Eagle Tribe Chief Tuo Xiong and his son Tuo Su two people will not hide the heart, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui look at the feeling of the Eagle Tribe is encountered bad things, to the Council House to pay tribute to the officials in an endless stream, Zheng Chu two people are not convenient to ask.
Every year, it is customary for the feudal lord of Nambu to host a banquet for his subordinates and guests after accepting their annual homage to the fief, and the two men, Zheng Chu, discussed Tuo Xiong's father and son in the gap between their changing clothes before the banquet began.
"I think the Eagle Tribe is inviting covetousness, probably that Tiger Tribe again."
Zheng Yuming think is the eagle tribe red-hot good days beckon people eye red, the eagle tribe originally because there is a good piece of land, by the tiger tribe's robbery, after several battles, and ultimately lost their homes, was forced to move to the opposite side of the hilly area of Nambu, if it is not a high-quality iron ore, the eagle tribe is now barely enough to eat and drink.
"I also think so, the tiger tribe is very good at fighting tribes, the eagle tribe must have suffered a loss in front of the tiger tribe, otherwise Tuoxiong father and son will not look so bad." After Chu Chao Hui broke off the cigarette, the cigarette addiction came up to take a toothpick, since and Zheng Yuming made friends, quit the habit of taking a toothpick, changed to nibble on Zheng Yuming when no one is around. Now he looked at Zheng Yuming who was changing clothes in front of his eyes, he felt that his teeth itched a million times, and he had to go and bite in order to alleviate this feeling.
"Quickly let go!" Zheng Yuming pushed Chu Chaohui hard, in a while the two of them still have to go out to feast their guests, Chu Chaohui is going to bite marks on his face what kind of thing is that?
"Kiss a little longer, I won't bite." Chu Chao Hui holding Zheng Yuming do not let go, now he has successfully squeezed into Zheng Yuming's bed, every night you can enjoy hugging, but Chu Chao Hui as long as you want to go further, Zheng Yuming's body immediately tense, movement resistance, Chu Chao Hui do not want to force Zheng Yuming, can only settle for the second best, the handiwork to do a detailed point, the handiwork to do a good job, for Chu Chao Hui, is always scratching the itch, more and more so that he aspires to a full exchange. The more he longs for comprehensive communication.
"The clothes are wrinkled, do you want me to change the clothes again." Zheng Yuming's two hands rowaned both of Chu Chao Hui's ears fiercely, forcing Chu Chao Hui to let go of his mouth.
"The hand is not merciful at all." Chu Chao Hui took a step back and rubbed his nose, his two ears reddened by Zheng Yuming's rowan.
"You have thick skin and thick flesh, you will feel it without some force?" Zheng Yuming sat down on the soft collapse and laughed, when the two of them got along, Chu Chaohui would always give way to him, which made Zheng Yuming's heart soft.
"You have to use your strength in the right place, even if you do it gently, I feel it." Chu Chao Hui squinted his eyes and smiled badly, aiming at Zheng Yuming's lower body as he spoke.
"Bah!" Zheng Yuming couldn't match Chu Chao Hui's thick skin, and quickly became a loser in the verbal battle.
The two men who had gone out of tune discussing business didn't get to spend much time in the locker room, and the banquet was already set up in the hall, waiting for the hosts to go to the table.
There was no hot pot at this year's Spring Festival banquet, and once again, the Su women showed off their skills with exquisite and delicious dishes that the guests could not stop praising, and this time, the wine at the banquet was no longer just green wine, but also home-brewed rice wine. Home-brewed rice wine has a sweet and mellow taste, and is a flavorful food made from glutinous rice or rice through yeast fermentation, containing only a small amount of alcohol, as if it were a drink.
South Port and the valley food is sufficient, corn and mixed grains can be used for brewing, but Zheng Yuming knows that food in Qin is the most important strategic materials, brewing will be wasted, therefore, Zheng Yuming would rather spend money to the Chu imported green wine and lees, but also do not develop brewing in the South Port and the valley, and even private individuals want to open a brewing workshop, Zheng Yuming immediately sent forward to outlaw, the South Port and the valley, only allowed to brew a little bit of self-brewed rice wine for self-drinking.
While Takuo and his father devoured hot pot on last year's New Year's Day, this year's exquisite and delicious dish left the two men unmotivated to savor it.
"Chief Tuohy, is there something troubling you?" Wu Da and Tuo Xiong's father and son were old friends, and seeing Tuo Xiong's father and son looking unusual, he hurriedly asked with concern.
"Ugh!" Takao glanced at Wu Da, wanting to say something.
"It's not the jackals of the Tiger Tribe, who originally seized our Eagle Tribe's homeland, and now seeing that the Eagle Tribe is having a better time, now they want to come back to rob our tribal belongings." Tuosu was full of anger.
