Su Yan said to Lu Yuan: "Yuan, give you a task, the next time the first trade fleet goes out, pay attention to the situation on the grassland, I feel that there are large herds of cattle and sheep on the grassland, and there is another animal called 'horse' that is very important to our tribe, if they can be found, the tribe will go over to capture more people." ”

Lu Yuan: "Okay, next time I'll focus on the situation of the grassland, do you need us to go ashore to explore?" ”

Su Yan: "Try not to go ashore, there are too few people in the fleet, and accidents are prone to occur when you go ashore." ”

Lu Yuan let out a "hmm".

Grassland, that is the world of nomadic nomadic tribes, Su Yan has a little information about nomads in his memory, some people think that nomads rely on farming people, because nomads mainly live on grazing, and many things need to rely on farming people, so nomads only appeared after the agricultural era.

However, Su Yan thinks that this information is somewhat unreliable, once there are nomadic tribes on the grassland, it will be troublesome, and cavalry can be called the nemesis of infantry, especially cavalry who is good at riding and shooting.

The warriors of the Dragon Tribe have outstanding physical fitness and superior weapons and equipment, Su Yan dared to say that the "army" of the Dragon tribe was the most powerful infantry unit in the world, but he did not dare to say that the "army" of the Dragon tribe would definitely be able to withstand the same number of cavalry.

Of course, this cavalry only refers to horse cavalry, and the ox cavalry is too slow and not flexible enough.

There are ways to deal with cavalry, crushing the number of people, increasing the number of archers, especially longbows, and depleting the cavalry at a long distance, the best way is to build up cavalry units belonging to the dragon tribe.

The dragon tribe needs horses, cattle and sheep, and it is imperative to open up grassland trade routes, and when necessary, Su Yan will send a large number of people into the grassland to personally capture cattle, horses and sheep.

It would be better if there were nomadic tribes on the grassland, and it would be easy to get what the dragon tribe needed from the nomadic tribes at a small price.

……

When the first trade fleet returned to Source City, the second trade fleet was still one day away from the leopard tribe, and it was determined whether the leopard tribe and the day tribe behind it needed to trade before the second trade fleet could return.

Nearly a month ago, the first trade fleet and the second trade fleet set sail at the same time, and the first trade fleet sailed for nearly half a month before returning to the sea, and the second trade fleet made two consecutive round-trips to the Aoki tribe because of a new transaction of the Aoki tribe, handing over the weapons and equipment needed by the Aoki tribe to the Aoki tribe, and at the same time sending the trade "items" of the Aoki tribe back to the dragon tribe.

During this voyage, the Second Trading Fleet stopped again as it passed by the Aoki tribe and handed over the last batch of wisteria armor to the Aoki tribe.

The Aoki tribe, with a population of more than 1,500 and only more than 160 adult males, has become truly powerful, and almost all adult males are equipped with bronze weapons, rattan armor, and rattan shields from the dragon tribe.

Aoki Leader felt that only these 160 people could defeat 300 or even 400 enemies, the sturdy rattan armor and rattan shield could effectively protect his body, and the sharp copper weapon could penetrate the enemy's rattan shield and rattan armor with a single blow.

The Aoki tribe has become stronger, and the Aoki leader and many Aoki tribe warriors are preparing to choose another tribe to fight.

In a year's time, the Aoki tribe will destroy the third tribe, which is amazing, this is something that has never happened in the history of the Aoki tribe, the leader of the Aoki tribe and the witch believe that the Aoki tribe will get better and better under the protection of the gods.

Many people of the Aoki tribe even believe that the dragon tribe also discovered that the Aoki tribe was trading with the Aoki tribe under the power of the gods.

When the Aoki tribe destroys the third tribe, the witch will prepare a grand sacrifice.

……

A few days later, the second trading fleet came to the end of the trip, the Japanese tribe.

Zhao Lin and Eagle Breath came to the river bank to contact the people of the Japanese tribe, and felt a different atmosphere from the last time, it seemed that the people of the Japanese tribe welcomed the arrival of the second trading fleet very much.

The people of the Sun Tribe did not hide, and directly told Zhao Lin and the victory of the war between the Eagle Sabbath Tribe camp and the Night Tribe camp, and the victory in the war was a way to show the strength of the Sun Tribe and did not need to be hidden.

"Listening" to the narration of the Japanese tribesmen, Zhao Lin and Yingxi guessed why the people of the Japanese tribe welcomed them, probably because the thirty copper weapons that the Japanese tribe traded in their hands last time helped the Japanese tribe a lot in the war, and the Japanese tribe now needs more copper weapons.

Soon, the people of the Japanese tribe brought to the shore everything they had to trade, fifty-eight captives, and large bundles of hides.

Originally, there were sixty-seven captives, and the other nine captives either died of wound infection or were killed because of fierce resistance, and if they did not know the value of captives, I am afraid that many more captives would have been killed.

There are more hides, divided into eight piles, totaling more than two thousand.

The population of the Japanese tribe can take out 2,000 animal skins, but the Japanese tribe itself also needs to use animal skins, once the Japanese tribe lacks animal skins, I am afraid that some people will be frozen to death in winter.

It is impossible to destroy other tribes to obtain animal skins, and the captives who watched the Japanese tribe trade were all adults, obviously there was no war of extermination, just a war between two tribes.

Soon, Zhao Lin and Yingxi understood why the Sun tribe was able to take out so many animal skins, and it turned out that the more than two thousand animal skins were from eight tribes.

The eight piles of hides represent the eight tribes, and the pile with the least hides belongs to the Sun tribe, after all, the Sun tribe has traded with hides once last time, and the remaining seven piles of hides belong to the seven subordinate tribes of the Sun tribe, and there are two people from the subordinate tribes standing next to each pile of hides.

"Seven Affiliated Tribes?" Zhao Lin and Yingxi were very surprised, the Sun tribe with such a large population actually had seven affiliated tribes, and how strong the overall strength of the tribal camp would be that day.

Zhao Lin and Eagle Breath didn't get too entangled in how powerful the Sun Tribe camp was, and instead prepared to trade, the Sun Tribe camp took out too many animal skins, and it would take a lot of time to count them alone, and dozens of Dragon Tribe warriors came down from the fleet to help Zhao Lin and Eagle Breath count the animal skins.

"These people can exchange twenty-six weapons." Of the fifty-eight people, some were disabled by their injuries.

"This pile of hides can be exchanged for eight weapons."

"This pile of hides could be exchanged for twelve weapons."

"Eleven", "Sixteen", "Fifteen", "Thirteen", "Sixteen", "Twelve"

A total of one hundred and twenty-nine weapons can be exchanged, and this scale of trade can rank second among the Dragon Tribe's previous transactions, second only to the third trade with the Aoki tribe last time, and the third largest trade also belongs to the Aoki tribe.

Zhao Lin and Eagle Breath's offer was recognized by the Sun Tribe and the seven subsidiary tribes, twenty animal skins in exchange for a copper weapon, this kind of suggestion is simple and clear, and it can be seen at a glance that there is a problem, the Sun tribe and the seven affiliated tribes have calculated how many weapons they can exchange for before this, which is basically the same as Zhao Lin Yingxi's offer.