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Chapter 265 Cruelty

After leaving Jianya Village, Lu Ang went south alone.

Although he had drawn a black slave before, after checking it with the combat power detector, he still had 293 combat power points, far exceeding the masters of Jianya Village.

But Lu Ang still felt that this guy Ai was too stupid, big and rough, and he didn't have any special concealment skills. It didn't fit in with his principle of secretly entering the village this time and not shooting, so he still left him behind. Practice in the valley and guard your home.

Under the wind of Feng Xu, Lu Ang moved very quickly, and in just four or five hours, he arrived at the riverside.

However, he did not choose to cross the river directly, but started patrolling along the river bank.

Sure enough, Lu Ang soon discovered traces of a battle. Perhaps because the river here was not deep enough, or the battle had just ended, the wreckage of large warships was exposed on the river. Fragments of wood were scattered all over the river, and there were also There are many corpses flowing eastward with blood...

It seems that the news is true, the barbarians really went south to fight with the Southern Dynasties.

Continuing forward, we saw more than a dozen large and small warships at a large pier on the north shore. Moreover, these warships looked like they were made in a hurry. The hulls were not smooth enough, and many places could be seen as having not been polished. It is made of wooden ballast, and the hull is also very simple. There is no tall ship building, only deck sails and some large oars protruding from the hull.

However, it looks simple, so crossing the sea is definitely not possible, but crossing the river for more than ten miles should not be a problem. Moreover, as a place where a dock ferry is established, the speed of the river here is relatively slow, so crossing the river should not be too bumpy. .

Lu Ang also saw groups of cavalry riding giant wolves rushing people in simple yellow clothes, with thin bodies, yellow faces and skinny muscles, holding long guns or broadswords to the boat. Looking at the way they drove them away, it was very scary. He was rough and would be whipped at every turn.

After a while, the sails were hung up, the oars began to swing, and the warships began to head south.

Lu Ang flew over and saw that large tracts of fields were abandoned. The few fields that were still under cultivation were generally around various cities. The number was also extremely limited. It must not be enough, so these people were like walking zombies.

Finally, thousands of people were driven onto the boats, and on board each boat were forty or fifty sturdy barbarians.

However, looking at the bodies and equipment of these people, and the way they look weak when walking, are they really capable of fighting?

After all, those foreign races who went south in the previous life would not have formed various Han army green camps and so on.

Of course, it could also be that the time was too short, food production in the north had not yet recovered, and the barbarians could not afford to raise so many servants.

What's happening here? These people don't look like barbarians. Could they be people from the north? Are the barbarians driving the northern people into an army? Help them fight?

Logically speaking, this is good. After all, according to previous intelligence, although the number of the five major barbarians is actually not large, the total number is only three to four million. We have to exclude the old, weak, women and children, and the actual number of people who can fight is no more than three to four million. Millions, they have only occupied the Northland for a few years. Even if they make children all day long, they cannot replenish their troops so quickly. It is also a way to drive tens of millions of northern people to help them fight.

Unfortunately, the warship's march was not smooth. As soon as it reached the middle of the river, sharp spikes pierced out from under the river, smashing the warships to pieces, leaving the poor people on the boat flopping in the water.

Fortunately, these spikes were not as dense as expected, and almost half of the warships passed the spike trap, rushed all the way to the other side, and ran aground on the river bank.

There is a small city on the other side of the river. The flag of the Southern Dynasty is still hung on the city wall. There are people on the wall. Soldiers wearing simple armor are running and shouting something.

Judging from the terrain where the city is located, it is very dangerous. It is sandwiched between two mountains. If you want to continue going south, you must break the city. So, soon, the common people on the boat were driven off the boat, and using simple siege ladders, they were forced by the barbarians' spears and launched an attack on the small town.

The result was doomed. These people who had no strength and were panting when walking could not break through the city wall. Most of them were penetrated by sharp arrows and died in the process of rushing to the city wall. Only a few rushed to the city wall and caught up with them. There were ladders, but that was all, none of them could scale the walls.

On the contrary, the barbarians supervising the battle had few casualties, and most of them were outside the arrow range of the city wall. When they saw all the people dead, they rushed into the forest not far away. Judging from their posture, they probably wanted to climb over the mountain.

However, although the defenders in the small town saw their actions, no one came out of the city to stop them, allowing them to disappear into the forest and disappear.

After watching for a while, Lu Ang was a little confused about the behavior of this group of barbarians.

They worked so hard to build ships, transport people here, and died in vain under the city. They spent so much manpower and material resources. What was their purpose?

Even if these hundreds of barbarians cross the mountains and head to the south, how much harm can these few people do to the south?

Of course, this is just one place, and there are probably other barbarians who have successfully entered the south in other places. However, these guys don't seem to have brought much supplies. Although they are physically strong and feel that their combat effectiveness is quite strong, such a lone army, What's the use?

Lu Ang really didn't know much about ancient wars, but he also knew that this was not how battles were fought.

Could it be that their purpose is to consume the population?

Lu Ang frowned. After the barbarian attacks in the north in the past few years, a large number of people have died. In addition, production has not recovered and food is insufficient. More people will starve to death. Apart from Jianya Village, it is still a paradise. Except, the rest of the place is almost like hell.

To put it simply, the number of survivors is decreasing every day, and those who were forced here this time are basically middle-aged men. If these people all die in batches during this march south, even if the south faces north in the future, Even if we conquer the north, it will probably take hundreds or even thousands of years to restore the population!

If you save land and lose people, everyone and land will be lost. If you save people and lose land, everyone and land will be gained.

These barbarians also have expert guidance behind them!

Moreover, if they follow this line of thinking, they are indeed not afraid of the Green Phoenix Empress. No matter how powerful the phoenix is, it can at most burn all the warships. Those simple warships are not difficult to build as long as there are people.

Even if everyone is blocked, most of the people who die will be northern people, and the barbarians will only lose some manpower to supervise the battle, which is extremely cost-effective.

Moreover, if these barbarians who supervise the war are really dead soldiers, such a small-scale invasion of the south in the form of a small team, killing people and causing destruction everywhere, will also cause great damage to the production situation in the south.

Fighting requires a supply of food and grass, and a stable rear area. If these guys have been hiding in various mountains and forests, and occasionally go down the mountain to cause damage, it will also be a very troublesome thing.

Sending a large army to strangle is too low cost-effective, and sending experts to chase them down may not be able to defeat a group of dozens of barbarians...

Moreover, Lu Ang always felt that there were other purposes for the barbarians to do this.

Hey, forget it, it's none of my business. I still have a lot of troubles, and I don't have any good solution. Let's go to Purple City first.

(End of this chapter)