"The Dongyi people have withdrawn!"

In late July, dozens of Xiacheng riders on war horses proudly carried the banner of Xiacheng and galloped between several cities near Dongyi. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Thousands of people in the uneasy cities facing the threat of the Dongyi breathed a sigh of relief. Many people are dissatisfied with some of Xia Cheng's methods, and even think that Xia Cheng people are weird, but they know that Xia Cheng people rarely lie. Since these Xiacheng people said that the Dongyi people had withdrawn, then the city was considered safe.

The riders were treated with great hospitality, and for a time the voices of congratulations to Ji Xia were sung in the various towns.

The riders had not only flags but also a scroll of wooden tablets, many of which they did not recognize, more than were necessary for enlightenment, but each word was marked with a syncopation mark, and they had memorized it for a long time.

After being full of wine and food, it was natural to read out in front of everyone why the Dongyi people had withdrawn, and the riders unfolded the wooden tablets, raised their heads and shouted: "Qiongxi and Ji Xia have been fighting for several days, knowing that they are invincible, they retreat in a hurry, and they dare not turn back." Countless bows and swords were abandoned, and Ji Xia sent cavalry to follow and pursue, stray arrows and shot several people. It is suspected that someone was killed by a arrow, and the Dongyi people screamed and screamed, and they buried them with pine wood, and the oxen carried the coffin and left......"

The people who listened to the preaching naturally believed that because the person who read it was holding a wooden tablet, it was full of words, and what was written must be true.

There are many people who are treated with pine wood, and there must be one hundred and ten people in the Dongyi tribes. But after saying this, the people who heard it subconsciously thought, could it be that the leader of Dongyi was shot to death? If Qiongxi was shot to death, it would be a great thing.

It's a pity that the person who read it doesn't know who died, and people spread it by word of mouth, and it has changed over time, plus all kinds of rumors, intentional or unintentional, so that even the fabricator is almost unrecognizable.

Some people say that the one who is hit by the arrow is Qiongxi, and there are also noses and eyes that according to the rules of Xia Cheng, shooting this person to death Qiongxi is a great achievement, and he can be awarded a first-class knight and the like. Everyone asked more about what a first-class lord was, and someone explained the system of Xia Cheng again, which made people panic.

As a matter of fact...... There are no lies on the wooden tablets. Jian Chen did send a small number of riders to follow and pursue, and he did shoot the arrow once, but it was only a formality, and then the group of riders were shot away by Dongyi's foot archers, and the riders couldn't shoot the step bow at all.

It's not wrong to shoot indiscriminately, and it is suspected that someone was killed by an arrow, it is impossible that no one was missed.

When the Dongyi people walked, they did carry some things with oxen, but in fact, they were all looted iron tools, carts, ploughshares, wheat seeds, etc., and all clan leaders were forbidden to ride and could only walk, and the cattle were all used to transport these things. As for the coffins, they were nothing more than seized gunpowder, which were kept in pine boxes to prevent moisture, because the clay pots were fragile.

Rumors are not necessarily false, but only partial truths, and the reason why this part of the truth evolves into rumors is because people always like to interpret these things according to what is best for them, or perhaps to satisfy the illusion that there must be a hero in their own world.

The various cities near Dongyi celebrated for several days, and one of the people who stayed in the city offered some corn and the like as a gift to Xia Cheng.

Even those relatives and nobles who were quite dissatisfied with Jian Chen had to prepare gifts at this time and transport them to Yucheng. By the end of July, Xiacheng's reputation was already very strong in the cities near Dongyi, and the fact that he forced Qiongxi to retreat with the power of one city also gave some cities a different mind.

There are many cities, clans everywhere, it seems to be vast and boundless, but in fact, in Chen Jian's previous life, the chassis of the entire Great River Provinces is only the size of one or two provinces, and most of them are enclaves, and each city exists independently.

But since Chen Jian began to build Yucheng, the independence of the original independent cities has disappeared a lot, because of the great rivers and waterways, there are more connections between each other, each city is no longer an island, but like a deformed body connected by blood vessels, each deformed independent body has a brain, cut off the blood vessels may be able to survive, but it is certainly not as good as before.

Yucheng is located in the center of the city circle on the north bank of the river, and was originally only a small city, but with the trade exchanges, it was gradually valued by the cities upstream. Now the fact that there is a city to retreat from the east and the army has made those cities begin to think about their future.

But then the news made the leaders of these cities breathe a sigh of relief, at least not to make a decision now. They heard that Ji Xia led the Xia army eastward to the city of Dongyi, saying that the Dongyi people had plundered one of their relatives, and he would take revenge by plundering two.

It is good to be bold and ambitious, but no one is optimistic about this method of fighting across hundreds of miles, so the question of taking sides in the future can be put on hold for a while.

Basically, no one is optimistic about Chen Jian's next move, because for this era, this kind of war has not yet appeared, and no one knows whether he can win.

When these people were watching, Jian Chen had already arrived at the foothold prepared by the Construction Division in the hinterland of Dongyi with an army of nearly 4,000 people that had been assembled.

After nearly two months of grain transshipment, the accumulated grain could ensure that the army could eat for three months, about 1.5 million catties of various grains, and the ships were still constantly transporting them back.

The chosen foothold was about 700 li away from the bun, and the chosen place was on the north bank of the Great River. It is a tributary of the Great River and the confluence of the Great River, and a low mound is about five miles from the river bank, backed by a tributary of the Great River, forming a natural commanding height.

The great river and its tributaries form a triangle, and the mound stretches for three miles at the base of the triangle. Near the river is a swamp of wetland, which acts as a natural barrier.

The hundreds of slaves captured by Ji Bai and others had been working here for some time, and some huts had been built out of mud as warehouses, but the number was still insufficient.

With the arrival of the army, this place gradually became lively, first according to their respective detachments to build simple houses and toilets, etc., and cut down a large number of trees to pile up wormwood and light it to drive away the swarms of mosquitoes here, the swamp next to it is the best place for mosquitoes, and the many mosquitoes are easy to get sick, which Chen Jian is very careful.

Some of the rescued relatives told Jian Chen that there was a city about two days north of here, just upstream of the tributary.

And those black-clothed guards who explored the way in advance said that along the big river, there would be a large Dongyi city in two hundred miles.

The city is too big to be captured, and it is too far away from Yucheng to transfer grain and grass materials, so the selected foothold is actually quite good.

After a day's rest, Chen Jian asked someone to dig up the soil here, and found that the soil here is very thick and the soil is good.

"The soil here is good, it's like pork fat."

Several Chinese people who had planted the land praised it, and some high-ranking people in the army looked at the excavated soil strangely, and asked suspiciously: "What is Ji Xia doing when he looks at the soil here?" Is it possible to farm here? If you're just stopping here, you don't have to look at these things. (To be continued.) )