Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 261 Fishing
To the north of Yinshan Mountain, Monan Grassland.

The wild grass grows long and fluctuates with the wind, and it is also undulating like the waves in the lake at a glance.

Wang Li was nibbling on a hot pancake with bacon, and was going to continue patrolling here with [-] cavalry.

What they did was to tell the Huns on the Mobei Grassland that this place now belongs to the Qin people too!

In the previous plan, Fusu planned to build a Great Wall enclosing the Monan Grassland along Yunzhong County, so as to make this large area with lush water and grass a pasture for raising war horses.

In later generations, even during the Napoleonic Wars, on the battlefield, cavalry and artillery were always an unsolvable existence.

After Wang Li swallowed the last mouthful of bacon, he picked up the iron pot by the campfire and poured a mouthful of tea to relieve his tiredness.

Although he didn't understand why His Majesty the Emperor ordered the entire army to forbid drinking the river water directly, such as drinking the water after boiling it, but as long as he found it once, he would be punished with a shield, which was enough to make the entire army obey.

Anyway, the firewood for boiling water doesn’t cost my own money, so it doesn’t matter...

"General, when shall I set off?" Huyan Punu came running from a distance on his horse and asked loudly.

Wang Li saw that most of the soldiers had eaten their fill, and the war horses were also leisurely nibbling on the grass, not gobbling like yesterday.

He nodded slightly and said: "Order the whole army, prepare to go!"

Following Wang Li's order, the low-pitched horn sounded throughout the camp, and the soldiers either dug the soil to bury the campfire, or saddled the horses.

Although it is still summer in Guanzhong, the Mobei Grassland is still in a lukewarm period. For these Qin soldiers, following Wang Li out to patrol the border will not only have the opportunity to obtain gains, but more importantly, they will be able to fight every day. There is meat to eat!

Although the Jiuyuan Army had looted the Xiongnu tribe many times before, for soldiers at the bottom of their ranks, they would not be able to eat meat until wartime.

Moments later, the army set off.

Under Wang Li's command, the entire army still followed the marching formation, and the rangers on both wings spread out to defend against possible attacks. Physical exertion.

When the army marched to a small hillside, Wang Li stopped his horse, took out a telescope from his saddle bag, and opened it with a swish.

"So bold!"

He sneered, and what appeared in the binoculars was a Huns grazing sheep.

"Very good, I have fresh meat to eat tonight!"

As soon as the words fell, his brows were tightly locked together.

In the sky away from the Hun herdsman, a goshawk hovered.

This made Wang Li instinctively feel that things might not be as simple as he saw.

"General?" Huyan Punu approached from behind, looking at Wang Li with a puzzled expression.

"Look at that eagle!" Wang Li retracted the binoculars and pointed to the far horizon.

"I can't see it!" Huyan Punu turned his head away angrily, joking, with his naked eyes, he could only see a small moving black dot!
Wang Li thought for a while, carefully put away the binoculars, and put them away from Huyan Punu.

This is a gift from His Majesty the Emperor, a little barbarian would never want to touch it!

"Do you think there will be Huns ambushing in the distance?" Wang Li looked at Huyan Punu and asked.

After all, the ecology of the grassland at this time is very good, and it belongs to the period when the wind blows the grassland to produce cattle and sheep. There are thousands of Hun cavalry hiding in the grass as high as the waist, and it is impossible to find them unless they go to the front!

And they started from Gaoquesai with great fanfare, and their whereabouts would definitely be discovered by the Huns.

It would be reasonable for the Huns to launch a retaliatory attack on them.

Huyan Punu nodded, and after half a minute of silence, he said: "How about I put the gray jade on it and test it out?"

The gray jade he was talking about was a falcon he kept, and under his training, even a bigger golden eagle was no match for the falcon.

And if the goshawk hovering in the sky is wild, it will definitely turn around and leave. If it has an owner, it will either stop and fight the falcon, or fly directly to its owner.

Wang Li sighed slightly: "It's a pity that His Majesty's jade claw is not here, otherwise there are not enough goshawks to cull it!"

The jade claw he was talking about was a sea dongqing donated by the Donghu people, and it was extraordinary.

Huyan Punu curled his lips unawares, how could the emperor's pet kept in the deep palace be comparable to the divine bird flying freely on the grassland!

He whistled, and a pack horse slowly came towards him, and the Saker falcon he carefully reared was fastened by an iron chain on the saddle.

"Go!" Huyan Punu untied the chain and raised his arms vigorously. The falcon waved its wings vigorously and flew to the sky, and then, like a javelin, it went towards the goshawk in the distant sky.

Wang Li opened the binoculars again and looked at the distant sky.

Sure enough, as soon as the two raptors met, they fought together, and feathers and blood could be seen faintly falling from the sky.

In a short time, the goshawk was no match for the falcon, and suddenly retracted its wings, flying downward like a shooting star.

The falcon hovered in the sky, making loud and clear calls, which was not only a cheer of victory, but also a warning of danger.

"General, what should we do?" Huyan Punu whistled and called Saker back.

Wang Li shook his head and said, "Obviously, that Huns grazing is a decoy. The Huns want to lure us forward and launch a surprise attack on our army."

"After all, at this moment, our army is not yet armored!"

"The enemy is in the dark, and I am in the light. When the enemy's situation is unknown, we must not engage the enemy."

After he finished speaking, he said to the messengers beside him: "Send me an order that the whole army continue to march along the established route, and at the same time send messengers to summon the cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army with the talisman festival."

"Since the Huns want to fight, let's fight a big one!"

Huyan Punu blinked his eyes: "In this case, we should just retreat, anyway, he doesn't dare to catch up!"

Wang Li said seriously: "The Huns follow our army like wolves, ready to pounce and bite at any time. If we retreat at this moment, it will undoubtedly be a sign of weakness. They will definitely mobilize their troops and block them back and forth. There is a possibility that the entire army will be wiped out.”

"And on the established route of our army, there are several terrains that are easy to defend. Even if the Huns attack aggressively, we only need to camp on the spot and wait for the reinforcements to attack from the periphery, and the battle will surely be won!"

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"Pump, must pump!"

Under the willow tree by the lake of Lanchi Palace, Fusu held a fishing rod in his hand and looked angrily at the big carp that swam to his feet and spit bubbles.

"Your Majesty is so elegant!"

Chen Ping came from a distance and looked at Fusu with a smile on his face.

Fusu turned her head and smiled, threw a throwing knife from her sleeve, beheaded the carp that dared to deceive the king on the spot, picked it up immediately, and handed it to the servant beside him.

"Half dry roasted, half steamed, fish head stewed soup." After Fusu explained, he turned to look at Chen Ping: "Why is Zuo Cheng here?"

ps: I made up the flying knife to kill fish, don't use it.

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