When the news of the return of a nomadic tribe with a large amount of booty was sent to Zhongjing City for the second time this year, Su Yan had already left Zhongjing City and led the Xia State Expeditionary Legion to conquer the fishing tribe.

The total population of the Japanese tribe camp is more than 14,000, or even close to 15,000, but the population of the fishing tribe is even larger.

According to the estimates of the officials of the Ministry of Commerce, who were in frequent contact with the fishing tribes, the total population of the fishing tribes exceeded 17,000, of which the population of the main residence exceeded 5,000, and the population of the subordinate settlements scattered around the main residence was only 300 or 400, and the population was close to 2,000.

In fact, before the natural disaster, the population of the subordinate settlements of the fishing tribes was not large, and the maximum number did not exceed 1,000, and once the population of the settlement reached a certain limit, the settlement would move some of the population out to a further place to establish a new settlement.

However, after the natural disaster, the subordinate settlements of the fishing tribes were concentrated in the area on the south bank of the Yellow River, and there were as many as seven subordinate settlements on the east and west sides of the main residence of the fishing tribes, the largest of which had a population of nearly 2,000, the other six had a population of more than 1,000, and two of which exceeded 1,500.

It is not surprising that the crops of the natural disasters have been severely reduced, and fishing from the river has become a very important way to obtain food, and it is not surprising that the subhabitants of the fishing tribes are concentrated in areas close to the river.

It stands to reason that the population of the fishing tribe is larger than that of the Japanese tribe camp, and the fishing tribe itself can also smelt copper, cast copper weapons and tools, make wooden boats, and weave linen clothes, and its strength should be stronger than that of the Japanese tribe camp.

In fact, the strength of the fishing tribe is a little weaker than that of the Japanese tribe camp, and the fishing tribe camp is able to smelt copper and cast copper weapon tools, but the copper smelting technology and casting technology of the fishing tribe are very poor, the copper production is limited, and the number of copper weapons is less than half of the Japanese tribe camp, and the quality is far worse.

The fishing tribe also traded some copper weapons with the Xia country, but the purpose of the fishing tribe trading copper weapons was to study the copper smelting technology and casting technology of the Xia country, and then improve the technical level of their own tribe.

The overall strength of the fishing tribe is already worse than that of the Japanese tribe camp, and the population of the fishing tribe is more scattered, with only a population of more than 5,000 people in the main residence, and it is easier for the Xia Kingdom Expeditionary Corps to destroy the fishing tribe.

It is easy to destroy the fishing tribe, but it is difficult to leave all the population of the fishing tribe behind, and the Japanese tribe camp with a smaller population than the fishing tribe, the Xia Kingdom Expeditionary Legion cannot leave everyone, let alone the fishing tribe, and the expeditionary army can only try its best to intercept the population of the fishing tribe.

Back to the day before the expeditionary legion set off to conquer the fishing tribe, (second) Lu Fang, the patriarch of the Lu clan, and Huo Qian, the patriarch of the Huo clan, respectively left Zhongjing City with a team of more than 300 people, and marched by land towards the south of Zhongjing City.

A city is located in the southeast of Zhongjing City, a city is located in the southwest of Zhongjing City, the straight-line distance between the two cities and Zhongjing City is between 50 miles and 100 miles, try to choose a place with gentle terrain and rich forest resources, it is better to have sufficient water resources, and there is no sufficient surface water resources to dig wells to extract groundwater for use.

After choosing the area to be built in the new city, there are still many things to do.

The first is to open up the road from Zhongjing City to Xincheng, outside of Zhongjing City is farmland, and outside of farmland is jungle, and a road must be carved out in the jungle.

If you want to build a new city quickly, you must open up a relatively wide road, at least you need to let two carriages run in parallel, and when the new city is built, you can mobilize a large number of horse-drawn carriages to transport materials such as masonry and food to the new city, and speed up the construction of the new city.

In order to build the road as soon as possible, Su Yan was already preparing to mobilize a thousand adult slaves and slaves close to adulthood to Zhongjing City, just waiting to determine the construction area of the new city, and then drive the slaves to open a road in the jungle.

The second is to clean up the tribes living around the area where the new city was built.

