Destiny Only Han

Chapter 558 Liu Ying: Want to blackmail me?

On the snow-covered mountain peak, King Lan stood on a recently felled tree stump and looked south. The surrounding wind was biting, but it couldn't match the desolation in his heart.

In the mountains and river valleys in the distance, bonfires were lit, and the Han army camped for hundreds of miles, with banners like clouds.

Yesterday afternoon, the cavalry of the Han army descended from the sky, not only broke the siege of Pingcheng, but also lined up at the foot of the mountain, just waiting for him to lead the army down the mountain to fight.

However, he is not a fool.

The current situation is that the Han people have horses, but the Huns have no horses. In this case, let them fight on foot against the Han cavalry. What is the difference between death?
Therefore, King Lan's idea was to wait until dark and the Han army was exhausted, and then they took advantage of the chaos to disperse and break through.

But what I never expected was that the Han army had arranged hundreds of large lighting lamps at the foot of the mountain. I dare not say that they were as bright as daylight, but their plan to go down the mountain quietly fell through...

But at this time, King Lan was not so flustered. In his understanding, the brighter the lamp, the faster the lamp oil was consumed. The Han army was so extravagant that the lamp oil must be exhausted in the middle of the night!

Therefore, their choice is not to sleep, wait, die and wait!

Then, dawn...

Just as the Huns were about to fight to the death, horns and drums sounded loudly from the east of Pingcheng. It didn't take long before the banners of Yan and Dai appeared in their sight.

Obviously, this is the army of Yan State and Dai State who came to join Liu Bang.

So they chose to wait, waiting for a miracle to appear.

At noon, horns and drums sounded again and again in the southern river valley, and the battle flags of South Korea and Han were flying in the wind...

Therefore, unlike the miserable wind and rain of the Huns, the camp of the Han army at the foot of the mountain was singing, dancing, and laughing.

Since Jin She led the troops to the south, defeated and wiped out the Huns who dug mountain roads and blocked Han Wangxin, the entire supply line of the Han army was completely unimpeded.

After Han Wangxin organized soldiers to lay the road overnight, truckloads of frozen fresh meat and Chinese cabbage covered with wheat straw were continuously transported to the Han army camp near Baideng Mountain.

If it weren't for the fact that the potato planting area during this period was not widespread, and the supply of potatoes planted every year was in short supply, and they would be sold out once they were on the market, Liu Ying would teach people how to make vermicelli, and ordered the famous dish of stewed pork vermicelli!

Well, pigs are also raised in Korea. People here mainly raise two kinds of livestock, pigs and cattle.

Pigs are not raised for meat, but for compost and to consume food by-products such as bran.

Cattle are the focus. In addition to providing dairy products and beef, and selling them to the Central Plains as farming cattle, most of the cattle are used for transportation.

For example, the excavated coal is transported by bullock cart to the Fenhe Wharf, and then transferred to Guanzhong.

Although the Fen River in later generations has no freight value, it was caused by excessive reclamation after the Tang and Song Dynasties. Before that, the runoff of the Fen River was not inferior to that of the main tributaries of the Yellow River such as Weishui and Jingshui.

In fact, in ancient times, the Fen River was still a vast ocean where one could do whatever one wanted. At that time, Zhuan Xu sent Tai Tai to control the water, and Tai Tai dredged and blocked simultaneously, taming the unruly and turbulent flow and returning to the river, so it was revered as the god of Fen River!
In 647 BC, a severe famine occurred in the state of Jin during the period of Jin Huigong. He reached out to his brother-in-law Qin Mugong for help. The grain was loaded on board at Yong (now Baoji, Shaanxi), the capital of the Qin State, and then transferred from the Wei River to the Yellow River and then into the Fen River, and then arrived at Jiang (now Linfen, Shanxi).

This is the famous 'Battle of Rafting' in history.

However, there was a famine in Qin State in the second year, so Qin Mugong asked Jin Huigong for help, but Jin Huigong and a group of his ministers thought it was a good opportunity to send troops to destroy Qin, so they rejected Qin State's request to purchase grain.

Then, Qin Mugong replaced the grain ship with a warship, marched along the river with drums, and fought the Jin State in Hanyuan (now Hancheng City, Shaanxi Province), and captured Jin Huigong in the first battle.

But what happened next was quite dramatic.

Qin Mugong's wife is the elder sister of Jin Huigong. When she heard that her man had captured her younger brother and was going to kill him to sacrifice to heaven, she asked someone to tell Qin Mugong that if you don't let him go, my mother will kill him. Set your Dazheng Palace on fire, and then set yourself on fire for you to see...

So the ending of the story is that the state of Jin ceded the five cities in Hexi and sent the prince of Jin, Prince Yu, as a hostage to Qin, and Duke Mu of Qin sent Duke Hui of Jin back to his country for restoration.

So, no matter if it's an older uncle or a younger brother-in-law, there's always something cheating in it...

Therefore, in the camp of the Han army, Liu Bang, who was inspecting the situation of the reward army with Liu Ying, seemed to suddenly think of something, turned to look at Liu Ying and asked, "Where is that kid from Zhang Liang's family?"

