Now under the hill with the hill as the center, there are at least nearly 30,000 cavalry troops of the southern Xiongnu tribes, of which the royal army is less than 2,000 people, this is still Qiangqu reluctantly put together, of course, Qiangqu in order to solve the embarrassing situation in front of him, he has already sent people to send a letter to the royal troops in the north, and sent soldiers and horses to help him.

Qiangqu is very entangled, very entangled, since the siege of Zhang Fei in the past few days, there have been constant reports that there are Han troops in the cleansing of the Xiongnu various small tribes, the worst of which is the northeast area, because the northeast is far away from the Xiongnu Wang Ting Meiji, the people are not very many, and very scattered, except for a few large tribes, all are small tribes, and without exception, these small tribes have been bloodily slaughtered.

In less than three days, the battle report received by Qiangqu recorded that more than 30 small tribes had been baptized in blood, nearly 30,000 people had died tragically, more than 10,000 young women had been captured, and countless cattle, sheep and horses had been lost.

In addition, in the north of Yunzhong and the area of Beidi County, the Xiongnu tribes have suffered great losses, and the Qiangqu who got the information immediately mobilized nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses to encircle and suppress these small Han troops of about 1,000 people, but the Han army troops relied on the small number of people and the movement was convenient, and almost everyone carried three excellent grassland war horses to transfer back and forth, which was not at all something that the Xiongnu army could catch up.

Now with 40,000 cavalry sent abroad and 30,000 troops besieging the nameless hill, the Xiongnu have dispatched nearly 70,000 soldiers and horses, of course, these soldiers and horses are different from the cavalry troops stationed on the border in the north all the year round, most of them are temporarily drawn from the tribesmen, and some of them are even more than 50 years old.

Qiangqu was now the current situation to make the mind swollen, yesterday morning even more Hun southern scout troops to report, the Han army sent another army of soldiers and horses, all cavalry, the number of about 5,000, all are elite soldiers, carrying a strong bow, holding a spear, the age is not more than forty years old, strong, young and strong, belongs to the elite of the elite, even the southern Xiongnu, it is difficult to draw out such an elite cavalry unit in a short period of time.

Qiangqu, who was pressed by the Northern Xinjiang Army step by step, originally thought of asking for help from Wuheng and Xianbei, but when he thought that Wuheng was now divided into three divisions, his strength was greatly reduced, and he couldn't draw many soldiers and horses at all, and the Xianbei royal court was even more chaotic, and the western Xianbei had the phenomenon of self-reliance, and the chaotic situation on the Mobei battlefield dragged most of the elite cavalry of the royal court.

Of course, even if Xianbei and Wuheng have no civil strife, it is impossible to send troops to rescue the Southern Xiongnu, not to stab the Southern Xiongnu in the back, it is already Wuheng and Xianbei to reform themselves, not to mention the civil strife of the two clans, in the eyes of the grassland people, even if the Han people send troops to recruit the grassland tribes, it is impossible to occupy the prairie, of course, Emperor Wu set up Shuofang and other places exceptions, the Great Xiongnu at that time was too strong, the Hetao area is close to Chang'an, for the sake of the safety of the capital, it has to be occupied.

But the grassland is different inside, most areas except for the endless grassland, there is no extra forest and mountains at all, the Han people are not used to living in these places at all, even if the Han army occupies, sooner or later will withdraw troops.

Hetao is rich in water and grass, Wuheng and Xianbei have been coveted for a long time, if the Southern Xiongnu are expelled, this place is empty, is not Xianbei and Wuheng? How could the two clans do things that hurt their own interests, so Qiangqu could only dream about it, and if they wanted to repel the Han army, they could only rely on their own Southern Xiongnu troops.

But the problem is that after the purging of four small troops, now the Southern Xiongnu has been greatly injured, the original nearly 600,000 people, lost nearly a quarter of the population, the Xiongnu Wang Ting Meiji battle, the royal tribe was almost disabled, compared with the 230,000 Han army that was eyeing the tiger, the Xiongnu can be described as a tent leaking rain, and the night was desolate.

