This year, Xia Guo will build five cities, three cities are located in the area on both sides of the Yellow River, two cities are far away from the Yellow River, respectively built on the east and west sides of the two cities far from the Yellow River last year, the east side of the city is named "Ning", the west side of the city is named "Mao".

On the Ningcheng construction site, there are more than 2,700 people who are busy building the city wall of Ningcheng, and on the two roads to the north and west of Ningcheng, there will be horse-drawn carriages full of materials from time to time to drive into the Ningcheng construction site, or empty carriages leave the Ningcheng construction site, it is precisely because of these carriages that the construction speed of Ningcheng is not inferior to those built in the area on both sides of the Yellow River.

There are more than 2,700 people in the construction site, of which 1,500 are slaves, 1,000 adult slaves, and 500 minor slaves.

The remaining 1,200 people are the citizens of the Xia Kingdom, including one team of field/war army and two teams of city defense army, plus two teams of slave warriors, a total of more than 500 people, they have two tasks, one is to guard the slaves, and the other is to undertake the task of guarding the Ningcheng construction site.

The external vigilance task is not important, Ningcheng's field/battle army and city defense army were formed last year, after the formation is completed, this team sweeps outward around the area where Ningcheng was built, and it is impossible for other tribes to appear within three days of the surrounding area.

The most important thing is the task of guarding slaves, Xia currently has more than 10,000 adult slaves, and nearly 9,000 juvenile slaves, accounting for about one-fifteenth of the total population of Xia Kingdom, all because in the past five years, Xia Kingdom has continued to fight abroad, which has greatly increased the number of slaves.

The number of slaves is still because of the slave riot or escape was executed a group of leftovers, Xia has to die a large number of slaves every year, at the same time there will be a large number of new slaves to increase, so that the number of slaves owned by Xia is increasing, slaves undertake Xia mining, paving, city building and other heavy labor, often slaves in the labor in the past.

Even if the Xia Kingdom gave enough food to the slaves, there were still frequent slave riots/escapes, but under the various methods of the Xia Kingdom, the scale was reduced a lot, but the slave department that guarded the slaves could not relax their vigilance.

The military department is the first major military institution of the Xia State, and the Nanu Department is the second largest military institution of the Xia State, which is specially used to take care of slaves.

Of the 1,200 Xia citizens, except for six teams plus one tun warrior, the rest were city builders, but the heavy work was done by slaves, who served as administrators or did relatively easy things.

The inside of the Ningcheng construction site is a temporary camp, and the periphery of the temporary camp is the Ningcheng city wall under construction, and outside the Ningcheng city wall is a large area of land that was opened up by fire.

Walking through the land that will be used as farmland next year, and into the jungle, in the jungle southeast of the Ningcheng construction site, a team of humans dressed in animal skins quietly came to the edge of the jungle.

They cautiously looked through the gaps in the grass and trees at the Ningcheng construction site in the distance, and after a while, they changed the place again, the target was always the Ningcheng construction site, until they collected enough information, and then quietly left, and this scene, the people on the Ningcheng construction site did not know.

The team sped up and walked back for more than three days before returning to their tribe's home, a tribe known as the "Tiger".

There are many, many tribes with the tiger as the totem, and there are not ten or eight that the Xia country has encountered, and several tiger tribes have also joined the Xia country, and this tiger tribe is definitely the largest tiger tribe in the area around the Xia country, with a population of more than 6,000.

It doesn't matter if the Tiger Tribe is strong, more importantly, the Tiger Tribe also has six younger brothers, and the Tiger Tribe plus six younger brothers form a powerful Tiger Tribe camp, with a population of more than 14,000 people, which can gather 5,000 adult combatants.

In fact, the Tiger Tribe camp is located in the west of the Japanese Tribe camp that has been destroyed by the Xia Kingdom, the two camps are next to each other, and the strength of the Tiger Tribe is not weak, but because there is a more powerful Japanese Tribe camp, the Tiger Tribe camp can only be careful to confront the Japanese Tribe camp, and dare not fight with other tribes or camps at will to increase its strength.

Who knew that the Japanese tribe camp suddenly collapsed, and the tiger tribe camp was not contained, and over the past few years, its strength has continued to increase, reaching the point where it is today, but the current tiger tribe camp is still a lot different from the original Japanese tribe camp.

