Chapter 121: The Tribesmen
Shidwa's army captured a county town that had been established by the Khandi Khanate as a place for trade and trade with the interior of the dynasty.
After the Khnate was defeated by the Zili tribe in the alpine region of the north and moved westward, the county became a terra nullius, with a mix of different ethnic groups living in the interior and steppes.
Ready to use the county town as a place to live, Stonewa led his army to re-fortify the walls and fortifications.
Shi Dewa's army never harassed the people, and the rich merchants and magnates in the city were moved, and they took the initiative to go to the county government to donate silver, food and materials to Shi Dewa.
Shi Dewa, who has gained a firm foothold, is now most in short supply of military salaries and rations, and only with a large amount of food and salary can soldiers be recruited and the army expanded, so that it is possible to resist the invading army of King Wu Yun and King Hong Zhou Lizhong.
Shidwa thought of a way to earn silver, by hunting for precious animal pelts and exchanging them for merchants' silver.
There is a large dense mountain forest dozens of miles north of the county town, and there are many poisonous snakes and beasts in it.
When Shideva learned about this place, he came to the mountain forest with a thousand soldiers.
The mountains and forests are more than 40 square kilometers in circumference, and Shi Dewa and his team walked carefully into the mountains and forests from the edge of the southwest.
Soon he saw rabbits, and there were many crossbow archers among the soldiers brought by Shidewa, but it was difficult for rabbits to be shot if they ran left and right.
The team with little harvest continued to go deep into the mountains and forests, and after harvesting a few foxes and lone wolves, the soldiers became excited.
Their targets are leopards, black bears and tigers, all of which hide deep in the mountains and forests.
The team moved forward slowly, and if it weren't for so many people who were proficient in martial arts with sophisticated weapons, they would not dare to enter the center of the mountain forest.
The strange thing is that after walking in the mountains and forests for a long time, I didn't even see a leopard and a black bear.
The team continued to walk into the forest, which grew darker and darker.
I don't know how long it took to walk, but the team strayed into the lair of the Shadow Snake.
When one of the soldiers was bitten on the hind leg by a snake and soon his lips turned white and his breath was weak, the soldiers noticed that the trees around him were crawling with layers of snakes.
The soldiers were in confusion and turned and ran back. There was no fixed road in the mountains and forests, and some of the soldiers crashed into the trees in a panic, and the Shadow Snake fell from the trees and landed on the lone soldiers. Many of the soldiers were bitten by the Shadow Snake, and the soldiers ran even more frantically towards the mountains and forests.
Shi Dewa couldn't control the situation anymore, so he had to use enough internal strength to help the soldiers remove the Shadow Snake from their bodies, and then let the soldiers scatter and flee.
Stonewa had lost his sense of direction, and when he left the Shadow Serpent's lair, there was not a single soldier by his side. He chose a random direction and walked forward.
It was even darker in the mountains and forests, and it was dangerous to stay alone in the depths of the mountains and forests at night, so Shi Dewa wanted to get out of the mountains and forests before it got dark.
When it was already too dark to see the trees in the forest, Shidwa faintly saw some figures in front of him.
Thinking that he had encountered a soldier, Shi Dewa ran over.
When Shi Dewa approached the figures, he noticed that they were unusually tall and not diminutive soldiers.
The tall men also saw Stoneva, and Stonewa exclaimed, "Who are you?"
One of them said to Shidewa, "You are from the Xurui dynasty, what are you doing here?"
"I came to hunt in the mountains and forests, and I came across a nest of poisonous snakes, and I got lost after being separated from my companions. โ
After listening to Shdewa's words, the man spoke to the group for a while in a language that Shdeva did not understand, and then said to Shdewa, "Come here!"
Stonewa walked over and saw that the men were about his size. Shidwa seldom met anyone of his own size, and when he was feeling strange, the man who spoke to him said: "These are the Zili people from the north, who have occupied the heart of the Nadi Khanate. I was an official of the Xurui Dynasty, who used to live in the Khendi Khanate, and now I am an official of the Zili people. The station of these Zili tribesmen is more than forty miles north of this mountain forest, and I brought them to hunt in this mountain forest. We didn't go out of the mountains and forests before dark, we were trying to find a safe place to spend the night, you are too dangerous to be alone, stay with us tonight!"
Shi Dewa stopped at the foot of a high slope made up of several boulders with the group of Zili tribesmen, and more than 40 Zili people cut down all the trees in front of the high slope, and then used the cut tree trunks to set up a barrier in front of the high slope.
A few Zili people lit a fire in front of the tree trunk barrier that had been erected, and the fire burned for most of the night.
