On the morning of the seventh day when the Xia cavalry troops went deep into the grassland, they encountered a grazing team of the bone tribe, a member of the Anti-Black Alliance, and a Xia cavalry from Tun went straight to this grazing team.

Team member A: "Captain, captain, someone is coming over there, dozens of people." ”

Squad Leader: "Is it the enemy?" ”

Team Member A: "I don't know. ”

"That's not right! It's the Black Tribe! The squad leader's voice became trembling, and he could already clearly see the appearance of the person who came on horseback, it was the black tribe cavalry with black armor and black horse.

The squad leader's words made the other four immediately understand that they were encountering the terrible Black Tribal cavalry.

The Bone Tribe is a large nomadic tribe with a population of more than 2,200, and the Bone Tribe is also one of the three tribes in the second batch to join the Anti-Black Alliance.

Before the Anti-Black Alliance was established, a team of the Withered Grass Tribe told the Bone Tribe about the Black Tribe, hoping that the Bone Tribe could unite with the Withered Grass Tribe to fight against the Black Tribe.

Regarding the matter of the Black Tribe, the high-level officials of the Bone Tribe were skeptical, after all, the Bone Tribe had never encountered the Black Tribe, but the leader of the Bone Tribe still told all the clansmen about the Black Tribe and asked them to be careful.

After the establishment of the Anti-Black Alliance, once again accepted the invitation of the Dry Grass Tribe, this time the Bone Tribe joined the Anti-Black Alliance, and the high-level officials of the Bone Tribe thought that the matter of the Black Tribe was true, and asked the tribesmen to be strict when grazing.

The Anti-Black Alliance has grown and grown, as long as there are enough member tribes, they will gather people to attack the Black Tribe, because of this matter, the Bone Tribe did not move too far, but I didn't expect the Bone Tribe to encounter the cavalry of the Black Tribe at this time.

"Team... Captain, it's the cavalry of the Black Tribe, let's get away quickly. One of the team members said.

"Let's go, let's go quickly, these cattle, horses and sheep are gone, you can't run directly in the direction of the tribe's residence, and you can't find our tribe with the enemy." The squad leader instructed the four team members.

"Got it." The four team members said one after another.

Immediately, the five men fled on horseback, quickly distancing themselves from a Tunxia cavalry who was rushing to this side.

The cavalry of the Xia Kingdom were not disappointed with the goal of running away, and drove hundreds of cattle, horses and sheep away to the southeast according to the plan, waiting for the target tribe to send a large number of cavalry to come and retrieve the cattle, horses and sheep.

The team leader personally took two team members to observe the movements of the black tribe cavalry, and instructed the other two team members to return to the tribe's place of residence with the news of the black tribe cavalry and tell the leader about it.

Half an hour later, the two members returned to the tribe's residence and reported the matter to the chief.

"You go back and stare at the Black Tribe cavalry first, don't get too close, the Black Tribe cavalry is very powerful, and the range of bows and arrows is farther than ours." The leader instructed the two clansmen, and then the leader sent two more teams to contact the other two member tribes of the Anti-Black Alliance, and tell them about the black tribe cavalry, so that everyone should be careful.

Now there are only seven member tribes of the Anti-Black Alliance, and only by gathering all the combatants of the seven member tribes can the Black Tribe cavalry be defeated, if only a part of the personnel is gathered, they may be defeated by the Black Tribe cavalry, and all the high-ranking officials of the Bone Tribe do not think that the Anti-Black Alliance will now gather all the combatants to fight with the Black Tribe cavalry.

The grassland is so big, it is too difficult to destroy the cavalry troops, especially the black tribe's bow and arrow range is long, which will bring great damage to their own side, so the goal of the anti-black alliance has always been very clear, first expand the number of member tribes, and then gather personnel to directly attack the black tribe's residence.

Just as the high-ranking officials of the Bone Tribe thought, the other six tribes of the Anti-Black Alliance, after knowing the news that the Black Tribe cavalry had appeared again, did not have the idea of gathering combatants to resist or expel the Black Tribe cavalry, but sent people to stare at the Black Tribe cavalry from afar, and at the same time told more tribes the news of the arrival of the Black Tribe cavalry.

In the next two days, the cavalry troops of the Xia Kingdom found more and more flies around them, drove them away, and soon followed again, seriously affecting the task of the cavalry troops.

"What's the situation, how can so many people follow us, it doesn't seem to be from one tribe, is it because we have destroyed several nomadic tribes, causing other nomadic tribes to notice us?" Mu Shi was very puzzled.

