The tribal leaders of the Jiankun and Ding Ling people came to meet Gao Shun.

Gao Shun warmly received them.

For the future pastureland, Gao Shun assigned their own territory to them, and the entire Siberian Plain, south, east and west to the foot of the mountain, forbade them to enter the mountains to graze, otherwise they would be severely attacked and punished.

The two tribes had to accept the powerful Han army; The Jiankun people are better, they have been grazing here before, but they have migrated some distance to the west, and the climate and environment are similar; For the Ding Ling, the winter in the plains is too cold, and the conditions are much worse than in the mountains where they used to graze.

Gao Shun will not care about their thoughts, and he can keep them, not because he is merciful, but because he requires them to pay tribute every year, especially the girls, each tribe must pay at least a hundred tributes every year, and must not fool people with crooked melons and cracked dates, as for other furs and other materials, the quality and quantity are also specified in detail.

From then on, they were slaves in captivity by the Han Chinese; And he felt that he had a long life, and he must be able to control them, otherwise he could come and destroy them at any time.

Subsequently, Gao Shun ordered Ma Gui, Sun Cheng and Cao Shan to lead 20,000 senior cavalry and 20,000 senior infantry to escort 80,000 prisoners back to China; The wounded returned with Ma Gui.

He also ordered Ma Gui, the Wei soldiers stationed and reclaimed in the Western Regions, to assign two barbarian slaves to each of them, let them farm, and undertake other miscellaneous labor.

Gao Shun was ready to lead nearly 100,000 officers and soldiers, cooperate with Li Qiang and others in the Western Regions, and completely clear the Huns.

Before leaving, he packed all the boulders used to build the city into the space and filled in the traces left behind.

The fleeing Xiongnu Shan Yu and the Xianbei King and others returned to the tribal station, but a civil war broke out.

In order to strengthen the tribal strength as soon as possible, the Xiongnu and Xianbei people first divided the tribes of each affiliated tribe equally, and then jointly subdued the Dayue people, and more than 100,000 Dayue people were divided equally and scattered into two parts; The Otsuki clan has completely disappeared from history.

However, even so, they still felt that their strength was limited and they were by no means opponents of the Han army.

Both the Xiongnu and the Xianbei wanted to annex each other and strengthen themselves, but neither dared to make a move, but they were just on guard against each other; Now is not the time for them to engage in infighting, but to fight the Han army that is retreating step by step.

After discussion, the Xiongnu and Xianbei people unanimously decided to move to Mobei, drag down the logistics of the Han army, and annihilate the Han army in the movement, which was really not possible, they had to return to their hometown, hide in the deep mountains and old forests, and then return to the grassland after the Han people retreated.

Their actions are clearly displayed on Gao Shun's system map, and Gao Shun is not in a hurry now, but is ready to choose the right time to eliminate them in one fell swoop.

The migration of the Xiongnu and Xianbei people with their families was not as easy as people generally believed; It's just that water and pasture are big problems.

After the barbarians in front, the grass in the meadows was eaten by the livestock, and the barbarians in the rear had to move to the sides, otherwise the cattle would starve to death, which was their greatest wealth; By losing their livestock, they have lost their foothold in the grasslands.

As the migration time prolonged, their tribes became more and more dispersed, and they were not easy to defend at all.

Gao Shun, on the other hand, would send a team to constantly attack their camps, killing their livestock as much as possible, even if they couldn't kill many barbarians.

As a result, the barbarians gradually moved closer to the center, and the lack of grazing and the weaker and weaker livestock made the barbarians worried.

The barbarians organized several ambushes, but they were all surrounded by Gao Shun and suffered heavy losses.

Gao Shun just wanted to use this encroachment tactic to constantly consume the patience and strength of the barbarians.

After Li Qiang received the news of the barbarians' eastward migration, he led his army to make peace with Gao Shun.

The Han army was very cunning, full of cavalry, coming and going like the wind, and faster than their war horses, which made them defenseless; Dozens or even dozens of attacks every day not only caused the barbarians to lose a large number of livestock and people, but also annoyed them.

