The combination of copper and stone, wild and uninhibited, is the overall summary of the army of this era. Their weapons are not good, but they have been enemies of nature all year round, and they have passed the stage of training in March in the later generations to be able to spit in their mouths, and their disadvantage is their lack of discipline.

Just as the bow and arrow replaced the spear, it was not because Chen Jian said that the bow and arrow were better to use, but in practice they knew that the bow and arrow were easier to use, so after the last war, these people were much more obedient than last time.

The ratio of auxiliaries to soldiers is nearly two to one, and the distance of the expedition is very short, only two or three hundred miles, if it is longer, the supply problem can make Chen Jian collapse.

This is a very characteristic army of slave owners, the purpose of the war is to plunder the population, as for the liberation of the tribes oppressed by the meteorite tribe, for the same ancestor Yunyun, it is for others.

After the wheat and beans were harvested, the fourteen tribes could afford to feed the slaves.

Early the next morning, Jian Chen took more than 600 men to start his second journey after coming to this world.

Before leaving, he told the people who remained in the tribe to prepare two simple beacon towers on the mountain in the north, and once they found that the tribe in the north was coming, they would immediately set fire to everyone and withdraw to the city, and they would be guarded every day during the day, and the tribe in the north would not have the ability to raid at night.

In order to guard against a possible rout in the east, the seven savage villages also need to gather all the men in peacetime to prevent the remnants of the Meteorite tribe from destroying the wheat fields and driving away the hungry animals that have just given birth, which are the hope of the entire tribe.

The tribes that had moved to the mountains also sent people, but Jian Chen did not use them to go on the expedition, but let them help guard the city, and this group of people who did not know the sound of drums and flutes could only have the opposite effect.

Only a few guides from that tribe were selected and followed on the expedition.

Dozens of birchbark boats drift down the Grass River, most of them on their feet. More than thirty horned deer were gathered and stepped forward to scout and protect their left flank.

The daily journey was only thirty or forty miles, and it was not necessary to form a battle formation at the beginning of the journey, but to walk a little faster, and every once in a while scouts with horned deer, javelins, and spears would come back to report what was ahead.

"How far is the tribe that snitched off the Meteorite tribe from the riverbank?"

"Half a day's road."

"What about the Meteorite Clan?"

"It's going to take two days."

Jian Chen nodded, called out to the wolfskin, and said, "You go and tell those scouts to go around the back of the informant tribe and not allow their people to leave." ”

"Which clan do you want to fight first?"

"Yes, if you encounter that tribe hunting, leave and don't fight, and wait for them to return to the cave at night. You have to go around the back to prevent them from telling the Meteorite Clan, and not allowing them to find out how many of us there are. ”

"Got it."

Jian Chen asked the team to stop and called all the captains.

"There were not many people in that tribe, only a hundred and ten men, women, and children. To-morrow I will take a hundred and ten men, and the rest will remain on the banks of the river, and make a fire with the charcoal from the boat, and send the scouts farther away, so that no one will find us. ”

The hundred elites carrying bronze weapons were selected, plus the thirty scouts, and set off in the early morning of the next day, and the rest were all left on the riverbank.

Along the way, there are scouts riding horned deer to clear out the enemies they may encounter, and there is no need to worry about being ambushed, just like walking in the wheat fields of the tribe, coming and going freely.

When it was almost noon, he arrived in the woods near the cave, and Wolfskin pointed to a small mountain in the distance and said, "The cave of that tribe is there, and we have twenty people blocking the way to the Meteorite Tribe, and we can't run." ”

"Everyone rests for a while, and is not allowed to speak loudly, until the men who hunt in the evening come back and do their work."

The crowd dispersed slightly, and a few people figured out whetstones, sharpened their blood-burred weapons, or used rattan or something like to make the handshake more comfortable.

Finally, when dusk came, black smoke rose from the cave, and several men returned from a distance carrying a prey.

More than 30 people touched the sides of the cave, and the rest of the people quietly went down the mountain while the sun was about to set.

As soon as Jian Chen waved his hand, the group of soldiers armed with short swords and spears immediately rushed to the vicinity of the cave, and the two people on duty outside were just about to shout when they were shot dead by bows and arrows.

Sounds had been heard inside the cave, but the group had blocked the entrance to the cave, and instead of entering it immediately, it opened a concave.

As soon as seven or eight people came out, they were stabbed to death, and the rest of the people did not dare to show their heads again, and the cries of babies and the screams of men came from the cave.

"Throw out all the stone spears, and people will crawl out, or they will all be killed."

He shouted twice at the inside, and the only response was the thrown stones.

Jian Chen waved his hand, and more than a dozen people went to the vicinity to collect dry branches and stacked them at the entrance of the cave, there was obviously some panic inside, and a few more people tried to rush out, but they were all poked to death.

"Ignition."

A few men left to take out the flint and charred linen they had prepared, and lit a fire, which was covered with some damp blades of grass, and a thick white smoke poured into the cavern at once.

