Hearing this news, Jian Chen was also startled, pushed open the door and rushed out, seeing that there were already many people surrounded in the center of the city. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Su He, who was originally going to go to the Acropolis, and the caravan he sent also returned, surrounded by a few people, and his hair was covered with wounds, and Wei Xi, who had been to Xia City last time, was also among them, and he looked very badly injured.

When Jian Chen squeezed over, Wei Xi's eyes were half-open, his stiff neck turned effortlessly, as if he was searching for something, and when he saw Jian Chen, his eyes showed a brilliance of hope, and he grabbed Jian Chen's hand and said: "The Acropolis is besieged, and I ask Ji Xia to send troops to rescue!" ”

"What's wrong? Don't rush, speak slowly. ”

Wei Xi had four wounds on his body, one was scabbed, and the remaining three were probably cracked and oozing blood because of the bumps in the road, and he wanted to say something, but his breath was weak, and his mind was a little unclear, just kept repeating the words for Chen Jian to rescue.

Jian Chen knew that something must have happened to the Acropolis, but what happened? Is it internal chaos? Or was it attacked by an alien race?

Yi Weixi's state at this time may not be clear, he looked around at the entourage that followed, and asked, "Which of you can say clearly?" Stand up. ”

One person came out in response, bowed to Chen Jian and said: "The Xirong people surrounded the Acropolis, the leader of Weihe was injured, Weixi took us out of the city desperately, within a radius of hundreds of miles, only Ji Xia and Eyue can rescue the Acropolis, and ask Ji Xia to send troops to rescue for the sake of the same Dahe relatives." ”

"How so? How many people are there? When was it besieged? If you say it slowly, no matter how urgent it is, I can't fly over. ”

The man took a deep breath to calm his restless mood, trying to dispel the impatience in his heart, knowing that he needed to stay awake at this time in order to finish what had happened as quickly as possible.

"On April 17, the slave village of the Xijon people rebelled, killed the Acropolis, and the whole village fled. The leader led his troops to chase him down, and those men deliberately led the leader into the valley, and the leader followed him. They had long been in contact with the Xijon people in the mountains, and the Xijon army ambushed the soldiers in the valley with arrows, and the leader was hit by arrows and led the people back to the city. ”

Along the road, thirteen Xijon villages rebelled, and the tribesmen desperately defended the leader and retreated to the Acropolis, which was besieged. With the rebellious villages, the total number of enemies is about 7,000, they have been fighting with us for many years, and they will also grow corn, and there is no shortage of food, and those rebellious villages will support the Xijon people with food, and it is estimated that their food will last for a year. ”

"There is enough food in the acropolis, and there is no shortage of water along the river, but the leader was hit by an arrow, and the army was ambushed in the valley with many dead and wounded, and he was unable to go out of the city to fight again, so he could only defend the city."

"At night, some people secretly tried to open the door, but fortunately they were discovered, but those people made trouble in the city, and more than 100 people were killed and wounded in the city overnight, and they were unable to go out of the city to fight again. Ji Xia Ke still remembers the person who fled to Xia Cheng last time? It was his relatives who joined forces with Xijon to rebel, and they said that the Xijon people promised them that they would withdraw if they killed the leader of Weihe. ”

Chen Jian saw that this person spoke clearly, not only did the other party answer the questions he asked, but also explained some other very important things one by one.

But looking at this person who is about thirty years old, his dark face is obviously a perennial worker, and his clothes are only bark and animal hair, not quite like a relative surnamed Wei, so he can't help but secretly wonder.

"What's your name?"

"No surname, name Yuan, cattle herd of the Acropolis."

"Do you think you believe what the rebels say?"

"I don't believe it. Even if the leader of the Weihe is killed, the Xijon people will not retreat, and of course their relatives will be fine, and we may be given as gifts to the Xijon people as slaves. Those Xirong villages have to pay half of the grain every year, although I have no surname and am just an ordinary person in the Acropolis, but the annual distribution of food is enough, if the Xirong people win, those villages will definitely not pay any more food, and their relatives will ask us to collect food, which is not good for me, of course I don't believe it. ”

Jian Chen shook his head and smiled: "Those relatives of their relatives wear silk and eat meat dumplings, and they are not as good as you, a cattle herder." ”

"Whether the surname is Wei or not, whether you can wear silk or not, those are God's destined parents. But I don't think much about it, and whether what I say makes sense or not has nothing to do with cattle and silk. ”

Yuan spoke very respectfully, but there was a faint sense of arrogance, and he didn't directly ask Jian Chen if he sent troops, because Jian Chen only asked him what happened.

After asking all this, Jian Chen turned around and shouted, "Yu Qian'er, you let the clan vacate two rooms, let them live first, let the woman bandage their wounds, wash them with wine, and boil some herbs." ”

The people of the Acropolis still wanted to say something, but after Jian Chen gave these orders, he had already left first, closed the door of the council, and pondered inside.

The incident of the Acropolis this time is obviously an internal and external collusion, but the essence is that there is something wrong with the system of the Acropolis.

