"You are all outstanding leaders. I believe you all should be clear about the situation we need to face now. I have to admit that this attack is because I, the chief, misjudged the strength of our Jie people and was reckless.
I led everyone to this fortified city and suffered heavy losses in battle. I would like to apologize to everyone."
Just when Shi Kele was "hiding the truth" and pulling his royal troops out, a combat meeting that had been postponed due to Shi Kele's coma yesterday was also being held in the temporary royal tent of the Jie tribe's camp to summarize and plan the tribe's future plans.
principles and policies.
However, what surprised the tribal leaders present at the meeting was that Chief Shi Kele took all the responsibility for the failure of the battle on himself as soon as he came up, instead of blaming others. Perhaps Ketuo or Hele were the assistants of the future heirs.
The ministers are the future masterminds, and they are all extremely trusted confidants. It is enough not to punish them for the sake of their status and reputation.
However, all the leaders believe that it is okay for the great chief to find one or several small tribes that are disadvantaged in combat. After all, in order to better protect themselves, small tribes have always been slow to attack difficulties and exploit every opportunity to seize the spoils of war.
It was too easy to find fault with them. But Shi Kele did not do this. This strange behavior made all the leaders feel confused for a moment.
"In this battle, the total number of casualties and missing persons among the various tribes of our Jie tribe reached nearly 30,000. It can be said that our vitality has been severely damaged. It may be difficult to imagine dominating the grasslands as we did before. But we cannot do it because of that.
In this way, we will become food in other people's mouths. Then the situation we have worked so hard to achieve will become
Completely dissipated. Therefore, I decided that we will continue to stay here for another half month. We want those who are eyeing us to see that the Han people just relied on the advantage of the city wall to slightly defeat them in a battle.
As long as they dare to come out, we can avenge the failure of the siege."
Everyone had different reactions to Shi Kele's words, but most people felt that Shi Kele's words were very reasonable. If they went back like this, the news of their defeat would spread throughout the grassland within a few days. What kind of chain would that cause?
The reaction is not clear to the leaders of these small tribes. At least the Huns, who have always had a complicated relationship with them, may not let go of this golden opportunity. Those grassland peoples who are weaker than them may also take the opportunity to encroach on them.
power.
Therefore, despite the heavy losses, the various tribes of the Jie tribe still had to lick their wounds in this sad place, and acted like "I actually have nothing to do." Shi Kele even sent a team of two
The team of thousands of people planned to test it again. Unfortunately, the range of the trebuchets was far greater than that of the archers. Even if the archers were riding on war horses and could use the power of the horses, the problem was that their opponents could easily use the city walls.
The parabolic bonus brought by height suppresses opponents.
So after paying more than a hundred battle losses, the Jie people completely stopped. They knew that now they had no idea about the fortified city in front of them. Although it was "riddled with holes"
"But the giant thing is still standing. All the Jie people can only spat bitterly, and then mutter helplessly: "If you have the ability, just come out of the city."
Li Shushi really did not dare to fight out of the city, at least for now. But this does not mean that he has no way to deal with this situation. At least there is no problem in letting Lu Bu do some tricks from time to time at night, and with the help of Red Rabbit Horse
With the powerful attribute blessing, it is not a problem to create a "Lü Bu's Hundreds of Cavalry Robbery the Jie Camp" or something like that.
As for the furious Jie people who dispersed and attacked in a small number, Huang Zhong, Taishi Ci and others used them as good targets for practice. Although they did not gain much in a few days, they would definitely kill a Jie cavalry with one arrow.
The momentum also really stimulated the archers' enthusiasm for learning and practicing. "Everyone strives to be a marksman" is no longer just a slogan.
And while the "cold war" continued in Lishi City, the secret move arranged by Li Shushi before the war began to come into play.
"It turns out to be Mr. Yan Zhong. I really didn't expect that you would come to this remote little place of mine in person. How should you put it in the words of you Han people? Oh, by the way, I should let you 'Pengpi Shenghui'. This time
You must stay a few days longer when you come to us. We may not have as many other people as you Han people here, but our enthusiasm for treating our friends will definitely not be inferior to that of you Han people."
