Since Wu Yi secretly conquered the tribes near Langyankou, guarding Langyankou, except that he is not accompanied by his family, is just like staying at home.
In the past few months, they have not experienced any harassment. On the contrary, if there is any change in the Beilu clan, these small clans can also act as a barrier and report the news.
Wu Yi spread the news and received repeated praises from the county governor. He also completely became a regular official and became a glorious captain.
However, it was useless. The method of giving benefits without any expense was an old method of the dynasty. In addition to a name, not even a grain of food was sent.
The nominal salary is thirty taels, but in reality it is not even half. Just like Wu Yi is nominally a captain of thousands, but has only five or six hundred people under his command.
Moreover, even this half is being delayed in various ways, which is simply an insult to Wu Yi. No wonder people say that good men should not be soldiers and stick their heads in their belts. Such treatment is really chilling.
In fact, many people from the Northern Army guard the border, not for the salary, but really to protect their homes and the country. After retiring, it is easy to find a job in the county, and the country will reward them every year. This is why many people
motivation.
A few months have passed, and it's early winter. The plum blossoms on the ridge will be broken, and the water in the pond will gradually turn into ice. The red leaves are falling, and the green pine colors are renewed. The light clouds are flying like snow, and the withered grass is lying on the mountain. The eyes are full of cold light, and the shadow is cold and cold.
The north wind is howling, and this is the time to live in a fortress. If you go out in this kind of weather, if you are not careful, even your ears and nose can freeze off. The limits of human beings are extremely fragile in this ice and snow.
The reason why many dynasties, including the Daji Dynasty, have been unable to unify this place is due to terrain restrictions. The terrain is mountainous and steep. It is difficult to attack from below. After reaching the limit, the soldiers will fall ill due to poor breathing.
The other obstacle is the bitter cold that kills people. If the war starts in winter, no matter how good the protection is, it will kill eight hundred enemies and lose one thousand.
The cold is also a natural disaster for the Northern Barbarians, but generally speaking, their physique is much better. Unless their food shortage is unbearable, it is impossible for the two sides to start a war.
Having said that, it is common sense, but who knows if it is common sense this year. In order to determine their situation, Wu Yi came into the group, traveling in a light vehicle, with only ten people.
The purpose of this trip is to go to a large clan near Langyankou, called Sushen. They are one of the five major clans of the Beilu. They occupy a huge inland lake with hundreds of thousands of people. With the strength of one clan, they can gather a hundred thousand people.
The strength cannot be underestimated.
Due to the important geographical location of Langyankou, it is not impossible to guard tens of thousands of people, not to mention a thousand people. However, the top leaders of the Northern Army were worried that there would be too many defenders at Langyankou, which would arouse the dissatisfaction of the Sushen clan, so they used Langyankou to defend the army.
Basically there are no more than a thousand people.
One more thing, the clan name Sushen is the name given to them by the dynasty. It is a transliteration. If it is a free translation according to their own words, it would be more appropriate to call them the Golden Eagle Clan. Many families raise golden eagles.
As mentioned earlier, the Sushen clan occupies a huge inland lake, and it is a rare freshwater lake. It is second to none in the entire continent. It is said that the water and soil support one person, and the existence of the inland freshwater lake makes the Sushen clan and others
Tribes are very different.
The other tribes are all nomadic, but the Sushen are a fishing and hunting tribe. They live in a relatively fixed place and will not move for water and grass. I heard that their agricultural level is not inferior to that under the Daji Dynasty.
The snow was falling heavier and heavier, and one foot could sink the entire sole of the foot. It was no longer suitable for riding a horse, so everyone dismounted and started to lead the way.
In fact, this is not the biggest snowstorm. After the biggest snowstorm falls, it can even wipe out a tribe in one night. You can't even tell that there are any living things under the wind and snow.
It's more beautiful, it's called a snow burial, but it still can't hide the coldness in it. This is the power of nature.
Wu Yi and his party braved the cold, stayed in the rain and had a good night's sleep. When they traveled, there was no such change. Living in the snow field for many days was a bit too much for Wu Yi's body, which had been washed and marrowed.
In the middle of the line, I saw a city that was no different from the dynasty cities in the south. In order to withstand the severe cold, the thickness of the city walls was several times that of many dynasty cities.
Wu Yi and others entered the Moon City as a missed caravan, and the city was covered with heavy snow. No one else was seen, only an old soldier, sleeping in the wind under the sunny wall, his face turned red from the cold.
Qin Tianbing came forward, shook him, and shouted: "Sir." The old soldier suddenly woke up, opened his eyes numbly, trembled, and opened his mouth with the smell of alcohol.
In such a bad weather, it is possible to meet Wu Yi and his party. In order to thank Wu Yi and others for saving their lives, the veteran took Wu Yi and others to stay at an inn, served food, and ate food together without hesitation.
"Sir, why are you guarding the city gate alone?" Qin Tianbing asked after the veteran had three drinks. On the surface of this trip, Qin Tianbing was the leader, and Wu Yi was a child servant.
The old soldier chuckled and didn't answer, as if he didn't hear him. He just kept drinking.
Qin Tianbing asked continuously but received no answer. Not to mention Qin Tianbing, even Wu Yi felt that the veteran was a little delirious at this moment.
The owner of the inn overheard the conversation and came closer to Wu Yi and the others: "This is old man Wulu. He was also a well-known man back then, and he also served as a military commander. But now that he is old, your Excellency did not select him when recruiting troops.
That’s why it became like this.”
Mouke is an organizational form within the Sushen tribe. Three hundred households are one Mouke, and ten Moukes are one Meng'an. The Meng'an Mouke system is a primitive organizational form and a primitive bureaucratic system.
Now, the Sushen clan has already widened the gap with other small clans.
Moreover, compared with the Daji Dynasty's deficiencies of not knowing the generals and trivial dispatch of troops, the Sushen tribe's soldiers under the Meng'an Muke system dispatched their troops quickly and closely during battle, beating the Daji Dynasty by several levels.
However, even so, it is impossible for the Daji Dynasty to learn from the practices of the Sushen clan.
The Daji Dynasty ruled the world of nine provinces and had hundreds of millions of people. Such a primitive system was not able to eliminate disputes and conflicts at all. It would rather be ruthless and deliberately break up the mountains and rivers to separate the same cultural area than to divide.
Everyone else was lamenting the experience of the veteran. Even though the other party was from a different race, the grief of the rabbit dying and the fox still couldn't be avoided. If they grew old in the future, this might be the same result.
Wu Yi is different from the public in that he focuses on the matter of "adults recruiting troops". After all, that is the purpose of their trip!