Chapter Twenty-Three: Sealing the Wolf Juxu
"I think Captain Li is just a quick talker, so I don't think he will have such a thought. Ya * Wen * Yan * Qing * Shou * Fa (Pingnan Romance) In fact, it is nothing that he didn't catch King Zuo Xian, our results can be described as unprecedentedly brilliant, it can be said that King Zuo Xian's strength has been exhausted, even if he runs away, it is only in name only, and there is no threat to the Han at all. All the generals are immortal at this moment! ”
Huo Guang still had a good impression of Li Kang, and hurriedly came out to play a round. However, if Li Kang is really uninteresting and wants to say anything, Huo Guang will not stop Huo Quai, and even Huo Guang must get rid of Li Kang when necessary, this has nothing to do with the good and evil of people's hearts, especially the higher the level of power in the court, many things can only be involuntarily!
"Well, Ah Guang is right. This time, you have all made immortal achievements, I think you are also just around the corner, but it is nothing to go to a Zuo Xian King who exists in name only, and everyone will not have to pay attention to this matter in the future! Huo Quzhi suddenly changed his face to a smile, and let everyone see the hope of the marquis, at this time, including Li Kang, they were all occupied by the joy of the marquis, and the unhappiness just now almost disappeared.
"Right...... Right...... What is it to go to the Zuo Xian King, I'm afraid that the left part of the Huns will not exist in the future, we won't think about this in the future, do you say Lu Taishou? Zhao Ponu, Huo Quai's henchman, also hurriedly said. Suddenly, the other generals also hurriedly said that they didn't have to take this matter to heart.
Looking at everyone's expressions, Huo Guang once again admired Huo Quai. Although this time the matter is really a bit big, there are only a few people who know after all, and they are basically Huo Quai's henchmen. Of course, including Li Kang, he can also be regarded as Huo Quai's person, the only thing he lacks is that he does not have as much experience as several other generals, plus he is young and impulsive, and sometimes he lacks thought when he speaks. But in the final analysis, as long as everyone doesn't say anything about this matter, there is nothing, and Huo Quzhi didn't say it explicitly, just said that Zuo Xianwang is irrelevant, and everyone doesn't need to take it to heart. This is too artistic, which clearly expresses the meaning without touching on taboos.
"Okay, Li Kang, you can get up too. This time your credit is not small, maybe your kid will be higher than your father's title! Huo Quzhi jokingly ridiculed Li Kang, and this matter was over.
At this point, the battle of Mobei of the Han army is basically over, and this inventory went directly to the afternoon of the second day, at this moment, all the generals in the big tent of Huo Quai's illness gathered, but compared with a few days ago, the whole big tent looked jubilant.
"Hahahaha, this battle of Mobei can be described as a brilliant result of our army, and this is the result of the inventory in Benhou's hand. Next, Ben Hou will inform you. (Pingnan Romance) "Huo Quzhi is holding a brocade in his hand, with many small characters densely written on it, which is the report of the results of the Battle of Mobei, and this brocade is also the next to be sent to Chang'an, and the good news of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
"This time, our army lost a total of 12,461 soldiers and 7,252 seriously wounded...... "The first thing Huo Quzhi thought about was not how many enemies were killed or captured, but the casualties of the Han army. Although all the generals knew that this was a complete victory for the Han army, when they heard that there were so many dead and seriously wounded soldiers, their faces all turned ugly.
Huo Quzhi paused, his eyes swept over the faces of the generals in the tent, and then continued: "Our army fought two battles with King Zuoxian, and won a total of 70,400 enemy heads, and killed the King of Beiche and the Wolf Juxu Mountain. 4,700 people were captured, including 83 people including the king of Tuntou, the king of Han, the general of Zuo, the household of Zuo Dadanghu, the captain of Zuo, Xiangguo, and the prince. ”
This time, Huo Qubing was talking about the merits of the Battle of Mobei, and as soon as this remark came out, everyone in the tent couldn't help but be excited. More than 70,000 enemies were killed, which was a real victory compared to the casualties of the Han army, not to mention that there were thousands of prisoners, of which 83 were all high-ranking Xiongnu officials.
"Okay, that's pretty much it. As for your merits, this marquis will also send it back to Chang'an with this good news, maybe you don't have to wait for Chang'an, Your Majesty's reward for you will come down. Huo Quzhi closed the brocade, and at this moment he was also smiling, changing the seriousness of the past few months. This battle of Mobei is enough to make him famous in history, how can Huo Qubing not be happy!
"Hehe, so let's go back to the court? It's been almost half a year before I know it, and I don't know how tall An Guo has grown? Zhao Ponu also seemed very happy, because he knew that it would be no problem for him to return to the marquis this time, maybe it would be possible to be a marquis again, and restoring the marquis was his greatest wish in the past few years.