The Tiger Tribe camp has no copper weapons, the people of the Tiger Tribe camp can only wear animal skins, almost a level different from the Japanese tribal camp, there is no strong Japanese tribal camp, the Tiger Tribe camp continues to fight in all directions, and quickly increases its own strength with war, and now the Tiger Tribe is even more aware that the Xia Kingdom is building Zhongning City.

"Chief, we found a tribe that is not weak, they should have just moved and are building a new home, and the population is less than half of our tribe." The leader of the Tiger Tribe team that discovered Ningcheng reported to the leader, but the result of his investigation was very simple, and he didn't know the real situation of Ningcheng at all.

"Only half the population of our tribe? Are you sure? The leader asked.

"I'm sure, but they have a bit of an adult in their tribe." The squad leader replied in the affirmative.

"It doesn't matter how many adults there are, can there be more than our tribe? Send someone to summon the other six tribal leaders to our tribe and gather the forces of our camp to take down this newly discovered tribe. The tiger leader said in high spirits.

After receiving the order of the leader of the suzerain's tribe, the leaders of the six subordinate tribes rushed to the place where the tiger tribe lived, and after determining the situation, the tiger leader immediately set a date for each tribe to prepare, mainly to prepare food, the distance was relatively far, there was not enough food, how could the warriors fight.

Almost half a month passed for this preparation, and finally the Tiger Tribe camp gathered most of its fighters, two thousand adult male clansmen and two thousand adult female clansmen, and an army of four thousand people, of which the number of vine armor soldiers was as high as three hundred.

The tiger leader gave an order, and the four thousand troops of the tiger tribe camp marched towards Ningcheng, walked for five days, and finally came to the jungle outside Ningcheng.

"Chief, that's where the enemy is building." The squad leader introduced to the tiger leader.

"I see." The tiger leader turned to the leaders of the six subordinate tribes and said, "You two tribes go around from the left, you two tribes go around from the right, and you two tribes and my tribe attack from here to the enemy's settlement. ”

"Understood." *6

The two tribes on the left and the two tribes on the right set off first, and after the tribes on both sides set off for a period of time, the tiger leader led most of the tiger tribe camp to attack from the front, which is a simple encirclement tactic, and the tiger leader will still use it.

After a while, the tiger leader felt that the two teams were almost gone, and immediately gave an order: "Let's go out and destroy this tribe!" ”

More than 2,400 soldiers of the Tiger Tribe camp poured out of the jungle and strode towards the Ningcheng construction site, and this scene was discovered by the Xia soldiers who were on guard duty on the east and south sides of the Ningcheng construction site.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The sound of a gong is often heard, and if you listen carefully to the rhythm of this gong, you can tell that there are many enemies appearing.

The people on the construction site in Ningcheng immediately took action, and the soldiers belonging to the military department and the slave department did not gather in the direction of the sound of the gong at the first time, but walked towards the slaves.

"Quick, you guys, go back to where you live." The Xia warriors shouted to the slaves, and the slaves who did not move were directly violently driven away by the Xia warriors.

A large number of enemies are coming, and the most worrying thing for the Xia soldiers is not how strong the enemy is, no matter how strong the enemy is, they are not as strong as them, they are more worried that when the enemy is attacking, the internal slaves will also rebel, and the internal and external together, it is easy to lead to serious incidents.

Therefore, before the outbreak of the war, what the Xia soldiers had to do was to drive the slaves back to the temporary camp where they were held, and also assign a part of the men to guard the slaves.

This is fifteen hundred slaves, even if most of the slaves are bound by shackles on their feet and even on their hands, that number alone is a headache for the Xia warriors.

Fortunately, the warriors are well-equipped, and one warrior has no problem dealing with five adult slaves, and in the extreme case, one warrior can guard ten slaves.

The soldiers are moving, and the other Xia nationals in the Ningcheng construction site are also moving, although they are not full-time soldiers, but they are all members of the Xia State Reserve Army, and they have to conduct military training in winter, and their combat skills have not been put down, five-sixths of them are armed with spears, and the rest are also armed with bows and arrows.

The only difference between them and the warriors is that they do not wear armor, and the warriors are all in black armor, which can withstand enemy arrows and stone spears, and also have some resistance to stone axes.

