Mythical big man, champion soldier saint

Chapter 239: The Emperor Worships the General! [Monthly ticket plus update]

The sun was setting.

The inner house of the Champion Hou's Mansion.

Bai Nanyu was wearing a plain Han skirt, and the crape myrtle on the skirt was in full bloom.Her shiny black hair is tied behind her head, a little hair hangs down her neck, and her kneeling figure undulates.

The middle hall of the inner house of the Hou Mansion has a wooden floor.The kneeling cattails embroidered with lotus patterns were spread behind the low seats, so after taking their seats, both Bai Nanyu and Zhuo Qingke took off their shoes, and two pairs of showy feet in white socks appeared under the skirts.

Zhuo Qingke is wearing a moon-white blouse with a milky white and pink satin skirt, which complements her youthful and girlish temperament.

The three women were sitting together, and even the room seemed to be filled with a bright color.

After Huo Qubing took the main seat, Her Royal Highness also changed from the standing seat beside him, and sat next to him.

Liu Qing is usually not so clingy in front of outsiders, but today is slightly different.

"The night before yesterday, if Qing Ke hadn't happened to be in my room, I'm afraid I wouldn't have escaped.

When my father-in-law was robbed, I heard the movement and went out, and the other party quickly retreated. I was worried about Qing Ke, so I chased him a little later, and the other party had disappeared. "

Bai Nanyu said softly:

"When I turned back to the house, the other party had a second wave of people who came to rob Qingke again, but I just turned back and intercepted one of them. I slapped one of the other party before they escaped."

"Father hasn't come back until now..."

Zhuo Qingke muttered something in a low voice, and took a peek at Huo Qubing.

Her eyes were red and swollen, and what she had experienced in the past two days, she only hoped it would be a nightmare.

Even her best sister-in-law, Bai Nanyu, seemed to have become strange since the night before.

Bai Nanyu's sudden outburst of skill and ghostly movement brought her a shock, no less than someone breaking into the mansion suddenly and robbing her father.

And Zhuo Huai has no news so far, and it is completely beyond her ability.

With nothing to do, and the hesitation of his father's disappearance, 17-year-old Zhuo Qingke was at a loss, almost desperate.

"The other party is someone from Zonghengdao?"

"Yes"

Bai Nanyu said firmly.

Huo Qubing thought to himself that since it was a vertical and horizontal way, the purpose of arresting Zhuo Huai was obviously to lure Bai Nanyu to pursue him, and there was a high probability that Zhuo Huai would have been killed afterwards.

"What did you find out when you fought against the opponent?"

"I took the opportunity to move some hands and feet in the other party's shadow, and sensed that they left Chang'an and went west."

Bai Nanyu: "I came here to ask Huo Hou to help resettle Qing Ke.

It's best to mobilize the power of Xiuyi and chase the murderer with me.The family... There is still a chance of survival. "

Huo Qubing said: "I'll ask Xiuyi Deputy Shi Cao Qiao to lead someone to assist you personally, as for Zhuo Qingke, you can still live with Xiuyi Songran..."

Bai Nanyu glanced at Zhuo Qingke, and begged, "Can Qing Ke stay at the Lord Hou's mansion?"

Zhuo Qingke mustered up her courage, and raised her red and swollen eyes to take a quick look at Huo Qubing.

She obviously also wanted to stay in the Hou's Mansion, living closer to Huo Qubing made her feel more secure, but unfortunately she dared not speak up.

"I'll go to the hospital in a few days, it's fine if there are more people in the family." Liu Qing said.

Bai Nanyu let out a breath.

Liu Qing asked the maid beside her to take Zhuo Qingke to pick a courtyard.

When Zhuo Qingke went out, Liu Qing turned his head to look at Bai Nanyu, and asked, "Qu Bing will go out again soon, are you going to chase after the person who kidnapped Zhuo Huai, or go out with Qu Bing?"

Bai Nanyu lowered her eyebrows and said pleasantly: "If Huo Hou didn't order, I'll go and track down the traces of my father-in-law."

Huo Qubing said: "Go to Zhuo Huai, I will let Xiuyi cooperate with you."

Liu Qing raised the corner of his mouth.

She could tolerate the unthreatening Zhuo Qingke.

But this Bai Nanyu is a vixen, which made Liu Qing somewhat displeased, and planned to keep this vixen away from her husband.

