.War is cruel and difficult, especially when fighting on other people's territory. In Xianbei, there are vast grasslands everywhere. Although it is the middle of winter and there is not much grass, the vastness makes people feel lonely and lonely.
Desolate. In less than half a month, Liu Zhang has fought more than ten times with foreign armies and slaughtered more than ten foreign tribes. The largest tribe has nearly 100,000 people! Now, Liu Zhang's soldiers are at least one person and three horses, and the number of cattle and sheep has increased dramatically.
When the army reached more than 100,000, the army marched for several miles, which made Liu Zhang quite worried! If he lost his mobility and ran into the Xianbei army again, he would have to shed his skin even if he died!
"Zitai!" Liu Zhang called Tian Chou and asked, "Do you know where these cattle and sheep can be placed?"
"Marquis Champion, now we are in Xianbei, and the entire Xianbei is our enemy. How can we have a place to house cattle and sheep?" Tian Chou smiled bitterly when he heard Liu Zhang's question.
At first, Tian Chou heard that Liu Zhang was going to conquer Wuwan and came to help him happily, but he never thought that Liu Zhang would be so crazy. He went to Wuwan and provoked the Xianbei and the Xiongnu. Now, in addition to Liu Zhang
He did not go to the Xiongnu Shanyuting near Langjuxu Mountain and the Xianbei on both sides of the Kullen River. The Xiongnu tribe was almost slaughtered by him!
"That's true!" Liu Zhang touched his chin. He hadn't trimmed it for half a year. The beard under his collar was already half a foot long. If it took a while, he would be able to catch up with Guan Yu. After thinking for a long time, Liu Zhang said: "Since it's too much trouble.
, then kill! We’ll kill everyone, let alone animals!”
"This..." Tian Chou said: "These are hundreds of thousands of animals. It would be a pity to kill them!"
"Then what do you think we should do?" Liu Zhang glanced at Tian Chou and said, "I can't harm my soldiers for a few cattle and sheep. The speed of foreign cavalry is already higher than that of our army. If they lose their mobility again, it will be difficult for foreign cavalry to do so."
When the army arrives, we can only wait to die. These cattle and sheep will also become the trophies of foreigners!"
"I'm being pedantic!" Tian Chou had stayed with Liu Zhang for nearly half a year and had already adapted to Liu Zhang's brutality and bloodshed. It can be said that he was already a little numb!
"Zitai's words are serious!" Liu Zhang said with a smile: "If you are not in your position, you will not seek to govern. Zitai and I are in different positions, so we naturally have different ways of looking at things, and our methods of handling things are different. One day, when you sit down,
If you get into my position, you can understand my thoughts!"
"Champion Hou Tianzong is so talented, how can I..." Tian Chou wanted to say a few words of humility, but Liu Zhang suddenly changed his expression and stopped him! Tian Chou asked: "Champion Hou, what happened?"
"Ah..." As soon as Liu Zhang finished speaking, a burst of eagles sounded in the air. Tian Chou looked up and saw a small dot floating past in the sky!
"It turns out to be an eagle!" Tian Chou said with a smile: "There are not many things on the grassland, only these things are abundant!"
"No!" Liu Zhang said, "Did Zitai ever hear that there are people from other tribes who can train eagles for communication?"
"This..." Tian Chou thought for a while and said, "I have heard about it a little bit, but I have never heard of it. I must be spreading rumors!"
"It's true!" Liu Zhang sneered: "It's not just an eagle, there's a kind of bird that can also be used to send messages!"
"What the champion said is about planting birds, I have heard of it before!" Tian Chou said: "It is said that Emperor Gaozu fought with Xiang Yu and was defeated and hid in an abandoned well. He once released a bird to ask for help. However, I have always thought that
This is a legend to show that the great ancestor was destined to be destined by fate!"
"In this case, it is better to believe that it exists than to believe that it does not exist!" Liu Zhang called to the primary school and said: "Give me an order to shoot down all birds you see flying in the sky!"
Liu Zhang's order quickly spread throughout the army. Although everyone was puzzled, Liu Zhang's good habit of obeying orders in the army made them execute it without hesitation.
Along the way, the birds in the sky were unlucky! Among them, the most tragic deaths were at the hands of Zhao Yun, while Zhang Fei and Ma Chao were very depressed because their drawing skills were not very good!
"Lord, look!" Zhang Fei ran towards Liu Zhang holding an eagle and said, "This eagle is so big!"
"Haitongqing?" Looking at the gray-colored eagle in Zhang Fei's hand, which was about three feet tall, Liu Zhang frowned, because this eagle was very similar to the Haidongqing in his memory, and the nobles among foreign tribes liked it the most.
Feed this eagle!
"My lord actually knows this eagle?" Even Tian Chou only knew that the thing in Zhang Fei's hand was an eagle, but Liu Zhang could call it by name. How could everyone not be surprised?
Liu Zhang said: "The nobles among foreign tribes like to keep this kind of eagle the most. You see, its claws are pure white, also called 'jade claws.'
"!" "Hiss..." Ma Chao, Pang De, and Zhang Liao took a breath of cold air. They had lived in places where foreigners gathered, and they had heard that birds could communicate and transmit messages, but they all thought it was a legend.
, just like a swan goose passing a message, but I never thought that it was actually true!
"No wonder the master asked us to shoot birds, so there is such a thing!" Everyone looked at Liu Zhang and couldn't help but admire him.
