"Food, houses, women......" Tianhao spread his hands: "Everything that should be given is given." In fact, he didn't ask for much, less than a third of what I expected. ”

"He's just the first person I sent out. Liangsheng ...... Well, it's the name. The room was not large, and Tianhao's tone was normal: "There are many people like him who take the initiative to surrender and are willing to help me do things, including the hundred-person head Guoxing you trust." I know you're desperate to win, and you want to return to Stag City with the loot of Rock Village. You may not even notice that you have become impatient, far less calm than before. ”

Lu Qingdong's eyes widened, and he was surprised: "Are you spying on me?" ”

He then changed his tone and asked, "You planted a spy next to me?" ”

"You're thinking too much. If I could do that, you wouldn't have been able to lead the army to the Rock Village, and I would have been able to finish you down on the road long ago. ”

Tianhao laughed in a low voice mixed with a little pity: "When you are in Zhangpu Village, you should withdraw in time and return the same way." Even if you don't have enough food, at least you can make most of them go back alive. Eighty percent, or even more. You know very well what will happen if you go back in disgrace, and your father will most likely use this as an excuse to disqualify you as a first in line to the throne. So you want to win, ignore the potential threat, and choose the most speculative and dangerous path. ”

"Actually, I didn't expect that a single surrendered soldier would make you change your mind and send reinforcements. I do want to capture you alive, and I have several plans in place for you. Hehe...... None of them worked. It's irrational. If you change the time and place, you can definitely see through this game. ”

Lu Qingdong's body trembled slightly.

“…… You know me well. He suddenly felt a little sad. Opposite sat his own enemies, not his own friends.

"So I'm willing to make an alliance with you." Tianhao's voice seems to have a magical power, which can penetrate people's hearts: "We have a common appeal to this world. We have different resources at our disposal, we can complement each other, we can help each other. ”

Lu Qingdong heard the hint in his words, he was not disgusted by the content or tone, and even had a faint strange expectation: "You are right." ”

He nodded slowly, his gaze becoming a little misty, and he muttered to himself not so much as Yinghe.

A charming smile rippled across Tianhao's face. He raised his right index finger and drew a circle in the air under Lu Qingdong's trance-like gaze. The movements are slow, as if there is a substantial trajectory: "I can meet any of your needs." Your stubborn father, your younger brother who secretly likes to make small moves, including the ministers who get in the way...... You will become the king of the stag and even the king of the deer clan. ”

“…… King...... King...... I am the ...... King."

Lu Qingdong's mind was drifting, as if logic had been injected with a sedative, flowing in the depths of his mind in a steady rhythm. The magic of language was so wonderful that he didn't feel the shame of being captured, he couldn't give birth to the idea of escaping, and there seemed to be an invisible rope in the darkness that held him firmly and dragged him slowly towards the unknown and confused land.

Tianhao was very satisfied with his performance at this moment.

Standing up from the chair, walking with a step lighter than the most dexterous cat, he walked silently to Lu Qingdong's side, staring at the eyes that had completely lost their agility and were buried deep in the emptiness from top to bottom.

"Get a good night's sleep, I'll wait for you to wake up. Old friend, what we have is time, not in a hurry. ”

……

Guangsheng stood on a high platform more than six meters above the ground, staring at the kneeling deer prisoners of war in the square below.

He felt his heart beat faster.

Excluding the seriously injured dying, there are 3,371 left.

He never thought he would win this battle.

He never dreamed that there would be such a style of play.

There was no need for a walled wall at all, and the guard towers and piles of masonry houses dispersed the attacking forces of the Deer army. Like the hard and tenacious rocks, they are forced to separate in the face of a stronger existence than them, even if they are swept wildly by the rushing rapids.

The periphery of the rock village has been turned into a labyrinth by countless buildings.

The solidity of the towers is simply unimaginable. God knows what kind of construction method the people of the rock village used, and the gate to enter and exit the tower was actually made of steel mixed with stones. Putting on a deadbolt from the inside is impossible to attack with manpower alone.

All of the Deer troops were light infantry, and they did not carry heavy equipment on long journeys, nor did they have time to cut down trees to build siege engines.

