From Chief to Ball

Enemies will always discover what they can learn earlier than their allies, and they also understand that they may be able to learn something about Xia City and bring about some changes in their own city. They had no chance at first, but now they have a chance.

Vaguely, Qiongxi seemed to understand something—this is indeed a bad thing now, but the matter has come to this point, and accepting it may not have a good side.

This trance-like understanding stems from a message.

There are many relatives who were taken away near my own city, and they conveyed a message mixedly in a panicked tone: Xiacheng people are stationed by the river three hundred miles to the west, and they hope that the two sides can exchange information there. relatives.It is also suggested that the two sides make an oath not to attack each other or even exchange various goods with each other within three years. In order to ensure that the oath can be carried out, the captured sages within the clan can be kept as hostages.

Qiongxi breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that Xiacheng had to rest, and obviously this kind of exchange was not that simple, and it was not like a mythical hero who saved his relatives who were reduced to slaves. A tacit dirty deal for each other's purposes.

He felt that he had guessed the other party's mind, so he became happy.

Things have come to this point, there is no point in mourning the sky and the earth, only by following the trend can there be a possibility of victory in the future.

He put the plundered slaves into his own city, and sent a large number of envoys to inform the cities of Dongyi in the name of clan leaders, so that all the cities that did not know the power of Xiacheng people knew about Xiacheng. The news that people broke through the three cities and plundered the three cities as slaves.

Accompanied by these deliberate news, and his conscription order in the name of the leaders of the various clans, he asked each clan to send out people as a mobile force to defend against the Xiacheng people, and to take out one-third of the warriors from his own army to enrich the army. The team is responsible for guarding the surrounding cities.

He himself brought the remaining 7000 people who were full of anger, and headed towards the agreed place.He is not afraid of the Xiacheng army in field battles, what he is afraid of is the speed of the Xiacheng people's mobility, which makes him have no chance to fight the enemy in the field.

In any case, the 35-year long war in the Chinese calendar did not make Qiongxi lose confidence. He firmly believed that even if his 7000 men could not break through the defense of the Xiacheng people, the Xiacheng people would also be unable to eat him. It will surround the Xiacheng people so that they have nowhere to go.Believe in your own judgment even more, the leader on the opposite side is definitely as ambitious as yourself.

The news of this era originally moved very slowly, but with the news that Qiongxi deliberately asked people to spread and recruit, the entire Dongyi knew the terrible event that happened this autumn: Xiacheng of the Dahe tribes, with a The power of the city penetrated deep into the hinterland of Dongyi, smashed three cities in a row, and plundered tens of thousands of people.

In the autumn of the 35th year of the Chinese calendar, Dongyi was shaken, and all the tribes were shocked. By the end of next summer, the name of Xiacheng was spread to the coast of the East China Sea.

Chapter 50 New Hwaseong

More than two hundred miles to the west, Chen Jian chose the foothold in the hinterland of Dongyi.

Xiacheng's army has returned to rest for a few days, and is assessing meritorious service and conducting publicity, telling them that the battle is not over yet, and they must prevent the Dongyi people from counterattacking.

There are three cities, one big, two small, and more than 2 Dongyi people who have been enslaved are busy here, eagerly looking forward to the return of Qiongxi, and worrying about their own fate.

Chen Jian told them that they could be exchanged back, but there were not so many people returned by Qiong Xi, who would be exchanged back?Who will be left as slaves?

All kinds of speculation circulated among these poor captured people. Many people knew that they might not be able to be exchanged back, but they had no way to resist this fate.

Chen Jian broke up the population of the three cities and organized them according to the method of mixing rich and poor with surnames and no surnames.More than half of the people captured by each team may be exchanged back, and some of them are definitely unable to be exchanged, plus some who do not know whether they can be exchanged back.

He didn't prevent these people from communicating and talking in private, but he restricted their activities, and it was strictly forbidden to connect in private and only allowed to stay in his own team.

