Of course, among these three major tribes, Wei Yan's focus is Tuoba Tuiyin, because among the Xianbei tribes in the west, only this Tuoba tribe became the climate and established a country in Wuhu Chaos a hundred years later.

This Tuoba deduction is also known as Tuoba Lin, because of the inheritance of the ancestor Tuoba Tui Yin's policy of moving south, has been also called "Tui Yin" by the clan, known as the second Tui Yin, he and his son Tuoba Jiefen together brought Tuoba Xianbei people from Hulunbuir grassland to Hetao, and joined the powerful Xianbei Alliance of Tanshi Huai, and also became one of the people in the west, which opened the Shengle era of Tuoba Xianbei people.

Tuoba Liwei, the son of Tuoba Jiefen, relied on the help of Dou Bin, the lord of the Luhui Department, became strong, Tuoba Liwei's son Tuoba Yilu built the city of Shengle in 313 A.D., thinking that the northern capital, in 346 A.D., Tuoba Liwei's great-grandson Tuoba Shiyiqian once again moved the capital to the Shengle Palace in the clouds, and the following year, moved south to the new Shengle City, and the former Qin Fujian destroyed the country of the Tuoba Xianbei people. Ten years later, in 386 A.D., Tuoba Jue took the opportunity of the defeat after the Battle of the Former Qin Dynasty to convene a tribal assembly in Niuchuan, that is, to take the throne, establish the era name of the country, and soon changed his name to the King of Wei, establishing the Northern Wei Empire, which was very prosperous in the future. In 398 A.D., Tuoba Jue built the capital of Pingcheng (now Datong City, Shanxi), and proclaimed himself emperor the following year, completing the first step of Tuoba Xianbei's conquest of northern China.

The famous Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty is the descendant of Tuoba Deduction, together with the later generations of Western Xia people Li Yuanhao and Li Zicheng are his descendants, Li Zicheng is also known as Tuoba Hongji.

If you want to destroy these rebellious ministers and thieves, you must first destroy Tuoba and deduce.

An army of 80,000 was ready to go.

Wei Yan rode a tall black horse and looked up at the blue sky: "It is the best time to use soldiers." ”

Five Hu Chaohua, Xianbei Murong clan once established the former Yan, the latter Yan, the West Yan, and the Southern Yan; The Qifu clan established the Western Qin; The bald clan established Nanliang; After the Northern Wei was divided into the Eastern Wei and Western Wei, the Xianbei Han Gao and the Xianbei Xiongnu Yuwen established the Northern Qi and Northern Zhou respectively, and the Tuyuhun from the Murong clan moved to Qinghai to rule the Qiang people, and was not destroyed by the Tubo until the early Tang Dynasty. The Xianbei people's poison to the Han nation should be the head of the Wuhu.

Wei Yan's mood was extremely solemn, and a trace of murderous aura loomed in his eyes, this was Wei Yan's efforts to control his killing aura, if he didn't control it vigorously, I am afraid that in a few years, the Mobei Grassland would become a hell on earth.

He knew very well in his heart that the real revenge was not the destruction of the body, but the capture of the enemy and his enslavement, and even the ancestors who worked for us for the rest of their lives, and the simple physical destruction was too cheap for them.

Wei Yan did not despise the Xianbei people, he knew that although the Xianbei culture was extremely backward, and now they did not even have their own writing, but they had the fierce character and wisdom of the Mongolian steppe wolf, with extraordinary military talent, and was the most outstanding of the Wuhu, the Northern Wei Taiwu Emperor Tuoba Tao took less than ten years, relying on the fierce Xianbei cavalry, unified northern China, and created the first strong and effective dynasty established by the grassland peoples after the Western Zhou Dynasty in Chinese history. Such a brutal and cunning people, like Genghis Khan's Mongols and Nurhachi's Jurchens, need to be treated with caution.

Wei Yan secretly swore in his heart that for the rest of his life, he would destroy Xianbei and turn all Xianbei people into slaves of the Han nation.

Wei Yan inspected the 80,000 horses that were about to go into battle.

The cavalry on the horse are all dressed in bright armor, the most significant feature of the bright armor is the oval deck on the chest and back, which just protects the front and back, this kind of deck has been polished, and there is a dazzling reflection in the sun, just like a mirror, and the mirror of the Han Dynasty often has the words "see the light of the sun, the world is bright", so Wei Yan named it the bright armor.

The reason why Wei Yan named it Guangming Armor was to distinguish it from the Tang Dynasty Mingguang Armor that was prevalent in the Xianbei half-breed Li Yuan and Li Shimin's father and son, and the Guangming Armor was more like a Western-style plate armor.

