Chapter 734 Panic of the Xin Tribe
In fact, as the conflict between Maodun and the Xin Tribe and the Han Tribe continued to intensify, the intelligence information between the two sides had been cut off for a long time, especially those Jinwuwei intelligence personnel lurking in the high-level of the Xin Tribe.
Because they were under the sight of the high-level of the Xin Tribe, they could not use the Azuka Eagle to pass messages, which was too conspicuous, so they had always communicated with these high-level intelligence personnel by person-to-person.
But as the Xin Tribe strengthened its vigilance against the Han Tribe, the method that allowed the delegation to contact in the name of merchants had to be interrupted.
So, in fact, Niuwei had not received any news about the Han Tribe for a long time. In the winter before, he heard that the Xin Commander was going to win over Maodun to go to war with Kaiyuan County of the Han Tribe.
Later, the news that several intelligence personnel inquired also verified this point. The Xin Tribe continued to transport supplies to Maodun from Zhudao through the secret bridge, and even summoned 3,000 bamboo armored soldiers to the grassland to participate in this battle in the winter.
These are all young and strong people from the tribes of the great elders who command the system. As the backbone members of several great elders, how could the intelligence personnel of the Jinwu Guard not know this news?
However, they have temporarily lost contact with the tribe and cannot pass these important intelligence back to the tribe. Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, they can only inform Niu Wei first. After all, as the intelligence personnel closest to the top leaders of the Xin tribe, they all know that Niu Wei has sworn allegiance to his own leader.
After learning this news, Niu Wei was not worried about the Han tribe at all. In his opinion, no matter how many troops Maodun and the Xin tribe get, it is meaningless to Kaiyuan County. They can't break through Kaiyuan County. Even if they break through, the Han tribe will only lose a piece of land. With the sufficient resources of the Han tribe, they can find another place by the lake to build a new city. The worst case is to waste two or three years.
It is not surprising that Niu Wei has such confidence. After living in the Han tribe for more than a year, he knows very well the real role of the city, which is defense. As far as the current attack methods are concerned, no army can break through the city.
It was his old habit to think from another's perspective. When this guy lived in Hanyang City, he often observed the city defense of Hanyang City, and even simulated countless siege methods in his mind. In the end, he came to the conclusion that if the city had sufficient reserves, no army could break through the city.
The city of Kaiyuan County is a special existence. Its geographical location is very special. It is backed by the lake and waterway. The half-circle-like city wall extends directly into the lake, and even the dock is protected.
In front of the city, it is reported that there is only a towering inner city, and an outer city will be built in the future.
Niu Wei doesn't know whether the outer city is built now, but even if there is only the inner city, Maodun can't break it, because as long as the Han tribe is willing, they can take the waterway from the lake to Kaiyuan City at any time. Replenish troops and supplies, even if Maodun is surrounded outside for ten years, Kaiyuan City can get a steady supply through the lake behind.
Maodun's biggest disadvantage is that he has no boats. If the Han tribe has hostile water forces and unites with the cavalry on the grassland, there may be a chance to break through Kaiyuan City, but in fact this does not exist.
Another point is that although Niu Wei has enough confidence in Kaiyuan City, he still has some expectations, or in other words, he hopes that the Xin tribe and Maodun will join forces to find trouble with the Han tribe, so that the power of the three parties will definitely deteriorate rapidly. With his strong confidence in the Han tribe, the Han tribe will never lose. At that
time, both Maodun and the Xin tribe will kneel under the authority of the Han tribe. Maybe at that time, he will have a chance to go out.
Sure enough, the development of the facts is not much different from their analysis. Originally, he thought that the Han tribe would take the approach of defending the city, fighting with the Maodun coalition forces for consumption and time, and finally breaking the deadlock of the war and achieving the goal of defeating Maodun and the Xin tribe.
But in fact, the Han tribe did not defend the city, but used the huge power of artillery to choose to fight Maodun outside the city.
Although the process is very different, the result is the same, even worse than he thought. The Han tribe actually beat Maodun directly, and the Xin tribe also suffered irreparable huge losses.
