Chapter 31: Interception
The land of the Hetao, originally Shuofang County, there was a short period of prosperity in the Western Han Dynasty, and then Guangwu Zhongxing, the national strength compared with the Western Han Dynasty, but there was a decline, the Southern Xiongnu attached, in order to enhance the national strength, gave up a large area of land on the border, and moved the border people inward, but the land of the Hetao was assigned to the Southern Xiongnu to recuperate, but also in order to use the Southern Xiongnu against the Northern Xiongnu, Shuofang County also moved out of the Hetao. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The decision at that time was undoubtedly very in line with the situation at that time, but after two hundred years, time passed, the Northern Xiongnu, who had flourished on the grassland, after a short period of glory, has now been gradually replaced by Xianbei, the Southern Xiongnu originally had no meaning of existence, if according to the strategy set at that time, it should be moved back to the interior, the implementation of sinicization, and completely erased the name of the Xiongnu in history, but unfortunately, the Han dynasty declined, and was no longer able to use troops abroad, the Xiongnu did not produce, when the Han family was strong, can still bow down to the vassals, but with the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the Han family's deterrence of the Huns is constantly decreasing, and the Huns began to become restless.
The river water is harmful, only a set of profits, the land of the river is irrigated by the river water for a long time, the soil is fertile, suitable for farming, there is a plug in the south of the Yangtze River, if it is used to develop, ten years of time, enough to create a rich county, but it is a pity that the Huns do not produce, only know how to plunder, and the fertile land will be wasted, with the decline of the Han family, the Central Plains are chasing the deer, the Huns who are here have become more and more rampant, and the southward raids are becoming more and more frequent, so that the people's livelihood in the Xiliang and Bingzhou areas has withered, but so far, such a large-scale invasion, Or for the first time.
On the edge of Jincheng County, a village that should have been prosperous has been shrouded in fire at this moment, Lu Bu with five thousand cavalry, silently watching in the fire, the corpse that has been silent is gradually engulfed by the fire, and vaguely, you can still see the expressions of despair, hatred and anger of these people before they die.
Lu Bu quietly looked at the scene in front of him, there was surprisingly no anger in his eyes, very calm, calm, a little scary, this is the troubled times, the chaos in the Han Dynasty, the division of the princes, and the lives of people are like mustard, and it is also constantly consuming the national strength of the Han Dynasty, until now, a vassal race dares to show its fangs to the Han people.
Lu Bu calmly turned his horse's head and looked at the five thousand knights behind him, these people were basically Xiliang people, some of them surrendered to the army, and there were also elites brought by Ma Chao, Lu Bu could see the anger on their faces, but in this emotion, there was still a sense of numbness and indifference.
Not in the North, I don't know Hu Ji, born in Liangzhou, this kind of human tragedy, they don't know how many times they have experienced it, although they are angry, but more, they are numb, they are used to it.
"My name is Lu Bu!" Looking at the soldiers in front of him, Lu Bu slowly spoke, these five thousand cavalry are not elite, and it can even be said that they are a miscellaneous army, but after this battle, they will be the elite who will make the aliens frightened and the world shocked: "General of the Great Han Zhengxi, Wen Hou!" ”
Everyone's eyes gathered, and they looked at Lu Bu for some reason, including Han De, who was accompanying him, and they didn't understand why Lu Bu said this inexplicably at this time.
"But I still have an identity." Lu Bu's gaze swept over everyone coldly: "I'm still a Han!" ”
"I do not know since when these lowly Huns dared to show us their ugly fangs, and since when our countrymen could only weep and wail under the hooves of their horses, and be slaughtered by them like lambs; I don't even know why Han Sui, who is also a Han Chinese, wants to lead these aliens to slaughter our compatriots! ”
"Among you, there are Xiliang people, Qiang people, and many more, not long ago, they were Han Sui's subordinates! But now, I just want to tell you that you are just like me, we have a common name, and that is Han people! Lu Bu looked at the eyes of five thousand people: "In my eyes, each of you is my robe, today, regardless of status, not to mention the official position, I, Lu Bu, as a Han people, just want to get back a justice for my Han people, with the weapons in my hands, for these innocent and dead compatriots, to those lowly Huns to ask for an explanation, maybe bloodshed, even death, our name, may not be known by future generations, can only be in this boundless wilderness, to be a nameless skeleton, But even if the last drop of blood is shed, it will never let any Huns stained with the blood of our Han people survive from this land! ”
The low words had a special appeal, many people silently squeezed their weapons, Lu Bu's words, so that their hearts that had gradually become numb suddenly rose a scorching heat, with Lu Bu's words, continued to accumulate, long-lost blood, at this moment, there was an urge as if to be ignited.
Han De stood in front of Lu Bu, only to feel that the blood in his chest seemed to be boiling, and he desperately needed to vent, so he suddenly raised the mountain opening axe in his hand, raised his arms and shouted: "I will not destroy the Huns, and I will not return it!" ”
"If you don't destroy the Huns, you swear not to pay it back!" More and more soldiers raised their weapons in their hands, and the sound that was not high gradually converged into a wave that resounded through the sky, and the hatred that had been buried in their chests for many years was gradually ignited, converging into a terrible roar, which changed the color of the heavens and the earth.
