Three Kingdoms Eschatology

"Reporting to the Great Chanyu, we have searched a radius of five miles, and there is no Liang army camp near Shuofang City."

Ke Bi Neng's heart moved and he began to calculate.If Liang Jun really came with a large number of troops, according to common sense, it would be impossible to garrison them in only one city.It is inevitable to camp near the city to respond.Therefore, there are no camps near the city, which means that Liang Jun probably does not have many troops coming.

As soon as Ke Bi Neng's thoughts turned to this, he reminded himself not to take it for granted.What if this is Liang Jun's plan?Although Shuofang City is not big, its circumference is only ten miles.But if you want to force it, there is no problem with [-] Tibetan cavalry.

In the end, he made up his mind to try it out with more than five thousand rides.If it hits the wall, at worst it will lose 5000 troops.

At the same time, he ordered that except for a few strongholds to attack the city, the rest of the Xianbei war cavalry who were still scattered in Shuofang Wuyuan retreated to the cloud east of Hetao first.

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Five thousand Xianbei cavalry, led by Ke Bineng himself, rushed towards Shuofang again on the muddy ground.Only this time, Li Su at the head of the city seemed no longer worried, and he could even be said to be full of confidence.

With the sound of the unique horn of the Xianbei people, thousands of cavalry repeated the old trick again.First, he shoots quickly at the top of the city, then circles around the city, chooses the opportunity to attack the city, and climbs to the top of the city with hooks and claws.

Arrows scattered towards the city like locusts.Only this time, Liang Jun launched a counterattack from time to time, shooting arrows down the city.It was shot by Qingqi Feiyu.

Most of the ice shell on the city wall of Shuofang has melted. Although there is still a little ice hanging on the city wall, it does not affect Ke Bineng's iron cavalry attacking the city.

With the crisp sound of scandium and scandium metal colliding with masonry, more than a dozen hooks and claws grabbed the edge of the city wall.More than a dozen Xianbei soldiers quickly rushed to the top of the city along the ropes.

The Xianbei soldier who climbed the fastest, had his head out of the wall when he was crushed by a thick mace and fell to the bottom of the city without a word.This is heavy cavalry on foot to assist infantry in defending the city.

Nearly [-] riders circled the city wall with a circumference of ten miles, and they must not be connected end to end.When the tail of the cavalry passed the south gate of the city.

Ke Bineng was watching the battle from a distance, and something that terrified him happened. The gate of Shuofang City suddenly opened wide, and more than a hundred tall armored cavalry rushed out of the gate.He thought that the other party was going to surprise his coach, so he hurriedly led a hundred guards around him and ran away.

Unexpectedly, these Liang Jun iron cavalry did not come at him at all, but ran behind the Xianbei cavalry, as if they were chasing the Xianbei cavalry who were circling around the city, but the speed of these heavy cavalry was far slower than the opponent, it was impossible Those who caught up with the Xianbei cavalry.

Some Xianbei scattered rangers who were guarding around immediately gathered to meet the opponent, but they were defeated and killed by the opponent almost instantly.However, these heavy cavalry did not chase after the defeated scattered cavalry, and continued to follow the Xianbei cavalry around the city.

Similarly, the other three city gates were also operated in the same way. After four teams of Liang Jun heavy cavalry circled a quarter of the city, they entered the city from another city gate.Ke Bineng, who had already run far away, wondered: "What are these Liang Jun doing this strange behavior?"

Now, he was far away from Shuofang City. If he was closer, he would find that when these cavalry were galloping, the knight on the horse was quietly pouring liquid on the ground with a skin bag.That was the latest output of ten truckloads of naphtha, brought in by reinforcements.

Kebi could see these cavalry returning to the city, so he boldly came up to check the enemy's situation for himself, but he still didn't find any clues, but just smelled an indescribable strange smell in the air.

At this time, Xianbei's main cavalry team had circled the city for a circle and entered the next cycle.Hundreds of Xianbei pioneers have climbed to the top of the wall from different places around them.But their attack will soon be shattered by maces, spears, and steel knives. However, if the Xianbei continue to climb the city wall, Shuofang City will also be in danger.

Ke Bi Neng suddenly saw that countless streams of fire were pouring down the city from the top of the city. They were rockets.Kebi could immediately relate to the strange smell in the air.

not good!As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, flames instantly rose into the air on the muddy road trampled by horseshoes.If Kebi hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't believe it even if he was killed.

The flame quickly caught up with the Xianbei cavalry and engulfed them in the sea of ​​flames.Ke Bineng and his soldiers' mounts were frightened, and they ran away as if they had seen a ghost, with thousands of Xianbei cavalry wailing and screaming behind them.

