Under the low hill, the strong Jie knight pointed at the Wei people on the hill and shouted loudly.
However, due to the language barrier, the Dangshan soldiers could not understand what this guy was talking about. Therefore, they only paid attention for a moment and then continued to do their own thing, that is, setting up the barracks of the military camp.
On the top of the short hill, Sima An and several generals of the Dangshan Army looked down the mountain in confusion because of the language barrier.
Seeing this, Wuwu reminded: "That guy... hopes to challenge the strongest warrior in your army."
Wu Wu automatically translated the words "the first warrior in your tribe" into "the strongest warrior in your army".
"The strongest warrior? General?"
Dangshan Army General Bai Fangming heard this and said with a smile: "It's interesting, how about I go down and meet him?"
"No." Wen Xu, another general of the Dangshan Army, said calmly: "The other party is just a soldier. If you, a general of our army, take action, our Dangshan Army will be too cheap..."
Hearing this, Wu Wu explained in a low voice: "The other party is not just 'a soldier'."
"Oh? Isn't it?" Wen Xu looked at Wuwu in surprise.
But Wu Wu nodded and said: "At least he is a 'centurion', but I guess it may be a 'thousand-centurion'... Ordinary tribal warriors are not qualified to challenge the enemy in a single fight at this time."
"Centurion? Centurion?...What is that?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Hongrun was heard explaining calmly: "The 'centurion' is equivalent to our 'bo-chan' in the Wei Dynasty, and the 'thousand-man commander' is equivalent to the 'thousand-man general' of the Chu State. In our case,
The Great Wei, on the other hand, has the ranks of ‘Quhou’ and ‘Junhou’… This should be a military position that the Jie people drew up after me, the Great Wei.”
"...That's right." Wu Wu glanced at Zhao Hongrun, slightly surprised.
After all, before this, he thought that the people of Wei knew nothing about their affairs in Sanchuan, but now it seems that Wei may have quite a lot of information about the people of Sanchuan.
"Quhou, the level of a military prince..." Bai Fangming touched his chin and murmured: "This is really a price drop..."
You must know that Bai Fangming and Wen Xu are generals at the level of deputy commander. They are trusted by General Sima An and have the ability to act independently. They are only one level lower than the "general" in the military system. Such a person
At this moment, the general came down the mountain to respond to the challenge of a Jie cavalry general with a strength of a thousand men. This indeed seemed a bit low-priced.
"How about I go instead?" Le Kui, the general of the Dangshan Army, said with a smile: "The opponent is a cavalry commander, and I happen to be a cavalry commander, so let me go and measure the opponent's ability!"
However, before he finished speaking, another general named Ji Yan took a step forward and said lightly: "It's better to go with me."
"Why you?"
"If you can do it, of course I can too."
In fact, these two are both generals of the "Cavalry Battalion" of the Dangshan Army.
Because the "cavalry battalion" of the Dangshan Army is accustomed to fighting with chariots and hangings, two generals must serve as the "axes" and "axes" in the chariots at the same time. Therefore, among the three battalions of the Dangshan Army, only the
A single "cavalry battalion" has two generals.
"Note: The "axe" and "yue" of the Chexuan Formation, namely the "main attack" and the "feint attack", can be switched."
And these two generals are Ji Yan and Le Kui, who are at the level of battalion generals.
Seeing Ji Yan and Le Kui arguing there, Sima An frowned and said displeasedly: "No one needs to go down the mountain to challenge...don't pay attention!"
"No need to pay attention?"
The generals looked at Sima An in surprise, somewhat incomprehensible.
After all, in their opinion, if their Dangshan army ignores the Jie tribe's first provocation, wouldn't this increase the arrogance of those Jie tribe members and destroy the prestige of their Dangshan army?
Although the soldiers of their Dangshan Army have excellent psychological quality and it is difficult to shake their morale easily, but "not afraid of going to war" is not a good reputation for the Dangshan Army after all, right?
As if he had guessed the mood of the generals, Sima An said coldly: "This general has made up his mind. No one should pay attention to the provocation of the Jie people at the foot of the mountain. This is an order!"
Seeing that the generals were talking about this, the generals naturally did not dare to disobey.
"General...is this a tactic for arrogant soldiers?"
General Wen Xu and Bai Fangming looked at each other and guessed secretly.
It's a pity that they still didn't guess Sima An's true intention.
Perhaps in this military camp, only Zhao Hongrun knew Sima An's true intentions.
About half an hour passed. Due to Sima An's ban, the generals of the Dangshan Army ignored the provocation of the Jie tribe cavalry at the foot of the mountain.
This made the Jie cavalry at the foot of the hill feel proud, but he also couldn't help but feel a little angry, and shouted something in a stern tone.
"□□□□□□□□□□□,□□□□,□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□!"
Although they didn't understand the language, the generals on the hillock could guess that this must be the other party verbally insulting them.
However, because they didn't understand, instead of being angry, they were a little curious about what the Jie tribesman was scolding.
For example, Bai Fangming couldn't help but ask Wuwu: "Hey, Wuwu, that Jie tribesman, is he scolding me? What is he scolding?"
"..."
