Hanbo

Chapter 91 Discovering the Trace (Seeking Subscription)

The army rested for two days after entering the grassland, and Huo Shan's guess was correct, after staying for two days, the excitement of the soldiers dropped a lot.

So I continued to set off in the early morning of the 21st, and the remaining emotions were consumed on the road.

Most of the tribes of the Xiongnu have to change positions every year, so previous experience is useless.

Therefore, the route of the army is to go northwest. Whether it can meet the Huns depends on luck.

But this direction is correct, where there is more grass, go there.

After walking for seven days in a row, I didn't touch a bird feather, let alone a Hun.

I walked nearly [-] miles a day, and traveled nearly [-] miles to the north. Even if I went west, it would still be nearly [-] to [-] miles deep.

It stands to reason that it should be time to meet the Huns herdsmen!

Huo Shan was a little worried because there was not enough food and grass.

People are fine, what matters is the horse.

The entire army had nearly 300 pack horses, and one pack horse could produce more than 4000 catties of meat. Even if [-] people ate four catties of meat a day, less than fifty horses would be enough for that day.

People have food, but horses don't. The war horses still have enough food for half a month, and the pack horses are Hun horses. They can eat grass, but there is no grass.

It's not that there is no, it is that there are few.

But more than 1 horses are 1 big belly, and there are only two or three days left of the horse grass for them.

Two or three days with the grass on the road, it is not a problem to last for six or seven days, but after eating, although the Hun horses are solid, they can't walk without food.

Therefore, if you are looking for the Huns, you must also look for pastures.

But anyone in the whole army can be chaotic, but Huo Shan, the backbone, cannot be chaotic.

So during the break at noon that day, he called Zhang An, the leader of the guide:
"Tell me, what's going on?"

"Going back to Xiaojunhou, there is another forty miles to go. After forty miles, there will be a large pasture. There must be Huns there."

Zhang An hurriedly saluted and explained that he was afraid that Huo Shan would kill him in a fit of anger. Huo Shan had already chopped down more than a dozen people in the past few days, and they were all people who disrespected the general's order and ran around.

There are two in the Habayashi Army, and the others are Wuhuan people and guides.

Zhao Ponu waved his hand when he heard this, showing impatience:

"Come on, you said that three days ago."

Zhang An was a little embarrassed, but he explained quickly:

"That's because the grass field has shifted..."

But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhao Puonu again:

"How do you know that it will shift in this direction? Why is it not going south or east, but north?"

"that is because……"

"Okay, noisy headache!"

Huo Shan yelled, Zhao Puonu pouted and stood aside, Zhang An felt a little bad.

Huo Shan beckoned him to come over, Zhang An walked over anxiously, Huo Shan took the dagger in his hand, cut a piece of dried meat and handed it to him, and asked:

"how old are you?"

Zhang An respectfully accepted:
"Back to Xiao Junhou, this year is thirty-seven."

Huo Shan smiled and nodded:

"Well, how many years have you been wandering on the grassland?"

"Back to Xiaojunhou, fourteen began to step into the grassland with my father. This year is 23 years?"

Huo Shan showed surprise:

"Oh? That lord?"

Speaking of this, Zhang An looked proud:

"Back to Xiao Junhou, Jia Yan died in the Battle of Mobei..."

Huo Shan bowed his hands to the northwest with a solemn expression:

"I didn't expect you to be the queen of meritorious service."

Zhang An smiled modestly, not even daring to say anything, but the smile on his face was very strong.

Huo Shan beckoned, let him get closer, leaned into his ear and said:

"By the way, you haven't lost your way, have you?"

Zhang An's complexion changed drastically, and he immediately lay down on the ground, too scared to speak.

"Don't be afraid, tell me, what direction is that over there?"

Zhang An tremblingly raised his head and looked at the direction Huo Shan was pointing at:

"Going back to Xiaojunhou, it is in the southeast direction, at the junction of Chen and Xun."

In ancient times, there were eight orientations, east, west, south, north, southeast, southwest, northeast, and northwest, also called Qian, Kun, Xun, Zhen, Kan, Li, Gen, and Dui.

There are 24 points in eight directions, so call A, B, C, D, knowledge of Feng Shui, three points for each direction.

The junction of Chen and Xun is 37 degrees east by south.

Huo Shan got up and found a long wooden stick, walked to a flat ground, stuck the wooden stick straight into the ground, and then stuck another stick at the top of the shadow:

"Time, a quarter of an hour."

"promise."

Tian Qianqiu responded.

Everyone waited quietly, Zhao Puonu and others came to Huo Shan's side:

"Captain, is this here, measuring the direction?"

"Well, a small method."

Everyone nodded, remembering the actions just now in their hearts.

In a blink of an eye, a quarter of an hour arrived, and Huo Shan walked over and directly connected the top mark of the first shadow with the top of the second shadow.

Then draw a vertical line right in the middle of this line.

Finally, Huo Shan stood at the first mark point with his left foot and the second mark point with his right foot, then pointed forward with his finger and said:

"Facing due north, back facing south, left west and right east, understand?"

"Understand."

Everyone nodded again and again, but Zhang An next to him was a little dumbfounded. Is the secret technique of patrolling the direction passed down by the family so useless?

Huo Shan then made some calculations, and then walked in front of Zhang An:

"It's a little bit off. I don't know if you are wrong or I am wrong. Mine should be quite accurate."

After finishing speaking, he yelled:
"The whole army rests in place and pays attention to vigilance."

"promise."

