Under the warm sunshine of a bright spring day, Xu Chen and a large group of craftsmen were busy laying tiles on the roof.
Within the palace grounds, there are craftsmen and men and women carrying bricks and tiles on wooden backs everywhere.
Suddenly, someone on the roof pointed to the other side of the Jicang River in the upstream direction and exclaimed with joy.
Everyone stopped and looked around.
Sure enough, on the upper reaches of the north bank of the Jicang River, still seven or eight miles away from the Gonghuo tribe, a long team could be seen winding along the Bagong Avenue on the river bank, hunting flags fluttering, and faintly returning.
The sound of trumpets can be heard.
"Go down and have a look!"
Xu Chen's face showed surprise, he put down the clay tiles in his hands and went down the roof and stairs.
Soon, a large group of people poured out of the palace area and headed towards the river pontoon.
Half an hour later, more than a dozen horses galloped to the vicinity of the trading market. At this time, hundreds of people had gathered around Xu Chen. From a distance, groups of men, women, old and young continued to arrive, with wild and wild ghosts crying and howling.
Cheers echoed across the river beach.
A group of knights on horseback reined in their horses and stopped. The dragon holding a giant bronze spear sat on the horse, but he was not in a hurry to get down. Instead, he looked straight at the palace and temple on the other side of the river, which had been mostly covered with terracotta tiles.
The buildings looked dull as if they had been struck by thunder.
The group of knights who returned with him almost all had the same expression, their eyes widened and their mouths wide enough to fit a big duck egg in.
"Witch King, His Majesty the Witch King, is that the king...the royal city?"
After a long time, the dragon seemed to have rolled off the saddle. He lost his spear and threw himself excitedly in front of Xu Chen and stammered.
"Well, it's just the palace and the temple. The royal city is five times bigger than this!" Xu Chen nodded with a smile.
"Wow!"
A group of hunters who followed the dismounted screamed and staggered around, and some even missed their feet and fell directly to the ground.
"We...can we go take a look?" Long's eyes were blurred and he was drooling.
"Don't worry, the palace won't run away, you can see it at any time, and it's not completely repaired yet. You've been gone for so long, what's the current situation of the Tage clan?" Xu Chen waved his hand and asked.
Long suddenly came to his senses, quickly knelt down on one knee and clasped his fists and said: "Fortunately, the Tage tribe has surrendered. We have brought back their great shaman and a group of chiefs, and we have also brought back more than two hundred strong men and women.
There’s no loot, nothing but some animal skins!”
"Where is the Youqiong tribe? Last time I reported that you led the Tage tribe to attack the Youqiong tribe!" Xu Chen asked next.
"Some poor people have also been defeated and have retreated to their own territory. I originally wanted to fight there, but the food I brought has been eaten up, the area is not easy to hunt, and several horses have been injured, so we can only retreat.
, But don’t worry, Your Majesty the Witch King, I will lead people to defeat them completely in a few days!" Long replied very excitedly.
Xu Chen:……
This guy is indeed a militant.
With dozens of people, he wanted to devour two huge groups of thousands of people in one go.
Although the cavalry is powerful, it is not used like this.
A damn horse is so valuable.
Even if the poor tribes are defeated, the harvest may not be able to compensate for the losses. After all, these poor, soil-eating tribes have nothing but people.
BAM is no longer as short of players as it was in previous years.
At this time, there were more and more people on the river beach. The little witch also came from the Gonghuo Col with the little witch from the Gonghuo tribe, surrounded by a large group of clan chiefs. There was also a little witch wearing a white skirt but no cloak.
, it is another descendant of the old witch of the Gonghuo Tribe who did not become a great witch.
When a group of witches arrived, the dragon and a group of knights quickly knelt down and saluted.
Amid the hustle and bustle, a huge team of hundreds of people came from upstream along the road.
Among them was a group of savages wearing furs, with dozens of knights holding banners, bows, arrows and spears on both sides and in front and behind, shouting loudly and chasing them away.
Soon, amid loud cheers, the team arrived near the trading market, and then a group of knights all rode up to Xu Chen. They got off their horses and squatted down to salute Xu Chen and a group of witches.
However, the scene was a bit chaotic, because at this time most of the knights had seen the royal palace on the other side of the river. Many of them looked dull and confused. Only a group of hunters who came back to report last time had some understanding, so they seemed normal.
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But this normal condition is only a little better, and I am still so surprised that I can’t open my mouth from ear to ear.
The last time I reported back was in early January. At that time, the palace and temple were ramming earth and building walls. It was still a half-finished project. Although the scene looked grand, it was far less grand than the current one after the beams and tiles were put up.
But for Long and other hunters, this was the first time they saw such a large-scale tall artificial structure.
They had been here during the witchcraft conference last September. At that time, except for the houses and courtyards of various tribes scattered in the settlements around the royal city, the royal city area was still an open space overgrown with weeds.
But after a few months, they saw such a large group of buildings rising from the ground in the center, and such a terrifying construction speed, that they felt as if they had seen a ghost.
However, no matter how surprised a group of knights are, it only takes a moment to recover. After all, they are all people who have seen the big world. Each tribe now has various houses, and they have seen rammed earth buildings. There is also a trading market around them.
