From Chief to Ball

After a long time, the old leader sighed heavily and said: "Clean up tomorrow, and withdraw the troops the day after tomorrow. We are in a panic tonight, and we need to calm down the panic of the tribe tomorrow. Otherwise, our retreat will become an escape. There are horses in the city, and you all know how to escape." What are the consequences of the people who face the rider's pursuit."

The rest of the leaders sighed, it was pointless to argue at this time, the old leader was right.Retreating is not escaping. If you can't figure out these two, then something serious will happen.

But which tribe is broken?And how to prevent being followed and killed by people in the city?

They asked the old leader, but the old leader shook his head and said nothing. He felt that he had no heart to talk about these things anymore.

Up to now, no one wants to end the queen, and everyone wants to let others die, but this thought can't be expressed at this time, and there will be revenge in the future.

It is useless for a tribe that is too small to stay, and the big tribes are unwilling to stay. What should have been arguing endlessly turned into a moment of silence.

Looking at the silent leader, Dawu's heart was burning with raging flames, and the opportunity he had been waiting for for a long time finally came!

When everyone has no choice, when everyone loses confidence, when everyone just wants to retreat, it is the time when a real hero is needed.

"Leaders, even if we want to retreat, we have to kill some people on the opposite side before leaving. The warriors of various tribes are still in the city, their heads have been cut off, so let's go back like this? When those women and children asked us for a man and a father, we How to say?"

The leaders were silent, and it took a long time before someone said: "Dawu, we can't defeat the city. We can only retreat."

"Is it the city or those people who can't beat it?"

"People are in the city, and the city can't beat them. How can they beat people? So many people in our tribe died, do you think I don't want to cut off the head of the leader on the other side? But what can we do? It's going to snow soon, let's I can't take it anymore."

Dawu waved his hand and said, "Not talking about the city, I just want to ask you, if they leave the city, do you have the courage to fight with them?"

Several leaders suddenly raised their heads and shouted: "Then why dare?"

If someone else said it, they might refute it, but it was Dawu who said it. If nothing else, Dawu's method can capture cities in the distance. Now that he said so, the people of several small tribes The leader suddenly ignited a glimmer of hope.

"Dawu, are you planning to ambush them in advance to lure them to chase us? It was okay before, we Ma Duo, we can pretend to escape, and ambush when they come after us. But now we are walking as fast as them, how can we ambush?"

Some people questioned, and some shouted: "Dawu, as long as they go out of the city and fight us during the day, we are not afraid. How many of them are there? If you let them go out of the city, my people and I will follow you in the future!"

"That's right, even if we want to leave, we have to let them bleed. And if we leave like this, they will definitely follow us, just like last time, killing our people everywhere, burning our tents and grass."

Most of the leaders had confidence in Dawu. Dawu didn't wait for the old leader to express his opinion, but pretended to stand in front of the old leader unintentionally, listening to the vows of several tribes that they would follow similar words in the future, and suppressed his inner peace. Stretched out five fingers and said: "Five days! The leaders give me five days, and I will definitely let them leave the city. If they don't come out by then, I will stay with my tribe!"

For the sake of this, there is no objection, and five days can just calm down the panic of the clansmen.

And Dawu himself said that if the opponent doesn't come out at that time, they can break up on their own, and they can leave safely and boldly if they have Dawu's back. This is something everyone likes to hear.

That night, Dawu didn't say what to do in the end, leaving the grassland tribe with infinite reverie.

The leaders appeased the tribe overnight, re-camped, sent people to the woods to look for the escaped men and horses, and sent a large number of people to guard the camp to prevent similar night attacks from happening again.

The remnants of the southeast camp withdrew to the northwest at dawn, leaving only some riders on both sides to investigate the situation.

The low morale and loss of troops made them focus on defense instead of being encircled on all sides. Yesterday they were thinking about breaking the city, but today they only think about how to defend.

Dawu returned to the tribe, and led his men to block the river upstream with logs overnight, diverting the water to a low-lying Shuipaozi.

At dawn, the small river flowing through Yangguan had dried up.

Chapter 52 The Decisive Battle

It was just dawn, and the cooks in Yangguan City were preparing breakfast early. Last night, Chen Jian had ordered to send troops this morning to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

Besieged for more than ten days, although there is not much loss, but the feeling of being besieged is really bad.

