More than twenty Ding Ling people were brought to Liu Cheng and others.
Liu Cheng tried to communicate with them, but the two sides did not understand the language.
There were officials in the Han army who were proficient in Xianbei language, but there were no officials who were proficient in Ding Ling language.
These Ding Ling people The language seems to be very different from that of the Xianbei people.
A few more patient civil servants communicated with these Dingling people through constant gestures and gestures, and finally they were able to have a simple conversation with them.
According to what these Ding Ling people said, the tribe they were in was the Ding Ling tribe that Liu Cheng's army encountered and was massacred just now.
Their twenty men, women and children took advantage of the chaos to escape and were in the woods thirty miles away.
I have been hiding in the woods for several days without daring to come out.
I spent these days digging barks and roots in the woods and shooting at the birds in the woods to satisfy my hunger.
Now the weather is very cold and the birds are flying south, so it is difficult to shoot them. to birds.
The people who massacred the Dingling tribe were the Budugen Xianbei tribe from the south.
They had no old people, only warriors, women and children, and they also brought a large number of livestock.
These people were extremely ferocious, and they would kill everyone they saw.
Their grown men, old and feeble, and children taller than a wheel, took away all their young children, women, and livestock.
"Ask them how long the Xianbei people have been gone," Liu Cheng told the officials who were communicating with these Dingling people.
"Yes, Lord," the official agreed, and immediately started communicating with those Ding Ling people.
It took a lot of effort to finally figure it out.
The Budugen tribe has been away from here for two days.
After hearing this, Liu Cheng said to the generals and officials: "The Budugen tribe is very fast.
We only delayed more than two days on Langjuxu before setting off northward, but they can still follow us.
Keep your distance for two days” Yan Xing reported: "My lord, the sentries ahead discovered that when Budu Genbu left, he took away a lot of carts and pulled them with horses.
The carts used by these Dingling people have tall wheels and are traveling at a fast speed.
They should be relatively stable.
You can use the cart to carry children and daily utensils.”
Liu Cheng sighed: "I just can't understand why they can maintain such a fast speed while driving so many cattle and sheep.
The cattle and sheep are not horses.
Send the order.
Go on, speed up and continue to pursue.
By the way, put on these Ding Ling people, too."
So, since you communicated well with them just now, you will be responsible for acting as the translator for me and Ding Ling from now on.
You must understand their language as soon as possible."
"Follow your orders" The army continued on its way.
After walking for a long time, it was already dusk.
Liu Cheng ordered to camp beside a lake.
The soldiers set up camp here and began to fetch water to make fire and cook food.
Ma Chao came to report: "My lord, I found a dozen lamb corpses floating on the lake.
It seems that they were thrown into the lake by humans."
Ma Chao's report attracted Liu Cheng's attention.
He immediately walked out of the camp and went to the edge of the lake with Ma Chao.
When he looked up, he saw more than a dozen lamb corpses floating in the middle of the lake.
The corpses were all bulging due to the long soaking time.
Liu Cheng immediately ordered: "Come here, pass the order.
The water in this lake is no longer drinkable.
Pour out all the water you just took out.
Hurry!"
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"Yes, my lord" "Send a few people into the water to get all the lamb carcasses up.
Do not touch the lamb carcasses with your hands.
After getting them up, find a place to dig a hole and bury them."
"I understand," Ma Chao agreed, and immediately arranged for soldiers to go into the water to retrieve the livestock carcasses.
When the body was retrieved, Liu Cheng asked the soldiers to move away.
He tore off a piece of cloth from his clothes and put it over his nose, and ordered for the military medical officer.
After a while, the military medical officer came over with a medical kit on his back and saluted Liu Cheng: "Meet the Duke."
Liu Cheng waved his hand and said: "No need to be polite, I called you here because I want you to check how these lambs died."
"Yes, Lord," the military medical officer agreed.
He immediately took out a pair of leather gloves from the medicine box, put them on, and began to examine the livestock carcasses.
After a while, the military medical officer reported to Liu Cheng: "My lord, my subordinates have examined all these animals.
They are all dead of illness.
None of them were drowned or killed."
"All of them died of illness."
Liu Cheng was shocked, and then said angrily: "What a vicious Bu Dugen, he actually threw these dead animals into the lake, hoping that we would be infected with the plague after drinking the water here."
Ma Chao came over and waved to some soldiers, asking them to take away the carcasses of the animals, dig holes and bury them.
Liu Cheng immediately returned to the camp to convene the generals and officials for discussion, and informed everyone of the situation he had just discovered, which aroused the indignation of the generals and officials.
Chen Qun cupped his hands and said: "My lord, I have read some relevant classics.
One of them describes the situation when our Han army attacked Mobei three hundred years ago.
At that time, the military minister Shanyu was chased and fled north in embarrassment.
When he was at the end of the road, he ordered Throw the sick and dead livestock into the water sources along the way that our Han army is pursuing. , our army did not know it at the time.
After drinking the contaminated water, the soldiers became infected on a large scale, and it quickly spread to the entire army.
