I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 397 Yi Zhixie's Abacus
In the Central Plains to the south of the Great Wall, when the autumn harvest is in full swing, the Daibei Zhao Great Wall line of the northern border wall of the Han Dynasty has entered a state of combat readiness ahead of time with Mayi, and is gradually shrouded in a strange atmosphere.

——This kind of war has not happened for a long time.

In the distant Spring and Autumn Period, there was a wave of "righteous war" among the feudal lords and heroes in the Central Plains.

As the well-known saying of the two countries in the future, if the envoy is not beheaded, it means that no matter how arrogant or offensive the envoy sent by the enemy is, the personal safety of the envoy must be guaranteed-not only cannot be beheaded, but must be sent. People escort people back to their sphere of influence.

Another example is not to add mourning and not to cause evil, which means: you cannot launch a war against a country whose monarch is dead, is in mourning, or is suffering from natural disasters such as drought or flood.

Also on the battlefield, when the soldiers of Party A encounter the monarch of Party B, instead of launching an attack, they have to salute the local monarch.

Another example is that a gentleman does not hurt (chóng) injuries—he does not attack those who are already injured;
Don't catch Ermao - don't catch people who are old and have gray hair;
No drums, no rows - no attack can be launched until the enemy has set up a formation and beats the drums to indicate "ready to fight";
Don't pursue - When the enemy flees the battlefield, the victor can only pursue fifty steps at most, and must stop the pursuit after fifty steps, and let the defeated side escape.

Such a variety of things can be said to make the future generations puzzled, and even jokingly said: It was not until a man named Sun Tzu later taught these moral gentlemen what war is.

But if we really want to talk about the war etiquette of the Spring and Autumn Period, there is one thing that makes people laugh, or admirable, that is, declare war first.

——After deciding to start a war, the warring party must send an envoy to inform the other party: I want to fight you!
Not only to declare war, but also to tell the other party: what did you do wrong, who on my side sees you unhappy, and finally these people propose to beat you;
Afterwards, the envoy responsible for declaring war also had to represent his king to discuss the specific details of the war with the other side: when and where the battle will be fought better, how many people each side of you and I will send, and so on.

In the process, both sides will remain unbelievably candid.

——Fight wherever you say, fight when you say you want to fight, and send as many people as you say.

Zhidu still clearly remembers that in the early years, when he heard these hundreds of years ago war etiquette from his teacher Zhou Yafu, he still felt that it was abnormal and incredible.

——So many rules, so many rules and regulations, is this a war or a game?

On the contrary, Cheng Bushi showed a considerable degree of fascination for such war etiquette, and felt sorry for the "collapse of ritual and music" of the later heroes of the Warring States Period.

But in any case, Cheng Bushi and Zhidu at that time never expected that such a scene - this happened hundreds of years ago, and it seemed to be a bizarre scene of "ancient rumors". experience.

This is an unprecedented war.

To be precise, this was the first time since the Han Dynasty that the Han family had prepared in advance, the first time the Huns were unable to launch a sneak attack, and both sides were well aware of each other's actions.

But for such a war that has never happened before, the supreme commander sent by the Huns army in this battle: Youxian King Suda Yizhixie felt a little at a loss...
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"Wuzhou Sai..."

"Hey;"

"Sure enough."

"Han people, sure enough, they have already made preparations."

The first year of the Son of Heaven wins the new year, the first day of autumn and September.

Standing outside the Wuzhou Fortress at the front line of the Han-Hungarian Northern Territory, where the powers of the Han and Hungarian sides meet, Yi Zhixie let out a short sigh helplessly looking at the Wuzhou Fortress that had already been "empty".

As the current Xiongnu Shanyu: the "brother" of the half-brother of the military ministers (the Huns consider it common for brothers to share wives, concubines, and children), he is the most outstanding among the contemporary Suoda clans, and may even be better than the military officials The one I got closer to, Yi Zhixie, is certainly not a drunken idiot.

Not only is it not an idiot, but he has been influenced by his father since he was a child, and even grew up bathed in the flesh and blood of the Han people.

As the orphan of the Youxian King of the previous generation, Yi Zhixie is of course very aware of the fighting methods of the Han people and the significance of this fortress in front of him.

——As far as Yi Zhixie could see at the moment, from the south of Wuzhou Sai, there was a 'mountain trail' that was hundreds of miles long.

