Chapter 9 Ascending Mount Fortress in Early Winter

In the early winter, the Luliang Mountains are bleak, and when you stand on the Luliang Mountain, you can only see the withered yellow and fallen trees under your feet and countless black and white mountain ranges overlapping and continuous...... The white is not snowflakes, but frost flowers, precipitation in the northern section of the Luliang Mountains has always been scarce, but the low temperature and the presence of a large number of plants are enough to produce a wide range of frost flower scenery; The black is not the mountain, but a large number of dead branches and leaves, this is not the era of serious soil erosion in later generations, at this time Luliang Mountain still has enough vegetation to cover the mountain.

Of course, frost flowers are frost flowers after all, and as the sun rises in the east, the entire eastern side of the Luliang Mountains begins to gradually change color, and finally turns into a heavy black and yellow color at noon.

"Why aren't you done yet?" Hou Danyu, who was stationed on the mountain, finally withdrew his gaze from the mountain, but frowned at the bottom of the mountain.

"Da Danyu, the valley mouth below is particularly narrow." Subu Juji next to him hurriedly explained. "But the main thing is that we have too many soldiers this time......

"Right!" The Beard Bone Du Hou Shan came back to his senses in an instant. "Fifty or sixty thousand soldiers...... It should be the biggest wave of soldiers and horses after we crossed the river, if it weren't for the power and persecution of General Baima, we might not have gathered together. ”

When Su Bu Juci heard this, he couldn't help but look embarrassed: "Da Danyu, even if there are fifty or sixty thousand soldiers, I still feel that I shouldn't come this time." You don't know, before you asked me to go to Shanwu City, gave me five or six thousand soldiers and horses, and one photo was scattered by the White Horse General, more than 1,000 died, more than 1,000 were captured, and less than 2,000 escaped...... The soldiers and horses on the opposite side are really strong, the officers have iron armor, the soldiers have leather armor, each has a ring knife, the horses are good, and the people are also strong, unlike us who eat wild vegetables all day long...... If this is not good, let the white horse general over there in Pingcheng know, and lead the troops to catch up, what should we do? ”

"You're right." The Marquis of the Bone Bone listened quietly to what his distant cousin said, and then nodded in response. "Don't look at our 50,000 or 60,000 families and 20,000, I don't think I can win when we fight, and there are so many mountains here, even if I rob Ma Yi and leave, maybe I will be caught by the tail and thousands of people will die...... But in the second place, you said it yourself, if you really didn't retreat to Hexi like this, wouldn't you still have to kill a thousand people in winter? What's not worth it to exchange a few thousand extra lives for a city's goods? Besides, we are not stupid, then General Baima is going to Luoyang to find trouble with Dong Xiangguo, at most he will chase him to the river, will he really cross the river with us to the place where sheep don't in Hexi? ”

Subu Juji had nothing to say.

In fact, although Xu Bu Juci couldn't eat a bowl of dumplings for decades when he was poor, after all, he was a noble Xiongnu race that lasted for hundreds of years, and he was also the head of the Xiongnu tribe who led thousands of 'Ding Zhuang', and he still understood some things.

For example, he knew very well that this time he came to Mayi was not at all a big Shan Yu who did not want to come, because this kind of large-scale military operation was not at all something that this 'supported' Shan Yu could arbitrarily decide.

For hundreds of years, they have lived in the Han realm, protected and canonized by the Han family, and the 'royal power' of the Huns actually comes from three places, one is the strong soldiers and horses, one is the blood inheritance, and the other is the canonization of the Han family...... Dare to ask what is the Marquis of the Beard Bone? It's just barely a soldier, and it's just reluctantly, and the rest of the big tribes don't obey him at all!

And now, the leaders below want to come over and grab a handful before leaving, so what can this big single Yu do?

"Second place!" Su Bu Juci stopped talking, but Su Bu Gu Duhou, Shan Yu, couldn't help but speak. "Actually, at the end of the day, we're too poor...... I didn't know that doing so would anger General Whitehorse? Why don't you know that our fifty or sixty thousand people are all like goods? But since Qiangqu Shan Yu was killed by them, and I was pushed by them to rebel, for such a long time, nothing has been achieved at all, and I am helpless! ”

Subu Juji couldn't help but look at the excited centaurs at the foot of the mountain and sighed.

