After deciding to defend the fortified city, Mu Hu had no choice but to send people to inform the rest of the cities that no city should send troops, and no matter how provoked by the people of Xiacheng, they should not leave the city. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Someone suggested sending someone to inform Qiongxi again, but Mu Hu felt that since Qiongxi already knew about the movements of the people in Xiacheng, he should not urge him again.

She feared that the Firmament Army would be unstable, so anxious to return to the division that no scouts were sent, or that the army was too fast to march and the army was exhausted.

In the event that the armies of the Great River Tribes were ambushed halfway, resulting in the elimination of the field forces that had been maneuvering in the end, then the entire Dongyi would be in danger, and the strategic initiative would be completely in the hands of the Great River Tribes.

In the face of the threat of the Xia Cheng people, all Mu Cheng could do was to prohibit people from entering and leaving the city, the city gate was closed, and only some scouts were sent outside the city to search for the movements of the Xia Cheng people.

There is a lot of food in the city, and there are enough feather arrows, so normally it is not a problem to guard for a year, but Mu Hu is still uneasy in his heart.

Mu Cheng was in full swing preparing to hold on, and Xia Cheng's army also completed its rest and began to march.

On the second day of the eighth month, the scouts of Mucheng returned, and the army of Xiacheng came towards Mucheng in full swing.

Mu Cheng closed the gates of the city, found some strong slaves and forced them to come to the city wall to guard, and issued a death order in the manner of two countrymen guarding three slaves, and the slaves died when they retreated.

However, Chen Jian led Xia Cheng's army around Mucheng, and then turned around and headed eastward, heading towards the jade mines in the southeast.

Fragmentation and disintegration are necessary to fight in the enemy's hinterland.

Turning ethnic contradictions into class contradictions can make the entire Dongyi chaotic to the greatest extent.

Jian Chen believed that those desperate slaves would be the same as the woman called the bowl who was brought back by Ji Bai, who had no idea what an ethnic group was, only a vague concept.

For the slaves, there was no difference between being a slave to the Dongyi people and being a slave to the Xiacheng people, and if they were a little more lenient, these slaves would forget their blood identity: standing at the head of the city and preaching the victory of the race to a group of bound slaves, the slaves would be enthusiastic and brave to kill the enemy...... It seems that it can only happen in the world of fairy tales.

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On the evening of the fourth day of the eighth month, the army of Xia Cheng surrounded the jade mine, easily broke through the defenses there, rescued 3,000 slaves, routed more than 600 overseers and Dongyi soldiers, and captured a small number of craftsmen.

The trembling slaves were nervous for only a day before they stood harmoniously with the people of Xiacheng, because Jian Chen found the propaganda team that he was familiar with, as well as the more than 400 miners who were working in the Yucheng mines, and asked them to communicate with the jade slaves.

Language is a strength, and when translated, it is much weaker.

The language may not be the same, but the body is the same.

The miners of Summer City stretched out their calloused hands; Demonstrate the action of mining to each other; He talked about the terrible accident of the collapse of the mine...... Even if the language is not understood, I can still talk happily with those Dongyi translators.

The pain experienced together will always be easier for people to get closer to each other than the happiness experienced together, and sometimes it only takes one action to create many familiar feelings for each other.

The miners of Yucheng received pickaxes and iron drills, demonstrated how they worked in Yucheng, and told them about their treatment, much to the surprise of the slaves who dug the jade mines.

The miners in Yucheng are the most special group of workshop workers, and their treatment was good at the beginning, because Chen Jian was worried that the group of people who stayed away from Yucheng would rebel, and they were all open-pit mines, so the mortality rate was not high.

The miners in Mucheng were sure that this group of people was not lying, because many things would not have known the pain and details without really mining, and it was obvious that this group of strong people in front of them had also been miners, but they were much better off than their own people.

They eat meat once a month, and some have women to pass on their bloodline, which is comparable to the days of dreams.

A day later, a man named Woo, who was already familiar to the miners, sat down and had a good chat with them.

At the end of the conversation, he tricked them into burying their master with the army, so that they could taste the taste of mining.

All the miners shouted in unison in agreement, and they showed off the whip marks on their bodies, revealing the protruding vertebrae that they had bent over all the years, and swore that they would never retreat.

