Two days later, the Xia wars against the fishing tribes ended, and the main residence of the fishing tribe, the seven subordinate settlements of the fishing tribe adjacent to the Yellow River, and two more subsidiary settlements far from the river bank were all conquered by the Xia expeditionary army.

One main and nine subordinates, ten residences, with a total population of more than 16,000, more than 3,100 people were killed, mainly adult males, a small number of adult women and people about to become adults, and hundreds of people escaped, and the Xia expeditionary corps captured nearly 13,000 people.

There is one thing that the Ministry of Commerce made a mistake, the Ministry of Commerce speculated that the total population of the fishing tribe was between 17,000 and 18,000, but in fact the total population of the fishing tribe was close to 19,000.

After the end of the war, a fleet of fifteen B-type ships was prepared to transport the captives back to the Xia country by residence, compared to the Japanese tribe, the fishing tribe was farther away from the Xia country, Su Yan was ready to mobilize more ships, to transport all the captives back to the Xia country before the winter came.

If there is no time to transport other loot, just throw it here, animal skins or something, Xia Guo is not lacking, but the copper ore mined by the fishing tribe is worth paying attention to, and in the future, find time to carefully survey the copper ore mined by the fishing tribe, estimate the copper reserves, if the reserves are considerable, a new city can be established in the area around the copper mine in the future.

In a short period of time, there is no need to build a new city on the side of the fishing tribe, after all, it is too far away from the Xia country, and the Xia country itself has a copper mine that can be mined, which will not be exhausted in a short time, and the Xia country is improving the iron-making technology, and iron-making is more important than copper smelting in the future.

If it weren't for the coal mines in the Yancheng area and the grasslands in the storage area, the Xia Kingdom would never have established a city in an area far from the mainland, which would seriously affect the information exchange between the cities and also affect the rule of the Xia Kingdom.

A fleet of fifteen B-type ships transported 2,500 captives at a time, and sent soldiers divided by ten to escort the captives, and Su Yan also took this boat back to Zhongjing.

No sooner had the fleet left the area than a battle broke out.

Under the leadership of a certain high-ranking who escaped from the residence of the fishing tribe master, more than 300 fishermen attacked one of the eight settlements of the fishing tribe near the south bank of the Yellow River, which had a population of more than 1,500 people.

The Xia warriors stationed in this residence only had two teams and one tun, and almost one warrior guarded five large and small captives, while also guarding against possible enemies.

However, the high-level of the fishing tribe miscalculated their own strength, only more than 300 people, less than a third of the people armed with copper weapons, or in broad daylight, they attacked this former fishing tribe's affiliated residence with two teams and one warrior of the Tunxia Kingdom.

Xiong Xin, the commander of two teams and one Tun soldier, was Xiong Xin, the minister of a certain city soldier in Xia State, who sent out half of his more than 110 bows and arrows to face the more than 300 fishing tribesmen who rushed over, and after a few waves of arrow rain, less than 100 of the more than 300 fishing tribesmen were lucky to escape, including the high-level of the fishing tribe.

Two days later, the high-ranking of the fishing tribe learned from the experience of the defeat in the first battle, gathered the last 500 or so people of the fishing tribe who were able to fight, and under the cover of night, attacked Xiong Xin's residence for the second time.

Night battles are very troublesome battles for the Fishermen and the Xia warriors, but the night battle can narrow the gap between the Fishermen and the Xia warriors, and the role of bows and arrows is greatly weakened in the night battle.

In the face of the numerical superiority of the enemy, Xiong Xin directly gave up guarding the prisoners, and retreated to the northeast corner of the residence with five tun soldiers, with houses on the left and right sides as shelters, and could only pass in front and rear.

The sword and shield soldiers of the five tun warriors stood in two rows in front and behind, kneeling on one knee against the bronze shield in their hands, and behind them were the same number of pikemen, who also knelt on one knee and set their spears diagonally above the bronze shield, and in the middle area were more than 110 archers, who prepared their bows and arrows, ready to shoot at the enemy who rushed at them.

Giving up the captives and retreating to a corner, Xiong Xin did this to protect himself as much as possible, even if all the captives ran away in the end, as long as there were not many casualties on his side, Xiong Xin would not be punished.

