Chapter 349: The Barbarians’ Southern Descent

Chapter 343 – The Barbarians’ Southern Descent
The sudden drop in temperature brought forward the dry period of the North Boundary River, after all, the main source of water for the North Boundary River came from melting glaciers, so the river was high in summer, and then the current was halved in winter, so if you weren’t afraid of losing temperature and freezing to death, you could still cross the river.

Knowing that the river is cold and harsh, but in the natural disaster and death driven, the northern barbarians regardless of the old and young resolutely chose to cross the river, they have no turning back, a large number of barbarians tribes one by one to the south, in this huge group, personal fear can not change anything.

But perennial glacier frozen water washed by the North Boundary River is too wide, too deep, but also too cold, even if deliberately selected the shallowest place to cross the river, still water without thighs, and shallow water also means that the river is wider, they need to walk farther in the water, consume more physical strength, especially carrying tribal supplies holding livestock of the young and strong, it is more difficult to move their feet, there is no energy to help the tribe’s weak and old, because they want to go back and forth! More than once, to bring all the supplies and livestock of the tribe to the past, because once they lose these, not waiting for the natural disaster to take away their lives will starve to death and freeze to death.

The icy cold water streams made people feel that it was almost solid ice sand when they touched it, and everyone could clearly feel the cold spreading rapidly on their bodies, and the most frightening thing was that the cold was penetrating deeper and deeper, making the muscles and bones feel tingling, making the blood become cold, and making the body gradually become powerless.

The frail old man was the first to fall, his back to the sky, the upper half of his body floating on the river, his legs hanging down, like a broken dead tree down the current, looking lonely and helpless, but those who are still alive have no more strength to grieve, in order to live, in order to hope, they try their best to move their feet, to move the tents, to move the food, to move the weapons, to move the animals, these tribes the most valuable things safely Even the half-grown children, whose heads were just above the horse’s belly, were working as hard as they could.

The southward march of the barbarians from the north continued, even though many old people and children died because of this, they did not stop, when they decided to go south, death was already predetermined, and if they could not plunder enough food, more people would die because of the natural disaster.

Owen’s territory is not in the main route of the northland barbarians, but also did not avoid far, because near the magic horn forest near the river is wider, so the current is gentle, suitable for crossing the river, if not have the bison tribe in the front of the top, the north city will face the northland barbarians directly to the south.

But as more and more northland barbarians came down from the south, North City was still exposed.

A city right next to the North Boundary River, most of the Northland barbarians didn’t know what it meant, but there were wise men and radicals among the Northland barbarians, who planned to take down this city of the Imperial Southern Barbarians after gathering enough men.

In fact, it is not cost-effective to attack the northern city, but the barbarian wise men realized that the geographical location of the northern city will pose a great threat to them, no matter attacking or returning with the spoils, the northern city can strike at any time to cut them off, so a group of barbarian shamans stepped in, communicated with each other, and made the decision to fight the northern city.

In fact, this is also related to the interests, after all, the north of the city at a glance know very rich, fight down may be a lot of people will die, but the distance is short, the harvest after the fight is enough for them to return immediately, then while the other barbarians tribes did not come back, they can expand their territory, occupy the prey of more places.

Two or three thousand robust Northland barbarians stood with the tribe’s best weapons, the shamans were busy applying paint to their bodies, a mixture of animal oil and herbs, in accordance with some kind of ancient pattern to be applied, and at the same time recited words under their breath, so that the pattern applied out of the light emitted a faint light.

This is the ability of the barbarian shaman, with the help of totems, herbs and the power of nature on the body of the tribal warriors, so that these barbarian warriors become stronger, faster, more durable, more fearless.

It was said that the legendary shaman of that year, with this hand, froze a dozen or so barbarian warriors in a battle to strengthen them to the legendary level, almost causing the imperial army to collapse.

Nowadays, the Barbarian Shaman was no longer as brilliant as it was back then, but strengthening ordinary Barbarian Warriors was already enough.

The barbarian warriors whose blood is boiling and whose heads are bubbling with hot air are eager to try, but the ones who play the lead are not the most elite and valuable barbarian warriors of these tribes, but a group of aged barbarians.

Because of the lack of civilization, in addition to the shaman, the old man is not very meaningful to the tribe, once lost the ability to hunt, for the tribe will slowly become a liability, so every year there will be some old and decrepit old barbarians walk into the snow and wind alone, to the body in return for the grace of nature. But this year is different, their sacrifice will have a more important meaning.

More than a thousand old barbarians slowly moved their arms and legs, letting their decaying qi and blood revitalize, while drinking the blood wine brought by the tribe’s shaman without changing their faces.

This is a mixture of herbs and animal blood, after the shaman’s blessing, it can deeply stimulate the potential of the barbarians, allowing the drinker to gain the strength of an ox and the speed of a wolf, but at the cost of a few days of weakness.

But this price is for the young and strong barbarians, for these old barbarians, it is like the last bowl of wine, but they still drank it without hesitation, just to let more barbarian warriors live, because the tribe needs these young people.

At this time, the north city is also doing the same war preparations, because the number of barbarians is too much, tens of thousands of people gathered where, so that Owen did not dare to follow the previous conception, so that the villagers gathered in the wooden fortresses and earth fortresses in the layers of resistance, all withdrawn to the city, although this makes the north city become crowded, but because of the system of the population to obey the characteristics of the order, and does not appear to be chaotic, but instead to provide a more adequate manpower and material resources.

Facing the crucial battle in his life, Howard was not the least bit panicked, because he knew very well how strong the territory was, just the army under his command was enough to fight against ten times of the imperial border army, not to mention that all the adult men in the territory were trained reservists, and even the women were skillful in loading ammunition, so they were also capable of going to the battlefield when necessary.

Moreover, Howard knows very well that what he has is only the superficial power of the territory, and the real trump card has never been shown.

Adequate bottom of the air so that Howard calmly deployed troops, showing the style of a great general, and his men also competed.

The first to receive the order of baron charles with his elite musketeers on the city wall, these elite musketeers in line are equipped with fine quality muskets, each one is carefully crafted, not only the range greatly improved, accuracy also exceeds the ordinary musket a lot of elite musketeers can accurately hit the wolves outside of 300 meters, for the musket, this is already a remarkable achievement.

Mounted on the wall of the elite musketeers in their respective positions, skillfully take out the fixed charge to complete the loading, the whole process only took twenty seconds, even if coupled with the aiming and shooting is only half a minute, this shooting speed so that everyone understands what is professional.

However, with the size of the northern city, one wall with only a thousand men is obviously not enough, the second and third battalions that were also strengthened also mounted the wall according to the order.

Compared to the first battalion of elite musketeers, the second and third battalions also had their own specialties.

The second battalion’s characteristic is fierce, all by the big waisted gun and axe hand composition, gun and axe hand use is three feet long short handled musket, caliber is big, mainly firing loose bullets with a single bullet, the power is not small, but the biggest feature is the muzzle under the installation of the axe blade, swinging up to be a tomahawk, and at the same time also carry four grenades, used to break through the enemy camp but it’s a good hand.

The third battalion’s specialty is artillery, large and small caliber guns make them the most powerful fire support on the battlefield.

(End of chapter)