Chapter 1134 The Disappointing General Conquering the West
"I've seen General Zhengxi..." Yu Fuluo got off his horse and said with cupped hands.
Fei Qian nodded to invite him, and then he realized that Yu Fuluo didn't use the breast-stroking ceremony, but the hand-cupping ceremony. No wonder it was so awkward, as if he was wearing a suit over a mandarin gown.
"This..." Fei Qian touched his nose and felt it was still necessary to ask, "Why did Chanyu change to bowing?"
Relatively speaking, the hand-raising ceremony is an etiquette inherited from ancient times. It is a part of Zhou Li. Although it is simple, it actually has very detailed etiquette regulations. Even the angle of reaching out is different. It is divided into Shi Yi and Shi Yi. , Tianyi and other different ways of saluting.
But this way of saluting is Zhou rite after all, which means it is Chinese etiquette. It has no origin and relationship with the Southern Huns like Yu Fuluo, right?
Yu Fuluo laughed and said: "Well... the gesture of stroking the chest is a courtesy to others, and the gesture of cupping hands is a gesture of respect to heaven and earth. Naturally, the gesture of cupping hands is the most important thing... This is what Zuo Xianren said, and I also think it is true. rational……"
According to Zuo Ci, stroking the chest only emphasizes one's own humility and does not reflect respect for heaven and earth. However, the gift of cupping hands represents heaven and earth, which not only respects heaven and earth, but also reflects the respect of superiors and inferiors. A humble gap is the best secular etiquette, bar none.
The Southern Huns and the Eastern Qiang people basically belong to the Hu tribes that are more pro-Han and are relatively more willing to accept some Chinese culture. Therefore, Yu Fuluo did not feel that he had to change the breast-stroking ceremony that he had used for a long time. The hand-over-hand ceremony feels like it violates the ancestral system and is a great sin of rebellion. On the contrary, it is like using a new gadget, or cracking some of the secrets of the Chinese Han people, and it is full of novelty.
This may also be related to the Hu people’s pragmatism-first concept.
Fei Qian listened, nodded and smiled: "Since it is what Immortal Zuo said, it certainly makes sense... I have practiced this ritual for many years, and today I also got its meaning from Shanyu's prescription... It's a pity that I couldn't have a lot of time with Immortal Zuo that day. Please advise, but fortunately, there will be opportunities in the future..."
Fei Qian said, and suddenly he had some thoughts. Looking at the foreigners and foreigners around him, they all put pragmatism first. If they felt it was useful, they would just take it and use it. They didn't care whether the surname was Han or Hu. On the contrary, the Han people are coy and always pay attention to ancestral system, nature, category, and color...
Just use it first, what’s the big deal? If you don’t see the Japanese and Bangzi, if you change the strokes of the Chinese characters, you can call it your own writing. If you change the Hanfu, it will become your own national costume. ?
But, it’s still early, there’s still a chance...
"Chanyu, come, please sit down..." Fei Qian invited Yu Fuluo to the platform halfway up the mountain. After sitting down, he raised his tea bowl and said, "During the war, it is not convenient for the army to drink. After destroying this rabble, please let Shanyu drink freely..."
Yu Fuluo laughed, raised his tea bowl, looked around, and praised: "The general always chooses a good place, it's really good. Xianbei, hey, these Xianbei dogs still dare to come..."
Amidst the roaring of war drums and the sounds of fighting on the battlefield, Humphrey took a brief glance at the battlefield and gained some points.
From the platform halfway up the mountain, you can observe the changes in the entire mountain road from a high position without being threatened by the battlefield. At the same time, you can also serve as the command center. Yu Fuluo is also the commander on horseback, so it is natural to climb up. I've been praised a lot since I came on this platform.
The Xianbei people launched another attack, but Yuvluo's attention was not on the stronghold wall. Even the Xianbei array on the opposite side only glanced briefly, thinking that from this angle, it would be possible immediately. I know that most of the crumbling conditions on the wall are just fake...
Behind the wall, there were a large number of Han infantry lined up, ready to be replaced at any time.
There are still casualties, but in Yuvroud's eyes, these casualties are more like Fei Qian's troop training. After all, Yuvrault knows something about it. More than half of the infantry here were from the last battle with Yinshan Xianbei. The soldiers who were either recruited or integrated after the battle naturally need to be retrained and fight together again to form a real team...
"Chanyu...please look at the old man holding a five-colored staff in the Xianbei queue..." Fei Qian looked at Yufuluo, his eyes seemed to be only on the Han side, and he seemed not very interested in Xianbei, so he pointed He said while looking at the bright spot in the Xianbei queue.
