"kill!"
A desolate horn sounded in the wilderness, and along with a roar, a thick shadow surged. Countless knights on the grassland rushed forward, waving their scimitars.
On the opposite side, soldiers wearing red armor, holding swords, guns, shields and swords, neatly arranged in arrays, looked at the charging knights indifferently.
"shoot!"
Orders came from behind, and soon there was the sound of a bowstring trembling. Then clusters of clouds drifted past, and countless fine arrows fell like raindrops towards the knights.
Puff puff!
In just an instant, hundreds of knights fell.
However, the charging knights seemed to have forgotten this scene. They still looked ferocious and crazy as they charged forward fiercely.
The short distance on both sides was quickly passed by.
Thousands of knights at the front seemed to have lost their edge and plunged into the neat formation. The huge impact instantly tore out countless gaps.
The knights and the war horses collided with the solid defense line. In an instant, they were turned upside down and blood was everywhere.
The knights behind followed the opened passage, rushed in swarm, and fought fiercely with the red-armored soldiers behind the first line.
At this moment of fighting, behind the knights, groups of Tibetan infantrymen holding short spears and scimitars and wearing fur coats and sweaters quickly followed from behind.
They crossed the boundary between the two arrays, then followed the gap opened by the forward knights, and rushed into the front array, quickly expanding their results.
However, just when they were about to kill them, the ground in the distance shook slightly, and then like thunder, a swarm of red armored knights carrying long heavy spears circled behind the array of red armored soldiers. He came out and struck hard at the Tibetan infantry who were charging towards the red phalanx.
Bang bang bang!
A series of impacts collided, and countless Fan soldiers were knocked away by the terrifying force. Before they could fall to the ground, the iron hooves of the heavily armored war horses trampled on the next Fan soldier, instantly trampling them into flesh.
The charging Tibetan infantry were torn apart by the red tide in an instant.
Just one charge had defeated these fierce Tibetan people.
"Damn it, it's these red-armored cavalry again."
Behind the large formation of the Tibetan people, they watched helplessly as a line of five thousand infantrymen was torn apart by the red cavalry. A middle-aged Tibetan man who was dressed very differently from ordinary Tibetan people, with extremely luxurious clothes and fairer skin, cruelly He punched the command vehicle hard.
In the past few days, he led his army to fight with those Zhou people, and he repeatedly achieved some success, but in the end he was crushed by the red-armored cavalry.
After several failures, his heart was filled with resentment and a little fear towards the red cavalry.
"Uchi, don't be angry."
At this moment, an equally imposing and luxuriously dressed Tibetan man came over, patted the Fang man named Wu Qi on the shoulder, and said in a deep voice: "Those Zhou people's red-armored cavalry won't be arrogant for long.
I have sent someone to contact the Huyan tribe, and King Huyan has agreed to send their Black Armored Wolf Cavalry.
By then, with the black-armored wolf cavalry, it would be enough to compete with these red-armored cavalry.
Without these red-armored cavalry to stop us, the remaining Zhou soldiers alone are no match for us.
As long as this main force of the Zhou people is defeated, no matter how strong the remaining red-armored cavalry are, they cannot save the overall situation.
Hexi County must be ours. "
Qingyan said with confidence.
This time, the Tibetan people in the snowy plains went south in large numbers and invaded the Hexi and Longxi counties of Zhou State.
The initiator and commander of this invasion was the Huyan tribe in Qingyan's mouth.
The Huyan tribe is one of the largest tribes in the snowy plains, with a population of over one million. This is an unimaginably large population in the snowy plains where nomadism, fishing and hunting are the mainstays.
It is precisely because of this that the leader of the Huyan tribe is revered as a king.
Together with three other tribal leaders with a population of over one million, they are jointly known as the Four Kings of Snowfield.
These four kings commanded the entire snowfield. Each king ruled hundreds of thousands of miles of plateau snow, owned countless cattle, sheep and horses, and countless vassal tribes like stars.