The darkness in the mountains and forests was gradually slipping away, and Shidwa could already see the faint shadows of the trees, and the night was about to bring the darkness back to the sky.
Shi Dewa and the awake Zili people breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and at this moment, a loud strange sound came.
The loud noise caused Shi Dewa and the forty or so Zili people to stand up, their weapons clenched in their hands.
In the blurred shadows of the trees, more than thirty huge black shadows walked towards Shi Dewa and more than forty Zili people.
The shadows were getting closer, and Stonewa could see that they were huge four-legged creatures.
Among this group of quadrupeds, the dozen or so quadrupeds walking in the innermost part are relatively short; the ten or so quadrupeds walking in the middle are much taller than those inside; and the outermost dozen or so quadrupeds are obviously taller, they are more than five feet tall and more than a zhang long, and they seem to weigh several hundred pounds.
It was a large herd of wild boars that had come out to feed, and as they walked, they smelled the scent of Shidewa and a group of Zili people, and then they walked here.
The two Zili tribesmen next to the dying fire saw the huge group of wild boars, screamed in fright, ran over the tree barriers, and returned to the middle of a group of companions at the bottom of the high slope.
A few tall wild boars in front of them quickly broke away half of the tree barrier and headed straight for Shidwa and a group of Zili people.
Shi Dewa was the first to rush out, he used enough internal force to exert ten percent of his strength with a long roar, and Cang Yutian's spear smashed into the neck of a wild boar at the front.
The boar that had been hit by Kura's spear fell to the ground, and Shi Dewa swung his spear and ran towards the other boar.
More than forty Zili people rushed out together after Shidewa rushed out.
The tree barrier still served as a barrier, preventing the wild boar herd from attacking the Shideva and Zili tribesmen.
The fierce Zili tribesmen, who lived by hunting, besieged a huge wild boar in a group, and in the blink of an eye, more than 40 Zili tribesmen and more than 30 wild boars started hand-to-hand combat.
It was supposed to be a bitter battle in which both sides were defeated and the people of Zili would not survive in the end, but the existence of Shidwa completely changed this outcome.
Shi Dewa held the Cangyutian spear, and after each roar, a wild boar fell.
The number of wild boars is decreasing, and the advantages of the Zili people are constantly expanding.
When the wild boar herd was completely wiped out, there were no deaths among the Zili people, only six people were seriously injured and more than a dozen people were lightly injured.
After the wild boar herd was wiped out, the sky was also bright, and the uninjured Zili people carried more than a dozen small wild boars towards the outside of the mountains and forests.
The leader of the Zili tribe dragged Shi Dewa to follow them, and Shi Dewa had to go with the Zili people.
After walking out of the forest, the Zili found their horses, and Shidwa returned to their camp with the Zili people.
Shi Dewa followed the leader of the Zili clan, a young man, and the former official of the Xurui Dynasty to a large tent.
The master of the big tent was the chief leader of the 120,000 Zili army in this camp, and as soon as the four of them entered the big tent, the young man came to the chief leader and spoke excitedly for a while.
After the young man had finished speaking, the leader of the Zili tribe stepped forward to speak to the chief leader. When the chief leader had finished talking to the leader, he came to Stonedva, looked at him in amazement, and said a few words.
The former official of the Xurui Dynasty said to Shi Dewa, "Shi Dewa! This is one of the five chiefs of the Zili tribe, the chief of the military camp. The young man is the son of the chief, and the chieftain thanks you for saving his son. He asks you what you want, and the chief promises to do anything for you. โ
After Shi Dewa understood everything, he said to the former official of the Xurui Dynasty: "You tell the chief that I don't have any demands, just send me back." โ
The official of the former dynasty said: "Shi Dewa, you have to think about it! The chief leader is powerful and powerful, and can fulfill any of your wishes, but you have thought about it, don't you have any wishes?"
The official's words reminded Shi Dewa, who remembered his situation, and his greatest wish now was to bring more than 10,000 soldiers and swordsmen back to the city of Qiqing.
Thinking of this, Shi Dewa said to himself: "Wellโโ! I have the greatest wish, but no one can help me!"
The official told the chief of Shi Dewa's words, and the chief immediately asked the official to ask Shi Dewa what he wanted.
When he learned of his wish, the chief of the Zili military camp said to him, "If you save my son, you will save my tribe, and my tribe will help you fulfill your wish." โ
For the sake of the lives of the 10,000 soldiers and the swordsmen, Shi Dewa said with a red face: "Chief Leader, can you help me break through the military camp of the Mao King Wu Yun outside the capital and send me home?"