Tong Yuan took Yu Poison, Xue Xia, and Nalou, who were familiar with the terrain, as the front, dispersed the remnants of the Xiongnu along the Yellow River, cut off the enemy's retreat south of the Yellow River, and then personally led the main force to attack the former Southern Xiongnu Wang Ting Meiji.

Meiji is famous for its abundant millet millet, and the millet produced in the Western Han Dynasty is tribute rice.

Later, because the Eastern Han Dynasty court settled the attached Southern Xiongnu here, it became the location of the Southern Xiongnu's Shan Yu royal court, and the world is famous.

For a long time, Meiji was the political and military center of the Southern Xiongnu, and as many as 200,000 Xiongnu tribesmen lived in it.

Later, with the decline of the Han Dynasty, the Southern Xiongnu marched southward step by step, and most of them moved further south, and even the old kings of the Xiongnu took Lishi as their capital, and Yufu Luo took Pingyang as their temporary residence.

Although Meiji City is no longer the royal city of the Huns, it is still an important stronghold and has a unique position in the hearts of the Hu people who went south. Therefore, the capture of Meiji is very crucial to recovering the Hetao and making the Xiongnu truly surrender.

Meiji City was guarded by the right general Wang who had fled from Xihe County before, and he had more than 2,000 soldiers and horses in his lineage, and more than 3,000 strong men from the rest of the tribes. This number is already comparable to the number of soldiers and horses around Tong Yuan, and it is estimated that even the dreadnought army is not suitable for storming here.

However, when the Xinxi Liang army reached the outside of Meiji City, they were not worried about the strength of the troops in the city at all, but instead divided their troops to inspect the nearby water and set up camp in the red gravel area near the river.

Originally, this water originated in the Hetao area and flowed into the Yellow River from northwest to southeast. Its water quality is very good, nourishing a large area of vegetation on both sides of the river, and there are even bamboo forests that are rare in the north.

And near the water, there are official roads leading to all parts of the county, hidden between the bamboo and grass, it can be said that it is a green hill, the fields are green, and the world is beautiful.

However, soon after, as the environment deteriorated and vegetation such as turf was destroyed, the amount of water gradually decreased, and finally the water flow was lost in the Yuan Dynasty.

Today's Nanshui Basin, known as the Huangfuchuan Basin, is a typical soil erosion area, and is no longer an important tributary of the Yellow River that nourishes large areas of grassland, bamboo forests, livestock, and people.

Of course, Tong Yuan and the others did not choose this place to enjoy the mountains and rivers, but to wait for the soldiers and horses of Geng Qing and Lu Jian, who had just recovered the northern part of Xihe County and came along the Yellow River and the water.

However, a few days later, Geng Qing and Lu Jian arrived with 3,000 soldiers and horses, a batch of grain and baggage, and the two armies celebrated warmly after the meeting. Immediately afterwards, the fleet brought in 4,000 Han Hu tun people, and they went so far as to directly build village houses and tuntian fields twenty miles southeast of Meiji.

Geng Qing said: "These 4,000 people are based on the families of the tun people transferred from Hedong and Xihe, and have joined 2,000 refugees from Runan and hundreds of brave and warlike people. ”

Tong Yuan praised: "Very good, people from afar are willing to open up the frontier, which shows that in the eyes of some people, the Hetao under our jurisdiction can make people see hope more than the Central Plains under the secession, which is the desire of the people." However, they have migrated such a long distance and brought their families with them, so they may be a little uncomfortable. ”

Geng Qing said: "This is indeed the case, so the tun people who came to Meiji this time are the best adapted among the Tuobian refugees collected in Xihe County. ”

Tong Yuan nodded, and asked: "These people left the original tribe and gradually became Sinicized in Tuntian, do they have any complaints?" ”

Geng Qing said: "Don't worry, my lord, we are all recruited voluntarily, and because there are many people who have signed up, only the strongest fighters and their families have been selected. The rest of the karma still give them freedom to live their own way. ”

Tong Yuan smiled, it seems that Geng Qing, who is fearless in the military system, has also become a great talent who is proficient in military, tuntian, and foreign affairs after being stationed and training in Xihe County for a period of time.

At this time, the scout came to report: "Tell the lord, Captain Xu Huang and Zhang Fang joined the army to ambush and eliminate more than 200 Hun soldiers who left the city, and captured one centurion alive." ”

Tong Yuan said: "Okay, did the Huns have any cavalry to break through?" ”

The scout replied: "Not this time, after the enemy fought unfavorably, they all returned to Meiji City." ”

Tong Yuan said: "Very good, then you need to follow the original policy." Xu Huang and Zhang Fang kept an eye on the enemy, and if the cavalry broke through, they would be handed over to the horses with sufficient physical strength to be humiliated. ”

"No!"

Their strategy is actually very simple, that is, to directly build the local tuntian, explore the water sources and pastures here, and arrange and develop all the surrounding areas of Meiji City.

They also did not destroy trees to build siege equipment, anyway, there were no more than 10,000 soldiers and horses gathered here, and the logistical pressure was not very great, and in the end it was definitely the Huns who could not stand it.

Especially in the cold winter, the Huns did not have the foundation to accumulate a large amount of grain and grass, and most of the livestock they relied on were thin and weak, and they could not eat spring pasture, and the people in the city competed with the animals for beans, and they could not hold on for long.

Sure enough, half a month later, the infighting in the city broke out, and the right Dulu King couldn't control the situation, so he had to drive the non-descendants to attack Xu Huang and send him to death, and he led 800 cavalry to flee.

Tong Yuan ordered Qubei to lead a thousand cavalry to pursue, and asked him to pursue these die-hard elements who led a large number of Xiongnu population to decay and destruction, and must see people alive and corpses when they die.

Qubei and the others watched their clansmen suffer and suffer with the likes of the Right Dulu King, and they were already resentful. Their horses with plenty of physical strength and plenty of bean grass were overwhelmingly superior, and it only took an hour for them to catch up with the fleeing enemy.

Look at these so-called clansmen, if it weren't for the fact that they murdered Qiangqu Shan Yu, if it weren't for their disobedience to the orders of the lord and Hu Chuquan Shan Yu, then the Xiongnu would have died many, many people less.

He roared angrily and called the right Dulu King to come out to see him, but no one answered. He knew that the right Dulu King was likely to have one person and two horses, and he ran away in a different way.

He was heartbroken and ordered his subordinates to kill people directly. The Hun cavalry of the 11th Brigade had already been unanimously understood by the instructors and counselors in the army, and they hated these conservative scum who plagued the Huns. They showed no mercy and slaughtered dozens of people in the front row.

The rest were frightened, quickly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and said that the king of the right deer and dozens of concubines were tied to one person and two horses, and fled in the direction of the Yellow River.

Gobei left a battalion to escort the prisoners and lead the rest of the cavalry in pursuit. When they reached the edge of the Yellow River, they soon found traces of the other party's escape, as well as more than a dozen high-quality but thin war horses that were exhausted.

Knowing that the other party was at the end of his rope, he shouted to the escapee, "Capture the right lone deer king alive, I, the left virtuous king Paul, will not die!" ”

When the right Dulu King heard the humble shout, he just wanted to turn around and release the arrow, but he saw that the attendant who followed him had a strange face.