Jiawu (fourth day of the lunar month) in summer and June of the sixth year of Han Dynasty.
Eighty miles southeast of Yaoyang Duwei's post, on the side of the straight road.
Huang Da led his comrades and walked out of the jungle while holding the horses with difficulty.
Standing on a hillside, Huang Zhong took out a telescope specially given to him by General Chariot and Cavalry before the war and looked into the distance.
Then, his eyebrows gradually wrinkled.
"Send someone immediately to inform the general that the Huns have stationed heavy troops in Yaoyang!" Huang Zhong immediately ordered.
At the same time, he immediately ordered his men: "Start building the fortress on the spot immediately!"
Huang Zhong's identity was not that of a captain of the Han army's combat troops, but that of a captain of the tunnel camp.
Of course, as the tunnel camp captain of the Confederate Army, his abilities are beyond what ordinary people can imagine.
In fact, Huang Zhong, from his name, you can know that his background is not much better.
Zhong means second brother or second child in Chinese.
People with this name are generally common people and heads of Guizhou.
Just like a hundred years ago, the names of Gaodi's brothers were Bo, Zhong and Ji.
This is similar to Zhu Yuanzhang’s name of Double Eight.
In fact, Huang Zhong is not even a commoner!
His family, Sikong Chengdan, has been the lowest for generations. Legend has it that it was because his grandfather broke the law.
In short, Huang Zhong's childhood, boyhood and youth life were very difficult.
He may even die at any time!
At any time, the young master would not have any scruples, let alone pity for what happened to Sikong Chengdan.
The scholar-bureaucrats who boasted about being benevolent and moral were afraid to avoid people like him, and even felt insulted even by looking at him.
Only the emperor...
Huang Zhong still remembers the day when the emperor's angel came to him and his brothers and read out the edict.
"Today, I have brought great success to the Tang and Yu Dynasties... The governance of the three kings is based on people... Sikong Chengdan is also my people. On the day of the edict, all those who have committed no crime will be pardoned and treated as common people..."
To this day, Huang Zhong still remembers the time when his brothers burst into tears.
His life also changed from then on.
The Shaofu and Neishi Yamen quickly issued him a new household registration bamboo talisman, completely erasing his status as Sikong Chengdan. This was also the emperor's grace. After Huang Yuan became the captain of the tunnel camp, he knew that this was
The emperor was worried that after the Sikong Chengdan people were liberated, their identity records would be left behind, which would be detrimental to their normal lives.
Therefore, officials at all levels are strictly ordered not to make special markings or record deliberately.
When Huang Zhong learned about this, he already swore in his heart that he would die for the emperor!
Because the emperor is his savior, and he is also the person in the world who, in his opinion, respects and values him the most.
The kindness is as heavy as a mountain, which is not enough to describe!
However, after liberation, Huang Zhong and his brothers were confused again.
From the time they were born until they grew up, they were engaged in various heavy engineering activities in the Dan camp of Sikong City of the Han family, and were regarded as consumables and tools.
Apart from repairing the earth and cutting mountains to make roads, they have no other skills.
They don't even know how to farm.
Moreover, living in Sikong Chengdan camp for a long time made their living habits and behavior incompatible with the outside world.
An obvious example is that Huang Zhong remembers that after liberation, his brother went to the market to buy things with a thousand yuan of severance pay given by the young master. However, he met a profiteer and asked for a thousand five-baht yuan before buying.
He received a piece of silk cloth and a stone of rice, but he still felt that he had earned it.
It was not until much later that he learned the truth.
So he took a knife, found the profiteer, and killed his whole family...
This is how Sikong Chengdan people deal with things.
They don't understand the law, they don't understand the ways of the world, and they don't understand how to live.
Their past was one of constant labor and crises that could break them into pieces at any time.
Death is nothing, killing is nothing.
At this time, the emperor reached out again and found a way out for them.
Tunnel camp!
When the tunnel camp was first established, almost all the personnel were liberated Sikong Chengdan.
Because other people are not willing to come to this army at all.
At the beginning, this was a place where you had to endure the most hardships and do the most tiring work during the war, but you couldn't get a dime of benefit.
Even the groomsmen in the army were unwilling to participate.
But the Sikong Chengdan people didn't say anything. Almost most of the liberated Sikong Chengdan joined the tunnel camp.
Not for reward, not for status, just to repay the favor.
Correspondingly, almost all Guixin Baican became weavers in the Shaofu East Garden and the East and West Weaving Room.
