Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 297 0292 [Sun Xiucai]

There is a basis for the Song Dynasty to draw the Dadu River as the boundary.

In addition to the issue of population culture, the bigger constraint is climate.

On the south side of the Dadu River, after a mountainous area, the climate became hotter and humid.

It was late autumn at this time, and after half a month of coolness, it suddenly became hot again.

There was also a rain a few days ago, and the air humidity exceeded 60%.This is not bad. If summer comes, the air humidity can often reach 80%.

Yuwen always has a lot of heat-reducing medicines, and he drinks medicinal soup when the weather is hot.

But it was the autumn tiger again, and it was raining again, which still caused non-combat attrition.Not to mention the infantry, even the horse army lay down a few, and now they are still staying in Luo Luolong to recuperate.

Sun Shu and other Han bandits carefully selected dry firewood.

But after the fire was ignited, thick smoke came out first, and the wooden house did not ignite immediately.

There were more than two hundred of them, and they set fire to many houses at the same time, and were soon discovered by the barbarians patrolling the camp.

"Han soldiers are coming!"

Sun Shu yelled at the top of his voice, and then shouted again: "Run!"

These sixth children fled in the agreed direction, shouting as they fled: "Han soldiers are here, Han soldiers are here!"

The nearby barbarians woke up from their sleep and shouted to remind their companions: "Get up, the Han soldiers are coming!"

There is a ghost owner whose territory is towards the south. It is very likely that his village has been attacked by barbarians. He is worried on weekdays and wants to go home quickly to find out.Hearing the wind and grass at this moment, he was like a frightened bird, calling to his son and brother: "Let's flee with all the troops, and the Han soldiers will kill you!"

"Woooooooo~~~~"

This guy also blew the horn, and the tribe gathered in a panic, some with weapons, some didn't even care about weapons, and ran towards the south in groups of three or four.

Because of the hot and humid climate, few people who wear armor will get sick from sleep while wearing armor.

Several houses that were set on fire finally burned more vigorously at this moment.But the fire was still not big, but thick smoke was billowing, and the firewood was too damp.

It was hard to see clearly in the darkness, and there was thick smoke floating everywhere. The barbarians who woke up couldn't figure out the situation at all.

Feeling that the friendly army is fleeing, more and more ghost masters are fleeing with their own clansmen.

Jumeng's pro-army was not in chaos, and more than [-] people quickly gathered, but they couldn't figure out where the enemy was.He said to his sons and son-in-law: "Ride on horseback and gather troops everywhere to prevent the tribes from fleeing. Hurry up and beat the drums and trumpets!"

The Cage Fort of the Chinese Army blew the Jubing Horn, and the chaos nearby subsided slightly.

But the farther away, the more chaos.

The closer the territory is to the barbaric ghost masters, the more unwilling they are to stop.They were worried about their village and had long wanted to go home, but stayed to fight because they were afraid of the fierceness.

Now when encountering such a thing, no matter whether it is true or not, he just took the opportunity to escape.

More than 200 Han thieves had already fled in the chaos. When they realized that the barbarians had become chaotic, they couldn't help but stop.

"Sun Xiucai, the barbarians are in chaos now? We didn't set much fire." Kong Daguang was puzzled.

Sun Shu guessed: "It's probably the roar of the camp. Ju Meng only deployed elite soldiers on the outside to prevent the officers and soldiers from robbing the camp at night. But we set fire to the camp and caused chaos. The barbarians were unprepared and mistakenly thought that the officers and soldiers had broken through the bandits' stronghold. "

"Go to vote for officers and soldiers now?" Hu Aqi asked.

Sun Shu said with a smile: "It's a great opportunity to make meritorious service. Follow me to fight back. If you get separated in the chaos, each of you will lead your troops back and meet here."

These sixth children had escaped from the bandit camp, but under the leadership of Sun Shu, they ran back to the camp again, shouting in barbaric language along the way: "The Han soldiers are here, the Han soldiers are here, run away!"

The place they passed was even more chaotic, and many barbarians who were watching blankly ran away immediately when they heard their shouts.

"woo woo woo woo……"

The trumpet sounded again, and the fierce son-in-law had already come on horseback, with only about 20 people with him, and shouted: "Don't shout, come here!"

"kill!"

With an idea, Sun Shu changed his strategy: "Shout in Chinese, kill the thief, kill the thief!"

"Kill the thief, kill the thief!" The Han bandits beside him shouted.

Did Han soldiers really rob the camp?

Jumeng's son-in-law also panicked, and stopped gathering troops, and rode back to report to his father-in-law: "You are a big ghost, Han soldiers have come in!"

Ju Meng didn't doubt it, the situation tonight was weird, he thought that he was probably robbed by Han soldiers, and immediately said to his cronies: "Lead your troops to evacuate, and the clansmen should not run away."

It's strange if they don't run away, the chaos in the dark, the ministries lost contact while running.

The six Han people also ran away, so they had to go back to the previous area to meet up. After waiting for a long time, dozens of people disappeared for no reason.

"Sun Xiucai, what should we do now?" Hu Aqi asked.

Sun Shu thought for a while: "Send 20 people to contact the officers and soldiers, and I will wait for the rest here. Remember to light a torch, and don't be killed by the Han soldiers as barbarians."

"I'm going to contact the officers and soldiers!" Hu Aqi volunteered.

This fellow led the men to trot all the way, and within two miles, they heard the sound of rumbling horseshoes.

Hu Aqi opened his voice and shouted: "The bandits are defeated, the bandits are defeated!"

It was Zhu Ming who led the cavalry in person. When he saw someone holding a torch and shouting, he immediately stepped forward and asked, "What's going on?"