Thanks to the fact that no one was interested in this team, which was obviously not very profitable at first glance, it took Yan Zhong and his students less than five days to arrive at the territory of Xihe Xianbei, and was attacked by the Karasuma tribe.
A warm welcome from everyone from top to bottom.
However, the top management of Xihe Karasuma seems unwilling to talk more about the mission that Yan Zhong is responsible for, or perhaps they are more looking forward to Lishi City being breached by the Jie people so that they can find excuses to keep Yan Zhong, even among the Han people.
He can be regarded as a great scholar with considerable reputation and strength, and is even more famous in Liangzhou. You know, looking at the path of the rise of the Hu people, we can often see that a certain tribal leader worked hard to govern, and then used Han people to advise him and then achieved great things.
Yi Zhixie had Zhongxing by his side, and when Tan Shihuai began to rise, there were traces of Han people around him. Of course, soon with the rise of Xianbei, the Xianbei nobles, who even Tan Shihuai himself could not completely control, would fight for the cake of power.
The Han people gradually squeezed out the decision-making ranks. As a result, although Xianbei is still very powerful, it has inevitably gone downhill.
As for the future examples, there will be more. Wang Meng, Han Derang, Yelu Chucai (this one has been patched with Chinese language), Fan Wencheng, these are all existences that can make the nationalists among the Han people gnash their teeth after hearing this, and they have also established illustrious achievements.
meritorious deeds.
The reason for this situation is ultimately because the Han people have a large amount of knowledge inheritance, coupled with the living environment, they can get more from using their brains than they can get from their hands, so more and more people are using their brains.
This is not the case for the Hu people outside the Great Wall. The places they live in are often not suitable for Han people to live. It is difficult for them to survive under the harsh laws of nature if they are in poor physical condition. Therefore, compared to the brain, the muscles that allow them to survive are obviously more important to them.
More useful. And when the two are combined, the power burst out from the powerful combination is undoubtedly huge.
Of course, this does not mean that muscles must be in a dominant position. For example, the Karasuma cavalry under Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, or the foreign generals and foreign troops of the Tang Dynasty, all became important forces that laid the foundation of the monarch.
So Xihe Karasuma's idea is to simply sit back and watch the fight between tigers. Whichever side wins will gain. Although there are many young people in Karasuma who are very dissatisfied with the conservative policies of the clan leaders and elders, they are not the decision-makers.
, even if he is unwilling, he can only complain or impulsively plan to help the trapped allies. Of course, in addition to expressing his gratitude to the young people for their impulsiveness, Yan Zhong asked them not to be impulsive and asked them to be kind to their allies.
Have confidence.
Yan Zhong has had too many dealings with the Qiang people, and he is very familiar with such small thoughts, so he will not point it out. Anyway, he still has great confidence in Li Shushi. Don't look at the Jie people who brought such a huge group of 60,000 yuan.
numbers, but it is still tens of thousands away from Shicheng.
With the permanent population of the people, plus the troops brought by Li Shushi and the old, weak, women and children who were eliminated from the Yellow Turban prisoners to enrich the population, there is actually no problem at all in this attack. The only thing that makes people worry is probably the loss.
Problem.
Because it was previously agreed that this battle would be an actual combat training, Tong Yuan and Lu Zhi, two mature guys, would not take action. Otherwise, the veteran Tong Yuan, blessed with bloodthirsty spells by Li Shushi, would probably be able to defeat them within a few hours.
Treat it as something like dismantling a Gundam with bare hands. After all, there is no such thing as physical strength.
With the shackles that restrict his strength, Tong Yuan can completely defeat the combination of Lu Bu + Zhao Yun + Dian Wei + Huang Zhong. Well, this is definitely true. Because of Li Shushi's curiosity, Tong Yuan showed his "grandson" a trick. Of course
This also allowed Huang Zhong to know that Li Shushi had great power here.
The result of the competition was that Tong Yuan once again won. However, Lu Bu and others were envious that Tong Yuan could still make some breakthroughs when he was old. So when Tong Yuan's face darkened, everyone became more enthusiastic about practicing martial arts.
Improvement. However, this result is limited to upper-level dissemination. After all, it is very embarrassing for a few high-ranking guys in the military to be easily taken care of by an old man.
