The soldiers who didn't get the arquebus received the sackcloth bag in the basket, not Tao Lei, that thing Chen Jian will still be useful in the future, the purpose of tonight is to set fire, and you can't make too frightening movements, it's not good to really scare them away. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The sacks contained gunpowder in small quantities, but they were qualified enough as ignitions and flammables, and in the days when there were no lighters and matches, such powder bags only needed a single rope to start a fire in a matter of seconds.

These sword and shield soldiers had only been trained with stone balls, and Jian Chen would never dare to let them throw the few Taolei.

Don't even think about it, these people themselves have never heard that kind of thunderous sound, throwing it out will be messy on the other side, and this side will also panic, and may even hold Tao Lei in his hand and forget to throw it out.

After the moon came out, there was silence in Yangguan City, and the soldiers of the night attack squatted at the gate of the city eating the dried meat that had been handed down, talking quietly, looking curiously at the burlap bag in their hands, and could not guess what was inside.

There is a time to fight a war, and Chen Jian endured it for more than ten days, and finally waited until the full moon, so that there was no need to light torches for night attacks. The people of the tribe hunted frequently, the population density was not large, and there were many prey, coupled with new cooking methods, they began to eat the internal organs of animals instead of throwing them away, and there were not many symptoms of night blindness.

There was no gunpowder in the ranks of the night raiders at the South Gate, and they took unlit torches soaked in animal fat and pine resin, and waited until they stormed the camp before lighting them.

The southeast camp did not erect wooden towers and arrow towers, the number of grassland tribes was not enough, it was impossible to besiege the city on all sides, there were no suitable tools, an arrow platform had made them powerless, they could only choose the north as the focus, and the purpose of the southeast camp was only to prevent Chen Jian from escaping and containing the siege.

When the moon rose overhead, the south gate quietly opened, and more than a hundred people led by wolf skins left Yangguan and groped towards the southeast camp besieging the city.

Perhaps Yangguan had never taken the initiative to attack, and the enemy in the southeast camp did not have much defense, leaving only a few people outside to watch the night.

Because it was too cold, people of several professions squatted around the fire to roast the fire, talking about the rumors about Xia Cheng that they had heard from Dawu, and fantasizing that they would be able to divide a few slaves after the city was broken.

"If only we followed Dawu...... Have you heard? The spoils of war of the Dawu tribe were divided according to the killing of the enemy, and one share of the Dawu was left for ten. We're different......"

"Be quiet, don't talk nonsense, didn't someone talk about this yesterday and get beaten? You want to be beaten too? ”

The grumbling man immediately looked around in fear to make sure that there was no one behind him. The people at the fire were discouraged by the reminder, stopped talking about these things, and stood up to prepare for the event.

The man who spoke stood up and looked into the distance, stunned for a moment, and rubbed his eyes before he was convinced that he was not mistaken.

In the moonlight, dozens of steps away, a group of people were touching this way.

"Someone!"

The wolfskin in the grass heard the man's cry, and before he could speak, the archers beside him drew their bows.

The fire was the best beacon, more obvious than the target, and in an instant, dozens of feathered arrows poured down beside the fire.

The loud shouts of the momentary dead broke the silence of the night sky.

Wolfskin knew that a sneak attack was impossible, and he had already taken this camp to heart in the city, and the tent where the leader was located was in the middle.

"Ji Xia said that let's make a big move, then go straight to their leader's tent, as long as their leader runs, no matter how many people there are, it is impossible to hurt us."

At this time, some people in the tent heard the warning one after another and ran out in a panic, and the fire near the tent became the best guide.

The archers fired a volley, and the wolfskin rushed to the fire, lit the torches soaked in a large amount of flammables, and threw them haphazardly towards the tents sewn from the leather.

There were eight or nine hundred men in the southeast camp, and less than two hundred were in the hands of the wolf, but with the intention of calculating and not intentional, and fighting the disorganization with the organized, there was no effective resistance at all on the opposite side.

Most of them fled in twos and threes, or they rushed towards the hundred and ten men with great courage, and were shot into hedgehogs by the assembled archers.

In the chaos, the wolf skins strictly forbade the tribesmen to chase and kill, but gathered together and went straight to the tent of the opposite leader.

In the firelight, Wolf Skin saw more than a dozen people running south with two people escorting them, and E, who was following Wolf Skin, shouted: "The leader of the enemy at that time, let's chase after them and kill them, a great achievement." ”

Ehuang was about to lead people to chase, but was dragged by the wolf skin and said: "Don't chase it, as soon as the leader runs away, they have no one to command, so let's kill more people." Ji Xia said that the opposite side is camped according to the tribe, there are many leaders, it is useless to kill the leader, those clansmen will be swallowed up by the rest of the tribes, but it is not good, ten fingers will become a fist. Boss, the more the merrier. Ji Xia told us to kill their horses. ”

After the two leaders fled, no one in the entire camp was able to gather their forces, and there was a little bloody fighting on their own, but more of them fled in panic.

