From Chief to Ball

Su He, who had been watching the battle, was secretly startled, and kept the scene of the battle firmly in his mind.He fought with his own tribe. It's not that he has never seen a battle with thousands of people, but he never thought that a battle with thousands of people would be like this.

Nearly [-] Xirong people all collapsed, nearly [-] were killed, and [-] were captured. The cavalry was still chasing the remaining routs.

Su He went to check the corpses of the Xirong people who had suffered a salvo of wooden cannons. The stones were all over their bodies, and their flesh was mutilated. It was several times more miserable than beheading.

But the surviving Linong were more terrifying than these corpses. Their faces were covered with blood, their bodies were covered with heads, but smiles and teeth were showing at the corners of their mouths. They ran to the military judge and piled up the heads, swearing that they were not picked up. The head was killed by himself.

Su He knew that it was not these slave farmers who decided the victory or defeat, but the group of people Chen Jian called the new army.These people killed the most, were the bravest, and made the most meritorious deeds.But they sat quietly on the battlefield at this moment, while the people around them gathered up the corpses, they took out the dried meat and chewed it. After the battle, they calmed down as if they were tired and rested in their own fields.

If the wooden cannon and gunpowder shocked Su He, then these slave farmers and the new army made Su He afraid.He knew how terrifying it was to be a group of soldiers who were laughing and snatching heads after killing people. It was hard to see such soldiers on both sides of the river;

Xiacheng's population is small, but Su He is convinced at this time that even a large clan with ten thousand people is not an opponent of Xiacheng in a war on flat ground... Xiacheng can already be called a big city.

Before the war, Chen Jian's self-confident declaration did not become a jittery joke, but became a legend of strategizing and talking. Hearing the roar on the battlefield, Su He seemed to have seen the time when the Dahe tribes defeated Dongyi many years ago. , and that kind of event has passed 20 years.

Involuntarily, Su He thought of what Chen Jian said to the Xirong envoy yesterday: For those tribes who did not abide by the original kinship oath, he would lead people to let them know the price of betraying the oath.

"Perhaps, he will really do this... I invited him to go hunting in winter, right? Wrong? Is this a wolf who really values ​​his relatives and is the bravest wolf? Or is it a challenger who wants to be the leader of the wolf?"

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On the chariot, Chen Jian and E Yue arrived at a hillside, temporarily out of everyone's sight.

"Leader Eyue, we are only tens of miles away from the Acropolis. The army of the Xirong people has been defeated. No matter how difficult it is for those Xirong people to resist, if they know the news first, they will probably flee to the mountains. In the past, the Xirong people in those villages were Wei They are slaves in the city, but now they are our captives, so there is no need to inform the Acropolis. I suggest that we leave some people to guard the captives and go back to Xia City first, and the rest of the people set off immediately to the Xirong village to capture the captives."

There is nothing wrong with E Yue, and the two hit it off immediately, agreeing that Xia City will account for [-]% of the battle uniform this time, and E City will account for [-]%.

The distribution of benefits still depends on strength. The reason for this grand expedition is for the sake of brothers and relatives. There may be some reasons, but more importantly, it is to eliminate the threat of the Xirong people and capture more slaves...and weaken the guards. strength of the city.

These rioting Xirong slaves were originally part of the Acropolis, but Chen Jian and E Yue secretly discussed, after taking Qingzhuang and the children away, the remaining people were all killed on the charge of rioting, so that the Xirong settlements around the Acropolis could be reunited. There is no human habitation, so even if Acropolis wants to continue to deprive those people, it has no chance.

After this battle, the Acropolis lost at least thousands of serfs who were forced to pay half of their grain.

After the civil strife, it will be difficult to rise up for a long time. Once there is any trouble, you can only rely on the power of Xiacheng and Echeng... There may even be a group of relatives who are eager to use the power of the two cities to realize their personal ambitions. The two cities of Xia'e are stronger and more trustworthy than the people of Xirong.

Pain leads to change. Maybe Acropolis will change its own slavery system with huge flaws after experiencing this experience, or it may just sink into it and complain about it.But even if there is a change, it will be difficult for Acropolis to be on an equal footing with Xia'e within five years.

Before sending out troops, apart from being busy with the summer harvest, Chen Jian also hoped that the internal contradictions in the Acropolis would accumulate and ferment after being besieged. It's time to suppress.

E Yue is also the leader of Yicheng, there are some things that Chen Jian doesn't need to say so bluntly, but he still thinks of some things that are related to his own interests.

The two agreed to plunder the surrounding Xirong villages for three days first, and after three days to clean up the army, they took the heads of the Xirong people to the Acropolis in a swaggering manner.

With a small mountain as the boundary, the Xirong people's villages in the east belong to Echeng, and the Xirong people's villages in the west belong to Xiacheng.

After cleaning the battlefield, the soldiers from the two cities separated and followed the team to the villages.

The relatives surnamed Wei, He Yuan and others acted together with Chen Jian. That night, Xiacheng's army surrounded a village that originally belonged to the Acropolis but had already rebelled, and gathered all the people at the entrance of the village.

The relatives surnamed Wei who had lost their souls at this time were proud and took out their whips to beat the Xirong people who had just rebelled. Yuan secretly shook his head behind him.

These Xirong people are indeed not of the same mind with the Acropolis, but before the whipping, think clearly, will these people need to farm in the future?Or do you want to kill them all?If they were to be exterminated, the system of the Acropolis would have to be changed, otherwise they would not be able to support so many slave owners.

However, Chen Jian condoned the actions of these relatives surnamed Wei, and even asked the soldiers to help them maintain order, but he never allowed his own soldiers to do anything, and kept saying things that were both a watch and an archway.