Qiangqu is very tragic, hundreds of years of prosperity, it is his generation's turn, it was attacked by the Han army on such a large scale, at this time, Qiangqu suddenly felt that hundreds of years ago after the defeat in the hands of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Yizhi slant of the helplessness of the big single Yu, to have no soldiers, the military spirit is unstable, the tribes are centrifugal and detached, there is no style of the grassland royal family in the past.

However, Qiangqu did not think of giving up, for the Southern Xiongnu, anyone can bow their heads, but the big single can not bow their heads, if the Qiangqu bows his head, it means that the life of the Qiangqu will come to an end, the Xiongnu tribe based on bravery, will never allow a cowardly Da Shan Yu to take power, in order to guard against more than 200,000 Han troops in Shuofang, Qiangqu successively issued several orders, requiring adult men under the age of 50 of all tribes to get on their horses and lead strings, and rush to Meiji Linhai, ready to fight to the death in the Han army, The other old and weak women and children, as well as cattle, sheep and livestock, all gathered together and were sent to the northern border army area with a large army.

Then he ordered 100,000 Xiongnu troops guarding the border, dispatched 20,000 to the south, and the remaining 80,000 soldiers and horses to protect the safety of the people in the north, and prevented the Northern Xiongnu from taking advantage of the fire at any time to rob.

After a large-scale mobilization, Qiangqu finally had a trace of confidence, although these troops were not old and young, but together with the elite soldiers and horses, there were at least more than 100,000, even if they fought guerrilla warfare with the Han army on the grassland, they could also kill the Han Dynasty troops with infantry as the main tone.

"Da Danyu, there are 5,000 Han cavalry in the south rushing here, and the distance from our army is less than 100 miles." A leader of a large western tribe of the Xiongnu rushed into the big tent of Shan Yu with a solemn expression, and shouted loudly to the Qiangqu who was sitting on the top and thinking.

"What??" Qiang Qu looked shocked, he didn't care about the rude behavior of this leader, he had long been used to it in the past few days. Qiangqu was surprised that the speed of the Han army's 5,000 cavalry was so fast, if they fought with the Han army in a hurry, the Southern Xiongnu troops would definitely suffer heavy losses.

"Immediately mobilize a large army to line up in the southern part of the forest and wait for it, and you can't attack easily." Qiangqu did not know whether there were more Han troops in the rear of the 5,000 army, and did not dare to attack rashly, after all, with the 5,000 army alone, the tiger head rushed into the hinterland of the Xiongnu, obviously not a wise man, with Liu Tai's shrewdness, Qiangqu would never think that the Han army came with only 5,000 people.

"Yes, Da Shan Yu!" If the leader does not take the initiative to attack Qiangqu, a look of dissatisfaction flashed in the leader's eyes, the Xiongnu is a wolf race, and after the head wolf loses its descendants and prestige, it is naturally very likely to be devoured by his wolves, but now that the Han army is in front of the enemy, the ambitious patriarchs within the Xiongnu do not dare to make any trouble, and they will still obey Qiangqu's orders.

After the leader left, a small figure lifted the tent, walked into the big tent, came to Qiangqu and bowed down and said, "Yu Fuluo has seen Da Dan Yu. ”

"Hey, Wang'er doesn't need to be polite, come and talk to your father." Qiang Qu waved his hand tiredly and said to Yu Fuluo with a lonely face.

Yu Fuluo nodded, came to the lower left side of Qiangqu and sat down, and asked curiously, "Father, is there any movement in the Han army again?" ”

Qiang Qu nodded, glanced at the curtain of the tent, looked a little tired, and said lightly: "Well, the front line scouts came to report in the early morning yesterday that a Han army of 5,000 people left Shuofang, and the whole army was cavalry rushing to our army station. ”

Yu Fuluo nodded, looking at the originally heroic Qiangqu, but now lonely, Lao Cheng sighed and said: "Now that the Han army in Northern Xinjiang is under the leadership of Liu Tai, its momentum is quite strong, and I am afraid that it will be difficult for my Hun army to be an enemy of it." ”