Chapter 401: Build a strong camp and fight a stupid battle.

People know the warmth and coldness of the world. When faced with many things that cannot be distinguished as good or bad, the attitude of trying to do well or bad becomes particularly important.

For example, when the Horse Tribe came to surrender, how the Fire Tribe should respond was not only seen by all the Fire Tribe Alliance, but also by those small tribes that sent people to study in the Fire Tribe Alliance Academy, and even by every tribe in the Sword Tribe Alliance.

It can be said that the attitude of the Fire Tribe towards the Horse Tribe will make people see clearly whether the Fire Tribe has a broad mind or a vindictive mind.

At the beginning, the Eighth Generation Shaman did not see through this point, including the gifts and comforts to the Horse Tribe, which were only done after the Fifth Xuan pointed it out.

And the Fifth Xuan did not say too much, but silently watched the Eighth Generation Shaman's actions, to see when he could see through all this.

However, the not-so-sudden arrival of the Fox Tribe broke the Fifth Xuan's observation.

Unlike the Horse Tribe, which was good at running and did not give the Fire Tribe enough time to react to its arrival, the Fox Tribe migrated much more slowly.

Due to the slow speed of the Fox Tribe, it attracted the attention of the Sword Tribe, which gathered some tribes that had grudges against the Fox Tribe and started to pursue the Fox Tribe.

This time, the Eighth Generation Shaman did not ask the Fifth Xuan for advice, but directly organized an army of 10,000 totem warriors, commanded by Zhuo, to rescue the Fox Tribe that was fleeing towards the Fire Tribe.

The composition of the 10,000 totem warriors was extremely complex, including 2,000 Fire Tribe totem warriors, 2,000 Wolf Tribe warriors, 2,000 Four-Corner Cavalry, 2,000 Horse Tribe warriors, 1,000 Snake Tribe warriors, and 1,000 miscellaneous troops from the remaining tribes.

Fearing that this complex composition would be difficult to control, the eighth generation witch personally found the wolf witch, hoping that he could follow and coordinate.

The wolf witch was the strongest among all the witches, and could ride the ghost wolf for a long time, so he was the best choice among all the witches.

In fact, the wolf tribe has always had a tradition of witches participating in wars. The previous generation of wolf witches could not get pregnant because of fighting, so the wolf witch agreed immediately.

The army set out, and all the tribes sent people to see them off. This was the first real army of the Fire Tribe Alliance, and it was hard to guess how strong it was.

Zhuo was very careful along the way. He knew that he had no talent for generals and could not make a situation like the fifth and sixth generation leaders who were able to cross the battlefield. He also did not have the strong fighting power like the Shi leader who could crush everything. So he asked Huo Tuteng for advice before going on the expedition.

Build a strong camp and fight a stupid battle.

This is the six-word mantra given to him by the Fifth Xuan. It is the tactics of Zeng Guofan who thought he could not fight.

Zhuo did not have the comprehension of Baicao Wu or Chuanmo Wu. He studied with the Fifth Xuan for a whole night before he understood the meaning of these six words.

After the expedition, Kong Shi often murmured the six-word mantra, which made the beast look down on him.

Li suggested to march quickly to the battlefield, but Zhuo rejected his idea, which made the two of them part unpleasantly. In the end, the wolf wizard forcefully suppressed the dissatisfied Li.

Zhuo thought about it and felt that such a Li might cause problems in the camp, so he assigned him a thousand wolf cavalrymen to cholera the lairs of the Knife Tribe Alliance that attacked the Jiehu Tribe.

Zhuo did not act alone, but discussed with the wolf wizard, and said that the two of them cooperated in this way last time, and because of the division of troops, they got along well and there was no problem.

The wolf wizard thought about Li's character, and finally agreed with Zhuo's opinion, and Li was satisfied with it.

The beast left with a thousand wolf cavalrymen, and the ten thousand men became nine thousand men. Zhuo did not stop there, and selected five hundred men from the horse tribe and the wolf tribe respectively as scout cavalrymen, and let them explore the road ahead and the battlefield ahead.

The two tribes were not subordinate to each other, but explored according to their own abilities, which was Zhuo's caution.

He was afraid that there would be problems with the horse tribe, so he did not dare to let only the horse tribe team explore the path, but he did not abandon the horse tribe, because this tribe was familiar with all the people in the sword tribe alliance on this battlefield.

The two teams of scout cavalrymen passed on the news from time to time, and Zhuo asked the wolf witch who had learned to draw and Arabic numerals to help him organize the data, and he shuttled between the tribes every day to mediate.

With Zhuo's careful arrangement, the whole team did not have any barriers due to unfamiliarity with each other, and slowly marched towards the battlefield.

While moving slowly forward, Zhuo got good news.

Because of the news of the support of the Fire Tribe, the Fox Tribe became much braver. At the same time, they knew that the support of the Fire Tribe would take time, and if they continued to escape like this, they might be killed by the Sword Tribe and their enemies before they could get support.

Therefore, the Fox Tribe simply went all out and conspired with some tribes with good relations to rebel together. The tribes

involved included the Diao Tribe, the Niu Tribe, the Hua Tribe, and the Xue Tribe. Among them, the Diao Tribe and the Xue Tribe were both large tribes, and the sudden rebellion really caught the Sword Tribe off guard.

When some of the small and medium-sized tribes among the trackers saw that the Fox Tribe had become less easy to fight, they began to work without putting in any effort to avoid tribal losses. As the forces

of the Knife Tribe Alliance weakened, the pursuit of the Knife Tribe Alliance was basically dispersed. In the end, except for the Tiger Tribe and the Mountain Tribe, the other tribes began to have other thoughts. As a result,

the two sides were evenly matched, and the Fire Tribe Alliance Army, which slowly entered the battlefield, became the force that determined the outcome of this battle.

