Hanbo

Chapter 92

An hour later, Huo Shan led the army to the position of sixty miles. Huo Shan deliberately controlled the speed of the horse, otherwise he would have run over in half an hour.

So the horses are still in good spirits.

Huo Shan just arrived at the place and couldn't help laughing and cursing:
"Haha, it's really a piece of grass."

At a glance, there are few stone layers, many soil layers, and patches of yellow grass everywhere.

After waiting for about half a month, the roots and seeds will germinate. Even in the bare land without grass, there must be grass seeds buried in the soil.

At that time, the whole area will be green.

After a while, Yilin ran over and knelt on the ground:
"See your lord."

"Get up."

Huo Shan got off his horse and looked at Yi Lin who had lost his smiling eyes, Huo Shan couldn't help but also became happy:

"Haha, Yilin, I will give you a credit, and all your men and horses will get a credit."

"Thank you, my lord."

After finishing speaking, Huo Shan smiled at everyone and said:

"This is the second time my Habayashi Army has made meritorious service. Don't you all congratulate Yilin?"

Everyone stepped forward to congratulate with half envy and half envy, secretly resenting why they didn't work harder and let Yilin snatch a Sima, a scout from the first battalion.

But Yilin frowned:
"What is the first achievement?"

"The first skill, of course, is our guide Zhang Da. If there is a pasture, then there will be a pasture. Don't you think so?"

Huo Shan was in a good mood and teased Zhang An.

Yilin's frowning brows relaxed, Zhang An's meritorious service is fine, and he is not from the Yulin, so he himself is still the first one.

"It should be. Guide Zhang is the first job."

Zhang An hastened to be humble:

"Don't dare, don't dare."

Everyone chatted here for a while, and Huo Shan was not afraid that the Huns would run away, as long as he found any traces, Huo Shan would be able to bite them.

Huo Shan's marching style is reckless when he should be reckless, and steady when he should be steady.

And in this case, you have to be steady, even if you lose your track because of being steady, it's okay.

If you lose your follower, you may still be able to find it, and if you venture forward and are discovered by the enemy, not to mention adding pressure for no reason, it may be more dangerous for the news to spread.

This is in the hinterland of the Huns, the enemy's territory.

But you can't waste time here, so Huo Shan put on a serious face:
"Okay, let's stop here. After the war, you can play slowly."

Everyone's faces straightened, and Huo Shan began to arrange:
"Dong Ming, send a team to replace the scouts, and the remaining team is scattered around to be vigilant, with a range of thirty miles."

"The last general takes orders."

"Zhang An, you lead your guides to follow the scouts to show the way."

"Respect."

This time I brought [-] guides from all walks of life, which is enough.

After a while, Dong Ming, the personal guard scout company Sima, led a group of people and ran to the scout ten miles away, and Zhang An led his people to follow quickly.

Yilin's scouts pushed forward another ten miles after Huo Shan arrived.

Huo Shan shook his shoulders, and Xiao Hei followed. After thirty miles, Xiao Hei returned, and Huo Shan and the others set off.

Seeing Xiao Hei flying up into the sky, Huo Shan was suddenly taken aback, his face turned red in an instant, he was very angry, and it wasn't about other things or others, he was angry with himself.

'It's been seven or eight days since I came to the grassland, why didn't I remember it?
It's still hard to find what to look for here, let Xiao Heifei go out and have a look, isn't everything clear?
Go where there is a tribe, alas! '

Sun Shang next to him looked at the flushed Huo Shan, and his expression changed drastically:

"My lord, are you all right? Why is your face so red, you don't have a fever?"

After finishing speaking, he was about to reach Huo Shan's forehead.

Huo Shan glanced at him, and angrily pushed his hand away:
"roll."

"No, my lord, you let me touch..."

Sun Shang looked anxious, Huo Shan quickly grabbed his hand:
"I'm fine, just accidentally knocked my leg on the saddle."

"Really?"

Huo Shan rolled his eyes at him and said nothing, but Sun Shang heaved a sigh of relief:

"It's okay, it's okay."

Huo Shan ignored him who was not at ease looking at himself, looked up at the sky and sighed, and deliberately called Xiao Hei back to let him look for it.

But after thinking about it, forget it. You can't rely on Xiao Hei all the time in the future. You should exercise and chase slowly along the hoofprints.

The retired Wuhuan warriors returned to the camp, and the scouts began to rest.

Huo Shan didn't take the Wuhuan people with him this time, because he had plans to attack at night, but these Wuhuan people couldn't see them at night!
And with them, when they fight at night, it's really hard to tell them apart in Huns' costumes.

The next step is to put a bridle on the horses to prevent them from neighing, and follow the hoofprints slowly.

There is nothing to say about the discipline of the Habayashi Army. Apart from the slight sound of horseshoes and armor rubbing, there were no other sounds during the march.

The sound of hoofbeats is quite small because the grass is soft and the horses have not started running, so the sound is lower.

The sky is getting dark gradually, and the moon is very bright tonight, but because it is not round, it is still a little far from the brightest time.

Huo Shan couldn't help but lamented that the sky was really nice, it was bright, but not very bright.

