The banner went west, and the three armies stepped through Helan Mountain.

The sun shifted, causing the shadow of Helan Mountain to seem to be hastily moved away in fear, to make way for General Tunhu.

"It's not enough for the Hu people to dare to go south and graze horses."

The white-haired Han Wei raised his head and looked at the majestic mountain shadow, although he was old, his ambition was not inferior to Feng Tang and Li Guang: "In the Qin period, Meng Tian chased the Xiongnu north to seize this place, but there was a loss, and the Han Dynasty relied on the merits of famous generals to set up counties here, and today, this general wants to move the border of China four hundred miles outward!" ”

Behind General Tunhu, the banner was held high, and the chariot was loaded with grain and dried meat, enough for a month's food.

Out of Beiyi Mountain (Helan Mountain), he left the new dynasty and entered the Xiongnu territory.

The east side of the mountain is the plastered land of the new Qinzhong Houtao Plain, and the city is densely covered with acres of fields, but the other side of the mountain is a barren world. The knee-high pasture grass along the Yellow River has turned into weeds dotted with red Gobi. Rivers and lakes are rare, but the dry salt flats are one after another, gradually, the grassland completely disappeared, only a rolling sea of sand remained, without the Helan Mountain barrier, the wind and sand directly hit the soldiers' faces.

Most of the soldiers had never been out of the border fortress, nor had they seen such a vast desert, and the military officials only smacked their tongues: "Is this the legend that Wei Huo crossed the curtain of beating Hu?" ”

"It's just a small curtain." Han Wei had people spread out the map, and they were in the middle of two deserts (Ulan Bu and Desert, Tengger Desert) on a wasteland, occasionally seeing shrubs and vegetation, and even finding water sources. Along this green passage all the way to the west, is the goal of the new army's exit this time: to fight the ground.

The so-called fighting land is a territory where the Huns protruded into the Han realm after the demarcation and peace between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu after the Xuan and Yuan dynasties, facing the former Zhangye, which is also the current Sheping County. Although the north and south are peaceful, but the beacon has not been canceled, in order to beware of the king of Wen Puppet in the fight land, the Han are stationed along the border.

When Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, a Han envoy proposed to Wang Mang's uncle, Wang Gen, the general of the Great Sima Hussars, that since the Xiongnu were vassals to the Han, it was better to directly ask Shan Yu for this land, so that it could be used as a barrier outside the fortress to cut half of the garrisons on the northwest border.

Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty wanted but was afraid that the Xiongnu would not agree to damage the dignity of the emperor, so he only asked the envoy to propose in his personal capacity, and the Xiongnu really refused politely.

However, as Wang Gen's successor, Emperor Wang Mang never forgot about this matter, and now he launched a war, so that he set up Ping (Zhangye), Zhangye (Wuwei), Gousou (Shuofang), and Xinqin Zhong marched in four ways, and tens of thousands of troops pointed directly at the ground!

"The four paths come out together, and the power of the emperor is carried out together, and the body is punished!"

Compared with the Han Shi Wei Huo Expedition, which was thousands of miles away, this trip out of the fortress was simply a small fight. Doudi is relatively close to Sheping and Zhangye, but it is only two or three hundred miles, and it is only four hundred miles away from Xinqinzhong, and it will arrive in ten days.

General Tunhu is known as 10,000 people, in fact, after removing the water from the empty salary, there are only 6,000, 4,000 are the main pawns, and 2,000 are envy pawns.

It is different from the bare stone mountains that are common outside the Saibei, the mountain is full of lush vegetation, and in the late autumn in the north of the Saibei, the coniferous forest, birch and asppen on the mountain show different colors, green, yellow, red, colorful, and beautiful.

It is exactly the same as the "several mountains" described by the guide.

Han Wei stood on the chariot and looked at this mountain from afar: "The right land of the Xiongnu, within a thousand miles south of Mrs. Fan's city, is easy to use in the wood of this mountain, and the strange wood growing on the mountain, adding feathers is very suitable for making arrow rods, and the wood of the felt tents and vehicles of the right countries also comes from here." ”

The spring that had not been seen for a long time reappeared on the surface, and the soldiers shouted and drank bitterly, the grass had not yet completely withered, and the hungry horses, mules and donkeys bowed their heads and gnawed violently.

This is the economic value of Doudi, Wang Mang hopes to take this place, let the puppet Shan Yu Budang come here to recruit the Huns, and set up another royal court, so as to split the Huns, control Hu with Hu, and complete the goal of "guarding in Siyi".

But...... What about the friendly forces that were promised?

