When the scouts sent by the Han army reported that a large number of Xianbei soldiers and horses were found hundreds of miles away in the northeast, looking at their banners, they were suspected to be the Xianbei puppet lord and the company, the leader and the coalition army of Budugen.

This news shocked Fuquan, and he hurriedly convened the generals under his command to discuss the matter, discussed several times, and immediately decided to move all the Han army units eastward to station around Baishan, except for some of the soldiers who had lost their combat strength to watch the captured spoils of war and return to Youzhou in the south.

With an order, the morale of the entire barracks was worn out due to the heavy rain, and the Han army, which seemed lifeless, under the supervision of the orders of the generals of the various departments, once again took action.

After half a day's effort, I saw that the Han army marched in two parts, one was led by Fu Quan, most of the Han army marched eastward, and the other was led by a wounded marquis of the Han army, leading the army of only more than 200 soldiers left after several battles, escorting the Han army of nearly 2,000 disabled soldiers to return north.

Naturally, not all of these wounded soldiers were disabled in battle, and only most of them were disabled in battle, but because of the heavy rain for more than half a month, most of the soldiers refused to adapt to the water and soil, resulting in diarrhea, vomiting and other emergencies, to the point that they had lost their combat effectiveness.

Seeing this, Fu Quan originally ordered someone to isolate these Han soldiers, he was worried that this would cause a small infectious disease, and he had to prevent it, so he ordered Yu Zhong, a military doctor he trusted, to take people for diagnosis and treatment, and it would not be obvious that the effect was not very good. After all, firstly, in this place outside the plug, it is difficult to have the medicinal materials that Yu Zhong needs, and secondly, this continuous heavy rain is not conducive to the recovery of the patient at all, so it is said that Fuquan asked all departments to make a fire to boil hot water, but they all gave up because there was no suitable hay and firewood, and even Fuquan himself drank a few sips of raw water stained with rainwater, which caused gastrointestinal discomfort and diarrhea, so how could those soldiers who could not fight be cured because of non-fighting factors?

Therefore, for the next step of the battle, Fuquan could only abandon the excess baggage in the army as when he left the surrendered city. After all, whether it is the surrendered city or Danhan Mountain, it is not far from the Han Dynasty and the state, and with the spread of the Han army's atrocities against the Xianbei tribes along the road, now hundreds of miles north of the border of the Han Dynasty, in addition to several large tribes in the east of Xianbei to defend the border, the rest of the forces either fled north or temporarily stayed in other large tribes, preparing to jointly defend the Han army, it is really too cruel for the Xianbei people to do what Fuquan did, so even if there are only hundreds of Han soldiers to protect it, this Han army that has captured all the wealth of the Xianbei royal court is still very safe.

I saw that north of Danhan Mountain, a group of hundreds of Han soldiers drove thousands of Xianbei women, pulling carts of goods and Han soldiers away, except for a few women, the rest of the Xianbei women were disheveled, and many people's clothes were damaged a lot, which shows how much inhuman treatment they suffered in the barracks held by the Han army. However, they have long been accustomed to this, so they can only endure the orders of the Han army, which is still very friendly to them compared to the grassland people, and drag those spoils to leave the Han realm.

Three days later, hundreds of miles west of the surrendered city, a Han-Hu coalition army of about 50,000 people slowly marched forward. Although everyone in this Han army is wearing armor, the military formation is not in order, and there are many officers shouting and scolding their soldiers during the march, which obviously does not look like an army that has experienced a hundred battles.

In the center of the Han army, a vigorous banner hunts in the wind, embroidered majestically under a big flag with the word "Han", and there is a small flag next to it, embroidered with the word "Zhang". Zhang Huan, the assassin of Liangzhou in the Han Dynasty, rode on a horse in military uniform, although his old body has not been on the battlefield for many years, but the ability to ride a horse and shoot arrows and wield weapons has not been forgotten, and his eyes are shining so that people dare not look directly, if they don't look at his appearance at this moment, obviously no one can believe that this is a veteran who is more than seventy years old.

Since Zhang Huan is in the center of the Han army, then naturally this Han army is the Liangzhou Han army led by Zhang Huan, behind which a kind of general riding horses is like a shadow, in addition to nearly 30,000 newly recruited soldiers in Liangzhou, and Zhang Huan from the counties of Liangzhou 5,000 elite cavalry, and Zhang Huan himself ordered to recruit the Liangzhou Zhubu Hu as a servant army, hurriedly added up to nearly 50,000 people,

However, although Liangzhou produces horses, for a while, the Liangzhou Thorn History Department can't get together 50,000 horses, even if all the horses of the Qianghu Department are recruited, it is obviously not enough. Therefore, this Han army, except for the newly recruited soldiers and the elite of Liangzhou, as well as those Liangzhou Hu people, the rest of the Han and naturalized Hu soldiers who came to join the army on foot could only urgently form an infantry phalanx, so it greatly slowed down the marching speed of the Han army.

