As long as Jian Chen can abide by the rules and not publicize Xia Cheng's special policies to the outside world, the leaders of the various clans are still willing to accept such a kin. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The high priest's status was so high that it seemed impossible to refuse, and since this was the price, it was inevitable that they would compromise with each other.

Su Yue also knew that this was fighting the fire, but Xia Cheng had just returned from a great victory, and Xia Cheng's riders were spreading the news from various cities, and it was difficult to convince the public at this time, and it may not be able to break Yucheng in one go, and if it can't be broken, it will become a long-term confrontation, and the internal covenant will fall apart.

The people of the country are soldiers, and the soldiers are the people, so the people of the country have political rights, which is the inevitable political pattern in the case of a small country and a widow. It is impossible for the leader to have unlimited authority, and it is impossible to use a few people as a tool of violence to rule and suppress the vast majority of the countrymen, and it is self-defeating to force the people to go to war with Xia Cheng at this time.

In desperation, Su Yue and the envoys sent by the leaders of the various cities went to meet Chen Jian in advance, and after a secret and short consultation, the envoys left drunk, very satisfied with Jian Chen's attitude and the tinkling copper coins in their pockets.

As a result, the discussion between the various chiefs also changed the tone.

From "Mad Dog has crossed the river north and is advancing towards Awacheng" to "Ji Xia, the hero of the Great River tribes and the one who saved his relatives, will resist the excitement of Ayacheng to sacrifice his ancestors".

This subtle change was manifested in many ways, and the relatives and nobles of each city gathered in Aushiro to prepare various gifts. The tribesmen slaughtered cattle and sheep, made various sacrificial items with grass, selected sacrifices, and prepared liquor and mash.

It's just that the speed of the team they were about to meet slowed down significantly, and they also rested for three days a hundred miles away from Sucheng.

It was the end of October, and every day of delay for a contingent of nearly 20,000 men was a huge expense, but sometimes it was worth it.

This is already within the reach of the caravan of the Yucheng Transportation Division, everything is fine in the city, and the news of the victory is known.

If they are given strict rations of housing, clothing, and food prepared in advance, they will be able to survive this winter.

During the three days of the stay, a steady stream of new uniforms, leather armor, chariots, and horses were brought in from the vicinity of Yucheng. The military merits assessed along the way have also been verified, and the medals, silk silks, cloth flowers, etc. for propaganda and encouragement have also been purchased for a long time, but these will be rewarded after returning to Yucheng.

The reason why I stayed was to rehearse the upcoming ceremony of entering the city, and those rumors needed to be supported by strong force. If peace is sought through struggle, peace will exist, and military deterrence can give Xia Cheng a few years of respite, and it can also drag other cities into the abyss of reforming armaments.

The noble children of those cities who followed Jian Chen after his victory would not have thought of this, and they were still immersed in the joy of victory, looking forward to being able to show their military exploits in the eyes of their parents.

On October 24, when the army of Xia Cheng approached Sucheng, the leaders of various cities and clan nobles led by Suyue rode horses and rode ten miles outside the city to meet them, followed by thousands of people from Sucheng and nearby villages.

The autumn grass was high, everything was desolate, and the messengers on horseback had already informed the movement of the army, and thousands of people were eager to see through it, and finally saw a black shadow that seemed to be the handover of heaven and earth.

The sound of drums and flutes was faintly heard, and many people craned their necks to watch.

Chen Jian was at the front of the team, thinking of making up four white horses to pull his own chariot, but the left-behind Si Xiangji tried his best to find it, but there were not many white horses, but there were not many majestic ones, so he had no choice but to use four jujube red horses instead.

It's just that four jujube red horses of the same color are pulling wooden chariots decorated with bronze, which are still full of grandeur in this era, and those clan nobles are looking at each other, and they are thinking about whether they can buy such a set of chariots.

The heavy chariots were followed by two light chariots with snare drums, and two sturdy men marched forward with drums.

