Chapter 85 The general is mighty~

In addition to storing grain, the farming people are also willing to store all kinds of 'treasures' that can be passed down from generation to generation, such as jade, golden sand, or copper coins of poor quality, which they call 'family foundation'.

But nomads are different, because of different values, plus they don't cultivate food, so in their eyes, only animal husbandry is valuable, even if a cow gives them 10,000 taels of gold and silver, they will not change, livestock and grain, is their 'home'.

But when two peoples collide, the result of the collision of different values is that what is valuable to the farming people is piled up in the corner like garbage, and what is valuable to the nomads becomes put on the dinner table or.

Even in the late civilization, animal farming outlawed the early human farming, and the people at the bottom still felt that the cost of raising a cow was too high, and it was better to have a few more children to feed them, and as for horses, it was something that only nobles could afford.

This kind of value was not gradually integrated until the Eastern Han Dynasty, with the great integration of nomadic and agricultural peoples.

But before the Great Fusion, the nomads had been harassing the Central Plains for thousands of years, so the accumulated useless garbage was piled up in the warehouse.

Lin Hu is not the largest nomadic tribe, mountains of bronzes, knife coins, unknown ores, and broken pottery in the secret room weigh more than ten tons!

I don't know how long these 'garbage' have been hoarded, so that the whole secret room is filled with a smell of heavy metal poisoning.

Wang Xu immediately ordered someone to chisel through the wall of the secret room to ventilate, otherwise he would be really afraid of losing his life if he stayed here for a while.

At this time, Wang Xu felt admiration for Qiu He and the others who had been hiding here for a day and a night.

I didn't even get smoked to death.

After half an hour of breath, the smell in the secret room faded a lot, and after Tu Tan took people in to light the torch, Wang Xu was finally able to see the whole picture of this secret room.

The entire secret room covers an area of more than 1,000 square meters, up to six meters, supported by several stone pillars, and is completely hollowed out of the mountain.

I feel that every inch of land I stand on is full of the smell of blood.

"The Chamber of Secrets took thirteen years to build, and it was built using the secret art of the Qiu Clan. See, Emperor, there is an aqueduct here, and if you have enough food, you can hold on for many days. Qiu He was proudly introducing Wang Xu.

Wang Xu covered his nose with a towel and looked at the garbage heap that filled a quarter of the secret room, the bronze that was supposed to exude a golden color, because he didn't know how long the hoarding house had been, the damp long hair turned green color, if he didn't look closely, he thought it was a small mound of grass, "How long have these things been piled up here?" ”

"Well, I've had it since I took over the secret room." Qiu He replied.

"So this secret room was built by your ancestors for King Lin Hu?" Wang Xu raised his eyebrows slightly.

"The Great Emperor Mingjian." Qiu He said respectfully.

"The Qiu clan's construction technique is passed down from Yin Shang." Tu Tan picked up the remains of a broken tool and asked.

"This is nature." Qiu He immediately changed his tone, "All the inheritances of the Qiu clan are inherited from Yin Shang, but they have made a little progress, and they dare not forget their roots." ”

"Legend has it that the Jiuhou Qiu clan is good at opening mountains and breaking stones, especially making good use of stone buildings, Di Xin's wine pond is built by you, and today I see that there is indeed something to do." Tu Tan chuckled and asked, "I don't know how much you inherited?" ”

"The ancestral technique, don't dare to forget." Qiu He laughed respectfully.

"Then you can communicate with Tushan Lady and see if you can build the city more reasonably." Wang Xu observed the flowing water in the secret room again, and there was already a rudimentary drainage system.

"These things have been collected by Lin Hubu over the years?" Wang Xu poked the garbage mountain with a stick.

"In the early years, the Lin Hu Department expanded its population in the future, and went west many times to harass the Yan Kingdom, these are the trophies brought back in those years, but the barbarians don't know the value of the utensils, so they can only put them here in the dust." Qiu He's face was full of pain.

"Didn't you Qiu Clan try to teach King Lin Hu?" Tu Tan squinted and asked.

"Barbarians don't deserve it." Qiu He suddenly said arrogantly.

Wang Xu chuckled and shook his head, "Rinse it again, pull it back, all the songs are rebuilt, and there are special ritual tools to leave sand molds." ”

After saying that, he lost interest in that pile of things, if such a large-scale 'cultural relic' was found in the past, Wang Xu felt that he would be crazy with joy.

But now that he had lost interest in the artifacts of the same period, all he really cared about was food.

King Lin Hu moved all the grain in the secret room, leaving only a few hundred people and a half month of grain storage, from this move, King Lin Hu went to Yandi with the mentality of breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat, so he should not come back in a short time.

Although there is no food, it can be regarded as a harvest to be able to determine the time of King Linhu's return.

Although Wang Xu preferred that King Lin Hu would all be lost in the Great Qin Iron Cavalry.

However, according to Wang Xu's speculation, Wang Ben will never wipe out Donghu, but will make the battle situation anxious and stiff, and the longer it drags on, the better.

This is also good, it can provide enough time for Wang Xu to take the city.

