From Chief to Ball

Maybe it was just a coincidence, or maybe it was to verify Weihe's words, the guards on the city wall suddenly shouted excitedly: "Horse! Horse! Xiacheng's horse!"

Xiacheng's caravans and envoys have come to the Acropolis, they recognize the horse, and even regard the horse as the symbol of Xiacheng.

In fact, Wei He himself didn't believe what he said just now, so when he heard the shouts on the city wall, he obviously lost his composure and staggered.

Far away, a dozen people on horseback caused confusion to the Xirong people. The Xirong people really wanted to catch these scouts, but it was difficult to catch them.

The leader is the wolf skin, followed by the best scouts in Xiacheng. The adventurous and exciting wolf belt leads people to check the arrangement of the Xirong people. With the speed of the horses, it is like entering and leaving no one's land. The Xirong people want to surround them. They, however, always led the scouts to escape before the encirclement was closed, bullying the Xirong people for having no means of transportation.

He was just a whim, but he brought hope to the people of Weicheng, turning Weihe's words from lies into facts.

Wei He secretly prayed for the protection of his ancestors, and finally heaved a sigh of relief as he watched the group of people drift away from afar.

"Xiacheng... will send troops."

Chapter 88 Crushing Victory

Of course Xia Cheng will send troops, but there is still a lot of preparatory work to be done before sending troops.

The second day after Langpi returned to Xiacheng, it was the day Eyue agreed to go to Xiacheng, and everyone in Xiacheng was also making the final preparations before the expedition.

Chen Jian took Yuqian'er to look for ant nests near the pavilion where the people of Echeng must pass, and whispered something in Yuqian'er's ear. Yuqian'er looked surprised, but still prepared according to Chen Jian's instructions. .

The soldiers from Xiacheng lined up near the pavilion and saw the soldiers brought by E Yue from a distance. Chen Jian gave Yu Qian'er a wink.

E Yue believed that Chen Jian was the way to win, and told the soldiers of E City that they would definitely win a big victory this time after divination.

This time, Shujiu, as the priest of the tribe, also went to Xiacheng with everyone, and prayed to the ancestors of heaven and earth before going out, and also to make the soldiers who went out to be sure that they would win this time.

There are many divination methods for counting nine to choose good or bad luck, but none of them are intuitive. The clansmen cannot pass on the burned shoulder blades one by one, and they may not be able to understand them. Only the priests can see the lines of divination.

The soldiers in E City knew that they were going to face six or seven thousand Xirong people. These Xirong people had learned how to grow millet and were no longer the kind of barbarians who lived in caves.

There are less than 2000 people in the two cities together, and it is still a long-distance expedition, and anxiety is inevitable.

Most of the soldiers in E City only had a glimpse when Chen Jian conquered the Meteor tribe, and the rest were just heard.

Looking back at that glance, Xia Cheng didn't leave a deep impression on the people of E City, with the tattered clothes and the exhaustion after the battle.

Goodbye this time, but different.

In front of the army formation were eight chariots lined up, all drawn by four horses, the right side of the chariot was covered with leather armor, and the left side of the chariot was with a longbow, standing still.

After the chariot came the uniformed new army. The so-called uniforms were nothing more than indigo-dyed silk turbans, dancing in the summer wind like forests and mountains.

The assault army formed by the slave farmers and the wild people was very sparse, everyone was holding a dagger, and they also carried various other weapons they had prepared, such as javelins and leather armor they had changed.

The entire army of Xia City was only a thousand people, but Chen Jian asked everyone to deliberately space them out, and after they were arranged in an orderly manner, the soldiers of E City who were not very sensitive to numbers gained a little more confidence. It seemed that a big victory this time was really possible.

After E Yue and Chen Jian met, when they were about to say something to the soldiers, the originally quiet army formation suddenly became agitated, and many people looked around not far away, their faces full of surprise.

Chen Jian also pretended to be puzzled, and walked with E Yue to a flat ground not far away, and E Yue's heart trembled suddenly.

I don't know when there were many more ants on the ground, and they were lined up on the ground. Standing from a distance, it was obvious that it was a word, a word written in Xiacheng.

Shu Jiu has also seen many strange things in her life. As a priest, she also has a lot of divination skills, but she has never seen such a thing.

She can recognize a lot of Xia Cheng's characters, because the pictograms are easy to understand, and the few characters are easy to understand.And those characters with strange pronunciation will have the most simple and common characters Fanqie phonetic notation, which is not difficult to learn.

These big black ants are like the pen and ink in the hands of the earth, writing a strange word "auspicious" on the sand. This is the best omen in the inscriptions of E City, and it also means returning with a big victory in Xia City.

The words written by the ants are in front of everyone's eyes. This is not heard, but seen with their own eyes. Both the soldiers of Echeng and Xiacheng sighed softly.

The divine power and divination in Xia City are lighter. In E City, number nine is second only to the leader, and the two sides communicate frequently. This is the first time that it is manifested by a natural phenomenon.

The soldiers shouted excitedly at the auspicious omen they saw, and their hearts were filled with doubts. Could it be that this is really the guidance of the ancestors?

