“(大子子) Grandpa chief…”

Behind the clan leader of the Jiejiao tribe, Bitatu, a young Jiejiao cavalry slowly came to the former.

"(大子) Bosil?" Bitatu asked casually in the direction of Luocheng.

The young Jiejiao cavalry lowered his head, and after responding, he said in a heavy tone: "Some soldiers supervising the battle in front of him reported back and forth that the Wei people used tricks to set fire to cut off the slave's way... The mortals could not get close to that kind of "sky fire". "When he said this, he paused and said in a low voice: "We have lost at least 20,000 slaves."

Hearing this, the tribe leaders of the surrounding tribes, such as "Gray Corner" and "Wujiao", couldn't help but whisper.

"(大子) The loss actually... was 20,000 slave soldiers?"

"(大子) How long has the war started? Did you lose more than 20,000 slaves?"

"(生子) The Wei people fought in this way, and they didn't lose much at all!"

"(Yi tribe) More than 20,000 slaves... they could not even consume the Wei army's physical strength!"

『…』

Bitatu, the leader of the Jiejiao tribe, looked at the small tribe leaders who were talking, and suddenly burst into laughter and said with a contempt and arrogant look: "Captains, what's wrong with you? It's just that some insignificant slaves have died, and they can be supplemented in the "Northland" at any time."

Hearing this, the little tribe leaders were stunned for a moment, and their turbulent mood gradually calmed down.

Just as Bitatu comforted them, there were only "a mere 20,000 slave soldiers". The Jiejiao tribe "hunting" in the north once, and there were more than this number of slaves that could be captured?

"That's what it means to say... However, the Wei army's strength is really terrible. In such a short time, they actually killed more than 20,000 slave soldiers... Such combat power is really no less than that "Qin".

A middle-aged man with a horse-like face murmured from the side.

『Cheralch…』

Bitatu, the patriarch of the Jiejiao tribe, glanced at the man beside him, and a strange color flashed in his eyes.

"(大子) Now, have you, as a helper, started to hesitate?" Bitatu asked faintly.

The middle-aged man with a horse-faced face named Cheralch smiled bitterly 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 'Wei Kingdom' with no less strength than 'Qin'..."

It turns out that Cheralhe is the patriarch of a tribe called "Wubian" living near the junction of the Qinling Mountains and Sanchuan.

Wubian is a large tribe where the two tribes live in mixed forces, and its strength is inferior to the Jiejiao tribe. However, the tribes in which the two attempted to obtain more land were the same. Just like the Jiejiao tribe expanding to the north, Wubian has gradually expanded to the northwest in recent years, which has led to a country called "Qin" living in the Qinling Mountains.

To the surprise of the Wubian tribe, the soldiers of the "Qin State" were extremely powerful. It is hard to imagine that more than a thousand Wubian warriors could not defeat a mere three or four hundred Qin soldiers.

What made the Wubian tribe even more stunned was that while Qin went to war with them, it also went to war with Longxi at the same time.

It's actually fighting on two fronts!

Although there were not many Qin soldiers who were invested in the two fronts, all of them were inferior to their opponents, the Qin army resisted the attack. On the one hand, more than half of the Qiang tribes made a request for a ceasefire, and at the same time, the Ji Wei clan, who attacked Longxi, asked for help from the same Wei clan, Ji Zhao clan, who had to seek help from the same group of Wei clan. On the other hand, the Wubian tribe had to ask for help from other large tribes.

On the Sanchuan grassland, there are only four major tribes, namely "Zhi", "Ling", "Jie" and "Jiejiao". Although the strength of the "Yanjiao" army is not bad, it is well known that "Yanjiao" is the guardian guarding the Wuxu royal court and will not leave the royal court.

But unfortunately, among the three tribes of "Zhi", "Ling" and "Jie", the "Zhi" tribe was extremely dissatisfied with the fact that Wubian took the initiative to provoke "Qin" and led such a terrible enemy to Sanchuan, and ordered Wubian and Qin to repair it; while the two tribes "Ling" and "Jie" were competing with the Ba Kingdom in the south for a piece of land equivalent to most of the "Sanchuan Land", and the battle situation was not optimistic.

Therefore, Cheralhe found the Jiejiao tribe. After all, the Jiejiao tribe achieved considerable results in several attacks against the Hu people in the "Northern Land" and its strength gradually grew.

However, Bitatu, the patriarch of the Jiejiao tribe, proposed a condition of exchange, that is, let Wubian help the Jiejiao tribe defeat the Wei Kingdom, and then, Jiejiao will assist Wubian to defeat the Qin Kingdom.

Cheralhe did not rush to reply. After all, the news that "Wei army killed Sanchuan with unstoppable force" had already spread throughout the Sanchuan area. Therefore, he only replied to Bitatu at that time. He wanted to see the strength of the Wei army with his own eyes. After all, for the Wubian tribe, a single "Qin" could not support them. If they provoke a country with no less strength than "Qin", the Wubian tribe would really have no way to survive.

As far as we have seen so far, Cheralhe felt that the plateau god did not seem to hear his prayers: the strength of the Wei army was extraordinary and terrifying, which made him feel that he was not inferior to the Qin army.

