Chapter 620, Grassland Warfare

In the northern grasslands, Yan Liu Yuan was sitting calmly beside the fire pit in his tent, the firelight reflecting his face into red, the light wavering.

Hassan, the head of the tribe, was at the side, putting some mutton into the iron pot on the fire, which had been cooked a long time ago, and was now put into the pot just to warm it up a little more.

He said to Yan Liu Yuan respectfully, “Master, that big tribe’s people want to go to the Central Plains to plunder, it was meant to be a time to establish authority, you let the eagle in the sky peck out the eyes of his emissary, he definitely won’t let it go.”

Yan Liuyuan smiled, “Hassan, don’t worry about such things, I was worried that he wouldn’t dare to come.”

“Understood,” Hassan said no more, and before long, he fished out the mutton from the pot and took out his own knife to slice it piece by piece.

His own master didn’t like it too big, and it had to be cut meticulously.

If at the beginning it was just that he was afraid of Yan Liuyuan before he gave in, then now, it was that he was truly worshipping Yan Liuyuan as a god.

Grassland people believe in gods, and this has been the case since ancient times, and the various abilities that Yan Liuyuan has shown are like a real god.

Even if it wasn’t, it was almost the same.

Hassan thought to himself, “The gods will bless the tribe.” Before that, some cows and sheep were lost because of the snowstorm, but the master said that the cows and sheep would come back on their own, and then that afternoon, there was a gale, and the wind brought the cows and sheep back.

All of this made Hassan awe and admiration from the inside.

Yan Liuyuan picked up a piece of mutton and put it in his mouth, after swallowing it with difficulty, he said to Hassan, “Aren’t there any vegetables on the grasslands?”

Previously, when he was at the 88 Barriers, Yan Liuyuan would often listen to Ren Xiaosu’s stories with great interest, all of which Ren Xiaosu had read from books.

Ren Xiaosu told him that before the Calamity, the north was actually more than just herders, most of the inhabitants also lived in the cities, and their diet was similar to that of the southerners, they also ate vegetables and fruits.

But most of that was systematically planted, or transported over.

Now that the northern grasslands had no supplies from the Central Plains to replenish them, one would have to rely on luck if they wanted to eat some fruits, which were basically wild fruits from the grasslands.

Hassan replied, “Master, it’s mainly winter now, so it’s not too easy to find those things, when it’s spring, I’ll be able to take the clan to find other food.”

“It seems that a trip to the Central Plains is really necessary,” Yan Liuyuan sighed.

“Master, are you coming from the Central Plains?” Hassan said curiously.

“Not really,” Yan Liuyuan shook his head, “but where I used to live, it was similar to the Central Plains, I guess, eating rice, wearing cotton clothes, not many people grazing, more plowing the land.”

“Then does the master want to build grand walls on the grasslands as well?” Hassan reached out and gestured, “The particularly lofty kind, I have seen them from afar, they must not be afraid of wild beasts when they live in them, and they can also drive them to our northern grasslands.”

Yan Liu Yuan stepped out of the tent and took a handful of snow from outside and rubbed his cheeks, “Hassan, you can’t build barriers in the north, and I don’t like that stuff either.”

Hassan was puzzled, “You don’t like barriers, master?”

“Of course I don’t like it,” Yan Liu Yuan said, “Those Central Plains people are hiding in the barriers, they have lost their sensitivity to the outside world, the whole world is changing, they are the only ones who are stopping. Moreover, there is a division of a race into three, six, nine classes.”

Hassan understood that his master disliked barriers.

Yan Liuyuan continued, “Moreover, if the nomads want to make an enemy of the Central Plains, they can’t stay fixed in one place, and when the Central Plains people start to take us seriously and want to conquer the grasslands, their artillery fire will easily destroy the barriers. And the advantage of the nomads is the terrain of this grassland, when they come, they can only advance along the rivers and build their advance base, but we can go anywhere, only if they go deep enough, we will have a chance to counterattack.”

Hassan laughed nervously, “Master knows so much.”

“I’m just talking off the top of my head,” Yan Liuyuan laughed, “I just don’t like wallflowers.”

At this time, Sister Xiaoyu walked out of the tent wearing a leather robe just like the herdsmen, she was holding a bowl of goat’s milk in her hand, “Six Yuan, come and drink the goat’s milk, it’s not good for you to eat so little all the time.”

But just after the words were said, the sound of wolves howling resounded from the grassland in the distance, Yan Liu Yuan smiled, “Finally, it’s here, let’s go Hassan, take you to see a good show.”

With that, Hassan had his clan members bring in horses and half-kneeled on the ground, using his thighs as a horse stool for Yan Liuyuan.

A group of dozens of people traveled towards the direction of the sound of the wolves howling, to this day, the tribesmen still held fear of the wolves, but Yan Liuyuan had already told them many times that the wolves would not harm their own people, nor would they eat livestock indiscriminately.

Before walking far, Hassan stared blankly at the grassland in front of him, which already looked as if it had been dyed in blood.

He recognized one of the hans surrounded by wolves, the other was none other than the Right Colonel King of the Great Tribe, capable of fighting.

By the looks of it, this was the troop sent out by the big tribe to surround them, but before the troop of thousands of people could see Yan Liuyuan’s shadow, they were ambushed by the wolves in this grassland.

These people had thought that the guns would be able to scare off the wolves, but the wolves were far too ferocious than they had ever seen.

In just half an hour’s time, thousands of troops were directly annihilated, leaving only Right Colonel King Gelmu with his followers still doing the beast fight among the wolves.

However, he was able to survive by no means because he was able to fight, but because Yan Liuyuan had explained to the Wolf King long ago to leave the person in charge behind.

When the Wolf King saw Yan Liu Yuan arrive, he stopped surrounding the enemy and just led the wolves to encircle them, letting them shout angrily.

That Right Colonel King Gelmu was panting violently, he looked at Yan Liuyuan through the wolves and said viciously, “Are you the new head of this tribe?”

Yan Liu Yuan sat on his tall and sturdy horse sizing up the other party with interest, “Did your Great Khan receive the words I asked the messenger to bring back?”

“Milky little child, what big talk,” Right Colonel King Gelmu sneered, “Want the entire grassland? You can’t yet.”

“It seems that this is the attitude of your Great Khan,” Yan Liuyuan said unconcernedly, “Then I have no choice but to use a more aggressive method.”

With that said, the wolves no longer surrounded, but pounced on all the remaining enemies and bit them all to death, and immediately afterward, they were ready to start gnawing on the corpses of these people.

This scene was extraordinarily bloody and tyrannical, like a tyrant punishing his enemies.

However, Sister Xiaoyu on the side suddenly looked at Yan Liuyuan, “Liuyuan, you can let the wolves kill them, but you can’t let the wolves eat them, if your brother was here, he wouldn’t let you do that either.”

Yan Liu Yuan sat on his horse in silence for a long time before he waved his hand to disperse the wolves, “Go to the grasslands and look for your food, these people cannot be eaten.”

The wolf king did not resist the order, but left honestly.