"The four counties of Hetao in the north are good, with abundant water and grass, but they are sparsely populated, and there is not much oil and water at all, and if they want to use it for grazing, they will have to wait for the spring of next year, and they have to compete with the Xianbei people again." The Marquis of the Bones continued to preach as if he were talking to himself. "There are still people who said that Taiyuan is rich before, but Taiyuan is rich and I don't know? But there are so many checkpoints over there, and there are many more Han people than us, how can we get in? It's this Yanmen, don't look at us going back and forth for more than half a year, but their real big city, that is, those cities east of Wucheng, and Pingcheng, which one of them did we touch in? Across such a mountain, after a lot of hard work to the bottom of the city, people have long held on to the city, and when we leave, we have to catch up and take a bite...... This time it's really like what Old Man Zhang said, don't miss the opportunity and never come again! ”

Subu Juji was even more speechless.

"Second place!" The Marquis of the Bones of the Bones finally looked at his distant cousin and said earnestly. "Regardless of the good, let's gamble again, regardless of success or failure, we will run in two days at most when we touch the city of Mayi...... When we run to Hexi, we will cross the river and go to Hetao to graze well in the second year, and we will no longer fight with the Han people! Woe to the province! ”

Subu nodded repeatedly.

"That's good, aren't you worried about General White Horse going south? You can do the flanking cover. "Seeing this, the Marquis of the Mustu Bone hurriedly struck while the iron was hot." I'll give you another 4,000 men, and I'll get 5,000 or 6,000 men...... When we arrive at Wucheng, we will go to the south to fight with Old Man Zhang, and then you will lead the troops around to the north of Wucheng and keep an eye on the reinforcements placed in Pingcheng in the north...... Two days are counted, I really saw someone coming, and let people report while fleeing, if they didn't come, you should also hurry back, and we will meet on the edge of the Yellow River behind us. ”

Subjuci nodded helplessly, and then reined in his horse and prepared to leave the plateau. However, after walking a few steps, he turned back on the horse and stared at Da Shan Yu.

"Don't worry!" The Beard Bone Marquis sighed. "I told those leaders, I really grabbed something, and I will divide you twice!"

Su Bu Juji nodded again, and then walked away. By the evening, the 50,000 or 60,000 horses gathered by the Huns had all left the narrow valley.

In other words, this valley mouth was not famous at all in this era, and even the Great Wall was not built because there was no border pressure. But after a thousand years in another time and space, because of the rise of the Western Xia and the Liao Kingdom, there is a checkpoint, called the Yanmen Pass and Ningwu Pass, which are difficult to face with Mayi, and called the three passes in the north of Jin, and gave birth to a large number of tragic heroic stories that can be sung and cried.

After crossing the side pass where there is no brick and stone and no half of the story, the Hun army traveled for two more days, but it hit a side wall head-on, and this side wall that had been abandoned for a hundred years at this time actually has a small number of high platforms still in use, seeing tens of thousands of Huns flocking to the station, the garrison hurriedly lit the beacon fire, and then turned around early and hit the horse and went to Wuzhou (later Shuozhou Pinglu) behind him...... In fact, these people were not serious soldiers, but the guards specially sent by the local Wuzhou County people in Yanmen who bore the brunt of the chaos in Bingzhou to prevent these Huns from coming to rob.

The Hun army did not care at all about the guards fleeing in the direction of Wuzhou, they climbed the mountains densely, led the horses over the already abandoned Great Wall within a range of dozens of miles, and then got on their horses again and galloped, straight to Wuzhou, which was more than ten miles away in front of them.

In the city of Wuzhou, the county commander and several large family patriarchs had already left the city and gone to Pingcheng, but the officials left behind in the county, the big households, and the strong men climbed to the top of the city in horror after closing the city gate, but they couldn't help but be dumbfounded...... It turned out that on the slope of the west of Wuzhou City, which had become gentle, countless Huns and horses dressed in tatters swarmed down from the mountain, but they actually ignored Wuzhou, which was in front of them but the city gate was closed, but it was divided into two under the city, and thousands of horses went north to the Pingcheng crossing, while most of the rest were continuous, galloping the winter fields, and went straight to the direction of Mayi (later Shuozhou City) on the southeast side of Wuzhou.

