[Comprehensive] Madam's divine calculation
Chapter 32
No wonder the hexagram of the Han army is evil, but the hexagrams of several generals are all auspicious!
The hexagram is inauspicious, which means that in the next month, many people in the Han army will mistakenly drink this kind of water with epidemic poison;
The hexagram is auspicious, which means that the three people will not drink the water from those water sources by mistake in the next month.
There are a total of [-] to [-] Han troops here, and more than a dozen water sources, but if there is a water source with plague poison, the plague will spread in the Han army on a large scale, and thousands of people will die and suffer physical damage as a result. public.
No wonder that hexagram is evil, great evil!
What a vicious mind, such a vicious official, such a vicious traitor.
Yun Yao stared at the tent firmly, wishing she could float into it and strangle that dead eunuch to death.But she is now a soul body, although she can shuttle freely in the Huns camp, but she can't touch that powerful official.So she could only stare at the tent, and firmly memorized the location of the tent, as well as the surrounding terrain, without missing a single bit.
After a while, the shrill voice came from the tent again: "You all remember this matter for me, this matter has to be done every year, every month, and you can't relax for a moment. Da Shanyu once said , whoever can cause the Han army to suffer a disastrous defeat for a long time will be appointed an official and given a title, and will be rewarded heavily. If I get the reward, I will naturally benefit from you, but if any of you-"
He snorted softly, and his voice became thinner and thinner: "I know some of you are nostalgic, and you still miss Han Ting in your heart. But now you are my slaves, and I am Da Shan Yu Those of you who don't have long eyes and voted for the Han army, don't blame me for being cruel and cruel. Do you remember everything clearly?"
Several voices came out of the camp one after another, some in Chinese and some in Xiongnu.
Then it was quiet in the camp.After a while, two slaves walked out of the tent on their knees, rolling up the tents one on the left and one on the right.After a while, a white-faced and beardless middle-aged man came out of the camp. Although he looked like a Han Chinese, he was wearing a Hun costume.
Yun Yao stared at the man without blinking for a moment, and firmly remembered his voice and appearance in her heart.
She looked up at the time, the bright moon was sinking to the west, the moonlight gradually became dim, and even the stars were only a few left.It is now a period of time from midnight to before dawn, and the wilderness is dark, only the whistling wind is left.
From the few words they said, she deduced that this was the only time in a day that the powerful official could come out to breathe.
The lights in the surrounding tents were all turned off, leaving only Huns patrolling in twos and threes; when they saw the powerful official, they all nodded kindly to him, put their hands on their left chest, and bent slightly; Quan Huan used the same etiquette to return the salute, and his movements were very skillful.
It seems that the powerful eunuch has become a Hun from the inside out.
Yun Yao felt sad when she thought about the words of that powerful official just now.
"Take the epidemic poison and put it in the water source of the Han army", "do it every year, every month"... If the Huns really poisoned the water source every year from now on, no, it doesn't need to be every year Yueyue, even just once, will cause a large number of Han soldiers to die innocently, and even those who barely survive will not live long because of the toxins in their bodies.
It is rumored that Huo Qubing died young just because he drank the water with plague by mistake.
The border between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu is long, and there are countless water sources; even if she wants to divination one by one, how can she do it?
She closed her eyes, silently counting one, two, three.When he counted to ten, he turned around and floated into the Han camp.
Suddenly there was a cough from Quan Huan behind him: "Hey, you go to Da Shanyu's place later and invite all the wizards over. Where is the water source commonly used by the Han army, and where is not commonly used by the Han army? You must tell them carefully. Also, you told the Chanyu that before casting the poison of the plague, you must divination and pray for three days. Do you remember?"
Two people responded nonchalantly.
Yun Yao stopped, turned around slowly, and floated into the tent, she could not leave until the eunuch told where to poison.There are many water sources for the Han army, and some of them are very hidden. If she divination them one by one, it is inevitable that some fish will slip through the net.
The first ray of sunlight hit the Huns' tent, and the east was slightly pale.
Quan Huan narrowed his eyes, looked at the place where the Han army was stationed, and smiled sinisterly.
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Han camp.
Gao Su woke up from his deep sleep, surrounded by a mess of Han soldiers.He didn't go back to his tent last night, but found a tent to rest next to the tent where Yun Yao left—that is, the place where the military doctors temporarily piled up medicinal materials.
Now, before the others woke up, Gao Su put on his coat and got up, and went to the tent where Yun Yao left.
Yun Yao hasn't come back yet.She was still lying quietly on a blanket, pillowed on his robe, and wrapped in his other robe, as if she had fallen asleep peacefully.But Gao Su knew that she was still in the camp of the Huns and had never returned.
"Ayao." Gao Su called her in a low voice, stroking her cheek with his fingertips, his eyes gradually became more tender.
It was already the end of the day, and in a few quarters of an hour, General Wei Qing would take people out to lure the enemy.Afterwards, he would also take the main force to cut off the rear, and then encircled Wei Qing's army, tearing a large piece from the Huns army.
Gao Su leaned down and kissed her eyes.
"I should go. Wait for me to come back."
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It was broad daylight.
There were chaotic footsteps in the Huns' camp, and some people were speaking in the Huns' dialect.Quan Huan was originally resting his eyes with his eyes closed, but when he heard the noise outside, he called a little slave out to see what was going on.
Xiao Nu walked out on her knees, and after a while she replied, "General Wei Qing...Wei Qing has appeared."
"What?" Quan Huan stood up with a groan, with a little surprise on his face.After a while, he figured it out, and then rubbed a piece of tiger skin on the ground with his toes, and said with a dark smile, "Wei Qing, hmph, lead your troops out of Shanggu County, and go straight to Longcheng...Hanting, Wei Qing!"
Standing on the tiger skin, with gloomy eyes, he tore a piece of fur in his hand into two halves.
Yun Yao stood behind him, staring at him, floating motionless.
After a while, two groups of Xiongnu guards led more than a dozen wizards and followed the slaves to the camp.
The wizards stood neatly in a row in front of Quan Huan, waiting for his orders.Quan Huan asked the wizards two questions, and after the wizards answered one by one, he pointed to two wizards and asked the Huns guards to take them out.Then two more slaves came over, holding a huge wolf skin with a crude map drawn on it.Quan Huan pointed to the past place by place with that crude map.
Every time he pointed to a place, he uttered a short Hun language.
—Wait, she can't understand the Huns.
Yun Yao was so anxious that she was furious, but Quan Huan spoke very fast, pointing to four or five places in one breath.She had no choice but to follow the direction of Quan Huan's fingers and memorize those locations one by one, even those short and awkward syllables.
This is quite a laborious thing.
Although Yunyao's memory is better than ordinary people's, the Huns' words were weird and awkward, and Quan Huan's speech was quite fast, she had to listen with all her attention to barely memorize some syllables.
Fortunately, after Quan Huan finished speaking, he asked some questions in the Hun language, and the wizards recounted the water sources again.
After repeating this three or two times, Yun Yao memorized all the Xiongnu words.
