From Chief to Ball

"Then why don't I agree?"

Before Chen Jian could speak, she smiled and said, "I'm lying to you, you won't let me go to the war, and no one will praise me for my calculations when you leave. Also, brother, we can lie to you Several tribes said that they had agreed to let the leaders go, but they would definitely not go, and then I would say that I would go. When I arrived at E City, I insisted on doing something to let the tribe know that I am very powerful."

"Why?"

"Because you said that you want me to be the leader and enter the council, then I will be it. If you want to be the leader, you have to convince everyone, lest they think you are partial. I know you are partial, so don't let them say it. I You gave me the hairpin you want, and you want me to be the leader, that’s the hairpin you want."

She held up the hairpin and said, "I have to tell my sisters that Shujiufei gave it to me, so that they don't have to ask. I'll go to the meeting in a while." After she finished speaking, she trotted away and disappeared.

Chen Jian took another hairpin and walked into Hongyu's room. She was spinning there. When she saw Chen Jian coming in, her hands shook slightly, and she looked at the torn thread with some annoyance.

Standing behind her, Chen Jian combed her hair and tied it into a bun, while talking about the matter with E Yue this time.

Putting on the hairpin, Red Fish didn't stop, and asked with a smile, "Does it look good?"

"It's beautiful. Don't you want to see it for yourself?"

"Then I won't look at it. You think those weird clothes look good, but I don't think they look good, and they must not look good now. Why, you gave me the hairpin because you want me to help you look after the city? Anyway, I don't have any clansmen in the city , you must be most at ease with me. Yuqian is gone, and I don’t know how to count. I want to clean up this mess, and I can get a hairpin in exchange for it.”

Chen Jian smiled helplessly, Hong Yu frowned, and stopped after spinning a piece of thread, "Send my former clansmen and some slaves to Luodao to dig for guano stones, just keep an eye on the boat; take a few The men left by the tribe mixed together to mow the grass, some on the south bank and some on the other side, and the leaders were assigned to take care of them, so that they were not allowed to only take care of their own people.”

"The two tribes who quarreled over the land were divided together, and one of the leaders was selected to manage it. I don't care about other things, just those left by Yuqianer. Don't take all the people you take with you to the expedition to belong to your four tribes." , leave more people in Yangguan."

She seemed to say it casually, but she eliminated all the possible problems of the tribe. The slaves could not escape in Luodao, and the tribes were separated and mixed without worrying about the leader's dissatisfaction. There were basically no tribesmen around Songhe. most trustworthy.

Standing up and stretching, he touched the hairpin on the back of his head with both hands, as if he didn't care about the words that he had racked his brains just now, he hooked Chen Jian's chin with a smile and said: "I'm going to take a bath, and I'll be in the old room at night. The place is waiting for you, I don’t know how long it will take you to come back, I want it.”

Chapter 8 North out of Yangguan

It was already near the end of July when Chen Jian dealt with the affairs in the city and set off.

According to what Red Fish said, Chen Jian separated the various forces in the tribe, mixed sand to create conflicts, and left Acorn and some soldiers at Yangguan. What happened in the city is easy to deal with.

It's still hot in July, but it's going to be cold soon.

There is not much time left for him, only one month to rush back to prepare for planting autumn wheat, prepare for sacrifices, and prepare for the autumn sports meeting that all tribes in the city will participate in according to last year's custom.

The short-term mobility of the infantry is inferior to that of the cavalry. This time, Chen Jian did not intend to directly seize the opponent's main force and eliminate them in one fell swoop, but planned to spend a month.

For Xiacheng, four hundred warriors a month is just a consumption of tens of thousands of catties of food; but for the tribes riding horses in the north, it was a waste of a month's golden time of mowing grass and drying grass, and they either surrendered or were killed in winter. The remaining steppe tribes annexed.

Without ox carts and carriages, it would be very troublesome to move around by living on water and grass. The grassland is very fertile, and the tribe will not run around, and it is also very warm. It is not the kind of north where the bitter cold and white disasters occur.

Going out of Yangguan in the north, there are only enemies and no old friends.

The [-] selected soldiers marched at a speed of [-] to [-] miles a day, and set up camp every time, steadily at every step.

In addition to the [-] warriors, there were [-] donkeys carrying food, feathered arrows, and [-] ox carts.

This time the Northern Expedition was different from the previous battles. There was no Caohe River as a transportation line, and all logistics supplies could only be carried by themselves, and it was impossible to expect the clansmen to send them there.

Sometimes Chen Jian reads the history books and thinks that the ancients were stupid. Before the invention of the radio, they did some sort of combined attack.

However, when it was my turn, I realized that if logistics issues really had to be considered, the more descendants the number of troops reached a certain number, the pressure on logistics would increase exponentially.

