Three Kingdoms Eschatology

The general said with a simple smile: "Jiedu, of course I don't have the ability. I was sent by the military commander. After he and I returned to the camp on the north coast, I heard that you led the troops to destroy a certain ling alone." Horde, he concluded that you are likely to be ambushed here."

Lu Bu nodded and said: "So it's still Pang Tong, I said it's impossible for your boy to suddenly become better." He was silent for a while, turned his head to look behind and sighed: "It's a pity that I lost a lot of sons this time. "

After Lu Bu returned to the camp, he counted the strength of his troops. Of the thousand horses he had brought earlier, there were now only four hundred or so left, most of which were lost.Since he left the Great Wall, he had never suffered such a severe loss.

Just when he was feeling sad, Pang Tong came over, cupped his hands and said, "Winning or losing is a common matter in military affairs, and Jiedu needn't worry too much about it. The summer here is very short, so we should hurry up and complete the combat objectives before the snow falls."

Lu Bu nodded, and was about to answer when he suddenly felt a chill on his face, and reached out his hand to touch it, and it turned out to be a snowflake.He clicked his tongue and said that it was the hot and dry season of late summer and early autumn in the south, and it was snowing here.Lu Bu had never seen the extremely cold weather in the Beihai region, but he knew how cold the winter in Beiming City was, and it was said that Beihai was ten times colder than Beiming City.

Lu Bu whispered unwillingly: "Withdraw the troops!" The guards beside him were worried that they had heard it wrong, and carefully confirmed: "Jiedu, you...you want to withdraw the troops!"

"Yes! Withdraw the troops!" Lu Bu raised his voice an octave and roared.The soldiers were startled.Withdrawing the troops this time was Lv Bu's helpless move. This place is nearly a thousand miles away from Beiming. If there is any delay, they may not be able to leave.

Pang Tong still comforted Lu Bu and said, "Jiedu, we will just come to Japan, and there is no need to rush to conquer Beihai."

Lu Bu frowned and said, "Although that's the case, when I come again, I'll have to wait until midsummer next year."

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After marching for many days, Lu Bu returned to Beiming City.Not long after he entered Beiming City, the guard of Beiming City who greeted him reported: "Reporting to Jiedu, the king ordered the town of Beicheng to send a support army, which arrived at our place three days ago. And it is said that this support army will Then it was placed under the command of Jiedu."

Lu Bu was overjoyed when he heard that, he had just lost a lot of soldiers and horses, and replenishment troops would arrive immediately.This is a cotton-padded jacket for a heavy snow day, and a pillow for dozing off.Before he could find out who the leader of this army was, he strode towards the barracks where this army was stationed.

Half hidden in the shack in the basement, a man lowered his head and wiped his saber. He heard the sound and looked up at Lu Bu, and a familiar face appeared in Lu Bu's sight.

Lu Bu exclaimed in surprise, "Li Su! Why is it you!"

After the first battle in Zhenbei City, Li Su was promoted to commander.Three months ago, he voluntarily requested to be transferred to Beiming City.In fact, Lu Bu is his old lord, so it is very taboo to do so.But Feng Yu still agreed to his request.

Li Su bowed his hands and said, "Li Su, commander of the No. 17 Legion, has met the general! I'm humble..." Before he could finish speaking, Lu Bu helped him up and said, "Brother Li Su, this time is no different than before. Now you and I are colleagues serving Liang Guo, so there is no need to be so generous."

Lu Bu also ordered the National People's Congress to hold a banquet to welcome Li Su.At the banquet, the two exchanged pleasantries before getting down to business.

Lu Bu asked, "Brother Li Su, how many soldiers and horses does your army have?"

"The humble legion has two cavalry battalions, four infantry battalions, and two supply battalions..."

Before Li Su finished speaking, he was interrupted by Lu Bu's doubts: "Why are there only two cavalry battalions?".According to Lu Bu's thinking, since it was Feng Yu's army that was dispatched to assist Beifu, it should naturally consist of cavalry as the main force.