Maybe he guessed the retreat in Cheralhe's heart, Bitatu, the leader of the Jiejiao tribe, said coldly: "Captain Cheralhe, 'If you want to have a large piece of meat, you have to raise the lamb first'. You won't know what this child knows, right?... Before defeating the Wei people, my Jiejiao tribe may not be able to help you."

Cheralhe, the leader of the Wubian tribe, frowned and emphasized again: "Bitatu, the Qin people were not only provoked by our Wubian tribe and sent troops, they are expanding southward. Therefore, this is not just a matter of my Wubian tribe, but also of the entire Sanchuan... The Qin people plan to swallow this land!"

"..." Bitatu looked at Cheralch coldly, not wanting to listen to the following words.

Because of the words behind Cheralch, my ears were almost calloused these days.

What should we do to "conflict peace with the Wei people, then concentrate all the troops of the Sanchuan tribe, fight with Qin, and defeat their ambitions to swallow Sanchuan", and to negotiate peace with the Wei people? What a joke!

Bitatu curled his lips disdainfully. He thought it was just a lie that Cheralhe wanted to seek assistance. The clan country called "Qin" could not be so powerful, but it could fight against Qiang, Longxi and Wubian at the same time, and still have the spare energy to expand outward.

You should know that as far as Bitatu knows, the "Qin State" was just a small country that was huddled in the Qinling Mountains. Well, although it was indeed difficult to deal with, and it defeated the westward expansion of their Jie people several times, even so, Bitatu did not believe that Qin State had the strength to expand externally.

"Which Wei is different, that is a country that does have the strength to take away this land..."

Unlike his usual arrogant attitude, Bitatu looked at Luocheng silently and said in a deep voice: "Captain Cheralhe, whether with Wubian's assistance or not, I will defeat the Wei army and... continue to win."

"Is this... threatening me?"

Cheralch frowned slightly, and after a moment of silence, he asked, "Even if the Wei army can drive the 'Sky Fire'?"

"Sky Fire?" Bitatu sneered: "That's not Tian Fire, it's just a kind of black oil... The Wei people put that black oil in wooden barrels and transported it to my Sanchuan... It's not inexhaustible."

After saying that, he showed a sneer on his face and said in a deep voice: "This is the end of today......I've ordered to retreat!"

As a sound of a horn flute representing retreat sounded in Jiejiao's original formation, Jiejiao's army finally retreated.

Seeing this, hundreds of people from the "Yanjiao" tribe and the "Yanjiao" army who were watching the battle on another hillside also retreated.

This first day's siege ended with the victory of the Wei army.

Afterwards, Wu Ji from the Shang Shui Army came to the felt tent in the city and reported to Zhao Hongrun the news of "the retreat of the Jiejiao Army".

"The army of Jiejiao, the retreating place was unexpectedly... unexpectedly decisive."

Zhao Hongrun stood beside the Nipan, looking at the large red chess piece representing the Jiejiao army on the west side of Luocheng in Nipan.

I have to say that the reaction of Bitatu, the leader of the Jiejiao tribe, made Zhao Hongrun feel a little abnormal.

Because in Zhao Hongrun's impression, Bitatu was a very arrogant tribe leader who seemed to have not taken Wei seriously at all. Therefore, it is not surprising that such a person invested more than 100,000 slave soldiers in the first siege, as if he was planning to capture Luo in one breath.

Strangely, when the Wei people used fire to block the slave soldiers from approaching the Western City Wall, the Jiejiao army actually chose to retreat decisively, rather than forcibly attacking the Western City Wall regardless of the life and death of the slave soldiers, or attacking the North and South City Walls in a roundabout way.

This is a bit unexpected.

"I know, you go back, Wu Ji."

"yes."

Wu Ji retreated from the felt tent as he said.

In this way, the first day passed. Waiting for the next day, the Shang Shui Army guarding Luocheng was preparing for the second day of the attack by the Jiejiao Army, the Jiejiao cavalry were dispatched.

I saw that there were only a few hundred Jiejiao cavalry shooting a wave of rockets outside the city outside the range of the crossbowmen on the Luocheng city wall, igniting the oil that Wu Ji had just ordered the soldiers to dump outside the city, causing the fire outside the Luocheng city to soar into the sky again.

After doing this, the Jiejiao cavalry immediately retreated, leaving only the soldiers of the merchants staring at the fire outside the city.

『Imported...』

When Zhao Hongrun learned about this, he paced back and forth in the tent, frowned and silent.

The attempt to make the fire defensive tactics again was seen through by Jiejiao. Zhao Hongrun was not surprised. What surprised him was that the Jiejiao people actually saw through the truth of the "black water", instead of blindly thinking that it was the heavenly fire brought down by Wei from the sky, which made Zhao Hongrun feel a little tricky.

After all, if you cannot use the sea of ​​fire to stop those crazy slave soldiers, if Luocheng wants to stop those crazy slave soldiers in Jiejiao, then you can only rely on your real skills.

There is no way. After stripping away the mysterious veil of "Sky Fire", it is too simple to crack Zhao Hongrun's tactic of using fire to defend. Just a few rockets can make the Wei army lose a large amount of precious oil without any gains.

"Dear patriarchs, it's time to reflect our "enlightenment"."

Facing the clan leaders in the tent, Zhao Hongrun said with a deep face.
Chapter completed!