Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1020 did not fall into the trap

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

   But this cannot be blamed on Tuoba Guoluo.

Before, the Huns were at the front, and Nakri was at the back. The two troops, one in front and one in the back, were equivalent to a strengthened version of the scout group. Naturally, there was no need to send a large number of scouts to stare in this direction. However, they suddenly heard that After most of the Han soldiers attacked, they sent a large number of scouts in this direction again.

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

   After gradually leaving Xianbei's own safe range, this team of Xianbei scouts slowly slowed down their horses, and vigilantly checked the surroundings.

  The night was as quiet as water, with only the sound of kicking horseshoes echoing in the wilderness. A team of Xianbei scouts was galloping southward on the vast Yinshan grassland.

   In the distance, I don't know if it's a wild dog or a lone wolf, howling long and shrillly at the bright moon in the night sky.

After all, this era is sparsely populated, and many places are still the territory of animals or plants. For thousands of years, these animals or plants have come here earlier than humans, and they regard this place as their homeland, and the gradually expanding range of humans. It is constantly encroaching on their territory. In this sense, perhaps human beings are natural invaders.

  Under the moonlight and starlight, the surrounding situation can also roughly see the outline of Yingying Zhuozhuo.

While walking slowly, the captain of the Xianbei scout suddenly waved his hand quickly, immediately got off his horse, stretched out his hand and pressed **** the horse's back, and the horse also lay down skillfully, hiding its figure behind the grass beside the road, and followed The scouts behind did the same, quickly dispersed, drew out their sabers, and stretched their hornbows...

   "It's a Han army scout!"

   "Shut up! Spread out more! Prepare bows and arrows!"

   "Bring the horse back!"

  Xianbei scouts sent out as if they were facing an enemy.

But the Han sentry on the opposite side didn't seem to care at all. They stood directly on the high ground without hiding their figure. It seemed that they had seen the traces of the Xianbei scouts, and they didn't make any hostile moves. They 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?"

   "... this... I was preparing to fight just now, I didn't pay attention..." A Xianbei scout replied.

  Another Xianbei behind said: "...I didn't understand it too well, it seems to mean 'mountain'..."

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

   "It doesn't seem to be... Isn't it the one who shouted 'kill'..."

   "Kill?" Captain Xianbei made a gesture and said, "...and then the Han people 'killed' here?"

In fact, most people are not very clear. Although they know a little Chinese, they need to concentrate to translate the words they hear in their brains. Focusing on swords and guns, who would pay special attention to whether the Han people on the opposite side shouted to kill, or shouted for mountains?

But soon the questions of the Xianbei people were answered. On the side of the distant hillside where there were Han people just now, a Han soldier suddenly appeared, holding a torch and shaking it a few times, and then put the torch aside. things, and then immediately retreated into the darkness...

   The sound of hoofbeats gradually faded away.

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

  When I reached the foot of the mountain, I didn’t see any Han people, nor did I encounter any traps, but there were three baggage carts, which were covered with felt cloth and tied with hemp rope, and they were left there.

   Out of prudent considerations, the Xianbei scouts walked around the truck twice more. After finding nothing wrong, they slowly broke a hemp rope with a saber, and then lifted a corner of the felt cloth...

  ………………

  The Xianbei rode on their horses and retreated with a clatter...

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

   "Eh... didn't take it away..."

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

   "Gong Junhou, what should we do? The barbarians didn't take away the baggage cart..."

  Holding a circle of grass, a Han soldier who was lying on the other side crawled over rustlingly and said in a low voice.

   "...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 what they expected this time?

   Shouldn't the Xianbei have put the cart on the harness and pulled it into the camp? Why did you move some of the contents inside instead, and then left the baggage cart in place?

   After waiting for a while, I saw that the Xianbei people had indeed gone away, there was no sound around, and the time was gradually approaching the early morning. It is estimated that it is unlikely that the second batch of Xianbei scouts will come here...

"...Let's go, let's go and have a look, first go and plug the oil hole before we talk..." Gong Jun spat out the grass roots in his mouth, then got up, waved his hands helplessly, and led the soldiers in the shadows. Touched forward under cover.

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

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

   "Where's the wooden tablet?" Gong Jun asked while checking the surroundings.

  A soldier turned out from the first baggage cart and said, "I didn't see the wooden tablet, so I should have taken it away..."

   "Have all the hidden compartments been unloaded? If they are all unloaded, go and lead the horse..." Gong Jun nodded, and then asked the soldiers to bring the horse over, and then put on the harness and drag the baggage cart away. Since Xianbei didn't take away the luggage cart, there is no other way, you can't go up crying and shouting and let the Xianbei people take it away, right?

  Gong Jun walked around the baggage car twice, lowered his head and sniffed, maybe he didn't completely cover up the smell of kerosene?

