These people had smelled this smell when they attacked Fengcheng and knew that this thing was terrible. In a panic, a pile of black bumps rolled under their feet, followed by a violent explosion.

The splashed iron sheets or iron pieces that were blown in half pierced into the group of people with a hot temperature and extremely high speed, with only a layer of cowhide as a protective body, and blood was everywhere.

The thick black smoke was filled with loud noises and fire, and its lethality might not be great, but the shock caused by the instant casualties still put these Dongyi soldiers on the verge of collapse.

The leader was killed by the bomb, and an iron lump fell at his feet. This was used by Xia Cheng to defend the city, and the amount of medicine was very sufficient.

The more than 300 people who rushed in only instantly fell to the lowest point. The injured lies on the ground howling, and the uninjured ears were filled with buzzing echoes. They didn't know what they were going to do, and their minds were in chaos.

Some people turned around and ran back, and there was another rapid sound of flute sound from behind. The hundreds of Xiacheng 100 teams holding spears slowly and firmly rushed out from behind, colliding with the group of Dongyi people who had lost some on the not-wide division ground.

Soldiers sting their spears forward like they do on weekdays, just need to keep themselves level with the same row of people, without charging or running.

It was like driving a sheep... Under such terrain, facing organized and formed spearmen, the Dongyi people whose morale had collapsed had no idea how to resist and ran away with their heads in their arms.

The spearman did not pursue him, and retreated with the sound of the whistle behind him, not caring about the dead bodies at all.

In just a moment, more than a hundred Dongyi people who tried to attack collapsed and less than half survived.

The city opposite was like a man-eating beast, which suddenly swallowed all of these people. The low earth wall blocked the view, but could not stop the screams of those seriously injured and undead people. The shrill voice echoed in the wilderness, making people feel chilled all over.

Several seriously injured Dongyi people crawled out of the earth wall with their remaining half legs or arms, and were completely black. They died halfway through the crawl.

An uneasy and tense atmosphere echoed in the Dongyi army, and the clan leaders looked at Qiongxi together.

"If you pass the order, the archer will step back a hundred steps in turn, keep your feet steady, and don't panic! Bring a few people who have returned here."

The army began to move back slowly, and the warrior responsible for the temptation was called in front of Qiong Xi. The people were no longer panicked, but when they heard the drums, they still couldn't help but hug their heads.

After asking for a long time, Qiong Xi shook his head and knew that he had encountered an opponent. Those gunpowder weapons were nothing. They did take advantage of the terrain, but as long as the impact and melee were fought together, the weapons would be difficult to use.

What made him irritated were the spearmen who stepped forward and retreated after listening to the drums. According to those who fled back, the spearmen in Xiacheng walked very slowly, but when they walked up, they were like a wall moving forward neatly, and they could not compete with them in a narrow place.

There were also a few brave and brave men who tried to rush to the front with their own abilities, but they were all stabbed to death by spears, and each person had to face three or five spears.

Qiongxi also heard the captured Xiacheng people talk about the previous battles, and he knew a little about Xiacheng's tactics. He fought a stupid battle, which made him feel ridiculous, and he didn't have much strategy.

On the plain, there are spears as formations. The cavalry attacked and disrupted the enemy formation and made the army disconnect or advanced, and then used chariots and those attacking soldiers to seize the opportunity to break a little.

In Qiongxi's opinion, Xiacheng's tactics are simple and ridiculous, with only one sentence: fight less in a certain place, tear open the front line.

Qiong Xi also understood that this stupid method had great requirements for the command ability of the military leader, but what was more important was whether the spear formations could be stabilized.

They are not killing people, they are just moving city walls. There may be very few people who die in the hands of the Ghost Spear before the battle is decided, but without these Ghost Spears, those attacking troops will be meaningless, and no one creates fighter jets for the tanks.

After hearing so many rumors, Qiong Xi originally thought that the spear formations of these Xiacheng people were almost the same as those of him, but just now it seemed that they were definitely stronger than his spearmen.

At least from the situation just now, if it were the spearmen on his side, they might rush out, and at least they would not let these people escape: the enemy facing a dispersed enemy actually does not need to maintain the military formation and sacrifice the military formation to exchange for speed and impact. But the Xiacheng people on the opposite side were dull and terrifying. They would rather let go and retreat according to the whistle and never disperse.

Looking at the silent city opposite, Qiongxi felt like a bone she had eaten. The bone marrow inside was delicious and tempting to eat, but it might cause the teeth to break.

If there are really only three thousand people in it, I will not be unable to rush in at any cost. The problem is that these clans follow me to plunder slaves. A head-on confrontation is not the best choice for a person who has only been in the position of leader for a year.

This made Qiongxi puzzled. What were these Xiacheng people doing? It was difficult for them to score in tortoise and defend themselves, but if they didn't hit the Xiacheng people on the opposite side, they would have no choice. What were they going to do when they ran here?