It stands to reason that the remaining three armies should have arrived in Doudi long ago, and then continued to go north to meet the Xiongnu right army, but now not only the Xiongnu are far away, there is no one within a radius of 100 miles, and even the scouts of the new army are not seen.

"Could it be that the Huns concentrated their army to attack one first and blocked them in the middle of the road?"

It's not right, Han Wei looked at the battle examples of the former Han Wu Emperor's dynasty, China often went out of the fortress in several ways, and the Xiongnu liked to concentrate their forces on one side, how could there be a reason to attack three ways together?

Han Wei asked the army to settle down in Doudi first, and sent rangers to search in the other three directions, and they were rewarded after three days.

"General, I have found the traces of the barracks where the three ministries were once stationed!"

Han Wei was overjoyed: "Then how far are they from here?" ”

"Dare to tell General Yu, more than 10,000 people from General Dinghu, set up Pingju to extend the east, and return from Sai Baili."

"More than 10,000 people from General Pingdi went north from Xiu Tuze in Zhangye County, and returned eighty miles away."

"The first general Lian Dan 20,000 people, out of the ditch to search the county Gaoque Sai, out of the fortress...... The subordinates did not find his camp, and they did not know how many miles they had been out of the fortress. ”

Han Wei was stunned for a moment, this was far from the scene he imagined that the four directions converged, the banner was northward, the Huns were afraid, and they were only obedient.

Now that the Quartet is attacking, only he has honestly walked a long way to arrive, and the rest have come back with their heads up, so what should I do now?

Just as Han Wei was hesitating, another scout hurriedly reported: "General, north of Doudi, I found the right army of the Huns!" ”

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Han Wei had heard such a story: In his later years, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty saw Li Guang when he was young, but when he saw that Li Guang was brave in battle, superb in archery, and had the most wins in hunting, Emperor Wen of Han appreciated it very much, but he felt regretful, and only said: "It's a pity, when the son is not met, if the son is born when Emperor Gao, how can the Marquis of Wanhu be enough!" ”

Han Wei had always felt that he was born in the wrong era in the past, and when Fu Jiezi, Chang Hui, and Zheng Ji opened up the Western Regions during Emperor Xuan, he was not yet born.

Emperor Yuan Dynasty Chen Tang and Gan Yanshou expedition to the Peerless Domain to cut Zhi Zhi Zhi at the head, his head hung on the street, and when he was famous all over the world, he was still young.

For most of Han Wei's life, the Han family kept peace with the Xiongnu, and there were no police for three generations, and there was nowhere to go if he wanted to make meritorious contributions.

But Han Wei only understood his grandfather's last words as "not allowed to be an official of the Han Dynasty".

After the construction of the new room, he was already sixty years old, and he finally caught up with the good time, joined the army to quell the rebellion, and threatened to sweep away the Huns with 5,000 people.

"Rong Di jackal, if you don't kill it all, how can you raise it as a domestic animal? Sooner or later, it will be eaten back. Han Wei's thoughts are exactly the same as Emperor Wang Mang's, the monarch and the ministers hit it off when they ask the right time, Han Wei, as the most hardcore main battle faction, is in sharp contrast to the ambiguous attitude of the rest of the people.

And today, Han Wei really ushered in the scene he had been waiting for for a long time: the war with the Huns.

It's just that there is a bit of a disparity in the number of the two sides, and in the case of none of the friendly troops arriving all the way, Han Wei really only has 6,000 soldiers.

And after cruising north of Doudi for a long time, and found that Han Wei's lone army went deep, the Huns who carefully surrounded them added up to at least thirty or forty thousand horsemen, which concentrated the strength of the entire right to deal with it.

"Don't panic, the same disparity in battle, Wei and Huo haven't fought before!"

Han Wei used strong words to cover the horror in his heart, speaking of which, the new dynasty and the Xiongnu have been at war for ten years, and this is the first time that the new army has gone out of the fortress. They had zero combat experience with the Xiongnu, and could only rely on the method of word of mouth among the old soldiers of the border and rely on the terrain to set up camp.

The new army took the baggage cart as the battalion and set up a formation outside the camp, with the soldiers in the front holding halberds and shields, and the soldiers in the rear holding bows and arrows, waiting anxiously for the Xiongnu to attack.

The Huns rode from the herdsmen mighty, adding up to seem to be more than the grass and trees on the Doudi Mountain, looking at it from afar like a black cloud pressing the city, they are also mostly temporary conscripted herdsmen, order and combat effectiveness are not strong, sometimes send a team to return to the trial, was shot by a crossbow arrow, left more than a dozen corpses and retreated.

Hu Lu was no longer impatient, but only surrounded from a distance, like a pack of wolves hunting, looking forward to the moment when the prey ran out of strength.

