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Flying pieces of iron, or pieces of iron that had been blown in half, pierced into the group's bodies with only a layer of cowhide for protection, and blood was everywhere.

The thick black smoke with loud noises and firelight may not be very lethal, but the shock caused by the instantaneous casualties still made these Dongyi soldiers on the verge of collapse.

The leader was killed, and an iron lump fell at his feet, which Xia Cheng used to defend the city, and the charge was very large.

The morale of the group of more than 300 people who suddenly came in only fell to the lowest point in an instant, and the injured lay on the ground howling, and the ears of the uninjured were full of buzzing echoes, and they didn't know what they were going to do, and their minds were in chaos.

Some of them turned around as if they were running backwards, and there was a rapid flute sound behind them, and a hundred Xia City hundred-man teams with spears in their hands slowly but firmly stepped out from behind, colliding with this group of Dongyi people who had already lost some of their losses on the not wide divided ground.

The soldiers, as they do on a daily basis, stabbed their spears forward, only needing to keep themselves level with the same platoon, and did not need to charge or run.

It's like driving sheep...... In this kind of terrain, in the face of organized and formed spearmen, those Dongyi people whose morale had collapsed did not know how to resist at all, and they ran away.

The spearmen did not pursue, and retreated with the sound of the whistle behind them, ignoring the severed corpses.

In just a few moments, the hundreds of Dongyi people who were trying to attack broke back, and less than half survived.

The city on the opposite side was like a man-eating beast, suddenly devouring all these people, the low earthen walls blocked the view, but could not stop the screams of those who were seriously injured and not dead, and the terrible sound echoed in the wilderness, making people chill.

Several seriously injured Dongyi people crawled out of the earthen wall with their remaining legs or arms, and they were black and died halfway through the climb.

An atmosphere of unease and tension echoed in Dongyi's military formation, and the clan leaders looked at the dome in unison.

"When the order goes down, the archers take a hundred steps back in turn, stabilize their positions, and don't panic! Bring a few of the people who came back. ”

The army began to move backwards slowly, and the warriors in charge of the tentative attack were called in front of the firmament, and the few people were no longer flustered, but they couldn't help but hold their heads when they heard the sound of drums.

After asking for a long time, Qiongxi shook his head, knowing that he had met an opponent. Those gunpowder weapons are nothing, and they do take advantage of the terrain, but as long as they are impacted and melee together, the weapons are difficult to use.

What annoyed him were the spearmen who listened to the drums and retreated, and according to those who had fled, the spearmen of Summer City walked slowly, but when they walked, it was like a wall moving forward neatly, and there was no way to compete with them in a narrow place.

There were also a few brave men who tried to rush to the front on their own, but they were all stabbed to death with spears, and each had to face three or five spears.

Qiongxi also heard those captured Xia Cheng people talk about the previous battles, and he knew a little about Xia Cheng's tactics, fighting stupid battles, stupid methods that made him feel ridiculous, and there were not too many strategies.

On the plains, the spears were in formation, and the cavalry attacked and disrupted the enemy's formation to disconnect or move forward, and then used the chariots and the shock soldiers to seize the opportunity to break a little.

In Qiongxi's opinion, Xia Cheng's tactics are simple and ridiculous, with only one sentence: fight more and fight less somewhere, tearing the front apart.

Qiongxi also understood that this kind of stupid method had great requirements for the command ability of the military leader, but what was more important was whether those spear phalanxes could be stabilized.

They are not murderers, they are just moving walls. It may be that very few people die in the hands of the spearmen before the battle is decided, but without these spearmen, those shock classes are meaningless, and no one creates fighters for the chariots.

After listening to so many rumors, Qiongxi originally thought that these Xia Cheng people's spear army formation was similar to his own, but just now it seemed that it was definitely stronger than his spearmen.

At least judging from the situation just now, if it were the spearmen on their own side, they might rush out, and at least they would not let these people escape: the enemy facing a rout actually did not need to maintain the military formation, sacrificing the military formation for speed impact. But the Xia Cheng people on the opposite side were dull and terrible, and they would rather let go and retreat according to the whistle, never scattering.

Looking at the silent city opposite, Qiongxi felt like a bone that he had eaten, and the taste of the bone marrow in it tempted people to eat, but it might break their teeth.

If there are really only 3,000 people in it, it is not impossible to rush in at any cost, the problem is that these clans are here to plunder slaves after them, and a head-to-head confrontation is not the best choice for a person who has only been on the leadership for a year.

This made Qiongxi puzzled, what are these Xia City people going to do? It's hard to get into the turtle defense, but if you don't hit the Xia Cheng people on the opposite side, you can't do anything about yourself, what are they going to do here?

After thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't think of the problem, so he ordered people to build a camp and temporarily confront each other.

The first night was spent in this strange confrontation, and early on the second morning, the Dongyi people also built a high platform with wood and earthwork, and finally saw the whole picture of the opposite side after ascending the dome.

