Chapter 111: The right time, place and people
After Liu Jiu finished shouting, he looked ahead again. This time he went south, except for leaving 5,000 Xiongnu soldiers to defend the territory, he brought out all the remaining 30,000 soldiers. Since he wiped out several Wuhuan troops and obtained another 5,000 servants. He eliminated two 6,000 vanguards, his headquarters reached 29,000, nearly 30,000. He had no idea of defeat in the battle with such a large army. He just had to think about whether he would just steal the Beidi County or other counties. This is the issue he had to consider!
Liu Jiu looked ahead, full of ambition, and was only two days away from Beidi County. It is estimated that the two pioneers in the front should have captured three counties. Lian County must have obtained them, and Fuping is almost the same. If it is good, Huan County should have obtained them. The property and population of the three counties are enough for his Nine Treasures to have a comfortable winter. If he can sweep Beidi County, he will not have to raise troops to fight in the spring next year. He can rest and recuperate, expand the tribe a little further, and steadily suppress Shanyu, which is very beneficial for him to grab the Khan position!
"Whether you can become a Shanyu next year or later depends on whether you can wipe out Beidi County this time!" Liu Jiu thought to himself.
From a distance, a horse ran towards the horse. The Hun soldiers were an elite empty bag. The Hun soldiers rushed to the undercarriage and shouted: "King, I found the Han soldiers nearby. It seemed that they were messengers from Beidi County. There were more than a dozen people, heading northeast, but it seemed that they were not going to Bingzhou, but they were heading up the grassland!"
Liu Jiu yelled and said, "Didn't you go to Bingzhou?"
He was a little puzzled. It was impossible for the army to go south, and the counties in the Han area to go south, and they would prepare to ask for help. But if it was a messenger from the North County, he should not meet him. He should go to Longxian in the southeast, rather than to Bingzhou in the northeast, and it was even more impossible to bypass Bingzhou and go to the grassland. Who is on the grassland? It’s me, can’t the Han soldiers ask for help from him? It’s almost the same for the peace!
The Hun soldiers below shouted again: "They ran very fast, and they were bypassed from us all the way, and the brothers did not catch them!"
Liu Jiu touched his yellow beard, thought for a while, and said, "Let them go, don't pay attention." After a pause, he said, "Let the empty bags spread farther and explore all the places thirty miles away from the army, especially the woods and other places, and we must investigate them well."
The Hun soldiers below agreed and rode their horses away.
Liu Jiu said he didn't care, but he thought to himself: "What messenger is the Han soldiers? Who did you go to the grassland? Are you asking for peace from me? But I'm here, why can't they come?"
If there is no doubt in your heart, then do whatever you should do. But once you have questions, you will be unable to get an answer for a long time, and Liu Jiu couldn't help but become a little irritated.
The army marched extremely fast, a hundred miles a day. When it was dark, Liu Jiu ordered the camp to be settling.
The Hun soldiers lit countless bonfires, and Liu Jiu sat by a bonfire. Beside him was the great witch, the father of the GBW.
The Great Witch's face was full of wrinkles. Like the GBW, he also tied a small braid with colorful feathers on the tips of the braids. His hair was all white, and his eyebrows and beard were all white.
The great master witch grabbed a piece of roasted lamb in her hand and cut it with a knife to eat it. He looked at Liu Jiu and said, "Master, you have a bad appetite, why do you eat so little?" He saw that Liu Jiu had not finished half a piece of lamb.
Liu Jiu shook his head and said, "Today I heard that the messengers of Han soldiers appeared nearby, and they went up the grassland, but what did the Han soldiers do on the grassland?"
The great master witch did not speak immediately. He thought about it first and then said, "It shouldn't be a messenger who seeks peace, or else I'd just come here, maybe I'm going to Bingzhou?"
Liu Jiu shook his head again and said, "No, you should go south to Bingzhou. This is very strange. Just calculate it, what's going on? It's better to figure it out clearly, otherwise I'll feel uneasy."
The great witch put down the mutton in her hand, wiped her hands clean on her clothes, and said, "Then I will calculate it, see if there is any difference between what we calculated before we set off."
When he was about to send troops, he had already passed. In the words of the Han people, he won the upper hand and gave the troops.
Take out a few animal bones from your pocket. The great witch wrapped the animal bones in the palm of her hand, shook them, and chanted a few spells that no one could understand in her mouth, and then threw the animal bones to the ground!
Looking at the beast bones, the great witch nodded and said, "It's different from when we were about to set off. There are variables. There are demons and dangers come from the north, and the black evil spirit is the main one!"
Liu Jiu looked down at the beast bone. He couldn't see anything and said, "The demon is still the demon who is the master of the black evil, from the north? We are going to attack Beidi County. This north is easy for me to understand, but how do you talk about the demon?"
The great master witch said: "It seems like a black bull demon, and his magic power is profound. When I was young, I have been in the Han area. I have seen people with profound magic tricks telling fortunes. They used the book "The Book of Changes" to calculate it. They once calculated the black bull demon. It was a very terrifying demon. But now the one I calculated can almost be called the Black bull demon king!"
