From Chief to Ball

Su Yue smiled and said that the only ones who sincerely supported the current leader were those from his own family. As long as the situation can be pacified quickly, most people in the city will still support the victor.

However, he didn't believe Chen Jian's words, and felt that Chen Jian's thinking was simple.It is self-evident that the result can be settled within three to five days, but the crux of the problem is how to conquer the city three hundred miles east within three to five days?

"Jixia's idea is very good, but it is very difficult to implement. I fought with Dongyi a few years ago and besieged the city for several months, and it was difficult to conquer. Although the city wall is not high, it is not easy to climb, so we can only besiege and cut off the water. Besides, once the city is besieged, there will be casualties. Bizhong, even if we are justified in the crusade, how can everyone in the city accept that child? How can I not know that the sooner the better?"

Chen Jian counted the days with his eyes closed, thought for a while, and said confidently: "Since Xia made an oath with his relatives, he has never done anything, but he has won the favor of his relatives, and he feels uneasy. This time, Xia is willing to do his best to settle the matter. Today It's the ninth day of the seventh month, and the leader of Suyue can send envoys to his relatives to inform the matter now, and Xia Zi will have a way to calm down the chaos before the [-]th of July."

Chapter 57 Armed Intervention ([-])

"I've heard that Xiacheng people are good at fighting. Their spears are sharp and their chariots are sharp. They gallop across the grasslands to help Weiyi. Although I have never seen it in person, I can guess the bravery of Xiacheng people in battle just by hearing Su He."

"It's just... this is not Caohe, and there are only a hundred or so people around Jixia. If it's on flat ground, with chariots and thunder, it's not difficult for Jixia to win. But the city is close to Dongyi, and they fight all year round. The people of the tribe who are stupid may not be aware of that person's mistakes, or be deceived to fight Jixia to the death. With earthen walls and moats and rivers as their bases, they will definitely not want to fight Jixia's wild waves. Fame, let him be on guard, and killing and injuring the people in the city will deepen the hatred... I'm afraid they will vote for Dongyi and lose their relatives in this city."

Chen Jian shook his head secretly, and understood that the reason for Su Yue's hesitation at this time was nothing more than worrying that if he failed, not only would the goal of the intervention not be achieved, but he would lose the support of a city.

After brewing his emotions for a while, he made a draft in his heart, and said pretending to be sincere: "Thinking about decades ago, when the Huasu Alliance was in place, which clan did not need the leaders of all relatives to be present when it elected its leader? Even if the alliance is now Well, the leader of Suyue is respected as the head of the clan alliance, but how can it look like the clan alliance decades ago? The war is injustice, and the soldiers are everywhere, and the clan fights each other for the leader. This is not the clan that Xia wants to see. "

"The surnames in Xiacheng were guided by their ancestors, walked out of the mountains and returned to their relatives. Xia has never dared to forget the guidance of his ancestors, but he hoped that there would be no bloodshed between brothers and relatives. The world is stable and relatives are not disabled. Only the reunion of decades ago It is only necessary to set up a leader in one city together. Only then will bloodshed between relatives stop, this is what the ancestors hoped for, and Xia dare not refuse."

"If the kinship cities can be unified again, Xia will be satisfied even if he dies in battle, let alone reputation, so what? Huimeng, it is no longer the time when each city and each city had its own governance."

"Let all the clans know that once the oath is made, if you break it, you will be punished. I have already said that the man did a few things wrong. First, he pushed the leader and then went to the business for burial, and the kinship discord and killing. It's all about him. guilt."

"Just like the rules of the law, it is people who punish those who make mistakes. It is not to kill them, but to make more people not make mistakes! Even if Xia Bing is defeated, at least the rest of the clan can see that they do not abide by it. As a result of the rules and oaths, even if you lose a whole city of relatives, there will be dozens more relatives who obey the oaths and rules near the common people in the city!"

Su Yue nodded repeatedly when he heard it, and couldn't help but praise Chen Jian's thoughts, but he only half believed it in his heart.It's just that Xiacheng is far away in Caohe, that city is close to Dongyi, and the east and west are thousands of miles apart. He can't figure out why Chen Jian is so enthusiastic. Is it really because of the reason he said?

Just listen to these high-sounding reasons. Su Yue understands that Chen Jian can bring his clan out of the mountains to build cities and defeat Rongdi in a short period of time. Settle this matter within days?