After the wizards finished answering one by one, Quan Huan nodded in satisfaction, pointed to the wolf-skin map, and spoke a long section of Xiongnu language.Yun Yao couldn't understand, so she could only ignore it for the time being.She memorized the names of those water sources over and over again in her heart, as well as the locations marked on the crude map, for fear that she might miss something.
But if one is missed, even if there is only one, the Han army is finished.
After a while, Quan Huan waved his hands to let the wizards go down, and asked the slaves to put away the map, and then he lay down on a wolf fur mattress, and after a while, he let out a slight snoring sound.Such reversal of day and night was also because Da Shanyu did not allow him to show his face easily.
Yun Yao quietly exited the tent and drifted towards the Han camp.
Not long after, she drifted back to the Han camp, found the tent where her body was, and opened her eyes.
Without Gao Su, the entire camp was quiet, as if there was no one there.
She was wearing a high and solemn robe, but the others had gone nowhere.When I went to look outside the tent, the whole tent was empty, except for two old and weak soldiers sorting out the medicinal materials, there was no one to be seen anymore.
Yun Yao waited from morning until dusk, until her patience was almost exhausted, and then she waited for the returning Han army.
The Han soldiers came back supporting each other in twos and threes, looking a little excited and a little tired.Most of them were talking about today's battle, such as how many Huns they killed, how brave General Wei was, and...
As Yun Yao listened, she suddenly realized that Wei Qing had led someone to fight again just now.And Gao Su, he also went.The "Wei Qing" that I heard in the Huns' tent just now refers to this.
She thought for a moment, and then a faint shadow floated out of her body and went outside the camp.
The Han soldiers were still in twos and threes, helping each other back to the camp.Gao Su came with two people on horseback from afar.Even after a fierce battle, he looked quite energetic, and even the faint look of fatigue between his brows seemed to have faded a lot.After entering the camp, Gao Su got off his horse, handed the horse over to a sergeant, and walked towards the tent where Yun Yao himself was staying.
She breathed a sigh of relief, then floated back into the tent and opened her eyes again.
Gao Su opened the tent, walked in, but stopped three steps away from her, and called softly: "Ayao."
Yun Yao got up to meet him, but saw him take two steps back again and again, and said helplessly, "Wait... wait a minute, Yao, I'm dirty."
It was only then that Yun Yao noticed that Gao Su's body was mixed with dirt, dry grass and blood, and there was also a pungent bloody smell.Her heart skipped a beat, and she asked anxiously, "You, are you injured?" She took two steps forward anxiously, wanting to take a closer look.
Gao Su was caught off guard, Yunyao grabbed his arm, and she undid his armor two or three times.He pressed her hand and said in a low voice: "I'm not hurt. A Yao. I'm not hurt." Over and over again, in a low voice, as if to comfort her.
Gao Su tightly covered her slightly cold hands, and repeatedly comforted her in a low voice: "Ah Yao, I haven't been injured."
The moment she smelled the smell of blood, her heart almost jumped out of her chest, and her fingertips became a little cold.Gao Su's warm palm warmed up her hand little by little, and her heart gradually settled down.
Yun Yao lay in his arms and said in a low voice: "You just scared me."
He patted her on the shoulder reassuringly, and said in a low voice, "I'm fine." Then he looked at her carefully, and seeing that she looked a little tired, he asked in a low voice, "Your complexion seems a little unwell, but things Not going well?"
Yun Yao shook her head, fastened his armor again, then stood on tiptoe and put it next to his ear, telling what she saw and heard in the Huns camp, together with her worries and fears, exactly Tell him.
Gao Su listened, his expression gradually became dignified.He whispered: "This matter is so important that we need to hear about General Wei Qing."
Yun Yao was startled, and asked in surprise: "Chang Gong, you...can you understand Xiongnu dialect?"
Those weird and hard-to-pronounce Xiongnu words that she just recounted according to the script?
Gao Su couldn't help laughing, and said: "Ayao, I have been in the army for a long time, so I can understand the language of the Huns."
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That night, Gao Su went to Wei Qing's camp and told Wei Qing everything.
"...So the Han army is in danger. I also hope that General Wei will inform the army of this matter, and those water sources will be strictly guarded. And the man in the Xiongnu camp should be sent to kill him immediately. It is absolutely impossible. Forgive me." Gao Su said.
After hearing that speech, Wei Qing didn't make any assertion, but asked, "How can you be sure that the plague is true?"
Gao Su thought to himself that what A Yao said was naturally true, but he couldn't say that to Wei Qing.One is because A Yao had told him not to reveal her secret; the other is because he trusted A Yao, but General Wei Qing did not necessarily trust her so much.
So Gao Su said: "It's what the army said carefully."
Wei Qing was obviously not satisfied with this answer.But he didn't say much, but asked again: "Where is that man now? Have I seen him? You said that the powerful eunuch in the Huns camp was once a dowry with his relative's daughter, and later Instead, he advised the Xiongnu Da Shanyu. This person was the one who spoke ill to the envoys of the Han officials, Zhong Xing said?"
Gao Su nodded slightly and said, "It is this person."
Wei Qing stood up, folded his hands, and looked at a map with the same rough lines for a while, as if lost in thought.
Gao Su said again: "If General Wei doesn't believe it, he will be willing to take people to investigate; if he encounters a person who takes the epidemic poison and casts it, he should be killed in one fell swoop; if this statement is wrong, he will take it easy In front of the general, order fifty military sticks as a sign of punishment."
Wei Qing turned around to look at Gao Su, and finally nodded slowly after a while.
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Early the next morning, Gao Su left with his people.
Yun Yao returned to the tent of the Chinese Army, and stayed with the hesitant King Wengzhu of Jiaoxi to catch up on sleep.After that, another faint shadow floated out of her body, following Gao Su.She was a little worried about Gao Su, so she wanted to follow him quietly.
But just as she floated to Gao Su's side, she saw Gao Su froze suddenly, turned his head, and glanced in her direction.
A sergeant rode over and asked, "General, what did you find?"
Gao Su shook his head, said: "It's nothing." Then he rode away again.Yun Yao followed behind him all the way, keeping a distance of three or two steps from him.She is a spirit body, so she can keep up with the speed of the horse very quickly.but……
After turning around a small mountain depression, Gao Su suddenly turned around and called out with some uncertainty, "Ah Yao?"
The sergeants he brought out were all ten steps ahead, so they couldn't see what was going on here for the time being.
Yun Yao froze for a moment, and gradually revealed her figure in the air, and said in surprise, "You, can you really sense where I am?"
Gao Su looked at her helplessly, stretched out his hand towards her, and said, "Ah Yao, come here."
Yun Yao floated forward two steps in a nonchalant manner, then slowly shrunk into a ball, and floated into the palm of Gao Su's hand.Gao Su said in a low voice, "Stay still", and put her in the girdle properly, and then put her long legs between the horse's belly, and galloped away.
Both of Yunyao's eyes turned into ⊙o⊙
She, she was really taken away by Gao Su tied on the belt, づ﹏ど
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She huddled into a small ball in Gao Su's waist, and heard the whistling wind beside her ears.
Gao Su's riding skills are very good.He has been on the battlefield since he was more than ten years old, and he has been a soldier all his life, regardless of his past and present lives.Therefore, even in this undulating hill, he still rides his horse and walks smoothly, making people feel like walking on flat ground.
