Chapter 502 Fighting the Autumn Wind
The migration of such a large tribe cannot be completely concealed, unless there are no old, weak, women and children in the tribe, but all young and strong warriors who can ride horses and bend bows. The latter can pass through the robbery The combination of plundering the mouth and moving at high speed can form one's own concealment, but the former is basically impossible if you bring a family with you.
At the same time, various nearby savage tribes also sent their own warriors and began to come out for surveillance, and more and more of these warriors gathered. You have two to three thousand, and others have four to five thousand. Quickly, on the tribe's migration journey, a total of nearly 20,000 savage warriors from various tribes began to eye them.
Messages began to be passed quickly between various ministries, and at the same time, new warriors began to enter from the periphery.
Snowfield has always had its own survival and development model. To use the blind man's saying, the lower the productivity, the clearer the survival rules are.
The entire snowfield is a huge Gu breeding ground.
A few years ago, a Savage King was raised. After the Savage King was defeated by the Yan people, the black dragon flag on the Snow Pass became a nightmare for many tribes in the Snowfield.
Fortunately, this nightmare has no intention of entering the snowfield in a large scale for the time being. Therefore, although everyone does not dare to jump like the Naiman tribe, it is certain to continue to maintain the annexation, absorption and development of the tribe.
This new migrating tribe is like a group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered. The warriors sent by the surrounding tribes are intended to divide the meat.
Soon, some knowledgeable tribal elders made guesses from some of the characteristics of this migrating tribe, thinking that this tribe was probably from the far north.
The snowfield is large, but there are not many places suitable for living and breeding. The far north is considered a restricted area for the wild people in the snowfield themselves.
But this does not mean that there are no tribes living there. In fact, there are some, but the tribes there are generally weak and extremely scattered.
Because, for any powerful tribe, people have long come out from the extreme north to grab a pasture in other parts of the snowfield.
And the leaders of these tribes wandering around the periphery also saw that these tribes seemed to be together, but in fact, they should be spliced together.
It is common for savage tribes in the snowfield to migrate. They move from one pasture to another to achieve the purpose of resting grazing. This is a treatment only available to large tribes;
Small and medium-sized tribes have to migrate as a whole due to changes in the environment and changes in water and grass. This is the normal state of the snowfield;
Therefore, the snowfield tribe basically has the experience of migration and has rich experience.
Whenever they migrate, the tribal livestock, old and weak women and children will be arranged in specific positions. The warriors within the tribe will be integrated and a main force will be divided into a fist to march in front, and the other group will be divided into three parts. , then cruise around the tribe.
The former shows off their strength to other tribes who dare to change their minds, while the latter is to guard against some people taking advantage of the situation and causing chaos.
As for the current migrating tribe, although the warriors among them are extremely poorly equipped and rarely see armor, their number is actually quite large. There are very few old people in the team, which means , there are very few burdens. After all, in that place in the far north, those who can survive have been cruelly selected by nature.
But their young and strong men were all divided into various parts of the team and did not gather together at all. Especially when they discovered that the external tribal troops had malicious intentions, they almost instinctively divided into groups one after another.
The law of survival in the snowfield is that when you face a pack of wolves, you must aim your last arrow at one wolf, so that the entire wolf pack will be afraid of you.
But this team obviously failed to do it.
Several large tribes that have sent troops have begun to blow their horns and raise their own flags. The previous wait was firstly to wait for warriors from all walks of life to gather, and secondly to discuss the relocation team of 30,000 people in front of them. , how to share the food, this is a feast that belongs to everyone.
At the front of the migration team, a gray-haired old man with a string of human skulls hanging around his neck squinted and looked around.
There are nearly a thousand warriors protecting him.
He is Sang Hu, who was once a great general under the command of the Savage King. He originally had a grudge against the Star Sacrifice, but was placed by the Savage King in the position of the Great Elder of the Star Sacrifice.
When Wangjiang was defeated, he and the Savage King were separated. After much hardship, he finally returned to the snowfield.
As the most loyal subordinate to the Savage King, he went to find the 800 loyal warriors who had been left behind by the Savage King when he entered the customs. This was the final back-up.
Leading these more than 800 warriors, Sang Hu went to the far north, where he gathered a large number of scattered small tribes and finally became a little more peaceful again.
He is waiting, waiting for Wang's return;
Even if there are rumors that Wang has been killed by the Yan people or captured in Yanjing, he is still waiting.
