All the heavens begin with the love in the courtyard.

Han Chunming had already asked the old clan chief to draw a simple map, marking almost all the large tribes and small kingdoms within a radius of a thousand miles.

His initial plan was to seize a place that could be both defended and attacked, and then recuperate and begin to select and train his own soldiers from the tribe.

Once he had a base, he began a frenzy of looting, initially targeting tribes within a hundred-mile radius.

He will seek out all useful resources, such as coal mines, iron mines, copper mines, various minerals, and even gold and silver mines, which are the resources he will seize next.

The territory he needs now doesn't need to be large, but it must be stable and secure. He has many enemies, but he cannot unify this land by relying on his personal strength. He must prepare in advance for the chaotic world of the future Qin Dynasty.

Fortunately, the start was easier than he had imagined. He conquered the tribe called Red Wolf in just half a day. Force was indeed very effective in this land.

After he lifted a boulder weighing over a thousand pounds and smashed it through the other party's stone wall, the other party immediately knelt down and called him "Your Majesty." It was that simple and violent!

When Han Chunming saw the crooked map drawn by the old clan chief, he saw a familiar name on it.

When he heard the name Tu'an Kingdom, it sounded familiar. Then he suddenly remembered Princess Yu Shu and Yi Xiaochuan, and that's when he realized where Tu'an Kingdom was.

Within a radius of a thousand miles, besides the true overlord Xiongnu, there are dozens of large and small countries and tribes. Tu'an is already considered a large country, with at least 600,000 people, including tens of thousands of soldiers.

The Red Wolf tribe is a small tribe with only about three thousand people. The reason why Han Chunming seized this territory first was because the Red Wolf tribe's territory was located on a Gobi mountain.

The mountain has a unique terrain. There is a plain several kilometers in size on the mountain, but the road to the top is uneven, making it difficult to launch a large-scale attack. This terrain is the legendary one that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Of course, this "easy to defend and difficult to attack" refers to ordinary people, while Han Chunming's superhuman combat power is naturally not included.

With just a horse and a spear, he slashed through the hundreds of Red Wolf tribesmen blocking the mountain fortress, and then stormed up the mountain. In less than half a day, three thousand Red Wolf tribesmen knelt down and called him their king.

After occupying the place, Han Chunming immediately began to organize everyone and start large-scale construction, aiming to build this place into a formidable defensive fortification.

According to his design, this place will become an impregnable fortress, so strong that even tens of thousands of troops would not be able to breach it. This will be his first base.

After the Red Wolf tribe and the Black Bear tribe merged, Han Chunming directly established a new tribe called the Dragon Tribe, with a totem that was a flying dragon soaring into the sky.

On this land, there are countless tribes that use animals as totems, and our own dragon tribe will rule this land with the sign of a true dragon's birth.

After he established the Dragon Clan tribe, he also represented the Black Bear tribe and the Blood Wolf tribe, which were destined to perish. They would then live anew on this land as descendants of the dragon.

Han Chunming quickly began his plan: in the near future, he would build a mountain wall halfway up the mountain, using huge stones as a foundation, five meters high and eight kilometers long.

He did not intend to use this base in the Gobi Desert as a residential area, but rather as an industrial zone, where ironworks, various weapons factories, and even chemical plants would be built.

He had discovered that this land was not lacking in coal or various minerals. For the natives of this era, survival on this land was perilous, but for Han Chunming, this land was a treasure trove.

Of course, with this small population, it would be impossible to fulfill his architectural dream; he would need a much larger population.

There was another reason he chose this place as his base: five kilometers away from the foot of the mountain, there was a large lake with extremely abundant freshwater resources.

In the future, he will have everyone move down the mountain to live, and he will build a city along this great lake.

Next, he will begin the conquest mode. He has established the first army of the Dragon Clan, consisting of four hundred men, including two hundred cavalry and two hundred infantry.

These cavalrymen were all adult men from the original Red Wolf tribe. The Red Wolf tribe members were similar in build to humans in later generations, with a height of about 1.6 to 1.8 meters. They were slender but extremely agile.

Han Chunming selected more than 200 adult men from the more than 3,000 men to train into cavalry, while the remaining 200 infantrymen would all be composed of men from the original Black Bear tribe.

Although the two hundred Black Bear tribe men were only fifteen years old on average, they were 1.9 meters tall on average, and each of them was as strong as a bear and weighed 200 kilograms. Such weight and height did not actually give them much of an advantage as cavalrymen, so Han Chunming began to train them as infantrymen.

In the future, they will wield long-handled swords, wear dozens of kilograms of iron armor, and be fully armed, becoming the most formidable force under Han Chunming's command.

