In the autumn of the eighth year of Jian'an, outside the city of Ye, on the bank of Zhangshui.

It was mid-autumn and the cool breeze was bleak. In the past, the fertile plains on the north and south banks would have been a golden scene of rolling wheat waves, the farmers in the fields were busy with their agricultural work, the women were walking on the Qianmo with pot pulp, and some urchins who were picking ears of wheat were running happily in the wide fields, attracting a series of reprimands from the adults.

The dignitaries and nobles who do not need to work and travel in the city will also take the old and the young, ride carriages and horses, and go out of the city for autumn tours. At that time, the carriages and horses out of the city are endless, neighing on the road, the cyan curtains laid on the water's edge reflect each other, it is dizzying, the children of the Yuan family hold a banquet on the water pavilion song platform singing and dancing, drumming and blowing sheng, the fragrant wind ripples on the Zhangshui with the sound of music, and it can be faintly heard for several miles, which has caused many reveries of pedestrians and businessmen.

It's just that today, such a peaceful and grand situation was finally destroyed by the flames of war in the troubled times.

The barren fields are overgrown with weeds, the former water pavilion has been reduced to ashes, the distant Li Lu is full of black smoke, and the farther field is full of smoke and dust, and the birds that flutter their wings will not fall, and the wild beasts that have fled from the flock know that this place is another dangerous ambush ground.

Hebei army and Guanxi soldiers and horses have more than 100,000 people, extremely far away, over the flying dust, grass clippings, can see the dense spears and halberds and human heads, the two sides of the horse poured out of the nest, gathered here, hoping to complete the work in a battle.

Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi's 50,000 troops came from the Qinghe River in the east, and then lined up in the east, while Yan Xing ordered the northern and southern camps to go out together, and set up a wild goose marching array to wait for the enemy.

A few days ago, the scouts and light cavalry on both sides had broken out a number of encounters, and Yan Xing, who did not reveal that he personally led the troops, ordered to show the enemy weakness, and the Yuan brothers were really fooled, and finally made up their minds to lead the crowd out of the nest, wanting to seek a decisive battle with the Xiliang army of the "end of the strong crossbow".

The war began early in the morning, and the Yuan brothers took the initiative to attack by relying on the advantage of daylight, and the first direction was the Xiliang Army in the direction of Nandaying, and the 10,000 Qin Hu elite soldiers led by Yan Xingqin happened to be deployed on the southern front.

"It seems that the Yuan brothers want to attack the weak with the strong, first use the men and horses led by the trial in the city to drag General Xu's headquarters, and then drive General Zhang's headquarters in the south into the Zhanghe River, and then turn back and attack General Xu with all their might."

On the watchtower car, Zhou Liang, who had been observing the offensive of the Hebei army for a long time, turned his head and said to Yan Xing.

Yan Xing, who entrusted the command of the front line to Zhang Liao, smiled when he heard this, "Then let them attack with their hands, if Yuan's offensive can make Wen Yuan's flag retreat three miles, then Yuan Benchu can be regarded as giving birth to a good son!" ”

Different from the previous Huaili Battle and the Wu Clan War, Yan Xing at this time already had the certainty of victory in his heart, he looked at the armor soldiers under his own command, and then looked at the Hebei infantry who were shouting and charging in the distance, and slowly showed a knowing smile.

The battle began, the situation was as Yan Xing expected, the 50,000 Yuan army seemed to be imposing, but the actual combat power was far inferior to the experienced Xiliang army, under the attack of the Hebei army, the Guanxi soldiers and horses commanded by Zhang Liao still held their positions steadily, like a hard rock to resist the impact of the tide, standing still, and from time to time from the wings of the iron cavalry to step on the formation.

However, the army of the Yuan brothers did not run out of strength quickly, and the infantry and cavalry in their rear were still moving forward in formation, and even organized the daredevils to launch a counter-charge against the iron cavalry of the Xiliang army.

"This is the Wuhuan cavalry in the Yuan family brothers' army mentioned in the military newspaper?"

Yan Xing stood on the watchtower car, looking far away, and easily found that there were still some braided Hu Qi in the Yuan family brothers' army, he remembered Cao Yuan's previous military report, and immediately sent someone to invite Xu You.

"Mr. Xu, the day before yesterday, I got a report that Cao Yuan's troops blocked the enemy in Zhongshan, and the enemy was not allowed to go south, why are there so many Hu cavalry in the Yuan family brothers' army today?"

Although Xu You defected in the previous Northern War, he also gave a lot of important information about the reality of Yuan Shao's army, which led to the battle of the 3,000 Xianbei cavalry breaking the 100,000 Yuan Shao's army, and made great contributions. However, Yan Xing had other considerations for him, and did not appoint him to a formal official position for a long time, which forced Xu You, a Yuan advisor who defected, to work harder and harder in the past few months, and wanted to help the soldiers and horses of Guanxi pacify the land of Hebei, and wanted to make great contributions to please Yan Xing.

