Chapter 394: Battle Clouds Rise
Sucrose is a good thing. First of all, it is a good condiment, and with it, you can make a lot www.biquge.info of delicious food. Secondly, humans have a sugar-loving nature, and eating it can also improve people's sense of well-being. Because of this, although it is extremely harmful after an overdose, many people are still very sugar-hungry. If there is sugar in the dynasty, the atmosphere of the whole society may change for it. If it is used as a commodity to open up trade routes, it will definitely be invincible. In addition, sugarcane can also be used to make wine, paper, etc., which can be described as a treasure.
Because of the sugar cane, Wang Chuan fell in love with this place. He decided to stay here for half a year, in addition to training elephant cavalry, and also wanted to make it a stronghold or colony of the dynasty in the south.
Although the fleet came with five ships, there were not many people. Whether it is training elephant cavalry or using this place as a colony, there are not enough people. It is necessary to win over the bamboo tribe and unite the other tribes around it.
Bihu, a wanderer who used to travel from south to north, was of great use in this situation, he was extremely gifted in language, and he was able to communicate with the people of the Bamboo tribe in a short period of time. He told the people of the Bamboo tribe that he was from the Chinese Dynasty in the north, and then showed the people of the Bamboo tribe iron tools, took them to see the big ships parked in the river, and then let the fleet go to sea, and got countless seafood for the people of the Bamboo tribe to eat.
After some understanding, the bamboo tribe shocked Wang Chuan and his party into heaven and revered them. Bihu told them that he could give them iron tools, make houses, boats, teach them how to plant, etc., as long as they gathered 500 warriors to send them home. The people of the Bamboo Tribe were greatly moved, and with a sense of sacredness, they notified everywhere, convened inter-tribal conferences, formed tribal alliances, selected warriors to drive Bihu and others, and so on.
The number of the Bamboo Tribe was only three or four hundred, and the tribal alliance was formed, and the number exceeded five thousand, and five hundred people were selected for training than the Tiger Cong, and by the way, they attacked and annexed the tribes that were farther away. On Wang Chuan's side, while ensuring the supply of meat, he organized more people to carry out farming training, establish villages, make tools, make cane sugar, and so on.
In the south, the weather is still warm in August, and it will cool down in October and frost in November. There was also snow and ice in the south at this time, but only a little in December and January. At this time, weeding and fertilizing the sugarcane forest can make the sugarcane grow taller. The grass is just right for the herd led by the baby elephants, and the wine and paper making have not yet begun, and the residue and water residue after the sugar is made can also be eaten by the elephants, and the elephants can also rush to the sandbar farther away to scourge other weeds, so that the sugarcane forest is maintained under the eyelids of these pot-bellied men.
From November this year to November, the appearance of the bamboo tribe in this place that was renamed Yangcheng by Wang Chuan has been very different.
On the plains beyond the hills, two or three wide stockades took shape. The road outside the stockade is criss-crossed. There are no more weeds in the sugarcane fields, the ditches and ridges are intertwined, and the sugarcane grows luxuriantly. Simple wharves were built on the tributaries, with high masts and often busy transporters. Further afield, on the sandbar, the grass was bulldozed, and the warriors heroically stepped on the elephant's back and were thrown into the dirt, but some were already able to run on the elephant......
On the picture, these are gradually depicted, and there is a small elephant as big as a boat like Dawang Mountain, which is majestic.
The clerk Cang'er sat on the stone of the hill, concentrating on drawing everything in front of him. Many hairy boys are mostly at the foot of the hill and look at this side, and the warriors who are training in the distance know that the people here will draw them, and they seem to have become more heroic. Her majestic eldest brother was paralyzed on the stone bored at the moment, sighing and stuffing a piece of brown sugar into his mouth, "I can't eat anymore, I'll have to brush my teeth later, and I don't know if I will get tooth decay without toothpaste...... Alas. ”
Wang Chuan chewed the candy and swallowed it, and said slowly: "Sister, you are also not young, if you are at home, it is time to get married." Look at the young man below, do you have a favorite? Brother calls the shots for you...... Today the leader of the Bamboo tribe told me that he wanted to propose marriage to his son...... His son is also one of the best warriors in a hundred......"
"You lie, how dare he? And you don't understand what he says...... Finished my candy again. ”
"How many times have I told you that eating sugar is not good for your teeth, and you will gain weight. Brother, this is to share the hurt for you...... What you said makes sense, he doesn't dare to mention it, why don't we mention it to him, marry you to his son, and he won't die beautifully? The whole South will shine. ”
"I don't marry, I want to marry, I marry my brother, who knows everything. And his son didn't take a shower after training, and there were lice in his hair, which was dirty to death. ”
"Then you won't be able to get married. If your brother is so good, there is only one in the world...... Lice or something, you can get rid of it, and after you move to a new house, you just have him wash it before you go in. And I tell you, if you marry him, everyone in this place will listen to you, and when this Yangcheng is built, you are the lord of the city, you don't like him anymore, divorce him, and find a better one......"
