Hadu himself led the march along the main river of the steppe, and by this time animals had begun to migrate back from the other side, so they marched and hunted. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The Info River does not run in exactly the same direction as the Tower, but diverges into a shallow canyon from which it is easy to detour to the back of the Tower - one of the important pieces of information that the leaders of the "Shin'ne-Nu" told him.

There is no danger when passing through the canyon: the snowmelt gradually increases the amount of runoff from the river, and the canyon is relatively narrow, but fortunately the water is not waist-deep, otherwise it would have been a headache for the large crowd to wade through the canyon. Hadu gradually adjusted from the front of the group to the middle of the group, focusing on preventing some of his tribesmen from slipping and falling into the water when they stepped on the soft mud, only to see him jump lightly on the rocks of the river, and when he saw that some of his tribesmen were out of balance, he jumped over to help him up, his actions ensured that the entire team did not have any non-combat attrition, and at the same time increased the speed of crossing the canyon by at least two percent.

After the whole team crossed the river, the tribesmen had a lot of physical exertion, so Hadu ordered them to camp in a place "high enough, flat enough, sheltered, dry and ventilated", this practice was to prevent the "emergency" of the pit father, but even if his orders prevented all kinds of things including mudslides and floods, earthquakes, hail, and torrential rains as much as possible, at this time he still ran into trouble that he could not solve- The only high-altitude flat that could support 800 men and horses to camp was the mountainside high in the canyon, and this was a freshly wintered broad-leaved forest area, where the snow melt had just finished and the trees had not yet sprouted, that is, it was a dead wood with only branches. The soldiers and horses began to gradually clear an empty campsite on the mountainside, and then they felt a wave of heat coming—a fire in the distance. The dry dead wood and the scorching sun caused the dense branches of the canopy to spontaneously combust and the forest fire eventually spread along the parasitic plants that entwined in the broad-leaved forest. It can only be said that the team came up at a very bad time, and it can also be said that this is the only thing that Hadu has not calculated.

Seeing the fire coming, a group of people and horses could only retreat to the wet river beach. This time, it can only be said that everyone is a little unlucky, and no one has encountered such an "accidental" fire. Since this hill could not be treated, they could only continue to march, preparing to go completely out of the canyon and then repair.

After coming out of the riverbank, the road was flat, and Hado commanded the team to continue on his way, while he himself climbed to the mound not far away to look into the distance. It's a lot further from the tower, and from this position you can still see the "Fa Lie". He quickly spotted the dust flying in the sky in his field of vision, and it seemed that it was. Wait, something wasn't right, his keen eyesight told him that there was a group of centaurs rushing towards him. He looked at it again, and it was 12 cavalrymen in armor and bronze helmets—probably scouts from the "Mu-Tua-Yin" tribe. There should be many such squads, after all, when a large army is dispatched, it is necessary for many such reconnaissance troops to know the battlefield situation. Seeing this, Hado had a plan.

Coming down from the mound and joining his team, Hado tells everyone about his new plan. Then he saw that the people had walked a certain way, and knelt down and pretended to worship the gods, until the enemy soldiers in the distance rushed to the side, and saw their movements, and then stopped and asked respectfully questions. As the other party asked, Hadu, as the "leader", walked out, and when he saw the ritual pattern on his body, several scout cavalrymen nodded politely. Hado explained that they were the sacrificial procession of the "Ye-Dun", and that it was the beginning of the fire season, and that the "Ye-Dun" needed a batch of fresh animals, and that it was their group that they were going to hunt along the river to complete the task of the "gods".

A tribe that believes in "Ye-Dun". The scout cavalry looked at each other, they had never heard of such a tribe in the steppe. According to the primitive worship on the grassland, there are those who worship bears, leopards, snakes and eagles, those who believe in mountains, rivers and valleys, and those who worship the light and darkness of heaven and earth, but the people of the god of dreams, they have heard it for the first time. Even so, after all, the other party is a high priest leader, and they still have to have the courtesy they should have.

It is okay to say that the people of this era are simple, but it should be said that they do not have any sense of secrecy. Hadu asked about the goal of the march of "Mu-Tua-Yin": this time the 2,000-strong army set off, and the purpose was not as Hadu thought that the other party came to "help quell the rebellion" as an ally - in fact, "Mu-Tua-Yin" wanted to eat the entire "Mo-Ruq-Fa" very early, but the other party has a unique skill in metal knives and axes, and if it really wants to attack, it can only be piled up by the number of people, so the battle damage will definitely not be low. At this time, when they heard that the power struggle within "Mo-Ruq-Fa" was chaotic, the higher-ups thought that this was a good opportunity to start attacking. This time the army was launched, and it was considered that the whole army attacked, and the city was full of women and children and garrisons, and it was calculated that there should be more than 6,000 people, and then the ritual regulators—nearly 2,000 of them in this part—remained in the city.

