"Dear fellow villagers, since the Jianning period, for so many years, our border counties have been looted and harassed by Xianbei almost every year. Sometimes there are hundreds of riders, and sometimes there are thousands of them. Today they kill
My neighbors will plunder my goods tomorrow. In the spring, when the weather is not green, they will come to harvest grass and grain. In the autumn, when the fat and fat horses are strong, they will come to grab food. Even in winter, when the grassland is too cold, they will come to the border to grab some.
Clothes to keep out the cold. Now that the new year is approaching, and the Xianbei people are still camped in front of the fortress, do they want me to wait in the fortress to celebrate the New Year? This is really unreasonable..."
The speaker was a majestic young man with a thin beard and eagle eyes. He was carrying a sword and wearing armor. He looked around proudly. He looked like a hero from the Yan land. Only his bandy legs seemed a bit disharmonious, but it also told the people around him that he was a man who was used to fighting on the fly.
warrior.
In other words, although the core area of Lulongsai only has this fortress city in front of you, the entire Lulongsai defense system spans the two counties of Liaoxi and Beiping on the right and is about a hundred miles long. According to Gongsun Yue's explanation just now, this is called Handang.
At this time, it was a cavalry commander belonging to the western Liaoning section of Lulong Fortress.
However, although this seemingly majestic chief was impassioned, most of the hundreds of people in the court just listened. Only a dozen soldiers standing behind him followed the noise, causing some commotion.
"What does this mean? What does Han Dang want to do?" Gongsun Yue is only seventeen years old this year. He has only tied up his hair for two years. He has neither entered school nor become an official. He may not be able to understand some things. "It wasn't like this just now.
Woolen cloth."
"What's the point?" Gongsun Xun, who had been working in the county's accounting office for two years, couldn't help but hold on to the stairs and yawned. "I just want to achieve military exploits."
Gongsun Yue suddenly realized: "Does he want to gather a crowd and blackmail Shangguan into leading the attack?"
"That's right."
"But, uncle, isn't he patrolling the camp in Lulongse today? With so many big shots in Lulong Tower above, aren't you afraid of causing trouble and being punished?"
"If you ask me, I'm afraid he just heard about our uncle's camp tour today, so he made a special noise." Gongsun Xun yawned again and shook his head repeatedly. "That's good, since he is our fellow villager,
You can't watch him suffer, Ah Yue, go upstairs to find our clan uncle..."
Just as the two brothers were muttering on the stairs, the commotion in the atrium over there attracted the attention of the mid-level officers in the watchtower. On the south wall, a man wearing a black hat and a crimson military uniform
The leader of the team didn’t even have time to wipe the soup from his beard before he stuck his head out angrily:
"Yi Gong, everyone is eating, why can't you save some snacks for me? Is there gravel in the rice, or is the soup not hot enough? You tell me, and I will naturally give you an explanation."
"Leader Tian." Han Dang smiled slightly when he heard this. He was neither anxious nor annoyed. "The rice is enough and the soup is hot. It's just that the sons are angry at the arrogance of the Xianbei dogs and are eager to fight..."
"What a shame!" the team leader surnamed Tian was furious when he heard this. "Not to mention that the important decisions in the army are made by the nobles, let's just say that the sun has set in the west, and we are all cavalry in the camp. Could it be you?
How about riding a horse and fighting at night?"
"Leader, please listen to what I have to say." The commander still seemed to be unwilling. "We are fighting at night..."
"I won't listen!" The team leader was really angry, and he opened his mouth and said another swear word. "But Han Dang, you are my subordinate, so you have to listen to me!"
"Yes!" Han Dang was helpless.
"Han Yigong, of course I know what you are capable of, and I also know that you, a member of the Han family, dream of getting ahead, but today is the time for you to act like a ruffian? The nobles from the two counties are waiting for me on the Lulong Tower to explore the enemy's situation.
If I am disturbed by you, I will punish you for being a rebel, and I will chop you down. Don’t implicate me!"
As soon as he said this, the young man's momentum stagnated again, and the dozen or so cavalrymen behind him also became discouraged.
"Okay," Captain Tian said when he saw that all the soldiers under his command were a little discouraged, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. "If you are all full and drunk and have no place to act, just go to the corridor and take care of the horses for me, and you won't be here anymore."
Making trouble for no reason."
However, although the dozen cavalrymen were exhausted, they looked at each other, and none of them left. In the end, they all looked at the commander on one side. Seeing this scene, Gongsun Xun couldn't help but be surprised, because according to Gongsun Yue's statement
, this Han Dang had only joined the army for half a year, but he was able to win over more than a dozen cavalrymen with his very high status. It seems that this Han Dang and Han Yigong are indeed the Han Dang that my mother said.
On the other side, with the support of his partners, Han Dang bravely stepped forward again: "Team leader, I really didn't cause trouble for no reason. I do have a clever plan to defeat the enemy."
Captain Tian was furious when he heard this. He was about to go down to the tower to argue with this guy in person, but he didn't expect a head to suddenly appear on the stairs of the tall building opposite him:
"The Han with the clever plan is Han Yigong. Chang Shi asked you to come up."
