From Chief to Ball

Xiacheng is very beautiful in the eyes of the Acropolis people of Echeng, but in fact it is full of gold and jade, and its background is far from those of the tribes that have already started planting.

Chen Jian summed up the family background of the city. The people in the hall are all the management of the city. They may not have thought about the relationship between war and food before, and they may not have thought that logistics is the first issue to be considered in future wars. .Now is the time to let them know, let them think, fighting a war is not just about lining up and charging.

He used numbers to reason, and told this group of people the mental journey of how to transform from a tribal thinking to a city manager for a long time. Regardless of whether they understood or not, he made various plans for the winter overnight.

The door of the council hall was closed, and the people outside didn't know what was being discussed inside. They just looked at the light from the grass window of the council hall and guessed what happened.

It was already midnight when the door was opened again, and the faces of the people who came out were all solemn.

Early the next morning, the various officials and leaders in the city began to get busy and began to assign individual tasks. The whole city was like a military camp, down to what each person needed to do. The advantages of the bureaucracy were displayed within the framework of the small town. an overwhelming advantage.

The women in the city stopped doing things like spinning and weaving. All the young women shared five arrow shafts and feathers each, and thirty people shared a pot for cooking isinglass and started to glue feather arrows; each woman A large amount of dry peas and wheat flour should be fried in small clay pots, and simple dry food bags should be sewed.

The men piled up the hay with guillotines, and the copper smelting furnace suspended the forging of farm tools to make all kinds of weapons.

All those who cultivated the land were suspended, and the fishing and hunting officers led them to block the rivers and forks, fished and smoked in the already biting cold water, dug autumn lotus root, picked pine nuts and hunted.

All the captured ones are returned to the public and distributed by the city.This is the first time that a city has implemented a wartime system, but due to the legacy of the tribal era, the resistance is not strong.

According to the amount calculated by Chen Jian, the food in each tribe's daily meals was gradually reduced, and a large amount of crushed fish, grass seeds and acorns were added instead. Chen Jian did not directly come forward, but just used the grain of each tribe to support it. The time to tell the leaders, let them choose.

Tens of thousands of catties of grain were transported to Yangguan, and the 300 recruited people also put down their farm work and went to Yangguan to build city walls and towers.

The people in the city who were still talking about the story on the grassland the day before did not talk about yesterday's story today, and everyone knew that this might be a war.

Everyone living in Xiacheng knew that there might be a war, especially when news came a few days later that some scouts met scouts from the grassland tribe in the north of Yangguan.

The drums of war in the city sounded, and a new round of recruitment began.

The 160 new troops have not yet formed a strong combat effectiveness, and the people brought back by the white horse have all learned how to ride horses.

Chen Jian recruited another 300 people, plus the 80 people who were stationed in Yangguan under Acorn Management, a total of 640 people were concentrated in Yangguan.

There is enough population left in the city, combined with the excavated city wall, there are not a few thousand people that cannot be defeated, but the normal production of the city has basically stopped, and these people recruited are light and strong labor force.

There were not only Xiacheng people in Xiacheng, but also the two hostages in Echeng and dozens of people who followed them. Naturally, they also noticed the movement in Xiacheng.

The two brothers did not live together, but separated into two houses far apart. After the two brothers knew that Xiacheng might go to war, they both called the most trusted clansmen around them and asked them to bring news to their father. .

Shujiu's son, E-strider, walked around the house, and the person in charge of the letter listened carefully to every word he said to ensure that he did not remember it wrong.

"You told your father that Xiacheng may be at war again. I am going to take people to follow Jixia to the battlefield. I want to see how the people in Xiacheng fight. We haven't fought with them before, so maybe we can see something." Please rest assured, father, I will not shrink back on the battlefield, and I will not shame the surname E."

In another room, E-strider's younger brother was also talking to the tribe.

"You told your father that there might be a war in Xiacheng, and it might take a long time. I miss my mother and home, when can I go back? In addition, the people of Xiacheng brought back a lot of good things from the grassland. Fur, some people wear it, but I don’t. It’s cold, if I can’t go back in winter, let my mother prepare two pieces of the best fox fur for me.”

Keeping the words of the two brothers in mind, the two envoys returned to E City by boat. E City and Xia City can travel freely, and no one can stop them.

After listening to the two sons' report, E Yue laughed to herself, and shook her head for some reason.

The two envoys went back with E Yue's words.

There are only two words for the crescent strider: "very good."

The other brought over some of the best furs, and didn't say a word.

Those in charge of power in E City were also gathered together to discuss how to deal with this matter.

