From Chief to Ball

Hamer squatted down, frowned and said: "Chief Dawu, I'm afraid these people are not easy to deal with. They are very powerful in war. Luo Xing fought against them before. He said before that he was defeated by that person. I thought it was because they couldn't deal with them." Hit them, but I didn't know they were really good until I saw them."

Luo Xing gritted his teeth and said, "It's very powerful, otherwise I wouldn't have gone to the grassland. The women in our tribe may all be dead. I never knew the existence of this group of people before."

Dawu tore a piece of roasted cold mutton and threw it into Hamer's hands. Hamer took out a piece of salt from his arms and ate a few mouthfuls of it. After recovering from the hunger of the past few days, he said: "I didn't see them How many people there are, but if there are as many people as our tribe, I'm afraid it will be difficult to fight."

"Aren't you very close to their city a few days ago? What do they eat on weekdays?"

"I didn't know at the beginning. The city wasn't that big. After looking around for a long time, I didn't see anyone coming out to herd sheep. Later, there were too many scouts, so I ran away, ambushed those people, and cut open their stomachs. It’s true that what I ate wasn’t meat, but I couldn’t tell what it was that was sticky.”

The witch spirit priest who had been silent for a while tapped the human skin drum, and said coldly: "Don't worry about it, they are heretics who believe in the spirit of the earth, and they are the same as those who were punished by the spirit of war. fruits and grass seeds. These people will definitely be wiped out, because sheep only eat grass, wolves always eat meat, and those who eat grass cannot beat those who eat meat."

Dawu nodded, glanced at Luo Xing beside him and said, "Luo Xing, you have fought against them, what kind of tribe are they...?"

In fact, Luo Xing doesn't know anything, including those iron objects dedicated to Dawu, and he doesn't know how to forge them, but he can only know everything, which is the foundation of his foothold on the grassland.

So he made up: "Their tribe is similar to ours, but their leader found a pig and an oak tree..."

Recalling the golden skull in the legend of the prairie tribe, he added a few words: "The leaves of that oak tree are all gold, and when the sun shines on the gold leaves, many acorns will grow, no matter how many there are. People can't pick it all; the pig is the same, every day they will kill the pig and roast it, but as long as the bones are left, the pig will be resurrected the next day, and they will never lack food."

Hamer's eyes widened. He had heard too few stories, but the golden oak tree and the pig that could be resurrected were much better than the story of the spirit of war. If his tribe had one of these two things, it would be amazing up!

Dawu was skeptical, and recalled the food carried by the enemies who died on the grassland. It was sweet and mellow. The burnt yellow powder was paired with goat milk. to bear such fruit.

He glanced at the witch spirit priest quietly, and said in his heart that if he had such an oak tree, he would abandon the spirit of war and believe in the spirit of the earth.

This kind of thought just flashed by, and he thought about it silently, and asked, "Hammer, how many people do you think our tribe can fight against?"

Of course, women are not counted in wars. Except for the tribe of Dawu's newly deceased Xiaoma, few tribes on the grassland rely on women to fight.

Dawu’s tribe has thousands of people, and they can gather more than 600 horsemen to fight. Because some women of the same skin color in their tribe are not human beings, they are just goods like sheep and horses, so they are not counted among the thousand people; plus The strength of some warriors brought by Shangluoxing was already second only to that of Dawu's father on the grassland.

Hammer rolled his eyes and calculated, and said with a sigh of relief: "If it's one-on-one, I can easily kill their people; if it's five-on-five, we may lose. There are more than 600 people in our tribe, maybe only It can hit 200 people on the opposite side."

Dawu nodded to show that he knew it. Although he was a little shocked and even suspicious, he would never show distrust in front of his subordinates. This kind of daily respect can be exchanged for something very important—their hearts and minds. .

Hammer was afraid that Dawu would not understand, so he said, "Leader Dawu, if there is a real fight, we should be more careful. If there are golden oaks and immortal pigs, we are not the most populous, so I'm afraid we won't be able to grab them... Just kill some people, just grab some food and that kind of blue-gray weapon."

Their tribe lost some small settlements when the white horse swept up the grassland. Of course there was hatred, but Hamer’s relatives were not dead, so he could jump out of hatred and help Dawu consider these things from the perspective of the tribe, although he knew the wise Dawu would definitely think of this, but he still wanted to say it.

Dawu sighed and said: "Luoxing said that they had more than 500 people when they fought with them last time. In such a short time, even if their women can give birth, the children they give birth will not be able to fight immediately. Hamer, according to your opinion Say, if they have 500 people, we need to have 500 people to beat them?"

Hamer scratched his head and said, "I can't say for sure. Last time on the grassland, there were more than 70 people who were surrounded. The falling star cut off their water supply. In the end, more than 40 of us died. Killing them is almost the same. It is really difficult for us to fight when they hide and defend like hedgehogs, but it is much easier to find a way to let them show their hands and feet."

"Well, even as you said, I think we can still win. My father brought more than 900 people, and my two brothers combined had more than 500 people. My little mother died in their hands. More than 300 people from her own family also came... Hehe, there are more than 100 women."

Hammer also laughed, that tribe was the strangest tribe on the grassland, and some strong women could fight, but Hammer always felt that those women were a joke.

Dawu calculated and said: "There are two thousand people from our relatives alone, and there are hundreds of people from those small settlements, which makes it nearly three thousand. We should win if we fight them, but how we fight is up to us. We need to discuss a few."

"You are all the people I trust the most. Let's put it this way, no tribe wants to let their own people die too much, except those tribes that are eager for revenge. My brother is hoping that I will leave the blood of the tribe here, but my father This time he was elected as the leader of all the tribes, he will definitely punish those disobedient people, if my father asks me to fight, I can only fight."

