"By the way, when did you say the army of Horn will come?"

"I don't know, but in the past two days, the Dangshan Army and the Chenggao Army have left Ruocheng one after another, dividing their troops and building camps, it seems that the people of Qianjiao should be arriving soon."

"I've heard that the army of Kamakra is in the millions? Our three armies together are less than 50,000, how can we fight? ”

"That's the horn man boasting about himself. …… I happened to hear from the soldiers of the Lun tribe who went to inquire about this matter, and the army of the Qiangjiao is at most more than 300,000, and only 60,000 or 70,000 of them can be called an army, and the others are just slaves who are not even fully equipped with weapons and equipment. ”

"Huh? Ah Wu, do you still understand the language? ”

"Of course, hahaha......"

"Ah Hui, don't listen to this kid's nonsense, where can he understand the language of the Lun tribe, it's just that the Di people of the Lun tribe understand the language of Wei."

"Damn, Leopard, you ......"

In a certain section of the city wall on the west wall of the city, three recruits belonging to the Shang Water Army, Li Hui, Le Bao, and Yang Wu, were talking in a whisper while doing the work in their hands.

It may be that the movement of the two of them was too big, which caused a thousand generals of the merchant army who was patrolling the city wall with two soldiers.

I saw that the merchant and the thousands of people in the army glared at him, and in a Wei dialect with a Chu accent, he scolded loudly: "Hey, three boys over there!" Shut up and get to work! ”

"Oops, it's Ran Teng's thousand generals." Yang Wu's eyes widened.

The three Shangshui County teenagers shrank their heads, not daring to chat anymore, their submissive appearance caused many Shangshui Army veterans nearby to laugh.

"Laugh at the fart!" Thousands of people glared at Ran Teng and looked around, and scolded angrily: "Hurry up and reinforce the female wall for me, the people of the Qian tribe are all archers, if you don't hurry up now, the other party will kill you with an arrow!" ”

The so-called women's wall refers to the wall with peep openings in the city wall, that is, the concave and convex circular battlements, whose function is that when the soldiers stand in the recesses and spy on the enemy troops outside the city wall, the raised battlements on both sides can maximize the protection effect, especially for bows and arrows.

In the past 100 years, the newly built cities of the Wei State have all been built with female walls, and this effective defensive measure has been widely spread in all Central Plains countries. However, it is a pity that the city walls built by the Wei State in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China did not have this function.

Therefore, a few days ago, the Dangshan army and the Shangshui army began to build the city wall of the city, the soldiers of the two armies cut down the trees from outside the city, and then split the logs into planks, and then nailed them into a thick plate one zhang wide and half a zhang high, fixed on the city wall, on the one hand, the wall was increased, increasing the difficulty of the enemy army climbing the city wall, and on the other hand, it served as a cover to block the enemy's arrows.

In order to prevent the enemy from burning the wooden walls with rockets, the soldiers of the merchant army left a gap about one person wide between each plank, so that even if one section of the plank was burned, the other planks would not be implicated.

There is no way, after all, the city is an ancient city built by the Wei State hundreds of years ago, and its defensive performance cannot be compared with the Wei city built in the past hundred years.

What does it mean to be just over two feet tall?

This means that the enemy army does not need siege equipment such as ladders and wells, and it is enough to climb the city wall with soldiers and ladders alone.

Because of this, the Shang Shui army could only use wooden planks to increase the height of the wall in disguise, although they all knew that the enemy could burn most of the wall made of this wood with only one wave of rockets.

Just when the thousands of people scolded Ran Teng for the Shangshui soldiers here, there was a sound of footsteps in the distance, and everyone subconsciously glanced at it, only to find that the person who came turned out to be the general of their Shangshui Army, Wu Ji.

"General." Nearby soldiers saluted.

Wu Ji waved his hand, and then, after glancing at the progress of the operation of this section of the city wall, he frowned, and said to Ran Teng, the thousand-person general: "Speed up!" The people of the Horn should arrive in the city today and tomorrow. ”

"Yes." Ran Teng clenched his fists and took his life.

From the side, the pawn Yang Wu stared wide-eyed, looked at Wu Ji who was in the general's armor with a look of surprise, pushed his companions around him vigorously, and whispered: "It's General Wu Ji, General Wu Ji." ”

As if hearing something, Wu Ji turned his head to look at Yang Wu, smiled slightly, and then continued to walk towards the city wall in front.

Seeing this, Yang Wu muttered with a wistful expression: "General Wu Ji smiled at me, haha, General Wu Ji smiled at me......"

After that, he saw that his companion beside him did not respond, so he turned his head in wonder, only to see his companion Li Huizheng looking out of the city in shock.

"What's wrong, Ah Hui?"

Seeing the look of surprise on his companion's face, Yang Wu followed his gaze and looked into the distance outside the city, but was shocked to see that the hillside in the distance was obviously empty, but at this moment, hundreds of people wearing various sheepskin jackets had appeared.

Then, in the blink of an eye, countless similar knights appeared one after another on the hillside at the end of the line of sight, all of them in the configuration of a standard Qiang cavalry with one knight driving three war horses.