They took their livestock and their families with them, and they couldn't go fast at all.

Li Qiang said to Gao Shun: "Your Majesty, this is the real hunting, come and go freely, and there are results every time." ”

Everyone is very fond of this kind of war in which the initiative is held.

Ma Gui suggested: "Your Majesty, this kind of small-scale war barbarians are used to it, and the people who are arranged on the periphery are all affiliated tribes and the people of the Dayue clan that they have adopted, no matter how much we kill, we can't hurt their foundation, if we suddenly exert our strength and directly hit their middle army, then we can hurt them." ”

Everyone felt that this method was good, and Gao Shun was also very excited, which was similar to the beheading tactics of later generations, as long as the Xiongnu Shan Yu and Xianbei King were eliminated, their tribe surrendered without a fight, and they decided to start planning and implementing it immediately.

Everyone divided labor and cooperated, Gao Shun, Li Qiang and Feng Yong led 40,000 high-ranking cavalry to charge forward; Zhou Fei, Xiang Rong, Fang Liang, and Zhao Xiong each led 10,000 cavalry to outflank them from both sides; Qin Guan led infantry and 10,000 cavalry to follow from the rear to receive prisoners and supplies.

The barbarians were accustomed to the harassment of the Han army, but they did not realize the large-scale sneak attack of the Han army.

The time was chosen at dawn in the morning, and the location was a vast prairie.

Li Qiang led 10,000 cavalry in front, and Gao Shun equipped him with 20 senior generals as personal guards.

This was followed by 20,000 cavalry led by Gao Shun; Then there were 10,000 cavalry led by Feng Yong.

Each 10,000 cavalry is divided into four parts, each with 2,500 cavalry, and a senior military general serves as the military commander, each part is a five-part trilogy, and each part has five tuns under its jurisdiction; Each military commander has ten middle-level military attachés as personal guards, which is also convenient to replenish the wounded or killed military marquis; Each marquis has five junior generals as personal guards.

Zhou Fei, Fang Liang and others also led the army to set off in turn.

Li Qiang didn't pay attention to the barbarians he encountered along the way, but just rushed forward.

The huge sound of horses' hooves came from far away, and the shaking of the ground came from a distance, and the Xiongnu Shan Yu and Xianbei kings, who were more than ten miles away, guessed that it was the Han army that attacked according to the ground vibration, and judged the size of the Han army and the approximate distance from here.

They did not panic, but were ready to plan and eat these bold and reckless Han troops who attacked the enemy first; With only 40,000 Han troops, they were not afraid, and even thought that the Han were stupid, or that the Han people were carried away by a temporary victory.

Therefore, the Xiongnu and Xianbei people sincerely united, quickly reached an agreement, and the order was issued, and the officers and soldiers were quickly activated, and the people were evacuated and prepared to meet the battle.

At the same time, the Xiongnu and Xianbei each sent 10,000 cavalry to slow down the Han army's attack and gain time for the tribe to prepare.

The marching speed of Li Qiang and others is not too fast, each cavalry only has two war horses, a captured barbarian war horse, which is relatively short, used for riding and marching, and each has a system war horse, which is ridden during the decisive battle, and is not ridden at ordinary times to save horsepower.

In the morning, Li Qiang met with 20,000 barbarian cavalry, and soon fought together.

Li Qiang and the twenty personal guards were like sharp arrows, piercing the barbarian army, tearing through their defenses and disrupting their deployment; Li Qiang waved his spear, and no one was the enemy of the barbarians, and the barbarians who killed them kept retreating.

The cavalry behind him also became more and more courageous, and the barbarians killed were flying and unstoppable.

When Gao Shun got the report, he immediately ordered Feng Yong to outflank from the left, and he outflanked from the right, preparing to eat the 20,000 barbarian cavalry first.

Seeing that they were in danger of being surrounded by a large force of the Han army, the barbarian cavalry quickly retreated.

How could Li Qiang allow them to escape easily?