Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

"Order all the tribes to join forces. Although there are not many people in our Mang tribe, we have to tell Datang that in this jungle, it has never been Datang's sphere of influence." Mangchai said with a grin.

He actually doesn't know much about Datang, it is very closed here, and he only knows about Datang, and knows that it is a powerful country.

But so what?The big men in the Central Plains were not very powerful countries, but they never really ruled this jungle, they are the masters here.

"Yes!"

"How many people are there in the Tang army?" Mangchai asked again.

"It's hard to confirm, and it's covered by mountains and forests, but based on the time calculation, the other party's troops are probably stationed at the border, and there are probably several thousand." The tribal general said.

"Bring everyone from each tribe and use the poisonous arrows. We will deal with Datang's army at one time near Songbe, and let them go back from where they came from."

"Yes!"

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"General, the front is already within the range of Mangbu. The large tribe we detected is just ahead. They only have a simple cottage, and the walls are built with trees and other things. There are almost no rocks. The best way is to use fire attack." Inside Hou Junji's camp, a temporary military meeting was also held.

It's November soon, and the weather in this mountain is not so hot, so it's no problem to wear armor and the like.

"Will the fire attack cause the surrounding mountain fires?" Hou Junji asked after thinking for a while, not because he was worried that the forests here would be burned down, but because he was worried that the forest fires would burn all the way to the tribes in the Tang Dynasty. After all, this place is not far from the tribes in the Tang Dynasty.

"Returning to the general, I have learned from the mountain people here that sometimes the wild fires cannot be ignited. For example, the Xinbu Township was burned down by the enemy before, and no wildfires were caused. In fact, those houses are not far from the surrounding forests."

"But sometimes, a small spark in the forest, a lightning strike may cause a mountain fire." Zheng Yuan thought for a while and said.

"How many people are there in the tribe in front of you?" Hou Junji asked.

"According to the people in Xinbu Township, there are at most about 3000 people here, and there are only about [-] soldiers who can fight. In addition, the main characteristics of their battles are spears, bows and arrows, and leather armor. Bows, arrows, and spears are used to smearing poison on the arrows and spear tips, which will paralyze people and lose their combat effectiveness. Some of them can even kill people."

"But it's not a big problem for us. The toxins on these arrows are also used by Xinbu Township. They all come from plants. There are only a few basic symptoms. We have prepared enough herbs." Zheng Yuan said.

"I heard that some venom from poisonous snakes is also used here?" Hou Junji asked.

"Very rarely. I asked the mountain people in Xinbu Township. They said that if the venom of the poisonous snake leaves the snake's body, it may have no effect for more than an hour at most, and it will not be able to cause harm to people."

"It's better to worry about us being bitten by poisonous insects than to worry about them applying the venom of poisonous snakes on their arrows. But overall, it's not a big problem, because more than [-]% of our soldiers are from the local mountain people, and they are also very familiar with this mountain." Zheng Yuan shook his head and said.

"Then there is no problem. In this way, send two thousand soldiers to launch a tentative attack on the entire village, and at the same time call for them to surrender." Hou Junji pondered for a while and said, "These monkeys, if they want to run to the mountains, are still hard for us to come by. We don't have time to catch them one by one."

"It's not realistic to arrest people in such a primeval jungle, so let's wait here. Let alone if the other party surrenders, if the other party does not surrender, then the enemy's large army will probably arrive soon. Tell our scouts around us to pay close attention to everything around us." Hou Junji said seriously.

"Yes! Please rest assured, general. Although such a primeval jungle can easily hide the army, some routes are also fixed. There are few routes that the army wants to pass through, and they guard a few key intersections. They want to attack us unless they can fly, or detour over a mountain road of more than one or two hundred miles. What's more, we have scouts even behind the detour." Zheng Yuan nodded seriously.

"Has the logistics kept up?"

"Arrows and other logistics equipment and supplies have arrived."

"In the past few days, [-] arrows have been pulled out, and the iron arrows have been unscrewed. Don't we have a device for emergency manual cutting of wooden arrows in the logistics team? Let them process a part of the wooden arrows and install them, and then use these wooden arrows in the past few days." Hou Junji said.

It is said that this device was also invented by a military enterprise. It is so small that one person can hold one. It can be directly and temporarily used to process wooden arrows or arrow shafts in emergency situations on the battlefield.

"Yes."

"Also, let the attacking soldiers pay attention. Except after the 2000 men continued to attack on the first day, four or five hundred men were sent out every day for a feint attack." Hou Junji thought for a while, and added.

"Yes!"

Hou Junji didn't know if it would work, but it was also impossible for the enemy to know their reality. It was difficult to find out the number of the enemy's large troops in such a mountain forest, not to mention that a considerable part of their soldiers were on the mountain behind.

The front camped on the plain where this tribe is located is only an army of 2000 people. Of course, they still have to wear the armor they should wear.

Hou Junji was not in a hurry, he knew very well that being in a hurry would not solve the problem, it was impossible to kill all these tribes, but they had to feel the pain.

As for whether it can rule here in the future, the two tribes on the left and right only have 6 people. Without them, the Tang Dynasty would not be alive?What's more, there are countless mountain tribes behind them.

In this way, Hou Junji lingered outside Songbu's cottage for six days, and finally got the report from the scouts he wanted. At least ten thousand troops from Mangbu arrived here.

Hou Junji squinted his eyes slightly when he heard the news. The tribe with a total population of less than 3 but less than 4 had dispatched [-] soldiers. In other words, all men who could draw bows and arrows and pick up spears had come here.

This also means that Mangchai, the tribal leader of Mangbu, must have come here.

"Order, the whole army is ready to make meritorious deeds in one fell swoop." Hou Junji said in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

Standing on the city wall of Songbu, Mangchai observed Datang's barracks on the opposite side, and then roughly understood that it should be Datang's frontier troops who came, and the number was estimated to be about two to three thousand.