The dust from the bonfire fell to Yangguan in the cold air of the early morning, and Shi Shan, who had woken up in the first half of the night, shook off the dust on his clothes, and after hearing the sound of the small drum, as he had done a few days before, he counted one or two teams under his jurisdiction, and after confirming that there were many people, he received breakfast for twenty-five people. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Each person had a thick jar of wheat porridge and mustard gnocchi soaked in salt water, and the first people to go up the city wall had an extra dry cake.

Shi Shan said hello to Chen Jian, who was squatting there drinking porridge, Chen Jian choked on a piece of pickle in his mouth and couldn't speak, beckoned to Shi Shan, waved his chopsticks and pulled a bunch of wheat grains and choked down.

"I'm looking for you."

"What's wrong?"

"The eleven who came back with you followed you, and in a moment they passed. The position of your defense of the city has been changed, go to the direction of the northwest corner, and your one or two plus these eleven people, thirty-six people, and if there is a problem on the west or north side, you will go over to support. I'll take you up and take a look. ”

Putting down the jar, Jian Chen called a few more people in charge of the army, and seven or eight people climbed up to the wooden tower built a few days ago, which would be the position he commanded, with flags fluttering on it.

The wooden pagoda is about ten steps high, slightly higher than the city wall, and you can see the situation around Yangguan.

The four corners of the city have been strengthened to have a platform about six or seven paces wide, protruding outward, like a pregnant woman's bulging belly.

Chen Jian pointed to the platform in the northwest corner and said, "Shishan, you take people to guard there, and there will be more people in each corner." A few of you all said, why do you want to release more people there? ”

A few people observed for a while, and the tanuki nodded, "I probably understand." The walls are straight, and if you defend them on all sides, you can only deal with those in front. The four corners protrude out and you can shoot the enemy's side and back, but it's just not good-looking, and it's not regular at all. ”

"If you want me to say that when we finish the battle, we will rebuild Yangguan. Ji Xia, you see, Yang Guan is nearly a hundred steps long, and the bow and arrow can be shot accurately within fifty steps, so we should build a protruding platform every thirty or forty steps, so that no matter where they rush from that place, they will be shot by us on the front, left, and right sides. ”

The tanuki said casually, but he was stunned when he heard the Elu on the side, but he looked at the city wall and felt that it made sense.

He came to see how the people of Xia Cheng fought, and he followed his father to fight a few times, but he never defended the city.

I thought that defending the city was to put people on the city wall and shoot arrows down, but I didn't expect that there were so many sayings about a city wall.

The tanuki muttered a few more words, and Jian Chen nodded, "That's it." As far as their people want to lay down the Yangguan, it's still far away, and I don't worry about how to guard the Yangguan at all, this is a trivial matter. I hope you can learn something from this fortification, and that's the most important thing. ”

He turned his head to look at a few military figures, and said as if unintentionally, "I heard someone muttering a few days ago...... Do you have any objections to me not recruiting those who pass the test to teach children in the school? The tanuki thinks well, then let me ask you, tanuki, even if this city wall has to be repaired with edges and corners, how can we repair it to ensure that our people can shoot the people on both sides to the maximum? ”

The tanuki glanced at a person in the distance and said, "How do I know, this is not what I said." Ji Xia, I have always supported you, if you really build a city wall like that, there will be a lot fewer deaths in the army. Don't you often say that the head is also a kind of strength, I believe that. ”

A few people next to him lowered their heads, and E Huang secretly glanced at Jian Chen, who was slightly smaller than him, looking at the enemy in the distance, he didn't expect Jian Chen to be so indifferent, as if he didn't care about these people at all. No matter what it is, at least this siege is immovable, and Erong feels that she is much worse.

He is the son of the number nine, he was forced to learn arithmetic since he was a child, and the number nine is proficient in counting, but the graphics are not good, and now after listening to what Chen Jian said, he recalled that he had heard Chen Jian speak in the school a few times in Xia Cheng, and at that time he just thought this thing was fun, but he never thought that this thing could be used as a sword, halberd, bow and spear, and could kill the enemy......

"The head is also a ...... power"

E-Lun muttered something strange about it, thinking about the protruding city wall that the tanuki had said, and gradually tasted a different flavor in this seemingly strange sentence.

…………

…………

While Jian Chen was in the city and seized every opportunity to instill knowledge and power, most of the grassland tribes outside the city were thinking about the looting after the city was broken.

The two ethnic groups inside and outside Yangguan are very different. It's not just about skin color, it's about habits, it's about language, it's a difference in the bones. It may be too early to say that civilization and barbarism are still in place, but they have already taken shape.

In the camp near the woods, Hammer knelt on the ground and asked the tribal witch priest to sprinkle some charred horsehair on the top of his head, so that the spirit of war could protect him to victory.

He was joined by more than thirty people from the Dawu tribe, all of whom were the most wrestling in the tribe, and they, along with the warriors of the rest of the tribes, were the first to ascend the city.

The wooden ladders and leather shields that were made overnight were not used to being used, but their natural instincts made them naturally know that they should put the shield in front of their heads, especially in front of their eyes.

