Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland

"Skunk Town has not carried out such a large-scale recruitment for a long time."

Ashu said while chewing the bread dryly.

For those who are not yet warriors, this is undoubtedly a rare opportunity.

As long as they can go to the battlefield, they are legally qualified to hold weapons. As long as you hold the sword in your hand, anything is possible.

"It's the same for you...do you have another one?"

Ashu stretched out his hand.

This stuff tastes pretty good.

The scope of recruiting soldiers is not limited to the Shaker tribe, and the superiors will not deliberately set up barriers.

The pride of the Shark tribe is also reflected in this aspect. They are confident that even if they are held to the same standards, their tribe will be the best on the battlefield, and there is no need to set limits in advance.

"No more." Lu Meng spread his hands.

He just heated the furnace in advance, so he wouldn't actually use the forging equipment as an oven.

I'll bake something else next time.

"Aren't there still a lot of wandering warriors in the city? How can ordinary people like us still have their turn?" Huo Buyang asked.

In his observation, these wandering warriors do nothing but drink and duel all day long. They do nothing serious on weekdays.

——Speaking of a duel, unless there is a real anger or deep hatred, the two sides will generally not decide whether to live or die.

Otherwise, no matter how many warriors there are, if only two or two are consumed, they will die.

But even if it is considered a mass fight, their impact on public security is still huge.

To ordinary residents, the wandering warriors are more terrifying than the Hornless Men.

The latter will only harass you at most, but the former won't have so many scruples when using his hands. Swinging a segmented ax weighing several dozen kilograms can easily affect others.

Everyone reached a consensus:

If you meet a wandering warrior, respect him.

If there are two, watch the fun.

If there are two groups of people...run.

Don't expect the guards to restrain them either.

The guards sometimes participate themselves.

Well now, it's time to recruit troops. Don't they want to go to the battlefield? So let's do it first.

"It's different this time. Almost all the soldiers have applied, but there is still a gap in the quota. The chance of getting combat merit and becoming a soldier is definitely much higher!" Ashu picked up a crumb and said, "I heard there is a big move."

"We may be facing the sand bandits!"

"These days, the sand bandits in the border areas are really too much. While they send people to harass the soldiers in Skun Town, they also divide out many small teams to attack the farms and villages in the kingdom, kidnap the young people in the villages, and leave the rest The fields that had been cultivated were also burned down.”

"This kind of attack happened more than once. It happened in waves. According to the survivor, he even saw his fellow villager who was kidnapped last time among the bandits!"

"The sand bandits are gathering more and more... Everyone knows that we can't go on like this, and we must take the initiative to defeat them completely!"

Lu Meng raised his eyebrows.

Capturing the population, collecting prisoners of war, and using war to support war...

It's easier said than done.

Otherwise, there would not have been so many incidents of massacres of cities and trapping and killing of prisoners of war.

The most basic point is to ensure that the number of veterans has an absolute advantage over newcomers.

You must know that they can be said to be enemies to each other. If weapons are issued, it is still unclear who will kill whom on the battlefield.

Another way is to break up these newcomers. People who know each other from the same village cannot be included in the same team.

If you lead them to slaughter a few villages like this, they will become old bandits.

Everyone has hatred, which means there is no hatred.

Expanding the power several times will not make any big mistakes.

'But the premise of all this is that the sand bandits themselves have formed a certain scale and obey a unified leadership. ’

‘Otherwise, the general leader would rather kill all the prisoners than let them blend into the bandits on other hills. ’

This leader is undoubtedly the "King of Sand".

The Sand King is an honorary title, symbolizing the spiritual leader of the desert bandits. The real power he holds is not much different from that of the so-called martial arts leader and the Emperor of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. At most, the sand bandits under his command are the most powerful, and they change quickly.

——This is everyone’s current understanding.

As for the person Lu Meng knew, it was quite different.

From then on, the title "King of Sand" only refers to him, and others have even forgotten his original name.

It seems that this ruthless man who will plunder the border areas in the future and is wanted by three major countries... has already begun to gradually integrate the forces of the sand bandits at this time.

Sikun Town seems to be fully prepared and go all out for this troop dispatch. Even ordinary townspeople like Ashu are full of confidence and even think that this is an opportunity to gain military exploits.

There are definitely not a few people who think this way.

But they didn't know who the enemy they were facing was.

What's more, Lu Meng knew that there was no unity within Scone Town, as evidenced by the incident of the man in black.

He felt that with the strength of the Shaq Kingdom, there should be no problem in winning, but the process may not be as smooth as they imagined.

This is not to say that the commander of Skun Town is short-sighted and reckless.

From a strategic point of view, it is best to kill the snowballing bandits as early as possible.

It was only because Lu Meng had information that was almost like predicting the future, and asked questions based on the answers, that he could detect something strange about the sand bandit camp from Ashu's few words.

However, he chose to remain silent at this moment.

I am not a half-immortal who can make perfect plans. My judgment on the situation is only my own opinion, and I may make mistakes. I will not use this to interfere with other people's choices.

Ashu was excited and continued to talk enthusiastically:

“Although our army is elite, it is not in numbers.

"Even if one can fight ten, if the enemy is divided into ten teams and comes from ten directions, it is impossible for a soldier to divide into ten and chase him.

"So this large-scale recruitment is to expand the team to deal with the bandits. The extra people are mainly responsible for police sentry tasks, and they are accompanied by veteran soldiers... The biggest guerrilla advantage of the bandits is gone!

"Compared with the battlefields that our fathers experienced, this kind of march is like an outing, yes, just a walk!"

When the young Shaq man got excited, he couldn't help but make an analogy that he thought was good.

Unfortunately, no one responded to him.

Kavin was silently cleaning up the store.

Although it sounds good to him, no matter how good the opportunity is to recruit soldiers, it has nothing to do with him being a hornless person.

Seeing that Lu Meng didn't express his position, Huo Buyang kept silent and just listened to the news.

Based on his understanding of Brother Lu.

If something is really profitable, Brother Lu will finish the work with him before everyone can react.

If a good thing becomes known to everyone and it seems there is still an advantage to be taken advantage of... then it's probably a trap.

Anyone who re-enters the market at this time will be someone else's "cheap".

What's more, Brother Lu seems to have an alternative understanding of what "interests" are.

He seems to attach great importance to some things that others don't care about, and some things that the world pursues diligently seem to be worthless to him.

Huo Buyang feels that although he has grown compared to before, he still has a lot to learn.

As for Lu Meng.

He sighed silently in his mind.

Although this Ashu brother has good abilities in accounting and business operations, he has little battlefield experience after all.

Even if it's not like in movies and TV shows, where sentries can be assassinated by wiping their necks off so easily... the task of sentry duty is not something that a new recruit in the army can undertake.

Si Kun's army made such an arrangement, probably using this group of people as bait to seduce the enemy, in order to provide convenience for the veterans who were hiding and keeping watch.

It's cruel, but it can effectively save elite manpower.

As for losses?

Anyway, some people will survive, and those who survive will become elites.

Just like that, in the small unknown shop, everyone fell into silence for a while because of the coincidence and tacit understanding.

Ashu scratched his head, unsure of the situation.

I'm a bit confused.