Chapter 14: The Expedition

Before dawn, the rapid sound of horses' hooves broke the tranquility of Chang'an City, for the people living in Chang'an, after making sure that the sound of horses' hooves was not threatening, they turned over and fell asleep again, but the entire high-level of Chang'an City was completely woken up by the sound of horses' hooves. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

General's Palace, Council Chamber.

Lu Bu received the letterhead from Lu Lingqi, it was already ten days after Lu Lingqi occupied Juyan, and the female soldier who was responsible for delivering the letter suffered a whole circle, and when she came to the general's mansion, she was already dying.

"Xianbei wants to invade the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions?" Lu Bu handed the letterhead in his hand to Jia Xu, frowned, and said, "Could it be that Xianbei is unified again?" ”

Before coming to this era, Lu Bu didn't know that in this prairie, there was a figure comparable to a generation of Tianjiao Genghis Khan, Xianbei Shan Yu Tanshi Huai, established the Xianbei royal court in Danhan Mountain, once attacked Ding Ling in the north, retreated to Fuyu in the east, attacked Wusun in the west, and Dahanzhou County in the south, all occupied the homeland of the Xiongnu, more than 14,000 miles from east to west, and more than 7,000 miles from north to south, almost forcing the Han Dynasty and the pro-feudal king.

Tanshi Huai died at the age of forty-five, it can be said that if Tanshi Huai can live for 20 more years, with the rivers of the Eastern Han Dynasty at that time, it may not be able to create a feat like Genghis Khan.

It's a pity that Tanshi Huai died, and his son and Lian succeeded to the throne, but unfortunately, Xianbei is similar to the overall structure of the tribal alliance, Tanshi Huai during his reign, and did not really integrate these tribes into a clan, although in the eyes of the Han people, they are all Xianbei, but in fact it is composed of many tribes as a whole, Tanshi Huai died, and Lian is not the kind of strong master, prestige is not enough to convince the public, the alliance gradually disintegrated, mutual attack, invisibly, it is also considered to resolve a crisis of the Han Dynasty.

"Unlikely." Jia Xu shook his head, took the letterhead, and read it again: "Since the death of Tanshi Huai, his son and Lian have insufficient prestige, and they have been unfair, which has made the Xianbei tribes centrifugal, and then he Lian died in battle, and his son is young, and he is succeeded by his brother Kuitou, many tribes have broken away from Xianbei, and the Western Regions, although they are still under the banner of Xianbei, but they have long been independent, and the leader can't even control his own people, how can he extend his hand to the Western Regions?" ”

"Little Juyan, he sent eight hundred soldiers, I'm afraid he has the intention of annexing." Lu Bu closed his eyes and pondered.

Li Ru's heart moved, and he looked at the others and said: "When He Lian died, his son Qianman should have succeeded to the throne, but because of his young age, he let the leader seize the throne. ”

"But he has no power and no soldiers in his hands, so what qualifications does he have to compete with that leader?" Chen Gong frowned, and after speaking, his heart moved, and he looked at Lu Budao: "But it's possible." ”

"Is the Son of Heaven coerced to order the princes? I didn't expect these Hu people to do this. Lu Bu nodded, he also thought of this possibility.

Chen Gong said in a deep voice: "When He Lian succeeded to the throne, there were a large number of tribes in the western part of the grassland who broke away from the rule of the Xianbei royal court, and later He Lian died. ”

Jia Xu nodded, and said in a deep voice: "These people have been hiding in the shadows for many years to accumulate strength, and this time they stretched out their hands to the Western Regions, but they were unexpectedly broken by the eldest lady, and before they reacted, they cleaned up the Xianbei in the Western Regions." ”

Lu Bu nodded: "Lingqi is already doing this, but in the land of the Western Regions, we can't wait for the whip, and this matter is an internal matter of Xianbei, let them fight by themselves, Lingqi's side, I will send an order to Wen Yuan to support more, at the moment, our energy is not yet able to reach the Western Regions, so let the girl go to the Loop, at the moment, first put the Hetao into the bag, occupy the Hetao, even if Xianbei has changed, we also have the power to turn around, and order the hussar battalion, tomorrow to go on the expedition, we must take the Hetao as soon as possible!" ”

"Whoa!"

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Although the weather has not completely warmed, but the news from the Western Regions, so that Lu Bu has a sense of urgency, the next morning, three hundred hussars gathered neatly outside Chang'an City, this time, in addition to Jia Xu, there are Ma Chao, Pang De, Liao Hua, Guan Hai and Lu Bu's four major guards at the same time, as for the other thousand people, in order to save grain and grass, it is prepared by Zhang Liao, in Wuwei and Lu Bu convergence.

The battle of three hundred people is one person and two rides, Lu Bu also found a war horse, specially responsible for consigning his own weapons, the ghost and god Fang Tian halberd weighed one hundred and eight pounds, Lu Bu couldn't bear to let the red rabbit overload, so he rode another war horse on weekdays, and only in wartime, would he ride the red rabbit.

