84 The Fourth Partner (1)
Several families are the great tribal master families of the 36 tribes of Xianbei.
But that was fifty years ago.
With the Tuoba clan stationed in the Central Plains, a large number of Xianbei tribes rose rapidly, and many tribes quickly declined for one reason or another.
The people of this family have a kind of caution that is rare among the humble men, and in that period of rapid expansion of the entire tribe, prudence has become synonymous with "cowardice and cowardice".
No matter how many people, horses, cattle, sheep, and slaves there were in the past, after the establishment of the Great Wei, they were left with less than one-tenth of the previous power, and the title of the thirty-six aristocratic lords.
He is only the youngest son of the family, and his mother is a high-roller, not the wife of the head of the family. In the family, he has a low status and is young, if it weren't for his mother's favor, I'm afraid that he would not even be as good as the son of an ordinary tribesman.
As they grow up, although the martial arts of some people are not bad, they are by no means good, except that they are not treated badly in terms of food and clothing, and there is no merit that can be valued by this family that is eager to restore the glory of their ancestors.
So when he was eighteen years old, according to the tradition of the Xianbei people, several families gave him a piece of equipment, a horse, a weapon, four house slaves, and a bunch of food and supplies, and drove him to the army to fend for his own future.
In addition to the fact that his start will not be too embarrassing, his future will depend on himself.
The Xianbei military household system established the status of invincible and invincible in the early years of the Great Wei Dynasty, and the military households practiced martial arts and horsemanship diligently since childhood, just to be able to make contributions on the battlefield. In addition to the "big competition" and "challenge" systems when they first entered the barracks, they can make new military families get ahead quickly, and there are also "promotion channels" specially provided for the children of the big clan and the descendants of the strong clan.
But a few people will bring too few homes. Some of the children of the nobles who can see the past have at least brought one hundred and eighty men as personal soldiers, and the big nobles sometimes brought thousands of private soldiers to accompany the emperor on the expedition, and only a few people who entered the camp of Montenegro with only four domestic slaves were directly thrown into the main camp of the right army.
The soldiers and horses he brought with him, and the advantage he had given him was nothing more than saving him the time he spent in the new barracks. Except for this one, his path after that is no different from other military households.
If he doesn't figure this out, he'll be offended.
Unfortunately, several people didn't figure it out.
Newcomers who have not been trained in the barracks usually have a sense of belonging to a place like the barracks, if they are really from a big aristocratic background, they will have a great status as soon as they come, but the miserable thing is that some people are the body of the young master, and the life of the family is ruined.
In the eyes of the same fire in the army, he is the most annoying type who comes out of a big family and looks down on people although he has no status.
The barracks of the Right Army, in the final analysis, are a place for all kinds of declining nobles, descendants of miscellaneous beards, ordinary Xianbei military families and other people who have no power and background to rely on.
Unlike the Chinese army, which is full of elite nobles, the left army and the right army are still dominated by most ordinary military households, and although there are also Zahu and declining nobles who have returned to Shun early, there are really not many.
Such a guy who doesn't seem to have anything special, just because he brought four house slaves into the army, he suddenly became a "regular army", five people accounted for half of the fire, and he also had a particularly uncomfortable self-righteousness.
Why didn't he go to the Chinese army to show off? What kind of big head did the right army charge?
When he arrived in the Chinese army, in front of the big clans of He Lai and Dugu, see if he could still charge any big garlic!
Some people come to think that they are different from other children from an early age.
He will definitely be extraordinary in the future, he has thought so since he was a child.
Even if the Xianbei people are tribal masters, their children are not pampered, but they are more fed and clothed than the children of the slaves of the same clan. When he was a child, he loved to see the cows, sheep and horses in the family, and even herded the sheep, and then fantasized about what it would be like for him one day.
It was in the herding of sheep that he found that he could recognize the difference of each sheep and the habits of each sheep. He will take the wise sheep in the flock as the first sheep, and then put together the disobedient and the more disobedient, and let them fight with each other until the first sheep is separated, and then he will be disciplined.
