Shen Tang's army was divided into three groups! One of them had Shentu Mou as the main general, Wen Chao and Zhao Xing as deputy generals, and led 5,000 troops to the bank of Niulan River south of the Wumeng tribe!
The order Shen Tang gave them was to garrison the Wumeng Tribe's southward transportation artery, first to guard against the Zinpan Tribe from the south for reinforcements, and secondly to harass the Wumeng Tribe's defenses in the south and contain their forces!
The second route is headed by Tuhunhu, with Weng Xingchao and Yang Yuanhua as deputy generals! He leads 10,000 troops and heads to the north of the Wumeng tribe! The first is naturally to block the source of the Yi Niang tribe, and the second is like Shentu Mou Like others, disrupt the defenses in the northern part of Wumeng tribe.
Moreover, putting 10,000 soldiers and horses here is enough to make the Yi Niang tribe fearful!
Shen Tang, on the other hand, personally led the main force of 20,000 men, with all his generals including Jiang Shang, Li Chuan, Lei Zheng, etc. He headed west directly, with the goal of crossing the Shimen River, and the army went straight to the ancestral homeland of the Wumeng Tribe, Quedi Di!
Jian Cheng led a group of auxiliary soldiers to escort the grain and grass to the west, but in the end they had to camp east of the Shimen River to use this as a basis to transport grain and grass to the three armies.
Before entering the hinterland of the Wumeng tribe, Shen Tang naturally did not have to worry about the problem of grain roads. However, after crossing the river, the grain roads behind would be attacked by the Wumeng tribe and the Yiniang tribe, including their subordinate tribes, at any time.
Therefore, Shen Tang must end this war as soon as possible, otherwise, the pressure on the rear will become too great and even affect the war situation.
Going west from A'tou, it is about 200 miles away from the Shimen River! The army of Shen Tang and others cannot move too fast, and the road is difficult to travel. It took four days for the army to reach the Shimen River. By the side!
"Send out scouts to explore the detailed geological maps and all access roads within twenty miles! Check to see if there are any small tribes around and find some reliable guides!"
The army stopped and Shen Tang issued the first order.
Shen Tang's 30,000 troops camped along the river, divided into three camps from north to south! Each camp was ten miles apart!
The Chinese army camp has 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the camp is spread over a radius of five miles! This time the camp needs to be stationed for a long time, and it also has to guard against sneak attacks, so it will naturally not be simple.
From the outside to the inside, there is a trench that is three feet wide and one foot deep! There are wooden piles all over the trench! This wooden pile is three feet long, with the top sharpened, blackened and hardened with fire, and tilted outward! Once there is If the enemy soldiers want to attack the camp, falling into the trench will be a dead end! There is a horse-rejection formation in front of the trench to resist the enemy's charge. There is a horn in front of the horse-resistance formation, and a trap will be set up outside the horn!
Behind the trench, there is a wooden fence one and a half feet high! There are three rows of these wooden fences, nearly ten feet deep in the ground. Although not as good as the city wall, it is still enough to withstand ordinary attacks.
In front of the main entrance, there are arrow towers and watchtowers on the left and right, and there is a suspension bridge and a huge fence gate on the front.
The interior of the fence is arranged in a stepped manner, with stairs and platforms.
Once a war breaks out, archers can use the wooden fence as a barrier and stand on the platform behind to shoot arrows to attack.
Around the camp, there are open sentinels, hidden sentries, and fires that stay on all night to prevent sneak attacks by the enemy.
In addition to the sentry posts, there are also several patrol teams of hundreds of people patrolling back and forth!
The entire camp is laid out in a square shape, and the same is true inside the camp, giving the overall effect of a large camp within a small camp.
All soldiers live in tents. Generally speaking, except for the general's tent, all other soldiers live in tents of ten people! Ten tents and one man and horse are used as small camps, five capitals are used as camps, and five camps are arranged in sequence as an army. Bu! There are roads, ditches, etc. arranged between the military camps!
All in all, facing a camp that has been arranged, the difficulty of attacking the camp is almost no easier than attacking a city!
From Shen Tang's camp to the west, after crossing the Shimen River, and about forty or fifty miles ahead, you can see a huge mountain city! And here is Quedi Dian, the ancestral homeland of the Wumeng tribe.
Other tribes, even the Yixi tribe that Shen Tang saw, only had a simple stone wall to rely on, but this mountain city was almost comparable to the cities of the Song Dynasty!
The wall made of bluestone is several feet tall, and the city wall extends to the left and right for at least three to five miles!
Entering from the gate, you will see the buildings inside are stacked on top of each other, and the streets and alleys are filled with people, just like a prosperous city!
Follow the main bluestone road in the city and you will see a three-story stone palace at the end! Outside the palace, there are tribal warriors wearing vine armor and holding swords and guns patrolling back and forth.
Climbing up the stairs and entering the main hall, the interior is just like the Daqing Hall in Lin'an, except the scale is slightly smaller! There are people sitting on both sides! On the left side are all men, and on the right side are all women! On the throne above, a burly figure sits upright, with a painted mask on his face, and colorful feathers towering above his head!
This man is the leader of the Wumeng tribe, Lale!
Pulle's ancestors were extremely glorious, and his first ancestor was named Meng Fan! If Meng Fan is not famous enough, then Meng Fan had a descendant named Meng Huo! Yes, it was the Meng Huo who was captured and manipulated seven times by Zhuge Kongming.
They are also a branch of the Yi people. If you dig deeper, they have connections with the surrounding tribes, even the tribes in Qiongbu Prefecture! After dozens of generations, the Lale tribe settled in the Wumeng Mountain area and slowly grew. , and became the king of the tribes in the Wumeng Mountain area, and his clan leader was also known as the "King of Wumeng".
Under the tutelage of King Wumeng, the people sitting on the left are all the elders of the Wumeng tribe, and the people sitting on the right are the members of the Yi Niang tribe headed by Ayi Yizamo, the chief of the Yi Niang tribe. !
Ayiyizamo is a woman about thirty years old. She wears colorful clothes and has a strong and graceful figure.
Although she is a woman, she is about six feet tall, which is no inferior to the average man! Her face is dark, but it is not ugly, but shows a feminine beauty!
"Dear King Wumeng, we are here firstly for the weapons, and secondly for the unrest in the east! I wonder if your department has more precise news?"
Izamo bowed slightly towards Pulle and saluted, and then spoke!
"Great Elder, inform Patriarch Ayiyizamo of our latest news!"
On the throne, Lale slowly spoke.
The great elder opposite Izamo stood up and returned the greeting, "Chief Izamo, we do have some new news! It has now been confirmed that great changes have indeed occurred in the Yixi Tribe and Mangbu Tribe in the east! Moreover, there are traces of the war.
According to our investigation, there should be a large army conducting conquests in this area, and these two tribes may have been exterminated."
"We also wanted to explore the ancestral lands of these two tribes, but now the ancestral lands of the two tribes have been sealed off and no entry or exit is allowed!"