Yu Fuluo hadn't focused on Xianbei's side at first, because he could see that Fei Qian had the advantage, not to mention the infantry array waiting behind the wall, even the cavalry behind the Yinshan camp. The Yue cavalry can probably compete head-on with these Xianbei cavalry...
What's more, these Xianbei people even dismounted their horses to attack the city. Although the height of the walls of the Yinshan camp is not as high as that of ordinary county towns, don't these Xianbei dogs know that the Han people are best at defending the city?
What's interesting about the Xianbei people, aren't they just idiots, but the Han army is different, there are always a lot of novelties. So Yu Fuluo's attention was originally on Fei Qian's Han army, looking at the neatly planned camps. At the station, looking at the well-planned military facilities with various functions, especially the dozen or so ballistas erected on the wall of the inner circle camp, and the group of cavalry gathered in the south of the village, Yu Fuluo was even more attracted. Part of the attention...
But now that Fei Qian mentioned it, Yu Fuluo turned around and after a few glances, he couldn't help but froze. He pointed with his hand and raised his voice a little, "This... this is... this It’s the Great Shaman! The Great Shaman! The Great Shaman of the Xianbei people!”
The Xianbei people annexed the pastures of the northern Huns and inherited many things from the Huns. The shaman was one of them, so Yu Fuluo naturally recognized it. At a glance, many things remained in his mind. Those memories of...
Shamans only exist in large tribes. It can be said that they have multiple jobs. In addition to their professional duties as masters, they also work part-time as combat consultants. They are also prophets, doctors, teachers, etc., and they are a multi-vocational profession. A mixture of respectable.
However, the southern Huns have not had a shaman for a long time.
Since the Southern Han Dynasty, when the last shaman aged, no new shaman was born, and the position of shaman disappeared in the history of the Southern Xiongnu.
However, Yu Fuluo met a living great shaman here today!
It is not unusual for the Xianbei Xiongnu to use colorful things, but most of them use them on flags. Ordinary people cannot wear colorful clothes. They can only use a single color at most, so Yu Fuluo didn't pay attention. , at a glance from a distance, I thought it was just a colorful flag. Only shamans use colorful decorations as clothes and wear them on their bodies, and only great shamans are qualified to hold scepters decorated with colorful feathers!
Yu Fuluo doesn't think the Xianbei people will change this kind of rule, so whoever appears here holding a colorful scepter must be the great shaman of Xianbei!
"Oh? Great Shaman?" Fei Qian asked, "Is his position higher or lower than King Guli?"
Yu Fuluo shook his head and said: "How can King Guli compare... After all, there can be multiple kings of Guli, but the Great Shaman... Under normal circumstances, there is only one... But the Great Shaman is not unified. Soldier, so it’s probably similar to the position of the right and left virtuous king... We used to be like this, Xianbei people..."
Fei Qian nodded, then shook his head and said: "It seems that the Xianbei people don't attach much importance to this great shaman... Look, with this small force..."
Yu Fuluo smiled bitterly and said nothing.
at this point?
This is close to 10,000 people, right?
These are the soldiers who came forward. If there are women and children following behind, they will be at least three or four times as many as this number. That is to say, there are 40,000 to 50,000 Xianbei people under the direct or indirect rule of this great shaman!
Is this still “this”?
You must know that Yu Fuluo's own subordinates have finally managed to regenerate in the past two years, which means they have accumulated only seven or eight thousand people. They are already considered a large tribe. Of course, if compared with the population of Feiqian Pingyang, "this" There really isn’t any big problem…
"This great shaman..." Yu Fuluo twisted a little uneasily and said, "...it is said to have some powerful power...but I don't know..."
Yu Fulo rolled his eyes and opened his mouth, obviously wanting to say something, but he did not continue.
Fei Qian laughed loudly and said: "Haha, Chanyu, I don't know whether your shaman has the power to reach the sky, but I know that the one in front of me has no power..."
"How is that possible?!" Yu Fuluo almost jumped up, then sighed and said, "When my father was still alive, he once said that our shaman also had a fight with the shaman of Xianbei before. It was a competition of divine power, but our shaman lost... Later, our shaman contracted an illness and died soon after, without having time to pass on his skills, so we don't have a shaman now..."
Even shamans with magical powers can't do anything to the Han people?
So to put it this way, it is inevitable that people are a little sad and a little disappointed...
Fei Qian nodded and said, "Is that true? Then... maybe it can be said that this shaman has some power, but here... haha, he can't use it, or it's not effective..."