It’s also about repaying a favor.
I am grateful to the Emperor for saving them from fire and water, and enabling them to live an upright life, especially so that future generations can escape their fate!
However, what Huang Zhong and his colleagues did not expect was that they responded to the emperor's call without hesitation out of a desire to repay their gratitude and joined the tunnel camp, which actually made him successful.
Here, he found the value of life.
Isn't it just building forts, building bridges, and digging trenches...
Can it be more difficult than building an imperial mausoleum or building a fortress?
It's nothing more than repairing ordnance and maintaining weapons...
Ever since he was a child, he has known how to make these things with his eyes closed. He even knows their structure better than the craftsmen who make these weapons!
Because, in Sikong Chengdan Camp, he was originally responsible for maintaining these things.
Due to excellent business capabilities and good organizational skills.
Huang Zhong immediately showed his prominence in the tunnel camp of the Confederate Army. He was appreciated by the Confederate Army Guards and promoted to corps commander, then to captain and team leader.
Then, during the Battle of Gaoque, he followed Jinwu into battle and made many military exploits.
Especially in Heyin, when the Xiongnu army was approaching, he took his brothers and Pao Ze to dig out a tunnel three hundred steps long, five steps wide and ten feet deep in front of the Han army's camp within ten hours.
Trapped in a trench.
After the war, his military merits were calculated, and he was rated "A" and promoted to captain.
I was also fortunate enough to be recommended to Wuyuan and received a one-month tunnel camp training.
Big figures from Mohism and Legalism gave him special lessons, and many great craftsmen from Shaofu also came to give guidance and train his skills.
Now, Huang Zhong and his men have become one of the best tunnel camp troops in the Han Dynasty.
Following Huang Zhong's order, the entire school captain's department, with more than 500 engineers, took down various tools carried by camels from their horses, immediately felled trees, cut off shrubs, and selected a camp location near a valley.
, began to build a simple defense system that could withstand the impact of cavalry.
Including the fence, the horse trip rope, the watchtower, the horse breeding area and the grain and grass storage area.
In just three hours, everything has begun to take shape.
At the same time, about fifty steps in front of the camp, Huang Zhong also led people to dig three criss-crossing ditches that could serve as a buffer zone for the cavalry.
It doesn't need to be too deep or too long.
Just make it impossible for the Hun cavalry to pass quickly.
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When Yi Zong arrived here, what appeared in front of him was a standard fortress that was beginning to take shape.
There is a fence, although it is not high, it is enough to support.
Although the cavalry attack channel is not wide, it is enough for the Han cavalry to pass quickly. More warning and observation towers stand on several commanding heights nearby.
However, the Huns were also aware of all this.
On the plain in the distance, hundreds of Hun cavalry figures have been lingering.
"Our army is at least eighty miles away from the command post of Yaoyang Duwei..." Yi Zong took the map and walked to a newly built observation tower to observe the surroundings.
His eyebrows wrinkled slightly.
Through the telescope, he could see further and saw more traces of the Huns cavalry in the distance.
Moreover, the road in the distance, the originally solid and flat straight road, was now muddy and unrecognizable.
There are piles of human and animal excrement all over the mountains and plains.
Obviously, in the past few days, a large number, even an extremely large number, of Hun cavalry came and went from here.
Now, although Yi Zong is not sure how many Huns cavalry he will face.
But one thing is certain, there will probably be a bloody battle here!
And this is what Yi Zong does not want to see.
A war of attrition is too detrimental to him and his army.
Yi Zong knew very well that now, he and his army only had less than three days of rations.
Therefore, if we were to fight a head-on battle with the Huns here, a war of attrition similar to the Battle of Heyin, where every inch of territory would have to be fought over.
I'm afraid the Han army won't last long!
It is still necessary to mobilize and cannibalize the enemy through mobile warfare.
After thinking about it, Yi Zong called his personal guard Zhang Xin, who was also the leader of his scout team, to him and ordered: "Leader Zhang, you immediately bring all the scouts to give me the number of Huns."
Find out the details..."
"No!" Zhang Xin immediately accepted the order and left.
Compared with the Battle of Gaoque, the Han army now has more supplies, especially special supplies.
During the Battle of Gaoque, there were less than ten telescopes in the entire Han Dynasty.
But now, there are dozens of Yi Zong alone.
The main force, the school captain and the captain, are almost all available.
The scouts responsible for reconnaissance and infiltration also worked in groups of three.