He is very fond of such games, and also likes to pretend to be a warrior among the flock, directing the flock to charge.
Rather than learning martial arts, or learning how to kill people faster, he prefers this feeling of standing behind his back and analyzing the depths of others, and then breaking them with all his might.
He even became fascinated by the art of Han warfare, went to learn Chinese characters himself, and went to the descendants of the Han people in his family and asked them about the Han war.
The Han cavalry was not many, and most of them were mainly city defenses and foot soldiers, and they were not like the Xianbei people, who used grasslands, plains or other open places as battlefields.
These subordinates don't know much, many Han people have been living in the north at all, and they can't even speak Chinese, only know some legends of their ancestors. But just from their mouths, a number of people already knew the art of the Han Chinese.
Conspiracy, traps, discordant schemes, counter-plots, crossing the river and demolishing bridges, breaking the boat, and these comparisons, a number of people from childhood in those bedside stories, grandma said that "the two tribes lined up people, about a certain grassland, and then fought until the last person wins" The war story is simply weak.
But he had no access to any Han generals. It should be said that in today's Great Wei, there are not many Han generals at all.
Even if. [,! There are generals who know all this, and the only ones who can teach will be his eldest brother, the heir of several families, not an inconspicuous child like him.
This fact made some people chagrin and sadness, but after all, he was still a child, and the enthusiasm brought by his interest would make him burst out of his enthusiasm for this "art", although he did not have a military book and no Han generals to teach, but he relied on his own imagination and those lambs at home, and began to practice the "art of command" by himself.
Such a childish act is naturally impossible for adults to take seriously, thinking that the power of the Hanchen in the court is not weak now, although the young son who loves to mess around in the family likes Han things, but it is not bad to learn more Chinese and Chinese characters, and the father of several people will also induce him with his interest, sometimes go to Pingcheng, and bring him some Han books back.
The more you look, the more ambitious a few people become.
What is it to kill enemies! There are a lot of murderers in this world.
Ten thousand enemies are the real heroes!
He's going to be that kind of hero in the future!
It's just that the wishes are beautiful and the reality is cruel.
Most of the tribesmen and slaves of the 36 tribes of Xianbei became military households after the Tuoba clan took power and established the Great Wei Dynasty.
Some of them had a glorious past, but now that some of them are in decline, they have not left many things behind through the non-stop game between Guò and Tuoba Wei like other big clans, but only maintain the power that can not lose the title of "tribal master".
Therefore, even if there are a few big brothers and a few tiger heads, they can't have the luxury of mobilizing the generals in the family to learn the "art of war", let alone a few people in the family who have never expected anything from him.
And the ambitions of some people contradict the mainstream idea of "men take fame before the battle",More and more people who originally had a little idea about him,Feel that he may be disappointed because he likes the role of sinicization and Chinese characters.
In this era, even Tuoba Tao, who is the crown prince, has to go into battle, but he just wants to hide behind the house slave at home and point fingers?!
It's a shame for several families.
Some people have suffered all kinds of white eyes since they were young, and he also knows that he simply does not have the ability to realize his ideals. So when he became an adult and had to go to the army for training like his brother in the family, he did not choose to go to the Chinese army where his brother was to bring humiliation on himself, but chose the right army.
The people in the right army are not of high status, but they are easy to recruit.
He wants money and food, he wants people to have manpower, and his martial arts are not bad, where can't he get ahead? As long as the time comes, he shakes the identity of the "several" family in the right army's miscellaneous beards and military households, and he will get a bunch of subordinates to bow down when he wants to, and then he will ......
Hey, hey, hey......
"Bang!"
A muscular Xianbei soldier punched him and his nosebleed.
"Fu Meng wins! A few defeats! The fire chief is Fumeng! "
I rub ......
What if you say yes, you will bow to it?
How can a group of sons of military families who have not been carefully taught by a good teacher be so strong?
Several fell to the ground, their eyes closed weakly.
The road to self-improvement is not going to work, it seems that ......
