Three Kingdoms

In the dark night, Ma Yan, Xu Huang and Huang Cheng stayed in a tent at a mountain col. With the double shielding of the tent and the mountain col terrain, it would not be easy to see them if they were not very close or looking in from the entrance of the col. Notice the light from the small campfires lit inside the tents to ward off the cold.

"Uncle Ye, your people should be about the same now..." Ma Yan looked at the dripping water leak on the side, estimated the current time, and then picked it up with a small branch. He picked up the bonfire and said.

"It should be almost done." Huang Cheng also glanced at the water leak, estimated the time, and then added, "...if the Xianbei people don't find it..."

Xu Huang was still expressionless as usual and said nothing. He only lightly tapped the handle of the Huanshou knife at his waist with his fingers from time to time, which revealed that he was not as calm as water in his heart.

Ma Yan also nodded after hearing Huang Cheng's words.

This is the case with military strategists.

There is no so-called foolproof thing that can be implemented 100%. Everything has certain uncertainties and risks.

All the strategies are actually similar. If they are not discovered by the opponent, then they can blow up like a landmine and kill the opponent on the spot. However, if they are discovered, they will most likely be ineffective. They may even get up together and discover that the landmine is actually there. Just when he got out of bed, he was stepped on by his feet...

Take the previous incident of Ma Yan, Xu Huang and Huang Cheng mobilizing Xianbei. What if the leader of Xianbei at that time had a twitch in his head and led his troops regardless of the situation, desperately trying to catch up with the exhausted Ma Yan troops? So if they were unfortunately overtaken and lost their horse power, Mayan's troops would undoubtedly be defeated in the face of the two unfavorable factors of Xianbei's numbers and new forces.

But in Xu Shu's plan, the real brilliance was not in these actions to deceive the Xianbei people, but in these strategies, they did not suppress all the property at once.

Ma Yan's army has one thousand cavalry, and Xu Huang and Huang Cheng's troops have one thousand cavalry and eight hundred infantry. No matter which branch it is, even if it unfortunately suffers a defeat, it will still be able to fight as a whole. , so as not to completely collapse.

Why are dangerous strategies for military expeditions so popular? It's because those who succeed are so rare. The vast majority of people who put all their strength into a strategy end up turning into a handful of loess.

Simply put, Xu Shu's strategy is to use various means to try to take advantage. Fatigue consumes Xianbei's strength. If there is an opportunity, he will destroy it, damage it, and increase the loss of Xianbei people. But if there is no chance, or it fails, it is not a big problem. , Anyway, in the end, if the Xianbei people really aim to conquer the north and go deep into Mobei alone, then just like the Han people who went deep into Mobei alone, failure is imminent.

The water leak in the big tent finally dripped the last water, and the scale on the top of the pot also dropped to the bottom.

Huang Cheng, who had been paying attention to the water leak, stood up, tightened the armor silk ribbon on his body, then hugged his fists to Ma Yan and Xu Huang, and said, "It's almost time, so I'll set off first." …”

Ma Yan and Xu Huang also stood up and said at the same time: "I wish Uncle Ye all the best, and his troops will be here soon!"

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In the dark night, in Pingding County, the sound of women crying from time to time contrasted with the deathly quiet and weirdness of the night.

Almost all doors on both sides of the street, whether they are shops or houses, are open. Some door leaves are completely damaged and lying sideways on the street at the door.

Without exception, these houses with open doors are in a mess. The fragments of earthen jars and damaged clothes seem to tell how eager the ethnic minorities are to integrate their cultures when they move south.

These houses with open doors are all filled with motionless figures and a few human-shaped objects, but they are all lying motionless on the ground. They are obviously dead bodies long ago.

In the night, the dark, open doorways looked like the entrances of tombs.

Of course, there are still some rooms with intact doors and tightly closed doors, but without exception, there are some Xianbei people standing outside the door, and faintly bursts of crying can be heard inside the house. sound……

The people in these houses are naturally the people that the Xianbei people are going to take back for ethnic integration. Although the people guarding the gate are all Xianbei people, they belong to different tribes. These people who have contributed to the great integration of the nationalities are imprisoned separately. On the one hand, it is to facilitate statistics. On the other hand, it is natural to prioritize the interests of their own tribes. .

When two different civilizations collide with each other, there will always be some sparks of love. Of course, the negligible losses caused by the collision can naturally be omitted in writing.

Just like the Han people often treated the Hu people who became vassals by whipping, scolding, and even directly killing them, they also treated the Hu women by using their lower bodies to think and explore. Because the taxes in the territory were less, they bullied the Hu people because they did not understand Chinese characters and documents and passed it on to the Hu people. It's also common on people's heads.

After all, it’s all about two-way integration, isn’t it?

Although Pingding County was captured, many Xianbei people were still accustomed to sleeping in tents on the grassland and did not enter the city but camped outside the city.

Another reason is that the Xianbei people brought their own horses with them when they went south this time. Many of the horses were accustomed to staying together in groups. If they were brought into the city, they would not be able to find sufficient places to put them. , the Xianbei people directly surrounded a piece of land on the city's crop land and put up a simple wooden fence. On the one hand, they could let the horses find some food at will, and on the other hand, they could save some work.

In the Xianbei people's camp, there are various items looted from Pingding County, piled up in mountains, and vehicles of all sizes are filled with items. About one-third of these items will be handed over to Danghu. Go up one level, and then the tribes in the Dang household will take another quarter of the remaining supplies, and then the final remainder will be distributed according to the number of heads of each tribe and also taking into account military merit.

Among these vehicles hoarding materials was a row of more than a dozen fully loaded baggage trucks, which were the vehicles previously snatched from the abandoned dock.

As the night deepened, there were suddenly some subtle sounds of wooden pegs rubbing together from the bottom of these carriages, and then a figure suddenly appeared at the bottom of the carriage, and then hid behind the wheels and poked out a little bit of his head, moving around flexibly. Watching...

Sima Yi burst into tears, beat his chest and stamped his feet: "It's really destiny that cannot be violated!"

Sima Shi and Sima Zhao stood in front of the bed and comforted their father: "Father, please don't do this..."

Sima Yi continued to beat his chest: "My beautiful youth in the first half of my life was wasted on the bed because of that old thief..."

Master Sima and Sima Zhao looked at each other and continued to comfort: "This... is dead, father, just forget it..."

Sima Yi was still heartbroken: "The rest of my life was wasted in bed because of... that guy..."

Sima Master and Sima Zhao looked at each other, their faces full of guilt...