Killing Niu Shou and Hu Luo Huai are all Rong generals from the Great Plains, and they are all headed by Fu Zhiguan, the five hundred master who carries two pot helmets on his back. Although he is a "Rong Di" in the broad sense of the Central Plains people, he was ruled by Qin for a hundred years.
, compared to the Huns and other barbarians, the Yuan Rong were more similar to the Qin people.
Since receiving the promise from the emperor and Beijun Commandery Heifu that the Rong people could obtain pastures by decapitating soldiers, almost every household in Ohara Rong sent a son to join the Northern Expedition team. They were the main force of the Northern Cavalry.
As the scouts and vanguard of the army, the cavalry always explored far ahead. After leaving Huamachi, they trekked in the wilderness on the edge of the Yellow Sand for ten days. Except for some vegetation on Shenquan Mountain, it was difficult to see any greenery.
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They were walking on the edge of the desert, which was a dry and desolate land, full of dead poplar trees and bone-dry riverbeds. Forage was hard to find, and the horses relied on tough, brown grass that grew in clusters.
Under the rocks and at the bottom of the dead trees. There is less water to drink, only shallow and stagnant, bitter pools exposed to the scorching sun. The deeper you go into the wilderness, the pools you find become smaller and smaller, and the distance between the pools becomes longer and longer.
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Until ten days later, after climbing over a mountain, the two generals Sha Niu Shou and Hu Luo Huai who were walking in the front were stunned by the large greenery that suddenly appeared in front of them!
They saw a large pale yellow river flowing more than ten miles away, and both sides of the river were covered with lush green grass! It was dotted with sparkling swamp lakes, with abundant water and grass on the east bank, and endless grassland on the west bank, with
Adjacent to the snow-capped Helan Mountain, from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside, are vast tracts of forest!
The Yellow River is the mother of this blockage in the south of the Yangtze River. It brings plenty of fresh water, and the Helan Mountain is like its father. Its tall body blocks the eastward movement of the desert and weakens the invasion of the northwest cold current. It is the natural source of the Ningxia Plain.
barrier.
"This is the place where honey and milk flowed as promised to the soldiers of Ohara by the emperor and the captain?"
After killing the ox, Huluohuai looked at everything in front of him and couldn't help but get off his horse, with tears streaming down his face.
Although Oyuan in Beidi County is good, it is too small to support many herdsmen, and the Qin Dynasty government does not allow Rong people to move out. Therefore, the five tribes in Oyuan fight and kill each other every year to compete for water sources and pastures.
Reduce your own population.
Ordinary Qin people longed for farmland, and they also longed for fertile pastures where they could domesticate cattle and sheep.
The green plain in front of us continues to extend north and south along the river, and is at least ten times the size of Ohara!
If the Xiongnu entrenched here can be driven away, all five tribes from the Great Plains will migrate here, and they will not occupy even one-tenth of the pasture!
"Not only the troops of Ohara, but at least 10,000 families can settle down and thrive here!"
Fu Zhi then climbed up the mountain. This was a place that Qin soldiers had never set foot on. They only knew from the descriptions of Chen Ping and Wu Shiyan that there was such a plain with rich water and grass on the fortress, but they all knew that there was such a plain with rich water and grass on the fortress.
Some don't believe it.
Now, their seeing is believing. Several new counties can indeed be established here for immigrants to open up fields!
Hundreds of Qin cavalry appeared on the hilltops on the east bank of the river, which immediately attracted the attention of the local cavalry who had been wandering for a long time. Hundreds of cavalry came roaring from the plains. Fu Zhi immediately put his men on guard until they could see clearly from more than two miles away.
The flags of the Qin army carried by those cavalrymen...
"He is one of our own, a soldier from Longxi."
Fu Zhi breathed a sigh of relief and led his men to mount the horses and join the Longxi cavalry who were coming.
"Longxi Cavalry General Qiang Huang! On orders from Lieutenant Li, we are waiting here for the Northern Army!"
The young general announced his name as he came over. Fu Zhi was stunned for a moment. In this way, the man in front of him was the cousin of his good friend Qiang Hua. No wonder his face was somewhat similar, and even his arrogance and determination seemed to be carved from the same mold.
came out. But Qianghua was injured by the Hun vulture shooters in Shenquan Mountain and could not come to the front line.
He did not want to tell Qiang Huang about this for the time being, so he only reported his name.
"General Wei will arrive at the riverside one day after us and join forces with General Li tomorrow!"
"That's very good. General Li has led his troops to station on the west bank of the river. Something happens to happen. I hope Lord Fu can report back to General Wei as soon as possible."
Qianghuang cupped his hands and said: "Things have changed. We have been exploring for two days, but we found that there is not a single felt tent or a single Huns in the huge Helan grassland!"
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Twenty miles away, at the advancing Northland army, Heifu, whose lips were dry due to the wind and sand outside the Great Wall, stood on the military chariot and frowned after reading the briefing from Longxi's waiting troops.
Che Yougong Ao, who was beside him, optimistically guessed: "The Huns must have gone through the last battle at Huamachi and were burned and killed by the Longxi army all the way to Qingshan Gorge. They were afraid of the Qin army and fled after hearing the arrival of the army."
"otherwise."
But Heifu shook his head: "Chen Ping reported all the details of the interactions with the Huns, so I know that although they each have their own land, because Guancheng is often used for farming, and cattle and sheep live there chasing water and grass, so every year
In China, it is common for a clan of tens of thousands to move hundreds of miles."
