Volume 1: Destruction and Rebirth Chapter 26: The First Battle

Before going to the mine, Han Jianfei once told Xiao Tanzi and those half-grown children that they would burn green bricks when they were fine, and after a certain number, they would transform all the houses in the village into brick houses.

If there is still a surplus, you can sell it to neighbors like the Ebony tribe for some food and hides.

The children, who had always admired this wise outsider, faithfully carried out his advice, so when Gentomoko returned to the village, they had already accumulated more than 100,000 bricks.

When Han Jianfei was building a house, these children were all helping on the side, and those skills of digging foundations and building walls for leveling, although they had not been practiced, they were not far behind, and when they heard Gen Zhizi say that they wanted to build a wall for existence, they quickly came up with the most suitable plan.

Because there were not many bricks, the children came up with a compromise solution - to make the brick wall hollow, and the sand and stones from the pit outside the wall were just filled in the gap between the two brick walls.

So, when the hunters came to Hedong Village, a wall half a meter thick and more than 400 meters long had begun to take shape in the north of the village.

If you count from the time Tomoko returns to the village, it's just a time for a work and rest cycle.

Lacking time and materials, after a short period of consideration, she opted for a very bold strategy – to build only one wall on the north side of the village.

The topography of Hedong Village is very unique, the west side is the turbulent river, the south is not far from the big lake, and the east is close to the mountain range, that is, the steep cliff where Han Jianfei took the children to build a brick kiln.

So, if a Marauder wants to attack, the only attack direction available is North.

The water of the Great Lake is extremely deep, and the marauders have no boats, and the war beasts cannot pass through the lake, and the river to the west is a natural barrier, and if the marauders do not want to use entities to block the river, they will not be stupid enough to cross the river directly from the west side of Hedong Village;

Needless to say, the cliffs to the east are the only ones left to face the greatest pressure, and the only direction left to face the greatest pressure is the north.

For the enemy, the best line of attack is to find a shallow place to swim across the river and then rush down from north to south by taking advantage of the terrain.

Tomoko quickly figured this out and built a wall hundreds of meters long on the north side of the village.

Due to the limited number of bricks, the wall was only built to a chest-high height, which is just the height that most war beasts cannot jump over.

After Han Jianfei and the hunters returned to Hedong Village, it took two more cycles of work and rest before the marauders gathered their ranks again and drove towards the mouth of the lake.

After returning to the camp, Han Jianfei asked Gen Zhizi and Kuria to directly gather the two tribes around the age of 14 and under the age of 50, a total of more than 300 people, divided into three teams, and took turns to guard the wall.

As a special operations expert, he has not fought this kind of primitive battle of sticking to a lonely city, and can only rely on his intuition about war to arrange the most correct tactics possible.

And he also knew very well that it would be difficult for a team of more than 300 improvised patchwork to annihilate a cavalry team of more than 1,000 strong men, and all he had to do was to beat the other side and make them retreat, bypass or even accept peace talks.

In his view, war has always served the political purpose behind it, but for the civilization of the primitive structure of the seamount, war is only for the survival space.

Thinking further, the kind of threat he might face in the future is similar to these marauders!

In the fourth cycle of nightfall, according to the news from the hunters who were constantly monitoring the enemy's movements, the marauders had re-encamped in Ebony Village and began to prepare to cross the river.

Sure enough, as Gentomoko expected, the vanguard of the marauders came to the river, and when they saw the hunters on the opposite side, they had to make a detour up to a shallow beach to cross the river.

Then, they were confronted by a thick blue brick wall.

The invincible marauders did not stay long and began to charge the wall.

Ever since the night had passed, the raiders had been feeling extremely aggrieved, first with the slaves and wealth they had been freed, and then with an inexplicable attack in the jungle, losing hundreds of men.

It was easy to capture the escaped slaves, but there was no one left to plunder.

I was about to turn to another tribe, but I was blocked by a river, and I went around the river, but I saw a stone wall again.

So the marauders were utterly enraged, and with the fury of renunciation, they harnessed the heavy beasts of war, and rushed like a tidal wave to the wall that dared to stand in front of them.

The shock brought by hundreds of war beasts charging together is difficult for ordinary people to imagine unless they are there in person.

The sound of hooves converging into rolling thunder is a shock that hits the soul, especially when you're standing in front of a charging beast.

"Nervous?" Seeing that Gen Chiko's hand beside him trembled slightly with imperceptible amplitude, Han Jianfei asked.

"Hmm." The barefoot girl nodded, pressing her hand to the hilt of the knife at her waist.

"You said you wanted me to see the war in Haishan," Han Jianfei smiled, "Is that the case?" ”

Genchiko glanced up at him quickly, "If you had taken me to the mine earlier and learned about your world from that computer, I probably wouldn't have said that." ”

Han Jianfei smiled: "Are you still nervous?" ”

Genchiko shook her head.