"Since everyone is here and this bird has been discovered, we must speed up to avoid being caught up by foreigners!" Liu Zhang said: "Send the order to kill half of the cattle and sheep in our hands, remove the bones, and make dried meat!"
"This..." Ma Chao asked: "Master, why are you killing so many cattle and sheep?"
"Don't you realize that these cattle and sheep are slowing down our army?" Liu Zhang said: "Immediately execute the order, don't ask why!"
"Yes!" Seeing Liu Zhang glance at him lightly, Ma Chao felt a chill in his body and quickly followed the order.
What is the concept of slaughtering tens of thousands of cattle and sheep at one time? Anyway, the final amount of beef and mutton is millions of kilograms.
Fortunately, Liu Zhang had more than 100,000 troops under his command, and the number of rations per head did not exceed a hundred kilograms. Calculated at five kilograms per person per day, it was only half a month's rations. However, this was only half, and there were still tens of thousands of animals that needed to be driven.
Walk.
After removing the beef and mutton, Liu Zhang very vulgarly ordered the bones, which were still stained with blood and shredded meat, to be piled into a hill. At the top of the mountain was the sea turtle, but its hair had been stripped off. Look at it.
It looked like a chicken with its feathers off! After slaughtering most of the cattle, the army's march speed suddenly accelerated a lot. I don't know if it was the effect of killing the chickens to scare the monkeys, but the remaining cattle and sheep seemed to cooperate a lot!
Eighty miles away from Liu Zhang's army, the foreign coalition stopped. They lost track of the Han army. Su Li quickly called a big man to his side. It turned out that the sea turtle shot by Liu Zhang's army was indeed raised by the Xianbei people.
Yes! Without Haidongqing to lead the way, the foreign coalition forces will be blind! I heard that Haidongken had a problem, Suli and Huchuquan were a little helpless. After all, there are raptors on the grassland that are more ferocious than Haidongken. For example
Talk about a golden eagle that is one meter long and has a wingspan of more than two meters!
"What should I do?" Haidongken is difficult to train. Even Xianbei only has three top-grade ones. Now that there is something that may threaten Haidongqing, Su Lizi can't bring out the other two to die!
"Let's scout!" Huchuquan said: "Liu Zhang's army has brought so many cattle and sheep. We only need to look for the tracks of cattle and sheep, as well as their excrement, to find their direction. Anyway, in Xianbei, their army will only
Decrease, not increase!”
"Okay!" Su Li immediately sent out a large number of scouts, and soon discovered a large amount of livestock excrement twenty miles away. Based on the degree of dryness of the excrement, the Xianbei scouts could easily judge how long Liu Zhang's army had been away.
"Chanyu, what do you think that is?" Following the excrement and footprints of the animals, and with the hounds leading the way, the foreign army came to the place where Liu Zhang slaughtered the animals. Standing one mile away, Suli and Huchuquan's bodyguards came
I saw a mountain of bones!
"Hiss..." Everyone took a breath of cold air. Although the piles there were not human bones, the pile of white bones with bloody bones was still creepy enough!
"Hey!" Suddenly another person said in surprise: "Why is there a hairless chicken on the bones of cattle and sheep? We in Xianbei seem to rarely raise chickens!"
"Chicken?" Everyone looked up, but before they could see clearly, a big man rushed to the foot of the White Bone Mountain, hugged the featherless chicken and howled loudly. The cry was quite sad.
"What's going on? I'm not dead yet!" Seeing so many cattle and sheep being slaughtered, Su Li's heart was already bleeding. He also saw the falconer he valued holding a bald chicken and crying, and he couldn't help but feel a little agitated.
anger.
"Chanyu, this is my Haidongqing!" The eagle farmer burst into tears as if he was dead. Su Li's face became determined when he heard this. The value of Haidongqing is immeasurable, especially for
Top-quality jade claws can only be found but not sought!
"Liu Jiyu, I swear I will never give up with you!" Su Li roared, jumped on the horse and said: "Huchuquan, I must let Liu Zhang die!"
"The same goes for me!" Hu Chuquan said with a smile: "Stop chatting, I think they haven't gone far yet, let's chase them!"
Su Li stopped talking. With a livid face, he directed the army to search for the footprints of the Han army. Perhaps he was chasing too closely. Liu Zhang once again ordered the slaughter of animals and erected a pile of bones. Only one chicken was missing! Look.
Seeing another mountain of bones, Huchuquan and Suli's hearts twitched.
Cattle are the Xiongnu, the lifeblood of Xianbei. Liu Zhang slaughtered hundreds of thousands of them just like this. He simply wanted to wipe out the two tribes! In order to stop the brutal Liu Zhang, Huchuquan and Suli accelerated their pursuit. But they got rid of the burden.
, Liu Zhangjun’s speed is also accelerating.
On the grassland, the two armies launched an arduous pursuit battle. Liu Zhang led an army of 300,000 foreigners wandering around on the grassland. He once said to the generals around him: "We must drag these foreigners into obese people."
The thin ones, the thin ones will drag themselves to death!"
Liu Zhang did not lie. Since he started fighting with foreign armies, he no longer indiscriminately killed the Xianbei people on the grasslands. He only robbed these tribes of cattle, sheep and horses, killed those who resisted, and burned everything that could not be taken away.
The unlucky Su Li and Hu Chuquan often met some tribes with nothing on the road, and the people of these tribes often had nothing. Of course, if Liu Zhang was in a good mood, he would leave a fig leaf for the women of the tribe...