The battle was also forced to be suspended, and the Huns also got a chance to breathe.
Today, my hard-working brothers discovered You have to do it in time, if you drink the lake water, the consequences will be unpredictable."
Ma Chao said angrily: "These Xianbei people are really hateful and they should be killed."
At this time, a captain outside the door came in with a grimace and clasped his fists to report: "My lord, the cooks in the barracks are complaining that there is no water for cooking, and the soldiers can only eat dry food."
Liu Cheng thought for a while and said to the captain: "Looking at the surface and the growth of weeds here, this place should not be short of water.
You can organize some soldiers to recruit some moist places to dig holes until water is dug out.
Use the land Use the water below to cook and send an order to tell all the soldiers that from now on, if you want to drink water, you must drink boiled water.
No one is allowed to drink raw water.
Anyone who disobeys will be killed."
"Follow your orders" For several days, all the water sources encountered by the army on their way north were polluted by dead livestock.
Fortunately, Liu Cheng came up with a way to dig holes in the ground to collect water, so that he could barely maintain the army's water supply.
On the third day of October, Liu Cheng was leading his army on the road.
Chen Qun galloped to catch up and reported: "My lord, judging from the marks on the map, we are only one day away from the Beihai coast."
"Oh, have you arrived at the North Sea so soon?"
Liu Cheng was a little surprised.
Beihai is Lake Baikal in later generations.
This lake was called Beihai at this time.
Its name changed differently in various historical periods.
It was also called Hanhai.
In the Han Dynasty, it was generally called Beihai.
It was also called Beihai during the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
Because of the Sini Great Water, it was called Xiaohai during the Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Baihar Lake and Xiaohai during the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, and Baihaier Lake in the late Qing Dynasty.
"Yes, my lord" Liu Chengdao: "It seems that we are not far from Bu Dugen's men."
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At this time, Ma Chao, who was the vanguard, sent someone to report: "My lord, the vanguard's sentinel discovered a 200-man Dingling army twenty miles northwest.
I learned through the Dingling guide who led the way that it was The soldiers and horses sent by King Ding Ling, the two sides learned the identity of the other party through conversation, and now they have sent people back to report the news and purpose of our army's arrival to King Ding Ling."
Liu Cheng immediately said: "Send orders to the entire army to speed up and catch up with the vanguard army."
"yes" An hour later, the main force caught up with Ma Chao's vanguard.
Liu Cheng ordered: "Send someone to see Ding Ling's leading general and tell him that I want to see him and bring him here."
"Take the order" Ma Chao agreed, and personally led men and horses to rush towards Ding Ling's army.
Not long after, a Ding Ling general led a few cavalrymen and rode over with Ma Chao.
These men paid tribute to Liu Cheng according to their etiquette.
Liu Cheng asked the translator to ask: "Have your Dingling army already fought with the Budugen Xianbei tribe who fled north?"
After General Ding Ling understood what he meant, he said that their army had not yet fought with the Xianbei people.
This Xianbei tribe came too suddenly.
By the time their king got the news, many Ding Ling tribes had already been bloodbathed.
Now King Ding Ling is summoning all his tribesmen to prepare for a decisive battle with Bu Dugen's Xianbei tribe.
Liu Cheng asked again: "Where is your king, where is your royal court?"
General Ding Ling replied: "On both sides of the river's mouth, half of our people live there."
The next day, Liu Cheng received the scouting report.
King Ding Ling brought people and asked to meet with him.
Liu Cheng immediately sent someone to arrange a meeting ceremony.
After all, the other party was a king of the clan, and the meeting ceremony could not be too hasty.
King Ding Ling brought a thousand troops, accompanied by several of his officials, who were his right-hand assistants in managing the tribe.
"Little Wang, I don't know that the general led his army to pursue the Xianbei people.
It is really disrespectful."
King Ding Ling said after seeing Liu Cheng and saluting.
Liu Cheng smiled and said: "The Xianbei people invaded our territory, and we had to fight back and defeat them.
Now we are chasing them.
We hope that King Ding Ling can join forces with us to attack the Xianbei people."
King Ding Ling immediately agreed: "The Xianbei people killed my people, robbed my cattle and sheep, and raped my women.
We Ding Ling people have sworn hatred with them.
Even if the general does not lead his army, we will fight them to the end."
Now that the general's army has arrived in Mobei, we are alone People are like seeing relatives and saviors.
We are very willing to join forces with the general to attack the Xianbei people.
As the owner of this territory, I very sincerely request the general and your army to go to my royal court.
We will kill the cattle and sheep, and use Great wine and the most sumptuous food reception” Liu Cheng accepted the invitation with a smile and said: "My soldiers and I are deeply honored.
Please allow me to express my most sincere gratitude to you on behalf of my warriors.
Your Majesty has just arrived.
Please enter my camp to rest for a while and eat."
Order something and then we’ll set off.”
King Ding Ling immediately entered the camp with Liu Cheng.
He found that the Han army's camp was very large, with more than 20,000 people, which was not much less than all his tribesmen combined
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