Han Wei's car base was well arranged, and the soldiers had no way to retreat, but there was no situation of taking the road and escaping, so it was not a problem to hold on. The biggest trouble was in the food and water, the dry food brought out of the plug was only five days old, and the soldiers who had drunk the clear spring before began to have diarrhea, and it must have been the Huns who performed a witch curse at the water source and buried the carcasses of sick animals.

Now Han Wei can only hope that friendly troops will come to help, he began to feel that this is the strategy of General Genshi, is to use himself as bait to tempt the Huns to surround the large army, and then the new army will arrive in three ways, and then there will be a counter-encirclement, and now he can annihilate the main force of the Xiongnu on the right and shock Hulu.

But wait, wait,

After getting along with the Han Dynasty for several generations, the Huns also learned to be smart, in addition to sending rangers to harass them with arrows in the downwind every day, they also sent people over to recruit surrender in Chinese.

It was Lu Fang's brother Lu Yu, who was ordered by Lu Fang to go out of the fortress, found the king of Xiongnu Julin, became his staff, and reported the situation in the fortress.

Then it was found that there were a large number of Han people in the Xiongnu tent, but they defected from the Western Regions ten years ago, and they all boasted of being loyal ministers of the Han family. ”

The starving pawns and envy soldiers who hid behind Wu Gang's car listened to their ears, but they heard the shouts from the other side: "The Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty were originally brothers, and the Xiongnu had civil strife in the past, and it was Emperor Xiaoxuan of the Han Dynasty who helped Hu Han Xie Shan Yu ascend the throne, so the Xiongnu called the Han Dynasty a vassal to show respect." However, Wang Mang, as a courtier of the Han Dynasty, usurped the throne, and changed the seal letter that lasted for several generations without authorization, deliberately humiliating Shan Yu, causing the two countries to break up. ”

"Ten years ago, the Han Dynasty's Western Regions Protector Shi Chenliang, Zhong Dai and others, missing the Han Dynasty, killed the captain of Wu Ji, and brought civil and military officials, and dependents of men and women, about 2,000 people, to defect to the Xiongnu. Da Shan Yu appointed the two of them as both lieutenants of Wuben, and the more than 2,000 people were properly settled, with no worries about food and clothing. ”

"All the wars on the border are caused by Wang Mang's insistence, the Xiongnu are just forced to fight back, and now if you are willing to surrender, you can save your life like the Western Regions are guarded and surrendered, when you are born, you are the son of the Han family, how can you become a rebel in the new room when you die!"

Don't say it, this burst of shouting, Han Weijun's heart was really confused, and the soldiers muttered and discussed the truth on the other side, Han Wei was shocked, and people immediately beat the drum to cover up the shouting on the other side.

But the commotion in the hearts of ordinary soldiers could not be hidden.

"Don't believe Hu Lu's words of treachery, that Chen Liang, Zhong Dai and others were later sent back to Chang'an by the Huns and executed by burning, this is the consequence of surrender!"

Wang Mang quoted the words of "Zhou Yi" "burning like death", and was very fascinated by this kind of punishment, and when he caught rebellion, he mostly erected a wooden frame and burned them to death, so that their painful wails before death shocked Xiaoxiao.

But these words did not reassure the soldiers, but highlighted the cruelty of Xin Mang, not to mention, the only ones who were sent back to be executed were officials, and the ordinary soldiers were not still in the Huns? They were in the middle of the barracks, and the morale of the army was even more confused.

As the days passed, the friendly forces were still nowhere to be seen, and Han Wei's expectations disappeared little by little. Seeing that the Huns' attacks were becoming more and more frequent, and their own physical morale was even lower, and what was even worse was that the crossbow arrows they brought were about to be exhausted after a few days of indiscriminate fire from inexperienced soldiers, which was the biggest reliance of the new army.

They were in a desperate situation, and the old general licked his cracked lips and had to make the difficult decision that Li Ling made more than a hundred years ago.

"Pull out the camp and break through to the south!"

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The breakthrough was very smooth, the Huns barely fought, only resisted at will for a while and then let go of the encirclement, they did not like positional warfare, and the pursuit of the tail line was the rhythm that the nomads loved.

The reason why Han Wei did not choose to return to Xinqinzhong to the east was because Helan Mountain was 400 miles away, and Hutuze in the south was only 200 miles away, which could be reached in five days.

To this day's predicament, Han Wei still remembers victory.

However, in the case of tens of thousands of Xiongnu cavalry chasing after the tail, the speed of the army became extremely slow, and it was necessary to turn around and fight after walking a few steps, Han Wei deliberately led the Huns into the forest, with the help of the terrain and cavalry coordination, short-term combat, and also killed hundreds of cavalry.

