"The Huns retreated!"

From the watchtower, bursts of cheers were heard from the excited sentinels. ±

Ning Cheng, the Taishou of Longxi stationed in the city, breathed a sigh of relief, brushed his messy beard and remembered that Jia did not leave his body for half a month, sleeping only two hours a day, and constantly guarding against the Hun army stealing the city and raiding it.

"Fortunately, the city is strong, and the stones cannot be dug through the tunnels when digging the earth, so the Jincheng will depend on the next step of the plan."

Ning Cheng paused for a moment and ordered the sentinels to increase their vigilance and strengthen their vigilance, and the defenders in the city took turns to rest in batches, the retreat of the Huns was only temporary, and the next time they came again, they would definitely be menacing and more threatening.

In Didao City, a hundred miles away, the Che Cavalry General's Mansion received the information at the first time.

"Chen He's action is quite fast, I thought that I would have to waste ten days and half a month on the grassland, and it would not be easy to find the foothold of the Youxian King tribe in a half-circle along the desert." Zhao Junyu used charcoal to draw a circle on the map, which marked the main activity area of the Youxian Wang tribe.

The custom of the steppe desert has always been where the main force goes, where the tribe goes, and it means that the tribe of the Xiongnu will not be too far away, because the Xiongnu army wants to eat a large number of cattle and sheep and cannot do without the tribe's refusal, so finding the main force of the Xiongnu is equivalent to finding the Xiongnu tribe.

The Huns are not afraid that you know, even if you can guess that the supply line of the Huns is behind him, the Han army will not be able to detour behind to attack the supply line of the Huns, it is not a very fun practice to go behind enemy lines, the unfamiliar land is unfamiliar, there is a lack of support and supplies, and it is very difficult to look around for the legendary Hun tribe with a simple map and compass.

During this period, they also have to face the small Xiongnu tribe that can be bumped into at any time, and once their location is exposed, it will bring disastrous consequences, and the Huns who are surging from all directions will tear the prey in front of them to pieces like greedy and cruel hungry wolves. Even if you are a strong tiger, no matter how powerful the beast is, it will be dragged to death when it encounters the tactics of a pack of wolves.

"We still don't have enough time. The newly formed Yulin Cavalry was trained in a hurry for half a year, and it lacked a lot of fire without being tempered by the Great War. The other 300,000 people of Luzuo were organized into a 60,000-strong army according to the standard of 2 out of 10, and this army has only been trained for less than three months so far. ”

Cao Shi frowned, worried that hundreds of miles away, Chen He led a team of Yulin horses across the endless Gobi Desert.

The Gobi is also known as the Hanhai, a desolate world of gravel and gravel, only the tall poplars and dwarf sea buckthorn live tenaciously on the edge of the desert, and there is a famous settlement no less famous than the Eilechuan, Juyanhai.

Juyanhai is the henchman of the Youxian Palace. To the north is the core area of the Xiongnu royal court, Juyanhai is the starting point of entering and exiting the Western Regions to invade the Han land in the south, and it is also the most important living settlement of the Xiongnu right land, there are no less than 300,000 Xiongnu tribesmen scattered around this lake with abundant water and grass all year round, they migrate in rotation according to the Xiongnu's fallow grazing habits, and every few years there will be tribes who can spend a quiet summer in Juyanhai.

"It's so beautiful here!"

Chen He opened his hands and enjoyed the comfort of the cool breeze, and a man with brown hair and brown eyes appeared next to him, he was known as the fox of the desert and the king of the Yue clan, Shalile, the king of the Yue clan, and he became even more thin and pale in a few years. What remains unchanged is the eagle's falcon-like eyes, with a deep and boundless haze and hatred.

"King Yue, is this the place you Yueshi call the Pearl of the Desert? It's really beautiful. ”

Shalil sighed: "It is like a beautiful woman exuding infinite charm, we Yueshi people have lived here for a full 1,500 years and never left, until they were snatched away by this group of hateful Huns. ”

"Fifteen hundred years?"

Chen He suddenly remembered the "Pastoral Oath" he had read in the Che Cavalry General's Mansion. Zhou Tianzi took Xirong and the southern princes to swear an oath against the brutal merchants, and the time of the "Pastoral Oath" took place nearly a thousand years ago (1057 BC) in a very clever time period, which happened to be an important historical event between King Wu's war and the battle of Muye.

In "Pastoral Oath", King Wu of Zhou once called a group of allies who came from afar as the people of the Western Lands. And treat them differently from the tribes in the south, this group of people is Xirong, who followed King Wu of Zhou to fight against the king of Shang. They surrendered to the late King Wen of Zhou and willingly drove him, so there was a classic example of the Battle of Muye, in which the Zhou king's army defeated the Shang army.

Mencius said in his work Lilu Xia: "Shun was born in Zhufeng. Moved to negative summer, died in Mingtiao, and the people of Dongyi are also! King Wen was born in Qizhou and died in Bi Ying, a person from Xiyi. ”

"King Wen of Zhou is a person from Xiyi, and King Wu's ally is the Rong clan of Xitu, what is the relationship between the two?"

Many thoughts popped up in Chen He's head, and he suddenly felt that what he was thinking was a little absurd and bizarre, so he joked: "King Xiaoyue, we have an ancient history book that once recorded an ancient war, as if it meant that your ancestors went to fight the king of the east with our ancestors......"