This brightness is enough for the Habayashi Army, but not enough for the Huns.

The army followed the hoofprints, and the scouts in front did not return until Haishi.

"My lord, the Huns settled tribes are found ahead."

Huo Shan couldn't help clenching his fists, he didn't expect to find a tribe and settle down!

His original idea was to catch up with those herdsmen, and then follow them to find their tribe, to see what kind.

Three days, if they don't go home after three days, they will be robbed directly.

Because most of the Xiongnu herdsmen go out as a whole, and this kind of herdsmen who act alone will not go out in the morning and come back in the evening.

There are several types of their way of life.

The first is to dispatch the whole family, and most of their huts, that is, tents, are built on high-wheeled carriages.

So they drove the cattle and sheep and wandered all the time. Wherever they went, they were home.

If you come across a good pasture, settle down for a period of time.

The second is to settle down, not to change places within a year, and to find a good pasture in the next year.

In some cases, if the pastures are good, they will not change places for several or ten years.

Huo Shan guessed it was the second type, because he didn't see the ruts and the herdsmen were wandering.

But he couldn't be sure, because the ruts were probably in other directions.

Unexpectedly, it was really a settled tribe, Huo Shan was very excited at this time.

The settled tribes graze at this time, and the herdsmen travel far away.

So the time is generally very long, as short as three to five days, as long as half a month, or even one or two months.

Because they need to inspect the pastures while grazing, to see the conditions of the pastures, and they need to go a little further to find better pastures.

If you find it and haven't entered the range of other tribes, then move.

The situation of the Huns is basically a mixture of nomadic and settled.

Therefore, Huo Shan's luck was really good, he found a settled tribe for the first time, and it happened to be nearby, and the herdsmen happened to go home.

And this bit of luck is not very good. I say good luck is because with the first one, there will be a second and a third.

You find a settled tribe here, and you're bound to find more.

Because of the bad pasture, they can't stop them.

And a good pasture will have a large area, usually occupied by large tribes.

The big tribes can't let it go, so there will be a few medium-sized tribes under his command, and many small tribes will graze together and pay him taxes.

Medium-sized tribes are above [-] to less than [-], and small tribes are less than [-].

And large tribes have a population of more than [-] people, divided into two levels, one to fifty thousand and five to one hundred thousand.

Huo Shan called them high-level large tribes and low-level large-scale tribes.

And those with more than 10 people are super-large tribes, and the Shanyu tribe, the Zuoxianwang tribe, and the Youxianwang tribe cannot reach it.

But Zuo Xianwang is stuck on the sidelines, sometimes it is, sometimes it is not.

Therefore, the left and right virtuous kings are all high-level large tribes, and the remaining 24 chiefs are all low-level.

With a population of one million Huns, these three tribes accounted for a quarter of the Huns' population.

The hierarchical system is still very strict, if the population of a medium-sized tribe exceeds [-].

It will be weakened by war, and it may suddenly become small or the man's death light will be directly swallowed by a large one.

If there is no war, then divide the family, and divide some people who are closely related to the large-scale.

Being squeezed just because they are not aristocrats.

Of course, there are also noble and medium-sized tribes, that's another story.

Back to the topic.

So, if you find a settled tribe, you will bring out a bunch of them. Do you think this is good luck?

Originally, after entering the grassland, Huo Shan never picked up money again. He thought that the sky of a big man could not cover this place, but he didn't expect it to be a different way.

'Now let's see how big this big tribe is, and see which one it is. I hope the more expensive the better! '

.........

Huo Shan turned his head and told the herald next to him:

"The army speeds up."

It took less than a quarter of an hour for the army to catch up with Dong Ming.

"what's the situation?"

"My lord, twenty miles to the northwest, the Xiongnu camp is on a high ground, and I sent two people to touch it.

According to the news brought back, it should be a small settled tribe. "

Huo Tan raised his chin:
"Tell me."

"promise."

"From the news brought back by the two brothers, it should be a settled tribe, because although there are carriages, the dome is built on the ground, and the cattle, sheep and horse pens are well built."

Huo Shan couldn't help squinting his eyes and licking his dry lips:

"The number of people, horses, cattle and sheep."

"promise."

"There are ninety or one hundred tents in the Qionglu, and according to the calculation of six people in one tent, it should be around six or seven hundred. The horses should be around one thousand and two according to the size of the herd, and nearly [-]% of them are young and strong, but they are not fat.

The number of cattle is six or seven hundred, and the number of sheep is about two thousand two or three. They are very thin, and some of them cannot be distinguished. "

Huo Shan smiled and rubbed his fingers:
"This snow disaster has been starving for the whole winter, and those who can survive are the strong ones, and it is enough for people to find out.

With a population of six to seven hundred, soldiers and horses should be around three or four hundred, which is really a suitable appetizer! "

"The Sima of each army gathers."

After a while, the Sima of the ten companies joined together.

Plus Zhao Chongguo, Sun Shang, Zhang Anshi and Huo Shan, a total of 14 people, plus 22 guards from Liangshi, a total of 36 people.

(End of this chapter)