From Chief to Ball

Pointing to the feathered arrows on the wooden platform, he shouted: "In exchange for the feathered arrows that I regard as relatives! In exchange for the hatred of my brother! Could it be that he was bullied? Is the blame placed on the person being bullied?"

"Who shot the arrow? Go out of the city and confess now! Otherwise, the blood of the two clans will be shed because of you! I will bear it one last time, stand up and apologize, and don't let your clansman bleed!"

After the momentary calm on the battlefield, Chen Jian responded with a few feathered arrows from the chief tribe, which was his basic plan. Chen Jian knew that he would not let go of the most trusted person around him, otherwise everything he could rely on the most would fall apart. .

So Chen Jian pointed to the people who were pulling bows on the city wall and shouted: "This bloodshed between the same clan is caused by you. I will capture the city and use your heads as a sacrifice to your relatives!"

Pulling out Wufeng from his waist, he pointed at the city wall and swung it down. The war drums of Xiacheng played rhythm for the first time on the land thousands of miles away, and the humming pottery whistle and bone flute played the rhythm of footsteps. The story of the city began to be staged in front of Su Tang and everyone for the first time.

Dozens of people held their shields and pushed the "shield cart" filled with gunpowder, approaching the city wall with the creaking sound of the axles.

The archers behind them lined up, listened to the command of the corporals, raised their bows and arrows and began to shoot neatly. The infantry lined up to prevent the city from counterattacking.

Look at the sky, it’s still noon, it’s still a long time before the sun goes down, but it’s not long before the fall of the city, because the leader of the city is standing on the wall to boost the morale of the people and prevent them from thinking about what they heard and saw just now, He even held up his bow and arrow and shot at the approaching shield car—a shield car full of shock and death that he had never seen before.

Chapter 64 Armed Intervention ([-])

"Xiacheng's army is well-organized. I didn't believe those rumors at first, but now I see that it is possible. It's just that it may not be possible for a thousand people to break through ten thousand, but it is still possible for a thousand people to defeat Xirong San's 5000 people. I can't compare."

The leader hooked the feather arrow with his thumb, and while expressing emotion with his relatives, he tried to find the place where the people below showed their flaws, but he couldn't find the destination of the tail feather until the arrow was trembling.

The people below walked very slowly, so slow that the footsteps and the sound of drums beating in the distance were indistinguishable from each other, and there would be a temporary pause every twenty or thirty steps. People don't panic when they see nothing.

The suppressed archers behind them shot very accurately, and more than a dozen of the thirty or fifty feathered arrows landed on the city wall. This is a shocking accuracy.

The clansmen around the leader whispered: "Although the Xiacheng army is well-organized, there are not many people. We can't fight ten against one. We are not afraid of them attacking the city, but the stories played by those Xiacheng people on the wooden platform. At this time, people should be dispatched, once they climb out of the city and attack the city wall, they will surely win."

The leader shook his head and said: "I'm afraid that he still has ambushes all around, but once he sends people here, he will let people climb the city from the back. You also know that Xiacheng has kites and sky lanterns that can fly at night, thousands of miles apart. You can also see that once we send everyone here, what should we do if he raises his kite and hides behind his back? After leaving the city, it doesn’t take much, even if there are five hundred Xiacheng people like this, how can we defeat them in the wild? them?"

"Quickly gather the light and strong people in the city, and only wait in the city for support. The people below are staring at the wooden shields and pushing the wooden carts forward. They must want to dig the city wall. You also ask people to prepare some wood and stones, and wait until they get close. Then throw it down."

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Under the city, the first attacking soldiers had already approached the city wall under the cover of the shield cart, and slowly pushed the shield cart down near the wooden gate. Only three people were injured by arrows on the road, and the injuries were not serious.

They didn't look up to see what was happening above their heads, but they just mechanically listened to the sound of the flute, holding their wooden shields obliquely to try not to expose the gap. They believed that their leader would not let them die in vain, and they also believed that they played the flute and beat the drum behind them. The same robe and family, as long as you do what you want to do.

There was a sharp and long whistle, and the two corporals took out the lighted match, and tore off the bark wrapped on the wooden board, revealing the black hemp rope soaked in vinegar and saltpeter, wrapped in gunpowder, After making sure that he didn't retreat immediately after lighting it up, he took out a small hoe when he heard the whistle, dug up the city wall, and threw the soil beyond the wooden shield.

The loess continued to be thrown out, which confirmed the judgment of the leader on the city wall. Several people shouted and lifted up the wood and stones and were about to smash them down.

Chen Jian stared at the movement of the city wall from a distance, and ordered the archers to shoot rapidly to suppress the city wall, and at the same time whistled.

When the two boulders fell down the city wall, the soldiers under the city wall heard the flute of the soldiers retreating slowly, and they retreated little by little with their shields tilted as before instead of fleeing in a swarm. Chen Jian had already told them before the battle started The corporal leaders will inform the soldiers of the details of the battle, so that everyone knows the planned advances and retreats.If an accident occurs, it will depend on daily rigorous training and discipline to maintain combat effectiveness.