But they also asked what to do in the future, and replied to them about the rules of Xia City, hoping that they could start from the most basic people, and learn the language and rules of the Great River Tribes to have a chance to be like them. They are convinced.

Five years of labor in exchange for human status.

Five years, far away, almost two thousand days. But at least there was a glimmer of hope.

And the words that encouraged them to arrest those who were arrogant and sent them to mine made these miners even more excited, and this kind of revenge was something they had never thought of, and just listening to it made their blood twitch all over.

Of course, these words were said at the behest of Chen Jian, since he had joined Xia Cheng's system, it was convenient for Chen Jian to be extremely strict in the propaganda mouth, and no one dared to set the tone of the propaganda without his permission.

This kind of thing, these words, five years ago, Chen Jian would never do or say it.

At that time, Xia Cheng not only used slaves, but also used them with pleasure.

Now this seemingly indignant leader who provoked slaves to revolt was once the largest slave owner in the entire Xia City, tired of dying under his hands and under his orders, not to mention seven or eight hundred, instigating the clan war in the mountains and forests in the northeast to open up a slave road full of blood and tears.

Relying on the support of slaves, he raised the first off-duty army, opened up a large amount of public land, collected the rights of Xia Cheng, and divided the clans of Xia Cheng.

But now that the iron tools of the ploughing ox appeared, Chen Jian could finally grease and powder his blood-soaked hands. Slaves were still needed, but hundreds or thousands of slaves were no longer needed to keep entire cities running.

Slaves would have been around for hundreds of years, and the new era did not appear in a vacuum, but built on the foundation of the old era, but every year the material wealth created by the slaves was decreasing, at least for Xia Cheng.

There are still slaves in Summer City, and they will continue to be for a long time to come. Therefore, Chen Jian wielded the sharp weapon of slave resistance, not to eliminate one or the other, but to hurt each other.

It's just that the enemy is injured by 1,000 and the self-damage is 200, and the absence of slaves is just a broken tail of a gecko for Xia Cheng, which will bleed but will not be fatal; For Dongyi or the rest of the cities, not using a slave is a rooster's head.

This is Dongyi's own basic plate, and this mutual injury will become more and more beneficial to itself over time.

This can also be regarded as the propaganda tone of this expedition within Dongyi, that is, to make every effort to instigate class contradictions in the hinterland of Dongyi, divide the clan cities that are not too harmonious with Qiongxi, and try to dilute the ethnic contradictions.

The concept of ethnic groups was vague at this time, more of a cultural concept, except for the group north of Xia City that could be seen at a glance by different skin colors and different races.

The skin is the same, the language is similar, and the difference may be whether the clay pot used for cooking is three-legged or four-legged, and even many Dongyi ethnic groups have migrated from the west.

Dongyi was originally the place where Chen Jian wanted to make the basic plate after the reunification in the future, and the experience of the previous life was not to kill everything, but to invade the country and the wilderness of the city, colonization, culture, and the difference between prostitution and childbirth. The Lu State, the royal family of Zhou, who implemented the most extreme policy, was not in charge of the Dongyi Rebellion for three years, while the Qi State, which implemented a loose policy, became the head of the five hegemons for several months, which is worth learning.

Burn its history, ban its words, and change its customs. A hundred years later, Dongyi is only in the history books, there is no history and historical memory, and even no language, the blood of this ethnic group is still there, but the soul is gone.

So this time, Chen Jian instigated the fanaticism of the young people in the school with ethnicity, and tempted the fanaticism of the clansmen with interests in the city, but when he really arrived in Dongyi, he wanted to use class hatred to make Dongyi civil strife.

Ethnicity is a binary concept of blood and culture, pure racism is a strong agent for the weak, the strong side can also do it, but the side effect is that the weak will do the same, and it is more advantageous and less costly than the strong.

He didn't want to finish Dongyi with the strong needle of ethnicity, and then leave behind a seed of turmoil for hundreds of years, sometimes aggression needs to be deceived, what to use is not certain and certain, it needs to change.

With the emergence and transformation of Xia City, the power of the Great River tribes is gradually increasing. Since he is a strong man, he does not need this needle, and engaging in cultural groups and ideologies is more suitable for the situation at this moment; If the Great River tribes were weak or on the verge of extinction at this time, Chen Jian would be the first to pop up to engage in the concept of revenge of the blood clan.