Chapter 300

The frightened Kebi Neng ran back to Wuyuan in one breath with the remaining hundred or so pro-riders.

In the big tent, he said in shock in front of the tribal leaders: "We can't stay here anymore, we need to retreat to Mobei and Xianbei Mountains immediately. Those Han people have witchcraft, but they can send flames from the sky. Burn them all at once I have five thousand war cavalry, how can I and my mortal body compete with them?"

Hearing what Ke Bineng said, everyone in the big tent looked at each other in blank dismay, and a "Little Shanyu" of the Xianbei tribe asked cautiously: "Dare to ask Da Shanyu, what kind of witchcraft is that, can you describe it in detail for me?" .”

Ke Bi Neng had no choice but to describe the scene he saw in detail.Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, a person in the tent burst into laughter.

Ke Bi Neng looked intently, and it turned out that it was Shi Biao, the leader of another tribe of the Xiongnu who had recently surrendered to him.Ke Bi Neng shouted angrily: "What are you laughing at?"

Only then did Shi Biao realize that he had lost his composure, quickly put away his smile, and said respectfully to Ke Bineng: "Qi Da Chanyu, this is not some Han witchcraft, but they used an extremely rare fire starter !"

Hearing this, Kebi's eyes lit up and said, "Oh, let's hear it. What kind of fire starter is so powerful that it can ignite flames out of thin air and burn for dozens of miles?"

Shi Biao continued: "I don't know what it's called, but I know that it's a liquid lighter than vegetable oil and insoluble in water. As long as there is a spark, no matter what the environment is, it can be violent. It’s burning. Just now, Da Shanyu said that those Han people went out of the city and followed the cavalry for a while?”

"That's right. Those Han war cavalry were divided into four groups, and suddenly galloped out from the four gates of the city one after another. Each of them followed our cavalry formation for a while. When Ben Shanyu wanted to command the soldiers to surround them, they had already run back. In the city. Ben Shanyu wondered at the time why they did this meaningless act.”

Shi Biao clapped his hands and said, "Then it makes sense, these Han cavalry must have been secretly pouring the liquid. Then after the cavalry came back, they would use rockets to ignite the fire."

Ke Bineng suddenly realized, his expression was dull for a few seconds, and he said with a little disappointment: "It would be great if we Xianbei could get this fetish. We can not only conquer the grasslands of thousands of miles, but also the fertile Han soil in the south. It's a pity , this thing is in the hands of the Han people, we seem to have to give up even the grasslands in Monan."

A sinister smile appeared on Shi Biao's face, and he responded to Ke Bineng: "Don't be disappointed, Da Shanyu. We Xianbei can get this as well."

Ke Bi Neng quickly asked: "Oh? If you have a way to let me, Xianbei, also get this thing, I will reward you a lot. After conquering the entire grassland in the future, all the old lands of the Xiongnu will be granted to your tribe."

Shi Biao was overjoyed, and immediately said everything he knew like a bamboo tube:

"Qi Chanyu, when my subordinate was still subordinate to Liu Qubei, I heard that Liang Guo had a secret mine in Beidi County, where a kind of black grease emerged from the ground. This black grease is not unusual. It is also common in the Gobi desert in the west. Sometimes shepherds take it as firewood. But Liang Guo somehow extracted a transparent juice from this black oil. This juice is what the subordinates said Fuel. Therefore, we only need to capture the Northland, occupy this mine and capture craftsmen's equipment and equipment, then this fetish will belong to my Xianbei."

Ke Bineng hurriedly asked: "Where is the specific location of the mine? Tell me quickly!"

"This... Liang Jun has adopted strict secrecy measures. Even Liu Qubei may not know about it. However, his subordinates know that there is a large military restricted zone designated by Liang State near Beicheng Town, Beidi County, and merchants who come and go are blocked. Inform, trespassers will be killed. Therefore, this subordinate concludes that the mine and refining site are located in this area!"

Zhenbeicheng!Kebi was shocked when he heard these three words.This name may be unfamiliar to the Han princes.But for the grassland peoples in the north, the past two years have been like thunder.That was the headquarters of Zhang Liao, the northern general of Liang Guozhen.

Since the White Horse Alliance of the Nine Princes, Liang Guo, like other princes, can only be managed by concentrating the population in key cities in the face of the objective reality of sparse population.

Therefore, most of the city bases in Wuyuan and Yunzhong were abandoned, and only some Huns were left nomadic in these two border counties on the north bank of the Yellow River.