It's not their fault. This is the understanding of the battle of the scale of the village by inertial thinking, as long as there are many people, it can be won.

Nearly 6,000 deer troops poured into the rock village from three directions, and were immediately diverted by the towers. A thousand turned into hundreds, the narrow streets limited the movement, and they had to continue to shrink the attacking units, dozens, dozens, or even less...... It was a strange place for them, and to make matters worse, they had to be on guard against the feathered arrows that shot overhead. It was difficult to maintain an offensive posture in such a situation, and everyone felt that they could win if they went inside, and they raised their shields directly above their heads, shouting and roaring to speed up, and the dense military formation became a slender flow of people, unable to cooperate with each other, and the people behind could not go up, jumping back and forth between the houses like headless flies.

The farther you rush inside, the faster you die.

There are more towers. All towers are equipped with archers, and the number of arrows in reserve is staggering. The damage was multiplied by the condescending shot, and the Deer soldiers managed to rush to the outside of the wall inside the stockade, only to find that it was an insurmountable obstacle.

The number of defenders was actually small, only six hundred.

The task given to them by Tianhao was only to maintain the stalemate and keep the attacking Deer army out of the wall.

The members of the warband, who had been ambushed in the towers outside the stockade, began to attack. They lined up in several columns, covered by heavy and sturdy tower shields in front, and sharp spears pierced through the gaps in the shields, forming walls comparable to hedgehogs, slowly moving towards the interior of the stockade, constantly squeezing the space for the deer army trapped in it.

This is a giant man-made cage that can be called a textbook for using terrain to fight. Guangsheng was standing at the top of the tower with the archers of Pinglin Village, and he witnessed the battle with his own eyes. Shooters choose their targets at will, just as hunters shoot rabbits and pheasants without danger. The deer people fell screaming in the narrow streets without shelter, and they were forced to raise their round shields to block the arrows shot overhead, but they could not guard against the hoplites who were approaching from the end of the streets, shouting earth-shattering trumpets in their mouths, with neat steps and concerted actions, with their shields and spears, crushing the hoplites who came over like death.

No one can persist in such a situation, and courage and determination can quickly erode over time. There is no need to teach such a thing as surrender, and you can survive by kneeling on the ground with your weapons held high in both hands.

Counterattacker, kill!

Diehards, kill!

Those who try to escape, not a single one is left!

Heads rolled on the ground, countless blood stained the ground red, the air was filled with strong blood that made the nostrils itch, the seriously injured people whose stomachs were cut by long knives dragged their intestines and begged for mercy, the deer soldiers whose arms were cut off cried and cried to pick up the severed limbs, and the triangular pyramidal feather arrows with great lethality fell straight down, piercing the hard skulls on the spot, leaving only the tail of the arrow that kept shaking and trembling, standing for a long time above the heads of the dead on the spot.

Everyone in Panshi Village mobilized, and it was really men, women, and children who went into battle together. The 600 main guards inside the wall were almost all women, and as many as 1,000 elderly people and children were carrying supplies to them.

There are too many arrows in Panshizhai. A bundle, a cart. Guangsheng swore that he had never seen so many arrows in his life. Both in terms of quantity and quality, probably only the elite troops on the Lock Dragon Pass can be compared to it.

Looking at the deer people who were kneeling on the ground and begging for surrender, Guangsheng suddenly understood this new method of warfare with a large number of brick and stone buildings and tall towers cooperating with each other. He had roughly estimated the numbers, and even if the Deer Army doubled, it would still not be able to fill this huge, invisible, terrible trap full of death and carnage.

Tianhao ...... What did the young leader's brain look like?

How did he come up with such a strange and wonderful method of warfare?

"Daddy, we won! We won! ”

Guangsheng turned his head, glanced at the eldest son Guangtao, who was overjoyed and dancing next to him, and said "hmm" lightly.

Guangtao's reaction to his father was a little strange, he was very eye-catching, controlled his excitement, and asked in a low voice, "Daddy, what's wrong with you?" ”

"I'm wondering, what will I do next?" Guangsheng's eyes are deep, and his extremely low voice is only suitable for communication between father and son.

