This impromptu and whimsical battlefield competition was held for five days in one go. There are about 3,000 to 4,000 people from all over the world who think they have some skills, etc., and they can participate in it by simply signing up.

Because according to our mature design, as long as you sign up, you can get a penny of treatment fees, and then you can double it through a selection competition; After the third round of elimination, there are additional prizes that increase gradually; Therefore, although the venue and equipment are relatively simple, the followers are still extremely enthusiastic.

Although more than a dozen people were killed and injured during the period, Huaidong Town and Luo Fan still became the two biggest winners. And the melon subcontracted the horse racing and horse fighting; Foot fighting, heads-up and group fighting; archery fixed and swimming targets; As well as the bulk of the horse step group mixed battle winners.

Because, under the leadership of the organizers, more than 20 other princes, large and small, also had to bleed heavily to retain or win over those athletes who performed well in the competition.

After accumulating dozens of competitions, in the end, we recruited about 47 outstanding shooters with corresponding treatment and positions, so that we can consider developing in the chasseur team;

There are one hundred and twenty-nine infantry fighters with outstanding martial arts, whether they are selected as close guards or sent to the garrison camp, and they also have a good foundation as the leaders of the white soldiers.

In addition, almost half of the participants in the horse war are covered, which is all the objects that we can recruit.

Because those who have the ability and conditions to participate in the horse war are basically from the corresponding wealthy families above the national and tribal levels, and after achieving a good ranking in the horse war, they will also give priority to accepting the solicitation from the clan or the local big forces of the alliance led by the Luo clan.

Among them, there is a red-haired guy named Liu Tang, who is particularly impressive; It is said that he was a descendant of the Tunis people from the land of Jiankun, the capital of Beiting, and his ancestors came to Andong as a naturalized citizen, so he was born with reddish hair and raised horses for generations in the Yu domain of Kobe Prefecture.

And he actually signed up and entered at the same time, the top ten of the horse battle group and heads-up, and the twenty-seventh place of the horse step melee. And it was later learned that his horse was actually borrowed from someone else temporarily.

But it didn't prevent me from giving him the title of lieutenant after I had settled his own domain.

Therefore, he set an example, after the settling-in allowance and the money for treatment were distributed like splashing water; The biggest gain is the more than 800 Anton cavalry gathered under my command, as well as several times the number of cavalry auxiliaries;

If you are not very picky, you can also make up the foundation of a reserve cavalry battalion. Compared to the previous expenses, those thousands of dollars and the same value of goods are simply worth the money.

After all, this is not a traditional strategy game, as long as you click a little resource, you can immediately appear cavalry that can fight. In reality, raising qualified war horses and training corresponding cavalry requires resources and cycles that cannot be bought with this amount of money.

That is, taking advantage of this suitable opportunity and situation, the biggest bargain that can be stood.

Looking back at these drums and trumpets according to the abbreviated flag, galloping in groups in the wilderness, facing various preset targets and opposing defense lines, a ** charge into battle.

I can't help but sigh at the imagination.

That's the cavalry I need; In ancient times, it was said that cavalry could be separated and combined; can disperse energy sets; A hundred miles for a period of time, a thousand miles to go; In and out of the seamless, hence the name of the clutch soldiers.

All in all, it is to use the battlefield mobility far beyond the infantry to obtain the corresponding initiative or field control ability under the sufficient depth and space for operation. As long as the logistics can keep up, the cavalry can always choose their enemies and battlefields according to their needs.

With the source of this batch of Anton cavalry, I can finally point the development line of standard cavalry from the dragoons (mounted infantry) and light cavalry, which have temporarily developed to a bottleneck in the technology tree of the military branch.

And there is no need to use all kinds of painstaking efforts for the use of the rather precious three battalions of chasseurs.

Although I am currently under the jurisdiction of Huaidong, although through the looting of the areas controlled by the Northern Dynasties and the robbery of the Fanhu forces that entered the Central Plains indiscriminately, I have obtained a lot of cattle, horses, donkeys, mules and other large animals, among which the male and female foals together are claimed to have **10,000 stock horses, but the proportion of war horses that charge into battle is very small;

Not to mention the corresponding matching cavalry training. At present, it is still relying on those prisoners of the Northern Dynasty and Fanbu who have been reformed? As an imaginary enemy as a confrontation and tempering. Therefore, the efficiency of sparring is good, but as the basis for the development of cavalry, it is somewhat unsatisfactory.

For example, in the early Tang Dynasty of the previous dynasty, there were already hundreds of thousands of livestock and horses, and many feudal departments that were good at raising horses and riding were also restrained; And after a short period of life and gathering, there is enough capital to easily pull out a vast cavalry army;

Then he went deep into the grassland again and again to chase the dead and chase the north to outflank the raids, and beat those grassland overlords and regional strongmen, and they scattered and ran to Chang'an to call the father of the heavenly khan.