However, Han Chunming was now penniless. His army of four hundred men had only managed to gather four hundred weapons with great difficulty. They had all sorts of weapons, including spiked clubs. It was a hodgepodge of troops.

There was no other way; everything had to be seized. Han Chunming had already planned to wipe out all six tribes within a radius of a hundred miles within three months.

These tribes are all located around the large lake and will be integrated into the Dragon Tribe in the future.

He wanted to unite all the people of these six tribes and establish a city around the great lake.

These people will each have their own jobs: farming, weaving, fishing, blacksmithing, forging, and so on. All of them will be classified into occupations.

All the resources generated by these people will be used to support the base in the Gobi Desert, where he will carry out his first five-year plan.

Within five years, he planned to expand his population to 500,000, his army to 10,000, own various factories, and establish a research and development center.

These five years will be the most difficult five years, but also the five years to lay a solid foundation.

Because the difficulties he will face in the next five years are unimaginable.

He will face attacks from both sides, the Xiongnu and the Qin Dynasty. He will also have to integrate these conquered tribes and establish schools and training centers to begin organizing them to learn to write.

Han Chunming will have to juggle multiple tasks, not only leading his army to conquer various tribes, but also acting as a teacher to select and train various talents, and establishing a simple social institution to make it function.

This is as difficult as Nuwa creating humans, but Han Chunming just wants to take on the challenge!

There were still seven years before the chaos of the Qin Dynasty began, and it also took Liu Bang seven years from his uprising to becoming emperor. Therefore, Han Chunming had to possess everything within fourteen years.

If construction proceeds step by step, let alone fourteen years, even forty years, it might take him to gain a foothold in this era.

Therefore, he had to take an unconventional approach; the fastest way to get something was by snatching it!

Seizing someone else's family business, which has been built up over decades or even centuries, is naturally the shortcut, and that's exactly what Han Chunming plans.

His first target was the Red Wolf tribe, and his second target was a medium-sized tribe called the Yin tribe.

This tribe has been said to exist for over a thousand years. They are descendants of the Yin and Shang dynasties and have a population of over 30,000. They are the most populous and powerful tribe within a radius of 100 miles.

Han Chunming chose the Yin tribe as his second target for a simple reason: to strike at the heart of the problem.

The Yin tribe is the key to this area of ​​a hundred miles. As long as we conquer the Yin tribe first, the remaining tribes will be much easier to deal with.

The Yin tribe has its own weapon forging base. Although it only has the most primitive bronze artifacts, they are one of the resources that Han Chunming needs most right now.

Moreover, Han Chunming still needs their population, which is the resource he needs most right now.

The Yin tribe also controlled a piece of land of over a thousand acres, on which wheat, soybeans and other crops were grown, which was also what Han Chunming wanted.

Therefore, the Yin tribe must be robbed!

Although both they and the Yin tribe were caught between the Qin and the Xiongnu, this land was vast and sparsely populated.

These tribes have lived in this area for hundreds, even thousands of years. Neither the Xiongnu nor the Qin Dynasty looked down on them. Only a country bumpkin like Han Chunming had no choice but to set his sights on these small tribes.

The Yin tribe's base was built at the foot of two adjacent mountains, with simple walls erected in front and behind, guarded day and night. However, in Han Chunming's view, these defenses were hardly any defenses at all.

On this day, Han Chunming led two hundred cavalrymen and two hundred infantrymen, a total of more than four hundred men, to the enemy's city walls.

As the enemy's horns sounded, the Yin tribe began to assemble its army, and large numbers of Yin people dressed in simple linen clothes could be seen on the walls.

Han Chunming's troops were not afraid at all. He waved his hand, and the cavalry and infantry behind him lined up in neat formation.

Two hundred infantrymen formed a slit formation. They were tall and held up large wooden shields, each 1.5 meters long and wide, which completely concealed the four-hundred-man column.

Two hundred cavalrymen, each equipped with a bow and arrow. The Red Wolf tribe was originally skilled in using a type of short arrow with a range of about one hundred meters and only moderate lethality.

Han Chunming plans to modify a type of crossbow similar to that used by Qin soldiers and equip these cavalry with it. The current cavalry have a wide variety of weapons, including knives, swords, and short spears.

He is currently lacking in equipment, so this is the only way he can arm his troops. Every member of the Black Bear tribe is a strongman, and they can easily lift shields weighing dozens of kilograms.

The Black Bear tribe is currently using the long spears and halberds from the Qin soldiers, and some are using large wooden clubs. It's a hodgepodge of equipment, but due to limited resources, this is all they can do.