Liu Jiu shouted and said, "The witchcraft of the Han family is naturally very clever, but the bull demon..."
The great witch picked up the animal bones, shook them, and threw them on the ground. This time he said, "There is, there is a way to crack them. After we enter Beidi County, we will kill the cows whenever we see them, especially the black cows. If we kill all the black cows, then our army will win a complete victory. If we kill one less, there will be a change!"
This is the usual technique used by wizards. In fact, it is no different from the saints and witches in the Han area. First, tell a shocking "reason", and then based on this reason, and then say something that is irrelevant but can be understood no matter how you explain it. The techniques used are different, but the result is the same, and they can cover people up!
The great witch talks about black cows, but in fact, the same is true for black sheep. What it is doesn't matter. The point is that this kind of thing must not be completely eliminated, and there will always be some "accidents". Since the king has questions, it means there must be something wrong. Otherwise, with Liu Jiu's personality, he would not say it. Then as a wizard, you have to think carefully about how to "solve" the king.
It is very simple to go to Beidi County to kill the black cow. If you go to the battle, the possibility is the greatest, which means that the black cow has been killed and was killed under the reminder of the great master witch. The great master witch is respected and warned in advance. Liu Jiu will trust him more. If the battle fails, it is very simple. Just say that the black cow has not been killed. The great master witch has also shown the warning. It is just because there are too many black cows and are too secretly hidden and not found, which leads to the failure of the battle.
The most typical example of this kind of "prophecy" is: the three charity of Taoyuan, one lonely branch! Anyway, it makes sense, and it makes sense!
After hearing the words of the Great Master Wu, Liu Jiu fell into deep thought again. He couldn't figure out the key point, and the Great Master Wu always only spoke half of the words, and he could only guess the lower half by himself.
After thinking about it, I kept thinking for the middle of the night. When it was late at night, Liu Jiu was resting in the tent. Suddenly someone outside shouted: "Master, King, there is an emergency military situation!"
Liu Jiu turned over and said, he was always cautious in his work. His request for his subordinates was to say good news in front of everyone at dawn, and he would wake him up no matter how late the bad news was, and he would tell him alone first. The military information that had come in the middle of the night was definitely not good news.
Liu Jiu called the Hun soldiers who came in to report the news and asked, "What emergency military situation?"
The Hun soldiers presented a bamboo tube and said, "When we were inspecting outside tonight, we found a group of Han soldiers walking on the night road more than 30 miles away. The Han soldiers did not notice us, so we followed us from behind. As a result, they discovered them when they were half a mile away. There were more than 30 Han soldiers. After we went up, we only killed one, but the injured man was rescued by the Han soldiers. However, his war horse was shot to death by us. He found this on the saddle of the dead horse!"
Liu Jiu looked at Zhutong and said, "Which direction are they going, but the northeast?"
The Hun soldiers nodded and said, "Yes, this is the direction, and they don't know that our army is camping here, otherwise they will bypass it from afar and will not be caught up by us!"
Liu Jiu asked a few more details, and then he asked the Hun soldiers to go out and call the Dade Wu. He looked at the bamboo tube and saw that there was a fire-lacquered seal on it, and there was a carved feather one foot long inserted!
He was familiar with the method used by the Han people to convey emergency military information. This was a bird-feather letter similar to the "Father Edict". Since Emperor Gao of Han, Liu Bang, he used this thing to convey emergency military information. It is said that there was a famous Han general Han Xin who was in trouble here. He didn't know the specific details. He heard from others when he was a child, and he didn't know whether it was true or false, but the Feather Edict was the most important letter, which must be true.
Liu Jiu opened the bamboo tube and poured out a bamboo slip from it. He saw six words written on it. The time, place and people were harmonious, and the two words "He" were drawn in red, but I don't know what it meant.
At this time, the great master witch also came, so he told the matter and showed the bamboo slips to the great master witch. The great master witch didn't understand it, but said, "The words on the bamboo slips are so vague that they are afraid of losing and being obtained by us. It doesn't seem to be fake. But the local people understand that they naturally have the right place to defend the city, and it is hard to say about the time of the sky. It is beneficial to them and also beneficial to us. He drew a red circle with the people and the above..."
Both of them couldn't understand what the bamboo slip meant. After discussing Xiao Bansu, they didn't understand it, and they didn't understand it even if they threw the bones. But as soon as it dawn, there was no need to discuss or throw the bones, and they all understood it all!
It's raining!
When the Huns went to war, the weather that they hated the most was snowy days, and the second was rainy days. For example, the weather was very cold, and our army could not arch and arrow, and the enemy surrounded the court to give way. In addition, the Jin people rely on their horses to shoot, and the summer rains for a long time, and the rubber was removed, so they were defeated repeatedly.
The Hun soldiers' bows cannot be as good as Mongolian soldiers a thousand years later, and the rainproof effect is not good. When it rains, the power of the bows and arrows will be weakened. Isn't this beneficial to the Han soldiers?
Chapter completed!