The leather drum sounded, Hammer grabbed a handful of dirt and wiped it on his face, and Dawu walked to each of the warriors and gave them some horsehair amulets that he had made overnight, and reaped dozens of touches.

The sun rose and dried the dew on the dead grass, and the warriors of all tribes gathered together, drank a bowl of blood, and waited for the battle to begin.

It was the first time for the old leader to command so many people, and it was also the first time to face such a battle as a siege, and after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't come up with any good way, but he felt that a group of people rushed to the city wall to prop up the ladder and rush up.

He had not attacked the city, but had fought other battles, so he left enough men to suppress the camp, and sent a hundred and ten men from the east and west flanks to contain it, with the main attack in the north and a feint attack in the south.

The southeastern tribe also sent selected warriors as the first batch of people to climb the city, and more than 600 tribesmen picked up their bows and arrows of different lengths, walked to the north of Yangguan, and gradually approached to a place 200 steps away.

The land was flat, and the only thing that bothered the people was that there were a few strange wooden poles standing every dozen steps, apparently planted by someone, but they didn't know what they were used for. They thought it might be a sacrificial use, so they didn't care.

Hammer and the others followed behind the archers, looking up at the figures on the city walls, and seeing that they were not much panicked.

A layer of wood had been built on the front wall, just enough to cover the chests of the people in the city, and only the black heads were exposed.

A clansman named Toby beside Hammer was carrying a ladder side by side with him, and he had also seen the combat power of the Xia Cheng people with him a few days ago, so he was a little nervous at this time, deliberately shaking his hands, coughing loudly, and babbling in his mouth, wanting to provoke a response from others in order to dispel the uneasiness in his heart.

"Hammer, there are only a few dozen people in the city in front of us, very few, we should be able to rush forward, right? Ahem......"

"Yes, don't be afraid, they are also human, and they don't have two heads, didn't you kill them with me?"

As soon as he finished speaking, two strange sounds of breaking the air came from the city gate, and the man next to Hammer subconsciously squatted, almost dragging Hammer down.

Hammer was about to curse when he heard a scream in the distance. Two pointed-tipped sticks the thickness of a horse's tail flew out of the gates, one shot into the dense crowd, penetrating one man's belly, and the other missed and stuck in the dirt.

Two wooden crossbows that could only be pulled by a few people shot one person, but the tragic situation and wails of that person before his death still cast a shadow on the hearts of everyone in the grassland tribe.

A group of people next to the dead man dodged to the sides in panic, crowding the people next to them.

Hammer spat and scolded, "A timid man like a groundhog." ”

Fortunately, the leaders sent people to beat those people, which temporarily stopped the panic of the team......

In the city, Chen Jian stood on the wooden tower and watched the enemies gradually approaching under the city, and found the ladder and leather shield carried by a group of people behind, and did not think too much, because he had seen too many ladders and leather shields, so he did not expect that the other party had just learned.

Standing on the wooden tower and staring at the wooden poles, which had been erected in advance for ranging purposes, had been buried a few days earlier to estimate the distance between the enemy and the city, and there was always a big error in eye observation.

Because the city is not large, the more than 600 enemies outside the city cannot all be deployed in one line, but can only be arranged in depth and in a very dense formation.

The group at the front had reached a hundred and thirty paces or so, but they were still moving forward, and their bows could not shoot so far.

The herald beside him held a drumstick, and after hearing Chen Jian's order, he immediately beat the war drum as agreed before.

Eighty Nouvelle archers stood on small platforms made of wood and earth, and could not see the outside through the walls, but the commander of the Nouvelles archers shouted to the sound of drums: "One hundred and fifty paces, the third log, throw." ”

The New Army archers didn't have a high level of projectile, but at least they knew how far they could shoot over the walls of the city at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces.

At the sound of an order, the archers pulled the arrows behind their ears, and the bow was tense and gurgling, which was the advantage of Xia Cheng, and the bow shot farther than the people outside.

Sou......

Eighty feathered arrows flew out at the same time, and without the momentum of flying locusts like rain, they turned into afterimages in the air and landed under the city.

The feather arrows landed sparsely around a wooden pole, and the people of the steppe tribe were only guarding against the people on the city wall, and they did not expect the feather arrows to fly out of the city.

More than twenty people were hit by arrows, and before they could retreat, another round of feathered arrows flew out, this time landing near another wooden pole.

The team was already in a panic, the three rounds of feather arrows were not fired in the same position, and the killing effect was not bad, more than fifty people were shot, and more than ten died.

The chief's scolding echoed throughout the battlefield, and the wounded were carried to the back, and after three rounds of feathered arrows, they finally advanced to a distance of about one hundred and twenty paces.

The steppe tribesmen drew their bows of varying lengths and shot them at the walls, their arrows clanging into the planks and dirt.

The stone hill in the northwest corner of the city wall was topped with a shield, and he quietly glanced at it from the battlement, turned around and said, "Don't worry about it first, let's get up when they get close to the city wall." ”

Two flying arrows pierced his shield, but they were too far away to penetrate at all. (To be continued.) )