(PS: Thanks for all your blessings. The proposal went perfectly~)
"Every time the Northern Barbarians invade the border, their goal isn't to fight the Northern Border Army. They want to bypass the army's defenses and enter the provinces in the rear to loot them."
"The Northern Barbarians live in bitter cold, with scarce supplies. Many tribes can't eat their fill all year round, and during famines, people even starve to death. Whenever that happens, the Northern Barbarians would rather let their warriors die on the road to raid others than waste away in the Barren Wilderness."
"Every time they raid, besides grain, cloth, ironware, weapons, and various cultivation resources, they also abduct people."
"When they can't seize enough food, the Central Plains people they drag back become their rations! They eat them themselves and even feed them to the exotic beasts they raise!"
"..."
Before coming to the northern border, Li Fei had investigated detailed information on the Northern Barbarians. This was one of the passages included in it.
They ate people—and even fed them to exotic beasts!
Such savage conduct had given Li Fei a terrible impression of the Northern Barbarians from the outset. Yet when Bai Yan ordered more than fifty thousand Fire Scale Tribe members to be slaughtered, pity had still risen in his heart.
That was until he saw the white bones beneath his feet, with row upon row of unmistakable human teeth marks on them.
If they belonged to members of the Fire Scale Tribe, the remains would not have been disposed of so carelessly.
Although the Seventeen Northern Barbarian Tribes hated one another, they had not gone so far as to eat each other.
So these bones most likely belonged to someone from the Central Plains who had been abducted.
Half-buried in the mud,