Since it was decided that he would continue to attack the cities of the Great River tribes until the return of the army of Sudake, Qiongxi rewarded the clansmen who followed the expedition in Windy City. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The more than 10,000 slaves captured by info were distributed to 6,000 of the various clans, and he kept a small half, and asked someone to escort a group of slaves back to the land of Dongyi first.

Although the Windy City had undergone a turmoil two years earlier, the subsequent recuperation and gradual agricultural changes had allowed the city to accumulate a lot of wealth and food, enough to feed the army of the Firmament.

After resting in Windy City for more than ten days, several clans' Qingzhuang came to the nearby Dongyi City, and they guarded Windy City. The Firmament instigated the various clans, coupled with the momentum caused by the rapid destruction of the city and the plundered slaves, which made the leaders more confident, and decided to continue westward, at least plundering more iron tools and iron pots.

Later, another city was breached, and with the help of gunpowder obtained in Windy City and some defectors, he dug up the city wall and buried half of the captured gunpowder underneath, blowing up the city wall and easily tearing through the city's defenses.

It was another great victory, and the prestige of the dome broke through the sky for a while, and the clan leaders were impressed, because they plundered thousands of slaves, as well as a large number of grain, iron, cattle and horses.

However, after that, the more than 10,000 troops of Qiongxi ran into trouble.

Many scouts on horseback began to follow them, either roaming around the army or taking the opportunity to harass a lone man.

The casualties were not significant, but they seriously disrupted the pace of the team's advance.

Qiongxi was not afraid of these riders, who could only attack with javelins, and the distance was very close, and they could not get close to the archers at all.

But these riders were obviously soldiers from Xia City, which made Qiongxi feel a little uneasy, and always felt that the person named Ji Xia was like a poisonous snake staring at him in the dark.

There are not many people in Xiacheng, this is what he knows, it is said that there are only more than a thousand people in the newly built Yucheng, and the rest are slaves.

He was naturally not afraid of the enemy in battle, but he was afraid that when he attacked the rest of the cities, this group of Xia City people would attack him from behind, which would make him very uncomfortable.

Now that everyone in the cities of the Great River is in danger, and Su Yue is outside, no one can convince the various cities and clans to gather together, because those cities are worried that they will repeat the mistakes of Wind City, which is an opportunity for each to break through.

As time went on, more and more riders were attacking, and they would take advantage of the riding to constantly create some chaos and stall in the early morning.

But once the army formation was condensed and the archers were wound, the group of riders would disperse in a hurry, and there would be almost no head-on confrontation. Qiongxi captured more than a dozen horses in Windy City, but he couldn't ride them at all, and the people who could ride in Windy City were all newly surrendered, and he couldn't believe it. Who knew if this group of people would flee back on horseback, so he sent those people and the stolen horses back to Dongyi.

In charge of the army, scouts are naturally important, but the scouts sent by Qiongxi can only control the situation within thirty or fifty miles, and further away is the range of activities of those scouts in Xia City.

At the end of June, Qiongxi personally commanded and lured seven Summer City riders into the mud pond. After catching three and killing four, it turned out that the army of Xiacheng had been dispatched to a place called "Bao".

Xia Cheng's strategic intentions were only conveyed to the officers above the centurion, and the captured people did not know exactly what to do, but they told all the changes in Yucheng in the first two months.

Qiongxi was first the political leader of the Dongyi tribes, and then the military leader, so he was extremely surprised by what happened in Yucheng, and he couldn't believe that he would be able to calm down in two months.

Especially after hearing the oath to continue to send troops to resist Dongyi regardless of the civil strife in Xia City, Qiongxi was sure that the leader of this Xia City was by no means the kind of person who only had one city and one city at heart.

He only believed half of the interrogation of the captives, but he was sure that there were not many soldiers in Xia Cheng, at most three thousand to four thousand, and it was the right time to defeat them in one fell swoop.

As for the chariot riders of Xia Cheng and the like, Qiongxi is not worried.

