Sudden Change
For the next few days, Victor had plenty of free time, observing Morey training Gale. Victor, as the lord, forcibly took over the power to feed Gale. Using the mental model built by the Calculation Module, he quickly figured out Gale's eating habits in just a few days. After getting familiar with Victor, Gale would even ask Victor for food on its own initiative, which made Morey exclaim that it was impossible, and he even developed a sense of awe for Victor.
As for Luoza, he has been sent back to the territory by Victor with a decree personally written by Victor to take over the territory's horse farms and begin his work. With the addition of these captured horses, the number of horses in the Two Rivers Territory has exceeded 40,000. Including the horses in the army, the entire Two Rivers Territory has a total of more than 50,000 horses.
The original horse ranch in the Two Rivers Territory region had less than 20,000 horses, and could only provide more than 2,000 horses each year. Of these, less than half were warhorses, which was far from meeting the needs of the territory's army. If it weren't for the warhorses captured, Victor would have had a hard time expanding his army so quickly.
The number of horses at the Territory Horse Ranch has more than doubled. According to Luoza's estimate, it can provide at least 2,000 warhorses and 4,000 draft and pack horses each year.
Luoza was not only skilled at using the Hanging Horse Method to train horses, but he also had in-depth research on horse breeding. When Victor discussed this with him, he discovered that Luoza actually used artificial insemination to breed horses, which surprised Victor greatly.
However, Luoza also said that this method is very harmful to horses, and can easily cause mare injury or death. It is also very harmful to stallions when collecting semen. This kind of destructive method is generally only used for older stallions.
However, Victor believes that these issues can be completely avoided. Soon, the Two Rivers Territory will be able to produce high-proof liquor, which, after further processing, will yield alcohol, greatly improving the territory's disinfection technology. This will also prevent bacterial infections caused by artificial insemination of horses.
Luoza also found many medicinal plants on the grasslands that could be used by both humans and animals, based on the habits of wild horses, such as the diuretic rush and the antidiarrheal wormwood.
This made Victor value Luoza even more. These techniques were all summarized and optimized by Luoza himself. He had conducted in-depth research, but he lacked knowledge and experience.
After Victor provides him with specialized training, Luoza can evolve into a livestock expert once again, and many of his techniques can be applied to other livestock and people.
For Victor, the most valuable spoils of this sweep were Morey and Luoza, whose abilities were crucial for territory development and the territory's army until further industrialization was completed.
At noon on July 17, Victor was about to feed Gale when he saw Gale land and keep shaking its head and chirping. Morey told Victor that Gale said there was a 2,000-strong army heading this way, 20 kilometers to the southwest.
Victor immediately dispatched scout Cavalry, who quickly returned with two messengers. It turned out that this unit was Santos's detachment, which had completed the clearing of the First Tribe and was returning to Green Lake Plain with its spoils.
Around 3 p. m., Santos's squad arrived at the Number Five Supply Station with their spoils and reported their victory to Victor was very satisfied with the results.
The first tribe is the smallest of the four target tribes, with fewer than a thousand people, but it is the second farthest away, 160 kilometers away from Green Lake Plain.
Victor assigned this task to Santos because Santos had always been cautious and preferred to strike after the enemy had acted, but this made him prone to missing opportunities.
Victor hoped he could make some adjustments and, when facing a weaker enemy with clear intelligence, act decisively and quickly.
Unexpectedly, Santos understood Victor's intentions very easily this time, and the round trip and battle only took five days.
They brought back over 800 slaves, over 8,000 sheep, and 1,600 horses, which was quite a haul. However, they only had a little over 200 gold coins, which shows that although the Blazing Fire Tribe provided protection to the vassal tribes, they also exploited them quite severely.
Over the next three days, both Knight Jack's detachment and Ron's detachment returned, having completed the clearing of their objectives and brought back spoils: a total of over four thousand male and female slaves, over twenty-eight thousand sheep, over five thousand horses, and eight hundred gold. Strangely, none of the vassal tribes of the Blazing Fire Tribe raised cattle.
However, by July 20th, all the other units had returned, but James's detachment still hadn't sent any news. Even if their target was the furthest away, 200 kilometers northwest of Green Lake Plain, they should have sent back news by now.
Victor was a little worried and was just about to send troops to provide support when news finally came from James's squad.
It turns out that James's target this time Tribe Four. Somehow he got the news that the Blazing Fire Tribe had been wiped out. It was probably passed on by the herders who escaped in the chaos. When James arrived at Tribe Four, they had already moved away.
James is inherently stubborn and certainly doesn't intend to give up easily. After all, he got the most from Victor in this sweep operation, and if he leads the army alone without any results, wouldn't he be too ashamed to face anyone?
He simply divided his forces, leading the First Cavalry Detachment to continue the pursuit along the direction of the migration of the Tribe Four, while the Second Infantry Detachment followed behind.
After a two-day chase, covering more than 100 kilometers, they caught up with the main force of Tribe Four. This tribe had a small population of only over 1,600 people. They were reluctant to abandon anything during their migration, which made their marching speed extremely slow. In just two days, James and his troops caught up with them.
They tried to fight back, but against the First Cavalry First Detachment, the earliest cavalry force formed in the territory, it was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot; they were easily crushed, and the territory's able-bodied men were basically slaughtered by the enraged James.
James regretted it deeply afterward. Without male slaves, only the elderly, women, and children remained, greatly diminishing the quality of the spoils and violating Victor's order against indiscriminate killing.
Fortunately, during the interrogation of the prisoners, they obtained some intelligence: it turned out that the Tribe Four's destination was a nearby tribal camp. The Tribe Four and this tribe had been on good terms for generations. Although they were not vassals of the same large tribe, they lived very close to each other and often intermarried, so their relationship had always been good.
After hearing that their leader was gone, the Tribe Four decided to join their brother tribe and find a new leader. This brother tribe was slightly stronger than the Tribe Four, but not by much. They had a population of just over two thousand, with only five or six hundred able-bodied men who could fight. Currently, they were only about 40 kilometers away from the Fourth Tribe.
With the strength of James's troops, taking over this tribe would not be difficult. James was tempted, but before taking action, he sent someone to inform Victor.