On the eve of a big war, there is often an eerie silence.

Whether it is the side besieging the city or the side defending the city, each other, it is like a comparison between two peerless masters, looking at each other, brewing, letting their emotions slowly calm down, and let that blood and anger turn into an inexplicable force.

King Hutu sat on horseback, surrounded by hundreds of guards, and slowly moved forward.

Through the observation through the telescope, Yang Chuan finally saw the face of the Hun Wanhu King clearly.

He was extremely strong, with long arms that could touch his calves when he hung down, a purple-black face, a very messy white beard, and two long narrow eyes half-squinted, looking at the Rouge City on the hillside from afar.

This Hugh Tu King is not simple.

Yang Chuan handed the farsighted mirror in his hand to Huo Guang beside him, and said with a smile: "The teacher will test you a question, you can observe this King Hutu and give him a divination." ”

The scholars of the Han Empire not only had an explosive military value, but also a wide range of knowledge, not that those Confucian scholars in later generations would only hold on to a few 'sage classics' and not let go, and finally become grass on the wall, as long as their glory, wealth and reputation were guaranteed, even if it was a foreign invasion, they would run to make suggestions.

For example, some people with the surname Kong......

"Teacher, this Hugh Tu King is not simple."

Huo Guang held the farsighted glasses, carefully observed King Hutu, and was amazed: "The face is mighty and his eyes are not squinting, which shows that he is a resolute and ruthless person; The earlobes are shoulder to shoulder, indicating that they are deeply blessed; Hands over the knees, brave and fierce, this is the characteristic of a famous general, if you fight head-on, it is estimated that my brother Huo will not be able to beat the disease.

Another point is that this person is full of heaven, between his eyebrows, but he opens and closes vertically and horizontally, as if he is hiding the scourge of killing, but his jaw is plump and slightly contained, but it seems to be blessed, and his descendants will last for a long ......time."

Huo Guang's brows were furrowed, looking very entangled.

Yang Yi opened his mouth and said: "Give me the farsighted glasses, and I will look at it too." ”

Just take a look.

Yang Yi observed for a while, but he still didn't feel anything, so he had to hand the farsighted mirror back to Huo Guang: "Let's look at it, I'm not good at Mai physiognomy......"

One sentence made Yang Chuan laugh.

This kid doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it, so he is left with a hard mouth.

He glanced at Huo Guang with deep meaning, and sighed in his heart, this cowardice is really extraordinary, just with the fur of the linen physiognomy he has learned, he really told the fate of the Hugh Tu King in front of him.

According to the "Book of Han" and "Historical Records", the king of Hutu who has been entrenched in Wuwei and Zhangye for a long time is really not a simple person, a king of ten thousand households, under the account of the commander of the Hugh Tu Department, the Dugu Department, and the Tu Department, the soldiers are strong and strong, and have caused several major crises to the northwest border of the Han Empire, and the most glorious one is to personally lead the army to penetrate Longxi County and approach Chang'an City.

In addition, the later famous Jin family and Dugu family in history came from the Xiu Tu Wang Department.

It's just that the fate of this session of King Hutu is a bit bad, and the red-faced Sima Qian recorded in "Historical Records of the Huns" that in the autumn of the second year of Yuanzhan, Huo Qubing led the Yulin Army to defeat the evil king and the king of Hugh Tu, and beheaded tens of thousands of elite cavalry;

Shan Yu Yizhi was furious and wanted to summon him;

'The evil king of Hun and the king of Hutu were afraid and plotted to surrender to the Han, and the Han made the hussar general to meet him; The evil king of Hun killed the king of Hugh and slaughtered him, and surrendered his people to Han, and there were more than 40,000 people, and the number was 100,000......

And, that's not all.

The reason why King Hutu left ink in the history books of the Han Empire is actually related to his son.

Kim Il-pan.

According to the original historical script, in the second year of Yuan Hunting, Huo Qubing led the army to defeat the Huns, and his father conspired with the evil king to surrender to Han, and then because of repentance, he was killed by the evil king of Hun and his subordinates were annexed; Then he became an official slave with his mother and brother and raised horses in the palace.

Later, he was appointed as a horse supervisor, and was appointed as a lieutenant of the middle of the house, a lieutenant of the horses, and a doctor of Guanglu.

After the witch curse, Jin Riyan thwarted the conspiracy of Jiang Chong's party Ma Holuo to assassinate Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and won Liu Che's love and trust; Later, when Emperor Wu was dying, he issued an edict to Jin Riyan and Huo Guang, Shangguan Ji and Sang Hongyang to assist Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty.

After Emperor Zhao ascended the throne, according to the edict of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Jin Riyan was named the marquis of Qin, in order to show his merits, after the death of Jin Riyan, Emperor Zhao gave him a light car to accompany the burial of Maoling......

……

Yang Chuan didn't like this script very much.

On the surface, it seems that it was Huo Qubing who beat these wolves to the pain, scared, and brains, so they had to belong to the Han Empire.