The legion with only two cavalry battalions is a small cavalry unit in the Liang army, and is generally deployed in Bashu and Liangzhou.The transfer of such troops to Beiming City has almost no effect.After all, apart from Beiming City, Lu Bu's Northern Territory Commander's Mansion has almost no cities or strongholds to be stationed for a long time.

Li Su smiled and said: "Don't worry about Jiedu, please listen to the humble officer. The infantry of the sixth battalion including the supply battalion of the humble officer's army is not ordinary infantry. They have a very special means of delivery. It is like walking on the ground in the ice and snow. It is very suitable for the ice and snow environment from Beiming City to Beihai.”

Lu Bu's heart moved, and he quickly asked, "What kind of tool is that?"

Li Su immediately gave instructions to the guards on the left and right, and after a while the soldiers brought a utensil to the shed.

Lu Bu looked at this thing carefully, it looked like a low bed in appearance.It's just that there are fences around the "bed", and there are two feet made of wide bamboo pieces.

"This is a sled, and Xianbei dogs can be used to drag and slide on ice and snow! The speed can catch up with the speed of ordinary horses on flat ground. Moreover, these sled dogs can be slaughtered to feed their hunger when necessary, so as to make military rations. Because logistical supplies are also Lighten up a lot of the burden."

Lu Bu said happily: "In this way, we can attack the Dingling tribes in Beihai unexpectedly in winter."

But after saying this, Lu Bu frowned, and he thought of another question.

Chapter 350 Winter Surprise Attack

Frowning, Lu Bu shook his head again, denying his own thoughts: "No, only this sled can't send troops in winter, because the weather in the North Sea is extremely cold, and ordinary soldiers' winter clothes can't keep out the cold at all. Ding Ling, who was born and bred there, People can't go out of the hut in winter, let alone those of us who are not resistant to cold."

Li Su said again: "Actually, King Liang personally supervised the manufacture of this sled, and he also asked the workshop to make a batch of special winter clothes." After speaking, he asked the soldiers to take out a set of heavy clothes .

Lu Bu took these clothes one by one and looked at them, and found that they were a full set of winter clothes, including leather boots, gloves, a coat, and a hood made of bearskin on the coat.The coat is made of a mixture of bearskin and sackcloth.

Lu Bu touched it with his hand and found that the things contained in the linen cloth were not ordinary winter clothing stuffing.Li Su explained from the side: "The thing stuffed inside is called cotton, which is a crop that can keep out the cold. Wearing this kind of winter clothes, soldiers can keep warm and maintain their morale even in the snow and ice."

After hearing this, Lu Bu laughed and said, "In this way, we can surprise Ding Lingren's various camps in the severe winter, and they can hardly move, so they will no longer be able to catch mice with us. We will take them one by one. Knock it off."

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Half a month later, snowflakes also began to dance in the sky above Beiming City.The kang in Lu Bu's hut has not yet been used, but a charcoal basin.He was reading the annual summaries sent by various nomadic tribes in Beifu.

Since these tribes returned to Shunbei Mansion, their lives have changed a lot. At least they don't have to worry about food, salt and daily necessities.The ministries also introduced better breeds of livestock horses, which greatly reduced the mortality rate of their livestock.

Because there is the head of the Beifu, the daily conflicts between them do not need to be resolved by violent means such as war.So many people die every year.

A personal guard ordered soldiers to enter the spacious hut and reported to Lu Bu: "Qi Jiedu, it's snowing outside." Lu Bu threw the copybooks aside, and walked out of the house in a few steps.

In the sky above Beiming City, the north wind was blowing harder and harder, and the snow was falling heavier and heavier.Lu Bu said, "It's time, order Li Su's army to prepare to attack!"

When the surface of the Orkhon River was frozen solid, there were noisy dogs barking outside Beiming City, and a sled full of soldiers and luggage drove out of Beiming City.

Each of these dog sleds is pulled by 6 fat Xianbei sled dogs and carries 4 to 6 soldiers.Like a long dragon, they galloped north along the Orkhon River, which was like an ice road.Sitting on the sledge, Lu Bu was fully armed and even wore a cotton mask, but the oncoming north wind and goose-feather snowflakes still made him feel the chill to the bone.

