When Li Cai finished reading the imperial edict, Huo Qubing suddenly looked in one direction.
At the head of the city, the figure of the emperor appeared in dragon robe, and beside him was the queen Wei Zifu.
"On the day when the Huns are destroyed, I will personally go out of the city to welcome you back to Chang'an."
This is what Huo Qubing said when he was a child that he would massacre the Xiongnu in the future, and the emperor laughed in response.
Nearly ten years later, the emperor still remembered it and came to greet him personally.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"
The emperor suddenly arrived, along with Li Cai and other ministers and people.
Crowds of people knelt and filled the long street.
"The destruction of the Xiongnu is the common wish of all the emperors and me since Emperor Gaozu.
I, the Han Dynasty, have experienced seven generations of emperors since the founding of our country.
The same wish of all the previous emperors was to build an army strong enough to defeat the barbarians and defeat the Huns. "
The emperor's voice was deafening, and there was silence inside and outside the city.
"Since Emperor Gaozu, our Han Dynasty has implemented horse politics, encouraged horse breeding, and recruited all parties from the border areas and all those who are good at riding to join the army.
By the time my fathers came to power, our Han border cavalry finally began to take shape. The Seven Kingdoms Rebellion at that time was caused by our Han Dynasty's thousands of northern frontiers riding southward, defeating the rebels with overwhelming force.
I, a great man, have been determined for seventy years, accumulated from generation to generation, and the throne has been passed to me. The time has finally come to fight back against the Huns. "
The emperor glanced inside and outside Chang'an, looking thousands of miles away.
"On the day Wei Qing led his troops to attack Dragon City nine years ago, I stayed up all night.
Because I know that what the ancestors and emperors longed for will come true in my hands.
Now I have a champion who will open up borders for me, destroy cities and strongholds without any rivals, and make immortal contributions to the world for you and all the people.
Defeat the Huns faster and more thoroughly than I thought! "
"Today, the general returns, and I and all the people welcome him!
Sirs, please rise up! "
In the boiling atmosphere of Chang'an City, Huo Qubing came to the city gate.
The emperor said to the queen: "The queen will go to the back of the palace and drive back to the palace by herself. I am riding in the same car with Da Sima. I have something to say."
Here we go again...Wei Zifu was wearing a long robe and a phoenix hairpin in his head. He was gorgeously dressed and rolled his eyes in a charming way.
It wasn't the first time he asked her to go back to the car and go home.
She saw that the emperor was in high spirits and would not be angry. She refused and said, "Qubing is also my nephew. I also want to ride with him." With a twist of her waist, she got on the emperor's chariot first.
The emperor couldn't help but laugh, and he and Huo Qubing boarded the carriage one after another.
Huo Qubing sat on the side, and the emperor and the empress sat side by side.
"Does the Champion know the changes in the war in the far west?" The emperor asked directly as the car started to drive.
Huo Qubing responded: “I have been in contact with my uncle to discuss military affairs in the past few days.
My uncle mobilized his troops three times in a few days to fight Parthia.
The first time was to lure the enemy deeper. Six thousand Parthian light cavalry were killed by more than 3,800 in the Onion Realm. "
The emperor said: "The second time we took the initiative to attack, marching westward from Chigu City north of Congyuan, and directed our troops towards Lan City, the core of the Da Yueshi.
When the other side's commander was fully deploying his defense in Lan's city, Wei Qing suddenly led his troops to head south and attack another Parthian army stationed southeast of Da Yueshi.
This battle defeated the enemy, cut off the southeast corner of Da Yueshi, and returned it to the control of our great Han Dynasty. "
The emperor had little opportunity to go to the battlefield, so he was very keen to discuss the war to alleviate the regret of not being able to go to the battlefield in person.
He is indeed proficient in military affairs and has studied hundreds of military books.
History has rated him as a great strategist.
When Huo Qubing was a child, the emperor wanted to personally teach his grandson Wu Qi's art of war.
"My uncle captured a small piece of the southeast corner of Da Yueshi. It is particularly important strategically. It can form an advantage for attacking Lan City from the south and east.
The other party will naturally not be willing to accept it.
Therefore, the third confrontation was the opponent's counterattack, which took place at night two days after the second battle.
The opponent's heavy cavalry attacked.
The uncle dug out dense horse pits on the ground under the main road of Chigu City in advance. The bricks and stones laid on it look normal, and even ordinary horses can walk on it without any problem.
But when the Parthian heavy cavalry ran up, the stone bricks would break, and the hoofs of the horses would sink into the pits while running, and hundreds of horses would have their legs broken. "
The emperor laughed heartily: "Exactly, the opponent was spotted by Wei Qing every step of the way, and he lost all three battles.