"Beat him! Whoever comes to rob it will beat and kill them!" Da Niu, who was sitting opposite of Tuoxiong's father and son, forked a piece of pig's trotters and was chewing on it, which was stewed to perfection and had maple sugar sauce poured on it to make it taste even better. Hearing Tuoxu's exasperated words, he didn't care about the meat in his mouth and slapped his big hand on the case table, almost breaking it apart.
The red-faced Toussaint looked at the magnificent bull, and this time it was his turn to speak.
"Being bullied don't you go and fight back?" Da Niu saw that both Tuoxiong's father and son looked hesitant, so he couldn't help but coldly snort.
"What do you know." Tousou huffed and glared at Da Niu.
"I don't know anything, I only know that whoever hits me, I'll hit back." Da Niu rolled his eyes, despising the forward-looking attitude of Tuoxiong's father and son.
"Enjoy the food don't talk about fighting, what's going on wait until the banquet is over." Zheng Yuming stopped the argument, he felt that the Eagle Tribe must have something to hide.
After the banquet was over, Tuohyong father and son didn't take their leave, but went to Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui to seek help.
"The Eagle Tribe implores the two adults to send troops to help!" Tuo Xiong entered the inner room and bowed profusely at Zheng Chu and the two of them, and Tuo Su, who followed him, also knelt on the ground.
"Chief Tuo please get up, the Eagle Tribe and Nambu are like brothers, if the Eagle Tribe is in trouble, Nambu will never stand idly by." Chu Chao Hui stood up to help Tuo Xiong.
Before asking about the specifics of the Eagle Tribe's fight with the Tiger Tribe, Chu Chaohui's attitude of agreeing to help in one breath surprised Zheng Yuming, who looked towards Chu Chaohui but did not open his mouth, when it comes to the use of force, it is Chu Chaohui that takes the lead between the two.
"The two adults are like the Eagle Tribe's sheltering deities." Tuoxiong's eyes were filled with tears, his gratitude to the two Zheng Chu's was beyond words.
"Chief Tuo please take a seat, please tell me the specific situation." Chu Chao Hui looked serious, but it was really a bit of a savior's great righteousness.
"Your Excellency, the Tiger Tribe, since last year's fall harvest, has often sent people to sneak up on the villages of the smaller tribes that the Eagle Tribe has taken over, robbing the smaller tribes of their belongings, killing the old men and the strongest men, and snatching away the women and children."
Tuosu clenched his teeth, the tiger tribe's cunning and ferocity let Tuosu opened his eyes. The original tiger tribe strength than the eagle tribe is slightly better than the eagle tribe, the eagle tribe more than a year annexed many small tribes, the strength of more than the tiger tribe, the two tribes in the open battle, the eagle tribe is not afraid of the tiger tribe.
"That Tiger Tribe never fights us head on, always taking advantage of our defenses to rob and kill the Eagle Tribe's vassals, now the small tribes that depend on us are on edge, and a few of them have already announced that they are leaving the alliance." The Tuoxiong man looked a bit pale, these half a year, Tuoxiong had not settled down.
"Since defense won't work, it's better to take the initiative." Chu Chao Hui wondered how the Eagle Tribe only thought about defense and didn't go on the offensive. It was important to know that defense couldn't work.
"Father, if Lord Chu thinks we should attack, why don't you and the Council of Elders agree?" Tuosu found a supporter and stood up from his seat, waving his fists with an agitated expression.
Takao looked down at his young and angry son and sighed, "The elders and I know that active offense is the only way to eliminate the threat, but that would be a lose-lose situation."
Eagle Tribe and Tiger Tribe twenty years ago that war, the two tribes did not fall benefits, population are greatly reduced, such a disaster, no one wants to come back again, and in the composed plains battle, the Eagle Tribe is the defense side, and now want to be the attacking side, but also have to send troops to protect their homes to prevent the Tiger Tribe to sneak attack. In this way, the strength of the offense is greatly reduced, not to mention that before the end of the year, two bad news came one after another, there are two originally and the Eagle Tribe contracted the big tribe and the Tiger Tribe alliance.
Tuo Xiong sent to question the messenger by the two tribes messy stick back, Tuo Xiong estimate, the tiger tribe is promised a very heavy benefit to the two big tribes, only to induce the two big tribes to break the contract, this major benefit, no need to think about it also know that is to defeat the eagle tribe, divide the eagle tribe.
Chu Zhaohui nodded, no wonder Tuoxiong anxious people pale, now the situation of the eagle tribe than twenty years ago severe, the original is only facing the loss of land, is now facing the extinction of the tribe, the eagle tribe if there is no external slowdown, only and want to divide them into tribes to fight to the death, they do not have a way back, in addition to retreating to the north of the Yangtze River to the fences.
The Eagle Tribe lived a good life because of the iron mines and faced a war of extermination because of the iron mines.
