The sun sets.

The inner house of the Champion Hou's Mansion.

Bai Nanyu was wearing a plain Han skirt behind her, and the crape myrtle on the hem of her clothes was in full bloom. The black green silk is tied behind his head, his temples hang down slightly on the side of his neck, and his kneeling figure is undulating.

The central hall of the Hou Mansion is all wooden. Behind the low mat was a kneeling pu embroidered with lotus patterns, so after taking their seats, Bai Nanyu and Zhuo Qingke took off their shoes, and two pairs of beautiful feet wearing white Luo socks loomed under the skirts.

Zhuo Qingke wore a moon-white shirt with a milky white and pink satin skirt, which complemented her youthful and girlish temperament.

The three women sat together, and even the room seemed to be filled with a bright color.

After Huo Qubing took his seat in the main seat, Her Royal Highness the princess also changed from the standing seat on the side and sat next to him.

Liu Qing is generally not so clingy in front of outsiders, but today is slightly different.

"The night before yesterday, if Qingke hadn't happened to be in my room, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been spared.

When the family was robbed, I heard the movement and went out, the other party quickly retreated, I was worried about Qingke, I was late to chase, the other party was gone. ”

Bai Nanyu said softly:

"When I turned back to the house, the other party actually had a second wave of manpower, and they came to rob Qingke again, and I happened to return to intercept it, and one of the other party was slapped by me before getting out."

"Father hasn't come back until now......"

Zhuo Qingke muttered in a low voice, peeking at Huo Quai.

Her eyes were red and swollen, and she only hoped that the experience of the past two days was a nightmare.

Including Bai Nanyu, the best sister-in-law, she seems to have become strange since the night before.

Bai Nanyu's sudden outburst of skills and ghostly movements shocked her no less than someone suddenly breaking into the mansion and robbing her father.

And Zhuo Huai has not heard from her so far, which is completely beyond her ability.

Helpless, the hesitation of his father's disappearance made seventeen-year-old Zhuo Qingke at a loss and almost desperate.

"The other party is a person who crosses the road?"

"Yes"

Bai Nanyu said firmly.

Huo Qu thought that since it was a vertical and horizontal road, he arrested Zhuo Huai obviously to lure Bai Nanyu to chase him, and there was a high probability that Zhuo Huai would be killed casually.

"What did you find out about your fight?"

"I took the opportunity to move some hands and feet in the shadow of the other party, and sensed that they went west out of Chang'an."

Bai Nanyu: "I came here to ask Huo Hou to help settle Qingke."

It's best to mobilize the power of embroidery clothes and chase the murderer with me. Husband ...... There is still a glimmer of life. ”

Huo Quzhi said: "I will ask the deputy Shi Cao Wei to personally bring someone to assist you, and Zhuo Qingke can still live with Song Ran, who is embroidered......"

Bai Nanyu glanced at Zhuo Qingke and pleaded: "Can Qingke stay in the Hou Ye's Mansion?" ”

Zhuo Qingke mustered up his courage, raised his red and swollen eyes, and quickly glanced at Huo Quzhi.

She obviously also wanted to stay in the Hou Mansion, living closer to Huo Quai, so she felt more stable in her heart, but unfortunately she didn't dare to speak.

"If you go sick in a few days, you will be fine with many people in your family." Liu Qingdao.

Bai Nanyu sighed.

Liu Qing asked the maid beside him to take Zhuo Qingke to pick a courtyard.

Waiting for Zhuo Qingke to go out, Liu Qing turned his head to look at Bai Nanyu and asked, "I will go on the expedition again soon after I go to illness, are you going to chase the person who kidnapped Zhuo Huai, or will you go on the expedition with my illness?" ”

Bai Nanyu lowered her eyebrows and said, "If Huo Hou didn't give orders, I would go to track down the traces of the family." ”

Huo Quzhi said: "Go find Zhuo Huai, I'll let Xiuyi cooperate with you." ”

Liu Qing picked the corners of his mouth.

She can tolerate Zhuo Qingke, who is not a threat.

But this Bai Nanyu is a vixen, which makes Liu Qing inexplicably a little disliked, and plans to keep this vixen away from her husband.

Bai Nanyu got up from the low seat and saluted Liu Qing first, and then it was Huo Quai's turn: "If the Hou Ye and the princess have no other orders, I will go?" ”

Seeing that Huo Quzhi nodded and agreed, he walked away with a light gait.

