From Chief to Ball

The soldiers who didn't get the match got the linen bag in the basket, it wasn't Tao Lei, Chen Jian would use that thing in the future, the purpose of going tonight was to set fire, and they couldn't make too scary noise, if they really scared them away, they wouldn't good.

Gunpowder is contained in the sackcloth bag, the quantity is not much, but it has enough qualifications as a kindling and combustible. In the years when there were no lighters and matches, this kind of gunpowder bag only needs a match to burn in a few seconds. light a fire.

These sword and shield soldiers had only been trained with stone balls, and Chen Jian absolutely did not dare to let them throw the few Tao Leis.

Don't even think about it, these people have never heard that kind of thunder-like sound before. Throwing it will cause chaos on the other side, and they will panic here, and they may even hold Tao Lei in their hands and forget to throw it out.

After the moon came out, there was silence in Yangguan City. The soldiers who attacked at night squatted at the gate of the city, eating the dried meat that had been handed out, talking in low voices, looking curiously at the linen bag in their hands, unable to guess what was inside.

There must be a good time to fight, Chen Jian endured it for more than ten days, and finally waited until the full moon, so that night raids would not require torches.People in the tribe often hunt, the population density is not high, and there are many prey. In addition, with new cooking methods, they began to eat the internal organs of animals instead of throwing them away, and they did not have many symptoms of night blindness.

There was no gunpowder in the night attack team at the South Gate. They held unlit torches soaked in animal fat and turpentine, and waited until they rushed into the camp before lighting them.

The southeast camp did not set up wooden towers and arrow rests. There were not enough grassland tribes to besiege the city on all sides. Without suitable tools, an arrow rest made them unable to do what they wanted, so they could only choose the north as the focus. The purpose of the southeast camp was only to Prevent Chen Jian from escaping from the city and restraining him when attacking the city.

When the moon rose above the head, the south gate opened quietly, and more than 100 people led by wolf belts left Yang Pass and moved towards the camp in the southeast of the besieged city.

Perhaps it was because Yangguan had never taken the initiative to attack, and the enemies in the southeast camp were not too prepared, leaving only a few people to watch outside for the night.

Because it was too cold, people from several professions squatted by the fire to warm up, talking about the rumors about Xiacheng they heard from Dawu, and imagining how many slaves they could get after breaking the city.

"It would be great if we followed Dawu...Have you heard? The spoils of the Dawu tribe are divided according to the killing of the enemy, and Dawu keeps one out of ten. We are different..."

"Keep down, don't talk nonsense, didn't someone talk about it yesterday and get beaten? You want to be beaten too?"

The person who complained immediately looked around in fear to make sure that there was no one behind him, so he was relieved.The people around the fire were put off by the person who reminded them, stopped talking about these things, and stood up to prepare for activities.

The person who spoke stood up and looked at the distance, he was stunned for a moment, and rubbed his eyes, only then was he sure that he was right.

Under the moonlight, a group of people were approaching from dozens of steps away.

"Someone!"

The wolf skin in the grass heard the man's cry, and before he could speak, the archer beside him immediately drew his bow.

The fire pile is the best beacon, more obvious than the target, and dozens of feather arrows poured down to the fire pile in an instant.

The loud cry of the undead broke the tranquility of the night sky.

Wolfpi knew that a sneak attack was impossible, and he had already remembered this camp in his heart in the city, and the tent where the leader was staying was right in the middle.

"Ji Xia said let's make more noise, then head straight to their leader's tent, as long as their leader runs away, no matter how many people there are, they won't be able to hurt us."

At this time, people in the tent heard the warning and ran out in a panic. The fire near the tent became the best guide.

The archers fired a volley, and the men on wolf belts rushed to the fire, lit the torches soaked in a lot of inflammables, and threw them towards the tents made of leather indiscriminately.

There were 900 people in the southeast camp, and the wolf skins had less than [-] in their hands. However, they used mental calculations and unintentional, organized to fight against unorganized, and there was no effective resistance on the opposite side.

Most of the people in twos and threes fled indiscriminately, or rushed towards a hundred people full of courage, and were shot into hedgehogs by the assembled archers.

In the chaos, the wolf skins strictly forbade the clansmen to chase and kill them, but gathered together and went straight into the tent of the leader on the opposite side.

In the flames, Langpi saw more than a dozen people running south protecting two of them, and the crescent who was following Langpi shouted, "That's the leader of the enemy, let's catch up and kill them, it's a great achievement."

The e-strider was about to lead people to chase, but was grabbed by the wolf skin and said: "Don't chase, they have no one to command when the leader runs away, so we just happen to kill more people. Jixia said that the opposite side is camped according to tribes, there are many leaders, so kill them." The leader is useless, those tribesmen will be swallowed up by other tribes, which is not good, ten fingers will become a fist. Well, the more leaders, the better. Ji Xia asked us to kill their war horses."

After the two leaders fled, no one in the entire camp was able to gather their forces, and they fought on their own with a little bit of blood, but most of them fled in panic and panic.

