"Ah~ I'm finally back to a peaceful and peaceful life again. It's so gratifying, so gratifying~~"
Li Shi sat comfortably in the room of the Prefect's Mansion. After two years, Li Shi had gradually become accustomed to this sitting posture, which at first made the blood circulation in his legs extremely poor. On the short table in front of him was placed a piece of paper by Su Xiaoluo.
A pot of tea made by Li
, in this cold winter day, take a beautiful sip of hot tea that will numb the tip of your tongue, and you will feel the fragrance in your mouth and the feeling of comfort all over... [Master Taishou, it turns out that you are hiding here to enjoy your leisure time. This time
You can't escape."
However, this leisurely state was soon completely shattered by a burst of cold wind brought in from outside the door. Along with it, a tall figure and a thunderous voice rushed towards the corner like an ancient behemoth.
Li Shi was trembling.
"Am I that scary? Am I scarier than those Jie people? Isn't it just a spring festival? I don't really ask you to farm."
Seeing Li Shi huddled in the corner with a look like "the big bad wolf is coming and wants to eat people", Cheng Yu couldn't help but get his head wet, but after he casually took a sip of the not-so-hot drink carefully prepared by Su Xiaololi
After hot tea, Cheng Yu also felt so warm that he didn't want to move. Fortunately, Cheng Yu was also a determined person, so he recovered quickly, but...
Pfft~ Looking at the performance of the two guys, one big and one small, Su Xiaololi, who was watching the show at the door, finally couldn't hold back her laughter. However, considering the busy but relaxed atmosphere in Lishi City now
, it is not surprising that these two people can play tricks here with peace of mind. After all, the Jie people have retreated and the news about the Xianbei people is unknown to ordinary people and soldiers.
Of course, even if they knew it, after this battle with the Jie people, everyone must be much more confident about whether they can defend their homeland than before, so everyone is excited about the upcoming new year.
With a certain expectation of good things.
Yes, the Jie people retreated just three days ago. After receiving the news that his hometown was invaded by the Karasuma people, Shi Kele could no longer calmly watch the small-scale conflicts that happened every day. Now he was extremely pained.
It is necessary to lead the army back immediately, otherwise it will not only be the loss of the Jie people's reputation, but also the foundation and future. After all, with the few left-behind soldiers in the royal court and the fighting power of those young and old, Shi Kele does not believe that they will be defeated.
Carefully selected opponents of Karasuma soldiers.
At this point, Shi Kele had to admit that the old general far away in Meiji was really powerful. Although his own troops did not dare to move arbitrarily because of the relationship with the Huns, he could let Xihe Karasuma, who was very close to him, take action.
, surrounded Wei and rescued Zhao with one hand, he really couldn't continue to spend time under Lishi City. After all, there was no benefit to be gained here at all.
Shi Kele gave the highest praise to the old general he was quite afraid of. At the same time, he naturally understood Xihe Karasuma's actions as a response from the old general. But if he knew that all this was caused by Li Shicheng
If the young man who is playing "hide and seek" with Cheng Yu takes the lead, I wonder what Shi Kele's expression will be?
Of course, all this has nothing to do with Li Shi. It is estimated that Shi Kele will never have the chance to fight Li Shi again in his life, because just when he was leading his troops back, his army was attacked by two ferocious
The "hungry wolf" is following.
Of course, if there are really two hungry wolves, even though Shi Kele is older, his youthful skills have not declined due to age. As long as he has a bow and arrow in his hand, Shi Kele will still not pay attention to several ferocious beasts. Only
But this time he had to face two thugs who had long planned to carve out a piece of flesh from his army.
These two teams are the cavalry led by Lu Bu, who is wandering outside the Lishi City battlefield, and the Karasuma reinforcements, which are nominally commanded by the youngest son of the leader of the Xihe Karasuma tribe. They have been paying attention to the movements of the Jieren army and are ready at any time.
In order to give the enemy a fatal blow. Especially the Karasuma people, for them, this is a pretty good greeting gift.
Of course, the reason why the army at the back said that its commander Wu Ze was only a nominal commander was mainly because of the existence of Yan Zhong. This learned and experienced old man could say that he had not seen him much after just one conversation.
The worldly young battlefield commander was so impressed that he turned into a "yes man" who had to consult Yan Zhong on everything.
I wonder what the old patriarch of Xihe Karasuma, who is about to abdicate, will feel when he hears the news? But even the Karasuma people from the grassland respect an old man like Yan Zhong who has rich experience. Although the grassland is accustomed to the law of the jungle,
If there is not enough food, the elderly will inevitably be abandoned, but as long as they can
Enough to survive, they are also treasures of the tribe. After all, the experience possessed by the old man is the most important source of information in the tribe after various inheritances. In other words, they are the owners of various inheritances, so their status is
Even more incredible, even young people will take the initiative to protect the lives of these elderly people.
So although they were not familiar with each other, Lu Bu and Yan Zhong teamed up to stage a classic pursuit battle that could win the Gold Star Medal or the Iron Cross Medal. Of course, the old Yan Zhong finally got over being dragged down by Wang Fen and Li Xie.
The reason why he was captured by Li Shi was because of his failure in that battle, so that he could not play any role in Huangfu Song's army.
