In the blink of an eye, Han Jiang saw that the banner of the cavalry was not the banner of the Huns at all, but the banner of the Wei army, with a flying tiger embroidered on it, a fierce tiger with a pair of wings, and his demeanor was very powerful, with the momentum of swallowing mountains and rivers.

Han Jiang couldn't help but exclaim: "It's not a good thing, this is the most elite guard division of the Wei army!" ”

Han Jiang hurriedly led his henchmen cavalry to flee back to the camp, Han Jiang thought that the Hun cavalry was the fastest on the grassland, but he didn't expect Wei Yan's Guards Flying Tiger Division, which was really like a tiger with wings, and caught up in an instant, while shooting with a strong horse crossbow, while shouting in Xiongnu language, the content of the shouting was the same as what the young man Han Broom said just now.

More than 200 people led by Han Jiang were shot and killed in an instant, and all those who surrendered without dismounting were shot, and the Wei army swept away this tribe and dispatched 4,000 cavalry, which can be described as lions fighting rabbits.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Han Jiang turned his horse's head and no longer ran to the tribe, but went straight to the west and fled in the wilderness.

Han Broom rode his horse to Wei Yanwu and pointed in the direction where Han Jiang fled: "General, that is our tribe leader." ”

Wei Yan squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, a fat Hun was fleeing west under the protection of dozens of remnants of the Huns: "Why didn't he flee back to your tribal station?" ”

Han Broom smiled and said: "General, there are only a thousand young and strong men in our tribe, and most of them are unwilling to die for him, so he has no choice but to go to the big tribes in the west. ”

Wei Yan pointed to the direction of Han Jiang's rout, turned his head and ordered: "Evil, you send a scout team to follow Han Jiang to see where he is fleeing, find out the information of the tribes there, and report to me quickly!" ”

Dian Wei received the order, sent a scout team, followed behind Han Jiang, and went straight to the west.

This is an endless grassland, if the scout team is too close, it can't hide its whereabouts, it can only follow from a distance, more than two miles away from Han Jiang, Han Jiang looked back, and he couldn't see the trace of the scout team, so he thought that no one continued to track, and fled to the big tribe with confidence, but he didn't know that his trace couldn't escape the clairvoyant mirror in the scout captain's hand behind.

After Wei Yan succeeded in making transparent glass a few months ago, he tried his best to make convex lenses and concave lenses to make clairvoyants, and until now, every brigade-level general and every scout captain has a clairvoyant mirror in his hand.

Not to mention the scout's tracking of the head of the tribe Han Jiang, Wei Yan led 4,000 cavalry to surround this small tribe, under the persuasion of Han Broom, the Xiongnu traitor, most of the people of this tribe bowed down, only more than 100 relatives of the same clan of the head man refused to give in, but were pointed by thousands of crossbows of the Wei army, they were forced to dismount and surrender, but they had missed the opportunity to become Sinicized Huns.

Treated in the same way as the dozens of Hun tribes swept up before, the 6,000 Huns of this tribe were divided into four types of people:

In the first class, there are more than 200 strong men with good riding and archery skills and admiration for the Han Dynasty, so they were incorporated into the Wei Army's outer Hun Corps, and the current Xiongnu Corps is now the nominal commander of the Southern Hun Shan Yu Liu Bao, and the actual commander is Xu Huang, the general of Duliao, and Zhu Ling, the general of the Huns.

Second, more than 1,000 people were unwilling to continue the herding life of living on water and grass, and were willing to learn farming practices from the Han Chinese, so they were incorporated into the Shuozhou Construction Corps (Shuozhou is the prefecture that Wei Yan planned to set up in the Hetao area in the future).

In the third class, the remaining herdsmen, more than 3,000 people continued to graze in the Hetao area, but they were temporarily restricted from using weapons, their horses, bows and arrows, weapons, and armor were all temporarily confiscated, and they were incorporated into the livestock ranch in the Shuozhou Construction Corps, and followed the scientific animal husbandry method formulated by Wei Yan according to the tragic lessons of the grasslands in later generations to graze, and when the overall situation has been decided, the local county soldiers should be established, and those who meet the conditions to become local county soldiers will be returned horses, weapons, and armor.

Fourth, there are more than 2,000 Xiongnu who do not want to be Sinicized or are no longer qualified to be Sinicized, and they will also be incorporated into the Shuozhou Construction Corps, but what awaits them is heavy labor in building cities.

During the period of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, many counties and counties were set up in the Hetao area, the world was in turmoil at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, most of these counties and counties were abandoned, the Huns did not understand the technology of building cities, and were not used to living in the city, so they did not repair, Wei Yan summoned farmers from Bingzhou and Sizhou to rebuild these abandoned cities, and the people could be summoned from Bingzhou and Sizhou, which consumed time and food, and it was better to make the local Huns on the spot.

