Three Kingdoms

Before Tuoba Guoluo convened everyone to discuss matters, he had actually sent a large number of scouts to the south. To be honest, Tuoba Guoluo's original arrangement in this direction was a little careless.

But Tuoba Guoluo cannot be blamed for this.

Previously, the Huns and horses were in front, and the Nakli people were behind. The two troops, one in front and one behind, were equivalent to an enhanced scout group. Naturally, there was no need to send a large number of additional scouts to stare in this direction. However, suddenly I heard After most of the Han soldiers attacked, a large number of scouts were sent in this direction again.

Especially after learning about the Huns at night, the number increased a lot.

After gradually leaving Xianbei's own safety range, this group of Xianbei scouts slowly slowed down their horses and began to vigilantly check the movements around them.

The night was as quiet as water, with only the sound of horse hooves echoing in the wilderness. A group of Xianbei scouts were galloping towards the south on the vast Yinshan grassland.

I don't know if it was a wild dog or a lone wolf in the distance, howling sadly at the bright moon in the night sky.

After all, the population in this era is sparse, and many places are still the territory of animals or plants. For thousands of years, these animals or plants came here earlier than humans and regarded this place as their home. The gradually expanding range of humans has It is constantly encroaching on their territory. In this sense, perhaps human beings are a natural invader.

Under the moonlight and starlight, one can roughly see the outline of Ying Ying Zhuo Zhuo from the surrounding scene.

While marching slowly, the Xianbei scout captain suddenly waved his hand quickly, immediately turned over and dismounted, reached out and pressed hard on the horse's back. The horse also lay down skillfully, hiding his body behind the grass beside the road, and followed him. The scouts at the back followed the same instructions, quickly dispersed, drew out their swords, and opened their horn bows...

"It's a Han army scout!"

"Silence! Spread out more! Prepare your bows and arrows!"

"Put the horse back!"

The Xianbei scouts looked like they were facing a formidable enemy.

However, the Han sentry opposite seemed not to care at all. He stood directly on the high ground without hiding his figure. He seemed to have seen the traces of the Xianbei scouts and did not make any hostile move. He just shouted loudly at this place. After shouting something, he got on his horse and disappeared from the top of the hill.

"..."

This situation was beyond the expectations of the Xianbei scouts and others. After looking at each other, the Xianbei veteran who led the team suddenly asked: "...Does anyone understand what the Han people shouted just now?"

"...Well...I was preparing to fight just now, so I didn't pay attention..." a Xianbei scout replied.

In addition, a Xianbei behind said: "...I didn't understand it very well. It seemed like it meant something like 'mountain'..."

"Mountain?" Captain Xianbei pondered, "Do you mean Yinshan Mountain?"

"It doesn't seem like it...didn't he shout 'kill'..."

"Kill?" Captain Xianbei gestured and said, "...and this is how the Han people were 'killed'?"

In fact, most people are not very clear. Although they understand a little bit of Chinese, it takes concentration to translate the words they hear in their brains. At that time, they are ready to fight and all their attention is concentrated. Focusing on swords and guns, who would pay special attention to whether the Han people on the other side were shouting "kill" or "mountain"?

But soon the Xianbei people's questions were answered. On the side of the distant hillside where the Han people had just been, a Han soldier suddenly appeared. He waved the torch for a few times, and then inserted the torch into something like a stick. On top of things, and then immediately retreated into the darkness...

The sound of horse hooves gradually faded away.

The inexplicable Xianbei people hesitated for a long time, and then waited in place for a while, then slowly moved towards the foot of the mountain to outflank...

When we arrived at the foot of the mountain, we didn't see any Han people or encounter any traps. There were just three baggage trucks, covered with felt cloth and tied with hemp ropes, left somewhere.

Out of caution, the Xianbei scout walked around the baggage truck twice more. After finding no problems, he slowly cut off a hemp rope with his sword, and then lifted up a corner of the felt...

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The Xianbei people mounted their horses and retreated with a roar...

The surrounding fields are quiet, the night is lonely, and there are only some insects buzzing around.

"Hey... I didn't take it with me..."

On a mound in the distance, a few bushes of grass moved, and a voice broke the silence.

