The strategy of huddling together for warmth passed the tribal decision of the natives, and in the following period, it also received corresponding results. After the first few temptations, and feeling the determination of the natives to resist resolutely, those fierce and vicious Ming people never appeared in the vicinity of Bayunbang again.

The natives rejoiced, and Nono's prestige grew. If you don't experience the wind and rain, you don't know how hard it is to live a stable life, and you can lead everyone out of the shadow of the terrifying Ming army.

In contrast, Binay, who was the first to propose and inform the tribes and assemble for Bayunbang, was left out in the cold and could only act as a deputy to Nono, a latecomer. The old man father and son were a little depressed, but Liu Laoxiang didn't care much, and dismissed the two of them a few times.

"Where are things now? The Ming people are fierce, how can they give up if they don't do their best? Don't look at the calm now, it's the Ming army consolidating those that have been eaten in their mouths, and when they have their hands freed, maybe what's going to happen. The tree is a big wind, in the past, our name was sounded, and we were targeted by the Ming people, but now it is the turn of Nuo Nuo, who does not know the height of the sky. ”

He will probably be a Seon lost his horse and know the truth of whether he is blessed or not, and it is very common in the Central Plains to be able to say such a truth, but he is a great wise man in Luzon. When the two natives heard this, they both felt eye-opening, and they nodded their heads at the moment, saying yes again and again, and invisibly, it eliminated a dispute within the natives.

Of course, Liu Laoxiang did it intentionally, even if there was no previous quarrel, he didn't like Nuonuo, or should I say, he hated all the natives. These guys who look like monkeys, and their brains are not as good as monkeys, they can't find the slightest cuteness in their bodies, and if they hadn't changed their minds for a while and tied up with these guys, he wouldn't have used his brains.

Every time he thinks about it now, he can't wait to slap himself a few times, obviously he is an authentic Ming people, seeing Wang Shi coming here, why don't he know how to abandon the dark and turn to the light, and change his past? As a result, he just thought about what was free, and he didn't even care about his family name.

At present, the situation of the natives seems to be good, the Ming army has stopped attacking, and Bayun is as stable as Mount Tai. But the actual situation is extremely bad, the sphere of influence of the natives has been compressed into a small circle centered on Bayunbang, with a radius of only a few dozen miles.

Around this circle, the defense line of the natives is very dense, and in every mile of mountains and forests, there is at least one hundred-man team on the defensive, and in key places, there will even be three or five hundred-man teams, which can be regarded as impenetrable.

However, outside this circle, there are murderous opportunities.

The Ming army did not attack directly, but their hunting party ...... Let's call it that, at least Liu Laoxiang thinks that those Ming troops are hunting, but they are hunting people, and they can catch them, and if they can't catch them, they will kill them if they resist fiercely, what is the difference between this and hunter hunting?

Although few people found their traces, Liu Laoxiang was sure that those hunting teams were patrolling outside the defensive circle, and those who went out of the circle to gather or hunt would disappear from time to time.

The impact of this news is not great, Nuo Nuo and other leaders are all using getting lost as an explanation internally, but Liu Laoxiang is so old and spicy, how can he be fooled by the natives. He thought about it carefully, and he had some conjectures about the origin of the Ming army's hunting team, and he knew that this time he was likely to meet a colleague.

Pirates and bandits are involved in completely different fields, and their skills are different, but everyone is a thief, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are peers. Pirates are good at sailing, jumping ship and cutting people, and the vast sea is their stage; Bandits are good at crossing mountains and forests, sneaking secrets, and ambushing stumbling blocks is their specialty.

Fighting in array, the bandits and natives can only be said to be half a catty and eight taels, and they are all undisciplined rabble. But small-scale town offensive and defensive battles, field ambush warfare, that are the bandits' forte, can gather freely in the mountains and forests, roaring back and forth, even the natives born and raised in Luzon can only be stunned, and can only be these people.

Thinking of the survivors' description, the hunting team's invasion and plundering of them, Liu Laoxiang became more and more sure of his guess, he was not born as a bandit, and he was the kind that changed careers not long ago, how could he be so proficient in robbing houses and houses?

What happened to the Ming court? Where did they find so many people in the green forest, and they also sent Luzon. Is this a distribution? No, certainly not, if they were sent into exile, these people would definitely be passive and sabotage, and they couldn't be as fierce as they are now.

The natives are not sheep, they are also resisting, and while being killed, they also cause considerable damage to the other party. However, the other party turned a blind eye to the danger in it, and dared to attack the natives' brigade with a small number of troops, and the appearance of forgetting life and death would probably only appear on them when facing the yellow, orange, and orange gold.

How could an exiled criminal have such spirit? Besides, the swords in their hands, the leather armor they wore, and the bows and arrows they wore were all of superior workmanship, and they were not at all possessed by exiles.

You know, this is Luzon, a humid and hot climate, which is extremely erosive to the bowstring. A good bow can be used for more than ten years in the Central Plains, and if it is replaced in Luzon, even if it is well maintained, it may not be able to last for two years, and if it catches up with the rainy season, this period will be compressed.