Wei Yan incorporated all the Xiongnu tribes who were wiped out who did not agree to speak Chinese, learn Chinese characters, wear Han clothes, follow Han customs, grow Han hair, marry Han people, and change Han surnames into the engineering team for building the city, and all of them were dispersed to prevent them from rebelling in tandem, only paying rations for the day, not paying wages, and after repairing a city, he also let them build bridges and pave roads, open mines and cut wood.

If this kind of labor reform still can't make them succumb, can't let them accept sinicization, then let them continue to build cities, anyway, the entire Hetao area is four or five thousand miles in radius, to set up forty or fifty counties, to build four or five hundred dock forts, these Huns who are not subject to sinicization are busy.

Wei Yan did not have much affection for the Huns who had invaded the border of the Han Dynasty every year, and the standards he implemented for sinicization were comprehensive and thorough, requiring that they must speak Chinese, write Chinese characters, wear Hanfu, grow Han hair, follow Han customs, and change Han surnames.

Wei Yan did not launch most of the policies this time like in the eight counties of Yiyang in the way of encouragement and inducement, and most of the measures for the sinicization of the Huns this time were forced, so they had to do it, otherwise they would go to build a city!

Although it was not as tragic as the Manchu Tartars of the later generations who kept their hair and did not keep their heads, Wei Yan's measures were more effective, because people may be inspired by blood and refuse to accept something for a while, and even if they lose their lives, they will shout that they will be a good man in twenty years, but if they are allowed to work hard for decades, they will be succumbed to fatigue, no status, and no dignity over time.

Wei Yan's army advanced more than a hundred miles to the west, and the scout team that followed the head of the tribe came to report: "General Qiyu, that head man went to a place called Qingyanze, where the jungle is dense and hides more than 100,000 Hun cavalry. ”

"Hundreds of thousands of Hun cavalry?" Wei Yan gasped: "So, the rest of the Xiongnu tribes are all in one place?" ”

Xu Shu behind Wei Yan muttered: "This Hetao is entrenched in hundreds of Xiongnu tribes that are independent of the Southern Xiongnu and subordinate to each other, and they usually have grievances with each other and are not united, so they are often bullied by the Xianbei people. This time, the Sinicization policy of the lord was pushed completely and simply, and it is estimated that the leaders of those Xiongnu tribes saw that the lord was really moving, and their single tribe was not the opponent of the Wei army at all, so they didn't care about the previous suspicions, and joined forces to resist the Wei army. Of course, this is just my speculation, and it needs to be verified by the agent's latest information. ”

A day later, Xu Shu's agents from the Hun tribes in the hinterland of the Hetao sent information confirming that the remaining Xiongnu tribes had united and formed 140,000 iron cavalry to try to fight against the Wei army.

At the same time, Jia Xu returned from an envoy from the Qianghu tribes west of the Hetao, and he found out from the Qianghu tribe that several Qianghu tribes were also involved in the Xiongnu alliance army.

In the past few days, Wei Yan led an army of 80,000 people, only swept a dozen small tribes, every time the battle just started, the Huns succumbed, Wei Yan felt very unenjoyable, and very boring, if it was pushed over smoothly like this, it was not challenging at all, and it was very time-consuming, the Huns gathered 140,000 horses at once, although this bone suddenly became very big and difficult to gnaw, but it was good to be able to complete a battle, to end the war before winter.

The agent in front also brought back the terrain around Qingyanze, although Qingyanze is a saltwater lake like the salt pond in Hedong, but the surrounding land is unexpectedly not saline-alkali land, but has grown a lot of lush grass and trees, those grasses and trees have grown for tens of thousands of years, it can be said that it covers the sky and the sun, and now it is nearly October, in late autumn and early winter, pieces of yellow leaves have withered, it has not rained for more than two months, and the grass in the place is no longer green, but looks a little withered yellow.

There is a mountain next to Qingyanze, called Qingyan Mountain, the mountain is not high, but it is very broad, there is a valley in the mountain, which can accommodate more than 100,000 people, the 140,000 Hun cavalry is hidden here, and the old and weak women and children of the Hun tribe are still grazing outside, as if those young and middle-aged men have never left their tribe.

Obviously, the 140,000 Hun cavalry ambushed in Qingyanze, waiting for Wei Yan's army to pass there, so as to take the opportunity to ambush, because in the middle of this valley near Qingyanze is a plank road built during the Qin Shi Huang period, which has not been flooded by barren grass for hundreds of years.

