Chapter 9: The Defeat of the Nine Plains

Yuwen was originally nomadic in the northeast of Youzhou, and in the south of the Jin realm, it was Beiping, Yanguo, and Changli in Pingzhou; In the south, Duan's has penetrated deep into the interior of Beiping and Changli; The Murong Department is in the east, pastoralism and cultivation in the west of Changli County.

However, before Murong Diao defeated Yuwen, half of the land, and pushed the border line to the north of Beiping County in one go, this time it went deep into Beiping, and won the land east of Lushui, which was even more powerful. Yuwen Xun Yan lost the alliance general Duan Moqi again, and it was inevitable that the people in the clan would be disheartened and demoralized...... He hurriedly sent his son to return to the west, to ask for help from the Tuoba Department, and to borrow soldiers and horses to attack Murong.

Tuoba Yulu asked the group, and Tuoba said: "When the ancestor was here, at the invitation of Wang Pengzu, he went east to attack the Duan clan, and the result was a loss of troops...... Our department is too far away from Liaodong, and the long-distance attack will consume cattle, sheep, and horses in vain, but it may not be able to win. What do the Chinese say? At the end of the strong crossbow, it can't wear through Ludi's plain. Besides, even if Murong is defeated, the land obtained should also be owned by Yuwen, how much benefit can my ministry get? Therefore, it is possible to subsidize Yuwen a little and make Murong antagonistic, but if our department wants to obtain land and population, we have to go south to ask for it.

"I heard that the Jin people went north to attack Jiexiu, and Shi Sheng was given women's clothes and face, but he didn't dare to fight, and he was cowardly to such a point - the Jin people called him Shi Le's 'son-in-law'. Isn't it the fat that God has rewarded us with the fat meat that God has given to me to guard Taiyuan by such an incompetent person? If I don't attack now, when Chang'an Pei Da Sima Fa's army goes north, I will gain nothing; If we attack it now, the land and population we will gain, and it will be inconvenient for Pei Dasima to ask me to wait for the general to go out, right? ”

At this time, Tuoba Yulu has been west and Wusun's hometown, its strength is incomprehensible, is complacent, listening to what Tuoba head said, can't help but be overjoyed: "If you can really conquer Taiyuan, I will give it to my brother, and I will ask the court for the title of Taiyuan county guard to my brother!" "Immediately gather troops and horses and go south to intrude.

His aunt Qi and below, all the adults persuaded him, saying that the south was hot in summer, and it was really not a good time to move troops, so it was better to wait until the autumn was high and the horses were fattening, and the grain in Jin would also be harvested to go south, even if he couldn't seize the city, at least he could grab a vote. However, Yu Lu insisted on going his own way, and said to everyone: "After the autumn, I am afraid that the slaves will send Shihu to guard Taiyuan, and they are very brave here, I am afraid it will be difficult to win." Only at this time when the 'son-in-law' is here, is it a good opportunity to go south, how can the opportunity be missed? ”

But he didn't expect that at this time, Shi Hu had already entered Jinyang City alone......

Shi Sheng was stigmatized as a "son-in-law", and wanted to commit suicide several times in shame, with his reputation and psychological condition, it was naturally difficult to defend the annexation of the state, so Shi Le had already sent Shi Hu to return to the annexation and replace Shi Sheng. However, Shi Hu asked Shi Le not to leak the matter, he pretended to be sick in Xiangguo, did not leave the mansion, but in fact, galloped to Jinyang quickly, and took over Shi Sheng to control the military and political power of the state.

According to Shi Hu's original intention, he wanted to paralyze the Jin people, so he could find an opportunity to cover Pingyang and turn defense into attack. But who thought that he had just taken up his post, and suddenly reported that Tuoba Xianbei was surging from the direction of Pingcheng......

So he ordered the cities to be well guarded, and not to go to war without orders. The Xianbei army first arrived in Yuanping, and attacked for three days without defeat-the key is not good at attacking the city-so after looting, they immediately bypassed the city, continued to go deeper, and successively suffered setbacks under Jinchang and Jiuyuan City. In this case, even Tuoba Tou, who advocated sending troops, was not calm, and suggested that Yulu besiege the city and send reinforcements - only by first eliminating the main force of Qian Zhao in Bingzhou, can we continue to go deeper.

However, Yu Lu said: "Brother Yun's 'son-in-law' is cowardly, even if thousands of soldiers and horses of the Jin people dare not go to war, then my army comes, even if a certain city is besieged for a long time, how dare he come to the rescue?" I intend to go straight to Jinyang, and then besiege its city, then the soldiers and horses of all sides of the thieves dare not come to the rescue, and they can be on the plain, and they will be trampled on it with my iron horses! The Chinese did not dare to go around the city with troops, because they were afraid that the back road would be cut off and the grain and grass would be difficult to continue. But food needs to be carried by people and trucks, and I drove hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep here, and they can walk on all fours, and they can eat for months, so what is there to fear? ”

did not listen to Tuobatou's advice and continued to go deeper, but in the area south of Jiuyuan, he finally encountered the main force of the Zhao army.

