Chapter 1678: Red Valley
Horse bandits are also people. If they want to take root in the grasslands, they must have supporters and a strong backing for their troops and equipment.
And these tribes in the western Xinjiang are their backing. In fact, in the prairie, although a seemingly powerful country called Hu Xiao has been formed, it does not mean that Hu Xiao is the only master of the prairie.
There are so many tribes in the steppe, almost every tribe is like a small country. Those rich and powerful tribes united to form Hu Xiao, and they became even richer, occupying most of the entire prairie, with the clearest water source and the most fertile grassland.
And those tribes that are unwilling to submit to their iron hooves are either annihilated by them or are felt on the edge of the steppe, such as the tribes of the western frontier.
Affected by the Gobi, the grassland is relatively desolate, and the water source is relatively scarce, so the herdsmen's life is very miserable.
They live in the gap between the Gobi and the grassland all day long, and all they want every day is a comfortable and full meal!
But all this is not so easy to get, Hu Xiao's royal court's desire to control the prairie is extremely strong, and it is also very domineering, so these tribes have been bullied and are always looking for opportunities for revenge.
Until the Xuan army captured the court of Hu Xiao! For the first time in hundreds of years, the army of Xuan killed the king of Khan and planted the banner of the dynasty of the Central Plains on the dome of the court of Hu Xiao!
The whole prairie was shocked, but it allowed the tribes of the western Xinjiang to find a chance to turn over, so the horse bandits came into being! In fact, these horse bandits are pitiful and worthy of sympathy, if they only grabbed grain and territory, the Central Plains would not have made a move!
However, the bullying and all the unfair treatment they have suffered for a long time have made the people of the Western Xinjiang tribe form a distorted character and have a great sense of revenge!
In such a situation, the horse bandits became unscrupulous, and every time they committed a crime, they slaughtered the entire tribe without leaving a living mouth, robbing all the cattle, sheep and treasures, and even women and children!
Compared with the Central Plains, the Western Frontier's hatred for Hu Xiao may be deeper, after all, they have not had direct contact with the Central Plains, and the oppression they have endured comes from Hu Xiao's royal court and from those big tribes.
The brutal methods of the horse bandits made it difficult for Kyoto to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. originally wanted the Tiger Courage Army to retreat, leaving the broken Hu Xiao, with the support of the Central Plains, there were tribes that could unify the prairie and subdue the prairie without blood.
But I never expected that a group of horse bandits who killed people without blinking an eye and did not leave a hairless goose were born, constantly doing evil on the grassland, and doing one bloody case after another!
The Central Plains really wants to support a puppet on the grassland, and then turn the grassland into the Central Plains when the Central Plains culture penetrates into the deepest part of the grassland.
But no matter who they are, they don't want to support a horse bandit, because they are too cruel and careless about human life, and such people bring not well-being to the grassland, but disaster!
In the current prairie, there are not many tribes that can directly compete with these horse bandits, and even if they have the ability, they are helpless against these horse bandits who come and go without a trace, they will never take the entire tribe to chase and kill thousands of miles, right?
Therefore, there are already tribal leaders who have lowered their heads, which have been held high, and asked for help from the Central Plains, asking for troops to be sent to suppress the bandits, which is the reason why the Heavenbreaker Army came to suppress the bandits.
The Heaven Breaker Army is almost out of the nest to ensure that everyone can make a contribution in this battle, which is a vote to join the Xuan Army!
But it seems that it is not so easy to vote, and along the way, I found that the war is really a life with my head up, and today I can still sit and eat together, but maybe after a night, I will become a lonely soul!
"We must go to the Red Valley and find out the situation inside, otherwise we will be too passive in this battle! The camp is here, people can harass them as much as they want, and we can't block them in the lair, this will slowly consume the entire army!" Xuan Bao frowned and said to the Rat King.
The Rat King nodded, and said to Xuan Bao: "We have also thought of this, tomorrow there will be a scout team of twenty people to go to Hongshi Mountain, their task is to thoroughly understand the deployment situation there, and then teleport back! Emperor, promise me, this kind of thing will be left to them to do, no matter how many people are sacrificed, it is worth it, and you can't even do such a thing as suppressing bandits, you must personally go into battle as a country! I know the purpose of your coming here, so don't meddle in these small things!"
Xuan Bao thought for a while, looked at the Rat King and said, "You must know that if you let it all go and leave it to them to do it themselves, it is very likely that you won't be able to bring back even half of the manpower!"
"It may be so, but it's worth it!" Of course, the Rat King understood the warning in Xuan Bao's words, nodded and said, "In the short term, such a sacrifice is indeed too great, but in the long run, it is not only for these bandit troops, but even for the entire Heaven Breaking City, it is very meaningful!"
Xuan Bao didn't make a sound again, thinking about it, he nodded after all. He did have the idea of going to Redstone Mountain to investigate in person, after all, he met a person with demonic energy tonight, and he was not sure of the identity of the other party, but he was sure that that person was a member of the horse bandits!
