When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

King Shang stared at the burning Liyang City.

His chariot had been stopped by the ditch for a long time.

The fire was completely ignited and could not be put out.

The arsonist only caught one person who was seriously injured.

Or someone who is seriously injured and dying.

After a round of interrogation, they found out that the person who did it was actually Pi.

This is all a ruse!
When Pi learned that they had divided their forces, he took advantage of the situation, lured them to attack, and then made multiple preparations.

The first move was to set fire to Shaoshan Mountain and eliminate the Shang army on the south slope first.

If successful, we will take the opportunity to lure the Shang army on the north slope, lead them to a second move, pretend to be defeated, and then attack and kill them.

As long as the situation becomes chaotic, you can execute the second hand and then use the third hand strategy.

Coming down from another direction, they attacked Liyang City and set fire to the warehouses.

It was early spring now and the temperature at night was not high. Without the protection and food of the city, even with supplies, they would still be trapped, uneasy and frightened.

Low morale can be fatal.

In addition, a large number of slaves escaped or were burned to death, and cattle, sheep and horses were scattered everywhere by fire. If one wanted to find them, they had to search in the forest, which required a large number of manpower to be dispersed.

A fire could at least delay him for a dozen days!
Absolutely worth it!

"Go, sweep the nearby tribes. The sooner the better!"

King Shang issued orders to his subordinates that since Liyang City had been burned down, it would take at least a month to restore it to normal use.

Instead of this, it’s better to change place.

Retreat a little, then spread out to start collecting supplies and capturing escaped livestock.

I don’t know how much, but it’s better than nothing.

On the other side, on the mountain.

Liwu dragged his exhausted body back to the cave. He wanted to sleep but was shaken by the excited and excited turtle: "Wu! Wu! We won! We won!"

"We haven't won yet, we still have things to do." Liwu was annoyed by the shaking, and quickly broke free, then said to his left and right: "Next, split up into small groups, leaving only those with minor or serious injuries on the top of the mountain, and the rest will go down the mountain immediately. Collect the cattle and sheep I released before, send some up, and set traps for the others to lure them out to hunt, and then we will hunt them.

Remember, don't be greedy, use the advantages of the forest to conduct guerrilla warfare. Many of us are from nearby and are very familiar with the forest environment here.

At the same time, warn the nearby tribes, tell them that the Shang tribe may hunt them, and tell them that if they can't defeat them, they can come to Nanpo to join us. I will level out a concentrated camp on Nanpo to accommodate their people.

The next step is to delay time and wait for Xue's action and for Zihu to bring more reinforcements.

As long as the conditions of the three parties are met at the same time, we have a chance to kill them in one battle!"

"I understand! I understand! We can't defeat them in a head-on fight! Let's just harass them!"

Li Gui responded repeatedly. He was fighting King Shang and his elite troops head-on at the foot of the mountain, and was almost beaten into autism. Naturally, he knew that he would only be crushed on the frontal battlefield.

Then guerrilla warfare and harassment are indeed their best solutions!

After hearing the promise, Liwu did not stay long and dragged his tired body back to rest.

At the foot of the mountain, smoke was still rising from the city of Liyang.

Of course, such a big commotion could not be hidden from King Geng of Shang, where Peng lived.

After Peng's spies investigated the situation in the north, they hurried back to report what happened in Liyang City.

When he learned that the Pi family had burned down the entire Liyang City, he didn't believe it at first, but then he showed ecstasy. If all this was true, then this was a great opportunity.

Should we send troops?
Or should we wait?
After all, Zihu did not inform him in advance. Perhaps by the time he reacted, King Shang of Liyang City would have reacted as well.

After much deliberation, the King of Shang chose to do nothing.

That's it.

Three or five days passed in a flash, and King Shang rebuilt the city of Liyang.

After all, in this remote area, only a place like Liyang City is suitable for staying.

If not here, where else can I go?
Of course, after repairing the camp, the King of Shang and his people encountered another problem.

The Pi clan's people engaged in guerrilla warfare with them in the woods, and even dumped their excrement upstream of the water they drank, thus disturbing their lives.

A large number of people suffered from diarrhea.

In addition, in spring, the rainy season finally arrives. The coolness is gone, the roads are muddy and wet, which makes people depressed.

This makes the water even less tasty.

Therefore, King Shang had to assign some people to dig wells on the spot and use the wells to solve the water problem.

The Shang Dynasty, after experiencing the technological accumulation of several previous tribal eras, had technology that was far superior to that of most tribes in the surrounding areas.

Liwu secretly went down the mountain and found a wooden house outside the city of Liyang. Many craftsmen had already fallen inside.

Behind these craftsmen are wooden racks on which are placed clay products ready to be dried in the shade.

"What is this?" Li Gui also came along. He found out about the craftsmen here, so he wanted to come and see what was going on.

Liou poked the tubular clay with his finger and frowned, "These guys actually wanted to make sewer pipes. It's incredible. Don't they know that this is a war?"

"Sewer? Drain pipe?" After hearing this, Li Gui thought for a moment and clapped his hands. "I remember now. The bamboo pipes buried underground on the top of our mountain have the same function. It turns out that they can be made of clay!"

"They are not here to fight, but to enjoy the scenery." Liwu did not respond, but sneered, "Don't you see what the weather is like now? If they really want to drain water, digging open channels to drain water naturally is no better than firing ceramic pipes! What a waste!"

"Maybe this is just what the big guys want?"

"No matter what they need... take all the craftsmen alive."

Liwu originally thought that there would be something good here, but he didn't expect that it would be just this. It was a wasted trip and his good mood was ruined.

But when they left, Liwu took another look at the location of the Shang King's camp: "After all, they are just barbarians. So what if their tribe is huge? The deployment is a mess, and the fight will all depend on numbers."

Liu was disdainful, and no one around dared to respond to him.

If the Shang were barbarians, then what were they?

Once again, we returned to the top of the mountain and the harassment continued.

The King of Shang suffered more than 700 casualties before he managed to gather all the scattered cattle and sheep. At the same time, he also wiped out a small tribe of more than a thousand people.

Of course, a large number of tribes also fled to the top of the mountain.

The Pi clan still had plenty of food and grass. All these small tribes set up their camps on the south slope and were dispersed. Liwu put most of his energy into reorganizing the troops on the south slope and training them in some simple flag signals and flag orders.

Of course, after all this trouble, by the time the Pi clan arrived with 5,000 troops borrowed from the east, there were already more than 5,000 people stationed on the south slope.

As a result, the number of Zihu's men and horses directly exceeded 12,000. Although their equipment was a bit poor, given that it was the rainy season, the lethality of bows and arrows was greatly reduced. Although wooden armor was not invincible, if good wood was selected and tied with hemp rope after soaking it in water, it could still withstand the attack of bronze weapons.

As soon as possible, Zihu rushed back to see Liwu. (End of this chapter)