Maybe.

After all, the upper layer of the hidden compartment at the bottom of the entire carriage is full of kerosene. If you smell it close, there is a faint smell of oil, but it is not very strong. If you mix crushed numb sawdust and other things in one place, you must open the hole in the compartment when you leave, so there will be some smell coming out...

However, because this is in a hidden compartment, although the smell seeps out, it is not very strong, and it is blown by the night wind of the grassland. Even if it is spread, it will be blown away by the wind outside, so it is The possibility of smelling is not very great.

   So what went wrong?

  Gong Jun scratched his head, a little confused.

   Is my performance not in place, or is there something in the behavior just now that made the Xianbei people raise their vigilance?

   It shouldn’t be so…

  Although I pretended to have met the Huns soldiers, if the Xianbei took the wooden tablets, they would know that we were supplying the Huns as agreed.

But Gong Jun knew it well, because when he left, Xun Dongcao said that at this point in time, he must have encountered Xianbei scouts, and most of the Huns were under strict surveillance, so those who went south to investigate Only Xianbei people...

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

  Is this...

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

   Feel that this matter is rather strange and unreliable, and then just take some weapons and leave just holding the idea of ​​gaining some advantage?

  However, Gong Jun didn't know what the specific situation was.

  ………………

   "Huh? Are the Xianbei people learning how to behave?" Fei Qian clicked his tongue a few times, and then he didn't pay much attention to it, so he nodded and let Gong Jun go down to rest first.

   In other words, shouldn’t every time you use a strategy, the enemy on the opposite side will drop its IQ, and then obediently make cooperative 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 the whole workshop. At first, I thought it was arson or accidental leakage of water, but after further investigation, after many statements by the parties, it was discovered that the first fire started at the waste dump.

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

Fei Qian can understand this phenomenon of spontaneous combustion, but many people in the workshop at that time, although they have mastered the knowledge of things that ordinary people in the Han Dynasty can't match, they are still afraid and uneasy about this phenomenon. Gradually, words such as Vulcan's dissatisfaction, disasters from heaven, etc. came out...

As the so-called defense of the people is stronger than Fangchuan, and the Han Dynasty and the entire dynasty for three or four hundred years have been advocating the relationship between heaven and man, if Feiqian strictly forbids discussing this matter, it may not be possible Seeing some positive results, he simply called Tai Shiming and workshop master Huang Dou to organize an experiment.

  Tests have proved that when tung oil or other oils are mixed with cinder and iron slag, and after adding sawdust and other sundries, 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 lead to the change from smoldering to open flame, and then spontaneous combustion. Of course, there are also some unexplained supernatural phenomena, but here in Pingyang Workshop, they still belong to ordinary physical and chemical effects.

   Seeing that the cause of the fire can be artificially repeated, the hearts of the craftsmen in the workshop were settled down, and they began to laugh at those who were talking about it before, and 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 found that if in a relatively closed space, coupled with continuous local frictional heating, the It is easier to cause this spontaneous combustion phenomenon.

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

  So there is the current self-igniting baggage car, which uses the modification of the axle to make it constantly rub against the mixture hidden in the hidden compartment, and eventually there will be a certain probability of causing the fire-oil mixture in the hidden compartment to burn.

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

  Unfortunately, the Xianbei people did not bring the baggage truck back to the camp this time, so there is no way to see the so-called spectacular scene of the so-called sky fire falling on the Hu people's camp, which will be recorded in the history books...

   The matter of spontaneous combustion must be incomprehensible to both the Xianbei and the Huns.

   You must know that something like asphalt is mixed with raw oil. Once it burns, it is not something that can be extinguished by just hitting it twice.

   Then add the propaganda and agitation of your own side, even if you may not be able to catch up, taking advantage of the chaos, it is easy to shake the entire morale of the Hu people.

   "It's a pity..." Fei Qian was somewhat 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, the lord? Originally, this plan was just an act of icing on the cake. If it succeeds, it will be better. If it fails, it will be fine. Xianbei is already doomed to lose at this time..."

   Fei Qian raised his head and laughed twice, and also 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 the most typical template of Zhuge Liang in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

   Calling the wind and calling the rain, so what if you are so smart and close to a demon?

   Still being consumed to death by the old turtle...

Of course, if the strategy is successful, it will definitely deal a heavy blow to the Xianbei people and speed up the defeat of the entire Xianbei who invaded Yinshan. However, if this small plan fails, it will not affect the overall situation, because since Jia Xu laid down In the overall situation, all these Xianbei have been included.

  Even if he escaped this trick, what if he saw through the plan to delay the attack?

  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 can escape by chance, they will be stripped of their skins!

  (end of this chapter)