Chapter 438: Totem
The teacher's words made Fusu feel really ashamed. Fusu said, "If the teacher hadn't arrived in time today, Fusu would probably have been in the belly of the beast at this time." ”
Meng Tian opened his mouth and asked: "Who knows the journey of Gongzi this time to the north?" I see that today's Hu people's beast herd seems to be deliberately waiting in the wolf forest, and Gongzi's carriage also happened to pass there, so he was ambushed. ”
Fusu nodded, and he said, "The teacher doesn't say it, Fusu also has some doubts about it in his heart." Although it is said that my coming to Beijun is a matter known to the Manchu Dynasty, the places I will pass along the way have been decided before the day before, and no one else except my guards should know. ”
"It seems that Childe's side is not safe, this time the Hu people failed to rob Childe, we naturally will not give them another chance, since someone is hiding in the dark, then we must not act rashly. Childe just sits in the city, and the war outside the city is left to me. "Since Fusu's daily route is decided temporarily, there must be spies in the guards around Fusu. In the first battle of the Wild Wolf Forest, all the forbidden troops who followed Fusu were killed, and the iron guards were also killed and wounded nearly two-thirds, and I don't know if the person hiding around Fusu was dead. If you die, it's a good thing, but if you don't, then only those few surviving guards.
The Iron Guard was trained by Meng Tian, they usually hide in the shadows, and there are many people who know the existence of the Iron Guard, after all, with the incident of Chu Fei in the palace back then, the mystery of the Iron Guard has been revealed. Over the years, the Iron Guard has also continued to increase the number of people, and Meng Tian has specially instructed the details of the Iron Guard, and they have all been thoroughly investigated. If it is the iron guard around Fusu, this is a terrible thing.
Meng Tian believed in the loyalty of the Iron Guard, so he would rest assured that the Iron Guard would protect Fusu, and I am afraid that the enemy would also take advantage of this.
It was getting late, and today Fusu was frightened again, and Meng Tian no longer disturbed Fusu's rest, and after a few words, he got up and left.
At present, the problem in front of everyone in Beijun City is the beast herd of the Hu people, in fact, the number of beasts is not a lot, and the total number of the four city gates is only two or three hundred. Meng Tian was confident that he would be able to wipe out these beasts, but the problem was that as long as the Hu people didn't come to make trouble. As long as these beasts are aimed at the cavalry, because the natural creatures are mutually restrictive, the war horses will have weak legs and feet when they see these beasts, and they can't run on the battlefield at all, losing the biggest role of the cavalry.
"Now we have to find a way to solve the problem of the beast herd first, I don't know what you can do?" Meng Tian asked everyone in the hall of the county guard mansion on the second day.
The generals stand in the hall, you look at me, I look at you, and no one has come up with a valid and feasible method.
"General, why don't we buy some beef and mutton in the city, put some poison in the meat, and throw it on the city wall. As long as the beast eats this meat, it will definitely be poisoned and die, and then we will solve the problem of the beast. Xue Bin stood up and said, they used to use this method when they were hunting on the grassland.
Everyone nodded, Xue Bin's method was really good.
"Your plan is indeed good, but the hundreds of beasts outside the city, I'm afraid the meat needed is not a small amount. Now the people in the city cannot go out of the city, and everyone has to test the food stored at home to survive, and if we take their food away, it will be more than worth the loss for us. ”
The Hu army besieged the city for nearly half a month, the grain and grass in the city were enough, but there was really not much beef and mutton, and most of the banquets held by the county guard yesterday for Fusu were vegetarian, and the only roasted whole sheep was purchased from the people in the city.
There was silence in the hall again, and everyone was trying to figure out how to disperse the Hu people's herd. At this time, Meng Tianci stood up and said, "Father, I have a way, I don't know if it is feasible or not. ”
"Speak quickly. ”
Meng Tianci walked up to his father, picked up a brush and drew a pattern on the table, then pointed to this pattern and said, "I want to use this thing to drive away the beasts." ”
"Are you talking about this table, or is it this thing you drew on the table?" Meng Tian asked.
"Naturally, it's something drawn on the table. Meng Tianci explained to his father: "I remember that there was a record in an ancient book that when the Yellow Emperor conquered Chiyou, Chiyou's men could drive tigers, leopards and jackals to meet the Yellow Emperor's army. Then, after encountering the enemy's herd, the giant tree was pushed forward by the cart. Those tigers, leopards, and jackals saw the terrible pattern on the giant tree and lost their combat effectiveness, and finally the Yellow Emperor defeated Chiyou. Later, the ancients painted patterns on the giant trees and named them totems. ”
"Totem?" the crowd was interested in this somewhat unfamiliar word.