The Xia State cleaned up the tribes in the area on both sides of the Yellow River from Yancheng to the fishing tribes, but the tribes far away from the Yellow River have not been taken care of, and there are also places that the Xia State has not touched, such as the tribes that live in those places that the Xia Kingdom did not know.

In order to prevent the Xia Kingdom from being attacked by other tribes when building a new city, it is necessary to clean up the area around the new city construction area in advance, which can be regarded as a foreign war of the Xia Kingdom, which can increase the population of the Xia Kingdom.

Opening roads, cleaning up the tribes in the area around the new city, and preparing materials for the construction of the new city, building temporary camps, and so on, the two teams of Lu Fang and Huo Qian will basically be busy until the arrival of winter before they can return, and then lead a large number of people to the two areas next spring to officially establish the new city.

On the morning of the third day when Lu Fang and Huo Qian's two teams left Zhongjing City, Lu Fang's team unexpectedly met a hunting team of a certain tribe.

Maybe the other party thought that the deer team was the enemy, and the hunting team ran away, the deer team did not pursue, and continued to explore the surrounding area, and the deer team had come to an area far enough away from Zhongjing City, and then acted to explore these areas and find a suitable place to build a city.

When people from other tribes are discovered, the deer team will not pursue, and the deer team now only has the task of finding an exploration area, but they don't have time to pursue and attack the enemy, so it is better to determine the area of the city as soon as possible, open up the road to Zhongjing City, and then send a few teams of soldiers to sweep the surrounding area.

Lu Fang didn't expect his team to be so lucky, he met a hunting team of a certain tribe in the morning, and directly bumped into the residence of a certain tribe in the afternoon.

"My lord, are we attacking this tribe?" A warrior suggested to the deer side.

"No, let's not attack this tribe now, mark the location of this tribe on the map first, and then find time to eat this tribe later." Lu Fang replied.

There are only about 300 people in the deer team, but they are all adults who can participate in the battle, and the number of archers in the team exceeds 100, even in the face of medium-sized tribes with more than 1,000 people, they dare to take the initiative to attack, but now the deer team does not have that time.

After making a decision, the deer team took a detour and continued to look for an area suitable for building a city, and the people of the tribe that the deer team found were relieved to see the deer team leave.

The deer team found their tribe, and their tribe also found the deer team, they were just a small tribe with a population of more than 600 people, very weak, and unwilling to go through any battle.

"Chief, our tribe's habitat has been discovered by them, are we going to move?"

"Let's move, maybe they'll come back and attack our tribe, we can't just wait."

"I don't feel like they're vicious people, they won't attack our tribe, our tribe doesn't need to move."

"Alas, it's too much trouble to move, and it takes too much time to build a new home."

The clansmen expressed their opinions one after another, the leader and the witch both frowned, they didn't know how to choose, if they didn't move, they were worried that the enemy would come, their tribe was very likely not to be an opponent, and it was too troublesome to move, it was difficult to build a new home before the arrival of winter, how to choose.

Unbeknownst to them, the people of the tribe they had just discovered were arguing about whether or not to move, and continued to look for an area suitable for building a castle.

Time passed day by day, and on the eighth day after leaving Zhongjing City, Huo Qian's team took the first step to find an area suitable for building a city, and two days later, Lufang's team also found an area suitable for building a city.

Next both teams need to wait for the rain, before the rain, put a few fires in the areas where the city needs to be built, farmland and roads need to be opened, let the fire burn these areas out, but not let the fire spread and burn more jungle, it is the best choice to set fire before the rain, the heavy rain will directly extinguish the fire.

If you cut down the tree by manpower, it would require a lot of manpower and a lot of time, so there is no need to do so.

Summer is the rainy season, and there is a lot of rain, so the two teams didn't wait long to start setting fires, especially the one that opened up the road, which required multiple fires to open up the road that was dozens of miles long, and when the road was opened, slaves had to be mobilized to build the road.

There are too many things that need to be done in order to build a city far from the Yellow River, but this is a step that must be taken, and Xia Guo has taken several steps firmly.

Just when the Lu Fang team and Huo Qian's team were busy, the Xia Kingdom Expeditionary Legion led by Su Yan himself was about to arrive at the residence of the fishing tribe master.

The Ri tribe is located in the tributary area of the Yellow River, and the fishing tribe is located in the main trunk area of the Yellow River.