Not surprisingly, after learning the result of the battle, the entire Xin tribe's high-level officials panicked. They began to fear the terrifying combat power of the Han tribe and worried that the Han tribe would attack at any time.
Niu Wei was still struggling in his heart, whether to cooperate with those spies to escape from prison or stay here and wait for the Han tribe to attack. For a while, he began to fall into deep thought.
On the other side, at the Xin Commander's place, several elders were still discussing with anger, sadness, or doubt.
"How did the Han tribe defeat so many troops? Didn't they only have four or five thousand soldiers in that city? And Maodun and our army had a full 60,000. How did they win?!" Xin Commander was still struggling with this question. In fact, it was just a kind of self-paralysis because he didn't want to face this fact.
Since he couldn't accept it now, he might as well subconsciously hypnotize himself and tell himself that all this was fake, but the other elders forced him to face the reality seriously. Now is not the time to evade responsibility.
"Great Commander, it is meaningless to pursue these reasons now. According to the reports and summaries of the scouts of multiple teams, this Kaiyuan battle was a complete failure. Maodun not only lost his entire army, but also lost all his territories. Now, the places with the best resources in these territories have been occupied by the Han tribe, and they are still building cities. Obviously, they can't just go there for fun." Elder Jin also emphasized with great worry.
They no longer care whether Maodun is dead or not. What they care most about now is how their warriors are doing. Are they all killed in the battle? If they are killed in the battle, it's fine. If they are not killed in the battle, should they think of a way to get them back by "paying a ransom".
However, as soon as this idea was proposed, it was immediately rejected by others.
"We don't know whether those warriors are dead or not, but we absolutely cannot admit that these are the warriors sent by our Xin tribe. This will only anger the Han tribe, which is equivalent to pointing at their noses and telling them that this time it was the Xin tribe that was behind it." Elder Sheng was the first to object.
"Give up your stupid idea. Do you think the Han tribe can't see that we are the ones causing trouble? Don't forget the weapons used by the Maodun coalition.
Also, once our warriors are captured by the Han tribe, do you expect them to keep the secret for the tribe?" Elder Bai Jin expressed a different opinion.
"It doesn't matter whether the Han tribe knows or not. The key is what the Han tribe's attitude towards us is. Is there any movement from the delegation?" After a little thought, Commander Xin also expressed his attitude.
"That's not the case," replied Elder Qi, who often interacted with the delegation.
Everyone pondered again, and the meeting had to be temporarily interrupted.
There was no point in panicking now. Maodun was finished, so the Xin tribe would lose the initiative in this game. Whether to continue fighting, negotiate to quell the war, or continue to fight to the death, all depended on the attitude of the Han tribe towards them.
There was silence in the living room for a long time, and the quiet and depressing atmosphere was finally broken by Elder Jin's proposal.
"It is meaningless for us to discuss it now. Perhaps it is time to make a final decision. Should we surrender and accept the rule of the Han tribe, or rise up and fight them to the end? Of course, you know our current strength. This battle is difficult to fight."
Commander Xin did not speak immediately, but clenched his fists and stared at Elder Jin, whom he used to respect the most.
This guy actually dared to discuss surrender in front of him, which was really abominable, but now he couldn't do it without the support of these people, and he really had no choice.
"Of course we have to fight. We have already attacked the Han tribe. Do you still expect the Han tribe to let us go? Maybe the civilians will not be troubled, but once we surrender, we will almost certainly die. Do you want to die?" Elder Sheng also emphasized their current situation again and made an attitude of following the Xin tribe to the death.
In fact, they really have no choice. The several elders present have real power. They either control metal mining, livestock breeding, or tool manufacturing. They are all top family forces in the Xin tribe. If they surrender to the Han tribe, even if Luo Chong chooses to spare their lives, they probably won't be given any power to maintain their huge family and a good life.
"Then let's fight. This way it's easy to discuss. How do we fight?" Elder Qi looked at everyone's reaction and suddenly proposed.
"I don't think we have to fight, at least not now." Elder Jin said again in a shocking way. Seeing that everyone's eyes were looking at him, he continued.
