Looking at the red mass graveyard not far away, Liu Qi found an excuse to release the panic caused by burning corpses and destroying traces of corpses. Killing people is nothing, just for survival.
The idea of biological evolution in the 18th-century British scientist Darwin's theory of "The Origin of Species" is too classic. The fittest survive and the unfit are eliminated. Human beings are also adapted to such cruel rules. Although humans are advanced creatures with thoughts and souls, in the final analysis
After all, they are still living things and cannot escape the natural law of survival of the fittest.
No matter how it evolves or not, in the Three Kingdoms where human lives are as cheap as mosquitoes, wars continue for years, and corpses are everywhere, killing a few maids and pawns is really not worth making a fuss about. What is the royal way? Surviving in the Three Kingdoms is the royal way! This is it
Survival of the fittest.
Liu Qi, who traveled through the Three Kingdoms, had two voices fighting in his heart. On the one hand, he felt deeply guilty for his cruelty and inhumanity, and on the other hand, he applauded for his cold-blooded survival.
Just as Liu Qi was thinking wildly, suddenly shouts of killing began one after another near the Hutou Mountain Cemetery. Torch all over the mountains and plains suddenly jumped in the wind like will-o'-the-wisps. Liu Qi roughly estimated that the number of torches was no less than a thousand, not more than 500 troops.
Liu Qi was startled and asked Chen Wen urgently: "Is there a will-o'-the-wisp in front of you?"
"Young Master, that's not true." Chen Wen said calmly.
"It's not a will-o'-the-wisp, but a thousand troops suddenly appeared to surround and kill him. This is obviously an ambush." Liu Qi's head was sweating. With more than ten cavalry against a thousand troops, he would definitely die. This is not a myth of the Three Kingdoms.
Oriental fantasy is not like living in the list of gods. Any god can use any spell to defeat thousands of armies.
Chen Wen was also surprised and confused. Logically speaking, there were only 500 soldiers stationed outside the city all year round. How could twice as many people suddenly appear? Could it be that the housekeeper leaked the news before leaving the city, leading Cai Mao to send troops to set up an ambush in the cemetery?
Regardless of whether the rumor was leaked or there were other possibilities, the fact is that Cai Mao already knew about the matter and set up an ambush to catch the individual and reaped the loot. As for why he didn't catch the housekeeper Liu Zhong before he burned the body and set it on fire, Chen Wen speculated.
The other party would not believe that only the three butlers dared to go to the cemetery at night. It was probably that the other party was fishing for the big fish and wanted to catch all the newcomers. But what they didn't expect was that the three butlers suddenly set fire to the corpses, attracting thousands of troops.
He used great momentum to capture the housekeeper alive.
Chen Wen stroked his short beard and sneered: "Hey, sir, they think highly of us."
"Yes, killing a chicken with a bull's-eye." Liu Qi saw Chen Wen sneer but was not panicked. He knew that Chen Wen had a plan and asked, "Do you have another clever plan?"
"I'm afraid of unforeseen circumstances, so I've made two preparations." Chen Wenxu said calmly, "I have prepared two bags of rat poison powder, and I can send two guards to spread it downwind quickly, and send two guards to light fires at several places.
When the guards sent by Chen Qiu burst into the enemy camp, they blew their horns loudly, and the enemy camp would be in chaos."
"Great idea, but will a lot of people die?" Liu Qi took a breath, remembering the experience of swallowing rat poison for the maid who put the blame on him. It was such a retribution that he had to go back to Cai Hao's bodyguards in just one day.
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"The wind is strong tonight, and the rat poison is carried very far by the wind. Its potency is limited. If you inhale a trace of the powder, you will be dizzy, unable to hold a knife or gun, and will lose your resistance, but it will not kill you. If you are unlucky enough, you will think that the rat poison is a woman.
If you take a few more puffs of incense powder upwind, you will seek your own death and no one can stop you."
"Okay. That's all." In order to solve the steward's crisis, poisoning the wind became the only solution. Otherwise, how could a dozen cavalry withstand a thousand troops?
Unless the ever-victorious general Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong of the Ten Thousand Horse Army, who can take the general's head, suddenly come to the cemetery, a miracle may happen, but it is almost impossible. According to historical records, in 194 AD, Zhao Yuncai first served Gongsun Zan of Hebei Province.