He looked around and said in a low voice, "Father's golden skull was taken away by them, and this battle must be taken back no matter what. The grassland has already shed too much blood, and my father also wants to take this opportunity to stop the grassland from bleeding." I have human blood. He is the alpha wolf, and I am the strongest cub in the wolf pack. Even if I don't want to challenge the alpha wolf, the alpha wolf will exile the strongest wolf cub. This battle...is not easy to fight."

There is danger here, as well as opportunity.On the grassland, it is true that one must rely on strength, but one must also have a reputation.If he plays well this time, Dawu will be more famous on the grassland, more people will join him, and he will be closer to his ambition and dream; if he is not careful, he will be cheated by his father and brother.

From the perspective of the tribes on the grassland, this is a battle that must be won.

But it is precisely because they feel that they must win, so the first thing every leader thinks about is not how to defeat the enemy, but how to defeat the friend. This is the real danger that Dawu has to face.

As the defender, Xia Cheng doesn't need to consider internal friction for the time being.

Chen Jian is a legitimate military leader, not the leader of the free association of tribes, but has absolute power.

The leaders of the council left Xiacheng behind, they were not qualified to command this battle, and the soldiers would not allow the rest to command them.

The entire army is broken up and the tribes are redistributed. There may be several tribes in one army.Chen Jian doesn't believe in the words of blood relatives. He wants to use a new system to replace the cohesion of blood relatives.

The army has been stationed in Yangguan for ten years, and the entire Yangguan has become a large military camp. The military judges in the new army directly took over the punishment and daily life of everyone on weekdays.

All drinking water is forced to boil, and drinking unboiled water is strictly prohibited, even if it is already early winter, the possibility of infectious diseases is unlikely.

Everyone is strictly forbidden to defecate anywhere in the city. On the first day of stationing, several huge pits were dug in the city to make toilets.

After digging the toilet, Chen Jian led people to cut down and burn the forest near Yangguan. There were basically no trees within a mile of Yangguan.

The felled trees reinforced the parapets and crenels on the city wall, and a large amount of lime and stones were piled up every twenty steps.

Outside the four city gates, four small urns surrounding the gates were quickly built, which were very small and could only accommodate more than 100 people.

When the city wall was being built, earth and stone stairs were prepared in advance in the city. In order to facilitate the attack, Chen Jian tied dozens of wooden ladders with ropes.

Generally speaking, there are three types of city defense: enough food and drink, sufficient soldiers, and the opponent withdraws when time runs out;

Defending the city without fighting in the field is just defending to the death. If there are enough soldiers, it will be invincible, and Yangguan cannot have reinforcements, so Chen Jian must be prepared to go out of the city to fight in the field.

In the early stage, Chen Jian and his tribe brought heavy pine logs, which blocked the gates on three sides, leaving only one side to pass through.

It is basically impossible to open the city gate from the outside. If you want to attack, you only need to move the pine wood away, or use the wooden ladder to go directly to the city.

The purpose of the Wengcheng is also to close the inner door in advance when the attack is made, so that if the attack fails, people will not be followed and rushed into the city.

If you stick to it, you won't be able to defend a victory. If you want to defend it, you must first ensure that you can win the field battle.What a qualified defender has to do is to choose the appropriate actual attack.

Chapter 44 Questions before the battle

The scouts of Yangguan controlled the area thirty miles north of Yangguan. As time entered November, the range of activities of the scouts was gradually compressed.

After being ambushed twice in a row, Chen Jian withdrew all his scouts and sent out more than 30 cavalry to retreat to Xia City, allowing them to eliminate possible enemies around Xia City.

Since you don't choose to fight in the field immediately, you don't need scouts to control the battlefield. In the age without radio, don't consider ambush in advance and wait for the opportunity to attack the camp.

No matter how stupid the opponent is, they will send out scouts to scout the surrounding woodlands. Besides, according to the scouts, there are many people on the opposite side, so I should save my cavalry to chase after the battle.

On the second day after the scouts withdrew to Yangguan, on the third day of November, the army of grassland tribes finally approached Yangguan. Chen Jian didn't have any tricks to ambush in the woods before and after the sound of a cannon, and let everyone retreat to Yangguan. A fire burned down the slave market in the east and the nearby wilderness houses, and closed the city gate.

From a long distance, one could hear the neighing of horses and the roaring of people. Relying on their superb riding skills, several riders ran down to the city, yelled and cursed, and threw a few severed hand bones towards the city.

Chen Jian didn't bother to scold back, so he directly asked the scouts to beheaded and threw down a few of them, and then asked the archers to shoot a few arrows to drive away the passing riders.

There are only [-] arrows, so they need to be used sparingly, half of them can be used at most during the defense of the city, and the rest should be reserved for when the enemy is tired and counterattacked.

The four guards of the same clan blocked Chen Jian with shields, and several military figures followed him to the city wall, observed the surrounding situation, and secretly clicked their tongues. They did not expect so many people from the grassland tribe to come.

Once the number of people exceeds a few thousand, it will appear extremely large. There are quite a few people in the city who can count to ten thousand, but it is the first time to really see so many people intuitively.

Soon the people below were divided into two teams and camped along the diagonal of the city. There were more people on the northwest side, and the southeast side might only contain the scattered defenders, with only a few hundred people.

Even though the people in the city are very confident, they feel a little uneasy when they suddenly see a scene of thousands of people.After listening to Chen Jian tell a few jokes and stories, he gradually relaxed and left step by step.