The army rested for two days, and the scouts were dispersed to inspect the surrounding terrain. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It will take a long time for the army to come back on two legs, which Jian Chen is very confident about.

With the current organizational strength of the Dongyi people and the captured slaves, it is difficult to return to the division in a month, and they can toss at least more than a month.

The people who have gathered here now, not counting the newly captured slaves, are four thousand.

the children of the nobles of the various towns and the soldiers under their control who had been trained for more than a year, six hundred; Xia Cheng recruited more than 2,500 people from the Ge Spear Phalanx composed of countrymen and workshop workers, plus 300 Xia Cheng's own black-clothed guards, as well as hundreds of non-combatants from the Construction Department, the Medical Department, the Military Squad, and the Propaganda Department.

Without war horses and chariots, the strength of the Xia army in field battles on flat land plummeted.

The personal ability of Xia Cheng's archers is the weakest group of all the cities, relying on the advantage of salvo projectiles to suppress the position, and the only ones who are good at archery are those who are out of production training, which is not enough to consume.

The Ge spear phalanx was highly disciplined, but it was impossible to fight a battle of annihilation by relying only on the Ge spearmen who had lost their mobility, and at most they could fight into a crushing battle. This is the land of Dongyi, and there is no point in defeating it. It is impossible for a single class of troops to win, unless the Ge Spear Phalanx in Xia City has been able to quickly change columns and horizontal formations, but obviously not.

And many spearmen are also on the battlefield for the first time, they are not afraid of death and have discipline and high morale, but they have not been tested in actual combat, Chen Jian knows that this still needs to go through the real battlefield before they can become truly qualified soldiers, so they have to fight a few tailwind battles first to increase their confidence.

To the north, there were the cities of the Dongyi people, and to the east, and after thinking about it for two days, Jian decided to attack the one to the east.

The city in the north was on the side of Qiongxi's brother after the death of the old leader of Dongyi, not the basic plate of Qiongxi, this kind of city was defeated, but I was afraid that Qiongxi would have to thank himself for helping him do what he couldn't do.

The city to the east is a big city, it is the marriage city of Qiongxi, and the female leader of the city is one of Qiongxi's wives, and the city is big enough to cause a shock in Dongyi.

There is also a jade mine downstream, which is an important source of jade for the Dongyi tribe, and it is said that more than 3,000 slaves worked there, and many Dongyi people were stationed there to supervise the work of those slaves.

Stirring up trouble within the enemy is not only a military issue, but also a political and diplomatic issue, and the specific policy to be implemented depends on what kind of war it takes.

After determining the direction of the attack, Jian Chen asked Ji Bai to take all the more than 300 elite black-clothed guards in Xia City to the vicinity of that city in advance, while he took the rest of the army to hide to the east, replenish along the river, and try not to make fires.

The distance of two hundred miles is not far, along the way Chen Jian relied on the bank of the big river to maneuver, and when the scouts found a village, they went to the army and surrounded it on all sides, ensuring that one could not run out, and concealed his movements as much as possible.

After three days of searching, Jian Chen finally found an excellent battlefield.

It is about fifty miles away from Mucheng, next to a tributary of a large river, and the west side is not a high hill, and between the hill and the river bank is a flat land, but it is very narrow.

The hills are densely wooded and the grass is high and deep, which is just right for hiding the army. The tributaries of the Great River are not too wide, and they don't seem too deep, and they are a suitable place to break the hearts of the enemy army.

The army hid in a nearby col, strictly forbidding the lighting of fires, relying only on the charcoal they carried to make fires for cooking, and sent scouts ten miles away to closely monitor all movements in the vicinity.

Later, Ji Bai took more than 300 elite black-clothed guards to the vicinity of the city called "Mou", and according to Chen Jian's request, he attacked the villages near the city everywhere.

After two days of attacking, he took advantage of the night to cut down a large area of the excellent corn that had grown near Mucheng and destroyed it.

It is laborious to plant a field, but it is much easier to destroy a field, and it is more difficult to destroy a field with 200 people in one night than a field with thousands.

After dawn, the relatives and nobles in Mu City were half angry and half dead, and their fields were in shambles. Half of it is public land, and the other half is its own private land.

They already know the news that a group of people from the Great River Clan with black and white flags have penetrated here, because the people from Xucheng came to report the news a few days ago, and the number is not large, but this group of people is extremely hateful.