The crying inside became more and more violent, and from time to time there was a coughing sound, and finally someone shouted, "Let's come out!" We come out. ”

"Throw out the stone spear and crawl out."

This time it was much more effective, and all sorts of strange stone tools were thrown out. Jian Chen asked people to move the fire, and several women took the lead in crawling out with the crying child in their arms, looking at the group of people tremblingly, kneeling on the ground obediently, and protecting the baby in their arms with their bodies.

The last to come out were men, all of whom lay on the ground and looked at their feet as Jian Chen shouted.

"There's no one in there?"

"It's gone."

"Then set it on fire."

Several people immediately piled up dry firewood again, and immediately shouted inside: "There are more!" ”

More than a dozen people crawled out, and Jian Chen didn't ask again this time, but directly lit the fire. Anyway, there shouldn't be anything left in the cave, and it's the time when the green and yellow are gone.

A person raised his head, looked at Song who was standing beside Chen Jian in horror and shouted, "You...... Aren't you loose? ”

Song nodded, and shouted with a long roar: "I'm here to avenge my relatives!" ”

The man looked at the loose bun and exclaimed, "Is that legend true?" Are you the tribes from heaven that the tribes over there say? You are the tribe that taught them to eat acorns without bitterness? ”

Jian Chen looked at this person with interest: "Yes, we are." Have you heard of us? ”

"I've heard of it. I heard about it when the tribes met a few days ago, and I also knew that the tribe of the catfish was gone, and I heard that it was taken away by the ancestors and went to a place where there would never be hunger again. ”

He craned his neck to look at Jian Chen, and said, "But Luoxing said that they are the descendants of the gods, and they are the tribes from the sky, so those tribes are not allowed to comb their hair anymore." ”

Jian Chen ignored him and asked people to watch the frightened group of people and asked, "Who is the leader?" ”

Song pointed to an old woman in the distance and said, "She is." ”

"Take it away, go and show it to those tribes, so that they don't have to worry about someone telling them anymore, let those tribes bring people here, and together they will conquer the Meteorite Clan, and they will be very happy if they don't have to pay tribute to the Meteorite Tribe in the future."

"You don't have as many people as the Meteorite tribe, you can't beat them."

The leader looked at the hundred and ten people in alarm, although their weapons were not stones, and they seemed to be as sharp as those of the Meteorite Clan, but there were too few of them.

Chen Jian said with a smile: "With the addition of those few tribes who used to comb their hair, the number of people is enough." I'll wait here for them to come, wait for enough people! ”

Several people escorted the leader away, and Jian Chen looked at the person who was talking to him before and said, "Do you know where the Meteorite Tribe is?" ”

"Yes."

"You go and tell Luoxing to bring his people here, put down their weapons, I don't have to kill them. Otherwise, when those tribes come, I will kill them all. ”

After speaking, he took out a flag and handed it to him, "Bring this to Luoxing, let him comb his hair, and come here with this." ”

Fearing that the man would be eaten by the beast, he found three more men and asked them to go with him.

After they left, they tied the men and women with ropes and escorted them towards the grass river.

Song glanced at Jian Chen and couldn't help but ask, "Do you really want to let them not die?" ”

"Of course not, they won't lay down their weapons. Wolfskin, go and bring back the leader of that tribe, and don't send him to another tribe. ”

"What for?"

"We don't need those tribes, they are frightened by the Meteorite tribes, and they only cause chaos when they come. Find fifty auxiliaries and escort them back to the city, and you take the scouts to keep an eye on the Meteorite tribe, and if they come with someone, come back and tell me. ”

"Fight them here?"

"No, when they come here, let us go down the river, surround their village, and let their people report it. We're in ambush on their way back, just like we did last time we did with those five. ”

"But what if they don't come?"

"Then catch people one tribe at a time, until the meteorite tribe can't hold on. They do not raise pigs and sheep, nor do they grow wheat and beans, and without these tribes paying tribute, they cannot feed the whole tribe. Therefore, they can only come and fight us, otherwise the other tribes will not listen to them, because if he does not come, it will prove that we are stronger than him, and the legend that they fell from the sky will be shattered. ”

"Why don't you just go to another tribe and arrest people?"

"I don't have enough time to take them all away, and I have to go back to harvesting the wheat, and ...... We can't feed so many slaves now,"

Wolfskin seemed to understand and left with the scout.

Chen Jian calculated on the beach that it would take three days for the Meteorite Clan to come at the earliest, and he had prepared enough boats, and it would take a day and a half to go down the river.

Relying on this time difference, they can rush to their village in advance, and it is estimated that the village is full of daughters and children, and they can come to a siege to help them and wait for work.

It's a dead end.

If it doesn't come, the clan will collapse in half a year.

They are too productive to have a choice, because people have to eat, and their population has exceeded the limits of the gathering tribes.