Wei Yan felt that there seemed to be something wrong with his seat. It was uncomfortable no matter how he sat. He looked left and right in the big tent and found that nothing was pleasing to his eyes.
"General, why don't you go hunting in the surrounding area to relax your mind?" Seeing Wei Yan's behavior, the personal guard probably guessed Wei Yan's impatience and said.
Xu Shu only gave Wei Yan three thousand soldiers and emphasized that Wei Yan could not take the initiative to attack. On the one hand, the situation was unclear and needed to be understood more clearly before handling it. On the other hand, neither Xu Shu nor Wei Yan were very interested in Jianning.
We are familiar with it, so jumping into it rashly is not a good choice.
Wei Yan also understands this.
But...
Everyone has a gambling instinct.
Big or small.
Strictly speaking, gambling at that time was not a heinous thing. After all, the future was unknowable and no one knew what would happen. When problems occurred and there was no way to completely predict them based on experience, many times
There is only one way to gamble subconsciously.
Of course, it is definitely wrong to simply indulge in the sensory stimulation of gambling.
Wei Yan likes gambling because Wei Yan is not very peaceful by nature.
Normally speaking, Wei Yan is at most a minor official under Jingxiang, and should generally be a subordinate in a certain city. After all, Wei Yan's background is not considered good, so he can only get this kind of position.
, if there are not many changes, maybe I can catch thieves every day, and then buy some drinks after work, and that will be the rest of my life.
But Wei Yan wanted more.
People who want more are generally very expressive and will naturally be considered extremely ambitious. That's why Brother Zhu said that Wei Yan is a traitor in the back of his head. Because Brother Zhu is naturally cautious and Gastritis, who is naturally adventurous,
Personally speaking, they already dislike each other.
So, now Wei Yan is ready to go "hunting".
According to Wei Yan, idleness is idleness. The New Year is coming soon. Shouldn't we hunt some prey to celebrate?
Normally, a general like Wei Yan should not act rashly, because if something goes wrong, the impact will be huge. But the problem is that Wei Yan's butt is not flat, but pointed, so he can't sit still, so he borrows
In the name of hunting, he left the camp with his elite guards, and he suddenly felt that the air was sweet...
"General, please come back soon!"
The lieutenant of the Central Military Academy, who was temporarily in charge of the camp, was very helpless and stressed on the wall of the camp, although he also understood that General Wei Yan might not listen to him...
Wei Yan laughed twice, waved his hand, and led the people towards the mountain.
After going around and around, Wei Yan took his guards and changed the direction...
"General..." When the immediate guards saw Wei Yan walking further and further south, they felt that Wei Yan didn't seem to be "hunting", so they couldn't help but asked somewhat differently, "Where are we going?"
"Hunting!" Wei Yan laughed, "What's the point of hunting those wild beasts? Today we are going to hunt some people!"
"General... we can't go with just these people. Should we go back and call in some more people?" Guard?? Somewhat nervous and helpless. What about the "ordinary hunting" we agreed on?
Wei Yan waved his hand and said: "You are wrong... It is precisely because there are few of us that it is easy to hunt... If we go out in large numbers, it might be more dangerous..."
When the two armies confront each other, it is indispensable to send scout posts to each other to explore and test, so Wei Yan with more than 20 people is like an enhanced scout team. Most people would not expect that Wei Yan is hiding among them, and those who come to take action will not
Usually they are the opponent's scouts and will not send out all their troops to encircle and kill them.
According to the previous investigation by the scouts, there is a cave fifty miles ahead, on the mountainside, which the barbarians regard as a temporary resting place, and scouts often rest in it...
Of course, these Yi people thought that Wei Yan's scouts would not come so far away, so although they could not be said to be unscrupulous, they were at least relatively relaxed at the time, and even the normal warning posts seemed a bit perfunctory.
It is also understandable. After all, these barbarians are not serious soldiers. Many of them are hunters or farmers in the villages. They have some fighting ability when they are fierce, but this is discipline. No matter how you say it, it will be different from the regular soldiers.
There are some differences between time-trained soldiers.