According to later generations, this is the junction of the Xinzhou Basin and the Taiyuan Basin, and the surrounding area is mountainous and the terrain is relatively complex. Zhao Jun defended the road, still under the banner of "King Shisheng of the River", Yu Lu didn't care much, and waved his army to attack the past. Who wanted to face Zhao Jun in person, suddenly there was a drum in the mountains left and right, and countless ambushes surged out, and the banner of "Taiyuan King, Taiwei Shihu" was displayed. Yu Lu was taken aback, it was too late to retreat, because he was in a hurry to attack, and his troops, which were almost dragged into a long snake, were cut into several sections in an instant.

Yu Lu was forced to retreat backwards and fight and go, but the Zhao army came up from all sides under the command of Shi Hu, first annihilated several Xianbei squads on the outside one by one, and gradually closed together. Yu Lu couldn't help but shout: "Where is my iron horse?!" ”

The so-called "iron cavalry" naturally refers to the heavy armored cavalry, which is filled by the children of the noble chieftains of the Tuoba Department, with their own equipment and subordinates, and their combat effectiveness is not inferior to Yu Lu's personal guards. However, because of the heavy equipment, the heavy cavalry was left behind when Yu Lu rushed with his head shut, and when he encountered the enemy, he hurriedly put on his armor, got on his horse and fought with a lance, and he couldn't rush for a while.

Moreover, the Xianbei heavy cavalry is different from the "armored cavalry" trained by Pei Gai, there is no strict array, and even if they are gathered in one place, they are basically fighting separately. Shi Hu stood on top of Gao Fu, and saw these five or six hundred heavy horses from a distance, and he was about to come up with his trump card.

He had suffered a defeat in front of Tuoba heavy cavalry before, and later heard that Shi Sheng was charged by the heavy cavalry of the Jin people, and it was difficult to even defend the camp, so he fled back to Jiexiu City in one go...... Therefore, when he was in Xiangguo, he asked Zhang Bin for advice many times, and even discussed strategies to break the enemy with Jiao'an, Zhixiong and other generals, and he had a little idea.

This time he entered Jinyang, Shi Hu immediately selected five hundred elites, personally trained, and tried to defeat Tuoba or the heavy cavalry of the Jin people in the battle array in the future.

These 500 soldiers were all brave men, most of them were good at riding Hu and Qian, but the equipment was not heavy-Shi Hu could not come up with enough equipment to imitate the heavy cavalry - they were waiting for the outside in a strict formation, and when they saw the flags on the mountain shaking, the main general ordered, immediately drove the war horses, and went straight to Tuoba heavy cavalry to kill.

At this time, the heavy cavalry of the Tuoba Department had already advanced two arrows, and had penetrated three teams of Zhao soldiers, and they could already see the Daxu of the acting king Yulu from a distance. It's just that "Wangshan runs a dead horse", it seems that it is not far away, and the generals can know through visual inspection, not to mention that there are nearly two miles to go...... Because of the heavy equipment, the horsepower deteriorates quickly, and if you continue to rush forward regardless of it, it is estimated that most of the heavy riders will have to "lie down" before they can catch up with the Yu Law.

So he ordered to suspend the gallop, rest the horsepower, and if there was a horse to keep up, it could be replaced in time. At this moment, Shi Hu's newly trained cavalry came to the scene.

However, these cavalry did not rush straight to Tuoba and rode heavily, but dismounted two arrows away, gathered the surrounding troops, and formed a formation. Seeing this, more than 100 of the horsemen who had already changed into reserve horses collided head-on.

Judging from previous experience, even if the enemy infantry formed a strong formation, if it did not have more than ten times the strength and the formation was not thick enough, it could be scattered by the heavy cavalry. Tuoba Heavy Cavalry is afraid of taking this as the core, the Zhao army is gathering more and more, and it will be difficult to break through to save the king at that time.

However, this Zhao army saw the heavy cavalry surging and killing, and the hooves fell like thunder, but instead of retreating, they advanced, and met the general head-on. As the two sides approached, the five hundred core Zhao soldiers suddenly lowered their bodies, half of them shielded their colleagues with large shields, and the other half each held a long-handled broadsword, reaching out to cut off the legs of Tuoba Heavy Rider......

As soon as the horse's legs are broken, the heavy rider will fall, because the armor is heavy, and it is not so easy to get up when it falls...... In addition, Hu Cong was still far behind, and it was too late to get close to the front to cover it. The rest of the Zhao soldiers rushed forward bravely, held down the Tuoba heavy cavalry that fell to the ground, opened the hood, and cut their throats one after another.

When Shi Hu saw it on the mountain, he couldn't help but nod secretly, and said in his heart that this method could be used. It's a pity that I only trained five hundred people, and against these five or six hundred Tuoba heavy cavalry, I'm afraid that I will lose both in the end - when the battle is due, Zhao Fang also suffered heavy losses, basically two for one, although not all of them died as new trainees - these seeds can't be wasted! So the banner waved, and the ministry was ordered to retreat temporarily.

