Chapter 52: The Decisive Battle (Part II)

As soon as the morning dawned, the people who cooked in Yangguan City prepared breakfast early, and Chen Jian had already ordered last night to prepare troops this morning to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

I have been besieged for more than ten days, and although there is not much loss, this feeling of being besieged is really not good.

A few of the cooks talked about the battle of the previous night, and went to the clay pipe to fetch water with the jug, but when they got there, they were stunned, and only a few drops of water remained.

They threw down the clay pot and hurried to inform Jian Chen, who was still asleep, and Jian climbed the wooden pagoda in a daze to look at it for a while, and found that the upper reaches of the river were blocked, and the river was flowing elsewhere.

The river was not wide in the first place, but it was only a tributary of the Grass River, which was easily blocked.

He didn't take it seriously, but the pot exploded in Yangguan City, and several people hurriedly climbed up, and shouted from afar: "Ji Xia, Ji Xia, there is no water!" ā€

"What's the panic?"

Jian Chen walked down the wooden tower with a smile, and pointed to the panicked people: "If there is no water, there will be no water, didn't you say that you would go out of the city today to fight with them?" ā€

"But you haven't eaten yet."

"Then eat later. Tell people to guard the city wall, if they want to run and can't cut off our water, it seems that they still don't give up. Wolfskin, you bring a few dozen people with tools. ā€

Ehuang looked curiously at Jian Chen, who was chatting and laughing without panic, not knowing what he was going to do. Chen Jian said with a smile: "E, you have to learn something again, and when you go back, you have to ask your father to send some things to our city, which can reach dozens of cows." ā€

"Uncle Ji Xia always has a way, you said that you can exchange dozens of cows, then it must be exchanged, I am curious how Uncle Ji Xia can dig out the water?"

He said it very respectfully, and Jian Chen listened a little awkwardly.

Soon, a group of people who followed Chen Jian to the mine to dig a well were found, and the wooden tower outside had been burned, and they couldn't see it outside the city.

Wood supported the walls of the well, and the tools and a large number of men dug non-stop, and a well was dug before dinner.

She looked at the person next to her with a rope tied to the clay pot to lift the water, and said convincingly: "There is still water underground? If that were the case, there would be no need to live in a place where there was a river. Dozens of cows, but worth it. ā€

The person carrying the water smiled: "Ji Xia said that if there is water, then there must be a way, we are not afraid at all." ā€

Although he said that he was not afraid, when the water came out of the well, there were still many people cheering.

Chen Jian climbed the wooden tower and looked at the camp on the opposite side, and more than a hundred riders wandered around the city, ready to stick to him when he left.

On the whole, this method is excellent, if there is no digging technique, Chen Jian will really have to evacuate before the people are thirsty, but he will dig the well, and he has practiced it in advance in the mine.

"Wolf skin, do you take some people and see that puddle not far away? Go there and fetch water, pretend we don't have a well, pretend to be some. ā€

The wolfskin went away with some men, and took some people down the city with ropes, and took some water from the puddles of the nearby river, and the riders on the opposite side did not drive away, but watched from a distance, and the puddles were not large, and there was no room for the people in the city to drink.

Chen Jian was idle in the city, and led people to strengthen the well with mud, and easily made an orange tree to carry water, which was a lever with stones tied to the back, and could lift the water with very little force.

Finally, a painting was carved on the mouth of the well, to the effect that it was **************, and if he became a part of history in his own life, it would also be an interesting legend.

Since he still had the leisure to do these things, the morale of the army in the city was naturally stable, and Jian Chen sent all the stored dried meat, and also distributed a little wine that night, so that the clansmen could eat and sleep early and have a good rest.

Outside the city, when the chieftains saw from afar that the wolf leash people had gone down to the city with ropes to fetch water from the puddle, they all admired Dawu's wisdom.

Da Wu also gained more fame and convincing by this matter, and the old leader did not say anything more, and most of the leaders also went directly to ask Da Wu what to do.

Having calmed down the morale of the army for the time being, Dawu asked the various tribes to gather together the remaining horses that could be ridden, and selected a few men to patrol the vicinity of the city.

Scouts were sent out to investigate, and they ascertained that there was no river within a dozen miles of the surrounding area, only another stream about fifteen miles to the south.

Dawu had all the tribes camp near the river, and then sent out more than 300 men to ambush them on the road to the south of the stream.

His plan was that Chen Jian abandoned the city and fled to find water, and he sent cavalry to disturb it, and the main force followed behind, launching an attack in the ambush place, and when Chen Jian was resisting, he attacked from behind, flanking back and forth, and broke Chen Jian in one fell swoop.

After more than ten days of fighting and Luoxing's storytelling, he felt more and more that the leader opposite him who had never met was very cunning and powerful, like a fox. But he also felt that he was the best hunter in the steppe, and that no matter how cunning the fox was, he would become his own fur.

As long as he can cut off the head of the leader on the opposite side this time, Da Wu feels that his prestige is enough to completely convince the grassland tribes. If you want to unify all the tribes, you have to fight, but you can't fight all of them, you have to win the support of some of them, and you also need the support of people at the bottom of the rest of the tribes.