Enclosing a rammed earth wall as high as a person.
But for the Tage people who were defeated and captured, the houses and various living places of the Ji tribe, the Cang tribe, and the Qia tribe along the way frightened them.
Now when we arrived at the Gonghuo Basin, we saw that both sides of the Jicang River were filled with acres of houses and farmland, as well as various smoke-filled kilns and workshops, as well as the large area on the opposite bank that stood abruptly in the middle of the empty river beach like a miracle.
After seeing the same group of buildings, everyone was so frightened that their minds went blank.
I even saw people running along the pontoon bridge from the other side of the river as if they were walking on flat ground. They were so frightened that they fell to the ground and screamed and trembled.
Especially one of them, an old witch with gray hair and tattoos on her face. She had a few messy feathers on her head. She was wearing a dirty fur that barely covered her withered body. She had a black and thickly pulped hair.
Holding the scepter, he looked at the palace on the other side of the river tremblingly. After being stunned for a long time, his body went limp and the scepter fell to the ground with a clatter. Then he was exclaimed by a group of adult women with feathers on their heads and hurriedly helped him.
Didn't fall down.
Xu Chen cast his eyes on the old witch.
Her identity is clear at a glance. She has a noble status in the tribe. She once arrogantly refused the various generous surrender conditions he arranged for the witches of the Pi tribe to submit. But now, she is just an ordinary old savage. She is different from Gong Huo.
The old witch of the Gonghuo tribe was in a bad state when she first arrived at the Gonghuo tribe. She was completely shocked.
And her treatment was obviously much worse than that of the old witch. Not only was she beaten and captured by the Ba Meng, but she was also driven hundreds of miles to get here. Not only was she physically and mentally exhausted to the extreme, but she was also completely burned out at this time.
The situation in the basin was so scary that I couldn't stand firm.
"Your Majesty the Witch King, this is the great witch of the Tage tribe!" Long said quickly.
"Well, it doesn't look like the situation is good. Let's take her to the Ba tribe's compound to rest first. The others will stay temporarily in the trading market. In addition, each tribe will collect some food first and ask the kiln factory to send some pottery to wait for them to settle down and rest.
We’ll make other arrangements in two days!”
Xu Chen gave a few instructions, and the little witch immediately turned around and started arranging a group of clan leaders and leaders, and soon people began to scatter and get busy.
After nearly an hour of noisy, the crowd at the scene slowly dispersed. After seeing that the Tage people had almost made arrangements, they took a group of witches, dragons and other hunters across the river and returned to the Ba compound where they lived.
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At this time, under the care of Thirteenth Aunt and others, the old Tage shaman had calmed down a lot after drinking some hot water and eating some simple food.
Seeing Xu Chen and a group of witches coming in, the old witch and a group of clan leaders trembled and hurriedly fell to the ground.
"Since you have decided to submit to the Ba League, you don't have to be too afraid. No one will hurt you here. After two days of rest, the Great Witch will hold a inheritance ceremony for you. From now on, the Tage tribe will also be a member of the Ba League.
The Grand Witch and I will treat you equally, and the conditions promised to you before will remain unchanged!" Xu Chen said condescendingly as he looked down at the old witch and a group of Tage people lying on the ground.
"Your Majesty the Witch King, they can't understand you at all when you say so much!" Gao reminded standing nearby.
Xu Chen's face twitched and he sighed helplessly and said: "Can't the Pi people communicate with them?"
Long nodded with an ugly look on his face: "Yes, when we escorted Pi Wu to communicate with them for the first time, Fei Lao was very nervous. After gesticulating for a long time, they still didn't agree, so we had to give up the negotiation in the end!"
Xu Chen was even more speechless.
It seems that many times wars between tribes are not necessarily due to inappropriate conditions, but because the language barrier is too difficult to communicate, resulting in the inability to communicate smoothly, resulting in the inability of both parties to communicate effectively.
But that won't happen in the future. The Tage tribe has been defeated. After surrendering to the Ba League, they will naturally start to learn the Ba tribe language and the Great Witch Dictionary. After a year or two, this situation will be greatly improved.
Just like every other conquered tribe.
When he first traveled through time, Xu Chen couldn't even understand what people in his own tribe were saying.
But six years later, several major ethnic groups and dozens of tribes have been able to communicate relatively smoothly in the Ba language, and all the great shamans are even proficient in communicating in animal skin books.
Even the poor people, who have the least contact with them, can now communicate with the Bamong member tribes relatively smoothly.
This increasingly widespread unification of language and writing will greatly stimulate the sense of cultural identity.
At least among the member tribes within the Ba League, there is no longer any barrier between them and they all get along very harmoniously.
The Taq tribe will gradually become like this.
Since he didn't understand the language, Xu Chen wasn't in the mood to communicate much. He just ordered Thirteenth Aunt, Ye and others to arrange to take care of the old witch and a group of chiefs and leaders of the Tage tribe, and then informed Long to summon all the people to conquer the Tage tribe.
The hunters of the tribe are prepared to reward them based on their merits and deal with casualties. This chapter has been completed!