The sled dogs stopped, and there was a shout in front: "The North Sea has arrived! We have arrived at the mouth of the Orkhon River!"

Lu Bu got off the sled and walked carefully on the ice, and the North Sea appeared in Lu Bu's field of vision again.The difference is that this time, the entire North Sea was frozen like a bright mirror, placed between the sky and the earth.

Lu Bu waved his hand, and everyone built a camp at the mouth of the Orkhon River.It is impossible to break ground in this world of ice and snow.The so-called camp is to use melted snow water to water an ice wall on the ice surface with branches and sundries as the skeleton.Surrounded by the ice wall are tents built directly on the sled.

The days in Beihai winter are extremely short, and it was dark just after finishing these tasks.The soldiers retreated into the wool felt tents of the sleds to rest, even though they were still covered with winter clothes in the tents, and even though there was a small copper charcoal stove burning in the tents, it was to keep each soldier from freezing. can't sleep.

After the long night passed, the scouts set off at dawn the next day.There are still forty scouts, searching northward like combs on the left and right sides of the narrow North Sea. The difference is that they didn't ride horses this time, but each scout shared a sled.

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A river that flows into the North Sea has been frozen like a silver dragon, and in the pine forest covered in silver by the river, there are suddenly bursts of dog barking.

After a while, a huge Xianbei dog jumped out of the forest and kept sniffing the ground.Immediately afterwards, a sled also galloped out of the forest.The Xianbei dog pulling the sled flew with four paws, blowing snowflakes from the snow-covered ground.

The Xianbei dog who was leading the investigation seemed to have smelled a clue, barked lowly, and turned around and rushed towards the glacier.The six big dogs pulling the sled, panting white mist, also ran, and the sled drew a clear mark on the ice.

Soon, on the banks of this small river, the scouts found wisps of cooking smoke.The sledge stopped immediately, and was dragged to a small pine forest on the shore where it was hidden.The two scouts tiptoed towards the place where the smoke rose,

After a while, they returned and said to the other three people: "It's a big fish. Judging by the number of shacks, there are at least 3000 people. Don't hesitate, we will report back to the camp immediately!"

Soon the sledge disappeared beneath the snowy horizon.The sun soon followed and disappeared below the horizon.

It was another long night, and the sun rose above the horizon again.As the sun rises, there are hundreds of sleds, silhouettes of sled dogs.Lu Bu's sled army came, and all of them were dispatched and abandoned the original camp, which meant a last-ditch fight.

The dogs barked from time to time, and they exhaled puffs of white mist, which soon turned into ice particles in the air, and the short hair around their mouths was covered with ice crystals.

Li Su was sitting on the sled in the front row. He made a gesture, and the commanding soldiers riding on the sled immediately shouted loudly: "The commander has ordered the whole army to stop advancing! Get off the sled and march forward!".Li Su was worried that if he got too close, the barking of the dog would attract the attention of Dingling people, which would not achieve the effect of a surprise attack.

Following the shouts of the soldiers driving the sled dogs, the sleds stopped one after another.Li Que left a small group of soldiers to guard the sleds and dogs.The rest of them wore snow-white linen cloaks, held shields and spears, and carefully touched the winter settlement of Ding Lingren.

The Dingling people probably didn't expect that someone would launch an attack in the cold winter, so they didn't set up too many guard posts in the settlement.Instead, two guard soldiers were deployed in a wooden watchtower.

They were gathering in front of a small charcoal basin, and there was no coal in the charcoal basin, only blazing firewood.Even so, they were still shivering from the cold, with their hands folded into their sleeves, walking back and forth and pacing their feet non-stop, complaining that their successors hadn't come yet, leaving them to suffer from the cold.Little did they know that disaster was imminent.

Chapter 351

The two Ding Ling sentries on the watchtower rubbed their hands, paced their feet, and cursed in their mouths: "How come the successor hasn't come yet, the hour should have come long ago! If we stay here, we will freeze into lumps of ice."

