From Chief to Ball

In order, five people walked quickly across the suspension bridge in a row, took the dry food bags on both sides of the suspension bridge and carried them on their backs, and hurriedly followed behind Chen Jian's white deer.

There were scouts running back from afar. As long as the scouts were in control of the situation, there was no need to regroup immediately.

Chen Jian was riding on the deer with mixed feelings in his heart. Looking at the yellowed wheat that could be harvested at any time, it was the first time that he hated a tribe so much.

He was always vigilant about the tribe in the north. Although it took a long time to find them in winter, in fact, if he didn't climb trees but walked the river valley, he could travel two to three hundred miles at most.

Now is the time when that tribe is most at ease and most wants to fight: the cubs of the livestock have been born and no one needs to be looked after, the grass is tender and there is no need to fight for a long time, and there is no need to choose the fattest horse in autumn. This is not a seesaw of nomadic farming. Times, just tribal wars.

And now is not the time to stockpile hay for winter, you can gather a large number of people to go out, and by the way, you can also capture some slaves to prepare for mowing after the beginning of autumn.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. This is the first harvest for the tribe, and Chen Jian does not want to make any mistakes.

In an era when one had an army formation and was not afraid of them, and did not even have stirrups, attacking an infantry formation was courting death.

Chen Jian was sure that that tribe didn't have the ability to harass them by riding and shooting.

Riding archery is either a recurve horn bow with a shorter bow but more power, or a weird riding bow with a long top and a short bottom, otherwise the horse riding bow will be caught by the legs or the horse's back.

In this era, an infantry has enough bows and arrows and bronze weapons, and it is not a problem to rely on the army to fight three with one.

But the right to decide the battle is not in his hands. The tactical mobility of the cavalry is far superior to that of the infantry, and there is no need to actually fight. As long as he is harassed until he can't harvest, it is tantamount to wasting two years of the tribe's time!

The nearby woods were all burned up, leaving behind a large number of wooden fences that hindered the horses from advancing. This was a preparation he had made in advance. He knew that the tribe might go south, but this time was the last time he wanted.

Knowing that walking fast will cause fatigue, but now I can't take care of it, I can only rush for time.

"Speed ​​up! Get to the mountain pass as soon as possible! Quick! Quick!"

Shouting loudly, the footsteps of the soldiers gradually accelerated, and all the scouts were sent out. According to the method that had been formulated long ago, there were scouts of their own on the tops of several hills, and they would report back every once in a while.

Almost everyone is in a kind of extreme anger.

Before the sound of the drums, they were still thinking about the taste of wheat rice and the food stuffed with meat stuffed with ground wheat flour that Chen Jian said, but now they are going to war!

Might be too late to eat those drool-worthy foods?This is simply intolerable!

Chapter 77 A Changing World Changing Gods

The mountain pass was not too far from the city, but in the end it was still a step too late.

When approaching the mountain pass, the scouts in front reported that the enemy was not far away.

The sharp flute sounded, and the warriors immediately followed the method they had practiced before. Five or six teams crowded together, turning the whole team into a matt shape, divided into four squares, and the archers stood in the gaps between the four squares. .

The pace of the whole team immediately slowed down. Once the whole team moved forward, the speed could not be fast.

The scouts gathered together and surrounded the team to prevent the enemy from getting tired.

Chen Jian estimated that it was impossible to reach the mountain pass. The training of the soldiers was not enough, and they lacked tactical maneuvering methods such as war horses.

"Rest on that small hill, and the scouts are alert."

After walking so far quickly, I was a little tired. Since I couldn't grab the position of the mountain pass, I could only take the time to rest for a while.

Now that the population is insufficient and there are not enough full-time soldiers, Chen Jian has nothing to do.

If the city can support [-] full-time soldiers, there is no need for such troubles. Fortresses are built where the two mountain passes must pass, and dozens of soldiers are stationed, so that the enemy cannot enter.

How can I say that my own people are not the kind of soldiers who dare not go out of the city to fight in the field when they encounter horsemen, and the leader of the other party is a little better, so he will definitely not dare to cross the pass and go directly to the city unless he does not want to go back.