Bai Nanyu got up from the low seat, first performed the ceremony to Liu Qing, and then it was Huo Qubing's turn: "If you have no other orders from Lord Hou and Princess, I will go then?"

Seeing that Huo Qubing nodded in agreement, he walked away lightly.

……

"Husband, do you have other thoughts in taking that Bai Nanyu under your command?"

In the evening, on the couch in the sleeping hall, the husband and wife talked at night, Liu Qing asked.

Huo Qubing made a pun, and teased: "Your Highness, don't worry, she is not as old as you, and I don't like small ones."

Liu Qing smiled lightly: "So you like Roshna?"

Roshna is from the Western Regions, which is different from the Han people, so her grandeur is higher than that of Her Royal Highness, while Bai Nanyu is slightly inferior to Liu Qing.

Zhuo Qingke was not as good as Bai Nanyu.It is probably the sort of D+, D, C, B.

late March.

At noon, the emperor's study.

Liu Che, Wei Qing who came back from Beiguan, Huo Qubing, Li Cai, Zhang Tang, Dong Zhongshu and other civil and military officials were present in turn.

Everyone was looking at the topographic map of the Han territory and its surrounding tribes hanging on the wall.

There are many red lines and black lines marked on the map, which are deduced to judge the possible military routes that the Han and Hungarian sides may take in the battle.

"The Xiongnu will definitely fight on two fronts in this battle. They have already launched an offensive against the Western Regions from the Western Front."

Li Cai also fought with Wei Qing back then and knew military affairs, saying:

"The Xiongnu wanted to lure our army to confront us in the northwest.

On the way to the west, Loulan, Pulei and other countries firmly block the main routes of entry and exit from the Western Regions, and the terrain is more favorable for them. "

Wei Qing: "No one will be willing to suppress our army on the western front. He will have other plans, at least two routes concurrently, so I can't take care of both."

The emperor pondered for a while, and said: "In this case, I will issue an edict to lead the army to fight against the Xiongnu with the cure of illness.

Wei Qing stayed behind and took control of the entire army to deal with the possible offensive of the Huns. "

The crowd commanded in unison.

"The day after tomorrow will be an auspicious time. I will worship the ancestors in the ancestral temple, tell the heaven and the earth, go to the altar to worship the general in order to cure illness, and raise troops to defeat the Xiongnu enemies."

After everyone dispersed, Huo Qubing took his uncle Wei Qing to the Palace of the Guards.

Ru Bohu has already waited here in advance, and many generals of the guard army are also there.

"The Huns still have a route of soldiers and horses, and they are hiding their tracks now, but I judge that they may attack our Han counties from the east, or even use sea ships to bypass the border and surprise the counties along the Bohai Sea. Uncle must be on guard."

Huo Qubing and Ru Bohu opened their mouths in turn, talking about what they discovered in Yanjiao and their judgment on the subsequent situation.

Huo Qubing and Wei Qing unfolded the map, and the nephew and uncle unreservedly made a preview of how to cooperate and the situation after the war started.

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Huns, Ulaanbaatar.

The long wind howled.

Below the highlands, there are hundreds of tribes of the Huns, with their flags waving and their army stretching.

On the banners of these Xiongnu tribes, there are respectively painted wolf heads, eagles, and scarlet shamanic mantras, waving in the wind.

The cavalry of all ministries rode proudly on their horses, so everyone was ready for the expedition.

The soldiers and horses of the Huns gathered together, their murderous aura and fighting spirit blended.

On the grasslands around Ulaanbaatar, cattle and sheep dare not roar, and gophers shiver and hide in their burrows.

Even the pack of wolves, hundreds of miles away, had a strong fear of the direction where the thousands of armies were converging, and avoided them far away, not daring to approach them.

And under the highlands of Ulaanbaatar, countless Huns, including women and children from various tribes, are looking up at the king's tent fanatically.

There is not only the great shaman, Shan Yu Yizhixie, but also the god general Zhuodu who once led the tribes in the grassland to attack the city!
His stature is stalwart, with a particularly thick and strong body, like a majestic peak holding the sky, standing on a high ground with his hands behind his back, with long hair draped over his shoulders.

Yi Zhi looked sideways at the hundreds of soldiers and horses below, frowning secretly.

Just because Judu appeared, the tens of thousands of Huns below got off their horses, knelt down and kowtowed, as if they were meeting a god.

This was a treatment that even his great Chanyu had never received.