She rubbed her eyes, yawned a little, and called out, "Chang Gong."
Gao Su looked down and saw a small dumpling tucked into his waist, rubbing his eyes occasionally, his eyes were hazy, as if he was a little sleepy.He remembered that Yunyao spent the night in the Huns' tent the night before, and stayed with him most of the night last night, so he must be tired.
Gao Su felt a pang of apology in his heart, and asked in a gentle voice, "But are you tired? Just sleep for a while."
Yun Yao shook her head, rubbed her eyes again, and muttered vaguely: "Pay attention to the road in front of you!... Chang Gong, I have always wanted to ask you, how do you know where the Huns will go first? To the source of water?"
She picked a suitable position in his girdle, and looked at him with dim eyes.
Gao Su glanced ahead, rode his horse past two jagged rock piles, and said, "I don't know which one they will go to first."
Yun Yao stretched out a little finger and poked his waist unhappily.
"But before you left, you vowed to issue a military order with General Wei." She said softly, "You said that you will be able to find out, otherwise you will have to receive fifty army sticks. I am in General Wei Hear it from outside the tent. If they go somewhere else first, you—”
Gao Su laughed lowly, wanted to touch her, but suddenly remembered that she was a soul body now, and he couldn't touch her.
He held her around his waist again with one hand to prevent her from rolling around outside—although it seemed useless—then whispered: “When I get out of this valley, I will let you The sergeants dispersed to check the five water sources separately. The one I am going to is the closest to the Huns, so they are most likely to go there first. Can Ayao rest assured now?"
After he finished speaking, he looked down at the little glutinous rice balls rolling around in his girdle, with a narrow and teasing look in his eyes.
The little Yunyao grabbed his waistband with her hands, her whole body seemed to be floating, she nodded blankly and said, "I see."
She was literally floating.Because of her lack of body, Gao Su couldn't touch her, so she could only float.Gao Su tucked her into his waist just now, and she took advantage of this posture and slowly floated forward.Floating and floating, I got used to this speed.
She lay in his waistband, peeking out from between his fingers.Outside is a stretch of rolling hills, as well as lush and lush dense forests that seem to have no end, mountains, mountains, dense forests... Looking at the past layer upon layer, the eyes are full of greenery.
There was a deep darkness beside her, except for the occasional gleam of light between his fingers.
She rubbed his fingertips, then lay on his waist, and slowly fell asleep.
Gao Su laughed out loud.He really loves her as she is now, small, soft, and hidden in a ball around his waist, like a rolling ball, let him store it carefully and carefully, everyone can see Without her, only he can enjoy it alone.
Only, he is alone.
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Gao Su rode his horse across two mountain depressions and came to a boundless wilderness, then reined in his horse and stopped.
Dozens of sergeants surrounded him, waiting for his order.
Gao Su took out a roll of maps from the cloth pouch on the horse's back, and spread it loosely on the horse's back.Simple mountains and landforms were drawn on the map, and five water sources were carefully circled with charcoal.He pointed to the five places and said: "You 12 people will go to these five places separately. The day before yesterday I received a report that the Huns wanted to put the plague here. So if you see the Huns, Either strangers, or wizards and military guards come with dead cows and horses and witches and bone artifacts, and kill them all."
The sergeants agreed in unison, and dispersed in twos and threes, heading for the five places.
Gao Su led eleven people and galloped towards the last water source marked on the map.
In front of him was a plain with a wide view, and those small rolling hills were left behind.The plain was lush and lush, and the half-foot-high weeds were blown to the ground by the wind.A river meanders across the plain, flowing slowly forward.
The place they are going to is just upstream of this river.
The twelve cavalry of the Han army were like a lightning bolt, sweeping a faint black shadow across the plain.The sound of horseshoes in Dede went against the direction of the river, leaving deep horseshoe marks in the wet soil.There are no horseshoes yet, so they rely on the two pairs of palms of the horses along the way, and rush all the way to the upper reaches of the river, the deadly water source.
The field of vision gradually became narrower, and the sky gradually became darker.
The night is coming.
Gao Su stopped his horse, and said in a deep voice: "Rest here for one night, and then go on the road tomorrow."
There is still some distance from the camp of the Huns. Ayao can easily float there, but they can't.He once asked A Yao how fast she could go when her soul was out of her body. A Yao turned her head and thought about it, and said, "It's probably like flying... I mean, I will walk back and forth between here and Chang'an City within two hours."
So now, they can only rest here for one night, and let the horses rest for one night, and then go on their way tomorrow.
Fortunately, the Huns were farther away from the water source. If they wanted to poison them, it would take at least three or two days.
Even if they rest here for one night, nothing will be delayed.
The Han soldiers quickly built a simple dwelling on the grass, and burned the wet land to half-dry with fire. Finally, they caught some fish from the river and ate some dry food, and then brushed away the fire. He fell asleep on the dry, burnt earth.
The man on the night watch felt anxious, so he left for a while.
A small dumpling floated out from Gao Su's waist, and slowly turned into a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl.
She rubbed her eyes, her eyes were hazy, as if she had just woken up.She didn't sleep well in the past two nights, until today she nestled in Gao Su's waistband and fell asleep all the way in a daze.She could vaguely feel the temperature between Gao Su's fingers, so even in her sleep, she could follow him ignorantly.
She glanced at her body to make sure no one could see her, and then floated to Gao Su's side.
Gao Su's sleeping appearance is very peaceful, even if she has seen two whole lives, she still won't feel tired.She stretched out her hand and put it on Gao Su's face, wanting to touch him; but she is still in her soul body, floating around, unable to touch him at all.
She sighed leisurely, then turned around suddenly, and drifted towards the upper reaches of the river.
—They won't wake up for at least three or four hours.That being the case, she might as well go there to have a look first.
——If she was lucky enough to find the place, after dawn, she could still show Gao Su the way.
Thinking of this in her heart, Yun Yao went upstream against the direction of the river.The grassland at night was silent, and the faint moonlight penetrated her body and shone on the pebbles in the river.Occasionally, two chirps of insects can be heard, and there are some slight wind sounds.
She floated upstream for a quarter of an hour, and her field of vision narrowed again.
This is a certain tributary in the upper reaches of the river. The gurgling water flowed out from the rock pile, merged into the rather wide river, and then slowly meandered eastward all the way.There is a rocky beach at her feet, and if she walks a little further upstream, she can still see steep rocks in the distance.
That's it.That day in the Huns' camp, the place Quan Huan pointed at was here.
She collected herself, remembering the location of the rocky beach, and then drifted towards the Xiongnu camp.
If the Huns want to come, then they will probably go in a straight line, because most of this place is grassland and rocky beach.If she floated in the direction of the Huns' camp now, she would most likely collide with them head-on.It would also be of great help if one could use this to estimate their marching speed and distance.
Soon, Yun Yao saw a blazing bonfire and the Huns guarding the night beside the bonfire.
The Huns also set up simple tents on the grass, lying crookedly in the tents to rest.They consisted of about twenty warriors and two wizards.The wizards had strange oil paints on their faces and held bone vessels in their hands, as if they had just finished praying.
