Chapter 453: This guy's way of thinking has finally changed
Maodun raised his eyelids, his gaze was sharp and captivating.
He said "oh" very calmly, and then said in a nonchalant tone:
"General Ying Chengjiao is a good friend of Mr. Ye. Mr. Ye will definitely not harm me."
He knew very well that the Qin people had bad intentions and harbored evil intentions, but was there any other way at the moment?
His father, the Xiongnu Chanyu, wanted him dead.
No matter what these Qin people planned, at least they saved his life.
Prince Jin Weng of Tuge nodded slightly.
Tuge was a large tribe of the Xiongnu. As a prince of Tuge, he had been influenced by it since he was a child. Although he could not utter the four words "hypocrisy and flattery", he deeply understood this principle.
The reason why I am willing to risk my life to come here to remind you.
One is that he was afraid that his good brother would really fall into that trap and believe in the nonsense told by the Central Plains people such as "Child of Destiny".
Secondly, the Qin people had to let down their guard. It would be too unrealistic if not a single Hun could notice anything suspicious among the hundreds of Huns.
Jin Weng turned his head towards the curtain of the yurt, and his behavior was exactly the opposite of Maodun's.
His expression was calm, but his voice was sharp.
"You are not worthy of being consulted!"
A fierce quarrel broke out in the tent.
A quarter of an hour later, the curtain was opened and Mr. Jin walked away with heavy steps, looking depressed as if his kindness had been treated as a donkey's liver and lungs.
When Ying Chengjiao learned about this when he returned to his house after visiting Fan Kuai, he did not take it seriously.
The reaction this incident caused him was far less significant than that caused by Fan Kuai's injury.
Among the 201 wounded soldiers after the war, Fan Kuai was the most seriously injured, with seven wounds on his body.
Ying Chengjiao was the first to rush into the Yuezhi army, and Fan Kuai was the second.
But Ying Chengjiao dared to charge because of his superb martial arts and a complete set of impenetrable and sophisticated equipment, while Fan Kuai relied on his bravery.
He used a specially made broadsword that was two and a half feet long, one foot wide, and three inches thick. Fan Kuai called it the Dog Killing Sword.
Holding this dog-killing knife, Fan Kuai beheaded 23 enemies in this battle, second only to Ying Chengjiao, and his body was covered in blood.
If it weren't for Ying Chengjiao, the most outstanding person in this battle would have been Fan Kuai.
This tough guy, who Ying Chengjiao often saw as someone who ate raw pork, showed Ying Chengjiao in one battle that he was even more powerful on the battlefield!
"Tell Fan Kuai that he can recruit another battalion from Gaoque City, and once the battalion is full, he will be promoted to captain of a thousand men."
"General, the Taotie Army does not have a thousand-man commander..."
"Then add one more. Fighting bravely won't go without a reward."
"promise!"
The messenger still stood there motionless. Ying Chengjiao asked in confusion:
"Anything else?"
The messenger gently stroked his neck.
"Knife?"
"Knife who?"
"Jin Weng is the man I told you about who had an argument with Maodun."
"Don't act rashly. Withdraw everyone. The entire Taotie tribe is under the command of Prince Maodun. How dare you spy on the prince?"
"promise."
The servant reported the news and left.
Ying Chengjiao called another retainer and asked him to tell the deputy general Wang Xi and the five lieutenant generals.
These six people were required to be prepared and a combat meeting would be held in two days to discuss how to attack the Huns.
Prince Maodun's east wind has blown over, and everything is ready. It's time to take a stroll on the Wolf Mountain.
The retainer went to report the news, and Ying Chengjiao found a detailed map of the desert that the Lu Chamber of Commerce had spent ten years drawing, and thought about how to fight against the Huns.
As for the little tricks of Prince Maodun and his subordinates in the Taotie army, Ying Chengjiao really didn't take them to heart and didn't care at all.
The more books he read, the more things he saw, and the more people's hearts he observed, the more Ying Chengjiao understood why the First Emperor despised conspiracies and only carried out open plots.
Because in the vast majority of cases, conspiracies are unlikely to reverse the situation.
Those who can stand at the top are all smart people, and there are very few strategies that can be concealed from everyone without being noticed.
Many successful conspiracies are not because they have not been seen through, but because the winner takes it all.
Ying Chengjiao once had a brief conversation with Lian Po, the main participant in the Battle of Changping, and why the State of Zhao fell into Qin's counter-espionage plan.
Before replacing the general, King Zhao issued three military orders to Lian Po to take the initiative to attack. After Lian Po refused three times, King Zhao replaced him with Zhao Kuo.
There were people in the Zhao court who said that this was a sinister plot of the Qin army. It was ridiculous that the Qin State was not afraid of General Lian Po, who was the bravest General in the Central Plains, but was afraid of a young boy who had never led an army.
The reason why King Zhao finally chose Zhao Kuo.
First, Zhao was troubled by the problem of food and grass. Without the support of foreign countries, Zhao State was short of food and grass. The King of Zhao needed a general who was willing to take the initiative to attack.
Second, before the war, Zhao Kuo performed very well except that he had never been on the battlefield. His father was the famous Zhao State master Zhao She, Marquis of Mafu, who was not as good as Zhao Kuo in debate.
Under such circumstances, King Zhao chose to trust Zhao Kuo, but Zhao Kuo lost. He was given a derogatory idiom for "talking about war on paper" and became a negative example for students of military strategists throughout the ages.
But what if Zhao Kuo defeated Bai Qi?
That is because King Zhao had a keen eye for talent and Zhao Kuo was a genius.
This is not impossible. Huo Qubing is the successful Zhao Kuo.
They had never been on the battlefield before, they were both facing powerful enemies, and they were both not favored by others but only appreciated by the king.
Huo Qubing led 800 light and brave cavalrymen and left the main army hundreds of miles away. He galloped across the land and attacked the Huns, killing more than 2,000 enemies, including the prime minister and the head of the household department.
He killed the Chanyu's grandfather Ji Ruohouchan, captured the Chanyu's uncle Luo Gubi, and was the bravest in the army. He was awarded the title of Guanjunhou with 1,600 households, creating an unrepeatable legend in military history.
Top-level games are all played openly. The so-called being tricked is nothing more than making the wrong choice and losing the game. There are not so many conspiracies that are impossible to see through.
Anything that can be used throughout the world to change the situation is an open conspiracy, which requires you to know but have to do it.
Just like Maodun, even though he knew that Ying Chengjiao had bad intentions, he still had to stay in Gaoque City and obey Ying Chengjiao's orders. Only by staying alive could he find an opportunity.
Maodun thought he could find this opportunity.
He would use the Taotie army to first fight against Afu, who was the Khan of the Xiongnu, and then deal with this group of black-armored Qin troops after he became the Khan of the Xiongnu.
Success, he is still a legend in history who led the Huns to unify the desert and reach the peak.
If he loses, he will be the sinner who invited the wolf into the house and will be cursed by thousands of Huns!
Unknowingly , Ying Chengjiao, who was driven out of Xianyang by the First Emperor and appointed to be in charge of the northwest, gradually changed his thinking pattern while retaining his original heart.
Last year, he was still thinking about what to talk to Maodun about in order to put the Xiongnu prince at ease.
And this year, when he really arrived in the desert and rescued Maodun from the Yuezhi Kingdom.
He had no intention of meeting with the Xiongnu prince and he felt that there was no need for that and that Dun Ruo could go alone.
If the First Emperor knew about Ying Chengjiao's change, he would definitely be happy.
This young man's way of thinking finally changed. He moved away from being a minister and became a king.