After the archers quickly shot five arrows, their strength was exhausted, but the people of the same clan under the city wall had also retreated thirty steps away from the attack of stones and logs.

On the city, a person shouted: "Boss, the Xiacheng people are retreating! At this time, when they go out to attack the city, they are only thirty or fifty steps away from the city gate, and their archers and Sucheng people are a hundred and thirty steps away from them. We are enough to fight against those people." Destroy the shield-raisers below before supporting them!"

The leader laughed loudly and said: "They retreated, not defeated. They neither threw down their wooden shields, nor ran away like a mouse with their heads in their arms. I think Jixia must be trying to lure me out of the city. I have fought with the old leader for many years. His tricks You can’t lie to me. You should also learn from it. If the enemy’s flag does not fall when he retreats, and his spear and spear are not pulled, he must not pursue him.”

The man nodded in agreement, deeply impressed, and realized that he was not as good as the leader after all, so he firmly remembered these words.

Chen Jian in the distance was sweating. From coming to this city to now, the most dangerous moment is now. The people he sent out are all elite fighters, and only some archers and flutes are left around. Once the people in the city seized the time difference when those people were away from the army and attacked them, all previous efforts would be in vain.

When the people in front retreated to about fifty paces, Chen Jian finally breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and told Su Tang, "You take the soldiers from Sucheng back a hundred paces, and tell the soldiers to block their ears and not be afraid. Prepare to hit."

Su Tang looked at the shield chariot in the distance, although he knew that Xiacheng had the fire potion, but he didn't know whether that thing could really turn the situation around, so he led the soldiers into two teams with suspicion, and walked back alternately twenty steps Walk.

After the Xiacheng infantry in front retreated to the direct range of the bow and arrow, Chen Jian told the archers to retreat again, and then heard cheers from the city wall.

"Jixia, is this what you mean by entering the city before the sun sets? I have never seen you Xiacheng people who burned and killed my people enter our city, but I saw you abandoning it under the city." pickaxe."

"You judge my heart with the heart of a villain. I'm afraid Jixia is the leader in that drama, right? Birds don't know how fish can swim in water. You swim happily in the water, but you accuse the noble heron in the sky of being a shrimp in the mud Clam, isn't it ridiculous?"

"You couldn't win quickly, so you had to send people into the city the night before to set fire and kill people to make the city chaotic, but you didn't admit it, and instead accused us of shooting the first arrow. How could people who don't know right from wrong get elected by the clan? Said that you Xiacheng people are all like you, and you are the most extreme, so they chose you?"

The curses that aroused the superiority of the same clan continued to come, and the deliberately severed kinship made the people in the city follow the leader with a kind of superior joy of victory to insult Chen Jian and the retreating Xiacheng soldiers. When he didn't hear it, he asked the two corporal leaders and got the news that they confirmed that the match had been lit, and smiled at the city wall.

The people around him held out a match of the same length that was lit when the whistle was blown. Chen Jian calculated the time and asked the soldiers to light the match.

Seeing that there was still time, Chen Jian took a few steps forward, and shouted under the cover of the wooden shield: "Who is right or wrong is not determined by victory or defeat. Is it right for you to win temporarily? You are doing it, and the souls of your ancestors are watching. You know what you have done, and you will be condemned by heaven and earth. When you die, what face will you have to meet your ancestors who overcame thorns and built cities? To face the same people who were burned to death by you?"

"I said I was able to capture the city, but I didn't want to kill or injure my relatives, so I asked them to withdraw. You haven't bound yourself to admit your mistake, so I have no choice but to order someone to attack again! Those who don't know me, call me Crazy nonsense, I am afraid that only the ancestors of heaven and earth can know my intentions..."

What responded to Chen Jian was laughter and cursing from the city, as if they had heard the biggest joke in the world, they had already retreated but they were still saying that they did not want their relatives to bleed, and in the end they only heard Chen Jian's intentionally shouted long sigh , and then saw Chen Jian leading the people back into the bushes.

Chapter 65 Armed Intervention (End)

When the fire rope in Chen Jian's hand burned to the end, he was already lying behind a tree. The previous yelling was delayed for some time, and the leader of the city did not go far even if he left.

The soldiers in Xiacheng knew that there would be a lot of commotion in a short while. They had never seen so much gunpowder being used at one time. The few people who bombed the mine with Chen Jian had seen at most thirty or fifty catties of gunpowder. At the same time, the power of the explosion is full of expectations for the explosion of hundreds of catties of gunpowder contained in this wooden board.

The mouthpieces that need to be fought and the archways that need to be erected have been erected, and the rest is to rely on strength to speak. Chen Jian is very confident about this. Even if all the people in a city with thousands of people are soldiers, it will only be one or two thousand organization degrees and training degrees. Insufficient clansmen, street fighting in the narrow streets can't impact this group of soldiers who have been out of production for more than two years.