Yun Yao suddenly remembered that the official said that day, before casting the plague, one had to pray to the gods for three days.
——In other words, they walked all the way and prayed all the way for three days?
She hissed softly, and floated onto a large wooden cart outside the tent.There were two dead cows and two dead horses in the cart, and the cows and horses were also painted with strange oil paints.They seemed to have just died, not yet showing signs of decay.
She gathered herself together, turned around, and floated back to the rocky beach along the original road, silently estimating the distance.
Then she followed the river and floated all the way downstream to where Gao Su was, and estimated the distance.
The distance on both sides is roughly the same, but Gaosu's side is slightly shorter.According to the speed at which Gao Su rode his horse during the day, he should be able to arrive one or two hours earlier.
Yun Yao breathed a sigh of relief, and floated into Gao Su's arms again, turning into a small dumpling.
She couldn't fall asleep now, so she lay her pillow on Gao Su's chest, listening to his steady and powerful heartbeat, beating again and again.
When the sky was slightly pale, the last Han army on vigil woke everyone up.They wiped away the traces left by last night, ate some dry food casually, and prepared to continue towards the water source.
Yun Yao drifted to Gao Su's ear, and told him about the situation last night in detail.
As Gao Su listened, his brows furrowed slightly.He loosely spread his hands on his shoulders, motioning for her to float into his palms.After she floated down, he lowered his voice and asked, "Did you sleepless again last night?"
There was a hint of pity and self-blame in his voice.
She blinked her eyes, and twirled her toes in his palm: "I've had enough sleep during the day. I can feel the temperature on your body, so even in my sleep, I won't lose you... Alas Chang Gong!"
Gao Su got on his horse, nodded to the remaining eleven Han soldiers, and then rode away against the flow of the river.
Yun Yao followed Gao Su's fingers and floated into his waistband.The temperature between his fingers was transferred to her soul body, and she snuggled up to him unconsciously, as if greedy for his warmth, she slowly closed her eyes and fell asleep.
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Gao Su rode his horse all the way up against the flow of the river, the sound of horseshoes was very clear in the open grassland.
Plain.
wilderness.
Rocky Beach.
He reined in his horse in front of the rocky beach, and looked down at the little...little Yunyao at his waist. He opened his eyes, rubbed them with his little fingers, and asked dimly, "Are you there?" ?” Then it slowly floated onto the horse’s head, looking into the distance.
The hooves of the Huns are getting closer, and there is also a sound of almost crazy bone bells, high and low prayers, and the rumble of wooden carts rolling over the grassland.The corpses of cows and horses have been cut open, and the poisonous viscera are held in the palms of the wizards, whispering spells and prayers, and praying repeatedly on the wooden cart.
Twenty or so Hun warriors rode on horseback, dragged a heavy wooden cart, and the corpses of cows and horses on the wooden cart, as well as wizards, rushed all the way towards the desolate rocky beach.Two miles, one mile, one hundred feet, fifty feet, twenty feet...
"There are Han troops there!"
"Damn who leaked the news!"
"Turn around, turn around! Go downstream!"
The chaotic sound of horseshoes accompanied by the whistle that soared into the sky was very clear on the open prairie.The high and low Xiongnu words came with the wind, and then went away with the wind.The eleven Han soldiers all became a little anxious and wanted to chase after them, but how could they catch up?
Yun Yao turned around and looked at Gao Su with some doubts.She couldn't understand what the Hun warriors were saying.
Gao Su's gaze sank little by little, with a solemn expression, and there was a bit of sharpness and chill in his eyes, like a lonely wolf finally showing its sharp claws, reflecting the sharp and dazzling cold light in the sun.
He pressed the quiver at his waist, took out two feathered arrows; he also took off the longbow on the horse's back, nocked the arrows, and drew——
The bowstring was like a full moon, and two feathered arrows shot out like a gust of wind.
whoosh-
whoosh-
laugh.
laugh.
Two feathered arrows were inserted right into the backs of the necks of the two wizards, piercing two blood holes, and blood flowed out.
As for the two wizards, they were already dead.
The hooves of the Huns became chaotic again, implying chaotic curses.They have heard that someone in the Han army can pierce Yang with a hundred steps, and they have also heard that someone in the Han army can press two arrows with one bow, but when the thing really appeared in front of their eyes, they still felt an unbelievable... fear.
It was a kind of cold air that shot up from the soles of the feet, a fear more terrifying than facing death.
They could even think that if that person really came before them, then they would have no other choice but to face death directly.No matter how determined a person is, he will tremble under the man's spear and arrows, and his mind will go blank.
King Lanling's arrow is so powerful.
Taking advantage of the momentum, the Han army rode their horses across the rocky beach, breaking away the chaotic footsteps of the Huns.
Gao Su covered her face with his hands, and said softly, "Don't look."
A brief fight ended quickly.The Huns, who had just gone through a long journey in a messy formation, were no match for the energetic Han army.The broken corpses of cows and horses were mixed with the blood of wizards, as well as the viscera held in the palms of the wizards, and there was a faint smell of decay.
"Burn them all," Gao Su ordered, "so that the plague won't spread to other places."
Large areas of fire spread across the grassland, burning the corpses of the cows and horses that died of the plague, together with the grassland they passed along the way, all were burned clean.Yun Yao drifted to Gao Su's ear and said a few words to him softly.Gao Su frowned slightly, and ordered:
"Boil boiling water and take a bath. Scrub the horses together. Use the quicklime over there. Remember not to touch the water source."
Yunyao's tiny finger just happened to point to a grey-white stone mountain.
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The direction of Yunyao's finger happened to be a limestone mountain.
Limestone in Lime Mountain can be used directly, and can be calcined to become quicklime.Although there is no lime kiln here, because the temperature of the outer flame of the open flame is about [-] degrees, which is slightly higher than the temperature for calcination of limestone, if the operation is done properly, some quicklime can be calcined with an open flame for disinfection purposes. of.
Yun Yao lay on Gao Su's shoulder and whispered in his ear: "Pile some firewood under the rocks, don't pile them too high, it is enough for the tongue of fire to touch the rocks; let the rocks burn in the fire for a while, and it will A lot of quicklime came crackling and falling."
Gao Su nodded slightly, repeated what she said, and asked the soldiers to follow suit.
Looking at the soldiers who were busy coming and going, Yun Yao suddenly asked: "Chang Gong, if you don't let them touch the water source, how do you get water?"
Gao Su patted her reassuringly, signaling her to be calm.Then he walked upstream along the rocky beach, and soon found several trees the size of a bowl.He picked one of the suitable ones, cut off two trunks in twos and threes, and slowly cut them into two crude wooden gourds.
Yun Yao lay on his shoulder, watched without blinking, and gradually realized something.The long ladle has a handle.
"This dagger has always been kept in the leather bag, and it has never been stained with blood." Gao Su explained.Just before he took the dagger, he had torn off a piece of his underwear and wrapped his hands tightly.Slowly chipping away at the wood, he explained:
"In the rocky beach, there are two slightly sunken shallow pits, which can barely accommodate one or two people. Before I left, I ordered them to burn the rocks with a strong fire, and they must have been burned by now.
