Chapter 116: Making a Small Fortune
By the time other cities of Goguryeo received the news and sent a large army to support, Zhang Hao's army had long since disappeared, leaving only a city of chaos and those panicked people.
Just when the leader of the reinforcements was angry, Zhang Hao's army had already run into the forest outside the city, although there was no trace of the enemy, but now Zhang Hao was not comfortable.
Although Liaodong is not too far here, the topography is very different, many places here are high mountains and deep valleys, forests everywhere, and few plains, which is a big trouble for the cavalry.
The war horses that Zhang Hao got were all from Karasuma or Xianbei, which was a typical grassland species, which was very inconvenient in this mountainous area, and it was difficult to launch a charge, while the war horses of Goguryeo were all mountain species, which were more suitable for action in this kind of mountainous land.
Fortunately, Zhang Hao and they were not found, if they were chased by a large number of Goguryeo, I am afraid that in this mountainous area, it would be difficult for their war horses to get rid of the other party's cavalry.
I don't know how far I ran, but I know that after a long time in the mountains, it was completely dark, and I just walked to a clearing on the mountain.
"Tell the army to rest, the enemy should not be able to track us." Zhang Hao grabbed the war horse and said, Zhang Fei and the three of them took the order to arrange their subordinates.
Zhang Hao turned over and dismounted, looked left and right, this clearing was very strange, as if it had been artificially carved out, and there were many stone piles in the clearing, and there was a pine or cypress tree next to each stone pile.
Zhang Hao walked to a stone pile, lit a fire, and then sat down against the stone pile, and when he was done here, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and Tai Shici respectively placed their subordinates, walked to Zhang Hao and sat down.
"My lord, it seems that our life is going to be difficult." Zhang Fei sat down and looked at Zhang Hao and said.
"Yes, our horses are not adapted to this kind of mountain terrain at all." Tai Shici also nodded and said.
"This time I was careless, I didn't scout the terrain here, but I didn't expect this side to be full of mountains." Zhang Hao sighed and said.
"Lord......" Zhang Fei wanted to comfort Zhang Hao, but was interrupted by Zhang Hao waving his hand.
"Needless to say, a mistake is a mistake, only by recognizing your own mistakes, you will not make the same mistakes again in the future, originally I thought that the cavalry was invincible, it seems that this idea is also wrong." Zhang Hao shook his head and said.
"So what are we going to do next, do we want to go back?" Zhang Fei frowned and asked.
"No, it's hard to come, you can't just go back, let me think about it." Zhang Hao thought about it as he spoke, and leaned back.
"Bang, bang, bang." The pile of stones behind Zhang Hao was stressed, and several stones rolled down to the other side, and the sound that came out interrupted Zhang Hao's thinking.
"Don't you think it's weird here?" Zhang Hao looked at a few people and asked.
"Well, there's a lot of artificiality here." Zhao Yun nodded and said.
"There are also these stone piles, I took a cursory glance just now, I am afraid that there are tens of thousands of these stone piles, each stone pile is about the same size and shape, and there will be a tree next to the stone pile." Tai Shi Ci frowned and said.
"But there doesn't seem to be any pattern in the arrangement, not like a pattern or formation." Zhao Yun added.
"There's got to be something wrong with that." Zhang Hao said.
"I said that it's not troublesome for you to guess the hemp, it's all for him to dismantle, don't you know if you open it and take a look?" Zhang Fei said with a big grin beside him.
"Uh......" Several people were speechless for a while, and it seemed that there was such a reason.
Just do it, but Zhang Hao didn't tear down all the stones as Zhang Fei said, but only did the one around him.
Under Zhang Hao's hands, a stone pile was demolished after a while, revealing a pit below, and a coffin appeared in the pit.
The black line at the end of Zhang Hao and the others, these stone piles turned out to be graves, and Zhang Fei angrily shone on the coffin, maybe it was a long time, the coffin was corroded, and Zhang Fei kicked out a big hole.
"There's something in there." Zhao Yun frowned and said.
"Of course there are dead people in the coffin." Zhang Fei said dissatisfiedly, it took a long time to dig out a coffin, which made Zhang Fei dissatisfied.
"No, there's something else." Zhao Yun said, pinching his nose and walking over, picking out a string of jewels with a wooden stick.
"Lord, there's a lot more in it." Zhao Yun put the jewelry aside and glanced into the coffin again.
"Tear down another one." Zhang Hao thought for a while and said, but this time he didn't do it himself, and ordered a few soldiers to tear down a stone pile next to him, open the coffin inside, and reveal a pile of gold and silver treasures inside.
Zhang Hao and a few people glanced at each other, smiled bitterly and said, "It seems that we can make a small fortune." ”
"There are at least tens of thousands of stone piles here, which is not a small fortune." Tai Shi Ci said in a daze.
"Don't take it all apart yet, we'll start separating tomorrow, plundering the property, and then we'll all bring it all over and hide it in these piles of stones, and take it with us before we leave." Zhang Hao thought for a while and said.
"Haha, I'm afraid that even if they know that we have treasures here, they won't dig up their ancestral graves and take out these treasures." Zhang Fei laughed.
Zhang Hao also smiled knowingly, and secretly thought in his heart: No wonder Cao Cao in history set up a golden captain in order to raise military expenses, and specially dug people's ancestral graves.
In fact, what Zhang Hao didn't know was that this piece was not the ancestral tomb of Goguryeo officials, but just a place where civilians from several nearby cities buried their ancestors.
Since Goguryeo was an agrarian civilization, most of the mountainous areas lacked fertile land, the land was barren, and hard work could not meet their needs, so their custom was to save on food.
In order to survive, Goguryeo needed to go out and plunder frequently, and slowly became a fierce and impatient people, with strong strength, and good at fighting and fighting.
In the process of plundering, of course, gold and silver treasures were indispensable in addition to food, but they did not leave them to their descendants, but buried them all with them after death.
It can be said that for so many years, all the treasures plundered by Goguryeo outside are among these stone piles, of course, the stone piles here are not all of Goguryeo, only about one-tenth of the number.
From this day on, Zhang Hao divided the team into seven teams, with Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Tai Shici, Zhang Jiang, Zhang Hai, and Zhang Wen each leading 1,000 people, specifically to raid those settlements outside the city.
The remaining 3,000 people were led by Zhang Hao and Tong Fei to attack those smaller cities, which were generally not well defended, and some were only defended by 1,800 people.
Every time I captured the city, I looted it and then retreated, and I never stayed in the city for long, so I was never blocked by reinforcements.