Chen Jian took advantage of everyone's astonishment and shouted: "Soldiers of Xiacheng and Echeng, God has already told us the answer to the result of this expedition, we must win! Can you recognize that word?"

The soldiers in Xiacheng could more or less recognize a few words, and the whitewashed handwriting was all over the city. They would be punished if they couldn’t learn it every month.

Following the shouts of the soldiers of Xia City, the soldiers of E City cheered up, and also shouted: "Good luck! Return with a big victory!"

The soldiers in the two cities no longer had any doubts, and the worry in their hearts disappeared in an instant, and they followed Chen Jian and shouted words like victory.

The leaders of Xiacheng were also very surprised, except Yuqian'er, who had a piece of maple syrup in his mouth, secretly said: "It's a pity that the good maple syrup is given to ants."

She knows that ants are just for eating candy, how can she recognize the word good or bad?But the rest of the people didn't know it. They knew the outcome of the big victory before the battle, and they were excited to remove their worries.

Ants are the revelation of the earth to everyone. Both Xiacheng and Echeng are farming tribes. The land is a very important god, so the results of this kind of divination are more credible.

Taking advantage of the excitement of the crowd, Chen Jian said again: "Although our ancestors gave us guidance, this battle is bound to be victorious, but all officers and soldiers must obey the orders of the leaders, and they must not retreat privately, and must not panic in the face of the enemy. The sound of the trumpet goes forward. Don’t talk about the guidance of the ancestors. Even if a child listens to his mother’s teaching, he will not drown if he does not jump into the water, and he will not be burned if he does not stand in the fire. Are these words wrong? But if you have to go into the water If you run into the fire, you will still die. The reason is the same, victory is certain, but this victory requires obeying the orders of the leader."

E Yue nodded and said, "That's right. The two cities sent troops together. I hereby swear to Ji Xia that before Xia City retreats, E City will not take a step back. If there is any disobedience, disaster will surely follow."

"The same is true for Xiacheng. If Echeng does not retreat and Xiacheng retreats, and suffers from floods and fires, the ancestors will no longer protect them!"

The two sacrificed to their ancestors and heaven and earth together, offered tribute, and made a blood oath. Chen Jian asked Hongyu to read an oath that he had written long ago. City, this is what the ancestors hoped to see, and it will inevitably guide us to return home after a big victory.

The soldiers were arranged to rest temporarily near Xia City, while E Yue and others discussed with Chen Jian what they would face when going out.

For Echeng, this is the first time to go on an expedition four hundred miles away. How to eat and rest is a big problem.

Xia Cheng once set off on the grassland, although there were not many people that time, but he had experience after all.

"Ji Xia, how long are we going to go this time?"

"Four hundred miles, 800 people march, I'm afraid it will take ten days. Don't rush, you have to send out scouts every day, set up camp early in the evening, and advance step by step. Weihe was impatient last time, so that he was ambushed by the Xirong people in the valley , we must learn from this lesson.”

E Yue pondered and said: "In ten days, if we defeat the Xirong people, we can eat the food in the Acropolis. But the Xirong people may not necessarily fight us and delay us. This time, we will have to prepare a month's worth of food and grass. Counting cattle and horses , just to eat food every day requires six to seven thousand catties of grain, 18 catties a month. There are 800 people, and each person has to carry a hundred catties of grain?"

How can one person walk with a hundred catties of grain?

Chen Jiandao: "In a team of 800 people, there are only a thousand real soldiers, and the rest are heavy soldiers. I have piled up enough food and grass to feed the army for a month and a half in Heyin City. In the first few days, They all rely on luggage to transport them back and forth. In case of encountering an enemy, [-] catties of dry food per person is enough.”

These words were full of confidence, even a little arrogant. This was the first time E Yue saw this side of Chen Jian. In the past, Chen Jian was a young but extremely calm person in his heart, cautious, but this time he was so confident.

Counting nine and counting secretly, thirty catties of grain would only take six or seven days for people to eat and chew on horses.

"Could it be that Jixia thinks that after arriving at the Acropolis, the enemy can be defeated within six days? That's six to seven thousand people, so it's not that easy. Even if the fortune teller is auspicious, one must be careful."

Chen Jian laughed and said: "Then everyone, just wipe your eyes and wait to see. Originally, the three cities had an appointment, and they would gather in Xiacheng in May, and the warriors would compete with each other. Unfortunately, the people of Xirong disrupted their interest. That's fine, defeat They escorted the captives back, sacrificed to their ancestors, and then competed. Six to seven thousand people are only six to seven thousand slaves, and there may not be enough stables at that time."

Those few people laughed a few times, unbelievable in their hearts.

The higher you climb, the harder your fall will be, but once you succeed, you will be the focus of everyone's attention because of the high climb.

Su He on the side laughed dryly for a while, and asked, "Ji Xia, I've heard people say that Xia Cheng's chariots are powerful, I'm afraid your confidence that you can defeat the Xirong people within three to five days is also derived from this... However, how do we get across the Caohe River, which is a hundred steps wide?"