Han Wei did not forget to tell his subordinates: "The heads are all placed on the car, this is the evidence of our hard fighting." ”

"But there's only enough wounded to lie on the cart."

"Then let the wounded man hold the head, not throw!"

It seems that the entire Hu Lu on the right has been dispatched, and in just a few days thousands of horsemen have been added, and the new army is like a lonely boat in the ocean, and there is no idea when and where a big wave will come.

They staggered along, and by the second day they were completely depleted of food, and the hungry and red-eyed soldiers set their eyes on the horses of the cavalry.

Han Wei set an example and contributed his war horses, hoping that his subordinate captains and military horses would follow up, but unexpectedly, this incident triggered the most serious escape since the enemy, and the military officials and cavalrymen who barely listened to Han Wei's command yesterday heard that they were going to take turns killing horses to satisfy their hunger, and they actually escaped with their troops overnight, abandoning their robes on foot!

As if triggering a chain reaction, it was not clear why this battle was being fought, and no one wanted to fight to the death for the new dynasty, and the foot soldiers also began to flee, Ren Hanwei scolded in the wind, and stabbed a few deserters to death with his own hands but to no avail.

Seeing that the hearts of the new army were in turmoil, tens of thousands of Hu cavalry took the opportunity to surround them again, staring at Han Wei's banner to attack.

Han Wei could only stop again, and took the remaining less than 3,000 people to fight and walk, the soldiers were seriously injured and lay on the cart, the lightly injured were pushing the cart, and the lighter ones were fighting with weapons.

In the past, a man could defeat five Hu, but now a new one can beat several Hu?

Relying on the excellent armor, he was able to withstand the Huns firing several arrows in a row, but as his physical strength was exhausted, more and more people fell, not to mention, the Huns were constantly coming over in Chinese to agitate during the attack.

"Come down! What kindness does the new chamber have to serve you? ”

Constantly there were soldiers who completely lost their fighting spirit, threw their weapons into the Xiongnu army, and the people in Han Wei's array fought less and less, and the night went and came, and I didn't know that after a few days, the south, the west, and the east still did not see friendly troops to help.

They could only fight with their last will, and in the end there were less than a hundred people left, all covered in blood, and some even had more than a dozen arrows stuck in their armor, which could only be broken one by one.

The food was completely gone, and Han Wei could only say to his subordinates ashamedly: "The old man wrote to His Majesty, saying that he would like to have 5,000 brave men, who will not fight for food, be hungry for meat, and thirsty for their blood, and can run rampant against the Huns." ”

"Now I am suffering from this predicament, not because of my might, but because my friends have misunderstood me! Although it can't run rampant among the Huns, this flesh and blood can be eaten. ”

He took the lead in cutting off the flesh and blood of the Huns who died nearby and stuffed it into his mouth, and his white beard was stained red with blood, which made the Huns shocked.

The people who surrendered came again, they were originally contemptuous of Han Wei, but now when they saw him fighting to the death, they had a little more respect, and only shouted from afar: "Come down, King Youxian and King Julin said, if Han Wei can return to Da Danyu, the king of the great one!" Little Hou! I will not treat you badly! ”

Han Wei wound the last arrow, and when the man came closer, he jerked it up and shot it off his horse.

"My Majesty personally worships General Tunhu!" He yelled.

"Since he was in his fifties, he has been the minister of the new room, and he has been favored by the Son of Heaven, and he does not know the wax of the Han family!"

The Huns gave up persuasion, and thousands of horsemen swarmed up, trampled on the corpses and blood all over the ground, and the horses were stationed dozens of paces away to draw their bows and point obliquely.

When the last moment came, Han Wei had injured one of his legs, his body was full of wounds, and his armor was also a little broken, so he only stood up with the banner, waved his knife forward, and scolded: "Swallowing Hulu with the power of the new room is tantamount to a flea ......in your mouth."

Ten thousand arrows rained down, and one stray arrow hit Han Wei's face, and then more arrows drowned him.

The white doudi feathers seemed to cover Han Wei with a brocade quilt.

When the banner fell, the Huns stepped forward, raised their swords indiscriminately, and slaughtered the last of the new troops.

Only a hundred miles away from the border, with friendly troops watching from the wall, the new general Han Wei of the Tunhu Dynasty.

Swallowed by Hu!

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PS: The second chapter is at 13:00.

The ministers are willing to have 5,000 brave men, who do not fight for food, but who are hungry for meat, and thirst for their blood, so that they can run amok! ——Han Wei, "Hanshu: The Biography of Wang Mang"

It should be the earliest source of the allusion, and Geng Gong of the Eastern Han Dynasty is still behind him.