Speaking of which, "Mu-Tua-Yin" sounds like "a walled city", but in terms of the architectural ability and craftsmanship of this era, it is not difficult to build a tall tower out of wood, but it is difficult to build a continuous and impregnable wall, and the other party's wall is only two people high.

It was said that "Mu-Tua-Yin" had been fruitful in studying the method of assassination, and Hadu was originally worried that the other party would shoot the assassins together for this attack, but now when he heard that the priests were all in the city, he suddenly felt a lot more relaxed - such as his tribal rules, the training of assassins and scouts was completed by the high priest, and the other party would not arbitrarily violate this rule.

Hado's original plan was to delay the other party's movements after they reached the tower, because there was no chaos in the camp, but now it seems that not only can the other party stop their actions, but also save a tribe from life and death. However, in this way, his plan to secretly plunder is useless: it must be impossible for him to enter the opponent's ranks, and it is impossible to do another "troop review". But the reconnaissance team in front of him gave Hadu a new plan: he could control this team, use this team as a bait, scatter the enemy army part by part, and finally be able to plunder it all.

He thought about it again, and when he saw that there was nothing missing, he asked the cavalrymen who their allegiance was. Seeing the puzzled expressions of the cavalry, Hado explained that he wanted to pray "Ye-Dun" first, so that their superiors could be "protected" by the "gods" in this raid - this is also the point that Hadu thinks should be asked, and he does not want to have the strange experience of the previous failed raids. Hearing that Hadu had such a plan, the horsemen replied very happily that the object of their allegiance was the high priest - to Hadu's surprise, he asked directly, and the answer made him a little speechless - on the third day of the expulsion, the leader died of an old wound and the high priest temporarily took the position of leader.

Now it was even easier: when the time came, he only had to go into the city to deal with the high priest, and the whole city would naturally be plundered. Now he motioned for several horsemen to dismount and step forward to perform the sacrifice, and then immediately launched a plunder. After that, things were simple: under the leadership of the scout cavalry, everyone found a suitable camp and stopped to rest, while Hadu asked the cavalry to go in other directions to gather the scout team, and then launched several plundering abilities. In this way, all the reconnaissance units of "Mu-Tua-Yin" on this side of the river bank were subdued by Hado, and it can be said that the other side became blind and deaf in this direction.

It was true that after discovering that the reconnaissance team had gone out for a long time and had not returned, and the number of disappeared detachments was increasing more and more, even the deputy leader and a group of small priests in the army could not sit still, and constantly sent additional troops to search the riverbank, at first sending a few more reconnaissance cavalry, then a hundred people, and finally three hundred teams were directly sent to check, but the results were nowhere to be found. This situation made the top brass of the army very alarmed: after the leader fell ill and died, the situation became more and more wrong, and they did not know whether this expedition was the right thing to do.

On the other hand, Hado sent his "Shin'ne-Nu" riders to the tower to report information on the enemy, asking them to prepare to harass the enemy's reconnaissance forces on all fronts. This strategy will eventually lead to a lack of Chinese troops on the enemy, and it only takes Hadu and them to completely defeat the opponent with a single attack. It is true that Hadu does not like to kill, but he does not understand that sometimes only killing can solve the problem, and if he really goes to that point, when he needs to raise his sword and axe, he will still not hesitate to do it.

After resting for a while, Hadu led the 800-strong force and the newly joined "mixed cavalry army" of about 500 men and began to feel the enemy's rear. Even if the situation of the battlefield is unknown, the enemy is still "very smart" to send out marginal patrol squads to find out the battlefield intelligence nearby - of course, these squads are also attracted by the "own people" sent by Hado, and are carried away by a wave of Hado's plundering ability. Coming around the canyon, you can see the meadow that looks like it has been turned over after the soldiers and horses have walked over, and if you follow this trace, you can see the direction of the tower. It seems that this is indeed the enemy's rear road, and seeing that the enemy should have just walked for a long time, the bonfire was still smoking, and it was obviously opened after the rest.

Several of the enemy cavalry that had been plundered by Hadu were the leaders of the hundreds, and according to them, the top brass of the army had placed themselves in the center of the troops, and after the death of their leader, they did not dare to leap out of the middle army. However, this also leads to another flaw: all the entry and exit of food, fresh water and various orders need to be exchanged with materials and information at the border of the Chinese army, but this also causes the situation of asymmetry of information between the outside and the inside, and what happens outside cannot be quickly conveyed to the Chinese army, and the orders of the Chinese army cannot be quickly transmitted.

As a result, the troops of the army, except for the Chinese army, were left undefended, and even if they encountered a situation such as Hado, which might be hostile, the troops outside did not know how to react. This is a good opportunity that is difficult to encounter, and it can be said that even if Hadu swaggers into the enemy's team, the other party does not know what to do, but will treat him "friendly" because of the patterns on Hado's body.