And half a day later, half of the Huns were left near the left side of Wuzhou City!

"What does that mean?" At the head of the city, Wuzhou County was puzzled. "The beacon fire has been lit, whether it is Mayi or the rest of the cities, we should have taken precautions...... Moreover, General Wei led tens of thousands of troops in Pingcheng...... What did this group of Huns think? ”

At the head of the city under the sunset, none of the many Wuzhou people could answer the questions of their own county.

"Don't skimp on horsepower!" In the twilight, the Marquis of the Beard Bone who was standing on the horse had already changed his hideous face. "It's too late to go, and if the Zhang clan changes their minds, it's hard to do! Wuzhou to Mayi is only fifty or sixty miles, we have already traveled more than twenty miles, and then we will go more than twenty miles to the first ten miles of the city and then rest! When tomorrow dawns, tens of thousands of people in the whole army will be in front of the city, those Zhang clan people must be too scared, and they will be more sure of taking the city! ”

The Hun nobles holding torches around them agreed with a bang, and then turned around and walked southeast, as if they were extremely excited.

"Where's Old Man Zhang?!" Seeing that the leaders of the various tribes dispersed, the Marquis of the Beard Bone shouted again and again. "Didn't you say we'd see you here, didn't you say you found it? Why didn't you see anyone? ”

"What's the hurry?" In the twilight, a slightly familiar voice suddenly sounded from behind him. "I'll be there when you give the order......"

"Patriarch Zhang!" The Marquis of the Beard Bone immediately breathed a sigh of relief, but his tone was still stern. "Let me ask you, you should also know the beacon fire over there in Wuzhou, why don't you help remove it?"

"Big Order." Zhang Ze came to the torch, facing each other. "If I withdraw the beacon fire, will Wuzhou be robbed by you? If you robbed Wuzhou, would you still risk coming to Mayi to pick up our Zhang family? And besides, if the beacon fire is not lit, how can the herdsmen and people outside the city be allowed to bring grain, cattle and sheep into the city? The richness of Mayi is not comparable to Wuzhou. ”

The Marquis of Xubu Gudu reacted, and he also laughed for a while: "It's what I thought, Patriarch Zhang don't be angry, tomorrow will depend on you and your people." ”

"Let's not talk about it...... Big order in. Zhang Ze's face was serious, but he took another step forward. Let's say in advance, it's okay to grab things, but we must do less killing, otherwise, don't say that if we Zhang can't come back, you will also provoke General Wei. ”

"Don't worry, I'll do my best." The Marquis of the Beard Bone looked earnest. "If you can not kill iniquity, you will not commit evil...... In fact, now that the Hetao is vacant, General Baima only wants the east of the barren dry water in the clouds, and the water and grass in Wuyuan, Shuofang and other counties in the west are fertile, and we are preparing to move to the past next year, Lao Zhang, if you can say that the people in the city can go with us, it will be better! ”

Zhang Ze twisted thoughtfully.

And the Marquis of Subu Bone did not persecute him, but kindly invited the other party to get on the horse, and thought about the matter while traveling with him...... In fact, whether it is to coerce these hukou people, or to kill them, or to escape calmly with the hostages of these people's tastes, and really enter the city, then the Huns have the final say. However, I have to borrow this Zhang Ze to open the city early tomorrow morning, so I can only make a good life before that.

Not to mention the trivial matters between the Marquis of Xubu Gudu and Zhang Ze, for most of the Huns, a few days of marching, and then this night was extremely hard, they came to the hinterland of Yanmen County more than ten miles outside the city of Mayi. According to the plan, early the next morning, they would rush to the outside of Mayi City to form a demonstration, to deter the Zhang clan in the city with the posture of tens of thousands of troops, and to ensure that the Zhang clan did not dare to hesitate.

