As for the plan to take the initiative, Zeng Ba raised his hands and feet in approval, and soon issued a rally order to the troops.

Leaving 300 men to defend the south and east, 1,200 men were mobilized the next day, and a battle plan was agreed with his subordinate officers.

In the early morning of the first day of September, Zeng Ba led his army to Lugeng Village, eight miles northwest of Dingzhai, where Lin Yingjia had brought 500 soldiers and 2,000 people to wait.

Fu Yixin also recruited more than 300 Turkish troops from the Babuza people, of which Lujia Village contributed nearly 100, basically all the young people in the village.

As the first tribe to return to Shun, Lujia Village has enjoyed many benefits, and the farming technology alone has improved by many grades, and the millet harvested this year is four or five times that of the past.

There were other changes and improvements in living standards that made Lujia more and more supportive of Song rule.

The other villages were somewhat shaken, but Fu Yixin had also established a certain prestige in the past few months, and the Song people were still strong, so whether they wanted to or not, they finally sent a little people.

Lugeng Village is close to Bird Creek, but it is still more than 20 miles away from the mouth of the sea, and on the opposite bank is the Da Belly Mountain Plateau, where the bridge is built even if it is discovered by the Pabra people, it is powerless to interfere and stop it.

When Zeng Ba arrived, a pontoon bridge made of rafts had already been built, so he did not delay and immediately commanded the troops to cross the river.

Fu Yixin led the Minzhuang and Turkish troops pushing wheelbarrows to follow, while Lin Yingjia left behind with 200 soldiers to strengthen the pontoon bridge.

After crossing the Bird Creek and traveling sixteen miles northwest along the river, one of the tribes of Pabra was seen.

Pabula probably had a larger population than Babuza, but it was more productive, building wooden boats, gathering wild ramie to weave cloth and making fishing nets, and boiling sea salt.

Most of the food needs were met by fishing, and salt was traded with the surrounding tribes, especially the Kaedalan tribes in the north, so they were relatively wealthy and powerful, and the tribes were relatively larger.

It is said that the Potbelly Kingdom was established by them two or three hundred years later, and when it was at its strongest, it included the surrounding Babuza tribe, Bazehai tribe, Dukas tribe, and a small number of Taya tribes into the scope of rule.

It seems that the Yilin who sang 'spinning and jumping with his eyes closed' in later generations is a descendant of the Pabra tribe.

At about this time, the Pabra tribe was already showing signs of expansion, and while forming a good alliance with the Dukas tribe in the north and the Bazehai tribe on the east side of the Potbelly Mountain Plateau, they also acted against the Babuza tribe.

Who makes the Babuza the softest persimmon, and the territory is more suitable for the development path of the Pabra people.

But I didn't expect that just a little bit of an idea, a group of overseas people appeared out of nowhere, swallowed the prey that should have belonged to them, and sent people over to investigate and negotiate, obviously wanting to swallow their own own, which is really too bullying.

So the Pabra people were very angry, probably with the idea of testing the strength of the Song people, and crossed the Bird Creek several times to provoke and harass the Babuza people, but they ran into the Song army, were beaten all over the head, killed and wounded a dozen, and then became much more honest.

In fact, it was the Song army that maintained restraint, otherwise how could the Pabra tribe only kill and wound so many people, and seeing them fleeing, the Song army did not pursue the counterattack.

But a few months later, a large ship of people from overseas came to visit with tribesmen from the south, and sent many gifts, inviting the Pabra to fight against the Song.

The Pabla people probably healed their scars and forgot the pain, or they may have coveted the territory of the Babuza tribe, so they hit it off and also pulled in the Bazehai and Dukas tribes, and the main task was to harass the north and disrupt the fishing operations of the Song people.

They obviously didn't realize what the consequences would be if they completely provoked the Song people.

When the Song people built the bridge, the Bazehai people who were operating in the mountains on the other side had already discovered it, and hurriedly summoned the same people and the Pablas.

By the time seventy or eighty warriors had gathered among their tribe to arrive, the Song army had already crossed most of it.