The hexagram is inauspicious, which means that in the next month, many people in the Han army will mistakenly drink this kind of water with epidemic poison;
The hexagram is auspicious, which means that the three people will not drink the water from those water sources by mistake in the next month.
There are a total of [-] to [-] Han troops here, and more than a dozen water sources, but if there is a water source with plague poison, the plague will spread in the Han army on a large scale, and thousands of people will die and suffer physical damage as a result. public.
No wonder that hexagram is evil, great evil!
What a vicious mind, such a vicious official, such a vicious traitor.
Yun Yao stared at the tent firmly, wishing she could float into it and strangle that dead eunuch to death.But she is now a soul body, although she can shuttle freely in the Huns camp, but she can't touch that powerful official.So she could only stare at the tent, and firmly memorized the location of the tent, as well as the surrounding terrain, without missing a single bit.
After a while, the shrill voice came from the tent again: "You all remember this matter for me, this matter has to be done every year, every month, and you can't relax for a moment. Da Shanyu once said , whoever can cause the Han army to suffer a disastrous defeat for a long time will be appointed an official and given a title, and will be rewarded heavily. If I get the reward, I will naturally benefit from you, but if any of you-"
He snorted softly, and his voice became thinner and thinner: "I know some of you are nostalgic, and you still miss Han Ting in your heart. But now you are my slaves, and I am Da Shan Yu Those of you who don't have long eyes and voted for the Han army, don't blame me for being cruel and cruel. Do you remember everything clearly?"
Several voices came out of the camp one after another, some in Chinese and some in Xiongnu.
Then it was quiet in the camp.After a while, two slaves walked out of the tent on their knees, rolling up the tents one on the left and one on the right.After a while, a white-faced and beardless middle-aged man came out of the camp. Although he looked like a Han Chinese, he was wearing a Hun costume.
Yun Yao stared at the man without blinking for a moment, and firmly remembered his voice and appearance in her heart.
She looked up at the time, the bright moon was sinking to the west, the moonlight gradually became dim, and even the stars were only a few left.It is now a period of time from midnight to before dawn, and the wilderness is dark, only the whistling wind is left.
From the few words they said, she deduced that this was the only time in a day that the powerful official could come out to breathe.
The lights in the surrounding tents were all turned off, leaving only Huns patrolling in twos and threes; when they saw the powerful official, they all nodded kindly to him, put their hands on their left chest, and bent slightly; Quan Huan used the same etiquette to return the salute, and his movements were very skillful.
It seems that the powerful eunuch has become a Hun from the inside out.
Yun Yao felt sad when she thought about the words of that powerful official just now.
"Take the epidemic poison and put it in the water source of the Han army", "do it every year, every month"... If the Huns really poisoned the water source every year from now on, no, it doesn't need to be every year Yueyue, even just once, will cause a large number of Han soldiers to die innocently, and even those who barely survive will not live long because of the toxins in their bodies.
It is rumored that Huo Qubing died young just because he drank the water with plague by mistake.
The border between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu is long, and there are countless water sources; even if she wants to divination one by one, how can she do it?
She closed her eyes, silently counting one, two, three.When he counted to ten, he turned around and floated into the Han camp.
Suddenly there was a cough from Quan Huan behind him: "Hey, you go to Da Shanyu's place later and invite all the wizards over. Where is the water source commonly used by the Han army, and where is not commonly used by the Han army? You must tell them carefully. Also, you told the Chanyu that before casting the poison of the plague, you must divination and pray for three days. Do you remember?"
Two people responded nonchalantly.
Yun Yao stopped, turned around slowly, and floated into the tent, she could not leave until the eunuch told where to poison.There are many water sources for the Han army, and some of them are very hidden. If she divination them one by one, it is inevitable that some fish will slip through the net.
The first ray of sunlight hit the Huns' tent, and the east was slightly pale.
Quan Huan narrowed his eyes, looked at the place where the Han army was stationed, and smiled sinisterly.
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Han camp.
Gao Su woke up from his deep sleep, surrounded by a mess of Han soldiers.He didn't go back to his tent last night, but found a tent to rest next to the tent where Yun Yao left—that is, the place where the military doctors temporarily piled up medicinal materials.
Now, before the others woke up, Gao Su put on his coat and got up, and went to the tent where Yun Yao left.
Yun Yao hasn't come back yet.She was still lying quietly on a blanket, pillowed on his robe, and wrapped in his other robe, as if she had fallen asleep peacefully.But Gao Su knew that she was still in the camp of the Huns and had never returned.
"Ayao." Gao Su called her in a low voice, stroking her cheek with his fingertips, his eyes gradually became more tender.
It was already the end of the day, and in a few quarters of an hour, General Wei Qing would take people out to lure the enemy.Afterwards, he would also take the main force to cut off the rear, and then encircled Wei Qing's army, tearing a large piece from the Huns army.
Gao Su leaned down and kissed her eyes.
"I should go. Wait for me to come back."
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It was broad daylight.
There were chaotic footsteps in the Huns' camp, and some people were speaking in the Huns' dialect.Quan Huan was originally resting his eyes with his eyes closed, but when he heard the noise outside, he called a little slave out to see what was going on.
Xiao Nu walked out on her knees, and after a while she replied, "General Wei Qing...Wei Qing has appeared."
"What?" Quan Huan stood up with a groan, with a little surprise on his face.After a while, he figured it out, and then rubbed a piece of tiger skin on the ground with his toes, and said with a dark smile, "Wei Qing, hmph, lead your troops out of Shanggu County, and go straight to Longcheng...Hanting, Wei Qing!"
Standing on the tiger skin, with gloomy eyes, he tore a piece of fur in his hand into two halves.
Yun Yao stood behind him, staring at him, floating motionless.
After a while, two groups of Xiongnu guards led more than a dozen wizards and followed the slaves to the camp.
The wizards stood neatly in a row in front of Quan Huan, waiting for his orders.Quan Huan asked the wizards two questions, and after the wizards answered one by one, he pointed to two wizards and asked the Huns guards to take them out.Then two more slaves came over, holding a huge wolf skin with a crude map drawn on it.Quan Huan pointed to the past place by place with that crude map.
Every time he pointed to a place, he uttered a short Hun language.
—Wait, she can't understand the Huns.
Yun Yao was so anxious that she was furious, but Quan Huan spoke very fast, pointing to four or five places in one breath.She had no choice but to follow the direction of Quan Huan's fingers and memorize those locations one by one, even those short and awkward syllables.
This is quite a laborious thing.
Although Yunyao's memory is better than ordinary people's, the Huns' words were weird and awkward, and Quan Huan's speech was quite fast, she had to listen with all her attention to barely memorize some syllables.
Fortunately, after Quan Huan finished speaking, he asked some questions in the Hun language, and the wizards recounted the water sources again.
After repeating this three or two times, Yun Yao memorized all the Xiongnu words.
After the wizards finished answering one by one, Quan Huan nodded in satisfaction, pointed to the wolf-skin map, and spoke a long section of Xiongnu language.Yun Yao couldn't understand, so she could only ignore it for the time being.She memorized the names of those water sources over and over again in her heart, as well as the locations marked on the crude map, for fear that she might miss something.
