Wu Yan couldn't even think of one thing, that is, Tadun had already divided his troops and approached Pinggang. He also never thought that Su Puyan, another leader of the Wuhuan tribe in Liaodong, had also rushed over from Liaodong.

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The two armies joined forces and hid less than a few dozen miles away from King Wuyan's tent, preparing to launch a surprise attack on Wuyan.

Why did Taton suddenly kill Wu Yan? It was entirely because Wu Yan guarded the passage from Liucheng to the frontier fortress. If he and Gongsun Du of Liaodong wanted to successfully enter the pass and attack Jixian, they had to pass through this road.

But the problem is, Taton is not sure whether Wu Yan can sell him.

Just as Zhang Dan didn't trust Wu Yan, Tadun didn't trust Wu Yan either.

At this time, Wu Yan would never have thought that his clever behavior of sitting on the fence and looking at both sides would become his own fatal disaster at this moment.

Su Puyan, a lord of eastern Liaoning, was Taton's uncle and a Wuhuan hero of the same generation as Qiu Juli. He was a prominent figure in the tribe in his early years. When he was young, he often went deep into the grasslands with the captains of the Liaodong vassal state to harass Xianbei.

However, since the sixth year of Xiping, when the three Han armies marched out of the fortress with tens of thousands of troops, and were defeated and annihilated, some Wuhuan people such as Su Puyan knew that the Han army was no longer able to intervene outside the fortress.

Therefore, these Wuhuan noble chiefs returned to their tribes one after another and began to merge and expand, hoping to seize the maximum benefits in the process of the Han Dynasty's influence withdrawing from beyond the Great Wall.

Originally, he also had an ambition to be a Chanyu of the Wuhuan people, but unfortunately he met Qiu Liju, a contemporary of his generation, who was superior to him in talent, talent, bravery and strategy. In the end, he could only lie dormant under him and became one of the four great men.

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He is also getting old. As the master's position in eastern Liaoning grows longer, he will obey Qiu Liju's orders more and more. Even now, Taton can let Su Puyan take three thousand people just in the name of Qiu Liju.

Riders from Liaodong rushed to Liucheng overnight to assemble.

After learning that this mission was actually aimed at Wu Yan, one of the four masters, he only hesitated a little before agreeing.

At this time, Su Puyan had just wiped out a small tribe wandering outside Pinggang.

At that time, these tribes saw the horsemen belonging to the Wuhuan people rushing towards them. They greeted them warmly and asked where they were going to collect grass. Then they were ambushed and killed by Su Puyan's Wuhuan people in Liaodong.

This tribe was very wealthy. Su Buyan looked at the Han utensils and grains piled up in the tents and said with a chill:

"The Wuhuan people in Youbeiping are indeed rich. It seems that the Han people's dogs have bones to eat after all."

He has forgotten that twenty years ago, he, Su Puyan, was also proud of being a good hunting dog among the Han people.

The Wuhuan people of Liaodong did not let these tribesmen off because they were also Wuhuan people. According to the rules of the grassland, they killed the males and then robbed the women and underage children.

The Youbeiping Wuhuan people who were massacred were being slaughtered while they cursed these Liaodong Wuhuan people as beasts.

But no matter how these people cry, the result cannot be changed.

After massacring this small tribe of only five tribes, Su Buyan ordered the knights to rendezvous at Taton.

At this time, Taton had just led his men to raid a small tribe. Unlike Su Puyan, he allowed these people to surrender to him.

Tadun was more organized than Su Buyan. He knew that the most important basis for the rise of the Wuhuan people was how many core departments there were. Without this, even if Tadun, the Chanyu, was really recognized by the Han Dynasty, it would be hollow.

And with this, the more the better, he still uses the Han Dynasty to admit it?

It's like drinking horses from the Central Plains, and leading the bow to the country, I will build it myself.

This is real confidence.

Therefore, Taton gave all these tribes in Youbeiping a chance. Judging from this point of view, I don't know how much better they are than Su Puyan.

After killing a group of Wuyan's cronies, the tribe all surrendered to Taton.

But there was not much joy on Taton's face at this moment, because he felt vaguely uneasy.

This uneasiness certainly does not come from that Wu Yan, that person is the yellow sheep in his pasture, who can be killed at will. His uneasiness comes from Gongsun Du in Liaodong and Zhang Chong who is stationed in Jixian.

The more Taton thought about the news brought by Gongsundu's envoy Han Zhong, the more something was wrong. That is, if the Taishan Army wanted to conquer Xianbei in the north, why did the Xianbei people on the grassland not respond at all?

Later, he asked the Wuhuan tribe in the Shanggu area to explore the grassland, and learned that the Xianbei people near the border fortress were migrating deeper into the grassland.

This point somewhat convinced Tadun, because the Xianbei people still planned to follow the previous method and lure the Taishan army deep into the grassland, and then encircle and annihilate them.

It was this news that made Taton make up his mind to take down the Wuyan on both sides of the snake and rat first, and then see whether to enter the enemy now.

In addition to his distrust of Gongsun Du, Taton was also a little afraid of that prince Zhang Chong. He had also participated in the Battle of Xingyang to some extent that year, and he also had direct experience of the ability of the Taishan Army's surprise cavalry.

