On the twenty-fourth day of the Lunar Calendar, the scout finally reported that he had found the figure of the retreating tribe. They came back much faster, less than two days away, and four days after the siege.

There has been no cannibalism on the mountain for the time being, and Chen Jian is also ready for four days.

Two days ago, he deliberately withdrew his troops for a distance, and the people on the mountain saw the empty camp, rushed down a lot of people looking for leaves, and were killed by Chen Jian who was hiding in the woods, and the rest all ran back.

Now he can safely leave a dozen people in each camp to watch, and the people on the mountain will think that it is still the same as last time, and they will not dare to go down the mountain.

The battlefield had been chosen, thirty miles away from the peak. The distance of thirty miles is estimated that the arrival of the other party should be in the morning, and his troops are facing away from the sun in the east.

It is a valley meadow with no river on either side. This time it's about fighting a war of annihilation and capturing prisoners, and the river will affect their pursuit.

The valley was wide, about six or seven hundred paces, and was the only way for the enemy to return, and in the distance were high mountains and swamps, which the anxious enemy could only take. And this battle will have to be fought sooner or later, otherwise they will starve to death even if they return to the mountains.

Chen Jian climbed onto a tree, observed the predetermined battlefield, asked the clansmen to take the rope to measure the distance, calculate the speed of march and impact, jumped down and drew a picture on the ground, and calculated the time with a wooden stick.

Several of the captains were called to his side, and when the actual fight began, he didn't have time to tell them what to do, so he had to make them understand how to fight the battle plan.

After taking the trouble to talk for a long time, several captains generally understood.

"Tanuki, you take those thirty people, and choose seventy auxiliaries, and make up a hundred. Hidden six or seven hundred steps away from the mountain forest on the left. That falling star looks like it's going to be a war, and he'll definitely send someone to check it out in the woods, but it's not too far away, and they're in a hurry. You hear the drums and then slowly approach the woods and follow their path. Be sure not to move until the drum beats, as they may be spotted. When exactly to rush, you can see for yourself. I can't see the whole battlefield. ”

"Got it."

When the tanuki went to pick people, Jian Chen led people to plant the flag on the left flank of the team.

"Hold on to the left and don't move. The banner is here, and the people of the Meteorite tribe will concentrate their main forces on our left flank. I am on the right flank with most of the soldiers of our four clans, and your left flank should not move or rush. Hold on until the tanuki appears, until I defeat the enemy on the right flank, and I win. If you can't hold on, it's hard to say whether you will win or lose. ”

Chen Jian looked around, pointed to Song, whose left hand was crippled, and said, "Song, you stay here." Your name is pine, may you be like a pine tree, the wind does not bend and the rain does not fall. ”

Song glanced up at the flag and nodded solemnly.

After the general arrangement is completed, let the team stand in the predetermined place and let everyone get familiar with their location. After a normal night's rest, and an early meal the next day, it was not far off for the scouts to report back to those people.

The soldiers were a little anxious, knowing that today would be a big battle, there were many enemies, the number was about the same as their own, and some of them still had iron weapons, and it was no longer as easy as the slaughter of the old man a few days ago.

Several people coughed loudly, wanting to disturb the silence of the battlefield with coughing sounds, or maybe they wanted to embolden themselves, and even their voices were unnaturally louder. Some people chew on dried fish hidden on their bodies and are reluctant to eat, and they always feel thirsty and drink a lot of water.

When the shadows were slightly shortened by the sun, a few figures finally appeared in the distance.

In a short time, a large number of enemies appeared on the west side of the valley, and the front team stopped, and the team gradually approached.

Apparently aware of the other party's anxiety, several scouts ran to the woods on either side to check.

Jian Chen's hand subconsciously clenched Wu Feng, hoping that the tanuki and the others would hide far away and not be discovered by these people.

It wasn't until the scouts came out of the woods that Jian Chen let go of his fingers, his knuckles a little white from the exertion, and they were covered with sweat.

This is the first battle he has experienced that can be called a battle, the first few times have been plays, but this time it is different, Falling Star has some skills.

On the other side, he stopped a thousand paces away from him, rested for a while, and someone was shouting loudly, and he couldn't hear what was being said.

Chen Jian blew the pottery whistle and signaled the whole team, and the soldiers who had rested all morning stood up and clenched their weapons, and the shouts and scoldings of the captain and captain sounded around them.