From the time he was growing up, he dreamed of becoming the leader of all the tribes of the steppe, and he gave up the customary right of the rest of the chiefs to take half of the spoils, and for this he did not hesitate to be reviled by the rest of the chiefs; He remembered the name of every brave clansman, and when the other chiefs were playing with the slave girls, he inadvertently praised a few of them and called them by name, which surprised and moved them; He gave up some of his sheep and horses and gave them to some of the people of his clan, while the other chiefs found a way to get them from their people......

All this, he only for this day, and this day seems to have finally come, and the dream of more than ten years seems to be about to come true.

He had already paved all the roads, and it was only one last step to take out the enemy on the other side who made the old leader old and the rest of the leaders helpless.

Three days after the water was cut off, the city of Yangguan also seemed to become lifeless, and Da Wu could see that the people on the city walls had become sparse, and there were even a few people digging in the dry puddles of wet soil, squeezing them with cloths, and making some black water in their mouths......

"The city on the other side is finished."

Everyone in the grassland tribe thought so, and even felt that if they had used this method earlier, they would have solved it a long time ago, but unfortunately the leader elected by this expedition was not Dawu.

Some people are already thinking that the next time they go to loot, they must choose Da Wu instead of the old leader, from building an arrow platform to cutting off the water, no matter how you look at Da Wu, the old leader is much stronger.

But what they saw was an illusion, because the wooden tower was burned, and they did not know the real situation in the city.

The real situation is that those who drank muddy water came back and were teased one by one, who told them to draw lots for the shortest.

The well water is very sufficient, there are not many people, and two more wells have been dug, which is completely sufficient. The food is also very good these days, and breakfast is no longer just pickles, but jerky and salted fish.

On the night of November 19, all the soldiers in the city were informed of the decisive battle for the morrow morning, and the commanders began to check whether the weapons of the soldiers in the army were sharpened; The archers received a full amount of twenty-four feathered arrows and a new silk bowstring; The axles of the two chariots in the storehouse were filled with animal fat.

In the largest room, all the people above the two captains were here, looking at the picture that Jian Chen had drawn on the bark of the tree, and accepting the task.

Jian Chen asked everyone to know how to fight this battle, so that they can do what they should do, and at the same time allow them to play freely when necessary.

"Early tomorrow morning, wolfskin, acorn, and white horse, the three of you will go out of the city with your men and go straight to their camp. They thought we would run, but we didn't run, but we wanted to make a dying and struggling fish. This time I will not follow you, everything is under your own command. ā€

"The three of you take three hundred and fifty men and go straight into their camp, and their camp is not more than two miles from us, and your formation should be narrower, and not wide fronts, so as to induce them to outflank your flanks and the rear."

He thought for a moment, and said with an example that the people could understand: "You are like the anvil when we beat the iron, they are the iron, and I am the hammer, if the iron is placed on the ground, it will have no effect if it is smashed down." ā€

"Your front is narrower, and they will not be able to defend it, and they will certainly send men to raid your flanks and the back road. I will keep the people in the city, they will think that you want to fight to the death, and if you are defeated, you can retreat to the city, so they must leave you. ā€

"I will be under the command of the new army in the city, and there are not many people they can fight, this time I want to completely eliminate them, with the purpose of killing people, not with the purpose of crushing them, this must be clarified."

"Once I rush out with the new army, when they retreat, you can chase them behind, and they will not have an ambush, because they can't think that we have water, and they can't think that we will fight hard instead of retreating, and even if there is an ambush, it will be in the south instead of the north."

"When chasing, you can use a five-person squad as a unit, you don't need to move forward as a team, you don't need to line up to chase and kill the rout, you don't want to catch slaves, just kill people."

"The new army is hiding in the city, and when they outflank you, I will go out again, so that they don't have time to adjust. Those of you who go out, go back and check it, they are not allowed to carry lime bags, let's fight north, against the wind, don't blind your own people's eyes, this truth is clear to them, don't just tell them what they shouldn't do, tell them why they shouldn't do it. ā€

"Do you understand how this battle is going to be fought?"

"Got it."

"It's the same as before."

Jian Chen smiled: "Is it a war, it's like fighting back and forth, the easiest thing is to fight on the flanks or behind." But this is the simplest way, and it is difficult to use it well. Go back and think about it. ā€

Before leaving, Wolf Skin asked, "Jian, if you don't keep more people, how long has your new army been trained?" Since we are bait, we don't need too many people, if you give me 200 people, I can hold out until you appear. ā€

"No, those new troops haven't been trained for a long time, but they are all former soldiers, and they can fight completely."

Wolf Skin thought for a moment, and was relieved, and finally asked, "What if they don't outflank me, but learn from us to defend the camp?" ā€

"No way. The camp is stubbornly defended, always facing you head-on, no matter how many of them there are, they can only fight you head-on, and they are not stupid. You know our plans, they don't. Go, I don't have to worry about it here, besides, I don't have a two-seater chariot, such a flat ground is just right, and it will also open her eyes tomorrow. (To be continued.) )