Looking at the long yellow sand behind him, and then at the desolate and boundless Gobi in front of him, Zhao Yun thought to himself that it was no wonder that with the strength of the Han and Han empires, they still fought against the Huns for hundreds of years.

And at the beginning, I had to endure and pretend to be a grandson, and I was forced to use such means as harmony, relying on women to maintain peace, relying on tribute in exchange for stability, and even Han Gaozu was surrounded in Baideng.

It was not until later that Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing carefully prepared for several generations before they could start a strategic counteroffensive at the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, attacking and defending with the Huns.

Later, he took advantage of the opportunity of the Huns' internal strife, causing some of the Huns to move south to Han, and finally divided and disintegrated the Huns, and fought far away.

The Gobi Desert, the harsh climate and environment, I am afraid that the time and place of the Huns are favorable.

This is also the greatest reliance of the Huns in addition to their natural riding and archery skills, right?

The post road of the Central Army has been repaired to the subject country of Zhangye Juyan, and the route of the expedition is much easier than that of its predecessors.

Zhao Yun's expeditionary force only needed to start from Juyan and pass through a short stretch of desert to enter the vast Gobi Desert.

This place, more than ten years ago, Lu Bu came with Gao Shun's trap camp and the Dangkou Cavalry.

It was from here that they set out and rushed thousands of miles to Zhao Xincheng, and since then they have opened up the legendary experience of Lu Bu and the Bingzhou army.

Now that they have revisited their hometowns, Hou Cheng and Jin Rigang are full of emotion, the 800 warriors who followed Lu Bu for thousands of miles, those who are alive and still in the army, at least are also battalion commanders and regiment commanders.

Although Zhao Yun did not catch up with the battle of Zhao Xincheng, he is no stranger to this period of history, this is a classic case of Shaling Military Academy!

Zhao Yun glanced at the endless cavalry army behind him, and he was also very proud in his heart, not everyone has the opportunity to command so many armies to fight.

The cavalry troops, three cavalry divisions of the Central Army plus two servant armies, there were 80,000 cavalry, and each of them had three horses, and there were more than 200,000 war horses.

Although his chariot regiment did not come with him because it was not suitable for long journeys, the two regiments of heavy cavalry of the wolf-breaking cavalry did bring them.

In addition, there is also a mysterious unit approved by Lu Bu, which is not many in number, about 2,000 people, and is personally led by Pei Yuanshao, the commander of the engineer brigade.

In addition to the war horses they rode, they also had more than a thousand pack horses and many wooden boxes, which they were very careful about along the way.

The most hateful thing is that Pei Yuanshao, this kid, still keeps it secret from himself, the commander of the army, but who let the family have a handwritten letter from the lord!

The main bus waited clearly, only when he fought a decisive battle with the Xianbei army in the west, he could see the true face of this army, and when to fight, how to fight was decided by Pei Yuanshao, and he cooperated.

Along the way, I only saw some officers and soldiers of these mysterious units chattering, even talking with their hands, and often stretching out their thumbs and squinting one eye, and they didn't know what to aim at or what to do.

The guides sent by Hou Da and Hou Er had already joined the army, and they also brought a map prepared by the Ministry of Intelligence to secretly sneak into the grassland, and the information on the map was very detailed, so there was no need to worry about the problem of this route.

Especially in the vast Gobi, the search for water sources is particularly important, and the map is very clear.

Therefore, when the army set out from Jiuquan County, the most baggage it carried was a large amount of fresh water.

The guide told Zhao Yun that as long as he followed Zhuo Evil Mountain all the way to the west, the camp in Xianbei in the west was on a grassland surrounded by mountains.

The Begging and Bald tribes each occupied half of the grassland, because the strength of their individual tribes was far inferior to the Xianbei tribes in the central part of the country, such as Kebineng, Helian, and Budugen.

Therefore, the two tribes have been accustomed to joint action for decades, and they have a very harmonious relationship with each other, and there are a large number of marriage relationships, which has deepened the relationship between the two tribes.

In recent years, there has been continuous infighting in Xianbei in central China, and there has been a large-scale invasion by Han nomadic troops, and many small tribes and wandering herdsmen in Xianbei in central China have joined the two major tribes of Xianbei in the west.

In addition, the dominance of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the Western Regions gradually declined, but they grew stronger and stronger.

Especially after Lü Bu defeated the Northern Xiongnu, there was a power vacuum in this area, and the Western Xianbei took advantage of the situation to occupy the rich grassland of the West Sea.

Some small tribes of the Huns who had time to move away in the future were also conquered and assimilated by them, all of which made these two tribes grow little by little into a big tribe as powerful as the three major tribes of Xianbei in central China.

Their ambitions also swelled together, and the leader of the beggar tribe was called the beggar Yulin, and he was also a tribal leader with great talents, and the beggar tribe accelerated and grew in his hands.

From more than 5,000 tents when the first westward migration began, it has expanded to more than 60,000 tents today, with a population of nearly 400,000.

And the current leader of the bald department, called Bald Pigu, is a neighbor of the beggar and the two of them are sisters, so their relationship is still relatively close.

The bald Pi Gu knows that his talent is not as good as that of the begging neighbor, but he is very self-aware, and he only looks forward to the begging neighbor on weekdays.

The population of the Bald Department is also similar to that of the Begging Department, and for such a big move as the invasion of the Wusun Kingdom, it is natural that the two tribes will send troops together.

However, two years ago, the beggar tribe suffered a big loss in Jinmancheng, losing 6,000 people, which hurt their vitality very much.

Later, on the battlefield in the eastern part of Wusun Kingdom, he fought several times with the combined forces of the Han and Wusun, and they all won less and lost more.

Although the number of the Han army is small, several generals who lead the army are very powerful, and the method of using military is unusual.

In particular, Ma Chao, the heavenly wolf general, often led hundreds of Han army elite cavalry, and dared to go deep into the hinterland of Yueban and Xianbei in the west, burning, killing and plundering.

With these Han generals, the army of Wusun State, which had always been weak, became more and more capable of fighting under their command.

Thousands of Han troops plus the Wusun army were able to compete with the tens of thousands of troops of the two major tribes and the Yueban Kingdom.

The unfavorable war also led to the small countries in the Western Regions that had been conquered by the Western Xianbei before, and they also returned to the arms of the Western Regions Protectorate of the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, the leaders of the two tribes and the nobles are gathering together to discuss whether to increase the number of troops in the Western Regions.

Those who oppose the increase in troops believe that these small countries in the Western Regions have limited populations and lack of resources, and even the so-called large countries in the Western Regions such as Wusun are not as good as before, and there is not much oil and water to be fished.

Those who were in favor of increasing the army believed that it was precisely because of their weakness that it was convenient for the Xianbei people to rule, and that the Wusun Kingdom was still very rich in products, with mines, pastures, and agricultural technology and smelting technology that were unique in the Western Regions.

Because of the relationship between Princess Xie Wu, they learned a lot of advanced things from the Han people, and they have been passed down to this day.

And these things are the shortcomings of the Xianbei people, with agriculture, there is a stable grain to help, with advanced smelting technology, the equipment of the Xianbei people can also be on par with the Han people, and the combat effectiveness is doubled.

Therefore, it is necessary to take the Wusun Kingdom, so that you can learn from each other's strengths, and the Han people's Western Regions Protectorate is far away from the mainland after all, where is it so convenient for them to increase their troops?