On the morning of August 16, Lu Balong and Meng Liang, the two chiefs of the Lun tribe and the Meng tribe of the Yi tribe, came to the west wall of Luocheng together.
Since they were surrounded by soldiers from Shangshui who did not understand the Yi language, the two clan leaders were not worried that their conversation would be eavesdropped.
"(In Shen language) How is the situation over there, Lu Balong?"
"(In the language of the Yi tribe) I can't tell... After the Jiejiao tribe's army arrived outside the city yesterday, I tested the leaders of the tribe, but I didn't find out anything."
"Didn't King Su warn you not to alarm them?... Once the snake lurking in the grass is frightened, it will slip away, making it even harder to find." Meng Liang warned.
"I understand what you are saying." Lu Balong sighed, then frowned and explained: "But I just can't help it... If the shameful betrayer really appears in our Lun tribe, then our Lun tribe will
How can we stand in the Luoshui Alliance in the future? Stand in front of the Wei State and the other twenty-two alliance tribes?"
"King Su trusts you, that's enough." Meng Liang said in a low voice: "Didn't King Su say that? A patriarch who can swallow his anger and bow to his former enemy for the survival chance of his tribe is a great patriarch.
, worthy of trust!”
Hearing this, Lu Balong showed a strong sense of recognition on his face and murmured: "Meng Liang, do you know? It's really incredible. As far as I know, King Su is only fifteen years old this year.
The fifteen-year-old bad boys in our tribe only know how to play and cause trouble all day long..."
"It can't be compared like this." Meng Liang shook his head and said with a smile: "King Su is the son of King Wei. He was born to take over the power of Wei. The royal family of Wei has higher requirements for them..." said
At this point, he added in a low voice: "So, yesterday, I was really surprised when I heard King Su reveal that he had played with mud when he was a child..."
"Hahaha." Lu Balong laughed when he heard this.
Thinking about it, these tribal chiefs, who were well aware of King Su's methods and tactics, really imagined that such a mature and prudent King Su would have a childhood like ordinary children playing with mud.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, Meng Liang's eyes changed slightly, he raised his head and pointed outside the city, and said in a low voice: "Lu Balong, the Jiejiao people are back again."
When Lu Balong heard this, he stopped and turned to look outside the city. He found that just as Meng Liang said, Jiejiao's cavalry, which had only shown its face in Luocheng yesterday before retreating again, appeared outside the city again at this moment.
On that hillside.
What was different from yesterday was that although he couldn't even see the faces of the Jiejiao cavalry clearly, Lu Balong seemed to be able to feel the strong fighting spirit of the other party.
"It seems like there's going to be a fight today..." Lu Balon muttered in a low voice.
Hearing this, Meng Liang frowned and said hesitantly: "Has Bitatu arrived already? That Bitatu who was once known as the 'No. 1 Warrior of the Jie Tribe'..." Just as he said this, his tone suddenly changed.
He squinted his eyes and looked at the battle flags erected on the hillside in the distance, and murmured: "Hey, hey, when did 'Wubian' join the Jiejiao tribe?"
"It's not just the 'black edge'." Lu Balong's expression became more and more solemn, he raised his hand and pointed in one direction, and whispered: "Look at those totem flags."
Meng Liang squinted his eyes and looked carefully in the direction Lu Balong was pointing, and murmured: "Gray horn, black horn, black hoof"... hmm? That's... "緷(lian)"
) Tribe? Hey, are we going to be enemies with two big tribes at the same time?"
"Note: The author has obsessive-compulsive disorder. Since the people of Sanchuan use sheep as their totem, they must be related to sheep when naming the tribe, otherwise they will feel uncomfortable. This is not to show off some uncommon words as some people say. The author
I also rely on looking up the dictionary, what’s there to show off? For the convenience of readers, such rare words will be marked with pinyin in the future.”
"Keep watching." Lu Balon said in a low voice with a gloomy face.
Meng Liang glanced at Lu Balong in confusion, and cast his gaze into the distance again. Suddenly, he saw a tribal battle flag erected in the distance, with a huge ibex with blazing horns painted on it, and he murmured
Said: "'Burning horns'? This is..."
Suddenly, his expression suddenly changed, and he lost his voice in shock: "'Flaming Horn'? Why is the Flaming Horn who protects the 'King Court' in Jie Jiao's army?!"
After that, he and Lu Balong looked at each other and said in unison: "Report to King Su quickly!"
About half an hour later, under the guidance of Meng Liang and Lu Balong, Zhao Hongrun led the tribal chiefs of the "Luoshui Alliance" to the west wall of Luocheng and climbed up to look at the Jijiao tribe's army outside the city.
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At this time, at the end of the line of sight several miles away, at the foot of the hillside, countless Jie tribe cavalry were standing there, as if they were like huge gray spots on the grassland.
But what is even more shocking is probably the Jiejiao slave army that seems to be neatly arranged in front of the Jiejiao cavalry formation. The dense crowd of heads makes even Zhao Hongrun who does not have trypophobia feel his scalp tingling.
numb.
"There are too many..."
Zhao Hongrun frowned slightly.
