Chapter Ninety-Five: Hold the Line
The Yue people lived in this place for a long time, during which they spent more time fighting with various villages, and were attacked by other villages no less than dozens of times, including the most recent one, when the king of Dongou sent an elite army. But every time he attacked, he was repelled by the Yue tribe.
Because they have the strongest gates, and they have the most powerful warriors and archers. Although there is a big feast tonight, there are still nearly fifty warriors in the Zhaimen guard, and if you want to break through this place, you have to have at least ten times the strength, regardless of life and death, to attack for a few hours before you can break it. But once the enemy attacks, the warriors of the whole village will reach the battlefield as quickly as possible to hold on, and the enemy wants to occupy the gate of the village, unless the warriors of the whole village have to die to succeed.
Now that this gate has been breached so easily, it is obvious that there are internal ghosts helping the enemy.
Victory! This beast! Countless Yue soldiers had a raging anger in their eyes. They couldn't understand why Ben Sheng would do something to betray his village? Isn't there no family here, no property for him? What benefits can he get by helping the enemy?
The seriously wounded warriors were followed by a group of other warriors who had already killed red-eyed. Wrapped in tattered animal skins, these men carried weapons ranging from stone spears to iron knives. These weapons were naturally nothing in Chen Sheng's eyes, but in the eyes of these fighters, this was already their best equipment and weapons.
"Roar!" The enemies who strode into the village shouted loudly to vent their excitement. How many years! Their village has always been crushed by the Yue people, occupying the most fertile land and mountains and forests in the vicinity. How many times have they organized heroic warriors to attack this place, but they stopped at the gate of the village with hatred, and how many soldiers did not turn a blind eye, and it was difficult to step into this village for half a step?
Today, the shame of nine villages and eighteen villages can finally be washed away! Countless warriors rushed close and launched an attack on the warriors of the Yue tribe! For a while, the sound of killing was everywhere, and blood flowed all over the ground.
The battle situation was together, and no one cared about Chen Sheng. A hideous look appeared on the dragon's face, and he picked up a rusty, mottled meager machete with a curly edge, and rushed to the front of everyone. As he ran, he raised his head and drank two sips of bad wine.
After drinking almost seven or eight catties of bad wine, Fan Yuan's mind was dizzy, and when he found the noise next to him, he hurriedly pulled Wei Qi, who was pale, next to him and asked what happened.
Wei Qi was in the mood to return to Fan Yuan's words, trembling all over, and leaned over to Chen Sheng's side and said: "It's over, if the village is breached, we will die, this Yue clan has offended the nearby villages too hard, if it is breached, the entire village will be killed, we will definitely die!" ”
Chen Sheng just frowned, thought about it, and said to Fan Yuan: "Big man, let's fight!" Chen Sheng habitually called Fan Cheng a big man, and Fan Cheng was also very happy with the nickname Chen Sheng gave him.
"Great!" When Fan Yuan heard Chen Sheng calling him to fight, he immediately stood up with a smile, thought for a while, and said, "Is there any meat to eat after winning the battle?" ”
Chen Sheng raised his eyebrows, pointed to the mess in front of Fan Yuan, and said, "What did you eat just now?" ”
"Meat!" Fan Yi suddenly grinned again.
"This is in a hurry, if you eat other people's meat, you should also help others fight, if you win, there will definitely be more meat to eat." Chen Sheng smiled and made a teachable appearance.
Fan rolled up his sleeves and picked up a large log casually. This log was originally a piece of wood ready to be put into the big bonfire, it was a fine sun-dried pine, the thickness of a bowl, and only a guy like Fan Wei could hold it with both hands and use it as a weapon.
When he got the weapon, Fan wanted to rush into the crowd and kill him. was held by Chen Sheng with one hand.
He is not too familiar with these Yue people, and he has no feelings for each other. Take today's incident as an example, if he kills the old patriarch, the dragon who led him to the stockade will also kill a few of them to avenge the old patriarch. Chen Sheng would never be able to buy it just because of a meal of wine and meat.
He will help the Yue people, but he hopes that he can collect the Yue clan for the imperial court. As long as the Yue clan submits to the imperial court and sets a benchmark, it will attract more Yue people to put down their resistance and accept the rule of the imperial court. Even Chen Sheng had the intention of cultivating the Yue clan, making them the agents of the imperial court in the southeast, arming the Yue clan to fight for the imperial court, and using the strategy of "governing the land with the more people, and pacifying the more land with the more people", so that the imperial court could obtain the greatest benefits at the least cost.
Naturally, the Yue people would not obediently listen to the imperial court, because they had enough strength to protect themselves, they could ignore the threats of other villages and the Dongou king, and they did not take the military power of the Great Qin court in their eyes. However, after tonight, it is estimated that the stubborn Yue people will be very likely to accept his conditions.
"Let them fight first, and now rush in, they will be injured by mistake." Chen Sheng smiled faintly and kindly reminded Fan Yuan.
"Okay." Fan Cheng smiled innocently, put the nearly two-meter-long pine wood in his hand on the ground, and stood on a high place with Chen Sheng overlooking the battle situation.
The war was one-sided. The total number of warriors from each village that invaded the territory of the Yue was almost more than 2,000, while the number of warriors of the Yue clan was less than 500. As soon as the gate of the fortress was opened, there was no danger to defend, and the combat effectiveness of the five hundred people was very weak, so they could only fight and retreat.
However, the combat power of the Yue clan is also very strong, and one warrior is furious, which is enough to resist the attack of the three enemies. Chen Sheng believed that such a group of soldiers, if armed, would be comparable in combat effectiveness to the Qin army's most powerful infantry corps. No wonder the imperial army is advancing so slowly, and the strength of the Baiyue warriors is indeed impressive.
Seeing the one-sided appearance of the Yue clan, Chen Sheng also knew that it was difficult to recover the victory if he joined the war alone, and the war was never something that a warrior could reverse, Chen Sheng frowned slightly, and was trying to find a way to save these warriors of the Yue clan.
"Big man, stay here and don't let those people rush over." Chen Sheng frowned and said slowly. The place where the two of them are located is the second line of defense of the village, a narrow road made of stones, and when people and horses pass through here, the speed will be slowed down, as long as they hold this place, they can reserve some time for the village to move the women and children into the mountains.
This second line of defense has been used for the first time since it was established. Chen Sheng could see the role of everyone's defense line at a glance, and he knew very well that with the current fighting spirit of the Yue people, it would be difficult to defend at all.