It is rumored that Wu'an Hou Tian Wei is seriously ill, and Mu Xiu has not seen the Taiwei Dynasty for three consecutive times, and the Wu'an Hou Mansion is also closed with a high plaque and closed to thank guests.

A few days later, shocking news came.

"The Huns broke the Xianbei three! Beheaded 3,000 and captured 20,000, the king of the Huns fled into the jungle with three and disappeared! ”

When Hongling hurriedly raised the horsewhip and flew into Chang'an, the people of Chang'an woke up from the shock, the Xiongnu Dapo Xianbei was tantamount to dropping a bombshell, and the northern border counties thundered, adding a few different colors to Chang'an in the sixth year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty.

Cao Shi entered Weiyang Palace for the first time, and the Son of Heaven sat in the drawing room wearing armor and carrying a long sword at his waist and waited for a long time.

"Your Majesty!"

"The car is just right, you can come and see this battle report."

Cao Shi was very surprised to receive a thick stack of battle reports, but he didn't expect that in just one year, the imperial court also made a full set of battlefield analysis materials, and he was relieved to sweep the battle reports sent by the border counties at a glance, and the border county Taishou seemed to consciously imitate Cao Shi's intelligence collection style, but it was limited to insufficient level and lack of knowledge to perfectly copy, and the collected information was fragmented and redundant to read, which was very headache.

Several county guards report one thing at the same time, the choice of words and sentences are different, although it can play the role of listening and clearing, but the invisible increase in the inspection and judgment are required a lot of time, if the level of the inspection and judgment is not enough, it is likely to be wrong, after all, the intelligence is also right and wrong, and some information is unreliable false information, and distinguishing the fake is a major task.

The battle report is a description of the news of the Xiongnu victory from a number of different angles, at least it can be proved that the Hun cavalry began to be equipped with standard equipment similar to that of the Han cavalry, leather noose instead of metal stirrups, and wooden saddles also imitated the Takahashi saddle. Limited to the lack of physical objects, they can only use their imagination to make a lot of strange shapes, and the Xianbei people used the cavalry without saddles and stirrups to fight against the Hun cavalry, and it was natural that they were defeated.

"Why the sudden attack?"

A thought flashed through Cao Shi's mind, from his understanding, the Huns had the advantage, and the current situation of the Xianbei people lacked the strength to fight. The best way is to hide in the deep mountains and dense forests, as long as you survive this threshold, the Hun cavalry will be forced to retreat, nearly 300,000 troops around several passes of Xianbei Mountain, regardless of the invasion of the blizzard has not changed.

It seems that the Huns are very strong, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Huns are gambling, so they bet on whether they can defeat the Xianbei people before they run out of food. Winning is the morale of the Xiongnu army to reap a large amount of spoils, losing will face the blow of two wars one after another, it is possible that the Huns will be unable to recover for one or two decades, if the Han army goes north to crusade against the Xiongnu, it will completely change the pattern.

Unfortunately, the Huns won the crucial gamble, but fortunately, the Xianbei people were greatly injured and escaped into the mountains and forests. Perhaps no one can predict where the Xianbei people will flee, at least the mortal enemies on both sides will be superimposed to a deeper level, and the next time they meet, they will never die.

"With losses of one thousand and five and two thousand wounded, the Huns have an absolute advantage, because of the imitation stirrups and saddles?" Cao Shi is not sure, at least the surface data does not explain the change of timing on the battlefield, and it may not be the imaginary side of the crushing battle. However, this is the only information that the border counties can obtain, and if they want to obtain more detailed information, they must obtain it from higher levels.

The Son of Heaven did not have such a fixed source of information in his hands, and he did not know that the general of the Che Cavalry under his nose had special information. Staring at the map and analyzing it carefully: "The Huns are really copying the cavalry of our Han army, and Wei Youqu, the prince of Wei's Joseon, serves on the side of the military minister, this traitor has betrayed me and the Han Empire again!" ”

Liu Che used "again" to describe it because Wei Youqu's grandfather Wei Man had betrayed him once, when Wei Man followed Lu Juan to rebel and use the important information of the Han Empire as a bait to obtain Mao Dun Shan Yu's support, there is no doubt that his efforts are doomed to failure. Seeing that the battle situation was developing in the direction of his own disadvantage, Wei Man sensed that something was wrong, so he disguised himself as a small soldier and blended into the deserters and got out smoothly. Fleeing to Jizi Joseon, he was enshrined as Shangqing, and he turned his face and drove away the king of Jizi Joseon. Create a new frontier of Webster Korea on your own.

The betrayal of the Wei Manchu era has been a long time ago, and the relationship between the new generation of emperors and the princes and kings urgently needs to be re-established, at this juncture, there are four distant princes and princes holding gold beads and jade and rushing to Chang'an, the original intention is to make the Son of Heaven enthrone the throne and be crowned as a congratulatory gift, but I didn't expect to be self-defeating and implicated in a troublesome matter and couldn't extricate myself, except for Wei's Joseon crown prince Wei Youqu escaped by luck, and the other three people were captured and one took the initiative to surrender, and the three who dominated the southern border for a hundred years were eliminated.

As a descendant of Wei Man, Wei Youqu naturally chose to embark on the path of betrayal.