This is an era when doing things needs to be justified. In other words, it is an era when people are relatively easy to be fooled by superiors.

Chen Jian explained the truth to those Xirong people: You used to be slaves of the Acropolis, as long as you worked hard, the people of the Acropolis would never kill you.But now that you are rebelling, you must know the consequences of rebellion, so for the sake of the Acropolis, all of you who participated in the rebellion must be killed.The Xiacheng people came here at the invitation of the Weicheng people. This is the land of the Weicheng city. It is these Wei relatives who decide your fate.

The relatives in the Acropolis didn't think so much, they just wanted to take revenge, so they used the most cruel criminal law in the Acropolis, tied a few cows to a few respected old people, and tore them apart to intimidate those rebels.

Some people even thought of Xiacheng's wooden cannons with great genius, and suggested that Chen Jian could tie people to the cannons and smash them to pieces, which would be more intimidating.Chen Jian blocked the past on the pretext that there were not many wooden cannons.

Yuan Yuan watched the deeds of these relatives surnamed Wei coldly, knowing that after this time, the whole Acropolis might change drastically.

These relatives rely on exploitation for support, and those families with surnames also rely on these slaves to live. Once the slaves are gone, what will happen to the Acropolis?

It seems that these relatives are angry at the rebellion of the Xirong people, but they can take a longer view, this is to dig the foundation of the Acropolis.

However, sometimes it needs to be properly tightened. Yuan understands that if the killing continues like this, there will be no possibility of reconciliation between Acropolis and the Xirong people in these villages. Even if they dare not resist for the time being, if there is any disturbance, it will be the same as this time. what to do?

However, he was just a cowherd without a surname, and after he raised his own doubts, he was pushed aside by saying that how could a countryman know how to manage slaves.

Chapter 93 Tri-Cities Alliance ([-])

Chen Jian hid in the distance and watched all this with cold eyes. He didn't have sympathy for these Xirong people, but he was used to this kind of cruelty and became numb, because he had killed many people, but he would never kill like this.Killing them all, and then distinguishing the high and the low from the same clan for exploitation, is too stupid.

Whoever is the winner and loser in this era will be enslaved or killed.The same is true in previous lives. Those who can persist in their ethnic group and culture from being exterminated during thousands of years of conquests are definitely not innocent people who are harmless to humans and animals.

It can be seen that not all of these relatives surnamed Wei were killed, and making such a gesture is a kind of deterrence.Slaughtering one side can only be done when the population of one's own side is sufficient, and the upper class can maintain the exploitation pyramid by exploiting the lower class.

When the population is insufficient, kill all the rebellious slaves, who will do the work?With less work and less exploitation, the class conflicts between slaves and aliens who are usually exploited will appear and expand, and someone must be at the bottom.

The three days of killing and deterrence have cost these rebellious villages a heavy price. It seems to be calm but undercurrents are surging.

In three days, Chen Jian led Xia Cheng's army to arrest nearly a thousand slaves from the village. Although those relatives surnamed Wei were heartbroken, they were helpless.Now that Xia Cheng has strong soldiers and horses, and has helped Weicheng a lot, he thinks that he is not Xia Cheng's opponent, so he can only accept it.

Three days later, Exia's coalition forces gathered at the agreed place, and some of them were separated to escort the slaves back, while the rest marched towards the Acropolis.

"This big victory, the Xirong people near the Acropolis should have escaped completely. I don't know if the people in the Acropolis seized the opportunity to go out of the city and attack those Xirong people to capture slaves?"

Chen Jian asked E Yue in the car, but E Yue didn't know that when the wolf led people to harass the Xirong people, he had already sent his riders to the Acropolis, so it is unknown whether he entered the city or not.

A total of six messenger riders were sent out, only two of them ran into the Acropolis.Although the Xirong people had no horses, they captured three horses and killed four people because of unfamiliar roads.

The two messengers who ran to the Acropolis entered the city easily because they were on horseback, and because their hair was tied up and they were dressed in sackcloth.

There were only two people, but Acropolis saw hope. The two cities of Xia'e really sent troops.

When the riders reported the news, the battle had not yet begun. Wei He dragged his wounded body to meet them, and told them loudly in front of everyone that the two cities of Xia'e would soon drive away the people of Xirong, but he did not ask where the two cities of Xia'e were coming from. How many people were killed.

When the Weicheng people began to cheer, the two envoys were invited into the room by Weihe, leaving only the most trusted relatives in the room.

"How many people did the two leaders, Ji Xia and E Yue, lead?"

"One thousand and eight."

The envoy reported a number very plainly, and Weihe's relatives trembled in their hearts. They were originally full of hope, but now they turned into disappointment.

One thousand and eight... The Xirong people are four or five times their number.

Weihe was also slightly disappointed in his heart, but he was still grateful and sighed: "Forget it, let the two leaders retreat into the Acropolis first, and we will defend the city. There is enough food, and we can wait until the people of Xirong are exhausted." attack."

The envoy paused and said, "Retreat into the Acropolis? Jixia didn't say that he would retreat into the Acropolis. He asked me to tell the leader of Weihe that he would lead people to fight the Xirong people in the wild. Let the leader of Weihe prepare soldiers. Seeing that the Xirong people were retreating, they immediately pursued them and captured the slaves. Ji Xia said that he was not familiar with the terrain here. If the Xirong people fled and retreated, the Acropolis had better pursue them. No settlement can pose a threat to the Acropolis."

"A decisive battle in the field?"

The people next to him gasped and shook their heads.They have fought with the Xirong people for many years. These Xirong people have become more and more difficult to deal with since they learned how to plant corn. They have also learned how to ambush and lure the enemy. The last time the valley was ambushed was a great lesson.