As the sky dawned, the entire Huo Zhongtun began a new day's work.

According to the meaning of his own chief Zhao, although the previous camp tent expansion was enough, I don't know why a new batch of camp tents was expanded.

Although I was puzzled, the men, women and children in the tent got some beef jerky and a small bowl of milk in the shed in the morning, and everyone began to get busy.

Because there was no longer enough wood, many people began to dig up mud to build houses.

In winter, it is the fastest and most convenient to build a house out of mud, because as long as you get some mud and some dry straw to stir, then put it into a wooden frame mold, mix it with some hot water, and wait for the water to freeze, which is a very hard mud brick.

In winter, the temperature on the grassland is extremely low, and the hot water turns into ice water very quickly, so it only takes a minute or two for a large mud brick to be poured into the water and then solidified.

Relying on this method, many houses in Huo Zhongtun were built so quickly.

And this kind of house is still good after the snow melts in the spring of the next year, and if it is southern, you may need to add some rice and some other ingredients to increase the viscosity inside.

But in the grasslands, ice is the best sticking agent, and when the weather is warm, the dry straw inside can continue to maintain the stability of the bricks.

Even if the south can be cold enough to freeze in winter, you can't do this, because the south is wet and cold, the grassland is dry and cold, and the wind is very strong.

Especially in the spring of the next year, the moisture in the bricks will not soften the mud, but will be quickly blown away by the strong wind, leaving dry and compact mud bricks.

Nalan is a little girl from Huo Zhongtun, and she has been following her all the way since Zhang He, pastor Zhanghe.

Originally, for outsiders, their herdsmen in Huo Zhongtun were very repulsive, they had long been accustomed to Huo Zhongtun's life without fighting with the world, and so many people came at once, no one would get used to it.

In particular, this group of people often forms gangs and factions, focusing on the interests of their own tribes, and the larger the number of people in the group, the greater the interests they will naturally occupy in it.

But recently the situation has changed a little, and after the execution of the quartermaster, the Zhao chief promulgated a temporary mobilization system for war.

The distribution of jobs and food is more reasonable, and the appointment of personnel is more reasonable.

For example, Huo Zhongtun and Ping Qiantun, the old people who followed Zhao Ming early, held some more important positions.

The Zhensong Army, on the other hand, was completely isolated and belonged to the combat unit and did not hold any logistical duties.

The rest of the tribes are no longer selected according to the number of tribes, but are divided according to the performance of each tribe in the combined army of Chabei.

The more outstanding your clan's warriors are on the front, the easier it will be for their families to do their jobs in the rear, and the more food they will receive.

Of course, the temporary mobilization system for war set up by Zhao Ming seems to be more reasonable, with men and women dividing labor, captives doing more difficult work, men in the tribe doing slightly heavier hard work, and women doing some light work such as boiling water and chopping wood for cooking.

But any system is enforced by people, and where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

But these are not very important to Nalan, a little girl, who is already very satisfied with her current life.

She is good at needlework, and currently sews clothes for soldiers on the front lines, and there are always many pieces of clothing that are torn at the end of each encounter, and this is what she needs to do.

Because of her dazzling performance, she not only sews quickly but also very solidly, and now she is instructing many girls in the tribe to do this together, and it also makes the family behind her have a lot more food to share every day.

Suddenly, someone was shouting.

"It's back! Everyone's back! ”

Hearing the cheers from the guard tower in the distance, everyone in the entire Huo Zhongtun began to get busy.

Many young women have left their work and began to prepare for the early morning celebration feast.

Two hours earlier, they had received a report from the front that they had won a great victory and that a great feast was about to be prepared.

The preliminary preparations are basically completed, because the weather is too cold, and it is too early to cook in the pot, so you have to keep adding firewood to burn.

Some people began to cook the beef and mutton that had been cut long ago, and some people began to go out to greet the warriors who returned from the expedition.

Da-da-da-da!

In the distance, you can see a mighty cavalry coming in a neat line, because the river is frozen, and the war horses just like that.

However, there was some confusion in the middle of the procession, which was made up of many captives with their hands tied, because there were too many, and the ropes were a little insufficient, and many were urged forward by the cavalry.

"So many captives?"

"Yes! How many Mongolians are there? ”

"Anyway, so many people are coming in, do we have enough food to eat?"

The herdsmen were talking, and some had already thought further, and there were gloomy clouds between their brows.

That's right!

Now there is a shortage of food and herbs in the tribe, and now there are so many captives, although the captives eat only half of their food, but so many people are also a big burden.

"That's not the point, is it? It should be said that we were able to win against so many Outer Mongolians, so it seems that the Outer Mongolians don't look very good! ”

Suddenly, a word from the crowd reminded everyone, and everyone began to laugh again.

The strength of the Outer Mongolian people had long made them frightened, especially the herdsmen of the Darhan and Maoming'an tribes, who had faced the crazy slaughter of the Outer Mongolians, had a strong fear.

Now this fear seems to have dissipated invisibly with this moment, and with it a faint sense of honor and belonging.

Not only are they proud, but the warriors who have also returned are also eager to break their waists.

The Zhen Song army is not bad, after all, they have fought a lot of victories and defeats, and they prefer the adrenaline feeling on the battlefield compared to this honor.

But the Chabei Combined Army doesn't think so, they have always felt that they are playing soy sauce by the side of the Zhensong Army, even after the previous reorganization, their spirit is not very high.

This battle not only showed their momentum, but also their self-confidence.

Zhao Ming saw this scene in his eyes, a real elite has never been sharpened in continuous fiasco.

Constant fiascos will only sharpen a soldier, and an elite soldier can be defeated, but at the beginning, it is absolutely necessary to focus on big victories, otherwise this army will have no backbone and cannot support Adou.

The same is true for the Zhensong army, if it weren't for that Liu Dashuai who was smarter, at the beginning, he focused on suppressing bandits and maintaining local law and order, fighting some miscellaneous fish, and accumulating confidence for the Zhensong army with small victories again and again.

If there is no these, I am afraid that the Zhen Song Army will not be able to have the sharpness it has now.