The emperor thinks so, and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military also thinks that this is reasonable, as for how much bitterness and helplessness Wei Youqu has, it is already a bad attitude if he does not bear the guilt of Jing Plea, not only does he not have remorse but also secretly avoids betrayal, the Son of Heaven is very disappointed in Wei's attitude towards North Korea, and none of Wei Man's descendants are reliable people.

"Ride the bike, tell me what you think."

Cao Shi frowned and said: "I didn't expect the Xianbei people to take the initiative to attack, according to the minister's calculations, there should be two or three months before Shen suddenly attacked, according to the climate of the grassland, March and April are the key moments, at that time to do the most sure time, the Huns' tactics make people confused." ”

Did the Huns have tactics?

Cao Shi couldn't even confirm this, at least from the description of the Huns, it is not clear that they had a strong tactical combination.

"I heard that the Xiongnu Zuoxian King attacked and besieged Wuhuan Mountain, trying to say that the existence and significance of King Wuhuan had been completely erased, is this true?"

"What Your Majesty said is extremely true, King Zuo Xian used the main force to aim at the inconspicuous hill to make a move, the original intention was to clean up the big tribes across the Xiongnu border one by one, Xianbei Wuhuan is obviously a huge tribe, and finally led to this system sooner or later all belong to the residents of Chang'an, and it has a lot to do with the Huns, and there are many surrendered Rongdi people in the Xiongnu left land controlled by King Zuoxian."

"The Right Virtuous King doesn't have any signs of moving?"

"No, you have to ask a famous doctor to do the diagnosis and treatment."

"Generational hatred is nothing more than that." The Son of Heaven sighed.

In the southern part of Xianbei Mountain, a certain group of immigrants walked hand in hand, and after several rounds of repeated counts, it was found that the population had dropped by 40,000.

"The losses are too heavy, some people fell off their horses and died without saying a word, and some people died suddenly without stopping the bleeding, we Xianbei men must not give up just now!" Tuoba Yili shouted with great effort.

King Xianbei sat in the mountain with a blue face and quietly took refuge: "Hun bastard, I have written down this blood debt!" ”

"The king doesn't need to continue to worry, the Huns have suffered a lot of losses this time, and we will go back sooner or later if we are temporarily driven away." Yu Li Surgu also said in silence that he was demoted to the small leader of Xianbei in the middle of the country, just because the requirements were very high in the early stage.

King Xianbei wanted to clean up his thoughts, but Xianbei's tragic loss made him have no time to clean up his feelings, and the disappearance and death of 40,000 people, including the relatives of the fleeing, the relatives and friends of the followers, and other colors, they must be more mentally prepared.

"What are we going to do?"

The same problem hovers in the hearts of every Xianbei people, Xianbei was temporarily driven to the east foot of Xianbei Mountain, and the west foot was also beaten by the Huns, each Xianbei person became a pure combat maniac and a front-line warrior, but they also have their own difficulties, not good at division of labor and cooperation is not strong, people always have strength to exhaust, how to deal with the imposing Huns will be a big trouble.

Xianbei people don't want to fight, the loss of nearly 70,000 people before and after, almost the hematopoietic function of Xianbei is smashed, most of the next generation of Xianbei children are only seven or eight years old children, adults are serving in the army or hunting, Xianbei's daily activities are hunting and hunting, they have very little pasture, grazing will only have a special person to be responsible.

If the Xiongnu call off the army and maintain peace, the Xianbei people can tolerate the loss of 70,000 people, at least the Xianbei people said so at the beginning, but the Xiongnu alone could not believe their signature, it is better to let them sign.

"Strike the army and truce, let's go and surrender? Does it work? ”

Don't lose Lan Xiu's eyes: "Don't talk nonsense, okay?" Surrender is not advisable. ”

Tuoba also lost no time in supporting: "Don't lose what Lan said, we may not believe it if we surrender." ”

"So what are we going to do? Beat? ”

"Don't fight." Don't lose Lan shook his head, the Xianbei people's short-term war-weariness was not alleviated for the time being, especially a series of defeats made the war-weariness reach its peak, the Xianbei people began to doubt their own strength, and the once invincible single-handedly fought by the short Hun cavalry was difficult to discern the direction.

What's more terrible is that the place where the Xianbei people start the decisive battle must be an open field, otherwise the Xianbei cavalry can not fight in the mountains and dense forests, the two sides collide and obviously feel that the Hun cavalry is more powerful, they can stretch out their hands and hold the weapon to chop vigorously without worrying about losing their balance and falling off the horse, the Xianbei people hold the weapon in one hand and the reins in the other, the body is stiff and unable to dodge flexibly, once it is cut into the thorn and immediately falls off the horse.

In that war, I saw that the invincible Xianbei people fell off their horses like dumplings, and the more shameless tactic was to use a heavy blunt weapon to hit in a charging posture, and the Xianbei cavalry that was difficult to maintain balance was knocked out and seriously injured on the spot, and the Huns used this set of tactics to constantly hit and slash, most of them were only slightly injured, but there was no way to help each other in the chaotic army and horse war, and they could only watch the wounded knights being trampled to death by the horses, and many Xianbei cavalry died like this.

"We can't fight, but we can't afford not to fight, we have to find another way." Yu Li Surgu swore and said, "Actually, we also have a way. (To be continued)