……

"Husband, you have taken that Bai Nanyu under your command, do you have other thoughts?"

At night, on the couch in the dormitory, the husband and wife talked at night, Liu Qing asked.

Huo Quzhi made a pun and teased: "Your Royal Highness the princess, don't worry, she is not as big as you, I don't like small ones." ”

Liu Qing chuckled and said, "So you like Roshna?" ”

Luo Shina is a native of the Western Regions, which is different from the Han people, so her magnificence is better than that of Her Royal Highness the Princess, and Bai Nanyu is slightly inferior to Liu Qing.

Zhuo Qingke is not as good as Bai Nanyu. Roughly D+, D, C, B order.

Late March.

At noon, the emperor's study.

Liu Che, Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi, Li Cai, Zhang Tang, Dong Zhongshu and other civil and military officers who came back from Beiguan were present in turn.

Everyone was looking at the topography map of the Han Realm and its surrounding tribes hanging on the wall.

There are a number of red lines and black lines marked on the map, which are deduced and judged to be the routes that the Han and Hungarians may take in the battle.

"The Xiongnu will definitely go out on both fronts in this battle, and they have launched an offensive against the Western Regions from the Western Front before."

Li Cai also fought with Wei Qing back then, understood military affairs, and said:

"The Xiongnu are trying to lure our army into a confrontation in the northwest.

On the way to the west, Loulan, Pu and other countries firmly curb the main routes in and out of the Western Regions, and the terrain is more favorable to them. ”

Wei Qing: "Ren will not be willing to suppress our army only on the Western Front, he will have other plans, at least two simultaneous routes, so that I can't take care of both." ”

The emperor groaned for a moment and said, "In this way, I will issue an edict to lead the army to meet the Huns."

Wei Qing stayed behind and controlled the whole army to deal with the possible offensive of the Xiongnu. ”

The crowd shouted in unison.

"The day after tomorrow is the auspicious time, I will worship my ancestors in the temple, tell the heavens and the earth, go to the altar to worship the generals, and raise troops to break the Hun enemy."

After everyone dispersed, Huo Qubing took his uncle Wei Qing to the Weijun Palace.

Ru Bohu had been waiting here in advance, and many generals of the guard army were also there.

"The Xiongnu still have a road of soldiers and horses, and now they are hiding their traces, but I judge that they may attack the counties of our Han border from the east side, or even use sea ships to bypass the border and surprise attack the counties along the Bohai Sea, my uncle must be guarded against."

Huo Quzhi and Ru Bohu spoke in turns, talking about the discovery in Yan Sect and the judgment of the follow-up situation.

Huo Quzhi and Wei Qing unfolded the map, and the nephews and uncles made a rehearsal of how to cooperate and the situation after the war.

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Xiongnu, Ulaanbaatar.

The long wind howled.

Below the heights, hundreds of tribes of the Xiongnu swayed their banners and stretched their armies.

The banners of these Xiongnu tribes are painted with wolf heads, eagles, and some depict scarlet shamanic incantations, waving in the wind.

The cavalry rode proudly on their horses, so they were ready to go out for battle.

The Xiongnu soldiers and horses gathered, and the murderous spirit and war spirit blended.

In the grasslands around Ulaanbaatar, cattle and sheep dare not roar, and gophers shiver and hide in their burrows.

Even the wolves hundreds of miles away had a strong fear of the direction in which the armies were converging, and they avoided it far away, not daring to approach.

And under the heights of Ulaanbaatar, countless Huns, including women and children from various tribes, are looking up at the king's tent with feverish eyes.

There is not only a great shaman, Shan Yi Zhixi, but also a god general who once led the grassland tribes to attack the city and plunder the land!

Its body is majestic, with a particularly thick and strong body, like a majestic peak, standing on the high ground with his hands in his hands, and his long hair is shawl.

Yi Zhi obliquely looked down at the hundred soldiers and horses below, his brows furrowed.

Just because the borage appeared, tens of thousands of Huns below turned over from their horses and knelt on the ground and kowtowed, as if they were meeting a god.

This is a treatment that even he has never had.

On the high platform on one side, the great shaman has a blood-colored ritual painted on his face, wears a feather crown on his head, and holds a leather drum in his hand, which is gently beaten.

He was barefoot in front of the people below, chanting shamanic rituals, walking strangely like dancing, and occasionally beating the drum with one hand, performing the shaman's unique ritual of sending troops to sacrifice.

