Chapter 438: No Fear, No Retreat

Dusi Rabbit is the Xiongnu language, which means the river like oil, of course, there is no oil in this river, the reason why it is so described is that in addition to its slow flow rate, but also because it flows through the area, the sand moraines have become fertile silt, and the water and grass in the basin are abundant, and it is a good grazing land.

It's just that compared with the vast Helan Mountain grassland two hundred miles away in the south, it is not outstanding, so the Huns let go of this place and left the entire river to the Baiyang Department, and the Xiongnu's sheep slaves grazing and living.

Further east, where the grassland gradually becomes a forest, is the dividing line between Baiyang and Linhu, which is the master of the two departments, the Xiongnu Da Dan Yu demarcated: sheep slaves herding sheep, forest slaves hunting, and non-aggression against each other.

The two tribes would also do some trade from time to time, and the Aries people drove cattle and sheep in exchange for Lin Hu's prey and bow materials, and the two sides carefully guarded the line and did not cross it easily.

But this summer, the Linhu people broke their vows for generations, and under the leadership of the heavily fur-clad Linhu hunters, a group of black-clad Central Plains people stepped into the territory of the Aries tribe, where they built tall earthen house watchtowers. When the Aries King was detained by the side of the Xiongnu Shan Yu, his son sent someone to question the Lin Hu people why they had broken their oath, but received an arrogant letter of surrender.

"Those who follow Qin prosper, and those who oppose Qin die!"

The signature of the surrender letter is "Shangjun Lieutenant Robbery"!

In the four departments of Henan, the relationship between Aries and Xiongnu Shan Yu is the closest, and there are often Aries women who become Shan Yu's clan, and Xiongnu Shan Yu also marries his daughter to Aries, even if he doesn't consider this, he must also think about the hostages who are detained by Shan Yu's side.

When the son of the Aries King was still hesitating, the other party couldn't wait, and with the trees in the forest being cut down one by one, the large army of the Qin army came to the Aries Department.

In the next half month, the entire Dusitu River Basin was full of killing and blood. The Aries died in pieces, and the feet of the slowly advancing Qin Army's armor array were covered with blood, mud and broken bones, drowning the yellow earth.

When the dust settled, the Aries tribe had been destroyed, all the people who resisted were killed, and the rest fled in all directions, and the innocent sheep stood at the foot of the mountain in a daze, looking at the blood-stained grass after the killing.

General Feng Zheng came to the land after the war and listened to his subordinates' reports on the number of captured livestock, which was more than 10,000 heads.

"General, what about the captured Hu people?"

"Leave the men who graze the flock, and the rest wait, ...... one by one"

After thinking about it, he changed his mind: "Kill them all!" ”

It's not that Feng Zheng is easy to kill, he brought an army of 20,000 this time to fight four hundred miles away from Shangjun, and he had to consume a lot of food every day.

Although since a year ago, Qin Shi Huang has entered the border, transported a large amount of grain to the border in advance for storage, and let Zhang Han open a straight road, and this year he opened up a forest and a hudao. The rear convoy struggled to bring supplies through the narrow newly opened roads, but it was far from quenching its thirst.

Among the soldiers in Shangjun, many people are Bai Zhai, like Longxi Qiang and Beidirong, they belong to a half-agricultural and half-pastoral people, and it is common to drink cheese and eat meat. The best way to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army is to continuously eliminate the Hu tribes in front, seize their food herds, and feed the enemy with food and war.

But it is not enough to destroy the Aries Department, in this war, Feng Zheng wants to make greater achievements!

Feng Zheng has more than Chinese New Year's Eve, that is, as a feudal official of more than 2,000 stones, which is very rare in the Qin Dynasty, and is also responsible for the defense of Shangjun, which shows the emperor's trust in Feng. The Feng family has also become the third largest family in the Qin Dynasty after the king and the Meng, and the military and politics are involved.

It was a good thing that the family was so prosperous, but in Feng Zai's heart, for more than ten years, he had been very aggrieved, always pressed by others, and his credit was not obvious, and his reputation was not good.

As the son of Feng Quji, Feng Zheng was selected into Xianyang Palace as a guard very early, but the brave and sharp Li Xin and Meng Tian, the generations of generals, the light of these two people completely overshadowed Feng Zheng. In those years as Lang Wei, he seemed to be inactive, and Qin Shi Huang's impression of him also stayed at "Feng Quji's son", and nothing else.

