Later, Zhou Jiping learned the reason for this huge change in his direct communication with Zorick and Elder Muba.
In fact, this almost earth-shaking change happened just in one morning. As soon as the sky was dawn, the Northern Army, which was frustrated in the attack on Engro yesterday, suddenly changed its tactics. They broke it into pieces, using the battalion company as the smallest combat unit.
, gave up the attack on the front line of the Bushmans and instead attacked the tribal militias that cooperated with the Bushman regular army. At the same time, their attack direction also changed from the original to Mount Engro to the periphery of Engro
Scattered village attack
After all, militias are militias. Their combat capabilities are not on the same level as those of the regular army of the Northern Army. When fighting alone, they cannot resist the offensive of the Northern Army. Yesterday, they cooperated with Zorick's main force, but today the Northern Army specializes in these
When the miscellaneous army attacked, the Engro militia was defeated suddenly
In this way, the Northern Army left the regular army of Engro who guarded the main road there like cutting tofu with a quick knife, and entered the tribal residential area outside Engro from the small road.
During yesterday's war, when the people of Engro received an order for evacuation or found that the Northern Army was approaching, they left their homes and fled into nearby mountains and forests for a while. However, when the Northern Army's offensive was set yesterday afternoon, the entire army was in trouble.
With the continuous retreat, some Engro people who were remembering their belongings quietly returned to their homes. Some brave residents actually spent the night at their own homes.
As a result, when the Northern Army cut into residential areas from the area where tribal militias were defending this morning, many residents had no time to escape. The Northern Army began to arrest residents who had no time to escape. Not only that, the Northern Army also took these routes.
The arrested people were tortured and then, under their leadership, they went deep into the hinterland of Engro and the forest areas where tribal residents took refuge, arrested more tribal residents, and began to carry out large-scale looting and burning**
It was not until then that Zorick, who had lost his head-on battle, realized the real purpose of the Northern Army's move - snatching daily necessities and creating white terror, which caused great psychological pressure on the militia armed forces that cooperated with the regular ministry.
In this case, Zorick had not taken corresponding actions, but he was helpless that the Northern Army either simply did not fight Zorick head-on, and immediately fled far away as soon as it was discovered that the regular army had arrived; or it was encountered a cruel and dehumanized force,
The Engro people and prisoners they captured were directly pushed into the two armies and brought their personal shields. In this way, facing these crazy northern armies, Zorick's regular army felt helpless. It was neither right to advance nor retreat.
In addition, Zorick's army was already small, and he did not dare to go too far and penetrate into areas with complex terrain. As a result, in just one morning, the Northern Army broke into pieces and invaded Engro's depth for more than twenty years.
The area of kilometers makes Engro's front line completely meaningless
Subsequently, Masuali, who claimed to have captured thousands of people, forced several captured militias to send a letter to Zorick, claiming that he asked Engro to provide sufficient weapons, ammunition and food supplies for the Northern Army, and to decide whether to surrender before dark.
Otherwise he will not be able to restrain his "emotional" soldiers, and Engro will face a terrifying disaster
After receiving the threat from Masuali, Engro immediately became a mess of militia and chiefs from the peripheral tribes found Elder Muba and asked to rescue their subordinates in normal times. It was impossible for these people to meet Mu directly.
Elder Ba, and made similar requests and participated in such a major decision, may now be very different from the past
At present, tribal militias are already an important part of Engro's defenders. In the Battle of Kapa Pass, Zoric's regular army filled in more than a thousand, and Dingjila's subordinates also threw in more than a thousand, although Zoric's subordinates still have more than two thousand.
The regular army had a temporary reserve army of nearly 4,000, but it was obvious that it was quite difficult for these people to block the attack of the Northern Army. Engro had to rely on a large number of militias that had just been armed usually had no status.
The militiamen suddenly increased their status, and the status of the chiefs of their respective tribes increased.
There is one thing that I have to say here, that is, the population composition of Engroli
Although the main ethnic group of Engro is the Bushmans, in addition to the Bushmans, Engrori also includes the population of Damon, Masi, Laga and other ethnic groups. Some of them were moved to it many years ago.
Some of the indigenous people living here, including Engro, were detained here after the war ten years ago. When the relationship between the Bushmans and the grassland tribe improved more than a year ago, most of the grassland tribes returned to Imara.
Grassland, but some people who are used to Engroli's lifestyle have taken the initiative to stay
Engro is a semi-primitive area that mainly focuses on agriculture, fishery and animal husbandry, and is accompanied by a small amount of handicraft production. Of course, most of the agriculture here refers to the drug planting industry, which is spread across the periphery of Engro, with large areas of poppy planting fields.
The vast majority of Engro's people and the vast majority of income come from this, but most of these poppy farms belong to other ethnic groups in the name of the Bushmans, except for a few who rely on fishery, animal husbandry and handicrafts for their living.
In addition to the people, most of them are landless people and these people need to survive, so there is only one way - rent land and become a tenant of the Bushmans
In this way, these latecomers became Bushman tenants. In addition to meeting their basic survival needs, most of the annual output of the land was collected by the owners of the land, and the Bushman landlords.
Due to the improvement of the relationship between the Bushmen and the grassland tribes, under the care of the Muba Elder, the status of these other tribe residents has improved somewhat, but overall, they still have a certain degree of opposition to the Bushmen - this is a class issue,
no way
In recent years, with Engro's military discipline and military discipline, Zorick began to organize large-scale men from various tribes to participate in militia training. However, because the Bushman style has always been relatively soft, and these indicators for participating in militia training are
It was forced to be distributed, so there were many Bushmans who secretly paid to hire people from other tribes to participate in militia training for them.
Zorick and Elder Muba knew about this, but because considering that the Bushmans have been peaceful for a long time, their physical fitness and will are far inferior to those of the residents of these other tribes, they both intentionally let this happen.
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