There were many people, very many, and the hills were filled with southern barbarian Hmong, drumming and roaring.
Hoo! Hoo!
Just a mountain wind blowing, the mountain grass and trees swaying with the wind, and the clamouring southern savage seedlings mixed together, from the foot of the mountain to look up, can not distinguish which is grass and trees, which is southern savage seedlings.
In people’s eyes, the countless grasses and trees swaying in the wind on the mountain are the noisy southern barbarians.
In people’s ears, the whimpering sound made by the wind blowing the trees on the mountain is like the sound of the southern barbarian Miao people clamouring and roaring.
Just like the Ming Dynasty version of the grass and trees and the wind, the green and strong people were all ashen and terrified.
“How ……How so many barbarians? On ……last time, how many Japanese invaders came to attack the city?”
The worried young strong man on the road looked at his companion beside him with a pale face, his voice shivering.
It’s only the end of autumn, why is it so cold? It’s like a cold winter, goosebumps are rising ……
“Three ……Five thousand it ……”The companion who was still confident on the road was not speaking well at the moment.
At that time, the Japanese invaders were only three to five thousand people, but now the rebellious southern barbarians are all over the mountains, there are too many people to count, there must be at least seventy to eighty thousand ah! We are only a thousand men, how can we possibly defeat them?
Looking at the mountains of southern barbarians seedlings, deep despair grew savagely from the bottom of his heart.
“County Honour, my humble servant is incompetent …..Please county honourable chastisement!”Dignitary Liu returned with a face of shame, kneeling down on one knee to apologise to Zhu Pingan.
“Dignitary Liu please rise. As I said just now, one try is all it takes, there is no need to force it. Besides, Dignitary Liu did not return without success, through Dignitary Liu’s test, I already know the reality of the Southern Barbarians’ Miao descendants.”
Zhu Pingan stretched out his hands to help up Dignitary Liu, smiled and encouraged.
“Ah? Your Honour already knows the reality of the Southern Barbarians?”Liu Dianlian heard this and froze for a moment, hesitantly asking, “But did you find that the southern barbarians are so numerous and powerful that you cannot do anything about it today? You still need to go back and think long and hard?”
Liu Dianli felt that he just tried, the biggest credit is to find that the rebel southern barbarians are too many people of Miao descent, the mountains are southern barbarians ah. If they were to attack with a large army from the start, their thousand men would not be enough to stuff the teeth of the southern barbarians.
Zhu Pingan shook his head with a slight smile, pointing at the large mountain where the rebellious southern barbarians of Miao descent were entrenched and said to Liu Dianliang, “Oh, Liu Dianliang, look carefully, there are more than enough southern barbarians of Miao descent in this mountainous area!”
“Many ah.”Liu Dianliang was unsure.
“Hehe, then don’t you think it’s strange? Since the other side has a large number of people and we only have more than a thousand, why didn’t the other side take advantage of the fact that we had just arrived and had not yet gained a firm foothold, to take advantage of the situation to massively cover up and kill over?!”
Zhu Pingan said with a smile.
When Liu Dianliang heard this, he instantly sweated like rain, if the rebel southern barbarians really took advantage of the unsteady foothold of our side to attack and kill us like what the county honourable said, he was afraid that our side would have already been annihilated.
Just why didn’t the southern barbarians take advantage of the opportunity to attack and kill over? Letting go of this great opportunity for nothing?
“It’s about the rebel southern barbarians who don’t know the art of war, right? Couldn’t catch the battle opportunity.”Liu Dianliang hesitated for a moment and said indecisively.
“Nonetheless. If the southern barbarians of Miao descent did not know the art of war and acted recklessly, they would more than likely not hesitate to attack and kill us when they see that there are fewer of us to take advantage of.”Zhu Pingan smiled faintly and said softly.
“Then why?”Liu Dianliang was baffled and asked in disbelief.
