According to the caravan, as well as Aya's experience, Luo Ming concluded that the number of people who could fight in this tribe would not exceed a hundred at most, and even if all the young women were counted, it would only be two hundred.

If the people who attacked the caravan were all the strong men of their tribe, then the number of warriors in this tribe might be only forty or fifty.

Although Luo Ming's population of more than 10,000 people includes many mountain people who have not yet fully returned to their hearts and are not subject to control, they seem to be a little fat, and many manpower is difficult to use.

But only the part that can be used, there are hundreds of regular troops alone, and thousands of people can be mobilized to the limit.

There is no doubt that this is a time when the big bullies the small and the strong attack the weak. Since this is the case, it is necessary to use more prudent means, not to rush forward, and to give the enemy a chance to fight big with a small one.

After some deliberation, he found that his previous considerations also had some misunderstandings-

"Where did you hear that the nomads were comparable to the professional hussars, and that the realities did not allow them to use too good tactics. ”

Aya almost squirted out the tea, coughed twice, and then looked at Luo Mingdao angrily and funny.

Luo Ming scratched his head and said with a smile: "I haven't received a professional military education, and I haven't studied so many war history books, don't expect me to be as knowledgeable as you." ”

"That's just as well. I'll just take it as if you're complimenting me. Aya snorted, but there was more of a smile on her face, "Then let me teach you!"

As she spoke, she conjured up a whole set of teaching aids in this mental space, including projectors and laser teaching whips...... made Luo Ming almost think that he was back in school.

"Well, please teach me well, Aya-sensei. ”

After a little praise of Aya, Luo Ming easily got enough information, and a series of orders were issued, and Meiquan's government affairs system began to operate rapidly, exuding the vitality of a new force.

Early in the morning of the third day, an army was ready to go, and the unique equipment designed for the expedition had been prepared.

Luo Ming put on a lightweight set of paper-steel mixed armor, put on an overcoat, turned on his horse, and circled in front of the neatly arranged soldiers, and then raised his long sword.

The soldiers raised their spears together, shouted three times, and then, obeying the orders of the officers, they formed into columns in an orderly manner and set out on the road to the battle.

Unlike usual, this time there were many more wheelbarrows and carriages in the army.

Luo Ming had been vigorously promoting wheelbarrows on the territory, a simple and easy-to-use tool that allowed a person to carry more things around, and was widely used on construction sites and logistics to increase efficiency. As soon as he said a word, forty carts were immediately transferred.

And this time he also concentrated as many freight carriages in the territory as possible, and gathered a full twelve.

Since the enemy to face was only a group of nomads and would not have too sophisticated equipment, Luo Ming ordered the soldiers to remove all the iron armor and replace it with lighter paper armor, such as solid bullets.

These three measures greatly increased the carrying capacity of Luo Ming's team, so Luo Ming simply asked the main force to directly carry enough food supplies to eat for five days, even if it did not rely on logistics at all, as long as there was no accident - it would take less than five days to kill the tribe and then come back.

In addition to that, he brought some secret weapons with him......

March 11, half past five in the afternoon.

It's already the second day of departure, and according to yesterday's experience, the sun is not as bright as it was at noon, and it will become dim in about an hour.

Luo Ming immediately gave an order for the whole army to camp on the spot, and after yesterday's practice, the soldiers became more proficient, and soon, the camp appeared in rudiment.

At the same time, he also gave the order for the hot air balloon to be raised.

Dressed in a simple cloth suit, Luo Ming took off all his armor, weapons, and overcoat, and after losing as much weight as possible, he boarded the miniature version of the hot air balloon and rose to a height of sixty meters above the ground.

He held a monocular telescope in front of his eyes, and with his already extremely keen eyesight and the height of the hot air balloon, his field of vision instantly expanded to more than ten kilometers away.

Of course, if he were asked to find a person from such a distance, he would not be able to see clearly, but he was not looking at a single person, but at the tents and herds of nomadic herdsmen.

Nomads could not live in the open air, and there would certainly be simple structures such as yurts and tents to shelter from the wind and rain, and although such structures were simple, they were generally not too small.

And nomads can't drink the northwest wind every day, one of their main sources of food is animal husbandry, meat and dairy products, then there must be a large herd, and if the main sheep are raised, it is not surprising that there are a dozen sheep per capita.

It is not surprising, then, that a tribe has hundreds of sheep, and such a large flock can be spread out in hundreds or thousands of square meters.

Twenty minutes passed, even Luo Ming, who was wearing a thin cloth coat and staying in the air, felt a little cold, and at this moment, a small gray-white patch that was not exactly the same color as the ground came into his eyes.

He didn't dare to slack off, and searched around the white shift again, and vaguely saw a few tiny protrusions, and the white shift also fluctuated slightly, moving a little bit.

You can't be wrong, it's a nomadic tribe over there!

Luo Ming spent another ten minutes jot down the nearby landforms and other information, and then directly slid down a rope from the hot air balloon, and when he was still five meters above the ground, he simply let go of the rope and jumped down, startling the people next to him.

Although his foot hurt a little when he landed, the excitement in his heart blew this insignificant unpleasantness away from the clouds.

One of the attendants handed Luo Ming a pen and paper, and he immediately sketched down the road, landforms, and directions leading to that side from memory, and then took out a rough map and compared it.

The map was drawn with the help of Ariana, and although the map she remembered in her head was probably antique from decades ago, some key landforms, such as hills and rivers, should not have changed much, as the march confirmed.

"This distance...... It can be done!" Luo Ming couldn't help but smile, waved his hand and ordered, "Pass the order, eat and sleep immediately, and fully ensure your physical strength! At three o'clock tonight, start the night march!"