Eagle-eyed and wolf-watching

Chapter 1661 Physical and Chemistry Questions!
As for the remaining two questions, Ye Mingsheng decided to give a balance bar question!

Now Daqian’s scale is a balance bar, which is a tool often used by people in their daily lives!
There is special knowledge on this topic in the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, which introduces what the copper balance rod looked like during the Warring States Period. This is a piece of physics knowledge and is also closely related to the daily life of the people of Daqian!
For the fifth question, Ye Mingsheng decided to ask about gunpowder!
Gunpowder is the key item that Ye Mingsheng needs to stabilize the world. It is also an important tool for the future development of Daqian. It is also related to people’s daily life. Everyone likes to set off firecrackers during festivals. The reason why firecrackers can explode is because of gunpowder, so Ye Mingsheng also wants to see how much these students know about gunpowder. This is also a chemistry question!

There were five questions in total. Ye Mingsheng gave one short answer question on agronomy, two calculation questions involving agronomy, one physics question, and one chemistry question. It was more or less a balanced one, and Ye Mingsheng was quite satisfied with it.

As for the remaining five questions, it depends on Cao Sheng and Chen Zhijiang. Ye Mingsheng asked them to come up with ten questions each, for a total of twenty questions. Ye Mingsheng picked five questions from the twenty questions and combined them with his own five questions to make ten questions. One question was worth ten points, and the total number of ten questions was 100 points!

Although the imperial examination is still based on the traditional Four Books and Five Classics and Eight-legged Essay, these ten questions with a score of 100 are also included in the total score, affecting the ranking of these students and their future official careers...

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Just when Ye Mingsheng was thinking about how to organize the imperial examination and select talents, the shouts of killing were deafening at Damao Mountain, thousands of miles away.

Under the cover of dozens of Roman artillery pieces, countless Cuman soldiers charged towards Damao Mountain amid the howling of ghosts and wolves.

Habib, the Khan of Qincha, was standing on a distant watchtower and observing the battle situation on the front line with a monocular telescope.

Although Damao Mountain is called a mountain, it is actually not very big. It is called a mountain only because it separates the Turtu grassland and the Erlunqin grassland. If it is placed in the Central Plains, Damao Mountain is actually just a larger hill!

But today, Damao Mountain has become a strategic point fought over by the Cumans, Robe, and Daqian. Both sides have assembled more than 100,000 troops here, determined to fight to the death!
As the Khan of the Golden Horde, Habib knew very well that although he had dealt a heavy blow to the coalition forces of Daqian and Luobi in the Turte grassland, the main force of the coalition forces was still there. Therefore, it would still be very difficult to capture Damao Mountain. So in order to win the war, he attempted to alienate Daqian and Luobi, who already lacked trust in him!

In Khabib's opinion, the rift between Daqian and Luobei, who already have grievances, will be exacerbated by his alienation, and they will fight each other, and there may even be a fight between the two sides!
But ideas are ideas and reality is reality. Habib did not expect that Robe would kneel down directly. Even Dari Achi ran to Yijing to hug Ye Mingsheng's thigh!
Although he had miscalculated, Habib was not discouraged. He immediately launched an attack on Damaoshan. He knew that Ye Mingsheng would not watch him defeat Luo Bi. He would definitely find ways to stop him!

What he had to do now was to capture Damao Mountain before Ye Mingsheng interfered. The remaining main forces of Luobi and Daqian were now gathered in Damao Mountain. As long as Damao Mountain was conquered, there would be no force in the entire Erlunqin grassland that could stop him, and the Luobi people would completely become history...
Then it will be time for me to negotiate with Ye Mingsheng!
I will continue to use my humble image to confuse Ye Mingsheng and let him relax his vigilance. When I lead the Golden Horde to digest the resources of the Elunqin Steppe, it will be time for me to lead my troops to Yijing to meet Ye Mingsheng!

Thinking of this, Habib couldn't help but smile. At the same time, he seemed to have thought of something. He turned around and asked Chen Zhongshu, who was dressed like a scholar, behind him;
"Mr. Chen, I remember you told me before that before Ye Mingsheng entered the Pass, when he was the governor of Liaoyang, Ye Mingsheng once wrote a flattering letter to Zhao Fuqu?"

