Chapter 101: The Great War Begins
"Think twice!" As soon as Nadoland finished speaking, a voice of exhortation sounded in the big tent.
"Do we have a way out?" Nadorand looked around, his eyes red and murderous, and asked sharply.
Hearing this, everyone in the big tent suddenly fell silent. Indeed, at this point, the Nado clan has no way out at all, and if you further defeat the Jiegu clan, then you will open the sea and the sky, and you will be crushed if you take a step back!
In the end, the resolution to launch a sacred challenge to the Drum Clan was passed under the impetus of Nadorand.
Nadorand sent a messenger to formally issue a sacred challenge to the Drum Clan with ancient rituals.
Things were just as predicted before, Cheng Lu directly regarded this as a joke and was not ready to deal with it, but the reality slapped Cheng Lu hard.
The Bone Clan and several other large settlements were of course happy to see such a good show after receiving Nadorand's promises, as Boko had expected. Several large clans jointly issued a statement, saying that the sacred ancient traditions are inviolable, and that several tribes will never intervene in the sacred challenge between the Jiegu clan and the Nado clan, and that any tribe that attempts to provoke the Xianbei tradition will be jointly attacked by several clans!
In this way, the various small towns that had originally received Chenglu's recruitment and planned to lead the army to assist Chenglu in attacking the Nado clan suddenly disappeared. Begin to stand still and wait for the situation to develop.
In this way, Chenglu and Jiegu were roasted on the fire.
Their previous plan to seize on the identity of the Han Shang and create momentum to force the Nado clan to expel the Shang was bankrupt before it even began.
As soon as the sacred challenge, which had not been seen for many years, was discussed, the fierce and aggressive Xianbei people were very enthusiastic about it, and public opinion was all focused on the sacred challenge.
"Damn it!"
In the big tent of the Jiegu clan, Chenglu was roaring loudly, and everyone in the tent was even more silent, for fear that he would become Chenglu's punching bag.
"What a bullshit sacred challenge, they just want to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight! A bunch of despicable villains who don't deserve to be called the people of the Immortal Heaven! "No one knows that Cheng Yu is using anger to hide the fear in his heart!
According to the Xianbei tradition, under the sacred challenge, the Yiluotou people must personally lead the army into battle. Cheng Lu, who was previously cut out of the psychological shadow by the Han general's halberd, has a strong fear of the battlefield.
"Xiao Shuai doesn't need to be angry, my Jiegu Clan is full of soldiers, what if I agree to their sacred challenge? Just take the opportunity to eliminate the Nado clan, it is reported that the Nado clan has annexed the Boke clan and the coltan clan, and the tribe has a lot of money, we can take the opportunity to make a fortune! ”
The wise man was a little unimpressed, and with the combat power of the Jiegu clan, against the Nado clan, it can almost be said that he is nine out of ten. The reason why he didn't dare to attack the Nado clan easily was because the Nado clan and several other large towns were in the same breath and moved the whole body, so it was necessary to reduce the strength of the Nado clan by squeezing out the merchants.
Now that the Nado clan has taken the initiative to challenge the Holy Empire and take the initiative to exclude several other large settlements, in the eyes of the Kui, this is simply self-defeating!
"Yes, yes, what's there to be afraid of in the Divine Challenge, it just so happens that we can take the opportunity to annex the Nado Clan, so that our Jiegu Clan's strength will increase greatly, and the other few Yiluo who have two hearts will probably no longer dare to disobey Xiao Shuai Yang!"
The other noble generals of the Jiegu clan also spoke out one after another, and everyone didn't think it was a big deal to accept the sacred challenge of the Nado clan, and even they were a little expectant of this, but they were puzzled by Chenglu's anger!
Cheng Lu's face changed for a while, at present, he is greedy for money and lustful, loves pleasure, and his brave and aggressive character has spread throughout the tribe, but everyone doesn't know that he has begun to fear the battlefield, and Cheng Lu also knows that his reality cannot be exposed, and he has barely supported it.
If he resolutely opposes accepting the sacred challenge, the people in the town will surely become suspicious, and if the reputation of Chenglu as a waste spreads, he will be completely abandoned in the Xianbei tribe, which respects the strong.
Thinking about it again, the strength of the Jiegu clan is indeed much stronger than that of the Nadou clan, and he does not necessarily have to charge on the front line by himself, Chenglu gritted his teeth and made up his mind.
"Good! Declare to the entire tribe that we accept the sacred challenge of the Nado clan. Invite the elders of the tribe to watch the battle and be a witness! ”
"The head man is wise!" As soon as Chenglu's words fell, everyone in the big tent said excitedly.
"Pass my order, prepare for battle, go all out to fight this battle, and let those young people see the majesty of our Jiegu clan!"
"Yes!" The crowd shouted in unison.
The news of the Drum Clan's acceptance of the Nado's sacred challenge spread like a whirlwind throughout the tribe at once.
Many Xianbei clans, whether they are pro-Nado or pro-Jiegu clan, are waiting for this big drama to begin.
In the Nado, Nadoland and others are also gearing up, waiting for the war to come.
As the name suggests, the "Sacred Challenge" is a very sacred and important event among the Xianbei tribes, and the two armies need to set a suitable date and place for the battle, and there are many respectable people to come to testify, these troublesome things will not be solved in a moment.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Nadoland sent people to discuss with Chenglu on the one hand, and on the other hand, began to expand the armament in full swing, trying to maximize his strength before the war.
After deliberation, it was decided that the "Sacred Challenge" would begin in a month's time, in a huge meadow between the Nado clan and the Jiegu clan.
In the space of a month, Shang Ji and Nadorand were both desperately expanding their armaments.
For this reason, Nadorand even traded 10,000 sets of various equipment to the merchant again, bringing a profit of nearly 100,000 gold to the merchant.
At present, the headquarters of the Nado clan has a full army of 30,000 troops, which is not less than the previous Jiegu clan.
However, although the expansion of the Jiegu clan was not as crazy as the Nado clan, it also expanded thousands of troops in a casual month, and the total strength reached 40,000! In terms of numbers, it still maintains a force advantage of 10,000 against the Nado.
Of course, Shang Ji was not idle during this period, and the Black Armor Army also expanded from the original 3,000 to 5,000 people, the Black Armor Xuan Cavalry expanded to 1,500 people, the Dragon Archer Cavalry also expanded to 1,500 people, and the ordinary third-order light cavalry also reached 2,000 people!
In order to urgently expand the army, Shang Ji even spent a huge amount of money to invite Master Lu Guilu and his disciples from Wangquan County to temporarily stay in Heishuisai to help build equipment.
Master Lu is not a master blacksmith, with him in charge of the Black Water Plug, coupled with Deng Yan's various skills to promote production, the output of equipment in the Black Water Plug has doubled in a short period of time. In this way, all kinds of equipment needed for the emergency expansion of the merchant army were barely guaranteed.