It's like the eighth master beating the Japanese in the drama of later generations, just like me beating the grandson. It doesn't matter if one beats eight, but the real situation at that time was not so beautiful. Well, the Osaka Legion said otherwise, that guy was
Like a husky among wolves, his style is always so amazing...
But many times, things happen unexpectedly.
The observation point chosen by the scouts is naturally a traffic artery. If it were an unimportant place, no barbarians would establish an observation point.
However, the Yi people here at the observation point are somewhat unorganized. They are originally unorganized people. As the biggest war scenes are often the fighting between villages, most of these people have not experienced any wars. For those in Sichuan and Sichuan,
At most, they were curious about the war that took place, or even not even curious, they were simply indifferent.
What does the fighting between the Han people and the Yi people have to do with it?
As for the Jianning Rebellion, it was more of a booing, like a group fight downstairs in a dormitory, where someone yelled that so-and-so department was fighting so-and-so department, and then no matter what the matter was, maybe a few people who knew each other started talking about it.
, and joined the battle group together.
Therefore, even if these barbarians are at the observation point, they are not in a hurry. Even if they are sentry duty, they will often chew sweet grass roots, nest in the shelter, and only stick out their heads after a while, without even taking a glance.
Take a look at the surrounding situation.
In the eyes of these Yi people, the Han people here in Wei Yan have been guarding the camp for so long without seeing any movement. Besides, if these Han people really want to take any action, there will naturally be a lot of movement, which can be heard from ten miles away.
You can hear it, but the surroundings are quiet now, so why should you be nervous?
The relaxed mentality and lazy style of these Yi people brought fatal consequences to them. When Wei Yan led his people to the bottom of the Yi people's observation point, no Yi people were alert enough to notice anything unusual.
Wei Yan quietly stood up from behind the hidden bushes, drew his bow and arrow, and aimed at the half head exposed behind the rock above...
The long arrow leaves the string!
Apparently, the unusual whistling in the wind alarmed the Yi people who were actually hiding behind the rocks for shelter. The Yi people, who did not have much war experience at that time, made a wrong decision. Instead of immediately shrinking their heads to avoid it, they wanted to turn their heads...
, and then it was tragic. A long arrow penetrated his skull, bringing out a large amount of brains and blood!
As Wei Yan's long arrow was released, the elite guards rushed out from their hiding places, either bending their bows and setting arrows, or rushing towards the cave entrance quickly along the mountain like apes!
The Yi people were alarmed by the sudden sound, and several Yi people who tried to run out of the cave were shot by long arrows. They immediately fell down from the mountainside and crashed into the bushes at the foot of the mountain.
The Yi people who were in the cave were yelling and screaming, like a group of crabs that were suffocated in a pot. Although they were still catching them with their teeth open, it had no practical effect. Even if they wanted to escape, there was no place to escape.
, and Wei Yan's guards threw two bundles of half-dried firewood in succession. The smoke was billowing, and they had no choice but to knock them out of the holes one by one. They were either killed or knelt down and surrendered.
Wei Yan asked his men to interrogate, but these Yi people simply said whatever they asked, without any indication that they wanted to be strong-willed and keep the King of Yi people's secrets, even some gossip, that the King of Yi people had a new wife, etc.
When all is said and done...
However, among the matters confessed by the Yi people, one thing caught Wei Yan's attention.
"A large army will be coming?" Wei Yan asked, "Let me ask again, what kind of army is it and how many people are there?"
The guard left again, and after a long and short scream, the guard came back with some helplessness on his face, "Reporting to the general, this guy said he didn't know this... I used the punishment again, but this guy just listened to me."
When asked about one thousand, he said there was one thousand; when asked about ten thousand, he said ten thousand... I think he really didn't know..."
Wei Yan nodded.
This is normal. Rumors in the military are naturally passed around, some are true and some are false. If we want to talk about the specific situation at that time, it is not like catching two soldiers and immediately knowing the whole situation from their mouths.
Yes, at most it is only information within the range that this soldier can access.
