Chapter 5: Eight-year-old children solve the crisis
After Li Mu left Yanmen Pass, the soldiers guarding the pass did not see a few people, somehow, came to the military tent, to visit Li Mu, Na Lanxue lied that "the general is infected with the cold, afraid of the impact, can not see the guests!" Na Lanxue has been fighting with Li Mu for many years, her words, the soldiers also believe it, and hope that Li Mu can get better as soon as possible.
One day, on the watchtower outside the pass, the guards saw the dust in the distance, and the yellow sand was like a remnant cloud rushing to Yanmen Pass, and it was also the soldiers who had Li Mu's orders, if they had not seen the Huns attack for ten years in the past, how could they be so vigilant, and the guards quickly lit up wolf smoke.
In the barracks, Nalan Xue saw Li Jian quietly looking out of the window, secretly weeping, and when the tears were wiped dry, she asked, "Barrier, do you hate your father?"
Li Zhan didn't turn his head and said in a low voice: "I don't hate him, I just hope that he hates me, so that when I leave, he won't be as sad as his mother." ”
When Na Lanxue heard this, she hugged Li Barrier, and she couldn't cry, "Why is God so blind, he wants to take away my barrier!"
Li Shu slowly turned his head, wiped away his tears for Nalan Xue, and said, "Mother, I haven't died yet, why do I always see my mother crying when I am alive." ”
Nalan Xue smiled and said, "It's not good for my mother, my mother won't be in the future." ”
At this time, I heard the shouting outside the door: "The big thing is not good, the Huns are coming!" A moment later, the herald issued an urgent report outside the door, "General, the Hun army is pressing in, please make a decision!"
'Li Mu' once ordered, 'No matter how big or small, you must not enter the military tent!', which was a herald that she could only tell outside the door.
When Nalan Xue heard this, her whole body trembled, and she said in her heart: "The Huns are really here, how can this be good!" forced her composure and said: "The general is inconvenient to speak, I will do it for me, and the general will ask how many people have come?"
"Look at the formation, at least 30,000 iron horsemen, and the rest of the equipment and foot soldiers are unknown!"
Nalan Xuexin sighed, "Although relying on the dangerous mountain, you can guard the gate to the death, but there are less than four hundred guards, how can you resist 30,000 iron horses, even if my husband is here, what can I do, it seems that Guo Kai really wants to take the opportunity to put my husband to death." ”
Nalan Xue's first thought was to escape, "But if you escape, Yanmen Pass is lost, my husband should be with Guanmen, die on the battlefield, how to live in the future, and once lost, the iron cavalry will go straight into the Zhao State, and the Zhao State will go all out to resist Qin, and there will be no troops in the country, so the country will be ruined!" "But if you don't escape, how long can you resist?" It's better to stay, create an illusion that my husband died in battle, but he can't be in Li Mu in the future, although you are reluctant, the concubine can only be like this, but it is a hardship, and God will not even give it these days. Looking at the weak Li Barrier, "No, I have to send him away!" Thinking of this, he said to the door: "The general knows, let the soldiers not panic, he is inconvenient, let me check, pass on the general's order, close the city gate, gather all the soldiers to stand by at the gate, and I will arrive later!"
"Order!"
Without waiting for the order to go away, Nalan Xue squatted down, tears welled up in her eyes, and helped Li Jian and said: "Barrier, my mother can't accompany you to walk the rest of your way, you won't blame your mother, right?"
Li Barrier's eyes were pure, and he said slightly: "Mother, this disaster is caused by the child, I should be guilty of my father, the child does not leave, the child can live for a few days if he leaves, it is better to die with his mother, and he will not be lonely at that time, I have a dangerous plan, I can try, if I succeed, everything will be solved, if I fail, I should die." ”
Nalan Xue said: "What can I do now, my mother will order someone to take you away and send you to your father, he loves you very much!"
Li Shu's white-skinned little hand grabbed Nalan Xue's hand and said, "Mother, how about you listen to the child say this plan and then make a decision?"
Seeing that there was no obstacle and was reluctant to leave, Lan Xue hurriedly said, "Then what other plans do you have?"
