Chapter 1489: Was it intentional or accidental?

The next day, Zhang led the troops and left this battlefield; the dead would become food for the beasts here for several days, and with that meat, their troops would also be spared from the harassment of beasts, as meat left on the ground is much easier than going out to hunt for it themselves.

The men were tied into a long string with ropes, unable to run fast, and they had no way to untie the ropes for each other, so the Huaxia Soldiers paid them relatively little attention.

The women drove the livestock and followed within the ranks, while the Huaxia Soldiers surrounded them from several directions; the Wujian fawned over the Huaxia Soldiers with obsequious humility, which was not a difficult task for them, as they also needed to fawn over their own Tribal Chiefs and Leaders in this way, but now they could also scold and insult their own tribespeople, enjoying the benefits brought by power, and it was even fine for them to sleep with a few women at night; Huaxia could not be bothered to manage these Slave affairs.

The more Slaves born, the better; those born and raised from childhood are the good Slaves, and these female savages, not to mention their appearance, even their smell made the Huaxia Soldiers unwilling to get close, but unfortunately, they had to guard them and had to endure this smell.

Just after they left, children of various ages crawled out one after another from some caves; they called to each other, then gathered the food left behind by the women, and while the beasts had not yet come over, they picked up the Weapons scattered on the corpses that Huaxia had been too lazy to collect, and distributed them to every child.

Among these children, the oldest were at most ten years old, and the youngest were only four or five; altogether there were actually several dozen of them, but unfortunately, they had not yet grown up, otherwise, they would count as a not-so-weak force on this land, at least capable of self-preservation, but unfortunately, they were all children, unable to even hold a Spear steady, let alone go hunting and fight with beasts; just listening to the howling of wolves made their hearts tremble a few times.

Knowing that the tribe they belonged to had been wiped out, they understood that if they could not find other Wulenge tribes before Winter, they would also surely die; their food could only support them for a few dozen days and could not possibly support them through the Winter, and this was only because they were all children without big appetites.

The oldest and strongest-looking child became the Leader of these people; he immediately made a decision to leave here quickly before the beasts surrounded them, and the direction they wanted to go was the place where their own tribe was located; next to that direction, there were other small tribes, and as long as they could survive and get there, there was a high probability they would be accepted, as they were all people of the same tribe.

Furthermore, he could also inform them of the news that the tribe had been wiped out, so that the Wulenge tribe could gather their strength to seek revenge against Huaxia; with so many tribes wiped out, this grudge must be avenged by the Wulenge tribe; it had always been the Wulenge tribe wiping out other tribes, and there had never been an instance of the Wulenge tribe being wiped out by another tribe.

Only they would not think that their actions were exactly what Huaxia needed; if Huaxia were to go on a long-distance expedition to the Wulenge tribe, the consumption would be too great, and the Wulenge tribes lived too scattered from each other; wanting to find and wipe them out one by one would be a huge project, which might take many years to complete, but

if they could gather themselves together and attack in the direction of Huaxia, then it would save Huaxia a great deal of effort.

Hun was still asking his leader Zhang: "Division Commander, after we escort them back, do we still need to continue looking for their tribes and continue fighting?"

Zhang possessed absolute autonomy and pointed at the many livestock and Slaves: "No need this year; the weather has now clearly turned cold, and it will take about thirty days to get back to Huaxia from here, and we still have to process so many things; there isn't enough time.

Besides, we don't know where the other tribes are; the north is so big, and if we just blindly look for them, I'm afraid it will be hard to find their locations; it's better to wait until the weather warms up next year, and then we will look for them slowly; I estimate that many people still escaped this time, and I hope they can tell other tribes about this matter, preferably telling their Great Tribal Chief, and have them send all the people of the Wulenge tribe over.

That way, we are close by, and we don't need to look for them one by one; solving it all at once, how great that would be.

Just this much for this year, and the grudge has already been avenged; it is also a very great military achievement, and we have an account to give to Huaxia, right?"

Hun thought the same in his heart; after all, he was also afraid that if they all went to the northwest to search for savages in the Winter, the food they brought might not be enough, and that would be no different from sending themselves to their deaths.

It was just that he still had some misgivings now: "Then Division Commander, what about the Golden Autumn Gathering? We didn't manage to go this year; if we go now, perhaps, perhaps we can still catch the tail end of it; if we don't go, won't our operations of these past few years be in vain?"

Hun could not decide for himself; if he were the biggest leader here, he would of course decide not to go, but now there was a bigger leader, and it was not just a question of whether to go or not, but if there were to be accountability, there was still a bigger leader above to take the responsibility.

"No need to go these days; our main task this year is still to solve the Wulenge tribe; as long as the Wulenge are solved, the control over the west will be complete; it will be actual control, and no matter if it's for the future development of the west or whatever, there won't be any obstacles.

Sigh, in the past, our Huaxia was short of manpower and short of Soldiers; we were only wealthy and had good Weapons, but we had no way to spend such a high price to open up battlefields everywhere because our foundation was not stable; it's just like building a house, if our foundation isn't laid firmly, then we can't build such a tall building.

It's different now; our Huaxia has developed over these years, and our number of Soldiers is also sufficient; Lema City can add a few thousand more Soldiers for us in these two years; it seems Wang Ding's quota is three thousand, plus the Soldiers currently in Huaxia City, the total number of enlisted Soldiers is nearly ten thousand; you also understand what a huge number this is.

Our Huaxia is not like other tribes where Soldiers are just for fighting; if we were like other tribes, where as long as they were men who could pick up a Weapon they would go to the battlefield, now our Huaxia could pull out fifty or sixty thousand people without affecting grain production.

Do other tribes have this ability? They don't, and they don't dare, because once the labor force is taken out, their tribe's very survival and eating would become a problem; they also don't have that much grain to supply such a large-scale force of Soldiers to fight."