Therefore, Dingling, Gaoche and other emerging grassland nomads who nomad along the coast of the North Sea (Lake Baikal) thought there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, and rode southward to try to fill this vacuum.But they were all driven back to Mobei by the Jiujiu cavalry set off from Zhenbei City.

Those men and horses are all equipped with iron armor, and the iron cavalry that surpasses the battle is the dream that these nomadic tribes will never leave.Some of these tribes later became the Xianbei tribe.Naturally, Ke Bineng also knew the name of Zhenbei City, so this time when he entered the Kou Liang territory, he had no idea of ​​Zhenbei City at all, and he didn't even think about attacking Beidi County.

Ke Bi Neng rubbed his palms together back and forth, while his feet kept pacing back and forth in the tent.Finally he decided to take a gamble.If he can win this fetish, he will own the whole world, if he loses, he will lose half of Xianbei's cavalry.Gambling the whole world with [-] warriors, he is willing to participate in this gamble.

He resolutely ordered: "Come here, issue a Shanyu order to all the ministries in Monan, and let them come to Wuyuan to assemble immediately after receiving the order. There must be no mistakes, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!"

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Zhenbei City, inside the General's Mansion.Some generals advised Zhang Liao again and sent troops to rescue Shuofang.

There is a reason for these generals to advise Zhang Liao in this way.Seeing that Ke Bineng's main force was besieging Li Su in Shuofang City, the main force of the entire Zhang Liao Army lay motionless in Zhenbei City.From the beginning to the end, only the two cavalry battalions dispatched by Hua Xiong were sent to support Shuofang City.

This is obviously not Zhang Liao's style.Some generals even doubted whether Zhang Liao was deliberately embarrassing Li Su.

"General, Shuofang City's troops are weak, and Xianbei mustered a heavy army to attack. I'm afraid that Captain Li Su will not be able to sustain it."

"That's right, instead of our main force staying idle in Zhenbei City, it's better to raid Xianbei from the side. Otherwise, Shuofang City will be broken overnight."

In the words of everyone talking to each other, Zhang Liao still lowered his eyes slightly, indifferent to the advice of the generals.When everyone stopped talking, he opened his eyes and said:

"Shuofang City is important, but Zhenbei City is [-] times more important than Shuofang. It can be said that it is related to the fate of the entire Liang Kingdom and even the entire world. This is what the king specifically explained. Therefore, no matter what the situation in Shuofang is, Zhenbei City is determined. The defense cannot be loosened at all. As for Shuofang, I believe Li Su can defend it."

At this time, Zhang Liao's personal guards ordered soldiers to report: "General Qi, the forward sentry cavalry is here to report, and Xianbei's [-] cavalry are coming to Zhenbei City!"

Chapter 301 Boulder Castle

Twenty thousand Xianbei warriors attacked at the same time!The soldiers and generals present in Beicheng Town took a breath when they heard the news.After that, there was a lot of discussion in the hall, both excited and nervous.

These captains and school captains have fought battles with many grassland nomadic tribes in the past one or two years, and all of them are experienced men, but the largest barbarian cavalry they have encountered is only more than three thousand human appearance.This time can be regarded as the biggest battle in their lives.

The corner of Zhang Liao's mouth also curled into a sneer, and said: "They finally came, but I didn't expect that they would invest [-] soldiers, and they would kill them all at once."

Then he stood up and encouraged the morale of the generals present: "Although the Xianbei people have a large number of troops, we have also made full preparations. Let alone 2 of them, even if they come 20, we must have them come and go." , none of them can escape.”

Zhang Liao's remarks are of course an exaggeration, but they can indeed play a role in stabilizing the morale of the army.And even though Zhang Liao's army has nearly 4000 people.But he is indeed confident that he can deal with [-] Xianbei cavalry.He has been preparing for this for a long time.

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The Jushi Fortress is an outpost fortress of the Liang army in the northeast of Zhenbei City. Like Zhenbei City, it was rebuilt from a part of the ruins of the Great Wall.

So far, the Beacon Tower on the Great Wall is still used as its watchtower.But now, Liang Jun will basically not use such a primitive and backward method as burning wolf smoke to convey information.Zhenbeicheng will send pigeons to the castle regularly.

Jushibao has received news that the Xianbei people are coming to invade, so Wubao remains vigilant at twelve hours a day.The ranger scouts sent to patrol around during the day have also doubled their manpower.

The team leader in charge of guarding Jushi Fortress was named Zhang Mingfa, and he received the tasks assigned by Shangfeng: First, if the main force of Xianbei passed near the fortress, he must promptly pass the information to Zhenbei City.The second is to prevent Xianbei scouts from crossing the Great Wall as much as possible and conduct in-depth investigations of Liang Jun.