Because there is a general rule in the Xia Kingdom, the value of life of the Xia people is higher than that of people outside the Xia Kingdom, no matter what happens, they must protect their own safety first, and then think about other things.

To Xiong Xin's surprise, the enemy who attacked his own defense of his residence actually gathered his clansmen to attack Xiong Xin's side while rescuing his fellow clansmen.

When the fishermen bumped into the defensive line composed of shields and spears, several fishermen, because it was dark and could not see the situation in front clearly, directly hit the spears and "committed suicide".

At this time, the archers in the middle area were in full swing, and wave after wave of arrows continued to shoot out, killing the enemies in front of them, and the ground was full of dead or barely able enemies, numbering more than one hundred and fifty people.

The strength of the warriors of the Xia Kingdom made the Yu tribesmen fearful, and no Yu tribesmen dared to rush over, but the Xia archers did not stop, and the arrows shot in a farther direction, and many of the prisoners who had just been rescued were shot and killed.

Xiong Xin and the soldiers had no mercy for those captives, let them go today, and tomorrow they might continue to attack a certain area where the Xia Expeditionary Legion was stationed, killing an enemy was to consume a cent of the enemy's strength.

After a period of chaos, the Fishermen retreated with the rescued Clansmen, but they did not rescue all the Clansmen, and the northeast area where Xiong Xin and the Xia soldiers retreated was a dangerous area, and the Fishermen did not dare to approach, so that the more than 200 Fisherman Tribesmen held in some rooms in the Northeast Region were not rescued.

At dawn, after a brief breakfast, Xiong Xin led five Tun soldiers to escort more than 200 captives to another subordinate residence of the former fishing tribe garrisoned by the Xia State Expeditionary Legion, and at the same time sent a team to report to Lu Chen, the head of the military department in the residence of the fishing tribe master, about the attack on the enemy's residence where he was stationed.

Soon, the various residences where the Xia Expeditionary Corps was stationed received information and made preparations, such as setting up horse rejection stakes outside the residence, digging traps, and so on.

The five tun warriors led by Xiong Xin left only one tun after arriving at the next residence, and the remaining four tun warriors dispersed to the various residences where the Xia State Expeditionary Corps was stationed to strengthen the guards of each residence.

The generals stationed in the various settlements did not intend to escort the captives to the residence of the fishing tribe master, which was a more dangerous thing than staying in place.

The ratio of captives to Xia warriors is five to one, and the number of prisoners is minors, which will also make the speed of the team move very slowly, if there is a sudden attack of the enemy, the captives will rebel, and the danger level is definitely higher than staying in place.

All the residences where the Xia Expeditionary Legion was stationed were actively preparing, but after five consecutive days, there was no enemy.

"What's the situation, isn't the enemy coming?"

Yes, the remnants of the Fishing Tribe did give up the plan of attacking the Xia Expeditionary Legion at night to garrison their residences, and rescued more than 800 of their fellow tribes in the last battle, but they also paid the price of nearly 200 casualties.

After the battle, the high-ranking of the fishing tribe proposed to continue the night attack on the residence where the Xia Kingdom Expeditionary Corps was stationed, but soon some people raised objections, more than 500 people participated in the night attack, nearly 200 people died, and the battle death rate was one-third, this probability was too high, and the high made all the fighters fearful, they were still alive now, and they were worried that they would die in the next night attack.

One after another stood up against the night attack plan, and the high-ranking of the fishing tribe could only give up, if he persisted, he felt that his fellow tribe would turn his back on him, so it was better to gather the remnants of the fishing tribe and find an area to continue to live, and those of the same clan who were captured by the Xia people gave up directly.

Su Yan's fleet is on the way back to the Xia Kingdom, on this side, the Lufang team and the Huo Qian team have basically completed the task of opening up the construction area, farmland area and road to Zhongjing City of the two new cities in the future, and have burned down several fires in a row, and even burned some more jungles.

Burn as much as you want, as long as it doesn't cause a large area of the jungle to be burned, many Xia people remember the two mountain fires during the Dragon Tribe period, one was a mountain fire on the east bank of the Source River, which burned directly from the east to the bank of the Source River, I don't know how many tribes were driven by the mountain fires, and I don't know how many tribes were engulfed by the mountain fires.

