The season when dripping water turns into ice is not a good opportunity to attack difficult problems.
For example, it is difficult for soldiers wrapped in thick clothing to climb the city wall quickly, and the defenders only need to keep watering the crenellations of the city wall to condense ice to prevent enemy ants from attaching to them. The wind and snow climate gives
The defender has many advantages.
Liu Gaoshengyuan, Qubei's son who acted as the agent of the Southern Huns in state affairs, had served as hostages in Yecheng and Luoyang for nearly ten years. Under the influence of Han culture, he also dabbled in the methods of attack.
Therefore, in his previous plan, he sent troops to besiege Juyan City to see if he could force the Madai tribe to come to the rescue and use the strengths of the nomadic tribes by encircling the point for reinforcements.
It is not that the clan members will suffer countless losses under the fortified city.
This is the consensus reached between him and Tuoba Liwei, and it is also the only thing Tuoba Liwei is willing to help.
Yes, the Xianbei Tuoba tribe was not willing to form a deadly feud with the Han army.
Liu Gaoshengyuan knew the reason.
One is that Tuoba Liwei always had the concept of not infringing upon each other with the Han people.
For example, when he lived in Dingxiang County, Bingzhou, even though the Xianbei master Kebi was able to coerce various tribes to fight against the Wei army many times, he also restrained the tribesmen and never went south to plunder the counties.
On the other hand, Wei State's burning of bridges across rivers completely disappointed him.
Yin and the State of Wei planned to join forces and kill Kebi Neng and Bu Dugen. He received funding from the State of Wei and moved to the north of Anding County. But after he finally gained a foothold, he marched into Shuofang County with the intention of
When all the Hetao Plain was included in the bag and he became the overlord of the grassland, the Wei State sent Liu Bao from the left of the Southern Xiongnu to serve as the guardian of Shuofang, turning his ambition into a flower in the moon mirror.
But now the Wei State has gone too far!
After the Han army occupied Liangzhou, the Wei army actually sent thousands of soldiers and horses to his pasture and farmed it, forcing him to move to Yanze again with military force.
The environment in Juyanze is even worse than that of Dingxiang County, where I lived in the past!
In other words, he restrained the tribesmen from violating the goodwill of Wei counties and counties, and helped the Wei state eliminate the great troubles in the northern frontier. Ke Bineng's hardships not only did not benefit the tribe, but instead became a lost dog.
Under such circumstances, could he make an enemy of the Han army as Wei wished?
Even when they moved to Yanze, Liu Gaoshengyuan was worried more than once that Tuoba Liwei, who was angry with the Wei State, would turn to the Han army.
Fortunately, they were ambushed by Madai tribe when they first arrived in Juyanze.
This gave Liu Gaosheng Yuan some peace of mind - the Tuoba tribe also lost some troops in the ambush. Out of the desire to appease the tribe, Tuoba would not secretly collude with the Han army even if he was weak.
But despite this, the Tuoba tribe was still unwilling to break out into conflict with the Han army.
It is possible to support the siege, but there is no need to attack the city.
If the Madai tribe comes to rescue, he will avenge the ambush. If not, he will not participate in the long march to the Hexi Corridor to plunder various counties.
It's a big taboo to fight together, but the appearance is the same but the spirit is different.
Liu Gaoshengyuan knew this well, but he was helpless.
Because if he were Tuoba Liwei, he would not contribute to Wei anymore; and for the sake of the future, he was not willing to offend Tuoba Liwei.
As the power of the southern Xiongnu's left wing gradually grows stronger, he will eventually have a battle with Liu Bao.
Not only was it the natural conflict of interest between going to Bei and acting as the political agent of the Southern Huns and Liu Bao as the first heir to the Chanyu, but also because of his ambition that was born after he moved to Yanze.
On the grassland, the strong are respected.
As a descendant of Modun Chanyu, he is also qualified to become a great Chanyu.
The prerequisite is to step on Liu Bao's corpse, or use powerful force to force Liu Bao to prostrate himself under his feet.
Therefore, the Xianbei Tuoba tribe, who had a deep hatred against Liu Bao, were allies he could rely on in the future.
Naturally, it would be better if the Tuoba tribe could be annexed.
However, the Tuoba tribe still had more than 10,000 troops, roughly on par with the right tribe of the Southern Xiongnu, and Liu Gaoshengyuan did not have the strength to annex them.
In the same way, Wei Guo also helped him.
With the precedent of Qubei appeasing the southern Xiongnu tribes and not causing chaos for the Wei state, the Wei state's Luoyang temple was more willing to support him to become the second Qubei than Liu Bao who took the name.
Therefore, for his own ambition, even if the Xianbei Tuoba tribe passively responded, Liu Gaoshengyuan still wanted to use troops against the Han army, so that the Wei State felt that supporting the prosperity of his tribe was beneficial to the current situation.
Fortunately, the Han army's arrangements were as he wished.
For some unknown reason, instead of all the Han troops huddled in Juyan City, they actually sent two hundred soldiers to guard the outpost beacons! They automatically fell into death!
It is truly a place of death.
Although the beacon located halfway up the mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it cannot retreat when danger approaches.
It just so happened that Liu Gaosheng was particularly fond of military affairs. When he was in Luoyang as a hostage, he could ask for advice from both dignitaries and knights, so he was very confident in conquering this kind of beacon in the middle of the mountain.