As for the civil war insider, the foreign war outsider, Ma Zheng made a mess of filth and was blown to the sky by Song fans; No matter how high the victory rate of foreign wars they boast is, they can't change the fact that their two legs are blocked by people with four legs at the door of their homes, and they are passively beaten according to their heads.

With this temporary battlefield competition as an end, the time for the coalition to stay in Liaoxi County has also begun to enter the countdown.

As the saying goes, life is always scattered and separated, of course, I hope that this situation of benefiting a lot can be maintained, and it is best to drag it out for a year and a half, maybe the military spending gap in Huaidong Town within ten years will be settled.

Of course, nothing in the world can be completely satisfactory, and through the previous stage of the battle, I have already reaped a lot of benefits and benefits from Luo Fan, either directly or indirectly.

In the past six months, it can be regarded as a happy cooperation.

Now there is only a relatively successful conclusion left, so that this overall mutually beneficial alliance relationship can continue to operate more in the long run.

Summer is now in the blink of an eye, and the weather is getting hotter, but the agricultural production in the southern part of Andong Province has also been seriously affected by the war.

It is already foreseeable that it is not only the land of western Liaoning that is already destined for large-scale desertion and famine, but also the corresponding wave of flight. Even in the territory of the alliance of the princes, because of the withdrawal of a large number of young and strong people in the spring cultivation season, there will be more or less poor harvests and reduced yields.

Of course, the multi-year background of the Anton Luo Domain is completely bearable, and the princely forces of those allies and vassals are compensated to varying degrees.

Of course, this is not completely unconditional support, but a gradual process accompanied by a series of behind-the-scenes negotiations and compromises, at the cost of Roche's growing authority and influence.

For example, in the context of further integration of military forces in the alliance and the corresponding pace of economic activity, the prospect of greater dominance and discourse power of the Luo Fan is expected.

At the same time, the exploration and mapping teams that are operating in the two prefectures in southwestern Liaoning have also returned with preliminary information.

Since he has made up his mind to accept these two pieces of territory from Luo Fan, he must use them as the edge of influence extended by Huaidong, and take a good look at and naturalize them, and operate them as part of the long-term layout.

At present, distributed in the territory of five counties and seven cities in Panzhou and Jinzhou combined, although most of them are mountainous and hilly, but in the irregular funnel-shaped coastal plain with a north-south trend, it is a very superior traditional farming area, which has a history of operation and development by ancestors since the Qin and Han dynasties;

Bounded by the Xiaoqing River at the southern end and the Songshan Fort, the remaining vein of Songling on the northern line, there are about 110,000 hectares of ready-made cultivated land in the two states; Among them, more than 10,000 are high-quality paddy fields for planting rice, and the rest are mainly dry fields for planting wheat, beans, melons and potatoes; There are also large orchards, woods and pastures.

Because it is a typical temperate monsoon climate with high temperature and rain in summer and cold and little rain in winter, sunshine and precipitation are in line with the rain and heat required for agricultural production.

Therefore, in the household registration field books of the past dynasties copied by the state capital Longcheng, the yield per mu of fields is even higher than that of most of the states and counties in Huaidong that I own; That is, a small number of agricultural areas along the Huai River such as Xuzhou and Sizhou can be compared.

As the rear of the Xue clan against the princes of Andong in a corner of western Liao, it has also been carefully managed and developed, and it can be said that there is not much room for new reclamation except for some really barren slopes, tidal flats, saline-alkali land, and swamps.

As for the mineral deposits, there is a bit of scarcity, except for a few self-produced clay and lime pits, which have not been found for the time being.

However, there are several ready-made hot spring villages on the edge of the mountains. They are all sanatoriums built by members of the Xue family for generations. Therefore, as long as it is slightly renovated and expanded, it can be used as a benefit for veterans and non-commissioned officers in the army, and they can be arranged to come over for vacation on a regular basis.

You can start to recruit displaced people and fugitive villagers, and organize people from Huaidong to resume production; Although the spring ploughing season is missed, it is still possible to rush to plant some short-growing and fast-growing varieties such as jicama melons and vegetables with limited yields, so as not to waste soil resources.

Because of the land, the township chief, the town manager and other subordinate grass-roots units were almost destroyed or abandoned and fled into the mountains in the process of burning and plundering by the princes' coalition army. Therefore, in the coastal plains, military cantonment areas and labor camps will be the norm for a long time to come.

In terms of organizational form and collective efficiency, Huaidong is already quite familiar with this kind of thing. In a sense, this piece of land across the sea is also the first time that our forces have reached out to Andong Road, the preliminary test of the water and the social practice of the business model.

When the construction and reinforcement of the fortifications along the Xiaoqing River is completed, I can transfer most of the garrison forces of the Liaodong Peninsula here, plus a number of newly formed garrison regiments, as the main force to monitor and defend the direction of Pinglu Daoyingzhou. Digest this new territory with long-term stability.