Chapter 136 Joint Attack on the Crow Tribe
After the autumn harvest, the Teng tribe obtained a large amount of food, which, together with the edible tubers and wild fruits they collected, filled three large granaries.
If we add in the large number of livestock, fishing and hunting, the food supply of the Teng tribe can be said to be very sufficient.
In early October, the Teng Tribe held a grand sacrifice. In order to enhance the strength of the tribe, more than 200 people from the Blue Sheep Tribe all participated in the sacrifice. Not only did they become true members of the Teng Tribe, but many of them also became warriors.
After the sacrifice, the weather gradually turned colder, and winter would soon arrive.
It was at this time that Jiang Xuan made a major decision, which was to attack the Crow Tribe! In more than half a year, the Crow Tribe and the Jackal Tribe had fought countless times, and their strength had been weakened a lot.
After the autumn, the two sides suddenly ceased fighting.
Because they all need to stockpile food and supplies for the winter. If the fighting continues like this, I'm afraid no one will survive the cold winter.
Therefore, the Crow Tribe and the Jackal Tribe tacitly agreed to a temporary truce and concentrate on preparing supplies for the winter.
After the ceasefire, the two tribes frantically plundered nearby resources and wiped out several small tribes that had no totem gods to protect them.
If we let them continue to plunder like this, it won't be long before they recover their strength and become even stronger than before.
Once winter is over, even with the protection of the Vine God, the Vine Tribe will not be able to defend the hunting grounds, and their living space will be severely compressed.
Therefore, the Teng tribe must fight back, and fight back before the two tribes have recovered.
"Why not attack the Jackal Tribe which is closer to us?"
In the courtyard of the bamboo forest, Chishao asked Jiang Xuan in confusion.
"Because the Crow Tribe has offended more tribes."
Jiang Xuan explained: "If we attack the Jackal Tribe, we can only rely on our own hundreds of warriors, but if we attack the Crow Tribe, we can bring the Mountain Turtle Tribe and the Otter Tribe to attack together."
"By then, the Jackal Tribe might also step on the Crow Tribe. With so many tribes attacking together, it will be hard for the Crow Tribe not to be destroyed."
"After we wipe out the Crow Tribe, it won't be too late for us to slowly deal with the Jackal Tribe."
Jiang Xuan's words made Chi Shao suddenly realize that the Crow Tribe had indeed offended too many tribes.
"After the snow falls, the giant dragonflies will also be frozen to death, so we have to hurry up."
In fact, there is one more thing Jiang Xuan didn’t say.
That is, after the snow falls, the strength of the Shen Teng may be weakened, or even fall into a deep sleep.
Although the sacred vine is incredibly strong, it is a plant after all and cannot temporarily escape the influence of seasons and weather.
Jiang Xuan said, "Sister, I will go to the Mountain Turtle Tribe and the Otter Tribe. You organize the warriors in the tribe and make preparations before the war. Weapons, dry food, clothes, and medicine are all indispensable."
Chishao nodded solemnly and said, "Okay, I will lead the soldiers to get ready."
"Then I feel relieved."
Jiang Xuan hurriedly left Chishao's yard, returned to his own yard, prepared some gifts, and immediately rode Tangyuan to the Mountain Turtle Tribe.
Last summer, they wiped out the Mosquito Tribe. This year, Jiang Xuan hopes to wipe out the Crow Tribe as well.
After Jiang Xuan left, Chishao immediately organized all the members of the Teng tribe to make preparations for war.
Weapons, dry food, clothes, medicine and other things must be prepared.
In addition, in order to prevent sneak attacks after the battle, all the supplies of the Teng tribe were quietly transferred to the other side of the Feiyu River and hidden in a cave in the mountain.
Including ordinary tribesmen with weak fighting ability, as well as the elderly, the weak and the disabled, all will enter the caves to hide temporarily.
In this way, after the warriors of the Teng tribe go out to fight, even if someone comes to launch a sneak attack, they will not gain any benefit.
The entire Teng tribe was thrown into a tense atmosphere, and all the warriors were rushing to make more tools.
At times like this, the stonesmith Blackstone became the most popular person.
Because the arrowheads, stone knives, stone spears and other weapons he polished were very easy to use, much better than those polished by the warriors themselves.
Therefore, many warriors gave things to Blackstone, hoping that he could make more weapons for them.
The most leisurely person is the old witch.
The old man kept saying that he would be buried soon, and even the large animal skin for shrouding his body was carefully prepared.
But two years have passed, and he is still energetic, with a rosy face, and there is no sign of him being buried.
After Black Stone arrived, the old witch often went to see him, watching him polish various stone and bone tools, and sometimes they would chat and eat meat together.
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Southern Wilderness, Mountain Turtle Tribe.
"Eer..."