Lu Bu raised his hand, and the sound stopped, and the soldiers looked at Lu Bu with a frenzy in their eyes.
"Are you afraid of the disparity between the enemy and our forces?"
"Don't be afraid!" A neat cry echoed through the wilderness.
"Okay, the enemy hasn't gone far yet, pick up your weapons, use the enemy's despicable blood and human heads, and tell these Hu people who dare to violate my borders, and those who offend my great Han Tianwei, even if they are far away, they will be punished!"
"Even if it is far away, it will be punished!"
"Even if it is far away, it will be punished!"
"Let's go!"
The iron hooves shattered the silence of the night, and the five thousand knights, with a full of agitation and murderous aura, with a ferocity that seemed to destroy everything, followed the traces left by the Huns, like a torrent in the dark night, towards the front of nothingness.
When Lu Bu's troops saw the camp of the Huns, these Huns sat in the camp that had just been erected, scattered in every corner of the camp at will, and countless Huns were celebrating today's harvest in the bonfire.
The sound of horses' hooves knocking on the earth shattered this fleeting joy, and the scream that broke through the air woke up the drunken Hun warriors, accompanied by a dense sound of breaking the sky, and countless clusters of arrows falling from the sky with terrible screams tore apart the silence of the night.
"Woo~Woo~Woo~Woo~......"
The desolate howl came to an abrupt end with a miserable scream, and the commander of the thousand people had just turned over and mounted his horse under the support of his subordinates, and a cluster of arrows broke through the air, coldly piercing his throat, and looked blankly at the Han soldiers and horses rushing into the camp in front of him, the commander of the thousand people opened his mouth wide, and grabbed the void a few times unwillingly, and slipped down from the horse, and there was no sound.
"Lord, this is just a team of 1,000 people, not the main force of the Huns!" Han De led the men and horses to kill in the camp, set fire to all the camp tents, and came to Lu Bu's side.
"Take all the war horses, follow those Hun deserters, and continue to chase and kill!" Lu Bu picked up a blood-stained leg of mutton, bit it hard, and looked at Han De: "Tell the brothers, the food is eaten on horseback, and we will change horses and not people!" ”
"Whoa!" Han Deshun picked up a piece of mutton, put it in his mouth and refused fiercely a few times, began to gather the soldiers and horses, and distributed all the collected war horses to everyone, and chased the Huns who fled with Lu Bu's shout.
Although such a pursuit was not safe, Lu Bu had no choice, he had no more information, he could only fight the time difference, and try to kill the opponent's living force before the enemy could react.
Half an hour later, following the fleeing Huns, they again found a camp of 1,000 men, and before the enemy could react, it was annihilated by the surging cavalry, and the tent was reduced to ashes in a monstrous flame, along with the corpses.
At the last moment before dawn, Lu Bu finally found a main force of the Huns after exterminating five thousand teams in a row, the leader was named Liu Gan, one of the five southern Xiongnu marshals, Cao Cao in order to divide the power of the Xiongnu, the Southern Xiongnu was divided into five divisions, all of which were led by the Xiongnu with Han blood.
However, in Lu Bu's view, these are far from enough, when the Southern Xiongnu went south to naturalize, but 50,000 people, but now, after I don't know how many years of development, a southern marshal can take 20,000 people to Xiliang to plunder, this time to the south, Han Sui didn't know what excuse to use, he actually invited all the five Huns, counting the Huns who stayed in the Hetao, the population of the Southern Xiongnu is now not under 300,000, what a terrible number, this is a race where all the people are soldiers!
To kill, and to kill, to kill until they are cold, to kill them to extinction, only when these people are beaten, they will be as obedient as dogs!
The first light of dawn dispelled the darkness and shrouded this wasteland, 15,000 Huns under the command of Liu Gan, lined up in a loose formation, looking at the Han army in front of them that seemed to appear in this land out of thin air last night, but their hearts were dripping blood, and in just one night's effort, they lost 5,000 elite Hun warriors, and now, it seems that more people are going to die.
At Liu Gan's signal, a powerful Xiongnu general came to the front of the two armies, brandished the mace in his hand, and said something that Lu Bu couldn't understand, and the content was no longer important, because the war, at the moment when Lu Bu decided to send troops, was no longer avoidable.
"Noise!" Lu Bu snorted coldly, Pegasus came out, the red rabbit horse was like a flame, galloping, in an instant, had crossed a distance of more than ten zhang away, appeared beside the Hun general, in the stunned gaze of the Hun general, Fang Tian's halberd reflected the morning sun, dragged through a perfect arc in an instant, swept past the throat of the Hun general, and the big head of the bucket was accompanied by **** The blood rolled in the air and fell to the ground, staring at the unknown world.
The most courageous warrior under Liu Gan's command died in the hands of the other party at the moment of the battle, which made the Hun soldiers under Liu Gan's command fall into a dead silence in an instant.