And on the high platform on one side, the great shaman painted a bright red blood sacrificial rite on his face, wore a feather crown on his head, held a leather drum in his forehand, and tapped it lightly.

Facing the people below with his bare feet, he hummed the shaman's sacrificial rites in a low voice, walked in a weird way like dancing, and beat the drumhead with one hand from time to time, performing the shaman's unique sacrificial ceremony of dispatching troops.

Suddenly, there was a strong wind.

The great shaman's voice suddenly became high-pitched, and amidst the sound of strange incantations, the entire altar was enveloped in a puff of black air.

And the black air slowly gathered a hazy figure about Zhang Xu tall.

The great shaman slaughtered cattle and sheep, eagles, and hunted wolves respectively, and sacrificed with blood.

Strangely, when the blood of an eagle is sprinkled, the black shadow grows wings; when the blood of cattle and sheep is sprinkled, its figure slowly rises; when the blood of a wolf is sprinkled, a pack of wolves is transformed under its feet. For its drive.

The whole process was weird and unspeakably scary.

The big shaman suddenly shook the drum in his hand and shouted loudly!

Boom—boom!
The sound of drums shook the grassland, and the hazy figure suddenly turned into a black storm, sweeping and blending into the thousands of troops below.

"The battle must be won!

Win the battle!
The battle must be won! "

The soldiers and horses gathered by the various tribes of the Huns screamed like mountains shaking and ground shaking.

"Judu, how are you going to fight this battle?" Yi Zhi asks obliquely.

"It depends on how the Han people respond before making a decision. There is no need to make unnecessary deliberations in advance."

Judu's voice was powerful and sweet, full of determination.

Seen from the side, his face is like a knife and axe, giving people an unshakable and tough look like a sculpture.

Yi Zhi said obliquely: "Han General Huo Qubing is the best at running for the attack, if he comes to attack our rear from a long distance, you are prepared, how should we deal with it?"

Judu said frankly: "I can't guess their marching route, because the battlefield is vast and there are many ways to march.

If you infer rashly, you will only be restrained every step of the way, lose your initiative, and be led away by others. "

He added: "But although I can't figure out their marching route, they won't think of my arrangement either."

At this time, the horn sounded below, and the Xiongnu's various ministries joined forces, over 15 elite, turned the horse's head, and galloped away.

Judu glanced at the various ministries that had raised troops like a flood, and said, "You let Shuo Jianjian also lead troops to join the battle?"

Yu Jianjian is the parent and son of Yi Zhixie, who is only 21 years old this year.

He was not close to Yi Zhixie and his son, but worshiped Judu very much, and worshiped Judu as his teacher when he was young.

In recent years, Suo Jianjian has been in the Lan clan of his matriarchal clan, and rarely comes to the royal court of the Huns.

Yizhi said obliquely: "He asked to go, the warriors of our grasslands can only grow in the flames of war.

It is a good thing that he is willing to go to the battlefield, he is worthy of being my son of Yi Zhixie. "

"Okay, just wait for my message."

Ju didn't see any movement, but disappeared suddenly.

Immediately, at the end of the line of sight of Yi Zhixie and the others, in front of the marching army, the figure of Judu Wei'an appeared on a jet black giant horse.

Yi Zhixie's pupils shrank for a moment.

He couldn't see Judu's moving speed and method at all, and he couldn't catch the slightest trace.

The ability to move hundreds of feet in an instant and appear at the end of the line of sight is even more astonishing.

In the distance, because of Judu's appearance, all the Huns behind him burst into cheers.

The army of the Huns galloped away with a murderous look.

They firmly believe that this battle will destroy all resistance of the Han army and revive the myth of the Huns' invincibility across the grasslands!

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March 26.

In the early morning, on the flank of Weiyang Palace, the ancestral temple of the Liu clan.

The ancestral temple is the place where the Emperor Gaozu and the ancestors of the Liu family were worshipped.

All the ministers and clan relatives arrived together, the forbidden army was everywhere, and the scene was solemn.

The emperor and empress began to bathe and precept a few days ago, until this morning, when they arrived in full dress.

Going on stage to pay homage to a general is a national ceremony, and it is also one of the most glorious moments in a general's life.

Since the founding of the Han Dynasty, there have been only four times when the monarch personally worshiped the generals. Huaiyin Marquis Han Xin, Tiaohou Zhou Yafu, Changping Marquis Weiqing, and now the champion Hou Huo Qubing.

There are hundreds of officials, accompanied by clan relatives.

