Chapter 142: Thousands of Horned Crocodile Beasts
"How credible do you think the idea of these two people is?" Lin Chong looked at the flickering light of the beast oil lamp in the tent and said to Xu Huang.
Xu Huang pondered for a moment and said, "I think no matter what the idea of these two people is, we have to try it, the situation in Xilin City that General Tan took out before is not much different from what these two people said!"
"The place where Xilin City is located is in the middle of Xilin County, coupled with the convergence of natural and artificially dragged rivers, so that the water here is dense, and the wanton stocking of crocodile beasts has also greatly changed the terrain here, turning it into a muddy swamp, although I have not personally seen it, but when General Tan introduced Xilin City, he repeatedly said that this swamp threatened. ”
"Xilin City is the only big city in Xilin County, if we want to pass through Xilin and occupy the other counties, we can't ignore here, so no matter how much the price is paid, we have to take it down, even if these two people plan to ventilate the news, it will not have a great impact on us, after all, the swamp surrounding Xilin City makes our plan to blitz Xilin City end without a problem, this battle is destined to be a tough battle!"
"And if they are really as they say, they can persuade the tribal warriors in Xilin City to fight back, it will be great news for us, with the help of these barbarians who are familiar with Xilin City, our success in taking Xilin City will be greatly increased, and they will not dare to do that, otherwise they will be slaughtered!"
Xu Huang said with a fierce glint in his eyes, Lin Chong also nodded when he heard this, and said: "If it is a swamp, it is not impassable, there are dozens of water system earth spirits in our army, if the matter fails, we can also run back!"
It didn't take too much time to conquer a few small tribes like the Black Forest tribe, especially with Gu Xugen taking the lead in front, I have to say that this person is quite familiar with several surrounding tribes, with him persuading the patriarchs of various tribes, and there are strong troops outside the border, and the results are naturally as they wish, but in order to prevent someone from privately ventilating and reporting that Lin Chong has left a team of 100 leopard riders around these tribes.
"Gumu Zabi, you kid is now majestic, and he has actually become the leader of our Qingbarian battalion, my big Anke can pick up the bravery, but I won't lose to you, if you don't give me a leader, I won't obey you!" A fourteen-year-old boy from the coyote department, Da Anke, brought the barbarian boys in the tribe who were nearly a hundred years old to the Black Forest Tribe.
Although Da Anke is only fourteen years old, he is burly and strong, like a calf, no less than the soldiers in the Chu army, and on the wolf tooth necklace hanging around his neck, the sharp wolf tooth mastiff tooth shows this guy's fierce record.
"Big Anke, my brother, you are here, I thought your timid cat was at home, and he didn't dare to come!"
"Hmph, you guy, I've always been afraid of heaven and earth, what don't you dare to come!" Da Anke said loudly in a loud voice: "I brought more than a hundred future warriors of the Coyote Department here, maybe you should give up the position of the big leader!"
"Okay, you stupid wolf, I don't have the time to entangle with you here, immediately take your people to the camp in the south, and then I will promise you a leader to lead the soldiers of your tribe, this time as long as Xilin City is taken, the general of the Chu army promised to let us set up a separate army, and Xilin City will not be the territory of the Xilin Crocodile Department, we will become the new masters there!"
"Oh, I said brother, these Chu people are the same as the Tianlong people, how can you trust them!"
"I don't think I heard what you said, if you shout, I won't be able to save you at that time, our small tribes have no power to fight back in front of others, so we won't lose more no matter what, and the other party will definitely keep its promise!" Gumu Zabi said firmly.
"How can you be so sure!"
"Because it's very simple, they need an example, if these Chu people want to conquer more tribes, then they need to be recognized by these tribes, and a person who doesn't even keep his promise will only make the tribes everywhere rebel against them, and no one will take refuge in them, so they won't keep their promises, as long as we obey them, then the merits we have established will be recognized by the other party, and we will be richly rewarded!"
"I hope what you said is right, but we really don't have any other choice, and I've long been unhappy with the Xilin Crocodile, these guys are too greedy! And they actually want us to sacrifice our women, this time to take Xilin City, I must grab a few Xilin women to serve me!"
"You guy!"
In three days, more and more Chu troops appeared from the Xilin jungle, and this completely extinguished the other minds of several marginal small tribes, and became more and more respectful, and after these few days of preparation, a team of 1,500 people also set off.
Xilin crocodile and other tribes in Xilin County, belong to the tributary relationship, Xilin crocodile department protects all the tributary tribes, and relies on the supply of these tribes to maintain a strong power, and those small and medium-sized tribes are mostly in order to survive, have to rely on Xilin crocodile department, in order to seek protection, to avoid being annexed, destroyed, but the price they pay is not cheap.
Like several tribes next to the jungle, their tribute is not the grain produced in the field, but the various beasts hunted in the jungle, and then they need to make a sacrifice once a month, because the Xilin crocodile has a large number of horned crocodile beasts, which is also the most powerful force of the Xilin crocodile.