"I just said that it is not up to us to decide whether to fight or not. It depends on the attitude of the Han tribe towards us. However, judging from the reaction of the delegation, they should not have any plans to attack us in the short term."
Everyone nodded in affirmation.
Elder Jin said again, "So in order to maintain this special relationship, I think we need to make some concessions. We should take the initiative to negotiate with the Han tribe and agree to open up the Han tribe currency in the Xin tribe."
The Xin leader glared at him immediately after hearing this, but Elder Jin continued.
"Don't be angry, Grand Commander, listen to me first.
"Agreeing to open up the currency circulation right is a disguised show of weakness, telling the Han tribe that we don't really want to fight, but the Han tribe is too powerful. Now we have figured it out, and it doesn't matter if we give up some currency rights, anyway, we don't have our own currency.
But we can't give up this currency circulation right for nothing. Do you remember the plan Niu Wei said before? The Han tribe will definitely use a lot of iron to exchange for the copper in our hands. This is our opportunity.
We can take the opportunity to stockpile steel, and then ask the Han tribe for the technology to forge ironware as compensation for giving up the currency rights. In addition, there is also shipbuilding technology. Even if we are not given the shipbuilding technology, we must give us some large ships, and not less. For this, we can pay more, such as white salt.
With ships, iron and ironmaking technology, we can manufacture weapons and armor in large quantities. In addition, we can also collect the scattered soldiers who fled from Maodun on the grassland and bring them to Zhudao to replenish our troops.
Now that Maodun can't find his shadow, I believe these people will be very willing to come to Zhudao and leave the sight of the Han tribe.
In this way, we have soldiers, weapons, food, salt, and ships. We can stop the ships of the Han tribe outside the island, and then take down all the envoys on the island and force them to hand over the shipbuilding technology of the Han tribe. In this way, within a few decades, we will at least not lag behind the Han tribe too much. As long as we focus on developing on the island, there will be a day when we surpass the Han tribe. "
Elder Jin's words gave everyone enough confidence. Everyone felt that this was a good idea. They only gave up the right to circulate currency, which did not belong to them, and they could get a large amount of iron and ironmaking technology, as well as a large number of ships from the Han tribe.
Then recruit a group of warriors from the grassland, use weapons from the Han tribe, and people from the grassland. They can have an army to compete with the Han tribe by providing some craftsmen and food at most. So why not do it?
So this plan was quickly finalized. Several elders divided the work. Elder Qi was responsible for the technology, Elder Sheng went to negotiate with the Han tribe, Elder Jin was responsible for training the army, Elder Shi was responsible for coordinating food and grass, and Elder Baijin was responsible for going to the grassland to collect Maodun's defeated soldiers, or recruit soldiers.
A few days later, when the beast tooth of the delegation heard that Elder Sheng came to negotiate with him and took the initiative to ask for the release of the right to circulate currency in exchange for technology and ships, it immediately made the beast tooth feel very confused. What kind of moth is the Xin tribe's top management playing?
Such an important He didn't dare to make the decision on such a big event, so he had to write a letter to ask Luo Chong's opinion. It took five or six days to go back and forth.
During this period, because of the Xin tribe's initiative to show goodwill, Shouya was able to send out traders again to re-establish communication with the high-level intelligence personnel of the Xin tribe. The two sides soon got in touch again and revealed all the contents of the Xin tribe's new plan.
In the distant Hanyang City, Luo Chong held the letter and smiled with an ambiguous smile. The Xin tribe was still dreaming that they could deal with him. Judging from their arrangement, they probably hadn't heard of the power of cannons.
After thinking about it, Luo Chong decided to temporarily agree to the Xin tribe. Both sides could get what they needed. Anyway, let the Han tribe get familiar with the terrain of Zhudao and work out a detailed attack and occupation plan.
As for the ships that the Xin tribe wanted, this was easy to handle. It didn't matter if they gave them a few. Anyway, they agreed first. At worst, they could just drag it out. If they couldn't drag it out, they could still use the teaching trick. Anyway, even if they were given a ship, the Xin tribe would not be able to open it immediately.
(End of this chapter)
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