"Who? Zhang Buyi?" Liu Ying raised her face, looked at Liu Bang and nodded slightly, and explained with a smile:
"He didn't come here! Didn't we take down the five counties of Jiuyuan County and Beidi County? I think that guy can read and write well, and he's good at counting, so let him stay there to preside over the measurement of land and the distribution of farms and houses. It's..."

Well, it's not because it's a place of bitter cold!
Liu Bang stared at Liu Ying for a long time, and then a sister controlled a daughter slave and laughed at the same time...

Behind them, Fan Kui and Lu Wan gathered together, looking at Liu Ying's bouncing figure, but envious and jealous expressions appeared on their faces.

Fan Kuai was fine, he belonged to the battle sequence of the Central Route Army, although he didn't catch up with the previous battles, but Liu Bang won the battle, and he will share some of the credit with him.

But Lu Wan is different, he is a member of the Eastern Route Army, and he ran over in a hurry, but the battle was over, and most importantly, he just received the battle report, saying that it was King Donghu who invaded the country of Yan, Liu Jia And Lu Ze led the army to fight, each had their own gains...

So, he started agitating to connect them in series.

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In the evening, the Han army used the soft and unfrozen land in the valley to pile up a dozen high mounds opposite the mountain where the Huns were stationed, and then carried artillery to the highest point of the mound.

Well, it's not that I don't want to push it up, the main reason is that the ground is too soft, and the cannon can easily sink into the pit.

And on the slope, boxes full of gunpowder and shells were densely stacked together.

This is the supply that came with Han Wangxin's reinforcements.

After the Han army had enough to eat and drink, it happened to take the Huns who were huddled on the mountain to practice their hands, so that more soldiers could become familiar with this new generation of strategic weapons.

However, at the forefront of the Han army camp are those old-fashioned gravity trebuchets.

What these catapults will project is a chemical weapon weighing six to seven kilograms and packed in clay pots...

Well, to put it simply, it is to put things that emit toxic and harmful gases such as wolf poison grass and arsenic in a jar, smolder with horse dung, and throw them where the Huns are.

So amidst the rumbling of the guns, one after another crudely made clay pots rose into the air, crackling and shattering on the opposite mountain.

Then, thick smoke billowed up.

From Liu Ying's point of view, it can be clearly seen that the countless Huns not only have to avoid the shells that can open mountains and crack rocks, and interrupt a big tree at once, but also shovel the snow in a hurry to cover the ignited fire. place.

However, there is wind on the mountain, and the Han army prepared this kind of chemical weapon very well. The Huns lost sight of the other, their eyes were red and swollen from the smog, and they burst into tears. ...

Liu Ying stood on the small mound and looked at it for a while, and then was blocked by a group of people.

"The prince should leave!"

Liaohou Kongju walked out from the crowd, stood in front of Liu Ying and said, "Your Highness, I heard that all the horses of the Huns belonged to His Highness? Is there such a thing?"

Oops... Liu Ying's heart was full of alarm bells, and her head turned into a rattle: "It's nothing, don't talk nonsense..."

Fan Kuai emerged from the crowd and yelled, "Don't lie! I've seen them all. There are hundreds of thousands of horses! There are many fat and strong horses among them! They are all on the other side of the mountain!"

So Kong Ju took another half step forward, staring at Liu Ying and said: "Your Highness can achieve such a result so easily, it is because I have entangled the main force of the Huns, so the credit needs to be shared!"

Behind them, Lu Wan whispered a move: "There is no evidence for what you say, let him make written evidence!"

As a result, the group of disciples who followed Liu Bang and failed to eat meat suddenly became enraged, and almost drowned Liu Ying with saliva...

On the other hand, Zhou Bo quit.

He struggled to squeeze out from the crowd, stood beside Liu Ying, and shouted loudly:

"Our capture is our ability! We followed His Highness the Crown Prince all the way to the north, conquered more than ten cities, and captured two kings in one battle! Afterwards, we went south in the starry night, trekking on the mountain road for several days, and only then did we raid the Huns camp Opportunity!"

Jin She also came out to help: "Why do you give it to you, if you have the ability, you go to the Huns to grab it yourself! What kind of ability is bullying His Royal Highness the Prince's benevolence!"

Well, Zhou Bo is really worried that Liu Ying will be generous for a while, and with a big wave of his hand, he will add to this gang of shameless people...

After all, he is poor...

But he underestimated Liu Ying this time. Liu Ying didn't intend to save face for these guys at all. After all, he was going to get the horses of the Huns to open up wasteland and farm in the Ningxia Plain. How could they share the profits?

And most importantly, Liu Ying led an army of [-] in this battle. These people followed him around the north, throwing their heads and blood. share?

Liu Ying stared at the greedy disciples in front of her, and suddenly smiled. Just when they thought Liu Ying would give in, they heard Liu Ying's decisive voice.

"Horses, one hundred and two thousand and fourteen horses, one is not too many, one is not too many, but each of them has nothing to do with you! The prince advises you, if you want to get rich, look at the opposite mountain!"

"Tonight the moon is bright and the stars are sparse. I think the next few days will be sunny. As the saying goes, snow is not cold and snow is cold. Let's harvest the corn that should be harvested before the Huns freeze to death!"

(End of this chapter)