The tanuki took away a hundred people, and there were still four hundred and sixty people under Chen Jian's hands.

Three hundred and thirty-three men remained on the left flank, including a hundred soldiers, and among the auxiliaries there were more than a hundred unqualified archers, and the rest were hand-to-hand combatants.

The 100 soldiers who remained on the left flank were returned to the pine and acorn tubes, and the loose half of the tubes were in reserve behind them, where they could not hold out and it was convenient to support, and the acorns were in the first line.

More than 200 hand-to-hand fighters were divided into two columns, and a gap was left between the five-man squad for two people to pass through for the archers to enter and exit.

On the right flank are the one hundred and thirty people led by Chen Jian, and they are also the elite of the entire team, all of which are bronze weapons. Eighty spearmen, thirty archers who had been trained for most of the year, and twenty sword and shield soldiers.

At this time, it is not arranged very closely, and it is deliberately thinned out to try not to attract the attention of the other party.

On the opposite side of the battlefield, Luoxing was also observing the movements on Jian Chen's side.

A few days earlier, the few people who had escaped had found Falling Star and cried about the siege of the village, and Falling Star was startled because he found that the footprints and traces of those people had disappeared by the river. Can these people walk on the river?

When the rest of the tribe heard the news, they immediately became a mess, and several people were worried about their sisters and mothers, and they were about to run back, but they were killed by the falling star and a few people settled down.

Running back in a hurry is only a dead end, and he knows very well that he must go back as a team to win.

When he saw the enemy, Falling Star knew that this was a battle that must be fought.

Nothing, scattering may be able to return to the village mountain, but what's the use? There is not much to eat in the mountains, and it is still a dead end to kill not only these people, but also to scatter under the noses of the enemy, it is like a flock of sheep exposed to the same number of wolves.

After making sure that there was no ambush in the mountain forest, he couldn't wait, and his mother was still on the mountain.

After observing the opposite front, I found that the opponent had almost spread the forces in a line, with the flag planted on the left flank, and there were more people near the flag.

The other party is standing neater than his side, and it is impossible for his side to stand so flat, even if he stands together, it will be messed up when the fight starts.

So he divided the ranks into six according to their tribes, separated from each other, and more than a hundred people of his own tribe were facing the banner, and there was another tribe in front of them.

Each tribe was divided into seven or eight clansmen about his age, some of whom were of their own clan's blood, and some of whom were sturdy boys who had been raised by the rest of the tribe who had been born and had learned how to hunt and fight since childhood, and the falling stars could only trust them.

Tell them to walk slowly, and kill those who charge ahead.

When everything was ready, the team of more than 600 people slowly moved forward, and people kept running back and forth to slow down the other tribes a little.

These people walked for a few days, and at this time they were very tired, and the sun was shining on their eyes, which was very uncomfortable, and many of them had sore backs and weak legs, but they still used their last strength to support their bodies when they thought of those who were about to starve to death.

When they got close to about four hundred paces, and the opposite side was still motionless, Falling Star heard about the kind of weapon that could shoot far away, and selected thirty people, armed with iron swords and throwing spears, to the front of the group.

Falling Star shouted loudly to slow down the procession, and twenty clansmen with iron swords and spears rushed to the front of the two armies, everyone scattered, trying to at least cause chaos on the other side.

The large army and twenty people behind him were dozens of paces apart, and slowly advanced to three hundred paces.

Jian Chen looked at the enemy, who was only more than three hundred paces, and made people beat the drums of war.

The archers on the left flank came to the front of the line through the gap and stuck their feathered arrows into the ground, but did not draw their bows, because there was no order.

The drumming continued for a while, and it was so loud that the tanuki in the woods must have heard it.

Seeing the scattered more than twenty people gradually approaching, Jian Chen blew a pottery whistle, signaling not to release arrows, and used scouts to drive them away.

These more than twenty people are here to create chaos, the distance is far away and the archers can't shoot the scattered targets, but they will be nervous, the auxiliary archers who have not been trained for a long time may shoot arrows in advance, and an untrained archer can no longer be full if he pulls a dozen arrows at most.

As the pottery whistle sounded, scouts from the left flank ran to the front of the group with bronze swords, short javelins, or bows and arrows.

The main force still has a distance of three hundred paces, and even a bow and arrow cannot shoot it.

But the first meeting has already begun.