"Wen Shilan" is the Donghu language, translated into Tang dialect, the meaning of "stone".

This Hu man named "Wen Shilan" is a first-class tiger general under the tent of Shuai Pitan in the western part of Rouran, and he comes from the Hulu Department of Gaocheren.

There are six types of Gaoche people, or the six divisions, and the Hu Law Department is the most powerful of them.

Because of the late conquest by Rouran, the Hulu tribe did not maintain their own tribal system of rule like the Hu tribes that were conquered earlier by Rouran, whose tribal structure no longer existed, and who had merged into Rouran's own department.

Wen Shilan's family background is the chief of the Hu Law Department, and his soldiers and horses are all soldiers of the Hu Law Department.

Hu Lu Department is known for its bravery.

Wen Shilan this person, learned the Hun tactics, looking at the dust can know the number of enemy soldiers, sniffing the ground can withstand the enemy's distance, brave and healthy, fighting into battle, different from the others, in the territory of Rouran, Longzhou border has a great prestige. When the women in these two places coaxed the children, they would even scare the children with the words "Wen Shilan is coming" to stop crying. The soft girl sang a ballad: "Ask for a good husband, be like Wen Shilan".

Wen Shilan is nearly forty years old, with a group of wives and concubines, not everyone can be like Ling Hufeng, alive and vigorous, with high morale every day, after all, the manpower is sometimes exhausted, and the female color will probably not be accepted anymore, but from the two things of singing and stopping children from crying, it can be seen that he is good at fighting.

Because of this, Pi Tan can rest assured that he will be entrusted with the important task of containing the soldiers and horses of the three counties.

On the day Wen Shilan got the order, he led 2,000 cavalry from his headquarters to leave the Shuai tent station and go south to Xihai County.

On the twentieth day of the seventh month of autumn, Wen Shilan arrived in Juyan Zedong.

did not disturb Hu Mu, who lived along the coast of Yanze, found a secret place to camp, and then, Wen Shilan sent scouts to investigate the enemy's situation.

Five teams of scouts returned one after another.

Summarizing the intelligence and having a general understanding of the military deployment inside and outside Xihai County, Wen Shilan has a general understanding.

He summoned the commanders and generals of the clan to discuss the strategy.

"Marshal" and "General" are all the names of officers in the Rouran Army.

Rouran's military system, inherited from the Huns, and learned from their previous suzerain, the Wei State of the Xianbei people. The name of "Shuai" is derived from the Xianbei Wei Kingdom. However, it is also different from the Wei state. The generals of Wei can command more or less troops, and the number of commanders is fixed, usually 100 people. Ten buildings for an army. That is to say, the commander is equivalent to the centurion of the Huns, and the general is equal to the commander of the thousand.

- "幢" means guard of honor, or refers to the flag used as a guard of honor. Xianbei Wei is the first one, and it is also the only one in all the Tang and Yi countries that uses this character as the name of the troop establishment.

Wen Shilan's army had a total of 2,000 cavalry, twenty marshals, two generals, and the general's lieutenant general, and soon gathered.

Wen Shilan arranged for her own soldiers to guard the perimeter and forbade people to approach.

More than 20 officers sat on the ground with him in a circle.

Wen Shilan plucked the grass in front of her, sorted out a clearing, picked up stones in her hand, and briefly drew three lines and three circles of different sizes on the ground. Throwing away the stones, he pointed to the three lines and said, "This is a weak water diversion from its two." He also pointed to the big circle on the north side of the third line, "This is Ju Yanze." He also pointed to two small circles, "This is Xihai County." …… This is the Jiuquan soldier of the Dan Department. ”

The officers of the Hu people looked and saw two small circles, one between the two diversions of the weak water, and the other in the southward area outside the eastern diversion.

"The Tang people divided the troops into two divisions, the main force was in Xihai County, and the Jiuquan soldiers were outside the East River. That's the case. Tell me, how are we going to fight this battle? ”

A general asked, "How many men are there in Jiuquan?" ”

"More than a thousand."