You can only come out with wisdom and perseverance.
"When I'm at home, I can't eat this kind of thing, you know......" Several people took the food sent by the house slave with a disgusted face, and swallowed it casually.
"Give this kind of gluttonous food to eat, and let people fight!"
"Love to eat or not!" The fiery fire of several people glared at him." There is a guy named Mulan in our army, who was once harassed by the fire commander so that he didn't eat for two days, and he still went into battle to kill the enemy and killed dozens of people. It's good to be able to feed you in the army, but if you can't stand it, take your house slave and change the fire to stay! "
Look at his arrogant look! Who invited him!
There are a few of them, and I don't know where the turtles came from!
This is the first time several people have heard of the name "Mulan".
At first, he thought that this "flower" was the He of the "Ho Lai" family. Later, when I thought about it carefully, it was wrong, if it was the Herai family, even if it was a house slave, no one would make it difficult to the point of not giving food.
The army is not like other places, and if you don't have enough to eat, you will be sent to death. When encountering such a fire chief, it is no longer possible to describe it as "bad", and it can even be described as "vicious".
The next day, a number of people paid attention, and after the drill, they inquired about Mulan with some people who were a little familiar with the army.
Although there are many people who don't like a few people, there are still many people who maintain good friendships with him.
The weapons, equipment, clothing and other items he brought into the regular army were much higher than the level of many ordinary soldiers. Especially his "Cold Moon Halberd", a weapon that is difficult to learn and use, and it takes a lot of blacksmith effort, so it is generally only learned by wealthy families.
Not to mention his own armor and equipment, even his house slaves are all the kind with big shoulders and round waists, who can fight and are loyal. Sometimes you are in danger on the battlefield, and if you have such a well-equipped and guarded person around you, you can stretch out your hand and maybe save your life.
So when he went to investigate, many people told a few people about Mulan they knew.
"That Mulan, you say? Oh, I know, what came out of the black camp turned out to be with General Tugui, and after General Tugui died, he was asked by the current general to go to the tent. However, I heard that the relationship with the same fire is not very good. Also, later, there was such a reputation......"
"What reputation?. [,! Some of them listened carefully.
"This Mulan, how to say it, some people say that he is a coward, and some people say that he is a warrior. I heard that he shot an arrow at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, and that he was very good at archery, and that he was good at fighting. It stands to reason that it is very easy for such a person to get ahead, but he doesn't like to fight, and he rarely takes the initiative to pursue, and every time he fights with the Rouran people, he looks like he hasn't woken up, just disperse."
And some people said that the tone of the evil soldier was also very regretful.
"People like this, the Lord General doesn't like it, it's too demoralizing, it's like a pool of stagnant water. I heard that the last time he pursued the deserters, he also blocked the people who were in the same fire to kill the slaves in the Rouran death camp, and he was taught a lesson by the same fire. Really, if I had what he could do......"
The man was babbling on and on, but some of them had already gone elsewhere.
Very good at fighting, able to shoot arrows, will not take the initiative to pursue, no initiative, excluded, no food......
Tut-tut, how do you listen to it, how do you feel......
Such a suitable person to be a guard......
This is the faithful little brother that God has arranged for him!.
The first time Mulan saw a few people, it was the time when she was squeezed out by the fire chief and couldn't even eat, so she relied on the old days to secretly stuff a little food with the fire.
This nobleman, dressed in expensive armor and with his hair combed with oil, looked like a noble boy who had gone to the wrong place, and came to her with a large bag of grain.
"Here's this."
The man dressed as a young man threw a pocket at her feet.
"I heard you've been hungry? It's so uncomfortable to be hungry, can you eat?"
Hua Mulan was originally squatting on the ground to wipe her leather armor, but when she heard his words, she looked at the pocket in front of her again, and couldn't help but glance down and quickly glance at herself.
Was she so hungry that she was yellow and thin?
Hungry enough to squat here like a beggar?