Two villages were destroyed in a row, vast swaths of farmland were destroyed, and the group attacked people transporting salt and jade from the east, as well as a village near the jade mine.

The three hundred men under Ji Bai have all been trained for many years, and more than a hundred are veterans who have participated in the Battle of Yangguan, and they have been training for many years, even if they don't have horses, their mobility is much stronger than those patchwork clan armies.

The slaves in the jade mine are not all from the Dahe tribes, and a large part of them are the losers of the struggle in the Dongyi clan, which is a group of forces that can be borrowed, but Chen Jian's order to Ji Bai is not to attack for the time being.

It's just that they made a posture of attacking and harassing, and the people in Mu City couldn't bear it. Some of the most elite clansmen in Mu City followed Qiongxi on the expedition, but the city could still put together a mobile force of three or five thousand men, not counting slaves.

Fighting at home is completely different from fighting outside, the clan is the soldier, the soldier is the clan, and this structural model of the integration of the soldier and the people is also divided into levels.

It is one part of the people who can train from a young age to have a high level of combat skills, and a large number of civilians are another. These civilians had some military training and could quickly organize themselves in clan structures, but they could not follow expeditions or allocate large amounts of slave land.

However, since there were only two or three hundred people on the other side, the clan council of the city was also convinced that if an army of the great river tribes came, it would not be possible to make no movement at all, so they decided to send troops outside the city to pursue and destroy this group of two or three hundred people.

The burning of the fields and the destruction of the embankment by the group on the opposite side greatly angered the people of Moucheng, and when the female leader of the national assembly proposed to go on the expedition, thousands of hoarse shouts overwhelmingly outnumbered the yellers who objected.

Soon, a team of 3,000 people organized by clans gathered in the city and went out of the city after dawn to hunt down the more than 300 people.

Ji Bai hid in the woods, and after determining that the troops on the other side were dispatched, he immediately asked people to go back and report the news.

He himself led the remaining black-clothed guards to retreat, and retreating required skill, and this group of people who had been trained for several years walked very slowly and even a little panicked, but in fact the formation was still neat, and they did not completely disperse and escape.

Along the way, he threw away some dry food belts, and even had some gunpowder bombs and a few spare copper swords thrown down, but he kept his speed under control as he retreated.

Jian Chen had been hiding in the col and had given Ji Bai's order very early.

Once the countrymen of Mucheng came out to pursue him, he asked Ji Bai to control his speed.

If it is a daybreak pursuit, then it is necessary to arrive at the ambush site in the afternoon before the sun sets, when the sun is about to set, and the eyes are dazzling from east to west, and it is most difficult to detect the people hidden in the hills.

If the pursuit begins at noon, then it is necessary to slow down, and even sneak attack the opponent's camp once at night, so that the opponent can reach the ambush site the next morning, and do not arrive in the evening of the same day, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the enemy.

After receiving Ji Bai's return, Jian Chen began to arrange his pockets.

The rest of the city's off-the-job black-clothed troops crossed the river and hid in the woods on the east bank of the river, they were all off-duty shock troops, and their individual combat effectiveness was much stronger than the Ge spear phalanx soldiers here on their side.

As the main force, the spear classes and archers were divided into three teams, some of which were responsible for breaking the rear, some of which were attacking at the half-waist, and the other part were hidden in the front, waiting for the black-clothed guards led by Ji Bai to meet and use to amputate them.

As long as there is a way to retreat, the will to fight on the other side will not be too tenacious, so Chen Jian deliberately chose this river, which is not too wide, not too wide, not too deep, as the retreat route for the soldiers of the Mucheng people.

Once the battle begins, the army on your side will not strike in a single line, but will divide into three clusters and cut the opponent in half, relying on the advantage of the phalanx soldiers to gradually squeeze the opponent.

He was not sure of the willpower and combat effectiveness of the opposing army, so he didn't dare to pull into a line and attack on all fronts, so he would lose the biggest formation advantage on his side.

Once the other party can't bear it, he will retreat from the river, after all, there is still a way out.

The rout retreated to the left bank of the river, by which time the formation had been broken up and completely disorganized, and the people who crossed the river must have scattered and fled, and it would take time to assemble.

The off-duty soldiers from various cities hidden on the opposite side were the main force of this arrest and slaughter, and it could be regarded as a gift from Jian Chen to curry favor with this group of children, but they were not necessarily so kind and ill-intentioned. (To be continued.) )