And it is said that there is a horned crocodile king in the Xilin crocodile department, and it is also the beast god worshiped by the Xilin crocodile department, this horned crocodile king is very powerful, in the legends of their tribes, there is a story of this huge horned crocodile king destroying the tribe.
If it weren't for the strength shown by the Chu army, maybe there would really be a tribe with a ghost in their hearts, and when the time came, they would switch to the Xilin Crocodile Department, but obviously in the Chu army, the number of king beasts is quite a lot, and several king beasts that appeared one after another appeared under the advice of Gu Xugen, and received unexpected results.
In this team escorting a large amount of beast meat, there are also some Great Chu elites mixed in, although the number is only three hundred, but it is led by Xu Huang, Lin Chong, later Le Yi and Wang Yanzhang of the War Mastiff Army, there are also three Heavenly Spirit level powerhouses, and the rest are all middle-level spirit warriors.
Spirit warrior, refers to spiritual power, physical cultivation of double cultivation of soldiers, in the Great Chu Army, so that there are not many soldiers who cultivate both, and the two are not very contradictory, but also can play a complementary effect, and the spirit warrior is also divided into low, medium, high three, and the requirements of the low level are also the initial level of the earth spirit warrior, the intermediate level of the warrior, and the unequaled general, is the title above the spirit warrior, if this peerless warrior is more beautiful than the heavenly spirit during the Tianlong Empire, it is also more powerful.
The road was unimpeded, and it took two days of hard work for the team of 1,500 people to reach the outskirts of Xilin City, that is, the edge of Xilin Swamp District.
The swamp area is really vast, although I already have a rough idea in my heart, but when I saw it with my own eyes, I knew what the reason for this Xilin City was easy to defend and difficult to attack, the sun flickered on the water in the distance, and there were layers of ripples, and between the swamps, a curved road was not more than three zhang wide, at most, two big cars walked side by side, in this swamp, it was like a long bridge.
On both sides of the road, there is a large amount of black mud, a large area of mud does not make people suspicious, once someone steps on it, it will sink people into it, and this is not the most terrible, what is terrible is the horned crocodile beast hidden in this mud and water.
The horned crocodile can be said to be a big arm of this swamp, of course, it is indispensable to participate in the Xilin Department, in short, over the past few hundred years, this swamp area has become larger and larger, and now it occupies almost one-fifth of the area of Xilin County, and it is in the middle of the entire county.
"Look, there seems to be movement!" Scanning the Chu soldiers around, he suddenly noticed a strange movement, those horned crocodile beasts hidden in the water showed their heads one after another, and the horned crocodile beasts wrapped in a cloud of black mud couldn't help but move their hard mud shells and looked towards this fast-moving team.
"A lot of crocodiles!" The smell of blood was like a hearty and delicious meal, which immediately attracted countless crocodiles to rush around, but the speed of the crocodiles was not fast, but it didn't take long to do so, and there were more and more crocodiles around, no less than hundreds of crocodiles popping up, and as they advanced, there were more crocodiles.
"How many horned crocodiles are in this swamp, this is too much!" Looking at the changes on both sides, Xu Huang, Lin Chong, Le Yi and others couldn't help but be surprised, although it was also said in the information, but where did they see the truth with their own eyes.
As the plenipotentiary representative of the barbarians this time, the guide heard the surprise of several people, but said: "No one knows how many horned crocodile beasts there are here, but in this large swamp, there are horned crocodiles everywhere, and in Xilin City, there are three thousand horned crocodile warriors, those are all adult big horned crocodiles, in this swamp, they are simply kings!"
"There was once a big tribe nearby Tusi who wanted to occupy Xilin City and came to attack, and in the end the 100,000 barbarian army only escaped less than 10,000 people, and the rest were either killed or became food for these horned crocodiles!"
"And with the increasing number of these horned crocodiles, the life of our small tribes is becoming more and more difficult, this year compared to last year, there has been an increase of thirty percent of the beast meat tribute, if it weren't for the strength of the Xilin crocodile, we would have resisted a long time ago!"
"These horned crocodiles are very good!" Wang Yanzhang looked at these horned crocodiles, but he said without a head: "The crocodile skin is a good leather made of armor, strong, light, soft, and it also has a certain spiritual resistance, and the effect of the attachment formation is also better than that of the iron armor!"
The forbidden army under Wang Yanzhang belongs to the heavy armor army, of which the eight hundred war mastiff horses are all lightened heavy armor equipment, because the war mastiff cannot compare with the weight of large spirit beasts such as rock beasts, and the ordinary leather armor cannot meet the needs of the war mastiff army, especially although the population of low-level spirit beasts is large, but the fur is not suitable for armor making, but it is suitable for armor making, but it cannot meet the needs of a large number of equipment.
In addition to considering the combat performance of the army, logistics supply is also a big test, so high-quality leather armor is a treatment that can only be enjoyed by the generals of each department, while the army is armed with standard equipment.
Although the iron armor has good defense, it is criticized for its weight, flexibility, and still carving array psychic, but the advantage of the iron armor is that it can be manufactured in large quantities, and it is easy to meet the logistics, but when Wang Yanzhang said this, the eyes of Lin Chong and others lit up.