Although the number is not much, but this march, three hundred hussar guards, are equipped with saddles, stirrups, nailed horseshoe, covered with double-layer alloy plate armor on the outside, chain mail inside, a sword on the waist, a large yellow crossbow and a row of crossbows, as well as spears, weapons, three hundred people are almost armed to the teeth, the cost of these weapons alone, enough to arm a thousand elite soldiers, if it is an ordinary soldier, can arm five thousand people, just looking at it, it makes Chen Gong and Li Ru feel distressed, this is also the hussar battalion since the official establishment of the camp, For the first time, he showed his fangs to the world, and his morale was high, and he couldn't wait to fly to the Hetao immediately and kill all directions.

The group marched quickly, walked for eight days, and met Zhang Liao in Wuwei for Lu Bu's thousands of Xiliang soldiers, Zhang Liao was not idle this winter, the contradictions between the Qiang and Han, although the Department of Justice made a charter, after Zhang took office, it was also quickly implemented, but these things, if there is no deterrence and suppression by force, it is useless to just rely on a mouth, whether it is a businessman or a Qiang people, it is not a fuel-efficient lamp, with Zhang Liao's suppression, carrots and sticks, in order to really do things well, of course, The premise is whether the enforcement rate of the law is really fair.

The people of Nanyang did not continue to move north, but when the disaster came, Xiliang's side was not too serious, and it saved a lot of things, otherwise, Zhang Liao might not be able to transfer the grain and grass of this thousand people to Lu Bu now.

Met with Zhang Liao, took away the information of the Hetao, overall, the Xiongnu this winter is not very good, a year ago I wanted to go to Xiliang to loot, get the winter materials, who knows that the materials did not succeed, but was beaten by the vitality of the great injury, before and after, the loss of nearly 100,000, so that the Huns in the Hetao area of deterrence is not there.

After King Zuoxian came back, he took over the position of Shan Yu of Huchuquan, which was the most peaceful transfer of power to the Xiongnu, but after that, the large and small tribes such as Tuge, Xian Ling, and Wolf Qiang successively broke away from the control of the Huns, followed by Qin Hu and suddenly attacked Jilu Village, and entrenched in the area of Jilu Village to fight with the Huns.

In addition, the Yueshi has been attacked by the Huns, Tu each person, by the topography of the Yueshi Lake survived, not long ago, just sent people to ask for help, now the messenger has not left, although the Huns retreated, but because of last year's war, the Yueshi people gained a lot of benefits, so they were slaughtered, the first zero and the wolf Qiang joint attack, even if there is a geographical advantage of the Yueshi Lake, it is gradually a little unbearable, as a last resort, send people to Xiliang for help.

"Ha, this Moon Clan King only remembered to ask for help now, it seems that before, he did have the intention of breaking away from the control of our army." Hetao grassland, Lu Bu's big tent in the army, after reading the information that Zhang Liao handed over to him, Lu Bu sneered.

"Lord, will we save this Yueshi or not?" Pound asked.

"Save, naturally we have to save, our soldiers are all there, we can't help it, but we can't save it now, we have to let these Yueshi people have a longer memory." Lu Bu sneered.

Last year's big victory, although it brought huge benefits to the Yue people, but these benefits also made the Yue King's confidence a little over-inflated, this lesson must be written down.

"It's just my lord, our army's grain and grass now are only enough for half a month, if this half month can't meet with the Yue's family, I'm afraid our army's grain and grass won't be able to help." Pound worried.

"Isn't this Hetao his Yue family having food, and when they come here, do they still have to worry about the lack of food?" Lu Bu said with a smile: "We went to fight Linrong, unlike last time, this time we are here to occupy the Hetao, so in the Hetao, there must be a foothold." ”

When the Hetao is still Shuofang County, Linrong is the seat of Shuofang, the main stream of the Yellow River flows through the west of Linrong City, making a large area of land in the west of Linrong City become a fertile soil, the Yellow River flood overflows from here, forming a large lake, named Tu Shenze, and it is also the place where Tu people rest and recuperate.

When Lu Bubing came to the city, the sky was not completely dark, Linrong City was built in order to guard against the grassland peoples, although the city is not big, but the city wall is extremely high, more than two zhang, the head of the city can see the guards of the Tu various warriors walking.

Probably seeing that Lu Bu had few soldiers, only brought 300 people, and all the people under the tent were in double ride, the guards in the city moved their minds, directly opened the city gate, and came out with more than 1,000 people and horses to rush towards the 300 hussar camp.

"Soldiers, the time has come to prove you, prepare for the crossbow!" Lu Bu shouted, and the three hundred hussar battalions turned over and dismounted, each taking off a row of crossbows from their horses.

This row of crossbows is the product of the failure of the craftsman battalion in the study of the crossbow, each can fire nine arrow clusters at the same time, and according to Lu Bu's prompt, these nine arrow clusters are fired in a fan-shaped direction, although the strength has been reduced a lot, but within fifty steps, it can still penetrate a layer of armor, and it is also easy to load, there are specially made crossbow boxes, you can arrange nine crossbow arrows in advance, fix them on a special bracket, and directly remove the bracket on the crossbow when you use it, and press the crossbow box, even easier than loading a crossbow arrow.

The three hundred hussar battalions quickly lined up in front of Lu Bu, each pulling down the armor on his face, and indifferently watching the enemy's approach, welcoming them in their first battle since the formation of the army. (To be continued.) )