In recent months, Wei Yan has not been idle in technological innovation, Ma Jun and many blacksmiths, following Wei Yan's guidance, have successfully developed blast furnace ironmaking technology, they have built a blast furnace approved by Wei Yan, loading iron ore, coke and limestone from the top of the furnace, blowing preheated air from the tuyere located in the lower part of the furnace along the furnace circumference, and the carbon in the coke at high temperature is blown into the carbon monoxide and hydrogen produced by the combustion of oxygen in the air, and the oxygen in the iron ore is removed in the process of rising in the furnace, so as to reduce the iron. The molten iron is released from the iron mouth. The non-reducing impurities in iron ore and limestone and other fluxes are combined to form slag, which is discharged from the slag port, and the gas produced is exported from the top of the furnace, and after dust removal, it is used as fuel for hot blast furnaces, heating furnaces, coke ovens, boilers, etc.

According to modern technology, without making coke, Wei Yan reluctantly replaced the coke with refined coal, although the iron produced in this way contains many impurities, but it is better than nothing, the key point of blast furnace technology is to make the combustion temperature rise, so that the cast iron appeared, and the iron output increased greatly.

After the iron production increased, the hydraulic forging machine built by Wei Yan at his suggestion forged it, pressed it into an iron plate suitable for attaching to the human body, and then polished it, and when it was worn to the human body, the two iron plates were fastened together through iron rivets, which was very strong and strong.

Because whether it is cavalry or infantry, the most frequently attacked place is the upper body, so there is no need to be like the Western aristocratic knights to wear the whole body impermeable, only need to protect the front and back, and then bring an iron helmet with a mask, as for the limbs are wrapped in leather holsters, if the limbs are like the Western knights with plate armor, it will greatly affect the flexibility and combat efficiency, but the gains outweigh the losses.

After Wei Yan made up his mind, he built hundreds of blast furnaces in the city near several large iron mines, and next to the blast furnace was the military factory, which strictly implemented the standardized operations that Wei Yan said, and the efficiency was very slow at first, but once the strict standardization was implemented, the production quality stabilized, and the speed gradually increased.

Wei Yan has made a lot of money from the family in the past few months, he has invested more than two billion money in the military industry, so much money has been invested in it, there are tens of thousands of craftsmen who are working day and night to build weapons and armor for the Wei army, and finally made 20,000 sets of bright armor before Wei Yan swept the Hetao, and Wei Yan was all equipped on the elite cavalry.

In the military factory, there is no longer any more chain mail, nor does it make scale armor and armor.

Because Wei Yan found that whether it is chain mail or scale armor, zha armor, whether it is chain mail or scale armor, it is difficult to effectively avoid the damage of the bow and crossbow, after all, there are still holes, the larger the holes, the more difficult it is to effectively avoid, but the plate armor can not only effectively avoid the damage of knives and guns, but also avoid the damage of bows and crossbow arrows, because after all, plate armor is a whole casting.

Of course, the more important is the processing efficiency, chain mail, small iron rings of scale armor, nail pieces and other parts are too small, processing is extremely cumbersome, not only consumes manpower, but also difficult to process and strengthen, especially chain mail, the finer the iron ring, the better the protective performance, each iron ring must be welded together, the workload can be imagined, the process is troublesome, so the cost is relatively expensive, and the Western-style plate armor is purely cast and forged after grinding, there is no need for so much labor, the cost of ironmaking technology has also been reduced, and the plate armor has been slightly improved, Its protection and flexibility under the same weight are unmatched by other ironclads, and it also provides more convenient conditions for hot and cold processing.

After the light armor is polished, it has a dazzling reflection in the sun, and if you can choose a good battle reaction and fight against the sun, it will definitely bring great visual obstacles to the enemy, thereby increasing the chance of victory.

The light armor is only a piece of protection for the body, in addition, the cavalry are equipped with arm guards, shoulder pads, knee pads, and leg guards made of cowhide.

Through the battles with various cavalry, Wei Yan became more and more convinced of the uselessness of the hoplites.

Although he knew that the Xianbei cavalry was the favorite to use heavy cavalry during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Wei Yan had no intention of making a bunch of iron lumps to deal with the Xianbei cavalry.

In Wei Yan's mind, the tactics of the Mongolian cavalry were the highest technical and tactical performance of the cavalry, and the flexibility of mobility was far better than the shock.

Wei Yan's 80,000-strong army was divided into four routes, and the banner died down and marched towards Hetao.

After arriving at Jinyang City in Taiyuan County, Wei Yan received a return from the envoys Jia Xu and Tian Chou in front of him.

Jia Xu, as a native of Wuwei in Liangzhou, had dealt with the Qianghu people, and this time he went to Beidi County, Wuwei County and other places where the Qianghu people were entrenched, and met with the leaders of several Qianghu tribes, conveying the intention of the Weiyan Alliance.

Those Qianghu tribal leaders originally thought that Wei Yan wanted them to send troops to deal with Xianbei together, and they were very hesitant, because they didn't want to offend the powerful Xianbei people, although Tanshi Huai died, Xianbei was divided into three shares, but the thin camel was bigger than the horse, if they sent troops to support Wei Yan, Wei Yan defeated and retreated back to Sizhou, and the Xianbei people turned around to deal with them.

