The Cannibal Tribe sent out several thousand people for a single hunt. Qu Bing had not expected that, but thinking about it carefully, it made sense.
They lived distributed according to the village model. A hunting team organized by one village naturally could not provide food for every village, so each village formed its own hunting team. Everyone hunting separately was the most practical method.
Qu Bing pondered briefly, then asked again.
"You mean the hunting teams from each of their villages are not subordinate to or in contact with one another, and their targets and hunting grounds are different as well, right?"
"Mm, more or less. However, when there are a lot of suitable targets, they sometimes join together temporarily. But that doesn't happen often. Even when they do join forces, it's a rare occurrence, and the scale isn't large—only a few hundred people. They rarely manage to gather more than a thousand, because if there are too many of them, they won't have enough prey to divide." Zai recalled the details before answering again.
Qu Bing nodded at that, then fell into thought. Seeing this, You Ye asked, "Well? Do you have any ideas? Or is it just difficult to fight them? Don't you think one battalion seems a little short on manpower?"
Qu Bing shook his head. "No. It depends on how you look at it. There are advantages and disadvantages for us. The advantage is that their main forces are currently outside their camps. We can find a way to eat them up out there, so we won't have to risk venturing deep into their settlements.
"The disadvantage is the manpower issue you mentioned. The enemy has a great many people, while we only have one battalion here. Of course, if all we wanted was to