Chapter 495: When people are hungry, they eat each other (please vote and subscribe)
A few hours later, the setting sun was slanting close to the horizon. At this time, Dashu and Youye received Luo Chong's latest order at the same time.
Dashu's task was to organize people to clear out the cannibal remnants in the Dark Forest, bury the bodies found on the spot, and count the number of bodies and captives to prevent a large number of fish from slipping through the net.
Dashu naturally had no problem with this task. The Dark Forest was originally the territory of the Tree Tribe, and it can be said that it was very familiar to him. It was obviously the most appropriate to give this matter to him.
Youye's task was to lead Rourou and Huishan, as well as 100 cavalrymen, to chase and eliminate the seventy or eighty totem warriors who escaped from the Rushui River to the northeast, regardless of life or death, and the two adult Deinonychus, which must be alive.
After receiving the order, the two immediately sent people to carry out the task, in order to resolve this dispute in the shortest possible time.
At dawn the next day, several more eagle messengers quickly arrived at various territories of the Han tribe. The content was mainly to report victory and declare the victory of the tribal defense war. The second was to lift the danger alert for the entire territory of the Han tribe. The leaders of various places urged the people to settle down as soon as possible, reclaim wasteland, cultivate crops, and build cities and houses.
However, other places were fine, but small-scale battles continued to occur in the city wall of Fuma Pass. However, it was not a battle between the totem warriors and the Han tribe, but a battle between the nearly 2,000 totem warriors and 35 giant apes.
Yesterday afternoon, as the north and south gates of the Fuma Pass city wall were closed, the totem warriors trapped inside finally realized that something was wrong. The canyon was six or seven hundred meters wide, with steep cliffs on both sides. It was basically impossible to climb up with bare hands.
At both ends of the canyon where they were, there were two walls more than ten meters high. The middle canyon was very empty and desolate, with only some wild grass on the ground. Not to mention food, there was not even water. Of course, if they knew how to dig a well, they might be able to dig out water.
This made the group of people anxious. They suddenly understood why the Han tribe guards on the wall did not even put up a decent resistance during the attack and let them enter the city directly. As a result, when they reached the second wall, although they encountered obstacles, the guards on the wall just blocked the door firmly and still did not fight back against them.
This situation was not right. It was completely different from what the people who escaped last time said. What about the warriors holding shields and swords, wearing black scales, what sharp weapons that could chop off heads with one knife, and bows and arrows with a range two or three times longer than theirs? All the rumors did not appear in this battle.
Their real intention was to lock up so many of their own people in this city and watch them starve to death or die of thirst?
As a result, they found that it seemed to be true. Nearly two thousand totem warriors were furious. They were not afraid of fighting, nor were they afraid of being killed, but they did not want to die of hunger and thirst. Moreover, for a force known for cannibalism, would there be such a thing as starvation and thirst? The answer is of course impossible.
When the feeling of hunger climbed into their hearts, countless people clenched their weapons, their eyes became greener and greener, and they were really about to bite others. However,
they were not stupid. They knew that even if they killed the people around them, they might not be able to fill their stomachs. Instead of fighting each other and consuming their own strength, it would be better to unite against the outside world and take the lead in killing those giant apes that eat a lot but are useless. There are 35 of these giant apes, each of which is huge, but now they are all blind. If they can kill them, the meat they get will definitely allow them to live a few more days.
Thus, a struggle from within the enemy took place, full of contradictions and yet extremely natural. The culprit who contributed to this result, Luo Chong, the leader of the Han tribe, was sitting on the city wall with hundreds of soldiers, holding hot meals and watching with relish.
"Go ahead, go ahead, oh, a bunch of cowards, why were you so brave when you came to fight us, but now you are immediately scared when you meet those red-haired monsters."
"You go ahead, you are also scared (→_→)"
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"Look, look, they are using javelins, wow, they hit it, they shot it, killed one, it can't get up."
"Wow, look over there, that red-haired monster was hit by two spears, but it can still run so fast. My God (⊙ｏ⊙), it tore that man in half with its hands. How much strength does it take?"
"Ah——I don't know why, I can't eat anymore when I see that man dead. Is it because I haven't hunted for a long time?"
"Now that you mention it, I feel a little disgusted. Maybe I really eat too much rice. I haven't hunted for a long time."
"Ah, are you disgusted? Look over there, those three red-haired monsters know how to stick together and grab a few corpses as weapons. No one around can beat them!"
Although the people around said they were disgusted, they were in the VIP seats for eating melons. Seeing such a wonderful melon, how could they not eat it?
In the direction of the man's finger, three giant apes were already bleeding, leaning against each other back to back, with several short spears stuck in their bodies and holding two broken corpses in their hands. There were at least two or three hundred totem warriors surrounding them.
The giant ape was panting constantly. When it heard a slight noise in any direction, it would immediately swing the corpse in its hand as a weapon and sweep it around, then return to its original position to continue panting.
The surrounding warriors were not stupid either. Seeing that the giant ape was already seriously injured, they simply surrounded it without attacking. They wanted to fight for their injuries and blood volume to kill the three giant apes alive. Some people wanted to continue throwing javelins, but the number of javelins was limited. At this critical moment, no one dared to throw the last weapon in their hands. If it was normal, it would be fine, but now, who knows if they will become food for others to survive without weapons in their hands, so the scene fell into a stalemate.
Although the giant apes' individual military strength is extremely high, their demise was doomed from the moment they were plotted against by the quicklime of the Han tribe.
The giant apes, who were at the end of their strength, did not hold out for long, nor did they wait for a miracle to happen. Under the siege of nearly two thousand people, they were soon wiped out.
With the death of the giant apes, the atmosphere on the scene became tense again. After a few minutes, I don't know which young man lit the fuse, and the totem warriors below were once again caught in a battle for the giant ape corpse.
Finally, after paying the price of nearly 120 deaths, the people who got enough "food" fell into a brief period of peace again, and the next conflict would break out when the "food" in their hands was eaten up.
Luo Chong, who was sitting on the city wall, also quickly discovered this serious problem.
Alas, this is not right. Who allowed you to die? I want living prisoners. If you all kill each other, then the plan I prepared for so many days will be wasted.
After this brewer figured this out, Luo Chong slapped his head and cursed himself for being confused. He actually forgot the most important point of the siege, that is, he could not completely cut off the enemy's hope, but gave them hope of getting out alive, which is often said in the art of war as "surrounding three and missing one".
However, it was impossible to surround three sides and leave one without the other in this terrain. However, Luo Chong soon came up with another method with similar effects, which was more beneficial for the next action of capturing prisoners alive.
As a result, a new battle plan quickly spread throughout the city wall, making the hundreds of defenders stationed there excited for a while. After all, no matter how delicious the melon is, it is meaningless if you eat too much. If the leader has a way to end the battle early, they are absolutely happy to do it.
(End of this chapter)
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