Especially in the last battle, the Parthian armored army suffered nearly a thousand losses. I heard that their armored army has never suffered a defeat since its birth.
Did you and Wei Qing discuss the pits dug under the stone bricks in the city? "
Huo Qubing said humbly: "It's my uncle's arrangement.
It is very difficult to deal with heavy cavalry on the plains.
Therefore, my uncle began to tease the opponent's mentality from the first battle. After the second battle, the opponent lost both battles, and the general became anxious and mobilized heavy cavalry to rush the city, which happened to fall into his uncle's plan.
In the entire battle plan, I only made one suggestion, which was to use objects to support the hollowed-out floor tiles so that the heavy cavalry that passed first could pass smoothly.
The stone turns collapsed after being trampled many times and the load-bearing objects broke, so as to lure more heavy cavalry into an ambush. "
"My uncle and I both feel it is a pity that the time was too short and the trap was not perfect, otherwise the opponent would never have lost 800 heavy cavalry in this battle."
Wei Zifu listened quietly.
Liu Che's unabashed joy when discussing military affairs is very rare.
"If I have the chance, I would also like to touch Parthia's heavy cavalry." Huo Qubing's eyes sparkled.
He has always had a strong desire to conquer the world, defeat all the strong soldiers, and lead the Han army to the top of the mountain.
Parthia is considered one of the strongest opponents in this era. Rome in the west has not yet reached its peak and has not yet entered the imperial era.
"Does the doctor have a plan to defeat Parthia?"
Huo Qubing: "I have some ideas and I plan to try them."
The emperor said warmly: "You should go back to your hometown to rest for a while, and wait until Pingxian gives birth safely."
Huo Qubing hummed, his heart feeling slightly warm.
After several months of expedition, and Liu Qing was pregnant, it was indeed time to go home.
"I have one more thing to report."
Huo Qubing said: "The Wuhuan, Fuyu, Xianbei and other tribes want to mobilize the elite of their tribes to join our Han army, and let their tribes be uniformly dispatched by our Han Dynasty. This is equivalent to removing the last of their armed forces to show their determination to join the Han Dynasty. "
The handing over of military and horse authority is a further sign of surrender.
"This is a good thing, what conditions do they have?"
"They still want to maintain the right to raise horses in their ancestral land, and they want to retain their ethnic group name, that is, after completely returning to the Han Dynasty, they will retain the identity of Xianbei and Wuhuan people, that is, they will become a minority tribe in the Han Dynasty. They can be called the Xianbei tribe of the Han people and the Wuhuan tribe of the Han people."
This condition is not excessive.
The emperor's chariot returned to the palace and first stopped at the Champion's Mansion outside the north gate, where he put Huo Qubing down before leaving.
"Master Hou!"
In the mansion, many attendants gathered to greet him.
Huo Qubing returned to the inner house.
Liu Qing's maid came up and said, "Your Highness wanted to greet the Marquis, but the mother-in-law who came from the palace said that the young Marquis was in a transverse position during labor and it would be difficult to give birth, so he asked Your Highness to have the baby at home."
Huo Qubing was a little surprised.
The transverse position means that before delivery, the child is inside the mother's body, with its head and feet curled up in the fetal membranes. Most of the difficult births in ancient times were due to this reason, and the child could not be born.
Of course, this world has the power of immortals and demons, so there are still solutions, and it won't be too serious.
But there are always more dangers than children in normal positions.
Huo Qubing entered the sleeping hall in three steps and two steps at a time.
"Husband."
"Master Hou."
The daughters-in-law, including Bai Nanyu, were also there.
On this expedition, Bai Nanyu was not brought with her. Her injuries were not healed and she was left at home.
Zhuo Qingke came to talk to Liu Qing, and they happened to be waiting for Huo Qubing to come back.
After not seeing each other for several months, the three girls' beautiful faces have not changed at all.
Bai Nanyu is wearing an apricot-colored long skirt, and Zhuo Qingke is wearing a rouge-colored fairy skirt.
Liu Qing was wearing a loose princess dress, with a big belly, bare feet and light plum-colored embroidered shoes, sitting on the edge of the couch.
Seeing Huo Qubing, Liu Qing's eyes lit up with joy.
"The imperial brother personally issued a decree not to let others tell me the time of your return, for fear that I would pick you up."
Liu Qing stood up and leaned over. The fair-skinned and beautiful princess with long legs seemed to be plumper.
Huo Qubing took Liu Qing's gentle hand and said to Zhuo Qingke and Bai Nanyu, "Please sit down. You don't have to be so polite at home."
After returning from the expedition, there will be a lot of excitement.
Liu Qing is expecting to give birth these days.
