A few days later, Huo Qubing took 200 light horsemen from Chang'an and went straight to Dingxiang, Hedong, where his uncle, the emperor's brother-in-law, the general Wei Qing, led an army of 100,000 troops to be stationed in Dingxiang for a long time, and was waiting for the holy decree of the expedition.

Huo Quai's day and night rushed to Dingxiang, stopped on the hillside, looked at the camp of the Han army in Dingxiang, only to see people shouting horses neighing, rangers shuttling back and forth, the camp stretched for ten miles, the flag was displayed, the cold wind in February was like a knife, but it was not cold The hot blood of the young man under the mink Qiu, holding the handsome seal, sweeping the Huns, and the pride and ambition were about to become a reality.

But after entering the camp, reality gave him a cruel blow, life in the army is too hard, even the general can only live in a tent, wrapped in a quilt in the cold night is still shivering, the general Wei Qing took good care of this nephew who came to gild, and arranged for him to be served by twenty personal soldiers, no need to raise the account in the morning, no need to practice, even eat is a small stove.

But Huo Quzhi is a stubborn teenager, he doesn't want to be seen as a chick hiding under his uncle's wings, he takes a group of personal soldiers to shoot and hunt every day, and practices his skills to kill the enemy, but those veterans still just shake their heads and sneer when they see it.

Wei Qing is only thirty years old this year, but he is already a battle-hardened veteran, and the general's military position is not based on the relationship between the emperor's brother-in-law, but with a knife and a shot.

Wei Qing's biological father, Zheng Ji, is a small official under Pingyang Hou Cao Shou, and his mother Wei Yuan is the female slave of Princess Pingyang.

Later, his sister Wei Zifu was elected to the palace, and was favored by Emperor Wu, so he was promoted to the Taizhong doctor, because he was proficient in riding and archery skills, and often went out hunting with Emperor Wu, and was appreciated by Emperor Wu.

As the son of a slave, and a lowly illegitimate child, since childhood living in a very bad environment, treated as a beast, fifteen years old, because of his sister Wei Zifu was favored by the emperor, overnight from a slave raising horses to the emperor's close servants, for others have long been carried away, causing the disaster of killing, but Wei Qing did not get carried away, he still maintained a low-key and cautious style,

So he was even more trusted by the emperor.

In 129 BC, the Hun cavalry invaded in a big way, the Han soldiers attacked in four ways, and the remaining three roads were defeated, only Wei Qing all the way won a big victory in the battle of Longcheng, Emperor Wu was overjoyed, and named him the Marquis of Guannei.

Later, the Xiongnu were unwilling to lose, and went south in three ways, and the battle of Monan broke out, Wei Qing took advantage of the weakness of the arrogance and despisy of the right sage king and paralyzed the enemy, and attacked by night, surrounded and chased and killed, and won a big victory.

The good news reached Chang'an, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was overjoyed, and sent a special envoy to the border to worship Wei Qing as a general, commanding six divisions, with outstanding military achievements, and it was reasonable to become the highest military governor of the Han Dynasty at a young age.

Nephew Huo Qubing is also the son of a slave, and he is also a child born of fornication, but he is different from Wei Qing, he got out of the sea of suffering by virtue of the queen's relationship when he was a child, and he grew up with brocade clothes and jade food, and he couldn't bear hardship at all.

After a few days, the army set out as scheduled, before the start of Wei Qing ordered Huo Qubing to stay in the rear to supervise the transportation of grain and grass, although Huo Qubing was unwilling, but the military order was like a mountain, and had to follow.

The chariots and horses Xiao Xiao, the pedestrians with bows and arrows at their waists, the 100,000 Han troops went out on an expedition, the father and mother and wife went to see each other, and the dust did not see the Xianyang Bridge, but in one day, the camp that was still full of people became empty, only three thousand old and weak people were left behind, Huo Qu was sick and wearing Xuan armor, but he was helpless, he could only sulk in the tent

Suddenly, the curtain of the door was raised, and someone entered uninvited.

"Bold!" Huo Qu shouted angrily, and looked at it, but it was the teacher who came, and he changed his outfit, and the black clothes were gone, replaced by the Han army's clothes and armor, but they were unwashed, unkempt, and looked like an old pawn.

Yang Pingfan has long come to the Dingxiang camp, secretly observing the movements of the Han army, the Western Han army during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is very strong, first of all, the generation difference in weapons, the Han army is generally equipped with a ring head knife made of steel, the same steel forged arrow is much sharper than the bone axe used by the Huns, and the war horse is relatively sufficient, the only deficiency is the quality of the soldiers, after all, the children of the Central Plains peasant family are not as good as the people on horseback, but the quantitative advantage can offset the quality gap.

Unexpectedly, Wei Qing acted conservatively and did not dare to let his nephew put himself in danger, so Yang Pingfan had to go out in person to cultivate the most shining god of war in history.

"You liar!"

Huo Quzhi was angry and had nowhere to vent, so he drew his sword in his hand and split it according to his head.

