Chapter 077: Watching the Sea in the Far North (1)
The Great Wei State has a vast territory, fertile land, prosperous people, Zhong Lingyuxiu, outstanding people, and the great river and the great river as the mother river, raising countless people with lofty ideals, who write their own stories on this land.
But in the north of the Great Wei Kingdom, there is a more vast land, there is a nomadic world, there is a group of horse people who can fight well to live another kind of nomadic people, the special geographical environment has created a rough folk customs, regardless of men, women and children, naughty children can gallop on horseback, and even can sleep on horseback.
They often looked south, casting the most ardent envy for the rich Central Plains.
The Central Plains is a tiger, the grassland is a wolf, when the tiger is alive, the wolf will retreat north, temporarily hide the fangs, and when the tiger is sick, the wolf will stretch out its claws, show its fangs, and bite the tiger fiercely.
Now the Great Wei State is prosperous, and the Hun cavalry is suppressed and does not dare to "stretch out its claws".
Different living habits and traditions have allowed the two peoples to multiply on the land of the world for thousands of years like a tug-of-war. Many ambitious emperors and heroes came up with countless sets of solutions to the contradictions between nomads and cultivators, but they undoubtedly encountered great obstacles.
His Majesty, the current Emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty, proposed "enriching the country and strengthening the people", and strengthened the Great Wei State itself to deter the Xiongnu. General Xiahou put forward another advanced idea, when the range of the weapon can ignore the distance of the grassland, the Huns are not afraid, this idea is fantastical, unbelievable, Prime Minister Pan Chunwei shook his head and did not believe it, only the third prince Zhao Gan nodded, feeling that what General Xiahou said was very true.
And the plan proposed by Xu Xiao, the king of Xiliang, who had an extremely complicated relationship with His Majesty, was simple and rude: to beat them up. In the process of pacifying the world in the Great Wei Kingdom, Xu Xiao is a well-deserved first general. The only one with a different surname in the Great Wei State, Wang Caomang, was born in a very heavy manner, and after a few years of hard work, he finally became a powerful general, and he always rushed to the forefront of every battle, regardless of his life and death, and he didn't know anything about marching and arranging. But he is good at fighting tough battles and fighting to the death. At the beginning, the battle of the Surabaya River, the battle of the fortress to the death, and the victory of Jiangnan Province were all the handiwork of this general.
Han Fei, the first lecturer of the Art of War of Guozijian, had a lot of complaints about Xu Xiao's way of leading the troops, and once commented that Xu Xiao was "a reckless horseman, for luck". Xu Xiao heard about it in Xiliang, and specially found someone to write a letter to Han Fei, and there was only one sentence on the letter, "Your grandmother has a leg", which echoed the "Ten Questions of Xiliang" in the first year of the Great Wei Guoxiangfu.
Now there is also a remark above the imperial court: If the person who guarded the northern border defense line of the Great Wei State was not Xiahou Xiangyang. It was Xu Xiao, the first general of the Great Wei, maybe the Huns had really been destroyed.
The relationship between the Central Plains and the grasslands is complex. It's not something that can be said in a sentence or two.
Nowadays, there are few large-scale confrontations between the Zhenbei Army and the Xiongnu Right Tent Wangting Cavalry, basically small-scale encounters and chases, sometimes the Zhenbei Army chases the Hun cavalry, and sometimes it is the opposite. Other times, the other party's rout may be just a decoy.
The criss-crossed and intricate shapes can be reversed in an instant, and the victory of the previous moment becomes defeat in an instant, and victory cannot make people happy. It's nothing more than a few taels of silver, but the price of failure may be life.
Lin Chengping has become an authentic northerner. The cheeks sharpened by the wind and sand are getting rougher and rougher, and the hands are getting rougher and rougher, and they are no longer as delicate as when they come out of Lanzhou. In the general environment of the Zhenbei Army, this kind of subtle change is very good, but Lin Wan'er feels bad, she knows that the second child's heart has taken root in the grassland desert, but sometimes she can't control her thoughts, thinking that the second child can come back, and then marry a wife and have children, and become an aunt by herself, and then there is a group of children who can bully herself.
Lin Chengping has been in the Zhenbei Army for five years, and last year he went back to his hometown of Shanzhou, and when he saw his eldest sister Lin Wan'er, a stone fell to the ground in his heart, but another stone fell into his heart, which was the beautiful shadow in the wind and snow.
It was a very ordinary encounter, Lin Chengping led his team of fifty people, galloping on the grassland like a spirit fox, the team was lightly armed, and was only equipped with light bows and crossbows and the unique saber of the Zhenbei Army. Lin Chengping observed the terrain, according to experience, over the grass hill in front of him, there will be a bay of clear spring, the spring water is the accumulation of rainwater, through the unique filtration function of the grassland land, the rainwater will become crystal clear, looking like a blue gem from a distance.
There is an unwritten rule between the Zhenbei Army and the Right Tent Wangting, you can fight each other in close quarters, you can live or die, but you can't poison the grassland water, according to the Huns, the water in the grassland is the eyes of immortality, and it can't be defiled.
Lin Chengping ordered the team to dismount and walk.