One of them also scolded: "Donkey fuck, wait for them to come later, we have to reason with them." As soon as he finished speaking, a three-foot-long arrow flew towards him, with a puff It penetrated his thick sheepskin jacket mixed with various animal hairs.

The other person didn't know what happened when he came over, he only heard a plop, turned his head and saw that his companion had fallen to the ground, holding a "short spear" in his hand, and had inserted the spear into his heart.

The man asked in bewilderment: "You...why did you commit suicide...ah".Before he finished speaking, there was another sound of arrows piercing through the air, and another big arrow pierced his head.He fell headfirst to the ground.

The two corpses were quickly cooled to popsicles, and only the whimpering north wind and the snowflakes they carried were left in the watchtower.All the people in the camp were living in relatively warm huts, and no one found out about this...

The snowdrifts in the distance suddenly moved. It turned out that they were all soldiers of the Liang Army who were lying on the ground in white sackcloth.They tiptoed into the empty Ding Ling camp.Then Li Su yelled "Kill!", and they were like wild horses, holding spears, spears, steel knives, and shields to kill each shack.

In the hut of a certain Dingling leader, the kang was burning hot, and the relatively cold outside was like a spring breeze.A burly man had just dropped from his wife to the ground.

Before he had time to get dressed, he heard a loud bang, and the door of the shack was kicked open.A gust of air-conditioning and snowflakes poured in immediately, shivering the little boss.

The leader of Ding Ling immediately became angry and shouted: "Donkey fuck, who told you to open the door casually..." Before he could finish speaking, a spear was projected, and it was piercing his bare chest.His eyes were as big as copper bells, and he fell straight backwards, falling to the ground like a log.

The woman on the kang uttered a cry of surprise, followed by a roar of anger.She took a short dagger for eating and cutting meat from the shore, and rushed towards Liang Jun. He was not polite at all, and the two spears pierced her body almost at the same time.She also fell down beside her man.

In another shack where many small and strong men lived, the door was also kicked open.A strong man reacted quickly, and reached out to grab the scimitar on the knife holder, but the soldiers of the Liang army who rushed to the front swung the knife vigorously.A flash of saber light flashed, and the entire arm of Ding Ling's strong man fell off.

Immediately afterwards, soldiers of the Liang Army, armed with large shields and three-foot knives, poured into the shack, stabbing and stabbing Dingling at close range.But for a moment, all the people in the house fell into a pool of blood.

Liang Jun's killing lasted for an entire hour, howling and screaming, and the sound of crying filled the entire settlement of Dingling people.

Lü Bu was waiting for the results of the battle outside the settlement, when Li Su came to report to him: "Qi Jiedu, most of the young and strong in this Dingling tribe were wiped out. The remaining women and children were captured. The leader of the tribe also died under the rebellion. Please tell Jiedu, do you want to get rid of the remaining women and children?"

Faced with this question, Lu Bu remained silent for a long time.In the past, women and children would be distributed to those grassland tribes who surrendered to them.But now it is thousands of miles away from Beiming City, and they and Li Su brought only [-] sleigh soldiers, and they will continue to attack other tribes. It is impossible to divide the troops to escort these women and children back to Beiming City.

Pang Tong was right beside him, seeing his embarrassment, he offered advice: "Jiedu don't have to be embarrassing, I have a plan, not only don't have to kill them, but also let them be used by us."

"Oh, what can Shi Yuan do?"

"Can we use them as bargaining chips to persuade them to surrender..."

Lu Bu immediately understood Pang Tong's words, and said, "But in this way, we won't be able to surprise the enemy by surprise. And what should we do if the opponent pretends to surrender?"

Pang Tong continued: "It's worthwhile to exchange the enemy's possible surrender at the price of not being able to surprise the enemy. As for the false surrender... Don't worry, Jiedu is willing to sign the life and death certificate, and guarantees that if the false surrender comes, a certain person will be able to return to the country in the future." Before launching an attack, we will plan to kill them first."

Lu Bu nodded slightly: "That's fine, lest I commit more crimes."

