Chapter 431 Arriving at Woyang, the Xiongnu went south, and the border cavalry was approaching
A dark moonlit night with high winds.
In the territory of Yanmen, a large army on foot walked through the dark night, one after another, like the endless black sea in the gray night.
Woyang, a city next to the Great Wall of the State of Zhao. The State of Zhao had two sections of the Great Wall. One section was south of Handan, close to the Zhangshui River Basin. It was once used to protect Chu State in the south, and later Han, Zhao's Great Wall. In the past, Xin Sheng
It was at that section of the Great Wall that Li Mu, who rushed to the aid of Sima Shang, was defeated. It was also in that battle that many of Xin Sheng's generals were demoted due to their defeat. General Teng was demoted for this reason when he was still alive.
The other Great Wall was in the Yanmen area in the north of Zhao State. It was used to guard against the Huns in the north. Bai Yan and his army of border cavalry rushed to Woyang overnight.
late at night.
Under the command of Bai Yan, more than 30,000 cavalry officers and soldiers all entered Woyang City. At this moment, except for a small number of women, children, old and young people who were left behind, almost all men and women in Woyang City were under the command of HP and Yu He.
Head to Yanmen Mountain and Pingcheng respectively.
The Xiongnu wanted to feint to attack, so Bai Yan asked the people to pretend to be side riders, fighting the enemy with force and attacking with real force.
This is why Bai Yan started to investigate the number of people registered in Yanmen after arriving at the military camp. It has to be said that a large part of the credit for this is due to the system of the Qin State, which allowed Bai Yan to find out the number of people in Yanmen in a short time.
The population of each city.
"General!"
Yifang came to Bai Yan in the night and bowed to Bai Yan.
Looking at the soldiers walking into Wo Yang around him, the blood in Yifang's heart ignited again. After knowing Bai Yan's plan, Yifang seemed to have returned to the scene where he followed Wu'an Jun Li Mu, following a confident general across the battlefield.
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"The order goes down. No one is allowed to enter people's houses without permission. Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed!"
Bai Yan glanced at the soldiers entering the city, and then faced Yifang, Kuai Jin ordered.
"promise!"
"promise!!"
Yifang and Kuai Jin raised their hands and saluted Bai Yan.
At this time, under the leadership of several servants, three pale-haired old men and six or seven middle-aged men came to Bai Yan.
"Woyang Xu family, meet General Bai!"
"Wo Yanghuan family, meet General Bai!"
"Woyang Zhao family, meet General Bai!"
Regardless of whether they were old or strong, more than ten people came to Bai Yan and raised their heads and bowed to Bai Yan to salute him.
Although Woyang City is next to the Great Wall, close to the Yunzhong Mountains, and belongs to the Yanmen border, but although the sparrow is small and has all the internal organs, there is naturally no shortage of nobles in Woyang City. Even when the robbery and sale were investigated, there were one or two nobles.
It was branched from the clan lineage during the Jin Dynasty, and has been thriving in Woyang ever since.
It's a pity that all the inherited noble clans were wiped out by Bai Yan's people during the previous investigation and prosecution of the robbery.
Most of the dozen or so people at the moment are those who have risen in the future, as well as some families who have shown goodwill to Bai Yan very early.
"Bai Yan, I've met you all!"
Although it was dark, Bai Yan could still vaguely see that some people had brought gifts to Shanwu City to visit Shanwu City very early.
"I would like to ask you all to help keep an eye on me in the past few days, and I will never allow you to leave the city without permission!"
After Bai Yan finished the ceremony, he said to these people.
Fortunately, we had taken advantage of the plundering and selling incident to wipe out most of the old tribes in Yanmen, and not spared any city. Otherwise, it would have taken a lot of energy to conceal the news before the Xiongnu went south.
"Of course, General, please rest assured, General, we will do our best to help the General, as long as the General is following his lead!"
"General, we have prepared fine wine at our house. General is running all the way! Why not move to your house!"
The two white-haired old men cupped their hands and said to Bai Yan. Their words were full of intimacy. Although they were quite old, they really didn't feel uncomfortable looking at the young general in front of them in this night.
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Because they knew that not only did the young man have the famous Bai family cavalry under him now, but also the side cavalry who used to be under Li Mu, as well as all the Qin officials in the entire Yanmen, were all under the young man's command. More importantly, they had also seen with their own eyes those former soldiers.
The other clans entrenched in Woyang suffered the fate, and now they are not willing to repeat the mistakes of those clans.
"Thank you!"
When Bai Yan heard the invitation from these nobles, he glanced at the soldiers around him and did not refuse.
Early morning.
As the Tianji Mountains glowed with a touch of fish belly white, and the sky gradually brightened, the streets of Woyang City were filled with frontier soldiers, wrapped in coarse cloth, sleeping in rows. They stayed awake all day and all night, and rushed all night.
Even sleeping on the street is very sweet.
Bai Yan looked at the soldiers walking slowly on the street holding Chang Ge and swords in their arms, sleeping soundly.
"General!"
