Chapter 30: Recruitment
The center of the news transmission from the dark stakes spilled by the Yellow Sand Thieves was not in Black Eagle Town, but in a border town in Western Xia, a hundred miles to the east.
After returning to Moon Lake, Bai Qi immediately sent Heinrich to retrieve the backlog of news.
After sorting out these news, Bai Qi found that during the time he was transferred to the Gobi, the nine space teams that had listened to his advice and planned to join forces to complete the task of "Horse Thief Leader", which had not completely failed, had achieved great results.
Among them, the five space soldiers who originally had the identity of the leader of a certain horse thief group, but failed in the "horse thief leader" mission, and were driven out of the horse thief group by the second leader of the indigenous people under his command, have regained their leadership position.
With these five horse thief gangs as their backing, there should be no suspense for the remaining four space soldiers to seize control of their horse thief gang.
What is surprising is that it is not only the five space warrior teams that left from Bai Qi who have successfully restored, but also two little-known space teams.
And what helped them was the two large teams that Bai Qi had contacted before, like him, who had successfully completed the task of "Horse Thief Leader" at the beginning.
Frowning, he flipped through the letters in his hand several times before Bai Qi put them away.
Just when Bai Qi was recruiting troops and horses, reorganizing his subordinates, and was busy, Humore's envoy Bilegh arrived.
Bai Qi received him very warmly and ceremoniously and accepted the gifts he brought.
After listening to the other party's offer to reduce the share occupied by Black Eagle Town by one percent, Bai Qi said that he planned to let Moon Lake out and share it with several horse thieves.
At first, Bilegg thought it was incredible. But after listening to the other party's general explanation, I suddenly felt that the other party's idea was extremely wise. I admired it even more in my heart, and I promised it again and again. When you go back, you must convince the leader to support Bai Qi and use Moon Lake as the main market for Humore's horse traders in the future.
The two sides talked happily, and the next day, Bai Qi sealed a gift that was more valuable than the one brought by Bileg, and let him take it back.
In the next few days, Bai Qi first selected three hundred of the strongest and most warlike horse thieves from the original more than seven hundred horse thieves as the backbone of the next army expansion.
Among the remaining more than 400 horse thieves, Bai Qi selected some of his old subordinates or people who were close to him, and gathered enough for a hundred people. Together with the remaining more than 300 horse thieves, he handed it over to the second master and let him choose.
In the end, the remaining 200 old and weak people who were selected by the second master, Bai Qi handed them all over to the captain, and asked him to select more than 200 people from the herdsmen who came to join the Black Eagle and were eliminated because of insufficient conditions, and made up 500 people.
The captain took the five hundred men and hurried to select the remaining thousand horses, and went to the Yellow Horse Oasis first.
This time. The merchants who fled Moon Lake returned one after another.
After dealing with some trivial matters, Bai Qi began to wholeheartedly rectify the newly recruited horse thieves.
Bai Qi had in his mind a whole set of systematic methods for training, commanding various types of armies in the era of cold weapons, purchased from space.
Arguably. The space soldiers who enter this space may have a richer understanding of the training and command knowledge of the cold weapon army than the famous generals of any era. Because it's so easy to get.
However, it's one thing to know. Whether it can be applied in practice is another matter.
Bai Qi tames this group of newly recruited horse thieves. The method used is very simple and crude, and that is fists.
During this time, Bai Qi recruited a total of five third-rate masters, that is, second-level martial artists.
Two of the five men were themselves leaders of a small group of horse thieves.
One of them, Dalma, is said to be a fugitive slave from Tibet, and his martial arts seem to have come from the Tantric Lamaist sect. One is named Xiao Shannu, who is a ruined aristocrat of the Western Liao Kingdom.
There were more than 150 people under the two of them, and after Bai Qi picked and selected, only more than 30 strong and fierce ones were left, and the remaining more than 120 people were all stuffed to the captain and taken to the Yellow Horse Grassland.
There are also two third-rate masters who are young wandering swordsmen, one of them is from the Great Song Dynasty, named Zhao Mingcheng, who claimed to have fled to the northwest because he killed corrupt officials.
A man named Li Yuancheng claimed to be a fugitive Western Xia officer, and Bai Qi did not hesitate to accept the two.
There is also a third-rate master from the Mongolian steppe, a failed tribe of Baihu, named Mo Rigen, whose original tribe was annexed by the enemy and fled from the Mongolian steppe with only more than thirty horsemen.
Mo Rigen is not only not weak in martial arts, but also very good at riding and shooting, and his thirty Mongolian riders are all brave and good at shooting, Bai Qi is naturally overjoyed and happily accepts it.
On the first day of joining the Black Eagles, these five third-rate masters all received the same treatment, that is, they were defeated by Bai Qi in seconds.
Whenever a master joins, Bai Qi will recruit all horse thieves and compete with the new master in the middle of the camp courtyard.
Every time he competed, the tricks used by Bai Qi did not change, "rage", "charge", "heavy attack", and then ...... And then there was no more, a second-level martial artist, no one could stand this set of combos after Bai Qi's rage......
After several competitions, Bai Qi's reputation among ordinary horse thieves was greatly improved again, and he established his invincible image.
A week later, Bai Qi recruited five hundred elites according to the plan, together with the three hundred old men selected before, a total of eight hundred.
Bai Qi carried out a thorough rectification of these 800 elites, he first selected the 100 best cavalry archers from these 800 elites, handed them over to the command of the new Mongolian master Mo Rigen, and appointed Huang Mao as his deputy.
Huang Mao, as a dark ranger, is the only two professional shooter professions in the space, and riding and archery is naturally not a problem, and the dark ranger and the ranger even have a magic technique called "mobile shooting", so that the ranger has dynamic vision and a strong sense of balance for a certain period of time, in terms of riding and archery, ordinary people can't match it at all.
Bai Qi deliberately arranged for him and Mo Rigen to have an archery competition, and Huang Mao, who had the help of divine arts, won easily, which not only won him a high reputation among horse thieves, but also made him gain the respect of Mo Rigen, in the eyes of the grassland people, riding and archery is always the most important martial art.
Bai Qi equipped these hundred cavalrymen with two hundred of the best Mongol war horses and kept them as his own soldiers.
After that, Bai Qi selected two hundred of the strongest ones from the remaining seven hundred elites, and prepared to equip them with heavy armor, horse armor, and excellent Western Regions war horses to form a heavy cavalry.
In this era, the most elite heavy cavalry in the Central Plains was in the hands of the Jin people, known as the Iron Floating Massacre.
If you want to deal with the iron cavalry of the Jin Kingdom, it is absolutely impossible to do it without a heavy cavalry in your hand. (To be continued......)