Prairie.

The two teams are in a fierce competition.

On one side, there was a mixed cavalry led by Hawke, and on the other side were steppe horse thieves.

These steppe people seem to be unable to kill, killing batch after batch, but it won't be long before another wave of steppe people will appear.

Unless, this grassland is completely occupied.

But this is impossible, how vast is the grassland?

In addition, most of the grasslands are not suitable for growing crops, so Xia Qi's plan to build cities to gradually compress the grassland people can be regarded as a failure.

After the baptism of last winter, these horse thieves have become more cunning, knowing that it is impossible to fight alone is the opponent of Great Xia, from the very beginning, they have united together, and also elected a leader.

Among them, there are also a large number of small and medium-sized tribes affected by drought and locust plagues.

But even so, these coalition forces were no match for Hawke's side, and in just a few rounds, the coalition cavalry was shattered.

"Withdraw, withdraw!"

The horse thieves shouted and fled into the depths of the prairie.

Gradually, Hawke and his cavalry vanished, and the faces of these horse thieves suddenly showed the smiles of the rest of their lives.

However, at this moment, a rain of arrows fell from the sky, and it turned out that Kereh and his archers were already waiting for them here.

"Retreat!"

There was no way, the horse thieves had no choice but to continue to run for their lives.

The archers did not come close, and threw arrows at the ranks of the horse thieves from a distance.

I don't know how long it took for these horse thieves to finally get rid of the archers, but only a dozen people remained.

These people seemed to have been frightened, and fled towards the base camp regardless of it.

However, they did not notice that behind them, there was also a detachment of light cavalry.

It turned out that not long after Xiang Xia Qi released the document, the scout found that these steppe people were actually united again.

Coincidentally, at this time, Silan also came back to replenish supplies, and the three of them decided to take the initiative and directly destroy their base camp.

And today's battle is just an act.

If it weren't for the people, with less than a thousand horse thieves, why bother with the three major cavalry teams?

When they were almost done with the horse thieves, Hawke and Cree stopped their pursuit, and instead let the light cavalry under Slan, who was good at tracking, fall far behind the horse thieves.

As soon as they find the base camp of the coalition forces, they will immediately go into action.

Soon, the light cavalry followed the horse thieves to the coalition camp, leaving two light cavalry to observe the movements of the coalition forces at any time, while the rest of the light cavalry went back to report the news.

Strangely, after the horse thieves who had been deliberately put back returned to the camp, the coalition forces had no intention of moving the camp at all.

They thought that perhaps in the eyes of those Xia people, those thousand horses were all the horses of the horse thieves, and it was impossible to go deeper into the grassland in a short time.

After that, the news spread, and the whole camp fell into a relaxed atmosphere.

The leader of this steppe alliance is called Aja, who used to be the second only existence in the group of horse thieves, and after Duride left, he considered himself the most powerful horse thief in the grassland.

And the previous news was also released by him.

Aja is not only stupid, but also very ambitious.

Although he is a puppet pushed out by various forces, he wants to become the real force of this coalition, and when the time comes, he will be the most powerful person on this grassland.

If all the tribes of this grassland are collected, then he will be the well-deserved king of the southern grassland, and at that time, he may not be able to compete with the Xia people in the south.

Just as Aja was dreaming, he didn't know that the nightmare was coming.

After learning about the base camp of the coalition army, the three of them did not dare to delay, and immediately led their subordinates to kill the base camp of those horse thieves.

Originally, as the leaders of the tribe, Kree and Hawke could not be too far away from the tribe.

But it just so happened that Xia Qi's leader sent it at this time.

In the warrant, Xia Qi ordered them to vigorously exterminate the horse thieves who infested the city, and at the same time sent scouts deep into the grassland to confirm the movements of those grassland tribes.

Isn't that a coincidence, you say?

Two days later, at dawn, the Krees charged the camp.

As the vanguard, Silan led the light cavalry under his command to launch a charge.

Feeling the earth shake, the sleeping horse thieves were suddenly awakened from their couches, but it was too late, and the light cavalry had already rushed into their camp.

In this camp, there was not even a wooden fence, and the light cavalry directly lit the tents in the camp while running.

When the horse thieves ran out in panic, they were greeted by a spear with a sharp handle.

After the chaos in the camp, Krey began to lead the archers around the camp, constantly throwing arrows into the camp.

Hawke, on the other hand, scattered his cavalry and surrounded those who escaped through the net.

Under the joint efforts of the three major cavalry of Great Xia, the coalition army instantly became a fish on the board, and only the neck was killed.

The killing continued until nearly 10 o'clock in the morning.