"Therefore, you must not speculate on the actions of the Huns based on the thoughts of the Qin people."
When the Qin Dynasty fought with the Six Kingdoms and the army went out to fight, the enemy would definitely guard a pass somewhere and would never let the enemy enter the country. Although their people would flee their hometowns because of the war, they would have no choice but to do so.
In an emergency, Chinese people rarely leave their homes, because that means abandoning all their property and family fortunes accumulated over generations.
But the Huns were different. For the Huns, the most important property was cattle and sheep, and cattle and sheep had to migrate to graze. Wherever the cattle and sheep went, the Huns would settle down.
In the past six months, the Qin Dynasty had been hoarding food and recruiting soldiers in preparation for a massive exodus. The Huns, who had noticed Qin's intention to destroy themselves, were not idle either. They would not just stay in place stupidly, guarding every pasture like the Crown Belt Kingdom. They had enough
time to move the population and herds to other places.
Not to mention the Helan Grassland, the Huns were forced to panic. Even Touman City and Shanyu Wangting were probably abandoned at the drop of a hat.
"This method has two advantages. Even if our army takes Helan, it will not be able to obtain livestock from the local area as supplies. On the contrary, it will lengthen the supply line."
The Qin army is mainly infantry. The longer the supply line, the fewer soldiers can advance.
This gave the Huns the opportunity to concentrate their forces and defeat them one by one...
There is no need to take care of the strength of the family members. They can mount their horses, carry bows and arrows, gather somewhere at the call of the Xiongnu Chanyu, follow the direction of the Chanyu's eagle flag, and roar towards them, enough to travel hundreds of miles a day.
, launch a surprise attack...
"The Huns are famous for bullying the weak and fearing the strong!"
Thinking of this, Heifu felt that except for Shangjun and Yunzhong's army, the other three partial divisions were in danger!
He ordered Hou Qi: "Go and tell General Li immediately that the Longxi and Northern armies will immediately gather in camp tomorrow and slowly advance north together to find the whereabouts of the Huns!"
After thinking for a while, he called Gan Chong, the son of a good family, and said: "Gan Chong, you take Baiqi and march to the northeast, two hundred miles away, to the oily Dou Tu River that Chen Ping said
Upstream, inform General Feng Jie in the Aries Division and ask him to be careful!"
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When he heard the sound of horse hooves and whistling in the distance, the vulture shooter Ulan raised his head warily, with scales still on his lips.
After all the Huns in the Helan Grassland migrated west and north, it was not a wise choice to stay and reconnoiter the rear. The Qin people had too many troops, more than all the Huns on this grassland combined. They
They also trained excellent cavalry troops. When one against three, the Huns' scouts were completely defeated. Only Ulan, a skilled vulture archer on horseback and archery, could escape.
All of his subordinates died, leaving only Ulan who escaped into the forest and escaped the Qin cavalry in the dark. Thanks to his many years of hunting in this land and familiarity with the terrain, Ulan bypassed the Qin army.
A dense army of scouts, hiding day and night, rode north along the river.
When Ulan passed through the territory of the Aries tribe, he met a group of Aries people who had fled from the upper reaches of the Oil River. They were panicked and said that warriors wearing black clothes and holding shields had invaded their tribe and were marching here.
"Thirty-three."
Wulan made an oath to the sky and Helan Mountain that he would kill a hundred Qin people and avenge his people. Now he has fought several times, but he has only shot thirty-three people to death, and there are still many more to go. He endured the countercurrent.
On the way up, he ambush the impulse of those who indulged Qin Qi and continued to the north. He was going to find Dadanghu and tell him that the Qin people had occupied Shenquan, Helan, and Aries!
They were like greedy black crows that wanted to devour all the grassland where the Huns grazed.
Thinking like this, Wulan shot a black fish swimming by the river, as if it was his enemy, cut off its internal organs with a knife, tore off the scales with his mouth, and started to chew the pink meat.
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The Qin people's scouts may be not far behind him. Living slowly here is asking for death.
While Wulan was eating raw fish, two Huns who came to the river to draw water discovered him!
After that, one person traveled alone and three people rode together. The two young riders found out that he was Ulan, the famous vulture shooter on the Helan grassland. They were very excited and kept sharing about the migration of the tribe during this period.
Wu Lan listened carefully and did not mention a word about his own experience. He was afraid that it would damage the courage of these two young people.
Not everyone can face the rolling, overwhelming black wave calmly!
They encountered more and more scouts, and there were Huns camping everywhere: only men taller than a horse's shoulders, and few women, old people, or children.
Knowing that he was the last group of Duan who came back from Helan, the people who led Ulan changed several times. They finally passed through the ten-mile felt tent and arrived at the center of the camp...
Outside the big tent, a tall flag was planted in a pile of stones, with a silver disk on top. Tassels made of silver stallion's hair were fixed on the edge of the disk. In the center of the disk, stood a flying flag.
Golden Eagle…
Ulan was a vulture shooter. Even when facing a powerful family, he only had to bow. But when he saw this flag, he dismounted solemnly, knelt down on one knee, put his hands on his chest, and lowered his head.
He said something that all true Hun warriors are familiar with!
"Don't ask where the royal court is!"
"As long as Chanyu's eagle flag is there, it is the royal court!"