There are Wenpo in the palace, clan, and Taoist sects, and the medical attendants come over and live in the house, ready to be called upon at any time.
In the evening, there was a banquet at the house.
The chef showed off his skill at keeping the bottom of the box, and the main dishes were roasted deer tendons and chicken dumplings.
Roasted deer tendons is a very famous dish. It uses deer tendons as the main ingredient, and is cooked with pomegranates, radish, etc. It is not fishy at all, has a very rich aroma, and is golden in color.
Chicken Lebeng uses prawns and chicks as the main ingredients. You can have two different tastes of shrimp and chicken in one dish.
After dinner, take a shower, change clothes, and rest on the couch.
Huo Qubing was thinking about reuniting with Dadu after a long absence and exchanging feelings.
Unfortunately it didn't work out.
After Liu Qing fell asleep, he came to the study alone.
From the direction of the inner lake of the Hou Mansion, frogs croaked one after another, forming a unique movement on a summer night.
Huo Qubing took out a broken scroll.
This is the semi-holy scroll that Yudu sacrificed, and it was cut down by Hong Ming Dao.
Huo Qubing tried to peel off the Qi from it these days, intending to use it to trace the semi-saint.
When Feng Lang lived in Xu, he broke through the surface of heaven and earth and saw a ray of energy belonging to the semi-saint, which finally sank into the Mausoleum of the First Emperor.
An imperial mausoleum, with many unsolved issues related to it.
The life and death of Emperor Qin, the true appearance of the Immortal Lord, the ancestral dragon, and the semi-saint of unknown origin, these clues are all focused on the imperial mausoleum.
Huo Qubing looked at the bamboo slips and put them away. He pondered for a moment and asked through the air:
"Bai Nanyu, do you know who the original founder of Zonghengdao was?"
Bai Nanyu was in the bedroom of the small courtyard that originally belonged to Zhuo Qingke. After taking a bath, her long hair was hanging down, and she was leaning on the low couch and reading a simple book.
She was wearing a pure white lining, revealing her shapely and delicate calves and feet as crystal clear as snow.
The chest is half open, the collarbones are delicate, and the shoulder sockets are concave.
After hearing Huo Qubing's news, Bai Nanyu pursed her lips slightly and thought for a moment before saying:
"Zonghengdao was originally created by some strategists during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. I don't know exactly who it was. It seems to have been created by many people."
He added: "But there is news circulating among the three sons and nine deities of Zongheng Dao that the original founder may be one of the disciples of Gui Guzi, the originator of Zongheng Dao."
There are eight disciples of Guiguzi who are famous in the world, either personally or through passing the Guigu inheritance from generation to generation, most of them are prominent people in the world.
Su Qin, Zhang Yi, Sun Bin, Pang Juan.
In addition, there are some records that Shang Yang, Lu Buwei, Bai Qi, and Li Mu also received more or less Guigu inheritance, integrated with what they learned, and benefited a lot.
There are also rumors about Xu Fu, Le Yi and Gan Mao.
Disciple of Guigu... Huo Qubing was analyzing the origin of that semi-saint. After all, the other party would not appear out of thin air.
If it weren't for the Immortal Master... Huo Qubing could think of the Zongheng lineage as the most suspect.
After a moment, he changed his mind.
At the four ends of the world, the bronze pillars corresponding to the north direction collapsed and turned into countless mantras pouring into the well.
For the past few days, a faint light has been emitting from the well.
Huo Qubing also deduced the existence and manifestation of the four-pole bronze pillars many times.
If we really need to use military force to break through countries other than China, what will happen if the copper pillars in the four directions are finally unlocked.
Cultivate a military front and become a military sage?
It is still related to some secrets of China.
The broken copper pillar in the north corresponds to the grassland tribe.
The West should correspond to the countries in the Western Regions.
But the war is still raging near the Western Region, so the copper pillars are still there.
The south corresponds to body poison, so what country is east of the Han Dynasty?
Extending out to the East China Sea... is it the place of seeking immortality in the East China Sea mentioned in the hand scroll of the First Emperor, or is it the Japanese country of later generations?
Huo Qubing pondered for a moment and gathered his consciousness.
In the sea of consciousness, the halo of light surges in the ancient well.
The copper pillar incantations pouring into the well obviously triggered new changes in the ancient well.
Huo Qubing's consciousness was looking over the mouth of the well.
As far as the eye can see, there are many symbols on the wall of the well, and the light is dense.
When consciousness penetrates into it, the symbols of the collapse of the four-pole copper pillars are intertwined with each other, creating a halo that moves like water.
Huo Qubing's consciousness extended, as if he had entered a secret realm of heaven and earth in an instant.
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