After clearing the last horses, the camp was still in chaos, and Chen Jian calmly returned to Yangguan with his people before the main force of the other party withdrew. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

When passing by the wooden tower of the arrow platform, I did not forget to light a fire, the wind helped the fire, and the molten pine resin balls burned quickly on the dry trees in early winter.

It took hundreds of people and ten days for the steppe tribes to build these wooden towers and arrows, but a single fire could turn them to ashes in a matter of hours.

Retreating to Yangguan, the soldiers defending the city spontaneously shouted Chen Jian's name, and in such a grand bonfire, the cheers shook the sky.

The wolfskins had also returned, and not many people had been killed, but there were not many horses left in the southeast camp.

Chen Jian stood on the city wall and looked at the flames outside, and ordered: "Tonight, except for the people on duty at night, all rest, and thirty people will be assigned to cook before dawn, and they will go out of the city as soon as dawn to prepare for a decisive battle, so that the grassland tribes will not return, and they will not dare to go south within five years." ”

After the order was given, the clansmen could not sleep peacefully, and the people in the city saw a flash of light hundreds of steps away, and they didn't know what it was, and asked the sword and shield soldiers who followed Chen Jian out.

But the sword and shield soldiers were silent, and when they were really anxious to ask, they shouted: "Don't hurt me, brother!" Whip! ”

The person who asked knew that Chen Jian was smiling on weekdays, but once it came to military law, he would definitely not be ambiguous, so he had to stop asking.

The one who wanted to know these things the most was E, although he didn't see those flashes, but after returning to Yangguan, this matter had been spread all over the place, but he asked a few people and didn't answer, and his heart became more and more curious.

The people in Yangguan City who want to know what the flash is are are are mostly curious, but the people outside Yangguan City who also want to know what the flash is are are not just curious.

The leaders who had returned gathered the fleeing clansmen and horses and tried to calm the camp in utter confusion, but to little avail, a large number of horses ran into the woods and could not be found, and some fled into the woods.

There were not many dead and wounded, and the two camps together had less than a hundred dead, but there were only four or five hundred horses left, and even fewer could be ridden.

The whole camp was in a panic and told a myth: the leader on the opposite side was the son of Thor, who could harness the power of thunder and lightning, and the purple flames turned everything that could burn into a sea of fire.

For the leader who didn't believe all this, someone brought in several burned, curled up charred corpses, the smell of burnt protein combined with the strange smell of gunpowder and sulfur, and it was actually associated with the word fear.

There were no tools to fight the fire, so I could only watch as the arrow platform that had been easily built burned into ashes, and the temperature around me was already high, so it was too late to save it.

The camp was littered with charred tent hay, people who were trampled and crippled, and horses that were lying on the ground, bleeding and staring, not knowing what to do.

Looking at the ruined camp and the dead and wounded horses, Dawu raised his whip and slapped it in Hammer's face, exclaiming, "How many people can there be in their city?" There are more than 100 people in the southeast camp, and there are 70 or 80 people at most on our side. There are hundreds of people left in the camp! Not counting the rest of the tribes, there are more than 200 people in our tribe, how can we let them fight like this? Dead and dead, running and running, there are only three or four hundred horses left that can fight, and they are all stunned! What about you? Not even a single head of the enemy remained! ”

"Hammer, you are a warrior of the tribe, and everyone knows your name in the steppe, but what have you done? Hundreds of people, frightened by the dozens of people on the other side? ”

Hammer lowered his head, knelt on the ground, and instead of touching his hot, painful face with his hand, he said in a frightened voice, "Leader Dawu, they ...... They have the power of Thor, and the thud is like lightning! It's winter, and even Thor, who falls asleep like a frog in winter...... They are more powerful than Thor! ”

Although Dawu was angry, he remained calm. He knew Hammer, his character and his prowesss.

Smelling the strange smell in the air, Dawu didn't believe that anyone in this world could have such power...... It's not based on the disbelief of the three views, but if the leader on the other side has such power, how can he let himself be surrounded for so long?

Dawu snorted, let Hammer get up, and followed him to the chief's meeting, and saw the old leader standing outside alone, looking at the chaotic camp, motionless, and the refreshed posture before was completely crushed by this fire.

Several of the leaders cursed, but did not blame the old leader. The previous decision was agreed to by them, and no one expected it to be like this.

"Go back, this city can't be defeated."

"The leader on the other side is too cunning, and in the afternoon their gates are obviously closed, and there is always some movement when moving away so much wood. It seems that the fire in the evening was set by themselves, so that they would not notice. ”

"Yes, since the beginning of our siege, they have never attacked us, and I have also made the leader on the other side a fool, and now it seems that we are stupid."