"We also need to prepare food and weapons in advance."

"What, are you going to fight Xiacheng? My son is still there as a proton." E Yue's second wife said a little impatiently. Before the envoy left yesterday, she picked out the best fur for her son. Send it, and tell E Yue that there is no war in E City now, so you can send the elm money back in exchange for your son.However, E Yue did not agree, and was even a little annoyed when looking at those furs.

E Yue turned around and asked, "What's the result of the divination?"

"lucky."

Then he said: "Prepare in advance, not to fight Xiacheng. How can Xiacheng be taken down so easily? They are not the tribes in the mountains and forests. If they do not go well in the battle, they may ask me to send troops. Their tribe has A lot of good things, when they can't hold on, let's send troops, Xiacheng can only rely on us in the future, and treat Echeng as a brother."

"There are a lot of people in Xiacheng. If we sneak attack and violate the oath, the people of Xiacheng will hate us forever. But if we send troops to help them when they are about to fail, no matter what we want, Xiacheng will also feel sorry for us." Be grateful."

He smiled and sighed: "Actually, the best result is...Ji Xia died in battle, Xia City was besieged, and we sent troops. In that case, the population of our city would increase by thousands, a few years. The rear city is no match, and they can even go back to Dahe."

However, this is just a fantasy. Judging from the results of counting and divination, it seems unlikely.

Slaves and Chinese are different. Xiacheng speaks the same words as them, and has basically similar habits. Once the leader dies in battle and rescues Echeng, the two cities will become one, and the people of Xiacheng will not Remember to hate them, and it won't be long before they become one.

The former E Yue didn't want to get involved in the tribal disputes in the lower reaches of the river, because his own tribe was not strong enough, but if it was as he imagined, of course he would return to his homeland. Who wouldn't want to be the next Hua?

At this moment, what E Yue expected was that those grassland tribes whom he had never met would be strong, but not so strong that they would still have the energy to beat him after they finished fighting Xiacheng.

The best situation is that Xiacheng and Grassland are two hungry wolves, and both will lose in the end.

He knew very little about the grassland, and everything could only be guesswork.

And similarly, the grassland knew nothing about the existence of E City, and even didn't know how many people there were in Xia City, even though the upstart Luo Xing among the grassland tribe had once fought against these people.

Hatred drove the small settlements on the grassland to surround the large settlement. After taking the oath on the sacred mountain, grown men rode horses, holding their own weapons, and drove the flock of sheep. The most powerful tribe followed them to recover their blood debts. .

In addition to hatred, Falling Star also described a world full of food, honey and milk flowing everywhere, and weapons that are harder and sharper than stones.

When approaching the mountain forest, the marching people stopped. Luo Xing pushed out the seven people captured in the battle a few days ago, cut down seven big trees and buried them on the ground, and the seven dying prisoners were nailed to the trees alive with wooden wedges. .

Stones were stuffed into the mouths of the seven captives, and they were not allowed to bite their tongues to commit suicide, and they were not allowed to cry out.

The heads of those who were not captured had already been cut off and distributed to the leaders who went out. Fresh skulls were used to catch the blood flowing from the wooden wedges. The leaders had a drink together and vowed to kill them all.

They even selected the two thickest trees and buried them here in advance.

One was left for the white horse who went to the grassland to kill people everywhere, and the other was left for Chen Jian.

Chapter 41 Ambition

The shortest road from Yangguan to Xiacheng is 34 steps, which was calculated little by little by the children in Chengyi School for more than ten days, and it is about eighty miles away.

There is a plain between Xiacheng and Yangguan, and the hills gradually increase near Yangguan, and further north is a mountain stretching for two to three hundred miles.

The valley plain sandwiched between the two high mountains is one of the most convenient ways to enter the land of Xiacheng from the north. If you want to enter the rest of the places, you have to climb the mountains. There are fewer people, but if there are more, it will take a long time to walk.

The valley is very wide, seven or eight miles flat, and a small river two or three paces wide flows out from the center of the valley to the Grass River.

The willows on both sides of the river were cut down to build the city, and some of the short ones were eaten by the sheep brought back by the shepherds.

Now these flocks and shepherds have been temporarily moved to the vicinity of Xia City, leaving only the light and strong in Yangguan City.

The original Yangguan was not very tall, with a city wall three steps high and two steps wide. There was no water in a ditch outside, and only some wooden fences were planted.

Yangguan is not the same as Xiacheng, it is not a square rectangle, but an irregular rectangle, about 110 steps long and [-] steps wide.