grassland

It has been four days since Mu Shi led the cavalry into the grassland.

On the first day, the cavalry units, scattered in the form of four divisions, found nothing.

The next day, I found a few figures and a group of cattle, horses and sheep in the distance, and when He Ye, the captain of the second team of the cavalry town, led a group of people to rush over, those people had already run away on horseback, He Ye led people to chase a distance back, driving the spoils forward, according to the strategy of last autumn, waiting for the enemy to come back and snatch cattle, horses and sheep.

Unexpectedly, until the night fell, the tribe that was robbed of hundreds of cattle, horses and sheep by the cavalry town did not send anyone over, it seems that this tribe has no idea of snatching back cattle, horses and sheep.

On the third day, the cavalry town found several figures in the distance, waiting for the arrival of the enemy according to yesterday's practice, but yesterday's events repeated today, and there was still no enemy coming to rob cattle, horses and sheep.

"What's the situation, why don't they come back and snatch back the cattle, horses and sheep that the cavalry town stole back, don't they want these cattle, horses and sheep?" Everyone in Cavalry Town was puzzled.

Mu Shi convened a meeting of the captains and vice-captains to discuss the matter, and finally came to a conclusion that was recognized by everyone:

Maybe the two nomadic tribes encountered in the past two days are small tribes, the population will definitely not exceed a thousand, and it may even be less than five hundred, the population of the tribe is so small, its strength is also very weak, just the size of nearly fifty people in a cavalry town, let the two nomadic tribes give up the idea of snatching back cattle, horses and sheep.

As a small tribe, they dare not fight with other tribes, once the tribe loses some warriors, it is very serious for the tribe, in this grassland of the jungle, it is difficult for them to continue to survive, so the small tribe avoids fighting as much as possible, cattle, horses and sheep were robbed, anyway, there are wild ones on the grassland, and then you can catch them, only a few hundred cattle, horses and sheep will not have much impact in a short time.

The conclusion drawn by the cavalry town is correct, the strong tribes on the steppe swallow up the weak tribes, the weak tribes stay away from the strong tribes, and when the two weak tribes meet, they must also avoid fighting as much as possible, and the weak tribes cannot afford to lose a battle.

From the Black Wolf Tribe to the Wind Tribe to the White Horse Tribe , all the nomadic tribes that the Xia Kingdom (cavalry) has encountered can find a very interesting thing, when each tribe grazes cattle, horses and sheep, they will let the clansmen drive the cattle, horses and sheep away from the tribe's residence, and disperse them in all directions as much as possible.

The reason for this is very simple, one is that cattle, horses and sheep have to graze, and the principle of sustainable development, expanding the scope of grazing cattle, horses and sheep can allow the tribe to stay in an area for a longer time.

The second is the most important, the tribe grazes around the tribe, once there is an enemy attack, you can find the enemy in advance, the herding tribesmen quickly bring back the news of the "arrival of the enemy", so that the tribe can prepare early, whether to fight with the enemy, or choose to escape, will not make the tribe panic because of the sudden arrival of the enemy.

In other words, the nomadic tribe herdsmen also have the task of guarding the tribe when grazing cattle, horses and sheep, and the weaker the tribe, the more they will send their people to graze in areas farther away from the tribe's residence, and the stronger the tribe will not care about the enemy, and even they hope that a weak enemy will take the initiative to send them to the door.

Very helpless thing, the cavalry town wants to destroy a nomadic tribe again, it depends on luck, if you are lucky, there is a tribe that is not weak to be attracted over, bad luck, the tribes found are all weak tribes, it is possible to have a situation where there is no discovery for several days in a row, it is not strange that such a situation occurs in the vast and sparsely populated grassland, especially under the natural disaster.

Perhaps the bad luck was used up in the first three days, but on the fourth day, the cavalry town finally came to life, encountering a nomadic tribe with a population of more than 2,000......

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The infantry of the Xia State has a tun of troops, a sword and shield soldier, a pikeman, a short archer, and a longbowman, that is to say, half of the regular army of the Xia State is a melee class, half of it is a long-range class, and there are more than 1,000 archers in the team of 2,000 people, which is a terrifying ratio.

In the face of the Japanese tribe that gathered all the fighting forces, Su Yan's idea was very simple, first eliminate all the resistance forces of the Japanese tribe from a distance, and then rush up to capture the remaining personnel.