He has no children, no worries, and no worries. Such a person is actually the most loyal.
Finally,
he received a letter from the king.
Therefore, he immediately led this patchwork tribe and began to migrate south.
At this time, he faced the surrounding soldiers and horses of the savage tribes. There was no fear in his eyes, but he silently let his men fly the royal flag of the savage king!
The Savage King's royal flag is made of snow wolf leather and shines silver in the sunlight.
The former Wang Banner was lost on the battlefield and was brought back to Yanjing as a trophy by the Yan people. This side was remade by Sang Hu himself when he hunted the snow wolf.
When the banner of the Savage King appears again,
The tribal troops staring around here immediately became quite panicked.
The Savage King was once the pride of the snowfield. Like a proud lone wolf, he almost led the savages in the snowfield to create a miracle. Although he failed in the end, it was the most shocking moment for the savages in hundreds of years. A visit to one's heart is also the closest to one's homeland.
But soon,
under the comfort of the leaders, the emotions of the warriors of each tribe immediately calmed down.
The prestige of the Savage King is indeed still hovering above the snowfield, but his people are no longer there after all.
What's there to fear about a person who doesn't exist?
Sang Hu silently drew out his sword,
In his eyes,
the many tribes soldiers and horses around him were not fellow tribesmen, but real enemies.
In fact,
The current situation on the snowfield is equivalent to a reshuffle after the era of the Savage King.
The tribes that believed in and were willing to follow the Savage King at the beginning all sent their elites to follow the Savage King into the pass, while those big tribes that thought highly of themselves continued to sit back and watch;
And when the Savage King After the news of the defeat came, these big clans immediately began to annex the tribes of the followers of the Savage King.
The Naiman tribe is one of the best examples.
The tribe that originally contributed warriors and even leaders to follow the Savage King lost its youth and strength, and was severely weakened. Faced with the annexation of other tribes, it no longer had the ability to resist.
The noble line was slaughtered, and the tribe's population was reduced to low-level slaves who annexed the tribe.
Sang Hu remembered that the Savage King once told all of them that the real reason for the decline of the Holy Clan lay with himself.
Because of the bad nature of the saints themselves, although they all accept the guidance of the stars, the starry sky above each tribe is actually completely different.
The Savage King taught them that they should know how to allow those short-sighted comrades to exist, and wait until their great cause is successful before leading them and pulling them to their side.
But what about them?
How did they
do it?
When Grimm led his army to attack Snow Customs to open up a retreat for the army to return to the snowfield, behind the Snow Customs, the tribes chose to stand still.
If they had also sent troops to attack at that time, Xuehaiguan, which was attacked from both sides, might not be able to hold on.
They chose to sit back and watch the demise of their own kind, and at the same time, they ate up those people's tribes.
Sang Hu's anger towards these savage tribes has exceeded his anger towards the Yan people.
In fact, there is really nothing to hate against the Yan people. After all, the Yan people are indeed powerful. They defeated them directly. They lost, and they were convinced.
But this kind of savagery of the same kind can often inspire the disgust and hatred deep in people's hearts;
Outside, what the enemy stabs into your chest is a sharp steel knife. When you pull it out, you will be carrying your own hot blood, and the pain will only It is temporary, and death means death. In my heart, at least there is still a blessing from the stars;
But when you are stabbed by your own people, they use weapons stained with livestock excrement, even if you After death, dirty things will continue to stain your body.
The Savage King once said to Uncle Zheng,
He said that this generation of Savages is over, and even the next generation, and the next generation after that, are also over.
Because he gathered a group of people with vision, courage and courage among the three generations of savages. After making a desperate move, he failed, and the failure was too complete.
After a person dies, he can be reborn. But if his soul is gone, no matter how many lives he is given, he is just a piece of pig.
Uncle Zheng can understand this lament of the Savage King. The rise of a nation requires various opportunities. It just happens that in an era, the elites join forces to break out, so that this nation can open up a new world.
If this group of elites loses themselves, then this nation will go astray and collapse. And if the true elite of this nation is completely wiped out, then it will really be completely hopeless.
Sang Hu’s sword showed a cold light in the sun. He knew that it would be difficult for the patchwork tribe behind him to muster any fighting power. And if he continued to develop on the edge of the Far North, Maybe ten years later, twenty years later, He would be able to create a tribe of his own, branded with the clan emblem of his choice;
But he still chose to follow the guidance of the letter. In the letter, the Savage King told him straightforwardly that he Tired, he wanted to live for himself again.
