From Chief to Ball

After dawn, the relatives and nobles in Mou City were half dead with anger, and their fields were in a mess.Half of it is public land, and the other half is its own private land.

They already knew the news that a group of people from the Dahe tribe with black and white flags went deep here, because people from Xucheng came to report the news a few days ago. The number of people is not large, but this group of people is extremely hateful.

Two consecutive villages were destroyed, and a large area of ​​farmland was ruined. This group also attacked people who transported salt and jade from the east, and a village near the jade mine was also harassed.

The 300 people under Ji Bo have been trained for many years, and there are more than 100 veterans who have participated in the Battle of Yangguan. many.

Not all the slaves in the jade mine were from the tribes of Dahe, but most of them were the losers of the Dongyi clan. They were all a group of forces that could be borrowed, but Chen Jian gave Ji Bai an order not to take them for now.

Just making the gesture of going to harass, the people in Mou City couldn't bear it.The most elite part of the tribe in Mou City followed Qiongxi to fight, but the city could still put together a mobile force of 5000 people without counting slaves.

Fighting at the door of the house is completely different from fighting outside. The clansmen are soldiers, and the soldiers are clansmen. This structural model of military-civilian integration is also divided into levels.

Those who have been able to train with high combat skills since childhood are part of it, and a large number of civilians are another part.These civilians have certain military training and can be quickly organized into clans, but they cannot follow expeditions, nor can they allocate large amounts of slave land.

However, since there were only 300 people on the opposite side, and the clan meeting in the city was convinced that if an army from the various tribes of the Great River came, there would be no movement at all, so they decided to send troops outside the city to chase and eliminate this group of 300 people.

The behavior of the group of people on the opposite side burning fields and blowing up the dam seriously angered the people of Moucheng. When the female leader proposed to go to the National People's Congress, thousands of hoarse cheers overwhelmingly defeated those who were opposed. .

Soon, a team of 3000 people organized by the clan gathered in the city, and went out of the city after dawn to chase and kill the more than 300 people.

Ji Bai hid in the woods, and after confirming that troops were dispatched from the opposite side, he immediately sent people back to report.

He himself led the rest of the black-clothed guards to retreat continuously. Retreating requires skill. This group of people who have been training for several years walked very slowly and even panicked, but in fact the formation was still neat and not completely dispersed. escape.

Along the way, some dry food belts were thrown away, and Ji Bo even had some gunpowder bombs and a few spare copper swords thrown down, but he kept his speed under control while retreating.

Chen Jian has been hiding in the col, and gave Ji Bai's order very early.

Once the nationals of Moucheng came out to pursue them armed, Ji Bo had to control his speed.

If it is a daybreak pursuit, then it is necessary to arrive at the ambush site before the sun sets in the afternoon. At that time, the setting sun is about to set, and it is hard to spot people hiding in the hills when looking from east to west.

If you start chasing at noon, then you have to slow down, and you can even sneak attack on the opponent's camp once at night, so that the opponent can reach the ambush site the next morning, not in the evening of the same day, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the enemy.

After receiving Ji Bai's report, Chen Jian began to arrange the pockets.

The full-time black-clothed troops of the relatives and noble children of the rest of the cities crossed the river and hid in the woods on the east bank of the river.

As the main force, spearmen and archers were divided into three teams, some were in charge of breaking the rear, some were attacking at the waist, and the other were hiding in the front, waiting for the black guards led by Ji Bai to meet up with them to cut off the head.

As long as there is still a way to retreat, the opponent's will to fight will not be too tenacious, so Chen Jian deliberately chose this river that is not too wide or too deep as the way of retreat for the soldiers of the Moucheng people.

Once the battle begins, the army on your side will not attack in a single line, but will be divided into three groups to cut the opponent in half, relying on the advantages of the phalanx to gradually squeeze the opponent.

He wasn't sure about the willpower and combat effectiveness of the opposing army, so he didn't dare to pull into a front line and attack across the board, otherwise he would lose his greatest advantage in formation.

Once the opponent can't bear it, they will retreat from the river. After all, there is still a way out.

The rout retreated to the left bank of the river. At that time, the organizational system had been broken up and completely chaotic, and the people who crossed the river must have fled scatteredly. It would take time to gather.

The off-duty soldiers hidden in various cities on the opposite side were the main force of the capture and massacre, and they were also a gift from Chen Jian to curry favor with these children, but they may not be so kind and have ulterior motives.

Chapter 39 Dongyi Shock ([-])

The art of war originated from hunting, and it has been sublimated in constant battles.

Mou Chengqin, who was chasing Ji Bai, was well versed in the art of hunting, so he divided his 3000 men into three teams, one team chased forward and forced Ji Bai to flee, and the latter two teams followed.

Both sides need to rest, but the two teams in the rear maintain a normal speed. When Ji Bo rests, the chasing team in front also rests, and the team behind maintains a normal speed to launch a fast pursuit.