Although only more than 100 Tuoba heavy cavalry were killed, the psychological impact of the death of these elites on their comrades, especially other Xianbei soldiers, was quite large. The remaining heavy cavalry was frightened, and did not dare to advance rashly, so they hurriedly beckoned the surrounding stragglers to gather over, and finally gathered two or three thousand people, so they dared to continue to go forward to rescue Yu Lu.

However, by the time they finally rescued Yu Lu, more than half of Yu Lu's guards had been damaged.

This vicious battle, from the afternoon until dark, finally the Xianbei soldiers were defeated, Tuoba head to protect Yu Lu and fled in embarrassment, Shi Hu chased after the tail, killing and injuring a lot. Especially when the north jumped, the Zhao army in the cities and towns from time to time to harass and intercept, and when they fled back to the southern capital of Pingcheng, less than half of the 30,000 troops brought out were left, and more than 100,000 cattle and sheep were abandoned......

Tuoba knelt down in front of Yu Lu to plead guilty, but Yu Lu was quite angry, waved his hand and said, "This is the trick of the thief, not my brother's fault...... My brother also advised me not to go deeper. Then he suddenly hated and said: "The slave actually made Shihu guard Taiyuan again, it is really difficult to get it!" It seems that without the cooperation of the Jin people, it will be easy to defeat ......"

Immediately Tuoba Tou will go to Chang'an City for himself, to contact Pei Gai, and after this autumn, the north and south will be attacked, and the state will be merged - when the time comes, the Jin people of Jinyang City can take it, and as for the area north of Yuxian County, it should be handed over to me Tuoba.

The leader of Tuoba received the order, and immediately bowed down and went out of the tent.

They were already in Heijo by this time. Pingcheng is fifteen miles northeast of Guangwu in Yanmen County, it was originally a small county seat, and later Tuoba Yi Lu De based on this city, thought it was cramped, but overthrew the old city wall, renovated it, as the southern capital - Tuoba Department only came in the general autumn and winter, so as to send troops to the south to invade, and in spring and summer they returned to the northern capital Shengle to escape the summer.

The reason why I think the old city is cramped is because Xianbei people are not used to living in houses, follow the old customs, and still live in the curtain, especially if they only come to live for two months every year, and it is too wasteful to have an empty house - if it is broken, we will not repair it. Therefore, in addition to a small number of houses in the west of the city for the Jin people who originally lived here, most of the cities were all emptied, and the ground was tamped to facilitate the establishment of tents.

Among them, the single in the big tent, as a rule, is tied in the north of the center of the city, the tent is forty steps wide, the inside and outside are double-layered, and the top is decorated with gold, which is extremely magnificent and magnificent. It's a pity that this big tent followed Shan Yu, and Yu Lu went south this time, lost his troops and returned with a broken army, and even the big tent was lost...... I had to don't build a king's tent, the scale was less than half the original size.

Let's say that Tuoba retreated to the tent and was about to return to his own tent, when he suddenly saw a large group of generals surrounded by a group of nobles surging forward, and the first to ride was the king's aunt Qi.

He swept his eyes, and saw that most of the people around the Qi clan were those noble chieftains who opposed the dispatch of troops that day, and he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, saying that this was the one who came to Xingshi to ask for guilt? This time in the south, the wounded soldiers were defeated, the followers of all departments were more or less lost, and tens of thousands of cattle and sheep were invincible.

If these people just sprinkle their anger on the acting king, and ask him to give an explanation, and give some compensation, then it will be enough; If you say that your own family is the culprit and ask me to pay for the lives of their fallen children, what should I do? Thinking of this, Tuoba couldn't help but sweat on his back, hurriedly took two steps forward, and then knelt down in front of Qi's horse as soon as he bent his knees, and wailed:

"Mo Dunrongyu, this defeat is not my nephew's fault, I have also persuaded Shan Yu not to go deeper......"

- "Mo Dun" is the meaning of "mother" in Xianbei language, of course, the Qi family is not the mother of Tuobatou, and it is his aunt in terms of generation, but the grassland people are often not strictly distinguished from fathers and uncles, or mothers and aunts, and they can be mixed - mixed calls seem closer, isn't it?

Qi glanced at him coldly and asked, "Shan Yu can be in the tent?" ”

Tuoba replied, "In the tent." When he raised his head slightly, he suddenly saw Qi's eyes flashing, and there was a faint killing intent...... Does she want to kill me?!

No, it seems that she glanced at me and then turned her gaze to the big tent, then it is very likely that she did not want to kill me......

Tuoba is good at swinging, accustomed to the left and right, in the Tuoba Department of the discipline of the discipline, the number of backwards can be the leader. He reacted immediately, and hurriedly arched his hand: "Mo Dun Rongyu, only the personal guard, is now controlled by the little nephew, and he should obey Mo Dun's orders." And Shan Yu ordered his little nephew to go to Chang'an, to contact the great Sima of Jin, and make an appointment to kill Shihu together, so as to avenge today's defeat......"

That means, I am the only one in the clan who has a little friendship with Pei Da Sima, and one of my cousins is still a slave under his tent, if you kill me, I am afraid it will be difficult to find a messenger who can easily contact the Jin people. I'm still useful, don't you want to spare my life!

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