Chapter Forty-Three: A Bloody Battle

Hadu did not feel at all that the tribe was actually on the verge of extinction: backward technical capabilities, greatly outdated ideological level, low centripetal force of the tribe, the number of basic population, and even the warning line. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info He just felt that after so many years, it seemed... It seems like it's been a long time since there's anything fun, and it seems like it's time to make some changes to make the tribe a little more interesting.

What Hadu can do is to use his predatory abilities to give his people certain "superpowers", or improve their physique so that they can do more "fun" things, but the problem is that the development model of "Shin'ne-Nu" restricts the imagination of the people. Because it was too easy to fill their stomachs, the tribesmen were accustomed to the living environment where they could obtain the means of production without too much trouble, which led to their hands-on ability to decline year by year, and they began to use only rigid textbook countermeasures to deal with any foreign enemy, without any ability to improvise. Thousands of years later, when Hadu began to examine the state of his clan again, he only felt that they seemed to be "stupid", "lazy", and "stupid", and the essence of this was the overall decline of the Ten Merchants - but Hadu was cute and unaware.

It's just that one thing is extremely funny: Hadu has basically not used his predatory abilities anymore, mainly because it is not necessary. Not only was it unnecessary to plunder, but sometimes he even felt that it was very unnecessary for him to live. Of course, the taste of being old and dying made him uneasy, but eternal life was not so delicious, and it could even be said that he was tired of the cycle of getting old, plundering life, becoming younger, and getting old. But it can't be said that he just wants to leave like this, at least he can't fully convince himself in the face of death.

Think back to the last time you were. Well.. It seems like 500 years ago, when it was to fight the unclothed idiots in the Nile Valley (the ancient Egyptian slave army didn't even wear a crotch cover). Well, anyway, how are these idiots doing now. Otherwise, let's go and "Shun" some gold. ?

While Hado was still fiddling in the cave with how to use his plundering abilities to play tricks, the ancient Egyptian priests in the Valley of the Kings were preparing a plot against the "Shin'ne-Nu". The high priest at the time, Atun Hokhin (A_Ere_Dunjo_Sim'me), persuaded the pharaoh of the time, Dedefptah, to launch a massive raid on the steppe.

There is no opposition to this operation within the Valley of the Kings: although it has been more than 200 years, the bloody battle of Pharaoh Khufu during his expedition to the steppes is still vivid: the leader of the steppe controlled a supernatural force and slaughtered the slave army to the point that even the valley of Nubia was dyed blood-red, and it has not dissipated for many years - This has always been a problem for the pharaohs of later generations, even if they occupied Ethiopia and encircled and blockaded the steppe tribes, they were unable to clear out this diehard, making this raid unfavorable.

And Atonhokhine persuaded the pharaoh in a peculiar way: he was one of the few people in ancient Egyptian history to have the ability to "transfer and plunder", that is, he could only plunder the state of A to B, or vice versa - that is, he could not plunder for his own use. And the most powerful aspect of him is that everything he sees can be preyed and transferred, not only in reality, but also in the abilities and actions of the "gods" described in the scriptures and murals. At that time, infectious diseases were rife in the Fifth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, and even the pharaohs could not resist the invasion of infectious diseases, and Aten Hokhin was able to transfer the epidemic diseases on the pharaoh's body to the murals. With this ability, Atonhokhine sat in the position of high priest for 60 years and served 6 pharaohs, so this raid was to persuade the pharaoh to fill the hole in the dynasty for many years.

For this raid, ancient Egypt made great preparations:

1. In the early days of the Fourth Dynasty, a portrait of the "Heavenly Demon" was found on the outer wall of the Scorpion King's mausoleum: a human holding a trident with wings on his back. At the time of its discovery, the image was believed to have been an overseer and executioner sent by Osierys (the god of Hades) to Ra (the sun god) to punish those who angered the pharaohs, and was reinterpreted as "punishing the gods who resisted the pharaoh's rule" in the middle and later dynasties. Atonhokhine ordered his painters to copy a large number of paintings, and then launched a plunder to create a large number of "heavenly demons" - half of them died during landing because they could not control their ability to fly;

2. In the late Fourth Dynasty, ancient Egypt had begun to build a batch of wheeled chariots, and the application of early gears began to appear at the same time, and Atonhokhine whimsically created a cross-era "clutch": plundering the state of motion of the wheel in high-speed rotation, and transferring it to a small wheel, which would obtain "perpetual motion" The small wheel is mounted on one side of the chariot, snapped into the inside of the chariot's wheel, and when it is not necessary to move forward, the chariot will stop if it is loosened from the inside of the wheel, and when it is needed, it is snapped together with the wheel, so that the chariot can move indefinitely without the need for horse traction - of course, because the power wheels are small and the wheels are large, the transmission ratio is very poor, and the speed of the chariot is also quite slow, less than one-sixth of the original maximum speed;

