Since it's a scout, you don't need heavy armor.

Li Yue divided the more than 500 sets of heavy armor captured into three parts, 150 sets of Wei Shan, 100 sets of Cui Jin, 50 sets of Tian Leopard, and more than 70 sets of other leaders combined, and kept more than 100 sets for himself.

Zhou Lian concentrated on the affairs of the mountain, and had little interest in going into battle, and the iron armor was returned.

Li Yue knew that he was moving closer to him, so he didn't persuade him much.

Bows and arrows, long and short knives, leather armor, etc., were distributed among the scouts.

Each scout had a bow and arrow, a long knife, a short knife, a pair of leather armor, and a sheepskin pouch for water.

Although Meng Kai left, his more than 30 war horses remained and were offered on the mountain like treasures.

Scout training is free, and there isn't much territory in the mountains.

Those who can survive the fight have a sense of death and don't need any training.

Li Yue directly assigned the task, a group of five, while hunting, while finding out the surrounding mountains.

Of course, there is more than one Heiyun Mountain in the Funiu Mountains, there are Song Mountain in the southeast, Laojun Mountain and Shiren Mountain in the west, and there are Pi Mountain, Bear's Ear Mountain, Waifang Mountain and so on in the north, which is the watershed of the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and the Huai River.

The area is extremely vast, and I don't know how many thieves and homeless people are hidden in the mountains.

Every morning, Li Yue prepared dry food and water for them, and the scouts sharpened their bows and knives.

The mountains are the best testing ground, and there are countless jackals, tigers and leopards in the mountains.

But I didn't expect it to be pulled across on the first day.

Li Yue mistakenly underestimated the difficulty of the mountain, the road is rugged, and the weather in May is full of poisonous snakes, insects and ants.

The mountains became more and more humid due to continuous heavy rains, and these things were flooded.

Mosquitoes, in particular, can suck a person dry.

Two people were bitten to death by poisonous snakes, and three were taken by tigers and leopards.

One of the scouts was also besieged by wolves......

Almost a third of the people were injured, and some walked too many mountain roads, and their legs were swollen like steamed buns.

Someone has a trouser leg of a mountain locust that burrows into the flesh and has to pick it out with a knife......

But even in such a harsh environment, there were still people who returned with a full load, and five people came back with three or four hundred catties of wild boars.

Wolves and leopards also hunted more than a dozen.

The most numerous were hares, pheasants, and foxes, and there were more than a hundred.

If you want to eat meat, you can only ask for it from the mountains.

Li Yue was healing his wounds while chatting with the scouts.

Most people are more optimistic, jackals, tigers, leopards, snakes, insects, rats and ants are not as ferocious and vicious as the people, they have long looked down on life and death, and their greatest wish is to be able to eat a mouthful of salted meat every day.

Li Yue summed it up, the jackals, tigers and leopards are fine, and a team of scouts is enough to deal with it.

The key is that mountain locusts, poisonous snakes, and mosquitoes hide under the leaves, and as soon as people touch them, they stick to their bodies.

Mosquitoes are easy to deal with, there are a lot of calamus and wormwood on the mountain, burned into ashes, coated all over the body, can prevent mosquito bites.

Mountain locusts and poisonous snakes are not easy to deal with, they are entrenched in branches and leaves, have camouflage colors, pass by, and hit directly by their legs and feet.

Looking at their empty trouser legs, Li Yue's heart moved, and he tied leggings for them, and tied them up with strips of cloth from the ankles one by one, until the entire calf was tied.

It can prevent snakes and insects from burrowing into the trouser legs, prevent thorns and branches from pricking, and can also effectively relieve calf soreness on long journeys.

The soldiers of later generations relied on this hand to climb snow-capped mountains and cross grasslands.

Li Yue then taught several first aid measures for those bitten by poisonous snakes, mainly tying up the upper end of the wound, then bleeding, and then hurriedly returning to the cottage.

The effect came out on the second day.

The casualties were greatly reduced, only two were attacked by the mountain leopards, and they were slightly injured, and the scouts went farther, bringing back almost twice as much prey as yesterday, which was enough to meet the meat supply of the scout camp.

In less than five days, the scouts gradually gained experience, adapted to the mountains and forests, and explored larger and larger areas.

There are many kinds of prey in the mountains, flying in the sky, running on the ground, and everywhere.