You know, when he led his army to block the Chu army last year, he had never seen such a large number of enemies on the same battlefield. They were so close to each other that it seemed as if all those in the distance were covered by naked clothes.
Slave army.
Compared with the number of slaves, it seems that the Chu army's massive human wave offensive was nothing at all.
"So...where is the big tribe you call?"
Zhao Hongrun looked back at the two clan leaders, Meng Liang and Lun, frowned and asked, "I remember you called them '緷' and 'Flaming Horn', right? Are they also a big tribe like 'Jiejiao'?"
"
As soon as he finished speaking, Halegoh, the leader of the Aries tribe, sighed slightly and said in a low tone: "Let me explain it."
Zhao Hongrun glanced at Meng Liang and Lu Balong, and then nodded to Halegoh.
Seeing this, Halegoh took a step forward and said in a solemn tone: "King Su just said the opposite..."緷" and "Flame Horn" are not large tribes like "Jiejiao", they should be called
, ‘Jie Jiao’ is a large tribe like ‘緷’ and ‘Flame Jiao’.”
"Are the '緷' and the 'flaming horn' a large tribe that has experienced a lot of time?" Zhao Hongrun immediately understood what Halegoh wanted to express.
"Yes." Halegoh nodded and explained in a deep voice: "'Jiejiao' is a Jie tribe that has grown rapidly in the past twenty years. Her predecessor was just a small tribe that called itself 'Jiao'.
Among the Jie tribe, there are many small tribes that use sheep horns as their totems and call themselves the "Horn" tribe... The reason why the Horn tribe can
From a small tribe to a large tribe, it was because of Tatu that he defeated the warriors of other Jie tribes, so he was once called "the first warrior of the Jie tribe". The small tribes among the Jie tribe admired his bravery and joined him one after another.
, gradually made the Jiao tribe stronger and stronger, so that now it has become a large tribe among the Jie people."
Zhao Hongrun frowned when he heard this and asked curiously: "Listening to what you said, it seems that the Jie tribe is not just a big tribe called Jiejiao?"
"Yes." Halegoh nodded and said: "King Su must have heard that when our Yi tribe moved south from the plateau to the "Northland", they were attacked by the barbarians. In order to fight against the barbarians, we
The royal court of our Yi people has formed the ‘Jie’, an army that is not used to shepherd sheep but is specifically used to fight against the barbarians.”
"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded and said, "I have heard about this, and I also heard that the original Jie army was the predecessor of the Jie tribe today."
"That's right." Halegoh nodded, and then continued to tell: "The Jie tribe at that time was very powerful because of the concentration of warriors from all tribes of our Yi tribe. Even the strong Hu people were not from the Jie tribe.
Therefore, Jie grew rapidly and soon grew to more than 100,000 people. It also robbed hundreds of thousands of Hu people as slaves to help them fight against the Hu people... But, King Su, you also know that people are going to
Those who eat food are either warriors of the Jie tribe or slaves of the Hu people. A large number of captive slaves made the tribes of our Yi tribe unable to afford Jie's huge food consumption. Therefore, Jie gradually formed their own tribe and used domestication to
Later, some of the slaves herded sheep for them, namely the "Jie tribe"... At this time, the Jie tribe defeated several Hu tribes in the north, but it aroused the vigilance of several large tribes of Hu tribes in the north. In order to fight
In response to the attacks of several large Hu tribes, the "Jie tribe" was divided into three tribes: "緷", "Ling", and "Jie" tribes to resist the Hu tribes from the north, northeast, and east respectively, and these three tribes
The tribes are the three major tribes of the Jie tribe...and the Jiejiao tribe is only the fourth major tribe of the Jie tribe." "Note: The antelope, antelope, and Jie are all aggressive and ruthless sheep. The author has obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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"Hmph." Zhao Hongrun hummed in response, and then asked: "What about the 'Flaming Horn'? The name of the tribe also contains 'horn'. Isn't she a Jie tribe?"
"The 'Flaming Horns' are the army of our Yi tribe." Halegoh said with a strange expression.
Zhao Hongrun was puzzled when he heard this and asked in astonishment: "Don't you, the Yi tribe, not have a specialized army?"
"Yes." Halegoch licked his lips and whispered: "There is only one army, one army responsible for defending the "Wuxu Royal Court". Its battle flag is the "burning horn", which symbolizes
‘The destruction of the enemy’.”
"..." Zhao Hongrun was stunned when he heard this, and glanced at the tribal chiefs present.
He finally understood why the tribal chiefs had such strange expressions after hearing "Flaming Horn".
"They are actually the royal guards of the Wusu Royal Court?...What do you mean? Does the Wusu Royal Court also plan to intervene in this war?"
Zhao Hongrun's heart suddenly sank.
You must know that the status of the Wuxu Royal Court among the Zhusanchuan tribes is equivalent to the status of the King of Wei and the Wei court in the State of Wei.
If it were just Jiejiao, even if Jiejiao was the fourth large tribe of the Jie people, Zhao Hongrun would not be overly worried.
But if Wusu Royal Court was involved in this war, that would be a different matter.
If the Wusu Royal Court sided with the Jiejiao tribe, perhaps this war would really turn into a racial war between Wei and Sanchuan.