"The sky is blue, the fields are vast, and the grass is blown by the wind, and cattle and sheep can be seen low."
Li Yunze, who was on horseback, looked at the vast grassland in front of him. "The wind is not strong, and grass is everywhere. But where are the cattle and sheep?"
Wuyao County is located at the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain and at the foot of the Great Wall.
From here, you leave the fortress and cross Yinshan Mountain, facing the vast grassland.
Li Yunze originally wanted to use the Xiongnu tribe here to sacrifice the flag, and even ordered the sergeants to wear armor.
But after leaving the Yinshan Mountains, the scouts wandered around the prairie for a long time. Not to mention the tribes, they didn't even see any lone herdsmen.
Facing Li Yunze's gaze, Chen Xin, an old comrade who once fought side by side, the eastern captain of Dingxiang County, immediately saluted and responded, "Your Majesty, this was not the case in the past. More than ten days ago, my subordinates sent a sentry to investigate.
There is a Qianzhang tribe stationed here."
"Um."
Li Yunze's eyes swept across the faces of the captains from Dingxiang and Yanmen counties among the crowd. "That is to say, someone has leaked the news."
All the captains looked solemn, and no one dared to say anything.
If this person is accused of having an affair with the Huns, then the whole family, old and young, will really go to hell together.
Fortunately, Li Yunze did not take this opportunity to find a chicken and kill it to establish his authority.
No matter which world he was in, he never established his authority by killing his own people, but by killing his enemies on the battlefield.
"Is there any skill in this city... Bah! What I'm saying is, are there any big tribes around here?"
"Your Majesty."
The person who was most familiar with the nearby terrain was naturally Chen Xin, the captain of the eastern part of Dingxiang County. He once again cupped his fists and saluted and said, "A hundred miles away from this place to the west is the former Zhao Zhiyunzhong City. I think there must be most of the Huns."
"Oh." Li Yunze looked a little melancholy, "Zhao Zhiyunzhong, Qin Zhiyunzhong."
Zhao State defeated Donghu and expanded its territory thousands of miles.
Yunzhong County was once established here.
After the Qin State destroyed Zhao, Qin State's Yunzhong County was also located outside the Great Wall.
By the Han Dynasty, the Huns were so powerful that basically all the land north of the Great Wall was lost, and even Yunzhong County was transferred to the south of the Great Wall.
"This is the homeland that our ancestors opened up with their blood." Another reason for Li Yunze's melancholy was that when Wang Zhaojun left the Great Wall a hundred years later, he was sent to Yunzhong County outside the Great Wall.
Yunzhong County outside the Great Wall was also famous in later generations.
In the Tang Dynasty, this was Dongshoujiang City, one of the three surrendered cities on the north bank of the Yellow River.
During the Liao and Jin Dynasties, this was Dongsheng Prefecture.
In the Ming Dynasty, it was the Dongsheng County Guard and Yunnei County.
Later, the name of this place is Tuoketuo County, which belongs to Hohhot.
"Your Majesty." Seeing that Li Yunze was about to lead his troops to the west to fight, Gongsun Hong couldn't help but stepped forward to advise, "The emperor's order is to greet the Huns who defected. If they go west..."
Li Yunze turned the horse's head and headed west, leaving only one sentence for Gongsun Hong.
"I will be outside, and I will not accept your order!"
After the Xiongnu attacked the Han Dynasty last time, Wang Tingbei returned to Longcheng.
Those who stayed in the south to confront the Han army were the virtuous kings on the left and right whose boundary was to the north of Yunzhong.
At this time, the royal courts of the wise kings on the left and right were also chasing water and grass, returning north to their respective royal courts.
The front line closest to Li Yunze and the most powerful are the two Xiongnu tribes.
One is the troops of King Loufan who is stationed in Henan, and the other is the troops of King Aries who is stationed north of Yunzhong near Yinshan Mountain.
Neither the Loufan Tribe nor the Aries Tribe are orthodox to the Huns. They were originally a branch of Beidi. They were the two tribes that Maodun Shanyu defeated and conquered when he crossed the Yellow River southward after defeating the Yuezhi.
The so-called Henan does not refer to Henan centered on Luoyang, but to the Hetao area south of the Yellow River.
At that time, Qin general Meng Tian led an army of 300,000 to defeat the Xiongnu and regained Henan. Loufan and Baiyang were also small tribes under the command of Qin at that time.
Everyone knows what happened later. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the world was in chaos. The Great Wall Army went south to fight Xiang Yu in Julu, and the entire army was wiped out.
The land of Henan was captured by Maodun Chanyu, and Loufan and Aiyang naturally switched to the Xiongnu.
The Loufan tribe stayed in Henan and came under the command of King Youxian.
The Aries tribe was transferred to the Yinshan Mountains north of Yunzhong and came under the command of King Zuoxian.
At this time, the royal court of the Aries tribe was located in the former Yunzhong County of Zhao Qin!
King Aries was in a very bad mood.
The last time we went south, that idiot named Dang Huxubulu under his command dumped tens of thousands of warriors, as well as countless cattle, sheep, and horses in the Han Dynasty.
That tragic defeat left the Aries tribe seriously injured.
Although Suburu's head has been made into a wine cup, it is still difficult to offset the anger in the heart of the Aries King.
The things that upset him are not over yet. Recently, he learned that several small tribes under the command of King Zuoxian suddenly defected and wanted to join the Han people, taking advantage of the opportunity of King Zuoxian's royal court to return north.