Corresponding to the sound of the drums was a phalanx of 1,500 spearmen, dressed in black uniforms and sackcloth scarves, and the front row was dressed in leather armor, and the sound of marching together made the earth shake.

At this time, Jian Chen was no more than three hundred steps away from everyone, and the phalanx that marched forward in an array was like a wall, which shocked those leaders. They had long heard that the Xia City army was in good formation, but the shock after seeing it with their own eyes was completely beyond their imagination.

No one spoke, no one talked, only footsteps of the same frequency as the drums, as if the heart was beating with the drums.

Someone secretly counted that from the time these people advanced as a whole team to now, they had walked sixty steps forward, but they did not stop the whole team halfway, and the formation was still neat.

The slight jaggedness was concealed by the neat black military uniform, and the breathtaking momentum overpowered everything.

Su Yue looked at the few leaders around him, and said with half sigh and half jealousy: "The Xiacheng army is like this, and it is a grievance that it can be traversed for thousands of miles, and going back and forth to Dongyi is like entering his own backyard. ”

A few people around him looked at the horses they were riding or the light chariots, and reluctantly followed behind Su Yue and prepared to meet them.

At this moment, the drum beat suddenly became rapid, and more than a thousand spearmen slammed their spears to the ground, stopped, stepped heavily on the spot with their right foot, and shouted in unison: "Wan Sheng!" ”

Like thunder, better than a tiger's roar, it made many people creepy, and several leaders who were about to go to meet almost didn't control their horses, and were shocked by this roar, and the older ones took out the small pill bought from Xia Cheng at a high price from their arms and put it in their mouths, which calmed the panicked throbbing.

Although the spearmen stopped, the drumming did not stop, on the contrary, it became more and more rapid, and the spearmen kept hitting the earth with the shafts of their spears, in response to the more rapid drumming.

After ten consecutive responses, the neat Ge spear phalanx suddenly turned to the left and right, and after separating from it, a gap twenty or thirty steps wide was revealed, and then it turned again, flattening the spear, facing the clan leaders in front of them who were ready to greet Chen Jian.

This simple turn once again shocked the clan leaders, the cities were lined with hundreds of countries and thousands of states, the era of slavery was pluralistic, wars were frequent, and each leader was not a waste, they knew the horror of this phalanx turn and the great power contained in it.

The queue and turning are by no means fancy, but this time the spearmen of Xia Cheng are carefully rehearsed after three days of hard training not long ago, and the spearmen of Xia Cheng do not have the military quality to turn at any time. If we really have such a foundation of quality and discipline, we can improve the mobility and combat effectiveness of the phalanx soldiers a lot if we turn to attack in a horizontal formation after interspersing in columns, the enemy then quickly turns in columns, and marches in column attack formations.

The leaders didn't know that this was a showcase, so when they looked at Chen Jian not far away, their faces were a little ugly, especially the few cities that were close to Yucheng and had a secret alliance with Sucheng.

But their shock was far from over, and when the middle of the spearmen's formation had split their way, the chariots rumbled forward in a row to the sound of rapid drums. On either side of the spearmen, sturdy javelin-wielding riders came out from a distance, whistling in a large circle before the spear formation.

The chariots lined up in front of the battle quickly, and the leaders noticed that the people standing in the chariots were actually their own heirs, they were dressed in the same black clothes as the Xia Cheng people, wearing heavy leather armor with copper nails, short swords hanging from their waists, holding halberds, and brass medals that represented glory in the Xia Cheng army were hung on their chests, shining in the sun and stinging the eyes of their parents.

When these people went to Yucheng a year and a half ago, they were just children in their eyes, and at that time, there was the reluctance of parents to their children. And now when they appear again, they have taken off their childishness and become a little more brave.

Behind the chariot were the off-duty soldiers they had sent to Yucheng for training, armed with short swords, holding a banner called a dragon that they had never heard of but had never seen, hunting in the autumn wind.

In the midst of the flying flags, more than a dozen strong men carried some sacks stained with white ash, and poured the heads of Dongyi that had been pickled with lime and salt in front of the battle, skillfully building a small Jingguan that displayed military feats.

