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 tried testing 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 clan 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..."
At this point, he added in a low voice: "Therefore, I was really surprised yesterday when I heard King Su reveal that he had played with mud when he was a child..."
"Hahaha." Lu Balong also laughed after hearing 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 even though 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 best warrior of the Jie tribe..." Just as he said this, his tone suddenly stopped,
He squinted his eyes and looked at the battle flags erected on the hillside in the distance, and murmured: "Hey, hey, when did Wu Bian join the Jiejiao tribe?"
"It's not just black edges." 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 pointed by Lu Balong, murmuring: "Grey horn, black horn, black hoof... hmm? That's... the Lian tribe? Hey, is it possible?
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 is also the same
What do you have to show off if you rely on looking up dictionaries? 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 Flaming Horn, who protects the royal 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.
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 that you called them Yi and Yanjiao, 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, Harlegohe took a step forward and said in a solemn tone: "King Su just said the opposite... The Yi and Yanjiao are not a large tribe like Jiejiao. It should be said that Jiejiao is like Yijiao.
A big tribe like Yanjiao."
"Are the Yi and Yanjiao a large tribe that have 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 become a large tribe from a small tribe is because of Bitatu, who defeated the warriors of other Jie Tribe tribes.
Therefore, he was once known as the number one warrior of the Jie tribe. Small tribes among the Jie tribe admired his bravery and joined him one after another. The Jiao tribe gradually became stronger and stronger, so that now it has become a large tribe among the Jie tribe.
.”
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 in Jiejiao?"
"Yes." Halegoh nodded and said: "King Su must have heard that when our Liang tribe moved from the south to the north of the plateau, they were attacked by the barbarians. In order to fight against the barbarians, we, the Liang people,
The royal court of the tribe formed Jie, an army that was not used to shepherd sheep but was specifically used to fight against the barbarians."
"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded and said, "I have heard about this, and I also heard that the Jie army was the predecessor of the Jie tribe today."
"That's right." Halegoh nodded, and then continued: "The Jie tribe at that time was very powerful because of the concentration of warriors from all the tribes of our Yi tribe. Even the powerful Hu people were no match for the Jie tribe.
, therefore, Jie grew rapidly, and soon developed to hundreds of thousands, and plundered
He took hundreds of thousands of Hu people as slaves to help them fight against the Hu people... But, King Su, you also know that people need to eat food, whether they are Jie warriors or Hu slaves. A large number of captive slaves
, making the tribes of our Yi tribe unable to afford Jie’s huge food consumption, so Jie gradually
They formed their own tribe and used some of their domesticated slaves to herd sheep for them, that is, the Jie tribe... At this time, the Jie tribe defeated several Hu tribes in the north, but caused several big Hu tribes in the north.
The tribe was vigilant. In order to resist the attack of several large Hu tribes, the Jie tribe
It was split into three tribes: Yi, Ling, and Jie, to resist the Hu tribes in the north, northeast, and east respectively. These three tribes are the three large tribes of the Jie tribe... And Jiejiao is just Jiejiao.
The fourth major tribe of the tribe.” Note: The antelope, antelope, and jie are all aggressive and ruthless sheep. The author has obsessive-compulsive disorder.
"Humph." Zhao Hongrun hummed in response, and then asked: "What about Yanjiao? The name of the tribe also contains horns. Isn't she from the Jie tribe?"
"The Flaming Horn is 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." Halegoh licked his lips and whispered: "There is only one army, one army responsible for defending Wubeard Palace. Its battle flag is a burning horn, symbolizing 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 about the Flame 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.