According to statistics, more than 3,000 coalition troops were killed and nearly 5,000 were captured in this battle.

In addition, there are more than 60,000 horses, cattle and sheep.

The leader of the coalition, Ajah, and most of the tribal leaders were also killed.

Later, Kereh ordered the heads of the dead horse thieves to be cut off and a temple was built on the grassland, and the bodies were burned.

When the battle report was sent back to Daxia City, Xia Qi praised them very much and rewarded them with some treasures.

As for those captives, they were naturally taken to the mine to be mine slaves, and since they wanted to mistreat Great Xia, they had to pay the price.

Mining is a very dangerous thing in this era, and if you are not careful, it can cause a lot of casualties.

In Great Xia, the most dangerous work in the mines was basically done by criminals and captives.

As long as you work for three years, you can become a glorious citizen of Great Xia, a "countryman" with status.

Subsequently, Xia Qi sent them another warrant, ordering them to lead their troops to raid the surrounding steppe tribes, and then co-opt those steppe people.

After all, Great Xia also has herdsmen, and Xia Qi doesn't like other tribes to grab pasture with his own herdsmen.

And after Xia Qi has known these grassland tribes for so long, he also knows what kind of virtues they have, and when he encounters a lonely herdsman, he will become a horse thief in minutes.

These unstable factors still made them disappear earlier.

Choosing to incorporate is not to exterminate, this is already Xia Qi's greatest mercy.

After receiving the warrant, Slan, Kree, and Hawk immediately began to gather their forces and began to use troops against some of the smaller tribes in the vicinity.

They had been scouting on the grasslands for so long, and they all knew the location of the camps of these small tribes.

After deliberation, the three of them acted separately, and a wave of raids came down, and they took down three tribes on the same day, but at the same time, it also aroused the alarm of several other tribes in this area.

But at this time, if you want to run, it's too late.

Moreover, there are cattle and sheep, war horses, old people, women and children in their tribe, and even if they want to run, it will take time.

In the early morning, with the morning sun rising at the end of the horizon, the roar of the galloping war horses suddenly swept away the tranquility on the grassland.

It also woke up the steppe people in the tribe opposite.

"Natsu people?! The cavalry of the Xia people has been killed!! ”

However, if you want to run at this time, it is already too late.

The light cavalry under Si Lan can be said to be the strongest of all the armies in Great Xia.

The steppe people of this small tribe were taken by surprise, and after only one round of killing, a large number of steppe people lay down on the grass forever.

After demonstrating his strength, Silan shouted: "Lay down your arms, surrender and don't kill!" ”

This is a battle without suspense, under the multiple production gap in number, equipment, and strength, the weak grassland tribes, in the face of the elite cavalry of Great Xia, have no chance of winning even the slightest.

After killing a few steppe people who tried to resist, with the sound of blades falling to the ground, the battle quickly came to an end.

On this side of the grassland, Silan, Keree, and Hawke successively incorporated various grassland tribes, and the good news of capturing a large number of grassland people kept coming.

In this regard, Xia Qi's face did not show too much surprise, because in his opinion, this result was taken for granted.

At present, the only thing he really cares about on the grassland is the previous Morhan tribe.

The leader of the Morhan tribe should be called Shivaka, yes, he bribed the insiders of Great Xia and stole many rotating weapons from Great Xia.

A steppe tribe leader with a killing head is not scary, the scary thing is that this leader is not only smart, but also constantly getting to know you.

Since a long time ago, Xia Qi has been sending reconnaissance teams to the grassland.

The purpose is self-evident, naturally to find that Morhan tribe.

If the location of the Morhan tribe can be locked, Xia Qi will definitely directly press the territory with a large army and strangle this threat in the cradle.

However, to his regret, after such a long time, the reconnaissance team sent to the steppe did not bring him any good news.

Asking about the small tribes they had adopted over there, they also found nothing.

The grassland is too big, and there are countless tribes and grassland people living in this vast grassland.

It is no exaggeration to say that every day some tribes are going to extinction, and every day some tribes are taking advantage of the situation, how can it be so easy to find a tribe?

At the same time, the tribes that had migrated to the periphery of the steppe were quickly co-opted, and there were quite a few of them.

As a result, they have been able to incorporate nearly 50,000 steppe people.

For the resettlement of this group of people, Xia Qi directly dispersed all these captives, and then placed them in two grassland tribes, as well as the newly built city located on the grassland.

After all, these grassland people didn't make a move against Great Xia, so Xia Qi didn't mean to let them be mine slaves.

According to the scale of those two steppe tribes and the newly built cities, it is easy to absorb 50,000 steppe people.