From Chief to Ball

Several people watched for a while, and the raccoon cat nodded and said: "I probably understand. The city wall is straight, and if you defend from all sides, you can only deal with the front. The four corners protrude to shoot at the enemy's rear, but it's not good-looking, not at all. Irregular."

"If you want me to say that after we finish the battle, we will rebuild the Yangguan Pass. Look, Jixia, the Yangguan Pass is nearly a hundred steps long, and the bow and arrow can be shot within fifty steps. We should go every thirty or forty steps. Just build a protruding platform, so that no matter where they charge from, they will be shot from the front, left, and right by us."

The civet cat said casually, but the crescent strider on the side was stunned for a while, but when he looked at the city wall, he felt that it made sense.

He came here to see how the people of Xiacheng fought. He fought with his father a few times, but he never defended the city.

I thought that defending the city meant putting people in a row on the city wall and shooting arrows down, but I didn't expect that there are so many sayings about a city wall.

The civet cat muttered a few more words, and Chen Jian nodded and said: "That's it. They are still far from conquering Yangguan. I don't worry about how to defend Yangguan. It's a trivial matter. I hope you can start from here The most important thing is to learn something from the second defense.”

He turned his head and glanced at several military figures, and seemed to say unintentionally: "A few days ago, I heard someone muttering... Some opinions on my not recruiting those who passed the assessment to teach children in the school? The civet cat thought well, Then let me ask you, civet cat, even if this city wall needs to be repaired to make it more angular, how can we ensure that our people can shoot and kill the people on both sides to the maximum extent?"

The civet cat turned a blind eye to a person in the distance and said, "I don't know, I didn't say that. Jixia, I have always supported you. If you really build a city wall like that, you will save a lot of people in the army from dying." You don't often say that the head is also a kind of strength, I believe it."

The people next to him lowered their heads, and E Yan secretly glanced at Chen Jian, who was slightly smaller than him, and looked at the enemies in the distance. He didn't expect Chen Jian to be so indifferent, as if he didn't care about these people at all.No matter how it is pretending or what, at least this mentality of being unmoved under the siege of thousands of thousands, E Strider feels that he is much worse.

He is the son of Shujiu, who was forced to learn arithmetic since he was a child. Shujiu is proficient in counting, but the graphics are not good. Now, after hearing what Chen Jian said, he recalled hearing Chen Jian's lectures in the school several times in Xiacheng, At that time, I just thought this thing was fun, but I never thought that this thing can be used as a sword, halberd, bow and spear to kill the enemy...

"The head is also power..."

E strider muttered this strange-sounding sentence, thinking about the protruding city wall that the civet cat said, and gradually tasted a different taste in this seemingly strange sentence.

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When Chen Jian seized any opportunity to instill knowledge and power in the city, most of the grassland tribes outside the city were thinking about the looting after the city was broken.

The two ethnic groups inside and outside Yangguan are completely different.Not just in skin color, in habits, in language, but a difference in the bones.Perhaps it is too early to say civilization and barbarism, but it has already taken shape.

In the camp near the woods, Hamer knelt on the ground and asked the tribe's witch priest to sprinkle some burnt horse hair on his head, so that the spirit of war would protect him from victory.

Together with him, the Dawu tribe selected more than 30 people, all of whom were the most powerful wrestlers in the tribe. Together with the warriors of other tribes, they were the first people to ascend the city.

The wooden ladders and leather shields made overnight were handed out, and they were not used to using them, but their natural instincts allowed them to naturally understand that they should put the shields on top of their bodies, especially in front of their eyes.

When the leather drum was beating, Hamer grabbed a handful of dirt and wiped it on his face. Dawu walked to each warrior and gave them some horsehair amulets that he made overnight, and he gained dozens of touches.

The sun rose and dried the dew on the dry grass. Warriors of all races gathered together, drank a bowl of blood, and waited for the battle to begin.

It was the first time for the old leader to command so many people, and it was also the first time he faced a battle like a siege. After thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't come up with any good solution.

He had never attacked the city, but had fought other battles, so he left enough people in the camp to hold the line, and sent a hundred people to the east and west sides to contain them, the main attack from the north, and the feint attack from the south.

The tribes in the southeast also sent selected warriors as the first group of people to ascend the city. More than 600 tribesmen picked up their own bows and arrows of different lengths, walked to the north of Yangguan, and gradually approached to a distance of [-] steps. He still couldn't hit the shot at a long distance, so he could only continue to move forward.

The land is very flat, and the only thing that confuses these people is that there are a few strange wooden poles standing every ten steps, which are obviously planted by someone, but they don't know what they are used for.They thought it might be used for sacrificial rituals, so they didn't care.

Hammer and the others followed behind the archers, looked up at the figures on the city wall, and found that they were not panicked.