The assembled assailants hunted the unorganized crowd like a hunt, rushing to the vicinity of the horses with little effort and slaughtering.

Torches were tossed around, rising pillars of fire and shouts were particularly clear at night, and someone in the north-west camp had already spotted the problem in the southeast corner and hurried to the chief's tent.

Several of the chiefs had already arrived at the old chief's tent and had assembled their guards before coming.

"Something happened to the southeast."

"See, the people in the city want to run?"

"It must be, these days Dawu's methods have made them unable to hold on, you listen to this voice so chaotic, they must all have run away. There are only three or four hundred of them in total, and there are nearly a thousand people in the southeast camp. ”

"Dawu, what now? Let's go into town? ”

Da Wu didn't speak, the old leader coughed dissatisfied, and said: "The people in the city must want to run, this city is not in a hurry to enter, there is nothing in the city, but let them run back to the big city in the south, we will not be able to attack." The good things and the slaves are in the great city to the south, and if these people are not removed, it is useless to take this city. These people are eliminated, and the big city to the south with only women and children is the fish in the autumn blisters, and you can eat it whenever you want. ”

The old leader didn't know much about the siege, but when it came to fighting on flat ground, he judged the situation so that the leaders nodded frequently, and they all felt reasonable.

"In this way, the tribes will choose their best hands, and you will take them with you, and follow the group. Don't attack, but harass them with spears and javelins, so that they can't go far. If they flee in all directions, let the riders chase them; If they are arrayed to fight, they will be harassed and they will not be able to walk. ”

Da Wu agreed a little reluctantly, he hoped to capture the city by his own means, so that in the future, when the grassland tribes talked about this matter, they would definitely remember who came up with the idea of stacking the wooden tower of the arrow platform.

But he didn't expect the people inside to escape tonight, so it was the old leader who defeated them, and the old leader who fought on the flat ground was not bad, such a distribution was very reasonable, and he had no reason to refuse, so he had to take the order.

The old chief's eye bags were swollen high, and his heart was too anxious these days, and the old problem left by riding a bareback horse all the year round attacked, and he wanted to pee, and when he heard the news that the opposite side finally abandoned the city and fled, he was excited to urinate.

Old age not only comes from the body, sometimes because of the emaciation of the heart, riding a bareback horse all the year round ruined his prostate, in the past in the glory of victory and the conquest of power, these days can not be attacked, the heart is finally old.

Now the news of Jian Chen's escape once again made his heart come alive, and his mind was much clearer than a few days ago, from the siege to the present thirteen days, he gave orders confidently for the first time, and no one would oppose these orders.

"When Dawu goes to harass them, the rest of the people will immediately gather the people, and we will surround them tonight. Tomorrow morning they will go into the city and eat and kill them all, and in the afternoon they will go to the great city in the south, where the women and children will be slaves! If anyone catches their leader, don't kill him, I'll crucify him to the wood!" ”

The leaders howled, swept away the resentment of these days, and selected the best horsemen in their tribes, there were not many people, the total was not more than a hundred, but it was enough to harass and slow down the march on the opposite side.

In the face of such an attack on the other side, the army can only be listed, otherwise if it is scattered in the night, these 100 people will be enough to chase down 3 or 400 people.

Dawu left Hammer in the camp to prepare for the decisive battle after dawn tomorrow, and he himself took the best of his tribes first.

After the 100 men of Dawu set off on horseback, the remaining pursuers were assembled, leaving half of the men to guard the camp.

Jian Chen waited for his time in the city, and when there was a commotion in the camp opposite, and hundreds of people rushed to the southeast, he knew that his opportunity had finally come.

The city gate was pushed open, and the sword and shield soldiers, who had been waiting for half the night, followed behind Jian Chen.

A large number of bonfires were lit in the camp, and the steppe tribes who remained in the camp no longer had the sleepiness to wait for the battle after dawn.

At the very least, this boring and painful siege is coming to an end.

There were not many guards on the wooden tower and the arrow platform, so Chen Jian asked his people to put birch bark and pine resin balls in the northwest corner, and when they came back and lit them, the northwest wind could spread the fire quickly.

The purpose of this attack was not only to burn the arrow towers and wooden towers that would pose a threat to Yangguan, but to make a desperate plan to burn the opponent's war horses.

From the very beginning, he always wanted to fight a war of annihilation, so that the grassland would not be threatened for two or three years, and it would be difficult to fight a war of annihilation against the steppe tribes who relied on war horses to maneuver, because they had four legs and could not run.

Even if the 600 people in Yangguan City can rely on military formations and training to fight against these people, the initiative and initiation of the battle have always been in the hands of the other party.

Once more than half of the war horses are dead, even if they want to run, Chen Jian can stick to the other party and make them never go back.

The defense of the city is as plain as water and no waves, and that is because the defending side has the confidence and strength to defeat the besieging side in the battle of the plains, but he is just waiting for the opportunity to seize the initiative in the battle.