With the cooperation of the two troops, Shi Kele once again made a fatal mistake. In order to ensure that his army had enough combat effectiveness to face the incoming Karasuma people, Shi Kele had to let his main force go first, and then move forward.
Some small tribes were placed in the rear position, hoping that they could buy enough time for the main force to return reinforcements.
It's just that after this defeat, Shi Kele's reputation was obviously not enough to make those small tribes willing to become his scapegoats. Although there were still a few tribes who resisted desperately thinking of Shi Kele's original benefits, their main combat power was already damaged.
They could not compete with Yan Zhong, who was full of bad ideas compared to the Hu people, and Lu Bu, who had great battlefield insight and rode a red rabbit. As for the remaining small tribes, they surrendered immediately as soon as they saw the fate of the resisters around them.
, and immediately turned the gun.
After several repetitions, facing the snowballing pursuers behind him, Shi Kele had to stop his troops to deal with the trouble behind him first.
But what those rebels feared most was the counterattack of Shi Kele, a ruthless guy, so these people attacked Shi Kele's troops far more cruelly than when they attacked Li Shicheng, while Lu Bu and Yan Zhong only had to watch the show together.
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Although Shi Kele finally won the victory by relying on the unparalleled advantages in equipment and experience of the Royal Court troops, facing the "fisherman" pair of Lu Bu and Yan Zhong, he could only turn around and run away. Anyway, they were not far away from their own Royal Court.
There are only a few steps left.
However, what Shi Kele, Lu Bu, and even Li Shi, Jia Xu and others who were far away from Shicheng did not expect was that the Karasuma people who originally thought they would pick a big deal ended up with a big mistake.
Very disgusting somersault.
What caused them to stumble was another force that although they did not directly participate in the war, they continued to play their role - the Huns.
Since the Huzheng Chanyu of the Xiongnu was killed by Zhang Xiu and then Huzheng secretly established Qiang Qu as the Chanyu, the status of the Xiongnu Chanyu can be said to have plummeted, and the Xiongnu nobles who were originally appeased by Zhang Huan and Huangfu Gui once again
There were restless voices, so although the Xiongnu were still nominally led by Shan Yu, there were already many factions within the Xiongnu who only considered their own tribe.
The old general of the clan has neither the charisma of Zhang Huan nor the domineering power of Huangfu Gui to intimidate Xiaoxiao. What he only has is a fair heart and a hard-working attitude. Although he cannot convince everyone, at least he has united a group of people who do not have too many ambitions.
tribe. In this way, their reputation is quite strong, and coupled with the threat of the Xianbei people, the Xiongnu radicals do not dare to be too public.
However, with the growth of age and the sharp decline in strength during this period, the ambitions that were originally suppressed were like seeds that would overcome all difficulties and take root and sprout when they encountered the right environment. So on the one hand, the Huns created unstable emotions to make the members of the clan unwilling.
Dare to act without permission, on the other hand, mobilize troops and horses to prepare to go south to take advantage.
Of course, the Huns' targets were only the Jie people. As for Li Shi's Lishi City, they had no intention of using their precious troops to attack the southern wall.
If the Jie people win, they will rob the spoils that the Jie people plundered. If the Jie people lose, they will loot their hometown. Regarding "betrayers" like the Jie people, the attitude of the leaders of the Xiongnu tribes is very consistent, that is, they must be resolutely destroyed.
It's just that now two thieves who wanted to take advantage of each other met together, and the two thieves were still quite at odds with each other. So, when Shi Kele returned to the royal court, what he saw was a helpless confrontation between the two sides.
situation.
This time the fisherman became Shi Kele. Although Lu Bu and Yan Zhong were able to fight a perfect pursuit, they did not have enough troops to fight a frontal surprise attack. What's more, Wu Ze also made a request, hoping that they could help Xihe Wu
The few remaining elite troops of Wu Ze returned to their own tribe. Considering that Xihe Karasuma could not be weakened too much, Yan Zhong agreed to Wu Ze's request.
Seeing that there was no big advantage to be taken and they could not directly push their apparent allies to the enemy's side, the Huns also made a favor, so Shi Kele, who was originally in trouble, finally got a chance to breathe, although the price was really high.
Looking back to Li Shi, after a large-scale battle ended, the soldiers of Xihe County also entered a period of rest. At the same time, everyone also began to prepare for the upcoming Spring Festival.
More than 6,000 soldiers and civilians in Xihe died in this battle. Most of them died in the siege on the second day, and a small number were shot to death by Jie people's cold arrows at night. After all, the night is always beneficial to the attacking side. But
There was also a lot of harvest, hundreds of high-quality war horses, together with the prisoners and returnees brought back by Lu Bu, a total of nearly 5,000 Jie people became "trouble" that urgently needed to be dealt with.
Of course, the most important thing is the gain of confidence and battlefield experience. The fundamental reason why the Han frontier army is so strong is the result of repeated battles. There are no fancy or shortcuts. They all come from the dead.
Climbed out.
Thus, the winter of the first year of Zhongping came to an end in this great battle. Li Shi and his Xihe County were about to usher in the second year of Zhongping, a year destined to be full of smoke and war...