Since there is hope of being rescued without fighting, it is difficult to resist fiercely.After the implementation of the Liansi law, some people who were convinced that they could be exchanged took the initiative to report their escape plans several times, and the distrust between people and the hatred between classes gradually emerged.

These more than 2 people are not all the population that Chen Jian plundered.

It is easy to identify more than 200 relatives of the previously looted Dahe tribes who were slaves in Dongyi.

Since they are relatives, at least in publicity, they have the same ancestors, so they didn't feel anything in the past.But being in the enemy's land and the fate of being slaves made them feel the warmth of the ethnic group at this time, and became Chen Jian's most assured group of vassals.

This group of vassals does not have strong combat effectiveness, but they can be trusted with strong fighting spirit. They dare not use them in field battles, but they can be used for defense.

In addition to these people, there were more than 2000 foreign slaves who defected in the battle.Chen Jian didn't trust them too much.Some slogans can be shouted in Dongyi but cannot be shouted back to the tribes of Dahe, such as slaves rebelling, otherwise they will become the target of public criticism, so how to treat this group of people is also a very serious problem.

When the battle was going on, it was nothing more than shouting the slaves' words of resistance. After the relatives and heirs of the cities felt the joy of victory, they were already quite dissatisfied with these words.Chen Jian had no choice but to give in, stop promoting these things, and try to downplay them as much as possible.

The more than 2000 defected slaves Chen Jian only used them to guard the Dongyi captives. The oppressed hatred in the past was very qualified and strict as guards, and they could also liberate Xiacheng's field forces.

Before Qiongxi arrived, Dongyi slaves who could be exchanged or who could not be exchanged needed to be busy with a lot of work to build this foothold into a simple city suitable for defense.

The location here is excellent. It has just penetrated into Dongyi but is not in the deepest part of Dongyi. It is close to the big river and can take advantage of Xiacheng's boats for supplies, and the direct flow of the big river is a natural barrier.

Behind the hills and swamps is a long and narrow triangle with a length of more than ten miles and a width of six to seven miles. It is enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people without being too crowded, and the terrain is not low.

The swamp on the right side of the mountain is connected to the big river, and the water is stronger than before, making it difficult to pass there.There are boats from Xiacheng on the river, and the only way to enter the triangle between the two rivers and one mountain is to attack from the hills.

The terrain of the three to four mile-long hill was steep and gentle, and most of the original trees on the hill had been cut down. These slaves were forced to dig the soil to build the city wall, and built a passable road under the hillside close to the swamp, but Two high walls were built on the road.

Many caves were dug on the hills near the inner side to store food and supplies. This was done a month ago. Now that there are more slaves, the work will be done faster.

The city wall along the mountain is very similar to the Great Wall, but it is too short, and many places are not stones but rammed earth layers, and even some steep places do not even have rammed earth walls.

The trees more than ten miles in front of the mountain have been burned clean, standing on the hill and looking forward, you can have a clear view.

Whether it was the Xiacheng people or the relatives and noble children of those cities, at first they thought that Chen Jian was just defending against Qiong Xi's possible counterattack, but later when Chen Jian asked these slaves to build houses, these people felt that something was wrong.

If it is just to refuse to wait until Qiongxi comes to end the negotiations, there is no need to build houses.

Some rumors that the army will be stationed here for a long time began to spread in the army. The soldiers were exhausted after going out for two months. Besides, the civil strife in Xiacheng had not subsided yet. They hoped to put down the civil strife in Xiacheng first. After all, there And his own tribe.A dozen or so people with great prestige among the soldiers were selected, hoping that they could ask Jixia what was going on, but the time they set was after the exchange with Qiongxi was completed.

The envoys and relatives and heirs of the other cities also hope to go back soon. They want to show their spoils to their parents, brothers and clansmen, and tell them about their victories and exploits.In their view, this kind of victory is enough, but if there is no tribe to share, what is the difference between wearing gorgeous clothes and walking on the night road without people?