Just like chasing a herd of deer, the continuous pursuit gives the herd no time to rest, and the speed will become slower and slower to catch up with the encirclement and slaughter.

The physical exertion of moving forward at a constant speed is far less than that of running suddenly and stopping suddenly. Not only humans, but even packs of wolves know this truth when they are hunting.

After chasing for a long time, the leader felt a little weird.The people in black clothes on the opposite side didn't run very fast, and it seemed that they could catch up just a little bit, but they couldn't get over it.

Even the thousand-man team that was chasing again from my own side chased too fast, and those people on the opposite side took the opportunity to fight back. Fortunately, they were not too far away from the people behind, and they might be soldiers from the Dahe tribe in black. Worried about being stuck, he eventually ran away.

The 300 people led by Ji Bai left a deep impression on the people of Moucheng. The quality of this group of people is comparable to the tribal warriors trained by Qiongxi himself. If there were only 500 people chasing them, it is possible that this group of people would not run away at all but counterattack directly. eat up.

Because of this, the leading relatives are determined to catch up with this group of people, because once this group of people flees to the vicinity of the jade mine, it will definitely cause a great sensation, and the guards of the jade mine are definitely not the opponents of this group of people .

After chasing for a day, the team was exhausted, and the prey seemed to be exhausted.They may flee at night, but scattered fleeing is only a dead end, and it is difficult to gather when the establishment is scattered. This is the law of war in this era. Unless it is fighting near one's own city, there is absolutely no such thing as dispersing and fleeing to break through.

So the leader is sure that the other party will also rest this night, and they will not be able to run tomorrow without rest. Now it is the end of the month and the beginning of the month, and the night is so dark that there is not even a moon, so there is no way to escape on such a night.

It was already afternoon at this time, the sun was hanging in the west, and it was about to fall far away.

A layer of clouds blocked the sunlight, and only some fantastic beams of light emerged from the cracks in the clouds, scattering the phantoms of the clouds to the ground.

Ji Bai knew that this was Chen Jian's planned battlefield, so he looked west casually. Sure enough, the sun was dazzling and the whole forest was dyed into a white smear, and the surroundings were eerily quiet. With the army.

But he believed that the army of his city was already lurking on the top of the mountain.

Indeed, Chen Jian was indeed lurking on the mountain, watching the movement below, but frowning slightly.

The chasing team was very long, and the front and back were clearly defined. Those who were in charge of the pursuit in the front needed to sprint continuously to consume the energy of Ji Bo and others, while those in the back moved forward at a normal speed to save energy.

The team of more than 3000 people formed an extremely long formation, with a gap of about two miles in the middle.

At this time, Ji Bai had already arrived at the foot of the mountain, but Chen Jian did not let anyone blow the whistle to attack, and the fighter plane had not yet appeared.

"If it doesn't work, let the 1000 people in front go there first, and ambush the 2000 people behind."

This is an unavoidable situation, because the ambush of these 3000 people is not a tactical purpose, but a strategic purpose.

These 3000 people should be the mobile force that Moucheng can piece together.Once these 3000 people are eaten, the cities of Dongyi will fall into a deadly situation: if they are eaten, it will prove that a team under 3000 people is meaningless, and no city will dare to come to chase with only 4000 people.

So the Dongyi people either put together an army of [-] people from each city, or they had to cut off contact with each city, strictly guard against their own destiny, and wait for Qiongxi to return to the army, watching Chen Jian wandering around and setting fires everywhere.

And to piece together an army of [-] people, it would take at least a month in terms of the power structure of Dongyi City.

This is the hinterland of Dongyi, and it is meaningless for the fleeing Dongyi people to quickly run back by relying on their familiarity with the terrain.

The people around were waiting for Chen Jian's order, Chen Jian sighed and made up his mind to only eat half of it.

But at this moment, the situation below took a turn for the worse. Ji Bo, who had already walked out of the narrow passage along the river, suddenly roared a few times, and then he suddenly turned around with the 300 people under him, and it seemed that the entire team was chasing after the Thousands. lap.

Just like a cornered beast's dying counterattack, this sudden change made Chen Jian couldn't help giving a soft compliment, and took down the Tao whistle already in his mouth, his heart pounding.

This change also overjoyed the nobles of Moucheng who followed behind. In his opinion, this group of people in black knew that the night was hard and they would die sooner or later. They had already decided to fight to the death. .

Looking at the black-clothed enemies who were screaming in the distance and preparing to fight to the death, the nobleman keenly seized the opportunity: "All come forward! Attack!"

The fighter plane was fleeting, and the more than 2000 people around them experienced a moment of confusion from marching to attacking, no longer caring about their physical strength, and ran forward quickly to join the battle.

Those troops in black may be brave, but it is impossible to eat the 1000 people in front. As long as they stick together, the 2000 people here will join the battlefield and it will be a ten-on-one battle, and they will win no matter what.