Chapter Seventy-Eight: Temptation Attack
The leader of the Southern Expedition, who had already vented his anger, sat in the huge tent that had been set up, and began to think about what was going to happen next.
Now that the army has marched here, if he retreats directly without a fight, he will not only be laughed at by other leaders in the Tooth Tribe, but will also have a series of other serious consequences.
This will reduce his prestige in the army and the tribe, and there may not be many brave warriors who will follow him on his next expedition and will switch to other tribal leaders.
You know, these warriors followed him without fear of hardship, joined his ranks, became the backbone of this huge army, and managed to suppress those slave warriors because everyone believed in him and believed that he would lead everyone to defeat all enemies on the journey, so that they could gain enough merit and improve their status.
And he was able to become the leader of the Southern Expedition this time, also because among the people competing for the leader of the Southern Expedition, the number of tribal warriors who followed him was the largest, and he could manage more slave warriors, and the strength of the army was the strongest.
But if he retreats without a fight this time, then he will lose the trust of many of the warriors who follow him, and his influence will be greatly reduced in the tribe.
After all, no one would follow a loser or coward, even if he did it to reduce the casualties of the tribal warriors, but they didn't care.
As long as they are victorious, the living are glorified, and the dead are buried in the wilderness, it is so simple.
If this matter is not handled properly, then maybe this is the last time he will lead his troops to the battle, after all, these warriors belong to the tribe, not his private, and they come and go freely.
Thinking of this, he felt a wave of grievance again, a wave of anger could not be stopped, and his eyes became red and terrifying.
In his heart, he began to curse those who lied about the enemy and desperately belittled the strength of the Fire Tribe, but it was a pity that they had already been killed, otherwise he really wanted to beat them with a beast skin whip so as to vent those nameless angers.
The sun had risen in the middle of the sky, and the warriors of the Tooth tribe had already eaten lunch, and were sitting on the grass resting in twos and threes.
Now that the deadline given by the leader of the Southern Expedition to the Fire Tribe has passed, they have not come out of the city wall, and the choice left for the leader of the Southern Expedition has been clear.
The desolate sound of the horn came from the tent of the leader of the Southern Expedition, and rapidly expanded towards the surroundings, passing over the layers of army ranks, flying over the flat and open late autumn plains, and reaching the ears of Su Ming, who had been waiting on the high boulder city wall.
The war is about to begin!
I saw that the soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army, who were still resting, immediately stood up and began to line up in a neat queue, waiting for the orders of their respective captains.
The captains who had already discussed the strategy had already retreated from the huge and gorgeous tent of the leader of the Southern Expedition, and began to run quickly towards their own warrior team, preparing to organize their team and waiting for their own orders to come at any time.
The quickly reorganized military formation began to change in the desolate and long sound of the horn.
A team of about 2,000 people, resisting the improvised tools for climbing the city, armed with miscellaneous stone weapons, rushed towards the city wall on Su Ming's side.
They had not gone far enough when another contingent of about three thousand men broke off in the huge formation, and followed closely behind the front of them in a neat line, marching towards this side together.
Su Ming and the others used their spiritual power, and their eyes directly narrowed into the two attacking teams, and they could clearly feel the huge gap between them. The soldiers in the front team were all in rags, the weapons in their hands were also shoddy, and their bodies were several grades worse.
Some soldiers can even be said to be thin and skinny, but seeing the kind of enthusiasm for battle that bursts out of their eyes, they also know that their enthusiasm and desire for war are no worse than those of other queues.
If Su Ming and the others knew the system of the tribe opposite, and after understanding the situation of these warriors, they would be able to understand their desire.
They were all slave warriors, a bunch of lowly slaves with no guarantee of survival, these losers who had previously rebelled against the Tooth tribe, and now began to fight for their former enemies in order to get rid of their own predicament.
People who originally did not have the slightest way out, now have a narrow path that can change their predicament, that is, military merit, as long as there is enough military merit, you can get rid of the shackles of slaves and become a free people under the leadership of the tooth tribe.
For the sake of freedom and status, these people either run away when they find an opportunity, or they go out of their way to fight frantically!
The three thousand men behind were a relatively elite group of warriors, at least each of them was as strong as an ox, and their weapons were also fine sharp stone tools and thick and complete animal skin and leather armor.
What particularly surprised Su Ming was that each of them not only carried a stone spear, but also a simple bow and arrow, which seemed to be of a quality that could not catch up with the Fire Tribe's production, and the range was not as far as the Fire Tribe's bow and arrow, but this did not prevent the fact that it could shoot people from a distance, and the most important thing was their huge number.
As the two teams of men and horses on the other side entered the range of the Fire Tribe's bow and arrow, Su Ming's side directly started the bow and arrow attack.
With the order of the leader Lie, in an instant, countless arrows with feathers flew out from the city wall, and attacked directly towards the people of the Tooth tribe like a torrential rain.
The sharp cracking sound of the arrows rubbing against the air quickly slashed across the sky, bringing countless deaths, blood, and, of course, endless fear to the other side.
In the face of the rain of arrows and the teammates who kept falling to the ground, those attacking warriors not only did not be frightened and began to retreat, but began to speed up, accelerating towards Su Ming and rushing towards them with a loud shout.
The men who resisted the improvised siege tools were shot by arrows, and before their bodies fell, they were directly replaced by another warrior, who was not afraid of any death at all, and had to pave a path of attack with countless lives and blood.
After suffering heavy casualties, the second group of warriors finally came into range of their bows and arrows and began to prepare for a counterattack to cover the besieging teams.
Seeing that they had already begun to bend their bows and arrows, the warriors on the Fire Tribe's side directly put down the masks on their black iron helmets to protect their fragile faces from the attack of bows and arrows.
The brutal firing mode between the two sides was directly turned on, ignoring the companions who were constantly being hit by arrows and falling to the ground, and the fighters on both sides were wholeheartedly aiming and shooting with bows and arrows, wanting to inflict greater damage on the other side.
Wave after wave of arrows struck from below the city, and some of the warriors were immediately shot by the arrows made of animal bones or stones, and collided violently with the sturdy black iron armor, making a crisp and pleasant sound.
After a few rounds of attacks, except for a few warriors who were injured or killed by arrows directly through the eyeholes of the black iron masks because of their bad luck, the rest of the warriors were still running around, and the bow and arrow attacks of the Southern Expeditionary Army had little effect on the well-protected Fire Tribe warriors.
However, the two sides fired at each other in these rounds, but they bought precious time for the slave fighters of the first attack echelon and created the conditions for a direct attack on the wall.
I saw that dozens of simple siege ladders had been set up on the high city walls, and a large number of slave warriors below lined up and continued to climb up quickly.
On the improvised staircase, slave warriors were constantly shot with bows and arrows or slashed with spears and knives, falling directly down the high walls, smashing and smashing to death the warriors waiting below.
The dead bodies of the slave warriors were soon covered under the city walls, and then another, but the tragic casualties did not frighten them, but completely aroused their ferocity, and they continued to climb up without fear of death.