Yangguanzhong was calm for five or six days in a row, and Chen Jian reasoned with them every day in too much silence: the enemy would withdraw if he could not hold out for a few days. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because of Chen Jian's consistent correctness, the people in the city did not panic because of the siege, and their daily lives continued, occasionally muttering about how much land they could reclaim if they didn't fight.

Every day, there were people on the tower who observed the movement outside, and after a few days of calm, the people on the tower noticed that something was wrong outside.

"Ji Xia, the people outside are fighting the wood ...... this way"

There were quite a few people in the room, and the person who reported the news also attended the summary meeting a few days ago, and couldn't help but glance at the wolf skin. A few days ago, when Jian Chen asked these people what they should do if they attacked the city, the wolf skin was about to shoot more arrows, and the way he came up with was to suppress the archers of the pile of earth outside...... In this situation, it is inevitable that some words will become the meaning of a crow's mouth.

When a group of people in the room heard this, they hurriedly followed Jian Chen up the tower.

"Oops! They really seem to want to learn my way and pile up arrows and shoot arrows into the city? ”

The wolfskin monster screamed, and a group of people outside the city were carrying logs to the vicinity of the city wall, and the defenders of the city were waiting for them, but they did not enter the range for the time being.

After defending the city for several days, nearly 2,000 feathered arrows were used up on the first day, and it was forbidden to shoot indiscriminately at such a distance, so I could only watch with amazement as the enemy carried the wood to a distance of 200 paces outside the city.

The white horse looked at the city gate and said, "Either let me rush out with those who can ride horses, and don't let them set up the platform." It's not good to go during the day, so take advantage of the night and let them come back in a mess, and they shouldn't lose much. ”

Jian Chen smiled: "Don't worry, if you want to set up the platform, it will take more than ten days to say the least." What day is it? ”

"The seventh day of November."

"The moon will be bright enough for eight days, and we will wait until the moon is full. Don't harass them just yet, let them build slowly. What do you say is the difference between them and the wolfskin's approach? ”

A few people pondered for a long time, and felt that the truth was the same no matter how they looked at it, and they didn't know what the difference was.

Jian Chen smiled: "Do they have a bone copper shovel?" Do they weave wicker baskets? Do they have sacks? No, even if you shoot arrows in the soil mountain, you have to have this ability. There is nothing, we can only resist the wood and move the stone, and we have to leave someone to guard us. ”

"All the wood within a mile has been cut down and burned by us, and they want to build it, two people can resist a log and walk two miles, how long will it take for you to build a platform that is enough for three or five hundred people to go up? The wolf's skin said that the method is to dig a mountain of earth, if we do it, 500 people use good tools, dig a pit on the spot, and it can be piled up in three or five days. Replace them, early. Don't rush. ”

Bai Ma took a breath and said, "But even if it's not in a hurry, they will finish building one day, and we will be in danger at that time." ”

"When will one day? If you are going to go out to fight in the future, you have to think about things other than fighting, and this siege can be regarded as a lesson for you, so that you can study hard. Their food did not fall from the sky, at most it would not be able to surround for more than ten days, and our food was enough to eat for a month, so we slowly relied on them. ”

Relieved everyone's hearts, Jian Chen walked down the tower. He was not alarmed, and the word of him was quickly spread in the city, and although the wood increased day by day, the defenders of the city turned a blind eye as if nothing had happened.

Chen Jian also strictly forbade his clansmen to go out of the city to harass, and asked people to observe the piling up outside and report themselves every day.

From the very beginning, he did not defend to the death, but was ready to take this opportunity to weaken the strength of the grassland tribes to the greatest extent, there were still many tribes in the lower reaches of the grass river and on both sides of the river, and he did not have time to entangle with the barbarians on the grassland.

This is a very delicate degree, and it needs to be mastered carefully. The longer it takes, the lower morale will be outside; But it doesn't take too long, otherwise the enemy outside will ride in overnight, and it will be useless if you can't catch up with yourself.

Therefore, it is still necessary to give a glimmer of hope to the people outside, so that they feel that it is possible to take the city, and they cannot be allowed to run now.

The grassland tribes outside the city were worried about the surprise attack of the people in the city, so they left thousands of men and horses ready at any time, but for several days, the people in the city seemed to be asleep, and there was no movement.

As Chen Jian expected, the group of people outside could fight and graze, but they were unable to do anything like digging pits and building mountains.