Sure enough, the nobleman was alarmed!
The team leader was extremely shocked, but Han Dang smiled brightly, winked at his team leader twice, and then quickly walked up the five-foot-high tower holding the handle of his knife. At the stairs, there was only an eight-foot-tall man in brocade and white robes.
A young man was waiting for him with a smile, and he was naturally Gongsun Xun.
Han Dang didn't recognize the other party, but just by looking at his dress and demeanor, he knew that the other party was a member of a noble family and was either rich or noble, so he quickly saluted.
"Brother Yi Gong, you don't have to be like this." Gongsun Xun wanted to get to know this person, so he quickly supported him. "Follow me upstairs, let's go find Gongsun Changshi."
Han Dang was even more delighted when he heard this.
By the way, the Gongsun Changshi mentioned by Gongsun Xun, whose compound surname is also Gongsun, and whose single name is Zhao, is Gongsun Xun, Gongsun Yue, and the clan uncle of the three Gongsun Zan... No way, who let the Gongsun family be in this Bohai Sea?
Are all the counties in the circle of famous clans? Moreover, the population is prosperous and the official career is prosperous.
In short, this Lord Gongsun Zhao, who was born in the Gongsun family, the largest family in western Liaoning, was promoted as a filial piety and incorruptible, and then entered the court as a third minister... This is the path that Gongsun Xun has been striving for... Now it is this right
The long history of Peiping was a senior official with six hundred shi of real power.
Besides, this Lulongsai spans the two counties of Liaoxi and Beiping on the right. In addition, Liaoxi County has a very wide area. If used in later maps, it directly extends from Fuxin, Liaoning, to Qian'an, Hebei. There are also five large cities in the county.
Four of them are located on the Hebei Plain and are protected by Lulong Fortress. However, Yangle City, the capital of the county, is far outside the fortress. So once the Xianbei people came, western Liaoning was naturally divided into two parts.
And if this is the case, since the Liaoxi County Sheriff is unable to control this place, as the long history of Beiping and a descendant of the Gongsun family in Liaoxi, Gongsun Zhao is of course a very important figure in Lulongsai.
How could Han Dang not be happy to see this person?
However, as soon as they went upstairs, the young commander who had been smiling happily before became a little timid - without him, as soon as they boarded the Lulong Tower, they met a group of dark-faced mid-level fortress officers. The one at the front was impressive.
There are eight camp commanders, four Qu Junhou, and even a military commander in this fortress!
You know, according to the military system of the Han Dynasty, two teams and one Shi, five Shi and one team, two teams and one tun, and two tuns and one song. If nothing else is said, these four Qu Junhou are already older than this little Shi.
He is already at the third level, and he is an official of the imperial court with a rank of 600 stones. In addition, during the war, he is really going to get angry. It doesn't matter if any one of these four people kills him, who is gathering crowds to make noise and disturb the morale of the army.
Of... outsiders would also like to praise him for his rigorous military management.
However, these people just glared at him with a dark face, and then suddenly changed their faces to smiles at the leader of the aristocratic family, and stepped left and right, and even took the initiative to make way for him... One of the subordinates,
Real nobles surrounded by military officers and wealthy families are in front of you.
I saw this man in his thirties, with a reddish complexion, thin eyebrows and big eyes, a broad crown and a large cloak, and a black ribbon with a copper seal around his waist to identify himself, so he was naturally Gongsun Zhao.
"I've met the envoy." The identity gap was too big, so Han Dang quickly bowed down.
"Are you Han Dang?" Gongsun Zhao frowned slightly. He first glanced at Gongsun Yue, who came to report the news, and then looked helplessly at Gongsun Xun, who was leading the way. Then he suppressed his temper and asked the visitor. "
I heard that you have a clever strategy to defeat the enemy? Let me tell you."
"I don't dare to treat you as an envoy." The opportunity is right in front of you, so Han Dang naturally worked up his courage. "I don't dare to call him a clever idea. I just heard that the Xianbei miscellaneous people were provoking outside the Great Wall, and I was very angry. Han Dang is not talented, so he is willing to
Attack the enemy camp at night and recapture the children of the village!"
"I know your loyalty and bravery." Gongsun Zhao nodded slightly and said perfunctorily, but his eyes still glanced at his nephew, who was standing aside with his eyes closed and silent. "It's just a night attack..."
"Night attacks are absolutely impossible!" At this moment, a middle-aged man standing next to him suddenly interrupted.
"Your Majesty." The scribe named Tian leaned over and said. "Please look at the Xianbei camp outside the city..."
"I wonder who you are and what position you hold now?" Gongsun Xun, who had been silent all this time, suddenly opened his eyes.
"Uh... I don't dare to take my place, I... I am the Tian family from Xuwu County, Youbeiping..."
"What is your current position?" Gongsun Xun has been hanging out in the county governor's mansion for several years and has an official status of two hundred dan. How could he not know how to deal with such a person?
"Shang is... in white." This rich man from Beiping named Tian had a blushing face.