Another general said: "It is reported that the Tang soldiers who came to the aid of Xihai this time were no less than 6,000 cavalry. Our army has only two thousand horsemen. Two thousand against six thousand, and Tang Er is well-armed. Adults, it's stressful. I think that the best way to successfully complete the order of the town commander should be to arrange suspicious soldiers. ”

"Arrange suspicious soldiers?"

"Yes. We can claim to the outside world that there are elite ten thousand horsemen to intimidate Tang'er and make them dare not go out of the city and cross the river. ”

Wen Shilan sat cross-legged, looked around at the crowd, and asked, "What do you say?" ”

More than 20 officers discussed one after another, discussed for a while, and their opinions were close to unanimous, and they all agreed with the proposal of "arranging suspicious soldiers."

Wen Shilan pursed her lips, and with a contemptuous tone, she said mockingly: "When you drink wine and eat meat on weekdays, you all brag and say that you are warriors. In my opinion, you are not warriors, don't say that compared with the wolves on the grassland, you are not even as good as the chickens raised by Tang'er! ”

Although the officers of the Hu people didn't know why Wen Shilan suddenly said this, they couldn't help but blush when they were humiliated.

The general who suggested arranging suspicious soldiers said loudly: "My lord, are you humiliating me and others? ”

"I'm humiliating you."

The general stood up suddenly, patted his chest and said, "Last time I fought Dunhuang, who killed Beigong Yue's nephew, Beigong Heng?" Isn't it me? He flaunted his might in front of our army, and it was I, who only brought two horsemen out of the battle and shot him off his horse! My lord, why do you say I'm not even as good as a chicken? Is there a chicken as brave as me? ”

"Isn't it great to shoot a Beigong Heng? See what you just came up with? 'Arrange suspicious soldiers'? Wen Shilan said disdainfully, "That's a good thing." I see, in fact, you are afraid that the Tang people have more soldiers and horses than us, and you are afraid of the enemy like a tiger! Don't dare to fight! ”

The general felt deeply ashamed, stretched his eyes wide, and said, "Why don't I dare to fight? My lord! Say, how are you going to fight this battle? As long as the adults order, I will be the first one! ”

Wen Shilan turned overjoyed and said with a smile: "This is what our Ele warriors should look like!" He asked the remaining Hu officers, "What about you?" ”

Everyone fought bravely and said, "Please give the order, I want to be the vanguard!" ”

Wen Shilan nodded with satisfaction, and he said to everyone: "What you said is not bad, we have few soldiers, and it is indeed difficult to contain the Tang soldiers of the three counties in Xihai County." You are not wrong to say that it is appropriate to place suspicious soldiers, but do you know what is wrong with you? ”

"Please instruct me."

"You are wrong, you are wrong, as soon as you come up, you propose to arrange suspicious soldiers. But it doesn't work! Have you ever thought about it, 'suspicious soldiers', it's fake, and fake ones have a time to be exposed! The Tang people are not stupid, let's say that we have more than 10,000 elite riders, will they be stupid to believe it? They will inevitably send sentry cavalry to find out the truth about our army. Therefore, suspicious soldiers cannot be deployed immediately. ”

The ashamed general asked, "What then?" ”

"We have to fight a battle first to scare the courage of the Tang people! And then set up suspicious soldiers! Only then can this strategy be useful! ”

"What do you mean?"