Wu Wu glanced at the generals of the Dangshan Army who looked curious, and translated with a wry smile: "He said, 'Wei people who are timid and afraid of death, you are vultures, magpies, crows, jackals, snakes, insects...
…’”
"ha?"
The generals of the Dangshan Army looked at Wuwu with their mouths agape, and said to themselves: What kind of curse words are these? As if guessing the confusion in these people's hearts, Wuwu explained with a headache: "Vultures, magpies, crows, jackals
...In the culture of our Lijie people, they are 'death-eating birds and beasts' that eat carrion, so using it to insult the other party is already the most despicable...a very unbearable curse word."
After that, he saw that the generals of the Dangshan Army nearby were not angry, but looked a little dumbfounded, so he asked curiously: "Aren't you angry? In your country, what are the curse words?"
"Greeting directly to the women in the other party's family, especially the elders...and so on." Bai Fangming's frank explanation made the expressions of the generals nearby become a little subtle.
"Greetings?" Wuwu was a little confused when he heard this word. After all, in his understanding, greetings were considered good words. How could it involve swearing?
"This is the difference between the two national cultures..."
Zhao Hongrun shook his head and led Oona towards the military camp. After all, he had guessed Sima An's intention, so there was no need to stay here any longer.
When he saw Zhao Hongrun leaving, General Sima An muttered something like "boring" and turned around to leave.
As soon as these two people left, the generals of the Dangshan Army also dispersed to fulfill their responsibilities, leaving only Wuwu alone, still standing on the top of the short hill, looking at Jie under the short hill.
The clan cavalry was trying to figure out the meaning of the word "greeting" in the Wei language.
He had a vague feeling that this word might have another meaning.
In this way, while the soldiers of Dangshan were busy building the barracks of the military camp, the Jie cavalry were scolding and fighting at the foot of the short hill.
Unfortunately, due to the language barrier, the soldiers of the Dangshan Army could not understand what these people were cursing, so they did not take it to heart at all. In addition to being on guard against the other party, they continued to build their own barracks.
That scene was simply like a farce.
However, during this period, the Jie cavalry tried to use their long bows to shoot two waves of arrows at the Dangshan Army on the short hill. Unfortunately, because Sima An had already been reminded by Wu Wu, the Jie cavalry
These two waves of arrows had almost no effect.
There were almost no casualties except for a few unlucky guys who used shields to protect themselves and were shot in the arms.
But think about it, after all, the arrows of the Jie cavalry still use "double-winged arrowheads", which cannot pose any threat to the iron shields of the infantry of the Dangshan Army.
In this way, the two sides remained in a stalemate until late at night.
Waiting for around 11:00 that night, this group of Jie cavalry took advantage of the darkness to launch a tentative sneak attack on the Dangshan Army's barracks. Unfortunately, there was no gain at all. After leaving only dozens of corpses, they saw the strength of the defense of the Dangshan Army's barracks.
The stern advance cavalry of the Jie tribe retreated.
With this retreat, the advance cavalry of the Jie tribe lost track.
In this regard, Wu Wu explained to Sima An and the generals of the Dangshan Army: "The other party may have temporarily retreated to rest."
Hearing this, Wen Xu frowned and asked, "Are you really not allowed to go for a sneak attack?"
Wu Wu thought for a while, shook his head and said, "I don't want to talk about it for now. General, do you know in which direction the Jie cavalry retreated to rest?"
As soon as he finished speaking, all the Dangshan army generals, including Wen Xu, were speechless.
It has to be said that this is the advantage that nomadic cavalry has when facing a mixed army of agrarian peoples with no logistical burden: when they temporarily retreat to rest, it is almost difficult to find traces of the other party. Naturally,
There was no way to talk about a sneak attack.
If you forcefully send out troops at night like this and forcefully attack the opponent, not only will it be difficult to gain anything, but conversely, the troops sent out may also be eaten by the opponent.
However, what surprised the soldiers and generals of the Dangshan Army was that in the morning of the next day, the advance cavalry of the Jie tribe did not appear at the foot of the low hill on time as Wuwu said. It was not until the afternoon that this group of people slowly moved toward
The low hills are close together.
At the same time, General Malu, who was responsible for keeping an eye on the water level of the Sichuan stream, discovered that the water level of the stream was much less than yesterday, and there seemed to be some strange smell mixed in the stream.
After hearing the news, Wuwu immediately alerted the generals of the Dangshan Army.
"The water in this Sichuan stream is no longer drinkable... As for why it is no longer drinkable, you don't want to hear the reason."
Later, when the Dangshan Army, with the assistance of the Shang Shui Army, annihilated the advance cavalry of the Jie tribe, they finally understood why Wuwu reminded them not to drink the water from the Sichuan stream a few days ago.
It turned out that the advance cavalry of the Jie tribe not only blocked the stream with trees, rocks and other objects, but also polluted the stream below the "dam" with a large amount of their feces and the feces of their mounts.
This allowed the Jie tribe's advance cavalry to still obtain high-quality water upstream of the "ba", while the Dangshan army could only obtain some insignificant, polluted water.
This slightly smelly water doesn't look drinkable at all.
And this is also one of the tactics commonly used by the Jie people, to surround the enemy and cut off their water source!