manynovel Chapter 317
Chapter 317
Li Guanghong and his party of more than 90 people, more than 200 horses, more than 30 camels, plus more than a dozen ox carts and mule carts, dressed as caravans, drove out from the north gate of Quli City, and then traveled about 5 miles northwest, and after encountering the Peacock River, they meandered northwest with the river course, and traveled a hundred miles, and then came to the birthplace of the Peacock River—— Bosten Lake, at the same time, also came to the territory of Yanqi Kingdom, and then went west around the lake, following the Kaidu River, the main source of Bosten Lake, and continued westward to the junction of Yanqi and Tianshan Mountain, and then turned north, all the way to Guzi and Wusun Kingdom...
This route was the marching route of his father, Li Shi, the envoy of Quli Tuntian and the captain of the light car, and there were two people in his ranks, who had served as Li Shi's auxiliary army and followed him several times, so they were very familiar with the road.
The reason why Li Guanghong's team expanded again was because there were more than a dozen brothers and relatives of Li Shi's corporal and pawn, and when they heard that Li Shi's army was besieged and killed by the Xiongnu with superior forces, and heard that Xiaogongzi wanted to travel west to find his father, he went to the door to ask for help, asking to take them with him and go to find the remains of his relatives so that they could be brought back to the countryside for burial.
With the expansion of the Han Empire's power in the Western Regions, the culture and customs of the Han family gradually began to be accepted and recognized by the local natives and Hu people, and the concept of people dying into the soil and returning to their roots slowly penetrated into the hearts of the people, and the locals also changed the previous bad customs of "sky burial" and "water burial", changed to burial as the mainstay, cremation as a supplement, into the soil for peace, with the burial thick burial, incense candle worship, has also become the duty that filial piety and virtuous grandchildren should uphold.
In addition, Li Guanghong's mentor, Zhang Mingshan, also sat on a mule cart and followed his team....
At the beginning, Zhang Mingshan said that he would go west with his disciples, but Li Guanghong said that he would not agree with anything
! Just kidding! The
old man is almost seventy this year, which is already a high-life old man in the Han Empire, which has an average life expectancy of less than forty, and in the Western Regions, where the average life expectancy is more than thirty years old, it is even closer to the existence of "mascots" and "old immortals"
Although Old Master Zhang's body is still quite tough, walking with the wind, ears and eyes, full of breath, teaching the inferior, and the strength of the hand is outrageous, but after all, the age is here, moreover, the Western Regions are no better than the Central Plains, more deserts, Gobi and mountains, dangerous slopes, difficult roads, quite bumps, don't find his father, send the teacher away first, then it will be worth the loss!
Li Guanghong has been learning art with Zhang Mingshan since he was a child, and spending more time with his teacher than with his father and even his mother, except for being stubborn when he was a child, he suffered a lot under the teacher, and was beaten a lot, but as the senior apprentices taught by Master Yan grew up day by day, the reputation of "Wen Wu prodigy" was far and near famous, and Li Guanghong finally began to read the teacher's good!
Zhang Mingshan is knowledgeable and talented, both literary and martial arts, his life experience is still extremely rich, he speaks humorously and humorously, and he tells fascinating stories, he is different from ordinary Confucianists, and did not force Li Guanghong to read the book of sages, but from the scriptures, Philosophical start, requiring him to understand under the premise of argumentation, memorize on the basis of understanding, and then turn it into his own use, in order to help him understand the small words, almost every paragraph, while giving specific examples to illustrate, so that Li Guanghong easily remembered and understood these esoteric and obscure article sentences, and even in recent years, Li Guanghong and the teacher get along more and more harmoniously, sometimes even lunch does not go back to eat, Lai his teacher eats and drinks mixed, can be said to be like father and son!
Zhang Mingshan is a fellow villager descendant of Zhang Qian, the Marquis of Bowang, who is also a native of Hanzhong County, and when he was a teenager, he also practiced culture and martial arts, and was quite talented, and was later recommended to Zhang Qian's mansion as a staff member, accompanying the attendants, and then later because of both culture and martial arts, he was repeatedly entrusted with important responsibilities by Old Master Zhang.
