Chapter 32: Is It That Stupid?
The rhythmic horn sounded on the south bank of Luoshui.
The slender men staggered along the soft riverside meadows, pulling boats laden with grain upstream.
The autumn rains continue and the water rises sharply.
The turbid river water mixed with sediment and fallen leaves surged down to the Yellow River.
Occasionally, corpses can be seen. Floating in the river, as if struggling, as if drifting with the current.
Before they die, they may still be thinking about their wives and children at home, thinking about the work in the fields, and fantasizing about whether next year will be a good year.
But under the general trend, people are trapped in it, except to go to the mountains to be savages, otherwise they can't escape war and death.
Along the way, I encountered some villages and fortress walls.
The village was deserted. When camping at night, you can see a thick layer of dust, which is obviously uninhabited for a long time.
Many houses were demolished and wood, masonry and even adobe were removed and turned into makeshift camps.
Broken clay pots, broken arrows, and even white bones can be seen everywhere, silently telling the suffering of the time.
In fact, not to mention the village, along the way, the earthen fence that was not high enough and not thick enough was gradually abandoned.
Those who survived either went to the mountains to build camps, or built large dock forts on flat land, or ran back and forth in the mountains and plains, not afraid of hard work, went down to the mountains to cultivate during the day, and went into the mountains at night to take refuge, and survived in the troubled times.
When camping and marching, they are often attacked by enemy cavalry.
The number of enemy horsemen on the north bank of Luoshui was small, but they followed them to the death.
You stop, he stops, you go, he follows, all the way to watch.
There were more enemy horsemen on the south bank, but not as many as expected. In total, there were three or four thousand horses, and they were divided into three groups, one herding horses, one resting, and one harassing.
The veterans of the Silver Lance Army have long been accustomed to eating, drinking, and sleeping.
Under their guidance, the 11th and 12th recruits behaved quite calmly - in fact, they were not recruits, they had undergone three years of rigorous training, and they were not bad in all aspects, but what they lacked was war experience.
The auxiliaries were a little commotional, but under the stick education, they barely suppressed the fear in their hearts, and as time passed, the fear diminished slightly, much better than when they first came out of the tiger prison.
The calmest thing is probably the troop transport on the boat.
No matter how powerful the Hun cavalry was, they couldn't swim to the river to fight.
Standing on the bank of the river and shooting at them, that would be even more disadvantageous. They had cabins to shelter, the Huns did not.
Even if you really swim in the water at night and fight on the water, you don't know who is more powerful.
What is there to be afraid of?
As long as Chen Gong's troops can protect the river bank and don't let the Huns attack and kill the slender man, then there will be nothing at all.
When it was time to return, the boat would be down the river, and even the slender man would be saved, so it would be safer.
On September 13, the army had reached the vicinity of Gongxian and finally ushered in the first relatively large-scale siege.
Almost front and rear, the Hun cavalry of the brigade moved eastward, the number was as high as 5,000, and went straight to the direction of Chenggao and Hujiaoguan.
Two days later, the brigade was transferred from outside Luoyang and galloped along the north bank of Luoshui.
And so, a miracle appeared-
Shao Xun escorted a large number of boats upstream, along the south bank of Luoshui, to Luoyang.
The Huns rode mightily, left Luoyang, went down the river, and went straight to Chenggao and Tiger Prison.
More and more Hun rangers were ordered to be transferred to Gongxian.
They gathered around the fleet and the fleet, staring at each other, as if waiting for the next order.
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Tens of thousands of troops were stationed at Yique Pass and rested.
Liang Fen, Beigong Chun, and Fu Chang climbed to the top of the city and looked into the distance.
"See the Governor of the Battalion." A junior colonel shouted.
Liang Fen and the others turned to look, but saw a young general walking over.
This man was taller, burly, wearing a martial crown on his head, stroking a knife in his left hand, and holding a long lance in his right hand.
