Under the watch of the soldiers, a group of slaves was selected to begin cleaning the battlefield. In this era, cleaning the battlefield was essential. Weapons, equipment, and valuables all needed to be collected, and another reason was to check for any enemy soldiers pretending to be dead.

Real cold weapon warfare isn't like playing a game; casualties on one's own side are inevitable. Despite occupying advantages in all aspects, the Sun-Moon Warband still suffered seventy-two casualties, mostly soldiers from the cavalry camp. The casualties were mainly concentrated on arrows and horse collisions.

After statistics were gathered, it was found that only 22 people actually died in battle. The others had arrow wounds and fractures, but fortunately, none were disabled. After a period of recuperation, they could all return to normal.

The battle results were gratifying. The entire Dothraki Kas tribe of two thousand six hundred people didn't escape. Of the eight hundred and twenty Dothraki warriors who could ride into battle, less than four hundred remained. Those who were seriously injured and disabled were finished off. More than one hundred slaves died in the chaos, and there are still nearly one thousand one hundred people. There are also six hundred and thirty-two Dothraki women and children, including many boys aged eight to fourteen.

The biggest gain in terms of spoils was over six thousand excellent horses. The quality of these horses is quite good, and if they are properly trained, most of them can become warhorses. There is a large pile of various coins, gold, silver, and gems, but the value is not very high, about thirty thousand gold dragons. As for the weapons, Liu Yuan doesn't care about them at all. Their only use is to be melted down.

Liu Yuan walked in front of the group of prisoners, silently looking at them one by one. Under his sharp gaze, these unruly Dothraki warriors lowered their heads. Only one guy with a face full of blood glared back fiercely. This aroused his interest, and he pointed his finger and said, "That guy with the injury on his head, go and drag him out for me."

Grigg strode forward from behind him. Faced with such a giant, the Dothraki people blocking the way crawled aside. Grigg scooped up the man with a big hand and dragged him out like he was carrying a chicken. A few people wanted to get up and protect him, but Grigg swung his left arm and pushed them all over the place.

With a thud, the man was thrown in front of Liu Yuan. Liu Yuan asked with interest, "Even after falling to this point, there are still people protecting you. It seems you have a high status in the tribe. I'm a little curious, who are you?"

The man was badly injured from the fall and struggled for a long time without being able to get up. He had to sit on the ground and look up and said, "I am Misda! Son of Bern, Ko of this Kas!"

Liu Yuan was quite satisfied: "Not bad, a real man! According to your Dothraki rules, I am now the victor, and you are my prisoners. Now I am willing to give you a chance to join my army and fight for me. As long as you earn military merit, I will remove your slave status and you will become honorable warriors."

Misda said, "But you are not a Dothraki, you cannot become a Khal, and you cannot gain the recognition of the Dothraki." Becoming a Ko at a young age, he is naturally not a fool and did not confront him forcefully.

Liu Yuan shrugged indifferently: "So what? You are just my first target, and you won't be the last. Ko Misda, you are a smart man, you should understand how I will treat those who are unwilling to submit. Now tell me, your choice..."

"I..." Misda hesitated, and then saw Grigg's malicious gaze. He immediately understood the meaning of 'we are the fish on the chopping board', the lives of the entire tribe were in the hands of others. He slowly knelt down with both knees, spread his hands open with his palms facing up, and solemnly said: "On behalf of all the tribesmen, I hereby swear allegiance to you, the direction pointed by your horsewhip is the direction we will advance!"

Grigg curled his lips, carried his huge double-edged great axe, and turned away. He ran slowly tonight and didn't get anything, so he was very unhappy.

Liu Yuan nodded and said, "You have made a wise choice, but my rules cannot be broken. You will still be slaves, and only by earning military merit can you be pardoned. However, your families, these women and children, can be exempt from slave status."

Misda: "Thank you for your generosity!"

Liu Yuan looked around. The soldiers had finished cleaning the entire battlefield with the slaves. After gathering all the usable things together, he ordered: "Concentrate all the corpses together and cremate them, you are allowed to bid farewell to your former companions."

One of the cores of the Dothraki people's beliefs is that the most important moments in a person's life must take place under the sky. Dothraki funerals are also cremations carried out on starry nights, they believe that the stars are the souls of warriors after death.

Liu Yuan actually respects the beliefs and customs of his subordinates. He took the soldiers to watch the funeral, and the more than twenty soldiers who died in battle were also cremated together. The Dothraki people have very few belongings, their main property is livestock and some iron tools. They will set up huge grass-woven tents at special times, but usually, they live in mobile tents, which is convenient for moving at any time. Horses occupy a primary position in their lives, they are food, transportation, and raw materials for handicrafts.

The mighty team marched westward. Liu Yuan didn't worry about the loyalty of these people at all. After further integration in the future, these Dothraki cavalry will become the sharpest knife in his hand.

After dawn, the team arrived at Vaes Tolorro. Soon they received the response from the soldiers in the camp, and a large number of Unsullied soldiers began to take over the slaves and prisoners. All the male slaves were sent to the labor camp, and the female slaves were assigned to logistics, sewing, washing clothes, and cooking.

The Dothraki women and children were formed into a separate team and placed in the very center of the rear team. As for the four hundred or so Dothraki warriors, they were all incorporated into the Outrider Camp. However, these people have to undergo retraining, the most important thing is to change their habit of not wearing armor.

He didn't want to train all these people into the kind of fully armored cavalry that the Outrider Camp used to be. After all, their combat habits developed since childhood are not easy to change, so Liu Yuan's goal is to transform them into Mongolian heavy armored horse archers, mainly using bows and arrows to kill enemies from a distance. When necessary, they can also play the role of heavy cavalry to tear apart the enemy's lines.

As long as the tactics are appropriate, he can completely replicate the Mongolian cavalry that swept across Eurasia. This time he prepared the kind of leather-covered iron ring armor, mainly equipped with wild goose feather sabers and cavalry bows (actually a smaller version of the Qing bow, the Mongolian Eight Banners used this kind of cavalry bow during the Qing Dynasty).

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