"The Xia Cheng army is in full formation, I didn't believe those rumors originally, but now it is possible, but it may not be thousands of people, but it is still possible for thousands of people to defeat Xirong's three or five thousand people. I can't compare www.biquge.info pen, fun, and court. ”

The leader hooked his thumb to the feather arrow, and while sighing with his relatives around him, he tried to find the flaws of the people below, but until the arrow was already trembling, he could not find the fate of the tail feathers.

The people below walked very slowly, so slow that their footsteps were indistinguishable from the beating of the drums in the distance, and they would stop for a moment every twenty or thirty steps, and the feathered arrows would fall on the wooden shields with a clang, and the people under the wooden shields would not panic as if they were nothing.

The suppressed archers behind them shot very accurately, and more than a dozen of the thirty or fifty feathered arrows landed on the city wall, which was a very shocking accuracy.

The clansmen around the leader whispered: "Although the Xia Cheng army formation is complete, there are not many people, and it can't be one enemy or ten. We are not afraid of them attacking the city, we are afraid of the stories of those Xia Cheng people on the wooden platform, at this time we should deploy manpower, once they climb the city wall and go out of the city to attack, they will be able to win. ”

The leader shook his head and said, "I'm just afraid that he still has ambushes around him, and once he sends people to this side, he will let people go to the city from the back." You also know that there are kites in Xia City, and there are sky lanterns that can fly at night, and they can be seen from a thousand steps away. After leaving the city, it doesn't take much, there are five hundred more Xia Cheng people like this, how can we defeat them in the wilderness? ”

"Quickly assemble the light and strong in the city, and only wait in the city, so that you can support all around. The men below are staring at the wooden shield pushing the wooden cart forward, they must have wanted to dig the city wall, and you also have to prepare some wood and stones, and wait until they get close and throw them down. ”

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Under the city, the first group of attacking soldiers had approached the city wall under the cover of the shield cart, and slowly pushed the shield cart near the wooden gate, and only three people on the road were wounded by arrows, and the injuries were not serious.

They didn't look up to see what was happening overhead, they just listened mechanically to the sound of the flute, holding their wooden shields diagonally as much as possible to keep them out of the way, believing that their leader would not let themselves die in vain, and that their fellow clansmen playing the flute and beating the drums behind them would just do what they had to do.

A sharp and long whistle sounded, and the two captains took out the lighted fire rope, tore the bark wrapped around the wooden plank, revealing the black hemp rope soaked in vinegar and saltpeter and rolled with gunpowder, and made sure that they did not retreat immediately after igniting it, but listened to the whistle and took out their small hoes, dug the city wall, and threw the earth out of the wooden shield.

The loess was thrown outward, confirming the judgment of the leader on the city wall, and several people shouted and raised the wood and stones to be thrown down.

Chen Jian stared at the movement on the city wall from a distance, and ordered the archers to shoot rapidly to suppress the city wall while honking the horn.

When the two boulders fell from the city wall, the soldiers under the city wall heard the sound of the slowly retreating soldiers, and retreated a little bit backwards with their shields as before, instead of fleeing in a swarm, which Chen Jian had already told the commanders of the battle before the battle, and then the soldiers were informed by the commanders, so that everyone knew the planned advance and retreat. In the event of an accident, it is necessary to rely on the strict training and discipline on weekdays to maintain combat effectiveness.

The archers had exhausted their strength by firing five arrows in a hurry, but their fellow men under the walls had retreated thirty paces away from the stone and wood attacks.

In the city, a person shouted: "Chief, the people of Xia Cheng have retreated!" At this time, they were only thirty or fifty paces away from the city gate, and their archers and Sucheng people were one hundred and thirty paces away from them, so we were enough to defeat those who raised shields below before those people could support! ”

The leader laughed and said, "They retreated, not defeated, neither threw down their wooden shields, nor did they flee like rats with their heads in their hands. I think Ji Xia must be trying to lure me out of the city, I have followed the old leader to fight for many years, and he can't deceive me with these tricks. You also learn that if the enemy retreats, the banner does not fall, the spear is not drawn, and the pursuit must not be pursued. ”

The man nodded yes, deeply impressed, and then realized that he was inferior to the leader after all, and firmly remembered these words.

Chen Jian in the distance was sweating, from coming to this city to this time, the most dangerous moment is now, those people he sent out are all elite foot combat, and there are only some archers and flutes left around, once the people in the city catch the time difference between those people and the military formation to impact themselves, then everything will be wasted.

When he saw that the people in front of him had retreated to about fifty steps, Jian Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and told Su Tang: "You take the soldiers of Sucheng to retreat a hundred steps back first, and tell the soldiers to block their ears and not be afraid, and prepare to attack." ”

Su Tang looked at the shield cart in the distance, although he knew that Xia Cheng had the medicine of fire, but he didn't know if that thing could really become something to turn the situation, and led the soldiers into two teams suspiciously, and walked back alternately with twenty steps.

After the Xia Cheng infantry in front of them retreated to the range of their bows and arrows, Chen Jian told the archers to retreat again, and then he heard cheers from the city wall.

"Ji Xia, is this what you call being able to enter the city before the sun sets? I have not seen you people of Xiacheng who burned and killed my people enter our city, but I have seen your hoes and pickaxes abandoned under the city. ”

"You live with the heart of a wicked person, but I'm afraid that Ji Xia is the leader in that drama, right? Isn't it ridiculous that a bird doesn't know how a fish can swim in the water, and that you swim happily in the water, but you accuse the heron of the sky of being a shrimp and mussel in the mud? ”

"You can't win a quick victory, so you have to send men into the city the night before to set fire to the city to cause chaos in the city, but instead you don't admit it, but accuse us of shooting the first arrow, how can such a person who does not distinguish between right and wrong be elected by his people? Or are you all like you in Xiacheng, and you are the best at what you do, so they choose you? ”

With the scolding that aroused the superiority of the same clan, the deliberately severed kinship relationship made the people in the city follow the leader with a superior joy of victory and insulted Chen Jian and the retreating Xia City soldiers, Chen Jian just didn't hear it, asked the two captains and got the news that they had confirmed that they had lit the arquebus, and smiled at the city wall.

The people around him took out a torch of the same length that was lit when the whistle was blown, Chen Jian calculated the time, asked the soldiers to light the rope, and the captain began to check the weapons and taures to prepare for the impact.

Seeing that there was still time, Jian Chen took a few steps forward and shouted under the cover of the wooden shield: "Who is who is unreasonable, it is not determined by victory and defeat, is it reasonable for you to win temporarily?" People are doing it, the souls of the ancestors of the heavens and the earth are watching, and you know what you do, and you will be condemned by heaven and earth. When you die, what face will you have to see your ancestors who built the city? How do you face your fellow people who were burned to death? ”

"I said I could take the city, but I didn't want my relatives to be killed or wounded, so I let them withdraw. You still haven't tied yourself up to admit your mistake, and I have no choice but to order someone to attack again! Those who don't know me will call me crazy and talk nonsense, I'm afraid that only the ancestors of heaven and earth can know my intentions......"

In response to Chen Jian, there was a laugh and scolding in the city, as if they had heard the biggest joke in heaven and earth, they had already retreated but were still saying something that they didn't want their relatives to shed blood, and in the end they only heard Chen Jian's long sigh and sorrow deliberately shouted, and then they saw Chen Jian retreat into the bushes with people. (To be continued.) )