With the current productivity of the city, it can support dozens of off-duty soldiers in another year, but it is really unaffordable now, so now is also the most vulnerable time for the city.

After this year, Chen Jian will no longer pay attention to the nomadic tribe with hundreds of people in the north. Every year after the beginning of autumn, when the grass is drying, he will take full-time soldiers to burn it around, and he will be able to force them to move away.

It is said that the victory cannot be pinned on the stupidity of the enemy, but the leader of that tribe should not know that this is the time when his tribe is most vulnerable.

The other party came on horseback, and Chen Jian didn't expect to keep all these people here, but only hoped that the other party could retreat in the face of difficulties and leave his tribe a complete harvest season.

The team had been pulled up to a small hill tens of meters high. He stood on the highest point and looked ahead. A large group of horses and riders appeared in his field of vision.

Seven or eight riders were in front, and the three scout teams of our own side had approached in a reverse shape, ready to drive them away.

The soldiers on the hill also stood up one after another and began to form a team. The archers were wiping the bowstrings with beeswax. Some sweat was soaked on the previous fatigue, and it was a little damp.

When the opponent's riders saw their own scouts approaching, they knew that they were not opponents, so they all dispersed, keeping a distance, and the two sides did not fight.

Soon the enemy's large army poured out from the mountain pass, counted from a distance, the number was about a hundred, Chen Jian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

If there are only so few people, I really don't have to worry about it, even if they rush to the vicinity of the city, those people in the city can completely defend them.

It's just that I don't know what these people are here for, did they come here by accident?Or do you know the existence of your own tribe?

A journey of two or three hundred miles doesn't seem far away, but in this era, except for the migration of the entire tribe, few people have traveled so far, and it is already the limit.

After waiting for a while, it was confirmed that there was no one behind, and the clansmen had almost rested, so they sent an order: "The whole team, go down the mountain, and advance towards the mountain pass!"

Soldiers marched in formation, moving extremely slowly to maintain formation, which was also a major disadvantage of infantry.

If you want to have a strong combat effectiveness, you need a whole team, but you will sacrifice speed. Unless you train every day to form a habit and continue for decades, you may be able to train an army that can turn flexibly, maintain formation and speed. Far, only have one leg.

At the mountain pass, the leader of that tribe looked at the army formation that was slowly moving towards this side, and a dark cloud covered his heart, as if the hills were moving.

"sharp."

He secretly praised that the neat military formation was a scene he had dreamed of.Of course, I hope to see it in my own people.

Just like a herd of horses on the grassland, a group of horses cannot be easily caught, only scattered horses will be caught.It is very difficult to make the tribe as obedient as a herd of horses.

He knew very well that people like himself couldn't beat each other. He knew that he couldn't beat them since he decided to bring his tribe here to have a look a few days ago.

Not long ago, a herd of deer migrating from the south passed near his tribe. It is said that the deer herd does not migrate in this season, as if there was a fire in the southern mountains and forests, the deer herd began to migrate during this season.

There is also a group of people following the deer. The men are strong and chase the deer every day. They hunt and kill the single ones in the deer. The deer also need to rest, so these people can always keep up.

Originally, he wanted to capture or kill this group of people as a sacrifice to the spirit of war, but those people are not easy to deal with, especially the weapons in their hands are not stones, but a kind of black and dark something sharp.

In the end, the battle was not fought, and the opponent exchanged ten black weapons for some horses, and then continued to leave with the herd of deer.

Although they couldn't understand their language, they could tell from the wounds on some people that they were defeated by other tribes.

After the exchange, the chief was stunned with a weapon that buzzed when tapped, especially after seeing how easily it could chop wood.

He asked the witch spirits in the tribe - their tribe believes that all things have spirits, including wars, bows and arrows, and these things also have souls. The witch spirits can communicate with the spirits of all things after eating a kind of gray mushroom that grows on horse dung People—but the witch spirits in the tribe couldn't give an answer either.

This is the second strange thing the tribe has encountered recently.

The first thing was that in winter, someone in the clan was killed and their heads were taken away.