100 miles north of Yong'an City. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

On the green field, a shepherd boy of seven or eight years old is riding a bantam horse, strolling over the field, guarding dozens of sheep.

Suddenly, there was a rumbling thunder from the north, from near to near, and it came quickly.

The shepherd boy thought it was thundering and it was going to rain, but when he looked up, the sky was blue, and it didn't look like it was going to rain at all.

"There is not even a cloud, where is the thunder?" The shepherd boy suddenly became alert, and looked in the direction of the north.

Soon, the thunder was approaching, and I saw more than a hundred cavalry rushing towards this side on the road to the north, and the dust was rising.

Xianbei dog!

The shepherd boy's frightened face turned white, and without saying a word, he drove the sheep and the ponies under his buttocks, and hurried towards the village not far away.

The shepherd boy's family was originally from Wuyuan County, and often encountered Xianbei people coming to loot, although he was moved here by the government a few months ago, but his vigilance was not lost, and he immediately recognized the Xianbei people.

The shepherd boy drove the sheep and fled to the village in a hurry, and the Xianbei cavalry, which had more than 200 horsemen, followed the shepherd boy and approached the village.

The leader of Xianbei who led this team of cavalry was none other than Shi Le, the general under Mao Dun.

Shi Le did not lead his 200 cavalry and immediately entered the village, but sealed the entrance and exit of the village, stationed on the horse heights, observed the situation in the village, and sent scouts to reconnoiter the surrounding situation in case there were Wei ambushes.

Not long after, the scout reported that there was no half of the Wei army around.

Shi Le stationed on the horse heights, his hideous eyes looked down at the village, those villagers who were running back and forth in a panic, and were about to organize self-defense of the Wei country, the corners of their mouths raised a cold smirk.

He offered advice to Mao Dun, and the iron cavalry army bypassed the Jinyang defense line and plundered the Wei countryside further south to enrich the grain and grass.

Shi Le led the army to travel more than 200 miles, passing through more than a dozen villages nearby, but they found nothing, either the Wei villagers inside evacuated in advance, or the village was empty, and they couldn't grab a few pieces of meat.

Today, he led more than 200 horsemen, originally to inspect the terrain, but he ran into the shepherd boy and this village with hundreds of villagers.

"Luck has finally come, it looks like you'll be able to have a good meal tonight." Shi Ledao pointed to the hundreds of sheep in the village and smiled excitedly.

The two hundred Xianbei cavalrymen on the left and right were all bloodshot with bloodshot eyes, and their eyes burst with hungry beast light.

Shi Le laughed wildly, raised the big knife in his hand, and shouted: "Da Xianbei warriors, kill me into the village, rob the women, cattle and sheep, and kill all the others for me!" ”

The bloody order was issued, and the two hundred Xianbei cavalry were so excited that they let out a terrifying beast roar, and they roared and slaughtered towards the village.

The Wei villagers in the village have all spontaneously rushed to the entrance of the village, trying to defend their homeland, but unfortunately the combat effectiveness is too weak and outnumbered, and they can't stop the enemy cavalry from rushing at all.

Shile swung his sword and charged forward, smashing the man to smithereens, beheading the old man, even a child no taller than a wheel.

Not to be outdone, the rest of the Xianbei people killed people on sight, young and old, and after rushing into the village, they set fire to the houses, forced out the women who were hiding in the houses, killed their children, tied them with ropes on horseback, and snatched them away.

Cries and curses echoed over the village, and a thick blood mist flew into the air, enveloping the entire village in the blood mist.

This small village has almost become a slaughterhouse for the Xianbei people, and those Wei villagers are like pigs and dogs, slaughtered by them wantonly.

At dusk, the slaughter was finally over, and the village was full of corpses, all the men, old and young had been killed, and only about forty young women were still alive, and the cries of pain and fear were incessant, and under the background of the remnant sun, it became more and more desolate.

Shi Le immediately stood on the pool of blood, wiped the blood stains on the knife on the corpse of a villager, and looked up and swept around, his hideous face burning with unfinished excitement.

"General, we have grabbed more than 200 sheep and more than 30 cattle this time." A small leader of Xianbei stepped forward and reported excitedly.

Shi Le nodded with satisfaction, waved his knife and said with a smile: "Leave half of it and send it back to the camp to give the brothers a full meal today, and the other half will immediately send someone to give it to Da Danyu." ”

The leader of Xianbei scolded his subordinates, drove the sheep with joy, stepped on the corpses everywhere, and headed north.