"General!!"
Small voices sounded one after another on the street. Bai Yan looked at the tired soldiers and shook his head, indicating that there was no need to say hello.
In the eyes of the soldiers on the side, they thought that Bai Yan should have rested last night. However, looking at Bai Yan's eyes that were full of exhaustion and bloodshot, they couldn't help but froze on the spot.
Seeing that Bai Yan asked them not to wake others up, the soldiers naturally did not dare to say anything more and could only continue to lie on the ground. However, the feeling of sleepiness that they originally felt slowly disappeared.
The soldiers were lying on the ground one by one, turning their heads slightly, looking straight at the back of the young man on the street, escorted by two soldiers, slowly walking towards the city gate.
On top of Woyang City.
Bai Yan came to the top of the city. At this moment, there were still only a few Qin officials patrolling the top of the city, and a few soldiers guarding the city with long swords.
Under the city gate, there were still some people from the rural pavilions near Woyang. They didn't know that the people in Woyang had been evacuated. They came to Woyang early in the morning to buy some things they needed for their homes.
Looking at the Qin officials on the tower, Bai Yan came to a corner and sat down after telling him the excuse he had prepared.
"General, why don't you go back to your house and rest! You haven't had a good rest in a long time!"
Zhang stood next to Bai Yan, frowning slightly, and said softly.
To be honest, Zhang used to work as a butcher in She Village outside Luoyin City. In his eyes, let alone other places, he is an official in Luoyin. Who doesn’t drink and eat meat all day long and go to restaurants to have fun every day? Officials are like this
, not to mention generals who are higher in rank than officials and generals.
Therefore, I always thought that generals enjoy happiness. Even in the army, they enjoy good wine and meat, are served by beautiful servants and concubines, and only need to command the army to kill the enemy in war.
However, since he followed Bai Yan, he was completely dumbfounded. Being a general was not a blessing, it was a complete suffering!
Bai Yan, who could have taken his time back to Yanmen because something was wrong, just rode back to Yanmen day and night. He finally arrived at Shanwu and had no time to rest. After explaining a few words, he went to the governor's house that day.
, and then immediately rushed to the camp before dark.
I have been busy ever since.
I thought I could rest after traveling last night, but I didn't expect that those nobles would pop out again. I finally gave those nobles face, and the general would come to the street to see the generals again.
"Here at the city gate, I feel at ease!"
When Bai Yan heard Zhang's words, he took off his sword like a knight on the frontier, held it in his arms, leaned against the wall and closed his eyes.
And Bai Yan's words left Zhang speechless.
Although he was not Bai Yan, and he didn't understand any big principles, he could feel the heavy pressure on Bai Yan's shoulders after listening to Bai Yan's words.
The captain of Yanmen County is Bai Yan!
The entire Yanmen side cavalry are all at Bai Yan's command. The safety of Yanmen and the survival of all Yanmen people are closely related to Bai Yan's orders. If something goes wrong, even Yan can't even imagine it.
Think of this.
He glanced at Bai Yan who was sleeping with his eyes closed, then turned his head and glanced at the endless mountains and rivers outside the city, and the responsibilities of Yanmen.
He took off the thick iron rod from his back and came directly to Bai Yan's side with his thick body. He also followed Bai Yan's example and leaned against the wall and closed his eyes.
Sunset.
Bai Yan had already woken up, but Bai Yan never left.
"General! General, there is news from Yanmen Mountain!"
A soldier hurriedly ran in the city road, and as the sound rang out, he slowly opened his eyes.
He had been following Bai Yan for a while and was really exhausted. When he opened his eyes and woke up, he saw General Yifang, General Kuai Jin and others, who had already been around Bai Yan for some time.
Seeing this, Zhang was startled and stood up quickly.
On the city road.
Bai Yan finally received the news after waiting for a whole day. After taking the bamboo slip and reading the contents, Bai Yan breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let the soldiers prepare wine!"
Bai Yan handed the bamboo slips to Yifang and whispered.
Yifang took the bamboo slips and looked. When he saw that Yanmen Mountain and Pingcheng were really attacked by the Xiongnu, he was shocked. From the description above, Yifang, who had led the army for many years, also immediately noticed that it was really as white as white.
Yan said that Yanmen Mountain and Pingcheng were all feigned attacks by the Huns.
The previous news about Bai Yan is all true!!!
Think of this.
Yifang didn't know where Bai Yan learned such a detailed plan of the Xiongnu, but now that Yanmen Mountain and Pingcheng were feints, the only way the Xiongnu wanted to go south to Yanmen was through Yunzhong.
"promise!"
Yifang bowed to Bai Yanji and accepted the order, then turned and left.
An hour later.
As the sky grew dark, all the frontier knights in the city came to the streets of Beicheng after having dinner. Outside the north gate, densely packed frontier knights filled the streets.
One by one, the soldiers on the side of the cavalry held bowls and handed them to other soldiers alternately. There were porcelain bowls and wooden bowls of different sizes, but without exception, they could all hold wine.