Although he didn't know why Habib suddenly asked about this, Chen Zhongshu nodded and said:

"Great Khan! It is true!"

"Mr. Chen, have you read the letter?"

Facing Khabib's question, Chen Zhongshu hesitated, but after a moment's hesitation he finally told the truth:
"Great Khan, I have never seen this letter!"

"Then how do you know that Ye Mingsheng was extremely flattering in the letter?"

“Great Khan, although I have not seen it with my own eyes, Zhao Fuqu circulated it to his generals, so the content of the letter has also been circulated. At that time, Ye Mingsheng praised Zhao Fuqu as a great hero and a great hero, and a pillar of the country whom he admired…”

"At the same time, in order to make Zhao Fuqu believe that he had no intention of advancing, Ye Mingsheng also carried out disarmament in Liaoyang and sold the Fengwu Army's firearms technology to Zhao Fuqu!"

"Under Ye Mingsheng's despicable tactics, Zhao Fuqu also fell into his trap. Thinking that Ye Mingsheng was not a threat, he led the Yan army westward to attack Yunbing. However, he did not expect that in just half a year, Ye Mingsheng would sneak into the pass in the first month of the year to launch a surprise attack. In the end, Zhao Fuqu died of depression in grief and anger!"

Habib nodded slightly after hearing this, then looked at Damaoshan in front of him and said with high spirits:
"In a few days, our army will be able to capture Damao Mountain. That will be the time for me to give Ye Mingsheng a taste of his own medicine. I will also write a letter to Ye Mingsheng, praising him as a great hero and a great man!"

"Mr. Chen, do you people in the Central Plains all like this kind of compliment?"

Although Chen Zhongshu found it difficult to understand Khabib's train of thought, he also agreed at this time:

"Great Khan, Ye Mingsheng is a villain who has achieved success. He must be very proud of himself. Even if you don't praise him, he will definitely be very arrogant and think that he can be compared with the Qin Emperor, Han Emperor, Tang Emperor and Song Emperor!"

"No, no, no! I must praise him. I am sincere. I have studied Ye Mingsheng carefully. He is a very powerful man. So I want to defeat him. I want to conquer him! I want to prove that I am better than him, and my Golden Horde is better than his Great Khanate!"

After saying this, a confident smile appeared on Habib's face. However, just when Habib was immersed in his reverie of what he would do after conquering Mount Damao, Umar came to him with a gloomy face and said in his ear...
Listening to what Umar said, the confident smile on Habib's face suddenly froze, and then he looked at Umar with some scrutiny.

Facing Habib's murderous gaze, although Umar was a little scared, he could only nod to indicate that Habib had heard it right!
Seeing this, Habib opened his mouth to ask a question, but before he could say anything, he realized that this matter should not be publicized, so he closed his mouth and walked towards the tent.

Although Chen Zhongshu and others were somewhat confused, they all followed Habib back to the tent. As soon as they entered the tent, Habib asked angrily:
"What is going on with Wumar? Why are there Daqian troops in Wuhang Mountain?"

"Reporting to the Khan, according to the news sent, the Daqian army that appeared in Wuhang Mountain is the Daqian Second Army. We found that it should be the Daqian vanguard. The total number of cavalry is about 10,000!"

Before Umar finished speaking, Habib firmly denied it:
"Impossible! How can Ye Mingsheng find 10,000 cavalry? His Daqian cavalry is all in Damao Mountain, right in front of us!"

Umar also explained:
"Belal judged it from the traces of the enemy's march and the stoves they made for cooking!"

Hearing Umar say this, Habib denied it again:
"Even if the Second Army really sent out troops, it is impossible for them to have 10,000 cavalry!"

Seeing that Habib didn't believe it, Umar stopped talking and stood there quietly with his body bent.

After Habib rejected Umar's suggestion, he paced back and forth in the tent in anger.