Originally they were traveling to Youbeiping, Shanggu and other places.
But because they were pursued, they had to go all the way west to enter the Great Wall from Dingxiang Yunzhong.
King Aries has to send troops to attack.
Having already suffered heavy losses and having to send troops to fight, the Aries King was certainly in a bad mood.
But there is no way, he is under the command of King Zuo Xian, if he does not fight the traitors, then when King Zuo Xian's court comes back, there will be no good fruits.
King Aries had no choice but to summon all the nearby tribes and vassal tribes to the royal court.
Prepare to gather troops and start a war with the defecting tribes.
However, when they were about to go to war with the traitors, another shocking thunder came.
"The Han army is coming!"
The Aries King's frustration has really reached its peak!
If it weren't for the great loss of the tribe's strength, he would not have set up the royal court so close to the Great Wall.
If he didn't want to fight against traitors, he wouldn't have gathered all the scattered tribesmen and vassal tribes.
Well now, the Han army appeared at the most suitable place at the most suitable time, and the Aries tribe could not even escape.
If Wang Ting was the only one here, even if the Han army suddenly appeared, King Aries could send out cavalry to harass He Zai, then abandon some of the burdens and run along the Yin Mountain with Wang Ting.
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But now it's no longer possible, the entire Aries tribe and many vassal tribes are all concentrated near the royal court.
How to run in this situation?
Let the warriors abandon their families, cattle and sheep tribes and run away with them? They will be hacked to death by the warriors on the way!
Moreover, without the support of the tribe, the old and weak women and children who work as logistics, and the cattle, sheep and other supplies necessary for survival, so what if the warriors ran away? Could it be that Lou Fan and other tribes would give their supplies to other tribes?
Can they enjoy it?
The Xiongnu were said to be an empire, but in essence they were still a tribal alliance.
Each tribe is doing its own thing, and no one knows how to be a good person and help others.
Creatures like good people cannot survive on the prairie.
"That's too much!"
King Aries finally made the decision to "gather his troops and fight the Han people!"
He believed that he still had the strength to fight. After all, if he forced the army to fight, all men above the age of fourteen and below the age of sixty would be conscripted into the army, and he could mobilize an army of nearly 40,000 riders.
At least they were more numerous than the Han army.
The battlefield is like this, and there are always various uncertainties.
For example, Li Yunze did not go to pick up the defecting Huns, but instead walked west.
His original intention was just to find a fight with a Xiongnu tribe, but he didn't expect that the entire Aries King's troops would be gathered here.
The reason why King Aries concentrated all his forces was to fight against the traitors, but he did not expect that the Han army would suddenly appear so close.
If you can't escape, then you can only fight hard.
What if we win the fight?
This battle was the product of a collision of various chances. Neither side was mentally prepared for a large-scale decisive battle.
The Han army has more than 18,000 soldiers, and there are also tens of thousands of native Tuan soldiers.
The Aries tribe has drawn all the men here, and there are almost 40,000 riders.
This is a big battle involving nearly 70,000 people. In this era, it is undoubtedly a large-scale decisive battle, a decisive battle that determines the fate of the Aries tribe.
As for the tens of thousands of slave laborers brought by Zhidu, they were only responsible for the transportation from Zhongshan Kingdom to Dingxiang County and did not follow them out of the fortress.
The initial encounter between the two sides was still the harassing Huns cavalry, which was their characteristic tactics against the Han army on the grasslands.
If the distance were not too close and there was a wide river nearby, we would have to throw away dead cattle and sheep to pollute the water source.
After all, it is a war, and you can do whatever it takes to win.
Li Yunze's response is still to use a van.
It is said that since Li Yunze invented the boxcar last time, it has quickly attracted great attention from the Han Army. Almost all the Great Wall Army in the North are building boxcars. It seems that Li Yunze can use the boxcar as soon as he goes out of the country.
It doesn’t mean that we have to slowly manufacture it.
There were carriage guards on both sides, and soldiers at the front and rear. Li Yunze was in the middle of the formation with the Chinese cavalry and the local peasants transporting supplies.
Naturally, the cavalry in his hands were not released to chase and fight with the Huns' invading cavalry.
This cavalry is a trump card, a trap cavalry used to trap formations. How could it be easily wasted in such a pursuit battle?
However, the experienced Li Yunze was also keenly aware of the changes on the battlefield.
"Why was the Huns' attack so large in strength and intensity?"
Li Yunze originally thought that there were at most scattered tribes in the hometown of Zhao Qinyunzhong County.
But judging from the size of the troops attacking the Huns, this is obviously not the case.
He summoned Zhao Guang, the captain of the western part of Dingxiang County, "Take the cavalry to charge and bring back a few alive who can talk."
"Here!"
In addition to Li Yunze's own thousand fine cavalry, the border troops from several counties he recruited also had cavalry.
Zhao Guang led hundreds of cavalrymen and suddenly broke out from the car formation and went straight towards a group of Huns cavalry who had lost their vigilance because the Han army had not fought back.
Not only did they successfully defeat the cavalry, they also captured a centenarian.
After a quick and effective interrogation, Zhao Guang, who was overjoyed, hurried back to report the good news.
"Your Majesty, the royal courts of the Aries Tribe, including their vassal tribes, are all located in the former Yunzhong County where Qin and Zhao used to rule!"
"Hahahahaha~~~"
After hearing this, Li Yunze looked up to the sky and laughed, "God help me!"