Nowadays, a unified culture and institutions have not yet been formed in the cultural circle, and each city has its own system to adapt to the surrounding environment, and some institutions seem strange, but they do exist.

Looking at these strange systems from the perspective of later generations, it is certainly ridiculous and meaningless, but only history can prove who is right and who is wrong, and the reason why those strange systems have not been passed down to future generations and denied by future generations is because they have been eliminated by history.

Now that history has just begun, the tribes that have gone out of the wilderness like civilization have many strange systems that have not yet completely died out.

The Acropolis conquered a large number of Xijon villages, some of them were reduced to slavery, while others remained, and Chen Jian heard from the caravan that these small villages had to hand over half of their grain to the Acropolis in addition to the heavy conscription.

The people in these villages were not necessarily slaves, but more like serfs, they were human beings and owned part of the land, but they had no political rights, but they were the main producers of the Acropolis.

The most important thing is that the proportion of these people in the population is a little too high, and once something happens, something big will happen.

This time it was obviously premeditated, and after launching a rebellion, it was deliberately lured to Weihe to pursue, and the Xirong people in the mountains set up an ambush in the valley, which can be said to be a perfect ambush battle. If the Acropolis had been killed in the ambush, the Acropolis would not have been besieged by now, and perhaps some of the people in the city would have opened the door, offered some food and women, and sat in the position of leader with the support of the Xijon people.

Yuan thought a little more, and being able to see through those people a little bit would touch his own interests, but more Acropolis people would choose to accept it with the flow, kill those who didn't accept it, and accept the rest.

According to Yuan, there were about six or seven thousand people surrounding the Acropolis, which is a bit terrifying, but it is not impossible.

The Sijon people learned the cultivation method from the Acropolis, and the serf villages may have received the promise of food support from the Sijon people.

These six or seven thousand people may only be able to fight three or two thousand, and the rest are all made up, but they have just ambushed Weihe, and there is civil strife in the Acropolis, and the Xirong people outside are in full swing, and the Acropolis is really dangerous.

Any system is not inherently sound, it needs a little bit of accumulation, with the experience of the previous life, Chen Jian has taken some detours here, and there are also subordinate farmers in Xia City who need to pay more than half of the grain, but their number is less than two hundred, even if they have the intention to make trouble, they can't collude with the outside, and the number is too small to make waves.

It is reasonable for the Acropolis to have such a thing, it would be strange if the Acropolis had a perfect slavery system from the beginning, Chen Jian even said that some cities would throw old people into the mountains to reduce the burden of the cities, the cities of this world are not completely the same, but have taken different paths between barbarism and civilization.

Right or wrong, in this era, it is difficult to convince others, only by natural selection like elimination, the last surviving race is the right race.

In any case, he wanted to help the Acropolis, but when to help Xia Cheng get the greatest benefit was also a question that he had to consider as the leader of the city.

The war depends on the clansmen, and the clansmen also need a reason, and he also needs a promise from the Acropolis, which is to give food? To slaves? Or something else? It is impossible to let the clansmen die in vain.

Now that Wei Xi is seriously injured, the rest of the entourage may not be able to call the shots, so he can only choose to wait.

Xijon and the like, originated from the cultural circle on both sides of the river, the tribesmen did not receive this kind of indoctrination from an early age, and it is difficult to understand the meaning, in their opinion, war is war, to help the Acropolis to fight, maybe it is okay, but there must be a reason to get by, right?

Everything is mutual, including ethnic identity, and just because they are culturally close relatives, everyone will be full of fighting spirit, and that can only exist in fantasy.

Even if the nation is really formed in the future, it is only the dream of scholars to resist the humiliation outside the walls of brothers, and those who have the power are not afraid to borrow foreign soldiers for their own interests, even if they are emperors, even if the capital is allowed to be plundered by foreign races.

Besides, Xia Cheng had only fought a battle half a year ago, and the feather arrows had consumed a lot, and the wheat was about to be harvested, and a large number of people were needed, so it was impossible to send troops at this time, otherwise Xia Cheng would not be able to recover for at least three years.

While pondering the stakes, the door of the council hall was opened, and Su He and the others walked in, along with some clan leaders and members of the council.

The people of the council didn't know if they should send troops to help, and it was said that it would be okay if they could capture so many slaves like Shanghui, but the people of the council considered the problem from Xia Cheng's point of view, but the leaders of those tribes didn't think so.

Fighting is to kill people, and those who die are their own clansmen, not to mention, the slaves that you Ji Xia snatched back last time were distributed to the clansmen, and said that they belonged to them, which greatly weakened the authority and interests of the clan leaders.

Now the right to start a war is not in your hands, it is in the hands of the council, even if most of the people in the council are on your side, but you have to consider our opinions.

To fight, it's not that you can't, but how to distribute slaves and booty? If you continue to divide it like this, the clansmen will only remember that they are from Xia City, who still takes the leader of the clan in their eyes?

