Chapter 43: The End
Wuwei, Guzang County.
Jia Xu returned from afar and entered his own courtyard.
Jia Mu, who was studying in the courtyard, saw that Jia Xu was back, and hurriedly got up to greet him and said, "Father, you are finally back, twenty days ago, Liu Fan from Hedong came to visit you again."
"Oh!" Jia Xu's face was straight, and he asked Jia Mu, "What words can he leave behind?"
"Nope! But I asked him to write me a poem. Jamu replied.
"I heard that Liu Fan in Hedong is brilliant, let me also witness it." Jia Xu said to Jia Mu. Jia Xu wants to see what other good sentences Liu Fan has besides Minnong?
Jia Mu pulled Jia Xu to the stone in the courtyard and pointed to Jia Xu.
"It's really perseverance." Jia Xu thought to himself, and then looked at the poem.
When you sing about wine, what is your life? For example, the morning dew is bitter in the past.
Just this sentence made Jia Xu's face change.
What is the geometry of life? Speaking his heart, he thought that he Jia Xu was six years old in Chinese New Year's Eve, and he was almost unconfused. He is well-versed in the past and the present, and has the ambition of catching the moon for nine days in his heart, but he still lives in a thatched house, and he has achieved nothing, what a pity! What a pain!
Is it born at the wrong time? Or is the time not yet right?
Jia Xu threw away the depression in his heart, and then looked down.
He read it word by word and experienced it carefully. Jia Xu saw Liu Fan's sorrow; felt Liu Fan's thoughts about talents; Show that you should be courteous to talents.
Liu Fan also expressed that he will accept those hesitant talents with his heart, and the more talents, the better.
The mountains are not tired of being high, and the sea is not tired of being deep. Zhou Gong vomited and fed, and the world returned to the heart.
The mountain is not tired of the soil, so it can become its high, and the king is not tired of the soldiers, so the world returns to the heart, especially the last sentence, the finishing touch.
"This is what Liu Fan wrote for my son and read for me, this is a poem for talent! Liu Fan has the heart of a king. Jia Xu thought secretly in his heart.
"Did my father mean it?" Jia Mu looked at Jia Xu silently and tried to ask.
If the son is not the father, the son will also know the father. Jia Mu is also about to reach the age of starting a family, and he has been by Jia Xu's side for a long time, so he has some understanding of his father's mind.
"I wanted to come back this time, so I went to Hedong to visit this strange man, but I don't want to go now." Jia Xu shook his head and said.
"Why?" Jamu asked, puzzled.
"A strategist has five strategies? Or is it the Four Schemes? If you don't seek yourself, do you care about it? If you seek yourself, you will not be able to devote all your heart to the Lord. I don't want to be clear, I can't go. Jia Xu replied.
Jia Xu also thought about retiring, but is it easy to succeed?
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"Report to the lord, this battle is estimated to kill more than 2,000 Hun soldiers, capture more than 500 Hun soldiers, and obtain 900 horses. What to do with these Huns, and whether to kill them? The west gate of Jiangyi City was still burning, and Xu Huang came over and reported to Liu Fan.
"Killing is not a better solution. Let one go, and let the Helian tribe ransom them with horses, cattle and sheep. It is estimated that there are not many men in the Helian tribe now, as long as our requirements are not too high, they will not refuse. Liu Fan said to everyone.
"Now that the Helian tribe guards are empty, can you raid the Helian tribe? Give them the fatal blow. Please make a decision, Lord Sima. Jiangyi County Ling Shao Yang asked Liu Fan euphemistically and asked for his opinion.
This sentence carries Shao Yang's emotions, he is a native of Jiangyi, the Helian tribe has been a disaster for many years, causing countless families and wives to be separated, and he hates the Helian tribe very much.
"Sun Ziyun, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, will not be defeated in a hundred battles; I don't know his confidant, one wins and one loses; I don't know who I am, I don't know myself, I have defeat and no victory. The Xiongnu were nomadic peoples, and all men, women, and children could ride and shoot arrows. Although Hexi is the upper county of the Western Han Dynasty, the upper county has been inhabited by the Xiongnu for many years, what is the situation now? I don't know anything, how many people are still in the Helian tribe? I don't know; Are there any other tribes near the Helian tribe? I don't know; I don't know what the other is. Although our army has 5,000, but most of them are infantry, to deal with the nomads, infantry is not advisable, although there are 300 cavalry, but the bow and horse are rusty, our army has been formed for less than two months, if you cross the river to fight, you don't know yourself. In this way, how can our army win? Liu Fan said quietly, although his tone was majestic, he did not mean to reproach Shao Yang for being reckless.
"Taught!" Shao Yang bowed.
Guan Yu and Xu Huang pondered the meaning of Liu Fan's words and learned another lesson.
"It is a good thing to drag out as many dead horses as possible at the gates of the city, and all the corpses of the Huns are thrown into the fire and burned. Could the prefectural order please arrange it? Liu Fan said to Shao Yang.
"No!" Shao Yang received the order.
"Gongming, take me to the Hun captives." Liu Fan said to Xu Huang again.
Not far from the West Gate, more than 500 Huns squatted there, unarmed, surrounded by the same number of Han soldiers, their fur hats pulled off, shivering in the snowy weather.
It's also quite interesting to say, just now I was in the monstrous fire, smoky and burning; Now squatting outside the cold, hungry and cold. In a short period of time, they experienced the two heavens of ice and fire.
Liu Fan looked at these Hun soldiers without the slightest sympathy. Liu Fan said intentionally or unintentionally: "It's a waste of food to keep it, just kill it."
Liu Fan deliberately let go of his voice when he spoke, and almost everyone present could hear it.
"The general spares his life, the general spares his life!" A Hun soldier hurriedly got up and begged Liu Fan for mercy in Chinese.
The other Huns were at a loss, not knowing what was happening, and none of them knew Chinese.
Dozens of soldiers came out of the ranks, spears pointed at the shouting man.
Liu Fan walked up to the Hun soldier and motioned for the Han soldiers surrounding him to retreat.
"What's your name?" Liu Fan stared at the Hun soldiers and asked.
"My name is Fanyu." The man replied, I don't know why, although Liu Fan doesn't look very old, his expressionless look makes Fanyu very afraid.
"Where is your value? What's the use of keeping you? Liu Fan said.
"If the general lets me go, after I go back, I will be grateful." Fanyu begged Liu Fan.
"And how many horses do you think each of you is worth? How many cows? How many sheep? Liu Fan asked.
Fanyu thought about his tribe's family background, and said to Liu Fan: "We are each worth a horse, a cow, and five sheep."
"Double it again! If not, I will kill you directly. Liu Fan's eyes were cold, and he said fiercely.
A thousand horses, a thousand cows, five thousand sheep. Horses were used as war horses, cattle were transported back to Anyi to be used for farming, and a large part of the sheep was distributed to the people whose houses were burned down in Jiangyi, and other soldiers were rewarded.
Fanyu breathed a sigh of relief, gritted his teeth and said, "Yes."
What Liu Fan wants is almost the limit of what they can give, otherwise they will be put back and don't want to starve to death, so they can only disband the tribe and go to other tribes.
"Let you go back today, and tomorrow your Helian tribe will bring good things to the place where you cross the river today, if you don't come tomorrow? I let them stain the Yellow River with blood. Liu Fan pointed to these captives and said to Fanyu, his tone was full of indifference and solemnity.
"Yes!" Fanyu reluctantly agreed.
"Come, lead him a horse."
After a while, Xu Huang picked one of the worst horses from the herd and led him over.