3. After the conquest of the Sinai Peninsula, the absorption of the Semitic bow and arrow technology greatly increased the quality of the ancient Egyptian archery team, and at this time, people began to discover: the greater the pulling force of the bow and the greater the weight of the arrow, the greater the power after shooting. Atenhokhin also thought of making a fuss about this, but most of the previous experiments ended in failure: tried to transfer the weight of the boulder to the arrow, but no one could handle it, tried to transfer the weight of flax to the bow, but the bow was blown away by the wind, tried to transfer the strong flammability of coal from the Sinai Peninsula to the arrow, hoping to make an incendiary arrow, but the arrow burned out halfway; In the end, it was determined that after the arrow was fired, the weight of the boulder was transferred to the arrow, and the arrow would be able to gain enough destructive power - but the question was: where to find so many boulders on the battlefield;

4. The slave army mainly used spears and catapults for medium-range attacks, and in large wars, these weapons were consumed quickly, but it was not so easy to get supplies. In response to this situation, Atonhokhine came up with the concept of "automatic recall": by plundering the swing ability of the boomerang, the thrown spear can be returned to the spear thrower, thus reducing the hassle of recovering the weapon (the broken spear can only be replaced). After the actual experiment, it was found that this method is indeed very clever, and it will automatically fly back after throwing the spear, as long as the integrity of the spear is high enough, then it can be reused - the only disadvantage is that these spears are thrown forward by the tip of the spear, and the tip of the spear flies back forward. If the density of spear throwers is high, then accidental injuries are inevitable.

Although most of the things that Atenhokhin tossed out had problems and shortcomings of one kind or another, it has to be said that these brain holes also played a vital role in improving the combat effectiveness of the slave army. After rebuilding his army, Pharaoh decided to start a raid after the Nile flooded that year and the rituals were completed to worship the heavens.

In 2399 A.D., Dedevupah died. In the same year, Ilmai succeeded to the throne and founded the Fifth Dynasty.

The new pharaoh expressed his full support for Atonhokhine's plan for the raid: he was eager to consolidate his rule by accomplishing what his ancestors had failed to achieve. After the Nile flooded, and after worshipping the god of fertility and harvest (also Osiris), the ancient Egyptian army attacked the steppe with ferocity.

At noon that day, Hado was looking through the priestly scrolls he had brought from the Valley of the Kings, and these "papyrus" with hieroglyphic information were actually so difficult to understand that ordinary Egyptian slaves had no right to study them, and only those priests who served Pharaoh had access to them. Even so, the study of these hieroglyphs was tedious and painful, and Hado had to plunder a young priest named Dunjomukkeyer to understand what was written in the scriptures: it was the ancient Egyptian priestly priestly priest who recorded the relevant description of the ability to plunder. Judging from the descriptions in the scriptures, the ancient Egyptians' ability to plunder should also be related to the Iger clan - or it could simply be assumed that these unclothed fools on the banks of the Nile were descendants of the Iger clan.

Hadu sighed silently at the thought of having so many ties and ties with the Egg clan, and then heard a sudden cacophony of screams from outside the cave. Before he could react, the leader of the guards standing guard outside rushed in and reported to Hado: The unclothed man has called. !

In the summer of 2399 A.D., Pharaoh Ilmai led an army of 600,000 slaves to the steppe tribe camp. Its unit consists of 16 10,000 spear throwing troops, 20 horseless chariot troops, 8 "heavenly demon" armies, and 12 melee armies, with a total combat strength of 200,000 men - the rest are civilians who do logistics.

200,000 men slaughtered to the camp outside the steppe that spread out into the desert, but its vanguard was defeated by a battle-battled army of hunters. A frustrated Atonhokhin transferred the hardness of the rocks to the bodies of the strikers, making them indestructible - but when they encountered the black hard mineral embedded in the front of the weapon, the forwards were still defeated, causing the high priest to lose face. Despite their outnumbered numbers, the slave army managed to advance to the edge of the steppe, but they were unable to gain at least one advantage: they failed to kill even one of the steppe hunters, let alone catch one or two for questioning.

Just as Pharaoh Khufu besieged the steppe back then, now the steppe hunters are shrinking towards the "Falie" as a whole, and they are as relaxed as ever, and there is no tension or panic because the attack of the slave army is approaching. The clansmen all know that the pressure of the usual confrontation is not great, and the injury will be healed quickly anyway (the body's healing ability is very strong in the absence of illness), and if there is a critical battle situation, let Hadu blow a gust of wind and gather a tsunami and it will be over. Even if the battle really reached that point, it would not be easy for Hadu to send an earthquake and shake the enemy into the ground - the tribe used reinforced concrete to build houses, and there was no need to worry about being collapsed.