"Well, it sounds familiar, I remember when I was a child, I secretly entered the cave that only wizards could enter and saw many murals, wizards sang the legends recorded in the murals, I seem to have the impression that it is a record of the king of the East who painted the Eastern Expedition thousands of miles away, because of the exploits of the war, our clan was sealed to the grassland in the north, the desert Hanhai in the northwest and the foot of the Qilian Mountain in our west, we were lucky to stay here for more than a thousand years without leaving, our clan did not hear the news again, probably disappeared...... After all, that's just an ancient legend. ”

Shalil woke up from his brief memories and smiled embarrassedly: "The legends passed down from generation to generation have gradually been forgotten due to the lack of written records, especially in recent decades, the Yueshi people have withered rapidly, and our culture and relics are about to face the crisis of being cut off. ”

"Believe me no, I think what you just said is very interesting, after the Huns are over, I will take you to meet our chariot general, he will definitely be extremely happy with your arrival." Chen He smiled meaningfully.

Approaching the vicinity of Juyanhai, it is obvious that the atmosphere around them has become calmer, and there is no sense of the scorching atmosphere of a great war in the distant land, and the herders who inhabit the huge lake called the Pearl of the Desert do not realize that a great crisis is coming. They galloped happily and sang prairie love songs representing the love of men and women.

"Dear steppe brothers, what tribe do you come from? I am Zabu of the Chati tribe. How can we help? ”

The young and enthusiastic Xiongnu herdsmen greeted them and took the initiative to salute the strange cloaked cavalry: "You are the cavalry under the king's tent. Why did it appear in our Juyanhai, is there any news from the great Right Sage King? ”

The disguised Han cavalry were stunned, they didn't know how to answer the young herdsmen who couldn't understand the Xiongnu language, Chen He subconsciously wanted to make a knife drawing and chopping action, and there were a few people in the army who barely understood the simple spoken language of the Xiongnu from top to bottom, so that they could face the Huns without a few words, but the knife was strangled and held down by Shali next to him before it was sheathed.

I saw Saliler pull off his mask to reveal a distinctive face, and said in a stern tone: "King Youxian has an order, there is a large group of Xiaoyue clan horse thieves in the west of Juyanhai, and he asks to send tribal cavalry to immediately send cavalry to drive away the Xiaoyue clan horse thieves." To protect the pasture of Juyanhai from the harassment of the Xiaoyue clan, you go and tell your tribal leader that you have walked four hundred miles southwest from here, and there are traces left by the Xiaoyue clan in the past ten days, and immediately go to investigate and be careful of being raided. ”

The young herdsman, named Zabu, immediately panicked, bowed deeply, and hurried his horse back, leaving his family's six hundred sheep on the pasture in a hurry.

Chen He hurriedly asked, "What did you say to him just now?" Why did he run away all at once? ”

Shaliel said unhurriedly: "Just now I told him that there is a horse thief of the Xiaoyue clan four hundred miles southwest of him, and asked them to go with the main force to drive it away, in fact, that horse thief is my subordinate, and they did stay there twelve days ago. It's just that soon cross the desert and return to the oasis in the Western Regions to rest and wait for the opportunity, let them go and track down the horse manure slowly! ”

"High! It deserves to be called the fox of the desert. Chen He gave a thumbs up.

"We don't have much time, the tribe that attacked the Right Xianwang can't hide it for long, and when the Huns react from the shock, they will chase them to the vicinity of Juyanhai in a few days. We are given only seven days at most! Shalil warned.

Chen He groaned: "Seven days is almost enough, my task is to drag the main force of the Huns as much as possible, no matter how many days it can be delayed." ”

When the sun shifts westward little by little. The Xiongnu tribe living on the shore of Juyan Sea in the Eye of the Desert was awakened by a shocking news that a large number of Xiaoyue horse thieves had appeared near Juyan Sea. They immediately thought of a haunting name, the venomous snake of the Yue's clan, which had long been known for its cunning.

The enraged Xiongnu elders urgently convened a tribal meeting. They invited the commander of the Hun cavalry, who nominally protected the smooth road from Juyanhai to the front line, to discuss the specific plan for pursuing and driving the desert fox and killing it, but they didn't realize that there was anything wrong with this strange army and the unfamiliar commander, and the naïve tribal elders thought it was a nobleman who called for the people.

The tribal elders were very tolerant of the Hujie army that came from afar, and were very understanding of the Hujie people's inability to understand the Xiongnu language, and praised the strange attire included under the cloak, praising the Hujie people's hearts and feet for their amazing culture despite living in the desert of the distant northwest plateau.

"Thank you for the reminder, the transportation from Juyanhai to Han Land will be handed over to you to be responsible, we will clean up those pesky fleas and bedbugs and will be back soon, Zabu, you will stay here to seriously assist the general of Hujie, understand?"

Zabu patted his chest and swore solemnly, "Elder, please rest assured! I will definitely make General Hujie feel how hospitable our Huns in Yanhai are. ”

"Then we might as well be respectful."

Shaliel smiled and nodded, watching the Xiongnu elders turn over their horses and rush into the depths of the endless prairie. (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)

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