The copper weapons traded by the Xia Kingdom to the Japanese tribe are indeed a huge threat, the leather armor equipped by the Xia soldiers is a little better than the rattan armor, but it cannot resist the chopping and piercing of sharp copper weapons, once the two sides have a close fight, no matter how strong the Xia side is, there will be relatively large losses, even if there are more prisoners after the war, it cannot make up for the losses of the Xia Kingdom itself, a Xia State warrior is more valuable than two or even more adult male ** subordinates.

What's more, in last year's battle, the Xia Kingdom obtained another batch of prisoners, and the number of slaves increased greatly, with more than 5,300 adult slaves and more than 2,400 juvenile slaves, totaling more than 7,700 people.

Xia mainly uses slaves in mining, building cities, and building roads, and the current number of slaves is barely enough, there is no need to increase their own losses in order to get more slaves, and the lives of slaves are not as precious as the lives of Xia soldiers.

"Archery!"

The scene of thousands of arrows firing at the same time is much different from the scene of thousands of arrows raining down on the sky, but it is also a very spectacular scene in today's era.

"Raise your shield! Raise your shield! Seeing the Xia Kingdom array shoot countless arrows, the leader of the day hurriedly shouted, and at the same time, he also raised the vine shield in his hand to protect his upper body.

Because of the tight time, the leader of the day did not have time to put on the rattan armor, so he did not stand in the front row of the array.

In fact, there is no need for the day leader to remind, the people of the Japanese tribe array saw the Xia country array shoot arrows, and they raised the rattan shield in their hands to protect the upper body, and at the front of the Japanese tribe array were more than three hundred rattan armor soldiers, and the people behind the rattan armor soldiers did not wear rattan armor, but at least five hundred people had rattan shields in their hands, and they raised the rattan shields to their heads one after another to resist the arrows falling from their heads.

Just when the people of the Japanese tribe quickly made a defensive posture to resist the approaching arrows, many people had a thought in their hearts: Why did the people of the Xia Kingdom shoot arrows from such a distance (fifteen zhang), and could their arrows shoot over? Even if we were able to shoot it, we wouldn't have much power, and we wouldn't even be able to penetrate the hides on our bodies.

The people of the Sun tribe obviously compared the bows and arrows of their own tribe with the bows and arrows of the Xia Kingdom, and because the bows and arrows of the two sides were similar, this was also the fact that the Xia Kingdom would never take out the bows and arrows for trading, so that the people of the Sun tribe did not understand the power of the strong bow of the Xia Kingdom.

If the Sun tribe knew the power of Xia Guo's strong bow, knew that the rattan shield in his hand could be penetrated by short bows and arrows, and knew that the rattan armor and rattan shield double defense would be penetrated by longbow arrows, they would definitely choose to flee as soon as possible, instead of standing in place and preparing to resist the Xia army.

Almost as soon as the Japanese leader's voice fell, more than a thousand arrows shot by the Xia Kingdom array passed through a short distance of fifteen zhang and crashed into the Sun Tribe array.

Bang! Bang! Burst!

The short bow and arrow penetrated the rattan shield in the hand of the rattan armor soldier but was blocked by the rattan armor on the vine armor soldier, and the number of longbow arrows that were not less than the short bow and arrow directly penetrated the two layers of rattan armor on the vine armor soldier's body with more powerful power than the short bow and arrow, and pierced into the body of the vine armor soldier, and even the longbow and arrow penetrated the body of the vine armor soldier, and the arrow penetrated from the layer of vine armor behind him.

More than 1,000 arrows took away more than 400 lives, and the leader of the day was stunned when he saw the clansmen wearing rattan armor and holding rattan shields in front of him being shot by arrows, and seeing the arrows with the blood of his clansmen extending a short distance in front of him.

"How is that possible? How could the bows and arrows of the Xia people be so powerful? Dead, all dead...... Burst! "The Sun Leader, who had no obstacles in front of him, was directly killed by the second wave of arrows shot by the Xia Guo Array, a short bow and arrow pierced through the vine shield in the Sun Leader's hand and pierced into the Sun Leader's body, and a long bow and arrow directly penetrated the Sun Leader's body.

The leader of the suzerain-led tribe of the Sun Tribe camp within a radius of a hundred miles simply died.

No one of the Japanese tribesmen noticed that the leader had died, and under the two waves of arrows fired by the Xia State array, the Japanese tribe array had become a mess, more than eight hundred people were killed or seriously injured and dying, more than five hundred people were moderately injured or lightly injured, and the Japanese tribe array was two thousand six hundred, and only more than 1,200 people were left intact.

