Chapter 1020 Hunting Ground Ambush (Part 2)
After escorting these people to the hunting ground camp of the Han tribe, Qubing left 500 warriors of the Shen Ce Guard to defend the camp and guard the prisoners of war. He also asked the people in the camp to skin the prey brought back, cut it up, and freeze it outside. When the time comes, they will be distributed to the three camps, so that every family in the north can get a piece of meat.
The meal standard of the prisoners of war was also changed, from two meals a day to three meals a day, but the corn tortillas for each meal were changed from the size of a palm to half a corn tortilla. Although it became three meals, the total meal volume was reduced by a quarter. However, even so, the cannibal prisoners of war were still very obedient and did not dare to make trouble.
After arranging these prisoners and spoils of war, Qubing and Youye set out again with the remaining 6,200 people. This time they would ambush the cannibals on the road leading to the southern valley in advance, and then capture the enemies who came again.
As the group walked on the road, Youye was still asking Qubing about the battle plan.
"Qubing, this time we are ambush the enemy in the open field, but there is no such canyon terrain, and there is no way to surround the enemy. How do you plan to fight this battle?
"Their transport team originally had 3,000 people. If according to your guess, if they mobilize helpers, there must be about 3,000 to 4,000 people, which adds up to 6,000 to 7,000 people. Maybe there are more people than us. How are we going to fight then?" Youye asked from the side. Qubing also looked confident.
He said to Youye beside him while riding on his horse.
"This battle is difficult, but it is also simple. Uncle You, you see, I am not going to ambush them at the ambush point this time, but let the enemy find the battlefield by themselves, and then we will launch a sneak attack." "
A sneak attack? A sneak attack on their team? But what is the difference between this and an ambush, isn't an ambush also a sneak attack? If they are outnumbered by then, how can we launch a surprise attack? We can't even surround them, and some of them will surely escape." Youye asked in confusion.
"No, you misunderstood. The sneak attack I mentioned is a night attack." Qubing waved his hand and began to explain.
"Uncle You, look, they are coming from the northwest forest and heading to the valley in the south. It will take at least eight or nine days to walk this way, right?"
"Well, but what does this have to do with a sneak attack? No, no, do you mean to say that we should sneak attack them in their campsite while they are sleeping at night?" Youye just asked what the connection was, but before he finished speaking, he immediately reacted, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Yes, that is, we should sneak attack them while they are sleeping at night. They have to sleep every day for several days along the way. Let's pick a good place to start, and sneak attack them once at night when it's dark. I guarantee that we can kill them all in one go. "Qubing said very confidently.
"Good idea, this method is good. We can attack at night. They must be sleeping. Even if there are people on guard, there must not be many people. At that time, we can use knives or bows and arrows to silently release those sentries first, and then catch all those sleeping people. Hey? This is not easy to do. What if they are awakened? If someone makes a noise, everyone will definitely be awakened. When it is dark, someone may still run away, and it will be difficult for us to catch them again. "
Youye was analyzing the plan according to Qubing's ideas, but soon found the loopholes in the plan. With so many people acting together, it is impossible for there to be no movement. Once the enemy is awakened, there will definitely be problems. At that time, there will definitely be a melee.
"Hehehehe."
Youye was still thinking worriedly, when he suddenly heard Qubing beside him laughing slyly. His laugh was very obscene and cunning, and it was obviously not funny.
But Youye also laughed unexpectedly, and then pointed at Qubing and asked, "Hehe, seeing you laughing like that, you kid must have thought of a solution a long time ago, right? Tell me, what is it?"
Qubing nodded affirmatively, and then suddenly took out a transparent glass wine bottle from the cowhide bag on the side of his saddle and said, "Let's use this."
"What? Liquor! No, I said you kid don't want to get the enemy drunk, how much liquor would that take, and besides, they can't drink it, what kind of bad idea do you have? "Youye rolled his eyes when he saw Qubing take out a bottle of liquor.
"No, this is not liquor, this is called ether." Qubing explained immediately.
"Ether? What is ether?" Youye asked puzzled.
"It is the product of the reaction of dilute sulfuric acid and ethanol, that is, alcohol. This thing is one of the raw materials for gunpowder and is also a powerful inhalation anesthetic. As long as you smell it, people will faint immediately.
"No, it's not fainting, but anesthesia. Once you smell this thing, people will fall asleep, can't hear any sound, and can't feel pain. As long as you knock someone down, you can stab him twice and cut his flesh and he won't wake up. Uncle You, don't look at this bottle of wine, but this bottle can knock down tens of thousands of people." Qubing explained again.
Youye widened his eyes when he heard this, looking at the bottle of liquor in disbelief, and he swallowed his saliva subconsciously and said.
"No, this thing is so powerful?! Where did you get it from? Isn't it too dangerous?"
"It is quite dangerous, but it can save lives if used properly. Didn't I say that this is an anesthetic? It was originally intended to be used to treat the wounded. If one of our people is seriously injured and needs treatment, if he is afraid of pain, you can let him smell this and he will be anesthetized directly. It depends on how you use this thing.
"Didn't I just say that this is one of the raw materials for making smokeless gunpowder in bullets? It was brought from our arsenal ship and used to prepare gunpowder. I was afraid that someone would be seriously injured and need treatment during the battle, so I asked them for a bottle and brought it over. I didn't expect that it could be used at this time." Qubing explained again.
"Oh, so that's the case. How do you use this thing? Didn't you say that people will faint after smelling it? Then how do our people use it? Also, how long can this thing make people faint? It won't make those people faint to death, right? "Youye nodded and asked again.