There are more than 6,000 warriors and more than 7,000 clan soldiers in his hands, and the disparity in strength cannot be overcome by a few horses. Widen the front and reserve 2,000 men to defend the two wings still twice as much as the opposite side. If the opposite side does not widen the front, its own wings can be outflanked; If it is widened to the same as itself, the front will inevitably be weak, and if one place is broken through, the whole front will collapse.

In a month's time, it was impossible to build a city that could be used as a barrier, and the place called Bao was a simple camp.

Since the leader on the opposite side wants to do great things, he must fight against himself. As long as this group of unexpected enemies is eliminated, at least until the return of the Suyue army in September, they can crisscross the land of the Great River Tribes for a while, and it can greatly weaken the strength of Xia Cheng.

He didn't take Su Yue in his eyes at all, as long as he defeated the Xia Cheng army, the contradictions within Xia Cheng would completely split the city, and the meat of Yucheng would make the cities of many big rivers red, for the entire Dongyi, this is a long-term consideration.

If there was no sudden appearance of the Xia Cheng force, Qiongxi only needed to contact the Dahe clans who had withdrawn from the alliance, attack once a year after spring planting, and plunder back 10,000 slaves would make Dongyi strong and weaken the Dahe tribes, which would also be more conducive to his prestige and reputation among the Dongyi tribes.

But now the 10,000 slaves who have been plundered back cannot keep up with the output of 300 oxen and 300 ploughshares in a year, and it is said that the place in Yucheng can produce several times as many iron tools every year, which is the most troublesome place for him.

Faced with this situation, at the beginning of July, the firm finally decided to go south to the "buns" along the river.

When he set out on the expedition, he had people send news to several nearby cities that he would only fight the people of Xia City this time, and if there was a city on the expedition, he would move his army to capture this city first.

The chiefs of the cities close to Windy City breathed a sigh of relief, they also knew that once Xia Cheng was defeated, they would not be able to protect themselves, but if Xia Cheng and the Dongyi people fought until Su Yue returned to the division in September, everything would be easy to say, and many of their clansmen also fulfilled their obligations to form alliances and follow Su Yue on the expedition in order to share the spoils of war.

After being threatened by the Firmament, these cities also sent people to the place where the Xia Cheng army was stationed.

They need to know the situation of the battle to determine what they will do - it is easy to say that the people of Xia Cheng are defeated, but if the people of Xia City win, they must beat the water dogs, otherwise the people of Xia City will question whether they have betrayed the covenant and come to the city with the momentum of victory, and then it will be a headache to repeat the rebellion in Windy City.

For a while, "Bun", a place that had just been named for only a few days, became the focus of the struggle between the two ethnic groups.

There had been a flood a year ago, and there was only one clan settlement nearby that could not be called a city, with a population of four or five thousand.

Since the early arrival of the construction division in early June, the place has begun to change.

Through the fame gained from last year's disaster relief and some of the hard currency such as currency and metal farming tools in Summer City, the low-level civilians of the clan here were hired to build a defensive camp centered on the originally simple small docks.

It is said to be a camp, but it is only a month, and the overall building does not look like a city with strong defenses at all.

The whole camp is roughly semi-circular, with the wharf as the center and the river in the back, and the biggest difference from the rest of the city is that there is no tall exterior wall, because there is no time to build it.

Chen Jian also knows that this era has the advantage of having tall city walls, the problem is that it can't be built in such a short period of time, and this is just a support point for a strategic springboard, so there is no need to put a lot of resources here.

There is an earthen wall more than one person high at the outermost part of the entire camp, which can be easily crossed. However, the interior is not a flat river, either a rammed earth wall that is not high, or a mud pond canal that has been dug and filled with water.

The entire semi-circular strange city is full of mud ponds and ditches, and it looks like a city that has not been built with care at all. However, there were no houses in the city, only various streets and courtyards divided by rammed earth walls, and various roads spread out in all directions, centered on the wharf.

Walls are built where walls can be built, and ditches are dug where walls cannot be built, ensuring that each passable road is no more than 80 paces before being blocked by rammed earth walls or ditches.

