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Chapter 148 Waiting for you at last

To the south of the Rhona tribe, about 80 miles away, near another tributary of the Songhua River, there is a Jianzhou savage tribe that occupies an area similar to that of the Rhona tribe.

This is the Taye Tribe.

Taye is the surname of the first generation of savage priests in this tribe, and the descendants named it the name of the tribe after Taye.

This way of naming tribes is very common in Jianzhou and the Nuergan area farther away, including those nomadic peoples in the north of Daming, and most of them are named after the surnames of the strongest members of the tribe.

Five days ago, the soldiers sent by the Rhona tribe to the Taye tribe arrived at the Taye tribe with a large number of salmon, and informed the Taye tribe of the fact that they found the Ming army along the Nalin River. priest.

And immediately asked the high priest of the Taye tribe for help.

However, among the savages in Jianzhou, there has never been a macho man from heaven who unified them all.

It is obviously unrealistic to expect these tribes who have plundered each other before the civil war to turn enemies into friends and provide help with just a few words and some food.

Even Ming people are consistent enemies to them.

But the high priest of the Taye tribe was skeptical about the news at first.

The ghost knows that the Rhona tribe asked them to borrow troops, did they want to ambush the soldiers they sent to help, and then annexed the Taye tribe in turn?

Savage backward, does not mean stupid.

After the high priest of the Taye tribe temporarily settled the people from the Rona tribe who came to ask for help, he sent his own tribe's fighters to bypass the Rhona tribe and search for the Ming army along the banks of the Nalin River.

At that time, the main force under Penke's command was all in the Rona tribe, and the soldiers staying in the camp were mainly defensive, but no fighters from the Taye tribe were found.

However, the fighters of the Taye tribe saw Daming's barracks from a distance, and immediately returned to the tribe to report.

After confirming that the Ming army had indeed appeared along the Nalin River and that the camp was very large, the priests of the Taye tribe believed it and began to prepare for the dispatch of troops.

However, after the pre-reconnaissance, assembly of tribal fighters, and preparation of food and grass were all done, after the [-] Taye tribe soldiers sent troops, it was already the fifth day that Peng Ke took down the Rhona tribe.

On the day when the Taye tribe sent troops, Peng Ke also rushed back to the Rhona tribe from the beachhead camp.

"Haven't seen the other two tribal fighters?"

Once back to the Luona tribe, after inviting Wu Xuanshu to ask about the situation, Peng Ke was very speechless.

He still looked up to these savage tribes.

Originally, Peng Ke thought that after receiving the news of the call for help, it would take three days at the slowest and a day or two at the fastest, so they should send troops no matter what.

Less than a hundred miles away, these savages, who are already familiar with mountain marches, estimated that they would be able to reach the Rhona tribe in five or six hours.

Only then did Penke eagerly deploy the defense line and transport the prisoners back to the rear.

And he was always worried about the reinforcements from the Savage tribe, who would send troops to attack when he was transporting the captives.

When escorting the captives, the troops of the Zhenhai Battalion were scattered, and it was very likely that they would be successfully attacked.

Unexpectedly, not only did he safely send all the captives back to the camp at the rear, they were even transported away by the Liaodong Fleet without seeing the reinforcements from the two tribes.

"The Rhona tribe is not usually popular, and the two tribes don't plan to send troops to rescue them at all?" Peng Ke muttered, and said to himself with some doubts:

"It shouldn't be. These savage tribes still understand the principle of dead lips and cold teeth, right?"

Facing the Ming army, these savage tribes would not be able to resist unless they gathered three or four times as many troops.

They should still have this bit of force, so they won't stand by and watch the Rhona tribe be defeated by the Zhenhai camp!

However, after waiting and waiting for reinforcements, Peng Ke felt a little helpless.

He shook his head, and said to Wu Xuanshu: "Wait another day, if there is still no movement, we will take the initiative to attack!"

It's not a problem to wait this long.

If the mountain does not come to me, I will go to the mountain!
Although it is indeed a better plan to lure the fighters of the two tribes out and wipe them out, and then take down their own tribe.

But it's not impossible for Zhenhaiying to come to the door and play tough battles!

Isn't that how the Rhona tribe was defeated!

"Give it the last day, we can't delay any longer!"

After putting down these words, Peng Ke turned around and walked back to the high priest's residence, which is now the central army camp of the Zhenhai Camp in the Rhona Tribe.

The army has been waiting here, it is too passive.

Wu Xuanshu had set up a total of more than ten guard posts within a radius of ten li of the entire Luona tribe, to ensure that no matter where the enemy appeared from any direction, they would be spotted immediately.

The outposts are all arranged in extremely secret places, and the sentries are all camouflaged in the jungle, lying on the ground one by one, like clumps of bushes.

Not to mention those savages who never pay attention to marching and scouting.

Even for Daming's own troops, it was not an easy task to remove these outposts without exposing themselves.

About ten miles south of the Rhona tribe, there is a very secret outpost camp.

It said it was a camp, but it was actually five scouts of the Ming army lying in the bushes.

They were holding Ming 25-year-made rifles in their hands, covered with shrub leaves, and were vigilantly observing any movement around them.

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Being able to lie on the ground and shoot is a great improvement for these scouts.

In the previous flintlock era, because all the standard rifles of Ming Dynasty were front-loaded ammunition, it was impossible for a musketeer to lie down and prepare for shooting.

You can only load bullets and gunpowder standing up, and then squat down or lie down to fire.

But for scouts, standing up to load the powder and then shooting, isn't that courting death?
Although scouts are generally not very good at contacting the enemy head-on, they must fight back when they are discovered by the enemy.

So in the past, the scouts of Ming Dynasty were basically not equipped with muskets. Even if they were equipped, they were equipped with small hand guns.

When being found and chased by the enemy, you should either draw a knife to meet the enemy, or use a pistol to defend yourself.

But now it is different. With the Hongwu 25-year standard rifle, the scouts can also be equipped with muskets.

Lying on the ground, you can also reload ammunition. In case of any emergency, at least you have one more means to fight against the enemy.

In case of being discovered by the enemy, at least raise the gun and fire a few shots first, and then escape after saving a few lives, which is much better than being hunted down.

If they found a small group of troops, they might be able to fight back and kill them all.

The five scouts lay low on the ground, as usual, closely watching all the movements.

One of the soldiers lay down for a long time, his leg was a little numb, he reached out and hammered his leg, and said helplessly: "It's the fifth day, why haven't those savage reinforcements come yet?"

"Isn't this mobilization speed too slow?"

The corporal's face darkened, and he was about to reprimand him a few words.

Suddenly, the ground began to vibrate regularly.

The corporal hurriedly put his ears to the ground, listening carefully to the movement.

"At least an army of more than 3000 people is coming towards us!"

"The footsteps are scattered and not neat!"

"It's the savage support team!"

(End of this chapter)