At this time, the central part of the "Mu-Tua-Yin" army was still in the midst of a noisy quarrel, and since the high priest was far from the front line, the actual substitute leadership of the army fell on the shoulders of the two deputy chiefs - yes, the two deputy leaders, and their opinions were not yet in agreement. One of the deputy commanders believed that there was an unknown enemy outside the army, and that it was necessary to get rid of the other side as soon as possible in order to allow the war to proceed smoothly, while another retorted that the strength of the army had now gone to 23/10, and if the division of troops continued, there would be no need for the battle to continue. And those little priests were not able to get the "message of the gods" after worshipping the "gods", which made it difficult for them to get involved in the disputes of the Chinese army. The soldiers of the two deputy chiefs saw that their leaders were about to face each other, and hurried up to pull the two apart, but did not stop the quarrel. While they were arguing, the rest of the army could only continue to advance in a daze, and as far as their position and time were concerned, they had to reach a low hill outside the tower before dark to camp and repair, but the Chinese army did not give the order for a long time, and the centaurs did not know whether to speed up or wait for the order, so they had to move forward slowly.

Unbeknownst to the centaurs, Hadu had led his "mixed forces" to quickly reach the place where they were about to set up camp, hiding in the foothills on either side, and because it was getting late, it was impossible to spot these ambushers hiding in the grass from a distance.

In fact, Hado knew that as long as he went on his own and plundered these blind people, he could easily solve this crisis. But he had to guard against it: if the plunder was not done in one step, if the enemy soldiers saw him and reported to the Chinese army in advance, if the other party did not react to the patterns on his body, and even, if the leader of the opposing team was the sacrificial soldiers of the "Mo-Ruq-Fa" tribe who fled to report the news. Then he must be prepared to prevent possible troubles - there are already thousands of troops around him, and he can't take care of all of them.

After preparing for the ambush, Hadu met the army with the leaders of the centurions. Hadu guessed correctly: it was the sacrificial soldiers who had fled to report the arrival at the front of the army, but looking at the leather armor on the other side's body, it was clear that they must have surrendered to the "Mu-Tua-Yin" tribe. But now it was easy to do, these deserters had not seen with their own eyes what happened when Hadu plundered the other clansmen, nor did they know what Hadu looked like, and at this time they saw several leaders coming with Hadu, and there was nothing surprising about it, but they just thought that several leaders escorted a prisoner back.

Hearing that Hadu was the high priestess of "Ye-Dun" and was going to meet the leaders of the Chinese army, the soldiers in the army did not suspect much, but just scattered a road to the Chinese army. Even when Hadu came to the outside of the Chinese army and explained to the personal soldiers of the two deputy leaders, the other party did not have any doubts - this has to be said that the people of this era are really simple and a little scary.

However, the situation in the Chinese army was somewhat unexpected by Hadu: the two deputy leaders ignored Hadu at all, and only messed with each other on the horse, while the other pro-soldiers kept persuading each other with headaches. Hadu waited for a while and received no response from the other party, so he had to go to the ritual staff at the back of the line first. Of course, these ceremonial personnel were very humble to Hadu, and the little priest in charge of the ceremonies at the head came forward to greet him, and Hadu drew allegiance to each other in a few words: the priests were of course the god of shadows, "Sjo-far're", the two deputy chiefs, who had followed the deceased chief, were now loyal to the surviving chief's brother, and the cavalry were loyal to the two deputy chiefs, while the infantry hunters were the high priests who believed that they had just been granted the title of acting leader. Such a complex direction of faithfulness is the result of the troublesome division of power in this era: the cavalry leader cannot command the infantry, and the infantry leader cannot command the cavalry.

But it wasn't a big problem for Hado, as long as he unleashed his ability to plunder, these faithful forces would not be a problem. However, there was still something strange in his heart: why did the other party's army "rush" this time, and brought out so few priests, not even enough one priest per 100 people - the other party brought 10 priests this time, so it is impossible for such people to make a difference when the troops encounter casualties, and there is even no way to maintain morale and collect the rout.

And the other party's answer made him understand why this "army" is so flashy: as an ally of "Mo-Ruq-Fa" for many years, "Mu-Tua-Yin" has always been friendly with the other party, but recently the new leader has come to power and pursued an expansionist policy, so he wants to eat "Mo-Ruq-Fa". However, this proposal was opposed by the clan, and the appearance of several deserters led the new leader to believe that it was a mission sent to him by the "gods" - a claim that was rejected by the High Priest, and it became clear in the end that the new leader would lead the army and only "symbolically" take a few priests with him—the High Priest would not allow more priests to travel.

Many of these accompanying priests had grown up with the new leader, and as soon as the new leader called for them, they followed suit, and the march was fast for the first three days, but as soon as the third day arrived, the team encountered wolves while camping at night, and during the wolf fight, the new leader was bitten and the old wound recurred, and he soon died.

In this era, the level of medical care is low, and it is difficult for people to survive once they are injured. Hadu looked at the uncontrollable sadness on the other party's face, and his heart was also full of sympathy. And in order to let the other party get out of the sea of suffering quickly, he launched the ability of "wealth plunder".