It is precisely because of this that when the heavy rains and floods in the prairie last summer came, the four kings who were responsible for leading the entire snowfield tribe, because of their huge responsibilities, were the first to face the entire tribe and the countless tribes that vassalized their own tribe. livelihood issues.
A major flood destroyed the food grown by the Tibetan people in the snowy valley and also drowned countless cattle and sheep.
Most of the food and goods accumulated by each tribe were destroyed by a flood.
In the face of this natural disaster, how to survive after the flood has become a difficult issue facing all tribes.
So after discussion, or there was nothing to discuss, all the tribes that survived the disaster reached a consensus.
That is to say, it is impossible to survive the second half of the year just relying on one's own food and property reserves.
If you want to survive and pass on your tribe, you must grab it from outside.
And around the snowy plains, the richest and most food-producing one, and the only one capable of helping the many tribes in the snowy fields overcome this difficulty, is the Zhou Kingdom.
After reaching a consensus, last year, King Tieli, one of the four closest kings to the Zhou Kingdom, led the Tieli tribe and its vassals to launch a mighty invasion and attack on the Zhou Kingdom.
The 100,000 elite troops of the Tieli tribe and the 300,000 vassal Tibetan troops formed the first wave of invasion against Zhou.
Just a pity.
The Tieli Ministry's attack was smooth at first, successfully breaking through more than thirty Zhou cities and plundering a large amount of food and slaves.
But then when the Zhou army was mobilized, the city captured by the Iron Forces was quickly taken back by the Zhou people, and the army they led was defeated and suffered heavy losses.
In the end, the 400,000-strong army that went on the expedition together, after three consecutive defeats, only 40,000 to 50,000 people escaped. To say that they were wiped out was not an exaggeration.
As a result, the Ministry of Iron and Steel was severely damaged.
Having lost so many soldiers and horses at once, and without so many young men, the power of the Iron Power Ministry shrunk by one-third in an instant.
If the opponent's divine warriors hadn't returned safely, they might not even be able to keep their position as one of the four original kings.
The Iron Power Division will also be swarmed by the other three kings and completely eaten away.
However, even if the Iron Power Division was not destroyed as a result, such a huge defeat still shocked countless Tibetan tribes who were ready to make a move, and their hearts cooled down a lot when they originally followed them northward and rushed down to the snowy fields to rob the Zhou people.
Although those Zhou people were rich. But the strength is also terrifying, and it is not something they can easily plot.
Although a major flood caused heavy losses to many Tibetan tribes, compared to the fact that the entire tribe lost one-third of its military force, many Tibetan people felt that the current difficulties were not unbearable.
After all, not all their cattle, sheep and food were lost.
This year, be more frugal, look for more food in the snowfields, and annex other tribes to plunder their food. If your own tribe drives away some old and weak people, you can barely survive.
If we really care about the losses, they are far inferior to the losses suffered by the Iron Forces when they attacked the Zhou people.
So.
Although after the defeat of the Iron Forces, the other three kings also sent some troops to help prevent the Zhou people from taking advantage of the situation to invade the snowy fields and invade the Tibetan territory.
But other than that, there are no extra actions.
A war that might have affected the entire snowfield was eliminated in this way.
However, God's will plays a trick on people.
Many Tibetan tribes originally planned to grit their teeth and endure the losses and impacts caused by the flood for two years.
But just last winter, a cold wave that was many times more severe than before quietly descended on the world.
The terrible wind and snow froze to death the cattle and sheep of various tribes, and also froze to death a large number of Tibetan people who lacked sufficient means to protect themselves from the cold.
When a cold wave came down, most of the remaining cattle and sheep of each tribe on the grassland died.
Their last bit of food to survive was gone.
At this point, all the Tibetan tribes knew that it was no longer a question of whether they could retreat or whether they were afraid.
It’s a matter of not grabbing it, everyone will die.
Under this natural disaster, the four kings of the snowfield quickly reached a consensus.
