Liu Che especially wanted to recover Henan, and wanted to make the sharp blade that the Xiongnu stabbed at the back of the Han Dynasty become the halberd of the Han army pointing to the chest of the Xiongnu. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Hetao Plain, the terrain is open and flat, the soil is fertile, the water and grass are abundant, and it is really a fertile soil.

As the boundary area between the Mongolian Plateau and the Shaanxi-Gansu Loess Plateau, Henan not only has irreplaceable advantages in agriculture and animal husbandry, but also has great strategic significance in military affairs.

From the end of the Warring States period to the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the Han rulers of the Central Plains Dynasty and the Xiongnu rulers in the north fought over and over here, and finally the Xiongnu won the victory and occupied Henan.

Henan is less than a thousand miles away from Chang'an, the capital of the Western Han Dynasty, and the Xiongnu's cavalry only needs to gallop for a day or two to arrive, and the northern land and Shangjun that shield Chang'an have become the front line of the Han-Hun war from time to time, and Chang'an has always been under the threat of the Xiongnu iron cavalry.

In the year Liu Che ascended the throne, the war of the Huns even burned to Ganquan Palace, causing him to swear that he would be humiliated.

For the Western Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu's occupation of Henan was like a sharp knife stuck in the back, and the threat it posed was far more serious than the Xiongnu's continuous attacks on the Western Han border.

Therefore, taking advantage of the Xiongnu's attack on Yuyang this time, when the defense of Henan was weak, he immediately ordered Wei Qing to lead the army to pretend to rescue Yuyang first, and then attack Henan.

It's just that since the founding of the Han Dynasty, there is no precedent for recovering the lost territory. The young Son of Heaven was not conceited enough to think that he was too much better than his predecessors, and he doubted that he could do it. But I haven't tried it, so how do you know it doesn't work?

I don't know if it's to cheer myself up, or to explain to Jiaojiao.

He couldn't help but whisper, "Once the Xiongnu are driven out of the Hetao Plain, they will lose the most fertile grassland in Monan. And when the Han got it, he not only harvested the natural horse pasture, but also was able to immigrate to the real side.

More importantly, the arid Ordos Plateau, with little rainfall, could not provide much pasture for the Huns' livestock.

In other words, after the loss of the Hetao Plain, the entire land of Henan will be recovered, which is really a large place. ”

Gillian replied to him heavily, stretched out her hands to wrap her arms around him and said affirmatively: "You just love to worry, Wei Qing will definitely be able to recover the land of Henan for you." Speaking of this, he laughed a little: "You still have to worry about it, if you don't worry about it, you won't die badly." ”

Liu Che couldn't help but smile when he heard what she said, if only it was as easy as Jiaojiao said.

Gillian is really not worried at all, in his previous life, Liu Che relied on himself to make unprecedented achievements. In this life, she is even half a prophet, and she doesn't believe that he can suffer a little loss.

Wei Qing is good at fighting and can also fight.

In the previous life, the battle of Henan broke out in the spring, and when Wei Qing led tens of thousands of elite cavalry to break into the Hetao Plain, it was the season of recovery.

The Xiongnu tribes, which had previously scattered to find their own places to spend the winter, began to return to the Hetao Plain to find pasture for horses, cattle and sheep.

It's just that because the pasture grass is not abundant at this time, the Xiongnu tribes are scattered and do not gather together.

When Wei Qing broke into the Hetao Plain with 30,000 cavalry that had been prepared for a long time, he happened to catch these nomadic tribes off guard.

Gillian heard that it was almost unilaterally crushed, and the iron cavalry of the Han army chased the scattered Xiongnu herdsmen and cattle and sheep all over the grassland.

But the Huns were born on the steppe and grew up on horseback, and in terms of terrain and mobility, they must be a hundred times better than the Han army.

Therefore, it is really difficult for the Han army to completely annihilate its vital forces.

Therefore, the capture of the Battle of Henan was not too amazing, and the total number of beheaded and captured was 3,071.

However, more than a million cattle and sheep were captured.

Judging from the situation of the nomads, this is only the property of most of the Xiongnu tribes who are nomadic in Henan, which has really hit the Huns hard.

What made Liu Che even happier was that the Han army returned with all the armor.

When the Han Dynasty won a battle, the armor and weapons of the soldiers who died in the battle had to be recovered, and if they lost the battle, they could not be recovered, and they became captured by the enemy.

The return of all the soldiers shows that the losses are very small.

Although it is summer now, most of the Huns have gathered, but Gillian is not worried about victory or defeat.

I can't help but look forward to it: I can't say that this time Wei Qing will gain more, and the living force of the Huns will be more frustrated.

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In the same late night, when the emperor who was far away in Chang'an couldn't sleep at night, Wei Qing's inner turmoil was only a lot more.

Every time he looked at the endless army behind him, he still had a feeling of disbelief.

He Wei Qing was really able to go from a manu to a general who led 30,000 cavalry to fight back against the Huns for the Son of Heaven.

In the deep inky night, he rode his horse forward, and his ears were full of the sound of horses' hooves and the crash of armor and weapons brought by the mighty Han army.

The army had been on the road for several days and nights in a row, and everyone knew that they were not going to rush to the aid of Yuyang at dusk today, but were going to raid Yuyang in the opposite way.

The whole army was in an uproar, and even several adjutant generals were taken aback.

Wei Qing just smiled faintly and said that this was discussed with His Majesty, so he made a mystery to confuse the Huns.

The soldiers, most of them are young men with strong blood, and they have long hated that every time the Huns harassed and burned the Han Bian, this time I heard that His Majesty and the general intended to give the Huns a tooth for a tooth, all of them were very happy, and they just wanted to immediately ride their horses to the grassland of the Hetao to let the Huns see the majesty of the Han people.

In the same night, Han Anguo couldn't sleep.

Day and night on the city wall to take the lead in the fierce battle with the Huns, this old veteran has long been a little unbearable.

In the early years, after the death of Marquis Wu'an, his right leg was intentionally injured in order to avoid disaster, and after a little rain, he began to hurt all night long, so he couldn't sleep, so he simply climbed to the highest place in Yuyang City to look.

The Huns had already set up camp, and the lights were like beans swaying in the night wind.

After a whole day of fierce fighting, the Huns finally spent half the night quiet, recuperating for the next day's hard fighting.

Han Anguo's gaze did not linger too long on the tent that could be seen by the naked eye, he paid more attention to the small hills that were not large but were dense enough trees.

The Huns would definitely set up an ambush in the meantime, and he feared that the troops that came to help would suffer.

But under the siege of heavy troops, he couldn't send any news at all.

Although he has a long memory of last year, and the garrison has reached more than 3,000 people, he can only grit his teeth and hold on for a few days, and he has no strength to fight back at all.

Han Anguo couldn't help but sigh faintly, he was getting old, and he couldn't even see through the situation at this time, if His Majesty had listened to his advice last year and stopped the army, he still didn't know what kind of situation he was in now?

Alas, I'm old, and I have to admit defeat.

The world belongs to those young people who rise like the rising sun, and if he is lucky enough to survive this time, he will confess to His Majesty and ask for retreat.

After Han Anguo led more than 2,000 people to support him for three or five days, he saw that more than half of the Xiongnu reinforcements were divided and went to the direction of Beiping on the right.

The adjutant general breathed a sigh of relief, "Now our pressure is less, I just don't know why the reinforcements from the imperial court have not arrived?" ”

Han Anguo glanced at him and said slowly: "The reinforcements from the imperial court will not come, we have to survive on our own!" ”