For Zhang Fa, the first task was easy, but the second was a bit more difficult.The current Great Wall is dilapidated, with a large number of collapsed gaps, and there is no garrison on the wall.

Feng Yu's thinking on border defense is to replace defense with offense.Therefore, most of the money and food allocated by Liang Guofu's treasury were used to build Wubao castles and to station troops that could launch counterattacks at any time.Instead of spending the money on repairing the wall.

The Great Wall is [-] miles long in the defense area that Jushi Fort is in charge of. It is difficult to imagine how difficult it is to ensure that no Xianbei scouts penetrate such a long distance.

So Xin, the military order given by Shangfeng contained the word "as far as possible", which made Zhang Fa feel a lot easier.But he still performed his duties very seriously.

Ten miles to the east of Jushi Fortress, there is a gap caused by the collapse of the Great Wall, and the gap is already overgrown with weeds.At this time, three horses galloped suddenly from the northwest of the city wall, and the three men on the horses were dressed in typical Hu businessmen.But normal Hu merchants should not come to this place at all, but because they entered the customs from Zhenbei City.They are Xianbei secret agents.

The three stopped at the gap, and then stopped for a while, looked at each other, and then rode their horses through the gap overgrown with wormwood.They rode on horseback, unaware that the horse's hoof was tripped by the thin rope.They also thought that the horse's pace was messed up when it passed through the unfamiliar grass.

In an abandoned beacon tower in the distance, a clay basin of water was overturned on the ground.More than half an hour later, a Liang army patrol team from Jushi Fort came over.

There are five of them in total.The leader jumped off his horse, did not take the stairs, and climbed directly along the broken city wall, and entered the beacon tower.Immediately, he poked his head out of the hole in the beacon tower excitedly and shouted: "Brothers, food is here!"

Two mountain dogs sniffed the grass, then barked low, and trotted away like sharp arrows.Wuqi immediately rode his horse to keep up.A dust with a special smell was sprinkled in the grass, and as long as it passed by, it would leave traces that the mountain dogs could find.

After Wuqi chased for nearly two hours, the two mountain dogs suddenly stopped in the wilderness, and then barked at a small forest.Five scouts jumped off their horses, three of them held bows, and two of them held knives and walked cautiously towards the woods.

"Get out! Otherwise, we will shoot arrows!" The scout led shouted loudly.But there were only two horses neighing in the grove, but no one responded.

The five had no choice but to enter the forest. The bushes only shook a few times, but they did not escape the eyes of the scouts. Three sharp arrows flew towards the bushes, only to hear a scream.

Then a black figure jumped up from behind the bushes, but he still underestimated the Liang Jun scouts.The moment he jumped up, the blade of a steel knife was already hanging around his neck, blood flashed, and a head fell to the grass in the forest.

Another Liang Jun scout with a knife pushed aside the bushes and found another Xianbei spy lying behind him.One arrow each in the chest and arm.The scout grabbed him and asked, "Tell me, how many of you are here?" Then he threw him to the ground and cursed, "Damn, he's dead."

Another scout said: "There should be three of them, and here are three horses!"

The five scouts searched the small woods, but they couldn't find the third person.The hound also sniffed the woods, but there was no response. It was impossible for people to hide in the woods.

If you want to continue tracking, the mountain dog will not work at this time, because the powder is stuck on the horse's hoof.

"The only thing left is to release the eagle," said the scout headed.After a while, a peregrine falcon from the East China Sea soared into the sky, circling in the sky, whenever it found an unfamiliar figure in this wilderness, it would hover over his head.

A mile away, a Xianbei scout ran with all his might.

He and two other companions traveled here, but the water in the water bag was exhausted, so he asked the other two to take the horse into the forest to hide, and went to find water by himself, thus avoiding disaster.When he returned, he found that something was wrong in the forest, so he turned around and ran away.

However, within half an hour of his running, five healthy horses caught up with him, and a falcon flew with him in the sky.

Five Liang Jun scouts quickly blocked his way in front, back, left, and right.The Xianbei spy gritted his teeth, pulled out his saber, and made a gesture of dying.

Yiqi suddenly rushed towards him with all his strength, he screamed strangely, and rushed towards him with a knife.Unexpectedly, a noose fell from the sky and wrapped around his neck from behind him, and then he fell down on all fours.

When it was time for lunch, Zhang Fa waited and found that there were still five riders who hadn't returned to the fort, knowing that something happened to them.I was anxious in my heart, and the five of them had already returned with a bunch of tied-up barbarians.

