In the study room of the palace in Zhongjing City, Su Yan's brows furrowed slightly, and Kong Chang brought him good and bad news.

The good news was that the cavalry army destroyed another nomadic tribe and added tens of thousands of cattle, horses and sheep to the Xia Kingdom.

The bad news is that many nomadic tribes in the steppe have noticed the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom, and once they find the cavalry troops, they will send people to follow them, which will seriously affect the mission of the cavalry troops.

There are a total of eight nomadic tribes that have fought with the Xia Kingdom in these years, the first two tribes are active in attacking the city, the first nomadic tribe Black Wolf tribe was defeated, at that time there were very few people on the side of the city, and there were no cavalry tribes and chariot troops, so there was no pursuit.

When the Wind Tribe attacked the city, the city gathered the cavalry tribe and the chariot tribe to attack the wind tribe's residence, destroying the wind tribe in one fell swoop, and obtaining a large number of prisoners, cattle, horses, sheep, and animal skins.

Starting with the Wind Tribe, the Xia Kingdom set foot in the grasslands, and in the autumn of the following year, there were already five cavalry units that went deep into the grasslands for the first time, annihilating a nomadic tribe, and summed up a set of tactics specifically to deal with the nomadic tribes.

In the third year, the cavalry troops penetrated the steppe four times, and each time they destroyed a nomadic tribe, bringing back a large number of prisoners and booty.

This year is the fourth year, the first expedition, deep into the steppe on the tenth day, the cavalry tribe directly collided with a nomadic tribe settlement, crippled the nomadic tribe, and brought back a slightly less trophy than before.

In four years, eight nomadic tribes, two were disabled, six were destroyed, and the Xia Kingdom gained nearly 10,000 people, more than 150,000 cattle, horses and sheep, and countless animal skins.

But now, many nomadic tribes have noticed the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom, and once they find the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom with obvious characteristics, they will send people to follow and keep an eye on the cavalry troops, which also makes the cavalry troops' set of tactics dedicated to dealing with nomadic tribes unable to be carried out, and they can only look for the nomadic tribes' residence all over the grassland.

At the same time, many nomadic tribes moved to other places in order to avoid the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom, and I am afraid that there are very few nomadic tribes within a five-day journey to the west of the city.

The savannah is so vast that finding a nomadic tribe on the steppe is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and it takes more time than before to destroy another nomadic tribe.

There is a way to solve this problem, constantly expand the size of the cavalry troops, and disperse the cavalry troops into the steppe on the scale of five teams in one town, and there will always be a harvest.

When the expansion of the cavalry unit is completed this year, it will be able to reach the scale of 10 teams in two towns, and the cavalry unit will be able to penetrate into the grassland in two ways.

Su Yan gave a new order to the cavalry troops, and the cavalry troops went deep into the grassland once every quarter instead of the current once every two months, and went deep into the grassland for a maximum of 20 days, and returned immediately if there was no victory, and there was no need to stay on the grassland.

Kong Chang's order, with Su Yan's order, immediately left Zhongjing City by boat and returned to the city.

In the blink of an eye, the time is about to enter summer.

On the prairie, after a month of preparation, the army of the Anti-Black Alliance is rapidly assembling.

On the first day, the men and horses of the five member tribes arrived at the meeting place first, and on the second day, the people of the six member tribes gathered, and on the third day, the men and horses of the remaining two member tribes also gathered.

The thirteen member tribes of the Anti-Black Alliance, none of them are bad, and they all gather here.

A month ago, the leader of the withered grass issued a proposal to gather an army of the anti-black alliance to attack the black tribe, and the proposal of the leader of the withered grass also included a plan for the distribution of the spoils after the black alliance destroyed the black tribe.

The spoils of war were divided into two halves, half of which were distributed by the number of members of the tribes in proportion to the alliance's army, with men counted as one, women counted as half, and those who approached adulthood counted as half.

There will be no age comparison people to participate in this war, and bringing people who are close to adulthood in the past is considered to allow them to gain insight and experience, after all, such a war with a "victory or defeat" is rare.

The other half of the spoils are distributed according to the number of casualties of each tribe in the war, that is, the more dead and wounded, the more spoils distributed by the tribe, which is regarded as compensation for the tribe with large losses.

The way the Withered Grass Leader distributed the spoils of war was very strange to the other twelve leaders, but in the end they all agreed to this distribution method, believing that it was the most reasonable way for each tribe to be distributed, and everyone would not suffer.