Zhong Qian went down to make arrangements, and Huo Shan smiled at the crowd and said:

"Since our guide Zhang Da said that there is a pasture forty miles to the north, let's wait for news from the scouts."

"promise."

Everyone knew clearly, if they could find it, Zhang Anji would be credited, if they couldn't find it, then he would be dead.

Again and again, this is the third time. If Huo Shan hadn't cherished talents, he would have died the first time.

Immediately afterwards, he began to wait until the afternoon application time. The scouts who had just left at noon had not returned to report the news, and Huo Shan felt a little uneasy.

He was preparing to wait, wait for half an hour, if the scouts didn't come back within half an hour, there must be something wrong, Huo Shan was going to move his position.

But the chance of accidents is very small, there are more than a hundred scouts in the direction of Habayashi and Wuhuan, without thousands of troops surrounding them, it is impossible to keep them.

They were scouts and not soldiers, and it was only reasonable to turn around and run away in case of a situation, to shake off the enemy and send back the news.

After waiting for another quarter of an hour, the sound of horseshoes was heard in the distance. Huo Shan closed his eyes and opened his eyes to look over.

From a distance, I saw a small team running towards them, and when I got closer, I could see the figures clearly. There were five soldiers and ten horses, a group of soldiers.

They stopped five miles from the camp, picked up the whistle and blew a melody, and the soldiers on guard outside put down their bows and arrows.

Then they came straight to Huo Shan in the center. After entering the range of the personal guard camp, Huo Shan could see their figures clearly. It was a scout company of the first battalion and a team of three, and their company happened to be the scouts from the north.

When he got close to dismounting from his horse, Huo Shan found that they were all sweating profusely.

"My lord, the enemy is found ahead."

There are only two titles for Huo Shan in the Yulin Army, Captain and Lord.

Those at the bottom of the ranks who have no background all call Huo Shan the lord, and the same goes for Zhao Ponu and the old Huo troops.

And like other people with backgrounds and plans in mind, they don't want to call Huo Shan the lord, because they don't want to be retainers.

Huo Shan didn't think so either, his goal was Zhao Chongguo and Shangguan Jie, it was enough to accept these two people who had no background.

The others will leave sooner or later, but it does not prevent Huo Shan from being their benefactor.

Huo Shan stepped forward to help him up:
"Details."

"My lord, our scouts found many sheep's hoof prints and horseshoe prints ahead."

"How big is it?"

"The number of cattle and sheep is more than seven hundred, and the number of horses should be between two hundred and three hundred."

Huo Shan let out a breath, feeling very happy in his heart.

With two or three hundred horses, there should be less than a hundred people, maybe there are only a dozen or so.

They are herdsmen looking for grass, and the scale cannot be large, but this is a great thing.

What I'm afraid of is not that you are small in scale, but that you can't find it. Since you have found it, it means that the direction is right.

"Why didn't you come back on time?"

"Uh, back to my lord, we have retreated another twenty miles."

Huo Shan was speechless, and quickly asked:

"Where's your company commander?"

"Go back to my lord, and wait sixty miles away."

Huo Shan breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he didn't act without authorization.

The scouts are generally allowed to move forward unless there are special circumstances. After all, the situation is complicated.

But it is a capital crime to rush forward after discovering the enemy's traces.

Not long after, Zhong Gan, Zhao Puonu and the four military lords came. Not surprisingly, they had guessed when they saw the scouts coming back and came to ask for a fight.

Huo Shan directly acted first:
"Zhao Puonu, Zhong Gan."

"The end is here."

"After I left, the two of you showed me the remaining soldiers and horses. If there is any situation, you can decide for yourself."

"The last general takes orders."

Seeing that Shangguan Jie was about to open his mouth, Huo Shan immediately said:

"Zhao Chongguo."

Zhao Chongguo was overjoyed and quickly stood up:
"The end is here."

"Order your soldiers and horses and prepare to follow me."

"The last general takes orders."

"All carry out the order!"

"promise."

Everyone turned around and left. The order had been given and it had to be executed. They didn't want to be punished. They could only comfort themselves for a long time, and there would be more opportunities in the future.

In the first battle, whether Huo Shan will kill the enemy or not is another matter, but he must fight in person.

It's no problem for Zhao Ponu to call a veteran now, but why did he go out with Huo Shan, a small army?
One is that he is a family general, and he is much more innocent than Lu Bode.

The other is because of this situation, when the soldiers are fighting ahead, someone has to watch the supplies such as pack horses.

When someone attacked the pack horse, Zhao Puonu was there, at least he would not be helpless, Huo Shan also felt relieved, because the veteran was steady.

If it weren't for Lu Bode's inability, Huo Shan would have prepared to take him along, and he was better than Zhao Puonu in dealing with these.

After a quarter of an hour, Huo Shan looked at the two well-equipped battalions.

Zhao Chongguo's first battalion and Huo Shan's personal guard camp, they will be there wherever Huo Shan's personal guard camp is.

Including the scout company in front, there are a few thousand and two short.

Two or three hundred horses, a small tribe with less than a thousand people, two battalions of people and horses are enough.

Each of these soldiers had two horses, and they all brought a complete set of armor, and they wore all the armor they changed.

Bows and crossbows are also brought, except for the feather arrows and crossbow arrows which are placed on the other horse, the others are on the crotch horse.

The other horse has to save its strength, there might be a big fight somewhere.

"Set off."

More than 1000 troops ran forward silently.

Enemy territory, it's better to stop.

(End of this chapter)