While Budugen was talking to the clan leaders, an old voice rang out: "No, the Immortal Heaven will not abandon his people. As long as we believe in the Immortal Heaven, the Immortal Heaven will definitely guide us out of this crisis and will definitely bless our tribe with prosperity. ”

It was an old man in strange clothes who spoke, and when he spoke, the patriarchs of the various tribes, including Budugen, respectfully saluted him and called him "Great Shaman". This old man in strange clothes is the great wizard of the Xianbei people, and he is the wizard leader of the whole clan.

Among the Tungusic speaking peoples, shamans are generally referred to as shamans, and the same is true for the Xianbei people. However, in fact, shamans are very different from the shamans in the eyes of the Central Plains, and the basic characteristics of shamanism are that there are no sects, ancestors or ancestral altars, no specific doctrines, worship of a variety of gods, no special organizational structure, no centralized and fixed temples and churches, and no special clergy.

The main activity of shamanism is the sacrifice of dancing gods. The more ignorant and backward the era and nation, the more important this kind of witch blessing person is, and the higher their status. The shaman of the Xianbei people plays a certain role in politics and military, and it is ultimately up to the shaman to decide whether the leader hesitates in any war or other matter. A shaman must have a lot of common sense or knowledge, be able to observe the development of things, predict the future, and dare to predict good and bad luck.

Now is the time when the entire army, and even the entire tribe, is in a state of hesitation, and the Xianbei high-level, including Budugen, is in a state of hesitation, at this time, the great shaman speaks, like timely rain after a great drought.

Budugen was also like a drowning man grasping a life-saving straw, and hurriedly saluted the great shaman and asked, "Great shaman, do you have any good ideas?" Please hurry up. ”

The great shaman did not answer his words first, but pretended to be a ghost and danced around the brazier, chanting words in his mouth while jumping, and at the same time his head and body were shaking irregularly, similar to those addicts who ate the shake~head~ pill in later generations.

His movements, demeanor, and the outfit on his body with many strips and holes ~ holes, as well as the wooden staff in his hand, looked indescribably funny and weird, but Budugen and other tribal leaders did not dare to have the slightest contempt and dissatisfaction, and they all stopped one by one, held their breath, and silently waited for the end of the great shaman's performance.

After a long time, the great shaman finally finished dancing, and his expression instantly returned to normal, the strange thing is that at his age, after dancing for so long, he didn't even pant at all, it is estimated that he often does this and exercises a good body.

The Great Shaman, who had returned to normal, continued in his old voice, "The Immortal Heaven has given us a revelation that the night will be our best friend and will help us defeat our enemies."

After listening to the words of the great shaman, the leaders did not cheer, and finally Budugen asked: "Great shaman, we have also tried to sneak attack the Han army at night before, but the Han army is very well defended at night, even more vigilant than during the day. Moreover, there are firewood lit on the periphery of the large array, and our people are often discovered before they get close.

What's even more strange is that many people in the Han army in the past would be 'blindfolded' (night blindness) at night, but these Han soldiers did nothing, and even at night, their eyes were brighter than our steppe people, and they often saw each other earlier than us. So our previous attempts to sneak attack the Han army at night failed, and now we want to use this trick I am afraid it will not have any effect, right? ”

Xianbei people mainly eat meat and will not lack vitamin A, so there is generally no night blindness, but there is very little meat in the diet of the Han people, especially in these years, the world is in turmoil, the people's lives are more difficult, and the food is even worse, so the incidence of night blindness among the Han people is quite high.

Bu Dugen had been attached to the Wei State before, and often dealt with the Wei army, so he knew that many of the Wei soldiers suffered from night blindness, so he said this. However, the food of the Hong army is an alternative in the Three Kingdoms ~ army, the supply of meat and vegetables is sufficient, the nutritional mix is basically reasonable, there is no vitamin deficiency, and there are very few people who naturally suffer from night blindness.

The great shaman did not answer Budugen's question, tilted his head, raised his hands and continued: "Fire, I saw a fire all over the sky, a fire that burned the whole field. This fire will engulf the entire army. ”

When Budugen heard this, he was overjoyed and asked, "Great Shaman, do you mean to attack with fire?" However, if the fire breaks out, it may affect the entire grassland, and I am afraid that it will affect the grazing and survival of our tribe. ”

As a grassland person, of course, I know the horror of the grassland fire, once it burns up, it becomes a prairie fire, and everything downwind may be burned to ashes, and its destructive power is unimaginable. As grassland people, grassland is the foundation of their survival.

Their feelings for the grassland and aquatic plants are incomprehensible to the people of agricultural civilization, and this feeling is a primitive and simple love and care. This love is deeply rooted in their bones, and it is also reflected in some customs.

For example, they rarely go to the river to bathe, in addition to the lack of water on the grassland, it is difficult to find water to bathe, and there is also a strange reason that they are afraid that the dirt on their bodies will pollute the precious river water, which will bring disaster to the grassland. Now the Great Shaman proposes to set fire to the grasslands, much to the hearts of the chiefs.

This kind of strategy is something they dare not imagine and dare not do, the implementation of such a plan, let them feel afraid from the bottom of their hearts, burning the grassland on which they depend, even if it can severely damage the enemy, it will inevitably affect the living environment of the tribe in the future, this price is too great, so big that they have never dared to think about this aspect.

"Changshengtian told me that the northwest wind will blow tonight, and when the time comes, we will set fire to the northwest of the Han army, and the fire will burn to the southeast, and our tribe can withdraw in the northwest direction. The grasslands are vast, and burning the grasslands in the southeast will not affect the grazing of our tribes. The Great Shaman continued to pretend to be a god.

The tribal leaders looked at each other, all frightened by the great shaman's bold plan, but no one doubted the truth of what he said later about the northwest wind blowing tonight. They all believed that this was a revelation from the Immortal Heaven, and since the Immortal Heaven said that the northwest wind would blow tonight, then the northwest wind would definitely blow, which would not be wrong.

Shamans are not a profession that everyone can do, weather forecasting is one of their functions, and they need to have corresponding professional skills. Therefore, experienced shamans can observe the weather more or less and can make certain predictions about future weather conditions based on some current meteorological characteristics.

Of course, this prediction cannot be 100% accurate, but most of the time it is accurate. With the great shaman's skills and decades of experience, the accuracy of his weather predictions is of course very high. In the eyes of Budugen and the others, the great shaman's ability is very magical, except for the "revelation of the immortal heaven" to explain, they really can't think of other possibilities.