Chapter 292: Conscription Order
After receiving the order, Ye Jinghong quickly arranged things one by one, making Caoyuan Village extremely busy.
Once the ten vine-armored soldiers from the Black Moon Village come over to join the group, the total strength of the Grassland Village will reach forty people, of which the vine-armored soldiers, who are the elite combat force, will directly account for half of the number, or twenty people.
But at this stage, there are only twenty-three war horses in Caoyuan Village.
It was enough to equip all 20 rattan armor soldiers with war horses, but the problem was what to do with the remaining regular soldiers? Without mounts, they could only fight as infantry.
But on this grassland, except for defensive battles, infantry has no status at all.
The mobility is not enough and nothing can be done.
As a key factor in providing soldiers with mobility, war horses are of paramount importance to the grassland village.
In order to provide war horses for these regular army soldiers, the farm is urgently training the batch of wild horses that have just been captured.
Including the two horses brought back from Silk, the total number of horses in this batch is sixteen.
Under this premise, Zhou Xu had previously ordered the batch of horses provided to the messenger from Yanhu Village to be requisitioned.
In this way, all the forty regular soldiers on the grassland can be equipped with war horses to form a cavalry team of forty horses!
At the same time, in the mine outside Salt Lake Village...
Hongshi was bare-chested and waving the copper pickaxe in his hand with sweat all over his forehead.
From the time he was captured and brought here to do hard labor until now, Hongshi has been officially upgraded from a ore transporter to a miner thanks to his outstanding work efficiency and excellent work performance.
As a prisoner of war, he is now qualified to wield a copper pickaxe, which in itself is a recognition of him.
Under this premise, it is also very important to note that miners are more likely to achieve good results at work than miners.
Over the past six months, Hongshi has won several awards for hard work and obtained a reduction in sentence for his hard work and achievements.
Originally, they were supposed to serve three years of hard labor before they could get rid of their hard labor status, but now, he has been given a six-month reduction in sentence, plus he has already served more than half a year, so rounding it off, he has already served half of his sentence.
If he performs better and gets recognized for hard work a few more times, he might be able to escape from his hard labor status ahead of time next year.
Thinking of this, Hongshi became full of energy and even swung the copper pickaxe more vigorously.
Seeing this, Heimu, who was also upgraded to a miner, didn't know what happened to Hongshi all of a sudden, but he immediately speeded up his actions without saying anything.
During this period, Redstone became his biggest competitor.
Unfortunately, Hei Mu couldn't maintain this state for too long. His body soon couldn't take it anymore and he walked outside panting, preparing to scoop a bowl of water to drink.
The gap in attribute panels and talents meant that it was difficult for him to compare with Hongshi in terms of physical fitness.
However, at this moment, a bronze bell rang in the mining field, signaling a gathering.
Hearing the sound, Hongshi paused, didn't think much about it, simply wiped the sweat off his forehead, and walked outside.
In their mine, ringing the assembly bell usually isn't a big deal.
Until they walked outside and saw the figure standing next to the director...
"That's the messenger?"
After staying here for a while, Hongshi also got to know some of the identities here.
Of course, his understanding was limited, so he was not sure now and asked softly to the regular worker in the mine next to him.
Although red stone is hard labor, they have been working together for such a long time after all. Most of the workers in the mine don't care much about red stone's hard labor status.
Now hearing Hongshi's question, the miner next to him nodded directly.
"He is a messenger. Look at the pheasant feather on his hat. People who wear this kind of pheasant feather usually come with urgent news or important tasks."
In order to make it easier to distinguish their identities, messengers here usually put a feather on their hats as a mark.
The messengers who delivered ordinary messages had short chicken feathers on their hats, while the messengers who delivered urgent messages had long pheasant feathers on their hats.
The purpose is to make it conspicuous, so that people on the road will see it and quickly retreat! After everyone arrived, there was no more nonsense. The messenger stepped forward and shouted the order...
"Now that the war is about to start on the grassland border, the leader has ordered a conscription. Those who are willing should gather outside the Salt Lake Village at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning to take a test. Those who pass the test can join the army as new soldiers."
Having said this, the messenger paused.
"Those serving hard labor can also participate! If you pass the test and win military merits on the battlefield, you can use them to reduce your sentence!"
As soon as the messenger said this, Hongshi, who originally thought it had nothing to do with him, suddenly became interested.
At night, Heimu, who was tossing and turning and unable to sleep, woke Hongshi up with a slap.
"Shit! What are you doing? I have to take a test tomorrow morning."
Hearing this, Kuroki immediately showed an expression of "I knew it", and then his expression became more conflicted.
"Are you really going?"
"If you make meritorious contributions, you can get a reduced sentence, so why not go?"
There was a sense of matter-of-factness in Hongshi's tone. Although there was nothing wrong with his current life, which was just eating, sleeping and working, Hongshi was still a warrior at heart and he didn't plan to be a miner all his life.
"Why? You're not going?"
Hongshi gradually came to his senses, frowned and looked at Heimu.
Although in Hongshi's opinion, Heimu's strength is average, but he was a tribal leader before, so he still has some abilities.
Under this premise, Hei Mu actually didn't want to go, which was something he had not expected.
The reason why Kuroki had such an idea at this time was because their experiences were completely different.
The Redstone tribe was incorporated because Redstone challenged a duel and then lost.
In essence, there was no major fighting between the two sides, and no casualties occurred.
But the Black Wood Tribe was different. He had witnessed with his own eyes the horror of the rattan armor soldiers. They killed them like chopping melons and vegetables until they knelt down and surrendered. Even now, he still dreams about it occasionally and is awakened by that nightmare.
Looking at Hei Mu's expression, Hong Shi immediately knew what was going on.
"Okay, stop disturbing me, I want to sleep."
During this period of time as co-workers, he and Kuroki indeed established a good relationship, but Hongshi obviously had no intention of interfering with Kuroki's judgment on such matters.
Looking at Hongshi who was about to lie down and continue to sleep, Heimu's face became gloomy.
To be honest, he didn't hate the peaceful life in front of him, but after all, he was a leader and he was not spineless.
Hongshi has gone, but he doesn't go. Isn't that a disguised admission that he is not as good as Hongshi?
After struggling for who knows how long, Hei Mu gritted his teeth.
"I'm going too!"
After saying this, Heimu lay down and fell asleep without caring whether Hongshi heard him or not.
During this time, Hongshi turned over and muttered something.
"It's none of my business. It's late at night. Can't I sleep?"
(End of this chapter)
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