Wei Cao did not answer Lu Yao's question.
He stared at the geographical map spread in front of Lu Yao, silent.
Lu Yao did not pay attention to Wei Cao's expression, and he didn't mind whether Wei Cao would answer. General Yingyang and the prefect of the county came to the grassland to conquer people with their strength, rather than to make a verbal dispute. The only fish in the Lu family in Jiangdong who escaped from the second year of Tai'an was alone in the army. After thousands of births and deaths, he was finally able to command tens of thousands of elite soldiers to sweep across the vast desert. At this moment, Lu Yao was no longer the desperate down-and-out army leader who was chased by the Huns!
Twilight has arrived, and the moon is shining tonight, and it is a clear night. In the quiet military camp, there was a sudden "swish" sound of footsteps, followed by the sound of horse hooves stepping on the ground, the neighing of war horses, and the clanging sound of armor colliding together, forming a noisy but still seemingly rustling sea.
Outside the camp gate.
"Report to the general, the scout camp has 200 light cavalry, and has set out in advance according to the military order. The two thousand cavalrymen in our army have all been assembled. General Hou has ordered them to give the order!"
Lu Yao stepped out of the tent, stretched his hands flat, and stood a servant guard forward, put on his helmet and armor for him, and dressed up his clothes.
Lu Yao looked at the cavalry team gathered in the night with his eyes as sharp as a knife: "Where are Ding Miao, Xue Tong, Liu Xia and other troops?"
"General Ding's two thousand elite troops are close to Ruyuan. Xue and General Liu Er's troops are halfway there and are waiting for our troops."
"Where is Shen Jin?"
"General Shen's troops carry all kinds of baggage and equipment and set off at any time."
The skill of answering the two sentences was enough to lead the horse left and right. Lu Yao rode his horse on his body and galloped past two thousand elite cavalry. He was satisfied that although it was an emergency military order, every soldier was full of morale and had no slackness at all.
He raised his whip and shouted: "Go!"
Since he decided to intervene in the war on the grasslands in the northern border, Lu Yao has no intention of striking the strong and powerful Xianbei tribes in front of him. He stayed in the southern part of the grassland for many days to wait for the gradual escalation of the chaos in the Tuoba Xianbei and gradually became uncontrollable. When the Xianbei people such as the Bali tribe, Ye Fulu tribe, Wei Nailou tribe and other Xianbei tribes and the Fuyu people who were stationed here went their separate ways. When the large Xianbei forces in the Bashang Grassland gradually left, Lu Yao could use cavalry to raid Ruyuan, defeat the Puliru and Chilu tribes in the eastern part of the Tuoba Xianbei, subdue the Jin forces who were wandering on the grasslands, seize the essence of the Bashang Grassland, and thus cut the control area of ​​the Xianbei people in the northern border into two sections!
After this goal is successfully completed, the subsequent actions can be determined according to the situation. The south relies on the city, ponds and forts of Dai County, the Dai County army as its pillar, the north uses the beautiful grassland as its barrier, and the Hu and Jin tribes are the wings. It is true that they have the benefits of agriculture and animal husbandry, and can advance or retreat, fight or be harmonious. If the management is done properly, it will be as he said before, the affairs of Qi Huan and Jin Wen will be heard.
In order to cover up this intention, Lu Yao's military operations over the past few days were all deceitful tricks. He sent out a number of cavalry to collect small tribes of the Xianbei people, plundered population and supplies in major matters, and established a huge prisoner camp, making great noises. Every day, thousands of Jin army cavalry roamed everywhere. Although they often hunted and killed many Xianbei spies, there would inevitably be people fleeing back to the north and informed Yu Puliuru and the leaders of the two tribes of the Jin army.
Since this action is very similar to Lu Yao's plunder and robbery in Dai County, even intermediate officers such as He Yun were kept in the dark. Until tonight, when Lu Yao finally found out the geographical situation of the dam grassland clearly, and when the troops of various commanding generals were lurking in their positions, the moonlight was as clear as water, and the night suitable for marching and fighting would become a nightmare for Xianbei people!
Lu Yao took the lead with one horse, and thousands of cavalry followed. The man held a zither, picked the bell, and did not hold the pine trees, and walked on the moon.
The view on the grassland is wide and the road is clear. There are sometimes slopes and valleys. The scouts who walked first also left signs and guided the way. The march was extremely fast and crossed most of the dam grassland that night.
At this time, Lu Yao suddenly thought that there were countless people on the entire northern grassland, just as they were in a hurry as his own army?
The northern grasslands are thousands of miles long and vast. Even if there are hundreds of times more scouts under Lu Yao, it is impossible to grasp all the information on the grassland in real time. But Lu Yao thought it was right. The Jin people had the allusion that "Qin lost its deer, and the world chased it together." On the grassland, when the Tuoba Xianbei killed all the powerful tribe Qushou leaders, this powerful clan that dominated the north was no different from a plump deer in the eyes of the surrounding forces.
