Three Kingdoms

In reality, fighting in a relatively large battlefield is not like in movies, TV shows or games. The two sides line up in two lines, or kill and kill, just like two lines, because even if Infantry battles will also form fighting lines that vary greatly in sequence, not to mention cavalry, a unit that requires a certain amount of space.

If you pull your vision to a high altitude, you will find that the entire battlefield is not actually filled with troops next to each other. It is as if everyone is trying to show their faces in the camera. On the one hand, it is also to have a certain impact space. Normally, the charging cavalry will move up in a certain space between waves, followed by the second wave and the third wave. They are not completely clustered together.

Even if the cavalry is hedging, perhaps as seen in movies and TV shows, the cavalry seem to be arranged very closely, as if it is airtight. But in fact, when hedging, unless the cavalry specifically controls it, the horses rarely head-butt each other. When their heads touch each other, most of the time the war horses will stagger past each other involuntarily, without the need for special control. Moreover, at this moment of staggering, the cavalry cannot be distracted to control. They need to concentrate on facing the opponent. Those deadly swords and guns.

In order to present an absolute advantage in numbers, Zhang Xiu opened the contact area of ​​the Han cavalry very widely. Although it seemed that there were many people, it actually resulted in a slight lack of depth, so Tadun led the men and horses. When confronting Zhang Xiu, he actually did not receive enough interception force.

Injuries or mistakes on the battlefield actually often come from a very small thing.

Zhang Xiu made a mistake and failed to stop Tadun.

Tadun also made a mistake. He underestimated Zhang Xiu at first, and then suffered a loss in the fight. By the time he realized something was wrong, it was already too late. The weapon flew out of his hand, although the guards around him hurriedly handed over their own weapons. Instead, it was natural that there was nothing smooth or unsatisfactory, and then I bumped into Zhao Yun...

As soon as Zhao Yun entered the battlefield, he was owed money by everyone. His face was full of attributes, and his insight talent was activated. Naturally, he saw Tadun's group passing by Zhang Xiu's troops in front. Without saying anything, he The horse rushed towards Tadun, shaking out more than a dozen gun flowers.

If you stand outside the field, you can see the gun head trembling wildly, red tassels flying, and then the sharp and snow-white blade of the gun head is like the core of a flower stretched out by manjus and sand flowers, dazzling and full of enchanting dreamy splendor. .

But for Tadun who was in it, it was like falling into hell. Not only was the weapon useless, but his martial arts and reactions were also far behind. The only thing he could praise was that he had been doing it all these years The experience accumulated in life-and-death fights has resulted in minor injuries being replaced by major injuries. There were several cuts all over the body, and blood was pouring out of Zhao Yun's killing range...

At this point, Tadun naturally no longer had any thoughts of fighting. He quickly took the remaining guards, staggered away from the Wuhuan people who came to kill them, and fled obliquely.

Turning in front of the formation can only be done by skilled cavalry who have been on horseback for a long time. But even if they can do it, the waist exposed during the turning process will naturally suffer enough damage. When Tadun is covered in blood and scarred, he finally After I rushed out, I looked back at my clan members. They saw corpses strewn across the field in a mess. Then I looked at my guards. They had shrunk to nine out of ten, leaving only three or two big cats and kittens. I was heartbroken. He couldn't hold on any longer and fell under the horse.

Tadun's troops suffered heavy losses. Su Puyan's troops, who had been following behind, suddenly became panicked and opened their mouths when they saw the Han cavalry destroying the only wave of counterattacks. , as if ready to give orders, but there was no sound.

The Han cavalry still didn't stop at all, they were still running wildly, and they were still killing. The Wuhuan cavalry who surrounded them from both wings roared excitedly, waved their sabers, and enthusiastically expressed their intention to participate in beating the drowned dog.

In the dark night, countless horses' hooves beat on the ground, and countless people shouted wildly. The battlefield was like pouring a ladle of water into a hot oil pan, and it suddenly exploded all over the sky.

Su Buyan became timid. He looked at the dancing firelight in the darkness and lost the courage to support Tadun. No one expected that Tadun's troops would be defeated so quickly. Since Tadun has failed, what use can he do if he goes up?