In addition, the thirteen member tribes of the Anti-Black Alliance also set an offensive and defensive alliance, this offensive and defensive alliance only acts during the period when the army of the Anti-Black Alliance goes out to fight against the Black Tribe, and the weak tribe can move to the same area with other tribes, and two or more tribes combine to have relatively strong strength, even if the tribe sends half of the combatants, there is no need to worry about the enemy's attack.

A spoils distribution plan, an offensive and defensive alliance plan, and finally made the thirteen member tribes of the Anti-Black Alliance make a decision, they must send their clansmen to fight as much as possible, in the eyes of the high-level leaders of each tribe, no matter how strong the Black Alliance is, it will definitely not resist the opponent of the Black Alliance.

In fact, the anti-black alliance is indeed very strong, as the people and horses of the member tribes gather, the number of cavalry in the assembly area is increasing, and by the time the people and horses of the thirteen member tribes have gathered, the number of cavalry has broken through the 5,000 mark, close to more than 5,100 people, one person controls three war horses, 5,000 people is 15,000 war horses, a very large group.

This is five thousand horses, even if the number of adult males is less than two thousand five hundred, it is also one of the most powerful forces on the grassland, maybe it may be the most powerful one, after all, it is the first time that a nomadic tribal alliance has appeared on the grassland, if there is no black tribe, I don't know how long it will have to wait for the nomadic tribal alliance to appear.

This is probably the first expedition of the thirteen nomadic tribes to another tribe, and the leaders of the thirteen tribes all personally led the team, and they brought some dishonest tribesmen with them, leaving their cronies to manage the tribe during their own time away and prevent the tribe from revolting.

When the Pegasus tribe came, the Pegasus leader personally gave twelve delicate bronze knives to the other twelve leaders, in exchange for a verbal agreement that a Pegasus tribe could get more bows and arrows, and if one tribe gave a little to the Pegasus tribe, the Pegasus tribe would get a lot more bows and arrows than the other single tribe.

The Pegasus Tribe has a melee weapon, the Bronze Knife, and will soon be equipped with a long-range weapon, and the Pegasus Tribe will become even stronger.

The Dry Grass Tribe is the founder of the Anti-Black Alliance, although there is no leader in the Anti-Black Alliance, but because the Dry Grass Tribe is the founder of the Anti-Black Alliance, the Dry Grass Leader has put forward various beneficial rules and regulations against the Black Alliance, and the leaders of the other twelve member tribes are mainly based on the opinions of the Dry Grass Leader.

"Leaders, let's go, destroy the Black Tribe, there is no such disruptive tribe as the Black Tribe, there is no such thing as the Black Tribe, and a tribe that destroys the balance is not allowed on the grassland." The leader of the withered grass said.

Immediately, the army of the Anti-Black Alliance set off, five thousand horsemen, fifteen thousand war horses, swept from the west to the east, and the nomadic tribes encountered by accident were far away, and the high-level people of the tribe were still wondering when such a powerful strength would appear on the grassland.

The Anti-Black Alliance is strong, but there is a very obvious shortcoming, which can be seen from the galloping five thousand cavalry, which is divided into thirteen distinct teams, each team does not touch each other.

The Anti-Black Alliance is an alliance, more precisely, just a temporary alliance, a temporary alliance to deal with the black tribe, the relationship between the alliance member tribes can only be described in general, and even some tribes are already thinking about waiting for the alliance to dissolve, looking for an opportunity to swallow the weak tribe.

There is intrigue, but the thirteen member tribes currently have a goal, to destroy the black tribe, and they will not try to do those things before the black tribe is destroyed, it can almost be said that after the fall of the black tribe, it is the time for the anti-black alliance to dissolve.

Of course, there is also a slight possibility that the Anti-Black Alliance will not dissolve after destroying the Black Tribe, the key is, can the Anti-Black Alliance destroy the Black Tribe?

In the march of the anti-black alliance army, the time has entered the first month of summer, according to Su Yan's order, the cavalry troops have changed from last two months to the grassland once a quarter, and the summer has just arrived, Mu Shi set off with seven teams of cavalry troops.

The new recruits of the cavalry unit are being trained, and it is expected that in the autumn, the cavalry unit will set off in ten teams together, and when the recruits accumulate some experience, the cavalry unit will split into two roads and go deep into the grassland.

The cavalry troops of the Xia State marched from east to west, and the army of the Anti-Black Alliance marched from west to east.