After being released as a school captain, Li Xin and Meng Tian, who were also generals of the younger generation, got the opportunity to take charge of their own affairs, and made meritorious contributions. Meng Tian also relied on the merits of his father and ancestors to rise step by step. Only Feng Zheng, he followed his uncle Feng Wuxuan as a general, although there were gains in every battle, but they were all small merits, not worth mentioning, after the Yan annihilation, Qin Shi Huang praised Li Xin in public in the main hall, and the rest of the people looked dull.

Feng's belief in "down-to-earth" finally had a proven day, the first time to attack Chu, the arrogant Li Xin and Meng Tian capsized, the emperor was disappointed in them, but it was Feng Zheng, relying on the slowly accumulated merits and qualifications, steadily and steadily, returned to the court, and re-entered the emperor's field of vision.

This time against the Xiongnu, Qin Shi Huang appointed the fourth general as the fourth county lieutenant, Feng Zai sighed that he finally stood on the same starting line with Li Xin and Meng Tian, but he was a little disdainful of Heifu, a "lucky one" from a humble background.

This is the pride of generations of generals, polite and rejected.

But since he took office, Feng Zheng has not been happy, and the county guard Qiang has relied on himself to be a general, and he often has a military affair, and he has somewhat encroached on the authority of the county lieutenant. Feng Zai dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, and in the end, the two sides tacitly agreed to divide the military affairs of Shangjun into two, and he basically managed the military affairs of the southern Gaonu region, and gathered soldiers for pre-war training.

Li Xin and Meng Tian's performance surpassed him, and Feng Zheng admired the skills of the two of them very much, and attributed this to the convenience of Longxi and Yunzhong. But what made Feng Zao not very happy was that he was also pressed by Heifu, a low-born "Southern Barbarian Frontier Man".

The strategy of Xituo was initiated by Heifu, the woolen sweater was proposed by him, the Jingbian Temple was drummed up by him, and Feng Zao and others were ordered by Qin Shihuang to carry it out, which is a bit of a wisdom to pick up people's teeth.

Not only did he take the lead in terms of words, Heifu was also a capable and practical person, just when Feng Zao was complacent in recruiting Lin Hu, Beidi County had already sent a fine work to touch the Huns, and by the way, he separated the Huns Shan Yu and his son. Henan was in chaos, so that the Qin army was able to take Huamachi and Linhu lightly last year, which was completely the credit of Beidi County!

Now, the four counties are divided into four ways to send troops, if anyone is in vain, or even lost and defeated, it will inevitably be embarrassing, Feng Zai knows that if he condescends to the Qiang again, he will not be able to mix up any dazzling credit, so he put forward a bold idea:

Shangjun out of the division, borrowing Dao Linhu, unexpectedly attack the Aries Department, seize its livestock savings for their own use, in this way, Henan can be divided into two, block the communication between the north and south of the Xiongnu, cut off the back road of the Xiongnu people in Helan Mountain to retreat north, and after converging with the northwest of Longxi, you can also march northward to attack this war, the last military target of the Qin army: Hetao!

To Feng Zai's delight, his request was appreciated by Qin Shi Huang, and he finally got the opportunity to go out alone, and no longer be a Qiang fistula, or anyone's shadow!

He has now conquered the Aries, beheaded nearly a thousand, and captured tens of thousands of livestock, which is on par with the results of last year's battle in Northland County.

Next, it is necessary to take the lead in the military operation against Helan!

"When the Huns' Helan army heard of the defeat of Baiyang, they also knew that Shangjun and Beidi were marching towards Helan, lest they be surrounded, and they would lead their troops to flee far away."

There are two roads from the Helan grassland to the Hetao, which are located at the southern foot of Helan Mountain and by the river, and it is Li Xin's task to occupy the southern road before the Huns escape, and Feng Zheng can only control the river.

It can be said that in order to complete the urn of the Helan Huns, the Shangjun soldiers are equivalent to the urn cover.

If it is not covered in time, this turtle will crawl out of the pot......

So, when he eliminated the Aries Department and made his subordinates rest, Feng Zai made a decision:

"Three thousand chariots ride first, and the foot soldiers will slowly hit the road after a day's rest!"

Feng Zai had high hopes for them, but in the end, they were disappointed.