Although he was wearing heavy armor, he still walked like a fly, and after seeing Liang Fen from a distance, he walked a few steps quickly to salute.
Liang Fen and others returned the gift.
"Duke Liang wants to go north to Luoyang?" The person who came was Shao Shen, who hung up the position of the governor of the battalion army in the Xuchang shogunate.
He is not yet married, but the marriage contract has been decided, and he is the granddaughter of Du Yin, the owner of a spring.
Don't look at Du Tan and Du Yin, who have become the masters of Wubao, but their relationship network in the DPRK and China is still there.
Shao Shen's wife, who did not pass through the door, said to be Du Wuku's great-granddaughter, and the marriage was the head snake of Yiyang.
Du Tan and Du Yin brothers have lived in a spring dock for a long time, and it is difficult to be called Jingzhao people, and it is certain to set up another room.
If Yiquanwu is not dilapidated and the Du brothers survive and grow, this will be Jingzhao Du's Yiyang House in the future.
"General Shao can send scouts to investigate Guanbei?" Liang Fen asked.
"I sent someone to investigate ten days ago, but no one came back." Shao Shen said with some embarrassment: "The Huns are the most thieves. To tell the truth, I used to hear people talk about the melee of the kings, the Xianbei cavalry dared to charge head-on hand-to-hand combat, and the Huns were the most cowardly, one person with two horses, no armor, wearing a fur coat, swaying around. As soon as there is a stir, it immediately disperses. But they scattered and didn't go far, still staring at you. They didn't dare to charge head-on, but they were good at intercepting couriers, driving out rangers, and killing scouts, and you had heard, the other day—"
"Wait." Liang Fen stopped Shao Shen's words with a smile, and said, "That is to say, from Yique Pass to Luoyang, are there any thieves, how many thieves are there, and where are the thieves?" ”
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"I don't know." Shao Shen sighed.
Liang Fen nodded, looked at Guan Bei again, and was silent.
Shao Shen looked at Beigong Chun and said, "Does Duke Liang want to return north to Luoyang?" I see that you have a lot of cavalry, why don't I also lead people to rush and kill with the army for a while? I don't have many cavalry troops, but there are still three or four hundred people, all of whom are brave and brave warriors, how about it? ”
"Governor." Some military schools can't help but remind.
Liang Fen laughed and said, "The general's good intentions, the old man understands it." Yique Pass is very important, once it falls, the captain of the thief brigade drives straight into Liang County. I heard that Gong Chen's family was there, and once he was disturbed, he was afraid that it would not be beautiful. ”
"They moved to Xuchang at the beginning of the month." Shao Shen said: "But you are right. I also have an uncle in Guangchengze - uh, Guangchengze has a field of compassion, a field of Lu, a military field, as well as a granary, a craftsman's camp, and a pasture, which really can't be looted by thieves. Alas, it's a pity. ”
Liang Fen shook his head and smiled, and continued to look north.
Fu Chang rang for a while, and asked Shao Shen: "Does the little general know the situation of the enemy and our troops around Luoyang?" ”
"I don't know much, and some of them aren't necessarily true, so let's listen to them." Shao Shen said.
"My second uncle has escorted the grain into Beijing, and it should not have arrived in Luoyang at this time, whether the Huns have sent people to besiege it, I don't know."
"Wang Mitun's soldiers in Xin'an seem to be building a city. Occasionally, a small group of men and horses were sent south to Luochuan to fight with the Yiyang Tun army. ”
"Taigu and Yuyuan are fine, and there are no thieves."
"There is Mi's Dock Fort on Songshan Mountain, and a small group of thieves appeared some time ago, forcing them to retreat, they should want to see if there is a mountain path leading to Xingyang."
"Mi's Dock Fort also said one thing, Baiguwu was besieged by the Xiongnu and suffered heavy casualties. This meeting may have been broken, and I don't know how many Cao's tribes are left. ”
"That's all. In fact, it is similar to the previous Huns entering the Kou. ”
Liang Fen, Fu Chang, and Beigong Chun looked at each other.
