Chapter 489 He is useless, we should... (Seeking votes and subscriptions)
North of Sitong County, isn't that the Dark Forest? Where did they go?
But just when he thought of this, Luo Chong suddenly woke up, because he found that he had made the biggest mistake, that is, he overestimated the enemy in terms of the overall strength of the tribe.
Regardless of the total population of both sides, if we only talk about other aspects, the Han tribe is undoubtedly one era more advanced than them. The biggest difference between an agricultural tribe and a primitive tribe that lives on hunting is actually the lifestyle, and the lifestyle determines the difference in the way of fighting.
If the Han tribe wants to fight, no matter how many people they send out, they will definitely prepare food in advance. As the saying goes, "before the troops move, the food and grass must go first", but the enemy is different. They traveled so far and may bring some dried meat, but they have no vehicles and it is impossible for them to bring too much food.
So, those cannibals seem to go out to plunder people every year, but in fact, it is better to regard them as a large-scale hunting operation.
When they found a small tribe, they would definitely rely on their large numbers to burn, kill and plunder. However, due to the rise of the Han tribe, the population of the surrounding areas of the Han tribe has been siphoned to the Han tribe in the past two years, resulting in a human vacuum in the surrounding large areas.
This situation seems nothing at ordinary times, but at this time, it is difficult for the cannibals, who have no logistical supplies. Without a small tribe to attack, they can't continue to attack in the way of "fighting to support the war". What should they do at this time?
Of course, find a place with food to fill their stomachs first.
But it is obvious that in the area north of Fuma Pass, the wild animals in that hilly area are less than before because of the Han tribe. Of course, they are not enough for the thousands of people on the other side. However, in the dark forest across the river to the east, there are endless big rabbits. The first time Luo Chong encountered this group of opponents was in that forest. If he still insisted that the other party didn't know that place, he was not treating the other party as a fool, but he became stupid.
"They are looking for food there." Luo Chong immediately affirmed, and then his eyes twitched. Damn, the number of rabbits in the Dark Forest is probably going to decline by three years.
After determining the other party's purpose, a new problem came up. Luo Chong's initial plan was to lead the enemy to the urn of Fuma Pass to fight against the enemy, and strive to obtain more slaves. But this time the enemy ran into the forest, and it was even more difficult for him to annihilate the enemy. What should he do?
But Luo Chong immediately realized that the letter in his hand was from the hunting patrol team formed by Liuyang County under his order. Their main responsibility was to beware of possible enemies in the north during daily patrols. This time, they were the first to discover the enemy at the southern edge of the Dark Forest, and then notified Liuyang County. At the request of Dashu, the immigrants from Sitong County were resettled in Hanyang City. Then Hanyang City sent a message to Fuma Pass in the north.
This news may have been passed on for a day or two. Who knows where the enemy has run to now? No, we still need to conduct a reconnaissance. If we fight in the wild, I am afraid that we will not be able to capture many slaves this time. Alas,
Luo Chong sighed secretly and immediately sent out warning information in several directions. Hanyang City has been closed under Luo Chong's order. In addition, there are many people in the city, so nothing will happen. However, Ruyang County, which is only a few days away from Sitong County, is very unsafe. The city wall there has not been built yet. Although there are 7,000 people there, half of them are children. If a fight really breaks out, there will probably be huge losses, which Luo Chong does not want to see.
Therefore, Luo Chong's order to Ruyang County is to let them station and defend in the moat circle that has been dug, put more obstacles such as chevaux de frise on the periphery, and prepare more stones and wooden boards around them. When encountering enemy attacks, they should hold on for a while and then call for support immediately.
Thinking of this, Luo Chong suddenly felt that it was necessary to build several beacon towers after this battle, otherwise it would be too passive to encounter such a situation again.
Next, there were 3,000 people from Danshan County, who also received Luo Chong's order to stay where they were, be alert to enemy attacks, and call for help in time if attacked.
After issuing a round of warnings, Luo Chong was still reluctant to kill all the enemies, otherwise it would be a pity. After a little thought, Luo Chong still issued a new order.