Purple dumplings fell from the sky and landed outside the Mountain Turtle Tribe.
Those giant mountain tortoises had seen the dumplings before, so they just looked up and then slowly crawled on the ground or basked in the sun.
When there is nothing to do, these giant mountain tortoises always appear to be slow, but when faced with danger or fighting, they can run very fast.
Jiang Xuan got off Tangyuan's back, asked it to wait outside, and then went into the Mountain Turtle Tribe alone.
When they arrived at the gate of the fence, Jiang Xuan said to the soldier guarding the gate: "I want to see your leader."
The soldiers guarding the gate knew Jiang Xuan, and one of them immediately went in to report to Shanjia.
After a while, a pangolin wearing animal skins came out and greeted Jiang Xuan enthusiastically from afar.
"Chief Xuan, welcome to the Mountain Turtle Tribe."
Jiang Xuan looked at the pangolins and said with a smile, "Pango leader, why aren't you wearing tortoise shells today?"
The first few times we met, the pangolin was wearing a thick tortoise shell, looking like a giant human-shaped turtle, quite funny.
But today he was only wearing animal skins.
"Turtle shells are very heavy. When you're not going out, it's more comfortable to wear animal skins."
"That's true."
The two of them entered the Mountain Turtle Tribe, talking and laughing, and came to the big house where the mountain beetles lived.
"Chief Xuan, the weather has turned cold and mushrooms are not growing anymore. We can't eat mushroom skewers today, but it doesn't matter. We can eat dried mushroom stew."
Shanjia cleaned a pottery tripod, which was traded from the Teng tribe.
Then he put the animal meat, dried mushrooms and water into the pottery pot, covered the pot with a lid and let it stew slowly.
After finishing all this, Shan Jia asked, "How come Chief Xuan has time to come to our Shangui tribe today?"
Jiang Xuan came here alone and didn't bring any goods, so it was obvious that he was not here to trade.
Jiang Xuan took out a small bag of salt from the animal skin bag slowly, handed it to Shanjia, and said, "New salt, I'll give it to you to try."
Shan Jia opened the bag and saw that it was full of salt. He was surprised and said, "This... This is too expensive."
"It's okay, we are friends, just accept it."
Shanjia wanted to refuse, but Jiang Xuan gave him too much salt, so he subconsciously took it and couldn't refuse at all.
"Then...thank you, Chief Xuan."
Shanjia accepted the salt and the smile on his face became more genuine.
After giving the gifts, Jiang Xuan finally got to the point.
"Actually, I came here this time because I want to discuss something very important with the leader of the mountain eagles."
"Just tell me, Chief Xuan. I will definitely help if I can."
Shanjia was not stupid and did not agree immediately just because he received the gift.
Jiang Xuan didn't keep the secret and said directly: "I wonder if the leader of the mountain armor is interested in attacking the Crow Tribe?"
"What? Attack the Crow Tribe?"
The pangolin was so surprised that he even thought he had heard it wrong.
"That's right. The Crow Tribe has been fighting the Jackal Tribe for so long, and now they are weak. If we attack together with the Vine Tribe, the Mountain Turtle Tribe, and perhaps the Otter Tribe, we will definitely be able to defeat the Crow Tribe!"
Shanjia did not respond immediately. He was cautious by nature and needed to think carefully about such an important matter.
Jiang Xuan continued, "If we don't fight now, after winter, the Crow Tribe will become strong again, even stronger than before. By then, both the Vine Tribe and the tribes around the Great Swamp may be attacked by them again."
Shan Jia was silent for a moment, then said, "Chief Xuan, this matter is too big, I need to discuss it with Wu."
"It's my duty." Jiang Xuan expressed his understanding.
Shanjia asked Jiang Xuan to sit for a while, while he hurriedly went to find the witch of the Mountain Turtle tribe and asked the witch to ask the totem god for his opinion.
After a long time, the pangolin returned to Jiang Xuan again.
He said solemnly: "Chief Xuan, we can jointly attack the Crow Tribe, but our Mountain Turtle Tribe is only responsible for assisting and will not lead the charge."
Shanjia added: "This is what the turtle god meant."
Jiang Xuan thought for a moment and said, "Okay, but after the battle starts, you can't just stand by and watch. You must attack together."
"Of course. We in the Mountain Turtle Tribe will not sit idly by and watch the warriors of the Vine Tribe fight to the death."
"Okay, it's settled then. Three days later, we will join forces to attack the Crow Tribe!"
The two finalized the matter and made a verbal contract.
Jiang Xuan said again: "By the way, I remember that there are many hatreds between the Otter Tribe and the Crow Tribe. I want to go there and invite them to attack the Crow Tribe together. Can the Panther Chief take me there?"
Shanjia shook his head and said, "I advise Chief Xuan not to go. The Otter Tribe is very timid and will not join us in attacking the Crow Tribe."