As long as you cross the wall of Wuzhou Fortress, even if you sleep on horseback, the horses can also send people on horseback to the outside of Mayi City along this wide path between the east and west mountains.

If the north of Mayi and the south of Wuzhou Sai are like the ham sausage of later generations, then Wuzhou Sai and Mayi are the steel rings that strangle the two ends of the ham sausage.

Going south from Wuzhou Sai, if you want to return to the grassland, you have to go back the same way and go north from Wuzhou Sai;

After passing Wuzhou Fortress and continuing southward, if you want to get out of this sausage-shaped terrain from the south, you must also cross Mayi.

But what Yi Zhixie knew was that in the past, Wuzhou Sai had always been used as an outpost for the Han people, or as an early-warning war.

However, the barrier wall hundreds of feet long and two feet high blocked the entrance of this mountain path;
In the middle of the wall, there is a towering beacon tower.

When the Huns appeared outside the pass wall, the only thing the dozen or so people in charge of stationing Wuzhou Sai had to do was to light the beacon for early warning before withdrawing south to Mayi.

But now, Yi Zhixie only saw the empty wall.

- the beacon is not lit;

——Guan Zu was not captured;

Even the stove pit in the pass has been covered by a layer of naturally scattered fly ash.

For every virtuous king of the Huns—every Hun who has fought against the Han people for half his life, it only means a possibility...

"The Han people had known for a long time that we were coming, so they simply withdrew the guards who lit the beacons and retreated to Mayi in advance."

"What about Mayi?"

"Will the Han people also withdraw Mayi's army ahead of time, leaving us only an empty city?"

Frowning and thinking for a moment, Yi Zhixie shook his head to himself.

--Won't.

The Han people gave up Wuzhou Fort just because in this war, Wuzhou Fort has no meaning of existence.

On the premise that the Huns are determined to go south from this direction, it is obviously not a good deal to take the risk of a few lives to make an early warning.

But Mayi is not a wall like Wuzhou Fortress, but a city surrounded by four walls.

From the first day of the completion of the construction, the meaning of Mayi's existence is to strangle the only gap in the Great Wall of Zhao, and use it as a transfer station for offense and defense.

With such a fortress, as long as the Han people dare to play empty city tricks, Yi Zhixie will dare to cross the gap in the Great Wall of Zhao where Mayi is located, and go to the hinterland of Daiguo to see what the capital of the Han Emperor Taizong once lived in. bustling scene.

And this is really the reason why Yi Zhixie feels at a loss about this war at this moment...

"The Han people have known for a long time that we are coming, and they are coming from this direction, so they must be fully prepared."

"Abandoning Wuzhou Fortress by no means means that the Han people will give up Mayi."

"The terrain of the Mayi-Wuzhou Sai generation is really unsettling."

"——In case of the Wuzhou Fortress being trapped, the army will be blocked in the narrow strip south of the Wuzhou Fortress and north of Mayi. Under the pressure of the Han infantry, they will die under their own horseshoes. .”

"Even if there is no problem in Wuzhou, if you can't do it for a long time in Mayi..."

Thinking of this, Yi Zhixie sighed again, and rode away with a slightly lonely back.

But no one noticed the face of the Youxian King, and the moment he turned his back to the crowd, he brought a heart-pounding sternness...

"Military minister..."

"My good brother..."

"Father obviously didn't fight for the position, why is he still vicious like a jackal?"

"When I was called to Shan Yuting, my father brought two guards..."

"Even when I asked about it, my father just said: If a military official becomes Shan Yu, he will have a heart as broad as the sky..."

Jie Jie smiled sinisterly, the whip in Yi Zhixie's hand had already been clenched tightly, but he didn't land on the horse's back. He only followed his instinct and steered his beloved horse forward slowly.

Yi Zhixie, the contemporary Xiongnu Shanyu: the half-brother of a military officer of the Huns.

As for why they say this, it is because according to the tradition of the Huns, members of a family must live collectively in the same yurt.

The so-called family is naturally a patriarch with his wife and children, and several brothers who have not yet owned a family.

And the felt tent where Yi Zhixie was born was the big tent of King Zuoxian's headquarters when Maodun Shanyu was in power.

——The Zuoxian King at that time was Shanyu of the previous generation of Huns: Suo Ji Ji Porridge.

This king, who is more commonly known as Old Shang Shanyu, is a rare benevolent man in the grassland.