I didn't have any contact with Xia Guo once in the last year, which made the high-level leaders of the fishing tribe have a lot of ideas in their hearts, but the fishing tribe is a super tribe that can smelt copper, make wooden boats, and weave linen, even if it does not trade with Xia Guo, it will not affect the normal life of the fishing tribe.

After a year and a half, the fleet of the Xia Kingdom once again came to the residence of the owner of the fishing tribe.

"It's the fleet of the Xia Kingdom, and they're coming to our tribe."

"It's not going to be passing by our tribe again, is it?"

"No, this fleet is coming diagonally towards our tribe, and the target must be our tribe."

"Then I'll go and tell the chief about it."

"Go, go."

A young fisherman ran towards the fisherman's residence, the fishermen's tribesmen fishing on the bank of the river stopped what they were doing, the Xia country fleet would definitely crowd the river bank when it came, and there would be no way to fish at that time, they would pack up the fishing gear first, and then fish when the Xia country fleet left.

"Chief, chief, the Xia country fleet is here."

Hearing this, the fishing leader looked at the young clansman who reported the news and asked, "Are you sure that the Xia country's fleet is coming to our tribe?" ”

"Chief, I'm sure that the Xia country's fleet is coming to our tribe, not passing by our tribe."

After determining the situation, the fishing leader immediately strode towards the riverbank area, and after a year and a half, the Xia country fleet arrived again, and the fishing leader wanted to know why the Xia country had come to the fishing tribe for so long.

The fishing leader was still more than forty zhang away from the river, and the fifteen B-type boats of the Xia State fleet had already docked on the shore, the thick planks extended to the shore, and groups of heavily armed Xia soldiers poured onto the riverbank.

"It's not good, the people of the Xia Kingdom are going to attack our tribe, everyone run." A certain fisherman shouted loudly, and those fishermen who were startled by the sudden change reacted and quickly fled in the direction of the fisherman's residence.

Hundreds of Xia soldiers poured onto the riverbank, and anyone could see that something was wrong, if the Xia Kingdom traded with the fishing tribe, it was obvious that the current situation would not occur.

Separated by a distance of more than forty zhang, the fishing leader saw the situation by the river, and when the clansmen by the river turned around and fled in the direction of the residence of the fishing tribe, the fishing leader also hurriedly turned around and ran in the direction of the residence.

There was no need for the fishing leader to run back to his residence, and the tribesmen who were guarding on the north side of the fishing tribe's residence noticed the changes in the riverbank area early, and he immediately sounded the rough gong on his side, and the rapid sound of the gong representing "the enemy is coming" spread to all parts of the fishing tribe's residence.

This way of striking the gong to convey information is still the way the fishing tribe learns from the Xia Kingdom, and the fishing tribe itself can smelt copper, and there is no problem in casting a rough gong.

When the people in the fishing tribe's residence heard the rapid sound of a gong representing "the enemy is coming", they immediately took up their weapons and gathered towards the north side of the residence where the sound of the gong was heard.

The population of the fishing tribe is more than 5,000, and the number of people who can participate in the battle is at least 2,000.

When the fisherman ran back to his residence, hundreds of tribesmen had already come to the north side of his residence, waiting for the enemy to arrive.

"How could the Xia Kingdom suddenly attack our tribe? Why did the Xia Kingdom come to attack our tribe after a year and a half? What happened in between? Could it be because our tribe did not accept the invitation of the Xia Kingdom to join the Xia Kingdom, so the Xia Kingdom attacked our tribe? The fishing leader's mind was in turmoil, and he didn't know why the Xia Kingdom would attack the fishing tribe.

There is no time for the fishing leader to think, the tribesmen who can participate in the battle in the residence of the fishing tribe have basically gathered on the north side of the residence, and the tribesmen who fled to the residence on the bank of the river have all run back, and more than twenty zhang away is the army of the Xia Kingdom.

More than 2,000 soldiers in black armor and black armor formed a relatively neat array and strode towards the fishing tribe.

Every time the Xia Kingdom array approached the residence of the fishing tribe, the big stone in the hearts of the people of the fishing tribe weighed one point, that was no less than the enemy of the participants of the fishing tribe, the enemies were all adult men, and their own side was an adult male, an adult female and a clansman close to an adult mixed together to have this number, and the number of copper weapons equipped was only more than five hundred.