Meat can not only supply itself, but also evenly distribute it to Wei Shan and Cui Jin.

When people eat meat, they have strength, and the scouts' bodies have become stronger, and their archery, knife skills, and coordination have improved significantly.

On the ninth day, a scout finally found a camp camp, where more than 500 men, women, and children were crowded together, all of whom were people from Yuzhou in the Central Plains who were fleeing the war, plowing and hunting in the mountains, and also built a small dock fort.

Life was good, and the scouts saw cows and mules.

One of the great benefits of escaping into the mountains is that everyone is self-reliant and free from burdensome taxes and servitude.

The Western Jin Dynasty is taxed, those who have no cattle, the officials are eight and the people are two, and those who have cattle are the seven officials and the people are three......

That is, the income from farming, seventy or eighty percent goes to the government, and two or three percent are their own, and the field endowment is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is the forced labor, tired and tired, and you have to bring your own food......

"What are you waiting for, just swallow them!" Tian Leopard has a soft spot for robbing homes and houses.

Li Yue thought that Zhou Lian and Cui Jin had read some books and would be soft-hearted, but he didn't expect them to nod in agreement, "This matter should not be delayed!" ”

In troubled times, only the knife is the most efficient, and the pedantic person has long become a dry bone.

Horses have no night grass and no fertilizer, people have no windfall and no wealth, and if Heiyun Mountain wants to grow, it must absorb the population.

The bottom of the mountain was occupied by the dock forts of the powerful surnames, and Li Yue had no chance, so he could only stare at the mountain.

Everyone unanimously approved that Wei Shan led 800 soldiers and 200 scouts to sneak attack.

After all, they had fought with the elite of the Qiang people, and the people of Heiyun Mountain were stronger than others in terms of equipment and morale.

After four days of going back and forth, more than 400 people were escorted back, as well as three oxen, five mules, and more than 70 stones of millet.

Zhou Lian boiled some porridge and distributed it to them, and a bowl of hot porridge dissipated in an instant, and the hatred and resentment in the eyes of more than 400 people dissipated in an instant, and they also divided the house for them, shushing the cold and asking for warmth, and quickly eliminating the estrangement.

As the area explored by the scouts expanded, more and more outcasts and thieves were discovered in the surrounding area.

The only generals who led the troops were Wei Shan and Cui Jin.

Although Tian Leopard is also brave in battle, this person is a thief, he has no sense of proportion, he likes to rob, and hurts the innocent, Li Yue reprimanded him several times, but it is still the case, not that he doesn't want to care, but his subordinates are all this virtue, so many years of casual habits, if you want to manage it, you can't care about it.

If Tian Leopard talks too much, the thief will either pull out his knife and hit him in front of him, or run away in the middle of the night......

Li Yue could only let them take a back seat.

Heiyun Mountain's power continues to grow, and the soldiers are becoming more and more elite.

"The lord of the village, Xuanyuan Mountain in the southwest, found a large stronghold, and estimated at least seven thousand people!" Waiting for the surprise to come.

All the leaders stood up, their eyes beaming with excitement.

Seven thousand people, about the size of a small county.

Rao is a thief who has recently annexed the nearby homeless people one after another, and there are only five or six thousand people in Heiyun Mountain.

Xuanyuan Mountain is a branch of Songshan Mountain, in the southwest of Heiyun Mountain, close to Lunshi County, and belongs to Henan County.

If you can eat this group of centaurs, Heiyun Mountain will directly grow more than doubled!

"What is the background of the other party? How much strength? Li Yue was not reckless.

Those who can gain a foothold in this world are not simple people.

The world is in turmoil, the Central Plains has been repeatedly destroyed, Yuzhou is the first to bear the brunt, since the end of the Han Dynasty, it has been killed and killed, I don't know how many ruthless people were born.

Scout Tun Chang Wang Da Er said: "Our people have pretended to be merchants to enter, this mountain is more precipitous than our Black Cloud Mountain, men, women and children, all know knives, spears, bows and arrows, but their equipment is not as good as ours, the subordinates have not seen the iron armor, there is not much leather armor, and the knives and spears are rusty." ”

Rusty knives and spears are more lethal, and a little rubbing is tetanus......

"Has their leader found out?"

Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles.

"I found out clearly, these people are the descendants of Li Dudu's subordinates back then."