The year when Liu Qi traveled through the Three Kingdoms was 190 AD, the first year of Chuping. There is no record of Zhao Yun's whereabouts at this time.
"Chen Jin, Chen Yin, you two quickly go to the high slope and spread rat poison downwind." Liu Qi ordered the two guards beside him holding long machetes, and then ordered the other two guards holding machetes:
"Chen Tong, Chen Tie, quickly go to an obvious place to light a fire, blow the trumpet and shout."
Chen Chun, Chen Xia, Chen Qiu, Chen Dong, Chen Wen and Chen Wu were all heroes of the same clan selected by the steward Liu Zhong from Chenjiazhuang in Yingchuan. Originally, they did not have the names of summer, autumn and winter. After they were selected into the residence of the young master Liu Qi, Liu
Zhong changed their names uniformly, firstly for convenience, and secondly to symbolize the inseparability of life and death. Liu Zhong's idea was a bit strange, but it worked very well. Naturally, the naming of gold, silver, copper and iron was also the steward's masterpiece.
The other ten guards in the mansion, Liu Zhong, asked the prince Liu Qi to give them names. Liu Qi also learned from the strange way of naming the housekeepers. According to their age, they were all named Liu One, Liu Two, Liu Three... to Liu Ten, each of the twenty guards in the mansion were named after Liu Zhong.
Half Liu and half Chen are quite balanced.
Half a month ago, the four maids given by Cai Mao were given the nicknames of Mei Lan, Zhu Ju and so on, which also means the housekeeper Liu Zhong. In ancient times, maids had no status and could only be called by a surname, such as Chen, Cai, Zhen, etc.
Wait, and Liu Zhong was able to give the four maids nicknames as a sign of friendship with the maids, and as a sign of goodwill to Cai Hao, but he did not expect that the maids who were considered pity at the beginning would die in the hands of Liu Zhong himself.
It's just that things are unpredictable.
The four gold, silver, bronze and iron guards holding machetes went separately. Liu Qi spread his hands, pretending to be relaxed, and silently said to Chen Wen: "Brother Wen, the soldiers are fighting in front. It seems that we have nothing to do now. How about we?"
Put on a chess set and let us two brothers have a game? By the way, have you brought the chess set?"
"Young Master, you must not do this." Chen Wen suddenly knelt on his knees and said with a solemn expression.
"Brother Wen, what's wrong with killing the chess game?" Liu Qi stepped forward to help Chen Wen up. Unexpectedly, the soldiers of the Three Kingdoms would always kneel to others. Didn't they say that there is gold under a man's knees? Is there any god who raises his head three feet high? Look.
The identity of the eldest son who came to Jingzhou is Guangyao.
"Young Master, I'm not talking about playing chess. I sincerely admire your courage. In front of thousands of troops, you can stay calm in the face of danger and use chess to predict the enemy. How magnanimous is this." Chen Wen stood up with Liu Qi's help.
Common sense politely bowed to Liu Qi again. People in the Three Kingdoms had a lot of red tape, as can be seen from the 84-episode TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" directed by Wang Fulin. They also agreed that "too much oil is not bad, and there are many people who are polite."
” proverb.
At this time, the shouts of killing were loud in the distance, the flames were like torches, four or five fires had been lit with old copper and iron, and the huge horns echoed in the mountains.
Liu Qi was extremely calm on the surface in front of Chen Wen, but he was still very worried in his heart. Now more than a dozen cavalry are dealing with Cai Mao's thousands of troops, setting fires, poisoning, and pretending to be bandits. This situation may be out of control.
Already.
"Since Brother Wen is not talking about chess, why not?" Liu Qi said that he was talking about playing chess. How can you have the time to play chess at such a critical moment? This is not a storyteller. Many people will die in seconds.
While Liu Qi was talking to Chen Wen, he was anxiously thinking about how to clean up this chaotic situation.
"Young Master is your lord, and our servants are not allowed to call you brothers. If the Young Master appreciates it, Chen Wen is willing to follow him for the rest of his life. If things come true in the future, we will return to Chenjiazhuang with honor and honor the Young Master's mother, Mrs. Chen, for a long life. I hope you will understand me." Chen Wen
He bowed humbly to Liu Qi again, his eyes full of piety.
