A few days later, the commander who came to collect the crystals led a convoy to take away the crystals mined by the Kaishan Camp. The commander had a bad face all the way because most of the cannon fodder battalions had not been able to complete the collection.
The mission of the Crystal Mine.
As for the opening camp, in his mind it was even more difficult to complete. However, when he entered the opening camp and saw the crystal mines piled up like hills in the opening camp, he couldn't help but be shocked.
However, the commander was not in a good mood at this time, and sent people to carry the crystals to the convoy. He informed Su Ledao: "Xiaoxiao Su, the supply of troops is tight now, and the Kaishan camp has lost more than half of its personnel. Since your mining mission has been completed,
So good, I will put in a few nice words with the adults at Tongde Pass, but at most I can only be responsible for half of the troops. At most, I will allocate four school teams to you. If there is a manpower gap in the mountain camp, you have to recruit your own troops."
When Su Le heard about independent recruitment of troops, he also felt bitter, "Sir, I heard from people that in the villages in Western Xinjiang, it is basically impossible to recruit people. In many places, recruitment of young men has happened."
"Even if we are trying to recruit young men, we must bring them here! The lives of these warriors and warriors are given by our Great Xia Kingdom. At this time, they must work hard for our Great Xia Kingdom." The commander spoke plausibly and ordered Su
Le feels even more dizzy.
The day before yesterday, Su Le sent Li Zhu to recruit soldiers in several villages, but as you can imagine, there were none. In the past, Su Le was able to recruit soldiers in Shangshui Village and Heishui Village, but now he can't recruit them at all.
After the commander left, Su Le began to worry about this new problem. Fortunately, the commander agreed to help and asked Tongdeguan to raise four school teams, but there were eighteen school teams in one battalion.
Where can I find the other five school teams?
People are not potatoes, they can just be dug out of the ground...
Just when Su Le was struggling, Hou Shun rushed into his camp's main tent and said, "Boss, it's not good. Pingshan Camp has captured some strong men and brought them to our village."
"What?" Su Le suddenly stood up, "Pingshan Camp, they dare!"
The Pingshan Camp was also a cannon fodder battalion and also mined in Wuji Mountain, but they mined to the west of Wuji Mountain, while the Kaishan Camp was to the east of Wuji Mountain.
The two military camps are only sixty or seventy miles apart.
But in Pingshan Camp, even if you want to catch strong men, there is no need to go to Sheungshui Village.
There is no clear demarcation between military camps, but there are naturally agreed upon rules. Su Le will not take people to the area where Pingshan Camp belongs to recruit troops, and Pingshan Camp should not come to Kaishan Camp.
If it was to capture young men from other villages, Su Le would forget about it. He is not a savior. Now that there is a shortage of soldiers, they turned a blind eye, but they captured the young men from Sheung Shui Village!
The laws of the Xia Kingdom stipulate that when necessary, citizens of the Xia Kingdom can be forcibly captured for military service.
In troubled times, joining the army means death, and no one wants to be a soldier.
Now because of the capture of young men, it is said that there are several old, weak, sick and disabled people guarding the entrance of each village. If they hear that the battalion is coming to capture young men, they will notify the young men in the village early to run into the mountains.
Those who capture young men will never search from mountain to mountain.
However, people come up with solutions. When faced with this kind of situation, soldiers also have many solutions.
For example, send a team to guard the village and run into the mountains? You can hide from the first day of the new year, but you can't hide from the fifteenth day. There are poisonous snakes and monsters in the mountains, and life is also difficult. It is impossible for you to stay in the mountains for your whole life and not come out.
Sheung Shui Village also encountered this situation.
Some young adults from Shangshui Village had already hid in the mountains in advance, but Pingshan Camp actually sent two soldiers to wait here.
The young and strong boys who went up the mountain also lived a very difficult life in the mountain. During this period, they were attacked by a pack of mountain wolves, and several people were injured. The injured people had no medical treatment, so they had to bite the bullet and go down the mountain.
But when they got off the mountain, everyone was locked up with big chains by the team from Pingshan Camp.
"Why are you taking people?" It was Li Zhu's father, Li An, who shouted sternly. As the hunting captain of the village, he had the obligation to protect the villagers of Shangshui Village.
The villagers of Shangshui Village were all crowded at the entrance of the village, but no one dared to rush forward when faced with the spears of the Pingshan Camp team.
It is true that Pingshan Camp is also a cannon fodder battalion, and seventy-eight out of ten members of this team are warriors, with only two warriors.
But in Shangshui Village, only the village chief, who is in his 70s and 80s, is a martial soldier. The most powerful of the others is Li An, who is only at the ninth level of martial arts. The others are all low-level martial arts disciples. Even if they join together, they will definitely not be Pingshanying.
That team's opponent.
"Why should we take him? Well, deserting military service is inherently a crime." said a soldier from Pingshan Camp.
It has to be said that this soldier was not lying. Xia's law stipulates that everyone in the Xia Kingdom has the obligation to perform military service.
Those arrested were not only people from Shangshui Village, but also people from many surrounding villages. Their Pingshan Camp also took a lot of them. Almost every village captured a dozen to thirty strong men.
For Shangshui Village, after these people are captured, only a group of old, weak, sick, disabled, women and children are left in the village. If they encounter a pack of wild beasts and wolves on the mountain, they can only rely on those old guys to resist.
