Chapter 1021 Didn't Hit the Scheme
Before Tuoba Guoluo convened everyone to discuss the matter, he had actually sent a large number of scout outposts and scattered to the south. To be honest, Tuoba Guoluo's original arrangement in this direction was indeed a little careless.
But this can't be blamed on Tuoba Guoluo.
Before, the Huns were in front, and the real people were behind, one in front and one in the back, and the two troops were equivalent to a strengthened version of the scout group, and naturally there was no need to send a large number of additional scouts to keep an eye on this direction, but after suddenly hearing that most of the Han soldiers were attacking, a large number of scouts were sent in this direction again.
Especially after learning about the Xiongnu at night, it increased a lot.
After gradually leaving Xianbei's own safety range, this group of Xianbei scouts slowly lowered their horse speed and vigilantly checked the surrounding movements.
The night was as quiet as water, except for the sound of horses' hooves echoing in the wilderness, and a group of Xianbei scouts were galloping south across the vast Yin Mountain grassland.
In the distance, I don't know if it's a wild dog or a lone wolf, and it's letting out a long, mournful howl at the bright moon in the night sky.
In this era, the population is sparse, and many places are still the territory of animals or plants, which have come here earlier than humans for thousands of years, and regard this place as their home, and the gradually expanding range of humans is constantly encroaching on their territory, in this sense, perhaps human beings are natural invaders.
Under the moonlight and starlight, the surrounding situation can probably see an outline of the shadows.
While marching slowly, the captain of the Xianbei scout suddenly waved his hand quickly, immediately turned over and dismounted, stretched out his hand and pressed the horse's back, and the war horse skillfully also lay down, hiding his body behind the grass beside the road, and the scout who followed him did the same, quickly dispersed, drew his war knife, and stretched out the horned bow......
"It's a Han Army scout!"
"Silence! Spread out a little more! Prepare your bow and arrows! ”
"Lead the horse behind!"
Xianbei scouts are like enemies.
However, the Han sentinel on the opposite side seemed to be completely indifferent, and stood on the high ground, without hiding his figure, as if he had seen the traces of the Xianbei scouts, and did not make any hostile moves, but just shouted a few words at this place, then turned on his horse and disappeared from the top of the hill.
“……”
This situation was beyond the expectations of the Xianbei scout and the others, and after looking at each other, the Xianbei veteran who led the team suddenly asked, "...... Does anyone understand what the Han people are shouting? ”
“…… This one...... I was preparing to fight just now, and I didn't pay attention to ......," replied a Xianbei scout.
Another Xianbei in the back said, "...... I didn't understand it too much, it seemed to mean 'mountain'......"
"Mountain?" Captain Xianbei pondered, "Do you mean Yin Mountain?" ”
"Probably not...... Didn't you shout 'kill'......"
"Kill?" Captain Xianbei gestured and said, "...... And then that's how the Han people 'killed' it? ”
In fact, most people don't know very well, although they know a little Chinese, but they will only translate the words they hear in their brains when they are mentally concentrated, and they are all ready to fight, and their attention is all focused on swords and guns, and who will pay special attention to whether the Han people on the other side are shouting to kill, or shouting mountains?
However, soon the Xianbei people's questions were answered, and on the side of the hillside where there were only Han people, a Han soldier suddenly appeared, holding a torch and shaking it a few times, and then inserted the torch into something like a wooden stick on the side, and then immediately retreated into the darkness......
The clatter of horses' hooves faded away.
The inexplicable Xianbei man hesitated for a while, waited in place for a while, and then slowly outflanked the foot of the mountain......
When I got to the foot of the mountain, I didn't see any Han Chinese, and I didn't encounter any traps, but there were three baggage carts, covered with felt cloth and tied with hemp rope outside, where they were left behind.
Out of prudence, the Xianbei scout walked around the baggage cart twice, and after finding no problems, he slowly broke a hemp rope with his war knife, and then lifted a corner of the felt cloth......
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The Xianbei people mounted their horses and retreated in a hurry......
The four fields are quiet, the night is lonely, and only some insects are left around.
"Huh...... I didn't take it with me......"