The low hills in the Yanze area are mostly exposed to the outside due to year-round erosion by wind and sand.
When dripping water turns into ice, thick blood can also turn into the best adhesive.
Liu Gaoshengyuan used raw lamb legs and stuck them on the rocks as a climbing ladder. He then selected dozens of warriors from the tribe who were good at climbing and climbed the mountain behind Fengsui from the side.
When Liu Gaosheng sent his clansmen to attack in front to attract the attention of Fengsui's Han army, the tribal warriors behind Fengsui suddenly took action and sneaked to where the Han army had stored grain and firewood and set fire to it.
In winter and spring, the weather is dry.
Soon, billowing smoke rose into the sky, and the fire was so fierce that the Han soldiers had no time to react.
The army commander who insisted on leaving the city and sent out the beacon tower immediately became ashen-faced: the grain and firewood were burned, which meant that the two hundred soldiers would starve to death and freeze to death.
And he knew that Juyan City would not come to the rescue.
Before leaving the city, Li Qiu and Fu Qian, who had different opinions, repeatedly tried to dissuade them from supervising the officers and men leaving the city on the grounds that "the general would be isolated and helpless if he came out to guard the outpost beacons".
At that time, he vowed that he would have no worries about defending the city and there would be no need for soldiers and horses in the city to rescue him.
So he has only two choices.
Either surrender in disgrace, or fight a bloody way back home.
The Han soldiers who came out to guard with him all chose the second one.
Because the reason why they came out was not with the intention of consolidating their power through meritorious deeds like the army commanders, but with the real intention of protecting the family from being plundered by the barbarians and punished by Xiao Xuan.
If you are afraid of death, you will not leave the city.
However, sometimes even if you have the courage to fight to the death, you may not have the chance to kill the enemy.
Liu Gaoshengyuan had long expected that the Han army was about to break through.
Taking advantage of their superior strength, they set up more snagging ropes, dug more traps, etc., so that more than a hundred Han soldiers did not even have a chance to fight and became prisoners.
Perhaps it can be said that the total number of 200 people killed and captured is not worth mentioning in today's wars between Han and Wei.
But it was of extraordinary significance to Liu Gaoshengyuan.
This is his first battle since he was awarded the right wing of the Southern Huns. It is a small test that can establish his prestige among the people - he is no longer a playboy relying on the favor of his father.
And relying on the heads of these two hundred Han troops, he could gain the commendation and trust of Wei.
After all, Liu Bao on the left really has no achievements to speak of now.
right!
Liu Gaoshengyuan never thought of recruiting Han prisoners to surrender.
Instead, they planned to bring these Han prisoners to Juyan City and kill them one by one in public!
It can show off the military power and demoralize the defenders in the city.
The other is to see if it can arouse the grief and indignation of the soldiers in the city, and desperately open the city gate and come out for a bloody battle, thereby giving him the opportunity to seize the city gate.
Naturally, the odds are slim.
If you give it a try, you have nothing to lose, so why not?
The Xianbei Tuoba tribe, who dispatched the Han army outpost Fengsui, did not participate in it.
But for some reason, after Tuoba Li heard that Liu Gaoshengyuan was going to capture the Han army's leader, he took the initiative to take over the responsibility of sending cavalry to Jiuquan County to monitor the Ma Dai tribe who were currently stationary in Huishui County.
In this regard, it is natural for Liu Gao to be promoted to Yuan.
Perhaps he felt that the Han army was not to be feared, so he planned to make up for his previous unwillingness to fight together with all his strength, right?
This is how he tried to figure out Tuoba Liwei's motives.
However, contrary to expectations, his small test did not make Tuoba Liwei change his original intention.
On the contrary, it made Tuoba Liwei feel afraid.
Tuoba Liwei, whose bridge was demolished across the river by the Wei State and abandoned like worn-out shoes, had been thinking and uneasy when he migrated to Yanze: The purpose of the Wei State in ordering the southern Xiongnu to come to Yanze together was just
Is it to join forces with him to fight against the Han army and invade Jiuquan and Dunhuang counties?
Not really?
For example, Liu Gaoshengyuan also received a hint from the Luoyang Temple: use war to consume the strength of the Tuoba tribe, and then annex them!
It's not that he became a frightened bird.
Instead, he used himself to save others, thinking that Wei Guo must know that he was angry and unwilling to fight for Wei Guo again.
Even though he knew it, he still wanted to send him to fight the Han army. Is the Luoyang Temple so ignorant and evil?
Tuoba Liwei couldn't believe this was a coincidence or an oversight.
Because his tribe could no longer afford to cross a river and demolish a bridge, he would never let Wei have such an opportunity again!
Therefore, the ranger scouts he sent to monitor Huishui County in Jiuquan County were all from the tribe of Xiaoshuai Daihu Alangni. Because they had chased each other for two days with two thousand Qiang cavalry from the Jiang Wei tribe of the Han army in Yuwei County.
For more than a month, they also secretly attacked the Han army's Manyin barracks with the tactics of attacking in the east and attacking in the west, and successfully "seized" countless military supplies and returned.
When dealing with the Han army, Dai Hua Langni was the most familiar.