"You don't want me anymore?"
"How could I not want you? We're just trying to establish a foothold here. Of the five ships, two will definitely be left for you, and the sailors will also be left for you. When we go back, we will send you another 300, not 500, doctors, teachers, craftsmen, soldiers, whatever you want. Iron and porcelain, you want to give as much as you want. He built it like a royal city. When you look back and think about your parents, let them come over for a vacation, or you can go back whenever you want to...... How nice it is here, warm in winter and cool in summer, and sugar to eat. ”
"Don't, eat sugar cavities."
"Then, I'll wait to go down to the mountains to get a wild boar back and make braised pork for you?"
"That's pretty much it. You've got to teach me how to do it, or if you're gone, I won't be able to eat......"
The brother and sister talked intermittently on the mountain, and the tiger rider returned from the mountain with a small group of cavalry. They had already gone many times to explore the way north. Several trips came to the conclusion that the forces of the barbarians did not cross the Five Ridges. It's already snowing in the north. Some tribes in the north reacted that the number of wild beasts wintering in the south was greatly reduced, and they didn't know what the situation was, but they were afraid that they would be hungry this winter. Something magical had spread from the north, and it was a piece of rusty iron. This was obtained after the Tiger Destroyers slaughtered a tribe.
After listening to the detailed report of the tiger chaser, Wang Chuan said dumbly: "These fools, they won't really do that kind of thing, this is really dead and alive." ”
"What will happen?" The tiger exorcist asked.
Wang Chuan's face changed uncertainly, and finally he uttered two words: "National war." ”
The big and small leaders of the dynasty were gathered, and Wang Chuan explained his guess and began to assign tasks: "I want 2,000 people to go north with us, and we will set off in February." The two thousand men were to have leather armor and weapons, adequate training, and military rations...... Mobilized, the fleet canceled the rest, went to sea with the minimum number of men, I want whales, skins, meat, bones...... Let the Bamboo Tribe contact other more tribes and expand the alliance, as long as they are willing to give people, ironware, pottery, food, wine, what they want, and how much they want...... The elephant herd tamed for another ten days, and all the elephants that could not be tamed were killed, and there was no time to wait...... Remember to avoid baby elephants......"
The officers and soldiers of the dynasty were mobilized, and after that they prepared for war with astonishing efficiency. A few days later, the king's sister was named the eldest princess and married the Bamboo tribe, who also announced that she would join the Huaxia Dynasty on the same day and become a part of the dynasty.
Since then, the Bamboo Tribe, including some people from the Alliance, have been mobilized to fight for the war. Led by the Bamboo Tribe and the Alliance, more surrounding tribes joined in and worked hard for this northern war.
The war clouds are thick, and in fact, they have covered the entire land of Shenzhou.
In the north of the Lingnan region, there is a lack of migrating beasts from the north, and many tribes do not have enough food to overwinter, and after that, they often expand their hunting range, intensify conflicts with the tribes in the surrounding areas, and will also fight and kill for a little prey.
Further north, the barbarians who had gathered hundreds of thousands of people fell into confusion and panic, and the herds that had come on time in previous years disappeared, and the few wild beasts were hunted, but this was not enough to fill the bellies of hundreds of thousands. Some people endure the low temperature to fish, while others stuff their next year's rations into their stomachs and don't even care about the seeds. Even so, starvation was inevitable. Some of the tribes on the outskirts quietly fled and were cut down in the snow, which was later used as rations. The internal conflict intensified, and the core forces were overwhelmed and exhausted. Some of them risked their lives to go north, and some fugitives from the devil's land told them that it was the devil who killed all the wild beasts, and that the devils could not eat so much meat, and even used it to feed the fish in the Taijiang River.
To the north to the location of the Taijiang River, a little earlier, countless beasts were really unable to cross the river after ten or twenty days of hunger and running, and were swept into the river. Since then, the Taijiang River is full of beast corpses, almost damming the river, drifting for more than a month. Countless crocodiles in the river are so fat and strong that they can barely squeeze into the holes for wintering.
The preparations for the dynasty were naturally the most intense, and a large number of troops were sent to the northwest to build a defensive line. Recruits enter the camp and begin training day and night. At the same time, there was also a very harsh purge within the dynasty, and hundreds of people were beheaded or burned in Shenlong Square after pleading guilty. Tens of thousands of family members of criminals braved the snow to rush north under the whip, and many died on the way, and those who did not die were even worse off than dead when they arrived in the north.
Further north, Huaiya, Yiren, and Baishi were also training in the snow, and when it was still cold in February, they began to move south to reinforce them.
In March of the fifteenth year of prehistory, the ice and snow melted, and the barbarian higher-ups finally couldn't help but shout the slogan: Snatch the meat back from the devil!
The hungry barbarians, young and old, ate their last mouthful of food and rushed to the territory of China.