In the distance, on top of a dirt bag, a few blades of grass moved, and a voice broke the silence.
"Gong Junhou, what should I do? The Hu people didn't take away the baggage cart ......"
With a circle of grass on his head, a Han soldier lying on the other side crawled over and whispered.
“…… yes, what is going to be done? Another soldier also came over and said.
"......" Gong Jun was also a little helpless, speechless, why didn't Xianbei people do what they expected this time?
Shouldn't the Xianbei people put this baggage cart on a horse harness and pull it down into the camp? Why did you move some of the things inside, and then leave the baggage cart in place?
After waiting for a while, I saw that the Xianbei people had indeed gone away, there was no sound around, and the time began to gradually approach the early hours of the morning, and it was estimated that it was unlikely that the second batch of Xianbei scouts would come here......
“…… Let's go, let's go and have a look, first go and plug the hole of the oil before we talk ......" Gong Jun spit out the grass roots in his mouth, then got up, waved his hand helplessly, and led the soldiers to touch forward under the cover of the shadows.
"Take an inventory and see what the Xianbei people have taken......"
"The swords have been taken, and the shields have been taken on five sides......," said the soldier, counting, "five crossbows, and only two spears......"
"Where's the wooden scum?" Gong Jun asked as he inspected the surrounding movements.
A soldier turned out of the first baggage cart and said, "I didn't see the wooden raft, I should have taken ...... with me."
"Have you unloaded all the dark grids? If you unload it, go and lead the horse......" Gong Jun nodded, and then asked the soldiers to lead the war horse over, and then put on the harness and towed away the baggage cart. Since Xianbei didn't take the baggage cart away, and there is no other way, you can't cry and shout to go up and let the Xianbei people take it away, right?
Gong Jun walked around the baggage truck twice, looked down and sniffed, maybe he didn't completely hide the smell of the oil?
Maybe.
After all, the upper layer of the bottom of the whole carriage is full of a grid of fire oil, if you get close to smell, there is a faint smell of oil, but it is not very strong, mainly so that the fire oil can penetrate out, mixed with iron dust and numb sawdust and other things, you must go to open the hole of the compartment when leaving, then there will be some smell coming out......
However, because this is in the dark grid, although the smell is oozing, it is not very big, and it is blown by the night breeze of the grassland, even if it is transmitted, it will be blown away by the wind outside, so the possibility of being smelled is not very large.
So what's going wrong?
Gong Jun scratched his head, a little confused.
Is his performance not in place, or is there something in Fang Cai's behavior that makes Xianbei people more vigilant?
Probably not......
Although his side pretended to have encountered the Huns, if the Xianbei people took the wooden slabs, they would know that we were supplying the Huns as agreed.
However, Gong Jun was clear, because when leaving, Xun Dongcao said that in fact, at this point in time, he must have encountered Xianbei scouts, and most of the Huns were strictly guarded, and only Xianbei people were sent south to investigate......
Maybe it's because the number of Xianbei scouts is small, so it's inconvenient to tow the baggage cart away, so they selectively took some things and went back?
What's this......
Or maybe it's because the Xianbei people are now more vigilant?
I think this thing is strange and unbelievable, and then I just think that I can get some cheap, take some weapons and leave?
But Gong Jun didn't know what kind of situation it was, so he could only pull the baggage truck back first......
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"Huh? Xianbei people learn to be obedient? Fei Qian sighed a few times, and then didn't care too much, so he nodded and let Gong Jun go down to rest first.
Isn't it true that every time you use your own strategy, the enemy on the opposite side will drop your IQ, and then obediently make cooperative actions and put on the most correct posture?
But how does it look different now?
When I was in Binh Duong before, there was a fire in the workshop that almost burned down the entire shed. Originally, I thought that someone had set the fire or accidentally walked into the water, but after investigation, it was found that the first point of fire was in the waste pile.
Summer arrived, the temperature rose, and then there was no rain for a while, which caused the utensils to dry out. Some discarded tung oil rags next to the waste pile are mixed with iron dust, wood chips, cinders, slag, etc., which gradually heat up and heat, resulting in spontaneous combustion.