The sun stayed in the sky for two hours before falling below the horizon, and the sky was dark again.All the corpses of Dingling people in the shack were vacated.Liang Jun soldiers turned several shacks into bathhouses, set up firewood outside the shacks, and boiled snow water.They hadn't bathed for more than a month because of the cold, and finally they were able to take a hot bath.

Although it was almost impossible to be attacked by someone, Lu Bu still set up many guard posts and stood on duty all night.After dawn, Lu Bu continued to send out scouts to scatter around. He believed that there were still settlements of Dingling people nearby.Because during the severe winter, Ding Ling people can hardly walk long distances, in order to take care of each other, they can only set up settlements closer together.

Sure enough, at noon, the scouts who went out to investigate came back here on a sled and reported to Lu Bu that there were two Dingling strongholds in front and behind, one was fifteen miles away, and the other was twenty miles away.

Half an hour later, five or six hundred sleds, led by Xianbei sled dogs, galloped to another Dingling settlement fifteen miles away.

At this moment, the leader of the settlement was cooking mutton by the charcoal basin, and the rest of the tribe took advantage of the clear weather after the snow to get out of the shack where they had been nesting for a long time, and stretched their limbs in the open space.

The leader had just swallowed a mouthful of fat mutton when he heard a commotion outside.Out of curiosity, he also stepped out of the shack, and said in his mouth: "What are you making a fuss about?" Before he finished speaking, he was stunned.

A "carriage" came galloping from a distance, but this "carriage" had no wheels, and the cart was not pulled by a horse, but by six tall Xianbei dogs. There were still four or five people sitting in the "car".The leader took a closer look, and saw that the opponent was still holding a weapon in his hand, and the attire was not that of a single person.He immediately yelled in horror: "Hurry up and pick up your weapons, there are enemies coming! There are enemies!"

His shout woke up the spectators, and they ran into the shack one after another to find their weapons.It's just that they didn't go to the stables to pull out the horses, because in this climate, ordinary warriors would freeze to death within a few hours.

Dozens of Dingling soldiers with shields, knives and guns have blocked the way of the sledge.Amidst the barking of the dogs, the sled stopped without haste.A person got off the sled and went straight to the crowd with knives and guns.

He clasped his hands around the crowd and said, "Someone is a messenger from Liang State's Northern Region Commander's Mansion. May I ask who is your Khan?"

Chapter 352

The tribal leader's name was Tuo Lidu, and when he heard that the other party was indeed a Beifu soldier, he immediately became nervous.With his right hand resting on the handle of the knife, his eyes were fixed on the opponent, for fear that the opponent would attack him suddenly.At the same time, he said, "I am, what are you doing here?".

The Ding Ling soldiers around him have already surrounded the front, blocking the visitor's left and right rear passages.The other party showed no sign of panic, and said with a generous handcup: "I was ordered by the Jiedu Envoy of the Chief Envoy of the Northern Territory to issue a letter of persuasion to your subordinates. Dingling and other ministries around Beihai must submit to the Beifu, otherwise our Beifu army will be forced to surrender. It can kill all directions."

Hearing this, Tuoli gritted his teeth and waved his hand, "Take it down for me!" The surrounding soldiers all made promises, surrounded by people with swords, spears and halberds.

The Beifu messenger smiled coldly and raised his hand.The one remaining man on the sled suddenly drew out his longbow, bent it and nocked an arrow.Tuoli thought that the opponent was going to shoot him, so he took two steps back in shock, and was about to shout loudly, "Do it!", when a loud arrow pierced through the air, screaming and shooting into the air.

The corners of Tuolidu's mouth twitched twice, and he shouted in horror: "You...are there ambushes behind you?" As soon as he finished speaking, three fireballs suddenly fell from the sky, landed on the open space in the settlement, and immediately burst into flames. Lie Yan (raging flames), three small puddles immediately melted on the snow.

A small man who was closer to the flames was splashed with naphtha, and his robe was instantly set on fire.The little man roared in horror, and rolled several times on the snow to extinguish the flames, his face was ashamed.

At this time, the Beifu messenger said: "Yes, the army is behind XX. If you don't surrender, today will be the end of your life, and your tribe will disappear from the grassland."

