On Qilian Mountain, snowflakes flutter. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

On the mountain tops in the distance, ancient glaciers stand still.

Gazing at the glaciers hundreds of thousands or even millions of years ago, Hu Yan Dangtu took a step forward.

Blood-stained boots, leaving a deep dark red mark on the snow.

At this moment, up and down the mountains, the sound of fighting is endless, just like back then.

It's just that the roles have to be reversed.

One of the main forces of the coup d'état that year, and the men of the Qu clan and their slaves, have collapsed at this moment.

After the Han army put pressure on Juyan, the main force of the Qu clan was taken away, leaving only more than 3,000 troops in Qilian Mountain and the vicinity—almost 2,000 of these 3,000 people defected in this coup.

The main force of this coup d'état was from the Qiang people who were more than 500 miles around Qilian Mountain, and the departments of Lu Hou, Ruolu, and Xiu Tu.

It's funny to say.

In order to regain their power, the Twins could only rely on former vassals, slaves, and even hostile forces.

Holding the horsewhip, Hu Yan Dangtu didn't know if his choice was correct.

But he knew it was his only chance.

Taking advantage of the heavy snow in the middle of winter, he recaptured Qilian Mountain, supported Yushan, and then immediately reached an agreement with the Han Dynasty to lead Han troops into Hexi.

This is called borrowing from a teacher.

As for the Han army, will it stay when it comes?

But it can't be managed!

One thing Hu Yan Dangtu could be sure of was that the Han army and their emperor would not refuse the kindness of him and Yu Dan.

It was impossible for the civil officials and doctors of the Han Dynasty to die for him and his masters.

After two years of hibernation, Hu Yan Dangtu also read and understood the reason.

He knew that for the Han people in the south, loyalty was a noble virtue that could never be ignored.

There is a famous story in the Han Dynasty - the orphan of the Zhao family, which is a story of loyal ministers and righteous men who help their young masters in times of danger and are praised by the world.

"Kill! Kill all the disobedient and rebels! Hu Yan Dangtu took out the long knife on his waist and ordered: "Today, we must control the entire Qilian, and then gather our troops, send envoys to Han, ask for help, and borrow troops!" ”

In the winter of the ninth year of Yuande, in October Bingchen (the ninth day of the first month), the Xiongnu left general Huyan Dangtu and the Hexi Qiang Seventh Division, the Xiutu Division, the Ruolu Division, and the Lu Hou Department launched a coup d'état in Qilian Mountain, bloodied Qilian Mountain, and slaughtered the Qu clan and Dangyang clan who stayed in Qilian.

All men taller than the wheels were killed!

Qilian Mountain bled for more than three days.

However, because of the wind and snow, the outside world did not know that something had happened in Qilian Mountain.

After mastering Qilian Mountain, and the canal and carving difficulties immediately led the heads of the tribes, held a temple at the northern foot of the Qilian Mountain, reprimanded the ditch and carving difficulties and all kinds of treachery and disobedience of the king of Zhelan, and greeted the Western Xiongnu Shan Yu Dan.

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Fifty miles west of Heli Mountain, on the bank of the weak water river, the Han army is a stopper.

This place, originally a camp of Guqiang, the terrain is dangerous, control the weak water, in the autumn of last year, the servants broke the Guqiang entrenched here, and captured its people, and then the Han army built a small fortress here, and throughout the autumn continued to strengthen and expand, and named it Jiasai.

It means the first fortress city at the front of the Han army.

After months of reinforcement and expansion, the armor's defenses are now in shape.

There are three beacon towers and two arrow towers built in the fortress, and the city wall is also more than a zhang high, which is enough to resist the enemy's surprise attack.

A reinforced Sima unit was stationed in Cyprus.

There was a team of Mo knives and several teams of bows and crossbows, and there were several wells in the Sein, and enough grain and grass for the whole Sima to eat for several months.

After the establishment of this fortress, the Han army firmly controlled the upper reaches of the weak water, and had the ability to spy on the lower reaches of the weak water and even Juyanze.

Any enemy coming from Juyan or other directions must first take the armor before it is possible to continue advancing towards Heli Mountain.

Otherwise, keeping the army of armor is equivalent to burying a nail in yourself.

On this day, Wang An, as in the past, held a clairvoyant mirror, patrolling the vast wilderness, searching for anyone or animal that might appear in his sight.

Since the beginning of winter, there have been Western Xiongnu herdsmen and slaves who have fled from Juyanze to the Han family-controlled areas.

These people could not endure the oppressive rule and cruel exploitation of the Western Xiongnu, so they fled with their lives.

Wang An likes this kind of person the most!

Because it means political achievements, but also merit.

The more people who come to the righteous to vote, the more merits and exploits he has.

It is also valued by the above!

There is no way, in the future, the Han family will develop Heli Mountain and Guzang Mountain, and operate the land of Juyan and Hexi.

For the workforce, the more the merrier!

Even the meticulous work and scouts sent out to reconnoiter the enemy situation and inquire about the news were also tasked with fooling the Western Xiongnu tribes to surrender.

It's just a pity that as the wind and snow get bigger and bigger, there are almost no people who have come to vote recently.

Not even a single person came for the past two days.

This made Wang An a little melancholy.

Looking at the vast wilderness with nothing in hand, Wang An put down the clairvoyant mirror in his hand and planned to go back to drink a little wine to warm up his body.

