Chapter 96: Jia Wen and Wusun are hindered Liu Xuande tries to grow potatoes
Of course, the battle is not to say that the two armies will fight a decisive battle, but a tentative attack on both sides, for Chi Xingmi, or for the Wusun people, cavalry is their pride, so the battle proposed by Chi Xingmi is that both sides send 10,000 cavalry, and the two armies face each other and fight.
After Jia Xu agreed, he was faced with an important question, whether to send Lu Bu and the tiger and leopard to ride or Wen Chou and the Hundred Battles Army to participate in the competition. If it is a hundred battle army, there is no 100% certainty of victory, after all, the Wusun Kingdom is powerful with cavalry.
However, if the tiger and leopard cavalry were dispatched, they were worried that they would suffer because of the insufficient number of soldiers, after all, the tiger and leopard cavalry only had 5,000 cavalry, and finally under Lu Bu's invitation to fight, Jia Xu agreed to let the tiger and leopard cavalry fight.
Early the next morning, Lu Bu led 5,000 tigers and leopards and Chi Xingmi's 10,000 Wusun army to open a formation on the vast grassland, without communication or answer, the 15,000 troops on both sides started slowly, and then entered the other party, but Lu Bu did not hesitate at all, changed the formation in the run, and changed the previous policy to a wild goose marching formation, while Lu Bu himself took the lead and became the head goose.
As soon as the two sides came into contact, Lu Bu directly killed the Wusun army into a big hole, and then all the tiger and leopard riders continued to widen this big hole, and continued to extend to the inside of the Wusun army, and the commander of the Wusun army found that the tiger and leopard rode differently at this time, but because the tiger and leopard cavalry led by Lu Bu was already inside the army, he could no longer change the formation.
In this way, in just a while, Wusun's army was killed by Lu Bu, and Wusun's captain was killed by Lu Bu's halberd.
When Lu Bu led the tiger and leopard cavalry to turn the horse's head, he found that the Wusun army that had been assembled in the formation before was now like a bird, trying to scatter in all directions, and then hide in the main formation. Lu Bu, who hadn't killed enough, returned to the camp of his own army with no interest. This competition finally fulfilled the prestige of Lu Bu and the tiger and leopard riders.
After that, the two sides each boycotted the battle and returned to the camp, but Jia Xu couldn't think of a way to break the enemy for a while, so he hung up the card of exemption from war. And after Chi Xingmi saw the power of the tiger and leopard cavalry, he found out that the establishment of Jia Xu's camp was quite orderly and the defense was very strong, so he had no intention of continuing to attack.
At this point, Jia Xu's attack on the battle of Wusun had just begun, and he was hindered by Chi Xingmi's army.
At this time, Chi Xingmi's camp ushered in the envoy of the king of Wusun State, and said that Liu Bei's soldiers attacked Wusun State and Dawan Kingdom in two ways, which Chi Xingmi was also quite surprised, with Liu Bei's military strength, it was still difficult to host Wusun State, not to mention that it was actually attacking the two countries at the same time. At the same time, Chi Xingmi suggested that the monarch of Wusun State should transfer 20,000 troops from Wusun to aid Dawan State, so that Liu Bei would not be able to make contributions to Wusun and Dig.
Dawan country, Liu Bei led the black cavalry and the personal guard army all the way into Dawan, and the cities in Dawan's country, saw Liu Bei's army but did not resist, and opened the city to surrender, within three days, Liu Bei even under more than a dozen cities, but Liu Bei did not commit any crime, let alone send a large army to garrison any city.
On the same day, Cai Yan received a bag of potatoes sent back by Robert, so he sneaked to the Shule camp to inform Liu Bei of the incident, but when the messenger arrived at the camp, he met Zhao Yu's women's army.
But because of an episode, in the big battle that day, Zhao Yu was also eager to try, but Liu Bei, Zhang Ren, and Zhao Yun were not willing to let her go to the battlefield, so they were left behind to protect Liu Bei.