"Aren't you impressed? Ah, people say that heroes cherish heroes, and I can't help but want to be nosy at the thought of such a warrior starving here. Have you been bullied by the same fire? I think I still have some ability in the right army, otherwise, I want to get you out? If I can't get you, then you can follow us in the next battle, what is there to do with the kind of fire companion who only knows how to frame the same fire, my fire is full of my house slaves......"
Some of them deliberately ignored that they were just ordinary soldiers, and that the fire was not full of his house slaves, and they talked about it in a hurry.
"I brought a lot of food with me when I marched into the army, and if nothing else, at least it would not be a problem to be full......
Balabala.
"Your ability is matched with my talent......"
Balabala.
"I can give you the armor and clothes of the house slaves, I have four house slaves, they are all wearing equipment made by the blacksmith of the high car, and your clothes can only block the arrows......"
Balabala.
It turned out to be a madman.
Mulan showed a knowing expression and continued to lower her head to wipe her leather armor.
Isn't it crazy to give up using a loyal domestic slave and recruit a person who doesn't know the depth and has no friendship to be his subordinate?
Some of them talked for a long time, but they found that the person with whom they were communicating did not say anything, and when they looked at it, they were rubbing their heads in their leather armor, and they were not interested in his words or food bags.
"You...... Don't you have good ears?"
Several of them looked at each other with a look of pity.
Mulan finished wiping her leather armor and raised her head.
"Who are you?"
Who are you......
Who are you......
He, he, he, he actually forgot to say who he was?
It must be because I'm too nervous!
"Ahem. I come from the tribal master family of the thirty-six tribes of Xianbei, and I am a number of people from several clans."
When it came to identity, several people had proud expressions on their faces. I am a descendant of the tribal master, and I have thousands of cattle and sheep in my family, and there are herds of slaves, and I ......"
"Several? Is it the tribe that produced a warrior called a few holes a hundred years ago?"
Mulan has nothing to do, and likes to talk about grandpa at home. The ancestor of the Hua family was the domestic slave of the 36th Helai family of Xianbei, and he also knew a lot about the history of the other 35 parts. These clans were also a great clan a hundred years ago, but they gradually declined due to the extremely conservative nature of several generations of family heads.
As soon as a number of people heard that Mulan could casually report the names of their ancestors, they suddenly felt that this was the warrior given to him by God.
"Yes, the ancestor is ......"
"Are there any more people in the house? Didn't I hear that it was ruined?"
"Huh?"
The backbone of several people shrank, and the spirit of Wang Ba was gone.
"If you're from several families, that's not right. Your family is not living comfortably now, so why bother to waste the food in your family." Hua Mulan stood up with her leather armor in her arms, "You don't have to worry about what I'm eating, I'll be able to eat again for a while at most. It's ...... you."
"Me? What's wrong with me?" A number of people were stunned and followed Mulan to learn their tongues.
Mulan shook her head.
"You still have four people to raise, what will you do when you run out of food? You should think about it a lot."
A few people stayed there until Mulan left, and they were still unfocused
[,! ]
"Who are you?"
"Are there any more people in the family?"
"Spoiling the family's food."
"What will I do when the food is finished?"
He, he, he, he......
How dare he look down on him!
The man's merit was taken on the battlefield, and he ran out of food, of course, he went to the battlefield to fight and exchange the enemy's head for it!
This Mulan, she can't eat until she eats, and she is so proud!
Well, is it because he is not sincere enough? The eldest brother said that Han people seek talents, and sometimes they have to go three times to see other people's faces.
Keep up the good work tomorrow and try it out.
The next day, the soft bunnies came back to the side.
The stretch along the Black Mountain is too long, and there are many nomadic herdsmen in the Eilechuan River, and the Rouran people are used to plundering, and they will come to harass them at every turn.
The people in the Black Mountain military camp often jokingly call the Rouran people "worms", but in fact, they are wild dogs, bullying and bullying rabbits, and they run away without a trace when they see a wild beast.
Several people have fought with the "worms" three times, and each time they have not yet fought each other. They chased each other like a lost dog, and were satisfied except that it was a pity not to get the head and the booty.