Sang Hu felt that this was right. Rather than having a tribe of his own, he hoped to see the Savage King again in his lifetime.
Just like when the Savage King naughtily pushed him, the executioner with his hands stained with the blood of the Star Sacrifice, to the position of the Great Elder of the Star Sacrifice.
Sang Hu asked him why he did this.
The Savage King said that he was happy;
Sang Hu was also very happy now.
In his eyes, he had already locked the flag of a tribe in front of him. The flag was a black wolf. There were three thousand warriors in that tribe, and the leader was wearing extremely fancy armor.
Sang Hu felt that the thousand warriors under his command should be able to help him and create an opportunity for him to kill the leader of the Black Wolf tribe opposite him.
He is not afraid of death. He can numbly choose the way of death and the glory before death.
On the periphery, as the horns sounded more and more intensively, the troops and horses of various tribes began to prepare themselves and prepare for a charge.
And this migrating team began to divide more clearly into groups, waiting to be defeated one by one.
However,
at this moment,
The warriors on the periphery who were preparing to charge suddenly broke into a huge commotion, and even the nobles and leaders in their formation could not calm down this commotion in a short time.
The battlefield that was originally ready to go suddenly came to a standstill.
Because,
In the south, a cavalry team in black armor appeared, flying the black dragon flag and the "Zheng" flag.
They were not many in number, only about three hundred riders, but when they appeared, they instantly became the focus of the audience.
At the beginning, the Naiman tribe shot and killed a group of Jin fugitives relatively close to the Xueguan Pass, which angered the uncle of the Xueguan Pass and led to the genocide.
Now, not to mention the entire snowfield, at least the entire eastern snowfield area knows that no matter what, they must pay enough respect to the person at the snow customs.
Jin Shuke silently took off the bearskin gloves in his hands.
The summer in the snowy field is not too hot, but it is not to the point of wearing gloves.
Jin Shuke took off his gloves and his hands were already wet.
But he liked it
because it was a gift given to him by his uncle alone.
Moreover,
He is obsessed with the feeling of folding two gloves together and flicking them on the back of his hand to make a "pop" sound after taking off the gloves;
This It is also a movement learned from Uncle Zheng,
Jin Shu didn't know the word "handsome", but he instinctively felt that this action was very beautiful.
“Give me an order to those savage tribes. If anyone dares to act rashly, I will destroy that tribe first.”
“Yes, General.”
“Yes, General."
A group of messengers left the team.
At this time, a deputy general next to Jin Shuke asked:
"General, do you need to send an order to the rear to mobilize troops now?"
Jin Shuke shook his head and said:
"Don't worry, people are coming from the north, and guests are coming from the south. I guess it's not our turn to take action."
"What a pity." The lieutenant general was a little disappointed.
"My uncle has to give him some respect for the one who once served as our uncle. Besides, you should thank that person for coming, otherwise our uncle probably wouldn't have planned to fight this battle. < br>
There are so many savage tribes, haha, I suggested to my uncle a long time ago that we should go north of our Snow Customs , carve out a pasture for ourselves.
The savages know how to graze, but we barbarians can’t do it.
Although the weather here is bitterly cold, after the winter, this pasture will be the same. So fertile.”
Speaking of which,
Jinshu seemed to have remembered something,
and then ordered:
"Go down and prepare dry food for the expedition."
"Yes, general."< br>
“Hey, wait.”
Jin Shuke hesitated for a moment, then said:
“Forget it, there is no need to prepare in advance, just wait for Uncle Zheng’s formal order.”
……
Uncle Zheng is indeed News received from the north.
Although there were no plans to open up the snowfields here at Xuehaiguan due to limited troops and other reasons, thanks to the efforts of a group of magic sticks represented by Kong Yuan and Liaofan, the people near Xueguan have been able to Some small tribes defected secretly.
When the migration team appeared, they immediately rushed to report to Snow Customs.
Uncle Zheng’s first reaction was that the Savage King’s back-up force had arrived, and he immediately sent the blind man to take charge of the matter, but he himself could not get away.
Because,
Li Fusheng is here.
Li Fusheng was not wearing armor and was wearing casual clothes. He looked like an old farmer. When he came, he was riding his beast and had only seven or eight personal guards around him.
