The 380th chapter takes the initiative to attack (3)
"Then how to distinguish the number of enemy cavalry?" Li Dejian's contemptuous eyes changed and he humbly asked for advice.
The bearded hunter bowed to Li Dejian and explained: "It can also be distinguished from the falcon's screams. After the falcon discovers its prey, it calls to remind the hunter that there are things to hunt here. But once the falcon finds that the prey is too strong or large, it cannot be hunted, the eagle's screams will stop."
Upon hearing this, Li Dejian nodded thoughtfully, and after a moment of silence, he continued to ask: "Can you estimate the specific number? If you only know that the enemy has a large number of cavalry but do not know the number, it will definitely be a huge threat to us!"
The bearded hunter didn't say anything. Wei Hong smiled at the bearded hunter, waved his hand, and signaled the bearded hunter to retreat. Then he stood up and explained to Li Dejian himself: "This requires a simple reasoning. All nine eagles were released, which can be roughly inferred that the enemy's cavalry was more than a hundred people and gathered in the same place. If this is the case, it can be concluded that the enemy's cavalry was large. After all, if the 30,000 troops were carried, they would definitely use the cavalry as a weapon, and would not only bring hundreds of cavalry. After all, hundreds of cavalry did not play any role in the battlefield at all. Instead, they would have to draw out special personnel and money to properly take care of these war horses."
After Wei Hong's explanation, Li Dejian became clear in his heart and stopped talking. Wei Zheng was very interested in Wei Hong's method of using falcon to infer enemy cavalry. In the past, when the Tang Dynasty fought, some people used falcons to detect them, but only reconnaissance of the enemy's movements could not play such a big role. Now that the falcon came to Wei Hong's hands, it actually seemed to have two eyes in the air. Staring at the enemy at all times, I'm afraid that Wei Hong would have the ability to do the Tang Dynasty.
The war is imminent. At the instruction of Wei Zheng, Wei Hong immediately asked the hunter to let the falcon fly. Since the main force of the enemy was more than 70 miles away from Liangzhou City, even if the falcon was fast, it would take an hour to travel back and forth. In addition, the hunter had to follow the hunter to grasp the dynamics of the falcon at all times, and determine whether the falcon screamed, or kept shouting, or not. Therefore, the time was extended infinitely. Everyone was waiting in the main hall from morning to noon, after dinner, and from noon to evening. Just when everyone was a little impatient, the bearded hunter who was eager to see finally came back.
As soon as the bearded hunter entered the door, everyone, including Wei Zheng, surrounded him impatiently. He asked endlessly. The bearded hunter was from a tribe and rarely dealt with the powerful. At this time, he was surrounded by so many big figures in the center, which made the bearded hunter flattered and stammered: "I shouted, I kept calling..."
"Kill?" Although Wei Hong popularized common sense about falcons by Wei Hong, he was still a little unfamiliar with falcons. After some recollection, he remembered the meaning of falcons. Wei Zheng first thought it through, walked back to the first seat and sat down, put one hand on his belly button, patted his belly. He laughed and said, "Okay! Get ready for the army immediately, and take the initiative to fight in two days!"
Cheng Chumo was slow in mind, and Wei Zheng had already ordered a battle. He had not figured out what was going on. He poked Wei Hong's ribs with his fingers and asked in a low voice: "What's going on?"
At this time, Wei Hong had been promoted from the last seat leaning against the door to the second seat leaning against Wei Zheng. Seeing that Cheng Chumo didn't understand what was going on, Wei Hong explained tirelessly: "Just shouting a falcon means that the enemy has cavalry, but there are many, and they cannot be hunted. If you don't shout, it means that the enemy has no cavalry. In the end, it means that the enemy has cavalry, but the number is very small, and even hunters can hunt."
Hearing this, Cheng Chumo suddenly realized, patted his head, and said annoyedly: "Look at my head, sir, I have already said it once today, why did I forget it?"
The decision to take the initiative to fight was decided. Wei Zheng ordered that no one should drink a drop of wine before going to fight, especially to remind Cheng Chumo of the wine barrel. The next day, everyone was busy preparing the army for a day, and was so tired that they were out of breath and fell asleep. After waking up, everyone put on their armor, brought weapons, and went to the front city gate to meet. Wei Hong learned the lesson of dragging his legs last time. In order to avoid dragging the masses back, he got up early this time, put on the armor prepared in advance, came east with a sword, and followed Wei Zheng to the front city gate.
On the way to go, Wei Zheng sat on the high-headed horse, curiously glanced at the eastwards, and then rushed to Wei Hong with great confusion: "The Lord asked you to bring your maid to Liangzhou to take care of you on the way, why did you take him to the battlefield?"
Wei Hong had long known that Wei Zheng would be interested in Yijian Donglai, so he rode his horse and walked parallel to Wei Zheng, using his body to block between Wei Zheng and Yijian Donglai, to prevent Wei Zheng from putting his thoughts on Yijian Donglai. Then he blew up and said in a relaxed tone: "To be honest with the elder, this woman is my personal bodyguard, with great martial arts skills, and has saved me from danger several times."
"Oh?" Wei Zheng was even more interested when he heard this. After all, there were very few female guards, and even the Supreme Master had only a few people around him. Wei Zheng wanted to look at the sword again, but Wei Hong stood in front of him, so he had to give up. But he asked unwillingly: "Why did she cover her face with her veil and not show her true face?"
Wei Hong had already prepared this question for Wei Zheng, so he was unable to act and bully himself, and said lightly: "This woman looks extremely ugly. The old man lived for less than ten years when he saw her, and the baby would be scared and cry for three days. In order to avoid tainting the eyes of the old master, I then ordered her to cover her face."
"So that's it..." Wei Zheng responded casually, not believing Wei Hong's nonsense, but he didn't doubt it. To put it bluntly, he didn't take Yi Jian Donglai to heart. Since Wei Hong was willing to take it, please take it with him. Who would let the emperor give it a special offer? As long as he goes to the battlefield, Bie Zuo will do anything wrong, otherwise even Wei Hong's personal servant, I will definitely cut off his soul with one knife!
While speaking, he arrived at the front gate and went out to see that he was a man, a pure cavalry army composed of 15,000 people, with a huge momentum and a ghost. Even Wei Hong saw it for the first time. Wei Hong was almost shocked and dropped his chin, and Wei Zheng was not much better. Although Wei Zheng had been through the battlefield for a long time and often led a large army, he had never seen such a large cavalry. In the past, 30,000 to 50,000 infantry had already become a large army, and it was already amazing to have seven or eight thousand cavalry. Ten thousand cavalry? None of them were important towns on the border or in the imperial palace... (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!