Since several people already want Mulan to be "loyal" to him, they naturally pay attention to Mulan when they go out into battle. The man was not a burly man, and when he came out of battle he had a longbow on his waist, a bow pouch on his back, and an ordinary spear in his hand, he looked like one of those soldiers who could be seen everywhere, and he did not have the courage that others had told him.
But once she arrived at the battlefield, Mulan's momentum changed suddenly.
What is called "fighting alone", what is called "no arrows are missing", he doesn't even need the assistance of the same fire, and one person can kill the Rouran people who throw away their armor.
I can't see the fanaticism of the Xianbei people in him, nor the stability of the Han people, as if he came to complete an errand, and he can go home after the errand is done.
"Master, you have to be careful!"
A house slave used his shield to block the stray arrows that kept shooting at him, and shouted: "The stray arrows are everywhere, it is dangerous for you to be in a daze at this time!"
Stray arrows don't have eyes. There was once a story of his comrade accidentally slipping his hand when shooting an arrow and shooting his own person to death. And this ape is not just a story, the arrow that shuttles through the battlefield is likely to hit the enemy, and if you are not careful, you may also shoot your own people.
"I'm not in a daze...... Forget it, I can't tell you house slaves." The eyes of some of them suddenly became longing.
What is a house slave, if you get such a fire!
No, if you get a subordinate like that......
If you are good at archery, you can also fight in close combat, without grabbing credit or showing off!
Some of them looked frenetic.
He must know what he wants!
He's going to recruit him into his command, and he's going to be a friend at the worst.
Men, what they want is nothing more than BMW beauties, gold and silver treasures, or be able to soar and glorify their ancestors. Even if Mulan is no longer aggressive, she will want to make her family more comfortable, right?
Such a talent, but few people find him useful, isn't it an opportunity given to him by God?
Now, he will meet a good talent, and he will see the pearl with his discerning eyes......
――Can his eldest brother in the Chinese army sponsor a little?
Since noticing Mulan's bravery, several people from the "...... Mulan" have often run to the 100-member team of the 19th team, chasing and intercepting Mulan everywhere.
Hua Mulan doesn't know why this young master of the declining clan is pestering him all day long, if he wants to recruit it, this attitude is not so much to recruit subordinates, but to be filled with a strange atmosphere of "I appreciate you, you come and kneel and lick me, please kneel and lick me".
"I've made it very clear. I have no intention of allegiance to anyone, to any family. It's been a long time since my Hua family didn't work as a house slave, why didn't I do it and become your general?" Mulan was forced to be forced by the urgency of several people and was also disgusted, and blurted out:
"Your military merit is not even as high as mine!"
She has already turned a long time ago, and she is not far from the second turn. But this young master didn't even kill ten enemies, but his four house slaves all killed a lot of enemies.
Is such a wreck really suitable for coming to the army?
"Military merit is such a thing, you can't just look at the number of enemies killed." Some people don't feel ashamed at all." I'm not going to spend my brain on this kind of killing like chopping melons and vegetables. I'm a general, you know? Arrange the troops and use the soldiers like gods, that is what I pursue......"
Several people's faces gleamed with confidence.
"And you're the key to my formation......"
"A formation of four people?" Mulan sighed.
How could she have been entangled by a madman?
"Uh...... Now I only have four people, but there will be more in the future. You see, even though I have only four men, I will win every battle, doesn't that show that I am very good? I said......"
"Hiding behind the house slaves and waving flags and shouting is also terrible?" Mulan rolled her eyes, turned around and left." Even the most timid soldier has to face the enemy head-on."
"Mulan, you can't look down on the person in command! I'm not that brave, but I'm really good at commanding, hey! You don't go. [,! Ahh You can't follow me and go with me, right? I mean it! Mulan, don't run! "
A number of people chased after him, but Mulan was already afraid of him, and she ran fast, and there was no shadow all of a sudden.
