, he liked to ride horses and shoot arrows, which was their own hobby.

The battle ended quickly, and under the tactics of crushing the shield wall of the elite soldiers in Los Angeles and the cavalry surrounding the rear **, the Beiyang tribe did not even hold on for ten minutes, and the whole army was defeated and surrendered on the spot.

Zhang Dengyun didn't think so and won the first credit.

It's hard for him not to take it, because Yang Jiao didn't bring the old subordinates in Los Angeles with the oldest qualifications and the most powerful combat effectiveness, and this war is basically to create conditions for Xiao Zhang.

At the end of the battle, the Beiyang tribe surrendered, and part of the land was taken by Falcon Wing, and most of it was given to Zhang Dengyun.

said that it was most of it, but in fact, the area was quite small, and the visual inspection was only a quarter of the mountain collar, and this bit of land did not make the old subordinates of Los Angeles jealous.

This is also Yang Li's careful thinking, you see, although I sealed him out, but I don't have much land, but if he expands in the future, it will be the scope he occupies by his own ability, and it naturally has nothing to do with me Yang Li, so it's not a matter of my partiality, right.

So the current Los Angeles regime's sphere of influence has become like this.

To the north of the Luohe River, the two fiefdoms of Beiyang and Lieshan form a barrier, one on the left and one on the right.

To the south of the Luohe River, with Luocheng as the center, Delta New Village and Chongduhe Mining City as the central areas of the satellite cities, the construction is in full swing.