With such a sense of extreme contempt and conceit, some of the young hunters waged guerrilla warfare against the slave army near several major rivers, but suffered heavy losses from the never-before-seen "heavenly demons" - less than a third of the more than 3,000 young hunters returned. Sensing that the battle was not right, Hadu ordered to temporarily avoid the enemy's edge, and all the tribesmen gathered their craft and technology products and retreated to a nearby cave - the cave that had been dug by the "Cin-Din-Ta" thousands of years ago, and had now been opened underground into a huge civil air defense facility.

Even if Hado thinks that this war will be as easy to win as it has been in the past, this is a mistake: the enemy is always advancing, and the "Shin'ne-Nu" is standing still, if not regressing. One of the differences in combat effectiveness is the number of hunters in the tribe who are now able to fight.

Due to the high level of physical fitness, the longest life expectancy in the tribe (excluding Hado) has reached 117 years, and the age zones of youth, middle age, and old age have also been greatly adjusted: 22-46 years old for youth, 46-78 years old for middle age, and 78 years old for old age. At this time, the number of hunters was less than 60,000, and more than 4 of them were elderly, most of whom were injured when they were young and had reduced mobility in their old age (even if they did not get sick, they would cause damage to their bodies). In this way, only young people can fight, after all, most middle-aged people are craftsmen who have mastered the inheritance of craftsmanship and technology, and rashly sending them to the battlefield will bring great trouble to the future development of the tribe.

However, there is a lot of problems with the inheritance of combat skills within the tribe, which is also related to the stereotypical combat education: in addition to wielding weapons and using armor, young hunters do not learn the knowledge of "escape", "retreat" and "communication", and will only fight head-on when they are outnumbered, which leads to a lot of unnecessary battle damage.

As for the people fighting life and death on the front line, Hadu looked idle, roughly related to the numbness he saw in life and death for thousands of years, the hunters returned to the cave with bruises, and Hadu only touched the scars and pain on their bodies, not even a word of comfort, but the young hunters showed brainless excitement and excitement, as if they had received the highest glory.

As for why Hadu didn't just shoot the slave army back, this is another outrageously boring plot: no one is allowed to disturb while he is studying the Scriptures (plundering is not an intrusion). Therefore, the tribe has to constantly send hunters to slow down the enemy's footsteps, but there is no way to truly touch the enemy's combat foundation. In this way, several leaders of the tribe came to "bother" Hadu, saying: The combat effectiveness of the tribe is not enough.

Hadu only frowned when he heard this: Don't you know that we can't be disturbed when we study the scriptures? He didn't care about the lives of the tribesmen in the slightest, but now that his research had been interrupted, he didn't want to spend his energy here. Hadu, who was in a bad mood, walked out of the leader's stone chamber specially built for him in the cave of refuge, and asked about the consumption of combat power in the tribe, only to find that the originally full team of young hunters had been attacked by the winged monster three times and had been almost wiped out;

Hadu looked at the leaders in front of him with displeasure, and saw that they were in a cold sweat - they also understood why the leader was so dissatisfied: just 200 years ago, the same slave army was besieging, and the exodus of the clan (a modest term for "missing") was prevalent, and there were not as many hunters in the clan as there are now, and it was a real failure to let the war turn like this.

Don't say that these leaders don't have the ability to lead the army to fight now, and even Hado himself can only add fuel tactics at all, and he doesn't have any sense of fighting at all. However, seeing that the clansmen were a little afraid of battle in their eyes, Hadu did not want to force them to continue fighting, so he immediately went out of the cave to avoid danger, preparing to "rectify" the enemy's superior forces first.

Outside the cave, of course, there was a scene of fighting: the slave army threw spears and pierced the bodies of the hunters, only to hear a "whoosh", and the spears flew back to be caught by the spear-throwers, the monsters flying in the sky kept lifting stones, wood, and other debris at the hunters, making them unguarded, and the chariots that did not need horses wandered back and forth on the battlefield, and the lives of the reaper hunters.

Hadu carefully looked at these brain-opening fighting methods, thought about it, and thought that behind this should be another scene "constructed" by a predator, and immediately came up with a way to deal with it: he roared and ordered the hunters to lie on the ground and hold on, then waved the wind to blow all the slave army away, and then grabbed a handful of gravel and quickly threw it into the air, immediately melting them into hot lava and splashing them on those "heavenly demons".

As in past battles, Hado's approach to the new things in front of him was extremely rigid, using his usual moves, without thinking of pushing the boundaries of what was new. This time things went wrong: the spear-throwers were to be blown away by the wind, but the winged monsters were so nimble that Hadu failed to hit them a few times and accidentally wounded the hunters present, and the horseless chariots were even more annoying, not only able to withstand the strong winds, but also capable of shooting destructive arrows by the archers on them.

This made the scene even worse: the hunters stopped fighting and lay on the ground, which caused the pressure on the slave army to plummet, and the hunters suffered more casualties.

Just as Hadu was having a headache about the change in the tide of battle, a priest in clothes walked out from the opposite side.