In fact, all this is just a transaction between the world's powerful people.

King Xiutu has long been entrenched in the eastern section of the Hexi Corridor, deep-rooted, and if he is a powerful prince, whether it is in the Xiongnu court or in the Han court, it is a force to be reckoned with, so his son Jin Riyan is deeply loved by Liu Che, but it is just a soothing move for this grassland desert.

Facts have proved that in the environment at that time, Liu Che's approach was undoubtedly the best choice.

After all, the military expansion of the Han Empire, with the fall of the great general Wei Qing and the champion Hou Huoguang, has fallen into a trough, and it is simply unable to go west to support a Jin Riyan to become an auxiliary minister of the Han Empire, and naturally, it will realize the unified management of the four counties of Hexi from another level.

This is the underlying reason.

The reason why Yang Chuan doesn't like the direction of this script also has his own deep reasons.

He doesn't like the powerful.

Whether it is the imperial relatives of the Han Empire, the lords of the scholar family, the wealthy families, the official eunuchs, or the nobles and lords under the court of the Xiongnu king, in the eyes of Yang Chuan, a great Han cook, they are just some top predators.

If he has the ability and conditions, he will not hesitate to give these noble lords a fierce knife......

"Huo Guang, your Mai physiognomy is not bad, don't look at people in the future."

Yang Chuan took the telescope and said casually.

Huo Guang looked confused: "? ”

Yang Chuan observed King Hutu's arrangement, made various calculations in his heart, but said casually: "What is going on in this world, if you can really see through it with Mai physiognomy, then what is the meaning?" ”

"Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and the sons and daughters of rats will make holes."

"This proverb is said thoroughly, and it sums up this bullshit world."

"Huo Guang, Yang Yi, you have to remember that in this world, it is not simply up and down, left and right, high and low, deep and shallow, far and near, and it is not simply right and wrong, good and bad."

"Rather."

His tone paused slightly, turned his head to look at Huo Guang and Yang Yi, and said in a deep voice: "This world is the world of the people of the world, not the world of a certain person, not the world of a certain layer of people, this point, Sage Confucius and Meng Fuzi said very well and thoroughly. ”

"In the future, you will be able to enter the high temple and occupy a high position, control the authority of the world, and become a great man under one person and above ten thousand people, but once you forget your original intention, I will kill you."

Huo Guang and Yang Yi straightened up awe-inspiringly, and arched their hands: "Teacher......"

Yang Chuan thought about it, but some words couldn't be said yet.

These two cowards are still children after all.

"The teacher sent you a word today, how much you can understand is how much, but you must keep it in mind," Yang Chuan sighed, turned his head to look at the approaching Hun army, and said indifferently: "The worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world, this is the sentence that the teacher gave you." ”

The worries of the world are worried, and the joys of the world are happy.

Huo Guang and Yang Yi were silent for a long time, their eyes were quiet, they seemed to have gained, but they seemed to be at a loss, and they were speechless for a while.

Of course, this can't be blamed for the two people's poor understanding.

After all, Fan Zhongyan's 'famous saying', but after some vicissitudes, in the era of the Great Sending Dynasty, the ups and downs of the Huan Sea, after depreciation, and after seeing all the calculations in the world, I realized it.

Huo Guang and Yang Yi are young after all, how can they know the sadness?

It just sounds very uplifting......

Yang Chuan stretched out his hand, rubbed it on the heads of the two cowards, and said warmly: "The big war is about to start, you guys go and get busy, it's good to do your job." ”

Then, he sent two of them and led a hundred henchmen to guard the water source of Rouge City.

Right now.

The dull, long and vicissitudes of the horn whined.

The Great War has begun!

King Hutu sat on the back of his horse, and just said lightly: "Attack." ”

For a while, the drums and horns sounded in unison.

War horses are excited.

The thirty or forty thousand Hun cavalry remained silent for more than a dozen breaths, and suddenly, a roar broke out: "Kill!" Kill! Kill! ”

Two teams of 1,000 men divided into two wings, and from a distance, they surrounded a large number of old and weak women and children in front of them, and began to drive them forward with bows and arrows and leather whips.

This is the consistent art of war of the Huns.

However, in the past, those who were driven by them like cattle and sheep were generally the Qiang, the Hu and Han people in the Western Regions, but now, they have been replaced by the Huns under the account of the evil king.

No matter what ethnic group people are, in the eyes of the noble lords who are high, they are actually about the same, and they are not worth anything at all.

A group of people is almost worth a group of cattle, sheep and livestock......

The old shepherds, the clumsy old women, the disheveled little women, and the terrified young Huns, driven by the cavalry, began to run madly forward.

The cry shook the sky, and the sky and the earth were bleak.

Those Huns were running and crying loudly, which made Yang Chuan, who was standing at the head of the city, also sigh.

The Huns, it's really not a thing.

Will you be so cruel to your own people?