The Fumaguan garrison would not be mobilized for the time being. All the cavalry and the cavalry scouts of Youye in the north would be gathered first, and then these more than 200 people would be sent to attract the enemy, because they are highly mobile and have the best advantage
in doing this kind of work. Soon, the two cavalry general flags that were organized in the caravan last year, a cavalry general flag of the Han tribe, Youye's reconnaissance team, and the cavalry patrol team of Hanyang County, together with more than 200 people, under Luo Chong's order, searched for the enemy's traces and their main force in the northeast, and made some appropriate attacks to attract the enemy to Hanyang City, and then led them to the Fumaguan Wengcheng from here.
In general, the original strategy was turned upside down. Previously, the plan was to attract the enemy to enter the city from the north, but now it was changed to enter the city from the south, but the results were similar.
Soon, groups of cavalry were released, and Luo Chong was also waiting for feedback from each team.
A day later, the sound of horse hooves appeared in the location of Sitong County. Wu Yun, wearing a red robe and black armor, rode a group of big yellow horses, waved a whip in his hand, and issued orders to his three small flags.
"From now on, led by the flag officer and the deputy flag officer, six people in a team, reconnaissance to the edge of the forest, be careful not to go too deep, harass the enemy after discovering it and gather here immediately. Of course, don't run too fast when you run, so that the enemy can keep up with you. Also, it's best to use flying stones as weapons."
"Yes." After hearing the order, the flag officers immediately ran away with their men.
Wu Yun was no exception. He immediately took his personal soldiers to carry out the task of reconnaissance and lure.
Speaking of Wuyun's chief flag officer, he is actually a new officer, and has only been in office for less than a month.
As a grassland savage who joined the Han tribe through Lingfeng's introduction, he thought that he would be an ordinary civilian after coming to the Han tribe, but he didn't expect that the leader of the Han tribe valued this group of grassland people very much. After meeting them, he immediately appointed them as small flag officers to teach the warriors of the Han tribe to ride horses.
This is what the grassland people are best at, and it is almost their instinct, so he has no reason to refuse the task of teaching riding skills, not to mention that the Han tribe has various horse equipment that he has never seen before.
Later, he led the cavalry he trained to the grassland where he was born, followed the caravan to do a lot of escort work, and even established merits in the night attack battle of the snow wolf. After returning this time, he was awarded the fourth-level title of Zhizuo for his various merits, and was honored to be promoted to the chief flag officer, which was a huge step forward in his official career.
However, after the battle on the grassland, Wuyun also discovered the shortcomings of the Han tribe cavalry, that is, the lack of long-range weapons.
The cavalry of the Han tribe was a newly established unit. They were able to teach everyone to ride horses in such a short time, thanks to the horse gear. However, these cavalry were different from the grassland cavalry. They only knew how to charge into battle and did not know guerrilla horse archery tactics.
The first reason was that the Han tribe's own shortbows were not yet ready, and the other reason was that horse archery was something that could not be practiced in just three or two months. It took several years of hard work to hone it.
However, their heavy cavalry did have bows, which were captured from the snow wolves. Unfortunately, only Wuyun and a few other grassland people could use them well.
Therefore, in order to make up for this shortcoming of the Han tribe cavalry, Wuyun proposed to Luo Chong that the cavalry be equipped with a weapon called flying stones.
In fact, it is similar to a slingshot, but this is a disposable "rope". The cavalry's flying stones are to put a duck egg-sized stone in a small net bag, tie it tightly, and then swing it a few times on the horse before throwing it at the enemy.
The stone is not big, but it doubles the power when used by the cavalry. After all, there is a speed bonus. However, whether it can hit the target depends on luck. The hit rate is completely random. However, even so, the flying stone still makes up for the period of time when there is no horse archery. In addition, the flying stone does not require much practice, so it quickly became popular among the cavalry of the Han tribe.
