Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Tooth Tribe
The sun had already risen high, and the autumn wind seemed to feel the strange danger of the situation at the scene, and began to flee at an accelerated pace, waving in the air with the flags of both sides.
The dust that had been brought up by the march was also taken away by the way, and for a while, the sky became clean and blue.
It seems that the whole world has returned to the meaning of autumn high and refreshing.
Of course, if there were no two armies facing each other under such a beautiful blue sky, then some would be very beautiful.
The autumn wind had already crossed, and at this time, a burly figure riding a unicorn wearing a animal skin like a crocodile, under the escort of several warriors who were also dressed as a unicorn, held a small animal skin flag with a strange tooth image painted on it, and slowly came towards Su Ming and them.
Standing on the wall more than ten meters high, the leader Lie stopped the tribal warriors who were about to shoot arrows, and motioned for the people on the opposite side to come over and see if they had anything to say.
"Listen to the people of the Fire Tribe above, we are the southern expedition of the great Tooth Tribe, and I heard that the Fire Tribe is good at making sharp metal weapons, so our great leader of the Southern Expedition is particularly gracious to this, allowing you to directly join the great Tooth tribe and become a first-class subordinate tribe under the leadership of the Tooth Tribe clan tribe. ”
The burly man who arrived, sitting on the unicorn sheep, shouted loudly to Su Ming and them on the city wall, "Now quickly gather your people, and then open the gate, take out good meat and vegetables to entertain the soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army, and the tribal leaders and priests should also be freshened up and dressed and wait for the summons of the Southern Expedition leader."
If not, then the 30,000 army behind me will attack, and your little fire tribe will be directly annihilated. When that time comes, your tribe will no longer have the treatment they just had, and all the people will be directly reduced to the lowest slaves.
Think about it, whether to surrender outright, or to be conquered by us with spears. Give an answer before the end of lunch, and remember that you only have one chance, otherwise it will be too late when our army attacks after the army has finished lunch. ”
After saying these words, they rode directly on the unicorn and swaggered back towards the huge military formation. Looking at their distant backs, the leader Lie opened his mouth, and finally swallowed the words he was about to say into his stomach, his face flushed.
"Arrogance!" The clansmen standing on the city wall, I don't know who spoke first, immediately caused everyone's constant curses. All of a sudden, the voices of the captains in front of the leader kept ringing out.
They all want to go out and kill for a while, to release the grievances and anger in their hearts. I can't remember how long it has been, since the rise of the Fire Tribe, no tribe has dared to despise it so much, dare to trample on its dignity.
All those tribes who offended it had been fiercely educated by the giant crossbows of the Fire Tribe, leaving them with an indelible terrifying impression in this life, and now the majesty of the Fire Tribe had spread everywhere, and no one dared to offend everywhere they went.
The leader Lie and the others managed to calm everyone's emotions and restore some of their sanity, which had been blinded by anger, and dismissed the request to go out of the city to fight them in the wilderness now.
Now that the opposite side has an absolute numerical advantage, if you give up the advantage of the city wall you have now and go out to fight directly, even if the Fire Tribe can achieve the final victory, it will suffer heavy losses.
After all, no matter how powerful you are, but when you are also exhausted, as the old saying goes, a good pair of fists is hard to beat four hands, and when the number of people reaches a certain level, it can narrow the quality gap between the two sides. The result was not only an inevitable victory, but also conflicted with the tactics that the tribe had originally developed.
Consume as much of the opponent's living force as possible through tall walls and well-guarded fortifications, better quality bows and crossbows, exhaust their warriors by constantly sneaking up at night, and at the same time send warriors to cut off their logistics, then seize the opportunity to defeat them in one fell swoop, and finally pursue the battle to expand the fruits of victory.
Such a plan, even if it did not go according to the script, would at least protect the security of the tribe's garrison from being caught in the flames, and it would also reduce the loss of its own tribe's warriors.