Luoxing led people to make a batch of stone axes suitable for cutting trees, because his tribe had built a star-picking platform before, so this time it took three days to build the wooden tower.

The wooden tower was about three or four hundred paces from the city wall, completely out of range of bows and arrows.

When the leaders of the steppe tribes climbed the wooden tower, they couldn't help but praise and be shocked, and they could see the situation in the city clearly when they stood on it.

Several leaders couldn't help but say: "If this had happened, we would have been able to let our men shoot the archers in their city when we attacked the city that day, how could we not even know where they were?" ”

Looking at the wide roads in the city and the soldiers who were being trained, some of them numbered for a long time, and said with a smile: "There are really not many people, and I see that there are only three or four hundred people." We will fight one of them, and this city will be taken down. ”

What he saw with his own eyes may not be true, when Jian Chen set up the wooden tower on the other side, he let half of the soldiers into the house and strictly forbade them to come out.

This small number of people made the few leaders who thought of withdrawing no longer have any worries, and the lure of the rumors seemed to be within easy reach in the illusion of the eye.

As for the temptation of rumors, it is all the more real in this illusion: there are no sheep in the city, there is not much pasture, there are only a hundred and ten horses, but they do not eat horses, so what do they eat? Apparently there must be something magical that allows them to be fed without grazing...... For example, the Golden Oak Undead Pig.

A few days later, Dawu and this person finally repaired the first wooden platform, which was not large, only able to accommodate seventy or eighty people, and the follow-up was still slowly being built.

The chieftains eagerly sent the best hunters of the tribe to the wooden platform a hundred and ten paces away from the city wall, and seventy or eighty of the best archers began to suppress the city wall, and selected dozens of people to try to attack it once.

This time, they knew it would be impossible to attack it, but they all wanted to see if it worked.

The battlefield that had been silent for seven or eight days once again appeared in a fight, and the effect was surprisingly good to the surprise of all the leaders.

The dozens of people selected to attack the city were not the strongest warriors, and they only tried as cannon fodder, but these people achieved results that were not achieved by the elite of the tribe a few days ago.

The commander of this attempt to attack the city was Dawu, which was unanimously requested by the leaders of the various tribes, and although the old leader was reluctant, he was helpless.

The first wooden platform built by Dawu was in the northwest corner of the city, not directly in front of the city, which was also the method he summed up a few days ago.

Because Yangguan City is a right-angled city, it is not concave and deformed, so the people on the west wall cannot attack the enemy in the north to form a cross-projection, and choose the northwest corner to attack the city, and the defenders in the city can only shorten the contact surface, and there are not many soldiers who can be deployed within the unit area.

Da Wu may not have understood the calculation, but he did it with his talent, and once the fight started, the defenders on the west side of the city wall could only watch.

The archers on the wooden platform can see the people on the city wall clearly, and they can also guard against volleys of archers in the city, which is much more comfortable than shooting with their heads up under the city before.

Dozens of cobbled siege cannon fodder, under the cover of archers, actually touched the city walls, something that the strongest warriors of the tribe could not do a few days ago.

Although he was stabbed without taking a breath after standing, the kick he stood up gave the leaders outside the city a great boost of confidence.

At night, the leaders swept away the dullness of the previous days, and the name of Da Wu was echoing throughout the camp, and many people said: "If you let Da Wu command a few days ago, I'm afraid we can all enter the city now!" ”

These words were spread throughout the camp, consciously or unconsciously, and the leaders of the small tribes in the tents, though they did not say so directly, offered their legs of mutton to the Dawu with the most noble rites of the prairie rules.

"In another ten days, let's build more wooden platforms, and those people won't be able to hold it!"

"yes, did you see that? Today, none of the archers in the city fired a salvo, and our men suppressed the people on the city walls. The enemy in the west is in a hurry, but there are also people in the west, and they do not dare to go over...... Dawu's approach is really good. ”

"It's just too slow to repair...... We have to divide seven or eight hundred people to cut down trees, and two people can resist one and go so far, and they will resist several in a day, and they have to be piled up with stones...... How did you say the city on the other side was built? ”

Slow to slow, incomprehensible, but the wooden platform outside the city is still being repaired day by day, and Dawu's fame is also louder day by day.

Although the dried meat and sheep of the various tribes have been eaten almost completely, victory is in sight, and no one wants to withdraw.

