Chapter 590: Don't Give Up Easily
It was not until the cavalry of the Grassland Country left the city more than eighty zhang away that the longbowmen on the western wall of the city stopped shooting, and the army of the grassland country came with 32,000 cavalry, and when they left, there were less than 4,000 horsemen.
More than 28,000 cavalry were hit by the archers on the walls of the city when they charged and retreated towards the city, and most of them were directly seriously injured and dying or trampled to death by their own horses, and only the small half were still struggling to survive on the battlefield.
When the cavalry of the country of the grassland left the city more than forty zhang away, Mu Shi immediately led the cavalry down the city wall, under the city wall was a dense number of war horses, the cavalry quickly found their war horses, and various materials had been placed on the war horses, enough for the cavalry to carry out an expedition deep into the grassland.
Nine hundred cavalry rushed out from the west gate, and the remaining 1,200 cavalry men rushed out from the south gate and the north gate in two ways.
The enemy fled, and the cavalry of the Xia Kingdom could not watch the enemy flee, maybe the enemy would rest in the area not far from the city.
The task of the cavalry is to chase and kill the enemy, it is best to drive all the enemies to the end, and if they can't kill them all, they must drive the enemy home, and the herdsmen of the city also have to graze cattle, horses and sheep, once the enemy remains in the nearby area, it is definitely a huge threat to the city, and the cavalry must eliminate the trouble.
After the cavalry left the city, Lu Zhe also organized the soldiers out of the city, and outside the city were as many as 28,000 dead, seriously wounded, dying and not seriously injured but unable to escape, as well as many more dead, wounded and intact horses.
Seriously wounded, dying and severely disabled enemies who will be severely disabled after being wounded will be directly repaired with a knife or a shot, and only the enemies who will not appear to be disabled after being injured will be treated, and when they are healed, they will be managed by the slave department, and they will make up for their crimes in attacking the Xia Kingdom through heavy labor such as mining, road repair, and city building.
The intact horses will be driven together, and these horses will be used to expand the cavalry force and be sent to the cities of the Xia Kingdom to pull carriages or be used for riding, and most of the wounded horses and dead horses will be eaten as food.
Horse meat tastes worse than beef, but horse meat is also meat, since the establishment of the city, the people of the city have eaten horse meat, and they will also use various methods to make horse meat to eat, and even the city also hoards a large number of white salt, once the meat is too much to eat in a few days, it must be salted up, and then sent to the cities of the Xia country.
Eating meat is the most energetic, minors need to eat more meat, the warriors of the Xia Kingdom also need to eat more meat, the Xia Kingdom needs more meat, and these war horses from the enemy outside the city can't be wasted.
Of course, there are also enemies who pretend to be dead and prepare to fight back, which the warriors of the Xia Kingdom will notice, mainly the sword and shield soldiers are in front, and the enemy will be killed directly if they dare to resist, and the Xia Kingdom is not short of slaves to use.
On the other side, Mu Shi led the cavalry troops to pursue the fleeing cavalry of the Grassland Country, just as the high-level people of the Grassland City thought, the cavalry of the Grassland Country looked for an area to stop and recuperate after being away from the Accumulation City, and the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom found them from a distance through the telescope, and the soldiers were divided into two ways to outflank the army of the Grassland Country, which was already less than 4,000 horsemen.
However, at this time, the cavalry of the country of the grassland was quite vigilant, and when the cavalry of the Xia country was still some distance away from the place where the cavalry of the country of the grassland rested, they were discovered by the cavalry of the country of the grassland.
Four thousand grassland country cavalry against two thousand Xia country cavalry, the result is self-evident, the grassland country and Xia country cavalry troops both understand this victory, so the dry grass leader directly chose the whole army to retreat at full speed, if you stay and fight with the Xia country cavalry, the whole army will definitely be annihilated.
The four thousand cavalry of the country of the grassland occupy the advantage in numbers, but the gap in weapons and equipment is too large, not to mention that the cavalry of the country of the grassland has just suffered a painful defeat, and their morale has fallen to the extreme, and the cavalry has no intention of continuing to fight, what they want most now is to go home and stay away from the powerful enemy.
In the country of the steppe, twenty-seven alliances, one hundred and fifteen tribes, thirty-two thousand cavalry, now there are less than four thousand cavalry left, all the people of several tribes have been killed in battle, and the leaders of three-quarters of the tribes have died in the battle just now.
As the lord of the grassland country, the leader of the withered grass no longer had time to think so much, and hurriedly fled to the west with the remaining 4,000 cavalry, wanting to quickly shake off the powerful enemy.
