Chapter 69 Hunger and War
Enemy?
Where did the enemy come from?
This question, the scout who rushed over couldn't say it, he just panted and kept talking, a large number of black people poured from the mouth of the Shennong Clan, and they had captured the Yan Tribe's standing guard hunter team stationed at the mouth of the valley.
"And how did you escape?" Lin Yuan asked sharply.
"I ...... I was let go by them, and they told me to come back and report ......."
News?
Lin Yuan frowned and thought about it, it seemed that these people didn't really want to go to war, because they only captured the Yan clan's standing guards, and did not kill people directly, but also deliberately released a living mouth, obviously leaving a hand, not wanting to kill them all.
However, no matter what, this kind of provocative behavior that flagrantly violates sovereignty is intolerable to the Yan people!
Lin Yuan hurriedly returned to Huadu, gathered all the hunters of the Suiren clan, Huaxu clan and Yan clan, and soon assembled a hunter army of more than 5,000 people, and the rest of the patrols in other areas were also on their way to Huadu to assemble.
Because he was injured, Lin Yuan didn't wake him up, and arranged for You Ye to be the commander of the Suiren clan's troops.
After the troops were assembled, they hurriedly marched towards the Shennong Pass.
Along the way, Lin Yuan kept thinking, who would be the one who came to offend?
Jiuli tribe? It is said that the other party should not hit here so quickly, is it the Shennong clan? It's not quite in line with common sense, it is said that Fu Xi has just returned, if there is any situation, he will definitely stop it, as for the nearby Tu and Bai people, it is also unlikely, after all, there was once a stable trade relationship, and everyone used to get along well.
Who could that be?
From Huadu to Shennong Valley, it would take about two torches to burn out if you walked quickly, but Lin Yuan only walked about half way before he found the enemy in the scout's mouth.
It turned out that during this time, the enemy was no longer willing to occupy the position at the mouth of the valley, and at this time, he had advanced some distance to the center of the wasteland.
Lin Yuan saw the black crowd appearing in the sky across the direct flow of the Jing River, and the opposing troops' chaotic hype was chaotic, and they quickly attacked Lin Yuan's side.
Lin Yuan frowned slightly, he waved his hand, and Big Tooth and Hou Yi immediately led the archers to find cover by the river and prepare for the attack.
The archer troop is a unit that Lin Yuan deliberately focuses on cultivating, in the past few years, Hou Yi has shown more and more intense shooting talent, and even the big tooth sometimes can't compare to him, under Lin Yuan's deliberate instructions, let Hou Yi train a young archer unit alone, they selected the most talented teenagers between the ages of 10-15 from the members of the Yan clan, and specially gathered together, and Hou Yi carried out devilish design training, and every day they had to shoot more than 1000 arrows, in order to meet the technical standards expected by Hou Yi.
And in the past three years, Hou Yi has indeed not disappointed Lin Yuan, and the young archers he trained have shown their ability to be not inferior to adult hunters on many hunting occasions.
This time, Lin Yuan mixed the adult hunter archers led by Big Tooth with Hou Yi's young archer troops, and had high hopes for them, bows and arrows were the most effective weapons of the Yan Clan that were currently ahead of other barbarian races, and its range and power were enough to turn the tide of a war.
And Ye led the spear troops of the Suiren clan, standing closely in front of the archers, these prime-aged hunters with spears in their arms, are the backbone of the Suiren clan, they have experienced a hundred battles, followed the Eggplant and Lin Yuan to trek through mountains and rivers, overcome one difficulty after another, honed an extremely tenacious will, and absolutely obeyed Lin Yuan's orders.
In the past three years, Lin Yuan has not stopped improving the weapons of spear hunters, he used the special pattern pebbles found on the banks of the plains and rivers, and used its frosted-like stone appearance as a whetstone for grinding stone tools. At the same time, Lin Yuan also arranged for the skillful Huaxu people to use rattan strips extracted from the juice of oil hemp rope to weave them into oval basin-shaped objects, and then reinforce them around them, and at the same time make handles, and finally turned them into shield-like armor, which was sent down as the standard equipment of spear hunters.
In normal hunting activities, spear hunters would not carry such large and bulky shields, but this time was different, their enemies were humans, so, according to Lin Yuan's orders, all the spear hunters of the Chao clan would bring rattan shields.
At this time, under the command of Ye, nearly 2,000 spear hunters, armed with rattan shields, lined up in rows, stood in front of more than 3,000 archers, which should be the primitive period, the earliest formation was used.