"No...it doesn't work?" Yu Fuluo was obviously a little confused and a little incredulous. Magical power is magical power, and power is power. How can you still distinguish between what can be used here and what can't be used? What is effective? Is there anything useful that comes out?
Fei Qian looked up to the sky and laughed twice, without explaining, but said: "Zilong! It's time to get ready..." Now that it was confirmed that he was indeed an important player of the Xianbei people, it was very necessary to dispatch the cavalry to kill him.
Zhao Yun took a step forward, clasped his fists to accept the order, and struck each other with his iron gloves, making a clanging sound, and then descended to the platform on the mountainside amidst the sound of the armor's scales.
At this moment, Zhao Yun no longer looked like he had just arrived in the north, leading hundreds of cavalry and carefully following Ma Yue to learn basic troop command skills. Now, no matter from which perspective, he is He is already considered a quite outstanding forward general.
Zhao Yun stood beside the horse, looking up at the platform on the mountainside. When he saw Fei Qian nodding towards him to indicate that he could start preparations, he stood up, took the spear in his hand, and shouted in a deep voice: "Every team leads! For the last time, check the saddle! Spear! Sword! Throw a spear! Those who are correct stand on the side of the horse and prepare!"
Amidst the sound of "Cang Rang Rang", a group of cavalry wearing heavy armor pulled out half of their swords, then sheathed them again, and then adjusted the position of the spear, placing it in the most convenient area for them. Then he stood in front of the war horse and two light cavalry attendants, ready to climb on the horse's back, quietly waiting for the moment of attack to arrive.
A heavily armored cavalryman, assisted by two light cavalrymen.
Before the war, the light cavalry assisted the heavy cavalry in putting on armor and mounting their horses; during the war, the light cavalry was responsible for covering and expanding the breakthrough; of course, if the armored cavalry was damaged, these light cavalry would become the fastest and best of the new armored cavalry. of supplementary sources.
This is Fei Qian's personnel ratio for the armored cavalry unit.
Compared with the previous batch of flying bear troops brought by Xiliang, the current armored cavalry can only be regarded as a simplified version. Because of the use of Bingbei war horses, they cannot withstand too high a weight, so some war horses are also reduced. Heavy iron armor was replaced by cloth armor and leather armor. The armor on the cavalry used hooks and brackets as the armor structure, which reduced the burden on the shoulders, strengthened the center of gravity of the waist, and enhanced stability, although it was not as strong as the flying bear. The army is so powerful that it has abnormal defense capabilities, but it still cannot be underestimated.
Although the pure heavy cavalry Flying Bear Army is extremely tough and can be a thunderous winner on the battlefield, its requirements are too high, especially Xiliang horses, which are in short supply, and the environmental requirements for their use are also too high. It is not suitable for fighting on all terrains, but the simplified version of the armored cavalry can meet the combat needs of most terrains to a certain extent.
The Bingbei War Horse has a thick neck and four thick hooves. Although it is short in stature, it has a wide chest and thick skin. It can withstand severe cold and is hardworking enough. The most important thing is that it has strong reproductive capacity. Therefore, some strong horses are selected and gradually simplified. The Flying Bear Army is just right.
"Tsk, tsk, general, look at these cavalry..." Yu Fuluo looked at Zhao Yun and the cavalry in uniform. He was so envious that his eyes seemed to have countless little hooks sticking out of his heart. He couldn't help but scratch. Even the matter of the great shaman was forgotten for the time being. He turned to Fei Qian and said, "General! This set of armor is really good! Can you give me a few sets?"
Fei Qian focused all his attention on the front of the formation. Hearing this, he raised his eyebrows subconsciously and said casually: "Oh, does Chanyu need this? Okay, but this armor, you see how good the defense is, you have to know that we It took a lot of effort to build, so...it's not cheap...Of course, Shanyu is our good friend, I will definitely give Shanyu the best discount..."
The corners of Yufro's mouth twitched and he laughed twice awkwardly. His original idea was to let Fei Qian give some away for free...
However, why is this Fei Qian still such a person? He has already held such a big official position, but his temperament has not changed a little bit. He always talks about money. Aren't all the high-ranking officials of the Han people ashamed to talk about money? Aren't they all willing to send it out but unwilling to take it in?
Logically speaking, Fei Qian should be considered a high-ranking figure among the Han people. Why is he still so fussy about it? It’s so disappointing...
"...Wait, let's talk about this later..." Fei Qian paid attention to the changes on the battlefield, stood up with a cry, and shouted in a deep voice, "Xianbei is exhausted and has retreated. Move the archers to the wall and hold down the position! Life! Zhao Zilong immediately leads the assault!"