However, it is not so easy for the cavalry of the country of the grassland to get rid of the cavalry of the Xia country, before that, the cavalry of the country of the grassland came to the city after a long journey of twelve days, and the last strength of the people and horses was used in the battle to attack the city, and the men and horses were exhausted, which was the reason why they had to stop and recuperate just after they were far away from the city.
And the cavalry of the Xia Kingdom have been cultivating in the city for nearly a month, and during the battle, they only shoot arrows at the cavalry of the Grassland Country on the city wall, which does not let the cavalry of the Xia Kingdom use much physical strength at all, not to mention the war horses that have been in a state of rest.
The cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom, which were almost full, pursued the exhausted cavalry of the Grassland Kingdom, and the distance between the two sides continued to close. Seeing this, the leader of the withered grass could only consult with the leaders of other tribes, and the teams of the various alliances of the grassland country acted separately.
The cavalry of the country of the grassland dispersed in the unit of the alliance, and the cavalry troops of the country of Xia dispersed as a unit, pursuing the cavalry of the country of the grassland that escaped, and the distance between the two sides was still getting closer, so that in the end, the cavalry of the country of the grassland continued to disperse their personnel and fled as a unit of tribes, while the cavalry of the country of Xia also continued to pursue the enemy in a unit of tun or ti.
When the distance between a grassland cavalry and a Xia cavalry was less than forty zhang, the battle broke out, and the Xia cavalry shot one after another grassland cavalry at a distance of more than thirty zhang with the strong bows in their hands.
Seeing that they couldn't run, the cavalry of some tribes directly turned around and rushed towards the Xia cavalry who were pursuing them, but they were shot by the Xia cavalry before they could rush within the range of their bows and arrows.
There are also some tribes whose cavalry is divided into two parts, the women stay behind for the men, and the men flee, which does have some effect, some of the tribe's men escape, and some of the tribe's men are caught up by the Xia cavalry.
This pursuit lasted until nightfall, the vision of the Xia cavalry was limited in the night, it was difficult to find the enemy, the cavalry of the grassland country used the night to stay away from the Xia cavalry who pursued them, the grassland was vast, and it was very difficult for the Xia cavalry to find them again.
The next day, most of the traces of the cavalry of the grassland country have disappeared, the cavalry of the Xia country have gathered, they have no idea of returning to the city, this pursuit battle has just begun, the enemy is running, but their home is still far away, the goal of the cavalry of the Xia country is to directly find the enemy's home, the entire tribe, the entire alliance completely annihilated.
The cavalry units of the Xia Kingdom continued to disperse in teams, all the teams were lined up, and every two teams must be able to see each other's figures, and in this way, they marched towards the depths of the western grassland, and once they found the enemy's traces, the surrounding Xia cavalry would gather one after another.
In order to maintain combat effectiveness, the marching speed of the Xia cavalry was strictly controlled, not too fast, and they had to fight after ten days of marching, and the cavalry of the Xia Kingdom fled in front of the grassland country cavalry to flee to the west as quickly as possible, and the distance between the two sides quickly widened.
Nearly ten days later, the cavalry of the Grassland Country that ran at the forefront had entered the easternmost alliance grazing area of the Grassland Country, and when they went out to fight against the Black Tribe, the Grassland Country dispatched 32,000 cavalry, and now there are less than 2,000 cavalry left, and more than 30,000 cavalry of the Grassland Country died in the war with the Black Tribe.
The leader of the withered grass did not die, and the Anti-Black Alliance was the alliance with the largest number of surviving among the twenty-seven alliances in the grassland country, with more than three hundred people, twelve member tribal leaders, and only four did not return.
The leader of the withered grass and the remaining more than 300 people of the Anti-Black Alliance were about to return to the area where the Anti-Black Alliance was located, and the leader of the withered grass gathered the leaders of the other eleven tribes together and gave a final advice.
"Our tribes have suffered heavy losses, in order to deal with the revenge of the black tribe, the tribes must not be chaotic, the tribes whose four leaders died in battle must elect their leaders as soon as possible, and if they can't quickly elect their leaders, the alliance will intervene.
The Black Tribe is too strong, 32,000 cavalry have been defeated by the Black Tribe, if we are in chaos, we will not be the opponent of the Black Tribe cavalry in the future, after our anti-black alliance is stabilized, we must let the other alliances stabilize as soon as possible, the country of the grassland must continue to exist, in order to fight against the black tribe. ”
The leaders of the other eleven tribal teams agreed one after another, if the grassland country did not exist and the anti-black alliance was in chaos, how would they still get to the black tribe.
