The night was long, chaotic, and anxious.
After quickly returning to the division, Zeng Ba led 800 soldiers to attack southward despite exhaustion to attract the attention of the tribal coalition and gather survivors from small villages and villages along the way.
Lin Yingjia led two hundred soldiers to 'escort' the Mahuo family and the Babuza people around Lugeng Village, and rushed back to Lucheng as soon as possible to take charge and organize the people from the southern villages to retreat into Lucheng.
Fu Yixin's task is not light either. He is responsible for guarding Lugeng Village, ensuring the safety of the floating bridge, waiting for the troops stranded on the north bank of Bird Creek, and organizing the transfer of villages in the northern area.
The food gained from the attack on the Pabra tribe was not much, and the total amount was only 50,000 to 60,000 kilograms. However, under the current situation, it was particularly precious and could not be lost.
The Babuza people in each village were definitely not willing to give up their homes, and would inevitably have to resort to coercive measures. Therefore, various incidents occurred one after another, making Fu Yixin very anxious.
However, the most difficult and dangerous thing was Zeng Ba's troops. They encountered a large number of tribal coalition forces just after they arrived near Dingzhai.
If they set up a battle array and engage in head-on conventional combat, the Song Army is fully confident that it can defeat even a tribal army that is several times larger than its own.
But the tribal army was like a swarm of venomous bees, surrounding and lurking near the Song army's marching route, using the darkness of night and the complex environment to constantly harass them.
They either buried poisoned thorns on the road, or hid in the bushes and silently fired poisonous stings at the Song army with blow darts.
Either he hides behind a stone tree trunk and suddenly throws a javelin, or he climbs up a tree and shoots hidden arrows from a high position...
Anyway, they were full of tricks and caused a lot of damage. After the fight, they ran deep into the forest. Song Jun was worried that there would be more traps and ambush, so he didn't dare to chase them.
Zeng Ba had no choice but to endure the enemy who could not be beaten or driven away. He could only endure it and ordered the physically and mentally exhausted troops to keep moving in close formation.
When they were about to arrive at the first military stronghold, the tribal troops besieging the military stronghold simply withdrew. Zeng Ba was too lazy to chase, picked up the sergeants and wounded in the stronghold, and headed towards a nearby Babuza village.
When they arrived, they found that the village had been invaded and turned into a sea of flames, but there were more than a hundred people tied up outside the village.
When I stepped forward, I saw that they were all old, weak, women and children in the village. Most of them had injuries on their bodies. After inspection, it was found that these injuries were not minor or serious, and at least they still had the ability to move.
Zeng Ba didn't have time to think about it, so he just asked the army doctor and soldiers to give them a rough treatment, and then took them to continue south.
Later, he rescued two military camps and picked up more than a hundred sergeants. The seven villages he passed were all destroyed. They were all the same as the previous village. The old, weak, women and children were deliberately left outside the village.
At dawn, they arrived at the southernmost village, which was also burned to a white ground. The ruins were filled with charred, headless corpses, but no more living people were found.
Zeng Ba originally thought that he should turn and head west, but seeing that all the soldiers were exhausted and it was difficult to hold on, and most of the more than a thousand villagers rescued were also staggering, he had no choice but to order to find an open space outside the ruins of the village to rest for a while.
Although they were unable to build defensive facilities, the Song army, under the command of Zeng Ba, formed a hollow square array and protected their wounded and villagers in the array.
This approach is actually against military common sense, because once an enemy attacks, the villagers are likely to panic and become confused, thus disrupting the thin front line.
However, Lin Yingjia and Fu Yixin repeatedly emphasized that Zeng Ba must protect these Babuza people with all their strength, so he could only do this, and he also believed that the tribal troops should not dare to attack head-on.
During the break, the soldiers of the Song Army took out the dry food and water they carried with them and began to eat. However, the Babuza people were hungry and thirsty after being tortured all night. The adults just watched helplessly, but the children of several years old could not help but cry. Make a fuss.
Wan Sheng, who was following Zeng Ba, couldn't bear it, so he took the initiative to give all his food and water to several children.
Seeing this, Zeng Ba shook his head helplessly and gave the order, asking the soldiers to keep as much as they needed and distribute the rest to the villagers.
Afterwards, the entire square seemed much quieter, and everyone chewed their food in silence.
In the forest not far to the east, a large group of people were observing this place with great interest.
Witch Jiugu shook the feathers on her head and said in a low voice, "Liu Lang, this is a good time to attack the Song army. If we can destroy this group of Song army, even if we lose some warriors, it will be worth it."
After listening to Shiren's translation, Liu Xikun slowly shook his head, "We Han people have a saying, a man who subdues his enemies without fighting is a good person. Therefore, those who use troops to attack and use wisdom to win are the real people." If I win the dragon and phoenix, I already have a clever plan in mind to defeat the enemy, so there is no need to add extraneous details."
Liu Xikun didn't care about the life and death of the so-called 'warriors' of the natives. He just had his own wishful thinking and naturally did not allow the natives to destroy it.
Jiugu's eyes were full of admiration, "Liu Lang, the clever plan you mentioned is that you want to wait until the Song people have no food and surrender, so you don't want to kill those Babuza people so that they can increase the food supply of the Song people." Consumption... Liulang's wisdom is really wider than the sea and higher than the Holy Mountain... By the way, should we intercept the grain that the Song people grabbed from the Pabra people?"
