Chapter 1374: Besieged

"Tribal Chief, what do we do now? Have we already been discovered? Should we keep hiding or not?!"

Jiang Cheng glanced at his already chaotic tribe and sighed: "What is the point of hiding now? We have already been seen. Stop hiding. Everyone, go set up camp a bit further away. I am going to find Jiebing!"

Jiang Ming was basically the same. The two of them had failed in their current arrangements and could no longer continue to hide, so they could only go find Jiebing and follow Jiebing's arrangements.

The journey was a bit long and required taking a wide detour. By the time the two of them arrived with some Soldiers, the Soldiers Jiebing had sent out to hunt had all hurried back, fearing that something might have happened to their tribe.

Such an unfamiliar, loud noise had rung out across this land; anyone would feel fear and panic. Wild beasts were fleeing in all directions in terror. There were no dark clouds in the sky, so it was impossible for thunder to strike suddenly. The only possibility was that this was the work of the Huaxia, who could release Heavenly Thunder.

Xuanyuan and Lu looked at the gathering Jiebing Tribe Soldiers, and the pressure in their hearts was still great. Their numbers far exceeded their own. Huaxia had not sent many Soldiers this year—only one thousand. Placed opposite them, they truly did not have much effect.

If it were like this, Xuanyuan would have turned back long ago, because Xuanyuan was not stupid. Winning against a larger force with a smaller one was a difficult thing to achieve, but Huaxia possessed enough Explosives, and that was the magic weapon for victory.

"Jiebing! What do we do now? We didn't even use a single fire, so why were we discovered by them? Are their eyes perhaps brighter than the eagles in the sky?"

Jiang Ming did not show any panic at all because of the failed mission, and Jiang Cheng was even quite ruthless: "How about it? Jiebing, I told you long ago that Huaxia possesses Heavenly Thunder, that they can summon Heavenly Thunder, and no matter how far away it is, it will strike down."

The Tribal Chief had not seen it and did not believe us, and you did not believe us either, thinking it was our lack of ability that caused us to lose the battle.

And now? Even if you did not see the Heavenly Thunder, you heard it, didn't you? Do you still not believe it?"

Jiebing was no longer so high and mighty in front of Jiang Ming and Jiang Cheng at this moment, because his skepticism had been shattered. Two tribes with strength similar to his own had been defeated so easily, which meant that he might suffer the same result; his enemies were not so easy to fight.

If he wanted to win now, he could not treat these two tribes so harshly. Even if he was commanding them, he had to be relatively gentle now and treat them as his partners.

"Did anyone in your two tribes get hurt? Did it strike you?"

Jiang Cheng did not expect Jiebing to ask this first, so his momentum faltered a bit. Jiang Ming also spoke reasonably: "That did not happen. It was still a bit of a distance from us, but it was close to hitting us. I didn't expect Huaxia to be able to do this. I don't know if they knew we were there and were deliberately scaring us, or if they were just guessing we were there and wanted to scare us out."

Jiang Cheng's tone also softened: "We are the same. It did not hit us, and no one was hurt, but now the morale of the people is in trouble. Everyone is very afraid of the Heavenly Thunder. As soon as the Heavenly Thunder rings out, no matter what, they have no thoughts of fighting left, and I am afraid they have no ability to fight either."

Jiebing paced, beginning to think: "Did you encounter the Heavenly Thunder many times last year?"

"Yes, many times, almost incessantly."

Jiebing frowned: "What about the distance? How far? From that hillside, can it reach all the way to here? Can they attack everywhere they can see?"

This time, the two Tribal Chiefs shook their heads: "We are not clear on this, because we also do not know how that Heavenly Thunder is summoned, but it only explodes where our Soldiers are most concentrated, which is why our losses were so severe."

"We don't know how far it can strike. The Soldiers who did not participate in that battle last year are now a bit panicked and dare not go up. How are your Soldiers? Are they afraid now?"

Jiebing looked at his own Soldiers; they were all incredibly nervous, looking up at the sky from time to time. Jiebing basically had an idea in his heart now. His Soldiers had likely heard too many of these rumors, and now that they had actually seen it, the fear carried by those rumors had been infinitely magnified. I am afraid they did not have that much courage left.

But was he to be scared away by Heavenly Thunder that he had only heard ring twice without seeing it? Do nothing and then go back to be punished? That was impossible; he had to make his Soldiers fight.

If they did not win this war under the threat of this Heavenly Thunder, then these Soldiers would be finished. From now on, whenever they heard the sound of thunder, they would feel fear, and they would never be able to win a battle again.

"Go back now, tell your Soldiers to set up camp right at the foot of the mountain. We will besiege the Xuanyuan Tribe and the Huaxia Tribe. Our numbers are so large; we have the advantage."

"Even if they can summon Heavenly Thunder, can their people go without eating or drinking?"

"If that were the case, the world would have been theirs long ago. As long as they still need to eat and drink, then we have a chance, we have a way!"

"Besiege these three sides, cut off their opportunity to come down to find food and water, and then we must send more Soldiers to cut off the road in the last direction, trapping them on this hillside."

"If they want to come down to find food, then they must abandon that high slope. We have so many more people than them; we can definitely beat them."

"If they are no longer willing to come down, then we will just keep them trapped like this. We brought so many tribesmen to find food for us, plus the rations we brought, we can hold out for another ten or twenty days. How long can they last without eating or drinking?"

"If they want to charge down, there are still the Traps we dug on that slope, which will guarantee them even greater losses. That way, it will be even easier for us to fight. As long as we can defeat this tribe that can release Heavenly Thunder, we won't have to worry about being punished by the Tribal Chief in the future."

This time, because what Jiebing said made a lot of sense, the two brothers Jiang Ming and Jiang Cheng looked at each other and nodded fiercely: "Good, no problem. We will surround those two sides, and as for that last direction, we will also surround it from the flanks, trapping them tight."

"Jiebing, you must hold the front now; you cannot let them charge down from the front."

Jiang Cheng's tone, which showed no respect for him as a ruler, left Jiebing feeling a bit helpless. Now they needed close unity, so he could not say anything, and it was even worse to lose his temper.