Just as the tiger leader rushed out of the jungle with most of the army of the Tiger tribe camp, the left and right parts of the army of the Tiger tribe camp also walked out of the jungle one after another and met the carriage traveling on the road opened up by the Xia Kingdom.

"The enemy?! Don't stop, bump into it, and pass the news to the people in Ning City. ”

The first reaction of the citizens of the Xia Kingdom, who were driving the carriage, when they encountered the enemy, was not to run away, but to drive the carriage towards the enemy.

This is not only the advantage of cavalry or chariots over infantry, the speed of horses is faster, horses are taller and more powerful than people, horses collide directly, even people with natural divine power in humans are difficult to resist, and only Su Yan's family has the strength to resist the war horses that collide.

In fact, the people of Xia Guo, who were driving the carriage, had another thought in their minds, if they could take advantage of this opportunity to kill a few enemies, they would be considered meritorious, but their usual opportunities for meritorious service were very few, far from being comparable to the soldiers, so don't miss the opportunity.

So much so that on the road to Ningcheng, there were scenes that would definitely surprise and envy the other Xia people, one after another carriages rushed towards the enemies who rushed out of the jungle, the enemies were hit by the carriages, and were crushed by the carriages, and some of the enemies were directly seriously injured and dying, and more were not lightly injured.

On the frontal battlefield, most of the army of the Tiger Tribe camp has not yet broken out with the Xia State, but the left and right parts have been severely damaged by the "chariot" of the Xia State.

"Get in, get in."

The slaves were driven back to the house, and when the slaves of a house were full, the house was immediately closed.

"Be honest with me, there is no mercy for the rioters, you all know how powerful our Xia Kingdom is, and how many enemies come are not the opponents of our Xia Kingdom."

Originally, there were many slaves who were resistant, but when the soldiers of the Xia Kingdom said this, thinking of their tribe that was destroyed by the Xia Kingdom, the idea of rebellion in their minds was immediately eliminated.

Most of the slaves had no idea of resisting, but there were still many of them who were determined to resist, and they secretly touched each other with their hands to connect with each other.

"Good opportunity, I understand the sound of the gong of the Xia people, which means that there are many enemies, even if the enemy is not the opponent of the Xia people, and will be defeated by the Xia people in the end, but this is also our opportunity.

We can incite others to riot, and we may not be able to defeat the Xia people if we unite with the enemies of the Xia Kingdom, but we can find an opportunity to run away, as long as we run away from the hands of the Xia people, it will be a success for us. ”

The slaves who were determined to resist immediately took action, and they were unwilling to give up such a good opportunity.

Leaving two teams of warriors and a hundred ordinary citizens armed with spears to guard the slaves, the remaining warriors and ordinary citizens had already assembled to the southeast of Ningcheng, numbering more than eight hundred, including more than two hundred and fifty archers.

"Mayor Town, the number of enemies is more than two thousand, too many, when they enter the range of the longbowmen, the longbowmen will release arrows to consume their numbers, it is better to repel them directly, we don't need to annihilate the enemy." Xu Yong, director of the Ningcheng Branch of the Ministry of War, said to the town mayor Yue Qiao.

"Yes, that's it." Yue Qiao agreed.

At this time, a carriage drove into the Ningcheng construction site, bringing two good news, but these two good news also made Xu Yong and Yue Qiao jump, if it wasn't for the carriage to hit the enemy hard, I'm afraid that Ning Cheng would be surrounded by the enemy, Ning Cheng can resist the enemy, but Ning Cheng will also pay a big price, this is not what Xu Yong and Yue Qiao want to see.

Most of the army of the Tiger Tribe camp was getting closer and closer to Ningcheng, and they turned from striding to running, rushing towards Ningcheng.

"Longbowmen, archery!" Xu Yong swung forward with a bronze sword, and all the longbowmen in Ningcheng who had gathered over a total of more than 120 people shot arrows at the army of the Tiger Tribe camp.

More than 120 longbows and arrows with infinite power pierced through a short distance like lightning and plunged into the charging Tiger Tribe camp army, and for a time, more than 50 people in the Tiger Tribe camp army were seriously injured and dying, and no less than this number was injured.