Chapter 1586: Let's Just Run

"Attack now? What are you going to attack with now?"

Tuomao had now completely reversed the status and standing of the two; previously, he had more or less had to give Wulian some face, offering a veneer of respect, after all, Wulian was sent by the Shenhu Tribe to manage these tribes.

But now Tuomao had burned his bridges; he had already mapped out Wulian's future, and coupled with Wulian's disgraceful appearance right now, what respect or face was there left to give him? At this moment, it should be him, the smartest one, who ruled over everything to fight a great victory; handing it over to Wulian would likely result in his own tribe being smashed to pieces.

"How many people does Huaxia have? What is their configuration, and where are they camping? Do you know?"

Wulian wiped his mouth and stared, saying: "I know, I know it all. I only came to ask you for men because I saw them. Give the Soldiers to me, and I will go fight them!"

Tuomao rebuked him angrily: "Then tell me, how many people do they have, how do you plan to fight, and where will you fight? The Soldiers have been tired for a whole day now, they haven't even had a drop of water, and you want them to go fight with you?"

Being scolded like this, Wulian calmed down slightly. After recovering somewhat from the fear of his brothers being killed and seeing their miserable state, he recalled what the situation with the Huaxia people really was. Looking at their own situation here, Wulian felt no confidence at all in his heart.

"The Huaxia people are just past two hills from here; you can see them. They have already set up camp. Their numbers are not high; I watched, and there are maybe only a thousand or so people."

Tuomao relaxed in an instant, a smile appearing on his face. So after all that, Huaxia only had that many people; how could they even think of coming to attack them? Perhaps those were just their strongest Soldiers coming over to bluff and scare them away.

"However, in their ranks, I saw that they seem to be all men, all Soldiers. I didn't see a single woman, nor did I see any children."

Tuomao's expression froze instantly: "What? What did you say? No women, no children?"

"Then what about their food? With so many of them, what are they eating? Are they grazing any livestock?"

This was also the part Wulian found terrifying. A group of over a thousand, all men, had appeared in their vicinity just like that, with no Logistics Department in sight, no cattle or sheep in sight—so what were they eating?

Without a stable food supply, how did they dare to travel so far and penetrate into such a place? Although he had seen some cattle, the number was too small, completely insufficient to support so many of them eating, and would they really be willing to just kill cattle to eat at will?

The only reasonable explanation now was that the Huaxia base camp was not far from here. If it hadn't been discovered or encountered before, it meant Huaxia had only recently stationed themselves here and seized this place, marking it as their territory. Only in this way could they carry food to such a place, and if the food ran out, they would have the opportunity to return to their base camp to replenish it.

Of course, now that they had encountered the Wulenge Tribe, it meant they had found a rich source of food. The Wulenge Tribe had too many cattle and sheep; for Huaxia, this was an extremely rich harvest. Now it seemed the status of both sides had long since been swapped: Huaxia had become the hunter, and their Wulenge Tribe had become the target being hunted.

What Tuomao thought in his heart was exactly the same as Wulian. The other Tribal Chiefs had not thought of this; they only found it incredible and kept questioning Wulian, asking if what he saw was really true and if he had misjudged it.

Now, thinking back to the surrender the Huaxia people had just urged, Tuomao felt it made a lot of sense. Huaxia was so powerful that defeating a Tribal Alliance like theirs would indeed be quite easy.

But could he just hand over the tribe he had worked so hard to develop until now to Huaxia? Impossible; this was absolutely not to be done. As long as there was a chance to fight, he would definitely fight.

But fighting Huaxia now seemed somewhat unrealistic. Their entire tribe's young and able-bodied men numbered only two or three thousand; the women, children, and elderly had no combat capability at all. And those men didn't have any decent Weapon, so how could they fight?

When facing ordinary, weak tribes, he could rely on the advantage of numbers and the name of his Wulenge Tribe to achieve total victory, but now, that seemed not to work at all.

Tuomao made a prompt decision and told the several Tribal Chiefs: "This battle cannot be fought! If we fight, I'm afraid all the men of our tribes will die. The women cannot fight either; we can't win. Even if we won, there would be no benefit, and our tribes would be finished."

"So, my meaning is, we cannot fight, we must not fight. Taking advantage of the night, we will separate here, each take their own livestock and tribespeople, and choose any direction to leave. Tomorrow, when they come to attack us, they will surely only choose one direction, and then we'll see who is unlucky enough to be chased down."

"The others can run far away during this time, making them unable to chase and not daring to chase. In the future, wait for the Tribal Chief to send a real large tribe and more Soldiers. We small tribes are completely unable to fight."

Now these Tribal Chiefs were all listening very closely to Tuomao. Tuomao was smart, and they believed everything he said. Thus, they immediately decided to hurry and drive their livestock, pick any direction they felt was safe to run, and then circle back to their own tribal territories.

Their own territories were so far away; staying away from Huaxia was definitely safe. This place was too dangerous. They were willing to pay the price of some tribespeople dying to obtain Huaxia's spoils if they were sure they could win, but they had already heard that these Huaxia people were all men, and even their food had to be obtained by raiding.

Even if they fought with all their might to defeat them, what could they get? Nothing at all. Those Weapons were quite valuable; for such a Knife, let alone ten sheep, even fifty sheep would feel worth it. But they didn't have such good Weapons, so how could they raid? Wouldn't going over be just throwing their lives away?

Although those Tribal Chiefs were not that smart, their ability to weigh pros and cons was quite strong, and in an instant, they knew what they should and should not do.

When Wulian heard Tuomao actually say this, he became anxious: "How can we run? We cannot run!"

"Leave the Soldiers! I want revenge! This is also a mission arranged by the Tribal Chief; I must defeat Huaxia so that I can return to the tribe!"