Meng Tianci said to everyone: "Yes, it is a totem. We can also find some giant trees, draw some patterns of gods on them, and then we let the totem go ahead of us, believing that the beasts will be scared when they see the patterns on the totem. ”
Although he still didn't understand what the totem Meng Tianci said, and whether there was a better way to solve the beast herd at the moment, Meng Tian said to Meng Tianci: "Since you don't have a better way, you should go and do it according to your ideas first, if it really has an effect on the beast herd, we will step up the production of more totems." ”
"The father is relieved, the child understands. ”
The totem was quickly made, Meng Tianci brought the totem to the north city gate, Meng Tian and Fusu and a group of generals also rushed to the north city gate after getting the news, wanting to see what the totem looked like.
The totem is inside the North City Gate, and it is said to be a totem, but it actually looks more like a strange-shaped car. The exterior of the car was that of a large, unknown beast with two horns on its head, but with the face of a horse, blackened black eye sockets, and a bulge in the shape of a bull's nose underneath. What's even more terrifying is the mouth of this totem, which occupies more than half of the skull, and has two long fangs showing out of each of them, and there is smoke coming out of the mouth.
Meng Tianci made a gesture under the city wall, telling the people watching the totem on the city wall that they were ready. Meng Tian ordered, and the north gate of the North County City slowly opened.
When the beasts outside the north gate heard the news of the opening of the city gate, they were lazily lying on the ground basking in the sun, but now they all stood up and looked in the direction of the city gate.
After the city gate was opened, Meng Tianci entered the inside of the totem, and there were dozens of people inside pushing the totem, slowly pushing the totem outside the northern county.
The beasts outside the city roared and marched in the direction of the north gate. When they reached the city gate, they did not see a living person, but a behemoth slowly drove out of the gate.
Faced with such a huge "kind", the herd roared under its own voice outside the city, and then slowly retreated behind it. It can be said that the beast is afraid of its own kind, which can be said to be an instinctive reaction, although the herd is large, but the huge beast in front of him obviously does not look so easy to mess with.
Looking out through the round hole inside the totem, Meng Tianci saw that the beasts outside began to slowly retreat after seeing the totem, and he knew that his method had worked. "Quick, bring over what you've prepared. Meng Tianci said to the soldiers around him.
After leaving the city under the control of the totem, the north gate was immediately closed. After the people standing on the city gate saw the totem appear in front of the beasts, the beasts actually began to retreat slowly, and it seemed that the totems really had some effect on these beasts.
Before the people watching the battle on the city wall could laugh, they saw that the big mouth of the totem under the city began to spray smoke out. This smoke was borrowed from the hunters in the city, and when burned, it emitted a special smell that prevented the smelling beasts from approaching.
Smoke erupted from the totem's mouth and spread out towards the herd of beasts in front of them, and the beasts that smelled the smell roared loudly before retreating.
"Quick, speed up, the beasts have begun to retreat!" Meng Tianci urged the soldiers hiding inside the totem to speed up and disperse the beasts outside the north gate.
The totem picked up speed and rushed towards the herd. Seeing such a monster with a hideous face and a pungent smoke spraying from its mouth rushing towards him, the beasts outside the north gate had no fighting spirit and dispersed one after another, never returning here.
The great effect of the totem on the herd made Meng Tian, Fusu and the other generals very excited. Before Meng Tian returned to the city, Meng Tian sent an order to build more totems, and after dispersing the beasts outside the city, he fought a decisive battle with the Hu people.
"Report to the Legion Commander, the herd of beasts surrounding the north gate suddenly retreated for some reason. "The news of the retreat of the beast group at the north gate of the North County City quickly spread to the Hu people's camp, but they got the news a little late and did not see the totem outside the north gate.
Charles suddenly stood up from his seat when he heard this, and he said, "How is it possible? How can these Orientals have a way to drive the beasts away?"
"I don't know that when we got there, the herd was gone, and only the herd in the other three directions had not moved. ”
Charles felt a little strange and said, "Go, call Worf, I want to know what's going on." ”
Worf arrives in front of Charles and is surprised to get the news that his herd has inexplicably left. "It's impossible, we, brothers and sisters, have trained the beast for so many years, and we have never encountered anything like this. ”
Charles naturally knows about the skills of the Wolf brothers and sisters, his blood wolf mercenary group can gallop all over the Western Regions, and the three brothers and sisters have contributed a lot, but why did there be an accident here?