Onifang is a branch of Beidi, often living in the desert area of the Northland, and is a nomadic people. In ancient times, it was generally called Beidi, and the Xia Dynasty called it a mane; The Shang Dynasty called it the Ghost Fang; The Zhou Dynasty became a ramp; The Han Dynasty called it the Xiongnu. The ghost side continued to invade the Central Plains from north to east, from 1250 BC to 1192 BC, Yin Fu Zhongxing, Gaozong Wuding's wife and general wife Hao Xirong, the ghost side, three years to conquer, the east and west when the army of 3,000 people to finally as many as 5,000 people defeated the ghost side and several years of troops, the ghost side bowed down to the ministers, paid tribute to the Yin Shang, and formed the city-state of Qi Qianli.

In the third year of Emperor Xin, the ghost side invaded the border city of Jizhou, and the border city was in danger. A few zhang away from the border city, there is a camp place for ghosts. Outside the tents, they ate and drank the cattle and sheep they had looted. A general stood up and said, "Chief, why don't you continue to attack the city?" The morale of our army is high, and we can take the border city in one fell swoop. ”

"There is the Su clan who is good at defending the city, and if this city is several feet high, if it is attacked, I am afraid that it will be difficult to take the border city if more than half of the dead and wounded." The leader of the ghost side was also worried about this matter, worried that once the enemy reinforcements arrived, he would be defeated.

"Could it be that the leader has already retreated," the leader of the ghost side was also helpless about this matter, and said: "If the enemy general takes the initiative to go out of the city to meet the battle, our army can eat the main force of the enemy army and take the border city." At this time, a wizard walked into the tent, faced the leader of the ghost side, and said, "Chief, I have a plan to break the border city." ”

The leader of the ghost party looked at this person's dress, which was clearly a wizard, and said, "Who are you?" What do you not do for our army to come to this barracks? ”

"In Xia Naiwu Gongsun Leopard, come to this border city military camp to help the leader take the border city." Then he took out a bronze box and said, "Chief, what do you think of this?" The leader of the ghost side looked at a bronze box held up by Gongsun Leopard, and was very curious, so he ordered his subordinates to take the bronze box, open it and see that there was a huge centipede in the bronze box, and said, "These little insects can help me attack the city." The leader of the ghost side looked at the centipede in this bronze box and was suspicious, and thought to himself, "It is difficult for the army to capture a city, can this little worm be able to capture it." ”

"We'll see tomorrow."

Under the cover of night, thick smoke billowed out. Gongsun Leopard led a group of wizards to raise the fire, and several people wearing animal skin clothes strode around the fire and danced, these people were cloaked, wearing ghost masks, and the fierce and evil looks were very strange. The soldiers defending the city gathered on top of the city walls and looked together, and they did not know what was happening where the fire shone brightly. One of them told the guard general Gao Xiong what they had seen, and the guard general walked out of the mansion and stood on top of the castle tower to look at it, and then said: "This is a wizard's practice, it is not surprising," and faced the generals standing around, and said: "The ghost side is a northern nomad, good at riding and shooting, but not good at attacking the city, we just need to hold on and wait for reinforcements to arrive." One of the generals said: "General, we can take advantage of this night to sneak attack the camp, if the enemy army is not firmly established, we can use this strategy to break the morale of the enemy army, and the reinforcements can defeat the enemy army in one blow." ”

"We are an army formed by the people in the vicinity, untrained enemy troops have no combat experience, and the enemy army has the help of fierce beasts, isn't this a meal for these fierce beasts? Pass my general's order, only allow to defend the city and not go out of the city to face the battle, no matter how provocative the enemy is, do not disturb the heart of our army or go out of the city, whoever disturbs the heart of our army goes out of the city to meet the fighter, beheaded! ”

"The last general will take the order."

At night, centipedes, poisonous snakes and other poisonous insects slowly crawled out from the surroundings of the fire, and slowly climbed up the city wall, the officers and soldiers on the city wall suddenly panicked, and the dense poisonous insects could not be killed no matter what kind of knives and guns they picked, but more and more, or bit their hands and necks, and a scream came out. Gongsun Leopard stood outside the city wall, looked up at the city wall, and suddenly became a pot of porridge, turned around and showed a cold smile. The lord of the city will hear the screams from outside the mansion, like a ghost crying wolf, urgently put on the armor, and then there is a hissing sound from nowhere, the poisonous snake coils here in front of the bed, and the beam of the house is crawling with centipedes, falling between the neck, the skin is red and swollen and blistering, the pain is unbearable, and he falls on the bed and is covered by the poisonous snake that climbs up, the guard is dead, and the city is in chaos.