One of them has already reported to Zhang Fa: "Boss, we found three Xianbei spies. Two of them were slaughtered. According to your instructions, we left a alive!"

Zhang Fa laughed loudly and praised: "Well done, you have made another great contribution." When he spoke, he didn't look at the prisoners around him.

Chapter 302

Inside the giant stone castle, the leader of the scouts asked Zhang Fa: "Boss, do we want to escort this living victim to Zhenbei City?"

Zhang Fa nodded, then shook his head and said: "The situation is urgent, so we will interrogate in the fort. After we finish the interrogation, we will send it to Zhenbei City."

After finishing speaking, he waved his hand and several soldiers came up to hold the captive.Zhang Fa's mother was a Hun woman, so she also knew Xianbei Hu.

When he came to the prisoner, he looked out of the window and asked coldly in nonsense, "Say! How many of you have crossed the Great Wall in how many groups? What is the mission?"

The prisoner was stubborn, and he closed his eyes and said nothing.Zhang Fa suddenly pulled out the steel knife from his waist and lowered his body.

Hearing a scream like a slaughtered pig, the Xianbei prisoner cried out in pain, his little finger had been chopped off by Zhang Fa.The soldiers on both sides tied his arms with ropes to reduce the speed of his blood loss and prevent him from passing out due to excessive blood loss.Because he didn't know that Zhang Fa would cut off a few of his fingers.

Zhang Fa asked the same question again, and the Xianbei spy finally spoke, but he didn't answer the question, and cursed in nonsense. "Ah!" Then he screamed again, and the Xianbei man's finger was cut off again.

Zhang Fa said frightfully, "You still have eight fingers. After you cut off your fingers, you will cut off your hands and then your arms. So you still have twelve chances to refuse to answer."

When Zhang Fa was about to cut off the Xianbei to make the third finger, the Xianbei man finally broke down, begging for mercy loudly: "Say, I say!"

Based on Xianbei's detailed confession, Zhang Fa knew that Ke Bineng personally led the attack this time.Ke Bineng had sent three groups of scouts before sending out their group of scouts, each with a size of three to five people.

The most important task that Kebi can give them is to find out the exact location of Liang Guo's Shizhi Mine, and secondly try to find out the deployment of Liang's army in the Great Wall, and if possible, find out the military situation in Zhenbei City.

A quarter of an hour later, two carrier pigeons flew into the air from the boulder fort one after another.A message was delivered to Zhenbei City by two carrier pigeons at the same time to ensure that the message could reach its destination.It can also be seen how important this news is.

Half an hour later, in the general's residence in Zhenbei City, Zhang Liao unfolded the letter from Feige that had just been delivered, and said to himself, "I never thought that Kebi would come in person, and he came here specifically for the stone fat mine. From a far-sighted point of view, Yao must keep the main force in Zhenbei City no matter what.”

After pondering for a while, he said to the guards on the left and right: "Pass my military order to let the personnel of the Shizhi Mine immediately take all the important key equipment and naphtha stocks to Zhenbei City, and the battalion captain Pinjie All the above-mentioned generals are summoned, and a certain plan needs to be rearranged."

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At this time, on the Hetao Grassland five miles away from the Great Wall, there was a dense mass of Xianbei war cavalry that stretched across the sky.Ke Bineng still maintained his caution, keeping the army at a standstill, and he wanted to wait for the military situation ahead that the scouts would investigate.

Kebi could hear the howling of an eagle. He looked up and saw a falcon hovering in the sky at some point. "Shoot that eagle down!" Ke Bineng said coldly.

He didn't know that it was a falcon of Liang Guo's scout, he just didn't like anything high in front of him, not even a falcon.

The random arrows flew towards the falcon, although it seemed that the shooting range was out of range, but it also frightened the falcon, and it let out another long howl before flapping its wings and flying away.

Among the wormwood bushes in the distance, a Liang Jun scout who poked his head out to watch also retracted his head, then bowed his body and rushed towards the distance, and only after walking far away did he straighten up and run wildly...

Ke Bineng finally waited for the information he urgently needed, and one of the seven scouts he sent successively returned safely.Although they did not bring back the exact location information of the Shifat Mine, they did bring back a rough sketch of the deployment near Zhenbei City.

With a wave of Kebi's hand, the soldiers on the left and right immediately understood his intention, and rode his horse to pass his military order to the twenty thousand warriors.After a while, the Xianbei army moved again, rushing towards the Great Wall like dark clouds overwhelming the city, pouring into the Great Wall from several gaps like a torrent.