Lu Bu rode his horse and stood, slowly raised the Fang Tian painting halberd in his hand, and pointed at all the Huns with contempt, although he did not speak, but the disdainful eyes and movements completely aroused the fierceness in the bones of the Huns, almost at the same time, the eight Hun generals roared and brandished their weapons to kill Lu Bu.
"Today, I will ask you to wait for these barbarians to see the vast heavenly power of my great man!" Lu Bu snorted coldly and urged the horse to catch up.
At the same time that the first one of the fiercest generals raised his scimitar, a challenge picked up the opponent's whole person from the horse, the person was in the air, he had been disemboweled, and his internal organs were mixed with blood and splashed on the ground, followed by the second general and the third general approached almost at the same time, the Fang Tian painting halberd in Lu Bu's hand suddenly turned into two afterimages, and the two generals didn't even have time to see clearly, their bodies were like being hit hard, and they flew out screaming and flying out.
The fourth martial artist who was slightly behind turned over with a strange python slap from Lu Bu, and the entire Fang Tian painting halberd was submerged in his head, and with Lu Bu's arms trembling, the whole head exploded from the middle.
Blood splattered on the four people who rushed behind him, along with their brains.
Just in the blink of an eye, the four fierce generals were cut off the horse, Lu Bu's murderous methods made the four Hun generals who followed a little confused, and Lu Bu solved one easily, and the other three were already frightened when they saw this, seeing Lu Bu's eyes sweeping, they were frightened, how dare they fight again, turn the horse and leave.
Lu Bu didn't chase either, he hung up Fang Tian's halberd in a hurry, took off the sky-shaking bow, and pulled out three arrow clusters from the quiver, the three arrows were wound at the same time, and he didn't aim at them, and he was facing the direction of the three of them.
"Puff~"
The three muffled sounds sounded almost at the same time, and the three Hun generals heard the sound of the bowstring and wanted to dodge, but their chests were cold, and there was already an extra arrow on their chests.
The three of them turned around at the same time, glanced at Lu Bu incredulously, poofed, and fell off their horses together.
The noisy battlefield fell into an eerie silence in an instant, and in a blink of an eye, the Huns had already lost nine fierce generals, and the Huns looked at Lu Bu with a look of fear.
"The Lord is mighty!" Behind, after a moment of silence, Han De suddenly raised his arms and shouted.
"Roar, roar, roar~" The warrior who was already exhausted after a night of running around witnessed Lu Bu slashing the nine Huns in a blink of an eye, and the fatigue of the night seemed to be swept away in an instant, and the blood in his body seemed to be ignited at this moment, and he roared excitedly with Han De.
Almost at the same time, Lu Bu raised the Fang Tian Painting Halberd in his hand and shouted: "Kill!" ”
Five thousand iron horses, under the leadership of Han De, fiercely killed the panicked Hun army, ten thousand horses galloped, five thousand iron horses under the leadership of Lu Bu like a torrent, ruthlessly rolled towards those Huns who had been frightened by Lu Bu.
"Kill, kill me, don't escape!" Liu Gan roared in Xiongnu in a panic, but the terrifying mood spread among the Huns like a virus as Lu Bu charged, and in the face of Lu Bu's monstrous might, no matter how Liu Gan beat and scolded, he couldn't stop the continuous appearance of deserters.
In the roar, Liu Gan suddenly found that a flame had been killed into the array, Lu Bu seemed to be really a flame, everywhere he went, devouring the lives of the Huns, Fang Tian's halberd was like a giant dragon swimming, although the Huns were numerous, but they were killed by Lu Bu and were frightened, and the iron horsemen who followed ruthlessly harvested the lives of the Huns.
"Retire! Retire! Liu Gan suddenly regretted a little, regretting why he came to Xiliang, as long as he could escape this catastrophe, he swore that he would never come to Xiliang again in his life, and he would never want to face that demonic man again.
In fact, there is no need for Liu Gan to say, the Huns have begun to retreat, but Liu Gan still wants to recover some losses as much as possible, shouting in the crowd, trying to stabilize the morale of the army.
"Want to go?" Lu Bu had already noticed Liu Gan who was shouting in the crowd, snorted coldly, and urged the horse to pounce towards Liu Gan, Fang Tian's halberd flew up and down, and where it passed, flesh and blood flew sideways, and the stumps and broken arms fell to the ground, and the Huns were even more panicked, pushing each other, and many people just landed, and before they got up, they were trampled into meat sauce by their hooves.
"Hu Gou, leave your life and leave!" Lu Bu cut through the crowd like a chopping wave, and came to Liu Gan, and in Liu Gan's horrified gaze, he raised his halberd and cut Liu Gan off the horse.
This battle, from early morning to noon, only ended, Lu Bu led the men and horses all the way to chase and kill the Huns for nearly fifty miles, before the 20,000 Huns were all wiped out, although there were also fish that slipped through the net, but the Huns under the command of the southern commander were completely finished.
It's a pity that after some counting, 5,000 soldiers also suffered nearly 1,000 casualties in this pursuit battle, which made Lu Bu secretly heartbroken, but those who survived had a little more ferocity than they had before. (To be continued.) )