The reason for the conflict was roughly the same as what Xu Chen had guessed.
The great witch of the Wu tribe passed away and a new shaman succeeded to the throne. His prestige was not enough to convince the public. Perhaps the Cang tribe accidentally revealed the news of the great witch's death during their transactions with the Qia tribe. The other party's attitude soon changed significantly.
There were several minor frictions one after another, until this time it became completely out of control.
The current situation is that the Cang Clan has abandoned the valley where they live and has retreated to a narrow valley more than ten miles downstream from the Ji Clan to wait for help. The Ji Clan has supported more than 20 people. Because the strength of the two sides is greatly different, the defense is very difficult.
The purpose is just to allow the women, children, and children of the Cang Clan enough time to evacuate to the Ji Clan.
If this defense is broken, the opponent will directly attack the Ji clan.
There was no talk of surrender in the wars between different tribes in this era.
If you fail, you will either surrender to the spiritual beliefs of the other party's great witch and become the other party's alliance tribe, or you will migrate to the other party and become homeless.
The habit of plundering the population has not yet been developed, because the family tribes composed of matrilineal blood do not need foreign women to pollute the blood inheritance of the tribe, so they will not rob women, and the men of the failed tribe are not qualified to mate, so they do not need
The most a man can do is to ask the other party to give him something in exchange for being captured. Of course, the most likely outcome is that he will be killed.
A tribe without the support of men will quickly weaken.
Killing the men of the other tribe, expelling the women of the other tribe, and snatching the other's property and territory are the basic rules of the current war between tribes.
Although the situation is very serious, a group of people are also very excited. It seems that this is an unprecedented super war, with the fear of annihilation of the entire race.
But in Xu Chen's eyes, this kind of tribal battle involving dozens or hundreds of people was at best comparable to, or even worse than, the scale of a battle between two villages in later generations.
Over in Guangxi, two villages that have never fought can never be qualified neighbors.
It is said that many people in Guangxi are descendants of immigrants when the Qin Dynasty conquered South Vietnam, and they retain the violent war genes of the pre-Qin period in their blood.
If you want to study some ancient Chinese customs, Yungui, Guangxi is definitely the best place.
The further south you go, the older this custom remains.
Therefore, the current tribal war, which seemed unprecedented to all the savages, seemed to Xu Chen to be on the same level as a village war.
But due to the limitations of weapons and wisdom, this kind of fighting is much lower level.
There is no formation, no art of war, no military deployment and planning, everything is just like fighting in a group, and it is over.
Cang people rarely give up their territory and wait for reinforcements, which is actually a very simple military strategy.
However, despite the fact that the opponent had an obvious numerical advantage, they failed to break through the Cang clan's defense in four days. It seemed that their attack power was not as strong as expected.
In fact, the battles between human tribes are much more complicated than hunting. After all, they are all intelligent races. If they cannot win, they can hide, and they can also sneak attacks. Even if they are injured, they will not run away like wild beasts, but will
Find a way to defend and counterattack. Even if the attacking party is strong, it will not focus on killing the opponent completely, but use deterrence, intimidation and other means to expel it, because once the opponent is seriously injured in the battle, the end result will be death.
Therefore, even in relatively fierce battles, efforts should be made to reduce casualties as much as possible. It will not be like in the royal power period when slaves were driven to charge into battle, and various royal orders and military merits were used to reward soldiers with both kindness and power to stimulate soldiers to fight desperately.
Before private ownership was formed, conflicts between human tribes were mostly based on threats, and even centered around witches, engaging in a cultural and intellectual contest to judge the strength gap between them.
Since the emergence of witches, human beings have actually begun to move away from purely animalistic ethnic conflicts and turn to more advanced competitions of wisdom.
When private ownership and royal power rise, this kind of battle will undergo tremendous changes with the expansion of selfish desires and lust for power. Force will gradually become the core of leading wars, but wisdom will become more complex, military strategies will emerge in endlessly, and the excuses for war will become more varied.
But in the end, all wars must have an excuse, which is called division.
The reason why the Cang tribe suffered genocide this time was because they killed and injured more than ten people from the other tribe. In addition, the death of the great witch caused damage to their wisdom and strength. The other party had sufficient reasons and sufficient strength to think that they could attack the Cang tribe.
Launch a fatal blow.
Of course, clay pots and linen are also important inducements.
People die for money and birds die for food. This is primitive nature and has nothing to do with wisdom.
After roughly understanding the causes and consequences of this conflict and the current situation, Xu Chen began to ask about the distribution and geographical situation of several tribes near the Cang tribe, and then slowly used charcoal to draw a simple map on the stone wall of the cave.
