The night in late autumn is very quiet, and the smell of rosin is also refreshing. Regardless of whether the militiamen in the village slept or not, and regardless of how the tribal archers of the battalion slept, the military aristocrat, Epeuk, slept soundly on the comfortable straw bed of the village chief!

"Praise the lord god! I feel comfortable this time, and my whole body feels relaxed... Oh, not bad, really good!"

The next morning, the woodpecker, Epeck, smiled and ate the pancakes in the village, while making a "promise" to Tagu, the village leader next to him.

"Lord God bless! When I come back from the war next year, if I still pass by here, I will definitely come here to sleep again!..."

"ah?!…"

Hearing the woodpecker's words, Ta Gu, the leader of the farm, shook his hands as if struck by lightning, and directly shook the hot pancakes to the ground. He stared wide-eyed at Epeck with a sincere face, wishing he could pick up his spear and poke him hard in the face.

Well, Tagu, the leader of the village, does have a two-and-a-half-meter legion spear. He is actually a retired warrior from the First Long Spear Corps in Hekou County. He was not injured, and he was not old. The reason why he quit the army was to obey the order of the army commander, the county Yin Kuluka.

At the beginning, the Kingdom established the Mintun of Hekou County, and each Mintun must have several village heads and warriors in charge. Monkey Kuluka was born as a commoner, and he has neither the Mexica nobles nor the hereditary family warriors. So the way he came up with was to transfer a group of reliable veterans from his own army and send them to manage the villages. Especially the villages near Hekou County and the dog descendants flag team have arranged trustworthy candidates.

After Ta Gu, a long-spear veteran, became the leader of the village, he followed the training method in the army and simply trained some young men in the village. Only then did the woodpecker Epeck, the grand "welcome" I saw yesterday.

"Cough! Witnessed by the Lord God! Respected military nobleman... I followed the army commander and plundered... Oh, I have conquered the Chapala Lake area in the northwest. The Feather King in Chapala is very cunning, I am afraid it will not be so easy to deal with!..."

Ta Gu, the leader of the village, picked up the pancakes and patted the ashes. He lowered his head and couldn't see his expression, but his voice was trembling.

"This crusade is to completely occupy the lake area in the northwest. That lake area is huge! There are many city-states by the lake, many barbarians in the north, and many messy tribes in the mountains. Next year, you may not be able to finish fighting and come back. !..."

"Haha! The thunder of the Lord God protects us! There is no village or city-state that can withstand the kingdom's attack!"

Hearing this, the woodpecker Epeck laughed out loud, with pride from the royal capital on his face, and also the pride he couldn't help showing when facing these bumpkin warriors who had no information.

"Witness of the Lord God! This expedition is not only all the way from Hekou County, but also the 8,000-strong Long Snake Legion, which goes directly north from the southwest and penetrates into the hinterland of the Chapala Lake District! What's more, behind our battalion, there is still an army that can't stop fighting. Ke's battalion leader, that is the newly formed Lei...cough!"

"What? Thunder what? Could it be the artillery battalion during the Northern Expedition?"

"Haha! It's different, it's different. They will also walk along the county road, but it's very slow. I can't say, but you should pay attention to the station and you will see it!"

The woodpecker Epeck shut up in time, stopped his words, and only spoke halfway. Afterwards, he glanced at Tagu, the village leader who was full of curiosity and wished to stab him to death, and stood up triumphantly.

"Blessed by the Lord God! All eaten! It's time to set off!...Tagu, see you next year!..."

"Uh... Lord God bless you! Next year... let's talk..."

Tagu, the leader of the village, lowered his voice and muttered to himself. He watched the Tlaxcalan battalion stepping on the harvested field ridges and onto the newly built dirt road, cursing angrily in his heart.

"The nobles of the royal capital with eyes above the top! The words are only half-spoken... I wish you to squat down and fall into the pit... you can't even climb out!..."

"Tagu, I will sleep on your grass bed next year! ... By the way, I will bring you some spoils too! ..."

"Well!…"

"Ha ha!"

The woodpecker Epeck held his head high, carried the battle flag of the battalion again, and led his archers towards Hekou County in the northeast. The more people walked forward, the terrain gradually rose, and hills and hills began to appear on both sides. The road under Aipeng's feet has also changed from a second-level county road with three-hexa soil to a simple and leveled first-level dirt road. This section of the road is obviously difficult to repair, and the amount of work is huge, and the second-level county road in the county has not yet been repaired.

"Huh? There are forests on both sides, and there are birds flying... Yes! After crossing this section of hills and hills, you should be able to look down on the Queteo Lake at the mouth of the river... I remember that there should be a lot of dog tribes going south. The Young Banner Team is all placed in this area..."

The woodpecker Epeck looked at the hills on both sides while thinking. Around the dirt road, he saw a large area of ​​low shacks and thatched huts gathered in a small valley at the bottom around the small river flowing down from the mountain. And beside the river in the valley, there are patches of roughly cultivated but obviously messy farmland.