According to the Han soldiers, this is called a soldier who is in full swing and surrenders without a fight.

Of course, that means that, but the Huns' military appearance, I'm afraid that they can only be intimidated by numbers.

But no matter what, the Huns at this time should have been extremely tired, but for some reason, at the crossings, on the hillside, in the fields, beside the stream, and in the plateau, whether it was the Xiongnu nobles or the low-level herdsmen of the Xiongnu, most of them did not mean to sleep, but talked and laughed around a few fires, from the wealth of the Ma Yi to the wealth of the Han people, and all the way to the prosperity of the Xiongnu in the past, as if they were extremely excited.

In this case, there are still some big nobles in the Marquis of Subu Gudu, who actually have the intention to stop it.

After all, even if the city goes well tomorrow, there will be a street battle to be fought.

And besides, no matter how rich Mayi City is, how can its wealth be enough for fifty or sixty thousand people? It's just that the leaders and nobles are divided, how can it be the turn of these low-level herdsmen? In fact, these herdsmen not only did not share the profits, according to the previous plan of the Xiongnu nobles, if something really went wrong on the side of Mayi, the general Wei of Pingcheng acted quickly, and maybe a part of the old and weak herdsmen would be assigned to act as bait to cover most of the escape!

It's just that these nobles just used the wealth of Ma Yi to encourage these people to work hard a few days ago, so how could they change their minds before the war? So, I can only pretend not to hear it.

In this way, early in the morning of the second day, without the whipping of the nobles, the Huns, who had just fallen asleep and were still extremely tired after being excited for most of the night, took the initiative to get up...... It's not that they have high consciousness, but it's that the Yanmen Mountains in early winter are too cold!

Last night, there was no intention of chopping wood and camping, but today it was even more panicked, most of the low-level herdsmen just ate some dried wild vegetables and steamed grains that have been dried and hard to the point of being dry and hard to satisfy their hunger, and the slightly richer may have some dairy products, as for the few people who took out extremely valuable dried meat, they ushered in the sympathetic eyes of the people around them...... For an ordinary herdsman who is not an aristocratic person, the appearance of meat on his hands can only mean one thing, and the most precious livestock in his family has actually died!

However, even among the aristocracy, there are a little more jerky and dairy products, but they are still rough and difficult to swallow.

The Marquis of Xubu Bone personally handed Zhang Ze a piece of swarthy jerky, and asked someone to bring a pot of water taken from the stream, but the latter couldn't eat it.

And Da Dan sighed, but he didn't pursue it, but chewed it his own.

In other words, the world is in turmoil, the economic order everywhere collapses with the collapse of the political order, and the destruction of production by war is even more comprehensive, which makes life difficult everywhere.

However, even if it is not good, the Han people still have a well-developed handicraft and plantation industry, which can form an internal circulation economic system in a city or a large estate. But the Huns, whose economy collapsed, lost all their trading systems, and even suffered a famine, were impoverished in all directions...... Abject!

Why did the Marquis of Subu Bone rebel before? To put it bluntly, like the Baibo bandits in the south of the same county (Xihe County), they can't survive anymore! Liangzhou in the west was fighting, and then the imperial court could not support, and then a famine, the leader of the Baibo bandits, Guo Tai, had done the Yellow Turban Army, had the experience of rebellion, first followed the incident in the Baibo Valley, and then went south to the rich Hedong to find food, and then the imperial court asked them to send troops to the south to rescue, everyone was afraid that the women and children in the tribe would starve to death after going south, so they gritted their teeth and killed Shan Yu, and then reversed.

Before, the Marquis of Xubu Gudu had always emphasized that he would go to Hetao at the beginning of spring, but in fact, he was not fooling other people's words, he really wanted to go to the place that was now abandoned by the Han people to recuperate...... Only if you can't control your subordinates, this is just hypocrisy.

After this trip, you will die in the river suit! But if you break the city today, then you must eat noodles first!

After thinking about it for a long time, the Marquis of the Mustu Bone was struggling to gnaw on the dried meat, but he also secretly made up his mind...... You must know that in the first two years of the Han Dynasty, there was no chaos, and when the lake salt in the tribe was selling well, he was also the one who ate noodles at once!

