Rivers and lakes in another world

Chapter 524

The most notable features of these people from the Western Regions are their blond hair and blue pupils, which are very different from those of the people from the Central Plains.

Moreover, their skin is also fairer, not the kind of paleness that lacks blood, but the kind of whiteness, and their faces are more angular, which makes them look more handsome.

Moreover, they are all relatively tall and appear to be stronger than the prairie people.

However, strength cannot be confirmed by just looking at appearance.

These people from the Western Regions are physically strong, but their combat methods did not achieve very good results when facing the grassland people.

Their mainstream tactics are similar to those of the Central Plains, infantry phalanx, arrow rain shooting, and cavalry flank protection.

It's just that such tactics are very familiar to the grassland people. They were already very familiar with them when they fought against the Central Plains people, and they are very familiar with dealing with them.

The most important point is that the countries in the Central Plains have already begun to make corresponding adjustments to this tactic, but the countries in the Western Regions have not made any major breakthroughs in tactics, not because of their poor intelligence, but because they have not mastered the ability to deal with the grassland people reasonably. method only.

Before the grassland people expanded westward, the most important countries in the Western Regions were the Xirong people.

Xirong people are good at archery.

Their bows and arrows and crossbows are first-rate.

Don't think that there are a few people from other races outside the Central Plains country whose technological level is not good enough, and those who can fight back and forth with the Central Plains country, none of them can be underestimated, let alone be underestimated.

In order to deal with the superb archery skills of the Xirong people, the countries in the Western Regions responded by attacking steadily and advancing step by step.

They developed shields that were as tall as a man, and even put heavy armor on the soldiers, forming dense tortoise-shell phalanxes.

As long as they resisted the Xirong people's shooting, at least they wouldn't lose too badly.

The Xirong people are very accomplished in archery, almost as good as the prairie people in horseback archery.

Only countries in the Western Regions have developed a formation like the tortoise shell formation, not only the front and sides, but also the top of the head, which is airtight.

It even kept thickening the shield and tortoise shell to cover various vital positions.

Just to deal with the Xirong people.

At the same time, they also conducted corresponding research, studying shooting methods from the Xirong people, and made great achievements in bows and arrows.

They were even able to fight against the Xirong people in small-scale battles.

In terms of cavalry construction, they developed light cavalry.

They don't need to be aggressive.However, strong mobility and flexibility are needed in order to attack the bow and arrow team of the Xirong people in the first place, so that they cannot form an effective attack formation smoothly.

However, the army established in such an environment is not so easy to use when facing the iron hoof of the grassland people.

Even if their heavy infantry phalanx has four legs, it cannot keep up with the horses of other people's prairie cavalry.

If you chase someone, just run away. If you stop chasing, the prairie cavalry will bypass you and attack your other troops.

Facing the proficient cavalry, archery and charging skills of the grassland people, the archers and light cavalry of the countries in the Western Regions really couldn't win.

So it is normal to be arrested batch after batch.

There are also some special beings among these slaves. Their hair color is reddish and their bodies are relatively slender. In particular, the knuckles on their hands are obviously much thicker, and their hands are covered with thick calluses.

They are Xirong people.

Although they are all aliens in the eyes of the Central Plains people, they are members of the same camp.

In fact, the saying that people who are not of our race must have different hearts is not only spread in the Central Plains countries, but also in the surrounding ethnic areas.

The Western Regions are a piece of fat. Compared with the countries in the Central Plains, the countries in the Western Regions are easier to eat. At least they can make money. They won’t have problems like the countries in the Central Plains. Pay for a lot of things.

It's a loss-making business.

Therefore, whether it is the grassland people of Xirong or Beidi, they are cutting the meat of the countries in the Western Regions.

And you can’t eat it all at once, you have to eat a little and save a little, and divide it again when the cake is bigger.

Therefore, neither of them took full action against the Western Region, but they would not stop with regard to the competitive relationship between them.

A funny scene that often appears is that on the land of the countries of the Western Regions, the Xirong people and the prairie people are fighting hard.

Then the countries in the Western Regions who were eating melon on the side did not need to take action, and just waited obediently for the final winner to appear. Whoever wins would give the prepared reward to the final winner.

Anyway, they are all being exploited, it all depends on who wins in the end.

Anyway, people in the Western Regions are used to it. Some people are used to this kind of submissiveness and become fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

Of course, some people will not obey. The Western Regions are essentially an alliance of small countries. It seems to be a whole, but they are all scattered.

Even if it is a loose alliance, each individual has his own ideas and interests.

Some people are willing to be dogs, but some people are not. After all, fat sheep also have a temper. Harvesting again and again can only make themselves weaker and weaker. In the end, they have no ability to resist and are annexed by others.

Therefore, many people from the Western Regions became slaves due to open and secret struggles.

Of course, there are also level differences among these slave teams.

You can see that those who are full of energy and shiny are all the leaders of the slaves. Although they are slaves, they are the managers of the slaves, a relatively high-level slave, used to help the prairie people manage the lower slaves.

They kept waving the whips in their hands, driving the slaves, making them move, leading the cattle and sheep to move forward or rest.

Of course, their whips will only fall on those disobedient slaves, not on cattle and sheep.

Cattle and sheep are an important source of logistical supplies for grassland people, and they must never be destroyed. What if they are damaged?

Slaves are worthless, as long as they are not killed, the prairie people will not care about them.

For grassland people, slaves are also a symbol of wealth, just like cattle and sheep. Although they are not worth much, mosquitoes are still meat no matter how small they are. Even if slaves die, they are valuable and cannot be wasted.

For example, it can be used as cannon fodder to consume the enemy's strength.