"How many warriors are there in the two tribes that have a covenant with the Tiger Tribe?" Chu Chaohui bowed his head in contemplation for a moment and asked towards Tuo Xiong's father and son.
"Not as many as the Tiger Tribe, the two tribes together have a maximum of six hundred people." It turned out that the one who went to threaten these two tribes into submission was Tuosu, who knew the situation of these two tribes very well.
"The Tiger Tribe is nearly a thousand warriors, plus these two tribes, that's fifteen hundred warriors." Chu Chao Hui frowned, looking embarrassed. "Nambu only has more than a thousand soldiers, the numbers are not favorable in a fight."
Once Tuo Xiong heard Chu Chao Hui's difficult words, his heart couldn't help but lift up, he was afraid that Chu Chao Hui wouldn't reach out to help, "As long as your honor helps the Eagle Tribe to defeat the Tiger Tribe, the Eagle Tribe is willing to dedicate the iron mine to your honor."
"Father!" Tuosu's face was shocked, the iron mine was the root of the Eagle Tribe's prosperity and affluence, how come his father had offered up the root?
Chu Chao Hui was also surprised, he looked closely at Tuoxiong and found that Tuoxiong had a resolute face, in his heart, he could not help but have respect for this native chief, Tuoxiong knew that if the Eagle Tribe did not have external slowdowns, the Eagle Tribe's prospects were very bad, even if they did not exterminate the tribe, and the whole tribe moved elsewhere, the iron mines would definitely be lost, but if external slowdowns helped them defeat the Tiger Tribe, even if the iron mines were sacrificed, they would still be able to get the Sucu plains back, and with Sucu plains, the Tiger Tribe could just the same With the Su Plain, the Tiger Tribe can live a good life.
Next to Zheng Yuming heard Tuo Xiong is willing to offer iron ore, but can not help but rejoice, but after the great joy, found nothing to like, because Nambu has an iron ore mine, but no digging people, in order to keep the iron ore out of the ore mine, Zheng Yuming had to send more than a thousand people to dig the ore mine, the Nambu and the valley of the land reclamation is still short of a large number of laborers, where do you let him turn out more than 1,000 miners?
"No! Nambu will send troops to help the Eagle Tribe, but the iron ore is the Eagle Tribe's, the Eagle Tribe and Nambu are brothers, how can an elder brother ask for his younger brother's things." Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming share the same mind, Zheng Yuming passes a look over, Chu Chaohui knows what it means, he excuses himself while positioning the Eagle Tribe as a younger brother, in fact, it is also laying down Nambu's position as the oldest brother.
"If the two of you have a dispatch for the Eagle Tribe, the Eagle Tribe will go to the hot soup and step on the fire, and will also go forward!" Tuoxiong and Tuosu were moved to tears, the two of them fell to their knees and bowed to Zheng Chu, their gratitude unspeakable.
After waiting for Tuo Xiong's father and son to take their leave, Zheng Yuming, who had taken off his boots and was lying on the soft collapse, kicked Chu Chao Hui.
"I let you do not want iron ore, did not let you do not want to pay, out of a trip to the soldiers need many supplies to consume, this spend all see justice off?"
"Not taking payment from the Eagle Tribe doesn't mean there is no payment, there are always victories in war." Chu Chao Hui let the Eagle Tribe guard their homes by themselves, and Nambu sent out an army to go ahead and attack the Tiger Tribe.
The Tiger Tribe was originally a herding tribe, herding cattle and sheep, and after taking over the Eagle Tribe's Su Plains, although it was time to grow food, cattle and sheep were not under-raised, and cattle were an important farming tool in Da Qin. Defeat the Tiger Tribe, the Tiger Tribe's belongings are the army trophies.
"The Tiger Tribe Alliance has more than 1,500 people, the valley only has 1,000 trained soldiers, the rest are all new recruits, can we beat them? Even if we can fight, will the casualties be high?" The iron ore was important, but if it consumed the army that had been built up at great expense, Zheng Yuming felt that it was not cost-effective.
"These native soldiers not to mention 1,500 people, even if there are 3,000 people, they won't be a match for 1,000 soldiers in the valley, I had wanted to find a place to practice, this time is just the right opportunity." Chu Chaohui had a plan, the troops he trained were well disciplined and well equipped, if they couldn't even fight with the natives, then they wouldn't be a match for Huben's army, what's the need for such an army to exist.
"Alas, I hope a few less people will be sacrificed." Zheng Yuming thought of Tang Sigou, and he wished that there were fewer companion comrades beside Tang Sigou's grave.
"Where is victory without sacrifice, everything needs to be exchanged."
Chu Chao Hui has experienced the war, he does not have the sentimental feelings of Zheng Yuming, the soldier can only become a real warrior after the tempering of blood and fire.