If it can, that would be great, the longer it drags on, the more troublesome it will be.After pacification, his prestige as the leader of the alliance can rise again, and the people in other cities don't have to worry about it. He can secretly form an alliance with the leaders of each city: in the future, he will only support their bloodlines to inherit the position of leader, and the clan The alliance turned into a secret family agreement, and nearly a hundred clans in more than [-] cities supported each other secretly changing the election system to the succession system, but the position of the leader of the alliance was not included, so that the leaders would not object.

The key to killing two birds with one stone is whether Chen Jian can quickly settle this matter as he said.

Seeing Chen Jian's firm expression, he thought about it for a while, and finally made up his mind that this time he would come forward to endorse Chen Jian, so he said loudly: "Okay! If this is the case, I am anxious for the leader of the relatives to come and take that person's The crime was reported to everyone. I asked Su Tang to bring two hundred of the strongest warriors in the city to go with Ji Xia, and temporarily handed over the jade ax from the alliance to Ji Xia to ask the crime. My relatives and I waited for Ji Xia in Su City Xia's news!"

Chen Jian thanked him again and again, so he set the date of the expedition to the day after tomorrow. There are still many legitimate routines to be followed, which cannot be sloppy.

When Su Yue went to prepare, Chen Jian also quickly led people to Shanjiao Island, and told the people of Xiacheng about the expedition, and told them not to speak out.

This time he went to Sucheng, he brought a lot of people, such as artisans, schoolchildren, etc., the new army only brought a hundred, this time he must bring them all, worried that there would be problems on the promontory island, so he asked people to inform the island with great fanfare The people from Xiacheng on the road said that Xiacheng had brought thousands of warriors along the land road, and they were already approaching Onozawa, and asked the people on the island to help them deliver food and prepare to build the city together.

Secretly told Yu Qian'er to improve the food on the island in the past few days, distribute some food and salt to those old and weak people who stayed on the fugitive slave island, and don't do anything to intensify the conflict for the time being.

"Brother, don't worry, they don't want to resist at all now. You were not here yesterday, and you didn't listen to what they said during dinner. How long are you going this time?"

"It can be as long as two months, and as fast as one month."

"Then what do you do after the trees around here are cut down?"

"The craftsmen are all on the island. Let them lead the construction of pottery kilns, brick kilns, and charcoal kilns. Don't build them on the cleared space. It should be located in the northwest. After the brick kilns and pottery kilns are built, clay will be excavated on the cleared space. Here is full of accumulated clay, which is suitable for burning bricks to build walls. The excavated pits should form vertical and horizontal roads, which will be filled with water in the future and used as inland rivers in the city, which is convenient for transportation and saves the construction of roads. There is not much to do in a short time, digging soil When it’s time to dig a trunk, it’s enough to be four steps wide and higher than the lake surface, and lead the river on the island as the source.

"You mean, a city will be built here with water as its road and burnt bricks as its base?"

"Not only that. In the future, this will be the largest and most beautiful city in Dahe, just wait and see."

Chen Jian squatted down and roughly drew his own idea, which made Yu Qian'er's eyes widen.

Looking at the gray land behind him after logging and burning, Yu Qian'er imagined from his brother's words what this city might look like in the future.

Red bricks and green tiles stand tall, the canal is straight as a square, the cultivated fields are round and round, the workshops in the east of the city are full of black smoke, the dogs and horses in the west of the city are neighing, and the ferry is lined with hundreds of boats and thousands of sails. ; Standing on the high platform, smelling the fragrance of lotus and reed.

Just imagining, I feel a little drunk, shaking my head again and again, only saying that I don’t know when it will become a reality, if I think too much, I will lose the surprises in the future, I stretch out my hands to cover my eyes and ears, but my heart can’t be blocked, I kept fantasizing about it, and suddenly felt that the scene of people queuing up to eat and work and plow the fields with thick black smoke and whistles was the most intoxicating scene among all fantasies, if... if those workshops were all neatly arranged It's the best.

When she woke up from those fantasies, she realized that Chen Jian had already taken the people away by boat, prayed silently to Yuan Ying in the distance, turned around and continued to let those people work.

Xiacheng is also built from scratch. If there are people, will the new city be far away?

Chapter 58 Armed Intervention ([-])

July [-]th, Sucheng.

The envoy of the eastern city got a shocking news on this day. Suyue worshiped his ancestors and publicized several major crimes of the newly elected chief of the city, and he wanted to replace him as the leader of the brotherhood of relatives. It is logical for the ancestors to teach their brothers who have gone wrong to obey the rules.

