After crossing the bow and Lushui to the south, after hundreds of miles of desert and wilderness.

The rich grassland of the south of the Makunan has been exposed in front of you.

Tu Gu shot the horse, took a deep breath, and felt the climate that was different from the foot of the Golden Mountain.

The warm, humid monsoon is blowing across the Makunan grasslands.

There was even a snowfall last night, and traces of snow could be seen everywhere on the grassland.

However, the young grass has grown.

He jumped off his horse and stomped heavily on the ground.

The grass underfoot, although slightly dry, is very soft.

It's not like the grassland in the north of the Makuku, when you step on it, it's as hard as a stone.

"These Wuheng slaves!" Tu Gu shot a hideous face: "How can they deserve to live in such a rich grassland?" ”

He turned to his men, the soldiers with braided hair, tattered sheepskin jackets, and bronze or stone weapons: "Warriors of Hujie! Those Wuheng slaves, as lowly as the Ding Ling people, a tribe more cowardly than the worms, but they have the best pastures in the world! ”

"They get fresh cheese and sweet river water every day!"

"You can even bask in the sun peacefully!"

"Look at the sun!" Tu Gu looked at the empty spring day: "He is so warm!" ”

Today, the temperature in the northwestern part of the Makunan is about 13 degrees Celsius during the day, and the highest temperature is about 20 degrees Celsius.

But......

Compared with the old nest of the Hujie people in Jinshan, this is simply a resort!

Because, at the foot of Jinshan now, it is still the season when the north wind is howling and the cold wind is biting.

In the dictionary of the Hujieren, there has never been the concept of summer.

Only cold and colder.

This made all the Hujie cavalry feel a strong hatred from the bottom of their hearts.

In particular, they knew that it was the Wuheng people who occupied this grassland.

Who are the Wuheng people?

Slave!

The lowly race of Mao Dun Da Dan Yu and Lao Shang Da Dan Yu conquered!

The lowest level of the chain of contempt on the steppe.

It is the same level as Ding Lingren, Buyeo people and Xianbei people.

And now, these lowly slaves have taken possession of land that the Hujie people could not even dream of.

Jealousy and anger immediately accumulated in everyone's heart.

"King! Great King! A nobleman carrying his meteor hammer walked up to Tu Gushu and bowed his knees: "Please lead us to kill all these lowly slaves!" ”

"I can't wait to collect the heads of a few Wuheng nobles into my vault, so that they can watch day and night how I whip their children and humiliate their wives and concubines!"

The others shouted, "O great king of Hujie, the most devout devotees of the white and black gods, please guide us in the path of conquest!" ”

As a tribe living at the foot of the barren and cold Golden Mountain.

The income of the Hujie people from grazing is extremely rare.

It can even be said that if it were purely on animal husbandry, they would all starve to death!

It is by relying on constant foreign raids and killings that they can maintain their existence.

These white-skinned, thick-haired Hujieren were a nation that thrived on conquest and slaughter a hundred years ago.

They were once important allies of the Yue Empire and one of the most feared enemies of the Huns.

Even the Xiongnu's Mao Dun Shan Yu also suffered under them.

The battle of Qilian Mountain shocked the grassland.

However, the 3,000 Hujie cavalry, with their fearless and decisive charge and close hand-to-hand combat, scattered more than 8,000 Xiongnu Shan Yu elite.

Forcing Mao Dunshan to retreat and accumulate strength.

After fifteen years, the old man succeeded in revenge, died in a battle, and settled in the Western Regions.

Therefore, in that year, the old man of the Huns, Da Danyu, wrote this great achievement on the letter to Han Taizong, proudly showing off: with the blessing of heaven, the officials are good, and the horses are strong, so as to destroy the Yueshi ...... Dinghujie, Wusun, Loulan and its 26 countries, and for the Xiongnu.

Listed Hujie as an enemy on an equal footing with Wusun and Loulan.

and not 'and the twenty-six nations next to it', which don't even have names.

In other words, at that time, Hujie was already a powerful force.

is a character with a name and a surname, a role and lines, not a trick that doesn't even have chicken legs.

Therefore, after the Xiongnu conquered Hujie, they also tried their best to guard against and suppress it.

The fault was not the Han-Hungarian struggle for hegemony, and the Xiongnu reached a life-and-death juncture.

The Huns would never have released this beast.

Because, they are a bunch of people who can only destroy, not build.

Pure beasts and killing machines.

Recalling the great achievements of his ancestors, Tu Gu raised his horse whip and ordered in high spirits: "Warriors of Hujie, the people of the white god and the black god!" Go conquer! ”

"Kill all the men you see!"

"Take their women, their livestock, their children, all captive!"

"U~~~~ pull ~~~~~~!" Call out the cavalry and respond with their most traditional battle cry.

This is the sound of the trumpet at the foot of the Golden Mountain, which is commonly used in the battle against the Cypriots.

Like a wolf howling, like a tiger roaring.