The various tribes gave up their past hatreds and conflicts and worked together to attack Hexi and Longxi counties of Zhou State, steal the Zhou people's food and supplies, and use the reserves of the people in the mountains to help their tribes tide over the difficulties.
Therefore, based on this consensus, after the snow recedes and spring begins this year, the Huyan tribe, following the Tieli tribe, will be the first to attack Zhou.
King Huyan led 200,000 warriors from his tribe and 500,000 warriors from other tribes who accompanied him, totaling 700,000 horses, and went north to conquer the Zhou people.
Among these 700,000 people, the Huyan tribe led their direct subordinates and some vassals, with 500,000 people as the main force, to attack Longxi County, the gateway to Guannei County, the capital of Zhou State.
In addition, the Ministry of Railways also gathered 300,000 people to go with them to attack Longxi County.
The remaining 200,000 people from the Huyan tribe served as a partial division to attack the nearby Hexi County.
The leaders of this partial division are the two tribes Wuqi and Qingyan in front of them.
Their tribes are also large tribes with a population of more than 300,000 on the grassland.
With all his strength, he can dispatch more than 50,000 warriors.
This partial division in Hexi County is composed of warriors from these two groups as the core, plus warriors from some small tribes.
It's just that although the Wuqi and Qingyan tribes have many warriors, they are not the big tribes with a population of over one million after all, and their underlying strength is not that far behind after all.
Just like the red-armored cavalry that Wu Qi just mentioned, such an elite cavalry was powerless against their two 200,000-strong army.
Because Zhou's red-armored cavalry were selected from the country's elites and spent countless resources and efforts to create powerful elites.
Within the Red Armor Cavalry, any knight's strength has reached the third-rate level of martial arts, that is, he has mastered two serious cultivation levels.
This kind of strength is enough to serve as the elder protector of a local gang in a small county, even in the world of martial arts.
In the arena, he can also be called a good player.
An elite group of soldiers with this kind of strength can be imagined to be very powerful.
This is also true.
With Zhou's national strength and countless efforts, the number of red-armored cavalry finally built was only five hundred.
But these five hundred cavalry have brought countless nightmares to the Tibetans on the battlefield in recent months.
There were just five thousand Tibetan infantry, but when faced with the charge of five hundred red-armored cavalry, they were defeated with one blow.
Of the five thousand warriors, more than two thousand were killed in an instant.
Under that terrifying torrent, any obstruction seemed so powerless.
A similar scene has been played out countless times on the battlefield these days.
Just the number of warriors who died under the five hundred red-armored cavalry could not be reduced to twenty or thirty thousand.
The so-called one against a hundred is nothing more than this.
It is precisely because of this elite army that on the Hexi County side, although the Zhou people clearly only had 50,000 elite soldiers and about 100,000 civilians, and their military strength was much worse than their own, they were not afraid to fight. .
Not only did he not go to defend the city, but he took the initiative to lead his troops and fight with them in formation.
But it happened to be like this. Those Zhou people had a military disadvantage. If they really fought, it would be them, the Tibetan people, who suffered the loss.
Two hundred thousand warriors could not defeat the opponent's 150,000 people.
Wu Qi and Qingyan couldn't accept this huge reality gap.
They subconsciously ignored that the so-called "warriors" in their tribe were actually herdsmen who usually farmed and herded horses, and they were not much different in nature from the farmers who were temporarily recruited by the Zhou people.
At most, the Tibetan herdsmen are more brave, but the Zhou people's brave soldiers have better weapons and discipline. It's hard to say who is stronger and who is weaker.
With this kind of soldier quality, the Zhou people had 50,000 elites, coupled with 100,000 civilian warriors, their strength was actually not inferior to them.
Qingyan just stubbornly believed that the reason why the opponent was so powerful and the reason why his side could not open up the situation was because of the Zhou people's red-armored cavalry.
It was with this powerful cavalry that the Zhou people were able to stop their attack.
As long as this cavalry is defeated or delayed, then relying on the warriors under his command, he will definitely be able to defeat those cowardly Zhou people, break into their cities, plunder their food and wealth, abuse their women, and win this war victory.