The soldiers said with a triumphant smile: "The group of people also said that we Xiacheng people can't attack the city before the sun sets, so let's let them know!"

Chen Jian seized the last time to do the last political work before the shock.

"At the beginning of this battle, I said that it is reasonable to divide into ten parts, and three parts to seven parts. After entering the city, no one is allowed to mention their insulting Xia Cheng. They were deceived by the leader. , this point must be clear. Don’t insult them, don’t show off your power, especially don’t say anything about the gap between the two cities. People who win with their mouths are ridiculous, we don’t rely on this to win.”

"Keep in mind that we are here to help the relatives in these cities not to be deceived by a bad leader, not to prove that the Xiacheng people are better than them, nor to interfere with their choices and overthrow the leaders they elected ...they've already failed, and there's no need for them to think we're insulting them after they've failed."

"You are not allowed to rob other people's property. There are still a lot of land and villages in the west of Xia City. Compared with the things you rob, that is your real reward. The fief of wolf skin has captured so many slaves in half a year. You can rob How much? You have to tell the difference between the big and the small! Anyone who loots will never be banned, and the accumulated merits will be lost. Anyone who instigates, insults, and scolds the previous city wall will have their merits halved."

Not long after, a violent flash came from the side of the city wall, and the sound reached the woods after the thick gunpowder smoke rose. The ground was trembling, and the board flew up to the sky more than ten steps high, as if the whole city was shaking Even though the distance was so far, the violent shock still made Chen Jian's heart tremble a little. He took a few gulps and then looked at the warriors in Sucheng in the distance, their faces turned pale with fright, and they stared blankly at the mushroom-like smoke rising from the city wall.

The city gate made of wood has been blown to pieces. Hundreds of catties of black gunpowder burned instantly in the sealed wooden plank to shatter the wooden plank. More than 30 people near the city wall were directly shocked to death. There was no wound on their bodies, but their internal organs The shock was already broken, and bleeding continued to flow from the ears and eyes. The few who survived seemed to have lost their souls, unable to stand still, their heads blank, and they looked stupid.

Their ears could no longer hear the sound, only the humming echo. When the people who were a little far away woke up from the nightmare just now, they only saw the soldiers of Xia City rushing to the shattered city gate with their mouths wide open. , Shouting something did not hear clearly, but they have no heart to resist, looked up at the sun... It was still early before the sunset.

When Su Tang in the bushes came to his senses, Chen Jian had already led Xiacheng's soldiers to rush there first, but the soldiers he brought were still immersed in the horror just now, and moved a hundred steps away from Xiacheng's team. A messenger from Xiacheng beside him kept urging: "Please ask Su Tang to lead the warriors of Sucheng to attack. It is a big taboo for the two armies to be separated by a hundred steps. If they are farther away, I will be punished as a messenger!"

Only then did Su Tang regain his senses, and asked people to hurry up to follow, but those Xiacheng people ran too fast. They ran very slowly at the distance of 200 steps, and when they were [-] or [-] steps away from the gap, they suddenly accelerated but couldn't do it. Very neat impact.The people on my side started rushing from [-] steps away, but when they ran more than [-] steps, their legs were sore and panting.

When he was near the gap, Su Tang looked at the scorched adobe and the fried planks that were deeply inserted into the soil, and swallowed.

Several defenders of the city lay motionless on the ground, bleeding from their seven orifices, their eyes wide open, their faces still had expressions from before they died, as if they were laughing, their clothes were still intact, and there was no wound at all.

The weird smile that remained on his face added a bit of horror. Su Tang was pleasantly surprised to think that when his father fought with the Dongyi people, the Dongyi people occupied the city several times and were unable to defend and attack. The Dongyi people can always come to the decisive battle with the whole clan, and the two sides can only fight with heavy casualties.

"Xiacheng is now forming an alliance with me, Sucheng, maybe... maybe my father can really do what Huadu failed to do back then! I... I may not be just the leader of Sucheng, but a vast, powerful leader from the shore of the East China Sea. The leader who has traveled thousands of miles to the source of the great river..."

The frenzied Sutang suddenly felt that the choking and bitter gunpowder smoke was the best smell in the world, so he clenched the bronze sword gifted by Chen Jian in his hand, and swung it down like Chen Jian did. Pointing directly at the city, but compared to the iron sword wielded by Chen Jian, which is more decorative than actual, his bronze sword is always much shorter and lacks momentum.

The people of Xiacheng shouted loudly in the distance: "Catch the sinner who burned his own people alive and let him be judged! The people of Xiacheng didn't come to fight you, they came to let you recognize this leader with a human face and a heart! You came out of his deception!"

Su Tang looked up, and found that those who played the flute and whistle had seized the heights of several houses, and were shouting these meaningless words in his opinion, even many archers put down their bows and did the same thing, There was only a group of soldiers with swords and shields fighting with a group of people in front of them, but the other party had already started to be confused, especially after a few loud noises, several swords and shields soldiers were talking to Chen Jian with a person on their shoulders.