Chapter 167: Zhuangzi
If something is abnormal, it will be a demon. It was a little too smooth to occupy this barren land, just when Yun Xiao thought he had conquered this land. When I was going to fight scale immigration, I got bad news.
The little bear who went out with 300 people was beaten back, and the defeat was quite miserable. More than forty people died, and it seems that if Gong Along didn't press the formation, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to come back.
"Master Hou, there are at least seven or eight thousand of them. They all have armor on their bodies, and there are not many iron blades. But there are so many bronze blades that almost one for each person. Moreover, they also know how to fight, and they are quite lawful in fighting, and they seem to be much more powerful than those savages. â
The goshawk who came back from rescuing his nephew said to Yun Xiao. If it weren't for the goshawk's desperate rush to the rescue, I'm afraid the casualties of the bear team would have been even greater.
"Bronze blades?" Yun Xiao said suspiciously. Although iron ware has become popular in these years, the casting process of bronze blades is definitely mature. It has almost reached the point of ascending to the extreme, and I heard that a Qin sword in the terracotta warrior pit has been pressed for more than two thousand years. Moving away from the collapsed terracotta warriors can be straightened in an instant.
Moreover, according to later research, the blades of the Qin Dynasty in the terracotta pit all have chrome plating process. More than 2,000 years ago, the blade did not rust at all. Scientists have studied it to this day, but they have not studied how the ancients did it with the technical conditions of the time.
"It's Master Hou, and they all have bronze blades in their hands. Although it is not as hard as our saber, the bow and crossbow are very powerful. And these people are very tactful, and they actually know how to ambush bears in the valley. It was also blamed on the little bear's carelessness, and the scouts did not find the enemy army hiding in time. â
There will also be an ambush! This surprised Yun Xiao even more. Such a person is definitely more difficult to deal with than an indigenous stick with a stick. I hope these guys don't learn the guerrilla warfare of Taizu and his old man, otherwise they want to occupy this land, then they are fucking dreaming.
"Oh! There is such a powerful storage zĂ i, I didn't expect that there are such people in this poor countryside. Dai Yu, you guard the camp, Ben Hou will personally go to meet these people for a while. Let's see if the monkeys in the mountains have become sperm. â
"Master Hou, use a knife to kill chickens. Give two thousand of his brethren, and he will bring back their heads. â
Dai Yu stopped. The attack on Seoul a few days ago made him feel a little breathless, and a group of sticks could actually stop him for so long. It took a bull to rush in to open the situation, which made Dai Yu a little unable to raise his head.
"You guard the camp, I'm just going to see. After crossing this river, there are no mountains here. Don't be afraid. If you are careful, you can still find their nest. Since there is an army of seven or eight thousand people. Then there will definitely be a city with a large number of people. I think the population of that city should be no less than 50,000, and you continue to grab those natives here to build docks.
In the future, our supplies will be landed here, and whether large equipment and carriages can be brought ashore. But it depends on the pier, and it's winter in two months. This big camp must also be built quickly. Your task is heavy. Give it to someone else. Ben Hou is also not at ease. Winters here are probably colder than in Guanzhong. Without a proper house, the big guys are going to get cold. It's not going to be a good winter. â
Yun Xiao appeased Dai Yu and ordered 2,000 soldiers and horses to be led by Xiao Xiong in front. Rushing to the place of the incident.
A day has passed, and there are still traces of the aftermath of the great battle at the site of the incident. Occasionally, puddles of blood can be seen on the ground. It's all condensed and blackened. The goshawk was buzzing around, and there were many arrows among the trees, mountains and rocks.
Occasionally, the corpse of a Yun family guard could be seen, and the iron armor and equipment on his body were gone. The corpse lay naked in the grass or in the woods.
It seems that the bear was really defeated badly, and even the corpse of the dead robe did not have time to be reined in. No wonder, he was ambushed in the afternoon. When the sun was scorching and people were sleepy, they suddenly received an attack. It was already night when he withdrew to the camp with reinforcements, and Yun Xiao was afraid that he would be ambushed again when he sent troops at night. had to be strictly guarded, and it seemed that everything was in the calculations of the opposing generals.
"The leader of the other party is not a simple person, and he can calculate the time so accurately. Everyone should be careful and clean up the body of the dead robe. The scouts were five miles away to reconnoitre, and if there was a warning signal, they immediately released a signal. â
Yun Xiao commanded to the goshawk.
Goshawk went down to command, and Yun Xiao began to carefully examine the body of a fallen guard. The armor on his body was removed, and it was easy to see where the injuries were. Of the forty-three corpses, thirty-two were dead together.
The cause of death was all from powerful crossbow arrows, and several corpses had several bloody bolts left next to them. Yun Xiao picked it up and looked at it, and the tail vertebrae were all metal arrow clusters. The arrows were so sharp that they shone in the sunlight. It seems that the casting process is still very exquisite. There aren't many arrows that can shoot through the Yun family's armor, and these guys can do it, and it looks like they use a strong crossbow.