When he spoke, horns were sounding outside the settlement, dogs were barking, hundreds of sleds were galloping towards this place, lined up neatly on the snow field opposite the settlement, and the blowing snowflakes were flying all over the sky.Those infantrymen, who looked exceptionally elite, jumped off the sleds with large shields and spears in hand, and formed an army formation.

Tolly pursed his lips, but remained silent.In the extremely cold season of the world of ice and snow, the horses nestled in the shacks were sluggish and could not be used for combat at all.It is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg for a tribe member to fight against the elite infantry of the opponent, not to mention that the opponent has an artifact that can launch a deflagrating fireball.

When he wanted to surrender but couldn't make up his mind and couldn't speak.Hundreds of men, women and children were escorted over.The Beifu messenger said lightly: "The last tribe did not surrender, so it will end like this. We will follow the rules on the grassland, kill all the men, and these women and children will be slaves. If you don't surrender, your end will be the same Yes, if you surrender, these slaves will be distributed to your tribe."

While he was speaking, thousands of Beifu infantry had formed a shield wall, advancing towards the settlement at the pace of an orderly formation.The spearheads of the spears protruded from the shield wall like a forest, emitting a terrifying cold light.

Tuolidu let out a long sigh, knelt down on one knee and said, "I, Dingling Tuolidu, would like to submit to the Jiedushi of Beifu and be loyal to King Liang."…

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Two hours later, the same thing happened in another tribe.What is special is that the leader of this tribe is Pachaer himself, the leader of the Dingling tribe.

Pachaer never dreamed that Liang Jun would be able to find him in the cold winter.He was not willing to give in, but he was forced by the opponent's military power, thinking repeatedly in his mind, and came up with another idea.

He said to the Beifu messenger: "I am none other than Dingling leader Pachaer. If I surrender, it means that all Dingling people are willing to submit to Liang Guo. So I have to call people from Dingling's various ministries to come forward. Come to discuss the matter. As long as the majority of people do not object, I will naturally lead Ding Ling's various ministries to submit to the Beifu Jiedu. In addition, we need the Beifu's Jiedu to personally perform the surrender ceremony to show the sincerity of the Beifu. Only in this way can I convince Ding Ling's various ministries."

The messenger chuckled and said, "It's not difficult. To be honest, our Jiedushi personally led the army to go out this time. After you gather the leaders of the tribes and make a decision, if you are willing to surrender, you can go to the Our camp surrenders!"

The messenger replied to Lv Bu who was waiting outside. Pang Tong who was next to him heard this, sneered, and said to Lv Bu: "Jiedu, this must be a trick of that Bochaer to surrender, but we can use our strategy and take the opportunity to kill them." Catch them all."

After listening to Pang Tong's detailed plan, Lu Bu said: "Shiyuan's plan is feasible, I only have a little doubt, if this Tuolidu rebels against us again, leaks the plan to the other party, or does not act according to our plan, what should we do? ?”

Pang Tong sneered and said, "At that time, we can't help him, unless he doesn't care about the lives of his family... In addition, we can also test whether he has betrayed us. If he comes to inform, we will tell him the plan and use it In the name of protecting his family, put his family members into our army to take care of them. This way we can be sure that nothing will go wrong."

Afterwards, Liang Jun left a small team of scouts to secretly monitor Pachaer, and the rest returned to the Dingling settlement they occupied and waited patiently.

Here, Pachaer also acted quickly, sending multiple messengers to send letters to the various tribes in the alliance, and urgently summoned them to discuss matters, and also brought people with them.

Of course, for tribes that are far away, it is impossible for this kind of weather to bring people, let alone horses.Most of Suosin's tribes were nearby, and they gathered their troops and trekked dozens of miles of ice and snow roads to meet with Pachaer.Among them, of course, is Tuo Lidu.

Before Tuolidu came, he sent someone to quietly tell the Beifu army the news. Lu Bu and Pang Tong exchanged glances, and Pang Tong calmly told the messenger: "Go back and tell your leader, so that he can rest assured to talk to Pochaer. Discuss the matter. But for his safety, don't tell Pachaer that he has surrendered to us."