"Ah ha ha ha, here comes the wine, here comes the wine, little Zhengzi, brother, I have been craving for your wine for a long time! Also, it's delicious and delicious. Come on, come on, come on. I'm going to be hungry all day long before I go on the road. I came to you.”
Uncle Zheng’s life is not luxurious, but it is definitely the most exquisite.
Before Zheng Fan came over, Xiao Yibo had already ordered the kitchen to prepare the dishes.
By the time Zheng Fan walked into the hall, Li Fusheng had already poured himself a large amount of wine.
"Come on, come on, sit around, let me have a drink with my brother, haha. I am here to enjoy the autumn breeze. Do you think it's strange? It's obvious that there are not many people around your snowy customs. , it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most miserable and poor place, but looking over, this little life is actually prosperous
In my opinion, it would be unreasonable to let you go to Xue Customs. It would be more appropriate to let you go to Yingdu. The money and food from Yingdu for the second half of the year have just been shipped, and they are actually less than the first half of the year. If I hadn't known that there was going to be a war. Yes, there will be other batches of money and food coming soon. I have to send someone to Yingdu to talk to those officials in Yingdu. "
"These civil servants are just unreliable in their work. ”
Uncle Zheng helped with the scolding.
He didn’t blush at all, because the reductions in Li Fusheng’s department were actually made up for on him.
The second half of the year After the money and grain arrived, the situation was better than before The normal quota is doubled. This is based on the normal quota. If we compare it with the fact that other garrison generals can only get more than 60%, it can be said that Uncle Zheng got 30% of the normal quota this time. Times.
It is even more comfortable to have someone in the court who is easy to be an official, and there is support from the local government.
Li Fusheng picked up the wine bowl and said: "I came here with the military order of King Jingnan."
Uncle Zheng didn't get up to take the order. They were all members of his own family, and they were still here. Occasion, too formal will appear too raw.
"Seeing that a war is about to begin, the prince ordered me to lead my own army of 40,000 troops, plus two Jin camps of 30,000 troops, for a total of 70,000 troops, to come to your place to fight the autumn wind. The troops and horses are behind, probably tomorrow morning Come, I’ll come over to eat and drink first, haha.”
When you hit the autumn wind, you definitely don’t eat snow customs, you must eat snowfields.
In fact, before going to Yanjing, Tian Wujing told Zheng Fan that he would send troops and horses to help Zheng Fan tidy up the snowy plains. But didn't this coincide with the time when Emperor Yan was about to start a war with Chu? Uncle Zheng originally thought that he should It's all over. Who would have thought that Tian Wujing really hadn't forgotten the herd of animals of the savages in the snowfield.
Zheng Fan said with a smile:
"What a coincidence, isn't it? Just before, I just received a military report. There were tens of thousands of savage soldiers dozens of miles north of our snow customs. The horses gathered."
"Poof!"
Li Fusheng spit out the wine he just drank. He had this instinct and would not drink during a war.
At the same time,
Li Fusheng’s eyes immediately started to turn red. It was obvious that he had relapsed into his old habit. He impatiently called to his bodyguards:
“Quickly, send the order quickly and ask them to speed up. March, before midnight, first The vanguard must come here for me! If I miss this opportunity, I will skin those brats!"
After giving the order,
Li Fusheng grabbed Zheng Fan again! arms,
He said excitedly:
"Brother, give it to me, give it to me, give it to me! Brother, I really can't hold it back! Brother, I really can't hold it in!!!"
< br>"Bang!"
Outside the hall,
Liu Ruqing, who came in with a plate of pastries, accidentally broke the plate.
When a close guest comes to the house, it is etiquette for the female family members to show up.
The Fourth Lady is working in the custody room and cannot get out of the house for the time being. The princess has a title in the Yan Kingdom, so Li Fusheng has to salute her when visiting guests, which is inconvenient.
So, only half of the concubine, Liu Ruqing, can come to see the guests.
Seeing Liu Ruqing squatting down to pick up the broken plates, Zheng Fan immediately came over and pulled her up,
"Just ask the servants to take care of it. Don't cut your hand."
Liu Ruqing looked up at Uncle Zheng and said timidly;
"Yes, the slave family knows."
< br>Well,
Why is her gaze so weird?
Your face is still a little pale?
Actually,
what Liu Ruqing was thinking was:
No wonder he has never wanted me and only likes me to call him uncle. It turns out that he... (this chapter End)