Chapter Ninety-Four: Peace Before the Battle

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When the natives, who looked like savages, fled, the two of the strongest men dragged last, both carrying primitive longbows and holding sharpened sticks, and when they had gone some distance, they looked back warily, apparently covering the escape of those who were ahead. But in the blink of an eye, the two of them also ran away.

He Dalai didn't let people shoot arrows or pursue, and He Dalai didn't think that these natives with primitive weapons posed any threat to the Great Song Heavenly Soldiers, so he just had to drive them out of the cordon.

He Dalai's team continued to search, and He Dalai planned to search within a radius of 300 paces, and then occupy the aboriginal hut that had burned down the thatched hut as a warning base for his team.

It seems that there are no traces of the indigenous people nearby, but He Dalai's team is still carefully searching and advancing, He Dalai doesn't want his men to be injured, especially Mo Xiaoba's combat effectiveness at this time is greatly reduced, He Dalai doesn't want to see the scene of being attacked by indigenous cold arrows again.

Unexpectedly, not far away, He Dalai stepped on a treetop in the grass, He Dalai did not react, he only felt a sharp light and shadow flashed, between the electric light and flint, He Dalai subconsciously shrank his head to dodge, the wind was whirring on his head, and a branch with the thickness of a bowl mouth suddenly swept over He Dalai's head, He Dalai said in his heart, if he was slow for half a beat, he would be ruthless, but He Dalai heard a "bang" in the next moment, and then Mo Xiaoba screamed, He Dalai turned his head to look, Mo Xiaoba, the unlucky guy, had fallen to the ground, and the helmet had disappeared.

It turned out to be a mechanism set up by the natives! He Dalai dodged, but Mo Xiaoba was hit hard, the branch swept heavily on Mo Xiaoba's helmet, and swept the helmet far away, fortunately Mo Xiaoba shrank his head in time, this stick was not swept up, but the impact from the helmet was great, and Mo Xiaoba was overturned to the ground on the spot.

It took a long time for Mo Xiaoba to get up, a big bag swollen on his forehead, only to hear the chatter in the distance, accompanied by laughter, He Dalai looked at the past from afar, but saw that the two guys who had just escaped were grinning, their dirty faces showing white teeth, obviously intending to provoke.

Waiting for He Dalai to catch up, the two ran away again, He Dalai saw that there was a dense forest in the distance, and he didn't know how many natives were in the forest, He Dalai shook his head, so he had to take his men back to the shed in frustration.

At this time, the fire in the shack was already small, and He Dalai's team put out the fire without much effort, and then began to search the house. To everyone's disappointment, in addition to the crockpots and the like, the valuable ones in the house were some animal skins that had not yet been burned.

However, it is still very good as a garrison stronghold, He Dalai led people to dig out the lookout holes and archery holes on the wall, and then arranged for two people to be on guard, and the others rested on the spot to nourish their bodies, so as to deal with the attacks that the natives might attack at any time. As long as the guard here is until the afternoon, there will be a follow-up 6th brigade to arrive, and the pioneer battalion where He Dalai is located will be able to rest.

He Dalai had been observing the movements of the natives in the woods opposite, and it seemed that the natives who had run away were all in the woods and had not gone far. After a long confrontation like this, the natives on the opposite side began to gather in twos and threes, and seeing that the number of natives on the opposite side was increasing, He Dalai had already made up his mind that as long as there were more than fifty natives gathered on the opposite side, he would immediately retreat. Liu Jixiang's explanation in advance is also the same meaning, when encountering a few dozen natives, they will defend it, and if the number of natives who are attacking is large, they will immediately withdraw to the defensive circle.

At this moment, Liu Jixiang came up from behind with his soldiers, and as soon as he came up, he said to He Da:

"You don't have to go down, just pull up the barbed wire fence thirty steps in front of this dilapidated house, and we, a hundred people, must defend this place, and the ground must be guarded from left to right, and we can go down and rest for an hour."

During this period of time, there were 1,000 follow-up soldiers who successfully climbed the 6, so they expanded the defensive area as planned, and the three dilapidated houses occupied by He Dalai were convenient for defense, so Liu Jixiang decided to take these three dilapidated houses with only low walls as the center, push forward thirty steps, and pull up a barbed wire.

The soldiers quickly separated, they had already prepared a lot of tree stumps, and suddenly planted a row of wooden stakes, and then took advantage of the front line of trees, and quickly pulled up the barbed wire fence between the trees and the wooden stakes, and the natives on the opposite side did not know what this was for, probably seeing so many people rushing on the opposite side at once, and their own men and horses had not yet gathered, so they just looked from a distance, and did not take advantage of the fact that the barbed wire was not yet pulled to attack.

It wasn't until a barbed wire fence was pulled up at the front that the natives woke up from a dream, and some people inside understood that it was specifically designed to deal with the impact, but the natives didn't think it was a big deal, and the ignorant were fearless, and they didn't take the barbed wire too seriously.

Barbed wire has been pulled up here, and Liu Jixiang's soldiers are waiting one by one, but there is still something waiting in the woods opposite.

After a while, the natives ran out of the woods with a shout, and rushed straight towards the barbed wire, He Dalai took a look, the natives, old and young, added up to only seventy or eighty people, but they rushed in one direction intensively, the weapons in their hands were both primitive bows and arrows, as well as wooden sticks and bamboo guns, and a little surprisingly, two of them held a bronze axe, and one held a bronze sword, looking like that, these two seemed to be the leaders of the natives.

