In February, it is the season when the grass grows and warblers fly in the border land, and the strong southeast wind blows all over the grassland, driving away the last trace of chill hovering in the sky.

Chen palm shrank beside the low bushes and looked down the mountain, the flags outside the city of Shanwu were fluttering more than ten miles apart, the battle flags were different from the red and black Han army flags, but the chaotic eagle flags, leopard flags, and cattle, sheep and horses and other flags showed that the little kings of the various tribes of the Xiongnu were in the military array, and the tents and yurts lined up surrounded Shanwucheng, and the Yanmen Taishou had been surrounded for ten days.

"The Huns are coming!"

"Why did the Huns come?"

"Why did you come here in February?"

"Why are you besieging Shannacheng?"

The young knights prostrate themselves in the sparse woods, questioning.

According to the habits of the Huns, the season of yellow pasture grass and high horse fat in autumn at the end of August and summer is also the season when the Han land harvests corn to celebrate the harvest.

After the Han and Hun peace and pro-pro, large-scale wars were singled out, but small-scale looting was repeatedly banned, although the small tribes of the Xiongnu were under the banner of the Xiongnu under the account of the left and right Xian Wang, in fact, each did its own business, only the left and right Xian Wang convened will raise a large army, simply left and right Xian Wang let it go, and the grassland departments cooperated with other tribes to enter the Han land to collect firewood according to their own plans.

However, the Huns never had the practice of entering the army at the beginning of February, and the cattle and horses on the grassland lost fat very strictly after a long and difficult winter, and the horsepower and load were only six or seven percent of the peak.

It stands to reason that the Huns crossed the Hukou and went south, and must have gone straight to Mayi to rob the merchants gathered here, whether it was cattle and horses or grain and iron tools, all the local residents were taken away by men and women, and at most the most useless old men and women were left behind.

"The ancients said that when things go wrong, there must be deception, so we can't move around."

Zhao Meng said with a smile: "Yo, your kid will also drop the bookbag, okay!" Read me a few more words of the military book. ”

"That's all I have to say." Chen Zhang rubbed his head awkwardly, drawing good-natured laughter from the riders.

A life-and-death struggle, and more than half a year of experience, Chen Zhang and his partners from novices who don't know anything to become comfortable old cavalry, every day in addition to sleeping most of the time riding around on horseback, slowly refining quite good riding skills, when the horse is low, they dare to pull the bow and release arrows to show off a few hands of riding and archery, although the accuracy is still not high.

"Boy of the Chen family, how many Huns did you say crossed the mouth and killed in?"

Chen Zhangxuan replied: "About twenty-five thousand, and there are at least 20,000 people outside the city. ”

Similar questions are encountered almost every day, mainly the knight's eye and judgment, a good cavalryman is both an archer and an excellent scout, judging the number of cattle and sheep in the shortest time is a very important survival skill in the borderlands, knowing how many cattle and sheep there are can determine how many people a tribe has, and judging whether it is a trade, cooperation or raid according to the number of people obtained.

At the beginning, Mao Dun Shan Yu had bullied the Han envoy not to understand the inside story, and made a little bit of cattle and sheep and the old, weak, sick and disabled to ** Liu Bang sent a large army to the north to attack the Huns, and as a result, the famous siege of Baideng, if the Han envoy carefully observed and analyzed, or found someone familiar with the inside story to understand the side to inquire, it would never be easy to get on the evil of Mao Dun Shan Yu.

Since then, the riders who come and go on the border have to practice their eyesight and judgment, see how many cattle and sheep know the approximate number, and also analyze the reliability of the numbers and whether there is deception, the Huns can play similar to the skills of increasing and decreasing the number of troops with the increase and decrease of cattle and sheep, and the slightest carelessness may fall into the trap of life and death.

Zhao Meng shook his head, pointed to the points of several tribes, and said: "There are 22,000 people outside the city, at least 5,000 are heading to Mayi, and in the second half of the night I heard the sound of cavalry moving, and from the time and the current horses' hoof prints, it can be determined that no less than 5,000 people are moving south overnight. ”

Chen Zhang was stunned: "Ma Yi? Isn't that where we are? We're going back to the rescue! ”

"Stupid! If you want to remind you that it's too late, long before we go out, Xu Jiajian is ready to pack his bags and go south to take refuge in Daijun. The old riders seized the opportunity to ridicule Chen Zhang, other novices have long been accustomed to such a scene, saying the wrong thing and doing the wrong thing to be scolded is a trivial matter, the people on the grassland are very thick-skinned, and the thin-skinned people can't survive here.

Although everyone is laughing, but the gloom between the eyebrows and eyes has not decreased, the Huns came too fast, too urgent and too unexpected, even the experienced Zhao Meng and Xu Wan only had time to pack up their belongings and take refuge, not to mention that the Huns sent five thousand iron cavalry to resist, even five hundred Hun elite cavalry is enough to cross the horse and be invincible, and the Hun cavalry in a group can wield two or three times the combat effectiveness.