After thinking for a long time, I couldn't figure out the problem. The messenger asked someone to build a camp and temporarily confronted me and refused to attack.

The first night was spent in this strange confrontation. Early the next morning, the Dongyi people also built a high platform with wood and earth. After Qiongxi climbed up, he finally saw the whole picture on the opposite side.

The inside is orderly and well-organized, with about seven or eight hundred people at the front; there are a thousand people in the middle; and the last place near the river bank is the main force of the people in Xiacheng.

After peeking at the full view inside, Qiongxi felt even more stubborn. The camp opposite was a standard semicircle, and the distance from the attack to the center was about the same. The three sides were besieged and the terrain was rugged and divided, so there were not many troops that could be deployed, and they could only fight with the hateful Xiacheng Gejiu Army formations in a narrow place.

If the two sides are surrounded and the main attack side, the main force of Xiacheng in the center can be calmly allocated to the main attack side. If you want to mobilize, you have to go through the large arc of the outer circle, while the Xiacheng people inside only need to quickly reach the battlefield along the shortest distance from the center to the arc.

The initiative on the battlefield was in his hands. Qiongxi felt that he could fight or not. This group of Xiacheng people could only defend to the death but could not take the initiative to attack him. Due to the terrain restrictions, Xiacheng people could not expand their formation and could not attack.

But what annoyed him was that he did not see the biggest advantage of Xiacheng in the city: riders and chariots.

If the people of Xiacheng are not stupid, they should not give up their biggest advantage. Where are those riders and chariots?

The clan leader who was observing with Qiongxi suggested: "Otherwise, don't you hit them? Continue to attack other cities northward?"

Qiongxi shook his head and said, "I will be worried about being bitten by these Xiacheng people behind. No one knows that they will send troops when they are."

"Then... then let's pretend to retreat? Temptation the people of Xiacheng to climb out of the turtle shell? We can defeat them when fighting on the plains."

Qiongxi shook his head. At this time, the group of Xiacheng people retreated would definitely not pursue them, because now he didn't understand what these group of Xiacheng people were going to do. This is the reason why it was difficult for him to make a decision.

This was an unexpected change. He did not expect that after Su Yue went to the expedition, the Dahe tribes would have such a mobile force. If he could not remove this force, he would not be able to run and plunder among the cities and towns. But after removing this force, he was afraid that he would not be able to run and plunder among the cities and towns. He felt that he would have to pay at least 6,000 casualties to drive away the group of Xiacheng people.

This group of Xiacheng people obviously knows that they can't beat themselves in the wilderness, so they hide it inside. The key to how to deceive these Xiacheng people is: What exactly do these group of Xiacheng people want to do?

If you don’t know what the other party is going to do, you can’t tempt the other party to attack.

Yucheng is too far away from here, and bypassing the big river city between them, he may indeed force these people to return, but his ending is likely to be without going back, and he dare not take risks.

When they were wandering, the scouts sent out yesterday brought news. They found a large number of riders from Xiacheng people upstream, but no infantry were found.

These riders drove them out and were advancing toward the battlefield.

This news made Qiongxi feel that he had seized the fighter plane. It seemed that the war horses and chariots of the people in Xiacheng were all upstream, and they were preparing to raid behind the scenes while they besieged the city.

He was sure that the leader of Xiacheng was in the city and it was impossible to command riders outside the city to determine when to raid, so there would inevitably be a disconnect in command.

Take this opportunity to kill all the rider chariots in Xiacheng. Even though the main force of these Xiacheng people is still there, you don’t have to worry about the impact of the rider chariots. You can make the army more sparse and the front line can be wider and thicker. At that time, only half of the people can defend this group of Xiacheng people, and use your other half to attack the city and capture the city.

The opportunity on the battlefield flies in a flash, and Qiong Xi immediately ordered the army to move forward again and act like a three-sided siege.

But he separated more than 700 warriors who were good at fighting alone and the best archers, hiding in the bushes behind the army. Once the riders of Xiacheng people raided the rear while they launched their troops to siege, they asked the warriors and archers to surround and kill the riders in Xiacheng.

The rider alone cannot win the war. Qiong Xi is sure of this, and the cavalry without infantry support cannot expand the results of the battle at all, and the rider cannot shoot at the archer.

The people of Xiacheng defended against the turtle shell, but they were destined to be unable to launch the troops to counterattack quickly. They just needed to seize the opportunity of Xiacheng riders trying to make contributions to kill them. They would not waste their time with these turtles and headed north immediately.

He was waiting for the opportunity, and this opportunity came in the afternoon. The scouts returned, and the Xiacheng riders in the upper reaches of the river to the west began to appear on the edge of the battlefield.

Qiongxi immediately ordered the front to start advancing, from defense to offense, slowly approaching the city defended by Xiacheng people. It seemed that it was going to have a full siege, but in fact Qiongxi's order did not allow anyone to launch an attack.