"No, just ask them to transport the grain back to Lucheng, I have my own arrangements to solve it... Hehe, although Fu Yixin jumped out and disrupted my original plan, the chaos has been corrected now. It will only take three or four days at most. They can only Surrender to me obediently!"
Liu Xikun had long understood that even if they supported many iron weapons, these natives would not be able to defeat the Song army, let alone capture Lucheng, so the original plan was to minimize the food sources of the pioneering regiment.
Things were going quite smoothly before. As expected, the pioneering group was caught in a food shortage. However, they didn't expect to find any changes in the Song Army yesterday. Then the intelligence from the response was sent at noon, and they knew that the Song Army had a strategy to solve the food shortage.
Knowing that the Song army would attack the Maowu, Hongya, and Xila tribes of their own tribes, they couldn't help but panic. However, Liu Xikun quickly came up with countermeasures and, with the help of Jiu Gu, persuaded the tribes to take action immediately.
At present, it seems that the situation is going exactly according to his plan, and he is getting closer and closer to achieving his goal, so Liu Xikun can't help but smile proudly.
He connected the natives in the name of expelling the Song people. At first, it was just to complete the tasks given by his family, but later he discovered that this was actually an excellent opportunity to build his own strength.
These days on the island gave him a deep understanding of this rich place, and he couldn't help but feel possessive.
He doesn't have much status in the family, and he can't mobilize much resources and strength in normal times. But now he has a high influence among the natives, especially the great witch of the Pawan tribe who obeys his words. If he can master another If you have a direct force, that family will definitely value you, and your position as head of the family will be just around the corner.
Therefore, he naturally set his sights on the Song Army's pioneering regiment.
Nowadays, the connection between Liuqiu Island and the mainland is cut off. After the pioneering team is in a desperate situation, the sky and the earth are not working. If you don't want to die, you can only surrender.
At that time, as long as the officials who are unwilling to obey him are eliminated, he will be able to use food to firmly control more than 3,000 troops and more than 5,000 civilians, and all the ports and towns established by the pioneering group will also become his.
If Yan Lizheng, the leader of the family fleet, and others are also brought to his side, no matter whether the Fujian side is successful in dealing with King Yan, Liuqiu can at least be turned into his territory, and even the founding of the country in the future is not impossible.
Liu Xikun also vaguely revealed this idea to Jiu Gu, and even hypocritically expressed that he wanted Jiu Gu to be his queen. Jiu Gu was very excited at the time and said that he would do his best to help his lover realize his wish.
Generally speaking, most of the tribes on the island are still in a primitive social structure. However, although the regime established by foreign forces five or six hundred years ago was destroyed by the Sui army, the influence left by a relatively higher civilization has not been erased.
Therefore, the four tribes of Pawan, Luka, Hongya and Xila located in the south of the island have entered a class society. Their land, hunting grounds, and fishing grounds are all owned by hereditary nobles. All income from farming, hunting, and fishing must be paid to the nobles. The payment of taxes and public affairs of the tribe are usually handled by the noble meeting, and the four tribes usually follow the lead of the Pawan tribe, which is the most powerful in force.
It was this social structure that made the Song Dynasty across the sea mistakenly think that a country had been formed and called it Liuqiu Kingdom.
As for the Vaishya Kingdom, they were actually tribes living on the southernmost coast of the main island of Liuqiu, as well as on several small islands later known as Ryukyu Island and Orchid Island.
This tribe is called the Yami tribe by the people on the island. It is considered a pure marine people. They make a living by fishing for seafood. They migrated from the Southeast Asian islands very late. Their appearance is very different from other tribes, and they basically don’t wear clothes. It was also called a country by the Song people.
The four tribes of the Liuqiu Kingdom generally adopt the primogeniture system. If there are no male heirs, the daughter will inherit. However, the Pawan tribe does not care about children, and the oldest one inherits.
Jiugu is the eldest daughter of the largest nobleman of the Pawan tribe and the chief high priest of the tribe. She has a very powerful influence.
The people who stayed home initially chose to land on the island from the southeast end in order to stay hidden. The first people they came into contact with were the Yami and Pawan people.
Perhaps it was the image of Liu Xikun's charming pretty girl that had such a great impact on Jiu Gu, which made her fall in love and get out of control, so she devoted herself to helping Liu Xikun, which is why his mission progressed so smoothly.
So for his own ambition, even if Jiugu was ugly, fat and old, Liu Xikun would not hesitate to use all his strength to make her even more determined.
Even though there were other people in the forest at this time, Liu Xikun still held Jiugu's fat hand without hesitation, looking affectionate.
Fortunately, Zeng Ba and others couldn't see this scene, otherwise they would have to vomit out everything they just ate.
When everyone was almost rested, the Song army set off to the west. After rescuing hundreds of Babuza people, they returned to Lucheng.
Then on this day, most of the Babuza people moved into Lucheng, and the food obtained in Pabula was successfully transported back. Then the Song army also shrunk into Lucheng.
That night, several major civil and military officials from the pioneering group gathered together to discuss a way out.
Some people died, but not completely...