“That is because they are colourful, strong on the outside but dry on the inside, looking at the large number of people, but in reality, it is a false appearance, and their own battle-ready people, will not be much more than ours, otherwise they would not be so cautious. It is precisely because they do not have the certainty of victory, it is precisely because they are afraid of our army that they did not take advantage of our army’s unsteady foothold to attack and kill.”Zhu Pingan turned his head, looked at Liu Dianliang and the crowd behind him, stretched out his finger to point at the southern barbarian Miao descendants roaming the mountains, and explained aloud with a confident expression on his face.
“The more they bluff, the more timid they are.”Zhu Pingan said to the crowd with a certainty on his face.
When Liu Dianlian as well as the crowd heard this, they couldn’t help but come to a sudden realisation, and their earthy grey faces regained their blood colour.
Yeah.
What county honourable father said is that the southern barbarians seem to be outnumbered, but in reality, they are silver pewter spearheads that are not useful to look at. The family knows their own situation, the southern barbarians on their own situation is more than clear, so do not dry attack and kill over.
The fear and despair in the hearts of the people suddenly dissipated a lot, and the morale that was on the verge of collapse also recovered a lot.
“Dignitary Liu, you lead three hundred people to cut down wood to set up antlers and fences, and set up camp; Dignitary Han, you lead two hundred people to build a military tent; Dignitary Qian, you lead one hundred people to bury pots and pans to make food ……”After Zhu Pingan had stabilised the people’s hearts, he waved his hand and ordered the people to set up camp and bury pots and pans for food.
Felling trees, setting up camp, burying pots to cook ……
Zhu Ping’an’s party set up camp and buried pots to cook right under the mountain in a dignified and grand manner.
While the people were setting up camp, Zhu Pingan called Liu Dazhou and Liu Dazhun and said to them, “Dazhou and Dazhun, you guys work harder, take fifty brothers to the front two miles to guard against surprise attacks.”
“My lord don’t worry, with us here, we will never give the southern barbarians an opportunity to take advantage of this.”Liu Da Dao and the others led the order and left.
Soldiers are also tricky.
Strutting around and being emboldened was just a display for the southern barbarians of Miao descent, Zhu Pingan was actually very cautious and careful. When setting up camp and burying the pots and pans, the patrols, piggyback probes and guards were all in place.
On the mountain where the southern barbarian Miao people were entrenched, a man with bare arms and wearing wolf skin came to an old woman in her fifties and knelt down on one knee to report, “Lord, the Ming Dogs have set up camp under the mountain and buried the pots to make food.”
This old woman was the Wuxi Miao’s Tusi – Lady Yilan, she was originally the wife of Wuxi Miao Tusi Longlu, then Longlu was hit by a poisoned arrow in a war to conquer the disobedient tribes and died of poison. Mrs Yilan inherited the position of Tushi and has been there for more than twenty years now. Mrs Yilan is a strong woman, not only suppressed the voice of opposition within the tribe, with a woman’s body inherited the position of the Secretary of the soil, but also for the Longlu to avenge the defeat of the disobedient tribes, more than 20 years, sitting in the seat of the Secretary of the soil. Her prestige among the tribes was much higher than when Long Lu was at her peak, and she was deeply embraced by the Wuxi Miao.
“Emboldened, the Ming people must have something to fall back on. Qian Bone Ta, pass the order to Ahu Man that they must not act rashly, don’t fall into the trap of the Ming people.”
Lady Yilan leaned on a tiger’s head walking stick, supported by a maid, walked a few steps forward, came to a protruding stone, assisted by a maid to ascend the stone, observed down the mountain for a moment, looked down the mountain strutting and emboldened camping, burying pots and pans of Zhu Ping An’s side of the men and women, her eyes grew more and more cautious, and the lesser secretary twisted her head and instructed to the han who was kneeling down on one knee.
“As you command, Sir Lord.”Qian Bone Snap led the order and left.