But what surprised Li Shushi at that time was that as soon as the competition was over, Huang Zhong took the initiative to run to talk to Tong Yuan, and he seemed to be very familiar. After asking, he found out that the Huang family where Huang Zhong lived was also quite famous in Nanyang.
Huang Zhong's grandfather was very optimistic about Tong Yuan at the beginning. He felt that although Tong Yuan's clothes were shabby, he had a good face and he should be able to do something in the future.
It's just that Huang Zhong's grandfather's decision to marry his youngest daughter to Tong Yuan was opposed by his family. Tong Yuan didn't want to be criticized like this, so he missed it by accident, but it also made Tong Yuan unhappy.
I have a good relationship with Huang Zhong.
Regarding this, what should Li Shushi say? He can only lament the strangeness of fate.
It seems that my thoughts have flown to an unknown place. Forget it, let's pull it back quickly, otherwise, think about the "love and hatred" between Huang Zhong's father, Tong Yuan, and his nominal grandfather Li Yan and...forget it,
The more I think about it, the more evil it becomes.
What happened next clearly proved that Yan Zhong's calmness was absolutely confident, which also made the decision-makers of Xihe Karasuma extremely embarrassed. The Dangji people also transferred more than 5,000 people from the tribe's remaining troops to support Lishi.
When the news came, Li Shushi's proposal was naturally unanimously approved by Karasuma's decision-makers.
However, the leader of Xihe Karasuma is obviously a sophisticated old guy. He certainly knows that the hesitation between himself and the decision-makers has caused a rift in the relationship between Xihe Junbing and his side who have shown their own strength. This is enough to make the relationship with Xihe Karasuma even worse.
The other party, whose own alliance is not strong, has wavered on the reliability of the alliance. Not to mention that the more powerful Taiyuan Karasuma was a little tempted by the opportunity to be educated by the top Han scholars, and the bargaining chip that the other party can offer is obviously more than
I have more of myself.
Therefore, after he assigned the task of attacking the Jie tribe's rear area, he took the initiative to approach Yan Zhong and expressed his willingness to provide a thousand reinforcements, and the leader of the reinforcements was his youngest son who had been the most fiercely opposed to the tribe in the past.
"After this incident, I found that I am indeed old, so I hope that my youngest son can inherit my position, and I also hope that the friendship between us will continue to spread. I hope you can share these thoughts of mine
Bring it to the governor."
Regarding the old patriarch's retirement declaration, Yan Zhong was only slightly surprised and then calmed down, because it was not difficult to guess what the other party wanted to achieve. This was a very smart approach, which not only eliminated any possible distrust.
In the cradle, maybe after meeting with Li Shushi, a young man who is young and energetic and has a good impression of Xihe, he can make the other party feel more at ease about Xihe Karasuma. As for the position of the patriarch, a hot-blooded single-celled animal can really control it.
The whole tribe?
But then an episode happened. When Yan Zhong planned to lead his troops back with a young man named Wu Ze, the youngest son of the old patriarch, a group of children blocked their way.
The leading children among these children were children sent to Xihe from the Wuwan tribe. They blocked the front of the team aggressively. The leading child asked Yan Zhong loudly: "Dear teacher, our classmates are being attacked by the enemy."
We are no longer willing to stay in the safety of our homes and watch our classmates and friends fall victim to the enemy's sword, and we want to do our part."
"But you are still too young, and besides, they are not members of your tribe. Do you need to fight so hard?"
Yan Zhong's rhetorical question made the Karasuma clan members who came to see him off blush, because many of them had originally supported the old clan leader's decision.
"No, teacher, haven't you taught us that we are companions and believe in the same god, so we are equal, and we must love and help each other. Now that our companions are in trouble, we cannot stand idly by."
Of course, in the end, those children did not follow their teacher and leave. After all, they were still immature. From all aspects, their spirit had obviously begun to infect the tribesmen who originally had certain concerns about Xihe.
And this little incident also made Yan Zhong think that maybe a young man who loves Xihe is not bad. Maybe he can't see anything now, but what about the future? The old man will leave one day, right?
p.s. When writing this chapter, I don’t know why I thought of the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty. Sure enough, I need to be more confident in my own civilization...