The shield walls on both sides of the ditch slope suddenly opened, and those swords and shields that were originally shields on their shoulders held cold and shining scimitars, and rushed towards the Xianbei cavalry who had completely lost the ability to charge cavalry in the chaos.

The Xianbei cavalry riding on a tall horse did not need to be afraid in the face of the infantry, but the current situation was that the sword and shield soldiers of the Wei army carried a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, and rushed down from the top of the ditch, while the Xianbei cavalry was in a big mess, and they could not organize an effective attack at all.

And the elite cavalry of the Wei army rushing down from the entrance is more like a group of fierce tigers like wolves, rushing back and forth, like entering a no-man's land, shining knives, spears, and spears, every time they go out, they must pick off a Xianbei cavalry.

The elite infantry who followed the elite cavalry into the dam ditch charged forward and firmly controlled the Xianbei cavalry who fell off their horses.

Wei Yan, who took the lead, had already been invincible in front of Tuoba Jiefen.

Tuoba Xianbei is a grassland barbarian, a martial arts tribe, each leader is the most brave warrior in the tribe, of course, after they use force to subdue the tribe men, they will no longer shoot easily, even if Xu Huang killed the warriors in his tribe just now, Tuoba Jiefen did not come out, because he felt that his big sword was only worthy of shooting when he encountered Wei Yan, the first master of the Han army, and he was too lazy to do it as an ordinary general.

Now that Wei Yan had arrived, it was time to make a move, but Tuoba Jiefen clearly felt his hands trembling.

Before he met Wei Yan, he always thought that it was actually difficult to live under the fame, because he didn't come to the border, and there was no hero in the world to make the erector famous, and now he was face to face with Wei Yan, judging from the murderous aura exuded by Wei Yan's body, it was really a vain man under the fame, and it was a question of whether he could escape this time.

Wei Yan brandished the Red Blood Knife and slashed it hard, and at the same time shouted loudly: "Tuoba Tao is here!" ”

Tuoba Jiefen raised his knife to greet him, and exclaimed: "This king is Tuoba Jiefen, not Tuoba Tao!" ”

Wei Yan was blocked by Tuoba Jiefen with a knife, and changed his move, and the tip of the knife stabbed Tuoba Jiefen's chest, and at the same time shouted: "Tuoba Yuanhao is here!" ”

Tuoba Jiefen hurriedly rode his horse and flashed, and exclaimed: "Wei Yan, I am Tuoba Jiefen, not Tuoba Yuanhao!" ”

Wei Yan stabbed the air with a halberd, and then changed his moves, and the red blood knife slid towards Tuoba Jiefen's horse's head: "Tuoba Hongji is here!" ”

Tuoba Jiefen was furious, how could Wei Yan despise himself so much, and even shouted that the three people were not his own names.

The two horses staggered for ten rounds, and Wei Yan's knife stabbed Tuoba Jiefen's front heart, lifted Tuoba Jiefen's corpse high, and shouted loudly: "Tuoba Jiefen is dead, Tuoba Xianbei is gone, and those who descend will not die!" ”

Wei Yan secretly said in his heart, although you are not a great character, but among your descendants are Tuoba Tao, the founding emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Yuanhao, the founding emperor of Western Xia, and Tuoba Hongji, the founding emperor of Dashun.

Li Yuanhao, the ancestor of the Xianbei tribe of the Tuoba clan, in the Tang Dynasty because of the suppression of the Huangchao uprising, was given the surname Li, his grandfather was Li Jiqian, Li Zicheng's original surname Tuoba, the original name was Hongji, Chongzhen 16 years in 1643 in Xiangyang called the new Shun king, to the Xixia party Xiang Li Jiqian as the ancestor.

In order to consolidate his identity as the head of the people, Tuoba Jiefen has repeatedly pretended to be a god and played ghosts, pretending to be a demigod inspired by the gods, and the herdsmen of the Tuoba tribe are ignorant, all believe it and worship him as a demigod, and now this demigod is worn on Wei Yan's halberd, like a fat sheep that is burned on a stick when the tribe barbecues, the cavalry of the Tuoba tribe who was originally not afraid of death no longer has any heart to fight, and the head man is reduced like a cow and sheep in front of the strongest commander of the Han people. The headman's ambition has nothing to do with his own Mao, so he better surrender and avoid death.

A great battle ended, and more than 5,000 of the 40,000 strong men of the Tuoba Xianbei tribe were killed in battle, and the rest were all captured.

Wei Yan sent Tai Shi Ci to lead 20,000 horses, and with the cooperation of 2,000 Xianbei troops, they rushed to the Tuoba tribe, and the 160,000 troops of the Tuoba Department quickly moved into the fortress under the coercion and temptation of the Wei army.

Immediately followed by the complete sinicization of the Tuoba Xianbei Department, those who refused to be sinicized and were not qualified to be sinicized were all sent to build cities and build roads, and the remaining troops selected 4,000 strong men to temporarily be incorporated into the Wei army's outer Xiongnu corps, and the rest either continued to graze or turned to farming.