In this case, it was difficult for the cavalry troops to have gains, but luck struck again, the cavalry troops directly crashed into a tribe's residence, it seems that this medium-sized nomadic tribe also knew the strength of the Xia cavalry troops, and when the Xia cavalry troops appeared, they thought about escaping, and finally escaped more than 500 people, most of the remaining 1,100 people were captured, and less than 100 rebels were killed.

"Another tribe has been wiped out by the Black Tribe." The news was sent back by the tribesmen who followed them, and the leaders of the tribes who received the news fell silent.

The leaders want to destroy the black tribe more and more determined, the black tribe is too strong, none of their tribes is the opponent of the black tribe, in the face of the black tribe cavalry, no tribe can fight back, can only unite more tribes to attack the black tribe.

A leader came up with a new idea: "Why don't we gather fighters and attack the Black Tribe's cavalry at night?" ”

The seven member tribes of the Anti-Black Alliance, three agreed, four opposed, and the proposal did not pass, and everyone still had the previous idea, first looking for more allies, and then gathering fighters to directly attack the Black Tribe's residence.

The cavalry troops of the Xia State escorted the prisoners, drove the cattle, horses and sheep on the way home, and the clansmen of the various tribes still followed behind, and after two or three days of tailgating, they all retreated.

"It's going to be even more difficult for us to find the nomadic tribes to attack, alas." Mu Shi sighed, and the captains and deputy captains of the cavalry unit were also helpless, and only the lower cavalry happily discussed their own exploits in this battle.

By the time the cavalry troops returned to the city, the second month of spring was coming to an end, and at this time, the Anti-Black Alliance was in the process of meeting for the third time this year.

When the alliance was first met, the Anti-Black Alliance had only four member tribes and a total population of less than 9,000

At the time of the second alliance, the number of member tribes of the Anti-Black Alliance increased to seven, with a total population of about 14,000.

Now that the alliance has been met three times, the number of member tribes of the Anti-Black Alliance has surged to thirteen, with a total population of more than 27,000.

With a population of more than 27,000, the number of adult males alone is about 4,500, and the number of adult females is close to 7,000.

For the time being, the number of member tribes of the Anti-Black Alliance has reached an upper limit, and the tribes that have the idea of joining the Anti-Black Alliance have all joined, and the tribes without ideas have rejected it very thoroughly, and basically will not change their minds again, and many tribes have moved out of this area after learning about the situation of the Black Tribe.

Interestingly, among the nomadic tribes who joined the Anti-Black Alliance in the third batch, a name that was very familiar to the officials of the Ministry of Commerce of the Xia State appeared - the Pegasus Tribe.

Before the Xia Kingdom did not build a city, the Pegasus tribe was the most important trading partner of the Xia Kingdom on the grassland, and the Pegasus tribe needed various commodities such as white salt, pepper powder, pottery, and copper knives from the Xia Kingdom, and the Xia Kingdom needed the cattle and horses of the Pegasus tribe.

The trade between the Xia and the Pegasus tribe lasted for a long time, until after the construction of the city began, the Xia country could send cavalry troops deep into the grassland to attack the nomadic tribe to obtain a large number of cattle, horses and sheep, which was much faster than the cattle and horses obtained by trading with the nomadic tribe.

Coupled with the lack of ships in the Xia Kingdom, the trade between the Ministry of Commerce and the nomadic tribes of the steppe stopped, and now the Ministry of Commerce only has one fleet left, all of which consists of improved A-type ships, which are responsible for trading and communicating with the tribes of the new route.

Because of the many copper weapons traded with the Xia Kingdom, the Pegasus tribe has developed a set of tactics that are different from other nomadic tribes, and the other nomadic tribes try to avoid night battles, and it is easy to cause chaos when they can't see the enemy clearly at night, but the Pegasus tribe has sharp copper weapons, which can cause more damage in close combat than enemies equipped with bone knives.

The advantage of night combat and melee combat has allowed the Pegasus tribe to develop rapidly, and now the Pegasus tribe is already a large tribe with a population of more than 2,600 people, and in another year or two, it is even more common for the population to exceed 3,000.

The Pegasus tribe has never encountered the black tribe cavalry, and the Pegasus tribe does not know that the black tribe is a city in the Xia country, after knowing that the powerful black tribe has destroyed many nomadic tribes and many nomadic tribes have formed an alliance, the leader of Pegasus decided to join the anti-black alliance, wanting to destroy the black tribe with his allies, and by the way, divide some of the spoils.