Jia Xu saw their doubts, and said with an indifferent smile: "My general's requirements are not high, as long as our army deals with Xianbei, your tribe can not interfere and do not accept the Xianbei people's request for help, the horses and sheep we captured from the Xianbei people will be distributed to you, and we will develop a market in Fuping City, Beidi County, and trade with you on an equal footing." ”

These Qianghu people have fought a war with the Han people for nearly a hundred years, and they are very wary of the Han people, and when they hear Wei Yan being so generous, they are suspicious: "In case you are engaged in various defeats, you defeat the Xianbei people, and you will come to deal with our Qiang people, we Qiang people are not so stupid!" ”

Jia Xu laughed loudly: "You are too worried, my lord has only one goal, that is, the Xianbei people......"

Those Qiang people were still not at ease, and they had to make an alliance with Jia Xu, Jia Xu thought about it again and again, and finally signed the covenant with reluctance, agreeing that Wei Yan would never invade the territory of the Qiang people.

Jia Xu sneered in his heart while signing: "My lord said that the agreement with friends must be kept, and the alliance with the enemy is used to tear up!" ”

Although Tian Chou is young, he has a prestige on the northern border and has dealt with the Xianbei people, and this time he went to visit the current Shan Yukui head of the Xianbei people.

Kui Tou is the grandson of Tanshi Huai, but he does not have the prestige of Tanshi Huai, only the Xianbei people in the central part obey his orders, and the Xianbei in the west does not treat him as a green onion at all, he has been distressed for a long time, and now he has finally waited for an opportunity to establish prestige in the Xianbei Alliance.

Tian Chou led a convoy of many gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin, and even an astonishing number of elixirs and forgetful pills, and went straight to the Xianbei royal court in Xianbei Mountain at the southern foot of the Great Xing'an Mountains.

All the way is grassland, and there is no rainy weather, walking very fast, more than 20 days to reach the Xianbei royal court.

Although it is the Xianbei royal court, it is not as good as a county town in Middle-earth, a small city made of stone, the Xianbei people are still not used to living in houses, and the city is full of tents, which looks very ridiculous.

Tian Chou was only discovered twenty miles away from the Xiongnu royal court, which shows how much the Xianbei people despise the Han people, and they think that the Han people will not dare to take their royal court lightly every time they are defeated in the war in the past few years, so they do not take guard at all.

A Xianbei thousand-person team stopped Tian Chou's convoy, bent his bow and arrows aimed at Tian Chou and his party, and shouted loudly, Tian Chou grew up on the border, and knew Xianbei dialect, he could hear these Xianbei cavalry divisions ask them what they were doing, Tian Chou held his head high, and replied loudly in Xianbei dialect: "I am the envoy of the Han Dynasty, and I came to meet your family Da Shan Yu on behalf of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty!" ”

Those Xianbei cavalry were all taken aback when they heard Tian Chou's words, since Tanshi Huai defeated the Han army's three-way army thirteen years ago, the relationship between the Han and Xianbei has always been on the same footing, and there has never been a formal negotiation.

The Xianbei general, who was the leader, asked, "What official position are you?" ”

Tian Chou said: "I am the Tai Servant Cheng (Wei Yan asked for his title), and the Si Mu under the command of General Pingnan is engaged in Tian Chou. ”

The Xianbei general smiled and said, "Then do you listen to Liu Xie's words or Wei Yan's words?" ”

Tian Chou looked at this Xianbei general coldly: "General Pingnan is ordered by the Son of Heaven, General Pingnan naturally obeys the holy decree of the Son of Heaven, obeys General Pingnan's orders, and naturally obeys the orders of today's saints." Dare to ask Your Excellency's surname, you are so disrespectful to the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty and General Pingnan, you dare to call your name by name, you are not afraid of angering my Han court, and you will be destroyed with the power of the country! ”

The Xianbei general's nose was crooked very sharply, coupled with his light blue eyes with a heavy gloom, he looked like a vulture ready to forage: "I am the brother of the head of the big single Yu, the right sage king Budugen is also, who are you, you dare to intimidate this king." ”

Tian Chou sneered: "I am the imperial servant of the Han Imperial Court, Tian Chou, and I am hereby to discuss the covenant with your family Da Dan Yu by the decree of the Son of Heaven and the military order of General Pingnan!" I often heard people say that the leaders and the Budugen brothers are heroes, and they are extraordinary, but now they look at it, but Erer. ”

was ridiculed by Tian Chou for a while, and he would have been furious if he was an ordinary Xianbei person, but Budu was gloomy and cunning by nature, he smiled instead of being angry: "Tian Chou, this king doesn't talk to you here in vain, so I will take you to see my family Da Dan Yu, if my family Da Dan Yu is unwilling to ally with you, hmph, then we are still enemies, and then you don't want to go back!" ”