Zhuo did not expect that slow marching would have such advantages, but since the advantages had already appeared, Zhuo simply slowed down again.

However, it was hard to say if there was no reason for the slowdown, so he began to sweep the small and medium-sized tribes on the road.

Generally, tribes with 1,000 to 3,000 people are small tribes, and tribes with 3,000 to 5,000 people are medium tribes. With such manpower, they could not withstand the sweep of the Fire Tribe Alliance Army, so many tribes began to surrender.

Surrender requires attitude, you can't just surrender when you say so, so some small and medium-sized tribes promised to offer food.

This was very sincere, but Zhuo did not accept all of it, but wiped out half and only accepted the other half, and at the same time asked these small and medium-sized tribes to send people to fight with him.

A medium-sized tribe of 3,000 to 5,000 people may only have more than a thousand warriors, and they are the main force to protect the tribe, let alone the small tribes, so when they heard Zhuo wanted people, they were silent.

"Not many, 80 people from small tribes, 300 people from medium tribes, just follow me to kill the tribe."

After Zhuo said this, these small and medium-sized tribes finally gave in and sent warriors to follow.

Zhuo directly broke them up and integrated them into the army, and forbade them to talk too much to avoid private conspiracy, and then set off to move forward.

In this way, he swept through more than a dozen small and medium-sized tribes along the way, and gathered more than 2,000 people to the battlefield. The team has exceeded 10,000 people.

The increase in the number of people did not push the situation to an irreversible point. After all, these 2,000 people were totem warriors from small and medium-sized tribes, and their totems were not even spirit totems.

But even so, the impact was still quite shocking, because he represented that the unity of the Sword Tribe Alliance was shaken.

When he arrived at the battlefield, the first thing Zhuo did was not to set up a battle formation to confront the Sword Tribe and some of his allied tribes, but to find a flat place to station.

After the team settled down, they immediately hung the logos of all the tribes participating in the battle on long sticks. Each tribe had a long stick, with the highest logo of the Fire Tribe in the middle, and the logos of the tribes in the Fire Tribe Alliance on the left and right.

In front of these logos were the logos of small and medium-sized tribes in a row, which were placed in the most conspicuous position by Zhuo.

This really shocked the Sword Tribe Alliance, especially the small and medium-sized tribes in the alliance that participated in the battle, who were discussing it.

"Let the Horse Tribe communicate with the Fox Tribe. The two tribes are 500 steps apart, and they should be prepared for long-term stationing." Zhuo

looked at the somewhat chaotic Fox Tribe Alliance, and his eyebrows slightly wrinkled, until his eyes swept over the equally chaotic Sword Tribe Alliance station, he felt better.

The Fire Tribe’s camp was very neat, and the entire camp was divided into several groups in the shape of a military group. Each tribe knew its own position and the standard spacing when setting up tents.

Taking steps as units, the camp that was finally built could not be said to be horizontal and vertical, but at least the four outer corners were neat.

Both the Fox Tribe and the Sword Tribe Alliance were quite confused about the Fire Tribe’s approach, but they were still amazed at the neatness of the Fire Tribe’s camp, and the leaders of the two teams also knew how difficult it was to arrange the teams like this.

Not to mention the noise caused by the combination of different tribes, even if their own tribes were lined up alone, it would not be as neat as the Fire Tribe Alliance’s camp.

Such a shock did not make the Sword Tribe Alliance timid, but it was a tonic for the Fox Tribe.

The leader of the Horse Tribe came back soon and said that the leader of the Fox Tribe wanted to meet the leader here, but Zhuo refused for two reasons.

First, he was busy with military affairs, and he had to guard against the sudden attack of the Sword Tribe Alliance when he first arrived, but at the same time, he was also preventing the Fox Tribe from pretending to surrender.

Secondly, Zhuo said that he was not a tribal leader or a witch, and his authority was not equal to that of the Fox Tribe. His military order was to help the Fox Tribe retreat safely to the Fire Tribe, so he didn't have to meet.

Both reasons were reasonable, and the leader of the Fox Tribe did not force it, so he guarded his own camp with peace of mind.

The three parties were deadlocked here for two days. Seeing that the Fire Tribe Alliance neither took the initiative to send troops nor helped the Fox Tribe retreat, the Sword Tribe Alliance simply wasted time here.

After all, this was near the Sword Tribe, and he had the advantage of time and place. The leader of the Sword Tribe thought he could afford to waste time.

He was a cautious person and decided to observe for a while.

Zhuo saw that the other side did not take the initiative to attack, so he began to dig trenches inside the garrison and make chevaux de frise. These were all taught by the Fifth Xuan, and were the only way to defend in the wild.

Three days later, there was a commotion in the camp opposite. The next day, the Fox Tribe said that a tribe with good connections inside secretly told them that some tribal garrisons in the Sword Tribe Alliance were attacked by wolf cavalry, and asked if this was the method used by this side.

Zhuo saw two small tribes retreating from the Sword Tribe Alliance early this morning. When he heard the inquiry from the envoy sent by the leader of the Fox Tribe, he smiled and nodded in response.

It was not the first time that he had cooperated with the beast, and he still recognized the beast's ability to sneak attack.

When the news reached the Fox Tribe and the witch of the Fox Tribe knew about it, the former think tank of the Sword Tribe could not help laughing and said that there was no obstacle for him to withdraw from the Sword Tribe this time.

A wise man can see the big picture from the small details, and the witch of the Fox Tribe was obviously such a person.