In the sixth year of Yuan Shuo, Emperor Wu of Han ordered the general Wei Qing to send troops to attack the Xiongnu twice, and Zhang Qian led his army to attack Mobei as a lieutenant, and he served as a staff member under Zhang Qian's tent; in the first year of Yuangari, he accompanied Bowanghou to Qianwei County to explore the southwest, and traveled nearly 2,000 li south as an envoy, but was hindered by Di, Yuan Lang four years, he accompanied Bowanghou to the Western Regions twice, and was entrusted with a heavy task, as one of the deputy envoys, successively sent to Kang Ju and Dayue clan two countries, until Yuan Ding returned to Beijing in five years, he was forty-three years old, and later because he offended the emperor, he returned to his hometown to study, but when he returned to his hometown, his wife married someone else as a wife because he did not return home for many years, and even his son was very indifferent to him, and when he was discouraged, he moved to the area around Zhangye, closer to the Western Regions where he had been struggling for many years, and was later invited by Li Shiyan to be the Western Xi and enlighten Li Guanghong.......
Zhang Mingshan insisted on following, Li Guanghong tried hard to persuade to no avail, so he begged his weird senior brothers, but unexpectedly, the senior brothers did not say a word, they prepared a mule car for Mr. Zhang, and it took an afternoon to transform the car, the wheels were wrapped with leather not to mention, and some seemingly complex devices were installed under the car, Li Guanghong personally went up to experience it, feeling that the whole car was more comfortable and stable than any car he had made before, and he was very surprised by the feeling of bumps and tremors
Under his questioning, his senior brother told him that just adding "dangtu" and "futu" under the car can not only reduce the feeling of bumps, make people ride comfortably, but also increase the carrying capacity of the big car by 50%!
section view of the futu
Li Guanghong was quite surprised after looking at the partial view
of the longitudinal section, and finally understood that the strange knife and axe tools brought by the senior brothers were originally used as making tools, and he couldn't help but admire the talents of these senior brothers from the bottom
of his heart! ! In this way, after nearly a month of trekking, Li Guanghong and his entourage traveled 800 li through thorns, mountains, and rain, and came to the col mentioned by the herdsman in mid-February when the grass grew and the warblers flew
Not long after, they found the remains of Li Jiajun in a low depression at the end of the col...
Obviously, these bones were hastily piled together by the Huns, the armor, clothes, pants and shoes on the soldiers, everything worn on the body, except for the profane clothes worn closely, were stripped of their essence, and weapons were even more impossible to find, for the poor and lack of iron tools, the things on the Han people are treasures, even the shoes on the feet of a dead horse, are very precious strategic materials, will not be left ....
After nearly half a year, the body has turned black and shriveled, but fortunately this is a grassland, the climate is dry, and the body has not all decomposed into a puddle of mud, which can barely be identified. These piled up bones, many of the outer layers have been gnawed by wolves, they have been unrecognizable, it is difficult to distinguish, and even some of the bones only leave limbs, and the body has been hollowed out....
The accompanying soldiers, relatives and brothers, as well as Li Guanghong, came forward to identify the corpses with sorrow, and with the help of everyone, they separated the corpses and identified them one by one....
The soldiers' families and brothers are also familiar with the other soldiers under Li Shi, after all, there are only 300 people, practicing together all day, or eating and drinking together, and most of the family knows each other. Soon, the names of some people were called out, Zhang Mingshan hurriedly looked for wooden signs, charcoal notes, and marked the remains clearly, as for those bones that could not be distinguished, they also let people write down the main characteristics and number them one by one....
In less than half a day's effort, these bones were cleaned up, a total of 258 remains, in which Li Shi's bones were not found...
This
time, Li Shi attacked, because it was close to early winter, in order to achieve a quick victory, he did not bring auxiliary soldiers who walked slowly, so the total number of sorties was 301 people, minus the more than 20 people who broke out of the siege, there should be at least 270 corpses here, and now only 258 have been found, proving that at least 12 people are missing!
Since there are no bones of his father here, there are only two possibilities, one is that his father was among the twenty or so knights who broke out, and the other is that his father did not break through, but was captured by the Huns....
Thinking of this, Li Guanghong was so anxious that he quickly ordered people to go to the mountain to chop a lot of firewood and return home, and held a cremation for these dead father's corporal soldiers...
On the second day, Li Guanghong divided some horses and most of the ox carts, and asked the accompanying soldiers and relatives to send the ashes of these 258 people back to the canal plow, he planned to continue to travel west to search, and when he asked his mentor Zhang Mingshan, this old man said that he would not go back, and he followed his disciples all the way....