At daybreak, when the army arrived at the border city, it was already an empty city, and the walls were full of corpses. The army smashed open the gates and stormed the city, and the beasts rushed into the city to purge it, after which the army slowly marched in. The northern gate is open, which can be directly inserted into the heart of Jizhou. The ghost side did not have a long-term plan to invade the city, burning, killing and looting, plundering the young and beautiful women in the city. The homes of the people around the border city were ransacked, they attacked the houses, the people ran around with panicked faces or helpless cries, dozens of cavalry rushed up and raised their knives to chop, blood splashed everywhere, and suddenly the courtyard was full of corpses, looting property and its daily necessities like robbers, burning more than 30 houses, hundreds of people were missing, the corpses were piled up, and the blood flowed like a river. At this time, the Su clan received a battle report from the front, and he led two thousand troops to the border city. When the army arrived at the border city, the Ghost Fang Clan had already returned with a full load, leaving only one abandoned city. The Su clan returned to the general's mansion and said angrily: "Where is the Gao Xiong clan?" I'm going to tear him to pieces. ”

Then a civil official stepped into the lobby, panicked, and said, "My lord, the Gao Xiong clan has been killed in battle. ”

"Didn't I pass down a military order not to let General Gao Xiong go out of the city to face the battle, and only need to wait for reinforcements? Before dawn, the ghost party broke into the city, how did he, a general, be? ”

The rest of the civil officials on both sides were discussing this matter, and one of them stood up and said: "My lord, General Gao Xiong did not wait for the arrival of reinforcements and privately led troops out of the city to meet the battle, he should be convicted of dereliction of duty, and he will be reduced to a common man in the future and will never be used." ”

The civil official looked left and right and said, "Lord, General Gao Xiong is not a brave and unscrupulous person, you better go and have a look." ”

Su Shi led the civil and military officials into the bedroom in the backyard, and before the bed of General Gao Xiong, General Gao Xiong fell on the bed at this time, and his body was already incomplete, and his body was black and bloody, as if he had been poisoned, and the civil and military officials around him were stunned when they saw this scene in front of them, and none of them said a word. Su summoned officials in charge of household registration to investigate the number of people missing as a result of the war and the number of soldiers and civilians who were slaughtered or killed, and transferred the population from Guanzhong to continue to develop production, and were exempted from taxes for three years. The people or slaves in Guanzhong have moved to the border city, the moved slaves can be upgraded to commoners, production is quickly restored, the grain is distributed on schedule, the land is allocated, and then some wealthy businessmen move in, the border city is more prosperous than before, and the comfort of the families in distress is comforted, and the border city is basically settled. Some Su returned to the city of Jizhou, arranged for military generals to guard the border city, trained the people there or with a certain amount of military training, engaged in agriculture in peacetime, participated in wartime, and integrated soldiers and farmers, so that all the people were soldiers.

Some Su Shi went to the border city to inspect important military and political affairs, and visited various places in the border city, where the people were busy in the fields. When Su Shi visited the fields, he was very satisfied and prepared to enter the city. General Dongguo and civil and military officials stood at the gate of the city to greet him, and the chariot traveled to the border city, and General Dongguo led the civil and military officials to kneel down to greet him, and said: "Dongguo Yong led the civil and military officials to welcome the lord into the city." After getting off the train, Su Shi stood in front of General Dongguo, stretched out his hands to help Dongguo Yong, and said, "General Dongguo, please get up." ”

"Please enter the city," Dong Guo Yong then stood up and said.

"You and I will enter the city together," Then, Su Shi took Dong Guo Yong's hand and boarded the chariot together. After Dong Guo Yong got into the car, he bowed and said: "At the end of today, the lord will ride into the city together to thank the lord for his love, and the end will be reported as a dead man to fight for the lord for thousands of miles." Then they rode into the city together, entered the Dianjiang platform, sat in front of the desk, faced Dong Guo Yong, who was sitting next to him, and said, "Tell me about the situation in the border city." ”

"Returning to the lord, the border city has temporarily tended to be peaceful and peaceful, and agricultural trade has been restored. Judging by the general's historical wars, the invasion of the northern peoples is mostly in the spring and autumn seasons, and the spring is the cultivation season, and the cold winter has just passed, and the lack of materials of the northern nomads is the most difficult time, so they wantonly send troops to Guanzhong to loot. In autumn, the north entered the cold winter, the grassland was exhausted, and the cattle and sheep froze to death, but Guanzhong was in the harvest season, and the Central Plains was sent to make up for the lack of the north. There is a gap between the border city and the ghost side, and the border city is the first target of their plunder. ”

"The general is right, so what do you do about it?" After listening to Dong Guo Yong's analysis of this, Su Shi asked.