Xu You looked at it carefully for a while, thought about it, and immediately replied respectfully:

"Duke Ming, presumably General Cao defeated the Wuhuan cavalry of Daijun and Shanggu in Zhongshan, and these Wuhuan cavalry are only afraid that they are the Wuhuan cavalry sent by Liaoxi Badun to help the Yuan brothers."

"Youzhou civil strife, Yuan Xi was expelled, and there are many people in various counties and counties who are self-reliant, and this Wuhuan cavalry can still gallop thousands of miles south?"

Xun You, who was beside Yan Xing, was also a little surprised, Xu You smiled slightly, stroked his beard and said:

"Xun Jun should know that the Wuhuan of the three counties is a famous horse in the world, and the former Guangwu Emperor was able to defeat the heroes and the Zhongxing Han Dynasty, thanks to the strength of his generation. When Yuan Shao was alive, he knotted Wuhuan, and had a lot of connections with his tribesmen, gave him a single gold seal, and married all the adults. ”

"As for the people who seceded Youzhou, most of them were villains who coveted Gou An for a while, and they had no ambitions, these three counties of Wuhuan have been crisscrossing the secluded land for many years, and they are notorious for their rebellion in the past, and the hooves of their Wuhuan people have even stepped into the hinterland of Jizhou, how dare those people in the secluded land send troops to block, I expect that most of them are in the city to protect themselves, sit back and watch it come and go like the wind, and go south."

Yan Xing listened to Xu You's words and was silent.

If he can successfully defeat the Yuan brothers this time, then taking Heshuo and managing Yan Zhao is in his next plan, and I believe that the Wuhuan people, a strange force that they have little contact with and do not know much about before, will soon encounter the army under their command.

Yan Xing could even predict that in the future, he would take Youzhou by himself, and these Wuhuan cavalry who helped the Yuan family brothers would be a tricky opponent, and the Liaoxi Raidon in Xu You's mouth might be a big trouble in the border area.

"How's it going?"

Yan Xing asked suddenly. Xu You didn't expect Yan Xing to suddenly ask about this matter, he thought about it for a while, and then replied:

"Badun is the son of Qiu Liju, the lord of Wuhuan, Qiu Liju died, his son Lou class is young, Badun is old, known as a brave name, is a substitute. In the past, Liaoxi, Liaodong, and Youbeiping were called one, but there were fights with each other, but since he succeeded to the throne, the general department of the three, all of them obeyed its orders, and dared to be killed, plundered, and recruited the people of the Han people in the border for use, and the command was claimed to have 100,000 Hu Han, and the elders of the border were all compared to it, and they were afraid of it like a tiger. ”

"Now, although because of the adulthood of Lou Ban, Badun abdicated and regarded him as a single Yu, but he still retains the title of king, and the one who is actually in charge of the three Wuhuan is still Badun."

After listening to Xu You's introduction to Bundun, Yan Xing couldn't help but think of Kebineng, who was compared to Tanshi Huai, and thought of these two ambitious and eloquent alien chieftains, he frowned slightly.

He knew better than anyone that the Hu regime in the north, which had both nomadic and agrarian duality, posed a great threat to the Central Plains Dynasty. Ordinary nomadic kingdoms are subject to their own limitations, fragile economy, tribal mobility, and dizzying rise and fall, although it will also cause certain losses to the border land through plunder, but it can not cause fatal damage to the Central Plains Dynasty, as long as the Central Plains Dynasty sends the border generals to guard the pass, and strengthen the blockade of the inland pig iron flowing into Hudi, the military strength of the nomads will gradually fall into the quagmire of becoming weaker and weaker in the war.

However, once the nomadic kingdom, under the leadership of its majestic monarch, took advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to obtain enough agricultural population by plundering the population or recruiting displaced people, and organized tuntian, built cities, and developed handicrafts in a certain area suitable for the development of agriculture, then this rapidly expanding nomadic kingdom would really become a nightmare for the Central Plains Dynasty.

"In the land of Yidi, there are so many heroes."

Yan Xing said with a sigh. He turned his gaze back to the battlefield in front of him, at this time the situation on the battlefield had begun to reverse, the previous Yuan army that had attacked one after another was now weak, the brave and sharp were encircled, the cowardly hesitated, and the rout became more and more obvious.

"Could those be the Yuan Clan's Euphorbia?"

Yan Xing pointed to the banner of the elite soldiers of the Yuan army who were in a bitter battle and asked, Xu You raised his eyes, and immediately said:

In the past, Yuan Shao entered Jizhou, emulated the Yulin period, recruited the sons of good families in Heshuo counties, organized and trained into an army, went out with the expedition, and entered the guard, and was proud of the halberd he held, so he was called 'Euphorbia'."

"However," Xu You smiled flatteringly at this time, "Although the Euphorbia is brave, it is ultimately inferior to the Qin Hu Qiang soldiers under the command of Ming Gong, who were digging platforms and shooting dogs, and the elite soldiers of the Euphorbia have suffered heavy casualties, and now these Euphorbia are only afraid that most of them are new pawns, and it is difficult to support the dangerous building alone, and the Euphorbia will be destroyed today!" ”

"Haha." Hearing Xu You's words, Yan Xing laughed, although there was a compliment in his words, but he was not wrong, the defeat of the Yuan brothers' army was revealed, and these last Heshuo elite halberds could not escape the fate of dying on the battlefield.

