"There are Hu Qiqi outside the plug."
It was Zhao Hu'er who spoke, he didn't know when he was already squatting on the second layer of Fengsui, and between Ren Hong and Han Dangdang talking, his eyes kept on the thief's hole, looking at the movement outside.Ren Hong and Han Dangdang hurriedly stood on the edge of the beacon and looked out, but they couldn't see anything clearly, or Zhao Hu'er came up and pointed at them."
Five miles away from Hanli is the north bank of the 415-meter Duanshui, with a total of three horses, one on a red horse and two on a black horse."
Looking at Zhao Hu'er's right index finger, which had been deeply dented because of long-term pulling of the bow and buckle the string, Ren Hong could vaguely see that there were really people and horses moving on the north shore.Han Dangdang's eyes were worse than Ren Hong's, and it wasn't until the other two Hu people drove a large group of white-flowered sheep to the water's edge that they saw clearly, "The eyes are spent, the flowers are spent." ”Han Dangdang muttered like this, very unhappy that his eyesight was not as good as Zhao Hu'er."
Seeing those who are captives in the north of the Saiwai country, they will raise a beacon every day."
Ren Hong asked Han to dare to be a beacon, and at the same time paid close attention to Hu Qi's every move on the north bank of the Shule River.Zhao Hu'er had already let down his guard and let go of the hand holding the bow: "It should be just an ordinary Xiongnu herdsman, because there is no grass in the north, so he drove the sheep to the water to graze." ”Han Dangdang asked rhetorically: "How do you know?"
”Zhao Hu'er said: "Three of the five horses are half-grown children, barely able to ride horses. ”Han Dangdang retorted: "The Hu people will not approach the Great Wall easily, what if they deliberately use the old and weak and livestock as the forerunners to lure the flint out of the fortress?"
It's not like nothing before. ”It is said that more than 100 years ago, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, fell for a similar strategy, and took the opportunity to hide his elite soldiers, seeing that they were weak, which led to the advance of the Han army.In the end, Lao Liu was trapped in Baideng, trapped for seven days and seven nights, and even how he finally came out was unknown, which became a major mystery in the early Han Dynasty.Zhao Hu'er didn't bother to answer Han Dangdang, only counted the number of those sheep, and said to Ren Hong: "The staple food of the Huns is not meat, but the buttermilk produced by cattle, sheep and horses. ”"Although they generally do not approach the Great Wall, they only graze in the valleys and ravines of the North Mountain, but now it is August, and it will soon be winter, so they must let the livestock eat more pasture to feed their fat, and the nomadic area will become larger, so people often venture to the water's edge to herd sheep, send people out to intimidate a little, and they will leave in embarrassment" Before Ren Hong could consider whether to ride a radish out to scare and scare, Ling Husui in their west had already received the signal transmitted from this side and acted first.Two flints came out of the Great Wall, rode slowly towards the Shule River, and after only three miles, the Wuqihu people on the north bank of the river spotted them, and immediately drove the sheep in a panic to the north to retreat to the high ground with complex terrain and ravines.And the two flint guards were showing off their might at the water's edge, and it seemed that expelling a small number of Hu people was also Fengsui's daily work."
Sure enough, as Zhao Hu'er expected."
Ren Hong secretly said in his heart, this Zhao Hu'er once grew up in the Xiongnu tribe, and only escaped when he was more than ten years old, and he was very familiar with the habits of the Huns."
This month is the month when the Xiongnu are most active at the waterside of their hometown, and by the next month, they will leave the summer pasture and enter the higher northern slopes to live in the pasture, and they will leave the winter pasture in February of the following year."
Zhao Hu'er dropped such a sentence, then returned to the second floor of Fengsui, picked up a mustache that he had dropped last night, and immediately bowed his hand to Ren Hongyi and went down the stairs.Ren Hong pondered his words, but a question arose in his heart."
If it is really as Zhao Hu'er said, the Huns have been active by the waterside frequently this month, and Liu Suichang may have been killed by the Hu people, but is it really that simple?"
Han Dangdang watched Zhao Hu'er leave, a little dissatisfied, and said to Ren Hong: "Hu'er is Hu'er after all, and what he said cannot be trusted."
It's like a wolf looks like a dog, but it's a wolf after all!
”Ren Hong has the bottom in his heart, but what kind of grudge do these two people have?
He smiled: "I know, but Han Wubai, I don't understand one thing." ”Ren Hong pointed to the Great Wall located on the south bank of the Shule River and said: "When the Great Wall was built, why didn't it be built on the north bank of the river?"