The wind is blowing.

The great shaman's voice suddenly became high-pitched, and in the strange sound of incantations, the entire altar was enveloped in a black gas.

And the black qi slowly gathered into a hazy figure that was a few feet high.

The great shaman slaughtered cattle and sheep, eagles, and wolves, and sacrificed them with blood.

Strangely, when the blood of the eagle is spilled, wings sprout from behind the black shadow; When sprinkled with the blood of cattle and sheep, its body slowly rises up; When sprinkled with the blood of a hunting wolf, a pack of wolves emerges from its feet for it to drive.

The whole process is weird and indescribable.

The great shaman suddenly shook the leather drum in his hand and shouted loudly!

Knock - knock!

The sound of drums shook the grassland, and the hazy figure suddenly turned into a black storm, sweeping into the thousands of troops and horses below.

"Fight to win!

Fight to win!

Fight to win! ”

The soldiers and horses gathered by the various tribes of the Huns sounded the wild shouts of the mountains shaking the ground.

"Edu, how are you going to fight this battle?" Yi Zhi asked.

"See how the Han people respond and then decide, there is no need to do unnecessary deliberation in advance."

Borage's voice is majestic and full of certainty.

Viewed from the flanks, his face looks like a knife and axe, giving people a sculpture-like unshakable and tough look.

Yi Zhi slanted: "Han General Huo Qu is the best at running and attacking, if he comes to attack the rear of my department for a long time, can you be prepared, how to deal with it?" ”

"I can't guess the route of their march, because the battlefield is vast, and there are many ways to march.

rashly inferred that he would only be restrained step by step, lose the initiative, and be led by others. ”

And he added: "But though I cannot guess the route of their march, they will not think of my arrangement. ”

At this time, the horn sounded below, and the Huns combined their troops, more than 150,000 elites, turned their horses' heads, and rode away.

The borage swept his eyes at the various divisions that had raised troops like a tide, and said, "You let Yu Jian also lead the troops into the battle?" ”

He is the son of Yi Zhixian and is only 21 years old this year.

He was not close to Yi Zhixi's father and son, but admired Borage very much, and worshiped Borage as a teacher when he was a child.

Over the years, he has been in his maternal clan, the Lan clan, and rarely comes to the Xiongnu court.

Yi Zhi slanted: "What he asked to go to, the warriors of my grassland can only grow up in the war.

It's a good thing that he's willing to go to war, and he deserves to be my son of Yizhi. ”

"Alright, you wait for my news."

The borage didn't make any movement, but it disappeared suddenly.

Immediately, at the end of the line of sight of Yi Zhixian and the others, in front of the expeditionary army, a pitch-black giant horse appeared on the figure of Borage Du Wei'an.

Ichi's slanted pupils contracted for a moment.

The speed and manner of Borage's movement, he couldn't see it at all, and he couldn't catch half of the trajectory.

And the ability of borage to move hundreds of zhang in an instant, and the ability to appear at the end of the line of sight is even more amazing.

In the distance, because of the appearance of Borage, the Huns behind him all burst into cheers.

The Hun army galloped away with murderous spirit.

They firmly believed that this battle would destroy all resistance of the Han army and revive the myth of the invincibility of the Xiongnu across the steppe!

……

March 26.

Early in the morning, the flank of Weiyang Palace, the temple of the Liu clan.

Zongmiao is the place to pay tribute to Emperor Gaozu and the ancestors of the Liu family.

The ministers, the clan relatives are all here, the forbidden army is numerous, and the scene is solemn.

The Emperor and Empress had begun their bathing and vows a few days before, and it was not until the early morning that day that they were dressed up.

The podium is a national salute and one of the most glorious moments in a general's life.

The monarch personally worshiped the generals, since the founding of the Han Dynasty, there have only been four times, Huaiyin Hou Han Xin, Tiao Hou Zhou Yafu, Changping Hou Weiqing, and now the champion Hou Huo is sick.

There are hundreds of officials, accompanied by clan relatives.

Qingyue's chimes were struck and rang, shaking Chang'an.

This is the etiquette of worshipping generals handed down from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and every step is exquisite, and there can be no trespassing.

Liu Che's expression was solemn and majestic, he walked out of the main hall of the temple, came to the outside of the hall, and looked at the front of the ministers, Huo Quai, who was dressed in military uniform.

"I heard that the Huns gathered all the departments under their command and sent troops to force our Han.

