Jiuli tribe!

This word made Lin Yuan's heart sink, he originally thought that when he came to the deserted wilderness, he could temporarily get rid of the infestation of the Jiuli clan, and after accumulating strength, he would find a chance to fight with the other party and try to see if he could complete the task.

But what I didn't expect was that this Jiuli clan was like a ghost, constantly extending its tentacles to the Yan clan.

It was as if Lin Yuan was about to forget the other party, and a reminder suddenly appeared.

The encounter of the Huaxu tribe may not be accidental, after the formal vassalization, Lin Yuan specially sent someone to learn more about the migration of the Huaxu tribe, it turned out that the Huaxu tribe is a small tribe located in the eastern part of the Qinling Mountains, originally lived a life without fighting with the world, but because of the encounter with the Jiuli tribe, although desperately resisted, but still invincible, after sacrificing a large number of prime-age male hunters, the chief took the remaining young people and women and children to drift down the Jing River, and came to the wilderness.

It's no wonder that the Huaxu tribe encountered before, except for the young hairy heads, the only ones left are old Confucians, and there are almost no adult men, and they have all been sacrificed when they fought against the Jiuli tribe.

Thinking of this, Lin Yuan was a little embarrassed.

After returning to Huadu, Anna heard the story of the Huaxu tribe, and her sympathy exploded, and after begging Lin Yuan for success, she took some food and some slaves to the Huaxu camp to help the other party build a new home.

After Lin Yuan hesitated for a while, he did not object, because, although the Huaxu clan and the Yan clan did not have any friendship, they only temporarily accepted each other as vassals, whether they helped or not, the Yan clan did not lose money.

However, from another point of view, if you can help this almost harmless Huaxu tribe gain a foothold near the mountain pass, it will also have some effect on the Yan people.

First, the Yan people accepted the vassals of the Huaxu tribe, and at the same time disrupted the young and vigorous young people of the other party, deprived the other party of their arms, arranged them in various posts in Huadu, and included the Huaxu tribe in the sphere of influence of the Yan hunters, in the name of protection, but in fact for monitoring, the Huaxu tribe is like a little beast with its teeth extracted, it will not pose any threat to the Yan people, and the Yan people can also not be wary of the alien race around them everywhere.

Second, in fact, the place where the Huaxu tribe camped was an important place that Lin Yuan had paid attention to before, it was next to the Jing River, and it was not too far from the mountain pass in the east of the Qinling Mountains.

Lin Yuan knew very well in his heart that the number one enemy of the Yan clan was the Jiuli tribe far away on the south side of the mountain, not these small tribes.

If the information fed back by the Huaxu clan was true, Lin Yuan felt that he might need to reassess the situation of the Jiuli clan.

Because according to the previous encounters between the Chinese and the Jiuli tribe in the mountains, the Jiuli tribe seemed to have just migrated from the south of the Qinling Mountains to the north of the mountains at that time, and it was only a few months ago, and the Jiuli tribe also appeared in the east of the Qinling Mountains.

It's horrible......

After careful consideration, Lin Yuan told him about his inference about the Jiuli Clan's sphere of influence, and at first, he was also deeply shocked that the Jiuli Clan could expand so quickly, but soon, he told Lin Yuan about his worries:

"King Yan,...... I thought that the Jiuli people might ...... There is really such strength, they are a group of races that rely on looting for a living, burning and looting everywhere, for the barbarians who are willing to join them, they will soon be absorbed into it, so as to grow stronger, and those who are unwilling to join, kill on the spot, although the headhunter who eats human flesh has been exterminated, but their habit of using human sacrifice still exists, and in the depths of the entire mountain, the fear of the Jiuli tribe has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people......"

Lin Yuan didn't say anything, he sat in his big tent, and behind him was the tiger head of the saber-toothed tiger, which flickered and appeared in the light of the bonfire, just like Lin Yuan's eyes, looking straight at the eggplant.

Eggplant coughed dryly, and continued:

"However, no matter what, we have long since broken away from the mountain, no matter how the Jiuli clan tosses in the mountain, it shouldn't affect our ......"

Lin Yuan shook his head slowly and said:

"No, eggplant, there will be a battle between us and the Jiuli tribe, either he dies or I die...... I originally hoped that I could buy more time for the development of our Yan people...... However, it seems that they are getting closer and closer......"

After saying that, Lin Yuan took a deep breath, dropped the stunned eggplant, lifted the curtain of the big tent alone, and disappeared at the door.