What shocked Yun Xiao even more was the strategy of the opposing general, he kept calculating the time. He also knew how to set fire and fire, and killed thirty-two people in the first attack. Moreover, the rest of the corpses were also mostly shot, which proves that the main blade of the opponent is also a bow and crossbow.
Disproportionately to this, only five of them died from their blades, two of whom were killed by apparent blunt blows to the head. This also shows from one side that the Yun family's guards still have a great advantage in the battle against them. The severed blades on the ground are proof of this.
Yun Xiao sniffed a hint of danger in his nose, and he had to deal with a team of at least seven or eight thousand people. The Ground Snakes are familiar with the terrain with their crossbows, and their generals are quite strategic.
"Little Bear, tell me what happened."
Yun Xiao led the people up to a nearby high ground, which overlooked the entire valley.
"Yesterday morning, I took people to arrest the natives. A village was found about twenty miles ahead. I took some people with my subordinates, and it was already afternoon when I returned.
When we came, we also walked through this valley, and we blamed our subordinates for being careless. Only scouts were sent to conduct a simple search, and then led the brothers into the valley. At first it was fine, and the valley was as quiet as it was in the morning. And behold, when we reached the middle of the valley. A row of crossbow bolts came close, and they threw stones down on the spot.
Then I saw a great number of enemy troops popping up all over the mountains. When I rushed out of the valley, I found that the valley was also guarded by a large number of enemy troops. I rushed twice and broke a few brothers but didn't rush out, but fortunately, the fourth uncle heard my second kick and broke the enemy from behind. I went back safely, and my subordinates were incompetent and asked the Hou Ye to punish him. â
Yun Xiao looked at the valley as the bear said. He also kept asking about the location of the enemy at that time, and it seemed that the enemy wanted to kill the chicken with a knife. Leave the bears, three hundred, in this valley.
But they were wrong, one is the Yun family's communication tool. In these years, not everyone has seen two kicks. The second is to misestimate the combat effectiveness of the Yun family's guards, theoretically saying that eight thousand fights three hundred. Nearly thirty times the strength is enough to eat the bear, but no one expected the bear to be able to fight like this.
With so many people and unfavorable terrain, the formation can still organize an effective counterattack. And the sabers in their hands are not easy to deal with, and they are even more on the goshawk's timely help. That's what allowed the bear to escape.
"It's a miracle that you can escape, they want to eat you in one bite. Let us not dare to come out and plunder labor in the future. And they are so carefully arranged, they must be familiar with the terrain here. Little Bear, what is the difference between the Zhuangzi you have been to and the ones we have encountered before? â
"Oh, that Zhuangzi is a little different from what we've seen before. There are many adobe houses and very few thatched houses. Moreover, their agricultural tools also have many bronze tools, and they speak somewhat like the Jiangdu people. But it's not like it, anyway, it's different from the indigenous people we've seen before. â
"Jiangdu dialect?" Yun Xiao asked in surprise. Could it be that there is such a thing as immigration?
"It's similar, but I don't understand it. Those guys from Jiangnan said they could understand a little, but some of them couldn't. â
No way! It's still Jiangnan immigrants! Yun Xiao drew a line from Jiangnan to the coast of Korea in his mind, and it seemed that Shandong and Liaodong, which is now called Sujun, seemed to be closer. Why did Jiangnan people immigrate to this wild place? How did they solve the problem of navigation, if they came to Korea by land. The bend seemed to be a little bigger.
Yun Xiao was silent for a long time in his mind, and the generals also looked at each other with wide eyes. I don't know how long Hou Ye will be in this place.
"Take me to the Zhuangzi you went to yesterday, and everyone should be vigilant on the way." Yun Xiao was stunned for a while, and then gave the order to leave.
The guards had gathered the bodies and wrapped them all in felt cloth. Wait to get back to the camp for cremation.
The team continued to set off, and along the way, everyone's nerves were tense like bowstrings. The goshawk's eyes searched the surroundings like an eagle, out of the valley. Several groups of scouts were sent to the front and left of the team, and they continued to reconnoitre.
Twenty miles was not a very long way for these cavalrymen, and in less than two hours, Yun Xiao had already seen Zhuangzi in the distance on his horse.
Sure enough, as Xiao Xiong said, there are obviously many adobe houses in Zhuangzi. There are only a few thatched huts, and the nearby land is very flat. The rice had turned yellow, and the wind blew like wave after wave of sea.
Yun Xiao got off his horse and casually dragged an ear of rice on the side of the road. I saw that the grains were full, and the white juice could be squeezed out with a pinch. It looks like the harvest will be available in a few days. Such rice fields are as many as 100 acres as far as the eye can see. Just looking at this rice field, there is no problem in feeding three or five hundred people.
"Fence it up, and the little bear takes people into the Zhuangzi to check. Kill those who resist! (To be continued......)