At this time, the charging group of war beasts was already less than three hundred meters away from the wall.

"Ready!" Han Jianfei shouted, "Locate the arrow!" ”

Kuria, the hunter leader of the Ebony Clan, drew his bow and threw a lit feathered arrow diagonally upward.

The arrows pierced the not-so-dull night sky with the sound of a whistle, cut a graceful parabola, and planted themselves in the ground about 150 meters from the wall.

The gravity of the Xia Zhi satellite, that is, the seamount, is about twice that of standard gravity, and it is shot from low ground to high ground, so this is almost the maximum range of a projectile weapon.

The hunters of the two tribes hunted in the jungle on weekdays, using short bows, and they always shot flat, and rarely threw them, so when they heard Han Jianfei say that they wanted them to shoot arrows into the sky, they were a little puzzled, but when they saw the range of Curia's arrow, they all understood the intention of this outsider commander.

"Ready!" Han Jianfei raised his hand and motioned for all the archers to raise their bows.

When the group of war beasts ran to a distance of about ten meters away from the positioning arrow, Han Jianfei waved his arm vigorously: "Release!" ”

Hundreds of arrows pierced the night sky with the sound of bowstrings, and after reaching the highest point, they began to fall downward, driven by heavy arrows.

Under the tremendous gravity of the seamount, the arrows rained down on the charging herd.

The first arrow managed to pierce the rough leather armor, and the heavy cluster of arrows pierced straight into the chest of a marauder knight, and the tremendous force carried him off the beast, killing him directly in the way of the charge.

The first round of arrows took the lives of more than twenty marauders, and then the second round of arrows fell again, but most of the arrows were blocked by the marauders' wooden round shields, and the effect was much less.

After the third round of arrow rain, the war beast that rushed to the front suddenly fell into the trap that had been dug long ago, and along with the knight on its back, it was pierced by several slender wooden stakes in the trap.

More and more marauders rushed forward, filling one pit after another with the corpses of war beasts and knights, until they were less than fifty meters away from the wall, and more than a dozen lives were taken away by the throwing spears that were fired.

By the time the first marauder arrived under the wall, the marauders had already paid for nearly a hundred lives.

The death of their companions brought great excitement and rage, and the marauders harnessed the beasts at all costs, slamming into the newly built wall.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! The sound of the crash was incessant, and with the impact of dozens of war beasts, the wall that had been filled with a lot of sand showed some signs of shaking and loosening.

But the beasts could not jump over the wall, and the Marauders could only stand under the wall and attack on their backs, or stand on the backs of their mounts and try to jump over the wall.

But all this was in vain, because the hunters of the Hedong and Ebony tribes on the other side of the wall, with spears and short knives, crushed their offensive intentions again and again.

It was a strange battle that the raiders had never experienced before, they had never been accustomed to breaking through the wooden fences of the tribes to keep the beasts at bay, and they had never encountered such stubborn resistance, and after a period of haphazard slaughter, the raiders had never broken the wall of unknown stone.

After the first round of impact, Gentomoko jumped off the wall first, swinging her sword and flying among the marauders, she was barefoot all the time, and her clothes were brighter than the average hunter, and she soon attracted the siege of the marauders.

Han Jianfei, who had been standing on the wall to watch the whole situation, soon found that the marauders seemed to believe that this difficult girl was an important figure in the tribe, and dozens of people surrounded and killed her, constantly compressing the battle space between Gen Chiko and several hunters around her, and finally surrounded her.

The hunters on the periphery of Hedong tried to rush twice, but they could not break through the encirclement of the marauders.

As the battle began to stalemate, the encirclement became smaller and smaller.

Han Jianfei frowned, and said to the leader of the ebony hunters, "Help me keep an eye on it." ”

After saying that, he took out the antique pistol he had obtained from the old patriarch, held a short knife in one hand, and jumped off the wall.

"I don't know how many years it has been preserved," he thought, "I hope the gunpowder in this bullet has not failed!" ”

In the melee, Han Jianfei carefully avoided open guns and hidden arrows, quietly approached the periphery of the encirclement, and gathered more than a dozen Hedong hunters by the way.

"Warriors of the Hedong clan, come with me to save the little patriarch!"

With a command, more than a dozen hunters rushed in the direction of the encirclement with him as the center.

There was a marauder driving the war beast to pounce on him, Han Jianfei raised his hand to shoot three shots, fortunately, these three bullets did not have dumb fire, at such a close distance, the 9mm warhead killed the war beast along with the rider on the back.

Since the automation of gunpowder weapons, no carbon-based organism has been able to survive the flame-breathing guns of humans.

This is the relentless rolling of technology and steel on the flesh of living beings, even if thousands of years have passed, it has never changed.