"(In the language of the Yi people) the chief of the clan..."
Behind Bitatu, the leader of the Jiejiao tribe, a young-looking Jiejiao cavalry slowly came to the former's side.
"(In Shen language) Bosile?" Bitatu asked casually, looking in the direction of Luocheng.
The young Jiejiao cavalry lowered his head, and after responding, he said in a heavy tone: "Some of the soldiers supervising the battle in the front reported back and forth, and the Wei people used a trick. They set fire to cut off the slaves' way... That kind of 'Sky Fire'"
, mortals cannot get close." At this point, he paused and lowered his voice and said: "We have lost at least 20,000 slaves."
Hearing this, the surrounding small clan chiefs affiliated with the Jiejiao tribe, such as the "Huijiao" and "Wujiao" tribes, could not help but start talking in low voices.
"(In the language of the Yi people) The loss was actually... 20,000 slave soldiers?"
"(In Shen language) How long has it been since the war started? Did we lose more than 20,000 slaves?"
"(In the language of the Yi people) The Wei people fought in this way, so they didn't lose much at all!"
"(In the language of the Yi people) There are more than 20,000 slaves... but they can't even consume the physical strength of the Wei army!"
"..."
Bitatu, the leader of the Jiejiao Tribe, glanced at the various small chiefs who were talking about each other, suddenly burst into laughter, and said with contempt and arrogance: "Heads, what's wrong with you? Isn't it just that you are dead?
They are just insignificant slaves and can be replenished at any time in the ‘Northland’.”
After hearing this, the small clan leaders were stunned, and their turbulent mood gradually calmed down.
Just as Bitatu comforted them, there were only "more than 20,000 slave soldiers". How many slaves could their Jiejiao tribe capture in one "hunt" in the north?
"(In the language of the Yi people) That's what they say... However, the power of the Wei people's army is really terrifying. In such a short period of time, they actually killed more than 20,000 slave soldiers... Such fighting power is really insignificant.
It’s inferior to that ‘Qin’.”
A middle-aged man with a horse-like face murmured beside him.
"Ceralhe..."
Bitatu, the leader of the Jiejiao tribe, glanced at the man beside him, with a strange look in his eyes.
"(In Shen language) Now that things have happened, have you, as a helper, begun to hesitate?" Bitatu asked calmly.
The horse-faced middle-aged man named Cheralhe gave a bitter smile when he heard this, shook his head and said: "One 'Qin' is enough to make me dizzy. I really don't want to provoke another 'Qin' who is not inferior to 'Qin'.
Wei State'..."
It turned out that Chelarhe was the chief of a tribe called "Wubian" who lived near the junction of Qinling Mountains and Sanchuan River.
The Wubian tribe is a large tribe where people from both the Li and Jie tribes live together. Their strength is inferior to that of the Jiejiao tribe. However, the two tribes have the same intention in trying to obtain more land, just like the Jiejiao tribe's "Beidi" to the north.
” expansion, Wubian has also gradually expanded to the northwest in recent years, which has attracted a clan named “Qin” living in the Qinling Mountains.
To the Wubian tribe's surprise, the soldiers of the "Qin State" were extraordinarily powerful. It was hard to imagine that there were often more than a thousand Wubian warriors, but they could not defeat a mere three to four hundred Qin soldiers.
What shocked the Wubian tribe even more was that while the Qin State was at war with them, it was also at war with Longxi at the same time.
It’s actually a two-front battle!
Although there were not many Qin soldiers invested in these two fronts, and they were inferior to their opponents, those Qin troops resisted the attack. On the one hand, more than half of the Qiang tribes requested a truce, and at the same time,
The Ji Wei clan who conquered Longxi asked for help from the Ji Zhao clan of the Wei state. On the other hand, the Wubian tribe was forced to ask for help from other large tribes.
On the Sanchuan Grassland, the only four tribes that have the ability to help the Wubian tribe are the "羷", "Ling", "Jie" and "Jiejiao". Although the strength of the "Yanjiao" army is not bad either
, but as we all know, the "Flaming Horns" are the bodyguards guarding the Wusu Royal Court and will not leave the Royal Court.
But unfortunately, among the three major tribes of "緷", "Ling", and "Jie", the "羷" tribe was extremely dissatisfied with Wu Bian's initiative to provoke "Qin" and lead such a terrible enemy to Sanchuan, and ordered Wu Bian and
The Qin Dynasty was in good repair, but the two tribes of "Ling" and "Jie" were competing with the Ba Kingdom in the south for a piece of land equivalent to more than half of the "Land of Three Rivers", and the war situation was not optimistic.
Therefore, Ceralhe found the Jiejiao tribe. After all, the Jiejiao tribe had achieved considerable results in several attacks against the barbarians in the "Northland", and its strength gradually grew.
However, Bitatu, the chief of the Jiejiao tribe, proposed an exchange condition, that is, Wu Bian would assist the Jiejiao tribe in defeating the Wei State, and then Jiejiao would assist Wu Bian in defeating the Qin State.
Ceralhe was not in a hurry to reply. After all, the news that "the Wei army was killing Sanchuan with overwhelming force" had already spread throughout the land of Sanchuan. Therefore, he just replied to Bitatu at that time. He wanted to see with his own eyes what the Wei army was doing.
Strength, after all, for the Wubian tribe, "Qin" alone cannot support them. If they provoke another country whose strength is not inferior to "Qin", then the Wubian tribe will really have no way to survive.
From what he has seen so far, Ceralhe feels that the plateau gods have not heard his prayers: the strength of the Wei army is extraordinary and terrifying, making him feel no less inferior to the "Qin army"
the illusion.