Approaching the opposite camp, Chen Jian and several sword and shield soldiers around him pulled out the lit fire rope, took the sackcloth powder bag and lit it, and threw it towards the crowd on the opposite side.

Twinkling sparks flew in the air, and Hammer looked at the sparks flying in mid-air in amazement, very beautiful, but didn't know what it was.

A dozen or so lit sacks did not explode after they landed, flashing purple blazing light in the densest places of the crowd, and the pungent smell and the fireworks effect like thunder and lightning landing made the opposite camp suddenly chaotic.

A few gunpowder packets fell on the people, and the years of not grooming and eating mutton covered their bodies with oil, and their hair and hides burned rapidly, and they rolled on the ground screaming and screaming over their eyes to extinguish the burning flames.

But the flame burned so fast that it burned faster than the driest dead grass on the prairie, and it burned all over the body in the blink of an eye.

A powder bag landed at Hammer's feet, and he subconsciously glanced at it, followed by a slight explosion and a cloud of green smoke wrapped in fire, and the surrounding snow was illuminated, stinging his eyes.

In the smoke of gunfire, Hammer made a gesture that surprised both his people and himself, and he threw down his weapon and fled backwards, screaming in horror as he ran.

The sting of his eyes didn't hurt the warrior's gritty heart, but the purple light of the fire broke Hammer completely, and for the first time in his life, Hammer had exposed his back to the enemy in battle.

In the past, he would not flee in the face of powerful enemies and beasts, but in the face of this fire, how could a powerful person fight against the spirit of thunder and lightning? Who but the Spirit of Thunder and Lightning, who else can control such a dazzling light?

As they fled, dozens of frightened voices shouted, "Spirit of Thunder and Lightning! Spirit of Thunder and Lightning! ”

The sound of despair spread throughout the camp, and the thought welled up in the hearts of everyone who saw the flash, and the more devout the gods were, the more fearful the thought became. Believing in animism, they have seen the power of mythology with their own eyes, and their hearts have collapsed.

It is true that these powder packets do not make much noise, but in the same way, the thunder god of the primitive tribe always has two people, and the thunder god and the electric god are separate.

The difference between the speed of light and the speed of sound has always been a flash of light and then a thunder, and the witch priests who created the story naturally chose the simplest and most reasonable explanation of this era: one god is in charge of the flash that splits the darkness, and the other is in charge of the war drums between heaven and earth, and the two of them share a godhead, and the god who is in charge of the war drums is only a servant of the electric light.

The Witch Priests claimed that they were blessed by the Thunder Spirits, who could make loud war drums out of human skins, but no Witch Priest had ever mastered the power of lightning, which now flickered in the hands of his enemies.

A dozen gunpowder packs went down, and the people gathered in the camp opposite had completely collapsed, just fading out of the barbaric era, and the first flash of gunpowder was full of mythology.

However, not only the camp opposite, but also the sword and shield soldiers on Chen Jian's own side were also stunned.

They looked at the continuous flashes of light and the rapidly igniting tent on the opposite side, and the hands holding the powder packets trembled a little, and several people were so frightened that they kept muttering something.

Fortunately, the first time they threw was not an explosive torley, but a powder bag that could violently detonate and glow, otherwise these sword and shield soldiers might have really held the lit torley in their hands and forgot to throw it.

Jian Chen shouted, and only then did those sword and shield soldiers react, draw their short swords, and launch a charge towards the chaotic crowd.

Like a hot knife cut into mutton fat, this is the easiest charge of the sword and shield soldiers, as if it is on the training ground, there is almost no resistance on the opposite side, and some people even kneel on the ground and stretch their heads to die, still chanting words before dying.

Those who were set ablaze like a great ball of fire proclaimed the power of this power with hoarse, frantic screams and twisted painful figures, and the sword and shield soldiers who rushed into the crowd tore the entire camp in half, and in the confusion turned to the place where the horses were tethered.

For this kind of animal that appeared in the city for less than a year, the sword and shield soldiers loved it very much, but Chen Jian's order was to kill and burn it.

Burning tails, flaming manes, and stabbed horses fleeing add to the chaos in the camp.

The horses had never seen such a flash, and they just wanted to escape from the bloody devils in front of them, and rushed into the camp, not caring whether it was their master or not who stood in front of them, and knocked them with their chests, lifting their hooves and collapsing heavily.

Chen Jian was covered in horse blood, and was throwing a sack of sackcloth soaked in pine resin into a group of horses, covered in blood, he looked at the war horses with burning hair all over his body, and looked up to the sky and laughed.

Seven or eight hundred horses were burned or hacked to death, and many more fled into the woods.

Without these horses, the grassland tribes can't fight as much as they want, and they can't run away if they can't, and Chen Jian still has more than a hundred riders in his hands, which can completely suppress the remaining riders of the other side, control the flanks of the battlefield and pursue the routers.

After this attack, the initiative and initiation of the campaign were already in his hands. (To be continued.) )