Chapter 128: Sheep
Fang Yun stood on the city wall, looking at the empty grassland outside, occasionally a hare jumping, and a gray wolf hunting.
"Since there is no time limit, it means that it should be safe here, but what if the old man is not there? Could it be that there is a great Confucian true text to protect it? But I didn't feel it when I mobilized the official seal of the king just now. ”
Fang Yun once again held the official seal of the king of Yun, and everything in the entire cottage was in his perception, how many soldiers were practicing hard, how many were coping, how many people were sick, how many children were frail, how many talents were in the courtyard, and so on.
"This kind of force is obviously very good, but I feel more pressure for nothing. ”
One is a cottage of thousands of people, and the other is a barbarian department of 10,000 people, the deeper you understand, the stronger the sense of powerlessness.
"Alas......"
Fang Yun sighed lightly, then took a deep breath and cheered up, the experience of the Phantom Dream Pavilion made him understand many things, a person can be depressed, angry, pessimistic, can escape, and even despair, but, as long as he lives, there will be a turnaround!
Fang Yun thought in his heart, holding the official seal in his hand, and issued an order to all the people here who raised people and above, and asked them to go to the military courtyard.
Fang Yun descended the city wall and came to the main hall of the military courtyard, there was a large table in the middle of the main hall, and eight people were sitting on both sides, looking at the costumes, namely a Hanlin, two jinshi and five lifters.
"I've seen King Yun!" the eight people stood up in unison.
The monarch is like a great Confucian, and the status of a prince is equivalent to that of a scholar.
Fang Yun looked at these people carefully, they were all higher than himself, but they did not have the slightest arrogance, they were solemn and respectful, and the military discipline was strict.
"Sit down, everybody. Fang Yun was also polite and stepped into the main position.
Fang Yun sat down, and the other eight people sat down one after another.
There was an extremely rough map on the table, and Fang Yun saw that in the middle was the wolf barbarian tribe, and there was no small tribe or demon clan gathering place around.
This cottage is directly south of the Wolf Barbarian tribe. There is no choke point to guard the choke point, and it is not a dangerous place, only a section of the city wall blocks the mouth of the valley, if there is no great Confucian Zhenwen suppression, it is impossible to stand.
"Tell me about the situation here. Fang Yundao.
So the generals successively gave a general idea of the situation here.
After listening to it, Fang Yun knew that those barbarians would occasionally come to harass this camp, and most of the time it didn't exist, as for things outside this grassland, the people in this cottage didn't know about Lu Dao, only that the Ten Kingdoms of Lu Dao and the Holy Courtyard would come to send food and grass supplies.
Although there is something spooky about it. But Fang Yun was not prepared to delve into it, as the old man said, he couldn't get a word out of them. So he stopped being distracted by anything else, and just thought about how to destroy the barbarian tribe.
Fang Yun stared at the map, and after looking at it for a long time, he couldn't see anything, with the strength of this cottage, it was impossible to capture the 10,000-strong wolf barbarian tribe.
Mencius said that the time is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the people. The people in this stockade are working together. But the strength is too poor, and it can't compare to the 10,000-strong wolf tribe. ”
"As for the location, although the wolf barbarians forced the human race out of the grassland, thousands of years have passed. They are also natives of the grasslands, and they live by grazing, and this is their homeland, and we do not occupy any geographical advantages. ”
"The time of the day. Not to mention this, at least it will take until the Great Confucianism can partially influence the heavens, and the barbarian king of the other party is only at the level of a scholar. Neither side can influence. But they often live in the grasslands, and they know more about the weather than we do. ”
"The time, the place, and the people are all suppressed, how can this battle be fought!
Fang Yun thought about it for a while, but he still didn't know how to win, so he asked: "It's impossible for us people to destroy that barbarian tribe, you know very well, what do you think?"
"If you lure them to attack the cottage, you can kill them all, but the adults said they wouldn't do that. So, we can't help it. ”
Fang Yun said: "Even if there is no old man, I think this cottage is easy to defend and difficult to attack, with the strength of a thousand people, and with a page of Confucian true texts, it can be defended." After all, the barbarian king is only equivalent to a scholar, and with the presence of the great Confucian Zhenwen, he rushing in is tantamount to killing himself. ”
"The Great Confucian True Literature is easy to obtain, but those barbarians are not fools and will not desperately attack the city. Their purpose was clear, to trap us in the cottage. But with the presence of adults, there is the food and grass of the Holy Courtyard, and we will not starve to death, but we will not be able to grow. ”
Fang Yun nodded, he also knew that the means of attacking the city of the Dao barbarians would inevitably break through the strength of the holy temple in the city first, and then start to attack the city, but everything was based on the absolute superiority of the barbarians. If the barbarian advantage is not large, they will besiege three queyi, cut off water and food, and wait for the soldiers and civilians in the city to escape, and then they can capture the next city.
Even if this camp is not guarded by the old man, as long as there is a page of Great Confucian True Text to suppress it, the ten thousand barbarians will have to lose at least five or six thousand to take it, after all, the power of Great Confucian True Text is too strong.
"Anyway, as long as you attract them to attack, it's the only way to defeat them, right?" Fang Yun said.
"That's true, but unless the wolf tribe feels that they can't survive to kill it, they can't go to all-out war. The wolf tribe is also like us, guarding here for generations, and they are guarding the ancestral temple. ”
"All of you and the barbarians can't leave?"