Looking at the huge army on both sides of the Bird Creek that was beyond all of their imagination, the native warriors were so frightened that they didn't dare to come forward at all.

Clashes between the tribes on the island are frequent, perhaps fierce and brutal, but they are remarkable for dozens or hundreds of people.

Now the size of the Song army of nearly 4,000 people not only frightened the Pabra people, but even the Babuza people were deeply shocked.

The natives couldn't tell that there were only 1,500 regular troops in it, and the other 2,000 were Minzhuang, who were doing auxiliary work, after all, there was no special army on the island.

More than 300 Turkish troops became more and more respectful and took the initiative to take on the task of opening the way.

The Song army had gradually become accustomed to the environment of the island, and even if there were no serious roads, the march was not slow, and they arrived outside the first Pabra tribe before noon.

This tribe is about the same size as Lujia Village, surrounded by ditches, thorny hedges, and wooden fences, and behind the fences are densely packed with natives, wielding earthen bows and javelins.

To the north of the tribal village, there are still old and young women and children who are evacuating, and many young and strong natives with weapons are also rushing to support.

The Song army did not intend to surround it, but only lined up in an orderly manner more than 30 zhang away from the southern wall, and assembled bed crossbows and whirlwind cannons.

The whirlwind cannon is also a kind of trebuchet, the structure is relatively simple, as long as the support rod is inserted into the ground to be fixed, and then the detachable cannon tip parts can be installed, and the rope is pulled by ten people when launched, and the five-kilogram projectile can be projected to thirty or forty zhang away.

Zeng Ba stood on the command platform that had just been set up, observed for a while, and estimated that there would be no more than five hundred natives in the village at most, which was not challenging at all, and he couldn't help but touch his chin and said lightly, "Pass the order, hurry up, and destroy this village for lunch!" ”

Fu Yixin, who came with the army, originally planned to send people to persuade him to surrender first according to the practice of the Central Plains, but since Zeng Ba said so, he felt that it would be better to give the natives a dismount first, so he did not object.

While the Song army was preparing for an attack, the leader of the Pabra tribe, Ganmaha? Ma Huo also arrived with the strongest warriors among more than twenty clans.

Unlike the loose Babuza tribes, the Pabra tribe has a unified chieftain, and it is basically the Ganmaha family, which has a certain organizational ability.

When Ma Huo saw thousands of Song troops lined up in a tight and complex military formation under the command of dazzling banners and golden drum slogans, he only felt his scalp tingle, and his breathing became heavier and heavier.

Everything in front of him made him realize that the Song people were ten million times stronger than he imagined, but he didn't know whether he wanted to provoke him, and now it was too late to regret it.

Seeing that most of the warriors in the clan were also frightened, Ma Huo could only bite the bullet to boost morale.

Wielding the sword sent by the overseas people, he hurried back and forth on the inside of the fence, shouting and agitating loudly, and finally made the warriors no longer in a daze and ready to meet the attack of the Song people.

Zeng Ba saw this scene and became interested, "There are a lot of chicken feathers on his head, and it shouldn't be the Tu Chief who jumps up and down, right?" ”

Fu Yixin naturally saw it, "It should be, if possible, please try to capture it alive, maybe it will be beneficial to the aftermath in the future." ”

Zeng Ba just nodded, no one can say for sure what happened on the battlefield, whether he can be captured alive or not depends on the luck of the chieftain himself.

Immediately, the subordinate officers reported that they were ready, and Zeng Ba drew his sword for a while, "Attack!" Flatten the enemy village! ”

The loud sound of the horn soared into the sky, and the huge killing machine kicked off.

Twenty whirlwind cannons were fired in unison, black canisters of fire oil streaked across the sky, some in the middle of the wooden fence, some falling in front of the wooden fence, shattering and splattering a thick liquid with a pungent smell.

Only five or six unlucky natives were injured by the fragments of the clay pot, but Ma Huo and all the natives did not dare to take lightly what the Song army had sent them, even if they did not understand what the liquid was for.

The whirlwind cannon was quickly reloaded, and immediately launched twenty more canisters of fire oil, while two hundred archers under the cover of the shield wall in the front row threw the already lit gunpowder arrows.