According to Su Yan's order, the main targets of the longbowmen and short archers were those who were holding copper weapons, and the people holding copper weapons in the Japanese tribe array were mainly men, so that the two waves of arrows went down, and the adult male clansmen of the Japanese tribe suffered heavy losses, and the adult female clansmen and the clansmen close to adulthood did not suffer too much.

Some of the panicked Japanese tribesmen chose to turn around and flee, and some chose to lie on the ground, and under two waves of arrows, the Japanese tribe army of more than 2,600 people was defeated!

"Forward, all enemies with bronze weapons, all enemies who dare to resist, all will be shot!"

With a wave of the bronze sword in Su Yan's hand, the Xia soldiers used rushed forward, and the Xia soldiers on both wings advanced the fastest, they wanted to complete the encirclement of the Japanese tribes' settlements and block the fleeing enemies as much as possible.

Advance! Advance!

Stepping on the blood-stained land, the warriors of the Xia tribe rushed into the residence of the Japanese tribe, perhaps the Japanese tribesmen were frightened by the scene just now, almost no one wanted to resist, the Japanese tribesmen who were still holding copper weapons in their hands were shot by the Xia archers, and then the archers who had not found many targets directly put the bow on their backs and pulled out the copper knife hanging on the right side.

The sword used by the sword and shield soldier is a large sword, which is a heavy knife, the archer's knife is a light knife, the bow and arrow are the archer's main weapon, and the knife is only the archer's secondary weapon.

The archers, who had put down their bows and arrows in turn to pick up their swords, fell behind the queue, and they tied up one captive after another with ropes, especially the men among the captives, who were the main objects of their care, and dishonesty was a punch and kick.

The warriors of the Xia Kingdom continued to move forward, and the interior of the Japanese tribe's residence was also in chaos, and the defeated Japanese tribesmen in front ran behind them (to the west), running desperately, using all their strength to run, they didn't want to end up with those who were already dead or seriously injured and dying.

Running to the central area of the Japanese tribe's residence, bringing the news of "defeat at the front" to the tribesmen who gathered here who could not participate in the battle, some adult female tribesmen quickly found their children in the crowd, and fled with their children on their backs, holding or pulling their children, but more people in the central area were panicked and crying because they suddenly learned the news of "defeat at the front".

The Japanese tribe is defeated, and the Japanese tribe is about to end, what should I do in the future?

"Run, let's run, the Sun tribe is gone, and those (affiliated) tribes, we can join their tribes."

The idea is very good, but it is very difficult to realize this idea, adults who are not dragged down by children can escape before the Xia army completes the encirclement of the Japanese tribal settlement, and those adults who are dragged down are difficult to escape before the Xia army completes the encirclement of the Japanese tribal settlement, and they can't run away before the encirclement, and they can't run away after the encirclement is completed.

Who can give up their children? Only the remaining adult males were able to quickly abandon their pregnant wives and young children, and run as far west as they could, leaving the Japanese tribe and crossing the farmland into the jungle so that the enemy could no longer catch up with them.

Many men are able to make quick decisions, but most women have a hard time giving up their children and running away alone, they will run with their children when they run away, and then they are intercepted by the Xia army and trapped in the Japanese tribe's residence, a small number of people are killed by the Xia soldiers because of resistance, and the rest become prisoners.

"Archery! Archery! In the farmland to the west of the Japanese tribe's residence, looking at the Japanese tribesmen fleeing in front of him, the tun commander directly gave his subordinates an order to shoot arrows.

After a few breaths, more than a dozen arrows were fired, and the seven Japanese tribesmen were hit in this wave of arrows, two were directly killed, two were seriously injured and dying, and the other three were not seriously injured, but the speed of escape was affected.

The soldiers of the Xia Kingdom pursued and shot arrows at the same time, and the number of Japanese tribesmen who finally ran into the jungle would not exceed one hundred and fifty, and a Japanese tribe that was so strong that it had a population of seven thousand was destroyed by the Xia Kingdom in this way, and only more than a hundred people escaped.

This was a great victory, killing more than 1,500 enemies and capturing more than 5,400 people, as the victor of the Xia Kingdom, the number of its own casualties was only in single digits, and there were more wounded, but it did not exceed 50 people, and only six people were seriously injured.

Wounded soldiers have their own military doctors to treat them, and the senior academy of Xia Guo has cultivated enough talents with a primary level, and some of them have reached an intermediate level of medical skills, and even soldiers who are not full-time medicine have more or less learned some knowledge of dealing with wounds.

"The various departments deal with it quickly, divide the prisoners into separate custody, the Japanese tribe has been defeated by us, but the Japanese tribe still has seven subordinate tribes waiting for us to fight."