Chapter Eighty-Three: Sharpen the Bamboo into a Spear, and Wait for the Battle

For Liu Fan, who was born as a literati, hand-to-hand combat is not his style at all. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info He does have a special fetish for spears compared to his other brothers, who like knives. An inch is long and an inch is strong, for a literati like him, he must always keep a distance from the enemy, but he must have enough lethality. Therefore, the Zhangba spear is very suitable for Liu Fan's armament, but it is a pity that the Yizhou army, which has been equipped with a ring-headed broadsword, can't muster so many spears. At this time, Liu Fan's concubine He Shi gave him a suggestion: "This is not easy to do, Yizhou is prolific with moso bamboo, as long as the suitable moso bamboo is dried and the iron blade is not a spear." ”

In other words, this He family has some origins, everyone knows that the general He Jin was murdered back then, and his family was helpless in Luoyang City, and it was difficult to walk. And this He family is He Jin's second daughter, and I don't know how He Jin, a butcher family, will give birth to a woman like flowers and jade, and this second lady is no exception, she is eighteen years old and has not been out of the cabinet, but her name is Luoyang. At this time, Liu Fan was in Luoyang, Liu Yan and Liu Xuewu and others were in full swing, and everyone was looking at him with a blank eye. For a while, it was extremely beautiful, so he was taken by He Jin's wife, and he was not afraid of being gossiped about by others, so he directly married his daughter to Liu Fan as a concubine. And Liu Fan was originally not a good thing, pretending to prevaricate and then pretending to be reluctant to become the fast son-in-law of He Fu. Through this relationship, the entire He family moved to Yizhou to escape the later Dong Zhuo Rebellion.

And this Miss He is so wise, plus she gave birth to a pair of twin sons to Liu Fan and was favored by Liu Fan, and even the eldest lady Ma had to give three points of courtesy when she saw her. It can be said that this Miss He can withstand half of Liu Fan's sky, so this time to unify the army, Liu Fan is not taboo to let him follow, of course, our Miss He, no, our Mrs. He also shows her value and gives advice to her husband.

It's also strange to say, Liu's fourth son, Liu Zhang's wife Ma is Ma Teng's niece, helping him settle Liangzhou. Liu Mao's wife Zhang Feiyan can fight well, and it helps him to make a fortune. Liu Fan, Boss Liu's wife will also give advice. Only Liu Xuewu's wife Cai Wenji is famous, but nothing helps Liu Xuewu. But Liu Xuewu was the most successful. It's puzzling.

Okay, I don't have much to say, half a sentence is too much. Get to the point.

Nanban is also known as the Yi people. The only thing that is better than the savages is that they have their own barbarian culture, their own national written language, and the division of power. The leader of the Nanban clan, Meng Shu, was quite discerning, and used his prestige to achieve the reputation of Meng Shu in the Nanban region. He also married Mrs. Zhu Rong, a descendant of the fire god Zhu Rong, and the prestige and status of the Zhu Rong clan in the Nanban region are like the wealthy families of the Central Plains. It's a pity that the Nanban region has not yet belonged to Wanghua, and still lives on hunting and fruits, not farming, and not weaving. Wearing animal skin dresses, mostly using wooden rattan as weapons. However, the Southern Barbarians were fierce and bloodthirsty, and often harassed and plundered the border people of the Han Chinese.

Therefore, it is not difficult to say that this battle is easy to fight, but it is not easy to fight. The Southern Barbarian region is wilderness, the mountains are vertical and horizontal, and there are countless poisonous snakes and beasts. As soon as the Nanban returned to their territory, the Han army could not pursue. In real history, Zhuge Liang also spent a lot of effort and energy to pacify the Nanban, and most of the soldiers were lost. What are the seven captures and seven verticals, this is also a joke, and there is no way to investigate.

In order to deal with the Nanban, Liu Fan cut bamboo for spears and formed a group of ten spearmen and a team of fifty people distributed on the border of Yizhou. Then organize the people of each township to carry out standing training, and every household has a few spears. Set up a beacon tower and special personnel take turns to keep an eye on it, and meet with wolf smoke as the number. As soon as there were special circumstances, spearmen scattered all over the country concentrated on counterattacking. Liu Fan distributed the entire 20,000 horses in this way, and he himself led the remaining 30,000 troops to guard the border city.

The battle routine of the Nanban on Meng Huo's side was to attack the county seat with a large army, and a small group of Nanban soldiers to plunder the surrounding towns and villages. Regardless of whether the county town attacked was successful or not, as long as the grain and grass plundered by a small group of soldiers met the requirements, Meng Shu would immediately withdraw his troops. Meng Shu knew that he couldn't eat too much at the beginning, but twice a year, during the harvest season. It will not make these plundered Han people despair, and leave a glimmer of hope on their side. As for the Han army, after so many years of attacking, Meng Shu's side did not take these timid armies seriously at all. Why are you said to be as timid as a mouse? The Southern Barbarians will definitely tell you that the other party will never dare to attack except for defending the city, whenever the Southern Barbarians retreat, the Han army will not dare to pursue, this is not just cowardly as a mouse.

And after so many years, it used to be a small fight, Yizhou was rich, and Liu Yan didn't care. But the past few years have been different, there have been chaos everywhere, and natural disasters have occurred in the past two years, and many places in Yizhou have lost their grain and grass harvest. Just last year, the Nanban attacked, causing tens of thousands of people in Yizhou to be killed and injured, and the only rations, a large number of supplies, and women were plundered by the Nanban. By the time Liu Yan's army arrived, Nanban had already fled. Looking at the grief all over the ground and the corpses all over the field, Liu Yan was very angry. ordered his henchman Wu Yi to venture into the Nanban with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to pursue, but as a result, the elderly Wu Yi was wounded by poisoned arrows, and the army suffered heavy losses. Soon after returning, Wu Yi died of useless poison.

But at that time, Liu Xuewu was fighting the Japanese in Qingzhou, Liu Zhang was in Liangzhou and the Ma family were making peace, and Liu Mao and Cao Cao were dead. Therefore, the old Liu Yan was powerless, so he could only order Liu Fan to deploy heavy troops.

Liu Fan's heart is very big, much like when Liu Yan was young. He was not willing to defend, and in his defense plan, he wanted to annihilate all the southern barbarians who came this time. He borrowed Liu Xuewu's method of fighting Xianbei Huns and other foreigners in Yanmen, and asked people to make a large number of fishing nets and prepare a large amount of fire oil. He also specially went to Xuewujiao to find relevant experts, and in order to reduce casualties, he prepared to carry out a fire attack on Nanban.

Moreover, the Southern Barbarians are good at using poisoned arrows, and there are countless poisons that can be used to seal the marquis. To this end, Liu Fan also asked people to prepare a large number of square shields and rehearse defensive formations. In this bumper harvest in September, after the grain harvest in the entire southern part of Yizhou, Liu Fan sent people to arrange for all townships and towns to move to the rear of the defensive line. Placed in the back of the safety zone, the south of Yizhou today can be described as a mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings. All sides are waiting for each side, arranging all kinds of traps, waiting to invite you into the urn. Poor Meng Huo's side began to gather a large army and prepare for the annual northern hunt.