If this information is not detected by Wei Yan, he is full of ambition because he swept away the dozen or so small Hun tribes before, and swaggers past from Qingyanze, he will definitely be ambushed by the Hun cavalry, Wei Yan's headquarters has 80,000 men and horses, and the real cavalry is less than 20,000, and when he encounters 140,000 Hun cavalry, there is only one way to die.

But now Wei Yan already knows that the Huns have laid out their pockets in Qingyanze, and when he gets in, he will be sorry for the good intentions of the Huns if he doesn't come to a plan.

Wei Yan followed the army to the expedition of several strategists and generals in the army did some research, and issued orders one after another.

Wei Yan's army set up a large camp fifty miles outside the Qingyanze Valley, and the news came out that the army had been marching for many days, very tired, and had recently captured a lot of Hun women, and had a three-day holiday, and everyone was so happy.

When the news reached the Qingyan Valley, the Huns were furious and wanted to rush out immediately and have a hard fight with Wei Yan's army, but they were stopped by a leader of a large Xiongnu tribe.

The head of the name is Li Jian, is the helpless surrender of the Xiongnu after the famous general Li Ling, Li Ling was the Xiongnu Shan Yu named the right school king, the Li family in the Xiongnu after three hundred years of painstaking management, has become one of the Xiongnu several large tribes, but Li Ling's descendants have been at ease to be the Huns, there will be no longer Li Ling's hesitant state of mind.

Li Jian loudly dissuaded: "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you still remember, when my ancestors resisted with 5,000 foot soldiers and the story of the Marquis of Wei was single in 80,000 fine cavalry, Wei Yan's headquarters had 80,000 people and horses, although the cavalry was less than 20,000, but there were more than 40,000 crossbowmen, you and I were not as good as the elite of the cavalry, and Wei Yan's bow and crossbow strength was especially greater than that of my ancestors, not to mention that Wei Yan also had Zhu Ling, Zhao Yun, Xu Huang and other three-way reinforcements, if we ventured out, I am afraid not only could not break through the camp of the Wei army, On the contrary, it is possible to be besieged by the Wei army's four-way army, please think twice. ”

Li Ling went out of the fortress with 5,000 infantry that year, encountered in Junji Mountain and the Marquis of Yu was alone with 80,000 fine cavalry, with a cart as a battalion, and retreated until he was a hundred miles away from the Great Wall, if he did not run out of arrows, he could hold on to the Great Wall, he would not be captured, and even then he shot and killed more than 10,000 Hun cavalry.

Li Jian used the stories of his ancestors to warn these Xiongnu leaders not to despise the bows and crossbows of the Han people.

These Hun leaders all comprehended and decided to lurk in the Qingyan Valley, waiting for Wei Yan to come up automatically.

And Wei Yan has come to the periphery of Qingyan Mountain, and what remained in the camp is 40,000 auxiliary soldiers, Wei Yan has already led 40,000 soldiers, taking advantage of the night, people and horses are insured, and quietly surround Qingyan Mountain.

At the same time, Zhao Yun, Zhu Ling, and Xu Huang's men and horses also came to Qingyan Mountain overnight, and Zhang Yan's men and horses also arrived at Qingyan Mountain.

Wei Yan stood in a piece of grass more than one person high, quietly looking at this dense mountain forest, Qingyan Mountain, what a good name, but unfortunately it will soon become Black Rock Mountain.

Behind Wei Yan, the 40,000 elites of the Wei army were all lying on their stomachs in the grass, and the war horses were also quietly crouching in the grass, holding a piece in their mouths, without making a sound, just the sound of the sharp cold wind brushing the treetops and weeds.

Wei Yan raised his head and stared at the sky, it was pitch black, he couldn't see his five fingers, it was really a dark and windy murderous night in the moon.

In the depths of the valley, the Huns were asleep, and the Huns who were on guard were also squatting there and not stopping, they couldn't see clearly, and they couldn't notice that there were black shadows constantly scurrying around the valley, and those black shadows were pouring some dark black liquid into the woods.

More than an hour later, Zhang Yanfei came to Wei Yan and whispered: "General, all the oil you ordered to pour has been spilled, do you want to light the fire now?" ”

Wei Yan went north this time, passed through a place, suddenly saw the surface of the black oil exposed, the locals only know that this oil is poisonous, but do not know the function, Wei Yan tried to use the oil to ignite, the fire rose up, the locals exclaimed again and again, Wei Yan ordered someone to take hundreds of cans for backup, Wei Yan this expedition but forgot to carry the hundreds of cans of oil, but he saw the oil exposed in several places in the Hetao area.

Wei Yan was surprised at first, because he thought that oil was generally buried deep in the earth's crust under the continent or ocean, but then he was surprised and thought of using oil for war.