Chapter 17: The Undercurrent (part 1 of 2)
A thousand green waves rode into the grassland.
Based on the 'Cave Heaven Blessed Land' in Gongsun Jing's eyes, they can easily obtain provisions, without carrying too much weight, and the damaged blades can be replaced immediately, while in terms of scouts, one has five grades of martial arts, and Gu Tianhan, who has light skills that are comparable to those of the fourth grade level martial arts.
Second, only half a day later, Qibi He Li, who has the most courageous eagle falcon in the entire northern Xinjiang, led nearly 100 falconers to join Qingtao Cavalry.
Change the knife, change the horse, change the armor.
He Li took off the simple leather armor on his body, tied his long hair with a blue forehead band, his cheeks were thin, his eyes were narrow and sharp, like knives, and he had three layers of shoulder armor on his left shoulder, but there was only a sky blue sleeve robe on his right shoulder, and there was a picture of the green dragon coming out of the water.
Raising their arms, nearly a hundred male eagles that had been domesticated for several years flapped their wings and rushed into the sky, and then unfolded with a bang.
Five years ago, he had been ordered to walk on the grasslands. Originally, he didn't understand what Mr. meant, if he was in the Central Plains, he should be able to play a greater role, but now he understands that he is at home in the grassland, and he is familiar with the vast grassland where ordinary people can easily get lost.
The fastest horse, the best scout, the most knowledgeable guide in terrain orientation.
A day later.
The Northern Hungarian court sensed something unusual, and sent an eagle cavalry general to lead an army of 3,000 to help.
The general was born in the court of the Northern Hungarian king, the king's surname was Helian, he was brave and good at fighting since he was a child, and he was almost invincible among his peers, and when he received the order, he was thinking about how to make a big splash in the big hunt, and won the favor of several noble women, and at the moment he was full of complaints, and he only felt annoyed. I don't know how many times I scolded the colleague who led the army to besiege him.
With 3,000 rangers against 1,000 divine warriors after the fortunate trek, there is no reason to fail.
With a three-fold difference in troops, how can you lose? How is it possible to lose?
Even throwing a pig won't be too bad.
Every time I move forward, the depression in my heart becomes more and more abundant.
When he reached the first ten miles of the glacier, the young general saw that the scout he had sent before rode back, his face was already pale, and then he realized that something was wrong, and the scout was about to turn over and dismount, Helian Jue raised his hand to hold it, impatient, and said:
"Sit and say, what the hell is going on?!"
The scout's face turned pale, and he said:
"General Hui, I, the avant-garde of our army, have been completely annihilated......"
Helian Jue's expression changed suddenly, he rode a horse and led the army to gallop, the distance of ten miles passed in an instant, and he was already prepared in his heart, but when he saw that twilight, he was still shocked, covered with snow, there were fallen corpses everywhere, and a scimitar was stuck upside down on the ground.
The wind blew, and the blade trembled and hummed.
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In the rivers and lakes of Daqin, the metropolitan governor Sima Cuo went to the first village in the world three days ago to ask for advice.
This is the seventh time that the famous general has gone up the mountain in five years, the first time, the owner was enough to beat the flood back into the sea with a palm that flew more than ten miles, his face was bloodless, and the third time he couldn't hold ten moves, but this time he was able to fight with the world's first owner to thirty rounds before retreating.
Although there is still a big gap, but after all, the owner of the village is old, and Sima is only in his early fifties, for the martial artist, just in the prime of life, there are rumors in the rivers and lakes that the name of the first fierce palm in the world will one day fall on the head of this famous general of Daqin, who has always been silent.
For this statement, the Jianghu people who have always been extremely disdainful of the court, and often denounced it as the eagle dog of the court, were silent, and no one dared to jump out and shout, at most, after drinking too much wine, they secretly muttered twice.
At that time, King Wuling once disdained to call Qin the bitter cold, the country was small, and there were only two famous generals, one of which was Sima Cuo, the governor of the capital. When he was in turmoil in the Seven Kingdoms, he broke through the Shu Kingdom, attacked Chu and Wei, and made great achievements, only under the Shenwu Mansion.
It's just that his reputation has never been worthy of his exploits, he is silent, he seems to be wooden, and he was often ridiculed and ridiculed in his early years, but he still doesn't say a word.
Wang Tiance and Sima Cuo have always been at odds, but when Wang Tiance left the court, he only went to the Dadu Governor's Mansion for a turn, and walked back and forth many times, and it was said that his hands were raised to slam the door, and finally he still didn't go in.
Admiral Tiance hangs in the air.