It was orderly and well-organized, with about seven or eight hundred people at the front; There are a thousand in the middle; Finally, near the riverbank is the main force of the Xia Cheng people.

After spying on the whole inside, Qiongxi felt even more prickly. The camp on the opposite side was a standard semicircle, and the distance from which side the attack reached the center was about the same. Besieged on three sides, the terrain was rugged and divided, and there were not many troops that could be deployed, so they could only fight in narrow places with those hateful Xia Cheng Ge spear formations.

If it is surrounded on both sides and the main attack is on one side, the main force of Xia Cheng in the center can be calmly deployed to the side of its main attack, and if they want to mobilize, they will take the outer arc, and the Xia City people inside only need to follow the shortest distance from the center to the arc to quickly reach the battlefield.

The initiative of the battlefield was in his hands, and Qiongxi felt that he could fight or not, and this group of Xia City people could only defend but could not take the initiative to attack themselves. Because of the terrain restrictions, the people of Xia Cheng could not spread their formation and could not attack.

But what annoyed him was that he didn't see Xia Cheng's greatest advantage in the city: riders and chariots.

If the people of Xia City are not stupid, they should not give up their greatest advantage, where are those riders and chariots?

The clan leader who was observing with Qiongxi proposed, "Why don't you fight them?" Continue to attack other cities in the north? ”

Qiongxi shook his head and said, "I will be worried about being bitten by this group of Xia City people, no one knows when they will send troops." ”

"That'...... Then let's pretend to retreat? Lure the people of Xiacheng to crawl out of this turtle shell? In the flat field, we can defeat them. ”

Qiongxi shook his head, at this time, the retreating group of Xia City people would definitely not pursue, because now he couldn't figure out what this group of Xia City people were going to do, which was what made it difficult for him to decide.

This was an unexpected change, he didn't expect that there would be such a mobile force in the Dahe Tribes after Suyue set out on the expedition. If he can't get rid of this force, he doesn't want to run and loot between the cities with peace of mind, but after getting rid of this force, he is afraid that he will not be able to run and loot between the cities, and he feels that he will have to pay at least 6,000 dead and wounded to be able to drive this group of Xia City people away, and it is not completely annihilated.

This group of Xia Cheng people obviously also knew that they couldn't beat themselves in the wilderness, so they hid inside, and the key to how to trick this group of Xia Cheng people out was: What did this group of Xia Cheng people want to do?

If you don't know what the other party is going to do, you can't lure the other party to attack.

Yucheng is too far away from here, and bypassing the big river city between them without fighting, it is indeed possible to force this group of people to return to defend, but his end is also very likely to be that there is no return, and he does not dare to take risks.

In the middle of his mind, the scout sent out yesterday brought a piece of news. They found the riders of the Xiacheng people upstream, quite numerous, but they did not find the infantry.

The riders had driven them out and were advancing towards this side of the battlefield.

This news made Qiongxi feel that he had seized the fighter, and it seemed that the horses and chariots of the Xia City people were all upstream, ready to surprise from behind when they were besieging the city.

He was convinced that the leader of Xia Cheng was in the city, and it was impossible to command the riders outside the city to determine when to raid, so there would inevitably be a disconnect in command.

Take this opportunity to kill all the rider chariots in Xia City, even though the main force of these Xia Cheng people is still there, but you don't have to worry about the impact of the rider chariots, you can make the military formation more sparse, and the front can be wider and thicker, and when the time comes, only half of the people can prevent this group of Xia Cheng people, and the other half is enough to attack the city and seize the city.

The timing of the battlefield was fleeting, and the firm gave the order immediately, and the army moved forward again, making the appearance of a siege on three sides.

But he separated more than 700 of the best warriors and the best archers, hid them in the bushes behind the army, and once the riders of the Xia City people took advantage of the siege of their troops to raid the rear, let the warriors and archers outflank and kill the riders of Xia City.

Riders alone could not win the war, and Qiongxi was sure of this, and the cavalry without infantry could not extend the victory at all, and the riders could not shoot the archers at all.

The people of Xia Cheng relied on the turtle shell to defend, but they were destined to be unable to quickly deploy troops to counterattack, they only needed to seize the opportunity of those Xia City riders to make meritorious contributions to kill them, and when the time came, they would not be consumed with this group of shrinking turtles, and immediately went north.

He was waiting for an opportunity, and that opportunity would come in the early afternoon. The scouts returned, and the riders of Summer City in the upper reaches of the Great River to the west began to appear on the edge of the battlefield.

Qiongxi immediately ordered the front to start advancing, turning from defense to offense, and slowly approached the city defended by the Xia Chengren, it seemed that it was going to besiege and fight a decisive battle, but in fact, Qiongxi's order did not allow anyone to attack.