Huo Guang also knew Zhao Ponu better, and knew that he had a son who was about the same age as himself, named Zhao Anguo, so he would say something like that just now. This son has a good relationship with the crown prince Liu Ju, and can be regarded as a hardcore confidant of Prince Wei. Of course, this intricate relationship can actually be summed up among Wei Huo's relatives, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing are the biggest backers and supporters of Prince Wei, although Wei Qing and Huo Quzhi's subordinates and cronies should avoid suspicion and not appear too close to the prince, but this does not prevent the children of these subordinates' cronies from contacting the prince.
"Ah, you're going back so soon?" Huo Guang always thought that Huo Quzhi would say at this time that he would go to Fengzen Wolf Juxu Mountain, but looking at this situation, he didn't seem to have any plans at all. But if you go back like this, how can the famous allusion to the wolf Juxu in history come out?
"Huh? It seems that Ah Guang doesn't want to go back yet? Could it be that you have taken a fancy to the daughter of the Huns? Huo Quzhi said jokingly, causing all the generals in the tent to laugh.
"This ...... Brother, I actually have an idea. Huo Guang smiled helplessly, since this is the case, he simply proposed this wolf Juxu by himself.
"If you have any other ideas, let's hear them." Huo Quzhi is now obedient to Huo Guang, and he said without hesitation.
"It's such a brother, our army has achieved such brilliant results this time. It is better to seal the Zen sacrifice to the world here, and once you can raise the prestige of my Han country, and my brother and generals can also leave a name in history, and it is also a psychological deterrent to the Huns. Huo Guang didn't directly say that Feng Chan Wolf Juxu Mountain, but just said that he wanted to sacrifice to heaven and earth here, because there is a mountain in Wolf Juxu Mountain nearby, and there is no other choice, but it is not too obvious for himself.
"That's a good idea, I think this wolf is very good." Before Huo Qubing could agree, Yiguan Hou Gao shouted loudly, and then the rest of the generals also agreed.
Huo Guang was not surprised by this result at all, although the ritual of sealing Zen was only carried out by emperors in ancient times. However, this period is a vacuum for the ceremony of sealing Zen, because the records of sealing Zen in this period have been basically lost, and even those Confucian scholars do not know what to do with Zen. This is also why ten years later, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could only create a ritual to worship Taiyi.
And Huo Guang's words left a name in history made all the generals moved, and it was strange that these people did not agree.
"In this case, then do what Ah Guang wants, and Ah Guang will be responsible for this matter." Huo Quzhi naturally nodded in agreement, in fact, he didn't know how this Zen should be carried out, so he simply handed over the task to Huo Guang. In fact, Huo Qubing still has an idea, that is, since Huo Guang took the initiative to put it forward, maybe he really knows the etiquette of sealing Zen. Because Huo Quzhi has always thought that the mysterious old man in Huo Guang's mouth is the heir of the Mo family.
Huo Guang had no choice but to bite the bullet and give this matter to the next. But this is really not a difficult thing for him, and he will definitely not be able to let Huo Guangzhen do it according to the ancient etiquette of Feng Chan, but fortunately, in this era, no one knows what is going on with Feng Chan, so no one will have an opinion if he does it casually, maybe others will think that he is authentic.
In the end, there was no doubt that the location of the Zen seal was chosen in Wolf Juxu Mountain, and this was already the third day after the end of the Battle of Mobei, and it was also the sixth month after Huo Quai's army was released. The Feng Zen ceremony prepared by Huo Guang was not complicated, that is, a square earthen platform was established on the Wolf Juxu Mountain, and then a stone tablet was erected on the earthen platform, and behind the stone tablet was a hill composed of human heads densely stacked. On the front of the stele are cattle and sheep.
The earthen platform is ten zhang long, but there is no way to make 40,000 troops stand on it. And on the altar, Huo Qubing and more than a dozen officers of 2,000 stones, and other officers and soldiers lined up in the mountains.
The whole process of sealing Zen is very simple, in fact, it is equivalent to a simple ritual of worshipping the heavens. Feng Chan began with tens of thousands of troops kneeling down in front of the stone tablet on the altar, and then a military clerk took out a long cloth and began to read it in a low voice. The content is nothing more than the cause and effect of the war, and then thankfully these clichéd and incomprehensible words.
Of course, this sacrificial text was not written by Huo Guang, and if he were to write it, he really couldn't write such a literary and ancient article!
The process of sealing the Zen lasted less than an hour, and then, at the sound of long horns, the Han army formed a long formation and began to move towards the south. Half a year after history, tens of thousands of Han soldiers finally embarked on their way home, but behind them, the souls of more than 10,000 Han soldiers will never return!
There was a quiet place on the Wolf Juxu Mountain again, but this tranquility still carried a bit of a terrifying atmosphere. The heads of more than 70,000 Huns on the altar still exuded a strong smell of blood, and several eagles in the sky hovered high in the sky, but they did not fall for a long time. And on the stone tablet in the center of the altar, it seems to be written in blood of several Han Li's 'The Great Han Hussar General led the troops to defeat the Huns here'.