The Hun warriors at the head of the city burst out into a roar, one by one, their eyes were split, waving their shields, scimitars, and spears in their hands, and some even took off the bows and arrows on their backs, and pulled the boxwood bow in their hands into a full moon shape.

However.

The Huns did not know where they were going to shoot this arrow.

The cavalry of King Hutu was in the distance, a distance of two or three hundred paces, and the boxwood bow could not shoot that far at all.

Within the range of the bow and arrow, there was only that black area of old and weak women and children.

"Stand on the shield!"

"Archers in position!"

“……”

As the military orders were handed down, the Huns at the head of the city finally gave up their impotent rage, and one by one with gloomy faces, they clenched the blades in their hands.

These steppe warriors have been on the battlefield for a long time, they have seen too much blood and death, and the moment before was out of control, they just wanted to roar a few times and disperse the evil breath in their chests.

It's time to fight.

Those Hun warriors quickly regained their indifference, their eyes were gloomy, and they had already aimed their bows and arrows at the same kind of people who were overwhelmingly running under the city.

This is the real Huns, ruthless, silent, fearless in the face of death, and inexplicably a trace of calmness.

Yang Chuan watched coldly and nodded silently: "It seems that the hatred between the two sides has been full......

Since this is the case, it is not possible to let one's people have a large number of casualties in the first place, after all, it was Ah Tie and A Mu who they brought from the distant Luding City, and everyone was Yang Chuan's soldiers.

He turned his head to look at Amu not far away.

Just then, Amu also looked this way.

Yang Chuan nodded slightly, blinked his eyes, and then turned around and walked slowly towards the other end of the city wall.

Amudon understood it.

He gave a secret order to the 'own people' in the city.

Well, it's almost a frown, and he silently retreats behind everyone...... That means.

As a result, the head of the Rouge City, the one at the forefront, naturally became those Hun warriors......

……

I have to say that it was a very tedious battle.

The only function of the old and weak women and children who were driven over was to consume a batch of feather arrows, and under the miraculous arrow method of the two thousand Hun warriors in the city, those people fell one by one, struggling, wailing, like a group of lambs in a storm, which was useless at all.

And with the death of these thousands.

The hatred between King Hutu and King Hun will never be resolved, and the Huns, who were originally a race, a royal court, and a big single leader, have become a pair of undying enemies from now on.

Yang Chuan's purpose was achieved.

But in his heart, there was no joy or sadness, just standing upright at the head of the city, looking coldly at the king of Hutu in the distance.

After two or three months of hard work and layout, he, a big Han cook, completed the first stage through the strategic goal of the Hexi Corridor-

Let the King of Hutu and the King of Hun Evil never die, and skillfully transfer the hatred from the Han Empire to their own people, so as to lay a solid foundation for his future dishes.

In his opinion, the things of the world and the people of the world are actually just a table of dishes for special mothers.

Some people, some things, are hard dishes.

Some people, some things, are soft dishes.

Hard dishes have hard dishes, and soft dishes have soft dishes, which is like a first-class chef, facing different ingredients and different seasonings, he will naturally think of how to slaughter, peel, pickle, debon, and cut.

Next, it is steaming, stir-frying, and frying sauce marinade.

Of course, as a qualified cook, you must also have the ability and means of 'hard dishes are made softly, and soft dishes are hard to make'.

How to say it.

For example, at present, this Hexi Corridor, which is nearly 3,000 miles long, has the Qilian Mountains and Altun Mountains in the south, the Kunlun Mountains in the west, the Horsehair Mountain, the Rouge Mountain, and the Longshou Mountain in the north, and a Wusheling Ridge in the east traversing the north and south, cutting it off from the territory of the Han Empire, and it is simply a natural 'independent kingdom'.

It has been said that the northwest is prosperous, and the empire lasts forever.

It turns out.

Under the strategy of Zhang Qian, Huo Quzhi, Ban Gu, Dou Xian and other fierce people for one or two hundred years, the Hexi Corridor once became one of the richest places in the Han Empire, and at the same time, it was also a natural military horse farm of the Empire.

However, after experiencing the Three Kingdoms, the Two Jin Dynasties, the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Tang Empire, there was a thousand years when the Hexi Corridor was isolated from the Central Plains Dynasty and became a piece of fat that the Qiang people, the Hu people of the Western Regions, the Xianbei, Wuhuan and other tribal groups frantically fought for.

This result is obviously not what Yang Chuan wants to see......

……

And so.

For this hard dish, he had to make it soft.

How to do it softly?

Very simple.

That is to take advantage of the situation, take local materials, let the King of Hugh Tu and the King of Hun Evil fight to the death, and chop themselves into fat and thin meat filling.

Then, add eggs, chopped green onions, soy sauce, cooking wine, minced ginger, water starch, oil, salt, and after some exquisite cooking, it becomes a famous dish of the Han Empire -

【Braised Lion's Head】

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