Dinghai (the twelfth day) in the tenth month of winter in the sixth year of Yuande.
The smoke from the Honghu Fortress has long since dissipated. Three days ago, the fortress built by King Zhao Wuling to "watch the flying swans and pray to the God of the River Meander" had been captured by the army of Commander Cheng Bushi.
There were three thousand corpses of the Huns, and the rest dispersed and fled to Gaoque.
Cheng Bushi stood on the end wall of the ruined fortress, looking at the majestic city on the other side of the Bei River, between the clouds and mist.
Yangshan, passes through the middle section of Beihe.
The lush forest stretches endlessly.
Tall and steep mountains cut off the land between the rivers.
There is a plain before the mountains, and there is a plain behind the mountains.
Cheng Bushi looked at the scenery of Gaoque City from a distance of dozens of miles.
He sighed: "You don't know the danger until you reach Gaoque! I originally thought that Hangu Pass was already the most powerful pass in the world, but now I know that Gaoque is even more dangerous than Hangu Pass!"
The geography and landforms at this time were completely different from those two thousand years ago.
At this time, the Hetao Plain not only has the beautiful scenery of wind-blown grass and cows and sheep, but also dense and prosperous forests stretching along the Yangshan Mountains and Yinshan Mountains.
Gaoque City is located on the south bank of Beihe River, at the entrance of Yangshan Mountains.
The mountains on both sides of the North River spread out one after another.
Gaoque City is like a giant eye from the palace in the sky, overlooking the entire Beihe River.
Everyone who sees it with their own eyes will know that this fortress is completely a masterpiece of God.
It has Yangshan Mountain at its back and looks at the Beihe River in front. The Beihe River makes a big bend in front of Gaoque City and changes its course to the east.
The old course of this great river still had plenty of water flow at this time.
You can imagine how fast and turbulent this section of the river will be during the flood season in summer and autumn.
I'm afraid that if a person falls into the water, he will be swept away by the raging river!
Fortunately, it is winter now.
Under the influence of severe cold weather, this once raging river inevitably formed thick river ice.
However, it is also because the water in this section of the river is too fast.
Therefore, these river ices are very unstable.
Standing at the top of Honghu Fortress, Cheng Bushi could hear the sound of breaking and disintegrating river ice from time to time.
This is also the reason why the Han army has not crossed the river for a long time. The Han army needed to find a safe, stable and open section of the river so that the army could safely cross the Beihe River.
And this section of the river was finally found yesterday.
Now a leading force of the Han army has crossed the river, arrived on the other side, and established a simple camp.
As for the Huns?
They seemed to be frightened out of their courage. They all huddled in Gaoque City and did not even dare to go out of the city to attack the vanguard of the Han army.
This made Cheng Bushi both happy and regretful.
Fortunately, in this way, the army can safely cross the natural barrier of Beihe and reach Gaoque City.
What he regretted was that in the future offensive and defensive battle at Gaoque, the Han army would probably have to face a heavily guarded fortress. It would probably take the lives of countless soldiers to conquer this fortified city!
"Where are the Mohists in Moyuan now?" Cheng Bushi turned to ask an officer beside him.
"General, Mo Yuan Mo is coming from Jiuyuan, and he will probably arrive tomorrow!" the man replied.
"That's good!" Cheng Bushi nodded.
Facing the Gaoque Fortress, Cheng Bushi didn't have much choice.
Therefore, 30% of people do it, and 70% of it is done every day.
It is a natural and dangerous fortress shaped by the power of nature and millions of years of changes.
King Wuling of Zhao and Emperor Qin Shihuang successively invested countless efforts in this fortress.
Especially during the Qin Dynasty, Qin craftsmen and troops renovated and renovated Gaoque.
That transformation made Gaoque an almost "never fall" fortress under the circumstances at that time.
No matter which direction the enemy attacks from, unless they trap Gaoque to death and use hunger and despair to force the defenders of Gaoque to surrender, otherwise, even if there are 100,000 casualties, they may not be able to capture it.
Now, what Cheng Bushi can count on is probably the Mohist experts who can study Gaoque City's weaknesses and defensive blind spots.
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Cheng Bushi stared at Gao Que.
Huyan Dangtu also stood at the top of Gaoque City, staring at the other side of the Beihe River in the distance.
Four days ago, he led the defeated soldiers who retreated from Heyin and fled back to Gaoque in embarrassment.
Even just a little bit away, he and his army might all be left behind by the Han army on the other side of the Beihe River.
A few days ago, when he decisively led his army to retreat from Heyin, the main force of the Han army, the terrifying divine cavalry, also crossed the river from Jiuyuan and entered Yiliang.
Huyan Dangtu will never forget the scene he saw at that time.
That terrifying and terrifying Han cavalry truly lived up to its reputation as the ‘sacred cavalry’.
They wore armor that resembled the divine soldiers and generals in myths and legends, rode tall horses, and held up terrifying lances.
They are more stable than mountains, more powerful than rivers, like sandstorms and tornadoes.
As dynamic as a hurricane, as quiet as a mountain.
All the Huns' cavalry and troops were as fragile as ants in front of that divine cavalry!
Almost no one is their enemy.
The divine cavalry of the Han Dynasty almost only used one sprint to make one of the Huns' cavalry collapse, and the other two fled away.
If it weren't for the divine cavalry of the Han Dynasty that seemed unable to carry out long-distance raids, Hu Yandang Tu would have been a corpse at this moment.
But even so, his main force, after suffering heavy losses in Heyin, was bitten and bruised by the Han Dynasty in Yiliang.
Huyan Dangtu almost abandoned most of the livestock and miscellaneous tribes, letting them act as shields to slow down the Han Dynasty people, and fled for hundreds of miles overnight. Only then did he save his life and return to Gaoque.
Now, Huyan Dangtu already knows how the Zhelan people were defeated.
That terrifying divine cavalry is simply not the terrifying army that can appear in this era.
Huyan Dangtu even believed in those legends in his heart.
Legend... the emperor of the Han Dynasty was a god who descended to earth, and all were protected by divine soldiers and generals...
Legend... the emperor of the Han Dynasty had infinite power... could know the past and the future...
"With that emperor in the Han Dynasty, where will the future of the Huns go?" Huyan Dangtu's heart was full of pessimism and despair.
It's not just him, similar pessimism and despair are spreading everywhere in Gaoque City like a plague.
Some shamans even secretly told a proverb that it was impossible for the Xiongnu to appear in the past: if the Han cavalry is less than ten thousand, it will be invincible if there are ten thousand!
Huyan Dangtu also heard this proverb.
But he couldn't find a way to refute it, so he could only try his best to suppress and ban it.
Because, this proverb is true.
In Heyin, without divine cavalry, the Han Dynasty defeated the main force led by him with less than 20,000 infantry cavalry.
In Yiliang, the Han Dynasty people only used two thousand "divine cavalry", but they were so frightened that ten thousand cavalry collapsed on the spot, and the others fled in panic.
All the livestock and baggage were handed over to the Han Dynasty people.
It was also when Huyan Dangtu realized that the power of the human heart is so powerful! (~^~)