On
the third day, Li Guanghong led the remaining 88 people along the northern mountain range of Wusun Kingdom, all the way to the west to continue to explore, in his team, there is a warrior of a small tribe nomadic in Mobei all year round, which can be called a living map of this area, at the same time, he is also an excellent hunter, very good at tracking the traces of horses, with the traces of horses, it will be easy to do!
Needless
to say, even small groups of wild horses are likely to have small tribes chasing their traces and trying to catch some!
They explore all the way west along the road, hiding when they encounter large tribes, walking around, encountering small tribes, they come forward to inquire, encounter individual small Xiongnu tribes, and when they see that they are Han, they have to fight a dozen....
You
know, whether it is the Fei general Li Guang, the Li Cai brothers, or Wei Qing and Huo Qu's sick nephews, they are all as old as him, or even younger than him, they have already gone into battle to kill the enemy, and they are famous all over the world, and although he is young, he naturally can't beat his father, but he can basically fight with the soldiers under his father.
As for the courage to kill people in battle, there is also some of them! Let's put it this way, Longxi Li's family training since he was a child, killing chickens at the age of five, slaughtering dogs at the age of seven, and personally going to the sheepfold to kill sheep and remove bones
at the age of nine The first battle of Li Guanghong's life took place on the afternoon of the fifth day after leaving the col, when they encountered a small Xiongnu tribe, about 100 cavalrymen, and somehow they found them and blocked the mountain pass that they had to pass through to the west....
Li Guanghong was naturally not afraid, and dressed neatly a set of iron armor and iron helmets customized by his father, put on a saddle for the war horse, hung up stirrups, squinted back a short bow, held a gun in his left hand, held a sword in his right hand, and had five short spears inserted in his back, riding majestically on the horse.
These
eighteen people, all of whom were well-known local strong men, were skilled but did not like to be disciplined, so they refused their father's solicitation
If it hadn't coincided with the New Year, they would have been idle, and at the same time, Li Guanghong's price was high, and he would definitely not be able to invite them! Li Guanghong
calculated in his heart, one Han enemy and five hu, and the fierce warriors he invited were all better equipped and stronger than the ordinary Han army, and dealing with these 100 or so Xiongnu barbarians who looked sloppy, did not even have a piece of iron on their bodies, had all kinds of guys in their hands, and even had people with stone axes and wooden sticks, it was as easy as killing chickens.
Hearing the clanging sound of the cladding behind him, Li Guanghong was so angry that he couldn't wait to go into battle and rush to kill, but after a while, he felt wrong, the sound of the cladding was too loud, eighteen people couldn't make such a big movement, and when he looked back, he was startled!
He heard his master say that some of his senior brothers had been with the champion Hou Feng Wolf Juxu, and at that time he did not think so, thinking that they were military counselors and staff, and they could not ride horses to fight!
After all, they are all readers, like themselves, how many people can there be in the world?
The back is all wrapped in iron sheets, not mainly the leather armor on their bodies, and the key parts are strengthened with iron sheets
! Good fellow! This equipment is even better than their own, hurry up with the rumored Yulin Army
! There are also the guys in their hands, all knives, short knives in their left hand, long knives in their right hand, all curved, strange shapes, and engraved blood grooves, which are very hideous to look at
! In addition, it is their momentum!
Everyone tried to line up the horses, twenty people in a row divided into three rows, people on the horse, without saying a word, can only hear the sound of horses' hooves and snorts, a murderous aura, rushing towards the face, even those eighteen fierce soldiers, also killed in this way, forced straight back!
Li
Guanghong excitedly pointed the knife forward, did not speak, and was the first to jump out....
In this battle, more than 50 enemies were killed, the rest were dispersed, and no one in Li Guanghong's army was killed, only three were wounded, all of them were minor wounds
! When that small Xiongnu tribe saw such a fierce Han army and the one-sided slaughter, they were frightened, and those who could run ran away, and those who could not run, they knelt down and cried bitterly for mercy!
In this way, no less than 30 small tribes were "questioned", and finally, they found clues in the grassland area northeast of Kang Juguo!
One tribe said that he had seen his father and several subordinates suspected to be his father captured alive by hundreds of light horses of the Xiongnu and driven to the northeast Hanhai ...