Chapter 614: All-Army Assault (Additional Updates)
The system of military merit promotion has greatly stimulated these soldiers. You should know that most of them are here for this. At this time, the order for the all-army assault has been issued. There are only so many enemies in total. Why not rush up to grab the credit instead of standing there and waiting for the pie to fall?
So when the order was issued, more than 4,000 soldiers from the two guards of the Han tribe rushed up in an instant.
The sword and shield soldiers, who were the first echelon of the counterattack, were unwilling to lag behind. One of the sword and shield soldiers, the general flag, was even more crazy. He held a large solid wooden shield with a bull pattern on it and rushed forward towards the crowd of enemy formations. The heavy armor enhanced the inertia of the charge. Jiandun was like a mad bull rushing through the enemy formation. He didn't even need to wave the wooden stick in his hand. He just went up and knocked people away. Wherever he passed, it was like a bloody road was opened by a solid iron bullet.
When the warriors under Jiandun saw that their general flag was so fierce, their morale soared. More than 50 young and strong soldiers fully demonstrated the crazy bull spirit of Qianniuwei, carrying shields and charging forward, knocking down one enemy after another.
Ju, the leader of the Barbarian Tribe, was also stunned. He had thought that he could concentrate his superior forces to break through a point, but he did not expect that the Han tribe actually gave up the encirclement and played a counter-charge tactic with him, and defeated his vanguard echelon in just one encounter.
He did not think about the fact that the warriors of his tribe had been here for two days and two nights, and they were not well fed or clothed, and they were exhausted. Not to mention that the Han tribe was full of elite soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding large shields. What could he do to fight against the Han tribe?
He did not have time to make more arrangements. The Han tribe had already sounded the horn of the general attack. A large number of enemies rushed into his tribe's camp. Ju had no time to care about others. He just wanted to fight his way out and escape.
The two goose-feather steel knives seized last time were pierced by Ju Wu. The warriors of the Han tribe were afraid to move forward because they wanted to capture him alive. Several of them were injured by the steel knives in Ju's hand.
But at this moment, a small flag officer of the spear and halberd soldiers rushed over from the side and back of Ju with a four-meter-long halberd in his hand, screaming, and the iron halberd in his hand pierced Ju's lower back. The blood-red spear tip pierced through Ju's abdomen. He was shocked and swayed on the spot as if he had lost his soul. Finally, he stuck the two steel knives into the ground to barely support his body.
Then the flag officer of the spear and halberd soldiers shouted, "This man is the leader of the enemy. Don't leave him alive. Kill him."
The soldiers around were shocked when they heard this. They thrust their spears and iron halberds at Ju. Ju, who was just waving his steel knife arrogantly, was instantly stabbed into a blood gourd by dozens of spears and halberds. He was held in the air by a circle of spear and halberd soldiers. His eyes looking up at the sky were full of confusion and fear, and finally gradually lost their spirit.
With the death of the leader of the barbarian tribe, the other young and strong men of the barbarian tribe who were still resisting, under the absolute advantage and crazy attack of the Han tribal army, chose to surrender, or flee backwards, or be captured. Except for a few who were killed on the spot, most of the more than 700 young and strong were captured. In the end, only more than 1,000 women and children were left trembling and retreating to the riverside.
However, when the two sides fought on the shore, hundreds of landing craft of the fleet had successfully landed. Hundreds of sailors holding simple spears and short axes, or bamboo hats and rattan shields, blocked the last retreat of these women and children.
As the fighting of the large army gradually subsided, except for some soldiers who were collecting prisoners in the back, all the rest of the warriors continued to advance, and finally the two fronts joined forces, trapping nearly two thousand women, children and remaining soldiers of the barbarian tribe on the mudflats on the shore.
"Those who surrender will not be killed!" Several generals standing in the front shouted to the people in the encirclement at the same time.
"Those who surrender will not be killed!" The other soldiers heard the general shouting and repeated it. However, what they couldn't figure out was whether these women and children were considered military merits. If they were forced to surrender like this, wouldn't it be too easy?
And the women, children and remnants of soldiers in the center of the encirclement saw that they were surrounded tightly and had no hope of escape. They also thought about fighting the enemy to the death and resisting before death.
But what they didn't expect was that these enemies who came from afar did not kill them directly, but forced them to lay down their weapons and surrender. At the beginning, no one paid attention. Now after the fight, they found that almost none of the men in their tribe were killed. Most of them were tied up. Only the leader and a few of his trusted diehards died.
With this thought, some people gave up the plan of fighting to the death and considered whether to surrender, especially those remnants who retreated to hide among women and children. They were afraid of death, otherwise they would not have sneaked back in the previous battle. When they heard that they could live by surrendering, they immediately put down their weapons, squeezed out of the crowd and surrendered on the ground.
When the Han tribe saw this, they also sent people to tie up these people and took them to the back. The women and children who were still watching had to surrender when they saw that even the last few men surrendered.
In most cases, the conquests between primitive people would not kill the women of the other side, but take them back home as trophies. Therefore, these women also knew that they would not be killed even if they surrendered, but would just change their homes and change unfamiliar men.
Besides, all the men in their tribe were captured, and they had no idea of their fate. But if their tribe lost the men, it would definitely not survive. At this time, they had few options. They could either commit suicide for the tribe or start a new life with another man. That was all.
The only thing that worried them was how the victors would treat their children. Would they kill them directly or take them back to raise them? You know, these children who have not grown up can't do any heavy work, but they still need a lot of food to feed them. It is a huge burden for every tribe. What should they do if the other side wants to kill their children?
Fortunately, the Han tribe did not do that. Instead, they separated the captives according to age and gender. All the girls were imprisoned with the women. Boys under the age of eight could also stay with their mothers. Underage boys aged eight to twelve would be sent to various parts of the Han tribe to serve as agricultural labor in the government's official fields for three years. After three years, those who performed well would be granted the household registration of Han tribe citizens.
All males over 13 years old will have their big toes cut off, their hair shaved, and their foreheads tattooed. They will become lifelong slaves of the Han tribe and spend the rest of their lives working on large construction sites or in mines.
(End of this chapter)
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