After Hammer and the first group of shockers retreated, the steppe tribes did not launch another effective attack for a whole day. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

What a true army needs most is resilience, which can be dragged out rather than scattered in one go; can endure temporary failures and regroup instead of slumping; Can withstand days of meditation instead of worrying about eating and sleeping.

Discipline and training are all to ensure that the army is resilient enough.

In the early days of the slave age, wars were fought in a day or even a few hours, and only when the war had developed to a certain extent did it occur that it lasted for more than a month.

It's not ridiculous that this battle is fought like this, and it will never take a long and long process.

There are many ways to attack the city, the three or four meter-high city wall is just a joke, the generals in Chen Jian's previous life had a thousand ways to break the city, but the enemy now has only one choice for the time being.

Within two hours, more than 170 corpses of various tribes of the grassland were thrown outside Yangguan City, including more than 80 warriors of various tribes, and less than 20 people died in Yangguan.

For the tribes of the steppe, fortunately this is a siege war, if it is a plain battle with such an exchange ratio, even if there are two or three thousand people, I am afraid that it is on the verge of collapse at this time.

The corpses that had not had time to be collected were piled up outside the city walls, it was cold and not easy to rot, and occasionally a few crows flew in, which made those who retreated frightened, for fear that one day those black scavenging birds would take their eyes away.

Seven of the fallen in Yangguan fell under the city, and shortly after the retreat of the steppe tribes, several men went to the city with ropes, brought back the bodies of their companions, cut off the heads of the enemies under the city, and piled the heads on the city wall, as if mocking the piling of those people.

The dead and the wounded in the city are taken care of, and there is no need for Chen Jian to ask, and gradually there is a top-down appearance of performing their duties.

Today, the guards of the city wall changed their guards, and each of them was given some extra food, and a few storytelling veterans who accompanied the army told them stories and sang war songs.

Chen Jian observed the movement outside, determined that it was unlikely to attack today, and asked the herald to notify all the two captains in the army to come to the house, sum up the experience, and learn from the war, so that they could take charge of themselves in the future.

War is the best school.

When he asked everyone what to do if they were the besieging party, there were really a few very practical suggestions, Chen Jian wrote them down one by one, encouraged a few people who proposed solutions, and kept the names of these people firmly in mind.

A few people suggested that while they were losing momentum outside today, they might as well go out of the city to attack a wave, Chen Jian felt that it was not the time, they must have defended tightly at night these days, and they were not exhausted.

Convinced that there should be no siege at night, some people were left on the city wall according to the normal shift, and the rest should eat, sleep, and rest.

On the second night of the siege, everything was normal in the city, there was not much panic, and the piles of human heads on the walls gave the people of the city great confidence. Three thousand people, but twenty one hundred and fifty people, how many people can count the number of people can calculate very clearly.

On the second night of the siege, the trumpets sounded from the camps of the steppe tribes outside the city, and those who had retreated washed their lime-blinded eyes with river water, and then they wept.

Hammer said to the weeping people, "You are all warriors, don't cry, children and women cry." ”

"But the warriors also need to eat. My eyes can't see, what can I grab in the future? What do I get? Who will put my sheep and horses? When my son grows up, who will see if he looks like me? What is the use of a warrior? ”

"Dawu said that what he grabbed in the future will be distributed to the disabled people in the tribe, and the other tribes will not care."

The wounded are crying, the chiefs are not idle, there is already a lot of noise in the tents, and half of the dead today are the elites of the various tribes, and it is these people who really decide the outcome of the war in the past.

The old leader was elected by the people, and the words such as the sacredness of rights and immutability have not yet been made up, nor have they been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and at this time, most places still implement the long-standing military democracy of the chief, so there are those who curse and ridicule in the tent, and some people almost point at the old leader and scold him.

The old leader was a little overwhelmed, not that he couldn't fight, but that he couldn't fight.

In the past, when fighting on the grassland, it was basically to rush with the warriors of the clan, and the more people there were, they were basically invincible.

Now facing the Yangguan in front of him, the old leader felt that he was old for the first time.

I thought that I could send warriors to rush forward like I had fought on the grassland before, and the people behind me would be able to break the city, and it would be easy to enhance my prestige among the grassland tribes.

But after only one day of fighting, he was a little lost, and even had a sense of retreat.

It's just that now it's difficult to ride a tiger, once he withdraws, the old leader knows that his prestige will plummet, not to mention the dream of leading the grassland tribes to become a leader in the real sense, even now this kind of leader who only has a name and no absolute power can't be a leader.