"Marquis Gong Jun, what should I do? The barbarians did not take away the baggage cart..."

Holding a circle of grass, a Han soldier lying on the other side crawled over and whispered.

"...Yeah, what should we do?" Another soldier came over and said.

"..." Gong Jun was also a little helpless and speechless. Why didn't the Xianbei people do as expected this time?

Shouldn't the Xianbei people put a horse harness on this baggage cart and pull it down into the camp? Why did you move some of the things inside and then leave the baggage truck where it was?

After waiting for a while, I saw that the Xianbei people had indeed gone far away. There was no sound around, and the time was gradually approaching the early morning. It was estimated that it was unlikely that a second batch of Xianbei scouts would come across this place...

"...Let's go and take a look. First, plug the hole for the kerosene..." Gong Jun spit out the grass roots in his mouth, then climbed up, waved helplessly, and led the soldiers Go forward under the cover of shadow.

"Take inventory and see what the Xianbei people took..."

"All the swords were taken away, and five shields were taken away..." The soldier counted them and said, "Five crossbows were taken away, and only two spears were taken away..."

"Where is the wooden slip?" Gong Jun asked while inspecting the surroundings.

A soldier came out of the first baggage cart and said, "I didn't see the wooden slip, so I think it was taken away..."

"Have the secret compartments been removed? If so, go and bring the horses..." Gong Jun nodded, and then asked the soldiers to bring the horses over, then put on the harness and drag the baggage cart away. Since Xianbei didn't take away the baggage cart, and there was no other way, we couldn't go up crying and let the Xianbei people take it away, right?

Gong Jun walked around the baggage truck twice and lowered his head to smell it. Maybe the smell of kerosene was not completely covered up?

Maybe.

After all, the upper layer of the hidden compartment at the bottom of the entire carriage is full of kerosene. If you get closer and smell it, there is a faint smell of oil, but it is not very strong. It is mainly to allow the kerosene to penetrate and mix with the iron powder. If you mix crumbs, numbing chips and other things in one place, you will have to open the holes in the compartment when leaving, and some smell will come out...

However, because this is in a hidden compartment, although the smell leaks out, it is not very big. Also, under the blowing of the night wind on the grassland, even if it comes out, it will be blown away by the wind outside, so it is The possibility of smelling it is not very high.

So what went wrong?

Gong Jun scratched his head, a little confused.

Was it because his performance was not up to par, or was there something in his behavior that made the Xianbei people more vigilant?

It shouldn't happen...

Although our side pretended to have encountered Huns soldiers, if the Xianbei people took away the wooden tablets, they would know that they were the supplies we gave to the Huns as agreed.

However, Gong Jun knew better, because when he left, Xun Dongcao said that in fact, at this point in time, the people he encountered must be Xianbei scouts, and most of the Huns were under strict guard, so it would be easy for them to go south for investigation. Only the Xianbei people...

Perhaps it was because the number of Xianbei scouts was small and it was inconvenient to tow the baggage trucks away, so they selectively took some things and went back?

Is this...

Or maybe it's because the Xianbei people are more vigilant now?

You think this thing is strange and unbelievable, and then you just grab some weapons and leave with the idea of ​​​​getting some advantage?

But Gong Jun didn't know what the specific situation was. He could only pull the baggage truck back in frustration...

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"Eh? Are the Xianbei people good at learning?" Fei Qian clicked his tongue a few times, then without paying much attention, he nodded and asked Gong Jun to go down and rest first.

By the way, shouldn't it be said that every time you use a strategy, the enemy on the opposite side should lower its IQ, and then obediently make coordinated movements and assume the most correct posture?

But why does it look different now?

When I was in Pingyang before, there was a fire in the workshop, which almost burned down the entire workshop. It was originally thought that someone had set the fire on fire or that the water had accidentally leaked into the building. However, after further investigation, it was discovered through the explanations of many parties involved that the fire first started in the waste pile.

Summer has arrived, the temperature has risen, and then there has been no rain for a while, causing the utensils to dry out. Next to the waste pile, some discarded tung oil rags were mixed with iron powder, sawdust, cinders, slag, etc., and they gradually heated up, leading to spontaneous combustion.

