In April of the second year of Emperor Jingdi, the two counties of Youbeiping and Shanggu sent 60,000 foot soldiers out of the border fortress to raid the left part of the Xiongnu. The unsuspecting Xiongnu tribes had no power to resist, and in just a few days, the Han army went hundreds of miles alone, reaching the foot of the Great Wall of Yanbei, but did not continue to march, but camped on the spot and built fortifications. By the time the Xiongnu magnates came to their senses, a large number of border people, grain and grass had been transported to the Han army camp. The Han army began to build countless fortresses and trenches, putting on a posture of fighting to the death and not retreating.

The royal court of King Zuo Xian was placed in the Xiongnu Holy Mountain-Wolf Juxu Mountain, and the Yan land was thousands of miles away, and it was too late to help. The local Xiongnu tribes could only ask for help from the Yunzhong Shan Yu Ting Department, and the Huns stationed in the clouds had nearly 10,000 iron horses, but they turned a deaf ear and did not move. It wasn't until the Yanbei tribes sent hundreds of carts of treasures and tens of thousands of cattle and sheep that they reluctantly sent 5,000 elite horsemen to help Yanbei.

However, just a few days after the reinforcements set off, Yanmen County guarded the Zhidu too much, held the edict of the Son of Heaven and the military talisman, and paid homage to the general of the north (two products, not often placed, set up in wartime), and commanded the three counties of Daijun, Yanmen, and Taiyuan, and ordered 100,000 soldiers to go out of Yanmen and send the soldiers to the clouds. The 100,000 Han troops led by the Hu cavalry had 8,000 Hu cavalry, which was led by the Hu cavalry general Gongsun Xiao.

The so-called Hu cavalry, most of the sources are the surrendered Huns and the Hu people from Yiqu. The most prominent Hu family in the Han Dynasty is the Gongsun family to which the Gongsun Kunxie belongs. A few years ago, there were five people including the Xiongnu general Wei Xu Lu, who led his troops to Shun, and Emperor Jing was happy, and they were all made marquis. General Hu Cai, not often placed, rank ratio of 2,000 stones, and Guanglu Doctor is the same level, second to the county guard level.

The new Hu cavalry general Gongsun Xiao is the younger brother of Gongsun Kunxie, who once led 3,000 Hu cavalry in the Wuchu Rebellion, and rode and shot, dragging down more than 10,000 rebels and making great contributions. This time, Emperor Jing specially sent him to assist Zhidu, and led 8,000 Hu cavalry as the vanguard, and attacked the clouds in the starry night.

At the head of the city in the clouds, Zuo Da was in the face of the eight thousand Hu riders who were galloping back and forth outside the city, and his face was terrified. Gongsun Yu came so quickly that the Hun rangers who patrolled the front line from Yanmen to Yunzhong did not have time to send back the news. Although Hun Yuxiao has confidence in the remaining 5,000 Hun iron cavalry in Yunzhong City, he will definitely be able to defeat the 8,000 Hun cavalry with less victory. However, he knew in his heart that the main force of the Han army was definitely not the Hu cavalry in front of him. According to many years of experience in fighting with the Han army, once it involves attacking cities and plundering land, the number of infantry soldiers dispatched by them is definitely more than ten times that of cavalry.

Nearly 100,000 troops?! Hun Yuxiao was stupefied by his own speculation. He knew very well that the strength of the Hun iron cavalry lies in the field battle, in the wind that comes and goes, and the bow and horse are skillful. If they are trapped and die within the high walls of this cloud city, they can only dismount and fight on foot, and their combat strength is not even comparable to that of the Han army, which is proficient in foot combat. Since the military minister Shan Yu led the army of Shan Yu in the court to return to Longcheng for wintering, he has not returned. Longcheng lives far away in Mobei, thousands of miles away from here, and it is obvious that far water cannot save the near fire. Hun Yuxiao suddenly fell into a dilemma, should he stick to the clouds, or avoid the enemy's edge and preserve his strength?

Just when Hun Yuxiao was hesitating, dozens of elite horsemen were galloping in Shuofang, Henan. The cavalrymen on the horses were dressed in strange grass-green costumes, and from their facial features, it was vaguely clear that they were not very old. In the sky, more than a dozen harrier eagles were hovering incessantly, occasionally swooping down, slowly stopping on the shoulders of the cavalry to rest for a while. The young cavalrymen would take out the meat slices cut into thin strips from the backpacks on their horses' backs and feed them to the harrier eagles.

Shuofang, the meaning of the north. During the Warring States period, it was called Henan Land and Northern False, which was originally the territory of Zhao State.

In the twenty-sixth year of King Wuling of Zhao (300 years ago), Zhao Guo went north to Yan and Dai, west to Yunzhong and Jiuyuan, and placed Jiuyuan County, which was the beginning of the construction of the Hetao area. Later, the state of Zhao declined, and Henan was occupied by the Xiongnu.

In the 33rd year of Qin Shi Huang (214 BC), he sent the general Meng Tian to send 300,000 troops to attack Hu in the north, slightly took Henan, and built the Great Wall of 10,000 miles from Lintao in the west to Liaodong in the east. With Henan as 34 counties, the city and river are plugged, and the number is "New Qin". The Xiongnu were once defeated by Meng Tian and fled to Mobei, not daring to go south for more than ten years.

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the border soldiers were transferred back to the Central Plains. The Xiongnu generation of heroes took the liberty of the Xiongnu to unify the Xiongnu tribes, destroyed the Donghu in the east, drove the Dayue clan in the west, and merged the Aries King and Lou Fu King in the south, and served the Hun Yu, Qu She, Ding Ling, Zhu Kun, Xin Meat and other tribes in the north. The Xiongnu had a strong military force, with more than 300,000 "commanders of the strings" (cavalry and archery troops), and constantly raided the northern border counties of the Han Dynasty.