Immediately afterwards, the Xianbei soldiers carried dozens of women to Shile for him to choose.

According to the tradition of the Xianbei people, cattle and sheep should be confiscated if they are grabbed, and then they will be distributed according to merit, and women will be given to whoever grabs them first in principle.

But before that, they had to choose all the women for their leaders, and then they could enjoy the rest for themselves.

"This, this, this, and this, all of them were sent to Da Shan Yu." As if picking a commodity, Shile picked four good-looking women.

"These two women, as well as the blue-clothed one over there, will be sent to Ben's tent tonight." Shile carefully selected three more people for himself.

A total of seven women were also picked up, and the rest of the women were snatched away by the Xianbei soldiers with joy, each tied to their horses, and they were already furious, and they couldn't wait to go back to the camp and have a good time.

Only then did Shile beat his horse and whip up his horse, and with a rich harvest of looting, he headed all the way north, leaving behind an empty and bloody village strewn with corpses.

After several days of sweeping, Shile finally robbed a decent village, and the harvest was not bad, and that night he reveled in the camp in the north.

The next day, he received instructions from Mao Dun, praising him for his meritorious looting, and ordering him to continue to lead the iron cavalry south and loot as many Wei villages as possible.

Shi Le seemed to see more fat cattle and sheep, and the white-flowered Wei women were waiting for him, and he ordered 20,000 vanguard Xianbei iron horsemen, divided into several groups, and marched south, continuing to loot the Wei villages and towns along the way.

For four days in a row, the Xianbei people advanced to the south for about 70 miles, some of them had a lot of results, and some were not very lucky, they encountered a Wei army garrison, they were killed and wounded by strong bows and crossbows, and they withdrew in disgrace.

A few days later, Shile's vanguard army was more than 300 miles away from Jinyang, not far from Yong'an City, the northernmost part of Hedong County.

At this time, Shile's scouts sent back information, claiming that in the land of thirty miles to the south, between Huo Dashan and Tongtian Mountain, there was a deep valley more than 100 li long and more than 20 li wide, and there were nearly 10,000 Wei people in the valley, and there were 300,000 cattle and sheep.

The scouts said that these herdsmen were likely immigrants from the Wei State who had moved south from the five northern counties in advance.

300,000 head of cattle and sheep......

Shi Le's eyes lit up when he heard this number, and he couldn't help but swallow his saliva, feeling like a windfall from the sky and falling in front of him.

If these 300,000 cattle and sheep are grabbed, it is equivalent to completely solving the military rations of the 100,000 Xianbei army, which is equivalent to making a great achievement.

Shile immediately sent two thousand-strong troops to drive south, first to carry out tentative plundering of the valley.

A day later, the two thousand-man teams returned one after another, one of them returned with a full load and robbed the thousand-headed cattle and sheep, while the other thousand-man team claimed to have touched hundreds of Wei troops, and was repelled by the Wei army's strong bows and crossbows, so they could only return with a feather.

At the end of Shile's trial, it was determined that there were indeed hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep in the valley, and that the Wei army did not have enough troops to garrison the valley to protect these herders and cattle and sheep.

Shi Le then rushed to the tent of King Shan Yu overnight, made a false revelation to Mao Dun, and asked Mao Dun to send 60,000 iron horsemen south, and swept away the Wei army in the valley in one go, snatching all 300,000 cattle and sheep in his hands.

The good news that Shi Le brought back made Mao Dun's spirit lifted, after all, his 100,000 iron horsemen had almost eaten the grain and grass, and this time he bypassed the Jinyang defense line and went south, just to solve the problem of being fed, and the 300,000 cattle and sheep were undoubtedly a huge temptation.

After weighing it repeatedly, Mao Dun ordered the 60,000-strong army to go south immediately, and it was necessary to loot this windfall before the Wei herdsmen drove the cattle and sheep to flee south.

King Xianbei's order has been given, and 60,000 iron horsemen galloped south, and it took less than half a day to kill the north end of the valley.

Mao Dun did not completely relax his vigilance, leaving Murong Chui to lead 5,000 iron cavalry to camp at the mouth of the North Valley as a countermeasure, and he himself led the remaining 55,000 cavalry into the valley to plunder cattle and sheep.

Sure enough, as Mao Dun thought, after being attacked by Shile the day before, the herdsmen of Wei were already frightened, and began to drive cattle and sheep on a large scale, and fled towards Yong'an City in the south of the valley.

It's just that cattle and sheep are no better than war horses, their speed is limited, and there are 300,000 people, it is impossible to escape so fast, and thousands of cattle and sheep have been left behind.