These captured miners were the cheap labor needed by the city, and the most important thing in this era was the population that could work, and a little improvement in their living conditions would always buy three or five years of stability.

These people may not all return to Yucheng to become the lowest people, but they need to pick out a group of strong people who can work, and the welfare system in Xiacheng will not support some people who have too many injuries and illnesses, which is a negative return.

After resting in the jade mine for two days, Chen Jian selected the strongest of more than 600 mine slaves to march with the army, and the rest and the captured Dongyi people were sent back to the foothold, where they were to dig and cut down trees to build a camp that could be defended.

On the seventh day of the eighth month, Chen Jian arrived at Mucheng with more than 600 new miners, and the road was unimpeded.

The rest of the cities got the news of Mu Hu, and did not dare to send a large army to attack and disturb, and the attack of a small group of troops was useless, and the Xia army walked very slowly, and there were many scouts, which had no effect.

When he saw Mu Cheng again, Mu Cheng had already fallen into unease and chaos, and he closed the city gate and did not dare to go out of the city to fight, so he only defended it in the city.

I chose a small hill two miles away from Mucheng, and set up a camp to dig a well.

When the army rested, the miners, led by some black-clad guards, went to a place outside the city walls where bows and arrows could not be shot, and cursed at the head of the city in the most vicious language, calling on the slaves in the city to resist together.

Jian Chen also guessed that the slaves at the head of the city must have someone to supervise the battle, and shouting now will not have the effect of answering the call, because he has not yet shown his strength in front of this group of slaves, but once the people of Xia Cheng show the strength that they may win, this group of slaves defending the city will be the biggest unstable factor.

No matter how insulting and provocative the miners below, there was no response from above, and they did not send troops out to attack, only occasionally feathered arrows fell, and it was difficult to hurt people if they were too far away.

A day later, several wooden towers were erected in the camp to observe the movement in the city. Xia Cheng's troops were too small to besiege the city on all sides, but the people in the city did not dare to go out of the city for a decisive battle, so they could only besiege one side.

A simple shield cart made of wood has been introduced into the camp, and the simple wooden wheels are not bent, but only cut into logs, which are simple and easy to make, but they cannot last long.

When it advanced to three or five hundred steps away from the city wall of Mucheng, the army moved forward in a defensive position to prevent the city from attacking and disturbing.

All the miner-born spearmen and rescued jade slaves in Yucheng laid down their weapons, picked up pickaxes and shovels that they were familiar with or unfamiliar, and were given tasks by Jian Chen.

The shield cart approached under cover, and dug a tunnel under the shield cart to reach the city wall of Mucheng.

Various people who had served as mine overseers were identified and tasked with directing the rest to support the tunnel with timber to prevent it from collapsing.

This is the impact plain of the great river, and the soil is extremely thick, so it is easy to dig with the tools. A boatload of gunpowder was brought in by the ships that received it upstream, and soldiers from the carpentry division received tools to make large wooden coffins for gunpowder......

Qiongxi used the method of digging tunnels when attacking Windy City, and Jian Chen also concocted a tooth for a tooth in the same way.

Castle defense warfare also progressed with the times, and it was difficult to consider the attack method of digging tunnels or bombing the city with gunpowder, so there was no extremely thick layer of rammed earth or stone slabs under the city walls to prevent this siege method.

The defenders of the city would not use the pottery on the ground to listen to the movement of the underground, let alone soak the gunpowder in the way of pouring water into the tunnels, which were constantly learned during the war.

Every progress is a lesson in exchange for blood.

In fact, since the advent of iron tools and gunpowder, the defense of all cities on both sides of the river has fallen behind the times, and it is time to make the thinking of each city build a big step forward through this war.

He didn't have the kind heart to be this gentleman, just to force the rest of the cities to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to rebuild the city walls, and not to let cities like Sucheng spend all their minds on thinking about containing Xia Cheng or using force to solve it.

At least after this battle, they won't turn against themselves until they build new walls, so this siege must be shocking enough to create a deterrent.

It's not just the enemy that deters, it's the current allies that deter.

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