"Very many..." Wei Yan scratched his head, feeling depressed. He deeply felt how important it was for the Hussar General to promote cultural knowledge. "How many people are there in very many? One thousand, three thousand? Ten thousand?"
The Han scouts still know some numerical knowledge, at least they know how to report when they go back, but the Yi people...
Among the adjectives of the Yi people, there are only two concepts: "more" and "less", and then derived from the secondary concepts such as "many" and "few", and then "very much" and "very few" are also emphasized.
There are few standard numerical expressions for subjective feelings, which makes the results obtained by Wei Yan's inquiry so vague and frustrating.
He originally thought that if he captured a living person, he would be able to ask some questions about the situation, but now he only provided some very vague concepts and information, which was not enough for Wei Yan to understand the specific situation of the Jianningyi people.
"This is a bit troublesome..." Wei Yan thought.
I went out to hunt "prey", and found out that I knew some things. At that time, I was even worse than not knowing. Damn it, didn't the Yi people send a few guys who can understand numbers as sentinels?
?If I send an army to attack, will this guy report that it is "a lot" or "a very large amount"?
Continue to explore south?
It's not suitable. After all, if you go further south, you will basically enter the territory of Jianning. Let's not talk about the distance. The scouts have not been placed that far away, and the terrain is not familiar.
Wei Yan likes to take risks. At that time, he took risks more often when he had some confidence rather than out of sheer recklessness.
"Now put these guys under guard! Clean up the corpses around them, don't attract tigers and wolves!" Wei Yan ordered, "Set the sentry higher and rotate it every two hours! Return at dawn tomorrow!"
There is no need to dig holes and bury the corpses on the mountain roads and mountainside. They can just throw them into the dense bushes at the foot of the mountain. Anyway, the scavengers in the trees will quickly digest the flesh and blood into bones.
Now we can only take these people back and ask them in detail. For example, first find out what "a lot" and "very many" of these guys are...
Although Wei Yan set out early in the morning, the mountain road was difficult to travel at that time. After setting down the barbarian sentry post and asking for confessions, it was already approaching dusk. Although it was not impossible for Wei Yan and others to drive through the night, it was not impossible for Wei Yan and others to do so.
There is no need for this. After all, in this era of backward communication methods, the Yi people may not realize that there is a problem until the next batch of people, or even wait for a long time before this batch of people return, and even at that time, the first batch of people will not realize that there is a problem.
Looking for him again, Wei Yan didn't know how long it had been since he returned to the camp.
However, at night, Wei Yan, who was half-asleep and half-awake, leaning against the stone wall of the cave, suddenly opened his eyes as if he had noticed something, which shocked the guards who came to wake Wei Yan up.
"General...it seems someone is coming..."
Wei Yan suddenly lost all sleep.
On the mountain trail, there seemed to be three or five people holding torches, and then slowly coming from a distance. Because it was night, it was extremely obvious and could be seen from a long distance.
"Huh? Aren't these people afraid of death?" Wei Yan whispered to himself, "Why did they come from this direction?"
When it comes to the topography and landforms around Jianning, the Yi people are naturally the first to say so, so the observation point chosen by the Yi people happens to be at the key point of transportation, where two or three mountain roads converge. Towards the northeast is naturally
Where Wei Yan came from, and to the south is Jianning, and these guys who risked their way in the dark were neither from the northeast nor from the south...
No matter where they came from, Wei Yan had no reason to let them go in vain, so he ordered his men to ambush them in the nearest area.
The torches are getting closer.
Wei Yan's brows furrowed more and more tightly.
Although the night was dim and unclear, by the light and fire, it could be seen that these people were not wearing Yi people's clothes, nor did they look like Yi people at all. Instead, they were wearing Han people's robes and Han people's armor.
Wei Yan silently retracted his head into the shadows. After these people entered the ambush circle, he issued the order to attack. What Wei Yan did not expect at that time was that when these people realized that they had entered the ambush circle, they would first
Time turned out not to resist or escape, but raised his hands to show that he was the messenger...
"Messenger? What kind of messenger?!" Wei Yan's eyes widened, "Where the hell did the messenger come from?!"