From the outside, the entire Dongyi army formation was like a clam, revealing its soft flesh, waiting for the group of riders to rush over. This temptation was naked and full of temptation, but there was no danger: the main force of the Xiacheng people shrank in the city and could not launch a counterattack. Even if the counterattack was only a small scale, just use bait to stick to the Xiacheng riders.

It was slightly different from yesterday. He only left a part of the reserve force, and the main force he expanded was not a line of consistency, but more like he wanted to concentrate the main force in the east and use the east as the main attack point.

In order to lure the riders in Xiacheng in the west, it is much weaker, and the arrangement of reserve troops is also more dependent on the east, and it seems that it is impossible to support it once it becomes chaotic.

But behind the battlefield, his most elite warriors and archers hid and waited silently. He wanted to create fighter jets for the Xiacheng people, at least in the eyes of the Xiacheng people, it was a fighter jet of the fighter jets.

It took a long time to unfold the large army. When the formation was basically unfolding, Qiongxi discovered that Xiacheng had also made moves.

Groups of soldiers began to board the boat by the river. Those boats had sails that could go upstream. They could not see clearly when they were too far away, but they could roughly calculate that at least seven or eight hundred infantry had boarded the boat.

At this time, the army on Qiongxi's side had already begun, and the riders who were patrolling the battlefield had already appeared in the open space in the west. The terrain was open and there was no way to surround them. They did not have any impact but seemed to be waiting for something.

After looking for a while, Qiongxi suddenly realized that the cavalry of Xiacheng were waiting for the infantry transported by ships! The city was indeed divided and could not launch the military formation to counterattack, but the people of Xiacheng could use ships to assemble upstream and spread the troops upstream.

My own troops have already been deployed, and this is the most vulnerable time. Too wide the front means that any point is too thin. It is no problem to defend individual riders, but once Xiacheng's infantry and archers are added, they cannot be stopped at all.

The ships in Xiacheng have begun to transport soldiers upstream, and it seems that they are preparing to use the river as a natural right wing to attack their west. With the cooperation of archers, phalanx soldiers and cavalry, this is very dangerous.

Almost in a moment, the chaos and confusion that had been lingering in Qiongxi's mind for the past few days suddenly shone with a trace of light, but this light scared him: these people in Xiacheng could use the boat to penetrate directly behind them.

The reason why they gather here is simply because it is closer to their hinterland and can shorten the distance!

My heart was trembling by this thought that I felt terrible. I hoped that I would think too much, but in connection with the doubts in my heart these days, I felt that my thoughts were the only possible explanation. Only this can explain the strange actions of these Xiacheng people these days.

At this time, the ships transporting soldiers had already wandered upwards for a long distance, and it seemed that they were preparing to land in an open land, and the riders would join the entire team.

Now Qiongxi has two choices: take advantage of the opportunity of transferring this group of infantry inside the city to launch an attack and deal with the group of Xiacheng people in one fell swoop before the collapse of his weak Western Front; or gathering up the troops again. Anyway, the main force of Xiacheng in the city cannot quickly assemble and counterattack, and the divided terrain is not suitable for large-scale operations.

Once again, holding his hands behind his back was a rare move. Many clan leaders knew that Qiong Xi was facing a major choice when he did this.

This is really rare, but within a few days when facing the Xiacheng people, several clan leaders had already seen it twice, which forced the clan leaders to guess what kind of pressure these Xiacheng people brought to Qiongxi?

The pressure is very high, which makes Qiong Xi a headache. The attack on the whole line may defeat these Xiacheng people, but the main force of Xiacheng can escape by boat and cannot catch up with him, and he is afraid that he will lose at least 5,000 people, which is a loss that he cannot bear.

After weighing the pros and cons, Qiong Xi finally couldn't help it and ordered: "Let the warriors hidden in the woods come out and strengthen the defense of Xiacheng people in the west! Retreat on the whole line and camp without attacking!"

The warrior archers hiding in the woods quickly walked out, indicating that this side was not as fragile as the people of Xiacheng thought.

The people of Xiacheng also turned the bow of the ship tacitly, and no longer moved upwards but returned to the city pier. The riders on the upstream also tacitly left the battlefield and relied on their fast mobility to escape the Dongyi scouts.

Seeing the unfolding army slowly retreating, Qiongxi gritted his teeth and cursed a few words, rubbed his eyes, and had a great headache. For three days, his army only did two things: pretending to attack and retreat to camp.

If you continue to struggle like this, the morale of the army will be in chaos.

However, in the evening of that day, a sudden news came, causing the morale of the army that was about to be chaotic to collapse immediately.

Dozens of people came to the camp crying and shouting that there were enemies going deep into the city. The person who reported the news held two flags, and these two flags were very familiar to those who had just learned the news! The enemy opposite them was such a flag.
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