"Order people to raise cooking smoke in the city, the more the better, take out all the war horses, open the city gate, when the Hun army arrives, repeatedly go out of the city gate, and then order people to sweep away the traces of the horse's hooves, when cleaning to be careful, it is difficult for people to see the traces of the horse's hooves, but it can be found that it is the traces of the horse's hooves, throw all the rolling wood and stones from the city, pile them in the plug, and place them in the place where they can not see from the city gate without looking carefully, after doing these, close the city gate, when the Hun army arrives at the gate, extinguish the cooking smoke, and then open the gate, I am with my mother on the city tower, my mother caresses the qin, I appreciate the 30,000 iron horses of the Huns, let the Huns be suspicious, and order all the soldiers to go up the mountain, Tie the rope to the branches, connect into a piece, easy to shake the large area, listen to the sound of the mother's qin, when it becomes urgent, quickly kill a war horse, the soldiers hear the sound of the horse, pull the rope, shake the branches, if it works, the Huns can retreat, if it fails, our mother and son will jump off the city wall, do not fall my father declared, my mother and mother should do it, it will be too late and there will be no chance. ”
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Although the Hun iron cavalry came quickly, but when it came to Yanmen Pass, it slowed down, because the situation outside the pass was dangerous, the road was narrow, and there was a fear of ambush.
The Hun army came to the front of the Yanmen Pass, 30,000 iron horsemen rumbled out, the momentum was surging, the Yanmen Pass was surrounded layer by layer, the end of the formation could not be seen, the ladder, the stone thrower, the crash car was slowly pushed to the front of the formation, the whole scene made people shudder, frightened.
The Huns are single in the head of the man, located at the head of the formation, wearing feathers, wearing tiger skin animal clothes, stepping on horse skin boots, over 20 years old, full of meat, eyes like torches, strong as a cheetah, fierce as a wolf, riding a fierce jujube red war horse, majestic.
There were no guards on the city gate, but I saw a beautiful bearded girl, wearing a purple beard dress, sitting leisurely in the city tower, playing lightly, the piano sound tactfully, and the vast momentum under the city, forming a contrast, the children next to him leaned against the wall, holding their jaws, calmly looking at the thousands of troops and horses under the city.
Touman raised his big hand, signaling not to act rashly, the city was silent for a moment, the sound of the piano was clearer, staring at the woman at the head of the city, and asked his subordinates, "Who is the player?"
A long-faced military advisor beside him replied: "It is said that Li Mu has a wife, who is good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and often fights with her husband. ”
Touman said: "The child in front of him is so calm, he is not afraid of my Hun iron horse, it seems that there must be something wrong with this Yanmen Pass!"
The long-faced military advisor said: "Guo Kaixin said that there are less than four hundred guards in this city, and Li Mu is guarding here, which is a good time to kill him!"
"Yes, but now there are less than four hundred, not a single one is gone, Li Mu does not show up, but let his wife sit on the head of the city, is it to let his wife and children see how he defeats Ben Khan? Guo Kai is cunning, we should be careful!"
"Great Khan, wise!"
At this time, I saw the city gate, 'squeak' opened heavily, the Hun soldiers in the front row thought that the Zhao army was out of the city to meet the battle, and they were frightened to pull the reins, and the war horses roared for a long time, and the front hooves were raised, and they did not see the people and horses rushing out of the city, and there was no one in the city.
Tou Man didn't dare to rush in, his eyebrows were suspicious, he looked at the city carefully, did not let go of every detail, and suddenly pointed to the ground under the city gate and said, "What do you think is strange about this ground?"
"It seems to have just been swept, what are you doing with it?"
"You dismount and give Ben Khan a closer look!"
The long-faced military advisor, turned over and dismounted, leaned over to look at the ground, looking for clues, suddenly his eyes lit up, pointed to the palm-sized shallow pit on the ground, and said: "Great Khan, this is the trace of the horse stepping on!" and looked forward again, and exclaimed: "This, this, all, this is the trace of tens of thousands of iron horses!"
Touman smiled slightly: "Yes, sweep away the traces, open the city gate, want to cover up, hide people's eyes and ears, and make Ben Khan think that there is no one to guard the pass." "Snorted coldly, "When I said that when I came, I saw that there was thousands of cooking smoke in the city, and when I got to the city gate, the cooking smoke was extinguished, please enter the urn, this plan must come from Li Mu, a clever plan!"
The Hun army division quickly got on his horse and said: "If it weren't for the Great Khan's clear observation and leakage, we would have almost been hit!"
Touman sneered: "You don't come to flatter me, give Ben Khan a careful inspection, don't let go of every detail, if they put the empty city here, we don't dare to enter, then it will make them laugh off their big teeth!"
"Great Khan, what do you see at the door?"
"As a military advisor, haven't you even seen a rolling wood stone, and you are here to ask Ben Khan?"
"Why don't you move so much of the rolling wood and stones to the city walls for defense, and pile them up there?"
"This doesn't need to be asked, the city can't put it down, can't it be piled up there for us to see!"
The military advisor sighed: "It seems that they are fully prepared, just waiting for us to go in!"