Fortunately, there are not too many casualties today, and the various tribes are still within the range of bearability. Although there were some angry words, at least no one had proposed to withdraw from the army.

The old leader believed in the spirit of war, and as a result of his devotion to it, the spirit of war gave him a chance, an opportunity to temporarily bring the various tribes together to become a leader out of hatred.

However, this opportunity fell on him, and he did not seize it.

There was chaos in the tent for half the night, and the old leader had nothing to do, so he had to let everyone guard the camp in case of a sneak attack by Yangguan, and come up with a way to talk about it tomorrow.

Dawu returned to his tent, and all the tribesmen sat around, and the most trusted men were sent outside, and no one was allowed to approach.

His tribe had lost more than a dozen dead and wounded today, and several brave warriors could no longer fight for him, but he also reaped what these warriors could not bring.

Although the siege of the city did not go well today, the various tribes only had opinions on the old chief. Most people were very appreciative of the ladder shield, and if it weren't for his approach, more people would have died today. ”

In the past, there was not much communication between the tribes, except for fighting each other and occasionally exchanging, and the fame of the leader only depended on whether the tribe was strong or not.

Now that these tribes have come together because of hatred, the battlefield is like a stage, and the leaders on the stage will give an evaluation in the hearts of everyone, and Dawu cherishes this opportunity.

It didn't matter to Dawu whether the city was captured or not, it was how he showed his intelligence and strength in the opportunity for the tribe to come together.

Da Wu is also very good at fighting, but there is no genius in the world. Even though he was crisscrossing the grassland, there was nothing he could do about it when facing the city for the first time.

From tribal brawls to warrior charges to reward distribution, this is something that Dawu constantly learns from his own failures and the failures of others, and he has not yet experienced the failure of a siege, so naturally he can't think of a good way.

I can't think of it, and maybe others can think of it, Dawu thinks that a really good leader doesn't need to be the best at everything, just need to choose the best from a bunch of opinions.

"Tell me about it, think about any way."

But the experience of most of the people in the tent is similar to that of Dawu, and they have experienced everything that Dawu has experienced, so there is only silence.

But there was another person in the tent who had a different experience from Dawu, and the silence lasted for a long time, and Luoxing spoke: "I have three ways. ”

The people in the tent looked at the falling star in amazement, they thought about it for a day and didn't come up with anything, and he actually came up with three?

Luo Xing looked at everyone's surprised expressions and said with a wry smile: "These methods were taught to me by my former enemies, you don't need to be surprised. ”

"The first method stems from the story of our tribe's complete defeat and escape to the grasslands. On that occasion, the leader on the other side surrounded our tribe's village with people, forcing me to go back to the rescue, because my mother and my people were in the village. They defeated us in the valley. ”

"We can learn from him, surround their real cities, trap their women and children, force them to go back, and we will kill them on the way. Even if their leader doesn't care about his relatives, how can only a group of men have children? The tribe is over without children, so they will definitely go back. ”

"The second approach stems from the failure that we just experienced today."

"They stood tall and could see clearly, but we didn't know where they were, or where the archers were, and the people were shot dead before they even saw their archers."

"We can pile up wood and stones outside the city, as high as the city walls, so that the archers can see inside the city and stand on the mounds of wood and shoot arrows inside. Build a platform as high as the city wall, build a star-picking platform built by our tribe, stand on it and see the situation in the city, and direct the archers to shoot arrows. ”

After Luo Xing said these two methods, he sighed, his eyes half-closed as if he was recalling some painful past, and only laughed miserably after a long time: "The third method still stems from the complete failure of our clan. ”

"That time they surrounded our village, there were only women in it, there was not much food, and the people who escaped told me that the people inside did not even have leaves to eat."

"Our village is on the mountain, and if they storm it, they can stone a lot of people to death. But instead of besieging it, they surrounded the village and forbade the women to leave. Some women were so hungry that they couldn't stand it anymore, so they rushed out, but how could they beat the men when they left the rocks of the mountains? ”

"Leader Dawu, do you remember the fact that I killed dozens of them on the grassland a few days ago?"

"Of course I do."

"Why did I come up with a way to cut off the water and force them to leave? for they have killed my people in this way. They had food, but there was only a small river that crossed the city, and they wanted to drink! ”

"The city wall can be worth three or five hundred warriors. If we cut the river, don't give them water to drink, and surround the city, they won't wait to die of thirst and will definitely leave the city. On flat ground, will they be able to outmaneuver two or three thousand of us? (To be continued.) )