Therefore, Chen Jian only brought 400 people, all of whom were soldiers, and some of them did some auxiliary work as soldiers.

Before the expedition, he had clearly stated his combat intentions, so that every corporal leader could understand as much as possible, so as not to make such low-level mistakes as in the Battle of the Valley, this time it was impossible to choose the battlefield by himself.

It can be summed up in one sentence: kill and burn.Kill all the settlements and settlements that you see, march without slaves, even if the tribe is still short of slaves; burn all the haystacks, even if the enemy runs fast, chase them slowly, until they have no time There is no time to rest when mowing the grass. When it takes mid-autumn, they will not be able to mow the grass and dry it for winter.

In the camp, the auxiliary soldiers were cutting down trees to make a simple deer village to resist horses. Chen Jian and several captains were waiting for the scouts to return.

Not far ahead is the small river that left footprints to the Mouse Cave last time. Nomadic farming is different from planting. It is impossible for hundreds or thousands of people to gather together, otherwise the grass will not be able to support it.

They can eat food and grow thousands of people in the city, but the tribe on horseback can't grow and can only eat meat.People will be full if they eat a catty of grain, and they will be full if they eat a catty of meat, but a catty of meat needs at least ten catties of hay to transform.Considering the energy transfer rate of 20.00% to [-]% of the biological chain, the same population needs at least ten times as much land as farming to feed themselves.

Before the sun set, the scouts sent reported that there was a small settlement of 50 people in front of them, and they were mowing the grass.

"You haven't been discovered by them, have you?"

"No, we went around from the west, and they didn't see it under the blinding light of the setting sun."

"About how far?"

"Twenty miles at most."

"Civet cat, you take 150 people, let the scouts lead the way, go around to the back of the settlement, and leave tomorrow morning. After arriving there, it is confirmed that it is only a small settlement, so divide them into teams of three or 40 people, and block their escape direction."

Early the next morning, the civet cat set off first with people, and Chen Jian left a hundred people to guard the luggage and slowly followed behind. He took 150 people and left with only the day's food two hours after the civet cat set off.

Not far away, I saw the small settlement, slaves and herdsmen were scattered on both sides of a small river mowing grass.

"A team of 20 people, encircling a circle like hunting, fighting on their own, the sooner the better."

After the order was conveyed, the soldiers immediately dispersed in an extremely long arc.On both sides are a few horned deer riders, used to intimidate and drive away the enemies on both sides.

As soon as a whistle sounded, more than 100 people rushed out of the grass and forest at the same time, shouting and rushing towards the herdsmen who were mowing the grass.

The herdsmen immediately panicked and retreated one after another. There were still their relatives and everything in the settlement.

Several people rode on horses and shouted: "Don't run away, women and children are behind, even if we run away, the grass will be burned, how can we survive the winter?"

"Go and inform the leader, those people with tied hair are here."

"Who will go? Who will stay? Let's run, we can't beat them."

During the dispute, the women and children in the settlement tent looked uneasily at the groups of soldiers rushing in from a distance, and packed up their things in a panic, but they were reluctant to throw away everything, and they wanted to open the sheep pens and drive the sheep away.

The men yelled: "Don't clean up these things, run on horseback, you take the children and run first, go and tell the leader, there is no one behind, we will block you for a while. Guys, come here, they have no horses, let's go There are more than 20 men walking around behind them."

The leader got on his horse, swayed his body and whistled. Even though he yelled loudly, only a dozen people gathered, and the rest wanted to escape.

The slaves were even more chaotic, trying to run after the women and children, the leader rushed to kill a slave with a stone axe, pointed at the soldiers surrounding him and shouted: "Rush over there, after killing one person, you will be a member of the clan!" I'll give you horses and sheep, just like us!"

The slaves looked blankly at the enemy in front, smelled the blood behind them, thought about the misery that could be used as a sacrifice at any time, fantasized about the life after freedom, and from nowhere they had a burst of courage, held up the grass mower Shi Lian rushed towards Chen Jian with a maniacal smile.

Seventeen riders rushed towards Chen Jian's flanks. There were only a dozen riders riding horned deer on the side. The horned deer was much smaller than Ma Ke. They were confident in dealing with those weird riders, as long as they could go around and delay After a while, women and children can run away completely.

The wolf fur on the flank stared at the dozen or so people who charged over on horseback, and couldn't help laughing when they saw that they were brandishing stone axes and throwing spears.

"Teach them how to ride and fight!"

He put his fingers in his mouth and blew his whistle. The people around him gathered together and stood in a tight row.

From the side of the horned deer, he took out the long throwing spear, which was the same as the wolf skin, and held it in his backhand.

Listening to the rattling of horseshoes, Wolfpi calculated the distance, and when the opponent was about 150 steps away from him, he shouted: "Cavalry, run slowly!"