At this time, the mixed infantry and cavalry of the Han army went to the vicinity of the Xianbei royal court in Danhan Mountain at the fastest speed to find and support the Han army led by Fu Quan.

"Zhang Gong, Danhan Mountain is still far from here, our army has a lot of foot soldiers, the army is slow, according to the opinion of the last general, if you send a good cavalry to the east in a hurry, if the Fuba County Department is in trouble, you can rush to help." Beside Zhang Huan, a middle-aged man looked at Dongfang and suggested that this middle-aged man was none other than Ma Teng, who led the troops to join the army that day.

"What Shou Cheng said is indeed reasonable, I want to make Shou Cheng lead the headquarters and Qiang Hu Tie to ride two thousand, rush to Sweat Mountain, and seek rescue from Fuba County, I don't know if Shou Cheng can dare?" Zhang Huan stroked his white beard, looked at Ma Teng, and said with countless inexplicable meanings in his eyes, Zhang Huan, who had already guessed Ma Teng's ambitions, naturally would not give the other party a chance to perform, especially Ma Teng's identity is very suitable for his choice.

"The last general?" Ma Teng's face was shocked, he looked at Zhang Huan in front of him, and asked unsurely. He didn't believe it himself, just asking random questions and wanting to show himself in front of Zhang Huan could make Zhang Huan directly let him lead the division to the expedition, this happiness came too suddenly, making him a little overwhelmed.

"Exactly! Can Shou Cheng dare? ”

"Why don't you dare! Please give an order from Gong Zhang, and the last general will help him. Hearing Zhang Huan's affirmative words, Ma Teng shouted loudly, he came to join the army because of Ben's military exploits, since Zhang Huan gave himself such a chance, what reason did he have to retreat? After all, it is very dangerous to seek wealth and wealth in danger, and to lead the division to leave, but correspondingly, he can also encounter more opportunities to make military exploits, so he can't agree.

"Good! Shou Cheng listens to the order! ”

"The last general!"

"Rate the headquarters of the elite cavalry, select two thousand Qiang Hu iron cavalry to unify it, and join forces to go east to the Xianbei royal court of Khan Mountain, and go to aid the Fuba County Department."

"No!"

With Zhang Huan's order, after Ma Teng saluted and responded loudly, he saw a Han Hu mixed iron cavalry of 3,000 people, after the main general Ma Teng selected 2,000 good Qiang cavalry, he carried half a moon of dry food, traveled lightly, and went out of the array of the Han army together, and went straight to the east.

Since Ma Teng led more than 500 cavalry to serve, Zhang Huan was reported that a group of people like Ma Teng came to enlist, and the guards did not dare to be good at it, so they asked for his instructions to deal with it.

Because since Zhang Huan used his reputation to call on all the athletes in Liangzhou to join the army, no one has such courage to bring more than 500 people to join the army, and they still bring their own weapons, one person and one horse. At that time, the generals of the Han army outside the camp gate went to Zhang Huan's military tent to report the news, and I don't know whether I should be allowed to enter, after all, Ma Teng's more than 500 horsemen are not much, and they are not too little. If the other party has the intention to come and pretend to be a recruited soldier, but in fact, he is humble and meticulous, and secretly enters the camp to rush and kill, then once the camp gate is opened, those tens of thousands of Han recruits in the camp will collapse due to insufficient training and the lack of effective commanders in various departments, and this responsibility is not something that the Han officers and soldiers guarding the door dare to bear.

When he received the news, Zhang Huan was also very surprised, he didn't know that this was the strong man from Liangzhou who came to recruit, after all, there are many wealthy families from all over Liangzhou who led troops to enlist, but most of them are one or two hundred people are enough.

The treatment of the wealthy family and the ordinary people is different, which shows that even if Zhang Rang is a famous general of the Han Dynasty, there is no change in the difference, ordinary people can only call 100 people the profession of the chief, and call 500 people to give the position of military marquis, but the powerful people of the world, far more will be given, those who bring one or two hundred people of the Hao family disciples, have been given the position of military marquis and fake Sima by Zhang Huan according to their ability.

Of course, Zhang Huan was naturally suspicious of the five hundred people, so after selecting hundreds of elites, he went out to watch, and finally saw the middle-aged man Ma Teng, led by the more than 500 Han Hu miscellaneous riders. After learning that the other party was really a sincere recruiter, and his identity was correct, Zhang Huan was surprised that Ma Teng, who was obviously a mixed Han and Qiang child, was a side branch of the Ma clan of Maoling on the right side, and after seeing that Ma Teng's soldiers and horses were complete, he still gave the other party a fake Sima position very partially, and stayed by his side to listen to it.