The veterans of the court, the family, and the upstarts are intertwined, everyone wants to sit in the first-class noble position that has been open for hundreds of years, and the emperor seems to turn a blind eye, and when Wang Tiance left Beijing, Sima Cuo respected a glass of wine from the sky, and entered the Beijing division from the Northern Regions.
A backhand slap crushed the soldiers and military who were faintly in turmoil.
Only then did the courtiers understand that the soldiers were not leaderless, and without Wang Tiance, there was especially the fault of the governor Sima.
In the implementation of the military law, more than 10 generals were killed in a month, and nearly 100 lieutenants were ranked, and there was no shortage of brave generals who had earned military merits in the chaotic wars.
Even the emperor felt pain and wanted to ask for mercy, but he was blocked back by military law and touched his nose.
After a month, the various departments of the military family performed their duties, and the court was cleared.
Sima misdecided the generals. Since he retired to the military governor, he did not occupy the position of the general of Tiance. He didn't sit down, naturally no one dared to hope, all extinguished this thought, since then, Sima Cuo often lived in the Northern Regions Protectorate, commanding the frontier Xiongcheng, resisting the invasion of the Huns, and now it has been more than 20 years.
In the Northern Regions Protector's Mansion, everyone felt that after going up the mountain again to take over the thirty palms of the world's first Zhuang owner, Sima Cuo, who must have suffered a minor injury, looked as usual, his armor did not leave his body, and he sat at the stone table, looking at the military book and the recent military situation indifferently.
There are still a few people in the hall, all of them are arrogant, and they are generals who have made military achievements during the Seven Kingdoms period.
Those young generals who have risen to the top in recent years are not qualified to enter this room.
Everyone arrived, and the tea in the cup was drunk several times.
Sima Coo put down the military book in his hand, and the generals knew that this was the Metropolitan Governor had something to say, and they were all solemn, Sima Co got up, looked at the large border map hanging on the wall on one side, was silent for a while, stretched out his right hand and pressed it against the middle of Daqin and the Huns, rubbing his rough palm lightly, and did not speak.
An old man with gray hair and dressed as a strategist squinted and looked slowly.
He is here the military division sacrificial wine, a late bloomer, the first forty years is just a knife and pen officer, the world of the Seven Kingdoms is in turmoil, the beginning of the beginning, on the play of the "Seven Strategies", the history of the Seven Kingdoms Army slightly advantages and disadvantages, the official worship with the military sacrificial wine, and the old turtle of Tianjing City, Shenwu Wang Tiance together across the battlefield, is the brain of Sima Co Green Willow Battalion.
I don't know how many times I have been entrusted with Sima Cuo's life and death. At the moment, he understood what this master general who was only hiding in his stomach was going to do, and took the initiative to open his voice and said:
"And it's been almost 30 years since it was peaceful today......"
"The Southern Barbarian generation was pointed out by my Central Plains soldiers on three sides, and they couldn't move in the nest, and the Western Regions, the Central Plains, and the Northern Xinjiang have not had a major war for fifty years, and the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions are now fighting in their nests, and they don't have the climate of the year."
"It's the northern frontier, the king of the Golden Horde of the Northern Hungarian Horde who completely grasped the power more than ten years ago. The two small countries in the north, as well as the one bordering the Western Regions, slowly swallowed them, straightened out the king's horses, and laid down the buffered grasslands, which did indeed do something. ”
One of the bearded generals laughed:
"That's right."
"Over the years, we have been fighting back and forth with Northern Hungary, that is, they have been entangled in the middle, and if we push it to the north, we will push it to the edge of the grassland and come back, there is no major conflict, and I am afraid that there is no way to change this situation for a while."
Sima Coo's gaze swept over the narrow buffer zone between the two countries, and suddenly he spoke coldly:
"The land in the North is running out of land."
Everyone was slightly shocked in their hearts, and the military advisor's sacrificial wine just moved his eyes and sighed slightly.
Sima Cuo's tone did not fluctuate and continued.
"The Northern Regions are very big, but there is no way to develop."
"There can only grow grass, eat beef and mutton, wild vegetables, since the Northern Expedition of the Emperor Taishang, the northern region has been recuperating for fifty years, the grass on the grassland is easy to grow crazy, the last time their bones were broken, fifty years, with the customs of the Huns, enough to give birth to three generations, or even four generations."
"When the population is large, more livestock are needed, and when the cattle and sheep are hungry and crazy, the grass roots will not be spared, and the turf will be gnawed away, and the grass will grow less and less in the coming year, and the cattle and sheep will starve to death."
"They can't feed that many people."
Many generals have fought against the Huns here for a long time, and some of them have been fighting against the Huns for seven years, and the records of the war against the Huns in the history books and military books have been turned over by them, and they all understand the heavy weight of this sentence.