This is the case now. Each of Wuyun's men hung a bag next to his saddle, which contained more than a dozen stones and a large number of spare net bags. They wandered in groups at the edge of the forest.
It was fate. The cannibals were chasing the 4,000 people from the tribal alliance who were heading south. However, after encountering a shortage of food a few days ago, they turned to the Dark Forest to catch rabbits, but it took several days to catch them. In addition
to solving the problem of hunger, they also had to catch more meat and make them into dry food. Otherwise, who knows how long it would take to catch them if they continued to chase.
At this time, the rabbits in the forest were in trouble. Nearly 2,000 totem warriors of the cannibals chased and intercepted them everywhere in the forest. What was even crazier was that the rabbits couldn't run away even if they wanted to. Not to mention the large encirclement of hundreds of people, the most hateful thing was that someone attacked their rabbit nests.
There were so many humans who suddenly came this time that the rabbits were a little desperate. Although a cunning rabbit has three burrows, have you ever experienced the despair of having all three of its doors blocked by people? It was even worse than a mole being hammered.
After the rabbits running around in the wild were quickly cleared out, the remaining ones who shrank in the burrows and dared not come out were in big trouble. Countless totem warriors took various tools and dug one big hole after another in the forest. A nest of rabbits was dug out and then roasted on the fire into jerky, providing a large wave of rations for the totem warriors who were about to go on the expedition.
But just when they were digging rabbits happily, the cavalry scouts of the Han tribe also arrived. The first to appear was the patrol team of Liuyang County. There were not many people. After encountering the totem warriors, they did not stop and soon turned their horses around and ran away.
This situation immediately made the totem warriors very proud, and they laughed loudly at the cowards who rode the beasts. Although a group of people could control the beasts, they were all a group of cowards.
But today, this situation is gone forever.
Dadadadadada.
A group of more than 30 cannibal totem warriors at the southern end of the forest were digging holes left by rabbits. Suddenly, they heard the sound of horse hooves from a distance. Then, they looked at each other and burst into laughter, because they all remembered the group of cavalrymen who didn't even dare to approach them two days ago.
But this time they were all wrong. They saw the sound of horse hooves getting closer and closer in the open area of the forest. Then, six cavalrymen suddenly jumped out the next second. They were waving something in their hands quickly. When they saw these people, they instantly threw all the flying stones in their hands.
Puff, puff, puff
, it must be said that although the hitting rate of flying stones was a little low, six people threw them at the crowd of more than 30 people at the same time, and they really hit two of them. One person didn't pay attention and was hit in the face by a duck egg-sized stone. It was also his bad luck that he blinded one eye at once. Although the other one was not so miserable, he was not much better.
At the moment when the stone flew towards the man, he subconsciously blocked it with his hand, and two of his fingers were instantly smashed into comminuted fractures. Under the severe pain, the man held his hand and howled on the spot.
At this time, in the half-dug rabbit hole behind the group of people, more than a dozen white rabbits of different sizes immediately jumped to the ground, and then ran away. In just a blink of an eye, a group of rabbits disappeared from everyone's sight.
This is a bad thing. They worked hard to dig the hole for half a day, but the rabbits ran away. The culprit of all this is the Han tribe cavalry who suddenly arrived.
It's a pity that they can't catch them. Although they heard the sound of horse hooves nearby, the group of Han tribe people didn't run far at all, but they still couldn't catch up. But what about the fruits of everyone's hard work for half a day? Just fly away like this?
No, of course not, someone must pay the price for this.
At this time, as if guided by some special force, more than 30 people actually looked at the two injured people who were lying on the ground and howling miserably.
"This one is blind, he will never get better, he will rot to death."
"Yeah, that's right."
"This one has a crippled hand, he can't hunt anymore, but our tribe doesn't need people like him."
"Right."
As soon as these words came out, the two people who were still wailing suddenly shut up in fear. The next moment, more than 30 people around picked up stone axes and bone spears and attacked them.
After a while, the team leader licked the blood from the corner of his mouth and said,
"This meat should be more than the rabbits that ran away."
(End of this chapter)
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