Now that it was late autumn, most of the prey on the plains had migrated, and the enemy could not directly supply them on the spot. And winter is coming, which will increase the pressure on the logistics of the army on the opposite side, and also have to face the plundering of the Fire Tribe warriors.
The Fire Tribe, on the other hand, is fighting on its own, and those warehouses have been stockpiled with too much food and other necessary supplies in the past few years, enough for the Fire Tribe to use for several years. These were originally prepared for the unexpected, but now they will be used for the attack of the Tooth Tribe.
After comparing all aspects, it can be expected that the opposite side cannot afford to consume, so this battle Fire Tribe is not on the passive side, and it should be the army on the opposite side that should be anxious now.
"Who said that the Fire Tribe only has a fragile stone wall? drag out all the people who reported to me like this, and send the whole army to tell them that this is the consequence of lying about the military situation. The burly man who had just returned to the military formation shouted at the guards waiting with a hideous face, his eyes were blood-red, like a fierce flame, about to erupt from his eyelids.
After hearing his order, among the strong guards standing on the side, led by a captain, more than 20 people came out and rushed directly into the crowd that was originally standing next to him to welcome him back.
Suddenly, there was a lot of confusion in the otherwise quiet crowd, and bursts of tyrannical shouts and hoarse cries were intertwined with maniacal laughter.
Those who surrendered or were conquered, for one reason or another, in front of the leaders of the Tooth Tribe's southern expedition, the tribal leaders or priests who desperately belittled the combat power of the Fire Tribe, were all discerned and escorted from them.
Killed by the guards directly in front of the welcoming crowd, then cut off the heads of the distorted faces, and marched through the army with spears against them, loudly announcing the crimes they had committed.
It turned out that it was the commander of this army and the leader of the southern expedition of the Tooth tribe who went out of the army and shouted to the wall of the Fire Tribe. He was originally going to march to this side after the beginning of spring next year, but the tribes conquered here kept telling him that the fire tribes over there had built countless huge warehouses with a large number of various materials stored in them, and as long as they captured it, they could easily let the entire army survive the long winter.
Although the Fire Tribe built a small stone wall outside the garrison and some defensive weapons, their clan did not have many people, and the number of warriors was less than a thousand.
It was also because he believed the news they said, and he had a huge amount of supplies, so he finally made up his mind to continue to lead the army forward, on the other hand, he was also afraid of the fire tribe coming, after all, the power of that metal weapon was too great.
In the military formation, when they saw that the head of the spear was the leader or priest of their own tribe, some of the newly joined tribal warriors began to riot, but under the loud preaching of those guard soldiers, the momentum of the commotion that was about to turn into a riot suddenly subsided.
After all, they have been joining the Southern Expeditionary Army for some days, and they have a good understanding of the rules formulated by the Tooth Tribe, if they can be summed up in one sentence, it is the disguised military merit lord mansion system.
Some of the things that are given in the tribe are given according to their respective status ranks. As long as you make meritorious contributions to the tribe, the higher your status will be and the higher the treatment you will receive.
In the short time that these systems have been practised, there have been more than one occasion in the tribes that have been converted or conquered that the warriors of the tribes have a higher status than their chiefs or priests.
This system also completely broke the monopoly of all the tribe's materials distributed by the chiefs or priests, and all the territory was collected and owned by the Tooth tribe, and all the output and harvest of the territory had to be expropriated and distributed by the personnel arranged by the Tooth tribe. Those of higher status are even starting to have their own food estates, and get all the material output there.
Having lost the right to distribute, they now have less and less restraining effect on their own tribal warriors. Moreover, the former tribal station has gradually evolved into a village or something, and the former tribal leader has evolved into a management such as the head of a village.
And above them, there are many people who can manage them, and these people who can manage others are gradually promoted by merit and contribution.
Those who have already enjoyed the dividends of the hierarchy, and those who have risen in status quickly by seeing others treated fairly, are now firmly upholding their rule with the Tooth Tribe at its core.
After all, the charm of public ownership is now far from catching up with the great temptation of private ownership to mankind.