Chapter 429: Life and Death
Wolf Qi cowered in the distance, not daring to come closer.
What it was really afraid of was not the headless corpse of Han Lian, nor the storm wolf general who was split into two pieces by an axe, but the Qianhu lord who stood motionless and silently between the flesh and bones and the ice fragments, and the killing intent aura emanating from his body, even though it had thick hair to protect its body, it couldn't help but feel a coldness inside and outside its body.
Gu Juan was like a sculpture, standing motionless in the middle of the cold winter night, letting the cold north wind blow his clothes to the sound of hunting.
After a long time, he let out a long breath of cloudy air, and his mind turned back to the knowledge he had seen in the previous plane, that is, the reason why man was able to become the master of the earth, and stood proudly at the top of the pyramid of life on earth for hundreds of thousands of years, was not because of the strength of human fertility, nor because of their sharp teeth and claws.
It is because of the formation of wisdom and the use of tools that they are truly distinguished from other wild animals, and they are given the title of terrifying Homo erectus by other species.
In particular, the use of spears and fire has caused drastic changes in the evolution of life on Earth that have not been seen in the four billion years of development.
It can be said that Homo sapiens is the most powerful and dominant species in the history of the earth, there is no one, it is okay in Africa, the beasts have been with various human races for millions of years, and they all know that the big monkeys who stand and walk are not easy to mess with and know how to hide far away, but even so, these beasts that have not derived intelligence are far from safe in the face of the long-range attacks of Homo sapiens throwing spears and the magic attacks of arson.
Since Homo sapiens came out of Africa 60,000 years ago, large animals have become extinct everywhere they went, and it is the kind of extinction of the whole family of natural disasters, only Homo sapiens hunts and even exterminates other beasts, and no beast can constantly threaten Homo sapiens.
And all of this is based on the increasingly flexible wisdom of man and the creative development and use of tools, which is the fundamental reason why man can stand at the top of the evolution of the race today.
But back to the world that is now changing drastically, the most powerful thing for the human race is the most fundamental reliance that can distinguish it from other species, that is, wisdom and the use and improvement of tools, and it is no longer possible to form an absolute power suppression of other intelligent species in this heaven and earth.
Therefore, when the greatest barrier between the non-human race and the human race is filled in little by little, other conditions that could not be the decisive factor have become the biggest obstacle for the human race to continue to stand at the top of the food chain.
Gu Juan tried his best to mobilize his memory, and then grabbed the wolf Qi and asked for a long time, and finally figured out that the pregnancy period of the Northland steppe wolf clan is about two months, basically in the winter, and when the spring is coming, mating and conception, just in time to give birth when the spring breeze is smoky and summer has not arrived, and the young wolf opens its eyes after two weeks, weans after five weeks, and is taken to the wolf pack gathering place after eight weeks, and begins to receive training in various survival skills.
What's more, the young wolves they give birth to in one litter range from three or five to more than a dozen, which is not at the same level as the fertility level of the human race.
Even if you remove the impact on fertility after the strength is enhanced because of the derived spiritual intelligence, according to what the storm wolf general said just now, when the summer is scorching, there will be nearly 200,000 more young wolf clans in the northland grassland, and after screening and selecting them, an army of 50,000 wolf riders can be expected......
This is the terrifying speed of the expansion of the wolf clan that can be expected after occupying the ruling class on the grassland, when there is no shortage of food and no natural enemies.
If they are allowed to expand like this, in one year, two years, three or five years, it is conceivable how terrifying the wolf clan power on the grassland will be, and when that time comes, even if all the cattle, horses, sheep and people on the northland grassland are added, how much meat can be used to meet their ration consumption?
Therefore, considering it from the position of the Golden Wolf King, it has just defeated the Golden Horde of the Grassland, even though it has suffered heavy losses and needs to continue to recuperate and recover, it has already aimed its green eyes at the powerful Great Wei in the south, which can definitely be called a far-sighted and precautionary way of thinking.
It is going to use its minions in advance to plan the layout for the mouths that need to eat, and prepare in advance to compete for meat, and no matter what kind of meat it is, they want it!
Perhaps they don't have to wait until they can make ends meet by eating the edible meat on the grasslands, and they will definitely send troops south to open up new pastures and raise new food in the territory of the Great Wei Dynasty.
Having such a wolf, I don't know if it's the luck of the wolf clan, but it's definitely the misfortune of the people of Great Wei......
In this case, it is no longer a matter of waiting to defend against the attack of the Northland Grassland, but it is necessary to break the inherent thinking that Wei Ting has been forming after decades of fighting with the Northland Grassland Royal Court, and to take the initiative to attack with a broken mentality, without giving the other party any respite.
Although this war is a war between countries, the consequence of defeat is not the loss of teachers and humiliation of the country, the cession of land and reparations, but the complete loss of the right to live, the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species, either the wolves ravaged the Central Plains, using people for food, or the army went north, ploughing and uprooting with the will to die, leaving no living seeds.
The real competition depends on who is stronger, more ruthless, and more durable.
Specific to any individual in the Wei Dynasty, it is also a matter of life and death, failure cannot fail, and the only outcome of defeat is to be eaten on the spot, or to be raised as a two-legged sheep, and then eaten after a period of time.
There are internal troubles at home, and strong enemies outside the home......
This is the difficult situation that the Great Wei Imperial Court is currently facing, and they have no choice, whether it is to settle the outside first, or to break the external enemy first and then calm the internal border, it is not advisable, they can only bite the bullet and go to the two-pronged approach, eating this pot may eat the dead man's sandwich rice.
Gu Juan put away the axe that did not leave a trace of blood, and slowly walked towards the lakeside, behind him, Wolf Qi followed closely with fear, not knowing what was going on in the heart of this thousand-family lord who seemed to be extremely calm on the surface.
As for what kind of tactics should be used to face the steppe wolf clan that is about to expand rapidly and become powerful in the northland, even if he combines the history of the feudal dynasties against the nomads in the previous time and space, and thinks about it for a long time, there is no better way, all he thinks of is to dig the roots at any cost.
Really speaking, that is, at any cost, regardless of any cost, regardless of the results, regardless of the gains and losses, there is only one typing, with its own strongest elite to keep fighting, keep fighting, with the posture of the dead race and the extinction of the species, all the time, and to pick the opportunity to fight when winter goes to spring and the grassland recovers.
While bleeding yourself, you must also shed the blood of the other party, and the mercy to the enemy is the greatest cruelty to yourself.
This is not only the confrontation and war between the feudal agrarian regime and the steppe nomadic regime, but also the struggle between the human race and the non-human race for the right to subsistence and the right to development.
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