Chapter 272 The Empire That Never Sets on the Prairie
Chapter 272 The Empire on the Grassland on which the Sun Never Sets
At dusk the next day, a group of people arrived at the Wei army camp outside Chang'an City.
Looking from a distance, the officers and soldiers of the Wei army were performing their respective duties, advancing and retreating in a measured manner. Even though they were not at war, the soldiers' faces still showed a look of readiness.
After seeing how powerful the Wei army was, Ma Di realized for the first time that Sima Yi was not simple.
Whether it was the scouts who were on duty on the camp tower or the soldiers who were practicing military formations, they were all training hard at this time, holding weapons and shields, walking in uniform steps towards the outside of the camp. The scene made the four major groups
Will be shocked.
The natural discipline of a soldier and the awe-inspiring aura that can be thrown into battle at any time gave Ma Su a new understanding of Sima Yi's ability to lead an army.
No wonder Zhuge Liang had nothing in common with Sima Yi in the original time and space.
The Wei State has a commander like Sima Yi, which is both a blessing and a curse.
The group of people was very close to the Wei army camp, less than 200 steps away. Ma Di was leading the queue, standing at the front, with the great wizard sitting behind him. The four major generals were one step behind, each riding his horse and keeping quiet, feeling uneasy.
At the same time that everyone saw the Wei army scouts, two Wei army scouts on the archery tower also discovered them.
The two Wei soldiers were taller and shorter. The taller Wei soldier looked at the five cavalry and six people outside the camp strangely. He bit his ears with the shorter soldier and decided not to sound the gold warning for the time being. He would wait and see.
Outside the Wei army's camp, Ma Su slowly pulled out his long sword and raised it to the sky, preparing to charge towards the Wei army.
Seeing this, the four generals panicked instantly, and a cold air rushed up from the soles of their feet. They hurriedly stepped forward and persuaded each other:
"No, General, are you serious?"
"General, think twice, there are more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in the Wei army camp!"
"General, if we rush in today, we will never come back."
"General, dying in vain is not worth it. Would you like to think about it again?"
"Why, are you scared?" Ma Su glanced at the four generals, waved his long sword forward, and shouted in a deep voice: "Sword in hand, follow me! Capture Sima Yi alive today, charge!"
After that, he rode straight towards the Wei army's stronghold, with a heroic aura of going forward in an indomitable way, with the wind rustling and the water cold.
This momentum quickly infected the four generals, who all pulled out their weapons, roared, and rushed out after them.
They felt that since Ma Su was not afraid of death, they, as generals, could not be cowards. They would die together, and the scar on their head would only be as big as a bowl. Eighteen years later, everyone would be a good man again.
Fight!
Seeing this, the two Wei soldiers on the archery tower looked at each other in confusion, not understanding what the six men below were doing.
"Brother, are you saying they are going to attack our military camp?" the tall Wei soldier asked the short soldier nonchalantly.
The short soldier asked uncertainly: "Brother, do you want to ring the gold as a warning?"
Seeing that Ma Su and others had rushed within a hundred steps, the tall soldier nodded: "Cry, these people are not doing good things."
The short soldier quickly picked up the golden gong and started banging it "dang-dang-dang".
When he was still eighty steps away from the Wei army camp, Ma Su took a moment to look back and saw that all the four generals had their eyes widened with anger and looked as if they were ready to die. He smiled slightly, reined in his horse, turned around, and wiped his head.
The Wei army passed by the edge of the stronghold and walked away.
The four major generals followed him with confused expressions.
The Wei army camp was in chaos.
Sima Yi was also alerted by the sound of gold ringing, and rushed to the exit of the camp with his two sons in full armor.
The two scouts knelt on the ground tremblingly, describing the scene they just saw while describing the looks of Ma Su and the others.
Sima Shi was the first to react. He raised his hand and said to Sima Yi: "Father, these six people must be Ma Di, the general of the Shu Kingdom who conquered the west, and his four generals. I would like to lead five thousand troops and pursue them with General Niu Jin."
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Sima Zhao quickly expressed his position: "Father, my child is also willing to go!"
Sima Yi raised his hand to stop his two sons, looked far into the northeast, and said in a deep voice: "Go to Kou Mochai, have you not seen what happened to Wang Shuang and Zhang He in the past?"
Hearing this, Master Sima was a little unconvinced: "Father, there are only six of them, how can they be the opponent of my five thousand elite soldiers?"
"Don't move rashly!" Sima Yi glared at his eldest son sternly: "I will give you an order to guard the camp. If anyone moves rashly, behead him!"