Therefore, the people on the grasslands were not as cruel and violent towards slaves as described in the stories of the Central Plains countries.

Although it is a bit inhumane, it does not lead to a life that is not human.

At least the basic standard of living is still there, so I won't starve to death or die from exhaustion.

And not all kinds of people can be slaves. Those who are old and weak, if they know how to cultivate, may be farmed by the prairie people at home. If they don't have such ability, they will be thrown out directly.

The same people who will be abandoned are the sick.

Prairie people would not use drugs on ordinary slaves. Those with problems would be expelled directly without even bothering to kill them.

Anyway, as long as he doesn't spread the disease in his own area, he doesn't need to worry about going to other people's places.

If it weren't for the large amount of manual labor these slaves had to do, they might not even have the minimum standard of food to sustain themselves.

Looking at the slave leaders who got rid of those villains, most of the slaves have become numb.

It’s not that they don’t know how to resist, it’s that they can’t resist.

Those who can resist no longer have the capital to resist.

There are many people here who were once warriors, and their cultivation levels are not very low. It can be seen from their physiques that without enough years of practice, they will not be able to build such a body.

However, they were all defeated in the battle with the prairie people, and their dantian was directly abolished. Without true energy, they were just ordinary people with strong bodies, but they were excellent candidates for slaves.

As for those body refining level warriors who don't need true energy very much, they will be sent to the wizards of the grassland tribes, equipped with the unique methods of the grassland people, so that they can become excellent servants of the wizards.

After all, these prairie wizards in exchange for powerful strength, the body itself is not too strong, and they just need these excellent physical training fighters to act as guards or hosts for themselves.

When this team set out from the depths of the grassland, the team was probably only one-third of its current size, and there were not many cattle and sheep.

But as they continue to go south, they will pass by large tribes, medium-sized tribes, and small tribes one by one on the road. Every time they reach the range of a tribe's big tent, without too much communication, there will be a plan that has been prepared for a long time. Tribal warriors, slaves and cattle and sheep join this team.

So the team has grown stronger and stronger along the way, like a snowball.

This is the tradition of the prairie people fighting.

It is rare for the grassland people to have a single tribe going south to fight the Beiyan people. Most of the time, many tribes send troops jointly, and then decide the distribution according to the losses and results in the battle.

Of course, the seemingly good joint action also has a lot of tricks.

For example, weakening and dividing certain tribes, eradicating dissidents in their own tribes, dealing with problems such as excessive population within dissident tribes, etc. Therefore, the purpose of the grassland people is not simple. This is an important reason why the Yan people often failed to achieve major victories in battles, and in the end they could only plunder and return to their hometown.

They are not of one mind, and each family has different goals, so how can they become an integrated combat force?
Therefore, when faced with a crisis, those who are used as cannon fodder will stay behind, while those who have been ready to retreat will flee.

Almost all the leaders of such battles are led by a few golden tribes, and only they can let people from various tribes along the way carry out corresponding reception work.

Sometimes one or two gold tribes take the lead, and sometimes people from several families join forces.

The only difference is the size.

The entire team was densely covered with flags of various tribes.

And according to the number of people, the size of the flag also has obvious differences.

Among them, the largest and most conspicuous are two flags in the most central position.

One of them is the flag of the Bojin tribe, and the other is the flag of the Yelu tribe.

They are also two of the major golden tribes.

This time the battle going south was led by both of them.

Among them, the Bojin tribe is the big head, and the Yelu tribe is slightly less.

As for the other golden tribes, they have no interest in going south for the time being, and they have to seize the time to digest the income from the west.

At the same time, their racecourse has been greatly affected by the horse plague and is not suitable for sending troops.

Relatively speaking, the losses of the Bojin and Yelu tribes were relatively light and within the tolerable range.However, in order to stabilize the food problem in the tribe, we can only change the target, either to go to Beiyan to rob, or to take the opportunity of going south to remove the old and weak in our team, and at the same time, harvest some from other small tribes to replenish our own vitality. .

This kind of method has been used not once or twice, and it seems that it has become the usual method of the golden family on the grassland.

This time, the two Golden Clans took the lead, the Bojin Clan had 10 cavalry, the Yelu Clan had [-] cavalry, and the other large, medium and small tribes had a total of [-] troops.

These are not the kind of 10 people who make up the number, but the regular tribal warriors on the real grassland, who can ride and shoot on horseback.The kind that can charge off a horse.

It is also the main force of the grassland people's battles.

Of course, they are not the only combat forces, but also others?
There are a full 30 slaves, and part of the wear and tear on the road has to be deducted. Although some people may fall down, there should not be more than [-] people.

Don't underestimate the fighting power of these slaves. Although they don't have true energy, they still have the physique they have been tempered. If they are lucky, it is not impossible to defeat their opponents through their own experience.

These slaves are used to life on the prairie, don't expect anyone to rescue them, they are all defeated, their companions were either killed, or they have the same fate as them, so if they want to regain their freedom, they can only There is no second choice to take the road arranged for them by the prairie people.

That is to rush to the front line as cannon fodder in the battle. If they can make some gains and survive, then these people will be qualified to live, and their status will be improved. Even slaves will become slave leaders. The living conditions will be much better.

Of course, if they do better in the position of slave leader, they may be absorbed as warriors of the tribe, and they can be regarded as their own people in the true sense.

However, there are very few such people. It's not that the prairie people refuse to give, but because of the cannon fodder tactics of the prairie people, very few slaves can survive a battle.

Those who survived would become bosses, and they would be thrown into the next battle again.

Don't look at you as the leader of the slave, but the position is slightly behind, instead of not charging.

Therefore, there are few slave leaders who can survive, and very few who can survive many times in a row.

(End of this chapter)