A layer of wood was piled up on the front wall, just covering the chests of those people in the city, only the black heads were exposed.

A clansman named Toby next to Hamer carried the ladder side by side with him, and he also saw the fighting power of the Xiacheng people with him a few days ago, so he was a little nervous at this time, deliberately shook his hands, and coughed loudly, Nagging words in his mouth, trying to arouse the response of others to dispel the uneasiness in his heart.

"Hammer, there are only dozens of people on the front of us, very few, we should be able to rush up, right? Cough..."

"Yes, don't be afraid, they are human beings, and they don't have two heads. Didn't you kill them with me?"

As soon as the words were finished, two strange cracking sounds came from the city gate, and the man beside Hammer squatted subconsciously, almost dragging Hammer down.

Just as Hamer was about to curse, he heard a scream from afar.Two pointed wooden sticks the size of a horse's tail flew out from the city gate. One shot into the dense crowd and penetrated a person's stomach, while the other missed and stuck in the soil.

The two wooden crossbows that can only be pulled by several people only shot one person to death, but the tragedy and wailing of that person before his death still cast a shadow over the hearts of everyone in the grassland tribe.

A group of people next to the dead man dodged to the sides in panic, crowding the people next to them.

Hamer spit and scolded, "A coward like a groundhog."

Fortunately, the leaders sent someone to beat those people, which temporarily stopped the panic in the team...

In the city, Chen Jian stood on the wooden tower and looked at the approaching enemies below the city. He found the ladders and leather shields carried by a group of people behind him. He didn't think too much about it. Think that the other party has just learned.

Standing on the wooden tower and staring at the wooden poles, those wooden poles set up in advance are used for distance measurement. They were buried a few days ago to estimate the distance between the enemy and the city. There is always a big difference in eye observation. error.

Because the city is not big, the more than 600 enemies outside the city cannot all be deployed in one line, but can only be arranged in depth, and the formation is very dense.

The group at the front had reached about 130 paces, but was still moving forward, and their bows could not shoot that far.

The messenger next to him held the drumstick, and after hearing Chen Jian's order, he immediately beat the war drum according to the previous agreement.

Eighty new army archers stood on a small platform made of wood and soil, and could not see the outside situation through the city wall, but the commander of the new army archers listened to the sound of the drum and shouted: "150 steps, the third piece of wood, Throw."

The archers of the new army are not very good at throwing, but at least they know what angle they can lift to shoot 150 steps over the city wall.

With an order, the archers pulled the arrows behind their ears, and the bows rattled. This is Xia Cheng's advantage, the bows can shoot farther than the outsiders.

whoosh...

Eighty feathered arrows flew out at the same time, without the aura of locusts raining, they turned into afterimages in the air and landed below the city.

Feathered arrows landed sparsely around a wooden pole. The people of the grassland tribe were only guarding against the people on the city wall, and did not expect the feathered arrows to fly out of the city.

More than 20 people were hit by arrows, and before they had time to retreat, another round of feathered arrows flew out, this time landing near another wooden pole.

The team was already in a panic, the three rounds of feather arrows were not shot at the same location, the killing effect was not bad, more than 50 people were shot, and a dozen died.

The leader's scolding sound spread all over the battlefield, and those wounded were carried to the back, and after three rounds of feather arrows, they finally advanced to about 120 steps.

The tribesmen on the prairie drew their bows of different lengths and shot towards the city wall. Feathered arrows jingled on the wooden boards and soil.

The stone mountain in the northwest corner of the city wall was topped with a shield. He glanced quietly from the crenel, turned around and said: "Don't worry, we will get up when they get close to the city wall."

Two feathered arrows flew in and pierced his shield, but the distance was too far to penetrate at all.

Chapter 46 Offense and Defense ([-])

After several rounds of feather arrows, the outsiders finally shot the arrows into the city, but they did not suppress the new army's archers. The outsiders didn't know where these archers were at all.

Two archers from the new army were shot in the hands and feet, and after a few curses, they were dragged away and wrapped in sackcloth. The rest of the archers continued to choose the direction of the projectile according to the sound of the drum beating by the herald.

There are several flags on the city wall, and they choose the direction of the flags to shoot out according to the order sent; while the people outside the city can only fly the feather arrows into the city by feeling.

They have never attacked a city, and even ladders and leather shields can attract everyone's amazement, so there is still a lot to learn.

After seven or eight rounds of feather arrows, Shi Shan heard a burst of shouts and drums, and hurriedly shouted: "Get ready, they are coming!"

There were only seven or eight people on the platform, and the rest squatted under the corner of the city wall to avoid the feather arrows. Hearing Shi Shan's cry, they hurriedly climbed up the earthen steps to the city wall.