Dunhuang was already short of water, and actually gave the water source to the Huns, so that it could be shared with me, which was a taboo for this soldier. ”Han Dangdang said: "Ren Sui Chang doesn't know, when this Great Wall was built, there were no Xiongnu in the north of the central Duwei, and it was only in the past ten years that some of them have been moved from the Horsehair Mountain in the east.Therefore, when the wall was built in the past, it was only considered that the north of Duanshui was too far away from Dunhuang, and I was afraid that the rescue would not be possible.It was Yihe Duwei in the east, because he wanted to defend against the southward Xiongnu of Horsehair Mountain, and the Great Wall was located in the north of Duanshui" Then he told Ren Hong about the distribution of the Xiongnu in the north of Dunhuang: A hundred years ago, after the Xiongnu occupied the Hexi Corridor, the evil king of Fenhun and the king of Hutu were stationed here.Later, the two kings were broken by Huo Qu's illness, the evil king killed the king of Hugh Tu, and surrendered to the Han Dynasty, and the two large tribes were moved to Longxi and other places by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, becoming "five subject countries", and Dunhuang and other places were empty.Under the planning of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Central Plains immigrants successively moved into the areas suitable for farming in Hexi, and the Xiongnu Shan Yu also sent new tribes to station in the area of Horsehair Mountain in the north of Dunhuang and Jiuquan, called "the right plough and the king of pollution".Although the horsehair mountain is not as rich as the Dunhuang oasis, there are also some aquatic grass forests, which have become the winter pasture of the right plough king, and there are thousands of horsemen with bows under its command, and the right plough and the king of the right plough have become the main defensive enemy of Dunhuang County, and Zhao Hu'er is many years ago, from the right plough of the king of a thousand commanders to run over.Ren Hong understood the reason, although after crossing the river, there is also the complex terrain of the North Gobi, plus the undulating peaks and peaks of the North Mountain, it seems that Po Sui will not become a battlefield for the Xiongnu to invade the border.But this undefended river, but can become a supply station after Hu Qi's long journey, it is really a fatal flaw in the Dunhuang defense line, the Saibei in autumn is the most beautiful, poplar leaves are orange and yellow, red willows are red, full of Shule River Valley, if future generations see Dunhuang has such good vegetation, should be happy, but now it always feels that there is danger hidden in those trees.After waiting for Fengsui, Chen Pengzu just woke up, covering his face that was bitten all over the bag, and cried mournfully: "Ren Hong, you flea, you flea, you are really vicious!"
”After eating the morning meal, Ren Hong sent Chen Pengzu down to the bottom of the mountain, in addition to applying for another dog for vigilance for Po Sui, he also hoped that Chen Pengzu could get the Dunhuang County Lingshi's autopsy book on Liu Suichang, that is, the report on solving the case and the autopsy, and copy it for himself."
The book?
What do you want to do?
”Chen Pengzu raised his head and looked at Ren Hong in surprise.Ren Hong said: "The Sui-chan died after the capture of Sui, although the verdict of the history was killed by Hu Lu or the homeless thief, but I was a little uneasy in my heart and wanted to take a look." ”He had asked everyone in Suizhong separately before, about the death of Liu Suichang, that day it was Lu Guangsu who was watching Fengsui, only to see Liu Suichang riding out of the valley from a distance, to hunt in the river valley, but after entering the poplar forest, but did not come out for a long time, until the evening felt that something might have happened, sent someone over to see, it was too late in the whole process, no suspicious characters left from the river valley to be seen by Fengsui, when the murderer sneaked in, and how to escape, became the biggest mystery of this murder case."
That's a lot of work."
Chen Pengzu shook his head, but still said, "I left a copy of the book at the Central Governor's station, and I will go back and take a look." ”"Thank you, Brother Chen, I'll invite you to eat and drink when you take a break."
Chen Pengzu kindly reminded Ren Hongdao: "If you want me to say, instead of worrying about this matter, you should prepare well for the next August 15 test." ”"Try them all?"
Ren Hong, a new officer, was not very familiar with the military system.Chen Pengzu explained: "It was the autumn test firing, and on the 15th of August, subordinate officials like me and Su Yannian, all the chief and the chief of the flint had to report to the waiting officer, and try to shoot a target fifty steps away with a bow or crossbow. ”It turned out that this test was a military exercise of the Han Dynasty, in addition to the drill of the military formation, the officials also held the "貙chū Liu Li", that is, the shooting salute, and the northern and southern armies of Chang'an generally held the capital test on the beginning of the autumn.The local armies were a little later, and the time was not uniform, but they had to be completed before the beginning of October, and the results of their respective capital tests should be reported to the central authorities.In this way, in a period of peace, we can urge the generals not to slack off their armament.Ren Hong asked carefully, only to know that during the autumn test shooting, each official had to use twelve arrows to shoot at a target fifty steps away, calculated by the number of shots in the bull's-eye, 6 is normal, more than 6, each will be given 15 days, if it is less than 6, each team will work for 15 days, the so-called "labor", to put it bluntly, is the length of service.When an official has served for a certain number of years, he can be promoted even if he has no merit.But Ren Hong, a person who fails the political trial, should be a young official, and he still hopes to rely on his seniority to get into the position?
Ren Hong was a little unimpressed, but Chen Pengzu's next sentence cheered him up."
Last year, the chief of Guanghan Sui next to Po Sui Sui, only one of the twelve arrows was hit, and he was ridiculed by the entire Buguang Waiting Officer, and finally was removed from his post in anger by the Waiting Officer."
Chen Pengzu nodded at him and said, "Ren Hong, I don't know how your archery skills are?"
If you shoot too much at that time, I'm afraid that your flint position will be lost before you can sit hot!
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