Fei Qian can of course understand this phenomenon of spontaneous combustion, but many people in the workshop at that time, although they also had the knowledge of Gewu that ordinary people in the Han Dynasty could not match, but they were still afraid and uneasy about this phenomenon, so they gradually had words such as the dissatisfaction of the god of fire, the disaster from heaven, and so on......
As the so-called defense of the people is worse than the defense of Sichuan, and the Han Dynasty is the entire dynasty for three or four hundred years, it is a tone that is advocating what kind of celestial and human induction, if Fei Qian strictly prohibits discussing this matter or something, it may not be able to have much positive effect, so he simply called Tai Shiming and Huang Dou, the master of the workshop, and organized an experiment.
The test proved that when tung oil or other oils, mixed with cinder iron slag, after adding wood chips and other sundries, under the irradiation of sunlight, some of the test samples had different degrees of smoldering.
In addition, if there is a lot of oil and the temperature is high, it will lead to a shift from smoldering to open flame, and then spontaneous combustion will occur. Of course, there are some supernatural phenomena that cannot be explained, but here in Binh Duong Workshop, they are still ordinary physical and chemical processes.
Seeing that the cause of the fire could be artificially repeated, the hearts of the craftsmen in the workshop were settled, and they began to laugh at the guys who were chattering before, and no one talked about it anymore.
However, for Fei Qian, he will naturally try to use everything in the military, and then under the continuous test of Master Huang Dou, it was found that if in a relatively confined space, coupled with continuous local friction heating, it is easier to cause this phenomenon of spontaneous combustion.
Just like many cars in later generations, driving on the road suddenly smoke and spontaneous combustion, in fact, most of the engine oil leakage and the usual parking place of various debris adhesion mixed together, such as going to the field off-road, it is easy to roll hay into the car cavity, or like parking in a place with more garbage, being rats or other animals with rags and paper in the car cavity, etc., coupled with the dense temperature of the space and the friction of the engine belt, it eventually leads to spontaneous combustion.
As a result, there is the current spontaneous combustion truck, which uses the modification of the axle to make it rub against the mixture hidden in the dark grid, and eventually there is a certain chance of causing the ignition of the oil mixture in the dark grid.
Of course, there is a certain probability of this, about one-third, so from the simplest probability, if it is three baggage vehicles of the same modification, there is about a seventy percent probability that one of them will spontaneously combust......
However, it is a pity that the Xianbei people did not bring the baggage cart back to the camp this time, so there is no way to see the spectacular scene of the so-called heavenly fire disaster in the Huren camp that will be written in the history books......
The matter of spontaneous combustion, whether it is Xianbei or Xiongnu, is definitely an incomprehensible thing.
You must know that something like asphalt mixed with raw oil, once burned, is not something that can be extinguished with a casual blow or two.
Then, with the propaganda and agitation of his own side, even if he may not be able to catch up, it is easy to shake the entire military spirit of the Hu people while taking advantage of the chaos to wash a wave.
"It's a pity......" Fei Qian felt a little regretful, this feeling was like a candlelight dinner carefully prepared, but no one came.
Xun Chen smiled slightly, and said: "Why bother with the prince, originally this plan is the icing on the cake, success is better, and if it doesn't, it's okay, Xianbei is already bound to lose at this time......"
Fei Qian raised his head and laughed twice, and also nodded.
Strategies can change the victories and defeats of a local region, but it is difficult to restore the decadent state of the entire overall situation, which is the most typical template of Zhuge Liang in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Calling for wind and rain, how can you be wise and close to demons?
was still consumed to death by the old turtle......
Of course, if the strategy is successful, then it will definitely deal a heavy blow to the Xianbei people and speed up the entire Xianbei rout that came to Yinshan, but this small plan has not been able to succeed, and it will not affect the whole situation, because since Jia Xubu took down the whole overall situation, all these Xianbei have been included.
Even if you dodge this strategy and see through the strategy of delaying the army, what can you do?
There is less and less time left for these Xianbei troops to escape, and when this time window closes, even if these Xianbei people are lucky enough to escape, they will be stripped of their skin!