The generals looked solemn and quickly accepted their orders.
Master Sima and his younger brother looked at each other and reluctantly agreed, thinking at the same time:
What a pity for this great opportunity to capture Ma Su alive.
………
After a gust of wind and lightning, Ma Su and his party slowly stopped on the south bank of the Weishui River.
I have to say that the feeling of pretending to be cool and running away was really exciting. The four major generals breathed a sigh of relief as if they had survived the disaster, and their mood was very exciting.
Ma Su raised his head and glanced at the gradually darkening sky.
He led everyone along the coast to find wooden boats, went down the river, and then crossed the river to the north. Before it got dark, he stepped into the boundary of the east of the river and set up tents to rest in the wild.
It takes more than three or five days to go all the way.
At the end of July, everyone finally arrived at the boundary of Yunzhong County and stepped into the territory of the Kirbineng tribe.
Kirby, who had already received the message, could lead dozens of cronies and a thousand honor guards, waiting here for a long time.
As soon as they met, Kirby stared at Ma Su with his huge eyes.
After a while, the two of them looked at each other, smiled, dismounted, crossed arms and exchanged greetings.
In this era, every leader of the Xianbei tribe was very hospitable and respected capable people, especially capable Han people.
Of course, this is not inconsistent with their enslavement of ordinary Han people, because they also treat ordinary people within their own tribe in this way.
In the world of the Xianbei people, the law of the jungle is followed. The weak must obey all orders of the strong, regardless of race; the strong deserve the greatest respect, regardless of race.
For the Xianbei people, talented Han people are the owners of knowledge, the guides for all Xianbei people to live a good life, and the boosters that can make the Xianbei people strong. Therefore, they deserve the most solemn welcome etiquette.
What's more, this visitor turned out to be Ma Su, the famous Shu Han general who conquered the west.
Therefore, Kirby was able to bring a guard of honor of a thousand people.
After exchanging pleasantries, the two rode horses side by side around Shicheng.
After listening to the big cake painted by Ma Su (promising to merge the two states), Kirby said with longing: "Sooner or later, our Xianbei tribe will regain the glory of King Tanshihuai, dominate the grasslands, and look down on the Central Plains.
"
Ma Su looked at the somewhat naive Kirby and said, "With my help, you will soon establish an empire on the grassland on which the sun never sets."
Although Kirby Neng used a clever plan to counter-kill Wang Xiong, in fact Kirby Neng was a leader who was extremely brave but not very smart. Although the counter-kill plan was exquisite, it actually copied Wang Xiong's assassination plan.
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Even when Zhang Fei was able to "catch Yan Yan out of his wits", let alone Kobe.
This kind of individual case does not count.
Kirby Neng looked at the sun in the sky and said puzzledly: "How can the sun not set?"
"The world is actually a round ball. As long as you conquer it all and the sun and moon shine on the homeland of Xianbei, you will have an empire on which the sun never sets."
Hearing this, Kirby was in awe and looked fascinated...
He didn't care whether the land under his feet was square or round, he was only fascinated by the scene Ma Su described.
The sun never sets on the empire...
Xianbei is one king throughout the ages, surpassing the existence of Tanshihuai.
This is so tempting.
Compared to Kirby's wild imagination, Ma Su's mentality is very calm. His soul from later generations is destined to have a vision that is higher than that of everyone in this era.
Although the Han people in this era treated the Xiongnu, Xianbei and Wuhuan as enemies, they were just a family.
Therefore, when he conquered the Western Qiang, Ma Su ruled them completely as his own people. Whether it was the policies implemented in the Qiang land or his attitude towards the Qiang people, they were the same as he treated the Han people, without any discrimination.
It is this that gives him high prestige and reputation among the Qiang people. Like Axiu, he is deeply loved by the Xiqiang people.
Coming to the grassland, while helping Kirby to create trouble for Wei, Ma Di planned to repeat his old tricks and quickly Chineseize the Xianbei people.
I believe that if you do calculations mentally but not carefully, the results will be remarkable.
If that doesn't work, then we will resort to "Ye's nomenclature" and the great wizard's "forced driving" to forcibly Chineseize the Xianbei people, and eliminate the hidden dangers of the Wuhu chaos from the root.
Of course, this is all for the future.
There is only one thing to do now.
Declare war on Wei!
In the evening, a grand bonfire party was lit on the grassland. Ordinary Xianbei people mixed with people from other ethnic groups, singing and dancing; Xianbei people with higher status gathered together to discuss the war against Wei.