The man with the bronze axe was very burly, and his body was wrapped in a thick piece of fur, which seemed to be used as armor. The man was the first to rush to the barbed wire, and raised his bronze axe to cut it, trying to split it at once. But he went down with a few axes, not only did not cut the barbed wire, but the axe in his hand opened a few gaps, when he raised the axe high again, Liu Jixiang shot a feather arrow hit his right arm, this iron arrow through the fur, deep into the flesh, the man was in pain, the copper axe suddenly fell to the ground.

The man holding the sword hesitated, gritted his teeth, or resolutely approached the barbed wire, waved the short sword in his hand, and wanted to cut the barbed wire in front of him, but he only cut a sword, and the barbed wire not only did not break, but also rebounded back, and this time he even had a little unstable control of the sword. Before he could swing his sword again, two arrows flew in, one hit his thigh and the other hit his left shoulder, although the man was also covered with fur, but there was no protection on his legs, and the iron arrow pierced his leg bones, and immediately hurt his heart and lungs, and the man fell to the ground, wah-wow-wow-la-la-wr-la-wr-la-wr-w

At this time, two swarthy objects suddenly fell on the side of the barbed wire fence against the Song army, "boom" twice, two flames were ignited, and the thatch burned with a roar.

When the natives saw that a barbed wire fence could not be split and chopped continuously, and one of them was injured by two leaders, especially the other party and the Thunder and Fire Divine Soldiers of the Evil Sect, they were frightened for a while, and they rushed back, and ran out for a long time, and then they remembered that there was a companion lying in front of the barbed wire. The man with the wounded right arm also ran very fast, but after he reacted at this moment, he shouted a few words, and four of them quickly turned around and ran back in the direction of the barbed wire, and in the process of running back, they immediately realized something, one of them took the lead and lost the stick, and the other three also did the same, and lost the stick in their hands, and then stepped forward to save people. This time, Liu Jixiang did not give the order to shoot arrows, and let the four people lift the fallen man and flee back to the opposite forest.

The Song army allowed them to leave, neither firing arrows nor pursuing them with victory, and Liu Jixiang listened to He Dalai's advice, the purpose of which was to scare the natives. He Dalai did not have a high opinion of the combat power of these natives, and thought that it was not worth fighting with them. This scene allowed Liu Jixiang to directly understand the combat power of the natives, in general. The weapons of the natives are too pitiful, and they have no sense of cooperating with the battle, let alone tactics at all, Liu Jixiang deeply feels that it is a bit of a victory to deal with these rabble.

However, there were shouts of killing and the explosion of iron artillery on all sides, and it seemed that the natives on their own side rushed for a moment and then fell silent.

He Dalai noticed that there seemed to be a lot of people coming to the opposite side, and He Dalai really didn't want to see these poor natives rushing over to die in an orderly manner, so he came up with an idea and muttered to Liu Jixiang, Liu Jixiang pondered for a moment and nodded.

After some searching, He Dalai and Mo Xiaoba walked in the direction of the barbed wire fence with the two cloaks and a bunch of biscuits they had collected, Mo Xiaoba's legs trembled a little, but he still followed He Dalai with the courage to follow. He Dalai climbed a tree, jumped over the barbed wire, and then continued to walk, and finally stopped in front of a conspicuous big stone, He Dalai put the cloak and biscuits on the big stone, and after the pile handed over by Mo Xiaoba was also placed on the stone, He Dalai gestured towards the opposite woods, he first picked up a biscuit and stuffed it into his mouth, made a gesture that he thought he was eating, and then put on and untied the cloak, put it back on the stone, and gestured again, and then He Dalai retreated.

He Dalai was not sure, I don't know if the indigenous people understood what they meant. He Dalai's idea was to figure out how to give guò biscuits and clothes, at least to make the natives on the opposite side hesitate to attack, and if the natives on the opposite side stopped attacking, of course, it would be better. Liu Jixiang weighed it, and felt that the natives on the opposite side certainly had no combat effectiveness, but no one knew how many people and horses the natives could gather, as the saying goes, ants bite more elephants, if hundreds of people rush up at once, it is inevitable that there will be casualties on their side, and they can't do anything to kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred, even if they kill a thousand enemies and lose a hundred, it is not cost-effective, Liu Jixiang believes that as long as he suffers for another half an hour, it is okay to have a little heart.

The natives on the opposite side hesitated for a while, but at last two men cautiously came to the big rock, then picked up the things on the stone, and ran into the woods.

Hooked! Liu Jixiang and He Dalai looked at each other and smiled, and said in their hearts, these barbarians will not accept the benefits, they will immediately turn their faces and deny people, they will not attack immediately!

Liu Jixiang didn't have a score in his heart, and He Dalai was even more nervous, for fear that these barbarians would not understand the unspoken rules, so they would give the gift for nothing. Liu Jixiang even used his cloak as a gift, if he gave it away for nothing, it would be a big injustice.

After waiting for a long time, there was no movement on the other side. At this time, He Dalai felt a little at ease, if the play he did was a mess, I was afraid that it would be difficult to raise his head here in Liu Jixiang again.

After a while, two more men came up on the other side, and they did not hold weapons in their hands, but each carried a basket made of bamboo, which were two empty baskets, and they went to the stone, put the basket on the stone, and then retreated.

He Dalai said in his heart, damn! It's too little to dare to love these natives to receive gifts! I also want to receive a double gift! Is it tolerable or unbearable!

He Dalai was very angry, he didn't expect that these barbarians were actually greedy enough, how could they feed them if they were to be fed like this! But Liu Jixiang was not angry at all, and said with a smile:

"If they want to receive a gift, then give it again!"

Spending money to buy peace was originally the strength of the Great Song Dynasty, and at the level of Liu Jixiang, he also learned from it and did it with peace of mind. In Liu Jixiang's heart, as long as there are no casualties, give more gifts to the natives, it's worth it!