"The black ones are the black tribe cavalry, and they're here again." The army of the Anti-Black Alliance reacted immediately, they had 5,000 people, seven or eight times the cavalry of the Black Tribe, no matter how powerful the Black Tribe cavalry was, it would not be their opponent, as long as they ate the Black Tribe cavalry, it was easier to destroy the Black Tribe.

The army of the Anti-Black Alliance advanced, and the cavalry troops of the Xia State also reacted quickly and turned around and withdrew.

"What's the situation, how can there be such a large cavalry force coming from the west, and their goal is to store the city?" The Xia cavalry were puzzled.

"Their target must be us or the city, the last time we went deep into the grassland, there were so many people following behind, I didn't expect them to unite, look at the thirteen teams that are clearly divided, this should mean that they are from thirteen nomadic tribes, heh, thirteen nomadic tribes have really made great efforts to deal with us." Kong Chang said to Mu Shi in an affirmative tone.

Mu Shi agreed: "It should be like this, I didn't expect us to eat a few nomadic tribes, and those nomadic tribes came together to deal with us, and the number of cavalry is probably four or five thousand." ”

"So what do we do next? Will they attack them, or will they simply withdraw to the city? ”

"We go back to the city directly, their goal is to store the city, when we rely on the city wall to hit them hard, it is expected that no nomadic tribe will dare to attack the city in the future, if we attack them now, we may kill some of them and then make them fear and choose to withdraw the army, or it is possible that we are surrounded by them and suffer heavy casualties, after all, they are several times our number."

Mu Shi made the most conservative and stable choice, and would not put the cavalry troops in danger.

There is no doubt that the cavalry of the Xia Kingdom is very powerful, the leather armor defense is high, the bow and arrow range is long and powerful, and there are sharp copper knives in close combat.

This is what Mu Shi doesn't want to see, once this happens, after returning to the city, he will definitely not be able to keep his position as a town guard, and it is expected that he can only be an ordinary citizen of Xia Country in the future.

The cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom fled, and the army of the Anti-Black Alliance chased them, both sides stopped to rest when the horses were tired of running, and then continued to run away and continue to chase, the quality of the horses on both sides was almost the same, and the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom were well-trained, so that the distance between the two sides was slowly widening.

From the beginning of the meeting between the two sides, two days later, the cavalry troops of the Xia State returned to the grazing area of the herdsmen in the city.

"When the enemy comes, drive the cattle, horses and sheep back, and when the enemy is near, don't care about the cattle, horses and sheep, run first, the enemy can't take away our cattle, horses and sheep."

Whenever they encountered a grazing procession, the cavalry would leave a similar language.

The army of the Anti-Black Alliance is indeed chasing very closely, and the two sides are about half an hour apart, and in half an hour, many herding teams have no time to drive back the cattle, horses and sheep, and only the grazing teams closer to the city can drive the cattle, horses and sheep back to the city and disperse the cattle, horses and sheep into the courtyards of each family.

Originally, these cattle, horses and sheep were kept outside the city, and if it wasn't for the enemy's attack, it would be basically impossible for these cattle, horses and sheep to enter the city.

In addition, it is better not to have cattle, horses and sheep in some areas outside the city, which will affect the next battle.

When the cavalry troops returned to the city, the gong on the city wall was immediately sounded, and all the adult citizens in the city who could participate in the battle took up arms and gathered in the direction of the west city wall, including Hu Nan, the lord of the city, and Lu Zhe, the head of the military department.

"What's the situation? Enemy attacking? Seeing Mu Shi and Kong Chang coming over, Hu Nan asked directly.

"Lord of the city, there is indeed an enemy attacking, our cavalry troops encountered a cavalry of up to four or five thousand people on the way deep into the grassland, they are coming in the direction of the city, the target must be our city, our cavalry tribe chooses to retreat, ready to rely on the tall walls of the city to fight with the enemy." Mu Shi quickly told Hu Nan about the enemy's situation.

Hu Nan was also very surprised when he heard that the number of enemies was as high as four or five thousand, and he was able to gather so many fighters, and this grassland force was very powerful.

"You are right to choose to retreat, there are too many enemies, if you are not careful, you will be surrounded by enemies, retreat to the city, relying on the high walls of the city, even if there are 10,000 enemies, we can repel the enemy."

The enemy is coming, Lu Zhe began to make arrangements, the cavalry troops did not move, everyone else went to the city wall, the archers were in front, the sword and shield soldiers and pikemen were behind, and when the enemy arrived, they fired directly, without any tactics, and waited until the enemy was defeated, and then the cavalry troops went out of the city to pursue, only four or five thousand enemies, and the city was not yet to the point of fear. ()

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