Zhao Feng snorted and hugged Da Zhuang's neck, and asked with a smile: "Da Zhuang, do you want to be the eldest sister?" ”
Da Zhuang nodded honestly, Zhao Feng rubbed Da Zhuang's head: "Do you want the eldest sister, or do you want the dumplings made by the eldest sister?" ”
Da Zhuang smiled: "I want to." ”
Lin Chengping lowered his head and smiled, slowly walked up to the grassy hill, but the whole person was slightly stunned, in the clear spring of the bay, a small group of Hun soldiers were also resting, not far from the tent also set up a tent, there was a bonfire not far from the tent, a large cauldron was set up on it, a black cloth was placed on the pot, the pot was boiled with spring water, the material burned by the bonfire was very special, and it would not smoke after treatment.
The grassland desert fire is very particular, you can't make a fire at night, the goal is too obvious, so the night is exceptionally cold, and there is no place to heat. During the day, the fire must not smoke, otherwise the target will be too obvious. In the steppe desert, unless it is a very special situation, it is very dangerous to start a fire.
There are only more than 20 Hun cavalry, if it is usual, if you encounter an enemy with twice the number of your own, whether it is the Zhenbei Army or the Hun cavalry, they will choose to leave, but today's Hun soldiers are a little different, no one chooses to leave.
At the moment when Lin Chengping was stunned, the other party had already drawn a bow and shot arrows, and a sword and crossbow came towards the front door. Lin Chengping didn't move, Zhao Feng arrived, holding the knife in both hands and twisting the flying arrow.
The squad of fifty men immediately entered the battle state, the black cloth around their waists covering their faces, and only two eyes were exposed. There was absolutely no shouting and killing in the real encounter, and the momentum was not very strong, and there was only silence and fighting. Some people say that shouting to kill can strengthen courage and deter the enemy, which is okay for rookies, but for veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time, shouting to kill is equivalent to being stupid.
The Hun cavalry on the other side also covered their faces with the black cloth they carried, and one of the tall men drew out the unique scimitar of the Huns at his waist, and more than two dozen people rushed forward in silence.
Lin Chengping was not surprised by this, waved his hand slightly, and the fifty people consciously divided into two teams, and rushed towards the Huns from an angle from both sides around an arc, Lin Chengping, Zhao Feng and Da Zhuang rushed down head-on, don't look at Lin Chengping and the three of them facing the Huns, but the impact was the smallest.
The two sides are staggered together, like dogs and teeth together, and the smaller the encounter, the easier it is to close the distance between people, and the more chaotic it is.
A strange and tragic scene seems to have been painted by a painter, who paints a terrible painting with the thickest brushwork, the roughest brushwork, and the most insane state, with blood splattered and dripping on the grass, and his arms and legs cut off by swords, as if they were not on a man, but on a man like a part, and at this time it is only disassembled.
The blood of one's own and the blood of one's enemies will seep into the land and nourish the land, and in the spring the grass will emerge where the blood has flowed, and then the cattle and sheep will be raised, leaving no traces.
This is a kind of irony, you live and die before death, but the blood after death nourishes the same land, the only difference is that the soldiers of the Great Wei State failed to return to their hometown and died in their hometown, while the Hun cavalry was able to throw themselves into the arms of immortality.
This was an even greater misfortune for the Great Wei soldiers.
The two sides are fighting, fighting for power and luck, Lin Chengping as the commander knows this well, his eyes swept in the crowd of the other party, and he found the leader of the other party, capture the thief and capture the king first, Lin Chengping walked quickly to the other party, and the other party also found Lin Chengping, and they all hoped to solve the other party's leader in the shortest possible time.
The two are entangled together, Lin Chengping's extremely special weapon opens and closes, like a tiger going down the mountain, Jiaolong going to sea, relying on his own arm strength to attack the other party, the other party is slender, using double knives, the knife is brilliant, like a spirit snake dispatching, poisonous snakes spitting letters, fighting around Lin Chengping, not fighting with Lin Chengping.
Lin Chengping calmed down, waiting for the other party to reveal his flaws, and the other party also waited for Lin Chengping to reveal his flaws, but the other party's mind was obviously in the tent in the distance. Lin Chengping saw the opportunity, and the weapon in his hand smashed on the opponent's double knife with the posture of splitting Huashan with force.
The other party subconsciously snorted, his voice was slender, it was a woman!
Lin Chengping was even more surprised, and asked in a blunt Xiongnu language: "Woman? ”
The other party ignored Lin Chengping, but took advantage of Lin Pingcheng's stunned surprise, the two knives unloaded each other's strength, and retreated, not forgetting to hand out the two knives in the process of retreating, Lin Chengping did not entangle too much, and retreated.
The other party didn't stop, and Lin Chengping didn't stop either, and the two sides bit together again.
This is a very common encounter, only you die and I die, and then the people left behind cut off the enemy's head, pick up their robes and brothers, and silently return to the Zhenbei Army or the Great Tent Palace. Today is no exception, Lin Chengping will not show mercy to the other party because he is a woman.
"Wow, wow, wow!!" Suddenly the cries of babies came out of the tent, loud, neutral, and deafening, as if shouting and announcing to the world: "I am coming!" ”
A newborn life is born, a vigorous baby is born, and his or her small and delicate fingers are broken. (To be continued)