After a simple meeting, the twelve tribes, with only six or seven people at most, returned to the tribes, and it was not long before the tribes were enveloped in an atmosphere of sadness, so many people died in the twelve tribes, at least half of the families would disappear, and the women without men would have to take their children to join another family with men, and the same was true of the withered grass tribe.
This is the second time that the leader of the withered grass has organized a large army to defeat the black tribe, or it is a crushing defeat, less than 2,000 of the 32,000 cavalry returned alive, and there is not a single survivor in ten.
The leader of the withered grass regretted it very much, not because he attacked the black tribe this time, but because he regretted attacking the black tribe without being fully prepared, it was 32,000 cavalry, a powerful cavalry force that was enough to cross the prairie, but it was defeated by the more powerful black tribe.
32,000 cavalry can't defeat the Black Tribe, so can 50,000 cavalry and 100,000 cavalry defeat the Black Tribe? Can gathering the forces of all the tribal alliances in the prairie to attack the Black Tribes destroy them?
The leader of the withered grass did not believe that the strength of the nomadic tribes of the entire steppe could not defeat the black tribe, but it was a pity that he lost 30,000 cavalry this time, and there were no more cavalry in the steppe that would be lost so easily.
With the loss of tens of thousands of cavalry, it is impossible for the nomadic tribes on the steppes to wipe out the black tribes, and the cavalry of the black tribes can arbitrarily destroy the nomadic tribes and alliances on the steppes, swallowing up the nomadic tribes and alliances one by one, and finally the nomadic tribes on the steppes disappear completely.
The leader of the withered grass didn't dare to continue to think about it, what a terrible thing this was, in the end, the alliance withered grass tribe was not spared, maybe in the end, he could only flee everywhere on the prairie, avoiding the black tribe cavalry, and then the withered grass tribe slowly died out.
The leader of the withered grass didn't want to see this terrible scene happen, how could the nomadic tribe be chased by the farming tribe and flee everywhere, the stronger the black tribe, the more it should be destroyed.
These things are all things that the leader of the withered grass thinks clearly on the way to escape, in order to fight against the black tribe, the leader of the withered grass needs to stabilize his tribe first, then stabilize the anti-black alliance, and finally stabilize the grassland country.
When the country of the grassland is stabilized, the leader of the withered grass needs to let more nomadic tribes and alliances join the country of the grassland, the country of the grassland this time the fiasco of the war against the black tribe is the best illustration, the country of the grassland 32,000 cavalry were defeated by the black tribe, the cavalry of the black tribe is still wreaking havoc on the grassland, the various nomadic tribes and alliances do not want to be severely damaged or even destroyed by the black tribe, the best choice is to join the country of the grassland.
Don't want to join the country of the steppes and choose to flee to the west and north of the steppe?
This is not a good choice, the northern climate of the prairie is colder, the western land of the prairie is more barren, only the area where the anti-black alliance is located is very rich in water and grass, which is the most suitable for the survival of nomadic tribes, if the nomadic tribes migrate further north and west, they will only let themselves slowly decline.
It's better to fight with the black tribe, gather the nomadic tribes and alliances on the entire grassland to fight with the black tribe, if this can't destroy the black tribe, then the nomadic tribe on the grassland is really going to end, they have no hope.
Now there is still hope for the destruction of the Black Tribe, and the leader of the withered grass will work hard for it, and once he gives up, it will really be over.
Once upon a time, the steppe was so "quiet and harmonious", and nomadic tribes lived in it, although there were wars in between, but it was a normal war for nomadic tribes, and this situation would continue for decades, centuries or even longer.
Unexpectedly, with the emergence of the black tribe, the situation on the prairie has completely changed, and one by one the nomadic tribes were easily wiped out by the black tribes, and some nomadic tribes formed an anti-black alliance in order to fight against the black tribes, and even gathered an army of more than 5,000 cavalry to attack the black tribes, and finally returned with a heavy defeat, almost falling apart.
In order to fight against the black tribe, the anti-black alliance continued to work hard, and accidentally the era of the nomadic tribal alliance on the prairie came, from the previous tribal confrontation with the tribe to the current alliance and alliance confrontation, but the black tribe cavalry has successively suffered heavy losses and even destroyed a number of nomadic tribal alliances.
With the efforts of the Anti-Black Alliance, in order to fight against the Black Tribe, the Grassland Country was established, and the Grassland Country gathered an army of 32,000 cavalry to attack the Black Tribe, and was destroyed again, and the strength of the Black Tribe made all the tribes panic.
The era of the tribe, the era of the alliance, the era of the grassland country, everything is because the Xia country is involved in the grassland, which makes the situation in the prairie change rapidly, if there is no Xia country, maybe all this will not happen, or it will happen slowly after hundreds of years......