Touman said: "Father Khan once said that marching and fighting cannot be inferred according to common sense, and often the big tricks are hidden in reasonableness, how can the enemy be a fool and give up the city gate, how can pie fall from the sky." ”
At this time, the sound of the piano turned, the rhythm accelerated, as if there were thousands of troops and horses about to pour out in an instant, which made people listen to the frightening, creepy, suddenly, the war horse neighed, a war horse rushed to the gate, fell to the ground and died, the Hun front cavalry, startled into a cold sweat, the long-faced man, panicked and asked: "What does this mean?"
Touman frowned, his eyes flashed fiercely, and said: "I don't know!" "If I enter the customs, it is possible that the whole army will be wiped out, if I don't enter, I will not hurt a soldier, and there will be a chance in the future, Zhao Guo has a faint monarch and traitorous ministers, and the number of qi is about to be exhausted, Li Mu leads the troops, unpredictable, we are not in a hurry, we can't make a risk for Guo Kai, a villain, and bury my father Khan's hard work for more than ten years!"
Urging the horse forward, he shouted: "Li Mu listen, Ben Khan is in awe of you, I can't kill you, but naturally someone can kill you, after you die, Ben Khan will take me to the Hun hot-blooded man and crush the mountains and rivers of your Zhao country!"
At this time, seeing the shadows of the trees on the mountain shaking, the leaves rustling, as if thousands of soldiers flew down, Touman shouted: "The front formation has changed into the rear formation, quickly retreat!"
The Xiongnu army, the mighty coming, disappeared at the far end of the mountains in an instant, rolling up dust and yellow sand, filling the sky.
The army has withdrawn, Nalan Xue breathed a long sigh of relief, sat on the stone bench softly, soaked his clothes with sweat, and looked at Li Jian with a smile: "My son is also a genius, if your father knows that you have wisely retreated from the Hun army this time, I don't know where you will fly if you are happy!"
Li Jian turned his head slightly to look at his mother, and said lightly: "This is all relying on the father's prestige to work, it is still the father's credit, the child is just a 'fox and a fake tiger', if it is not for the father, the child will not want to pay attention to such a thing." ”
The soldiers of Yanmen Pass raised their arms and wept, killed sheep and drank wine to celebrate, and preached that "General Li was sick and lying in a military tent, strategizing, and outwitting 30,000 iron horsemen, which made the Huns frightened!"
The news spread to Handan quickly, on one side Sima Shang defeated the Qin soldiers, on the other side, Li Mu alone blocked the Hun iron cavalry, the people ran to tell each other, praising the two generals, every house was full of lights, everyone was jubilant.
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In the prime minister's mansion, on the big bed in the bedroom, Guo Kaizheng was ravaging the yin and yang community of several daughters, bursts of wailing and begging for mercy came out, Guo Kaizheng laughed loudly, and when the 'xing' started, a green-robed Taoist priest slowly fell into the courtyard and sneered: "The promised thing is so bad, you can still have such interest, you are not afraid that I will go in and cut you, so that you will sigh in the future!"
When Guo Kai heard Qingyang's threat, the huge doppelganger immediately wilted, and he hurriedly dressed and walked out of the bedroom, and came to Qingyang, "I have already done everything that the Taoist chief explained, why do you blame Ben Cheng so much!"
"You've done it?" glared at Guo Kai and said, "What have you done?"
"Ben Cheng took Li Mu's soldier talisman and asked him to go to Yanmen Pass alone, fornicate with the Hun Touman, let him lead the troops to attack, and kill Li Mu by the hands of the Huns!"
"Borrow the hands of the Huns? hehe, the army of the Huns went, but they ran away again!"
"How so?"
"I don't know the key to it, I only know that you are right, Li Mu is alone in Yanmen, the Huns dare not enter, Li Mu has not yet come out of the account, and he scared off the 30,000 iron horsemen of the Huns!"
"How can this be reasonable, are the Huns still the Huns? How can they be such a bad breed!"
"Also, according to the report from our army, it was Li Mu who defeated our army's north road, and he joined forces with Sima Shang to attack our army's south road!"
"How is it possible, could it be that he can't do it?"
"How can the news reported by our army be false? Li Mu must not have listened to the edict, and led his troops privately to attack our Qin army!"
"And who is it at Yanmen Pass?"
"Before the military tent, Li Mu will definitely not be there, scare off the Huns, I suspect that there is another master there, this person does not know how to cultivate, but the grasp of the battle situation, the situation of the battlefield, the use of heaven and earth conditions, the control of people's hearts, and the strategy must be above you and me!"
"How can I, Zhao Guo, have such a person?"
"Hmph, you think about this all day long, how do you know, I will go to investigate, this person must be eliminated, he is even more dangerous than Li Mu!"