Every 100 steps or so, there is a mud tower made of wood, which serves as a commanding height within 100 meters of the vicinity, and is used to observe the situation in the vicinity.

Near the dock was a barn, and there was a wooden tower more than six paces high to observe the movement of the whole city, which was about six hundred paces away from the periphery, and it was impossible for the best marksman to shoot here.

Near the barn was the only large open space where a large number of people could gather, and there was no open space where hundreds of people could gather except for the wide square in the dock area.

From the very beginning, Jian Chen was not ready to fight Qiongxi here, he just wanted to delay time.

Dongyi people are good at shooting and have many people, which is the advantage of Dongyi.

There are war horses on the side of Xia City, but the best riders are in Yangguan of Xia City, which is under the jurisdiction of Baima, and is responsible for raiding the grassland every year, and there are not many good riders here; There were chariots in Summer City, but there were not many of them.

He didn't have the confidence to fight in the wilderness, and he didn't want to throw all the limited people of Xia City here.

Xia Cheng has few people, is not good at shooting, and many workshop workers and soldiers experience the battle formation for the first time, which is the weakness of Xia Cheng. A good shooter is not cultivated overnight, it takes three or four years to say the least, and such veterans are the backbone of Xia Cheng.

However, Chen Jian also saw the four biggest advantages of Xia Cheng: the best phalanx spearmen in the entire river to the coast of the East China Sea; Powder bombs that can be thrown within thirty paces; the extremely high morale of the people who have just acquired the status of a human being; Propaganda units planted in the various organized armies.

The strange appearance of this city, which was used to delay the defense of time, was not only due to the pressure of time, but also to maximize the four advantages of Xia City.

Using the rammed earth walls and ditches of the ditches as natural flank cover, the spearmen could not worry about the threat from the left and right, and only had to face the enemy in front of them. They hadn't faced a real war yet, and Jian Chen wasn't sure if they would be able to keep their lines level in the first battle.

Using the division of the rammed earth wall makes it impossible for Dongyi's archers to shoot directly effectively, because the line of sight is blocked, they can only choose to throw.

Taking advantage of the divided troops that cannot be deployed on a large scale to take advantage of throwing gunpowder weapons in close proximity, at the same time, the Dongyi people cannot deploy all the troops, and can only form a tactic of adding fuel to the battle.

If it is a stubborn defense regardless of retreat, this tactic will not be able to hold at all, and it will only collapse. But Xia Cheng is not without a way back.

This is not Summer City, it is not Yucheng, and even a month ago it didn't even have a name, just a place where you could throw it away and take a boat at any time.

Turn a large-scale confrontation into a skirmish in which the troops cannot be launched, and the inability to defeat will also make it impossible for the opponent to exert a numerical advantage, just drag it until the news of the attack in the hinterland of the Firmey, and turn the decisive battle that Firmey wants into a war of attrition.

This is a test of the morale of both sides, but the group of main spearmen on Chen Jian's side have just gained the identity of people, and the propaganda machine they have mastered is propagating the truth of why they are fighting every day, and each team of 100 people is a friend who works together on weekdays, and they eat, live, train, and live together. In addition, Yucheng has no city walls at all, and this group of people will not have the intention of collapsing the outer wall if it is broken, as long as they can organize an effective defense.

This was an unavoidable situation, because there was no time to build a defensive fortification with a tall wall, and if he had time, he would have liked to build a wall.

Training began in early June when the soldiers began to assemble here, and those above the centurion needed to familiarize themselves with the terrain to ensure that there was a way out.

Chen Jian wanted to let Qiongxi know the strength of the Xia Cheng army, and he didn't want to use the strength in his hands to fight him: if he was not strong enough, even if Qiongxi knew that he had gone around the hinterland of Dongyi, Qiongxi would not worry; If you fight hard with Qiongxi here and suffer too many casualties, you will not have the strength to capture Dongyi City when you go around to the hinterland of Dongyi. (To be continued.) )