The Pingshan camp gathered the captured young men and waited for two days before transporting them to the camp.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li An sent someone to report to his son Li Zhu overnight to see if there was anything they could do.
When Su Le learned about this, he became furious.
Frankly speaking, the people in Shangshui Village have little to do with Su Le. He came from time to time, and his soul escaped into the body of this young man named Su Le.
But he inherited Su Le's memory bit by bit. Su Le affects this body, and the memory of this body also affects Su Le. Therefore, in the eyes of Su Le now, Shangshui Village is very important.
He originally had the plan to move Sheung Shui Village, but he didn't choose the right place and the right path. However, last time he found the "line of sky" while searching for crystal mines, so this idea was already halfway completed.
But he didn't expect that such a thing would pop up halfway.
However, this kind of thing is not beyond Su Le's expectation. On this continent, warriors have a low life. Unless they are promoted to warriors, they will not have any dignity and freedom.
After getting the news, Su Le ordered a flag team from among the five schools and rushed towards Shangshui Village with Li Zhu, Hou Shun and Xu Niu.
Li Zhu told Su Le that Pingshan Camp had captured hundreds of young men and brought them back to Pingshan Camp. If Su Le wanted to get those young men back, he would have to intercept them halfway.
From the Shangshui Village area to Wuji Mountain, there is only one main road, which is commonly known as the official road.
It is said that it is an official road, but it is actually a road trodden by people. It is incomparable with the official roads paved with bluestones in Xia Dynasty. The road is full of potholes, dusty during drought, and muddy when it rains.
Pingshan Camp has also been suffering from the source of soldiers recently.
In the last war, the Pingshan Camp suffered even worse than the Kaishan Camp. The entire Pingshan Camp's soldiers were almost wiped out. Only three of the eighteen school teams were left, and the attrition rate of the soldiers exceeded 80%.
, Fortunately, the leader of Pingshan Camp was not killed in the battle, and he withdrew from the battlefield in embarrassment.
After a large-scale reduction in personnel, the Pingshan Battalion urgently needed to restore its numbers, otherwise they would not even have enough manpower for mining. In addition, in the last battle, the Pingshan Battalion performed poorly. It is said that not only did it not receive a reward, but the camp leader Zhou Mi was reprimanded.
, requiring careful and rapid rectification of Pingshan Camp.
Therefore, Pingshan Camp was also desperate, and they could only pull up a new team in the shortest possible time.
Fortunately, the Western Xinjiang area is vast, with countless villages scattered throughout it. If they had directly recruited troops before, countless people would have joined the army. Obviously, although it is difficult to recruit troops, can they just go and arrest them?
In just a few days, they captured five to six hundred warriors from more than a dozen villages including Shangshui Village.
They gathered these warriors together and sent them to the Pingshan camp.
Most of these warriors are second-level and third-level warriors. They can play a minimal role on the battlefield. Some of them will die in the mines, while a huge number will die on the battlefield. Only a very few.
Able to continue to grow in extreme environments and break through to the realm of martial soldiers.
And there is no one who can climb up to the position of camp leader like Su Le, one step at a time.
There were soldiers escorting the Pingshan Camp in front and behind. In order to prevent these warriors from escaping, the five or six hundred warriors were pulling each other with chains, like prisoners. As they walked, they could hear the chains shaking.
On both sides of the official road, there were scattered people following this team. Among them were old men in their seventies and eighties, as well as middle-aged women holding infants in their arms.
These people are the relatives of those warriors who were captured as young men.
Seeing their husbands, sons, and brothers being caught in the barracks, these people were naturally reluctant to leave, but when they saw those gleaming swords, they did not dare to approach them. They could only hang far behind, and from time to time passed through the crowd.
There was a sound of sobbing.
Such a separation, based on the current war situation, is basically equivalent to a separation between yin and yang.
They followed for dozens of miles, calling the names of their relatives, but the warriors in the escorted team did not dare to respond, because once they responded, a thick whip would be waiting for them.
The person in charge of the escort was a junior high school student from Pingshan Camp.
This time, the pressure on Pingshan Camp's troops was very high. Because there were too few people, Pingshan Camp couldn't even dig mines. After returning to the station, Pingshan Camp began to recruit troops.
From the beginning of recruiting troops to the recruitment of strong men, they have completely dug up the military resources belonging to the Pingshan camp.
When they really couldn't catch any young men, they turned their attention to the Shangshui Village area. This area belonged to the Kaishan Battalion, but these three or four cannon fodder camps were all around Wuji Mountain. They were all brother camps.
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In normal times, both sides have crossed the border to recruit troops, and neither side said anything.
Therefore, the camp owner sent this young man to come to Sheung Shui Village to catch young men.
It seems that I came to the right place this time. I captured five or six hundred warriors in one breath. I will definitely be greatly praised by the camp master when I go back. The principal was walking at the front and thought proudly, when suddenly a man appeared in front of him.
Flag team.
Naturally, the small school knew that it was a flag team of the Kaishan Camp, and they were also here to capture the young men. I heard that the Kaishan Camp also lost half of its soldiers in the last war, so it was probably short of men in comparison.
Su Le led the flag team and walked directly towards the vast team. When they arrived, Su Le asked with a stern face: "Who is the leader here?"