In this war, Wei Yan not only eliminated a scourge that would harm future generations, but also obtained more than 70,000 good horses.

Wei Yan selected the best of the best, selected 1,000 horses to be distributed to various pastures for improvement, and selected 40,000 war horses to supplement the Wei army, ensuring that each division had at least one cavalry brigade, and other infantry brigades had a cavalry battalion, and the soldiers and auxiliaries belonging to the cavalry team had war horses, and at the same time ensured that each infantry team had a matching carriage, so that the sword and shield soldiers, pikemen, crossbow soldiers, equipment soldiers, engineers, medical soldiers, baggage soldiers and other infantry arms could keep up with the pace of cavalry marching.

Wei Yan was already trying to build the Wei army into an army that reacted quickly, marched quickly, and was able to use lightning tactics and long-distance attack tactics.

Those war horses that were injured and could not walk could only be killed for military rations, but those war horses that could still walk but were eliminated in other aspects, Wei Yan did not sell them to other princes, he gave these war horses to local county soldiers, the Central University Hall Military Academy, and middle schools and primary schools at all levels for training horses.

The Western Xianbei Lord was shocked to learn that the Tuoba Department was completely annihilated by Wei Yan, and the head of the Tuoba Department, Tuoba Jiefen, was killed by Wei Yan, he was very aware of Tuoba Xianbei's combat power, 40,000 Tuoba cavalry can be worth 140,000 Hun cavalry, but was easily defeated by Wei Yan, and the entire tribe was forced by Wei Yan to move inward, and Wei Yan's combat power must be reestimated.

Zhi Luoluo and several other big tribe leaders sent people into the fortress to investigate, and found out the news that Wei Yan's Wei army swept Yuan Shu, Liu Biao, Cao Cao, Bai Bo, Montenegro, and the Southern Xiongnu.

Looking at Wei Yan's past achievements, the Xianbei commanders such as Zhi Luoluo couldn't help but gasp, if Wei Yan desperately led the army out of the fortress and looked for them to fight to the death, I am afraid that the entire Western Xianbei would not be his opponent combined.

According to the meaning of Putou, the eldest son of Luoluo, the eastern, central, and western tribes of Xianbei were respected, and the head of the head Shan Yu was the big single Yu, united as one, and jointly targeted Wei Yan.

The result of the discussion between these adults and small marshals in the western Xianbei was to temporarily avoid Wei Yan's troops, retreat to the north of Yinshan, lure Wei Yan's army out of the fortress, exhaust its soldiers and horses, cut off its grain routes, and then entangled all the horses and horses in the western Xianbei, and completely defeated Wei Yan in one battle.

I have to say that the tactics of these people are vicious, but they forgot that it is almost winter now, Wei Yan will not risk getting out of the fortress, and even if he sends troops, it will be the spring season next year.

Zhi Luoluo and others led the troops to withdraw from Yinshan, Wei Yan took advantage of the situation to send troops to occupy many passes connected to the Yinshan Mountain Range, those passes were built during the period of Emperor Wu of the Qin Dynasty and Han Wudi, but they were abandoned by the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wei Yan re-sent people to repair it, sent troops to guard, each pass was stationed at least one battalion of troops, five hundred soldiers, five hundred auxiliaries, and one thousand men and horses occupied the fortress, even if Xianbei 100,000 elite cavalry attacked, it could also hold until the reinforcements arrived.

Because these passes are part of the Great Wall of the Qin and Han dynasties, if only the passes are repaired without the Great Wall, the Xianbei people will also break in along the Great Wall, and then the plug that has been built with great difficulty will be destroyed by the war.

Wei Yan was now surrounded by enemies on all sides, and could not use all his army to fight to the death against the Saiwai Xianbei, so he had to recruit the farmers who had already sown wheat in the prefecture to come to the Hetao to rebuild the Great Wall of Qin and Han.

Wei Yan didn't think about it, let go of the collapsed Great Wall and not repair it, and use cavalry against cavalry to wipe out the alien races on the grassland, but now the conditions are not ripe, Wei Yan can't let Yuzhou and Jingzhou go deep into the north to destroy Xianbei and Ding Ling, that is, Cao Cao's unification of the north back then only defeated Wuhuan, and the rest of the time is to send people to resist Xianbei.

Wei Yan did not want to continue the expedition against the Saibei Xingshi before sweeping the Central Plains, because the grasslands north of Yinshan lacked cultivation conditions, and there was no existing city to defend, which was just a waste of troops.