"Enemy ...... Enemy! Yang Wu subconsciously shouted loudly.

Hearing this, Wu Ji, who had not walked for long, immediately stopped, hurriedly came to the city wall, and peeked at the cavalry at the end of the line of sight through the peep hole of the wall.

"They were all cavalry, not following the slave army...... Is it the advance sentry of the horns?'

Wu Ji frowned.

"General, do you want to blow the siren?" Thousands of people asked anxiously beside Ran Teng.

Wu Ji calmly looked at the countless Qiang cavalry at the end of his sight, shook his head and said, "The Qiang people are accustomed to using slave armies to consume the physical strength of the enemy. …… The slave army of these Horn people had not yet appeared, and it was impossible for them to risk great sacrifices to attack the city, and the merchant army continued to do its work. However, remember to keep an eye on the Qiang people outside the city, who are said to be very good at sneak attacks, so don't let them take their lives. ”

After that, he instructed the thousand generals Ran Teng to say: "Play the flute and be on alert, inform the whole army, the people of the horns have arrived!" ”

"Yes!" Qianren nodded to Ran Teng, raised the horn in his hand to his mouth, and blew it vigorously.

"Whew-"

A heavy, long horn sounded.

This kind of horn is usually a long one, and the purpose is to tell the sergeant, "The enemy is out of sight, so be vigilant."

And if the horns start to attack the city, then the sound of the horn will be relatively short, so as to express the meaning of "imminent".

And in the city, those soldiers and soldiers of the merchant navy who heard the sound of this horn did not panic, and quickly increased their defense on the city wall under the leadership of their own thousand or hundred generals.

At the same time, some people quickly reported the matter to Zhao Hongrun, who was playing with mud in the felt tent.

No kidding, at this moment, Zhao Hongrun is indeed playing with mud in the felt tent, but he is not really for fun, but is making a war mud plate, simulating the terrain around the city with a mud plate, which is far more intuitive than a paper map.

No, when the patriarchs of the tribes in the city heard the sound of the horn used by the Shang Shui Army to warn, and after personally climbing the city tower to confirm the matter, they hurriedly rushed to the felt tent where Zhao Hongrun was, but they were shocked to find that His Royal Highness King Su was actually in the felt tent, using a clay plate to draw the terrain around the city, making the entire battlefield clear at a glance.

"Why, didn't you play with mud when you were kids?"

Zhao Hongrun, who was squatting on the ground, looked up at the tribal patriarchs standing at the mouth of the felt tent, and teased with a smile.

Hearing this, Qi Muke, the patriarch of the Gray Sheep Tribe, said with an incredulous expression: "That's a child's thing, how can you be with King Su...... It's incredible. ”

The patriarchs nodded in agreement, staring at the lifelike clay tray in the tent in amazement.

I saw this mud pan, the terrain is undulating, there are canyons, cliffs, forests, and lakes, all the arrangements are almost exactly the same as the local terrain in their impression, and in the center, Zhao Hongrun made a city with mud, and it is not surprising that it is the city under their feet.

"Pour some water here." Zhao Hongrun pointed to a depression in the mud pan.

Seeing this, Zong Wei beside him carried a croissant cup and poured about half a cup of water, so a "lake" was formed.

"It's finally done." Zhao Hongrun stood up, walked to the wooden barrel in the corner and washed his hands, and then, seeing that the patriarchs were still standing at the mouth of the tent, he said funny: "Everyone, what are you still doing in a daze?" Come in. ”

Hearing this, the patriarchs walked into the tent and stood around the clay plate, their eyes still full of incredulity.

"This king heard the siren, it's the merchant water army, right? …… Has the army of Horn arrived? ”

"Yes." Lu Balon, the patriarch of the Lun tribe, nodded and said, "However, no trace of the slave army has been found, so it should be an outpost cavalry from the Horn that has arrived." ”

"Where?" Zhao Hongrun wiped his hands with a rag and asked casually.

At the same time, Zong Wei Mu Qing handed Lu Baron a slender wooden pole.

Glancing at the slender wooden pole in his hand, Lu Balon glanced at the lifelike clay pan again, and immediately understood, so he pinched the wooden pole with his right hand, and used the other end of the wooden pole to draw a range above a dirt slope on the west side of the city in the mud pan, and said: "Here, the soil slope on the west side of the city." ”

"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded, and then took two black wood carvings dyed black with ink from a Zong Wei, and placed them in a mud tray near a forest in the north of the land and near a mountain stream in the south of the land.

Obviously, these two wood carvings represent the Dangshan Army and the Chenggao Army respectively.

After that, Zhao Hongrun took some red wood carvings dyed red with sheep's blood, placed them in the area pointed by Lu Balon, and then stood up and looked at this battlefield condescendingly.

"There's still not enough information...... Hold on for a while. Zhao Hongrun said calmly.

Looking at the lifelike clay tray in front of them, for some reason, the tribal patriarchs, who were still a little worried about the arrival of the Qiangjiao people, felt unexpectedly calm at this moment.

Could it be that the King Su in front of him is looking down on the entire battlefield in an incredible way? (To be continued.) )