The military advisor sighed and said:
"I have sorted out the records of the grassland invasion in the past history books, and the farmers have calculated the maximum population bearing capacity on the grasslands in the northern regions, if there is no war, the wind and rain are smooth, at most forty years, there will be famine in the grasslands, and in fifty years, there will be civil strife."
"However, during this time, the Northern Regions often sent troops everywhere, according to calculations, there should be ten years left, and the Northern Huns invaded the border, and I always waited for victory......"
Sima Cuo said calmly:
"The Northern Hun will not wait until the end to send troops."
He pointed to the edge of the prairie.
"The turf on the edge of the northern region has begun to retreat, retreating for dozens or even nearly a hundred miles, and there have even been sandstorms on the frontier, as for why we often win, but because he, like us, is just taking this opportunity to train his troops, and when the troops are enough, he will wave his army south."
"In the past, they were not familiar with the Central Plains, but now, there are many families who have fled north."
"They are not stingy in giving advice to the Northern Regions."
The generals' expressions sank.
Sima looked at the Northern Regions and suddenly said:
"Thirteen border gates, advance forward, set up camps, and set up acropolis along the road."
"Push forward."
The military priest's expression changed slightly, and he suddenly noticed a trace of coldness.
Sima said wrongly:
"There is a strange army now in the rear of the Huns, we sent people to take the initiative in the front battlefield, entangled the Northern Hun rangers, the new army retreated, the old pawns stepped forward, and the green willows came out of the camp to advance the battle line to the buffer zone of the Northern Hun king's forbidden territory."
One of the generals spoke:
"But, big marshal, the Huns will go crazy in this way, right?"
"If the eagle is raised and the Yang Jin pawn is advanced in one breath, my army may suffer heavy losses."
Sima Cuo said calmly: "He won't ......"
"His plan hasn't been completed yet, let's play the hole cards now, it's not his combat style, we don't have to entangle, that thousand Shenwu Qingtao rides are equivalent to one-third of the Shenwu Mansion back then, and such a madman is in the rear."
"Anyone who has experienced the chaos of the Seven Kingdoms knows what this means."
"On the terrain of the grassland, if you want to catch the thousand people, you need a large army to block and encircle, they dare to retreat the rangers, so they will advance the battle line, if the Huns return to defense, they don't have to fight hard, retreat back, and keep a distance of 100 miles."
After a few moments, the generals withdrew from the house and went their own way.
Only the old man's military sacrificial wine was still there, and the room was much more spacious, and the old man sat on the chair, glanced at Sima Cuo, and sighed:
"Dashuai, you've taken some risks in this game."
Sima Cuo smiled and said:
"The three words of Shenwu Mansion, it's worth betting this time."
"In the past fifty years, not only has the new generation of the Huns become bolder, but my border guards have also lost their sharpness, where can I wait for the comparison of the year? Before the war begins, we need to have a great victory, so that the other side and our own children know why such a beautiful place as the Central Plains is in our hands. ”
"This territory is not based on scholars' mouths and benevolence."
A hint of grandeur flashed between the eyebrows of General Mu Ne.
The old priest touched his white sideburns, felt a little bleak, and sighed:
"Great War ......"
Sima Coo lowered his head, flipped through the military intelligence report on the table, looked at it for a while, and suddenly said:
"Sacrificial wine, that new disciple of yours, how much did you learn to receive it? Can it still be used? ”
The old man's mood eased a little, a smile appeared on his face, and he said:
"He has a very good talent, much better than the old man, although he often can't read books, but he often has antelope horns, unreasonable hands that can be found without a trace, and it is not in line with the art of war, but it is still useful."
There was a hint of a smile on Sima Cuo's face, and he said:
"It's normal, this generation of experience has been accumulated, how can it be that it is not as good as we were back then?"
"If that's the case, let him lead the army to advance this time, and if he can come back alive, when he goes on the Northern Expedition, give him a forward general."
The old man said: "In this way, I have to thank the handsome man on his behalf." ”
Gongsun Jing nodded, suddenly remembered something, wrote a note on the fold, raised his head, and said with a smile: "Your apprentice's words, although he has learned strategy, can he ...... Well, I'll match him with one, no, two counselors on the left and right. ”
He said half-jokingly, half-seriously:
"If you give it to a general, you may be fooled by your apprentice to play a lone army."
"When the time comes, the master and the mastermind will go crazy together, and ordinary soldiers can't stop it."
The old sacrificial wine thought of the more than 300 catties of Mo knife, smiled bitterly and was speechless, but arched his hand again.
PS: Today's first update is ............
This chapter is 4,000 words~ The next chapter will be around the wee hours of the morning~