But if one is missed, even if there is only one, the Han army is finished.
After a while, Quan Huan waved his hands to let the wizards go down, and asked the slaves to put away the map, and then he lay down on a wolf fur mattress, and after a while, he let out a slight snoring sound.Such reversal of day and night was also because Da Shanyu did not allow him to show his face easily.
Yun Yao quietly exited the tent and drifted towards the Han camp.
Not long after, she drifted back to the Han camp, found the tent where her body was, and opened her eyes.
Without Gao Su, the entire camp was quiet, as if there was no one there.
She was wearing a high and solemn robe, but the others had gone nowhere.When I went to look outside the tent, the whole tent was empty, except for two old and weak soldiers sorting out the medicinal materials, there was no one to be seen anymore.
Yun Yao waited from morning until dusk, until her patience was almost exhausted, and then she waited for the returning Han army.
The Han soldiers came back supporting each other in twos and threes, looking a little excited and a little tired.Most of them were talking about today's battle, such as how many Huns they killed, how brave General Wei was, and...
As Yun Yao listened, she suddenly realized that Wei Qing had led someone to fight again just now.And Gao Su, he also went.The "Wei Qing" that I heard in the Huns' tent just now refers to this.
She thought for a moment, and then a faint shadow floated out of her body and went outside the camp.
The Han soldiers were still in twos and threes, helping each other back to the camp.Gao Su came with two people on horseback from afar.Even after a fierce battle, he looked quite energetic, and even the faint look of fatigue between his brows seemed to have faded a lot.After entering the camp, Gao Su got off his horse, handed the horse over to a sergeant, and walked towards the tent where Yun Yao himself was staying.
She breathed a sigh of relief, then floated back into the tent and opened her eyes again.
Gao Su opened the tent, walked in, but stopped three steps away from her, and called softly: "Ayao."
Yun Yao got up to meet him, but saw him take two steps back again and again, and said helplessly, "Wait... wait a minute, Yao, I'm dirty."
It was only then that Yun Yao noticed that Gao Su's body was mixed with dirt, dry grass and blood, and there was also a pungent bloody smell.Her heart skipped a beat, and she asked anxiously, "You, are you injured?" She took two steps forward anxiously, wanting to take a closer look.
Gao Su was caught off guard, Yunyao grabbed his arm, and she undid his armor two or three times.He pressed her hand and said in a low voice: "I'm not hurt. A Yao. I'm not hurt." Over and over again, in a low voice, as if to comfort her.
Gao Su tightly covered her slightly cold hands, and repeatedly comforted her in a low voice: "Ah Yao, I haven't been injured."
The moment she smelled the smell of blood, her heart almost jumped out of her chest, and her fingertips became a little cold.Gao Su's warm palm warmed up her hand little by little, and her heart gradually settled down.
Yun Yao lay in his arms and said in a low voice: "You just scared me."
He patted her on the shoulder reassuringly, and said in a low voice, "I'm fine." Then he looked at her carefully, and seeing that she looked a little tired, he asked in a low voice, "Your complexion seems a little unwell, but things Not going well?"
Yun Yao shook her head, fastened his armor again, then stood on tiptoe and put it next to his ear, telling what she saw and heard in the Huns camp, together with her worries and fears, exactly Tell him.
Gao Su listened, his expression gradually became dignified.He whispered: "This matter is so important that we need to hear about General Wei Qing."
Yun Yao was startled, and asked in surprise: "Chang Gong, you...can you understand Xiongnu dialect?"
Those weird and hard-to-pronounce Xiongnu words that she just recounted according to the script?
Gao Su couldn't help laughing, and said: "Ayao, I have been in the army for a long time, so I can understand the language of the Huns."
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That night, Gao Su went to Wei Qing's camp and told Wei Qing everything.
"...So the Han army is in danger. I also hope that General Wei will inform the army of this matter, and those water sources will be strictly guarded. And the man in the Xiongnu camp should be sent to kill him immediately. It is absolutely impossible. Forgive me." Gao Su said.
After hearing that speech, Wei Qing didn't make any assertion, but asked, "How can you be sure that the plague is true?"
Gao Su thought to himself that what A Yao said was naturally true, but he couldn't say that to Wei Qing.One is because A Yao had told him not to reveal her secret; the other is because he trusted A Yao, but General Wei Qing did not necessarily trust her so much.
So Gao Su said: "It's what the army said carefully."
Wei Qing was obviously not satisfied with this answer.But he didn't say much, but asked again: "Where is that man now? Have I seen him? You said that the powerful eunuch in the Huns camp was once a dowry with his relative's daughter, and later Instead, he advised the Xiongnu Da Shanyu. This person was the one who spoke ill to the envoys of the Han officials, Zhong Xing said?"
Gao Su nodded slightly and said, "It is this person."
Wei Qing stood up, folded his hands, and looked at a map with the same rough lines for a while, as if lost in thought.
Gao Su said again: "If General Wei doesn't believe it, he will be willing to take people to investigate; if he encounters a person who takes the epidemic poison and casts it, he should be killed in one fell swoop; if this statement is wrong, he will take it easy In front of the general, order fifty military sticks as a sign of punishment."
Wei Qing turned around to look at Gao Su, and finally nodded slowly after a while.
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Early the next morning, Gao Su left with his people.
Yun Yao returned to the tent of the Chinese Army, and stayed with the hesitant King Wengzhu of Jiaoxi to catch up on sleep.After that, another faint shadow floated out of her body, following Gao Su.She was a little worried about Gao Su, so she wanted to follow him quietly.
But just as she floated to Gao Su's side, she saw Gao Su froze suddenly, turned his head, and glanced in her direction.
A sergeant rode over and asked, "General, what did you find?"
Gao Su shook his head, said: "It's nothing." Then he rode away again.Yun Yao followed behind him all the way, keeping a distance of three or two steps from him.She is a spirit body, so she can keep up with the speed of the horse very quickly.but……
After turning around a small mountain depression, Gao Su suddenly turned around and called out with some uncertainty, "Ah Yao?"
The sergeants he brought out were all ten steps ahead, so they couldn't see what was going on here for the time being.
Yun Yao froze for a moment, and gradually revealed her figure in the air, and said in surprise, "You, can you really sense where I am?"
Gao Su looked at her helplessly, stretched out his hand towards her, and said, "Ah Yao, come here."
Yun Yao floated forward two steps in a nonchalant manner, then slowly shrunk into a ball, and floated into the palm of Gao Su's hand.Gao Su said in a low voice, "Stay still", and put her in the girdle properly, and then put her long legs between the horse's belly, and galloped away.
Both of Yunyao's eyes turned into ⊙o⊙
She, she was really taken away by Gao Su tied on the belt, づ﹏ど
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She huddled into a small ball in Gao Su's waist, and heard the whistling wind beside her ears.
Gao Su's riding skills are very good.He has been on the battlefield since he was more than ten years old, and he has been a soldier all his life, regardless of his past and present lives.Therefore, even in this undulating hill, he still rides his horse and walks smoothly, making people feel like walking on flat ground.