Jiang Xuan was stunned and asked, "Why? The existence of the Crow Tribe is also a great threat to them."
Shanjia smiled bitterly and said, "The Otter Tribe is different from other tribes. They are used to hiding underground and never take the initiative to attack."
"Is there such a thing?"
"If Chief Xuan doesn't believe me, I'll take you to the Otter Tribe."
Now that he's here, Jiang Xuan naturally doesn't want to give up the support of the Otter Tribe, so he plans to go over and lobby for it.
After eating, Shanjia put on a thick tortoise shell, took a dozen warriors, rode on the mountain tortoise into the water, and went to the Otter Tribe with Jiang Xuan via the waterway.
Jiang Xuan and Shanjia sat on the same giant turtle, with Tangyuan following in the sky and serving as a part-time sentry.
The Mountain Turtle Tribe was not too far from the Otter Tribe. A few hours later, Jiang Xuan saw a group of buildings by the water.
What is different from the buildings of other tribes is that half of the houses of the Otter Tribe are actually below the water surface, making them look like they are floating on the water.
Moreover, their houses are not ordinary houses. From a distance, they look more like a giant nest built with a large number of trees and reeds.
Shanjia looked at Jiang Xuan's surprised expression and laughed, "It's very strange, isn't it? When I first saw the houses of the otter tribe, I also felt very strange. These houses were built for them by the big otters."
Jiang Xuan suddenly remembered that in his previous life he had seen beavers build dams with branches. It was also very spectacular, and some of them could even block a small river.
These houses may have been built on the foundation of the dam.
The pangolin approached Jiang Xuan mysteriously and whispered, "Where the otter tribe lives, they have dug many caves, and the entrances to these caves are all underwater. Once they encounter danger, they will dive into the water with the big otters and hide in the caves."
Jiang Xuan looked at the buildings of the Otter Tribe and sighed inwardly: The world is so big and full of wonders.
When they approached the strange houses of the Otter Tribe, some members of the Otter Tribe had already seen the mountain turtle and came to greet them on their big otters.
Lu Zhu, the leader of the Otter Tribe, was also among them. When he saw Shan Jia and Jiang Xuan, he was quite surprised and wondered why they came together.
"Chief Shanjia, Chief Xuan, welcome to the Otter Tribe."
Lu Zhu let Shanjia, Jiang Xuan and the warriors of the Mountain Turtle Tribe enter the peculiar houses of the Otter Tribe, while the big mountain turtles would bypass the buildings and go to the shore to rest.
The oval roof, the interconnected passages, and the thick walls made of a large number of trees and reeds made Jiang Xuan feel like he was in a giant nest, which was a very strange experience.
Lu Zhu led them along the winding passage. Along the way, Jiang Xuan saw many big otters.
They walked all the way to a very spacious house, then Lu Zhu stopped and asked everyone to sit anywhere.
Although there were no stools, there were several layers of reeds on the ground, which were quite comfortable to sit on.
"Come, Chief Shanjia, Chief Xuan, try the frozen lotus root that was just dug up a few days ago."
A soldier brought some washed frozen lotus roots, and Lu Zhu invited everyone to taste them.
Jiang Xuan also got a piece of frozen lotus root as thick as his arm. After taking a bite, he felt a cool feeling in his mouth, along with a refreshing sweet taste.
Compared with the frozen lotus roots he grew in his yard, the frozen lotus roots produced by the Otter Tribe tasted many times better.
Perhaps, this is the charm of the place of origin.
After eating the frozen lotus root, Lu Zhu treated them to some fish, animal meat, and various wild fruits.
After eating and drinking, the three of them started to talk about business.
Jiang Xuan recounted the story of the joint attack on the Crow Tribe, and emphasized the threat posed by the Crow Tribe to the Otter Tribe.
However, after listening to Jiang Xuan's words, Lu Zhu shook his head.
"Our Otter Tribe is too weak, and we have too few warriors. Even if we attack together, we won't be able to help much..."
Lu Zhu said a lot of things, but in short, the Otter Tribe did not want to get involved in the attack on the Crow Tribe.
Just as Shanjia said, the Otter Tribe was used to hiding in their own territory, and even though they knew that the Crow Tribe was a threat, they were unwilling to attack.
Jiang Xuan felt a little disappointed. He had thought he could persuade the Otter Tribe to join the war. Since the Otter Tribe was unwilling to join the war, they could only fight on their own.
After the conversation, Jiang Xuan did not stay in the Otter Tribe, but left with the pangolin on a giant mountain tortoise.
Perhaps out of apology, before leaving, Lu Zhu gave Jiang Xuan and Shan Jia some precious frozen lotus roots respectively, so that their trip was not in vain.
(End of this chapter)
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