"There were only a few dozen people attacking our camp, and there were hundreds of people in our camp! Hundreds! was completely defeated by them, look at the people left, how can they still have the courage to fight the other side, they are all frightened. ”

"Leave early tomorrow morning, the city to the south...... I'm afraid we won't be able to see it. ”

Before this fire, they were still fantasizing about going south tomorrow to capture the big city, but now they were only thinking about how to leave.

The old leader's last chance has been destroyed by Chen Jiansheng, after this battle, the old leader knows very well that he has no chance to convince the tribes until he dies, his ambition has turned into smoke, he no longer thinks about unifying the tribes, just wants to spend the years to come in peace, if those unspeakable diseases can be cured is the greatest desire.

After a long time, the old leader sighed heavily and said, "Clean up tomorrow, and withdraw the troops the day after tomorrow." Tonight is in a panic, tomorrow we need to calm the panic of the lower tribesmen, otherwise we will retreat and become an escape, there are horses in the city, and you also know what the consequences of the fleeing people are in the face of the pursuit of the riders. ”

The rest of the leaders sighed, there was no point in arguing about anything at this point, the old leader was right. Retreating, not running away, these two can't figure it out, then something big will happen.

But which tribe was broken? And how to prevent being chased by the people in the city?

They inquired about the old chief, who shook his head and said nothing, feeling that he had no heart to say anything more.

Up to now, no one wants to break the queen, everyone wants others to break the queen, but this thought can't be said at this time, and then it will be a revenge in the future.

It was useless for the too small tribes to stay, and the affairs of the big tribes were unwilling to stay, and what should have been debated turned into a silence.

Looking at the silent leader, Dawu's heart burned with a raging flame, and the opportunity he had been waiting for for a long time had finally arrived!

There is nothing anyone can do, everyone has lost confidence, everyone only thinks about the time to retreat, it is the time when a real hero is needed.

"Leaders, even if we want to retreat, we will kill some people on the other side before leaving. The warriors of the various tribes are still under the city, their heads have been cut off, and we will go back like this? What do we say when the women and children ask us for men to have fathers? ”

The leaders were silent, and it took a long time for someone to say, "Dawu, we can't take the city." I had to retreat. ”

"Is it the city or the people that can't be beaten?"

"If you are in the city, you can't beat the city, how can you beat people? With so many deaths in our tribe, don't you want to cut off the head of the leader on the other side? But what can be done? It's going to snow, and we can't hold it anymore. ”

Da Wu waved his hand and said, "Don't talk about the city, I just ask you, if they go out of the city, do you have the courage to fight them?" ”

Several leaders suddenly raised their heads and shouted, "Then why don't you dare? ”

If others had said it, they might have refuted it, but this was said by Dawu, and if he didn't do anything else, Dawu's method could have taken the distant city, and now that he said this, the leaders of several small tribes suddenly had a glimmer of hope.

"Dawu, are you going to ambush them in advance to lead them after us? It was okay before, we can pretend to escape, and ambush when they chase after us. But now that we're walking as fast as they are, how can we ambush? ”

Some people questioned, and some shouted: "Dawu, as long as they go out of the city and fight us during the day, we will not be afraid." How many of them are there? If you can get them out of the city, my people and I will follow you!" ”

"Yes, even if we have to leave, we have to let them bleed. And just like that, they will definitely follow us, just like last time, killing our people everywhere, burning our tents and pastures. ”

Most of the leaders had confidence in Dawu, Dawu didn't wait for the old leader to express his position, pretended to stand in front of the old leader unintentionally, listened to the swear of several tribes that they would follow similar words in the future, suppressed the peace of mind, stretched out five fingers and said: "Five days!" The chiefs have given me five days, and I will let them out of the city. If they don't come out then, my people and I will stay behind! ”

Having said that, no one objected, and five days was just enough time to calm the panic of the clansmen.

And Da Wu himself said that if the other side does not come out and break off by himself, after Da Wu breaks off, they can leave with confidence and boldly, which is something that everyone likes to see.

That night, Da Wu did not say what to do, leaving the grassland tribe to infinite reverie.

The chiefs pacified the people overnight, re-encamped, sent men into the woods to look for those who had escaped and horses, and sent a large number of men to guard the camp to prevent a similar night raid from happening again.

The remnants of the southeastern camp withdrew to the northwest at dawn, leaving only a few riders on either side to reconnoiter the situation.

The low morale and the loss of troops have turned them from encirclement on all sides to a key defense, and yesterday they were thinking about breaking the city, and today they are only thinking about how to defend it.

Returning to his tribe, Dawu led his men upstream to block the river with logs overnight, leading the water to a low-lying blister.

By daybreak, the small river that flowed through Yangguan had dried up. (To be continued.) )