"Yes, and never left. ”
Fang Yun continued to discuss with everyone and clarified a few points.
Taking the initiative to fight will definitely die, any so-called military formation strategy will not work, and the barbarian tribes have an overwhelming advantage.
If you want to win, you must force the barbarians to attack the city, but you must also weaken them.
After discussing to the extreme, Fang Yun asked helplessly: "The only way for us is to force the barbarians to a dead end and let them attack the city?"
"There is no other possibility, unless you suddenly have the ability to be a scholar and lead us to kill us. ”
Fang Yun said: "I listen to the sound of the academy's books, in a few years, those students will be successful, right?"
A general said with a bitter face: "The people in the village can't leave, and they can't take the imperial examination." In the future, they will be saints at most, and it is impossible for them to go one step further. So you say don't count on them. ”
Fang Yun's heart was even heavier, which meant that even the most dignified and upright path of cultivating talents had been blocked.
"I see, you guys are gone. ”
When everyone left, Fang Yun sat alone at the top of the main hall of the military courtyard, staring at the map, constantly thinking, and gradually understood a lot.
"If it is to test my ability to lead the army into battle, there is no need to make the gap between the two sides so big. No matter how powerful a general in history arrives here, it is impossible to use war to slaughter 10,000 barbarians. Therefore, to pass this test, war is by no means the most important means. ”
"Since you can't win by cultivating talents, then it is not enough to simply lead the development of the human race, or in other words, there are countless ways to cultivate talents in the Holy Academy, and I am not the only one. ”
"In that case, there's only one way. It is to weaken the barbarians. Let's start with that. ”
Fang Yun entered the academy and searched for all the information about the barbarians in the library for a day, and then gathered the oldest people in the village together and listened to them talk about all the things in this grassland.
These old men were very shrewd, and they could see at a glance that Fang Yun was going to destroy the barbarians, and they followed up with advice.
The old man talked about everything, and often quarreled with each other because of contradictions.
However, these old men have one thing very consistent, knowing that the grass of the Wolf Lake and the grassland is the root of the barbarians. As long as the wolf lake and grass are destroyed, the wolf barbarians will inevitably lose their support.
The old people said many ways to solve the problem of wolf lake and grassland, but they were not very reliable.
After chatting with the old people, Fang Yun walked up to the city wall. Holding the official seal, the power of the official seal is triggered, and the divine mind flies high in the sky, and you can "see" the extremely distant places of the grassland.
In the center of the steppe. There is a large lake, and there is a wolf tribe on the edge of the lake.
Wolves thrive in the tribe, and cattle and sheep outside the tribe are flocks. A small number of wolf barbarians are grazing, which is the biggest difference between wolf barbarians and wolf demons.
The human race can use its talent to complete all kinds of incredible things, the barbarian demons are different, most of the barbarian demons have a strong body and qi and blood power, the demon saint barbarian saint can raze a high mountain under a punch, but even the simplest rainfall can not be done, and the human race has the opportunity to write a rain prayer poem even if it is a show.
In addition to being physically strong, the demon barbarians also have some natural demon arts, but those demon arts have many limitations, and they are far from being as varied as the human race.
However, the demon barbarian has always suppressed the human race with his strong body and talent.
Fang Yun looked at this piece of heaven and earth, and his heart was full of thoughts, at this time, this heaven and earth were extremely harmonious, as if everything could survive on this grassland.
A rabbit squirmed with a three-petal mouth and ate grass quickly, and a fox lurking in the shadows suddenly burst out and frightened the rabbit to run wildly. Eventually, the rabbit escaped the fox's pursuit, and as soon as he crouched down to rest, a goshawk swooped down, its powerful talons firmly holding the rabbit.
The praying mantis on the side was so frightened that it hurriedly flew away, startling the dragonfly not far away to flee with small insects in its mouth.
Fang Yun's eyes lit up.
"Food chain! Ecological balance! As long as the ecological balance here is broken, and the barbarians lose the place they rely on to survive, even if not a single soldier moves, their strength can be reduced to the minimum!"
"The foundation of the grassland food chain is this grass, whether it is poisoned or burned, it is impossible to achieve the real effect, but the ecological imbalance can be boiled in warm water like a frog gradually changed, and when the barbarians realize it, they are powerless to return to the sky, and our human race can either take advantage of their weakest time to act, or wait for the rabbit to wait for them to fight hard!"
"So, let's take it one step at a time!"
Fang Yun thought in his heart, and immediately summoned the soldiers with civil positions to go to the main hall of the military courtyard.
After a while, Fang Yun sat on the main seat, the general sat at the bottom, and the rest of the people stood on both sides, and the main hall was full of slaughter.
"I have a plan to weaken the barbarians, but the process is complicated and may take years to complete, so I hope you will cooperate. ”
"Yes. ”
"I've heard that there has been secret trade between the human race and the barbarians, and it is basically controlled by the wealthy families, but is there such a thing?"
"Yes. But those who do this kind of thing are all side lines of the big family, or those who can't take a step forward in the literary position, as long as it's not too much, the above will turn a blind eye. ”
"Good. You report to the Holy Courtyard and let those merchants spread the word that from this year onwards, they will no longer buy sheep from the barbarians, but only goats, and the price of goats is twice that of sheep, so as to induce the barbarians to increase their efforts to breed goats. (To be continued......)