The native warriors also shot arrows to counterattack under Ma Huo's order, but their earthen bows were too backward, and they were not extravagant enough to use iron as arrowheads, and they were already very weak when they floated to the front of the Song army's formation, and they were bounced away when they put on their shields, even if they crossed the shield wall and fell into the more than a dozen of the formation, they could not help the Song army's iron armor at all, and did not achieve any results.

The gunpowder arrows of the Song army were not originally intended to kill or injure people, but they were also projectiles, but after they fell, many of them pierced into the bodies of the unarmored natives, and then they were burned by the flames of barbecue.

Of course, there were still more gunpowder arrows that did their job, igniting all the fire oil, turning large wooden fences and thorn bushes into a sea of fire, and the native warriors who were stained with fire oil and didn't know how to run away also became fire men.

The raging flames drove all the native warriors who had fallen into panic and confusion away from the vicinity of the fence, faintly collapsing.

Zeng Ba pinched his chin hard, and suddenly felt that he was indeed a little too bullying.

But to fight, of course, you have to go all out, after all, although the Song army has an absolute advantage in equipment, but the natives are not without the ability to fight back, especially their javelins, even if they don't have an iron spear head, if they can be thrown, there is a high probability that they can penetrate the leather armor.

If you can use the advantage of weapons and range to abuse the natives, then why not.

At this time, Ma Huo also understood that his own village could not play any defensive role at all, but could only be beaten if he stayed here, and the casualties of the warriors in the clan also aroused his ferocity, so he decided to launch a counterattack.

He was not stupid, he did not plan to harden the front of the Song army, but divided more than 400 people into two groups, from the east and west directions, and then attacked the Song army from both wings, believing that with the bravery and fearlessness of his own warriors, as long as he could rush into hand-to-hand combat, he would definitely be able to kill the Song people.

It's a pity that all his actions fell into Zeng Ba's eyes, and he immediately ordered the flat formation to become a goose marching formation.

Ma Huo personally led a section to the west, and rushed towards the Song army in a chaotic manner, but before he could get closer, he was full of incredulity to find that the Song army was still facing him head-on, and the shield wall was tightly closed without any flaws.

This Ma Huo is really iron, you must know that even the Mongols who fought all over the world were unwilling to directly attack the Song army's infantry formation.

Supposedly, this courage is not sung by a certain Elin......

Ma Huo had a retreat in his heart, but when he saw that the warriors around him were all up, he just gritted his teeth and continued to rush forward.

Zeng Ba, who was on the command platform in the Song army's formation, watched the natives rushing from both sides, with contempt on his face, intending to annihilate them in one fell swoop when he got close enough.

At this time, Fu Yixin opened his mouth and suggested, "Commander, the lower officials feel that it is better to defeat it, and then our army will follow and cover the killing, so as to save the attack of one stockade after another, after all, we have limited time and can't afford to delay it." ”

Zeng Ba thought about it for a while, and felt that it was reasonable, and it was a common tactic to reverse the army by defeating the army, so he ordered an attack when the natives were still more than 30 zhang apart.

Immediately, Ma Huo saw that the tight shield wall of the Song army suddenly cracked, and at each crack was first a person sitting, then a person kneeling, and the last person was standing, holding a weapon like a bow in his hand, and the arrows that shone with cold light were as dense as stars.

All of a sudden, the stars flew out all at once, and the sky was overwhelming.

Although it was not the best killing distance, it still set off a bloody storm among the natives, and a small half fell to the ground on the spot.

Just one volley made the natives frightened, whether they were injured or not, as long as they could still run, they immediately turned around and fled, and the speed was a few points faster than when they rushed in.

Zeng Ba shrugged, "Order, the third commander, the fifth commander immediately pursues!" The rest of the troops, advance in an orderly manner, and the Turkish army cleans up the battlefield! Looks like this lunch has to be postponed......"

This pursuit, chased until the evening, the road broke seven villages, only the south bank of Dajia Creek, the Pablaben village on Haifeng Mountain.

Some people died, but not completely......