Hu Ahqi said: "Master Jun, we are Han Chinese. Sun Xiucai led us to rob the camp. The barbarians were scared and ran away!"

"There are many rewards, get out of the way!" Zhu Ming shouted.

Zhu Ming also planned to rob the camp, but not tonight, because the barbarians must have been prepared, and he planned to delay it for another two days.

Unexpectedly, a group of six-year-olds made a big commotion in the bandit camp.

Immediately led the cavalry to chase them all night. Even with the torches on, they couldn't see the road clearly, and some unlucky horses stumbled and fell into the road.

Sun Shu lit the fire and waited by the side of the road. Zhu Ming stopped and asked, "Which one is Sun Xiucai?"

"I'm Sun Shu. I've met the county magistrate. I don't dare to be a scholar. I'm just a low-ranking scholar," Sun Shu said. "The barbarians have fled. Please pursue the magistrate quickly!"

"Remember your merit!"

Zhu Ming led the cavalry into the enemy camp, and there was a vague chaos everywhere. He stopped and said to Deng Chun, "Take some cavalry back, and ask the prefect of Yuwen to come over and take over the bandit camp. Don't burn all the food and goods!"

Jumeng is still confused so far. He obviously set up a large number of guard posts, how could Han soldiers sneak into the camp and set fire to it?

He didn't suspect Sun Shu at all, because those Han people had committed felony crimes in their hometown, and they went with the barbarians to plunder the Han people, and they had already married wives and had children in Pugulong.

Sun Shu even made many suggestions and used tricks to help him expand his territory, and he has long been regarded as a confidant by Jumeng.

Running more and more chaotically in the dark, there are only more than 200 troops left around Jumeng to command, and the rest don't know where they went.

After fleeing for a few miles, Ju Meng stopped being frightened and gradually came to his senses. He reined in his horse and stopped and said, "Did the Han soldiers come after us?"

"I don't know, everyone is shouting," said his son Ah Fan.

Ju Meng rode back in person, and encountered many routs along the way.He asked his personal soldiers to keep blowing their horns, and some of the routs stopped to join them, but more routs turned a deaf ear.

Soon after confirming that there was no pursuer, Jumeng said to his son: "Go to the front and gather the defeated soldiers, the Han people did not come after them!"

Not long after the order was issued, the sound of horseshoes sounded in the night, and Zhu Ming finally came with his cavalry.

A few groups of rout soldiers who barely gathered, heard the sound of rumbling horseshoes, and saw hundreds of torches approaching from far and near, they were frightened and broke up again in an instant.

This time it was completely broken, and Ju Meng had no choice but to flee with his son, son-in-law and his own soldiers.

Fleeing and fleeing, even the soldiers didn't care about it, Ju Meng only accelerated and fled with the rider on horseback.

Zhu Ming held the torch with the thumb and index finger of his left hand, held the reins with the remaining three fingers, and slashed along the way with his sword in his right hand.There is no need to use a long gun in this situation, his iron gun is too heavy.

The fleeing soldiers had no resistance, and Zhu Ming hacked to death.

Many rout soldiers found that they couldn't run away from the horses, so they jumped into the river and swam to the other side, or fled towards the mountains to the west.

The mountains and plains are full of barbarians, and there are too many barbarians to kill them.

After chasing until dawn, Zhu Ming finally stopped and found that his cavalry was missing by more than 20 (six Han cavalry and more than ten barbarian cavalry).Some were hunted down and went to other places, some were injured when they fell off their horses at night, and some were probably thrown or trampled to death for no reason.

Yu Wenchang had sent infantry to clean up the battlefield along the way, and captured hundreds of people one after another.Severely injured prisoners were directly chopped off, while lightly injured prisoners were arrested.

Sun Shu actually followed Yu Wenchang, telling about the situation of Pu Gulong, and seemed to want to guide the officers and soldiers to occupy Jumeng's old nest.

"Catch a few barbarians!"

The clothes are gorgeous, the leather armor is excellent, and the most expensive hair accessories are barbarian leaders.

Those leaders have been injured, and some were even trampled to death and hacked to death.Except for Jumeng's son-in-law, the others are big and small ghost masters.

Yuwen often found Zhu Ming, and said with a smile on his face: "This battle has defeated the barbarians, and the success should be the first."

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "That Sun Xiucai made the first contribution. He dared to set fire to the camp. I guess he has done a lot of daring things."

Yu Wenchang said: "Taking advantage of the defeat of the Jumeng army, the selected elite soldiers go straight to Pugulong."

Zhu Ming said: "After the capture of Pugu Cage, the prefect will meet with the barbarians there and re-divide the territory for each tribe. Those valleys south of the Dadu River must be distributed to the Henan barbarians. The Henan barbarians are familiar with barbarians and can speak Chinese. They are good at farming. When they grow stronger, they can serve as a barrier for Lizhou. This Sun Shu is not a good person, so give him Luo Luolong as his territory, and give him some barbarian captives, and let Sun Shu manage the surrounding villages."

Yu Wenchang said: "Such a talent should be entrusted with a heavy responsibility."

"Isn't it a heavy responsibility to give land to people?" Zhu Ming explained, "All barbarians must be educated. Sun Shu is brave and resourceful, and he was born as a scholar, and he is good at dealing with barbarians. He led the Han people to manage the barbarians, and gradually Just change the customs, and the barbarians around Luo Luolong will become mature barbarians in 30 to [-] years. This can prepare for the future return to the natives.”

Yu Wenchang nodded and said, "Successful thinking about the long-term, I'm not as good as that."

Zhu Ming laughed: "The prefect is busy with affairs, I can't think of it today, but I will think of it in a few days."

(End of this chapter)