The assembled attackers hunted down the unorganized crowd like a hunt, rushed to the vicinity of the horses with little effort and began to slaughter.

The lit torches were thrown around, and the rising fire pillars and shouts were especially clear at night. Someone in the northwest camp had already discovered the problem in the southeast corner and rushed to the leader's tent.

Several leaders had already arrived at the tent of the old leader, and assembled the clan guards before coming.

"Something happened in the southeast."

"I see, do the people in the city want to run away?"

"It must be. These days Dawu's methods have made them unable to hold on. You must have all run away when you hear the sound is so chaotic. There are only three to four hundred of them in total. There are nearly a thousand people in the southeast camp. If there are fewer people Can it be messed up like this?"

"Dawu, what should we do now? Let's go to the city?"

Dawu didn't speak, the old leader coughed in dissatisfaction, and said: "The people in the city must want to run away. There is no rush to enter this city. There is nothing in the city. Instead, let them run back to the big city in the south. It will be difficult to attack. Good things and slaves are in the big city in the south. If these people are not eliminated, it will be useless to own this city. If these people are eliminated, the big city in the south with only women and children is the one in the autumn water. You can eat fish whenever you want."

The old leader didn't know much about sieges, but he was not bad when it came to fighting on flat ground. His judgment made the leaders nod frequently, and they all felt reasonable.

"In this way, each tribe chooses good fighters, Dawu, take them and follow the group of people. Don't attack, harass them with spears and javelins, and keep them from going far. If they run away, let the riders chase them down; If there is a confrontation, just harass them and make them unable to move."

Dawu reluctantly agreed, he hoped to capture the city by his own means, so that when the grassland tribes talk about this matter in the future, they will definitely remember who came up with the idea of ​​building an arrow stand and wooden tower.

But he didn't expect that the people inside would escape tonight. In this way, it was the old leader who defeated them. The old leader was not bad at fighting on the flat ground.

The old leader's eye bags are swollen and high, and he has been very anxious and angry these days. The old problem caused by riding bareback horses all the year round has relapsed, and he can't urinate. I feel like urinating.

Aging is not only caused by the body, but sometimes also because of the haggard heart. Riding a bareback horse all the year round destroyed his prostate. In the past, he was suppressed in the glory of victory and the conquest of power.

Now the news of Chen Jian's escape made his heart come alive again, and his mind is much clearer than a few days ago. It has been thirteen days since the siege of the city, and it is the first time he has issued orders with confidence. Someone else objected.

"When Dawu went to harass them, the rest of the people immediately ordered the people of the Qi tribe. Let's surround those people tonight. We will kill them when we enter the city tomorrow morning and have dinner. In the afternoon, we will go to the big city in the south. Women and children will be slaves." If anyone captures their leader, don’t kill him, I will nail him to death on a tree!”

The leaders howled, sweeping away the grievances of the past few days, and selected the best riders in their tribe one after another. There were not many people, only more than 100 in total, but it was enough to harass and restrain the marching speed on the opposite side.

Facing such harassment on the opposite side, we can only list the army formation, otherwise, if we disperse at night, these hundred and ten people will be enough to chase down and kill three to four hundred people.

Dawu left Hamer in the camp to prepare for the decisive battle after dawn tomorrow, and he led the best fighters from various tribes to go ahead.

When there are few people, the action is fast. After Dawu's hundred and ten people set off on horseback first, the rest of the pursuers assembled, and half of them stayed in the camp.

Chen Jian waited for the opportunity in the city, and when there was a commotion in the opposite camp and hundreds of people rushed to the southeast, he knew that his opportunity had finally come.

The city gate was pushed open, and the sword and shield soldiers who had been waiting in the middle of the night followed behind Chen Jian.

A large number of bonfires were lit in the camp, and the grassland tribes staying in the camp could no longer sleep, waiting for the battle after dawn.

At least, this boring and painful siege is coming to an end.

There were not many guards on the wooden tower and arrow rest, so Chen Jian asked the people to put birch bark and rosin balls in the northwest corner, and when they came back to light it, the northwest wind could spread the fire quickly.

The purpose of this attack was not only to burn down the arrow rests and wooden towers that would pose a threat to Yangguan, but to do a trick to burn and kill the opponent's horses.

From the very beginning, he always wanted to fight a war of annihilation, so that the grassland would be free of threats for two or three years, and it was difficult to fight a war of annihilation against the grassland tribes who relied on horses to maneuver, because they had four legs and could run if they couldn't fight.

Even though the 600 people in Yangguan City can fight against these people with military formation and training, the initiative and right to launch the battle has always been in the hands of the opponent.

Once more than half of the horses died, even if they wanted to run away, Chen Jian could still stick to the opponent, making them never return.

The defense of the city is as plain as water, and there is no wave in the ancient well. That is because the defender has the confidence and strength to defeat the attacker in the plain battle, but he is waiting for an opportunity to seize the initiative in the battle.