This was a huge advantage for the Han army, which meant that the Han army could find out the details of the Huns at a place where the Huns could not observe them.
The Huns wouldn't even know that the Han army was observing them!
"Send the order to the rear army to speed up..." Yi Zong ordered again.
The Yanji area today is no better than it will be in later generations.
After all, it was less than a hundred and fifty years after the development of this place started. During this period, it experienced the melee at the end of Qin Dynasty and the disorder at the beginning of Han Dynasty.
Up to now, many mountainous areas and places here are uninhabited for hundreds of miles, and there are even no traces of human activities in many places. This barbaric land tortured the Han army after crossing the fishing river.
Even the fastest Qingqi, only 5,000 people have arrived here so far.
The rest are still struggling to trek through the hills and trails behind.
The entire team stretched across a vast mountainous area thirty to forty miles long and seventy to eighty miles wide.
Yi Zong knew very well that before nightfall today, he must have all his troops and heavy equipment arrive here, and then make repairs. Wait until dawn tomorrow before deciding on the offensive discovery and strategy.
Thinking of this, Yi Zong had to pat his chest happily.
He was very lucky that he brought camels with him during this march. This kind of rare and strange beast was not common in the Han Dynasty. At one time, there were only two camels in Shanglin Garden. The old Shanyu of the Xiongnu gave them to the Han Dynasty.
room.
However, in the Battle of Mayi and the Battle of Gaoque, the Han Dynasty captured more than 10,000 of these strange and exotic animals.
This weird beast may not be as good as an ox or horse in other aspects.
However, it has advantages in terms of endurance and transportation, especially the heavy equipment carrying breastplates, which is very powerful.
Thanks to these hard-working beasts along the way, otherwise, it would have taken at least three days for the Han army's cuirass troops to arrive here.
But now, he can barely keep up with the large army.
only……
I feel good in my heart, but I still feel a little anxious.
In his plan, he chose to penetrate into the Yaoyang area, which should be a surprise attack.
In fact, it only takes a few hundred riders to recapture Yaoyang, and at the same time make a surprise attack on Baitan, completely blocking Yaoshui and Rushui, and cutting off the Huns' retreat route.
In order to achieve the purpose of mobilizing and consuming the main force of the Huns.
but now……
The Huns have heavy troops in the Yaoyang area!
And there are so many of them that it is impossible to capture them with just a few hundred riders.
This made his plan go bankrupt and the mobile war had the potential to turn into a war of attrition.
This is what Yi Zong does not want to see.
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But Yi Zong didn't know that opposite him, the Huns were also startled by his appearance.
The person responsible for presiding over the evacuation here was originally Huyan Dangtu, but now, Huyan Dangtu went to the foot of Yuyang Fortress to discuss with the military officials, and the one who stayed to preside over the evacuation became the captain of the royal guards of the military officials.
It is difficult for the princes of the capital to be tied to the throne.
He is the Yu clan, a clan of the royal family of the Xiongnu.
At the same time, he is also Shan Yu’s dog-legger for generations.
Historically, members of the Yu family served as Chanyu envoys to Chang'an many times in the early days of Han-Hungarian exchanges, dealing with Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty, Empress Lu and Taizong.
As a personal guard of the Xiongnu Chanyu, after receiving the information about the discovery of the Han army, Xiyunan immediately sent people to report the news to the military ministers.
Unlike the big clans such as the Huyan clan, the Lan clan, and the Xubu clan, the Xiyun clan was just a small clan dependent on the Chanyu.
Throughout the ages, they have served as emissaries or bodyguards for Shan Yu.
I don't have much battle experience.
After discovering the Han army, the first reaction of the enemy was to reduce the number of troops and strengthen vigilance, and then send troops to monitor and find out the origin and details of the Han army.
Since we don't know the number of Han troops, we don't know where they came from.
But Xi Yunnan knows that he must stick to Yang Yang and never lose the Yang Yang.
Otherwise, the end of the Huns will definitely come.
What's more, he also shoulders the important task of sending those two to three hundred thousand livestock to the grassland.
Therefore, he was in a dilemma for a while.
But what he didn't know was that his masters were in even more trouble now.
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"The people of the Han Dynasty really went for Yaoyang!"
"This is to cut off our retreat!"
After many Xiongnu nobles learned the news, they started talking one after another. The military ministers and the nobles in his royal court had even more serious expressions, because they knew the origin of the Han army that appeared in Yaoyang.
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There will be more later, third update today~(~^~)