"Oh, just Brother Suiwen." Liu Qi sighed. He didn't expect that the feudal hierarchy concept of the ancients was so serious, and it was so difficult for him to truly make a brother in the Three Kingdoms. After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei could still have Taoyuan.
Three sworn brothers have become a legend that will last forever. Why can’t I, Liu Qi, do the same?
The sworn relationship with Jinlan is a unique product of the Three Kingdoms era. Liu Qi couldn't even call Chen Wen, who was more talented than Yang Xiu, his brother. There must be a mystery. What is the mystery? Liu Qi didn't have time to think about it under this severe situation. But Liu Qi
I believe that I will realize that truth sooner or later.
"Cough cough cough... the young master is poisonous." A strong wind carrying rat poison powder blew by. Chen Wen coughed several times and quickly reminded Liu Qi. He covered his nose and mouth with his long sleeves and quickly untied the snake skin on his horse.
He took out the wet silk bag and handed it to Liu Qi.
Liu Qi waved his hand and said: "Wen...Chen Wen, you can use it, I'm fine." Liu Qi wanted to say Brother Wen, but after thinking about it, he decided not to embarrass Chen Wen.
It is true that Liu Qi took a few deep breaths against the wind and was really fine. It was probably because he had developed antibodies by swallowing rat poison every day, just like getting a vaccination, and he was no longer so sensitive to some rat poison powder in the air.
Chen Wen saw that Liu Qi was really fine and could think clearly, so he no longer refused, turned his back to the wind, covered his nose with wet silk and squatted down to avoid the poisonous wind.
The rat poison powder shaken by Chen Jin, Chen Yin and Wei Shi in the wind has taken effect. Just now they shouted to kill Zhentian, but now Qianjun is coughing and throwing torches all over the ground. How can we fight this battle?
Liu Qi burst out laughing when he saw this scene. This was really a funny battle. A dozen guards in the mansion could really defeat a thousand troops. This was definitely the first time in the history of military warfare that a small number of people could defeat a large number.
It turned out that in the Three Kingdoms, wars could be fought like this. As long as there were strategies and people with suggestions, they could be victorious. Just like today's battle, the victory of a very small number of people over an extremely large number is not a myth, but a living battle example.
The importance of counselors like Chen Wen was the magic weapon for victory in the Three Kingdoms. The princes from all walks of life paid homage to the virtuous and corporal in order to seize talents to conquer the world. Cao Cao's kidnapping of Xu Shu's mother is an example, and Liu Bei, who cried out for his country, even more wanted talents.
A vivid example of making a fortune through talent.
Liu Bei's first subordinates were Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Wen Youmi Zhu, and Jian Yong. They successively took refuge in seven major forces, including Gongsun Zan, Tao Qian, Lu Bu, and Cao Cao. They lived under the influence of others all their lives. Only after visiting the thatched cottage three times to invite Zhuge Liang did they reverse the decline in one fell swoop, burning the new fields and leading to a great war.
Chibi and taking control of Xichuan led to the establishment of the Three Kingdoms. The importance of core talents like Zhuge Liang was the decisive factor in becoming king and hegemony.
The competition for talents in the Three Kingdoms is definitely a highlight in the history of the Three Kingdoms.
How could Liu Qi not know the importance of talents? Just now he felt depressed and entangled that he could not be brothers with Chen Wen.
With Chen Wen's ingenious plan of poisoning, Liu Qi, who was no longer sensitive to rat poison, believed that the victory of less than the greater number in the Hutoushan Graveyard would soon become a reality and would become a classic example of the victory of less than the greater number that future generations could learn from.
Suddenly there was a thunder in mid-air, followed by lightning and thunder. In an instant, the torrential rain hit Hutou Mountain like crazy and hit the mass graveyard. The rumbling thunder covered up the endless sound of poisonous coughs, and the heavy rain instantly poured down on the mountain.
Thousands of torches that were brighter than the cemetery were extinguished, and the sky was filled with darkness. Thunder, rain, coughs, calls for help, and screams were all harsh, as if another doomsday was coming.