After conquering the Yin tribe, Han Chunming will forge a batch of large shields covered with iron plates and padded with a layer of cowhide inside, which will be able to completely defend against Qin soldiers' crossbow bolts.

The Yin tribe members not far away had already assembled their army, and a cavalry force of over a thousand men began to ride around the city wall. That cavalry force of over a thousand men was their biggest trump card.

Warfare in this era was simple: it was common to conquer a tribe or even a country by force. Both sides would gather their forces and begin a life-or-death battle, where the survivors would win and the losers would kneel.

Han Chunming did not conquer the Yin people through personal force; he wanted to train his troops. Only an army that had experienced life-and-death battles could be considered a truly elite force.

The opposing side clearly didn't take this provocative force seriously. As the horn sounded to signal the start of the attack, thousands of Yin tribesmen on horseback brandished their weapons and charged towards Han Chunming's side.

Han Chunming continued on his side, following behind his horse, slowly moving forward. The opposing force began to charge from several hundred meters away, clearly intending to break up Han Chunming's group in one fell swoop.

Han Chunming's face was ashen, a cold glint appearing in his eyes. He watched the approaching troops without panic. When they were about two hundred meters away, he stopped, raised his longsword, and pointed it to the sky.

Behind him, two hundred cavalrymen raised their short bows in unison, awaiting Han Chunming's command.

150 meters, 130 meters, 120 meters... Shoot!

"shoot!"

Two hundred short arrows, like wasps attacking from a hive, transformed into a sky full of black shadows, shooting forward.

He raised his longsword and roared loudly.

"Put the bow away, and attack!"

"Kill! Kill!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the square-shaped shield formation opened a gap, and two hundred cavalrymen charged out following Han Chunming's shouts, attacking the oncoming Yin tribesmen.

Behind him were two hundred infantrymen, one hundred carrying shields and the other one hundred wielding spears and halberds, forming a centipede formation.

The two groups of people clashed instantly. Han Chunming was at the forefront, facing a dark mass of people. With a powerful swing, he cleaved the first five men in two with his sword, scattering blood mist. The horses around him were startled and scattered to the sides.

Whether it was horses or men, Han Chunming could subdue them all with sheer force. Faced with such overwhelming power, no one could stand in his way. The cavalry behind him followed his every step, piercing forward like a sharp arrow.

The last two hundred cavalrymen only needed to dismount the panicked cavalrymen one by one, and their long spears and halberds, like the tentacles of a centipede, would stab and slash at the surrounding cavalrymen.

Although Han Chunming's side only had two hundred cavalrymen, under his leadership, they had already cut through the enemy lines in just one round trip, killing over a hundred men on horseback. The two hundred cavalrymen behind him suffered only twenty casualties, leaving more than one hundred and eighty men.

Han Chunming turned his horse around, raised his long sword, and the force of more than 180 men gathered behind him once again. He shouted, "Kill!"

Horses neighed, hooves thundered all around, and yellow sand flew everywhere. Han Chunming charged back like a harvester.

With just one round trip, the remaining hundreds of cavalrymen were completely panicked. This time, the killing was even easier, and the enemy lost all their momentum. The hundreds of cavalrymen seemed to scatter to both sides.

Those cavalrymen who tried to kill the infantry suffered even worse fates; they were pierced through by spears before they could even get close to the defenses.

Han Chunming let out a wild laugh, and with a single sword stroke, he cleaved a man blocking his path in half at the waist. He also casually cleaved a horse that was blocking his way. As he passed by, no one dared to challenge him anymore.

Covered in blood, Han Chunming rushed to the foot of the enemy's city wall. Looking at the wall, which was only five meters high, Han Chunming raised his blood-stained longsword and shouted at the Yin tribesmen on the wall.

"Those who block my way shall die! I am the chieftain of the Dragon Clan tribe. You have one breath to open the city gates immediately, or I will slaughter the entire city!"

The Yin people on the city wall trembled as they looked down at the god of death below, who seemed to have walked out of hell. Everyone's heart trembled, and they all looked at the middle-aged man behind them, waiting for his final decision.

Chapter Fifteen: Time Is of the Essence

The middle-aged man was clad in iron armor and wielded a weapon resembling the Green Dragon Crescent Blade. His attire was clearly a high-end version compared to the other Yin people.

The other person was also very tall, at least 1.9 meters, with a dark face covered in a ruddy complexion, making him a burly, red-faced man.

The other person stared intently at Han Chunming below the city wall, his eyes as sharp as cowbells.

Seeing that everyone else had their eyes on him, the man snorted and, instead of surrendering and opening the city gates, shouted at Han Chunming below the city wall.

"Fight me! If I lose, all 53,000 members of my Yin clan will submit to you!"