She rubbed her eyes, yawned a little, and called out, "Chang Gong."
Gao Su looked down and saw a small dumpling tucked into his waist, rubbing his eyes occasionally, his eyes were hazy, as if he was a little sleepy.He remembered that Yunyao spent the night in the Huns' tent the night before, and stayed with him most of the night last night, so he must be tired.
Gao Su felt a pang of apology in his heart, and asked in a gentle voice, "But are you tired? Just sleep for a while."
Yun Yao shook her head, rubbed her eyes again, and muttered vaguely: "Pay attention to the road in front of you!... Chang Gong, I have always wanted to ask you, how do you know where the Huns will go first? To the source of water?"
She picked a suitable position in his girdle, and looked at him with dim eyes.
Gao Su glanced ahead, rode his horse past two jagged rock piles, and said, "I don't know which one they will go to first."
Yun Yao stretched out a little finger and poked his waist unhappily.
"But before you left, you vowed to issue a military order with General Wei." She said softly, "You said that you will be able to find out, otherwise you will have to receive fifty army sticks. I am in General Wei Hear it from outside the tent. If they go somewhere else first, you—”
Gao Su laughed lowly, wanted to touch her, but suddenly remembered that she was a soul body now, and he couldn't touch her.
He held her around his waist again with one hand to prevent her from rolling around outside—although it seemed useless—then whispered: “When I get out of this valley, I will let you The sergeants dispersed to check the five water sources separately. The one I am going to is the closest to the Huns, so they are most likely to go there first. Can Ayao rest assured now?"
After he finished speaking, he looked down at the little glutinous rice balls rolling around in his girdle, with a narrow and teasing look in his eyes.
The little Yunyao grabbed his waistband with her hands, her whole body seemed to be floating, she nodded blankly and said, "I see."
She was literally floating.Because of her lack of body, Gao Su couldn't touch her, so she could only float.Gao Su tucked her into his waist just now, and she took advantage of this posture and slowly floated forward.Floating and floating, I got used to this speed.
She lay in his waistband, peeking out from between his fingers.Outside is a stretch of rolling hills, as well as lush and lush dense forests that seem to have no end, mountains, mountains, dense forests... Looking at the past layer upon layer, the eyes are full of greenery.
There was a deep darkness beside her, except for the occasional gleam of light between his fingers.
She rubbed his fingertips, then lay on his waist, and slowly fell asleep.
Gao Su laughed out loud.He really loves her as she is now, small, soft, and hidden in a ball around his waist, like a rolling ball, let him store it carefully and carefully, everyone can see Without her, only he can enjoy it alone.
Only, he is alone.
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Gao Su rode his horse across two mountain depressions and came to a boundless wilderness, then reined in his horse and stopped.
Dozens of sergeants surrounded him, waiting for his order.
Gao Su took out a roll of maps from the cloth pouch on the horse's back, and spread it loosely on the horse's back.Simple mountains and landforms were drawn on the map, and five water sources were carefully circled with charcoal.He pointed to the five places and said: "You 12 people will go to these five places separately. The day before yesterday I received a report that the Huns wanted to put the plague here. So if you see the Huns, Either strangers, or wizards and military guards come with dead cows and horses and witches and bone artifacts, and kill them all."
The sergeants agreed in unison, and dispersed in twos and threes, heading for the five places.
Gao Su led eleven people and galloped towards the last water source marked on the map.
In front of him was a plain with a wide view, and those small rolling hills were left behind.The plain was lush and lush, and the half-foot-high weeds were blown to the ground by the wind.A river meanders across the plain, flowing slowly forward.
The place they are going to is just upstream of this river.
The twelve cavalry of the Han army were like a lightning bolt, sweeping a faint black shadow across the plain.The sound of horseshoes in Dede went against the direction of the river, leaving deep horseshoe marks in the wet soil.There are no horseshoes yet, so they rely on the two pairs of palms of the horses along the way, and rush all the way to the upper reaches of the river, the deadly water source.
The field of vision gradually became narrower, and the sky gradually became darker.
The night is coming.
Gao Su stopped his horse, and said in a deep voice: "Rest here for one night, and then go on the road tomorrow."
There is still some distance from the camp of the Huns. Ayao can easily float there, but they can't.He once asked A Yao how fast she could go when her soul was out of her body. A Yao turned her head and thought about it, and said, "It's probably like flying... I mean, I will walk back and forth between here and Chang'an City within two hours."
So now, they can only rest here for one night, and let the horses rest for one night, and then go on their way tomorrow.
Fortunately, the Huns were farther away from the water source. If they wanted to poison them, it would take at least three or two days.
Even if they rest here for one night, nothing will be delayed.
The Han soldiers quickly built a simple dwelling on the grass, and burned the wet land to half-dry with fire. Finally, they caught some fish from the river and ate some dry food, and then brushed away the fire. He fell asleep on the dry, burnt earth.
The man on the night watch felt anxious, so he left for a while.
A small dumpling floated out from Gao Su's waist, and slowly turned into a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl.
She rubbed her eyes, her eyes were hazy, as if she had just woken up.She didn't sleep well in the past two nights, until today she nestled in Gao Su's waistband and fell asleep all the way in a daze.She could vaguely feel the temperature between Gao Su's fingers, so even in her sleep, she could follow him ignorantly.
She glanced at her body to make sure no one could see her, and then floated to Gao Su's side.
Gao Su's sleeping appearance is very peaceful, even if she has seen two whole lives, she still won't feel tired.She stretched out her hand and put it on Gao Su's face, wanting to touch him; but she is still in her soul body, floating around, unable to touch him at all.
She sighed leisurely, then turned around suddenly, and drifted towards the upper reaches of the river.
—They won't wake up for at least three or four hours.That being the case, she might as well go there to have a look first.
——If she was lucky enough to find the place, after dawn, she could still show Gao Su the way.
Thinking of this in her heart, Yun Yao went upstream against the direction of the river.The grassland at night was silent, and the faint moonlight penetrated her body and shone on the pebbles in the river.Occasionally, two chirps of insects can be heard, and there are some slight wind sounds.
She floated upstream for a quarter of an hour, and her field of vision narrowed again.
This is a certain tributary in the upper reaches of the river. The gurgling water flowed out from the rock pile, merged into the rather wide river, and then slowly meandered eastward all the way.There is a rocky beach at her feet, and if she walks a little further upstream, she can still see steep rocks in the distance.
That's it.That day in the Huns' camp, the place Quan Huan pointed at was here.
She collected herself, remembering the location of the rocky beach, and then drifted towards the Xiongnu camp.
If the Huns want to come, then they will probably go in a straight line, because most of this place is grassland and rocky beach.If she floated in the direction of the Huns' camp now, she would most likely collide with them head-on.It would also be of great help if one could use this to estimate their marching speed and distance.
Soon, Yun Yao saw a blazing bonfire and the Huns guarding the night beside the bonfire.
The Huns also set up simple tents on the grass, lying crookedly in the tents to rest.They consisted of about twenty warriors and two wizards.The wizards had strange oil paints on their faces and held bone vessels in their hands, as if they had just finished praying.
