Chapter 79 Confronting the Threat
After a few days, fewer and fewer people escaped from the mountains, and finally, like those wild beasts, gradually disappeared.
The wildfires were finally extinguished, and a large amount of smoke shrouded the surrounding air, obscuring the sky and the sun.
The people who have not yet escaped from the mountains have either been burned or smoked to death, and the tribes of the valley that had once flourished have become a sea of death.
The survivors of the escape from the mountains live in the wilderness and struggle to survive under the protection of the Yan people.
Fortunately, a large number of wild beasts that escaped from the mountains could be caught and used as a source of food, and the thousands of displaced people who escaped from the mountains were able to temporarily take shelter in the wilderness camps set up for them by the Yan people, and were free from the threat of starvation.
However, the real death threat is still to come......
On the third day of the wildfire, rows of barbarians dressed in black animal skins stepped through the charred land and slowly advanced in the direction of the wilderness.
Lin Yuan arranged the reconnaissance hunters at the mouth of the valley in advance, discovered the situation, and brought the news back to Huadu in time.
At this time, the enemy was still about three days away from the valley mouth of the mountain.
"What should come, will come......"
After Lin Yuan dropped these words, he immediately gathered all the Yan Clan warriors and immediately began to prepare for the battle.
First of all, Lin Yuan recruited all the people who could fight among the displaced people, regardless of gender, as long as they could pick up spears, all of them were incorporated into the temporary war group of the Yan clan.
"For food, for survival, join the Yan clan! Kill Chiyou! This is your last chance! ”
In less than a day, more than half of the displaced people chose to join the temporary war group of the Yan tribe, and there were many children, women and children who were not old enough, because the desire to join was too strong, Lin Yuan had to arrange them in the logistics team, responsible for making raw cowhide armor and hollow bone arrows overnight.
Under Lin Yuan's order, the main camps of the six tribes in the wilderness all began to prepare for battle immediately, all the staff began to be on alert in advance, and everyone seized the time to strengthen the wall, strengthen patrols, and conduct drills for hunters in advance, so as to be fully prepared to deal with the enemy.
At the same time, Anna commanded a large army of slaves to dig a narrow channel along the Jing River, connecting the water in the Jing River to the Wei River, and building a rudimentary moat around Huadu.
Eggplant seized the time to rectify the morale of the hunter team, and re-launched targeted assault training for some new hunters.
In the entire tribal alliance, there are only a few people such as eggplant who have combat experience in the Jiuli tribe, and only eggplant knows that in the face of the barbaric and powerful Jiuli tribe, it is necessary to train in advance, otherwise when you go to the battlefield, you can only become a corpse that dies quickly.
"How many of us do we have now?"
When Lin Yuan was inspecting the reinforcement project of the Chinese city wall, he came across a hurried tomato and hurriedly asked:
"King Yan, our six major tribes have a total of more than 20,000 people, fully equipped, and those displaced people recruited from the mountains are about 30,000 people, but many of them lack weapons and are untrained."
Lin Yuan nodded and said:
"Then do what I told you before, according to my plan, understand?"
"Yes, I understand!" The other man bowed sharply, then thought for a moment, and then said:
"That...... Lord Yanwang, I just received a report from the spies today, and I also found traces of the Jiuli clan in Xishan Yukou, and the other party was all naked, and it seemed that it was the Luo Tian clan in the Jiuli clan......"
"Oh, Xishan Yukou? It's about 2 days away, right? ”
Eggplant nodded, and then said:
"However, they don't seem to know our exact location, and judging by it, they have been going back and forth in circles at the mouth of the valley, and they have not yet made up their minds where to go......
Lin Yuan smiled slightly, and then said:
"Very good, tell Big Ya to send all our scout hunters, and you can't miss any of the movements of the Jiuli Clan! You are in charge of the hunters of our six tribes, continue to follow my plan, Anna will be able to make a batch of raw cowhide armor for you to use in the afternoon, and I will let karma buy us as much time as possible. ”
Eggplant nodded and walked away.
After Lin Yuan settled a few words to the overseer who was hurrying up the construction, he left in a hurry and came to a temporary camp where the refugees and refugees in the mountains lived.
Here, a large number of displaced people are lining up to receive weapons issued by the Yan tribe in an orderly manner, most of them are simple stone spears, and some are small weapons levied from other tribes, such as slings, stone axes, bone blades, and even some hard stones.
Because the number of weapons was far less than the number of temporary warbands that had suddenly increased, all the homeless people had to make their own weapons, using local materials, weaving straw ropes from dry reeds, then making simple slings, and then going to the river beach to find some sharp small rocks, and a ranged attack class was born.
Although everyone's equipment is very simple, but the morale is very high, as soon as they heard that the Jiuli clan was coming over soon, one by one Gaoxin stretched out his arms and shouted slogans:
"Defend the wilderness! Kill the enemy for revenge! ……”
Lin Yuan found karma in the crowd, the latter was nervously arranging the distribution of weapons, and when he saw Lin Yuan coming, karma hurriedly stood up and bowed:
"Flame King! Just in time you came to tell you good news......"
Lin Yuan smiled slightly, nodded his head, and continued:
"According to your request, I have announced your edict to all slaves, King Yan, all those who have resources to participate in the temporary war group, after we defeat the Jiuli clan, they will be free, I didn't expect that there are really many slaves who actively sign up!"
"Oh? How many? Lin Yuan's eyes lit up and asked.
"Haha, there are about 5,000 people, all of them are strong young men, and the number is still increasing......"