"It's easy. When the time comes, we'll find the enemy's campsite, and then we'll pull the main force to the periphery to surround them. Then we'll send a few hunters to use bows and arrows to eliminate the night sentries, and then send a few dozen people in to stun all the enemies. Then we can slowly deal with them.
"When using this, let our people wrap their mouths and noses with cloth, just wrap them in several layers, and then take some towels or handkerchiefs, pour some ether on them, and let them hold the towel to cover the enemy's mouth and nose. After a few breaths, they will pass out, and they won't wake up even if you hit them.
"As for the time, I heard that the workers who made gunpowder were also knocked out by the smoke. It probably works for one or two hours, and they will wake up after one or two hours." Qubing immediately told his plan.
"Oh, then this thing is good. It means that this thing can knock people out for one or two hours. There will be no problem when the person wakes up. The leader asked us to capture slaves. We have to use these people to work when we take them back. Don't hurt them." Youye said with some worry.
"Don't worry, there will be no sequelae. Those workers who made gunpowder fainted and woke up without any problems. They were just like normal people." Qubing immediately patted his chest and said.
"Okay, anyway, I don't know this thing. Just be sure of it. I completely agree with your plan. If we don't have to fight, we can reduce some unnecessary casualties." Youye nodded. Qubing
also nodded, and then continued to march with the team. He kept sending out scouts along the way, and those scouts came back to deliver news after a while.
Three days after they came out, they received news that the enemy had come out of the northwest forest again. As Qubing expected, this time, not only did the three thousand young and strong hunters who left last time come back, but they also brought five or six thousand cannibals, including many young and strong women and half-grown children. Many elderly people also came out, and it seemed that they were all helping with transportation.
This time, the cannibals came out with their families to move food. It is estimated that the elderly, weak, women and children who stayed in the village were also starving, so they simply followed them out.
"Oh my God, it's a good thing you have that ether, otherwise it would be difficult for us this time. Three thousand young and strong men, and five or six thousand elderly, weak, women and children, add up to eight or nine thousand people, which is half more than our number. If we go directly to fight, we will really be in trouble."
Youye said in surprise after hearing the report from the scout.
"Haha, it's just like what I thought. You forgot that it takes several people to pull one prey. We have seized more than 3,700 prey of various kinds in the valley. There are not so many people. How can they carry them all back at once?" Qubing said without any surprise.
"Well, that's right. How should we arrange it this time? The leader wants slaves. Those old people, children, and women, should we take them all back? Or should we kill them directly?" Youye thought about it and asked again. Qubing
thought for a moment and made a decision immediately. "Yes, all of them. Since those old people can still come out to carry prey, it means they can still work. Let's take them back. They can do hard labor for one or two years. As long as they can work for one or two years, they are valuable.
"And those children, we also want them. We can arrange some light work for them when we take them back. When they grow up, they will work until they die like other slaves.
"As for those women, they must be taken back no matter what. They are useful to the leader. Let the leader decide how to arrange them, but they will definitely be useful." Qubing said affirmatively.
Youye looked at Qubing strangely, not knowing what he meant.
"What do you mean, kid? Why does the leader want these women? We have all kinds of women in the Han tribe, why does the leader want these?"
"Uncle You, it's not what you think. If you say this in front of the leader, he will definitely beat you. They are for other purposes. It's a secret. Don't ask. This is not something you should know." Qubing explained with a smile.
"Oh, it's a secret. Then don't ask. Since the leader can use them, let's take them back together." Youye stopped asking after hearing this, knowing that he had no right to know this.
But Qubing was different. Qubing had been Luo Chong's guard for more than a year. He helped Luo Chong send and receive letters from all over the country every day. He also had to deal with many confidential matters in the tribe. He knew some things.
For example, Luo Chong used those slaves who made mistakes to do medical research. Qubing knew about it, but he didn't know it clearly. He only knew that the medical school needed living people for research, especially on the structure of the human body, but he didn't understand it very well. He didn't know the details of what research the medical school did. He only knew that living people were needed, even dead bodies.
However, most of the slaves in the Han tribe were male, and there were basically few female slaves. Therefore, in terms of female human body research, the Han tribe often couldn't carry out work because there was no experimental material. When he was with Luo Chong before, he heard Luo Chong talking about this.
Now that they finally caught the cannibal women, even if they didn't let them work, the leader must have other arrangements.
In fact, Luo Chong also thought so. Let's not talk about anything else. Even if all these women were captured and let them keep giving birth to children with the male slaves, they would be sent to the medical school for research when they got pregnant. They would study the skill of midwifery and caesarean section. In the past, they didn't dare to do it to the common people, and those doctors had no experience. Now, they could practice with these women.
Of course, Luo Chong was not so cruel, and he didn't mean to kill them. They would definitely let them give birth, but there was nothing wrong with doing some research within a reasonable range and practicing by the way.
After all, how to give birth is not giving birth.
And few people knew about the medical school. Although many people knew that the medical school was doing research on people, how to do it was not made public. Although they used cannibal slaves, it was not a good thing after all, so they did it, but Luo Chong didn't publicize it or deliberately conceal it.
His attitude was, you can know if you want to, but I won't tell anyone if you don't want to. Anyway, what we did was good for the people, and even if there were deaths, they were the slaves of the cannibals, and it would not harm the interests of the people at all.
On the other hand, Qubing and Youye determined the number of enemies and their marching routes, and also deduced their camping locations based on the enemy's marching speed and time, and hid nearby in advance, waiting to give them a fatal blow at night.
(End of this chapter)
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