The other is the mountain fire in the south of the source city, the mountain fire also burned a large area of the jungle, so that in the years after the establishment of the bamboo city, only shrubs and weeds can be used to burn the fire, there are no big trees in the area around the bamboo city, twenty years have passed, and the area outside the farmland around the bamboo city has been covered by a large area of jungle.

The task of setting fire to the wasteland has been completed, and at the same time, the slave department has sent a thousand adult slaves and slaves who are close to adulthood to Zhongjing City, and under the guard and command of the soldiers under the slave department, the thousand slaves are divided into two teams to repair the roads on the two roads that have just been opened.

At the very least, the two roads should be smoothed so that two carriages can pass side by side, but for the sake of future development, it is best to have four carriages side by side, and if necessary, use gunpowder to open the mountain.

The Lufang team and the Huoqian team were not idle, and the two teams were stationed in the area where the city was to be built next year, first building a temporary camp enough for 1,000 people to live, and then cutting timber, building a brick kiln and other labor, anyway, it was all preparatory work before the construction of the city.

In addition, one team of field/war armies and two teams of city defense armies of the two city quotas that will be built next year are being transferred from various cities in the Xia Kingdom to concentrate in Zhongjing City, and when the establishment is completed, the two teams will respectively sweep around the areas where the two cities are located, and wipe out or drive away the tribes in the surrounding areas.

This is the territory of the Xia Kingdom, how can other tribes be allowed to operate?

It is expected that a number of more battles will break out at that time, adding some population to the Xia Kingdom and reaping a small amount of loot.

The fleet carrying Su Yan and more than 2,500 captives has not yet returned to the Xia country, and on the side of the city, the cavalry troops once again went deep into the grassland, which is the third time that the cavalry troops have gone deep into the grassland this year.

For the third time, the cavalry unit went deep into the steppe, and this time it was different from the previous two times.

The reserve cavalry has completed three months of training, and then the last assessment, according to the performance of the reserve cavalry, the cavalry unit will keep a certain number of reserve cavalry, turn into regulars, and officially become a member of the cavalry unit.

The rest of the reserve cavalry who were not selected came from and returned to their respective cities to serve as messengers on horseback, to drive, or to try to enter the city defense.

They have one more chance to join the cavalry unit next year, this is their last chance, Su Yan gave the last two years, after two years, the cavalry unit will only select newcomers from the Advanced Academy War Academy.

The cavalry unit was originally the size of five teams in one town, but there were very few casualties in the previous battles, and the cavalry unit was expanded this time, and after replenishing the lost personnel, it was expanded by two teams, so that the size of the cavalry force reached seven teams, and the number of cavalry was as high as more than 660 people.

More than 660 cavalrymen were put on the grassland, and if a nomadic tribe wanted to produce so many male warriors, the population of this nomadic tribe would be at least about 3,500 people.

The cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom, which had penetrated into the grassland many times, had not encountered such a powerful nomadic tribe, and even if they did, with the strength of the cavalry troops, they could completely annihilate the enemy at a very small cost.

The increase in the number of cavalry units is one aspect, and the other is the equipment of cavalry, which is equipped with new armor to protect the faces of the cavalry.

You must know that in the battle between the cavalry unit and the nomadic tribe, the most likely place for the cavalry to be seriously injured is the face that has nothing to cover, once the face is hit by an arrow, it is either dead or seriously injured and disabled, and the arms and legs are only slightly injured by arrows.

Originally, Su Yan planned to use iron lighter than copper to make face armor, and the face armor was made several sides for the cavalry troops to try, but he found that the iron face armor would block the cavalry's line of sight, affecting the cavalry's archery and dodging the enemy's arrows.

He abandoned the iron armor and instead made leather for each cavalryman's face, with only holes in the eyes and nose.

Cavalrymen will feel some discomfort when wearing armor, usually when the cavalry is traveling on horseback, do not need to wear armor, and wait until the battle is about to break out, and then put on armor, so that the number of cavalry killed or seriously injured and disabled by enemy arrows in the face will be greatly reduced.

More than 660 cavalrymen left the city under the leadership of Mu Shi and galloped towards the depths of the grassland, some of the team were recruits, these recruits were arranged by Mu Shi at the back of the team, first follow the veterans to learn, and wait until after one or two battles, there is no need to pay attention to the problem of recruits and veterans.