Lin Yuan nodded heavily, patted Ye's shoulder, and said:
"Good! Very good! Now, we need everyone's efforts, one more person, one more chance, you are doing well! Well...... Remember, though, that we left behind the necessary slaves, and we also needed them to repair the walls and dig the river. ”
karma nodded, then he thought about it and whispered again:
"The Flame King...... By the way, in fact, if it is still human...... We can force slaves to join ......"
"Nope! No way! Lin Yuan frowned, decisively rejected Ye's proposal, and then explained:
"If you want to win a war, you have to have a brave team, and the kind of people who are forced to fight like that will only do bad......"
The karma nodded as if he didn't understand......
"Yesterday's all-clan combat meeting, how did I make the plan and prepare?" Lin Yuan then asked.
Ye immediately patted his chest and said loudly:
"No problem! Please rest assured that Da Ya and Hou Yi had already set off in the morning with the two teams of prepared temporary battle groups...... I'll wait for this batch of equipment to finish, and I'll set off right away! ”
Lin Yuan nodded slowly, and said with a smile: "Okay! Very good! Whether we can achieve the final victory, the first battle, depends on you! ”
……
A warm wind with the smell of burnt paste came out from the scorched black mountains in the south, blowing away the clouds of the Tianshan Mountains, blowing away the haze that shrouded the wilderness for days, and the sun that had not been seen for a long time sprinkled on the earth, and everyone couldn't help but raise their heads, and everyone was feeling the warm and happy brilliance on their bodies.
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The next day, at the mouth of the Jing River valley.
A barbarian army that had been wandering here for many days finally made up its mind today to leave the camp and carefully follow the path at the mouth of the valley, out of the mountains, and into the wilderness.
Their skin was dark, and each of them had a twig-thick animal bone through their lips, and then pressed against their throats near their chins, and in their turned lips, a few yellow-brown teeth were exposed, and it was terrifying to look at them from a close distance. Each of them carried a short bone knife pinned to his waist, and there were no other weapons, not even the usual stone spears.
This is a branch of the Jiuli tribe known for its surprise attacks, they call themselves the Turtle Pole Clan, and they only carry bone short knives, in order to increase the speed of advance and retreat in the process of rapid raids, and avoid the difficulty of movement caused by spears.
As one of the three vanguard troops sent by the Jiuli Clan, the Zodiac was very aware of their mission, which was to find the Chief of Chiyou, the person whom the God of War had asked to find, and that person had a very obvious mark, that is, an obsidian ring on his left wrist.
The Patriarch walked at the front of the group, and he couldn't help but take a deep breath of the air in the wilderness, which was indeed much better than the air in the mountains...... The anger of King Chiyou is really not to be underestimated, in order to catch those strange people with black bracelets, King Chiyou almost turned the entire mountain over, although he caught a dozen people one after another, but the king still seems to be not satisfied.
No, during this time, the king has been babbling, saying that at least two black bracelet people have escaped, I really don't know why the king is so sure, it is estimated that eighty percent is the chief of the Gaoshan clan who is playing tricks......
"Phew!"
The Patriarch of the Pole Spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm, and cursed in his heart:
I have long known that the chief of the Gaoshan clan, who is called Zheng Jing, is definitely not a good thing, since he joined the Jiuli clan, I don't know what ability to make King Chiyou so appreciated, he has been promoted several levels in a row, and now he is the head of the three major tribes of the Jiuli tribe, and he is deeply trusted by King Chiyou.
Suddenly, a whisper reached his ears:
"Yale is a paucher, the king is really, you have to let us find someone...... Along the way, I only saw people who were baked, people who starved to death, and how could anyone with a bracelet ......"
The small man beside the Patriarch said to himself, he didn't seem to care about being heard, and he grumbled as he cut through the knee-high grass with a bone knife.
As if he hadn't heard, the patriarch walked forward for a moment, and then as if sighing, he whispered to the little man beside him:
"King Chiyou's order, you dare to disobey? It's just that you know that he was deceived by the villain, what can you do? Do you dare to disobey? Tired of living? ”
The little man stuck out his tongue, then vigorously lifted the grass in front of him, and said:
"Alas...... The villain...... Patriarch, it's not me that many of our brothers don't like him, and some people even rumor that he has an obsidian bracelet on his wrist, which is wrapped in animal skins all day long, is the same as those who were slaughtered......"
"Don't talk nonsense, watch your tongue......"
The patriarch said lightly, and the little man immediately swallowed what he wanted to say.
They walked silently in the wilderness for a moment, and the little man seemed to be unable to bear it again, and said in a rambling voice:
"Your Excellency...... If you want me to say, let's go back, what is there to see in this broken wilderness, we have been walking for so long, we haven't even seen a living thing, let alone looking for someone, there is no human hair! ”
The patriarch frowned, looking around, they had already left the mountain and walked more than two hundred steps, it seemed that it was indeed as the other party said, as far as the eye could see, there was indeed nothing for the two activities......
"Alas, okay, okay, let's go deep into the wilderness today, now King Chiyou can finally die, stop obsessively looking for those strange people, continue to rob other tribes is the right thing." The Patriarch waved his hand and made a decision.
When the little man heard this, he immediately jumped up for joy and said:
"Haha, that's great! I love robbery! Now, I can finally their wives and daughters in front of those cowards! Wowhaha! It's cool to think about! ”
The little man laughed uncontrollably and jumped up and down......
Suddenly, his smile hardened, and his body, which had just jumped up, suddenly twitched, and he fell headfirst down, and was silent.
The patriarch's expression changed greatly, he looked at the little man who fell to the ground, and an arrow appeared on the other party's chest!
"Ah......h
Before he could make this sound, he heard a "whoosh", followed by the sound of bones shattering, and an arrow pierced through his right eye and stabbed out of the back of his head......
He opened his mouth wide in disbelief and slowly fell to the ground under the frightened eyes of his own people......