Outside the west gate of Mucheng, a small artificial mound appeared out of thin air on the flat ground in one day. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The Mucheng people on the city wall could see that the Xiacheng people had cut down wood from a distance and continuously transported it to the vicinity of the mound, seemingly building a camp.

Some of them resisted some logs from a distance, which were not too thick, and it appeared that they were tying up ladders.

Thousands of people dug there with digging tools, piling up the earth, and many of them were mine slaves who had been screaming outside the city a few days ago.

With the tools combined, the land they ravaged in one day was already devastated and changed.

The upturned dirt piled up and grew taller.

The strange movements of the Xia Cheng people made Mu Cheng deeply uneasy, and Mu Hu came to the head of the city surrounded by the clansmen, looking at the camp of the Xia Cheng people, his brows were tightly locked.

The camp hundreds of paces away was already quite rudimentary, and while more than a thousand people were busy there, there were more people guarding at any time, and it was impossible to raid it, so they could only watch the mound continue to rise.

"Are the people of Xiacheng going to build a high platform with earthen ramparts to shoot arrows at the city? Could it be that this is how they sieged the city? ”

Mu Hu was a little puzzled, although the methods of the Xia Cheng people to attack the city were somewhat novel, they did not make her feel that they were in danger.

It would take a month to build a mound and approach it slowly, and after a month, the army of the dome would return, and then this group of Xia Cheng people who were showing off their might at this time would be in a desperate situation.

She thought about it, and thought that these people from Xia Cheng might just be trying to draw the attention of the city to Ximen. Just in case, while focusing on defense on the side of the West Gate, the other three directions were also strictly ordered to pay close attention to the movements of the people in Xia City.

After watching it for a while, Mu Hu saw a very strange scene, several strange birds flew up from near the mound, temporarily dancing in the clear air by the just rising autumn wind, but these birds were dragging a long tail behind them, and they couldn't see clearly from a distance, but they could see a few Xia City people shaking something in the distance, as if they were controlling these birds.

The people of Mucheng on the city wall all raised their necks to observe those strange birds, and they were so engrossed that they completely forgot about the sore necks, and dozens of excellent archers bent their bows and shot, but unfortunately they did not hit.

This strange sight finally ended in the evening, the cool wind accompanied by the damp fog and dew made those birds fly into the sky and fall on the city wall, and a few people curiously picked it up only to find that it was just a piece of cloth, and the people of Xiacheng did not know what means were used to make these cloths fly into the air.

The other end of the string tied to it was obviously in the hands of the Xia Cheng people outside the city, and it fell to the ground at this time, and it seemed that those Xia Cheng people seemed to want to take it back.

The people guarding the city didn't know what it was, and Mu Hu was playing with a fallen "flying bird" at the head of the city, and his heart became more and more strange.

It is a very simple silk silk cut out of charcoal, with eyes and some scary images painted on it.

"Perhaps...... The eyes of these birds can see everything in the city and tell the people of Xiacheng? Could it be that the witches or priests among the people of Xia City can communicate with birds and beasts? ”

Thinking of this, Mu Hu felt a little chill on his body, and trembled unconsciously, feeling a little terrible.

The clan leaders who stood at the head of the city with Mu Hu were also worried, worried that these birds would see everything in the city and tell the people of Xiacheng, so some people pressed the few birds that landed at the head of the city with big stones to prevent them from flying again.

The people of Xia Cheng didn't seem to know that these birds that could fly into the air and see the deployment in the city had been crushed by the stones, and they continued to pull the rope back until the rope was straightened.

The people on the city walls mocked the outside, seeing this as a victory, and cheered loudly.

And on the mound outside the city, many people in Xia City were also cheering, and they also regarded this as a victory, and several young men were comparing the tick marks left on the ropes.

"Ji Xia, if you don't count the height of the city wall, this place is about four hundred and thirty steps away from the city wall."

Chen Jian looked at Mu Cheng, which was gradually shrouded in night, estimated the height of the city wall, and nodded: "You can not count it, it's almost this number, and it's about the same as what we measured with a wooden stick." Tell those who dig the hole to dig at a distance of about four hundred and thirty paces. The rest of the people continued to dig outside in the dirt as if we were going to build an arrow tower. ”

The herald passed on the order, and by the way, he brought the intercepted rope, and more than a dozen people continued to dig forward, day and night, especially a few of the mine slaves of the jade mine who threw off a large part of the people of Xiacheng with their years of mining skills.

The new tools are very easy to use, saving a lot of physical strength, and there are people behind them who use wood to support the cave from collapsing, and someone will take over after digging for a while, and the cycle repeats.

After the earth was carried out in a basket, it was piled up on top of the mound, and hundreds of people pretended to dig up the earth to build an arrow platform as a cover, and the people of Mucheng did not notice anything wrong.

The descendants of the nobles of the city who followed Chen Jian on the expedition looked at the swarthy cave that led directly to the city of Mucheng, and they were all excited, but also worried.

The excitement is that they seem to be able to really get the glory of storming Dongyi City once, and they can capture a lot of slaves without too many casualties.

I was worried about the walls of my own city, and gunpowder was only seen as a weapon to defend the city by various cities before, so I didn't worry too much.