Kebineng's Xianbei tribe has a total of more than 700,000 people, and its composition is very complex. There are actually only 400,000 to 500,000 Xianbei people, and there are another 700,000 to 80,000 Han people, 100,000 Wuhuan people, and 40,000 to 50,000 Huns.
.Although the Xianbei people occupy a dominant position, other ethnic groups also have a certain say.
Of course, those who have the right to speak are capable people.
Although Kirby Neng was already inclined to go to war with the Wei State in his heart, he sat in the main position without saying a word, quietly watching the leaders on the left and right arguing fiercely about the pros and cons of sending troops to attack the Wei State.
Ma Di also held the wine glass and smiled without saying a word.
He originally thought that these Xianbei leaders must be inclined to invade Han, but it turned out that most of them opposed raising troops to attack Wei. The two main reasons they gave were: first, they could not defeat Wei; second, they had no time to plunder now.
It's good to plunder once. If Wei is really wiped out, there will be nothing left to plunder.
After hearing this, Ma Su was shocked and felt that he seemed to have underestimated the Xianbei people. There were still capable people among the Xianbei people.
The Xianbei people were not engaged in production and had no other work except herding. When they had no food, they would just go south to plunder. That's why they showed resistance to going south to attack Wei.
I'm afraid, in their eyes, the Han people in the south are like leeks in the field, and they should be harvested when it's time to harvest them. Now that Kirby can ask them to uproot the leeks, of course he won't be happy.
Although the Han people also viewed the Xianbei people in this way, Ma Di was still prepared to find time to change the Xianbei people's outdated and outdated concepts.
They must be taught to be self-reliant.
He also instilled the concept that "it is wrong to rob Han people" into every Xianbei people, and then deeply rooted in the people's hearts the concept that "it is natural for Han people to rob Hu people", inducing them to give up their Xianbei identity and join the Han family.
The nature of robbing the Han people is too serious and must be eradicated.
Ma Di felt that since he had come to the grassland, it was necessary to lead the people on the grassland to become civilized and industrious step by step, instead of becoming more barbaric.
Although it takes a lot of effort to achieve this goal, there is nothing that can be done about it. Now that he has reached this era, he should work for the welfare of the Han people.
At the end of the bonfire party, everyone still could not reach a consensus.
Kirby Neng cleared his throat, stopped everyone's argument, and made a concluding speech: "I have made up my mind. We Xianbei people will only attack Bingzhou and Youzhou. This will not delay the plundering southward. In the future, we will attack Bingzhou and Youzhou."
You can go to Jizhou and Hedong and Hanoi to plunder."
"But doing this will provoke revenge from the Wei State, and Sima Yi will be difficult to deal with, Your Majesty." One of the older tribal leaders said with concern.
Judging from what he said, even if he wanted to attack Wei, Shu would have to take action first to contain Sima Yi, so that the Xianbei people could take advantage of what was already available.
Instead of the Xianbei people taking the initiative.
Another young leader nodded in agreement and said: "Your Majesty, this is how it should be. I propose that we never launch an offensive in advance before the Shu Kingdom launches an attack."
Kirby Neng looked up at Ma Su, then at the leaders who nodded in agreement, and said calmly: "If Shu never launches an attack, will our Xianbei tribe never go south?"
The older leader waved his hand and said: "Your Majesty, if Zhuge Liang is determined to do the Northern Expedition and help the Han Dynasty, how could he not launch an attack on Wei? In my opinion, within ten months, the Shu army will leave Qinchuan and attack Guanzhong.
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Damn it, you seem to have seen the deployment of the Shu army with your own eyes. Ma Su was surprised and asked curiously: "How did you know?"
The old leader looked at Ma Su and said slowly: "The eagle in the sky told me."
After that, he whistled into the bright night sky.
Ma Su quickly raised his head and looked at the sky attentively, and found a small black dot swooping down from the sky at high speed and landing on the old leader's arm.
Kirby could watch this scene silently and cast a rather amused look at Ma Su.
Ma Su suddenly fell silent, and he couldn't help but have a strong idea in his heart - call the big flower eagle and smash the eagle raised by this old guy.
Otherwise, the movements of the Shu army in the future will definitely be seen by this eagle flying in the sky, and there will be no secrets.
Ma Di silently glanced at the great wizard sitting next to him wearing a veil, squeezed her soft little hand hard, and then resisted the urge to summon the great eagle.
After all, in this era, only when one has a unilateral advantage in aerial reconnaissance can one truly have an advantage.
If the enemy also has scout units that can conduct reconnaissance in the air, then the air advantage it has will be gone.