Fei Qian could certainly understand this phenomenon of spontaneous combustion, but many people in the workshop at that time, although they had mastered knowledge of objects that ordinary people in the Han Dynasty could not match, were still afraid and uneasy about this phenomenon. Gradually, words came out about how the God of Fire was dissatisfied, about how God was sending disasters, and so on...

As the saying goes, one is better at guarding the people than guarding Sichuan. In addition, during the Han Dynasty and the entire dynasty for three to four hundred years, the same tune was preaching about the divine connection. If Fei Qian was strictly prohibited from discussing this matter, he might not be able to do it. There were so many positive effects that they simply called Tai Shiming and the master craftsman Huang Dou to organize an experiment.

Tests have shown that when tung oil or other oils are mixed with cinder, iron slag, and wood chips and other impurities are added, some of the test products will smolder to varying degrees under sunlight.

And if there is more oil and the temperature is higher, it will cause the switch from smoldering to open flame, and then spontaneous combustion will occur. Of course, there are also some unexplainable supernatural phenomena, but here in Pingyang Gongfang, they are still ordinary physical and chemical effects.

After seeing that the cause of the fire could be reproduced artificially, the craftsmen in the workshop finally calmed down and began to laugh at those who had been nagging at them before. No one talked about it anymore.

However, for Fei Qian, he would naturally try to use everything in the military. Later, under the continuous experiments of Master Huang Dou, he discovered that if it is in a relatively closed space and coupled with continuous local friction heating, it can It is easier to trigger this spontaneous combustion phenomenon.

Just like many cars in later generations, they suddenly smoke and ignite while driving on the road. In fact, it is mostly caused by the leakage of engine oil and the adhesion and mixture of various debris in the usual parking places. For example, when going off-road in the wild, it is easy to roll hay into the car cavity, such as parking in a place with a lot of garbage, mice or other animals carrying rags and paper scraps in the car cavity, etc., coupled with the tight temperature space and the friction of the engine belt, eventually leading to spontaneous combustion.

So there is the current self-igniting baggage truck, which uses the modification of the axle to make it constantly rub against the mixture hidden in the hidden compartment, which will eventually cause the kerosene mixture in the hidden compartment to burn with a certain probability.

Of course, there is only a certain chance of this, about one-third. Therefore, from the simplest probability theory, if there are three similarly modified baggage trucks, there is about a 70% chance that one of them will happen. Spontaneous combustion...

Unfortunately, the Xianbei people did not bring the baggage vehicles back to the camp this time, so there was no way to see the spectacular scene of the so-called fire from heaven descending on the Hu camp, which would be written down in the history books...

Spontaneous combustion is definitely something that neither Xianbei nor Xiongnu can understand.

You must know that it is mixed with primitive petroleum, something like asphalt. Once it burns, it cannot be extinguished by just slapping it twice.

Then coupled with the propaganda and instigation from one's own side, even if they may not be able to catch up, taking advantage of the chaos can easily shake the entire military morale of the Hu people.

"It's a pity..." Fei Qian felt a little regretful. This feeling was like carefully preparing a candlelight dinner, but no one came.

Xun Chen smiled slightly and said: "Why should you care about it? This plan is originally the icing on the cake. If it succeeds, it will be better. If it fails, it will be fine. Xianbei is already destined to lose at this time..."

Fei Qian raised his head, laughed twice, and nodded.

Strategies can change the victory and defeat of a local area, but it is difficult to restore the decadent state of the overall situation. This is Zhuge Liang's most typical template in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

What can he do if he can summon the wind and rain, and be as wise as a demon?

He was still consumed to death by the old turtle...

Of course, if the strategy succeeds, it will definitely deal a heavy blow to the Xianbei people and speed up the defeat of the entire Xianbei army that invaded Yinshan. However, this small plan did not succeed, and it will not affect the entire situation, because since Jia Xu deployed In this overall situation, all these Xianbei have been included.

Even if you escape this strategy, what will happen if you see through the delaying strategy?

The time left for these invading Xianbei troops to escape is getting less and less. When this time window closes, even if these Xianbei people are lucky enough to escape, they will have their skin peeled off!