"I ...... Ha...... I ......, "Some of them were half dead of exhaustion, and their throats ached like fire." No matter how much this man practiced, he ran faster than others......"
He looked a little frustrated in the direction Mulan had left.
"I'm really good at command.".
"One person, guard the back, two people three, left and right wings. Fourth, you protect me, you are a short knife, you can't attack from a distance, if you are knocked off the horse, immediately return to the range of two people and three."
Several people looked at the yellow smoke billowing in front of them, and their legs and stomachs trembled a little. He has been in the army for several months, and he has never met a time when he has a hard time with a Rouran person.
These cowards never go toe-to-toe with people.
Unless they find themselves vastly outnumbered.
Thinking of this, several people's brains hurt. No matter how good he was at commanding the domestic slaves, there were only five of them. He rode his horse and ran towards the fire companions behind him, and plunged straight into their midst, and said quickly:
"There are a lot of people on the other side......"
"Those who are not blind have seen it." One of the fire companions said angrily, "Shouldn't you hide behind the house slaves and shiver?" Why are you running into our poor bunch?"
"The yellow smoke and dust are straight up, which means that they are not coming from a long distance, otherwise their horses and bodies should be covered with dust and scattered smoke and dust. In this situation, it must be that the Rouran people have already laid an ambush nearby, and we happened to be unlucky to step on their ambush circle first, and the other side is outnumbered, so we should retreat first to wait for reinforcements."
A few people pretended not to hear his sarcasm and spoke with great seriousness.
"Come on, last time you said that the worm didn't have a weight on it, it should be that you want to grab a handful and run, and the pursuit is unhindered, but what is the result? That worm is not afraid of death, it is not the same as ordinary worm people at all, so that the Lao Tzu brothers almost confessed there! "
"That's why I said that the leading worm must not be an ordinary person, and he should be caught and brought back for interrogation desperately! Isn't it strange that the timid worm is afraid of death suddenly desperately trying to protect the boss! "
"You come less, ten of us against dozens of worms, and they are all desperate worms, who knows who we caught, and how many more will we die? The military exploits in hand are real, and those are all false! "
As soon as the fire chief said that he had been talking about the last time, he blew his nose and glared.
"It's really not quite right this time. Why don't we go and tell the troops behind us and ask them to come to their aid?" A number of people were uneasy and touched the horses' ears. War horses' ears keep turning, and animals often have a greater premonition than humans, and they must have sensed that something was wrong.
"Who are you and who am I? If you want to withdraw, you can withdraw yourself, Lao Tzu is the fire chief, and he must order the whole fire to run away without authorization, and the centurion and the deputy general will be the first to cut Lao Tzu." The fire chief scoffed at his conclusion." You just have too many hearts, but you're just an ordinary pawn, the general's heart all day long. The lieutenant has ordered us to intercept the wriggling worms here, and you will do what you do."
Several people clenched their fists, took a deep breath, and took control of their horses and left.
He could hear the voices of the same fire behind him laughing at him, the sneering voices, and all sorts of contempt for the vile and cowardly of the Creeps.
It shouldn't be like this.
This wasn't what he imagined to be like this.
He's going to prove them all wrong!
"One person, two people, three or four, leave the team with me."
A number of people looked at the team of five or six hundred people in front and behind, and then at the dust in the distance, and gritted their teeth.
Although his family is in decline, there are still thousands of horses on the grassland. He was all too familiar with the dust of thousands of war horses galloping up, and this was not at all the appearance of sneaking south in order to capture the border people.
The scout has not returned, and the fire captain will not believe him, he cannot persuade others, but he cannot give himself an account here.
He's going back to the rear and looking for reinforcements himself!
If he can't find reinforcements, he will go to the lieutenant general, the chief general, and find others!
"Master, today's order is to hold the Black Mountain Pass......" Ren Si glanced at a number of people, and found that his face was very ugly, and gradually stopped his voice.
"The Black Mountain Pass can't be defended." A number of people are clipping the horse's belly.
"At least a few hundred people here can't hold it!"