The riders sent out by Da Wu brought back the news that there was another city half a day's road south of Yangguan, but there were only women and children, and as long as all the men in Yangguan City were killed, they could rob the city.

The returning rider described in scarce language the grandeur and magnificence of what he saw, especially the lush patches of grass outside the city, which the horses loved to eat, and many, many, and many, with few weeds—in fact, it was overwintering wheat.

All kinds of first-hand hopes made the leaders hold on, and there were ten days left at most to capture the city, and whoever thought of retreating at this time would be kicked in the head by the horse's hooves!

It's just that they don't know that these hopes are also what Jian Chen hopes they hope for.

On the evening of the fifteenth of November, the chiefs of the steppe tribes were even more excited, and the people on the wooden tower reported that there had been a fire in the city, burning several houses near the city gates, and smoke billowed from them.

They thought that the spirit of war was sheltering them, so they laughed loudly, hoping that this fire would burn more and more, and it would be better to burn the whole Yangguan City.

However, it was not the spirit of war that brought this fire, but their enemy, Chen Jian.

There was no wind today, and the weather was a little humid, so the smoke from wormwood and horse manure spread in the humid air, hiding some places in Yangguan City.

Those who rushed to put out the fire were not holding water, but wet horse manure, which smoulled from the fire.

Taking advantage of the sunset and the moon before the moon, the people of the city quietly moved the wood blocking the city gate under the cover of white smoke, and the two armies gathered near the city gate that could be opened under the cover of night.

For more than ten days, Chen Jian had not attacked the enemy, and the enemy gradually began to relax in the confidence that victory was within reach, and the night camp was no longer heavily guarded.

The besieging side made many mistakes, such as not digging a trench and setting up a wooden fence to besiege the city, and the outside of the city was flat, as if it had stripped naked and was waiting for others to attack at night; For example, the wood they used to build the wooden tower was all pine trees taken from the nearest material; Another example is that they don't know how to farm, they don't have tools, so they can't dig soil, and the arrowheads are all wood.

There were about 200 people who went out of the city to harass them, and more than 130 people were divided into the south, most of whom were veterans of the new army and previous battles.

The task of the south is to attack the siege camp in the southeast corner, and to fight harder, to create a false impression that the whole city has broken through, and to mobilize the people in the northwest corner to support.

The leader of the team was a wolf's skin, Chen Jian drew a simple diagram with charcoal, pointed to it and said: "There are only eight or nine hundred people in the camp in the south, we have been quiet for more than ten days, and they never thought that we would go out of the city." You lead the people straight to the camp and make a little more noise...... But don't really break them down. ”

He called the calm acorn and said, "You look from the tower, the moon is very round tonight, and you can see it clearly outside." The northwest corner went to the southeast corner to support, even if it was a long time to ride a horse, I counted the time they ran over, you keep an eye on the point, they got to the place I said, they lit a fire on the tower, beat the drum to make the wolfskin come back before they helped. ”

"Wolfskin, you must watch the inside of the city, and if there is a fire or you hear the sound of drums, withdraw immediately. I will give you all the new army archers, and let them hold the line when you withdraw. ”

"What about you?"

"I took them to the north and burned their towers and towers. The more you make a move, the easier it will be on my side. You know, they always thought that there were only three or four hundred of us, and from their point of view, we definitely wanted to run, not just to burn the wooden platform. ”

After telling all this, Jian Chen came to the north gate, where all the sword and shield soldiers of the new army were gathered, which was the main force tonight, and those people at the south gate were just feints.

He did not want to scatter the enemy, the defeat of the infantry against the cavalry was meaningless, and the pursuit at night did not yield results.

There were no other people in the vicinity of the sword and shield soldiers, even though Ehuang took the initiative to ask for battle, Chen Jian still refused, and only let him act with the wolf skin, there was no danger in the night attack, just to give this young child a chance to show off his clan's strength.

There is another purpose for driving out the Edwards, and that is that tonight will be the first show of gunpowder in the history of this world.

On the meeting ground at the north gate, two of Chen Jian's trusted clansmen carried two large baskets, which were covered with moisture-proof birch bark and wheat straw.

Chen Jian first lit ten fire ropes, used a roll made of birch bark to block the fire, and distributed them to the sword and shield soldiers.

The sword and shield soldier assigned to the arquebus carried a large bundle of birch bark and pine resin balls, and the arquebus burned slowly, and the light of the fire was obscured by the bark tube, so that it could not be seen. (To be continued.) )