"Since it's Bai Shen, it's better not to say anything about military matters." Gongsun Xun said with a serious face. "Think about it, if Bai Shen advises a military matter that is a matter of life and death, will Mr. Changshi listen to it or not? If so,
If you don't listen, some people will inevitably say that Mr. Changshi doesn't listen to others and blocks the way of speech; but if you listen, it will be good if things work out, but if things don't work out, the person who made the suggestion will pat his ass and leave. Mr. Changshi and this Lu
But the officers and soldiers in Longsai have to bear responsibility for this, and even lose their lives... Doesn't this make it difficult for everyone?"
Mr. Tian immediately felt ashamed and angry and did not dare to say anything.
"Then Ah Xun...well, does Master Gongsun think he can go to war?" Gongsun Zhao was helpless and quickly stopped him. He seemed to be afraid that the other party would say some unpleasant things again and make it difficult for everyone.
"You are the deputy historian of the Liangxi County Chief Accounting Office, so you have fulfilled your responsibilities."
"I don't know." Whether it was Ah Xun or the Gongsun Chief Planner who had been promoted half a level in vain, it was Gongsun Xun anyway. He spread his hands and almost choked his uncle to death, but he immediately pointed at Huan Xun.
Han Dang was kneeling there. "However, isn't there a person here who is familiar with the enemy's situation? Whether it is war or defense, why doesn't uncle listen to him first?"
Gongsun Zhao seemed to be a little wary of his clan nephew who had not yet received a crown ceremony for a year, so he finally nodded helplessly: "Han Dang, please get up and talk about it in detail..."
After hearing this, Han Dang finally got up from the ground. He was slightly excited, but of course he couldn't help but look at the young man who showed kindness to him many times with gratitude again.
Gongsun Xun didn't say much, but smiled at the other party, stepped back half a step, and let his sight go.
Han Dang took a deep breath, hurriedly stepped forward, pointed at the clearly visible Xianbei military camp outside Lulong Tower, and took the opportunity to say something.
It turned out that although Han Dang's intention was guessed by the team leader and that he wanted to attack at night, he was really not so eager to do meritorious service that he ignored reality. The reason was still very good.
You know, the Xianbei people stationed a force of soldiers and horses at the intersection several miles away from the fortress, not expecting to break through the dangerous Lulong fortress... In fact, you asked the Xianbei Khan Tan Shihuai to personally supervise the division.
Even if tens of thousands of elite Xianbei people came over, they might not be able to defeat this dangerous and majestic Lulong Fortress. Obviously, these thousands of Xianbei people set up camp here just to block the exit of the troops and horses inside the fortress and prevent them from attacking outside the fortress.
Liaoxi, Liaodong, Xuantu and other counties were suddenly attacked when they were scattered and plundered. They were destroyed both internally and externally, and they never came back.
At this time, as the New Year is approaching, the north wind comes with a cold wave, and the Xianbei people's looting operation has actually reached the second half. Basically, those who are easy to rob have been robbed in the past few days, and the rest are not to be robbed.
The hard nut to spend time chewing is that there is no oil and water. In fact, these days, you can often see Xianbei people who have completed the robbery mission upstairs bringing their "trophies" to join the main force at the foot of Lulong Pass, and there are some who have not been divided and are nothing.
The troops with the trophies left here in a hurry.
And this is Han Dang’s reason:
First of all, coming and going, the military strength in the Xianbei military camp today should actually be at its weakest stage. From a rough perspective, there may only be two or three thousand people left, or even less;
Secondly, many of the troops left behind in the camp at this time were tribesmen who had robbed them. They had the trophies in hand and were homesick for their families. I am afraid they did not have a very high desire to fight;
Thirdly, there will definitely be uneven distribution of spoils between tribes, between the remaining camps and the plundering troops, and they may not be able to support each other effectively in a fight;
Moreover, there have been too many changes in the tribes recently, and the Xianbei nobles in charge of the camp may not be able to manage it well, and may not be able to arrange the camp properly and command effectively;
Finally, this is the last chance to rescue the plundered Han children's wealth. If we don't fight, these robbed people and property may never come back in two days.
So in this case, even if the last moral principle is put aside, from a purely military point of view, the probability of a night attack being successful is very high, because once the enemy camp loses control, each tribe is likely to abandon the camp and go back to its headquarters.
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After saying these reasons, Han Dang bowed to Gongsun Zhao again with some anticipation: "Fighting opportunities are fleeting, and I am incompetent. I am willing to kill thieves for the country. Please give me a hundred horse troops to attack the camp tonight.
As long as we can shake the enemy camp, and Duke Ming will send out infantry to support us... we will definitely win!"
Gongsun Xun nodded repeatedly behind him. His words sounded very imposing, and he indeed had the demeanor of a tiger minister!
However, Gongsun Zhao, who held the power, looked at the enemy camp just a few miles away, hesitated again and again, and finally said: "Yi Gong, please go back and rest for now. This matter... will be discussed later!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone in Lulong Tower was relieved, Han Dang was slumped, but Gongsun Xun narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Gongsun Zhao was a native of Lingzhi in western Liaoning. He was an uncle of the Taizu clan and was promoted as a filial and honest person. During the Xiping period, he was the chief historian of Youbeiping and later moved to Xiangpingling." - "Jiu Yanshu". Volume 29,
