From Chief to Ball

Moreover, although Qiong Xi's face was disdainful for the words about victory or defeat, her eyes couldn't help but look at the iron objects, reminiscing about the vertical and horizontal ditches seen outside.

Disdain is because he needs disdain, not because the words themselves can make him disdain.

He knew that what he said was true. If cattle farming and these weird farming methods were really spread among the tribes of Dahe, ten years... let alone ten years, how could his own group resist it in six or seven years?

He is not afraid of those black gunpowder at all, and he is not afraid of those horses that can be ridden and galloped. This thing is just like the curved bow that he invented. It can change a battle, but it cannot change a group.

On the contrary, he was really frightened by these strange farm tools, and even more curious about the young man who was said to be about his own age, whom he had never met.

That being said, it didn't make Qiongxi fall into despair. At least he had learned this farming method. Even if he didn't have iron tools, he still had a lot of cattle.Many of the slaves captured know this farming method, and it's not impossible for them to learn it.

Moreover, if you want to deal with a person, you don't necessarily have to use a military formation to fight against each other.

He thought for two days, and from the stories told by everyone, he sorted out what was going on in Xiacheng, and also sorted out the current situation of the Dahe tribes.

Two days later, Qiongxi found several Fengcheng residents who had surrendered.

"I will let you go, but I will leave your relatives behind. You need to send a message to the leader of Suyue: Yucheng is too close to Sucheng. Where will Sucheng be in ten years? Xiacheng is in the northwest, far away from our Dongyi. It's on."

A few people thought about these strange words, and after making sure they remembered them, Qiongxi let them go.

And then, a group of captured people were found, and they announced one thing in public: "We have come to attack you, not because of your mutual enmity, but because I dreamed of the soul of my dead father, and also dreamed of a strange scene. The sun Does not rise from the east, but rises from the far northwest. When this sun rises to its highest point, the river will dry up, everything will be scorched, and my people will perish like you. I will find this man and kill him .If I can't find it, I'll keep going west until I find this man!"

The soul of this era is a terrible and respectable thing, and no one will lie about the soul of a dead relative—of course, those who like to lie about the soul advocate it.

These words are very soulful, weird and terrifying, and at the same time make people feel something vaguely.

Qiongxi gave the group of captives some food and drove them away without saying anything else.

Afterwards, he found people in his clan who were proficient in the languages ​​of the various tribes of Dahe, who were also his two most trusted clan brothers, and asked him to secretly meet with them with his message.

"Tell the leader of Suyue, if I kill Jixia, I will lose the battle and give up the six cities close to you. The prestige of the leader of Suyue will be the same as that of Hua back then. Tell him that keeping dogs is for killing and eating Meat, kill the dog when it has devoured its master, it is already too late."

"Let's tell the leader of Suyue that without everything in Xiacheng, Suyue is still Suyue. But when everything in Xiacheng spreads across the river, Suyue will just be Suyue."

This is the first person.The second person wants to see another.

"Find someone to take you to Yucheng and find Jixia. Tell him, I want ironware, Xiacheng's farming methods, and even Xiacheng's students and more than a hundred people."

"If he is willing, let him transport what I want to our city. Once it arrives, let him lead people to the battle. I will pretend to be invincible, and I will take the initiative to give him half of the slaves, so that the tribes of Dahe will think it is him. Even as long as he no longer provides these things to the cities of the Dahe Tribes, I will destroy Sucheng within three years."

"In three years, isn't Jixia's prestige enough to command the tribes of Dahe? At that time, Sucheng will be used as the boundary, and the west will return to Xiacheng. I will never go beyond it, because I can't control it if I want it to be useless. He will understand what I meant."

The clan brother shook his head and said, "Will he believe it?"

"If he is not stupid, he will believe it."

"Then what do we do next?"

"Continue to go west and capture a few cities before Suyue comes back. The gunpowder captured can blow through the city walls. Anyway, we don't know how to prepare it. We will use it up this time. A weapon can't change anything, I'm even more afraid Those ox farming iron tools and those Chinese people in Xiacheng."

Qiong Xi rubbed her eye sockets, showing a tired look for the first time.

Chapter 33 Attention

Since it was decided to continue to attack the cities of the Dahe tribes before Suyue's army returned, Qiongxi rewarded the clansmen who followed the expedition in Fengcheng.The captured more than 1 slaves were distributed to [-] of the clans, and he kept a small half, and asked someone to escort a group of slaves back to the land of Dongyi.

Although Fengcheng experienced turmoil two years ago, the subsequent recuperation and gradual agricultural reforms have allowed the city to accumulate a lot of wealth and food, which is enough for Qiongxi's army to eat.

After resting in Fengcheng for more than ten days, a few young men from the nearby Dongyi City came to guard Fengcheng.Qiongxi encouraged the various clans, coupled with the momentum created by the rapid destruction of the city and the plundered slaves, the confidence of the leaders was greatly boosted, and they decided to continue westward, at least to plunder more iron pots and the like.

Afterwards, another city was breached, using the gunpowder obtained in Fengcheng and some people who took refuge in the city, they dug up the city wall and buried half of the captured gunpowder underneath, blasting the city wall and easily tearing apart the city's defenses.

