Outside the capital of Xia

, Lin Jiang has decided to lead the army himself. He has not brought many people, only fifty guards and one hundred civilians, plus three hundred slaves as logistics soldiers.

In this era, this force is already very strong. The fifty guards are all full-time warriors, and the civilians are also half-time warriors, practicing martial arts on weekdays.

Of course, if the emperor leads the army in person, it will not only be this small number of people. Lin Jiang will also gather troops from various tribes. Each tribe will have at least ten or eight people, and as many as thirty or fifty people. Depending on the size of the tribe, it will be no problem to reach nearly a thousand people in the end.

"Yun, are the roads outside the capital so bad?"

A few dozen miles out of the capital, the road is difficult to walk, or there is no road.

"Your Majesty, there are no roads outside. There will be roads only when more people walk,"

Yun replied. He is the head of the business of Xia and the head of intelligence, responsible for collecting various intelligence of Xia.

Now the territory of Xia State is very large, radiating at least 7,000 to 8,000 miles. There are only tens of thousands of people in such a large area. You can imagine how sparsely populated this is. How can there be any roads? When more people walk, there will be roads.

"Then write it down. In the planning of Xia State, there must be roads in the future, and there must be roads for carriages to move forward,"

said Lin Jiang. You can't get fat in one bite. He has been tossing around for so many years, and Xia State only has tens of thousands of people. Forget about large infrastructure. It has to come slowly. However,

the plan must be finalized. Lin Jiang plans to wait until the population exceeds one million, then he will prepare for large infrastructure, and then spend one or two hundred years to thoroughly transform the environment of Xia State.

According to the current population growth rate, it is not difficult to have a population of one million. As long as there is enough food, the population can explode. People in this era get married very early, at the age of thirteen or fourteen. Now there are at least a few thousand newborns every year. In a few years, it can grow exponentially.

And when medical technology improves, the infant mortality rate will drop, and the mortality rate of pregnant women can also be reduced.

"Yes, Your Majesty,"

Yun replied respectfully. Yun was taught by Lin Jiang himself, and he had a blind worship of Lin Jiang. Lin Jiang's words were more useful than the imperial edict.

Because there was no road, the army advanced very slowly. When the tribes joined in, the more people there were, the slower they advanced. Lin Jiang simply sent people to open the way in front, open the way when they met the mountains, and build bridges when they met the water, so as to first make the prototype of the road. The tribe

where the accident happened was about five or six thousand miles away from Xiadu, and the exact distance was unknown, but it took Lin Jiang and his team almost three months to walk this distance, plus the month or so it took to send the news back, it was almost half a year.

So when Lin Jiang and his team arrived, they saw a ruined tribe, and it was burned, it should have been annexed by the enemy.

"Your Majesty, this tribe is called Bird, there are more than 130 people, and there are 20 warriors..."

Yun explained to Lin Jiang the strength of this tribe. A tribe of more than 130 people, 20 of them practiced martial arts, this strength was not bad, even an ordinary tribe of 400 to 500 people was not their opponent.

Because their weapons are of different generations, ordinary tribes are still using stone weapons or bronze weapons, while Lin Jiang has begun to popularize iron weapons to the tribe. Due to production reasons, not everyone can have one, but such a tribe has at least three or four iron weapons, and Yun has records.

"Casualties are inevitable, Yun, send someone to investigate, I want to know where the enemy's territory is."

Lin Jiang was indifferent. How can there be no deaths when the tribe expands? People die in Xia every day, and people are born or merged every day. If there were no deaths, the population of Xia would have exceeded 200,000 long ago.

Three days later, Lin Jiang knew the location of the enemy and took people to a mountain outside the enemy's tribe to look out. A few miles away, a huge tribe appeared in front of Lin Jiang.

This tribe is really big. There is even an earthen city in the middle, with rammed earth walls, but they are not high, and there are some thatched houses around.

The whole tribe is located next to a river, with flat terrain and fertile alluvial plains. The geographical location is very good.

"Your Majesty, what should we do?"

"Rest for one night and attack early tomorrow morning,"

Lin Jiang said calmly. He felt that he was a little arrogant, but he had the capital to be arrogant. He just had to crush them.

The night passed quickly. The next morning, Lin Jiang and his men appeared in front of the tribe. Nearly a thousand people were deployed.

