Chapter 315: Migration for Survival
"Kill!"
The sound of a desolate horn sounded over the field, accompanied by a roar, a heavy shadow surged, and countless knights on the steppe brandished their scimitars and rushed forward.
On the opposite side, soldiers wearing red armor and holding swords, guns, shields, and swords were neatly arranged in arrays, looking indifferently at the rushing knights at this time.
"Shoot!"
Orders came from behind, and soon, the sound of a bowstring trembling sounded, and then clusters of clouds drifted by, and countless fine arrows fell like raindrops towards the knights.
Puff puff!
In just an instant, hundreds of knights fell.
However, the charging knight legion was stunned by this scene, and still looked hideous and crazy, rushing towards the front.
The short distance between the two sides was quickly passed.
The thousands of knights at the front were like a sharp attack, and they slammed into the neat array. The huge impact force tore countless gaps in an instant.
The knights, together with the warhorse, collided with the solid defensive line, and in an instant the man turned on his back, and blood splashed.
The knights behind rushed in a swarm along the open passage, and fought fiercely with the red-armored soldiers behind the first front.
At this moment of fighting, behind those knights, there was a group of infantry armed with short spears and scimitars, wearing leather jackets and sweaters, quickly followed from the rear.
They crossed the junction of the arrays on both sides, and then followed the gap opened by those forward knights and smashed into the front array, rapidly expanding their results.
However, just as they wanted to kill, there was a slight vibration from the ground in the distance, and then like thunder, a piece of red-armored cavalry like fire carried a long heavy spear at this time, and came out from behind the array of red-armored soldiers, and fiercely chiseled into the infantry who were charging towards the red phalanx.
Bang bang bang!
A series of impacts collided, and countless Tibetan soldiers were knocked away by that terrifying force, and then before they could fall to the ground, the iron hooves of the heavily armored war horse stepped on the next Fan man, and instantly trampled them into flesh.
The infantry soldiers who were charging were torn apart by the red tide in an instant.
It was only a charge that had crushed these fierce people.
"Damn, it's these red-armored iron riders again."
Behind the large array of Tibetans, I watched a queue of 5,000 foot soldiers being torn apart by those red iron horsemen, and a middle-aged Tibetan man who was dressed differently from ordinary Tibetans, dressed in extremely luxurious clothes, and had fairer skin, smashed his fist on the command car.
These days, he led his army to fight against those Zhou people, and repeatedly achieved some results each time, but in the end he was crushed by the Red Armor Iron Cavalry.
After several failures, his heart was already full of resentment and a little fear of this red iron horseman.
"Uzi, don't be angry."
At this moment, a fanning man next to him, who was also imposing and richly dressed, walked over, patted the shoulder of the Fang man named Wuqi, and said in a deep voice: "Those Zhou people's red-armored iron horsemen have not been arrogant for long.
I have sent someone to contact the Huyan Ministry, and the King of Huyan has agreed to send their Xuanjia wolf rider over.
At that time, there will be a Xuanjia wolf riding on it, which will be enough to compete with these red-armored iron horses.
And without these red armor iron cavalry to stop it, only the remaining Zhou soldiers are not our opponents at all.
As long as the main force of the Zhou people is broken, no matter how strong the remaining red armor iron cavalry is, it will not be able to save the overall situation.
Hexi County must be ours. ”
Qingyan said confidently.
This time, the people on the snowfield marched southward and invaded the two counties of Hexi and Longxi in Zhou.
The initiator and commander of this invasion is the Huyan Department in Qingyan's mouth.
The Huyan tribe is a large tribe of the first class in the snow field, and the population of the tribe has exceeded one million, which is an unimaginably large population in the snow field dominated by nomadism, fishing and hunting.
It is precisely for this reason that the leader of the Huyan tribe is even more respected as the king.
Together with three other tribal leaders with a population of more than one million, they are jointly known as the Four Kings of the Snow Plains.
These four kings ruled the entire snow field, and each king ruled hundreds of thousands of miles of plateau snowland, with countless cattle, sheep and horses, as well as countless vassal tribes like stars.