"Blow the trumpet...retreat...we, retreat..."

Under the three-color battle flag, Zhao Yun listened to various sounds on the battlefield, and evolved the fighting situation and changes in the battlefield in his mind. When he heard the sound of the horn representing retreat, he felt as calm as water. On his ordinary face, he always showed a little smile: "Send the order! All units should pay attention to their distance! Kill the enemy at will for ten miles!"

"Kill the enemy for ten miles at will!" the ordering soldier repeated loudly, and then rode out. With the sound of the horn, he also relied on manpower to transmit orders to the surroundings. After all, on the chaotic battlefield, it was impossible to ensure that all generals were there. Can hear and distinguish the trumpet calls of the enemy and ourselves.

The two wings of Wuhuan cavalry led by Lou Ban and Nan Lou roared forward in pursuit. Although the Han people still had to take the bulk of the war horses, the leather armor and equipment that the Han people looked down on could still supplement their own. The tribesmen burst out with great enthusiasm. On the contrary, the Han cavalry gradually slowed down, gathered together, and did not participate in the final pursuit.

"General..." Zhang Xiu came to Zhao Yun, rolled his eyes twice, smiled, and seemed to want to say something but didn't say it.

On the contrary, Zhao Yun's face darkened and he said, "Why did you miss Tadun?"

"Uh..." Zhang Xiu was stunned for a moment, then said calmly, "This, general... I..."

"Greeting for success and seizing advantage, the troops were so spread out that Tadun missed him!" Although Zhao Yun didn't see it specifically, he could guess that Tadun broke through Zhang Xiu's interception so smoothly. There were some problems. "If someone is unprepared or makes some mistakes, wouldn't it mean that the Chinese army will be in chaos!"

Zhang Xiu's face changed greatly, and he immediately lowered his head and said: "General Mingjian... after a certain blow, he saw that his weapon had been lost, and he was heading towards the general again, so he did not order the soldiers to intercept him, but After killing him... please ask the general to punish him..."

Normally, Zhang Xiu led the vanguard and should prepare three waves of attack arrays. Even if Tadun broke through Zhang Xiu's first level, it would not be so easy to reach Zhao Yun's army. Therefore, either Zhang Xiu deliberately stayed behind. Either Zhang Xiu's military formation was too weak, resulting in a lack of interception strength.

Tadun's head was naturally a great achievement. Normally, no one could let it go easily, so naturally the only possibility left was that Zhang Xiu had some problems with his command...

"Let's record this matter for now, and we will discuss merits and demerits after the war! Write a review and keep it in the martial arts hall for future reference!" Zhao Yun pointed at Zhang Xiu and said, "A little negligence in the battle formation will eventually lead to a big defeat! If you make this mistake again, be careful of getting someone’s head on your neck!”

Although Zhao Yun also let his guard down and did not kill Tadun in one fell swoop. At this point, Zhang Xiu was actually right. However, Zhao Yun did not allow Zhang Xiu to be so negligent. If he faced a more powerful opponent next time , maybe it’s not that simple...

Zhao Yun's release of water was not due to negligence like Zhang Xiu, but because of intention.

The grassland is vast and vast. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty spent his whole life to prove one thing. He could defeat these opponents in the desert, but he could not completely occupy it. Therefore, for China, the divided Wuhuan people will always be better than the unified Wuhuan people. People are easier to deal with...

It is naturally better to leave an easy Taton to deal with than to have another Taton or Taton deep in the desert.

Old opponents are better than new opponents, because old opponents know the basics, while new opponents have no understanding of their specific situation, just like opponents in the open are always better than enemies in the shadows.

This is true on the battlefield, and it is the same in thinking.

Since the prophecy on the side of Qingyang Palace was revealed to the public, many weaknesses have naturally been exposed. If these weaknesses were hidden as before, no one would know about them, and they would not be the target of attacks...

In the first year of Taixing, Sichuan and Shu.

Tu Chuen became an independent palace, and he could enjoy the incense openly and receive financial allocations from the county. It was considered a great thing, but Qiao Bing felt that something was not good.

The summers in Sichuan and Sichuan are always relatively hot, although the winters are not very pleasant either.