Afterwards, Chen Jian took over half of the jade ax that symbolized the power of the alliance after the alliance, and he temporarily replaced the leader of the alliance who could not go on an expedition to question Dongcheng. At this moment, Chen Jian represented the rules of the alliance and was the executor of the rules of the alliance Participating in this intervention instead of being the leader of Xia City is justified.

The eloquent Su oath was spread from the ancestors' remembrance to the east city's violation of the rules, so that the envoys of Sucheng spread all over the world, and at the same time invited the leaders of all relatives to go to Sucheng to meet as soon as possible.

Chen Jian's preparations have also been completed, all kinds of rafts, wooden boats, bark boats, etc. have been prepared. One hundred soldiers from Xiacheng and two hundred warriors from Sucheng boarded the boat together. Su Tang commanded the soldiers from Sucheng to follow Chen Jian peers.

One of the three sailing ships is the flagship of Chen Jian and Su Tang, and the son of the leader of the city is also among them. He must and must go, otherwise Chen Jian's identity will be very embarrassing. Even if there is a covenant and excuses, it is still an invasion Or, taking him is completely different.

Among the other two ships, one was loaded with all kinds of combat supplies prepared by Chen Jian, and the other was prepared with 300 catties of dry cakes, fried noodles and dried meat, which could feed 20 people for [-] days.

Basically, even if there is no return, but as long as the city is captured, food and drink will naturally be provided.

Other than that, I don’t bring anything else, just ask for a quick word. Before the city in the east is stabilized, I will cut the mess quickly. Every day I delay, the possibility that the city on the opposite side will calm down will increase.

This is the first time that the people of Sucheng made quick strategic maneuvers by relying on the big river water transportation. The people of Xiacheng tried it a long time ago, and it is not new.

It saves the time of walking, and there is no need to set up camp at night to be careful of the enemy's sneak attack, not to mention the need to walk on a path full of thorns and only footprints.

More than 300 people travel nearly a hundred miles a day, and the fewer people there are, the faster they will go.

Su Tang had never seen such a way of fighting. In the past, he had selected flat land and valleys for battles.Most of the cities were besieged but not attacked, let alone such a three-hundred-mile raid.

It's just that there are thousands of people in a city, and the soldiers in the hands of myself and Chen Jian are only three hundred. Can you really capture a city?

Since last winter, he has admired Chen Jian quite a lot. He feels that this person who is about his own age surpasses him by a lot. He also understands that Xiacheng's skills and tactics will affect all clans. Whoever learns it first will win in the future. The reputation is even higher.

With this kind of trust, or a kind of blind faith, he didn't question it, but respectfully followed Chen Jian's opinion, and secretly learned how to restrain and reward and punish.

Chen Jian basically stood at the bow of the boat along the way, secretly noting down the downstream of the big river where there are twists and turns, where it is gentle and where it is turbulent. When encountering a tributary, he would ask the guide the direction of the river, nearby cities and so on.

Sometimes he would also ask which places were easy to break through in previous years, which places were easy to divert, and what strange things happened in those places or what strange animals, plants, stones, etc. were found, and there were rumors that he would listen carefully.

Every hundred miles, he would take out a can of water and dry it in the sun to see how much sand remained after drying.

At night, I draw a map without scale based on estimates, thinking about where the bends in the river will be straightened, where the river can be diverted, and so on. Now that there are few people, the damage is the least.

Seeing that Chen Jian's relationship was all irrelevant to the upcoming war, Su Tang calmed down his inner uneasiness, but then sighed a little jealously: he thought that he was already quite a man in the city. Smart, but until now he still can't figure out how to defeat the enemy, the opponent is only about the same age as him, but he is calm and calm and has a way to think about it.

Three days later, the guide who led the way told Chen Jian that the city was [-] miles ahead. Chen Jian saw that it was still early, so he asked people to stop the boat, rest and eat for a while, wait until the afternoon to set off, and arrive in the evening.

At this time, the organizational strength does not support the night battle, but the same night will make the number of both sides offset. Su Tang thought that Chen Jian was preparing for a night attack, and suddenly felt a little better: it was similar to what I thought, and I thought about it for three days. He felt that the only way to win was to sneak attack at night, as long as he killed the leader of the city, and the sons of the city would appease him, everything would be stable.

In the evening, the boat berthed to the shore, and more than ten miles ahead was the city. At this time, the golden crow was about to fall, and the full moon was rising as bright as dawn, but there was no one outside the city.

Chen Jian asked people to take some things out of the cabin, distributed them to more than ten people, borrowed more than twenty people from Sutang, and distributed some bags made of silk to these thirty people.