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On this day, the envoy of the eastern city received the shocking news that after worshipping his ancestors, Su Yue publicly proclaimed several major sins of the newly elected leader of the city, and wanted to be the head of the clan brotherhood to teach his brothers who had gone the wrong way to obey the rules on behalf of his ancestors.

Then Chen Jian took half of the jade axe that symbolized the strength of the alliance with both hands, and temporarily replaced the leader of the alliance who could not go on an expedition to ask Dongcheng, at this moment Chen Jian represents the rules of the alliance, and he participates in this intervention as the enforcer of the rules of the alliance rather than as the leader of Xia City, which is justified.

From the beginning of the ancestors' reminiscences to the violation of the rules in the eastern city, the envoys of Sucheng were spread all over the world, and at the same time, the leaders of the various relatives were invited to meet in Sucheng as soon as possible.

Chen Jian's preparations had also been completed, all kinds of rafts, wooden boats, bark boats, etc. had been prepared, and the 100 soldiers of Xia Cheng and the 200 warriors of Su Cheng boarded the ship together, and Su Tang commanded the soldiers of Su Cheng to follow Chen Jian.

One of the three sailing ships is the flagship of Chen Jian and Su Tang, and the son of the leader of that city is also among them, he must and must go, otherwise Chen Jian's identity will be very embarrassing, even if there is an alliance and an excuse, he is still an aggressor, and it is completely different to take him.

Among the other two, one was loaded with all kinds of combat supplies prepared by Chen Jian, and the other was prepared with 15,000 catties of dried cakes, fried noodles and jerky, which could be eaten by 300 people for 20 days.

Basically, even if it is a broken kettle, there is no return, but as long as the city is taken, there will naturally be someone to provide food and drink.

In addition, they do not carry the rest of the things, everything is a quick word, and before the eastern city stabilizes, the more likely it is that the opposite city will calm down with each day of delay.

This is the first time that the people of Sucheng have made a rapid strategic maneuver with the help of water transportation on large rivers, and the people of Xiacheng have tried it a long time ago, and it is not new.

There is no time to walk, and there is no need to camp at night to be wary of enemy sneak attacks, let alone walking a path full of thorns and only footprints.

More than 300 people travel nearly 100 miles a day, and the fewer people there are, the faster they walk.

Su Tang had never seen such a method of fighting, in the past, the flat valley was selected, the two armies approached each other to shout and scold, and then lined up to fight. Most of the cities were besieged but not attacked, let alone such a three-hundred-mile raid.

It's just a city, let alone thousands of people, and the soldiers in his hands and Chen Jian are only three hundred together, can they really capture a city?

Since last winter, he has admired Jian Chen a lot, feeling that this person who is about the same age as himself surpasses him a lot, and he also understands that Xia Cheng's techniques and tactics will affect various clans, and whoever learns it first at this time will have a higher reputation in the future.

With this kind of trust, or a kind of blind faith, he did not question it, but listened to Chen Jian's advice very respectfully, and secretly learned how to restrain and how to reward and punish.

Chen Jian basically stood on the bow of the boat all the way, secretly noting down where there were twists and turns in the lower reaches of the river, where it was gentle, where it was turbulent, and when he encountered a tributary, he would ask the guide about the flow of the river, nearby cities, and so on.

Sometimes, he would ask which places were easy to break down, which places were easy to divert in previous years, and what strange things happened in those places, or what strange animals, plants, stones, etc. were discovered, and he would listen carefully to the legends.

Every 100 miles, he would take out a jar of water to dry and see how much sediment was left after drying.

At night, according to the estimates, I drew a map with no scale at all, and wondered where the bends of the river would be straightened in the future, and where the bends could be broken and diverted, etc., but now they are sparsely populated and have the least damage.

Su Tang saw that Chen Jian's relationship was all about something that had nothing to do with the upcoming war, and the slight uneasiness in his heart calmed down, but then he sighed with some jealousy: he thought that he was quite smart in the city, but he still couldn't think of how to break the enemy, the other party was just about the same age as himself, but he was stable and had a way to come.

Three days later, the guide who led the way told Jian Chen Jian that thirty miles further ahead was the city, and Chen Jian saw that it was still early, so he asked someone to stop the boat, rest and eat for the time being, and wait until the afternoon to set off and arrive in the evening.

At this time, the organizational power does not support night battles, but the same night will also cancel out the number of people on both sides, Su Tang thought that Chen Jian was preparing for a sneak attack at night, and his heart suddenly felt more comfortable: it was similar to what he thought, and he thought for three days that the only way to win the battle was to sneak attack at night, as long as he killed the leader of the city, and the son of the city was appeased, everything would be stable.

In the evening, the ship is moored and docked, and then more than ten miles forward is the city, at this time the golden crow will fall, and the full moon will rise like dawn, but there is no one outside the city.

Chen Jian asked someone to take out some things from the cabin, divided more than ten people, borrowed more than twenty people from Su Tang, and distributed some pockets made of silk cloth to these thirty people.

Su Tang knew what was in the boat, and he also knew that these silk bags were made by Chen Jian to find a woman in the city, supported by reed poles, covered with silk silk around them, and a piece of linen cloth stained with pine resin butter was placed underneath.

It looks like a clay pot, only much lighter than a clay pot.

Chen Jian took out one, tied it with a rope, and then called a fire to light the linen cloth coated with pine resin butter, and after a while, more than 300 people screamed, this silk cloth bag that looked like a clay pot actually staggered and flew up, if it wasn't for the rope in Chen Jian's hand, I am afraid that it would have flown to the sky to be accompanied by the stars.

The people of Xiacheng have seen a lot of kites, and their inherent opinion that human beings can't fly has been shattered by Chen Jian at the Huaizi Festival a year ago, and they are not too shocked to see the flying things, but there is still a difference between being shocked and being too shocked, especially when they are floating and shining overhead.

"What is this?"

"Sky lanterns. There is also a name, you see that the kite can fly, but the whole body is a cloth, if the hole is opened, it will not be able to fly, there are holes and no holes is the biggest difference between this thing and the kite. This thing has holes like a jar and shines like a star, and I think it's not bad to call it Kong Ming lantern. Nowadays, the appearance of various things in Xia Cheng has also made children's names a lot, Xuan, Yuan, Zheng, Jun, Ploughshare, etc., all in the name of things, and if you have children in the future, you can also take Kong Ming as the name. ”

Chen Jian casually talked nonsense, and everyone looked up at the flickering firelight in the sky, thinking that this name was really good.

Secretly wiping the sweat and finally fooling it over, Chen Jian said again: "You thirty people take these sky lanterns and follow the guide to the east of the city to the bushes, and when the moon climbs near the Tianhe, they will light these sky lanterns and fly out to make the people in the city suspect that there are soldiers in ambush there." As soon as this thing flew, one of them was surprised and startled, and the other flew to the city by the east wind, and the number was so large that they could not guess how many people there were. ”

Su Tang was stunned for a moment, and said strangely: "If it's a sneak attack at night, wouldn't it be better if it wasn't discovered?" Ji Xia is like this, I don't know how many people have come to the city, and if I have precautions, I will definitely refuse to go out of the city to fight with us, how can I sneak attack at night so that the other party is not surprised? ”

Jian Chen said with a smile: "It's just to let them shrink into the city, if they go out of the city to fight with us, I will be this person, and the war horses and chariots have not followed, where can they fight?" Besides, when did I say I was going to sneak up at night? There are many inconveniences at night, and the people cannot be pacified quickly, if this battle is divided into ten parts, three points in the military formation, and seven points in the truth, and everyone is in a mess at night, who will the reason be told to? (To be continued.) )