Another big victory, Qiongxi's prestige broke through the sky for a while, and the clan leaders were overwhelmed, because they plundered thousands of slaves, as well as a large amount of food, iron, cattle and horses.

However, after that, Qiongxi's more than ten thousand army encountered trouble.

Many scouts on horseback began to follow them, either wandering around the army, or taking the opportunity to harass some lonely people.

The casualties caused were not large, but seriously disrupted the speed of the team's advancement.

Qiong Xi is not afraid of these riders, these riders can only attack with javelins, the distance is very close, and they can't get close to a large army of archers.

But these riders were obviously soldiers of Xia City, which made Qiong Xi feel a little uneasy, always feeling that the person named Ji Xia was staring at her secretly like a poisonous snake.

There are not many people in Xiacheng, this is what he knows, it is said that there are only a thousand people in the newly built Yucheng, and the rest are slaves.

Naturally, he is not afraid of facing the enemy, but he is afraid that when he attacks other cities, he will be very uncomfortable if these Xiacheng people harass him from behind.

Now that everyone in the cities of Dahe is in danger, and Suyue is away, no one can persuade the clans of the cities to gather together, because those cities are worried that they will repeat the mistakes of Fengcheng, and this is an opportunity to defeat them individually .

As time goes on, more and more riders are harassed, and they will take advantage of riding horses to continue to create some chaos in the early morning and delay time.

But once the army array gathers and the archers take the bow, the group of riders will disperse in a herd, and there is almost no direct conflict.Qiongxi captured more than a dozen horses in Fengcheng, but he couldn't ride them at all. The people in Fengcheng who could ride were all new surrenders, so he couldn't believe it.Who knows if this group of people will flee back on horseback, so he sent those people and the stolen horse back to Dongyi.

In charge of the army, scouts are naturally important, but the scouts sent by Qiongxi can only control the situation within [-] to [-] miles, and the range of activities of those Xiacheng scouts is farther away.

At the end of June, Qiongxi personally commanded and lured seven Xiacheng riders into the mud pond.After arresting three and killing four, it turned out that Xia Cheng's army had already dispatched to a place called "Mo".

Xiacheng's strategic intentions were only communicated to the officers above the centurion, and the captured people didn't know what to do, but they told about the various changes in Yucheng in the past two months.

Qiongxi was the political leader of the Dongyi tribes first, and then the military leader, so he was extremely surprised by what happened in Yucheng, and he couldn't believe that he would be able to calm down after two months.

Especially after hearing the oath of continuing to send troops to resist Dongyi regardless of the civil strife in Xiacheng, Qiong Xi was convinced that the leader of Xiacheng was by no means the kind of person who only cared about one city and one city.

He only believed half of the captives' interrogation, but he was sure that there were not many soldiers in Xia City, at most three thousand to four thousand, and it was the right time to defeat them in one fell swoop.

As for the chariot riders in Xia City, Qiong Xi wasn't worried either.

I have more than 6000 warriors and more than 7000 clan soldiers in my hands. The disparity in strength cannot be overcome by a few horses.Widen the front and reserve 2000 people to defend the two wings, which are still twice the size of the opposite side.If the opposite side does not widen the front, your own two wings can outflank; if you widen it to the same extent as yourself, the front line will inevitably be weak, and the entire front line will collapse if one part is broken through.

In a month's time, it is impossible to build a city that can be used as a barrier. The place called Mo is a simple camp.

Since the leader on the opposite side wants to do great things, he must face him.As long as these unexpected enemies are eliminated, at least Suyue's army will be able to roam the land of the Dahe tribes for a while before the return of Suyue's army in September, and the strength of Xiacheng can be greatly weakened.

He didn't take Su Yue seriously at all, as long as Xiacheng's army was defeated, the internal contradictions in Xiacheng would completely split the city, and Yucheng's flesh would make many cities of the big rivers jealous. That's the long-term consideration.

Without the sudden appearance of Xiacheng, Qiongxi only needs to contact those Dahe clans that have withdrawn from the covenant, attack once a year after spring planting, and plundering back [-] slaves will make Dongyi stronger and Dahe tribes weaker. One point is also more conducive to his prestige and reputation among the various ethnic groups in Dongyi.

But the [-] slaves plundered back now can't keep up with the annual output of [-] head of cattle and [-] plowshares, and it is said that Yucheng can produce several times the amount of iron every year. This is what troubles him the most. The place.

Faced with this situation, on the eve of Qiongxi in early July, it was finally decided to go south to the "mo" along the river.

When he was going on an expedition, he sent someone to send news to several nearby cities. This time, he only attacked the people of Xiacheng. If there was a city going out, he would move his troops to capture this city first.

The chiefs of those cities near Fengcheng breathed a sigh of relief. They also knew that once Xiacheng was defeated, they would not be able to protect themselves, but if Xiacheng and the Dongyi people fought until Suyue returned to his teacher in September, everything would be easy. , Many of his clansmen also fulfilled their obligations to form an alliance and followed Awayake in order to share the spoils. At this time, they could only defend themselves and could not fight in the field.

After these cities were threatened by Qiongxi, they also sent people to the place where Xiacheng's army was stationed.