Yun Yao suddenly remembered that the official said that day, before casting the plague, one had to pray to the gods for three days.
——In other words, they walked all the way and prayed all the way for three days?
She hissed softly, and floated onto a large wooden cart outside the tent.There were two dead cows and two dead horses in the cart, and the cows and horses were also painted with strange oil paints.They seemed to have just died, not yet showing signs of decay.
She gathered herself together, turned around, and floated back to the rocky beach along the original road, silently estimating the distance.
Then she followed the river and floated all the way downstream to where Gao Su was, and estimated the distance.
The distance on both sides is roughly the same, but Gaosu's side is slightly shorter.According to the speed at which Gao Su rode his horse during the day, he should be able to arrive one or two hours earlier.
Yun Yao breathed a sigh of relief, and floated into Gao Su's arms again, turning into a small dumpling.
She couldn't fall asleep now, so she lay her pillow on Gao Su's chest, listening to his steady and powerful heartbeat, beating again and again.
When the sky was slightly pale, the last Han army on vigil woke everyone up.They wiped away the traces left by last night, ate some dry food casually, and prepared to continue towards the water source.
Yun Yao drifted to Gao Su's ear, and told him about the situation last night in detail.
As Gao Su listened, his brows furrowed slightly.He loosely spread his hands on his shoulders, motioning for her to float into his palms.After she floated down, he lowered his voice and asked, "Did you sleepless again last night?"
There was a hint of pity and self-blame in his voice.
She blinked her eyes, and twirled her toes in his palm: "I've had enough sleep during the day. I can feel the temperature on your body, so even in my sleep, I won't lose you... Alas Chang Gong!"
Gao Su got on his horse, nodded to the remaining eleven Han soldiers, and then rode away against the flow of the river.
Yun Yao followed Gao Su's fingers and floated into his waistband.The temperature between his fingers was transferred to her soul body, and she snuggled up to him unconsciously, as if greedy for his warmth, she slowly closed her eyes and fell asleep.
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Gao Su rode his horse all the way up against the flow of the river, the sound of horseshoes was very clear in the open grassland.
Plain.
wilderness.
Rocky Beach.
He reined in his horse in front of the rocky beach, and looked down at the little...little Yunyao at his waist. He opened his eyes, rubbed them with his little fingers, and asked dimly, "Are you there?" ?” Then it slowly floated onto the horse’s head, looking into the distance.
The hooves of the Huns are getting closer, and there is also a sound of almost crazy bone bells, high and low prayers, and the rumble of wooden carts rolling over the grassland.The corpses of cows and horses have been cut open, and the poisonous viscera are held in the palms of the wizards, whispering spells and prayers, and praying repeatedly on the wooden cart.
Twenty or so Hun warriors rode on horseback, dragged a heavy wooden cart, and the corpses of cows and horses on the wooden cart, as well as wizards, rushed all the way towards the desolate rocky beach.Two miles, one mile, one hundred feet, fifty feet, twenty feet...
"There are Han troops there!"
"Damn who leaked the news!"
"Turn around, turn around! Go downstream!"
The chaotic sound of horseshoes accompanied by the whistle that soared into the sky was very clear on the open prairie.The high and low Xiongnu words came with the wind, and then went away with the wind.The eleven Han soldiers all became a little anxious and wanted to chase after them, but how could they catch up?
Yun Yao turned around and looked at Gao Su with some doubts.She couldn't understand what the Hun warriors were saying.
Gao Su's gaze sank little by little, with a solemn expression, and there was a bit of sharpness and chill in his eyes, like a lonely wolf finally showing its sharp claws, reflecting the sharp and dazzling cold light in the sun.
He pressed the quiver at his waist, took out two feathered arrows; he also took off the longbow on the horse's back, nocked the arrows, and drew——
The bowstring was like a full moon, and two feathered arrows shot out like a gust of wind.
whoosh-
whoosh-
laugh.
laugh.
Two feathered arrows were inserted right into the backs of the necks of the two wizards, piercing two blood holes, and blood flowed out.
As for the two wizards, they were already dead.
The hooves of the Huns became chaotic again, implying chaotic curses.They have heard that someone in the Han army can pierce Yang with a hundred steps, and they have also heard that someone in the Han army can press two arrows with one bow, but when the thing really appeared in front of their eyes, they still felt an unbelievable... fear.
It was a kind of cold air that shot up from the soles of the feet, a fear more terrifying than facing death.
They could even think that if that person really came before them, then they would have no other choice but to face death directly.No matter how determined a person is, he will tremble under the man's spear and arrows, and his mind will go blank.
King Lanling's arrow is so powerful.
Taking advantage of the momentum, the Han army rode their horses across the rocky beach, breaking away the chaotic footsteps of the Huns.
Gao Su covered her face with his hands, and said softly, "Don't look."
A brief fight ended quickly.The Huns, who had just gone through a long journey in a messy formation, were no match for the energetic Han army.The broken corpses of cows and horses were mixed with the blood of wizards, as well as the viscera held in the palms of the wizards, and there was a faint smell of decay.
"Burn them all," Gao Su ordered, "so that the plague won't spread to other places."
Large areas of fire spread across the grassland, burning the corpses of the cows and horses that died of the plague, together with the grassland they passed along the way, all were burned clean.Yun Yao drifted to Gao Su's ear and said a few words to him softly.Gao Su frowned slightly, and ordered:
"Boil boiling water and take a bath. Scrub the horses together. Use the quicklime over there. Remember not to touch the water source."
Yunyao's tiny finger just happened to point to a grey-white stone mountain.
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The direction of Yunyao's finger happened to be a limestone mountain.
Limestone in Lime Mountain can be used directly, and can be calcined to become quicklime.Although there is no lime kiln here, because the temperature of the outer flame of the open flame is about [-] degrees, which is slightly higher than the temperature for calcination of limestone, if the operation is done properly, some quicklime can be calcined with an open flame for disinfection purposes. of.
Yun Yao lay on Gao Su's shoulder and whispered in his ear: "Pile some firewood under the rocks, don't pile them too high, it is enough for the tongue of fire to touch the rocks; let the rocks burn in the fire for a while, and it will A lot of quicklime came crackling and falling."
Gao Su nodded slightly, repeated what she said, and asked the soldiers to follow suit.
Looking at the soldiers who were busy coming and going, Yun Yao suddenly asked: "Chang Gong, if you don't let them touch the water source, how do you get water?"
Gao Su patted her reassuringly, signaling her to be calm.Then he walked upstream along the rocky beach, and soon found several trees the size of a bowl.He picked one of the suitable ones, cut off two trunks in twos and threes, and slowly cut them into two crude wooden gourds.
Yun Yao lay on his shoulder, watched without blinking, and gradually realized something.The long ladle has a handle.
"This dagger has always been kept in the leather bag, and it has never been stained with blood." Gao Su explained.Just before he took the dagger, he had torn off a piece of his underwear and wrapped his hands tightly.Slowly chipping away at the wood, he explained:
"In the rocky beach, there are two slightly sunken shallow pits, which can barely accommodate one or two people. Before I left, I ordered them to burn the rocks with a strong fire, and they must have been burned by now.
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