It's just that it is precisely because of this that when the torrential rain and floods of the prairie last summer came, the four kings who were in charge of the entire snowfield tribe also bore the brunt of the livelihood problems of the entire tribe and the countless tribes that vassal their own tribes because of their own huge responsibilities.
A major flood destroyed the grain grown by the Tibetan people in the snowy valley and submerged countless cattle and sheep.
Most of the food and goods stored by the tribes were destroyed by a flood.
In the face of this natural disaster, how to survive after the flood has become a difficult problem for all tribes.
So after deliberation, or rather nothing to discuss, all the tribes that survived the catastrophe reached a consensus.
That is, relying only on their own food and property reserves, they will not be able to survive this second half of the year.
If you want to survive, if you want to pass on your tribe, you have to go out and grab it.
In the vicinity of the snow field, the richest and the most grain production, the only one who has the ability to help the many tribes in the snow field tide over this difficult time is only the Zhou State.
So after reaching a consensus, last year, King Tieli, one of the four kings closest to the Zhou State, led the Tieli tribe and its vassals to launch a vast invasion and attack on the Zhou State.
The 100,000 elites of the Tieli tribe and the 300,000 vassals formed the first wave of invasion to attack the Zhou State.
It's just a pity.
The attack of the Iron Force Department only went smoothly at the beginning, successfully breaking more than 30 Zhou cities and plundering a large amount of grain and slaves.
But then when the Zhou army was transferred, the city captured by the Tieli Department was quickly taken back by the Zhou people, and the army led by them was also defeated and suffered heavy losses.
In the end, the 400,000 troops who went out together only escaped back after three successive defeats, and it is not too much to say that they were completely annihilated.
Because of this, the Iron Force Department was directly injured.
With so many soldiers and horses lost at once, and without so many young men, the power of the Iron Force Department instantly shrank by one-third.
If it weren't for the other party's divine warriors who came back safely, I am afraid that they would not even be able to keep the position of one of the original four kings.
The Iron Force Department will also be swarmed by the other three kings and completely eaten.
However, even if the Iron Force Department was not destroyed because of this, such a defeat still shocked countless Fan tribes who were about to move, so that their hearts that originally went north with them and rushed down the snow field to rob the Zhou people cooled a lot.
Those Zhou people are rich. But the strength is just as terrifying, and it is not something they can easily plot.
Although a major flood caused many Tibetan tribes to suffer heavy losses, compared with the loss of one-third of the entire tribe's military force, many Tibetan people feel that today's difficulties are not impossible to endure.
After all, not all of their cattle, sheep and grain are gone.
This year, save a little frugality, and then look for more food on the snowfield, and at the same time annex other tribes, plunder their food, and your own tribe can barely survive by driving out some old and weak.
If you really count its losses, it is far inferior to the losses of the Iron Force Department attacking the Zhou people.
And because of this.
Although after the defeat of the Tieli Division, the other three kings also sent some soldiers and horses to help prevent the Zhou people from taking advantage of the situation to attack the snow field and invade the territory of the Tibetan people.
But other than that, there is no superfluous action.
A war that could have engulfed the entire snowfield was thus extinguished.
However, providence makes people.
Many Tibetan tribes originally planned to grit their teeth and survive for two years to survive the losses and impacts caused by this great flood.
But just last winter, a cold wave that was far more severe than before quietly descended on this world.
The terrible wind and snow froze to death the cattle and sheep of various tribes, and also froze to death a large number of Tibetan people who lacked sufficient means to protect themselves from the cold.
A wave of cold wave fell, and on the grassland, most of the remaining cattle and sheep of various tribes died.
Their last bit of food is gone.
At this point, all the Tibetan tribes know that it is no longer a question of whether they can retreat or not.
It's a matter of not robbing, everyone is going to die.
Under this natural disaster, the Four Kings of Snow Plains quickly reached a consensus.