"Lord God! What are you planting here? Sweet potatoes? The weeds are as tall as the crops, and no one cares about them?!..."

The woodpecker Epeck looked at it for a moment, his brows twitched. He didn't feel it when he first joined the army, but now that he has his own manor, after carefully taking care of the farmland, he can't bear to see this kind of tribal "field" with sharp eyes.

"No! No! Damn it, it's already November! What kind of sweet potatoes are not harvested? Ah?!"

Thinking of this, Epeck the woodpecker gritted his teeth. He looked fiercely at the tribal camp in the valley, and made eye contact with the tribal leader who was also looking at him in the camp. Afterwards, dozens of tribal warriors and hunters with tattooed faces and blue hair immediately rushed out carrying the guys on their backs, and rushed towards the battalion marching on the mountain road.

"Ah! Take out your weapon! Prepare to fight! ... Didi! ..."

The ear-piercing sound of the conch horn sounded, and both the marching tribal archers and the soldiers of the camp were all taken aback. Both sides picked up their spears and erected their bamboo bows with the same conditioned reflex, and even their weapons were exactly the same.

After a few breaths, the captain of the tribal flag with a tattooed face was the first to react. He skillfully took out a flag of the main **** from behind and waved it vigorously. Then, he took out another banner with a crooked stone scale drawn on it, which was the symbol of the Kingdom Bazaar.

"Praise the Lord God! Praise the strangeness of feeding the radish!... from the bottom of the mountain! Tribes! Oh no! Warriors!...Come on! Take a look! Change things! Good things!..."

Babei, the captain of the tribal flag, let go of his voice, and greeted the Archer Battalion on the dirt road loudly in stammering, deep and melodious Nahua language. This strange accent reminds people of the vast and desolate north. He is a safari tribe who only went southeast from the northeast of the wilderness during the spring famine at the beginning of the previous year, and he is a Bosalos from the far northeast.

Over the past few years, the Red Crow tribe has conquered and annexed everywhere, driving the tribes in the northeast to run around. The cold waves in the north also often go south. Although they are all small cold waves and there are no terrible big cold waves, they still make the tribe very difficult. After thinking about it, he heard that Chief Balamo in Qingqiu County had been recruiting people, so he took his tribe and defected there.

Unexpectedly, the black-hearted Great Chief Balamo just recited a few poems he didn't understand, and gave him the surname "Ba". Then, Chief Balamo picked and picked a few sharpshooters from his tribe, and then packed up his tribe and sent them to the south to sell... oh, to the more powerful chief "monkey" , Kuluka.

"Hey! The two great chiefs, why do you like the red-haired tribe who are good at shooting?...Our blue-haired ones are also very fierce! We can chase the giant beasts of the north and hunt the spear-throwers! .."

Thinking of the treatment he received for defecting twice, Banner Captain Babe was a little bit aggrieved. Fortunately, although the "monkey" chief did not take them seriously, he did not treat them badly. Not only did they weave a flag team for them, but also marked out a mountain forest and valley, and sent the main **** priest to teach them how to farm. And he only had more than 400 people under him, so he just formed a small flag team.

As the tribal flag team of Kuhaha, they do not have the strict grain taxation as in Mintun villages, and in fact they are too poor to pay anything. Every year, each flag team, as long as the prey and tribute of the symbolic intersection mountain forest are dedicated to the great chief. But corresponding to it is a strict call-up order! As long as the great chief issues a call-up order, each small flag team will send out forty young men, equipped with their own weapons and equipment, and go out with the army of the kingdom!

"With the army going out, you have to manage food and housing all the way. When you go to the battlefield to fight, you can plunder and capture prisoners if you win. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com After looting and selling things and people, there are rewards for making military exploits... even A warrior who can join the Legion and become a warchief... oh no, that warrior!..."

Thinking of the beautiful things during the expedition, Banner Captain Babei drools. When he was in the wasteland before, he had never seen a stone house, a village with so many people, or even a "city" with dozens of tribes! As for the things in the village and the city, as long as you grab a little and bring them back, it is better than farming for a year! …

As for death in battle, it is very common in the wasteland. Don't people only live for twenty or thirty years? Only blessed priests and shamans can live to forty or fifty...

"Hey! Why didn't Chief 'God Monkey' summon us for this Western Expedition? Did he think we were not brave in the last battle? When we pay tribute this year, we have to ask the warriors of the Chief, oh no, warrior!…"

Banner Captain Babe was thinking wildly, while looking enviously at the battalion on the road. Until a man wearing a feather helmet and carrying a banner, who looked rich... oh, a very powerful chief came over with a few armored warriors. Afterwards, the other party looked around curiously for a while, and then asked in Mexica.

"Good stuff? Exchange?..."

"Yes! Exchange!..."

"Well, the witness of the Lord God!... What do you have?..."