Chapter 183: Conquering Barbarian II

Qi Jingtong set foot on the north bank of the Yongjiang River. Began their own step-by-step expedition, in one day, but to the north for more than ten miles, and at the place of the pontoon bridge, build a small village to guard, and also build a small village at dusk.

Qi Jingtong led more than 1,000 county soldiers to open the road in front, and more than 10,000 people in the back were under the auspices of Lu Wan to strengthen and open up on the wilderness trail.

Just when Qi Jingtong was slowly advancing north. Yongbei Mansion also began to act.

But the Yongbei side is not the same as the mobilized forces on the Yongnan side.

The people in the vicinity of Beigang have all recently settled down, and the land that has just been assigned has not yet been opened, and even the control of the most basic level is still blank. There is simply no way to mobilize tens of thousands of strong men like in the south.

What they can dispatch is only two or three thousand people, and most of these two or three thousand people are Beigang County soldiers and gold mine soldiers. Wu Fengyi left the gold mine to Wang Zhi to be responsible. He was the main general, and Yu Dayou was the deputy general, and he opened up to the south.

Wu Fengyi knew very well that Beigang was far away from the big belly, and there were several large and small tribes in it. This time the southward attack will definitely not be fruitful, with the distance between the North Harbor and the big belly. I don't know how much time it will take to get to the belly or not.

However, the Beigang area is not as wide as the terrain in the Dayuan area. And because the northern refugees sailed to Beigang relatively closely, and Zhu Houhuang valued the mineral resources of Beigang, so he wanted to arrange more people in this area of Beigang, and the land on the Beigang Plain was already a little insufficient.

Therefore, it is inevitable to open up to the south, and these tribes in the south are just some weak chickens compared to the big belly. These tribes simply can't stop the formed troops. Even this army is only a few thousand people. Only the forests and rivers could stop them, not the tribes.

Just when both the north and the south started the game in a tepid manner, Zhu Houhuang also began his actions.

Finding a landing place is not something that can be found casually, Dongyong, it is also a problem for Taiwan's rivers, the birthplace is very close to the estuary, so these rivers have a strong seasonality. During the rainy season, the river swells and spreads to both banks, and in the dry season, there is very little water, only a little in the middle of the riverbed.

Therefore, in the winter and spring, every time the river rises, it is impossible to move a big boat, and if you want to go upstream, you must change boats. There is no proper harbor in this area, and there are large swamps on the banks of the river. It's hard to keep your feet on the ground.

Zhu Houhuang had to admit that his thoughts were a little taken for granted.

The first thing he had to do was not to look for enemies, but to find a port to settle down here, and then mobilize some small boats from the big man to find a way, find a way to find the traces of the Potbelly tribe along the river.

Finding ports, changing ships, and sending ships into the rivers to find traces of the Potbelly tribe is not something that can be done in a hurry.

Just when Zhu Houhuang's three parties began to act, the Big-bellied Tribe was not without reaction.

In the midst of the green woods, a large clearing suddenly appeared. In this clearing. The green is getting scarce. The yellow color gradually increased.

Many of these yellows are the color of bare earth, and some are more of the color of dead grass.

These dead grasses are the thatch on the roofs of the tribes.

The houses in the tribe, from the outside to the inside, gradually changed from sparse to dense. However, most of them are thatched houses, and these houses do not have certain rules, most of them are simple because of the ugliness, and a frame is made out of wood first. Then many layers of thatch are piled on top of the frame, and from the sky, it is naturally dark yellow and light yellow.

However, in the middle of the tribe there were a few decent houses.

This is a very common stilted building in southern China, the thick bamboo is thicker than some small trees, and more than a dozen bamboo will support the whole small building, which is about one meter away from the ground.

This is even the center of the entire potbelly tribe, and it is also the palace of the chieftain of the potbelly tribe.

There were a lot of people outside the bamboo building.

These people are dressed in all sorts of ways. Most of them were naked, and they were wrapped in a piece of animal skin, some of which did not even have a animal skin, and they were covered with wide leaves.

They each had their own weapons, but none of them were the same. Most of them are spears, and this spear is different from a spear. There are iron spear tips, copper gun tips, and it looks like the same thing. But there are quite a few, and they are actually stone spear tips. Some of them were nothing more than a sharp bone tied to a stick.

Only the people around the bamboo building were dressed more neatly, and the weapons used on their bodies were also long knives. Most of them are made of copper and iron, but it seems that the blades are pitted and notched, and I know that these weapons are also some years old.

The bamboo building is also densely packed with people at the moment.

In the middle. There was a big fat man sitting on a large wooden chair, as if it were a mountain of meat. He coughed slightly, and the fat of his whole body flew up and down.

He is the chief of the Potbelly tribe and the Potbelly King in the Han population.

"The Han people from the south are calling, what do you decide?" The pot-bellied king opened his mouth to speak, and as soon as he spoke, the bright feathers on his head began to tremble up and down. His gaze swept over the audience, looking at everyone in the bamboo building one by one.

Although the potbelly tribe is called a country by some, it is fundamentally nothing more than a tribal alliance.

Everyone in the bamboo tower is the leader of a tribe.

These people's tribes naturally don't have as many people as the Potbelly tribe's headquarters. But they are also well-known figures in their respective tribes. They are not without contradictions. Even the contradictions are quite large, and they have fought with each other. If it weren't for this time, Lu finished the massive expedition. It is also a question whether the Potbelly King will be able to bring together so many tribal chieftains.

It's ironic. And only after the oppression of external forces. The pot-bellied king can have the most power.

"Hit them."

These chiefs have come here with a unified idea. Lu Wan took Qi Jingtong as the striker, although he had not really fought a battle with the tribes of the Potbelly Country, but he had already oppressed the living space of many tribes. Captured the hunting grounds of many tribes.

Various tribes are under pressure. That's why we have today's meeting.

On this point, there has long been a unified understanding, and as soon as all the pot-bellied kings spoke, there was a chorus of echoes below. The primitive tribes acted neatly and neatly, and as soon as they made a decision, they immediately began to act.

After the Potbelly King made his decision, the entire Potbelly tribe began to act.

This time, in order to deal with Lu Wan's attack from the south. The big-bellied king levied all the people who could be requisitioned, and all the strong men were requisitioned.

For a primitive tribe like the potbelly tribe, this is also a big project. The chiefs of each tribe have returned to their respective tribes, and the next time they come, they will bring all the strength of their tribes.

After the Potbelly King sent all the tribal chieftains away. The entire potbelly tribe also began to act.

Soon, young men from other tribes came one after another. Because of the difference between the other tribes and the potbelly tribe, each tribe came sooner or later.

Slowly, the entire potbelly tribe became lively again.

In the past, the excitement was not just the entourage of the chiefs of the various tribes and the cronies of the chiefs of the tribes, but now it is the young and strong people of the various tribes gathered together, and the entire pot-bellied tribe has a feeling that they can't let go.

Three or four days passed in a hurry.

The woods next to the Potbelly tribe seemed to have been bitten by something, and I don't know how much green vegetation had been cut down. In the newly opened space, there is a mess here, and a gang here. One or two hundred thousand people gathered densely, although there were quite a few people, but it seemed that there was no order at all.

Supplying food for 10,000 or 20,000 strong men, even though the potbelly tribe is the largest of all the tribes, there are some struggles, although there are still a few remote tribes that have not arrived. But the Potbelly King was also determined not to wait any longer, and he gave the order: "Set off immediately, in the direction of the south." ”