When Bai Yan's figure appeared on the streets of Beicheng, every frontier soldier looked at Bai Yan with a bowl of wine.
Inside the north city gate, on the wooden platform erected, Bai Yan, followed by Yifang, Kuai Jin and others, walked to the platform above.
Black flags with the word Qin fluttering in the wind on the city wall and in the hands of many soldiers.
Bai Yan took a porcelain bowl from his henchman's hand, watched as his henchman poured it into the bowl, and then turned to look at the vast expanse of the city, filled with all the empty spaces, the former Zhao people.
"Soldiers!"
Bai Yan stepped forward, holding the bowl in one hand and shouting loudly with the other.
As Bai Yan's voice sounded, all the soldiers on the sidelines fell silent. They all held drinks and looked at Bai Yan on the platform.
At this moment, there were no people in this city that led directly to the clouds and the Xiongnu in the north. In the quiet city, at a glance, except for the endless line of soldiers wearing civilian clothes, only Bai Yan's voice was echoing.
"Tens of thousands of Huns are just outside the Yunzhong Mountains."
Bai Yan looked at all the frontier soldiers and told them everything about the Xiongnu outside the Yunzhong Mountains.
"They are going south this time to plunder Yanmen, destroy the Yanmen city, kidnap the women of Yanmen, and kill the old and weak of Yanmen!"
Bai Yan roared loudly, a rare ferocious face appeared on Bai Yan's cheeks, and many of his bloodshot eyes were full of hatred. This was a rare appearance of Bai Yan, and it fell in the eyes of all the frontier soldiers at this moment.
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The words are rough but not rude. Listening to Bai Yan's words, all the soldiers on the frontier have the ability to distinguish right from wrong. They understand that there is no trace of fraud in Bai Yan's words.
But no.
Why did the Xiongnu go south? It was not to plunder their land, burn their cities, kill their relatives, and plunder their wives and daughters.
Thinking of these, the breathing of each of the frontier soldiers gradually became faster. Regardless of whether they had wives and children in Yanmen, at this moment, for those Huns, every frontier soldier's mind was full of killing intent.
And under the watchful eyes of countless frontier soldiers.
Bai Yan, who was on the wooden platform, picked up the wine glass and roared with all his strength.
"Is there any man in Yanmen?"
Bai Yan's words made the frontier soldiers, who were already full of murderous intentions towards the Huns, become completely jealous.
Why is there a man in Yanmen? Doesn’t it mean that there is a man in Yanmen, and there is a man under the crotch? Could it be that they are not men, so they are afraid of the Xiongnu? Could it be that they can’t even protect their relatives, and even the Xiongnu dare not
Killing, watching helplessly their relatives, wives and daughters being kidnapped by the Xiongnu, what kind of men are they, they might as well become women.
Wanting to understand this, each of the frontier soldiers became more and more short of breath, with ferocious eyes and fierce faces.
Even the riding generals such as Yi Fang and Kuai Jin on the platform looked at Bai Yan in front of them and wished they could kill the Xiongnu with their swords immediately.
This big and powerful butcher turned red in the face, and secretly determined in his heart that when he saw the Huns, he would kill them all at any cost.
In everyone's eyes.
After Bai Yan finished shouting those words, he held up a porcelain bowl filled with fine wine in front of everyone,
"Today, Bai Yan offered wine to me, Lang, a young man from Yanmen. He invited me, a young man from Yanmen, to leave the city to protect my Yan people. He raised his horse with a sword and drank the blood of the Huns with a smile!"
The first half of the sentence is Bai Yan's response, and the second half is Bai Yan's heroic oath.
Not loud.
However, in the silent city, Bai Yan's voice spread far and wide.
Countless soldiers on the cavalry carrying fine wines, upon hearing Bai Yan's words, stared blankly at the young man holding a bowl and drinking on the high platform.
Laughing and drinking the blood of the Huns!!!!
As these words came to mind, the image appeared in the minds of countless frontier soldiers. Their chests were full of heroic spirit, and their eyes were full of murderous intent and madness. They were crazy like they had never been like this before, but now, they are still
I really want to taste the blood of the Huns, what it tastes like.
Along with this thought, I looked at the young man drinking on the platform.
One by one, the frontier soldiers held the bowls in their hands and drank all the wine in the bowl with the young man. At a glance, the densely packed frontier soldiers were all like this without exception.
On the high platform.
After Bai Yan finished drinking, he looked at the endless soldiers at dusk with a smile on his lips.
Military spirit is available!
As it gets dark.
Under the illumination of the torches stuck on the city gate, the north gate of Woyang City slowly opened.
The dark night outside the city reflected in the eyes of countless frontier soldiers inside the city. Looking at the darkness inside the city, all the soldiers understood what was waiting for them outside the city.
But at this moment, not a single frontier soldier hesitated at all.
Countless soldiers on the side of the cavalry walked towards the door, followed by Bai Yan, Yifang and others, and then disappeared into the night outside the city.
The Huns are heading south! The border cavalry is coming!