As the prey was in front of us, the Taotie from all over the country had already heard of the wind. In September of the first year of Yongjia, thousands of miles from Jiuyuan to Shanggu were in full swing of war. Tens of thousands of races rushed back and forth and strangled each other wildly. Their brutal and violent behavior was no less than any war in the war in the Central Plains.
In the easternmost section of the Tuoba Xianbei territory, the Weina Lou tribe, who had left the Tuoba Xianbei Alliance, originally planned to return to the former land of Liaodong with the help of the Yuwen tribe, but unexpectedly, the army was suddenly attacked by the army of the Youzhou Governor Wang Jun. Obviously, the alliance between the Yuwen tribe and the Weina Lou tribe was a scam from the beginning. Neither the Youzhou Governor nor the Yuwen tribe, the strong tribe of the Xianbei in the east, did not expect a new tribe to divide the western Liaoning ranch, but he had been coveting the population and herds of the Weina Lou tribe for a long time.
However, the Xianbei people were brave and powerful people after all, and the Wunai Lou tribe was a tribe that lasted for two hundred years. Although the initial raid suffered heavy losses, the man from the Wunai Lou tribe fought to the death under the command of his leader. When the spear was broken, he used a scimitar; when the scimitar was dull, he used a dagger; when the dagger was broken, he used hard stones picked up everywhere; when the stones were used up, he used his teeth and finger claws!
Such resistance was completely beyond the expectations of the Yuwen tribe. The bloody battle between the two armies lasted for three days. The fierce battle took place on every inch of land on the grassland. There were corpses everywhere, and bloody and bloody at any time. New corpses covered the original battlefield. When the final resistance of the Wunai Lou tribe was completely defeated, what appeared in front of Wang Jun and Yuwen tribe leader Mo Gui was an endless broken body, and almost 30% of the battle damage to the Youzhou army. At that moment, Wang Jun and Yuwen Mo Gui could only look at each other, and both saw the other's dark faces.
At the western end of the Tuoba clan territory, tens of thousands of cavalry of the Tieba Huns were divided into more than ten routes, and at many ferries north of Hequ, they broke through the river's natural chasm and entered the western territory of the Tuoba Xianbei. The vast grassland west of Shengle was originally the former land of the Huns, and it only took only twenty years to fall into the hands of the Xianbei. Wherever the Tieba cavalry went, many of the remaining Xiongnu species immediately responded. In addition, the Bai tribe Xianbei attacked at the same time in the Yunzhong area, and the killing of Tuoba Yilu caught him off guard.
Although Tuoba Yilu was a native of the western region, after many years of suppression of Luguan, the troops he could mobilize was no more than 30,000 cavalry. Since the change of Danhan Mountain, many of his powerful brave subordinates died in battle. Although he claimed to have successfully succeeded as the Grand Chanyu of Tuoba Xianbei, in just a few days, even the tribes that originally belonged to him did not have time to integrate, and it was even more impossible to call on the various tribes of Tuoba Xianbei to come to help with the war, so his strength became even weaker. He barely led his troops to fight against the Bai tribes for several games, but he lost consecutively, leaving thousands of corpses all the way back. At the same time, the Iron Defeat Huns took advantage of the opportunity of early autumn to expand their troops along the way, and expanded their troops like snowballs. In just over ten days, they doubled their troops and came in overwhelmingly.
The Bai tribe Xianbei was the first time Li Wei wanted to destroy the alien forces when he was worshiping the sky on Danhan Mountain; and the old places that attacked the Huns were all occupied by the Xianbei people, forcing their clans to flee to Hexi. These two clans were the mortal enemies of the Tuoba Xianbei for nearly a hundred years. Now the chaotic situation of the Tuoba Xianbei is giving them a good opportunity to revenge. The army of the two clans rolled forward, killing and plundering along the way without mercy. The adult men and women and children were killed in battle, and all of them were captured and plundered as slaves. As for the losses of cattle, sheep, horses and other herds, it is roughly estimated that they were nearly one million.
When the Tuoba Xianbei clan was on the verge of despair, reinforcements sent by Bingzhou Governor Liu Kun finally arrived. Compared with the battle of tens of thousands of cavalry attacking on the grassland, the Jinyang army was naturally a small number of soldiers and could not match. However, this time, the general Lu Chang, who led the army north, was a hero who defended Jiexiu's Gucheng and forced Liu Yuan to retreat! He led thousands of soldiers to Shengle City built by Yilu, and was nailed to the throat of Yunzhong County in Khanshi. He let the two tribes attack but remained unmoved, and finally gave Yilu a chance to breathe.
In addition to the war between the two places, the central part of the Tuoba Xianbei was attacked by six tribes including the Balie clan and Ye Fulu clan; the Luhui tribes plundered the heart of the Xianbei; the various Xianbei tribes who lost the commander of Qu Zhuang were wary of each other, and finally the new and old grievances were intertwined, attacking and killing each other... Blood irrigated every grassland like a flooded river, and the wars were difficult to describe. From east to west, the northern grasslands were everywhere. Every day, every place, there were fierce battles and riots.