Therefore, the natives rarely used bows and arrows, but preferred to use long-range weapons such as blow arrows.

Blowguns are easy to use, but they have poor range and power, and can only rely on the venom smeared on the arrows to kill enemies. The threat of the natives' long-range weapons was minimized when they encountered an enemy in leather armor armed with a longbow, and their rout was not unrelated.

The equipment of the hunting team is better than that of many guards in the Ming Dynasty, how could such a group of people be exiled? Liu Laoxiang couldn't figure out when the Ming Dynasty had become so tolerant, not only did it not kill a group of bandits who were recruited, but it was also so trusted.

But he knew very well that if he encountered such a group of enemies, the number was not below the natives, the ferocity was far more than them, and there were no troubles about supplies, and the natives would not be lucky.

If you knew this was the case, why bother in the first place? Thinking about it, he couldn't think of a way to break the situation, and Liu Laoxiang could only try his best to appease the internal emotions of the natives, and on the other hand, he worked hard to fight for the share of supplies and preserve his own strength, so as to prepare for a possible breakthrough in the future. The rest can only be left to fate.

The rush was followed by nearly two months of stalemate.

During this period, the hunting party wandered in groups among the mountains and forests around Bayunbang, constantly breaking the record of results. By the beginning of May, the Zheng family hunting team in Jiangnan, which had the most abundant harvest, had achieved nearly 2,000 slaves and thousands of acres of land, which made everyone else envious.

It's useless to be envious, the reason why the Zheng family was able to achieve such results was not because of good luck or effective command, but because their hunting team had a relatively high degree of elite.

All families have private soldiers, whether they are ambitious or not, the huge family business always has to be guarded by some guardians, and these are all professional samurai, and it is normal for the elite level to be higher than the soldiers of the imperial court.

However, whether the elite private soldiers who brought Luzon or not cannot be assessed by the usual standards. The main composition of the Luzon hunting team was the rebels, that is, the heroes from the three mountains and five mountains who rebelled against the king of Ning.

After Wang Shouren broke the main force of King Ning, this rabble was scattered, but they ran away, but in the end, few of them ran away. Wang Shouren's army pursued in pursuit, and local troops from all over the country gathered from all directions, and they had no way to escape, and most of them were eventually taken prisoner.

Thinking of the geographical environment of Luzon mentioned by Xie Hong, Wang Shouren now learned and used it, and with a stroke of his pen, he directly classified these captives into the category of prizes, and made the information provided by Xie Hong public.

As a result, the contribution has one more function, that is, hiring private soldiers, five points of contribution can be exchanged for ten ordinary bandits, or an elite bandit, ten points can be exchanged for a senior ...... Etcetera. At this time, whether to hire or not to hire is the test of everyone's eyesight and pocket.

The Zheng family and the Yang family are almost the same, they are both Xie Hong's hardcores, since the Ningbo Conference, they have been resolutely supporting, and then when instigating officials from all over the country to quell the rebellion, they have performed well, and the contribution will naturally not be less, but the vision of the two families is also similar.

Yang Yong chose to be an expedition, so he spent a lot of money to hire Zeng Wuji; The Zheng family chose to do business, so they really selected a group of elites from all walks of life. Whether the bandits are elite or not depends not on how good the martial arts are, but on other skills, especially tracking and finding traces, and stumbling to sneak attack.

This is the case with a bandit named Yang Chao under Master Zheng, this person's nose is comparable to that of a hunting dog, his eyes are brighter than an owl, he can smell the smell of the natives from afar, and he can infer the traces of the excavators with some clues that others can't notice at all.

The land that colonial merchants could occupy had to be inhabited by native people, and according to the size of the tribe, the land within a certain area of the settlement would be assigned to the attacker. Therefore, finding the natives and attacking them became the key to the size of the capture, which is why the hunting party rushed forward at the beginning, and the land occupied was innumerable without fighting.

With Yang Chao here, the Zheng family's team made rapid progress, made discoveries one after another, and after razing several small tribes, they also found a big target at the end of the armor. Zheng Twelve, who led the team, was not greedy for merit, knowing that his family had some difficulties in eating, he turned around and went back, and found another partner, and the two families agreed on a distribution plan, joined forces, and directly took the tribe.

After this incident, the businessmen also have a new understanding of the important surname of vision, and the bandits who have changed jobs also have a greater motivation.

Although these people are private soldiers, their status is still prisoners of the imperial court, but unlike ordinary exiles, they can make meritorious atonements, get out of this identity, and even turn over and join the ranks of the governor's palace.

Their contribution is based on results, but is also judged by their employers and recognized by their peers. Of course, the champion Hou has always been known for his fairness and order, as long as he does his best, the Governor's Mansion will definitely not do anything to swallow up the merits, and the rules behind it are just to ensure fairness.

With such a rule first, the employer will generally not be stingy with rewards, and the morale of the hunting team will naturally rise, and the positive surname is even higher than when he rebelled against King Ning.

Doing the same job, but the benefits really fall on everyone's head, not to mention the opponents they face are not the same, compared to the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, the natives of Luzon are too weak, and it is very suitable to make meritorious contributions.

(To be continued)