When we returned to Songjiang, people immediately surrounded us. General Ji and I walked for a day and a night. Many people were very anxious. Although my back injury was cured by the kiln worker, I still felt uncomfortable when I walked.
, I lay in bed for a few days, slowly raising my waist, and my two wives were waiting on me. I wanted wind and rain, and my life was so-so.
During these two days, I recuperated properly, but kept them busy. I mainly did the following things:
The first is to collect shells. What I picked up from the kiln worker’s house was a piece of shell.
It is not an ordinary shell, but a kind of rock-cut shell. The number of this kind of shell is very small, it is only found in shallow seas, and it only lives in places with rocks in shallow seas. When I told General Su, he immediately said, "
I know this kind of shell. They can use their shells to drill holes into hard rocks. They are rare. But what do you want this thing for?" I said, "Don't ask, just get it."
Soon, General Su got a bunch of them for me. I immediately asked people to take them to the kitchen, cooked them and ate them. General Su said, "I thought you were of some use, but it turned out that you were just trying to satisfy my cravings."
I said, "It's the shells that are really useful."
These shells are well-proportioned in size and have beautiful patterns, especially a circle of saw teeth on their edges. Generally speaking, the rocks in the sea are extremely hard, and those that are not hard enough have long been beaten into sand by the water. They are rock-drilling shells.
They use their serrated shells to dig holes in rocks. This kind of shell can secrete an acidic liquid that can make the rocks look like peach cakes. Then, they use their foot tubes to stand on the rocks to support them.
The shell rotates rapidly and can quickly drill a hole in the stone.
The second one was for General Ji to lead people to take these shells to the kiln worker's house and "buy" more than twenty clay pots. General Ji and I have been there.
The road was very familiar and he bought it back quickly. He told me that when the kiln worker’s family saw the sacks of shells, they were so happy that they couldn’t even see them.
It turns out that in Hikari Island, people use rock shells as currency. I thought of this when I saw people snatching these shells at the kiln worker's house.
After I bought the clay pot, the three generals asked me what it was for. I said, don't ask me yet, you all have to do one thing for me.
They asked, "What is it? So mysterious?"
I said, "We'll know when the time comes." They went away full of doubts. Even King Tian expressed his confusion. I quietly told him my plan, and he mused, "I've heard about this."
thing, but I don’t know if it will work.”
I said, "A dead horse is a living horse doctor."
Of course, in addition to raising my waist these days, I also did one thing. I took out the half of the ivory I brought back last time, put it on the ground, and measured it with my sword. With one sword, I cut it into two pieces, half in half.
The long one was left to General Ji, and the short one was cut off. I found a knife myself, and when I had nothing to do, I used it to cut it with my hand. I kept chipping the smooth pieces like grease from the ivory, slowly.
I can see a bit of it, but it's not to my liking. After all, I've never done this kind of work.
Xiaoyue was very curious and asked me, "Brother, what are you doing?" I didn't tell her because it had nothing to do with her.
On the day of the expedition, Tian Wang and Xu Fu bid farewell to us. At the banquet, Tian Wang said: "No matter we win or lose, you all come back safely to me. If it doesn't work, we will think of other ways."
In advance, we gathered several sacks of green leaves from the sunny mountain valleys and boiled several pots of hot water in large pots. Everyone on the expedition used this water to take a bath. This way, we could effectively cover up our own body odor.
, when approaching the enemy, it is not easy to be smelled by those Nama elephants with sensitive noses.
Three generals and I took 120 people with us and set off. We took a detour in the direction of Hikari Island and approached the Iwami tribe. The secret passage from the last time had long been blocked by the Rokkaku people, and people were sent to keep an eye on it day and night.
, the time General Ji and I eliminated the spotted mustache dogs, if we had taken this path, they would have made dumplings for sure.
We set off in the morning and arrived at the kiln worker's home when it got dark. Although we didn't understand the language, their family was very welcoming to us. We didn't stay long and headed toward the Iwami tribe in the dark.
We drove all the way along the woodcutting road on the back of Nachi Mountain. We arrived at the destination in less than two hours after traveling more than a hundred miles. If the map of the battlefield is viewed as a circle, our circuitous route covered the entire
More than three-quarters of a circle
Standing on the ridge, Shi saw that the tribe was quiet at midnight. There were only a few torches burning in the valley below. There were only five or six sentries at the mountain pass near the edge of the hills. They huddled in the leeward place and shouted.
Huda sleeps, but we quietly touched it and wiped it out. Everything seemed to be going well.
I led a dozen people, carrying the twenty or so pottery pots, and quietly sneaked along the ridge extending to the northeast to the place where we last peeked at the Nama elephant herd. We carefully placed the pottery pots securely.
The people in the tank found hidden places separately.
I told them, don’t even fart, just stay with me and don’t move around no matter what happens outside.
One person asked, "General Tian, when will we dare to move? You will kill a lot of people in a while, and let us stay here on the lookout. We feel itchy."
I said, "If the elephants don't move, please don't move. If the elephants move, when they rush to the mountain pass below, use the fastest method to throw down these pots! No one is allowed to stay!"
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"This is easy to handle," the dozen or so people accepted the order and lurked peacefully without mentioning it.
I returned to the mountain pass due west. Three generals were waiting for me. I arranged twenty archers on the top of the mountain pass. This time I only brought so many archers, but everyone brought them.
Two or three arrow pots, forty arrows per pot, two thousand five hundred sharp arrows, can withstand for a while.
Their mission is to block the pursuing troops and cover our retreat.
There are more than 80 soldiers, all thinking that the most difficult task is theirs, and they are all gearing up.
Unexpectedly, the task I gave them was: not to go even one step deeper into the mountain pass. They waited for General Ji's arrow to be fired and shouted loudly together! As soon as day broke, they all ran to the mountain where our archers were ambushed. If they ran too slowly, the military law
engage in
They stare at each other with big eyes and small eyes
I found five or six strong warriors from the team, asked them to put on the clothes of the enemy sentry that we had just touched, and whispered a few words to them, and they flashed away and disappeared into the night.
inside
Finally, I said to the three generals, "Then it's up to us."