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The Ji people are forty miles southwest of the Uzbek people. Their living area is a three-forked river valley. A northeastern valley leads to the Uzbek people, and a northwest direction leads to the more wild mountains. Twenty miles south along the river is the Cang River.
The river continues to meander to the southeast and has several tributaries, one of which is a river where gold can be picked up, and the Qia tribe is nearby.
Continuing along the river to the southeast is the territory of the Gonghuo Tribe.
This river originates hundreds of miles upstream from the Ji tribe, and eventually flows into the large river outside the Ba tribe valley within the control of the Gonghuo Tribe Alliance.
Based on the analysis of the current situation, the Gonghuo Tribe may be planning to incorporate the entire tributary basin into its territory, and then completely border the Uzbek tribe.
The water volume of this river is not large at the moment. During the spring and summer rainy seasons, the water volume of this river will skyrocket, and it will pour out into the ocean. It is a very important tributary of the river.
As a group of people talked about it, the map slowly took shape.
However, this picture is only an overview and has little military value.
Because no one has an exact concept of distance, when talking about the distance between tribes, they always describe it in terms of walking for several days. Xu Chen could only roughly understand the distribution of these tribes.
Xu Chen stared at the map and repeatedly made gestures with his hands, thinking deeply.
A large group of people gathered behind Xu Chen, and the descendants held up torches to help him illuminate.
Drawing a map is an extremely profound skill. Primitive people also did this intentionally or unintentionally. They would draw some patterns of mountains and rivers on stone walls, but they were far less comprehensive than Xu Chen's paintings. Every mountain and every river was
To draw it.
The current situation is very simple. More than ten miles down the river, the Cang people are holding on to a relatively narrow section of the river with almost all their strength. There are steep cliffs on one side and fast river water on the other, leaving little space for the opponent to attack.
, so they were able to hold on for two or three days, but that was all. Under the huge casualties and fearful mentality, the Cang clan could not hold on for long, and the most intense battle since the conflict was very likely to break out tomorrow.
Because these foreigners come from afar, they generally don’t carry much food. In addition, spear weapons consume a lot of money. To throw one, you basically have to make a new one. In the absence of sharp metal knives, doing so
It is not easy to get a suitably sharp spear, especially under constant heavy consumption. Dozens or hundreds of spears have to be thrown out in a day at least. If the logistics cannot keep up, this war will be very detrimental to the opponent.
Moreover, the other party must also know that reinforcements from the Uzbek tribe will definitely arrive, so they urgently need a quick victory and will not delay it for too long.
At present, the opponent's casualties are relatively small, and they still have a strong strength of about two hundred.
He brought about 110 people with him, and the Ji clan still had more than 20 people who could not be used. The downstream Cang clan and the Ji clan together had about 70 people.
In other words, the strength of both sides is almost the same, and the other side has a slight advantage.
If it were the previous situation, there would be almost no guarantee of victory in this kind of battle.
But it's different now. The Ba people he trained personally and a group of study workers sent by the five ethnic groups have a certain degree of military literacy. Their combat effectiveness is much stronger than these primitive savages who fight as they please. Not to mention one against ten, they can cooperate well.
It's not a big problem to have three or five of them. The most important thing is that they still have a group of thirty archers.
In the current situation, this is definitely a big killer.
The only regret is that the current production quality of bows and arrows is problematic. The attack distance is far inferior to that of throwing spears. Therefore, they cannot absolutely suppress the opponent. They can only form relatively large lethality in mid-range conflicts. They need to be used at the right time.
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In addition, Xu Chen's goal is to capture prisoners.
For his king's hegemony plan, population is the key to success. He needs a large number of workers for mining, farming and construction, and enslaving foreigners is the best way. This will not cause conflicts within the tribe, and may even cause conflicts within the tribe.
It will allow them to taste the benefits and stimulate their interest and fighting spirit in conquering other races.
Therefore, he did not intend to use bows and arrows until absolutely necessary. Even if he did use them, he would mainly use them to inflict injuries and try to capture more prisoners.
Bows and arrows made of stone or bone are relatively weak in power. As long as they do not hit soft parts such as the neck and abdomen, there is basically no danger to life. As long as they are treated in time, there will not be too many hidden dangers after the injury is healed.
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There is no hunter from all tribes who does not have scars all over his body, some even with seemingly serious injuries. As long as they survive the infection period, they will come back alive as good men again.
Of course, you can't survive eighteen years and still be a good man.