The various tribes gave up the past hatred and contradictions, worked together with each other, and together attacked the two counties of Hexi and Longxi of the Zhou State, robbed the Zhou people of food and materials, and used the reserves of those people under the mountain to help their tribes tide over the difficulties.
So based on this consensus, after the snow receded and spring began this year, the Huyan Ministry followed the Tieli Department and attacked the Zhou State first.
King Huyan led 200,000 warriors from his tribe, as well as 500,000 warriors from other tribes who accompanied his vassals, totaling 700,000 horses, to the north to conquer the Zhou people.
Among these 700,000 people, Huyan led his direct subordinates and some vassals, with 500,000 people as the main force, to attack Longxi County, the gateway of Guannei County, the capital of Zhou State.
In addition, the Ministry of Iron Force also made up 300,000 people to fight Longxi County together.
The remaining 200,000 people of the Huyan Department were used as partial divisions to attack the adjacent Hexi County.
The leader of this partial division is the two tribes of Wuqi and Qingyan in front of him.
His tribe, in the grassland, is also a large tribe with a population of more than 300,000.
With all his might, he was able to dispatch more than 50,000 warriors.
This partial division of Hexi County is composed of the warriors of their two divisions as the core, plus the warriors of some small tribes.
It's just that although there are many warriors in the Wuqi and Qingyan tribes, they are not those big tribes with a population of more than one million after all, and their strength is so poor after all.
Just like the red-armored iron cavalry that Uqi said just now, such an elite cavalry made their two 200,000-strong armies helpless.
Because the Red Armor Iron Cavalry of the Zhou State was a powerful elite that was created just now after spending countless resources and effort.
Within the Red Armor Iron Cavalry, the strength of any knight has reached the third-rate level of martial arts, that is, he has practiced two serious cultivations.
This kind of strength is enough to serve as the elder protector of a local gang in a small county town.
On the rivers and lakes, he can also be called a good hand.
With the elite of soldiers of this strength, it can be imagined that it is powerful.
And so it is.
With the national strength of the Zhou State, it took countless efforts, and the final construction of the Red Armor Iron Cavalry was only five hundred.
But it was these 500 iron horsemen, on the battlefield in recent months, that brought those countless nightmares.
There were just 5,000 foot soldiers, but in the face of the charge of 500 red armored iron horsemen, they were broken by a single blow.
Five thousand warriors were killed more than two thousand in an instant.
Under that terrible torrent, any obstacle seemed so powerless.
And a similar scene has been staged on the battlefield on these days, I don't know how many times.
The number of warriors who died under the five hundred red armor iron horses alone could not have changed to twenty or thirty thousand.
The so-called one enemy is nothing more than that.
It is precisely by relying on this elite army of soldiers and horses that on the side of Hexi County, although those Zhou people only have 50,000 elite soldiers and about 100,000 people, and the troops are much worse than their own side, they are not afraid to fight.
Not only did he not defend the city, but he took the initiative to lead the soldiers and horses out and fight with them.
But that's the case, those Zhou people have a disadvantage in terms of troops, and if they really fight, it is they, the Tibetan people, who suffer.
200,000 warriors can't beat the opponent's 150,000.
This huge gap in reality made Wuqi and Qingyan a little unacceptable.
They subconsciously ignored that the so-called "warriors" in their tribes were actually herdsmen who usually farmed and herded horses, and there was not much difference in essence between those farmers who were temporarily recruited by the Zhou people.
At most, the herdsmen of the Fan people are brave, but the weapons and discipline of the brave soldiers of the Zhou people are better, and it is difficult to say on both sides, who is strong and who is weak.
Under this kind of soldier quality, the Zhou people have 50,000 elites, and with 100,000 people's bravery, their strength is actually not inferior to them.
Qingyan just stubbornly believed that the reason why the other party was so strong and why his side couldn't open the situation for a long time was because of the Zhou people's red armor iron horse.
It was by relying on this powerful cavalry that the Zhou people were able to block their attack.
As long as this cavalry is defeated or delayed, then relying on the warriors under his command, he will definitely be able to defeat the cowardly Zhou people, break through their cities, plunder their food and wealth, abuse their women, and win this war.