It's not the first time that the Huns have returned in vain under the city of Luoyang, so the question is, are they so stupid? Repeating useless work again and again?
Think too stupidly about the enemy, and fool not others, but yourself!
The most important thing is that now even the total strength of the Xiongnu is not known.
At this time, it is actually very dangerous to get out of Yique Pass, because you don't know anything about the outside world.
"Tomorrow to the north." Liang Fen thought about it for a long time, and finally just sighed and ordered.
If it is Mingjun today, he can camp at Yique Pass and make a decision after waiting and seeing.
But he was worried that the Son of Heaven was frightened, and when he saw that he had not come for a long time, he was resentful, and in the end it was the Liang clan who was unlucky, and his daughter who was unlucky.
He is not as chic as Shao Xun, and he can press the head of the Son of Heaven to force him to admit his mistakes.
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The sky is blue, the wilderness is vast, the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep.
From the east of Yewang to Jijun, the wilderness is thousands of miles, and there is no end as far as the eye can see.
In the cold autumn breeze, chariots, horses, cattle and sheep passed through barren fields, walked through dense meadows, skimmed high forts, and stopped on both sides of the clear Qishui.
The herdsmen drove their cattle and sheep to graze.
The shepherds washed their horses and adjusted their horned bows.
In the distance, the sound of the neat drill of the infantry cavalry could be heard.
The golden horde has fallen, and the king of Hanoi stayed in Qishui at night, wantonly enjoying the women who were offered by the handsome and powerful warriors of the country dock fort.
Even Ji Jun under the rule of Shao Thief, under the power of the Great Han Dynasty, had to give in.
Wonderful!
Jin Zhundian, the middle protector of the army, forbade the soldiers, and at this time took more than 1,000 elite horsemen to patrol along the river.
The people of Di and Qiang have cut down trees and encamped.
Xianbei of the four departments of Shangjun only set up a tent. In the evening, the shepherds who have finished mowing the grass carefully handle the fodder.
As the saying goes, horses have no night grass and no fat, and so do cattle and sheep.
Contrary to common people's imagination, the main source of food for ordinary herdsmen is actually cow, sheep and horse milk.
The milk can be freshly expressed, or it can be made into sour pulp and cheese, which can be stored for a longer time, and it is very hungry.
The steppe tribes migrate, and some of them leave for months or even a year or two, and they all depend on this thing to survive.
This is also incomparable to the Central Plains people.
In the past, Li Guangli conquered Dawan, and actually transported grain for a long distance, and finally returned to the army, which is really ridiculous.
The grassland tribes are fighting and driving cattle and sheep on an expedition, so why do you need a cart to transport grain?
It is a pity that the land of the Central Plains is fertile, but there is not much pasture, and I don't know how many years it will take to make these barren fields overgrown with common pastures in the grassland, so that the Han cavalry can drive freely, and there is no need to worry about military feeding.
After inspecting both sides of Qishui, the sky was already dark.
Jin Zhun temporarily arranged more than 3,000 horsemen and ordered them to go south along the Yellow River, cruising around, hunting and killing enemy scouts they encountered.
When we returned to the Golden Horde, the steaming roast lamb had been served.
The hearty voice of the king of Hanoi came from the tent: "Shao Xun is really a natural grassland general, and the cavalry is unbelievable. Rushing to Gou Xi in the first battle, he actually took a detour from Dahan County, and he was too bold. Haha, if he comes to vote, I will definitely report to the Son of Heaven, marry my sister to him, and in the future, I will listen to orders under my account as a big man and a horse. ”
After hearing this, Jin Zhun laughed secretly. Then he frowned again, if Shao Xun was really defeated and surrendered, it would not be a good thing for him.
You'd better die in Luoyang.
In the Han court, since Emperor Daxing, there are too many people who are worried about you.
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