Maybe he came from the side of Hongshi Mountain, if there is only one such one, it would be easy to say, but there are more than five demons among the tens of thousands of horse bandits, that is a very terrifying strength, and these 50,000 bandit troops are really not enough for them to kill!
However, there are really so many demon people, and the Tie Mu tribe will not leave so many alive mouths, so it is a fact that there are demon people, and it is also a fact that there are not many people.
In this way, Xuanbao put a little heart. Thinking about the words of the Rat King, it is indeed true. The purpose of his coming to the grassland was not for this gang of horse bandits, compared to the Demon Tiger, these gang of horse bandits were really nothing.
According to the original plan, he wanted to take a look at the situation here, and then set off for the Western Frontier Demon Forest. But to his complete surprise, the combat strength of this bandit army was really weak, which made him a little worried, and he had the idea of doing it himself.
But the Rat King is right, he can't do everything himself. Soldiers are all trained, and only when they see blood can they stimulate the bloodiness of men. These sky-breaking soldiers are not people who are willing to be wasteful, which can be seen from their anger at Liu Ayi's words!
So they just lack an opportunity to train, and now fighting instead of training is the best opportunity, but it has to pay a little price, and this kind of pay is worth it!
Xuan Bao also understood what the Rat King meant, what was important was not the soldiers, but the changes in the generals. According to the tradition of the Xuan Army, even if the Heaven Breaker Army joins the Tiger Courage Army, it is very likely that it will not be scattered and disrupted, but will set up a special lieutenant battalion to retain the original people as much as possible, and the purpose of this is not to facilitate the establishment of mountains, but to retain the original combat strength of this army.
There are many precedents for this practice in the entire Xuan Army, and it has achieved very good results, so if the Heaven Breaking Army enters the Tiger Courage Army, what really matters is not how strong those soldiers are, but whether these generals have the ability to lead, which is the purpose of this strong training.
A soldier bears a nest of bears. As long as the generals are really strong and have the ability to strategize, the Heaven Breaker Army will continue for a long time and will not be eliminated by the Xuan Army.
From this point of view, this time the training with war, no matter what the price is, it is worth it, Xuanbao wants to reduce their losses for them, and do some tasks that should be completed by themselves, not to cherish them, but to send them to the enemy's butcher's knife with his own hands, so he immediately dispelled his thoughts.
"When things stabilize here, I'll go to the Demon Forest, you still have to stay here, be a good prisoner, and watch these people grow up day by day!" Xuan Bao said softly to the Divine Rat King, the Demon Forest and his party, with all the women following, and the Divine Palace Guards are all there, plus 100,000 reinforcements and hundreds of thousands of spiritual cultivators, there is really no shortage of the strength of the Divine Rat King!
The Rat King nodded and said to Xuan Bao, "I really want to stay here, I want to catch the boss of that horse bandit with my own hands, if my prediction is correct, that guy should have fallen into the devil!"
"Is it called Tiger Head?" Xuanbao's heart moved, turned his head and asked the Divine Rat King, and when he saw him nodding, he immediately said to him: "I'll give you a person, a fifteen-year-old child named Wadu." The horse bandits slaughtered the Tie Mu tribe, he was a survivor, followed seven or eight children of the same age to chase the horse bandits for thousands of miles, and was finally discovered, fortunately I arrived to save him, and the others were killed!"
As soon as I heard that a group of fifteen or sixteen-year-old children had actually chased and killed a group of ferocious horse bandits for thousands of miles? How did the courage of these little guys come about? Although the Divine Rat King had seen a lot of knowledge and read countless people, he was also deeply interested in this tile in Xuanbao's mouth at this moment.
I have to say that Wadu, a young man, really has a talent that ordinary people don't have. It's just that after a day in the Origin Realm, you can get out of bed and walk freely!
He slept for four or five hours in a row, and was in good spirits now. Although the burned area was still coated with medicine, he didn't care at all, and when he saw the life-saving benefactor walking into the courtyard with a clean old man with a mustache, he quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Xuanbao: "Participate in the emperor!"
It's very awkward to say this, as if he has something in his mouth, and he knows without asking, he learned it temporarily, and it must have been given to him by those girls.
Xuan Bao smiled and said to the Rat King beside him, "Do you understand what he says?"
The Rat King nodded and said, "I can understand the dialect spoken by anyone anywhere, and this kind of local dialect of the Tiemu tribe is no exception!"
No matter where there are people or people, there may be mice, and the god Rat King is the lord of the rat world, and of course he can understand various local dialects.
Turning his head and looking at the young man in front of him, the more he looked at it, the more interested he felt, so he asked him a few words in the language of the Tie Mu tribe, and then the old and the young chatted here, but instead left the Xuanbao aside.
After a while, Wadu actually knelt down in front of the Rat King again, and kowtowed three times respectfully, which made Xuanbao feel very surprised.
The Rat King next to him smiled and said, "I have a relationship with this child, so I made a temporary decision and accepted him as an apprentice." ”
Xuan Bao reminded the Rat King: "But he is not a spiritual cultivator, I have checked his body, and he can't open the spirit!"