Looking at the place where Ma Teng's department gradually disappeared from his eyes, Zhang Huan stroked his white beard and showed a deep smile, the reason why he chose Ma Teng as the main general of the partial division naturally has his own reasons, it is really because there is no more suitable candidate than Ma Teng to be the main general of the partial division.

Although Zhang Huan, as the only remaining veteran in the Han court, like Duan Cheng, was imprisoned in the township for more than ten years, and the original old department was basically gone, and it was difficult for Zhang Huan to find a suitable person. After all, most of those old departments were either sent to other places, or died on the battlefield, and the rest of them were in Liangzhou, but their talents were really limited, so Zhang Huan did not call them, so there were too few people who could be used by Zhang Huan at this time.

Now, in the army led by Zhang Huan, half of the Han army is a foot soldier because there are no horses, which is obviously not suitable for the rescue of Fuquan's department, and the other Han cavalry, especially the five thousand elite cavalry drawn by Zhang Huan from the Liangzhou counties, is Zhang Huan's reliance on this outing, and even he in case the army collapses due to lack of training, the hole cards left are naturally impossible to be easily transferred, so the soldiers and horses that are dispatched to rescue will naturally fall to those newly recruited Han cavalry and the summoned Hu cavalry.

However, the Han army is easy to say, but they did not add too much training, although the Han people in Liangzhou have learned riding skills since childhood, but compared with the Hu people, there is a shortage of food and fire after all, especially they may encounter those who can be said to grow on horseback grassland Xianbei people, naturally this emergency Han army should be dominated by the Hu people, and among them, in the Liangzhou Zhuhu, the Qiang people have just been put down by the Han Dynasty for less than ten years, and the elite atmosphere left by the Hundred Years War still exists, so it is naturally Zhang Huan's first choice to fight against the Hu soldiers selected by Xianbei.

It's just obvious that it is necessary to command so many Qiang Hu, and it is a situation where there are many Qiang people and few Han people in the Han army, and the problem of selecting people has been bothering Zhang Huan. Fortunately, with the arrival of Ma Teng, the problem of candidates that plagued Zhang Huan will be solved, after all, there are many Qiang Hu and few Han people, and who is used to lead the partial division is quite a headache for Zhang Huan. Who knows if he will look away, so that the Qiang army will avoid the war, or be afraid of serving the Han Dynasty, and directly abandon the Han army and flee back to Liangzhou, while the use of the Han people will make the Qiang people dissatisfied, therefore, the use of Ma Teng, a Han-Qiang mixed-race is undoubtedly the best choice.

Moreover, after accepting Ma Teng, Zhang Huan was also quite surprised when he first heard that this Hanqiang mixed race claimed to be the descendant of General Fubo Ma Yuan, and was a side branch of the right Fufeng Maoling Ma clan. Later, when I learned that Ma Teng was a miserable boy, it was not until he became an adult that he went south and north to fight for a great family and reputation, and he kept it in his heart.

In fact, today even Ma Teng did not mention this matter, and Zhang Huan, who had not received news from Fuquan's department, was also ready to order Ma Teng to lead troops to rescue. Zhang Huan didn't mention this matter before he left the plug a few days ago, and he also hoped to get the news of the messenger sent by Fuquan, after all, it was very dangerous to send a partial division to rescue, and no one could not have a division with Fuquan yet, and the partial division would go wrong.

However, now that a few days have passed, there is still no reply from the messenger, so Zhang Huan can't help but pay attention. It just so happened that Ma Teng was also a military person at dawn, and today he proposed to send a partial division, and Zhang Huan also pushed the boat down the river to order him to send troops, of course, Zhang Huan himself had already determined that Ma Teng would respond to the order.

After all, for Ma Teng, a half-breed who is eager to make a name for himself and glorify his ancestors, although it is extremely dangerous for him to lead a partial teacher, the benefits behind this are also huge, and the ambition in his heart cannot be bred to meet his fate. Moreover, this partial division is also a cavalry of 3,000 people after all, but it is a large military force, which is much better than when he went south and north, risking and accumulating wealth, and he has always been in danger, so he is naturally not afraid of this small rescue operation at all.

In the distance, under the rapid running of three thousand horsemen, the smoke and dust were billowing, and Ma Teng rode his horse in front of the army, his heart was excited at this moment, and the reins in his hand were even tighter.

With the horse's hooves in his ears, Ma Teng knew that this time would be an opportunity for him to make great contributions, and he must cherish it, and he must seize a fame, so as to glorify his ancestors and return to his hometown......