The knights of the Houfu caravan can use 12o people against 8o Huns, successfully kill more than 5o Huns, and lose more than 3o lives, but when facing five hundred Hun cavalry, even if they can kill five Huns, even if the caravan's ability is fan, two or three of them must be killed by Zhao Meng's own strength.

It is not difficult to strangle the main force of the horsemen caravan knights in a wave of cluster assault, but it is conceivable how ruthless the Huns are to send 5,000 cavalry, and they will never stop if they do not rob the bottom of the Mayi.

The knights sighed: "The experienced caravans have withdrawn ahead of schedule, and those ignorant and unconvincing caravans will all be finished, and it will be difficult for Ma Yi to recover without three or five years." ”

Suddenly there was a rapid bird cry in the mountains and forests, Zhao Meng immediately replied with the same call, and after a while, a horse came out of the far corner, Wei Buguang turned over and dismounted and said: "I ambushed on the Great Wall for more than ten days, and finally saw clearly the main force of the Huns outside the mouth, the wolf flag is the banner of King Zuoxian, I dare not get close and take a closer look, it is roughly estimated that there are at least 30,000 elite cavalry outside the mouth, in addition to communicating with the Hun messengers in the mouth, there are also messengers in the direction of Yunzhong County often haunt. ”

A sketch was drawn casually, and the schematic diagram of the Huns attacking the Yanmen in the clouds left and right suddenly made the hearts of every knight present feel cold.

"The Huns are going to attack in a big way?"

Zhao Meng categorically denied: "That must be the elite of King Zuoxian's headquarters, King Zuo Xian did not explain in his mouth that he was not ready to tear his face and start a war, once King Zuoxian's wolf flag appeared in the Han land, the Xiongnu alone would not be far away from us, so don't worry too much." ”

King Zuo Xian is usually the heir of the Xiongnu Shan Yu, and must be a relative of the Xiongnu Shan Yu royal family, and the current military minister Shan Yu's sister-in-law Yu Shan is too young to be the throne of Zuo Xian Wang, so Zuo Xian Wang is still the same brother of the military minister Shan Yu, and a shrewd and cunning person like Zuo Xian Wang will not start the war lightly, after all, the princess of the Han family married is still the military minister Shan Yu's clan, and the kinship cannot be casually torn face, otherwise whether you win or lose, it will be Zuo Xian Wang who will bear the black pot for the loss.

"The Xiongnu should not have moved in Longcheng, otherwise the cavalry that came over would not be more than 30,000 but 100,000 horses, the soldiers and horses of the headquarters of King Zuoxian were about 80,000 to 100,000, of which 30,000 to 40,000 were pure Huns, and the rest were coalition forces composed of various Hun tribes, and all the entrances were composed of Xiongnu tribes, which was King Zuoxian's connivance with the Huns tribes to take revenge, and a small number of Hun cavalry in Yunzhong County attacked and restrained, in order to contain the degree of Han army rescue, the 5,000 cavalry who went south to Mayi also had the meaning of distracting the attention of the Han army. This battle was handled by the Huns, and I am afraid it will be difficult to be good. ”

Zhao Meng lived in the border county for more than ten years, every year to go deep into the grassland desert to trade with the Xiongnu tribe, almost knew everything about the border and the Xiongnu, after his careful analysis suddenly depicted the details of the war for everyone, Zuo Xian Wang only with his own people and horses led Yanmen, Yunzhong two counties to turn, and it is obvious that Zuo Xian Wang did not send all the soldiers and horses, the main force of this operation will not be more than 80,000, which is generally left and right on the grassland to stand still.

King Zuo Xian grasped the timing accurately, February and March on the grassland were very difficult, and February and March in the Han land were also the season of green and yellow, and it was difficult for the Han army to recruit the veterans who were busy with spring plowing scattered in the fields in addition to the standing border county soldiers, and the Dai County and Shanggu County adjacent to Yanmen County did not dare to be careless if they had border defense tasks, Taiyuan County was far away and relatively slow to react, and it was not possible to send troops to rescue it in a moment.

Chen Zhang hesitated: "The Huns fought the time difference to take revenge? But Zhizhi is already dead! ”

Zhao Meng was noncommittal, he suspected that under the guise of revenge of the Huns, he planned to use the rank of Yanmen Taishou to warn the later generations not to try to follow the example of Zhidu to lead the county soldiers to suddenly counterattack the Xiongnu tribal alliance army that entered the Kou, otherwise he would have to bear the price of blood.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but worry: "Yanmen is too guarded Feng Jing is too confident, and the imperial historian of the first emperor is also an old minister, why is it so important to stick to Shanwu City and fight to the death!" I'm afraid the city won't last long, in case the city is broken and slaughtered and looted, I'm afraid it will alarm the emperor of Chang'an! In the future, I am afraid that it will be difficult to keep the border land peaceful. ”

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ps: The Huns who are serious use the wolf flag, and the Hu people who use the messy banner are also called the Huns, but they are the twenty-four thousand cavalry commanders of Mao Dunshan Yufeng. This invasion is not nonsense, in the second year of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu plundered Yanmen County.

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