"The order went down, the royal army followed Qiu He to learn the customs of the Lin Hu Department, and the Lan Jia army began to learn the art of refining the body, and the three thousand livestock in the sheepfold were eaten up within half a month." After Wang Xu walked out of the Yongdao, he commanded to the ink wolf and Tu Tan.

The two were ordered to leave.

Wang Li, who was covered in blood, walked in from the mountain gate, and casually threw his helmet to the attendant behind him, "The fierce beasts in the mountains have been attracted by the fleeing livestock, and they are unlucky, and they met three bears along the way. ”

"All three of them were slashed by your sword?" Wang Xu looked at his shaking hand holding the kettle and smiled.

"Ye Ye is there to explore the way, not to hunt, and he didn't bring a bow and arrow to hunt three of them." Wang Li rolled his eyes, "But I still killed one casually." ”

"The general is mighty." Qiu He flattered him.

"Get out of here!" Wang Li was instantly furious and smashed the iron kettle in his hand.

Qiu He hugged his head and fled, his face full of grievances.

Wang Xu stretched out his hand to stop the kettle, and chuckled, "Don't move the beast here, and keep it for the Lanjia army to train later." ”

Wang Li snorted lightly and walked towards the hot pool stone room.

Wang Xu shook his head helplessly, and looked at Qiu He, who was hiding behind the stone pillar, "You try to avoid him in the future." ”

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"The general is mighty!"

After Li Xin's spear pierced the chest of the last Donghu cavalryman, he picked up the corpse of the Donghu cavalry with a low shout, in exchange for the cheers of the Great Qin cavalry behind him.

The iron armor all over his body seemed to be splashed with blood, and it fell to the ground along the dark lines of the armor, Li Xin stabbed the spear into the ground fiercely, and looked back at the warrior behind him.

There are less than a thousand people who can still be on horseback.

And the corpses of the Donghu cavalry under their horses' hooves covered the mountain roads, and the blood stained the loess red.

The soldiers' praise did not arouse Li Xin's anger, but instead made his bright eyes stained with a layer of angry redness, "Li Qi, haven't the scouts who asked for help come back yet?" ”

Li Qi, who was picked up from the pile of dead bodies by two soldiers, was more like a bloody man, he couldn't even see his face clearly, and his voice was extremely weak, "General Huiyu, I haven't come back yet." ”

"Did you not come back, or was you detained by the general?" Li Xin said hatefully.

"The general is cautious." The adjutant general next to Li Xin reminded vigilantly, "But general, we should really retreat." ”

"Where are you going?!" Li Xin turned his head, his eyes as fierce as a wolf, and looked at the banners of the Donghu people floating under the mountain road.

It has been more than half a month since they received the order to defend Pinggang Road, and at first they were able to rely on the rammed earth Great Wall on Pinggang Road to repel waves of Donghu people who were trying to attack.

But as the corpses under the city piled up more and more, the corpses less than three meters high soon piled up into a staircase, and when the first Donghu cavalry to rush up the city wall on horseback broke through the circle, Li Xin had a bad premonition.

Donghu's cavalry was even more fierce than he imagined.

These Great Qin cavalry, who were only dressed in animal skins, carried a longbow on their backs and had a quiver pinned to their waists, and the spears in their hands were still bronze with wooden poles, and they were covered with armor all over their bodies and equipped with fine iron weapons.

However, these Donghu cavalry were as difficult as loaches on horseback, and the animal skin armor and light clothing made their bodies more flexible, and with their superb equestrian skills, the Qin army accidentally suffered a big loss.

So Li Xin decisively gave up the rammed earth city wall, and retreated to the commanding heights of the mountain road with 3,000 cavalry.

After leaving behind more than 5,000 corpses of Donghu cavalry, the Donghu attack slowed down.

But Li Xin also paid the tragic price of 600 minor injuries, 200 serious injuries, and 100 deaths.

And the Donghu banner under the mountain road is fluttering more and more, and every time the Donghu cavalry comes to harass it, it doesn't look like a tribe.

Li Xin knew that in this war of attrition, Pinggang Dao would definitely not be able to hold it, so he sent scouts back early to ask the general to send reinforcements.

Three dispatches in succession, all of them were silent.

Even if the swallow land is wild and wild beasts are rampant, but the three scouts were taken away by the tiger, Li Xin would not believe it.

So there was only one reason left for him to be angry.

The general is reluctant to send troops!

Did the general really think that with his 3,000 iron cavalry, he could stop nearly 300,000 cavalry from Donghu?

Looking at the physical and mental exhaustion of all his subordinates, Li Xin's eyes flashed with a hint of anger, and he pulled out the spear from the ground, "Tidy up, see if there is any robe that is still alive, let's go south." ”

"The general is going to give up Pinggang Dao? This is a felony of dereliction of duty! The adjutant general said in horror.

"I'm calling it luring the enemy deep, we will be consumed by them sooner or later, it's better to go south and go around the mountains and forests to wait for the opportunity to move, cut off their food and grass, and then the 300,000 army has only two choices, either give up the attack and retreat, or desperately kill it." There was a crazy smile on the corner of Li Xin's mouth.

"What if...," the lieutenant said hesitantly.

"In case the real 300,000 troops are desperate, even if they are sued to the Xianyang Palace, the king will only praise us for their bravery!" Li Xin sneered.