Qingyue's chime was struck and sounded, shaking Chang'an.

This is the etiquette of worshiping generals handed down from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and every step is exquisite, and there is no arrogance.

With a dignified look on his face, Liu Che walked out of the main hall of the ancestral temple, came outside the hall, and looked at Huo Qubing in military uniform in front of the officials.

"I heard that the Xiongnu gathered all the ministries under their command and sent troops to force us to come.

Now that the Xiongnu army is at present, I want to use Langzhong to order Huo Qubing to worship the Lord and lead the expedition. I will make a special sacrifice to tell the heaven and the earth, and inform the ancestors.

Huo Qubing, I want you to lead the army to fight against the Xiongnu, would you like to go? "

Huo Qubing said loudly: "I have been waiting for this moment for many years, and I am willing to go!"

The corners of the emperor's lips twitched as well as Wei Qing and Wei Zifu beside him.

According to the etiquette given by Taichang Zhou Ping, Huo Qubing at this time needs to be impassioned, give a long speech, tell his loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, and then kowtow to welcome him, expressing his willingness to go.

Huo Qubing changed the words to only one sentence.

Liu Che waved his hand, and Jiang Yan, a great yin and yang family, stepped forward to divination and inquired about the world.

He threw two yin and yang lottery into the sky, which were opposite to each other like a full moon, which means good luck.

The selected time is today's Si time, that is, after the scorching sun rises into the sky, the army will be formally raised.

The emperor then entered the main hall of the ancestral temple again, and held a general conferring ceremony in front of the spirit tablets of the ancestors.

This time Huo Qubing also entered the ancestral temple.

Emperor Liu Che stands east, facing west.

And Huo Qubing is in the south, facing the north, so the so-called surrender to the north is exactly what it means.

Holding the bronze "axe" (representing the authority of a general), Liu Che took the head of the axe first, and handed the handle to Huo Qubing, saying: "From now on, the general will control the one who ascends to heaven!"

This is authorization, which clearly grants the general the power of life and death!

Liu Che took the handle of the ax again, handed the blade to the general, and said: "From now on, those who go down to the abyss will be controlled by the general!"

When Feng Ren said this to the general, it was a warning to the general to respect himself and not to abuse military power.

Liu Che then explained to the general the principles of combat as follows:

"Advance when you see the emptiness, stop when you see the truth. Don't underestimate the enemy because of the multitude of the three armies, don't think that you will die because of the weight of the order, don't be cheap because of your body, don't go against the crowd because of your own opinion, and don't think that debate is inevitable.

The cold and heat must be the same as the scholars.In this way, the scholars will do their best. "

The meaning of this passage is not to underestimate the enemy;

At this point, worship will be completed initially.

Even the emperor had to bow to Huo Qubing, expressing the great trust of the country, and the matter of life and death, the community, was entrusted to Huo Qubing's hands from now on.

Huo Qubing bowed in return, took the ax from the emperor's hand, and said loudly:

"I have heard that a country cannot be governed from outside, and an army cannot be defended from within. One cannot serve the ruler with one mind, and one cannot meet the enemy with doubts.

The minister was ordered to hold the majesty of the axe, and he dared not return alive. May the king also give his order to the minister.The king does not allow ministers, and ministers dare not be generals. "

It means that since the emperor has given me such great power, I will never change my mind and will serve the country with my death.I only ask Your Majesty to give me full authority if you want to authorize, otherwise I dare not be a general.

These are all fixed routines and lines, which have been rehearsed in advance.After hearing this, the emperor promised to grant full power and not interfere with the command of the army.

Therefore, worship will succeed.

Afterwards, sacrifices were made to heaven and earth again, the drums and music were played together, and the ancestors were told, and the monarchs and ministers performed rituals to each other.

This ceremony is sacred and solemn, and it is one of the most solemn etiquettes in the Han Dynasty.

If Huo Qubing can win and return to the imperial court, there will be a more grand ceremony of returning to the imperial court, which requires the lord of the country to personally go outside the city to welcome the army's triumphant return.
Right now, it was the beginning of ceremony, ready to raise troops, the emperor, Huo Qubing and other important officials turned to go out of the city.

In the clan team, Princess Pingyang, Liu Jue, Liu Yan and others, whose faces had not yet recovered from their miserable complexions, were also there.

They all tried their best to hide in the car, looking at the young general surrounded by thousands of people from afar, with mixed feelings.

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