Therefore, he was particularly afraid of whether the Taishan Army was making a false move, apparently intending to conquer the Xianbei people in the north, but in fact the sword was pointed at him.

However, the information transmitted from within the pass, whether it was the gathering location of the Taishan Army or the location of Zhang Chong, repeatedly verified that the Taishan Army was indeed planning to conquer Xianbei in the north.

In this way, Taton was so entangled, but finally embarked on the road to attack the rebellious Wuyan.

At this time, Taton knew that all this was because he was weak. If he controlled a hundred thousand strings and became the overlord of the grassland, then it would not be him who would be worried, but the Han people opposite him.

Thinking of this, I have a deeper desire to expand my strength.

So Taton asked again:

"Isn't Su Puyan here yet?"

Before the palace warrior beside him spoke, a group of knights came over there, it was Su Puyan.

Su Buyan was shaking his fat belly without getting off his horse. He walked to the side of the couch, first glanced at the remaining battlefield, frowned and said:

"Taton, why don't you kill these brats from the Right Beiping Department and keep them?"

Su Buyan was much taller than Tadun, and he was condescending. In addition, his tone sounded like an old man lecturing his son.

Tadun held back his anger and replied firmly:

"If they lose, they will be my prisoners. I can deal with them how I want. Does Lord Liaodong want to steal my spoils?"

Su Buyan shrugged and said indifferently:

"Of course it's up to you. It's just a warning from the elders. It's up to you whether you listen or not. You have to think about why our grassland tradition does this. Are you the only one in such a long history?

Renjie, do you know that tribal population is important? Even a humble herdsman knows that the more cattle and sheep outside the tent, the better, but us ministers don’t know that?"

Taton sneered, unable to listen to such rotten words, he changed the subject and asked:

"Have you found where Wuyan spent the winter?"

Seeing Taton's behavior, Su Buyan knew that he didn't listen to what he said, so he stopped trying to persuade him.

Although he has little knowledge, his long-term experience has taught him one truth:

"It's hard to persuade others, but it's easy to persuade others."

After Taton has experienced the consequences of recruiting tribesmen at will, he will know how to respect his elders.

So Su Puyan took a breath and replied:

"I found it. That bitch hid in Sandaogou and settled down."

That's right, in Su Buyan's eyes, this Wuyan is just a son of a bitch. Not long after they, the Wuhuan people, changed from dogs under the Han people's tent to wolves on the grassland, someone else took their group to join the Han people, and they still wanted to go.

Begging for food.

This earned Su Puyan's hatred.

However, after he came to this Pinggang area, he couldn't help but secretly sigh that this was really a good place to spend the winter. No wonder the Han people had to garrison here in the past.

It's just a pity that this place is too far away from Liaodong, and this wonderful place will fall into the hands of Taton again.

Taton was unaware of Su Buyan's imagination. He was overjoyed when he learned that he had found Wu Yan's location:

"Order all the troops not to blow the trumpets, and follow me to kill Sandaogou directly!"

In this way, the Taton tribe led two thousand Wuhuan cavalry and about a thousand Wuhuan cavalry from Liaodong, and rushed towards Sandaogou.

This place was only eighty miles away from Sandaogou, and there was a flat river during this period, so Taton and others kept going all the way. With one person and three horses, it only took two hours to rush to the outside of Sandaogou.

At this time, the Wuhuan people had been fighting with the Han people for a long time, and their fighting methods were already superior to those of the Hu and Han people. The violent advance at this moment coincided with the cavalry's maneuvering method.

When the silence of Sandaogou was broken by the shock of thousands of troops, the Wuhuan warriors in the Right Beiping Department were still in a daze, thinking that they were friendly troops coming from somewhere.

But when they came out of the tent alertly and saw the dark mass of cavalry appearing at the end of the plain, they were even more surprised.

Because this is obviously a team dressed as Wuhuan people.

Just as they were in a daze, some young nobles reacted and shouted at the top of their lungs:

"The enemy is attacking, mount your horse and fight."

Then these people belatedly took out the war horses from outside their tents. At this time, their wives and children were hiding in the tents, watching worriedly as their pillars of support rode away.

A large-scale cavalry dispatch could not be concealed on this vast plain, so this gave the Wuhuan people of the Youbeiping tribe enough time to prepare.

Soon, when the warriors from each tent below, carrying iron blades and riding war horses, were gathering outside Sandao Ridge, their leader Wu Yan also rushed over soberly.

As soon as Wu Yan arrived, he saw that the Wuhuan people opposite were tribal warriors from Taton. He immediately felt like dying, but the current situation forced him to bite the bullet and shout:

"Taton, I stayed in Pinggang honestly, why did you attack me?"

At this time, Wu Yan was very much looking forward to Na Taton being able to reason.

But his words were as if they were lost in the ocean, and there was no reply at all.

Wu Yan, whose face was gray and ugly, suddenly pulled out his sword and shouted to the more than 500 tribal warriors behind him:

"Behind are our wives, our cattle, sheep and tents. Those despicable Liaoxi Wuhuan are jealous of our life and want to rob us. Do you agree?"

Wu Yan's words were accompanied by scattered voices from behind. Then Wu Yan turned his head and saw that many Zhongluo were retreating.

At this point, Wu Yan was dizzy, and finally cried bitterly for a while, then threw away the horse silk in his hand, then dismounted and knelt down.
To be continued...