In addition to the dozens of scout teams, Zhao Hui also divided the Black Wind Army and the defenders of Shanggu County into several teams.

Each team has a fixed position on the border.

As long as they see the wolf smoke or flying lanterns rising from the scouts, they will be driven by the nearest team and exterminate the Xianbei people who will commit crimes.

To avoid the appearance of a team that dares to pass is defeated by the Xianbei people, so Zhao Hui has already given an order to the scouts.

They will report the number of Xianbei people by the number of flying lights and wolf smoke released.

If the number of Xianbei people who come to attack is less than 1,000, then only put a flying lantern, or light a wolf smoke.

If the number is between 1,000 and 2,000, put two flying lanterns or wolf smoke.

Zhao Hui needs to ensure that the team that goes can eliminate the Xianbei people in the shortest possible time, rather than being wiped out by the Xianbei people.

Zhao Hui personally led the Modao team, Tai Shici led five hundred cavalry of the Black Wind Army, and Guan Hai, Zhou Cang and others also led a cavalry as a mobile force.

After all, the defenders of Shanggu County are the main force defending the Xianbei people this time, but they are all infantry, and their mobility is too poor.

Watching wolf smoke during the day and flying lights at night, everyone entered the all-weather preparations, and each team did not leave their guns, horses did not get off the saddle, and they did not take off their armor when they slept.

Zhao Hui wanted those Xianbei people to never dare to come to Shanggu to grab grain in the future.

Under Zhao Hui's strict defense, as long as the Xianbei people approached Shanggu County, they would almost always be discovered.

And these Xianbei people all appeared in small groups of cavalry, about five or six hundred people, and occasionally there were thousands of people, and as for more than two thousand, it was even less seen.

On the grassland, you can often see billowing wolf smoke rising during the day, and flying lights floating in the sky at night.

One by one, the Xianbei people who dreamed of entering Shanggu County and snatching food became lonely ghosts on the grassland under the guns of the Black Wind Army and the defenders of Shanggu County.

In the first two years, these Xianbei people already knew that on the side of Shanggu County, there was a powerful army, and even Budugen could only return with a crushing defeat.

Last year, very few Xianbei people came to Shanggu County, and more often went to other counties.

But this year is different, there is grain everywhere outside the city of Shanggu County, and for the Xianbei people, Shanggu County in autumn is full of gold, just waiting for them to pick it up.

Money often unmakes the men who make it!

Knowing that Shanggu County is more dangerous than other places, there are still many Xianbei people who take this risk, thinking that as long as they grab the food and run away, the mysterious army in Shanggu County has no way to take them.

But how did they know that Zhao Hui was already at the border of Shanggu County, pulling out a big net, waiting for them to bump into him.

Although the Xianbei tribe in the thousands of miles of grassland outside Shanggu County had already migrated away three years ago.

But this time, during the autumn harvest in Ueya-gun, they still came like sharks smelling blood.

For the steppe tribes, their days in spring, summer and autumn can be relatively easy, but in winter, covered with heavy snow, their food is very scarce, and the slaughtered cattle and sheep cannot be maintained for a long time.

And in order to reduce winter losses, in late autumn, they will dispose of many cattle and sheep in advance.

In winter, it is difficult for their food to be stored for a long time, so in order to live a better life in this winter, they do not have to go out in the snow to find food.

The best way for them to do this is to come to the Han border and loot.

The wheat grown by the Han people is very easy to preserve. And being able to eat enough is what they want the most.

In addition to these foods, it would be even better if you could grab salt and iron utensils.

For the sake of these things, Xianbei people are willing to take risks, even if they know that there may be only half the success rate, there will be people who take risks.

Because many people, if they don't rely on the food they snatched from Dahan, they can't survive this cold winter.

Although the Xianbei people have their pity, Zhao Hui has no sympathy in his heart.

This path was chosen by themselves, and Zhao Hui's responsibility was to protect his people.

In the autumn harvest season, Zhao Hui, who was guarding the border of Shanggu County, could encounter Xianbei cavalry every day, and these Xianbei cavalry who were found, without exception, were all wiped out by Zhao Hui.

Even if there were Xianbei cavalry who fled after fighting with the defenders of Shanggu County, they would be caught up and killed by the cavalry led by Zhao Huitai Shici and others.

Dozens of scouts were scattered along the border, and the Xianbei cavalry could not cross this blockade line without realizing it.

It's just that one after another Xianbei cavalry has come and gone, and after all, someone still found an abnormality.

"Did any of your tribesmen go to Upper Valley County?"

"Our tribe went to five hundred warriors. , what about you. ”

"Our tribe went to a thousand, and I heard that this year the outside of Shanggu County is full of wheat, and this year we can have a good year." An old man of a tribe leaked a mouthful of yellow teeth.

As long as the warriors of the tribe can get food, then he can survive the winter.

It's just that this mood didn't last for a few days before it disappeared.

News has already come out of the steppe that the warriors who went earlier than their tribe have not returned.

Each of them rode a war horse, even if they were far away from the grassland of Shanggu County before, but once they came and went, it would take three days at the fastest, and no more than five days if they were slow.

But now the first people to go are already on the sixth day, and they are still nowhere to be seen.

In addition, instead of choosing Ueya County, they chose tribes from other counties, and many of them have already looted back.

Choose the tribe of Upper Valley County, everyone is gloomy.

If the warriors of the tribe really do not return, it will be a great disaster for their tribe.

Because these are sent out, they are the strongest warriors in their tribe, and the tribe still needs their protection.

Without these warriors, they would be annexed by other tribes.

Men will be killed, women will be robbed.

These steppe tribes not only treat the Han people, but also treat the people of other tribes with no mercy.

A few days ago, I was still imagining the tribal warriors, and the old man who returned with countless foods, stood outside the tribe every day, looking at the south from afar, and the expression on his face became less and less day by day.

He seems to have seen his fate this winter.

No tribe went to the ancient county to find death again.

Although they are in great need of food, they can go to other places except Upper Valley to grab it.

Even if you can't grab it, at most the winter will be a little harder, and some people will die.

But it's better than when the whole tribe is annexed by someone else after they die.

The news finally came back, and it was their nightmare.

The Xianbei people who entered Shanggu County were all wiped out.

More than a dozen Xianbei tribes, men, women and children, after hearing this, their faces were like ashes. The child's face has also lost its old smile.

These more than a dozen Xianbei tribes will disappear this winter.