The enemy in the distance had rushed to the other side of the creek in a loud and loud manner, and it seemed that there were about 10,000 people, and the black pressure was a large area, chaotic, and noisy.
Lin Yuan frowned slightly, these people didn't seem to have any organization and discipline, and they looked at the clothes, both the grass skirt of the Shennong tribe and the ordinary animal skin clothes of the Bai tribe of the Tu tribe, at a glance, it was not obvious which tribe the other party belonged to, but it seemed to be a chaotic combination of multiple tribes, they were huddled together in a chaotic manner, without any order.
Lin Yuan was happy in his heart, although the other party had a large number of people, but it seemed that they were all stragglers, and between the two sides, there was a small river, although the number of our side was small, but all of them were elite soldiers and strong generals, with strict discipline, if there would be a full-scale war, as long as the command was appropriate, perhaps, the Yan clan still had a chance to win.
Dozens of enemy vanguard troops had already rushed into the small river and rushed towards Lin Yuan's side, some of them were holding half a stone spear, some were holding thick wooden sticks, and some of them didn't take anything, just a few stones, shouting, and rushed towards this side.
"Ready...... Put! ”
With Hou Yi's order, the first wave of arrows whizzed out of the air, and in an instant, the enemies who had already rushed into the river fell to the ground one after another, and after struggling a few times, there was no movement, and the corpses slowly floated away with the river.
The archers' attack successfully blocked the enemy's first attack, and the enemy swarmed across the river, and the corpses in the river in front of them temporarily stopped their progress.
After a moment of confusion on the other side, several strong guys suddenly came out, they were holding long ropes, and stones were tied to one end of the rope, and the ropes were connected to the stones and began to wave, dancing in the air above their heads.
Lin Yuan frowned, and hurriedly shouted:
"Spear Hunter!! Shield!! ”
As soon as the words fell, I heard a few sounds of breaking the air, which came from the other side of the river, and the ropes in the hands of those people were instantly released, and countless stones fell down along the parabola.
This is a sling, Lin Yuan was surprised to see it in the game, in the era of the Roman Empire, the Gauls in Europe mainly used this kind of slings for long-range attacks, but he didn't expect that the ancient people in the land of China had mastered this attack technique as early as the period of time.
This kind of sling, put the stone into the rope, and then use the centrifugal force generated when the rope rotates, and release the rope at the moment when the moment of the greatest moment, the stone can gain a very large acceleration and fly towards the enemy quickly.
Although the stone is not as lethal as a bow and arrow, if it hits someone, it will still cause some damage, and if it happens to hit the head, it will kill people.
Fortunately, Lin Yuan issued an order to defend in time, and the spear infantry standing in front of the archers raised the rattan shield in his hand in time, and in an instant, the sound of clanging and clanging was endless, and all of them fell on the shield.
Lin Yuan glanced at it from the corner of his eye, fortunately, the spearman's shield was not damaged, which showed that the rattan shield he studied still had a certain effect.
"Longbowman...... Preparation...... Put ......"
Greattooth shouted the order, and he led a group of adult longbowmen, who wielded heavier longbows, required more power and slower firing speeds, but had a much longer range and more power than ordinary short bows.
A few dull bowstring trembling sounds came to mind, and a dozen thick arrows flew over the river and landed firmly on the enemy on the other side of the river, and many of the people who had just thrown the stones were soon killed by the bows and arrows.
On the one hand, there is a Yan clan with super long-range attack power and defensive means, and on the other hand, there is a chaotic and defenseless chaotic people.
The enemy on the other side of the river also clearly noticed the problem, and the other party huddled together, and then they all took a few steps back, shouting at each other.
Several spearmen of the Suiren clan wanted to pursue across the river, but they were immediately stopped by Lin Yuan, they only won a small confrontation victory just now, but the other party still had a numerical advantage, and at this time it was in the process of testing the psychology of both sides, so they must not rush forward to avoid unnecessary damage.
After a long stalemate, Lin Yuan suddenly found that the crowd on the other side was obviously separated by a road, and a figure was surrounded and walked out, they picked up the bark scattered everywhere on the ground, held it high, formed a human shield, and slowly approached the river.
"Prepare ......"
Seeing that the enemy was in range again, Big Tooth excitedly commanded.
"Big Tooth! Don't shoot yet, see what they're going to do. ”
Lin Yuan whispered, he could see that the other party didn't seem to be planning to attack or anything this time.
When he walked to the river, he took the guy who was surrounded by the crowd, and the other party suddenly shouted loudly and shouted:
"Across the river! Where is your leader? Come out and speak! ”