It's true that you, Ji Xia, can make the light men in the city listen to you, but we, as leaders, may not have any energy at all, and it's still okay to talk about why people who die in battles fight for others. When you first forged Wufeng, you said that the military leader left his people, and it was nothing, what if everyone was against you sending troops?

People with all their thoughts were looking at Jian Chen, but Jian Chen didn't speak, he was still thinking about it.

Su He didn't know much about some of the differences within Xia Cheng, and saw that Chen Jian had not spoken, thinking that Chen Jian was frightened by the number of Xirong people that Yuan said, six or seven thousand people was indeed not a small number, even if it was some big tribes on both sides of the big river, they might not be able to make up so many people.

"Leader Ji Xia, I can't imagine that the Xijon people are already so powerful? More than ten years ago, we expelled them all the way west along the river, and they didn't know how to grow millet at that time, but now they can gather thousands of people and learn to grow millet, ......."

The process of conquest and expansion was originally a process of technology diffusion, and Chen Jian did not find this kind of thing strange, but it would be strange if he had not learned planting from the Great River Tribes after more than ten years of fighting.

Seeing that Su He had broken the dullness, everyone asked, "Ji Xia, do you want to help the Acropolis?" ”

Jian Chen said slowly: "Let me think about it again." ”

He was determined to send troops in order to seize the benefits after the war.

But fighting a war is just a process, and the most important thing is what to do after the war is over?

Su He only thought that Chen Jian was timid, but he did not ridicule, he thought that if he was the leader, I am afraid that this battle might not be fought, and there are thousands of Xirong people.

He had seen everything about Xia Cheng, and he also had a general understanding of Xia Cheng. The population of Xia City is not large among the tribes on both sides of the river, and even if all the men go out to fight, they can only make up 2,000 people, but even if the entire city is empty, nothing can be done.

Besides, even if they didn't want anything and all of them went on the expedition, the number of 2,000 men was still too small compared to the Sijon.

He had heard of the battle of Yangguan, which was defended by the people of Xiacheng, and after listening to the whole battle, he always felt that Chen Jian relied on great luck to win.

If you want to break the siege this time, you need to defeat Xirong in a dignified manner, and it is an expedition hundreds of miles away.

There was civil strife in the Acropolis, Weihe was injured, people's hearts were unstable, and they couldn't get many people out of the city to respond, at most it would be good to hold the city, there were so many slaves in the Acropolis, most of them were prisoners of war from Xirong, these were some dangerous factors.

"If this is in Sucheng, maybe there is a way. As far as Xia City is concerned, after all, the population is too small, and the Acropolis is dangerous this time. ”

Su He thought in his heart, and shook his head secretly, Su Cheng plus the surrounding tribal cities that swore an oath, it is possible for more than a dozen cities to make up 10,000 people, but far water can't quench the thirst of the near, and even if Su Yue knows, it is unlikely that he will go thousands of miles to save the Acropolis.

Although the acropolis has a city wall, there is no shortage of water near the big river, and there is a lot of food and people, but the land outside the city is occupied, and no matter how much food is eaten, there will always be a day when the food is eaten, and no matter how high the city wall is, it will be climbed one day.

At the beginning, seventy-one relatives gathered in Huacheng to swear, and the surrounding surrender was so spectacular.

Now there are only more than 60 of the seventy-one relatives left, and perhaps one less in the near future, and the Yushan given by the surname Wei will eventually fall into the hands of Xirong.

Seeing that Jian Chen was still thinking, Su He couldn't help but say: "It's a pity that Sucheng is too far away from here, and it will take a year for the army to come here...... This is indeed a difficult thing to do. Leader Ji Xia, you might as well immediately send someone to ride a horse to Echeng and tell Leader Eyue about this. ”

"The six or seven thousand Xirong, I'm afraid it will be difficult to defeat, the acropolis is besieged, and Xia City must also prepare in advance, the leader of Ji Xia might as well let the clansmen strengthen the city wall and prepare weapons, if it really can't work, you can move east."

The various leaders and the rest of the people immediately muttered a few words with some dissatisfaction, and Jian Chen snorted and shouted at everyone, "Move east? This is our land, our ancestors slept in the surrounding mountains and forests, and we have cultivated so much land with our hands and the blood of our enemies, and we will never move eastward. One day we will die and go to the world where our ancestors lived, and our ancestors will ask us, "Children, where is your land?" What do we say? We told our ancestors that we couldn't keep it and threw it to others? ”

The crowd shouted, "Yes, we're not going anywhere." Even if we were to leave, it would be because we had too many children to be separated, and no one else wanted us to go. ”

"That is, after migration, everything has to start over, what about the land? I'm already very old, and I'm going to see my ancestors in the future, what do I say? ”

Su He was a little embarrassed, kept silent, but said in his heart: "This is too big, six or seven thousand people, even if you can defend Xia City, can you defend the land outside?" The people of Sijon will not come today, they will not come tomorrow, but they will come one day. What you said today sounds good, but I'll see if you move or not in the future! (To be continued.) )