That night, it is said that Lin Yuan was later spent in the Fire God Temple, and Fu Xi was the only one with him.

No one knows what happened that night, but everyone found that it seemed that from that night on, Fu Xi was like a different person, and on his body, the shadow of the former Ah Fu became less and less, replaced by a cold face and a fanatical belief in the god of fire.

The next day, Fu Xi took his two apprentices to the camp of the Huaxu tribe, and treated the wounded of the Huaxu tribe with the ancestral secret recipe of Shennong's herbal medicine, and it is said that a number of believers were also recruited.

Judging from the performance of a few young people sent by the Huaxu tribe, the other party doesn't seem to have caused any trouble, it seems that the Huaxu tribe has indeed returned to the Yan tribe with peace of mind, and everything seems to be developing in a good direction.

It's just that Lin Yuan's mood became heavier and heavier.

Because with the passage of time, the days of the previous deal with the Zhu Dan clan have long passed, and the sentinels who have been guarding the mountain pass have not reported anything.

Could it be that the Zhu Dan clan broke the contract?

It shouldn't be, but the four chiefs present all showed great interest in Lin Yuan's pottery and the fire watcher, and this deal was reached at the request of the other party, so normally, she would not break the contract.

So could it be that something happened to the Zhu Dan clan?

This is hard to say, because the 10,000 captives that the Zhu Dan clan promised to give to Lin Yuan were precisely to escape the displaced people who were wandering around the war, which showed that the impact of the war was near the Zhu Dan clan, perhaps, they encountered a strong enemy, or perhaps, it was ......

On the third day when Lin Yuan continued to think nonsense, the sentry guarding the mouth of the valley reported that someone with a large number of captives was trying to cross the wilderness.

Lin Yuan hurriedly led the elite hunters to a small camp 100 steps south of Huadu City, which was originally a place where Lin Yuan had planned to build an outpost, and the terrain was higher, next to the road leading to the valley.

However, since the agreement with the Zhu Dan clan was reached, this planned outpost became a temporary prisoner transit camp, and Lin Yuan arranged for some slaves to build a small camp day and night, with a large number of improvised tents set up in it.

Different from the ordinary camp, around this camp, Lin Yuan arranged to build a sturdy fence to surround the entire camp.

This is where Lin Yuan plans to temporarily place the captives sent by the Zhu Dan clan, the Yan clan is not stupid, if the patriarch Zhu Dan is right, more than 10,000 captives, so many people will definitely get out of control if they are put into Huadu, once **** or accident happens, it will be catastrophic for the Yan clan.

This prisoner transit station had been completed a few days earlier, but the people of the Zhu Dan tribe were late, and it was better to come than not to come.

For Lin Yuan, he still has some expectations for this transaction, because at present, the food and safety problems of the Yan people have basically been solved, and the most scarce thing now is manpower, because of the shortage of slaves, resulting in several important projects at present, such as planting, digging clay, building buildings, etc., human resources are often stretched.

If you can train 50 fire watchers in exchange for 10,000 captives, as long as more than half of them can be used by the Yan people, then the biggest problem of the Yan people can be solved!

Therefore, Lin Yuan personally led a large group of people and horses this time and waited on the side of the temporary prisoner camp.

About half a torch time, a figure appeared in the direction of the valley, Lin Yuan arranged for the Yan people to make preparations to greet them, and a few bonfires had been lit in the temporary camp.

But when the other party approached, Lin Yuan found that something was wrong.

First of all, the number of people, although it is so far away, it is impossible to count how many people, but at a glance, you can still see the general situation.

No matter how you look at it, there are definitely not as many as 10,000 people in front of you, at best, they can be counted as more than 5,000 people at most, although there is a large area of black and black, but the number of people is still much less than expected.

Second, the captives marched with a steady and powerful pace, not at all like the exiled vagrant captives, but much like the physically strong hunters......

"Blade, arrange a few fast legs, hurry up and take a look, these people...... It doesn't seem to be the ...... of the Zhu Dan clan."

Then he said to the big tooth and Hou Yi beside him:

"You two, take the archers, go, hide behind the hills around the camp, take care of it, we have to be careful."

Watching a few people lead the way away, Lin Yuan pursed his lips and stared at the team in the distance.

The team stopped about 30 paces in front of Lin Yuan's camp, as if they were tidying up something, and then after a while, they continued to move forward, this time, at a much slower pace.

Before they walked in front of Lin Yuan, the spies sent out by Lin Yuan had already returned, and he already knew who the person who came was sacred.

They are not from the Zhu Dan clan, but they are also an old face, with a nest clan.