At present, the existing Xiongnu army, I want to use Langzhong to order Huo to go sick, worship the lord will go on the expedition, and make a special sacrifice to heaven and earth, and inform the ancestors and ancestors.

Huo Quai, I am leading your army to face the Huns, are you willing to go? ”

Huo Quzhi said loudly: "The minister has been waiting for this moment for many years, and I am willing to go!" ”

The emperor and Wei Qing on the side, Wei Zifu all curled the corners of their mouths.

According to the etiquette given by Taichang Zhouping, Huo Qubing at this time needs to be impassioned, speak at length, tell the loyalty and patriotism of the monarch, and then kowtow to greet him and express his wish.

Huo Quzhi changed the word, only one sentence.

Liu Che waved his hand, and Jiang Yan, the great yin and yang family, stepped forward to divinate and ask the heavens and the earth.

He threw two yin and yang sticks into the sky, which were relatively like a full moon, which means good luck.

The time chosen is the middle of today's day, that is, after the sun rises into the sky, the army will officially start.

The emperor then entered the main hall of the temple again, and held a ceremony to confer the generals in front of the spirit tablets of the ancestors.

This time, Huo Qubing also followed into the temple.

Emperor Liu Che stood to the east, facing west.

And Huo Qubing is in the south, facing the north, and the so-called northward minister is this meaning.

Liu Che held the bronze "Yue" (representing the authority of the general) in his hand, first took the head of the Yue, handed the handle to Huo Quai, and said: "From now on, the one who goes up to heaven will be the general!" ”

This is the authorization, which clearly grants the general the power of life and death!

Liu Che once again held the handle of the Yue in his hand, handed the blade to the main general, and said: "From now on, those who go down to the abyss will be controlled by the general!" ”

When the blade said this to the commander, it was a warning to the commander to respect himself and not to abuse his military power.

Liu Che then explained to the commander-in-chief the principles of the battle as follows:

"If you see the void, you will advance, and if you see the truth, you will stop. Don't underestimate the enemy with the crowd of the three armies, don't die because of the weight of the order, don't be cheap because you're noble, don't disobey the crowd with your own opinions, and don't take arguments as inevitable.

It will be the same as the cold and the summer. In this way, the people will do their best. ”

The meaning of this passage is not to underestimate the enemy; Don't rush in; Don't despise others by holding on to your own identity; Don't be stubborn; We must share weal and sorrow with our soldiers.

At this point, the prayer will be preliminarily completed.

Even the emperor had to bow down to Huo Quai, expressing the great trust of the country, and the matter of life and death would be handed over to Huo Quai's hand from this moment on.

Huo Qu bowed back when he was sick, took the Yu in the emperor's hand, and said loudly:

"Ministers and ministers cannot rule the country from outside, and the army cannot be ruled from the middle. You can't be a gentleman with two hearts, and you can't be suspicious of the enemy.

The minister was ordered to hold the power of the Yue, and did not dare to survive, and I hope that the king will also give a word to the minister. The king does not allow the ministers, and the ministers dare not be generals. ”

It means that since the emperor has given me so much power, I will never have two hearts, and I will repay the country with death. I only ask Your Majesty to give me full power if you want to authorize, otherwise I will not dare to be a general.

These are all fixed routines and lines, and they have been rehearsed beforehand. When the emperor heard this, he promised to grant full powers and not interfere with the command of the army.

So, worship will succeed.

Then the heavens and the earth were sacrificed again, the drums were sounded in unison, the ancestors and the ancestors were announced, and the monarchs and ministers saluted each other.

The sacredness and solemnity of this ceremony is one of the most solemn ceremonies for the Han Dynasty.

If Huo Qubing can return to the dynasty victoriously, there will be a more solemn farewell to the heavens and return to the court, and the lord of the country needs to personally go outside the city to welcome the triumphant victory of the army, and the city gates of Chang'an are fully opened, and the people will welcome each other!

At present, it is the beginning of the ceremony, and the army can be raised, and the emperor and Huo Qubing and other important ministers will go outside the city instead.

In the team of clan relatives, Princess Pingyang, Liu Jue, Liu Yan and others, who have not yet recovered from their miserable faces, are also there.

They all tried to hide in the car as much as possible, looking at the young general who was surrounded by thousands of people from afar, with mixed feelings.

PS: Today it is still more than 9,000, and the number of words is more than three more. Ask for a ticket, thank you~

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