In battle, the attacking army often takes more effort. In the north of the world, in the past many years, the Yan clan has played the role of waiting for labor and garrisoning, although the skirmishes in the northern border have never been broken, but on the basis of the general strategy, they still grasp the southern attack and the northern defense, and try not to conflict with the northern captives. Even in the event of a conflict, it is necessary to defend and repel it with the help of geographical advantages, rather than annihilating or sweeping it away.

This is an inevitability determined by national strength and energy.

In the past, Gongsun Zhan had a strong style in the north, and both Wuhuan and Xianbei people were terrified when they met him. But even if he was as strong as Gongsun Zhan, he never had the idea of going to fight outside the Saibei region.

The more people who are on the side, the more they know that fighting on their own land is different from fighting on the enemy's land, especially in a situation like the Han and Xianbei. There are many Xianbei people who can understand and even speak Chinese, but in the border counties of the Han Dynasty, how many people can understand and speak Xianbei?

Even Yan Bei couldn't speak Xianbei language, after all, when he was a horse bandit before, his business scope was mainly the Wuhuan people near Biansai.

Such people are hard to find, but that doesn't mean they can't be found.

It just so happened that Yan Rou, the captain of Wuhuan under the command of Youzhou Mu, was such a person.

At the beginning of April, the Yan army with troops in Shanggu rushed out from the north, and the commander Tai Shici, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Xianbei Chenglugui and others each led their troops and horses, and galloped out of the northern Xinjiang and penetrated into the hinterland of Xianbei under the open road of Yan Rou and other Wuhuan kings.

Last year, the Wuhuan kings who garrisoned Youzhou under the command of Yandong were weaker than Xianbei, although they fought a victory and drove away the enemy army, they also suffered heavy casualties. This year, seeing that King Zhao sent troops and horses to the north, the Wuhuan kings jointly requested an attack. For this reason, Yanbei made a special trip to allocate 20,000 pairs of high-saddle stirrups to them to equip the assault horses.

The core generals in the Yan clan naturally know what the high saddle stirrup is, but this does not mean that the Wuhuan people can also know it. They only thought that the Yan clan had only known about such a thing until the last year, and they were only surprised that the Yan clan was able to produce such a large number of high saddles and stirrups in a few months.

Saddle stirrups were indeed made in the middle of the winter months, but these things are not only known here.

At this juncture, everything does not matter, and the Wuhuan Turret are all riveting their strength to fight the Xianbei people on the battlefield for a long time. Yan Bei, Yan Dong, Ma Teng and others could realize that the reason for the disastrous victory last year was the lack of double horses and horses, but the Wuhuan people would not think so. They will only feel that it is a shame for the same Donghu to lose to Xianbei, and now is a good time to follow the Yan Zhao army to the outside of the fortress to get the scene back.

King Zhao had promised that the cattle and sheep obtained after the war could be handed over to the Wuhuan kings who participated in the war for three points, and they would distribute them among their own departments, and this alone would be enough for them to fight with Xianbei with their own strength.

On the contrary, the soldiers of Yanzhao and the soldiers of Yanbei, the soldiers of Yanbei did not care about cattle and sheep, since Yanbei personally conquered the Xiongnu, they captured a large number of cattle and sheep in Jizhou grazing, and they were about to gnaw the Taihang Mountain Road. Cattle and sheep are very precious, but Yanbei attaches more importance to horses, and what is more important than horses is undoubtedly once and for all.

Solving the trouble of Xianbei, like solving the Southern Xiongnu, in exchange for a hundred years of carefree border in World War I, is the real purpose of Yanbei.

April is a good season for the grass to grow and the warbler flies, the scenery of the Central Plains is beautiful, but the soldiers of the Yan Zhao expedition have no blessing, when they go north out of the upper valley, they can only see the endless desert as far as the eye can see, until a few days later to the giant horse water, this finally saw a little green.

This is the road of Yanbei in the early years through the Saiwai to Liaodong, if there are old soldiers at that time to go here, they will definitely remember what they looked like when they were unkempt as rebels, but there is no such role in the expeditionary force at the moment, for the Yan family, except for the old people who are experienced by a few people, the Yan family during that period is actually a memory that everyone is deliberately forgetting.

For the Yan clan, who now regards themselves as the orthodox people in the world, the rebel experience is not glorious.

Tai Shi Ci led the army to rest on the banks of the Juma River for five days, and the scouts under Yan Rou were able to return to find out the location of the next water source, and the water source that was still 400 miles away did not frustrate the expeditionary force that was on the rise, but it was the grain escort team that set out with the army at an interval of 30 miles that made them feel excited.

On the bank of the giant horse water, the army has gone away, leaving a group of more than 3,000 people and soldiers mixed together, with the huge stones in the desert and the scarce forest trees to build a simple stone village, called the giant horse post, become the rear baggage in the first post outside the plug.

The giant horse post is more than 300 miles away from the border stopper, and when the post village is completed, the soldiers and the people follow the news of the horses to and from the horses and continue to the next water source.

For this attack on Xianbei, Tai Shici has made full preparations in the past few months. Fighting with the Xianbei people is not a big problem for Tai Shici, more than ten years of princes have been divided and fighting, whether it is tactics or experience in battle or the ability of soldiers, the generals of the Yan clan are all higher than Xianbei, and the only thing that worries him is the distance.

Tai Shi Ci was worried about getting lost.

They had tens of thousands of troops, and even if the Steppe Lord Kobi could gather the same number of soldiers and horses to fight them, he would not be worried. Victory and defeat are impermanent, but the real danger is the obstacles along the way. There are no roads in the desert or grassland, and once the army is defeated, they do not know where to retreat, and tens of thousands of troops will be exhausted on the way, until the defeat of the Han army against Xianbei in the Xiping period is repeated.

For this reason, setting up a village outside the Saiwai became the top priority of Tai Shici's march.

Every time there is a water source, a village must be set up to transport grain and grass and provide soldiers and men to recuperate; And between the villages, no matter how far or near, every fifteen miles, there must be three pavilions, each pavilion leaves a troop of cavalry, which can ensure that the fifteen cavalry can cover the area of about seventy-five miles wide, and guide the direction for the advancing Minfu baggage team and the retreating front-line soldiers in the desert; Every fifteen pavilions, a large pavilion is set up in the center, located on the baggage line, three cavalry are placed, the map of the fifteen pavilions under it is drawn, and the water and grain are placed for the subordinate pavilions to be used every other day.

On the established baggage line, the baggage team equipped with tens of thousands of donkeys escorted water and grain from Biansai, all the way to replenish the pavilions along the way, until the giant horse water rested, leaving 100 people and 100 donkeys from the giant horse water to the side plug between more than 300 miles back and forth, and the rest continued to move forward.

A total of more than 700 people and pavilions form an important node on the Yan's baggage line within a range of more than 300 miles.

With them, Tai Shici has the confidence to face the north and fight without any worries.