Several people in charge of cooking were talking about the battle last night, while carrying the water pot to fetch water from the pottery pipe, but when they got there, they were stunned, and there were only a few drops of water left.

They threw down the clay pots and hurried to inform Chen Jian, who was still sleeping soundly. Chen Jian climbed up the wooden pagoda in a daze and looked at it for a while, and found that the upper reaches of the river were blocked, and the river flowed elsewhere.

This river is not wide in the first place, but a tributary of the Caohe River, which can be easily blocked.

He didn't take it seriously, but a pot exploded in Yangguan City. Several people hurried up and shouted from afar: "Ji Xia, Ji Xia, there is no water!"

"What are you panicking about?"

Chen Jian smiled and walked down the wooden pagoda, pointing to the panicked people: "If there is no water, there will be no water. Didn't you agree to go out of the city today and fight them?"

"But everyone hasn't eaten yet."

"Then have dinner later. Tell people to guard the city wall. If they want to run and keep our water off, it seems that they are still determined. Wolfpi, you bring dozens of people with tools."

E strider looked curiously at Chen Jian who was talking and laughing without panic, not knowing what he was going to do.Chen Jian said with a smile: "E-strider, you have to learn something again. After you go back, you have to ask your father to send something to our city. This thing can reach dozens of cows."

"Uncle Jixia always has a way. If you say you can exchange dozens of cows, then you can. I'm curious how Uncle Jixia can dig out the water?"

He spoke very respectfully, and Chen Jian felt a little awkward hearing it.

Soon, a group of people who followed Chen Jian to dig a well in the mine were found. The wooden pagoda outside had been burned, and no matter how hard they were in the city, they couldn't see it from the outside.

With logs propping up the well walls, available tools and a multitude of men digging without rest, a well was dug before supper.

E-strider looked at the person next to him who tied the clay pot with a rope to bring out the water, and said convincingly: "There is still water in the ground? If this is the case, you don't have to live in places with rivers in the future. Dozens of cows are worth it." .”

The person carrying the water smiled and said, "Ji Xia said that if there is water, there must be a way. We are not afraid at all."

Although he said he was not afraid, when the water came out of the well, many people cheered for joy.

Chen Jian climbed up the wooden tower and looked at the camp on the opposite side. Hundreds of riders were wandering around the city, ready to stick to him when he left.

On the whole, this method is excellent. If there is no well-digging technology, Chen Jian really has to evacuate before the people of the tribe are thirsty, but he can dig wells, and he even practiced in the mine in advance.

"Wolfpi, bring some people, see that puddle not far away? Go there to fetch water, pretend we don't have a well, and pretend like some."

The wolf fur responded, took some people down to the city with ropes, and took some water from a puddle in a nearby river. The riders on the other side didn't chase them away, but just looked at it from a distance. The puddle was not big, and it wasn't enough The people in the city drink.

Chen Jian had nothing to do in the city, so he led his men to reinforce the well with mud, and he made a water-lifting orange, which is a lever with a stone tied behind it, which can lift the water out with very little effort.

Finally, a picture of characters was engraved on the mouth of the well built from the earth, to the effect that drinking water should not forget the person who dug the well. If my life becomes a part of history in the future, that would be an interesting legend.

Since he still had time to do these things, the morale of the army in the city was naturally stable. Chen Jian distributed all the stored dried meat, and distributed a little drink that night, so that the clansmen could eat early and go to bed early, so that they could have a good rest.

Outside the city, when the leaders saw from a distance that the wolf led the man to go down the city with a rope to get water from the puddle, they all praised Dawu's wisdom.

Dawu also gained more fame and convincing by virtue of this incident. The old leader didn't say anything, and most of the leaders went directly to ask Dawu what to do.

Temporarily calming down the morale of the army, Dawu asked the various tribes to gather the remaining horses that could be ridden together, and selected some people to patrol around the city.

They sent out scouts to investigate and found that there was no river within a dozen miles, except for a small stream about fifteen miles to the south.

Dawu asked all the tribes to camp near the river, and then separated more than 300 people to lie in ambush on the final road to the south stream.

His plan was for Chen Jian to abandon the city and run away to find water. He sent out cavalry to disrupt the situation, followed by the main force, and launched an attack at the ambush.

After more than ten days of fighting and Luo Xing's narration, he felt more and more that the leader he had never met was very cunning and powerful, just like a fox.But he also felt that he was the best hunter on the prairie, and no matter how cunning a fox was, he would become his fur.