Qingyan firmly believes this.
Therefore, in the face of Wuqi's anger, after receiving a reply from the Huyan Department and learning the news that the Xuanjia Wolf was about to arrive, his heart was full of confidence.
The Xuanjia Wolf Cavalry of the Huyan Department is also composed of powerful warriors, and the strength of the soldiers in it is not inferior to that of the Red Armor Iron Cavalry.
Although the number is a little less, there are only three hundred horses in the entire Xuanjia Wolf Ride, but it is enough to drag the Red Armor Iron Horse.
As long as he can hold back the other party, then Qing Yan can lead the warriors to break through the Zhou army in front of him who dares to stop him, and then turn around and destroy this hateful red armor iron cavalry.
"I hope so."
Just as Qing Yan was thinking about victory in his heart, Uqi heard his comfort, calmed down some of the anger in his heart, turned around, and sighed slightly: "The food left over by our clan can only be eaten for another month at most.
But now we are robbing Hexi, but we are blocked here.
If you can't quickly break through the Zhou army in front of you, then as long as it drags on for another month, the tribe will face a desperate situation of running out of food.
By then, your tribe and my tribe will be destroyed. ”
When Qing Yan heard this, his face was also difficult to look at.
The reason why they actively went down the mountain and mobilized all the adult men in the tribe was because there was not much food in the tribe, and it was time to come out and grab it desperately.
But now they have been dragged here for almost two months.
For two months, no inch can be entered.
But the tribe is running out of food.
If they can't make a breakthrough and grab enough food from the Zhou people, then the fate of the Wuqi and Qingyan tribes will definitely not be much better.
It is also normal to die directly.
"You can definitely win, you have to win."
Qingyan turned his head to look at Wuqi, his eyes seemed to be burning, he gritted his teeth, and said word by word.
And just as the war was going on on on their side, the two were talking.
On the high snowfield, one tribe after another is slowly migrating north and south at this time.
These migrating tribal teams were like flowing water, gradually converging from far to near at this time, in the direction of the neighboring Zhou Kingdom.
Just like the tribes of Uqi and Qingyan.
The entire snowfield, all the tribes of the Tibetan people, in order to survive, began to migrate at this time.
The Huyan Department and the Tieli Department in front are only the vanguards, and after the two of them, there are also the Zhenyan Department and the Duosi Department, which are also the four kings.
At the same time, in addition to the Four Kings and their vassals, there were a large number of other tribes that were not under their jurisdiction, but who also heard the news and flocked from all over the place.
Above the entire snowfield.
Tens of millions of people gathered into a torrent, and at this time, just like the great flood last year, it poured towards the Zhou State.
For Zhou Guo, this is also a catastrophe that will lead to life if you can't stop it, and death if you can't stop it.
The war for the right to live has just begun.
……
The thunder rumbled, and the summer rain began to arrive.
It was already April, and just when the Zhou State and the Fan people in the north were in full swing, Lu Yuan, who was tens of thousands of miles away, also received a message from Xichuan County at this time, and the doppelganger Huang Xuan sent a message through his divine thoughts.
"The people of the snowy fields came down the mountain to attack and plunder the villages and towns below the mountain?"
After Lu Yuan received Huang Xuan's report, he couldn't help but be stunned.
Those Tibetan people who lived on the plateau and rarely intersected with Xichuan County suddenly descended the mountain at this time, and also put on a posture of plundering and invading.
This sudden event, I have to say, was somewhat unexpected to him.
At the same time, he had to think of the terrible war going on in the Zhou Kingdom in the north.
Could it be that now the state of Chu is also going through this catastrophe?
At the thought of this, Lu Yuan was shocked.
"Check, let people check it out immediately."
He pulled his mind and immediately communicated with Huang Xuan, who was thousands of miles away, and gave him an order.
"Also, immediately mobilize troops and horses to exterminate those who came down the mountain. At the same time, the main roads should be strictly guarded, and they must not be allowed to descend the mountain. ”
Lu Yuan made arrangements.