And these unfortunate herdsmen were ruthlessly killed by the iron horses of the Xianbei people, and tens of thousands of cattle and sheep fell into the hands of the greedy Xianbei people.

The farther south, the more abundant the Xianbei people's gains, these tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, deeply tempted Mao Dun, and led him to let go of his steps more unscrupulously to pursue.

On the Wei side, in order to cover the retreat of herdsmen and cattle and sheep, the pottery merchants sent 7,000 Wei troops led by Xu Huang, set up obstacles along the way, and fought and retreated, constantly delaying the speed of the Xianbei people to the south.

Although Xu Huang is a local clan, he is familiar with the terrain and is a famous general, but after all, there are too few soldiers and horses under his command, but only 7,000 infantry troops, so naturally he can't stop the attack of Xianbei's 60,000 iron cavalry, so he can only rely on the terrain to fight hard.

After several blocking battles, Xu Huang lost 3,000 soldiers, but he still failed to stop the Xianbei Iron Cavalry from moving south, and fought and retreated, retreating to the front line of Nangukou.

It was evening, and the remnant sun was like blood.

At the mouth of the valley, a simple camp had been set up, and Xu Huang was urging his tired soldiers to dig a trench outside the camp wall and set up antlers.

Before the last remnant sun set, the fortifications were finally dug up, Xu Huang breathed a sigh of relief, and raised his eyes to look in the direction of the north.

He seemed to be able to see that the ferocious iron horses of the Xianbei people were surging along the valley road towards this side.

He seemed to be able to see the cold corpses of countless herdsmen in Bingzhou, strewn all over the place, dyeing the yellow earth red.

He seems to have seen that one by one women in the state are being wantonly ** by those humble beasts, venting their bestiality.

"Damn Xianbei and vicious, dare to harm my hometown like this, I Xu Huang will not kill all of you, I swear not to be a human being-" Xu Huang is fists clenched, secretly gritting his teeth, the flame of hatred burning on his iron-like face.

"General Komeito, there is a sentence in his humble position, I don't know whether to say it or not?" Hao Zhao's voice came from behind him, interrupting Xu Huang's thoughts.

Xu Huang glanced at him, brushed his hand and said, "Ben will like to talk quickly, just say anything you want." ”

Hao Zhao took a light breath and said: "In the past few days, we have delayed the Xianbei people for five days with 7,000 people, and the soldiers have lost more than half of them, and now they have retreated to the valley mouth. ”

Xu Huang's body shook slightly, he was silent for a moment, and said resolutely: "Your Majesty's order to us is to delay the Xianbei people to the south no matter what, until Your Majesty's will to retreat is issued. Therefore, without His Majesty's order, we must defend to the death even if we fight to the last man. ”

Hao Zhao felt Xu Huang's generosity, and his young face also burned with determination, but he sighed lightly: "I hope that the time we have bought with our lives can allow Your Majesty to defeat the Xianbei people, but Xianbei has 60,000 iron cavalry, but Your Majesty only has 20,000 cavalry at hand, I don't know how Your Majesty will defeat the Xianbei people." ”

"Didn't you bring a bag of Zhang Liang to Your Majesty, I expected that Your Majesty's plan to break the enemy was in that bag." Xu Huang judged confidently.

Hao Zhao's expression moved, he remembered the trick, and remembered the other party between the Son of Heaven and Liu Ji in the Japanese military hall that day, it seemed that the Son of Heaven was indeed determined to win.

However, Hao Zhao couldn't think of any tricks that the Son of Heaven could have to break the enemy.

After all, the Xianbei people are not the Xiongnu of the year, or the Qiang people are comparable, the Xianbei King is eloquent, and there are Shile Murong Chui and other generals who are good at using soldiers to help, and the Son of Heaven wants to use the means of destroying the Xiongnu and the Xiqiang Iron Cavalry to deal with the Xianbei people, which is obviously unrealistic.

"If you don't use the Fire Ox Formation, you don't use the Heavy Rain Repeater, how can Your Majesty defeat the Xianbei people......" Hao Zhao's thoughts rolled, and doubts surged on his young face.

At that moment a messenger galloped into the camp from the south, and reached the two men.

The messenger turned over and dismounted, and shouted: "General Xu, the Son of Heaven has given General Li Mu an order for a decisive battle, and General Li ordered General Xu to abandon the valley mouth quickly and go to join the main army. ”

Xu Huang and Hao Zhao's bodies were shocked, and they glanced at each other, and a trace of excitement burst out of their eyes.