In the Cold Weapon Age, the Great Wall was both the front line of defense for the farming peoples and the forward base for launching counterattacks against the nomads. Wei Yan deployed mobile troops in the depth of the rear of the Great Wall to cope with the battle, and the Great Wall was not yet the front line of defense, but the starting line of attack and the line of communication, and the observation posts deployed in front of the Great Wall penetrated into the extreme distance, and the front line was 1,000 kilometers north of the Great Wall. In this era of cold weapons, the nomadic cavalry had excellent mobility and strong attack power, but they were powerless against the city wall defense system, so the construction of the Great Wall could indeed effectively resist the invasion of the northern peoples.

Wei Yan had made up his mind, first repaired the Great Wall, prevented the wolves of the grassland from entering the houses of the Han people, and then went to the grassland to kill the wolves after the other coyotes (Cao Cao and other forces) in the house were eliminated.

The Great Wall of Qin and Han Dynasty has more than 1,000 miles in the Hetao area, most of them are built on the north slope of the mountain, it is dangerous to rely on the mountain, because the slope takes the potential, the valley pass and the Pingchuan area are mostly built with rammed earth, the mountain is mostly built with stones or soil and stones, climb high and look, the Great Wall goes up and down along the mountain, the shape is like a swimming dragon.

The wrong foreign policy from the beginning of Emperor Guangwu, resulting in the Great Wall being abandoned for many years, even if the general Dou Xian defeated the Northern Xiongnu is difficult to recover the decline of the border defense, because the imperial court is in charge of those family ministers, they have the courage to fight privately and cowardly in the public fight, do not pay attention to the blow to the alien race, after more than 200 years of wind and rain, the general stone Great Wall is still well preserved, most of the earthen walls are destroyed, and the city wall built of earth and stone has collapsed more than half due to the erosion of many years of wind and rain.

Fortunately, the rebuilt Great Wall only accounts for one-tenth of the Great Wall, and most of the cornerstones are there, Wei Yan mobilized 400,000 people, and it took a winter to complete the repair of the main part, and the remaining details were repaired by the border people in the Hetao area, and the people of Jizhou received their wages and returned to their homes.

The old passes and beacon towers on the Great Wall have all been renovated and perfected, and there are many cities where border households live on the Great Wall.

The repaired Great Wall is two zhang high outside, seven feet high inside, nine feet wide at the top, one zhang wide at the bottom, and the wall is mostly made of cyan boulders. These big stones are the people and garrisons who built the city to cut down the nearby mountain stones one by one, and then build them on the city after grinding, each stone is dozens of pounds in weight, so that the Great Wall that is built up dry and built up has not collapsed for thousands of years. On the inside of the city wall, a beacon tower was set up every two miles, and a soldier was stationed on each beacon tower.

Wei Yan's forced sinicization of the Huns made some of the Xiongnu nobles who had surrendered unable to bear the deprivation of their status, so they rebelled, and the original Hun Zhonglang general Zhu Ling had already received a secret report from Fengyingwei, and swept away those rebellious Xiongnu nobles by thunderous means.

After the Xiongnu were forcibly sinicized, the Xiongnu as a tribe no longer existed, Zhu Ling's Hun Zhonglang General was moved to Hu Xianbei Zhonglang General, specializing in appeasing those Xianbei people who were willing to move from outside the Saiwai to the Senei to accept the Sinicization, and led 20,000 horses to guard Lingshuo City in Shuofang County.

This time in the dam ditch defeated Tuoba Xianbei, the main crossbow soldiers were trained by Xu Huang, Wei Yan recorded Xu Huang's merits, promoted him from the position of Du Liao General Cheng to Du Liao General, in charge of all Hu affairs, under the jurisdiction of the Xianbei Zhonglang General, the Wuhuan Zhonglang General, the Dongqiang Zhonglang General and their subordinate troops, Xu Huang's men and horses in addition to the headquarters of 20,000 Wei troops, but also under the jurisdiction of 20,000 Huns elite cavalry.

It could have been selected from more than a million Huns, but Wei Yan saw in the battle of the Huns against Tuoba Xianbei that the current Xiongnu had long lost the spirit of the Maudun period, and were no longer the grassland heroes who crisscrossed the grassland, and had become mud that could not be painted on the wall.

The best of the 20,000 Hun cavalry was led by Xu Huang, all the officers were Han Chinese, all wore the armor of the Han army, and all the training was according to the strict standards of the Wei army, and they now look no different from the Han cavalry, except that they look a little different. Although the Hun cavalry that was eliminated belonged to the ordinary herdsmen and peasants, they were also incorporated into the county soldiers, county soldiers, and township soldiers, and were responsible for local defense tasks.

Yan Rou will serve as the Wuhuan Zhonglang, but Yan Rou is new to Wei Yan, in addition to helping Tian Chou contact Wuhuan Shan Yu, he has not yet made a big contribution, so he will temporarily be the captain of Wuhuan Guard, and after making great achievements, he will be promoted to Wuhuan Zhonglang General.

Wei Yan assigned the 4,000 Tuoba Xianbei Jingqi to Yan Rou, and asked him to lead and assist Wuhuan in dealing with the threat of Xianbei in the central and eastern Xianbei to Youzhou.