As if to confirm Xu Yu's words, a soldier in the Yuan army formation, who had been fighting fiercely for a long time, suddenly turned against each other, and the sergeant who responded suddenly launched an attack on his robe, which made the originally neat Yuan army formation suddenly appear a big corner depression, and the chaotic trend is still gradually spreading.

Seeing this, Yan Xing solemnly ordered all units in the army to launch a counterattack.

After this order, the horns of the northern and southern armies sounded one after another, and the infantry and cavalry of each department were full of energy, attacking one after another, and the soldiers and horses of the Yuan family, who had been struggling to support before, were instantly drowned in the tide of the attack of the Xiliang army, and the military formation of the Yuan army also quickly spread from the collapse of a corner to the retreat of the various army formations, and the Yuan army's army also continued to move backwards, like a flat boat in the stormy waves, struggling to get out of the predicament.

It's a pity that this struggle is also in vain, the Xu Huang Department in the north has already dispatched the iron cavalry to charge the formation, led by the leader of a white-robed young general, straight to the Yuan brothers' Daxu, the retreating Yuan army formation in front of the ironclad cavalry like a wave cracking one after another, the Yuan brothers' Daxu suddenly stopped, and then shook like a single dead tree, and finally fell to the ground weakly.

"The Yuan brothers are defeated. After this battle, the Ming Gong will dominate the Heshuo and shock the world, how fortunate it is to be able to follow the Ming Lord and congratulate the Ming Gong! ”

Xu You celebrated excitedly, if he hadn't known that Zhou Liang had failed to persuade him before, maybe he would still have said something appalling at this moment.

In his excited celebrations, the battle situation in the distance completely became one-sided, Meng Dai, Yan Jing and other Yuan generals died after the lead, and the trial led the remnants of the army to retreat to the city in a hurry, while the Yuan brothers did not know where to go, daring to love them had given up the Chinese army when the iron cavalry rushed into battle, and fled in disguise, and the Hebei soldiers who had no leader fought separately, but they were soon divided into various small parts by the Xiliang army, and in front of the cruel and ruthless sword soldiers, the Hebei soldiers lost their armor and chose to surrender.

"Whose son is that white-robed young general?"

Yan Xing glanced at Xu You, did not respond, but pointed in the direction of the white-robed young general who had rushed to capture the flag before.

The accompanying staff didn't know, Zhou Liang deliberately went downstairs to give an order to ask, and then hurried back to report to Yan Xing.

"Duke Ming, this son is Qin Lang, the adopted son of General Xu Gongming."

"Qin Lang?"

"Hehe," Zhou Liang showed a narrow smile, "In the past, the Duke of Ming sent General Xu to attack Lu Bu's department and capture Du Shi, the wife of General Qin Yilu. Du is quite attractive, Ming Gong thought that General Xu had a high merit in breaking the enemy, so he gave Du to General Xu as a concubine, and this adopted son came from this. ”

"That's why." Yan Xing was stunned, and then laughed.

"Gongming has raised a good son!"

Listening to Yan Xing's words, the staff around him also laughed.

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In the eighth year of Jian'an, the last battle of the Northern War, the Battle of Yecheng, was ultimately won by the Kansai soldiers and horses led by Yan Xing.

On the bank of the Zhangshui River outside Yecheng, the Yuan army that rescued Yecheng was annihilated, and the whereabouts of the Yuan brothers were unknown.

Knowing that the death was approaching, he ordered to kill all the Kansai schools such as Liu Zhi who had been caught before, and he originally wanted to lead his troops to set fire to the granaries and arsenals in the city, but he happened to encounter the Ma Lin Department who entered the city, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides.

The Xiliang army that captured Yecheng was greatly inspired, and then divided the troops to attack the city, and many cities in Hebei that were unwilling to surrender also surrendered one after another, and in this way, half of Jizhou's rivers and mountains completely fell into Yan Xing's bag.

It's just that the Yuan Tan army in Qingzhou took advantage of this opportunity to also move north, while seizing the four counties of Bohai, Hejian, Anping, and Qinghe, while secretly contacting the old generals of the Yuan family who surrendered to the Western Liang Army, and the Cao army on the south bank of the Great River was under the leadership of Cao Hong, in accordance with Cao Cao's will, and preemptively occupied Liyang, Dunqiu, Dongwuyang and other cities on the north bank, fortified according to the river, and defended the Western Liang army to take advantage of the victory to go south.

Coupled with the secession of Youzhou and the three counties of Wuhuan in northern Xinjiang, many surrounding forces are afraid and hateful of Yan Xingjun, and there is a faint tendency to form alliances, and the situation in the entire north is still chaotic.

At the same time, in the land of Jingyi, a covenant to recover Hanzhong also came.