Since he led an army of more than 2,000 people to the battle, Yang Li felt that he had finally broken away from the category of village chief.

Because it is very difficult for a village to pull out so many men who can endure hardships and are willing to fight.

After four days of walking north, the army ate horses and chewed a lot, and the reason why the war was always avoided by the agrarian peoples was obvious.

The first to go to war were men in the prime of life, who were the main producers of the land, and when these people left the land to go to war, the material produced would inevitably decline.

Secondly, the daily diet of the army, plus the food consumed by the baggage team along the way, adds up to a considerable amount, and the consumption of baggage will increase exponentially with the farther and farther of the journey.

Production is reduced here, consumption is consumed there, and the pressure of war on a regime can be imagined.

Of course, men who returned from war could easily attain high status in ancient society.

There are more men killed in the war, and the ratio of men and women in the regime is uneven, and after World War II, Mao Mei's country-age men have greatly decreased, and the remaining boys are all sought-after.

At the same time, during the war, the priorities of the social productive forces shifted, and the status of people who were good in finance and strong in business all plummeted, and the social status that they climbed up in a few years or even decades may not rise as fast as a warrior who fought bravely to kill the enemy.

There is a saying in ancient Han family that fame needs to be taken from a horse, and this is the truth.

The people of Los Angeles understand this.

The current middle-level ruling class is all old subordinates who fought with Yang Jiao back then, and their desire for war has increased day by day over the past year.

At the beginning, Wang Ergou killed fewer enemies than Song Dagang, and the land and slaves he received were also less.

Over the course of the year, Wang Ergou worked hard, not only practiced hard to fight with shields and swords, but also taught his three sons and two daughters martial arts, and gave all the rough work to slaves to do.

Wang Ergou felt that he must be stronger than Song Dagang, and that he should have more land, more hard servants, and more women.

Of course, now they are not called hard laborers, and the chief of Yang has liberated them, although they are still under their own jurisdiction, but they are called tenant farmers...... It's really strange to say, under Ergou's own whip, these hard labor prisoners seem to be squeezed clean, but they didn't expect that once they were independently allocated to the land, they could produce more than double the amount of materials, and I really had to marvel at the foresight of the leader of Yang Da.

Ergou couldn't wait to change the status quo, but he knew that without war, his own resources and his social status would never be able to catch up with Song Dagang.

Only by proving himself in war will the chief give more land, more people.

Moreover, before this expedition, the great leader had clearly announced that the feudal lord with outstanding combat records would have the opportunity to obtain the qualification of the Ripping Soil Feudal Marquis!

What does it mean, that is, the newly beaten land will also form a feudal lord, and the lord of it will naturally be appointed to those who have performed outstandingly.

Yang Jiao waited for this day, and he waited for a long time, and his marching speed was very fast, because the quality of the soldiers was really beyond imagination.

These people, these middle-aged men from the Hewan tribe and the Xuanyuan tribe, were still in the survival mode of combining fishing and hunting with agriculture last year.

Not long ago, they had little food and clothing, and it was difficult to make a fire, and they fought desperately against nature, chasing deer in the wasteland, and fighting wild bears and jackals were commonplace, and they were actually barbarians in the eyes of later civilizations.

But these peoples, who were half fishing, hunting, and half farming, often became the most fierce conquerors in the history of civilization, and they could run for a whole day, and even those who fell on the march were silent, and they fell behind in the wilderness, and the next day they could catch up with the instincts of beasts, and many of them may be unfamiliar with shields and short swords, but throwing javelins and axes is called a throw.

In the barbarian era, the beast instinct of human beings has not faded, and some of it has been retained in them, and this instinct has been most embodied in the bloody battle.

The small villages along the way were simply unable to stand up to an army of 1,000 men, and were basically threatened by the patrol to surrender - they had no loyalty to the Black Blood Clan in the first place.

However, the army carried a heavy load, and even if everyone was in good health, the speed could not be fast, so the lords who were anxious to make meritorious contributions appeared.

It was said that Yang Li was drawing a map in the tent, Xue Bijiang was standing on the side with a constipated face, the door of the tent was opened with a bang, and a tall and thin figure broke in.

Yang Li looked up, hey, it's Falcon Wing, and the outsiders who can be put in directly by the guards without hindrance are the only ones, so he put down the pen with a smile: "What's the matter?" ”

"Big Chief, we are still grinding in this bird place, seeing that the people of the Black Blood Clan have fled to Yeshan Mountain to gather, if we don't hurry up to attack at this time, when their number increases more and more, it will be difficult to fight again!" Hayabusa wiped the sweat from his head and moved his legs uneasily.

Falcon Wing got two horses in the original horse catching operation, but it couldn't be domesticated, so it was still transported over and brought back after Xue Bijiang got it, these two horses are so precious, even the treatment of his own son is not as good as them, this time he applied to be the vanguard of the army, but was stopped by Yang Li.

The interests of the lords of each family must be distributed reasonably, and one family cannot be allowed to dominate, otherwise it will be unfair to the leader of his own family.

So Hayabusa was in charge of reconnaissance around the perimeter.

When encountering sparsely populated and weakly defended villages, you can threaten and pacify, and if you don't comply, you can go down with a blow.

If you encounter a settlement with a large population and defenses, then scout the terrain, try to contact their leader, see if you are determined to stand on the side of the black blood clan, if you plan to fight, remember, and then report to Yang Li.