In the decades since the founding of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu took Henan as the front station, and entered the border areas, "small entry is small profit, big entry is big profit", attacking cities and slaughtering cities, beating livestock, killing officials, and big robbers, bringing heavy disasters to the border people of the Han Dynasty and seriously endangering the security of the northern border of the Han Dynasty.

To this day, the Hetao and the area south of it are still garrisoned by the Xiongnu Lou Fu King and the Aries King. Backed by Monan, the royal court of the Xiongnu Right Xian King is less than a thousand miles away from the outer Great Wall, and can rush to help at any time.

Because it is located in the Hetao Plain, nourished by the Yellow River, the land of Shuofang is fertile, and it is suitable for Tuntian to be garrisoned. After the Xiongnu occupied, they did not hunt and kill the local Han people, but drove them to engage in farming and grazing, and provided grain and grass for the Xiongnu soldiers stationed there. It stands to reason that there are quite a few Han people living in Shuofang, Henan, which is not like the vast prairie, and often does not see people for hundreds of miles.

However, this group of young cavalry galloped all the way and had penetrated hundreds of miles into Henan, but they saw an unexpected situation. The whole land of Henan seems to be dead silent, and occasionally encounters some small villages, which are also ten rooms and nine empty, only the ruins of broken walls remain. Large tracts of fertile land are untended and overgrown with weeds. You know,

"Qi Zuojian, April is the busiest season for farming in the north, if you don't plough at this time, there won't be any harvest at all this year." A cavalryman was full of worries, and said to the cavalry leader: "There is no harvest all year round, how can the people have surplus grain and hold on until next year's autumn harvest?" I'm afraid there won't even be any seeds for next spring. ”

"Your name is Zhao Li, right? In the future, don't call me Zuo Supervisor, call me the battalion commander in the Yulin School, and call me Qishan outside, this is the rule of our Yulin! Qi Shan frowned, and said, "Remember more Yulin regulations in your spare time, and it is taboo to expose your official position and identity outside!" ”

Cavalry Zhao Li hurriedly agreed, and he and more than 100 classmates had just been selected from the military academy in the inner courtyard of the orphan and incorporated into the mysterious Yulin School. Due to Zhao Li's excellent performance in the academy, both in physical fitness and tactical theory, Yulin Servant, Gongsun He, the newly promoted Yulin Regiment Commander, had specially instructed the battalion commander Qi Shan to focus on cultivating him. Everyone is an orphan in the army, and they get along quite well, but whenever it comes to military affairs, there is no affection at all.

And the battalion commander Qi Shan is a legendary figure in the feather forest, and he usually says that the dragon sees the head but does not see the tail. Even if Gongsun He mentioned a few key training objects to him, he really didn't have the leisure, and he handed them all over to his company commanders to teach on his behalf, so he was not familiar with Zhao Li and others. And this time, the prince assigned the task of investigating Shuofang, Henan Province and exploring the road for the army first, and Qi Shansuo took Zhao Li and others with him, so that they could familiarize themselves with Yu Linwei's responsibilities in advance. Of course, it is necessary to send more people to take care of them, and it is obvious that there is still a huge gap between the military academy and the actual combat of the military academy on paper.

Qi Shan took out the map and charcoal in his backpack and made a few simple strokes on it. He pondered for a moment, then took out the blank paper and wrote on it with charcoal in the language of the Feather Forest. The code language is a set of confidential communication texts designed by the crown prince Liu Che according to the password of later generations. If the text is written in code, even if it is captured by the enemy, it is impossible to decipher it. Because the comparison book used by Liu Che is "Dream of Red Mansions" in his previous life.

The strip is divided into two parts, and after Qi Shan writes it, he rolls the white paper and puts it into two small bamboo tubes. After taking out the live fold, beeswax and fire paint, and carefully sealing the bamboo tube, he called for two harrier eagles, which had been fed and drunk, and the harrier eagles had strings of different colors tied to their legs. Qi Shan tied the bamboo pipes to the legs of the two harrier eagles and ordered the soldiers in charge of training the eagles to release them.

After being released, the harrier eagle hovered in the sky for a moment and then soared away in different directions. Qin Yong, the cavalry general of Shangjun, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Chang'an City respectively brought the news collected today.

Speaking of this method of eagle training, we have to mention Liu Yu and Liu Sheng, the two princes who are ultimately called flying eagle lackeys and do not do their jobs. Since the crown prince Liu Che handed over the steppe harrier eagle forcibly taken from the Xiongnu embassy to them, it was only more than a month before he trained to obey them. Not only that, but he was stunned to sum up a set of methods for training eagles.

After Liu Che heard the news, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and secretly sighed that he had the foresight to insert willows unintentionally. Sure enough, the ruler is short and the inch is long, and there is never a shortage of talents in the world, only a lack of Bole. Liu Che sent Yu Linwei to learn the art of eagle training with the two princes, and also purchased a large number of grassland harrier eagles, which took more than half a year to finally train more than 100.

This time, Qishan reconnoitred Shuofang, Henan, and Liu Che sent most of the available Harrier Eagles to test the water for future popularization. Liu Che had not tried to train carrier pigeons, but he soon found out that it was a dream in vain. The ecological environment of the Han Dynasty is too good, the sky is full of birds of prey soaring, and the carrier pigeons that have been raised with hard work will be eaten by eagles and eagles before they fly out of Chang'an City. That's the disadvantage of not having the aura of the protagonist, it's sad!

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