Wuhang Mountain is a small mountain in the south of Turte Steppe, only about 500 miles away from Lesa City, the capital of the Golden Horde. Now that the Daqian cavalry has appeared in Wuhang Mountain, it means that Lesa City is facing a threat...
Taking into account the time it took the messenger to run back and report the news, it is very likely that the Daqian troops are already attacking Lesa City now!
Habib became extremely anxious when he thought about the attack on the city of Lesa!
Although the Golden Horde was a nomadic people with no fixed place to live, in recent years, under the influence of the Great Zhou in the east and the Roman Empire in the west, they have begun to develop into towns. Fifty years ago, the then Khan of the Golden Horde built a city in the northwest of the Turte steppe and named it Lesa, which means "beautiful city" in the Golden Horde language!
Soon after the establishment of Lesa, it was designated as the capital of the Golden Horde. Over the next fifty years, the Golden Horde also developed around this capital, making this city the political and economic center of the Golden Horde!
Today, the city of Lesa has become the heart of the Golden Horde!

In order to achieve the goal in one battle this time, Habib directly sent out his entire army, bringing with him almost all the main elite forces of the Golden Horde, plus several thousand Roman mercenaries. The total force was more than 90,000 people, leaving only 5,000 defenders for his hometown city of Lesa!

When Habib made this decision, Umar and Makhachev both advised him that the number of people left in Lesa City was too small, and at least 10,000 people should be left to guard against the Second Army stationed in the Guanzhong Yongliang area to ensure the safety of Lesa City!
But Habib didn't think so. He felt that Daqian had almost taken out all of its cavalry to aid Luo Bi. Therefore, even if the Second Army stationed in Guanzhong, Yongliang, wanted to launch a surprise attack to the north, they did not have the strength to launch a large-scale cavalry attack on Lesa...
Although the Second Army has 30,000 to 40,000 regular soldiers, most of them are infantry. It is unknown how long it will take to attack the city of Lesa on the vast grassland relying solely on these infantrymen. During this period, he received news that he could immediately return to annihilate the Second Army!

At the same time, although the coalition forces of Daqian and Robi suffered a major setback, they still had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. Therefore, only by going all out could they completely win the war. With this idea in mind, Habib brought his entire country's army to the city of Lesa.

However, this situation was beyond Habib's expectations. After pacing back and forth in the tent for more than ten circles, Habib seemed to suddenly think of something. He turned his head and looked at Chen Zhongshu beside him and asked:

"Chen Zhongshu, you have been an official in Guanzhong. Do you know how many cavalrymen there are in the Second Army?"

When Chen Zhongshu heard Habib, who always addressed him as "Sir", calling him by his full name and felt the other's brutal eyes, he immediately realized that this Khan of the Cumans, who always liked to imitate Ye Mingsheng, had torn off his elegant foreign guest status and revealed his brutal nature as a Cuman!
Under Habib's gaze, Chen Zhongshu couldn't help but take a deep breath and started a quick search in his mind.

As a former Daqian official, although Chen Zhongshu didn't know much, he was not ignorant like ordinary people. He knew that the Second Army was mainly composed of infantry and was only equipped with a small number of cavalry, but he didn't know the exact number of cavalry!

So seeing that Habib seemed a little impatient, Chen Zhongshu quickly said:
“There should be only a few thousand people…”

Hearing this somewhat perfunctory answer, Habib immediately showed a dissatisfied expression, and Chen Zhongshu quickly apologized:

"Great Khan, I was a civilian before, and I don't know much about military affairs!"

Habib didn't say anything after hearing this. He just stood there in a daze, seeming to be thinking about something.

Seeing that Habib did not move, Umar on the side finally couldn't help but speak:
"Great Khan, nothing can happen to the city of Lesa! We must send people to help!"

Hearing Umar's words, Habib looked at Chen Zhongshu and said slowly:
"Isn't there an allusion in your Sun Tzu's Art of War called "Besieging Wei to Save Zhao"?"

Seeing Habib suddenly ask this, Chen Zhongshu was stunned for a moment and then quickly said:

"There is such an anecdote. It is said that during the Warring States Period, Wei attacked Zhao. Zhao asked Qi for help. Qi decided to send troops, but Qi did not directly help Zhao. Instead, it launched a fierce attack on Wei's capital Daliang, forcing the Wei army attacking Zhao to return for help!"

Habib heard this and preached with great confidence:
"Ye Mingsheng is just trying to save Zhao from Wei. He sent the Second Army north because he wants us to come back to help!"

Seeing that the situation was urgent, Habib still had the leisure to study the Daqian allusions here, so Umar hurriedly preached:

"Great Khan, I don't know anything about Zhao, Wei, or Qi. I only know that the city of Lesa cannot be lost. My whole family is inside. We must go back to provide assistance..."