The fifty guards were strictly trained and stood there like javelins. The civilian team could also maintain a certain formation, but the slaves and tribal troops were not good. They were in a mess.

Such a big noise soon alarmed the enemy, and soon, the enemy also appeared. They were the home team, and they had more troops, perhaps two or three thousand people, but they were basically in chaos, and their weapons were also varied, mainly bronze weapons.

"Advance"

Lin Jiang waved his hand, and fifty guards put their spears flat, and then marched forward in unison.

"Charge, charge"

The enemy took the lead in charging at a distance of one or two hundred meters, rushing out in a mess, without any formation at all. Seeing this scene, Lin Jiang knew that it was safe, and his fifty guards could defeat them.

During the charge, the enemy was also very chaotic. Some people overdrew their spears, and some stopped to shoot arrows, but the people behind squeezed forward. Before they could shoot, a large number of them fell down.

"Stop, shoot arrows"

Lin Jiang saw that the distance was only about forty or fifty meters, and waved his hand. Some of the hundreds of civilians took out bows and arrows, and the guards, except for the first row, also took out bows or crossbows.

A round of crossbow arrows was fired, and the enemy fell in front of him. After three rounds of firing, Lin Jiang also ordered to continue charging.

What followed was a one-sided massacre, especially the fifty guards, who hardly showed any martial arts. They only used a thrust to defeat the opponent.

"It's really unusual, there are masters."

Most of the enemies have collapsed, but a small group of people are still fighting, and their martial arts are not weak. Two of Lin Jiang's guards were killed, and one of them even has the strength of a congenital warrior.

"Captain of the guards, take him down."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Lin Jiang, as the chief of the guards, immediately flew out. This chief of the guards has been with Lin Jiang for more than ten years. He is almost as powerful as a congenital great perfection and is usually very low-key. The chief of the

guards flew to the man and chopped with a knife. The internal energy attached to the knife, forming a knife aura. The man raised his head to resist, but the whole person was chopped out.

"Uncle"

"Father"

Then Lin Jiang heard several exclamations, and his eyes lit up. This voice was pure Yunzhou dialect, the Yunzhou dialect of the immortal cultivation era.

"Don't kill him, capture him alive"

Lin Jiang immediately said loudly. The head of the guards originally wanted to finish him off, but after hearing this, he changed the back of his knife and slapped the man, knocking him unconscious.

"Attack, capture the enemy"

Lin Jiang commanded the others to continue the attack. The enemy's troops had collapsed and were fleeing in all directions, not even wanting to go home. The Xia people began to capture a large number of prisoners, but there must not be many who escaped.

Lin Jiang came to the master, grabbed the others, and took a look at the clothes on his body. It turned out to be silk, very exquisite, which made Lin Jiang even more curious. Although Xia country also has silk now, it is not so exquisite. The enemy should not have started from scratch, it must have been passed down from ancient times.

"Your Majesty, this is the enemy's weapon, it's very powerful, my sword is broken."

The chief guard took out the man's weapon and showed it to Lin Jiang. Lin Jiang took a look and had no doubt that this was the magic weapon from before, at least a top-grade magic weapon, or even a spiritual treasure, but it had lost other functions.

"I'll give it to you as a reward,"

Lin Jiang said casually, which surprised the chief guard. A precious sword was also very expensive in Xia Country, and could be exchanged for hundreds of slaves. Lin Jiang asked

the guards to restrain the other people and then rushed into the enemy tribe. In the center of the tribe, there was an earthen city with a square wall, about one or two hundred meters on each side. There were some trembling people standing on it. Someone shot an arrow at Lin Jiang, and Lin Jiang shot it away.

"Break"

Lin Jiang rushed directly to the city gate, and then slashed it with a knife. The violent internal energy surged out, and the knife in his hand changed color.

"Hoo"

The sword energy directly chopped the city gate into pieces. Seeing this scene, all the enemies on the city wall were stunned.

"Immortal"

"It's an immortal"

someone exclaimed. Lin Jiang looked at this scene with a smile on his face, but the next moment, he still had people rush into the earthen city to completely annex this tribe.

Many of the people Lin Jiang brought were the new generation of Xia country. They were accustomed to the language of Xia country and could not understand the enemy's words, so they did not react much. They just obeyed Lin Jiang's orders and rushed into the earthen city.