At the same time that the Donghu people's grazing land was raided, a small battle had just come to an end in the upper reaches of Raole Water, a hundred miles to the southeast. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the past few years, the Yan State has often been harassed by the Donghu attack, and this time the Zhao State took the lead in the expedition, so they naturally had to send troops to help. But along the west foot of the Gravel Mountain, the Yan State rode north, never expected that the weakest self in the Third Route Army would encounter the main force of Donghu.

The battle was uneventful, and under the siege of thousands of Donghu cavalry, the Yan army was defeated, and no more than 500 people fled, and the rest were either killed in battle or killed on the spot after surrendering - the Donghu people relied on mobility to win this war, and this was not a good time to take prisoners.

The ownerless horses were fleeing in terror, the corpses of the Yan soldiers were scattered all over the wilderness, and the riders of Donghu were pinching the buns of their corpses, cutting off the heads with scimitars, or peeling off whole scalps and hanging bloodily on the reins of their horses, which were their trophies. Almost everyone will cut something from the enemy they have killed, and along with the weapons and armor they have captured, they will go to the great leader, show off their strength, and reaffirm their loyalty.

Liu He, the "King of Donghu", was located in the center of the battlefield, and he had a typical Donghu appearance: short and stout, with a large, round head, a wide face shaped like a large cake, and his head was shaved except for a bunch of hair on the top of his head, and he also wore a golden head ring inlaid with turquoise. Thick eyebrows, almond eyes, and a bright gaze. He had a thick beard and only a small stiff beard under his chin, long earlobes with holes, and a golden earring. He was dressed in a bearded robe, a loose robe with calf length and slits on both sides, a leopard skin around his shoulders, a bow and quiver that he never left his body in adulthood tied to his belt, hanging in front of his left leg, and a quiver hanging horizontally from his waist, with an arrow pointing to the right.

This is the dress of this "King of Donghu", except for the golden crown, it is no different from the ordinary people. He was sitting in an overturned Yan Guorong car with a golden knife on the ground, and his alliance guard was standing beside him with a large wine bag. Whenever a warrior came to offer the spoils of war, Liu He would pat him on the chest and praise him, give him a glass of wine to drink, and generously declare that everything seized was their private property!

In the evening, the riders who had gone to chase the rout of the Yan army also returned, holding high the banners of the Yan people, dragging the mangled corpse of the Yan commander behind their horses, and offering his fine iron swords to Liu He.

"What is Chinese is good."

After Liu He took the sword, he pulled it out and looked at it, praised it, and after showing it to the people next to him, he said proudly: "Although the Chinese people have sharp armor, they will be sent to support us after all, last time, and this time is the same." ”

Migrating to the depths of the steppe to lure the enemy is Donghu's tactic.

Like the Scythians in the far west, the Donghu were largely nomadic herders, and the rhythm of their lives was regulated by their flocks of sheep, horses, cattle, and camels. In search of water and pasture, they migrate with their herds. They ate meat and dairy products, clothing and leather, fur coats, and felt tents. Practiced a vague shamanism based on the worship of the heavens and the worship of certain sacred mountains.

Because of the predatory law of "survival of the strong" on the steppe, and the instinct to obtain population and food from the cultivated areas of the city, they will appear on the edge of the cultivated land by surprise, raid people and animals, and loot property, and then slip away with the spoils of war before any counterattack may come.

When they were pursued, the tactics of the Donghu were to lure the enemy army deep into the inhospitable steppe and then cut off their backup and supplies, until their own enemies were dragged down and exhausted by hunger and thirst, and then they reappeared and punished their pursuers with thunderstorms of arrows, destroying them in one fell swoop!

More than half a year ago, Yu Xi went on a northern expedition, but he pounced on a void and finally died with hatred. This time the tactics of the Hu people were the same, when they learned that the Zhao and Yan coalition forces were coming, Liu He had the intention of avoiding the strong and attacking the weak, he sent a cavalry to contain the Zhao army, and used the rangers to lure the Yan army north, and the commander of the Yan army, who lacked caution, was fooled and was destroyed when he went deep into the upper reaches of Raole Water.

The triumphant Liu He didn't know that his spring grazing land had been wiped out by a Zhao army that had not appeared in their field of vision, and he didn't expect that the more than 10,000 Zhao troops that should have been led away by their own troops suddenly re-marched south and occupied the upper reaches of Raoleshui......

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"The soul returns, to see the family state!"

In the upper reaches of Rao Le Shui, where Zhao Jun once camped half a year ago, a sacrifice is underway.

There are not many stones in the grassland, but at the edge of the babbling water, a large pile of stones is collected and piled up.

This is a tomb, a thousand mounds, Xu Qu, the commander of the Central Route Army of Zhao State, is bowing to this mound, and the deputy general Xinzhi Dog also presents the captured Donghu horse and the head of the Hu Ranger as an offering.

Ten years ago, Xu Qu, the guard of the sentence note, is now in the position of Sima of Taiyuan County, and is a highly qualified veteran in the Zhao army, he sighed: "General Yu has been watching all his life, attacking generations for thousands of miles, breaking Qin with ten thousand horses, and all the soldiers under his command have experienced dozens of battles, and the enemies killed are several times that of his own!" Yu Zhaoguo, Yu Junhou, and Yu Daijun all made great contributions, but unfortunately the army retreated in a hurry last year, and failed to collect the corpses of the second and third sons one by one, so they could only burn them. I came here today to send your corpse and accept your soul......"

"There is a tradition in the steppe that a warrior has as many stones on his grave as he has killed in his life. ”

After that, he remembered that he was just a rider who had never seen the world in Tu Heyi more than ten years ago, and after becoming friends with Yu Xi, he made his robe and followed him all over the northern frontier. Thinking of the past, the new young dog couldn't help but cry, and he also took out a knife to cut his face, so that blood and tears flowed out together, which is the way to mourn the dead on the grassland.

"General Yu, this time we go deep into the grassland, we will definitely not repeat the mistakes of the last time, we will definitely break through Hu Lu and destroy his tribe! The general can rest in peace! ”

Many Zhao soldiers followed suit, slashed their faces with knives, and swore: "Those who commit crimes against China will be punished even if they are far away, and they will avenge the soldiers!" ”

Xu Qu and Xinzhi Dog sealed the corpses of the dead soldiers, swore to break the Hu, and then set off quickly, riding more than 10,000 steps to the northeast, they wanted to block their retreat before the Donghu people withdrew from the battlefield.

Although Donghu used a similar tactic as the last time, it was slightly different, when Liuhe, as the supreme monarch who unified the various departments of Donghu, gathered all the Donghu people in the autumn to study at the Chishan School, so he avoided Yu Xi's troops. In the spring and summer, the grazing land of the Donghu people was in the area of Rao Leshui and Charenoer, and this migratory habit like a migratory bird had been learned by the all-pervasive Zhao merchants and became their fatal weakness......

The Yan chariot of more than 2,000 people was actually a bait arranged by the Zhao army in the east, although the Yan people themselves did not know their role in this war......

As Liu He couldn't resist the temptation and attacked the Yan army to the south, the army of Zhao also seized the opportunity and appeared dozens of miles behind them, encircling the main force of Donghu in the past.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month, the two armies encountered a ...... on a grassland upstream of Raoleshui

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