Therefore, Hayabusa knows the surrounding situation well.

He asked Yang Jiao to fight, and he was full of confidence.

Yang Jiao got up from behind the table, walked around the tent a few times, shook his head and said, "No, don't fight for the time being." ”

The reason for not fighting is very simple, there are dozens of small tribes scattered on the land north of the Great River, and now that Yang Li's army is pressing the border, it is a good time to distinguish their tendencies.

Those who surrendered to Los Angeles naturally had many wall-headed grass and even half-hearted people, but the tribes that ran to the place called Yeshan in front of them must be loyal to the black blood clan.

If Yang Jiao marched to capture Yeshan now, then the tribes that should have gathered would have scattered and fled, and they didn't know where they went, and the army of more than 2,000 people was already a great scale in the barbarian era, but when it was thrown into the endless river-Fenshui Basin, it was just a drop in the ocean, where to divide how many people to find the fleeing tribes.

So Yang Li's goal is to catch them all.

Of course, there is another reason, Falcon Wing's power is currently the most powerful among the lords, if he succeeds in the battle and goes up to take Yeshan, then this land should be divided among him after the war.

But as for the other lords, the battle exploits are relatively small.

The Matthew effect, in which the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker, is a phenomenon that Yang Li doesn't want to see.

"Go back, brother, this battle has just begun, and it will be time for you to perform in the future!" Yang Li smiled and sent Hayabusa out of the tent.

Next, Zhang Dengyun and Yongshi also came to ask for battle.

Everyone can see that although Yeshan has a large population, it is the external border of the black blood clan after all, and the elite combat power is less, so it is the fattest piece of meat, who doesn't want to eat it.

Yang Jiao rejected the leader of the Yong clan on the grounds that logistics and waterway supplies were inseparable from boats.

Then you used the reason that you didn't have heavy infantry to attack the fortification, and drove Zhang Dengyun away.

Comrade Dengyun rolled his eyes, nodded again and again, and said that the leader was thoughtful, and my generation was too late, so he respectfully retired.

Xue Bijiang saw that everyone was gone, and he could finally speak: "Leader, why don't you hand over the reconnaissance work to my cavalry team!" ”

The young man was very angry, obviously the cavalry ran fast, one day and one night, a radius of a hundred miles can give you a reconnaissance, why did he hand over the reconnaissance task to Falcon Wing, and he also tied himself to the vicinity of the big tent, except for marching and daily necessary training, he couldn't do anything.

If you can't do it, the daily training has actually reduced the weight.

Not to mention the reduction in portion, the meat in the food has increased greatly, and seeing that the guards under his command have gained a little weight, Xue Bijiang is worried in his heart.

When you get fat, can you still carry the war horses, charge fast enough, and most importantly, take a group of fat people back after the battle, and they can still get the favor of the children of Los Angeles in the future. 、

Xue Pijiang really did his best for the Guards.

Yang Jiao slapped the table and knocked: "You still think of yourself as a hunter, do you think that you only have a big gun and a horse now than you hunted back then?" ”

"What else can I do?" Xue Pijiang was not convinced.

Yang Jiao returned to the map and sat down: "Come, you said, the physique of the war horse now can withstand several charges, the kind that rushes into the dense formation of infantry." ”

"Three times."

"That's right, horsepower is limited. So how many times can you go out to reconnoiter within a radius of thirty miles? ”

"Twice a day."

"How long do you have to rest after the scout?"

Xue Bijiang probably understood what Yang Jiao meant, but he just didn't accept it: "Probably...... Quite a while? ”

"you, just rest for half a day, the horses will lose weight, now the war horses are fed with grain, just eat grass, and they can still be expected to rush into battle with you and your equipment in the decisive battle?!"

"Okay...... But we've got to do something. The boy scratched his head.

"Horses can't move, people can, so when I have nothing to do, I will fight with guns and wrestle and fencing near my tent, so that others can see the level of the pacesetter." Yang Li thought to himself that since these hot-blooded teenagers couldn't be idle, they should symbolically give something to do.

Halfway through the map, the man I was waiting for finally came.

The guards announced, Xuanyuan surprised, please see.

Yang Li said hurry up, please!

Comrade Jingdou looked left and right into the leader's tent, he seemed to be a little worried in his heart, his eyelids were swollen, his cheeks were blue, it seemed that he didn't sleep well last night, he came in and saw Yang Jiao sitting on it, and hurriedly saluted, then took a step, walked forward, bowed his head and said: "Leader Yang, I want to ask for orders to attack Yeshan ......"

"Huh?" Yang Jiao was concentrating on drawing, when he was suddenly startled, raised his head and said, "Comrade Jingdou, what did you say?" ”

"I, I want to be the vanguard and attack Ye Mountain!" Xuanyuan was covered with sweat on his head, and it was not easy for him to make this determination.

I saw Yang Jiao throw down the pen, step forward in three steps and two steps, hold Jingdou's hand and say, "Good comrade!" I'm worried that there is no general in the striker, and the other lords are all useless, so I shirk it in every way, and you appeared, it's a good time, this vanguard, let you go first! ”

Under the surprise on the face of the startling bean, Yang Jiao was thinking in his heart, the warriors of the Xuanyuan tribe still need a little experience, this battle out of the novice village can be regarded as upgrading them, this rookie lord can just get a little command experience.