These heads did not frighten their parents, on the contrary, their parents looked at them with a smile of relief, and there was nothing more gratifying for their parents than to see their children do their best.

At this moment, just this moment, they are no longer the heads of the clan nobles, but the parents of one child after another.

Most of these children were the sons of clan nobles, and only a few were the sons of the chiefs of the cities, from different towns and with different parents, but at this time they were all in the same car and stood together under the banner called the dragon.

On the far left of the chariot was the descendant of a clan member of a nearby city, and the head in front of him was also the most heaped, and the silk silk wrapped around his head was also different, and it could be seen that this was the one with the most meritorious contributions among the children.

He jumped off the chariot, walked to the side of Chen Jian's parents and Su Yue, bowed to the ground, and paused: "Mr. often says that the relatives are one, the tribes of the great river are the most important, the tribes are secondary, and the family is the second, and the child thinks it is reasonable. Hearing that his relatives had been captured as slaves, the children could not sleep at night or eat, and knowing that the military situation was like fire, he went out on his own without waiting for the orders of the leaders of the cities. ”

"In this expedition, the child and his people killed twenty enemies and captured three hundred slaves. Follow Mr. to break the city three times, open up the land of Dongyi, and get eight miles of fiefdom. ”

However, it is a sin not to wait for the order of the chief, and the child is willing to give a hundred slaves to the clan and a hundred to the city. The fiefdom of Yibali in the east belonged to the Huasu tribes, but they begged for forgiveness. ”

He made a start, and the heirs of the noble clans in front of him bowed down and said similar things. Some killed more than a dozen enemies, some captured dozens of slaves, and some had fiefs of thirty or fifty miles.

The leaders of those cities or the relatives of the clans looked at the children who had become strong and the maturity of their bodies after the battle, where were they willing to punish, and how could they dare to punish at this time.

Moreover, the children have killed dozens of enemies and captured hundreds of slaves, even if many of them themselves do not have them, not to mention that there are very few soldiers who have been assigned to practice, if such a small number of soldiers in the past can achieve such glory can be turned into a song and praise, it is very likely that they will be the next leader.

Where is this plea? It's clearly showing merit. But this merit table is not boring, because they are just telling their parents in the way of children that they have grown up, made meritorious deeds, and can create meritorious deeds.

Su Yue glanced at the children who were bowing to the ground, quietly glanced at Jian Chen, and said with a smile: "Where are you guilty?" Relatives are one, how can it be a sin for you to respond to the call of the ancestral blood flowing in your body? ”

"The land of Dongyi is there, how can it become the land of ancestors without your fighting? Besides, the slaves you have captured are yours, and your husbands will not rob them from you, so are we not as close as our parents? Anyway, those slaves belong to you personally, and the fiefs belong to the clan, and you will be regarded as adults who eat your own land in the future. ”

"This is a great victory, no defeat, how can there be blame? Get up, you can correspond to the summons of your ancestors in your bloodline, even if you fail, it is courage and glory, not to mention your exploits in killing the enemy and captives? ”

He laughed and picked up the young people who were bowing to the ground, looked at Chen Jian not far away, looked at the dragon flag fluttering closer, and sighed, only to realize that sometimes priests don't need to ask only ghosts, gods and spirits to convince everyone.

This dragon flag is nothing, it didn't exist a year ago, and it can't compare to any spirit of the mountains, gods, rivers, ghosts, heaven and earth, but now it can make everyone stand under it.

The person who drew the dragon flag always said that his ancestors guided him in his dreams, so he didn't know divination, didn't need to ask the sky, and could still bring victory and surprise again and again.

Even if no one believed that his ancestors favored him so much, they could not accuse him of lying. Victory is the embodiment of the reality of guidance. But even those who can do divination and psychic, who can show the illusory to others? What people see is only the embodiment of the ancestors and gods in reality, and he has always had it, and he has never lost it.

Su Yue thought that the Great River Tribes would usher in a high priest who could not divination, let alone psychic. It's a really weird thing.