Today's military minister Shanyu is the son of the old Shang Shanyu and his own Yan family;
And Yi Zhixie was the younger brother of the old Shang Shanyu, who was born to a concubine in King Zuoxian's tent.

Although they are of different fathers and half mothers, or "highly probable different fathers and mothers", according to the customs of the Huns, the military officials and Yi Zhixie can be regarded as the sons of the old Shang Shanyu: Tonganji porridge Sons - All children born in a yurt recognize the owner of the yurt as their father.

Once upon a time, the half-brothers Junchen and Yi Zhixie, like every warrior who grew up in the grassland, broke their arrows in front of the gods and vowed never to betray each other.

But after that accident, Yi Zhixie no longer had the innocence of the past...

"Anda..."

"Hey;"

"My dear Adachi~"

"Military minister..."

Whispering, Yi Zhixie slowly lowered her head, stuffed her hands into her bosom, and took out the broken arrow tied around her neck with a rope.

——The latter half of the truncated sword with tail feathers symbolizes that the owner has sworn brotherhood with someone and has become a junior who has been protected by that person for life;
The first half with an arrow means that the owner promises that he will always protect the owner of the second half of the arrow, no matter how dangerous the front is, he will definitely fly out like the arrow.

But in that year, the old Shang Shanyu passed away, and the military minister took the position of Shanyu;

At that time, King Youxian was summoned by Xin Shanyu, so he rushed to Longcheng with enthusiasm.

Shan Yu pointed out that the Youxian King had stimulated the Han people over the years, which seriously affected the strategy of the Great Xiongnu's westward advance, but the Youxian King did not say a word.

But even so, the first half of the broken arrow was still brutally pierced into the heart of Youxian King and his uncle by the military minister Shan Yu.

As a result, the second half of the truncated arrow with tail feathers also began to slowly produce arrowheads...

"Han people often say: When the other party gives you a gift, you should also give the other party a gift."

"This half of the broken arrow, I will send it to Longcheng sooner or later, and personally send it to the honorable Gutu."

"Of course, it will also be inserted into the blackened heart that was bewitched by the devil..."

Saying somberly, and with a strange smile, Yi Zhixie was stunned for a moment, and finally put the broken arrow that had already sharpened its head back to his chest.

Turning his head slightly sideways, and taking another look at the deserted Wuzhou Sai from a distance, a sneer quietly appeared on the corner of Yi Zhixie's mouth.

"Do the Han people think that the warriors of our Great Huns all defeated the enemy by sneak attack?"

"You must know that my great Hun's favorite way of fighting is to dismount and fight..."

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"Even if we knew we were coming and made preparations in advance, what could change?"

"What can those clumsy infantrymen with spears in their hands and heavy armor do..."

Hearing that Yi Zhixie finally raised his voice, instead of muttering to himself, several Xiongnu nobles who consciously gave way to the distance before rode their horses over in just a moment.

"Tu extravagance;"

"Too extravagant."

After each saluted, a thick and short man with a rough figure and a ferocious face, with some madness in his ferociousness, said, "Tu She doesn't have to worry."

"There is no one in Wuzhou, we can go through the doorway under the closed wall. Although it is slower, it can save a lot of trouble."

"When we arrive in Mayi, the warriors of our Zhelan tribe will let the Han people in Mayi know: how brave the real nomads are, how brave they are, and how brave they are without fear of death."

When the man spoke, the volume was not high, and he couldn't even be said to be full of energy, but no one showed a strange expression when he said what the man said.

Several people, including Yi Zhixie, nodded with a calm expression of 'we know you're not bragging';
Then, Yi Zhixie took a deep breath, slowly raised the whip in his hand, and pointed at Wuzhou Fort not far away.

"Since we're here, of course we have to meet up with old friends."

"I just hope that the little emperor of the Han people can send that general, Zhou Yafu, so that I can see and see."

"Seeing and seeing the heroes of the Han people, what kind of life did they look like..."

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"Send the order down!"

"The Zhelan tribe first passed Wuzhou Fortress, and then went straight to Mayi!"

"The Aries Department followed closely behind, patrolling the mountains and forests on the east and west sides along the way to ensure that the Han people did not ambush!"

"The Loufan Department follows the Aries Department, supervising the slaves to cut down trees and make siege equipment!"

"Five days later in the morning, at the same time when the sun god shines on the earth, my Mingdi will shoot at Zhou Yafu at the head of Mayi city!!!"

(End of this chapter)