From the outside, the entire Dongyi army formation is like a mussel, revealing its soft flesh, just waiting for the group of riders to rush over, this kind of lure is naked and full of temptation, but it is also not dangerous: the main force of the Xia Cheng people is shrinking in the city and cannot launch a counterattack, even if the counterattack is only small-scale, as long as it is a bait to stick to the riders of Xia Cheng.

It was slightly different from yesterday, he only left a part of the reserve force, and the main force that was deployed was not a line of consistent thickness and thinness, but more like he wanted to concentrate the main force on the east side and use the east side as the main point of attack.

The west side was much weaker to lure the summer city riders, and the reserve forces were further east, and once there was chaos, it seemed impossible to support.

But behind the battlefield, his most elite warriors and archers hid and waited silently, and he wanted to create fighters for the people of Xiacheng, at least in the eyes of the people of Xiacheng.

It took a long time to unfold the large army, and when the formation was basically unfolded, Qiongxi found that Xia Cheng had also made a move.

Groups of soldiers began to board boats by the river, and those boats had sails that allowed them to swim against the current. It is too far away to see clearly, but it can be roughly calculated that at least seven or eight hundred infantry have boarded the ship.

At this time, the army on the side of the dome had been deployed, and the riders who were patrolling the periphery of the battlefield had also appeared in the open space to the west, where the terrain was open and there was no way to contain it, they did not attack but seemed to be waiting for something.

After watching it for a while, Qiongxi suddenly understood that those cavalry from Xia City were waiting for the infantry transported by boat! It is true that the city cannot be divided into military formations to counterattack, but the people of Xia Cheng can use ships to assemble upstream, and they can deploy troops upstream.

His own troops have been deployed, and this is the most vulnerable time, and the front is too wide means that any point is too thin, and it is not a problem to defend those individual riders, but once you add the infantry and archers of Xia Cheng, you can't stop it at all.

Xia Cheng's ships had already begun to transport soldiers upstream, and it seemed that they were preparing to use the river as a natural right flank to storm their western flank, with archers, phalanxes, and cavalry in force, which was dangerous.

Almost instantly, the confusion that had been haunting Qiongxi's mind for the past few days suddenly revealed a glimmer of light, but this light startled him: these Xia City people could use a boat to go straight to their rear.

The reason why they are gathering here is simply because it is closer to their hinterland and can shorten the distance!

My heart trembled by this terrible thought, hoping that I would think too much, but when I connected to the doubts in my heart in the past few days, I felt that my thoughts were the only possible explanation, and only this could explain the strange behavior of these Xia City people these days.

By this time the ships carrying the soldiers had gone a long way upstream, and it seemed that they were preparing to land in the open field, and that they would meet the riders and the whole group.

Now Qiongxi has two choices: take advantage of the opportunity to transfer this group of infantry from within the city, launch an attack, and deal with this group of Xia Chengs in one fell swoop before the collapse of his weak western front; Either they will regather their forces, anyway, the main force of Xia Cheng in the city will not be able to quickly assemble a counterattack, and the divided terrain is not suitable for large-scale operations.

Holding his hands behind his back once again was a rare move, and many clan leaders knew that when Dome did so, it meant that he was faced with a big choice.

This is really rare, but in the few days facing the Xia City people, several clan leaders have already met twice, which makes the clan leaders have to guess what kind of pressure these Xia City people have brought to Qiongxi?

It's a lot of pressure, and it's a big headache for Qiongxi. An attack on all fronts may be possible to defeat these Xia Cheng people, but the main force of Xia Cheng can escape by boat, and he can't catch up with them, and he is afraid that he will lose at least 5,000 people, which is a loss he can't afford.

After weighing the pros and cons, Qiongxi finally couldn't help it and ordered: "Let those warriors hidden in the woods come out and strengthen the defense of the Xia City people in the west!" Retreat on all fronts, camp without attacking! ”

The warrior archers who were hiding in the woods quickly stepped out, signaling that this side was not as fragile as the people of Xiacheng had imagined.

The boat of the Xia Cheng people also turned their bow in tacit understanding, and no longer went up but returned to the city dock. The riders from the upper reaches also tacitly left the range of the battlefield, relying on their quick mobility to break away from those Dongyi scouts.

Watching the unfolding army slowly retreat, Qiongxi gritted his teeth and cursed, rubbing his eyes, and had a terrible headache. For three full days, his army did only two things: feigned an attack and retreated and encamped.

If this toss continues, the morale of the army will be chaotic.

However, in the evening of the same day, a piece of news suddenly came, which immediately broke the hearts of the army that were about to be chaotic.

Dozens of men came to the camp crying out, shouting that the enemy had penetrated deep into the city, and the messenger carried two flags, which were familiar to those who had just learned the news! The enemy opposite them is such a banner.

Some of these dozens of people were still wounded, because they were attacked by Xia Cheng's riders while passing through a mountain pass that must be passed, and several of them were captured, as if those riders had known that such a group of people would run from Dongyi's side. (To be continued.) )