When the weather is sultry, it always makes people a little depressed. People gathered in the Tujue Palace light incense and candles, which naturally makes people even more depressed. However, the most annoying thing is not the weather, but coming from the heart. .

The beliefs of the Sichuan and Shu people in the Han Dynasty are always similar to mahjong. Today they believe in "cake", but tomorrow they may switch to belief in "tiao". In other words, as long as you can win money playing cards, you can believe in it...

Therefore, since the official opening of the Qingyang Palace, many methods have been used to steal the faith of the Sichuan and Shu people. In contrast, the Tuxie Palace seems deserted and miserable, and even Qiao Bing's face is pale and pale.

In order to prevent the Tucheng Palace from declining, and in order to prevent the Tucheng culture that he inherited from turning into a joke in his own hands, Qiao Bing learned from the pain and prepared to make a good plan to completely change the current unfavorable situation.

For ordinary people, prophecy is obviously too complicated, but the problem is that without the pursuit of ordinary people, elegance will become lonely after a long time, and there will soon be no market. The so-called vulgarity is elegance. Mostly from this perspective.

It is not that prophecy has had no opponents before, such as the art of divination. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, or even earlier, no matter what you were doing, burning turtle shells was always a necessary process. Perhaps it was because turtles were burned so much that things were rare and valuable, or maybe it was because turtles were burned so much that things were rare and valuable. It’s because few people can understand the traces left by burning, and those who can understand will say different things every time they read it. In the end, the custom of burning turtles regardless of big or small finally changed...

Then there are the alchemists. Alchemists claim to be immortal, invulnerable to weapons, to heaven and earth, to be invulnerable to all poisons, and so on. Although there are still some alchemy, room-centering, and qi-training techniques that have been passed down, some people still believe them. And he practiced unremittingly, but it was easily proved that the so-called immortality and so on were actually an illusion, and people could not escape death after all...

Therefore, the prophecy very wisely chose a long-term and obscure way of expression, and then used hindsight to cover the previous so-called prophecies, which produced unexpected effects. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu used the method of prophecy in order to give Liu, whose bloodline was so thin that it could be ignored, a mysterious cloak. As a result, when he really relied on the prophecy to become the emperor, he discovered that the prophecy was The dog-skin plaster cannot be pulled off after being applied.

In order to prevent the prophecies from expanding endlessly, Liu Xiu had to announce a limited number of prophecies, and numbered the prophecies like they were limited editions. He thought that this would solve the problem, but Liu Xiu did not expect that even if it was out of print Limited edition, but there are still replicas...

Qiao Bing was currently in the replica version of the prophecy, discussing countermeasures with Lai Min.

"What a fool can see is nothing more than a short sight..." Lai Min said slowly, "The only strange things in Qingyang Palace are the statues of gods..."

"Brother Lai means..." Qiao Bing frowned and said, "The prophecy should also erect a statue of a god and accept incense?"

Lai Min nodded.

There are no statues of gods in Tuxie. Naturally, it is impossible to worship the Three Qing emperors like Qingyang Palace. For ordinary people, Hetu Luoshu is definitely not as direct and clear as the statues of gods with specific images. Kind, so Lai Min's suggestion is not unreasonable.

However, if a statue of a god is really to be erected, who or what god should be erected?

"Erect a statue of Fu Xi?" Qiao He pondered for a while and then said hesitantly, "Or Dayu?"

According to legend, during the time of the Fuxi clan in ancient times, a dragon and horse emerged from the river, carrying a "river map" on their backs and dedicating it to Fuxi. Fuxi developed the Bagua based on this, which later became the source of "The Book of Changes". At the time of Dayu, a magical turtle emerged from the Luo River, carrying "Luo Shu" on its back and dedicated it to Dayu. Dayu succeeded in controlling the floods based on this, and then divided the world into Kyushu. The so-called "River produces pictures, Luo produces books, and sages follow them" refers to these two things.

"Yes... but..." Lai Min nodded, shook his head and said, "Fuxi and Dayu, an ancient sage, can naturally be established... However, as he has gone on for a long time, he may not be friendly... It would be better if he did not Erecting a statue will definitely leave Qingyang Palace speechless and blameless..."