In addition to production, the Hai tribe has never stopped its large-scale military training.
Why did Ma Yue emphasize flying spears instead of flying stones? With the advent of bamboo, the range of flying spears far exceeded that of flying stones. This was inevitable. Flying stones, a projectile weapon that relied solely on physical strength, were inevitably gradually eliminated by the times.
Unfortunately, Lu Da's research on bows and arrows hasn't yielded any breakthroughs yet. Don't worry, the grassland tribes' bows and arrows are just so-so, and flying spears are enough for now.
A large number of easy-to-make wooden frame vine shields were armed to the Sea Tribe’s troops. In this era, were bows and arrows a big deal?
"Haven't we reached Sun City yet?"
"Yes, the Flying Donkey Tribe has so many donkeys, and they are cheap. I really can't find any reason not to trade with the Flying Donkey Tribe." Hai's long-distance trading team returned, bringing back hundreds of donkeys.
"This is a good thing. Who cares where the Flying Donkey Tribe gets their donkeys from? We just need the good ones." Ma Yue didn't mind. The essence of trading is profit.
"We do need larger farmlands, larger animals, and more cavalry to fight and defeat the enemy." Hai also understood the future direction of the Hai tribe. Fighting the grassland tribe without cavalry would be foolish, wouldn't it? After all, humans can't outrun large, four-legged animals.
To defeat the enemy, you must be able to catch up with the enemy.
"Yes, in the spring, we will open up the fields over there. Will the grassland people come? We can't pin our hopes on the enemy's mercy. We must protect our crops as much as possible. Alas! In a war, who knows how many people will die."
Hai knew that Ma Yue's old problem had come back. Being soft-hearted is not a disease, as long as Ma Yue is not soft-hearted when it is important, it will be fine.
"Goddammit, we still have too few warriors."
The headquarters of the Hai tribe has 1,500 to 1,600 people, and those who can fight are not just able-bodied men, which add up to less than 700 people. Many of them are weak and half-grown children.
What else can we do? Population growth doesn’t happen overnight, and Ma Yue is also against explosive population growth.
To put it bluntly, the power of faith of Ma Yue, the charlatan, is limited. Ma Yue is only at the late stage of warrior cultivation, not enough to support receiving more power of faith. It seems that 3,000 people is the limit.
To break this limit, Ma Yue's cultivation level would have to rise again. If he rose again, he would reach the level of a high-ranking martial artist. In his previous life, even though Ma Yue's master had a natural spiritual root, he didn't reach the martial artist level, right?
Although the fields were full of spiritual energy in this life, and there were even enough spirit stones to rely on, Ma Yue did not dare to hope for such a high level of martial artist cultivation.
The cultivation of a martial artist does not increase lifespan. The biggest change, apart from the explosive doubling of spiritual awareness, is that if you have a spiritual weapon, you can swing it freely in the air and retract it freely when fighting within a distance of ten meters.
Fighting at the martial arts master level has a touch of divine power. The spiritual weapons in the hands of martial artists are not hidden weapons that disappear once thrown. After throwing them, they can still retrieve them with their own powerful internal strength and spiritual awareness. Isn't that terrifying?
Is it still early? Ma Yue's late-stage warrior cultivation was progressing smoothly. It was a bit slow, but it was still normal. As for when he would reach the peak of late-stage warrior cultivation, Ma Yue had no experience in this stage of cultivation and was unsure.
Of course, the bottleneck in Ma Yue's power of faith caused by his current cultivation limit doesn't mean the Hai Tribe can't continue to expand. Does a tribe have to be entirely comprised of fans of Ma Yue? Of course not. Three thousand fans is enough to control a large tribe.
The most important thing is that the senior leaders and backbone members of the Hai tribe are all fans of Ma Yue’s power of faith, so Ma Yue is not worried that the Hai tribe will get out of control.
The Sea Tribe has a population of 3,000 people here, and don't forget that there are thousands more people on the Kirishima side. Therefore, Ma Yue's control over the power of faith is not strong now.
Perhaps, in the future, he would face more situations like this. After all, Ma Yue had no idea how big the Sea Tribe could grow to.
From Ma Yue's own perspective, the power of faith is mainly to promote his own cultivation. Since the limit of the power of faith has been reached, Ma Yue certainly does not want to expand too rapidly. There is no need for that.
Is it true that bigger tribes are better?
According to Ma Yue, the Hai tribe is currently below the poverty line. They lack even basic food, let alone meat. Most of the tribesmen are half-starved. If they're so poor, why do they need so many people?
You should first develop enough arable land and livestock so that you can have a chance to feed more people, right? Instead of getting people first and then helplessly continuing to expand reproduction.
The Hai Tribe only had about a thousand acres of land, which was a pitiful thought. Fortunately, they had some livestock to supplement their income. Of course, without the lucrative industry of crude salt, the Hai Tribe would have been even more unable to survive.
Spring has truly arrived, and a huge test for the Sea Tribe is about to begin.
With plows and large livestock in stock, spring plowing began on both the east and west sides of Stone City. The main force of spring plowing was large livestock and plows, but what about the able-bodied men?
In addition to the salt-making teams, able-bodied men pushed plows to assist the wildebeests and donkeys in pulling them. Shields, spears, lances, and hurling stones—a variety of weapons—were laid out beside the fields. In the distance, numerous wildebeest scouts stood guard, arranged in echelons a few hundred meters apart. This echeloned vigil stretched for several thousand meters.
Once the grassland cavalry launches a large-scale raid, the able-bodied men of the Hai tribe in the cultivated land will have enough time to gather and fight the enemy.
Half farming, half defense, this is the current status of the Sea Tribe.
Ma Yue was not worried about the efficiency of farming. As long as there were enough large livestock and plows, the Hai tribe would reclaim as much farmland as possible on the grassland west of the city.
Grassland people, will you come? Come, a test of blood and fire, whether you can keep these arable lands or not, you will need to defend them with your lives.
"Here they come!" Ma Yue on the top of the city wall saw the warning fireworks in the distance.
"That's not right, you charlatan. The fireworks are thin, just one strand." said the high priest.
"Only 500 cavalrymen? Damn it! People from the grassland, you are too arrogant!" The second priest was depressed.
A large number of able-bodied men in the west of the city saw the warning fireworks and began to gather.
A squadron of deputy soldiers, composed of half-grown children from the city, also gathered their weapons, formed a formation, and marched out of the city. What for? There were so many wildebeests and donkeys outside the city? Shedding their extras and climbing onto their donkeys, the deputy soldiers were also cavalry, throwing spears and stones, dealing a heavy blow to the enemy.
Four hundred able-bodied men and two hundred half-grown children as cavalry. Okay, the enemy only has five hundred cavalry, let's test the current state of the Sea Tribe to see what happens.
In the east of the city, there was a second team of one hundred slightly thinner deputy soldiers, who also began to assemble as a reserve of one hundred wildebeest cavalry.
"Leave the city!" Faced with a serious crisis, Ma Yue could not stay out of it. He led the second team of deputy soldiers and finally rushed out of the Stone City.
In general, the formation of the Sea Tribe went relatively smoothly. After all, they had conducted such training many times and looked a bit like an army.
At least it's not a mob.
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