Chapter 1121: The Bear's Tactics

Xuanyuan and the others could not very well avoid comforting their own Soldiers, even though they had long since become accustomed to such things, especially Limu; for a Soldier, injury and death were the most normal of occurrences, and he himself had suffered many wounds, yet he had always survived them safely.

In their view, a powerful Soldier was not only one who could kill the enemy bravely without retreating on the battlefield, but also one who could survive after being wounded; in the past, they had no such treatment methods and knew nothing of stitching—as long as one's flesh joined together, healed well, and did not rot, one could live, and having survived, one would be a brave man once more.

It was just that the mortality rate was very high; now that they had Huaxia to help treat their Soldiers, they were naturally very grateful, and they felt even more respect for these doctors who made no clear distinctions, who did not treat only their own tribesmen first, but also treated their allies.

Huaxia performed the final condolences for the dying Soldiers, and they went too, but they did not have such clear practices for each household, so these Soldiers had nothing they could tell their families; Soldiers who might clearly know who their children were would roughly describe them and ask the Tribal Chief or Leader to help look after them, and at such times, Xuanyuan and the others were also obligated to agree.

At this moment, they could not create too obvious or too large a distinction between themselves and Huaxia, otherwise the hearts of their own Soldiers might scatter; having comforted the fallen Soldiers and rewarded the survivors, they prepared to go and have a conversation with Xiong and the others.

However, the Huaxia officers at this time had already been sitting on the ground, talking for a long time, feeling very sad and remorseful, but for the Xuanyuan Tribe, such a battle situation was very normal, and such casualties were entirely acceptable; why couldn't Huaxia accept it? Was it because Huaxia had fewer people?

"Xiong, how is the situation on your side?"

Xuanyuan walked straight over, the few Huaxia officers cleared a space for Xuanyuan, and Xuanyuan sat down right next to Xiong with a thud.

"Sigh, not very good, the casualties are a bit high; this battle was a bit of a failure, and I feel sorry for these Soldiers of mine right now."

Xuanyuan was immediately a bit unhappy, because Xiong's words were basically saying that Xuanyuan and the others' command was no good, since the command authority this time had been handed over to the Leader of Xuanyuan and the others.

"If that is the case, I will hand over the Leader who led the team this time to you for disposal; it was his lack of ability that caused so many of your Huaxia Soldiers to be killed or wounded."

Hearing Xuanyuan's words, Xiong realized that Xuanyuan had misunderstood, and he hurriedly added a clarification, lest he lose another Xuanyuan Tribe Soldier.

"No, that is not what I meant; this time it was us who did not see the enemy's ambush clearly and rashly sent our Soldiers out; if we are talking about responsibility, it lies with us few."

"However, I think the main problem is that we didn't bring our specialties into play; at the beginning, we said we should coordinate, with us in Huaxia playing to our strengths and your Xuanyuan Tribe playing to your strengths."

"But look at this time, we were just like the other side, holding a Weapon and charging up; aren't we just comparing who has more people and whose Weapon is better?"

"Fighting like this is definitely not going to work; for our losses, it is too great."

Xuanyuan, Limu, and the others were all startled in their hearts; sure enough, Xiong was not so shallow. From the Xuanyuan Tribe's current perspective, war was just like this: more people fighting fewer people, better Weapons fighting worse Weapons, then competing over terrain and logistics; besides that, what else could there be?

They felt they could hear a different answer from Huaxia, so they did not say much, but prepared to listen to Huaxia's ideas, learn a little, and also understand Huaxia's true way of fighting.

"If this time, we had first used the wind to burn all this Grass, leaving them with nowhere to hide, then our Cavalry in the front to charge their ranks, and your Soldiers in the back to hack and clear out those who were panicked and whose formations were disrupted, our casualties would definitely be much, much smaller."

"If we could coordinate with our Crossbowmen and Archers to attack from a distance first, we could directly clear out a very large number of their enemies; we could also use Bombs to conduct large-scale attacks and frighten them; in this way, this battle would be much easier."

Limu said from the side: "But the people on the other side are so numerous; if they don't charge toward us and just fight near their camp, we don't have as many people as they do."

"Don't look at their tribe's men as being about the same as ours; their women and children can all throw a Spear just the same, and in terms of quantity and power, they are even more numerous than our Archers."

"And their reinforcements are fast; unless we can also disregard everything and pull all our Soldiers here out to engage them in an all-out battle, and then the few Soldiers who survive go back to the tribe?"

"If that happens, even if we take down the Shennong Clan, neither of our two tribes will have many people left."

"No, no, we definitely cannot do that; we should mainly focus on fighting their Soldiers, our main attack target is still their Soldiers; using Bombs to blast them, I feel that is the best method. Right now, our Bombs have basically not been used yet; anyway, after this battle is over, we are going back to Huaxia, so let's just use them all up here."

"Using them all up, although we can't kill them all, it can reduce a lot of pressure on us, and it can also make them feel fear; finally, just like I said before, the Cavalry charges, and your Soldiers follow up."

"When necessary, charge into their camp and hack their tribesmen, forcing them to go back to protect their own people; those women and children don't have any Weapons, and that Wooden Spear cannot pierce our Iron Armor; as long as their Soldiers are in chaos, you can kill them more easily."

Xuanyuan did not feel this was too cruel; instead, he nodded seriously and then asked: "Then when do you think it is best for us to attack them? Could it be now? With many of their tribesmen not here at this moment, isn't that perfect?"

Now Xiong suddenly felt his intelligence was on point, and he expressed disagreement with Xuanyuan's opinion: "No, not now; although it looks like their tribesmen are not here, we don't know if they might be ambushing in the surroundings; if we rashly charge in, we might end up like just now and get ourselves into chaos instead."

"In my opinion, for these few days, we should first find a way to take advantage of the wind direction and burn this Grass; it is not particularly dry yet, so the fire cannot spread and can only be burned a little at a time."

"Then carefully watch their movements; right now they might have food and don't need to go hunting, and they can ambush us, but in a few days, they will have to go out to hunt, and that will be the best time for us to attack."