"One of their cavalry has moved out of Shazhou towards our northern flank." An Xiu pointed to the map and said, "Our cavalry has also cooperated and crossed the Great Wall into the steppe to the north, but now the strange thing is that the Turks have no shadow. ”

The people in the northwest are fierce, and there are not a few people who can ride horses. After all, although most of them are Han Chinese, they are already half-farmers and half-herdsmen, so Wuwei An's own family has a light cavalry of two or three hundred people, and Changsun Sheng also brought three hundred cavalry to Wuwei, and five hundred people together is the number of cavalry available to the Wuwei defenders now.

This number is naturally a drop in the bucket compared to the Turkic cavalry with tens of thousands at every turn, but the facts are indeed here, and Changsun Sheng and An Xiu did not come up with a decisive battle between the steppe and the Turks, at least they still have the Great Wall and Wuwei City to defend, in terms of attacking and defending the city, the Turks are really not the opponent of the Han people.

What's more, the real immediate battle, as well as the Tuyuhun people, their cavalry number is nearly 10,000, not an ornament.

"Intensify your investigation. The Zhou army has already gone north, this time Yang Jian and Yu Wenxian still have a very tacit understanding, taking what they need across the river and not interfering with each other," Changsun Sheng said in a deep voice, "The Turks will definitely not want to fight with the Zhou people, the Xianbei cavalry is not for fun, at that time, the soldiers and horses of the six towns can also suppress and fight the entire grassland in addition to defending the city, and it is unlikely that the Turks and the Xianbei cavalry will fight head-on, and these days will inevitably start to go west, and there will only be more and more scouts." ”

"······" An Xiu frowned.

Changsun Sheng glanced at him and said lightly: "The calm before the storm is the most terrifying. ”

An Xiu gasped: "Governor, are you worried that the Turks may directly launch a very large-scale attack?" ”

"It's not that there is no such possibility, the cavalry on the grassland and the people on the grassland are like erratic clouds and rain in the mountains, when and how to come is difficult to say, we can only be passive on the defensive, always vigilant." Changsun Sheng condensed and said, "Fortunately, the city defense of the Great Wall has been reinforced, but Wuwei City has to hurry, once the Great Wall is broken, we can only rely on Wuwei to defend, behind is Qilian Mountain, to the east to Jincheng There is still a long way to go, we have no way back." ”

After a pause, Changsun Sheng seemed to feel that the atmosphere was a little solidified, and his words changed and eased up: "I don't want to go to Qilian Mountain to eat ice and snow." ”

An Xiu and the rest of the generals and officials all smiled, but the laughter was somewhat helpless. And Changsun Sheng said in a deep voice: "The reinforcements have now arrived in Tianshui, and they will definitely reach Wuwei within ten days, and the number should be around 10,000 people, and they carry bed crossbows and thunderbolts. In addition, there will be 5,000 to 8,000 reinforcements arriving one after another, how to settle you must be implemented, list the regulations, and discuss with General Zhengxi. ”

"No!" An Xiu and the others did not dare to slack off.

"In addition, you may not know," Changsun Sheng then said, "Your Majesty has already arrived in Jiangling from Jiankang Mansion, firstly to prevent the Zhou people from going south, and secondly, to get closer to the northwest. I hope that you will work side by side, and I don't want to watch Your Majesty come to the northwest again, and then you and I will have no light on our faces! ”

"No!" This time the answer was louder, also because the news encouraged them.

For these generals and officials in the northwest, the south of the Yangtze River, where the imperial court is located, should still be red and rainy at this time, which is too far away, so that the imperial court's presence in the northwest is really not high.

Now that Li Xinchen has set off for the battle of the Northwest, this feeling that the world is moving because of the Northwest has moved them very much.

Their own interests and the interests of the imperial court have obviously been tightly tied.

Not alone and fighting.

For the people in Wuwei City, the battle was still unknown, and it was still in the stage of pre-battle preparations, but for Hou Mi, who crossed Lintao into the grassland with a group of cavalry to the northwest, the battle was about to begin.

Lintao is the end of the Great Wall of Qin, while the Great Wall of Han continues northwest from Lintao, crossing the desert of wind and sand, passing through Wuwei until Yumen Pass and Yangguan Pass. But in any case, Lintao is still an important pass on the defense line of the Great Wall, after Lintao along the Taoshui and then north is Jincheng County, which is the only city that the Han can now connect to Wuwei, and the Ledu County on the west side is actually under the control of Tuyuhun, and now the Han does not have the energy to advance westward to the plateau.

Originally, Hou Mi's task was to ensure that the road from Jincheng County to Wuwei County was unblocked, and this line was north of the Great River and relying on the Great Wall, so there was actually nothing to worry about, but after all, Lingwu County and other places in the northeast of Jincheng County were no longer in the hands of the Han Dynasty, and Hou Mi was also afraid that the Turks would directly attack Jincheng along the Great River from Wuyuan County (now Dingbian) and Lingwu County (now Lingwu South) to the southwest, and then outflank Hexi.

Changsun Sheng of Wuwei County believed that the Turks were likely to attack the Great Wall along the desert, while Hou Mi of Jincheng County believed that the Turks were more likely to take Jincheng and then encircle Hexi.

It is not unreasonable for him to judge this way, Jincheng is the only passage connecting Wuwei, once Jincheng is blocked here, then Wuwei is the turtle in the urn, and when the Turks go straight to the west of the river along both ends of the desert, whether it is the Han or Tuyuhun, I am afraid that they will not be able to do anything. The Turks relied on cavalry to gallop back and forth, and any situation could happen, so Hou Mi did not plan to stay in Jincheng County honestly, and the news here was too closed.

He decisively decided to lead five hundred cavalry himself, and in fact almost all the cavalry here in Jincheng County searched northeast along the Great River, all the way to Lingwu County. Lingwu County was the seat of Lingzhou in the administrative division of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the area under its jurisdiction was actually roughly equivalent to Ningxia in later generations. It can be said that only in sparsely populated places such as the Northwest can a state become a state in the true sense.

However, with the civil strife in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the northern state capitals and military towns have been deserted, coupled with the looting and erosion of the Turks year after year, in fact, this Lingwu County has also existed in name only, and the grassroots administrative system set up here in the Northern Zhou Dynasty has long been disintegrated.

Coming all the way from Jincheng County, Hou Mi was stunned that he didn't even see a person who could be called an "official", and originally thought that he would be able to find a few principals in Lingwu County, but it turned out that the city gate of Lingwu County had already been eroded by the wind and sand, and there were only twenty or thirty old and young people left in the city, and even half of the houses in the city had been razed and turned into a place for people in the city to farm.

The locals were indeed very surprised to see this group of Han cavalry that suddenly appeared, and excitedly brought out water and food to treat them.

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