Under such a situation, the Bashang Grassland area north of Dai County, in the north was the Puluru family and the Chiluo family confronted the Jin people's refugee groups, and in the south was the Dai county army of the Jin people slowly gathered and subdued the small tribes that had not yet migrated. Although the small-scale battle was not interrupted, there was no major war in the end, and unexpectedly became a relatively stable place, which allowed Lu Yao to launch this raid that drove a hundred miles long.
The situation in the northern border is like this, and Lu Yao can think of it, which has long been calculated. But he is not the kind of close-kill figure in later novels, and he still can't calculate it.
A hundred miles north of the Daijun Army Camp, there is a vast lake and meadows intertwined area.
It was early morning, and the moonlight had not yet faded, and thick mist was filled with thick mist. The mountains and ridges in the distance were covered with gray figures by thick fog. The undulating plateau meadows were lush, and the greens of varying depths were spread out layer by layer like exquisite brocade. The clear river water flowed in it, twisting and winding, drawing beautiful arcs, as if jade belts and jade rings were entangled with each other. And wherever the river overflowed, there were lakes and swamps scattered.
This is the source of Rushui. From the southeast, Rushui rushes through the deep gorges and valleys, cuts a gap in the mountains, and finally goes straight to Youzhou and enters the sea. If you trace upstream, you can find many streams and springs gather from the grassland. The abundant water source provides sufficient resources for this place, making it a paradise for the Tuoba Xianbei people. In the past, Tuoba Xianbei migrates south from the Guangmo Mountains north of Youdu, and can rest and rest when passing through this place. The muddy and dangerous swamps are intertwined, which forms a dangerous situation for outsiders to step by step. The bones of animals drowned in the swamps can be seen everywhere by the lakeside water, which is enough to prove the danger here.
Since the news of the Danhan Mountain Incident came, the group of refugees in Jin led by the Wei clan quickly shrank its power and relied on the complex terrain to fight against the hostile Hu'er tribe. After several tests, the troops of the Puliru and Chi Luo gradually invaded this place.
To the south of Ruyuan, the Puliru family and the Chiluo family each built two camps. Of course, according to the perspective of the Jin people, these two camps were just a lot of chaotic tents gathered together. However, these two camps guarded the access road to the east of the Rushui River, and each gathered more than 4,000 Xianbei cavalry; their strength forced the Jin people to the lake and swamp area of ​​Ruyuan, and they could not move.
At this moment, in the fog, you can see Xianbei soldiers walking back and forth in the camp, and you can hear the noise of people and horses. Everything is no different from the previous few days. But if you get closer and carefully check, you can find that there are actually not many people and horses in the camp, and in a dense forest more than ten miles southwest of the camp, there is a huge army lurking in it!
On the edge of the dense forest, a Xianbei soldier who was about twenty years old and had a strong appearance and a golden ring on his ears chewing the grass leaves and looked out from time to time. After a while, perhaps a little impatient, he took a few steps back and picked up a heavy horse-slashing sword and danced a flower. The huge sharp blade cut the air and stirred up a low sound of breaking through the air. In the sound of the wind, he asked sarcastically: "Uncle... are you sure Lu Yao will come?"
The young soldier seemed to have the murderous intent of beasts. Although he just asked casually, he was so shocked that several soldiers beside him suddenly retreated. But not far away, a huge fat man with a round face and a thick neck and a fat body was half lying on the brightly colored soft felt blanket, tearing the whole roasted lamb in front of him, without any tension. After a squeaking, he tilted his neck and swallowed more than two pounds.
The big piece of mutton then laughed: "Little kid Duan Wenyang, why are you anxious? Don't worry, since I, Chi Luojin, accepted the thousand horses ordered by the Duke of Liaoxi, will naturally arrange everything. Then Lu Yao tried to sneak attack my Chi Luo tribe through this place, and in half an hour, he will lead the army here. Hehe, haha! Don't you know that we are waiting for our hard work and attacking them unprepared, but we will kill them... Kill them without leaving any armor!"
"Don't worry! Don't worry!" As the fat giant chi Luo Jin laughed, his fat all over his body churned like waves, but his eyes covered by his thick eyelids seemed cold again: "But, the Duke of Liaoxi must do what he promised us..."
The young Xianbei warrior was a brave general under the command of Wang Jun, the governor of Youzhou, and Duan Wenyang, the son of Duan's Xianbei Grand Chanyu Duan Wuwuchen. Hearing Chi Luo Jin's words, Duan Wenyang stared at him for a while and nodded slowly: "After the matter is completed, our Duan tribe will replace the county, the Chi Luo tribe and the Puliuru tribe are all located on the dam; my father will also report to the governor of Youzhou to obtain the official enthronement for you to occupy this place."
He slammed the horse-killing sword into the ground and said proudly: "My Duanbu Xianbei never forgives any enemy, nor treats any friend unfairly!"
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Chapter completed!