The patriarch of the Youchao clan was still the bearded man with a face like a bird's nest, and when he walked out of the ranks, he laughed loudly:

"Haha, it's been a long time since I've seen King Yan, it looks like you've darkened a bit...... The sun in this wilderness is hotter than in the mountains! ”

Lin Yuan snorted, and did not answer immediately, but asked rhetorically:

"I don't know if the chief of the Chao clan came to my Yan clan territory this time, what's the matter?"

"Something important? I'll give you a captive! Oooh oh! By the way, I forgot to say, after Patriarch Zhu Dan went back that day, she had a serious illness, you know, her health has not been very good, and she went out last time, so she couldn't afford to be sick after a while, no, she almost delayed her deal with you, in order to keep her promise, I had to send it to the door myself......"

Lin Yuan's dark color was calm, his eyes glanced at the people brought by the other party, there were black and white, fat and thin, huddled together, and beside this group of miscellaneous people, there were more than a hundred hunters with weapons in their hands, who seemed to be the guards of these captives.

Lin Yuan asked lightly:

"What about these...... It's the captive promised by the patriarch of Zhu Dan that day, right? But how do I look...... It's not like 10,000 people, but I can barely say that I can get together more than 5,000 people......"

The chief of the Youchao clan immediately had a smile on his face, and said with a smile:

"Hehe, oops, Lord Yan is really discerning! Yes, we had exactly 10,000 captives to exchange, but due to the long distance and some enemy ambushes on the way, we were left with these people, and all of them were sent to you! ”

Lin Yuan didn't say anything, his eyes stared at the other party's captives, and his eyes stayed on a few of them for a long time.

After a while, Lin Yuan said:

"Okay, in that case, I can understand the unexpected, then there is the chief of the Lao Youchao clan, help me invite the prisoners into the camp."

Lin Yuan stretched out his hand to the left and made a gesture of invitation, and the gate of the camp on the other side opened in response.

The face of the chief of the Youchao clan changed slightly, but he quickly returned to normal, and said with some hesitation:

"How...... King Yan plans to keep these captives here? Why not let them go to Huadu? These people are all very strong, so you should use them quickly, lest you get sick and die one day......"

Lin Yuan saw the subtle changes in the other party's expression, and said with a slight smile:

"Since you have come here, you must follow the rules of the Yan people, and our rule is that new arrivals need to wait for our assignment in a temporary camp before they can enter Huadu to work...... In addition, Huadu has recently been building a large number of people in a place where there is no spare space. ”

What Lin Yuan said was reasonable, and the chief of the Youchao clan couldn't find any loopholes, so he had to compromise and agree.

He then ordered his hunters to escort the captives one by one into the makeshift camp.

"Well, I brought the people, what about what King Yan promised me?"

Lin Yuan smiled slightly and said:

"I won't go back on what I, King Yan, said, what about your people?"

Hearing this, the chief of the Chao clan hurriedly slapped his palms a few times, and a small group of former people wearing short beast clothes rushed in from behind, and finally lined up in front of Lin Yuan.

These are all teenagers between the ages of 10 and 16, and they all have childish faces.

"Lord Yanwang, our Zhu Dan patriarch said, these are the smartest children carefully selected by our Zhu Dan clan and Youchao clan, please let these children learn your miracles, you have to work."

Lin Yuan nodded, and roughly counted, there were exactly 50 teenagers, all of whom were men.

It seems that the chief of the Youchao clan is quite thick-skinned, and he sent half of the prisoners than agreed, but the people who want to learn miracles are not pulled, just 50 people.

However, Lin Yuan didn't care so much about these things, what he was thinking about was something other and more important.

After a few more pleasantries, Lin Yuan asked Ye to take the 50 children to the Fire Shrine in Huadu and handed them over to Fuxi there to deal with.

The rest of the Youchao clan were warmly invited by Lin Yuan to set up camp in a beautiful place at the foot of the Huadu Hills to prepare for the barbecue meeting that night.

After arranging these guests one by one, Lin Yuan paused, stopped the blade, lowered his voice and said:

"Blade, I want you to quickly pick out our strongest hunter and get ready immediately......"

Lin Yuan put his mouth to Blade's ear and whispered in a volume that only the two of them could hear.

Blade's expression suddenly became extremely surprised, his eyes widened, and he muttered:

“…… This one...... ...... Yanwang? ”

Lin Yuan made a color and said briefly to the blade:

"Do it, don't ask, I know it in my heart, these people...... There are quirks! ”