In the opinion of the leader of Pegasus, the thirteen member tribes of the Anti-Black Alliance can gather a huge cavalry force, which can easily destroy the Black Tribe and obtain a large amount of loot after the war, which is a good thing in favor of the Pegasus Tribe.

In addition, the anti-black alliance is too strong, no one can be sure whether the anti-black alliance will be dissolved after the destruction of the black tribe, once the anti-black alliance is not dissolved, the huge anti-black alliance will be the most powerful strength on the grassland, and other nomadic tribes will not be able to fight against it, and even the anti-black alliance will in turn devour other nomadic tribes and strengthen itself.

After all considerations, the Pegasus tribe joined the anti-black alliance.

After joining the Anti-Black Alliance, the leader of Pegasus accidentally found something that was regarded as a treasure by the leaders of other member tribes, arrows, arrows with sharp copper arrow clusters, the shaft of the arrow was polished smooth, and there were arrow feathers at the tail end, which of course were arrows from the Xia Kingdom, or arrows that the Xia State cavalry left on the battlefield.

The arrows used by the Xia cavalry and archers were carefully crafted by craftsmen, and the delicate arrows could increase the accuracy of shooting, and at the same time, the craftsmen spent more effort.

Xia has a large reserve of arrows, but it does not mean that the cavalry and archers can waste arrows at will, after each battle, the cavalry archers must carefully look for the arrows they shoot, and the arrows that can be used should be cleaned quickly, put back in their quiver bags, and the arrows that cannot be used are collected and scrapped.

However, the target of the arrow is a bit small, and it is not surprising that a few are missing on the battlefield, and there are even enemies who take the arrows inserted in their bodies with them when they escape, so it is impossible to chase them back.

It doesn't matter if the arrow is picked up by the enemy, the value of the arrow is high, the value of the bow is higher, it doesn't matter if the arrow is lost, the bow must not be lost, the cavalry and archers will be severely punished if they lose a bow, the bow is picked up by the enemy, the enemy's bow-making skills will be improved, and the loss of their own personnel will increase.

In contrast, the loss of an arrow is often a reduction in merit, and the punishment is not severe.

So far, there has been no loss of bows in the Xia Kingdom, but there are a lot of arrows lost, and arrows are lost in every war.

The delicate arrows are regarded as treasures by the people of the nomadic tribes, and the leader directly collects the delicate arrows in the hands of the clansmen, only one or two in the hands of other high-level people, and only the arrows in the hands of ordinary clansmen are seriously damaged and cannot be used anymore, even so, ordinary clansmen also put this broken arrow as a treasure.

The arrows from the black tribe are indeed very delicate, but the Pegasus leader pays attention not to the delicacy or sharpness of the arrows, but the material of the arrow clusters, which seems to be the same material as the copper knife in their hands, but the white horse leader does not think that the black tribe belongs to the Xia Kingdom, and Pegasus thinks that this delicate arrow and copper knife are good things, and they should fight for more after the destruction of the black tribe.

At the same time, the leader of Pegasus is also in a pity that the Xia country did not trade with the Pegasus tribe anymore, and the Pegasus tribe can no longer obtain various commodities from the Xia country, especially the copper knife that can directly increase the combat effectiveness of the Pegasus tribe, fortunately, the copper knife is not easy to break, and it can be regarded as an heirloom and passed down from generation to generation.

The other leaders also found the copper knives in the hands of the Pegasus tribesmen, which were completely different from the rough bone knives in their hands, just as delicate arrows and rough arrows, the same was true of copper knives and bone knives, the gap between the two was too big.

There is a leader who wants the copper knife of the Pegasus tribe, and the leader of Pegasus originally did not plan to give the precious copper knife to others, but the leader of Pegasus thought about it carefully and came up with a good idea.

"This copper knife is countless times better than the bone knife, the copper knife is very valuable in our tribe, our tribe can no longer obtain the copper knife, I can give you a copper knife, and when the black tribe is destroyed, the arrows of the black tribe will be distributed to our tribe more." The Pegasus leader said.

After the destruction of the Black Tribe, the preciousness of the arrow will decrease, but the copper knife from the Pegasus tribe will become precious, and all the leaders agreed, and the Pegasus leader said that when the next alliance is met, they will bring twelve more copper knives, and their personal copper knives cannot be given to others.

The next alliance is when the various tribes gather fighters to attack the black tribe, which requires a relatively complete plan, led by the leader of the dry grass, and the other twelve leaders have admonished, and finally form a plan for the anti-black alliance to attack the black tribe.