A dozen or so shamans who accompanied the army took up their magic weapons, utensils made of bones and skins taken from the leaders of the enemies defeated by the Hujie, and cast spells on the Hujie cavalry.

"The Black God will bless you!" A shaman, using the feathers of a wild goose, spilled an unknown liquid from a ritual vessel, the composition of which was so complex that if analyzed with a scientific instrument that it might reveal the blood of cows and sheep, human urine, jing, women's menstrual blood, and many other animal organs.

This is very similar to the beliefs of the Hujie.

There are not only the shamanic teachings of the Xiongnu, but also the foreign religions of the West, and even some elements of Futu that spread from distant Bactria.

But these Hujie cavalry are all crazy.

I was excited like I had taken a drug.

"The Black God is with me!" One of the Hujie cavalrymen, after being sprinkled with liquid, shouted excitedly.

Immediately, the calm of the steppe was shattered.

The sound of horses' hooves, rumbling.

Purgatory descended on the edge of the grassland on the border with the Hanhai.

……………………………………

March 17 in the spring of the second year of Yanhe.

Shiozawa.

Sima Xuan climbed the high ground on the side of this salt and looked out in all directions.

It was the first time he had seen such a strange geography.

The wind blows on all sides, and the surface of the earth is densely covered with countless lakes of all sizes.

However, these lakes are saltwater lakes.

On the beach and the Gobi, crystalline coarse salt grains can be seen everywhere.

"What a place!" Sima Xuan stroked his beard: "If you build a city here, it will be enough to control the salt supply of the entire Munan!" ”

This is indeed a fact.

The main supply of salt in the Makunan area, except for imports from Han, was obtained from this salt sawa.

As the largest salt producer in Makunan, Shiozawa is able to supply millions of catties of cheap crystalline salt to various ministries every year.

The Hulu tribe prospered by monopolizing the salt production of Shiozawa.

Therefore, they are also here in peacetime, and they have deployed troops to prevent others from stealing salt.

However, for some reason, when Sima Xuan led his troops to detour from the northwest of Yanze, he did not find any defenders.

This allowed his cavalry to occupy this strategic point without bloodshed.

Geographically, this Yanze is located about 300 miles north of Luze and about 600 miles away from Gonglushui.

Holding this place can not only block the route of the Huxuan tribe to flee north.

It is also possible to launch a surprise attack from its vulnerable rear.

"Immediately send scouts to reconnoiter the nearby Baili!" Sima Xuan ordered: "The others are repairing on the spot, maintaining the horses and weapons, and ready for battle at any time!" ”

"No!" All the generals received orders one after another, and each went down to arrange.

In the past six days, the 2,000 light cavalry of the Captain of Wuheng had marched more than 1,000 miles in a row and returned from Nanchi to this place.

Along the way, I changed horses four times.

Each time it took most of the day, mainly to re-nail the horseshoe.

Fortunately, the soldiers are very skilled in this work.

So, not much time was wasted.

Taking advantage of this time of repair, Sima Xuan also personally led the team to go deep into the troops, visit the soldiers, and boost morale.

"You must stay in shape and fight for a fight!" Every time Sima Xuan arrived at a Shiwu, he would say to the soldiers: "That is called luxury, but there are hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses!" ”

"Before coming, the angel had promised that he would take out part of the wealth from the capture and reward the meritorious soldiers!"

This is also the practice and tradition of the Han army at present.

There is no way, the system of the famous field house of the military merit lord has collapsed.

The only means that can boost morale and raise morale is this purely material incentive.

However, it does work.

The soldiers listened and cheered.

The number of hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and livestock is full of heads.

Two hours later, the scouts sent out by Sima Xuan returned one after another.

They brought back a piece of information that made Sima Xuan stunned.

The scouts searched for dozens of miles north and south from Shiozawa.

They did not find any herders.

This is just so abnormal!

"Qin Sima!" Sima Xuan immediately called Sima Qinwu, the left commander of the Commander of Wuheng, and assigned him a task: "Please immediately lead people to search in the direction of Lu Ze, and be sure to find out the information!" ”

At this moment, Sima Xuan had to suspect that the information of the Han army's dispatch was learned by the Hulu people.

If this is the case, there are many options for luxury callers.

Among them, the most terrifying is the flight north!

Especially considering the fact that the distance between Lu Ze and Gong Lu Shui is no more than eight hundred miles in a straight line.

In other words, if the Hulu people decided to flee north, at this moment, they were probably already heading towards Gonglushui.

If you can't stop them in time......

Sima Xuan knew that he might really have to go to see the Son of Heaven!

After sending Qin Wu away, Sima Xuan immediately issued an order to prepare for battle.

Immediately, the cavalry of Captain Huwuheng, who had only been repaired for two hours and had not even had time to make up for his sleep, heard the sound of a horn representing the preparation for battle.

At this time, two days have passed since the Hujie people crossed the bow and Lu Shui.

These savage and terrifying cavalry wantonly spread terror and panic throughout the pastures of the Hulu Department.