Three days later, in the lower reaches of the Dutu River, Feng Zheng's vanguard encountered more than 100 chariots and horsemen who fled back in embarrassment, all of them were tired and frightened, saying that when they crossed the river, they were suddenly attacked by tens of thousands of Hun cavalry, and six or seven of them died, and the rest of them were routed in all directions......

"Tens of thousands of Hun cavalry!"

Feng Zai felt bad for a while, the Xiongnu men in the entire Helan region were added together, and there was no such number! Where did these Huns come from?

The puzzle was soon revealed, and when the Qin army was cautiously camping on the spot at Baiyang Mountain, there were 50,000 or 60,000 Huns wearing felt hats and holding curved bows, roaring and surrounding them!

The eagle archer Ulan, who was blind in one eye, and the eagle banner representing Shan Yu's royal court stood deep three miles outside the Qin army's gate!

Staring at the Huns galloping and challenging, Feng Zheng's face gradually turned pale.

……

"I have to go back immediately and inform General Wei of this immediately!"

At the cost of more than a dozen people's lives, at the behest of Heifu, Gan Chong, the son of a good family who went to deliver a message to Feng Zheng, was able to get the scouts close to within ten miles and see what was happening there.

On the grassland at the end of summer, the morning mist is like a cloud that blows low across the ground, torn into thin wisps, slowly gliding over the golden Dusitu River, and under the Baiyang Mountain, thousands of white felt bags are spread over this verdant grassland, like mushrooms that grow on the green mushrooms after a drizzle......

The scouts, who had fled after nine deaths, said that there were ten Huns living in each felt bag, numbering as many as 10,000 people, and their horses almost gnawed away the grass by the river, and rode on them to gallop like thunder at the end of the earth, and to shoot arrows with bows and bows, and to rain extremely sharp.

Heifu and Li Xin have been looking for the Huns in the Helan Mountain grassland for a long time, and they are all here!

They had surrounded Feng Zao's foot soldiers on Baiyang Mountain, which was just a hill no more than a hundred feet high, and the Huns continued to launch attacks and projectiles, relying on the sparse forests, Feng Zao's foot soldiers were struggling to resist the siege of the Huns.

More than ten miles away, Gan Chong seemed to be able to feel the rumbling sound of tens of thousands of Huns galloping lightly......

There was also the sound of whining horns, but they came from not far away, and although they were hidden in the cols of the hills, they were still spotted by a patrol of Hun horsemen.

Gan Chong knew that soon, the Hun scouts who heard the horn in all directions would rush to kill them when they heard the news.

"Someone has to go back immediately!"

He repeated this sentence, and immediately picked ten of his best subordinates on horseback and asked them to gallop south in spite of everything!

After the ten men quickly left south, Gan Chong himself stayed, and he looked at the remaining dozens of them, their eyes either dark or fearful, and everyone knew that he was in deep danger.

Gan Chong's eyes are resolute and resolute, he is one of the three most outstanding good families, but he is not as popular as Qiang Hua and Fu Zhi.

He never found an opportunity to shine.

Until now, in front of them, more than 10,000 Qin army robes have fallen into a trap.

He drew his sword and said hurriedly: "We are all the sons of the good family of the northern land chosen by the county captain, and the general Wei personally wrote the oath for it, do you still remember?" ”

"Open up the border of Jingbian, live and die."

Someone gently turned his back, and the county lieutenant treated him differently, this is something that the Liangjia army that has expanded to 1,000 people is proud of, and it is also the fate of the Qin family who migrated to the north, no matter where their former hometown is, Yongdi or Xianyang, they have taken deep roots in Biansai.

"Faithful, fearless and unretreating!" The rest of the people said the second half of the sentence aloud, which is also the value of the good family of generations of military landlords! If they are afraid of Hu Rong, they will not come to the frontier, they will not join the army, and if they retreat, Hu Ma will run to the edge of his hometown to graze!

"Yes, there is no fear and no retreat!"

Gan Chong said: "Everyone get on the horse!" Divide into several teams and go west and east. This time he is not killing the enemy and beheading, as long as he does everything to attract the Huns. No matter what method is used, it must be delayed long enough, so that at least one of the ten messengers gallops back to Helan Mountain, and tells the county lieutenant what happened here! ”

With that, he took the lead in turning over his horse and raising the sword in his hand.

"Second and third sons, this trip is not life and death, if we are unfortunate enough to trample on Hu Qi, then the horse leather shroud, the loyal cemetery to meet!"