Wen Shilan stretched out her middle finger and slammed it into the small circle representing the Dan Division, stared at everyone, and said: "There are only more than 1,000 Jiuquan soldiers, and there are only a few hundred cavalry, let's defeat them first, which not only plays a deterrent role, but also can cut off the horns of Xihai County outside the river, and can completely trap the Tang soldiers of the three counties in the two diversions of weak water." ”

There were still Hu officers who were afraid of the Tang people's armor and cavalry, worried that they would not be able to defeat them, so they begged Wen Shilan and said, "Your Excellency's plan is clever, and please make a divination first to win or lose." ”

When the Tang people divination, take fifty yarrow, symbolizing the "number of the great yan", representing all things in heaven and earth, "the number of the great yan, escape one of them", take out one and do not use, to represent the heaven and earth before the birth of Taiji, that is, the use of forty-nine yarrow, and Wenshi Lanshan fifty yarrow divination, every measure of good luck, often can be hit. His name for divination is the same as his bravery, and he is known in the country of Rouran.

Wen Shilan refused to divination, he said: "Divination is to resolve doubts, now there is no doubt, why do you need divination!" ”

Seeing that there were those who were suspicious among the Hu officers, Wen Shilan got up and drew his knife, stuck it on the ground, looked around and sat down, and asked, "Do you remember the military law in the country?" ”

All the Hu officers followed him and stood up, and replied, "Yes." ”

"How can you reward those who are the first to break through the enemy formation?"

The crowd replied in unison, "Give it to the captive!" ”

"How can you punish those who are cowardly and dare not fight?"

The crowd replied awe-inspiringly: "Hit your head with a stone and kill you!" ”

"Take a day off today, get up tomorrow morning and attack the Jiuquan barracks!"

The barracks of Pandan are about 20 miles away from Xihai County, and the place where they are encamped is a small oasis. More than ten miles northwest of the continent is the diversion of the East River with weak water, and there are deserts on the north, south and east.

This time, Yan Dan was able to endure the old grudge with Xin Er, and personally led the troops and Xin Er to support the West Sea, in order to obtain military merits, hoping to return to the DPRK as an official from the local area because of his merits. With this in mind, he actively sought to fight.

Therefore, in the past few days, he sent more sentry cavalry to the north to inquire about the military situation of Rouran.

Most of the sentinels sent by Fan Dan were recruited from the Hu tribe of Ju Yanze, who were familiar with the terrain and knew where it was easy to hide soldiers.

Wen Shilan thought that the place where she was stationed was secret, but in fact, the whereabouts of her troops had been discovered by the sentinels of Pandan, but because they could not spy closely, the sentry could not find out the number of their troops for the time being.

Hearing that thousands of Hu cavalry had quietly arrived in the eastern part of Juyanze, Su Qing, the chief bookkeeper, said: "This captive cavalry should be the front of Rouran's main force. Ming Gong, immediately report to the county, so that the governor can deal with it as soon as possible. ”

Gong Cao Tianwei objected to Su Qing's opinion and said: "The front part of the northern captivity, where is it worth reporting to the county? As if seizing some good opportunity, he said impatiently to Fan Dan, "Ming Gong, the captives have just arrived, and they have not yet known their whereabouts have been exposed, if Ming Gong rushes to attack him at this time, he will definitely be able to break it with one blow!" The lower official is foolish, instead of reporting to the county now, it is better to wait for Ming Gong to defeat him, and then spread the good news! ”

Su Qing was shocked: "There are only more than 1,000 soldiers and horses in our department, and hundreds of cavalry, how can it be enough to break through these thousands of captives?" ”

Tian Wei was confident and said: "Although there are many captives, and our department has three benefits, it is not difficult to break it." ”

Su Qing asked, "What three benefits?" ”

"The captives ride in the light, and our department is in the dark, which is advantageous; The cavalry is sparsely armed, and our armor is excellent, which is advantageous; Ashina under the Ming Gong's account has the courage of ten thousand people, that is, he is gentle and fierce Wen Shilan, and he is afraid that he is not Ashina's enemy! These three benefits. The three benefits are in me, Ming Gong attacked it with a surprise soldier, killed it by surprise, and won the victory! ”

Yan Dan was overjoyed and said: "Gong Cao's words are exactly what I want!" ”