Put some mushrooms in the iron pot, boil water, noodles, and sprinkle some lake salt produced by your own tribe after scooping it up, and then put some vinegar, which is more comfortable than being a fairy!

But why, how did it end up like this? Haven't you lived a good life for hundreds of years?

If it weren't for someone in front of him, the Marquis of Subu Bone would almost cry.

"Big Order." Zhang Ze watched the other party gnaw on the jerky, but suddenly spoke. "You've got to promise me one more thing."

"Lao Zhang, you say." While chewing hard, the Marquis of the Bones quickly came back to his senses and perfunctory. "What you said today, I will definitely agree."

"This time I went to Mayi, although the county commander and several other clan leaders went to Pingcheng, but in addition to our Zhang family, there are still some officials left behind in the city...... If it doesn't work out, you can't kill me! ”

"If it doesn't work, why kill you? It didn't work. ”

"If it really doesn't work, General Wei will send troops to chase after me, and you can't kill me easily...... My brother Zhang Liao is an official in Luoyang, if you really kill me, you Huns will only die more in the future! ”

"Good!" The Marquis of the Bones threw down the jerky and drank a few sips of water, but he got up and said. "Don't worry, I understand this...... If you don't eat it, let's go to the city of Mayi! ”

Zhang Ze exhaled a long breath, but his hands and feet trembled a little, and it took a long time to make up.

The Marquis of Subu Gudu and the Xiongnu nobles gathered around him didn't care...... Because, everyone should be nervous at this time.

In the early morning sun, the Huns began to gather intensively despite exhaustion, hunger, and cold, and gradually formed a large army formation, and then continued to march southeast along the road crossings and mountain slopes under the leadership of their respective leaders.

After turning several gentle slopes, they came to the Yanmen hinterland basin where Mayi was located, but the vision of the Huns was suddenly bright! I saw it in the winter morning sun, located in? The city of Mayi on the plain of the water's most sparkling sparkles, and this glittering city was miles in front of him.

"No wonder Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty wanted to plot here, surrounded by mountains in the west, north and south, once he came to the city, wouldn't he catch turtles in the urn?" The Beard Bone Marquis stood on his horse, and sighed from afar.

"That's pretty much it." Zhang Ze, who was on the horse next to him, urged helplessly. "Big order in ...... is still the same sentence, the emperor of the Han family used hundreds of thousands of troops to ambush in these mountains, and today we Zhang want to plot again, but where are the soldiers and horses? ”

Hearing this, the Marquis of Xubu Gudu smiled bitterly, but pointed to the countless Hun soldiers and horses in front of him who spontaneously surged forward and shook his head again and again: "Actually, there is really an ambush behind this mountain, and I have nothing to do...... Where is the Xiongnu today the Xiongnu hundreds of years ago? Let's go! ”

In other words, this '100,000' Hun pseudo-Dan Yu actually had a dozen war horses under his crotch and went straight to Qianmayi City.

A few miles away, Gongsun Xun sat at the head of Mayi City, looking at the Huns who were swarming from the northern hillside but did not even have a few banners, and couldn't help but shake his head in disappointment. And it wasn't until several Hun cavalry running extremely fast came to the front of the city hundreds of paces, and was surprised by the dazzling armor of the city gatehouse, that General Wei, who was wearing treasure armor, a robe and a dark cloak, turned his head to look at Zhao Yun at his side, and ordered softly:

"Raise the flag!"

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"Set up the power of the horse, want to lure the Huns, waste money and labor, and you can't see it, and the situation is just in the face! After that, the plan of the deep society, the policy of restoring the ten thousand years, is to revitalize hundreds of thousands, so that Wei Qing and Huo go to the sick to drill the soldiers, before and after more than ten years, so the Fuxi River, the great curtain, the broken face, the royal court, the poor, chased to the north, sealed the wolf in Xu Mountain, Zen in Guyan, to the Hanhai, the king of the name, the nobles to hundreds; Since then, the Huns have been terrified. β€”The Dictionary. Yan. Pei Song's note

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