"According to the general's understanding of the northern nomads, the northern nomads are more strong and good at cavalry archery, mainly cavalry, our side has always adhered to the northern troops, and is passive, because our redundant infantry or formed militia are not good at warfare, and the army is difficult to move and inflexible, so there will be a strategy to alleviate this, and the recruits will train a strong cavalry or mercenary, and the initiative to attack can eliminate the harassment of the northern nomads in the border cities."

"Okay, this strategy is very good, pass on my edict, recruit soldiers will train cavalry and its recruitment, this has a soldier charm to temporarily dispatch soldiers."

In the fourth year of Emperor Xin, (about 1072 B.C.), Emperor Xin ordered the sacrifice of his father Emperor Yi, and rushed to Chengtang under the protection of the escort team on the dragon chariot, followed by the prince Wenwu. Di Xin stood in the high temple with a flat crown on his head, and ordered him to kill dozens of slaves as sacrifices, so as to pray that the ancestors and ancestors would protect me for thousands of years, ten thousand years. Three days later, an official came to inform him, "Your Majesty, the envoy of the ghost side has gone to Chaoge to meet my king. ”

"Lone already knows that he will return to Chaoge in three days," and ordered the civil and military officials to return to Chaoge in advance to prepare for the ceremony. Brother Wei Ziqi stood aside and faced Di Xin and said: "Your Majesty, listen to the report from the front, there is a Su clan in Jizhou who supports the army and respects itself, and its city wall is higher than the royal city, and I am afraid that it will become a country on its own in the long run." ”

"Brother Wang rest assured, Lone has his own checks and balances, there is Uncle Wang Bigan and the prime minister in the court, and after three days, Brother Wang will know when Lone returns to the court." At this time, Di Xin seemed to be confident. Three days later, Di Xin returned to the court with a mighty dragon chariot, and received the ghost envoy above the court, and after the ghost envoy knelt down, he stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the foreign official congratulates me on the eternal generations of Yin Shang. ”

"The one who came is the messenger of the ghost side."

"Exactly, since the beginning of autumn, it has suffered from its snow disaster, and thousands of cattle and sheep have frozen to death, and I ask the king to give it."

"Give cloth and grain ten thousand stones, and ten thousand dollars, so that you can retreat, and you can give a lonely reward."

After the ghost envoy retreated. Uncle Wang Bigan and Prime Minister Shang Rong stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the ghost side is a fierce people in the north, and you can't be full, if this tiger is fed, it will be a hidden danger for my Yin Shang, please think twice." ”

Wei Ziqi stood up and looked up at Di Xin above the court and said: "Your Majesty, the hidden dangers that the courtiers said, please think twice before acting." ”

"You are too worried, alone to feed the tiger, the tiger is greedy and will have the Su family, and the Su family has millions of male soldiers, which is the trouble of my Yin business, so as to attack each other, restrain each other, weaken each other, and the so-called two tigers must be injured. We can reap the benefits of the fisherman, what are your worries? Di Xin's words made the court speechless. Weizi Qizheng was worried about this matter, and after the dispersal of the dynasty, he got together with Bigan and Shang Rong to discuss, and said: "The king is talented and intelligent, well-read and knowledgeable, and he can't listen to the advice of the ministers, so I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse." ”

"What the prince said is exactly what we are worried about, although the king has the ambition of the world, but he is so happy, and the national strength will be damaged in the long run, and if other countries are divided in the country, there may be a big disaster."

The army of the ghost side gathered again in the border city, and the whole city was on guard when the big battle was imminent, and the beasts walked on both sides, looking up at the city on this side. On the city wall, Dong Guo Yong faced the officers and soldiers and their soldiers, and said: "Don't panic, according to General Ben's recent observations, the enemy army is not invulnerable, and when the enemy army attacks the city, it can be frustrated by attacking it with fire." "The leader of the Ghost Fang clan is an impatient man, impatient and competitive by nature, and he ordered the siege of the border city as soon as the army arrived. The jackals, tigers and leopards were the vanguard, and the army pressed after they ran out. There is an oil pot on the city wall, when the army is approaching, the hot oil is poured down, the city wall begins to shoot rockets, the fire under the city, the enemy elite is buried in the sea of fire, a piece of screaming, the fur of the beast burns when it meets the fire, and it is strung around, and the beast that burns with the raging fire rushes back to the army, and the ghost side sees the situation and fles. Smoke billowed from beneath the towers, thousands of charred corpses lying or standing, holding slanted flags, also mutilated by the flames. Some soldiers went out of the city to clean up the battlefield and transport the enemy's burned soldiers to a place outside the city to be buried.