Yang Pingfan flicked his hand, the sword came out of his hand, Huo Quzhi was about to call the guards with the cracked tiger's mouth, but saw the teacher pointing to a corner of the sand table in the center of the camp tent and said: "The Hun royal court is here, if you set off tonight and arrive here in about seven days, you can finish them before Wei Qing." ”

Huo Quzhi involuntarily walked to the sand table, he is not a military blind who knows nothing, although he has not been on the battlefield, but he has also heard a lot of allusions, the teacher said that the long-distance run is not impossible, but the implementation process will encounter all kinds of unexpected difficulties, such as strong wind and sand, such as lack of water, lost, without a suitable guide, alone in the desert is equivalent to looking for death.

The most important thing is that he has seen countless military allusions, from the legendary Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the current Han Dynasty, there has never been a Central Plains general who went deep into the desert for thousands of miles and attacked the Xiongnu in the north.

Now the teacher in front of him is actually going deep into the lonely army of a teenager and doing something that the famous generals of the previous dynasty did not dare to do. Baidu

Huo Quzhi stared at Yang Pingfan with a look that you are teaseing me.

How could Yang Pingfan not know that Huo Quzhi regarded himself as mentally retarded, but he didn't care, and used his hands to disrupt the sand table and rearrange it: "This map is too inaccurate, there is an oasis here that has not been marked, this is the quicksand area, and here, the water and grass are fertile......"

Yang Pingfan said hand-drawn on the sand table, and redrew a map with modern map elements, with springs, oases, deserts, hills and ravines, and even drew a raid route.

Huo Qu became excited, I don't know why, he believed everything the teacher said, although a moment ago he wanted to draw his sword and kill this person, thinking about it carefully, it may be because the map drawn by the teacher made him unconscious.

"But I don't have a talisman in my hand, and even if I do, I don't have any elite soldiers to bring.

A flush of excitement appeared on the young captain's face, "Fighting without permission is also disobedience and will be beheaded." ”

"The soldier is not a problem, there are three thousand old soldiers in the big camp, don't underestimate these people, experienced, hard-working, you pick out eight hundred people, three horses per person, not with heavy armor, only with knives and bows, three pots of arrows per person, water and dry food are enough, light and rushed, rest the horses and do not stop people, for the division has been calculated, seven days, will definitely be able to kill the Hun royal court. ”

"What about the guide?" Huo Qubing is still not at ease, he doesn't care about hardship and suffering, sacrifice and bloodshed, but he attaches great importance to victory and defeat, only the map has no guide, and it is still in vain.

Yang Pingfan smiled: "How do you think this map came from?" said as he put the tiger crouching shape on the case.

"It's done!"

In the end, it was a seventeen-year-old boy, the blood surged up, he didn't care about it anymore, picked up the tiger talisman, and paired it with the other half of his custody, snapped, and the two halves of the soldiers became a majestic tiger, Huo Qubing immediately asked the soldiers to pass the order, and the whole army gathered.

The dull sound of drums sounded, almost half an hour passed, and the three thousand old and weak were only finished lining up in the school field, Huo Qubing stood for half an hour but didn't care, rushed into the crowd, showed the tiger talisman, personally selected 800 veterans with a decent physique, and then ordered each person to be equipped with three war horses, set off lightly, and marched north overnight.

The young general was in high spirits and took the lead, and the white feathers on his helmet were dyed red by the setting sun.

Eight hundred cavalry, two thousand four hundred horses, from the books seems to be a very capable assault force, but these eight hundred people in the vast desert like a drop in the ocean, no backup, no supplies, not even a guide, the leader is a seventeen-year-old boy who has not been in battle, this is not a battle, this is simply child's play.

The troops marched more than ten miles, and the team began to whisper.

The veterans brought out by Huo Qubing are all old fritters who have been mixed on the battlefield for decades, how can they not distinguish the nature of the task.

At first, they all thought that this white-faced young man was thinking about being a general, and took everyone out for an armed patrol, but they didn't care, and they pretended to cooperate, but they didn't think that the young general went all the way to the north, which was not right, and then look at themselves, light and rushed, three war horses per person, no matter how you look at it, it is the rhythm of a thousand-mile rush, but such a major task should send elite soldiers, what kind of configuration is this, a little general with no experience and prestige, hundreds of forty or fifty-year-old pawns, this is not a rush, it is to send death.

Gradually, the further they went, the louder the noise in the troops, the whole team fell into pessimism and suspicion, the survival rate of the frontier soldiers was extremely low, these veterans had experienced countless tests of life and death, all of them came out of the sea of corpses and blood, and finally retreated to the second line, serving as a large battalion to stay, and now they were taken out to death by the general's nephew's false order, how could they easily comply.

Huo Qubing was unaware, in the countless military books he had read, the soldiers were a group of puppets without self-consciousness, obeying orders, military orders were like mountains, beheading at every turn, no one dared to disobey and doubt the orders of the boss, so when several military marquis under him questioned it, he was furious and held the hilt of the sword with his hand.

"It's just training, you are all veterans of a hundred battles, and even training soldiers are afraid of this?" A familiar voice sounded next to him, it was the teacher who was talking, Yang Pingfan was dressed in leather armor, with an iron helmet on his head, and his eyes were in the shadow of the helmet, he appeared as Huo Quai's personal guard, and others did not suspect it.

"Yes, training. Huo Qu said sickly.

After hearing this, the military marquis were relieved, and they dispersed, and the team continued to move forward.

"I should have beheaded them!"

Huo Qu said hatefully, after all, he was a seventeen-year-old boy, and his understanding of how to manage his subordinates was very simple and rude.