In two or three years, a lot of gunpowder was sold in Xia City, and a lot of it was piled up in various cities to defend the city. But when they saw these tunnels, they suddenly thought that the gunpowder that spread to various cities was a great threat to their own cities.

In their opinion, once Ji Xia breached Mu City with this method, the news would spread to all the clan cities within a few months, and many cities would learn this method when attacking the city in the future...... And the most skillful use of this method is the Xia Cheng people.

They hadn't seen Xia Cheng, but they had lived in Yucheng for a long time. However...... Yucheng has no walls, but is an island near the shore in a lake.

Onozawa is the natural moat, and the sails with black and white flags are the walls of Yucheng, and even if the rest of the cities learn this method, who can threaten Yucheng? The group of people who are the most skilled in using it is the group of people who are the least afraid of this method.

A few people felt a little uneasy in their hearts, and after discussing it, a dozen people begged their husband to tell them how to attack the city.

Chen Jian did not hide his secrets, and by the way, he called the students of the military class together and gave a detailed lecture on the methods of attacking the city for two days.

Terrain, water attack, tunnels, blasting, siege, water cut-off...... All the possible methods were demonstrated on the terrain that Jian Jian had fabricated with mud.

During the demonstration, I deliberately applied the template of several cities very close to Yucheng, and the children in those cities were shocked, as if in the eyes of their husbands, the cities that they thought were indestructible had so many flaws, but when I thought about it carefully, I felt that these were really flaws.

Chen Jian pretended to be arrogant and said: "Now the cities on both sides of the river seem to me to be built of dung, and these cities are already old. ”

He pointed to a city made of mud and said, "For example, this city has a river nearby, and it is not easy to dig tunnels. But the walls were made of rammed earth and did not have many stones. In the past, this was indeed indestructible, but now it is very different. ”

"I approached with a shield cart, and with hundreds of people armed with shovels and pickaxes, it only took half a day to dig down the city wall. In the past, it was impossible to dig because the tools were not in hand, and it was too troublesome to dig up, but now there are iron tools, but it is very simple. ”

"Another example is this city, the terrain is similar to that of Mucheng, digging tunnels close to it, blowing up the city with gunpowder, or digging and collapsing directly underground...... Once the walls are dug up, do you say the city will be able to hold it? ”

There was silence below, but when I thought about it, I felt that it was true, that times seemed to have really changed, and at least the methods of war were too different from before.

"Sir, could it be that in the future, when you build a city, you can only hide on the island like Yucheng? According to you, it is very difficult to hold a city on the ground. ”

Jian Chen didn't say anything like the best city wall for the clan, but shook his head and said, "Not at all." It's just that many cities need to be rebuilt. After this battle is defeated, the Dongyi people will definitely know how we attacked the city, I am only afraid that they will learn something. ”

Everyone looked at Jian Chen eagerly, and Jian Chen pondered for a while and said: "Take Mucheng as an example, in fact, we have to do two things well, at least our current method of attacking the city can't be used." ”

"When you build a city wall, you have to dig deep enough, and the foundation must be large, and it must be made of stone slabs, so that even if you dig it, it will be very troublesome to dig up the big stones. And if the slate is large enough and large, even if it is dug up and exploded with gunpowder, it will not be able to explode. ”

"Furthermore, when digging a moat outside the city, it should be deep and wide, so that when digging tunnels, it should not be too shallow, otherwise water will seep. Besides, there is a wide moat, which can always be guarded for three or two months longer than nothing. ”

"I've been forced to defend the city, what does that mean? It proves that there are no more soldiers to fight and prove that they dare not go out of the city for a decisive battle, and once the strongest city is forced to defend to the death, it is only a matter of time before it falls. ”

"But time is critical, two or three more months, and the tide of the war may turn around, at least until your allies come to the rescue. Reinforcements from outside are the only way to hold the city. ”

"Take Mucheng as an example, if they can hold on for a month, it will be very different, we can only escape. But the return of the dome is slow, so what do you think of? ”

He glanced at the people who shook their heads enlightenedly, and said with a smile: "Build a road! Build a road to connect with your allies, we now have horses and carts, and if we have a road, the distance that would have taken three months may only take a month and a half to complete, so that it will be easier for the defender to hold on until reinforcements come? ”

"If there is a big road between Mucheng and Windy City where cows, horses, and vehicles can pass, will Qiongxi come back so late?"

After saying this, as if he was worried about the future of the Great River Tribes, he sighed with emotion: "After this battle, only by doing three things first: rebuilding the city wall, digging the moat, and building the road, can you fight the enemy, because the Dongyi people will also learn my method of attacking the city...... Ay. ”

It seems to be worried, but in fact it is showing off, and it is secretly threatening. Dongyi people learned the method of siege from him, and he, a gentleman, naturally played more slippery than the students.

For these cities, are the only enemies of the Dongyi people?

Looking at the children who bowed their heads and were silent, Chen Jianxin said think about it, go back and persuade your father to spend his energy on building cities and repairing roads and making alliances in the past few years, Xia Cheng has to respite for two years to recuperate. I don't have that much prestige to let all the cities build roads, if you don't build roads, Xia Cheng can only develop along the river, and you can't control the place hundreds of miles outside the river, this can't work...... Without roads, the city will always be an isolated island.