Qingyan firmly believes in this.
So in the face of Wu Qi's anger, he was full of confidence after he had received a reply from Huyanbu and learned that Xuan Jia Lang was about to arrive on horseback.
The Huyan tribe's black armored wolf cavalry are also composed of powerful warriors, and the strength of the soldiers inside is not inferior to that of the red armored iron cavalry.
Although the number is a bit smaller, with only three hundred black armored wolf cavalry in total, it is enough to hold back the red armored iron cavalry.
As long as he can hold the opponent back, Qingyan can lead his warriors to defeat the Zhou army in front of him that dares to stop him, and then turn around to destroy this hateful red-armored cavalry.
"I hope so."
Just when Qingyan was thinking about victory in his heart, Wu Qi heard his comfort and calmed down some of the anger in his heart. He turned around and sighed slightly: "Our tribe can only eat the remaining food for another month at most.
But now our plans to plunder Hexi are blocked here.
If the Zhou army in front of them cannot be defeated quickly, then as long as it takes another month, the tribe will face the desperate situation of running out of food.
By then, your tribe and mine will be destroyed. "
When Qingyan heard this, her expression turned ugly.
The reason why they actively went down the mountain and mobilized all the adult men in the tribe was because there was not much food in the tribe and it was time to go out and grab it.
But now they have been dragged here for nearly two months.
In two months, no progress can be made.
The food in the tribe is almost exhausted.
If they still can't make a breakthrough and grab enough food from the Zhou people, then the fate of the Wuqi and Qingyan tribes will definitely not be much better.
Direct destruction is also normal.
"We can definitely win, we must win."
Qingyan turned to look at Wu Qi, her eyes seemed to be burning with fire, she gritted her teeth and spoke word by word.
And while the war on their side was going on, the two of them were talking.
On the high snowfield, one tribe after another was slowly migrating north and south.
These migrating tribes were like flowing water, gradually approaching from far away, converging towards the Zhou Kingdom.
Just like the tribes of Wuqi and Qingyan.
In the entire snowfield, all the Tibetan tribes began to migrate in order to survive.
The Huyan tribe and the Tieli tribe in the front are just the vanguard. After them, there are the Zhenyan tribe and the Duosi tribe, who are also the four kings.
At the same time, in addition to the Four Kings and their vassals, there were also a large number of other tribes that were not under their jurisdiction, but also heard the news and swarmed in from everywhere.
Above the entire snowfield.
Tens of millions of Tibetan people gathered into a torrent, which was just like the great flood last year, pouring towards the Zhou Kingdom in a mighty and mighty manner.
For Zhou Guo, this is also a disaster where if you block it, you will live, if you cannot block it, you will die.
The war for the right to survive has just begun.
…
Thunder rumbles and the summer rain arrives.
It was already April, and while the war between the Zhou Kingdom and the Tibetan people in the north was in full swing, Lu Yuan, who was tens of thousands of miles away, also received news from the clone Huang Xuan from Xichuan County through his spiritual mind.
"The Snowfield tribesmen came down from the mountains to attack and plunder the villages and towns below?"
After Lu Yuan received Huang Xuan's report, he couldn't help but be stunned.
Those Tibetan people who lived on the plateau and had little contact with Xichuan County suddenly came down the mountain at this time, and even assumed the attitude of plundering and invading.
This sudden incident, it must be said, was somewhat beyond his expectation.
At the same time, he had to think of the terrible war going on in the Zhou Kingdom in the north.
Is it possible that Chu State will also experience this catastrophe now?
Lu Yuan was shocked when he thought of this.
"Check, let someone check immediately."
He used his spiritual thoughts to immediately communicate with Huang Xuan, who was thousands of miles away, and gave him orders.
"Also, immediately mobilize troops and horses to destroy the Tibetan people who come down from the mountain. At the same time, strictly fortify the important roads in various places to prevent them from going down the mountain."
Lu Yuan made arrangements.