After the war, Zhao Yu was still quite unhappy, and after thinking about it, Liu Bei asked her to lead a thousand women's troops to help the Black Flag Army and the Guards to clean up the battlefield, however, when Zhao Yu and the women's army saw the mutilated corpses and the smell of corpses on the ground the next day, most of the women's troops vomited, and even vomited out what they had eaten the day before, including Zhao Yu.
When all the women's troops vomited and collapsed, Liu Bei wanted to go on the expedition, so Zhao Yu failed to follow Liu Bei on the expedition, but led a group of women's troops in the camp to serve this obstacle.
When Cai Yan's messenger came to the camp and told Yan Yan at this time, Zhao Yu volunteered to go to Liu Bei to deliver the letter.
At this time, the envoy sent by Liu Bei had arrived at the capital of Dawan State, but the arrival of Wenchen was very unpopular with the monarch, but for the time being, he did not dare to offend Liu Bei's envoy too much, so he simply turned a blind eye and arranged the envoy in the post house, which was several days.
Just when Liu Bei was frantically collecting the city, Zhao Yu came to Liu Bei and said about the potato, and then, Liu Bei arranged for Tian Feng to continue to attack Dawan, and he directly led the women's army back to Shule County, and then returned to Nancheng.
When Liu Bei returned to Nancheng and saw this bag of yellow potatoes, his eyes lit up as if he was happier than seeing a bag of yellow gold. And Cai Yan knew that this potato was a kind of food after Robert's detailed introduction, but he didn't know what kind of food it was, and he didn't know the value of this food, so he was quite puzzled by Liu Bei's performance.
"Husband, why does this kind of potato make you lose your temper so much?" Cai Yan asked.
"Zhao Ji, you don't know, this potato is the basis for him to eat the whole world without worry, this thing is called a potato, if it is cultivated well, the yield per mu is about 30 stones, and the current yield of rice and other crops is not the same as the current yield, and even if the yield is a little worse, but there is at least 20 stones per mu." Liu Bei said happily.
At this time, it was already the middle of April, but it was also suitable for planting potatoes in the Western Regions, Liu Bei, who had been excited all night, pulled Cai Yan to find a flower garden in the palace of King Gumo early the next morning, Liu Bei personally pulled out all the flowers inside, got rid of the weeds inside, and then dug a long pit in the flower garden.
I couldn't put it down, cut the potatoes into cubes, then put the potatoes into the freshly dug pit one by one, and then covered them with soil, and then ordered the maid to apply some human fertilizer.
After that, he waited for the potatoes to sprout and grow, and Cai Yan saw that Liu Bei was quite familiar with this, but asked: "Husband, why are you so familiar with the crops of this other country, not only do you know that there may be in Guishuang, but also know the planting method?" ”
To tell the truth, although Cai Yan is Liu Bei's wife, but he really can't see through Liu Bei, the original movable type printing, and the papermaking technology in the future, are much more advanced than this era, although Liu Bei gave a quite appropriate reason, but it is still difficult to convince people who are interested, so Cai Yan has this question.
"Zhao Ji, as for the cultivation of potatoes and where there is output, it is because when I was young, I dreamed of the old immortal of South China, and the old fairy of South China told me, otherwise how would I know so much, but then I also checked some classics, and some foreign merchants once mentioned this crop, but I don't know why it is named."
Liu Bei half-truthfully told him how to know potatoes and potato planting methods, but he saw Cai Yan's eyes full of small stars, but he looked at him with admiration.
After that, Liu Bei never thought about going on an expedition to Dawan again, but asked that the battle reports from Wusun and Dawan be transmitted to Nancheng and given to Liu Bei.
Huoda's defeat finally reached the capital of Dawan Kingdom, and at this time, Tian Feng had won many successes all the way, and had already conquered more than 30 cities in Dawan Kingdom, with the news that more than 30 cities were captured, and the news of Huoda's defeat, the monarch of Dawan Country could no longer be calm, but he was a messenger who wanted to summon Liu Bei again and again.
And Liu Bei's envoy was also ruthless, he didn't pay attention to the people for two days, and finally the king of Dawan came to the post house in person, and the envoy met with the king of Dawan, and early the next morning, the king of Dawan received the messenger in the palace.