Guangtao didn't understand what his father was thinking at the moment. He was eager to try: "This time it is the four villages that work together to fight, so many prisoners, Panshi Village will definitely take a large share, but our Pinglin Village has also made great efforts." Daddy, I wondered, no matter what, I would have scored seven or eight hundred people for us. ”

Guangsheng glanced at his son deeply: "Do you think we won this battle?" ”

Guangtao didn't expect his father to ask like this, and he was a little caught off guard for a while: "That...... Isn't it? ”

Guangsheng's eyes moved away from his son, looked at the towers standing in the distance, and sighed: "If we change places, we have no chance of winning at all." The deer people are not idiots, they don't stand there doing nothing, and let you pick up a knife and slash at it. Think about it, how many chances do our people have of going head-to-head with the deer people? Most of the time I stood on the tower and shot arrows down...... Boy, do you know what it means to fight? Do you think it's all our work? ”

Although Guangtao is young, his brain is very flexible. He immediately shut his mouth and carefully looked around to make sure that no one heard the conversation between him and his father, and then he moved closer, and his voice was lower than just now: "Daddy, what do you mean......"

"I'm going to form an alliance with Rock Village." Guangsheng's tone was light, but there was unquestionable resoluteness.

Alliances are a common form of cooperation between northern barbarian tribes and villages. Once the alliance is formed, it means a relationship of mutual assistance from the military to the people's livelihood. Alliances usually take two forms: the first is mutual equality, and the second is master-slave.

"Equal alliance?" When he said this, Guangtao himself felt that it was unlikely.

Sure enough, he saw a wry smile on his father's rough face: "How can it be equality?" Ah Hao is now the head of a thousand, and the population of Panshi Village is more than 3,000, plus this battle...... I plan to find a time to talk to Ah Hao alone, Panshi Village is the main, Pinglin Village is the follower, I hope he can see that for the sake of this cooperation, we are not too ruthless, and the conditions can be relatively relaxed, which is enough. ”

"Master-slave...... This...... This ......" Guangtao was extremely shocked in his heart, he knew his father's temper and rarely bowed his head to others. If you hadn't heard these words with your own ears, you wouldn't have believed it anyway.

is close at hand, and Guangsheng can feel his son's strong unwillingness. He turned around and said solemnly: "Do you think that this Sizhai Alliance, Panshi Village is just one of them, in your opinion, Ah Hao's ability is average, not as important as I said?" ”

Guang Tao lowered his head slightly, his face gloomy, and admitted in silence.

"Give up your thoughts! Don't think about contacting Qingyuan Village and Zhangpu Village. Doing so will only cause us problems. Guang Sheng sneered sarcastically: "Especially Jianping, the leader of Zhangpu Village, you'd better forget this person, just when he doesn't exist." ”

"Why?"

Guang Tao was startled, and terrible thoughts flashed in his mind in an instant. He hurriedly raised his head and subconsciously asked, "Could it be that Ah Hao wants to kill Jianping?" ”

"How is that possible?" Guangsheng sneered and raised his hand to press his son's shoulder: "He will definitely let Jianping leave Panshi Village alive, but I think he will soon lose control of Zhangpu Village." ”

"Why?" Guangtao repeated the previous question.

Guangsheng didn't answer, he turned around and looked down at the herds of deer prisoners of war at his feet, infinitely emotional.

"See more with your eyes, hear more with your ears, and don't express your opinion on things you don't understand. We have plenty of time now, and we are lucky that Hao is our kindred, a brother of the same tribe. ”

……

After the sumptuous dinner, the four leaders of the village gathered in the council chamber.

Tianhao was not allowed to sit in the first place, and the chair was covered with a storm mane bear skin, which was soft and comfortable. A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, tugging at his facial muscles, and the whole person seemed to be gentle and courteous.

"We won, and you know the details of the results. In addition to more than 3,000 prisoners of war, we also captured two princes of the Stag Clan. ”

Guangsheng nodded frequently with a smile on his face: "Speaking of which, this time it's thanks to Ah Hao." If you hadn't sent someone to inform you in time, Pinglin Village would have been wiped out by the Deer Clan. And today's battle really opened my eyes...... In this way, I won't say much else, as for the distribution of loot and prisoners, it is up to you to have the final say. ”