Possibly guessing Ceralhe's intention to shrink back, Bitatu, the chief of the Jiejiao tribe, said coldly: "Chief Ceralhe, if you want to have large pieces of meat to eat, you must first raise the lambs."
’, you don’t know this truth that even a child understands, right?… Before defeating the Wei people, I, the Jiejiao Tribe, may not be able to help you in any way.”
Chelarhe, the leader of the Wubian tribe, frowned when he heard this and emphasized again: "Bitatu, the Qin people were not only provoked by our Wubian tribe to send troops, they are expanding southward. Therefore, this is not just our Wubian tribe's
The matter of one tribe affects the entire Sanchuan... The Qin people intend to devour this land!"
"..." Bitatu glanced at Ceralhe coldly, not wanting to hear what he said next.
Because of what Ceralhe said next, my ears are almost getting calloused these days.
What "should we talk to Wei and then concentrate all the troops of the Sanchuan tribe to fight the Qin State and thwart its ambition to swallow up Sanchuan"? Talk to Wei and what? What a joke!
Bitatu curled his lips in disdain. He thought it was just a lie by Ceralhe hoping to seek help. The clan named "Qin" could not be so powerful, but it could fight with Qiang, Longxi, and Ubian at the same time.
fight, and still have the energy to expand outward.
You know, as far as Bitatu knows, the "Qin State" used to be just a small country huddled in the Qinling Mountains. Well, although it was indeed difficult to deal with, and the Jie tribe's westward expansion was repelled several times, but
Even so, Bitatu did not believe that the Qin State had the strength to expand abroad.
"But Wei is different. It is a country that has the power to take away this land..."
Different from his usual arrogant attitude, Bitatu looked at Luocheng silently, and for a long time, he said in a deep voice: "Chief Cheralhe, with or without the help of Wu Bian, I will defeat the Wei army, and...
Keep winning.”
"Are you... threatening me?"
Ceralhe frowned slightly, and after a moment of silence, asked: "Even if Wei's army can control the 'Sky Fire'?"
"Sky Fire?" Bitatu sneered: "That's not Sky Fire, it's just a kind of black oil... The Wei people put that black oil in wooden barrels and transported it to Sanchuan... It's not something that can't be taken away
Inexhaustible."
After that, he showed a bit of a sneer on his face and said in a deep voice: "That's it for today... I gave the order to retreat!"
As a flute sound representing retreat sounded in Jijiao's main formation, Jijiao's army finally retreated.
Seeing this, hundreds of people from the "羷" tribe and the "Flame Horn" army who were watching the battle on another hillside also retreated.
The first day's siege battle ended with a victory for the Wei army.
Later, Wu Ji of the Shang Shui Army personally came to the felt tent in the city and reported the news of "Jiejiao's army retreating" to Zhao Hongrun.
"Jie Jiao's army retreated unexpectedly... surprisingly decisively."
Zhao Hongrun stood by the clay plate and looked at the large red chess pieces on the west side of Luocheng inside the clay plate, which represented Jiejiao's army.
It must be said that Zhao Hongrun felt a little abnormal about the reaction of Bitatu, the leader of the Jijiao tribe.
Because in Zhao Hongrun's impression, Bitatu was a very arrogant tribal leader who didn't seem to take Wei seriously at all. Therefore, such a person invested hundreds of thousands of slave soldiers in the first siege, as if he planned to
It is not surprising that Luo Di was captured in one breath.
The strange thing is that when the Wei people used fire attacks to prevent the slave soldiers from approaching the west city wall, Jiejiao's army actually chose to retreat decisively, instead of forcing the west city wall regardless of the life and death of the slave soldiers, or attacking the north wall in a roundabout way.
, South City Wall.
This is a bit unexpected.
"I know this. Please step aside, Wu Ji."
"yes."
Wu Ji followed the instructions and retreated from the felt tent.
In this way, the first day passed. Waiting for the next day, when the Shang Shui army guarding Luocheng was preparing for the attack of the Jiejiao army on the second day, the Jiejiao cavalry was dispatched.
A few hundred Jiejiao cavalry were seen shooting a wave of rockets outside the city outside the range of the crossbowmen on the city wall of Luocheng, igniting the oil that Wu Ji had just ordered his soldiers to dump outside the city, causing Luocheng to burn.
Fire broke out outside the city again.
After finishing this matter, the Jiejiao cavalry immediately retreated, leaving only the Shangshui soldiers staring at the fire outside the city.
"It was discovered..."
When Zhao Hongrun learned about this, he paced back and forth in the tent, frowning and saying nothing.
Zhao Hongrun was not surprised that Jiejiao's tactic of using fire on defense was seen through again. What surprised him was that the Jiejiao people actually saw through the truth of the "black water", instead of being like the ordinary people from the Xiang and Xiang tribes.
Blindly believing that it was the fire brought down from the sky by Wei State made Zhao Hongrun feel a little troubled.
After all, if the sea of fire cannot stop those crazy slave soldiers, if Luocheng wants to stop those crazy slave soldiers in Jiejiao, then they can only rely on their true abilities.
There is no way, after peeling off the mystery of "Sky Fire", it is too simple to crack Zhao Hongrun's tactic of using fire to defend. It only takes a few rockets to make Wei Jun lose any gains.
A large amount of precious oil was lost in vain.
"Heads of the clan, it's time for us to embody our 'enlightenment'."
Facing the clan leaders in the tent, Zhao Hongrun said with a serious face.