They were not bound by Xiacheng's military regulations, and they were unscrupulous when they asked questions. More than 20 young people found Chen Jian who was checking the terrain planning map on the top of the mountain, and asked them what they didn't understand.

"Does Jixia want to stay here for a long time?"

"It's not that I want to stay here for a long time, it's that the tribes of Dahe want to stay here for a long time. The terrain here is suitable for defense. As long as our ships have the advantage, the Dongyi people will not be able to attack here. If the siege lasts for a long time, I'm afraid Dongyi People don’t have this ability, and their people have to stop working and stare at us here.”

"And here is in the hinterland of Dongyi. As long as our people stand here, when the Dongyi people want to attack our cities in Dahe, the first thing to do is to capture here. If they can't attack here, they won't Dare to send troops to attack our city, because we can go straight into their hinterland from here at any time."

"Where the war is fought is different. If it is fought in our hinterland, they will destroy our fields and hinder normal farming. As long as this city has not been breached, the right to initiate the war is in our hands, even if If the Dongyi people want to attack us, they will attack here first. If the city does not fall, the Dongyi people will not be able to go west."

The reason given was very simple. The young man thought about it and understood what Chen Jian meant.No matter who becomes the leader of Dongyi, if there is an army stationed here by the Dahe tribes, they will be stuck in their throats and dare not make any changes.

The ones who asked the question were the relatives and noble children of other cities. Since they followed Chen Jian on the expedition, they have obtained unimaginable pleasure, wealth and slaves. excellent.

After nearly two years of immersion, the idea of ​​family unity that Chen Jian propagated all day has penetrated into their hearts, and they gradually have the concept of ethnic groups.Even though he still thinks about himself first and then his city most of the time, the vague thing of ethnic group has been ranked third, which is better than nothing.

They are also looking forward to making contributions, and even looking forward to fighting with Chen Jian all the time, thinking that only in this way can they get more wealth and greater fame.After Chen Jian expressed this idea, they roughly understood, because this series of wars in autumn has always followed this policy, burning the war to the land of Dongyi, cutting into the hinterland of Dongyi to force them not to go on an expedition.

If this city does not fall, the Dongyi people will not be able to sleep peacefully for a day, and it is impossible to gather more than ten thousand troops to invade the west, but the tribes of Dahe can safely erode Dongyi's land step by step from west to east, and win over the division. Dongyi city near the junction.

Compared with field battles, they prefer to follow Chen Jian to siege cities and plunder land to rob people, which is profitable, and this city is undoubtedly an excellent starting point for war.The answer Chen Jian gave them satisfied them, because their land wealth was in their own cities in the west, and they didn't want Dongyi people to go deep into the hinterland.

All they want is to go back and listen to the cheers of their clansmen and show off their wealth and meritorious deeds. As long as not everyone stays here, they will accept it, and are even willing to take part in their own strength.

Someone asked: "Sir, if you want to build a city here, what kind of name will you give it?"

Chen Jian thought about it, and said a name with a strong colonial color.

"Xinhua City."

"New? Hua?"

"Yes, the new Hwaseong. Back then, Hwaseong was the center and head of the alliance of the tribes of Dahe. If it weren't for the alliance of Huasu, the tribes of Dahe would still be fighting endlessly. The calendar and sacrifices we use today are all from the source. in that era."

"It's just that there were civil strife in various ministries later, Huacheng was destroyed, and it no longer had the pride of the past. Now this land originally belonged to the Dongyi people. This was Hua's dream back then, and this city is the first step for us to realize his dream. President One day the city will be built to the shore of the East Sea."

"In the future, not only will there be a new Huacheng, but there may also be a new Sucheng, a new Xiacheng... just like a bronze mirror, engraving the entire Dahe tribe on the land of Dongyi, and you may be The leader of a new city in the future."