But at this moment, his eyes caught a glimpse of a figure struggling in a corner of the snow on the other side of the weak river.

He hurriedly raised his clairvoyant mirror to look over, but saw a bearded man in a sheepskin jacket, who seemed to be wounded, and fell in the snow not far from the river bank.

"This damn Western Huns!" Wang An scolded secretly.

The Western Xiongnu State had few small people, and faced the military pressure of the Han and Northern Xiongnu, so it ruled Hexi with high pressure and cruel exploitation since its establishment.

According to the Hu people who fled to Heli Mountain, in the Western Xiongnu country, starting from the autumn of the previous year, Shan Yuting ordered that every tribe and each city should have a male to serve as a soldier in Shan Yuting.

Relying on this policy, the Western Huns raised 70,000 cavalry that was seriously inconsistent with their population! (You must know that the total population of the entire Hexi region, even if you count the Qiang people, does not exceed 500,000!) ）

In order to maintain such a huge army and Shan Yuting's own luxurious life, Shan Yuting could only suck the marrow of the lower-class herdsmen and squeeze them by all means.

It is said that the tribute of an ordinary herdsman in the Western Xiongnu has tripled compared to before.

Since last summer, it has tripled!

This means that most ordinary herdsmen, a year's hard-earned income, is not enough to pay tribute!

However, Shan Yuting would not be polite to them, and once they failed to pay the tribute, they would take away the livestock to pay off the debts, and at worst reduce all the herdsmen to slaves.

Some of them were even exported to the Han dynasty and bought by the merchants and brought back to China.

The price of these Hunu is quite cheap.

One burlap can buy a male slave in the Western Huns, and if it is a small slave, you can even buy two!

Thinking of this, Wang An felt some sympathy, so he shouted into the arrow tower: "Zhang Wuchang! Zhang Wuchang! You take someone to the north on the west bank of the weak water to bring back that Hu man...... Let's see if we can save ......."

Each of these Hu people who defected to the Han family was a very good labor force.

He is also the best pioneer of the future reclamation group.

For these people, Helishan has ordered several times to ask all fronts to ensure the survival of the other party as much as possible and rescue as much as possible.

A man in cotton clothes in the arrow tower poked his head out and answered: "Haole! Wang Sima, I'll take someone with me! ”

With that, he led a few soldiers out of the arrow tower, staggered down the tower, and then rowed out from the gate of the fortress on a sleigh.

Half an hour later, they brought back a Hu man who seemed to have been struck down by hunger and cold.

On this Hu man, they found a sheepskin with Chinese characters written on it.

This sheepskin was immediately sent to Wang An, who did not dare to slack off, and immediately personally led people to send it to the Han army camp in Heli Mountain.

Two days later, Ju Meng saw the sheepskin.

"Something happened to the Western Huns!" After reading the content on the sheepskin, the drama Meng immediately changed his expression: "The Xiongnu's former left general Hu Yandangtu staged a coup d'état in Qilian Mountain, washed the Qilian Mountain's and Qu clan in blood, and claimed that they had 'saved Shan Yu from fire and water', and now, they are asking my Han family for help...... Ask the Son of Heaven to send troops to help him pacify the domestic ......"

"Could this be a fraud?" It just so happened that Daojian was also drinking here in the drama Meng, and he was suspicious when he heard the words.

"Regardless of whether there is a fraud or not...... drama Meng said with a smile: "With this sheepskin, our army is famous!" ”

There is no need for those excuses made by the Son of Heaven, the Han army can directly raise the banner of 'invited to quell the chaos' and pass through Juyan Gorge openly.

Maybe the defenders of Komayan Gorge might be on the spot without firing an arrow!

It's just that it is the middle of winter now, and it is impossible for the Han army to rashly penetrate into Juyan and even Hexi in such a season.

This is a bit of a pity.

"Immediately order someone to expedite eight hundred miles and send this sheepskin to Northland County!" Ju Meng handed the sheepskin to a staff officer and instructed: "In addition, immediately convene the whole army captain to discuss it!" ”

"No!"

After a whole autumn of assembly, the Han army has now gathered more than 20,000 troops between Heli Mountain, Guzang Mountain, and Qiangshui.

At the same time, a large amount of grain and grass was also hoarded.

According to the original plan of the Juyan campaign, such a force would have been enough to wipe out the enemy in Juyan.

However, now it is to destroy or control the Western Xiongnu.

This little bit of strength is not enough to see!

Because, just in the Juyan area, it is the size of five Northland counties!

And that's just a conservative estimate!

As for the entire Hexi, it is two or three thousand miles of land, during which canyons, plains, hills, deserts, and plateaus are all available!

It is more likely that the Northern Xiongnu are hiding behind Horsehair Mountain and Xingxing Gorge, ready to move.

According to intelligence, the Northern Xiongnu are now gathering forces in the Western Regions, and these troops may march westward, but they may not be able to move south.

If the Northern Huns join the battle......

It is not known who killed this deer!

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Only a few days after the Han army got the information, the Juli Lake near the sea also received information about the Western Xiongnu Change.

It's also funny to say, now, such a change has happened in Qilian Mountain, but as the left general of the Western Huns, it is difficult to carve and the right general Zhelan Wang Gutu is still in his bones.

On the contrary, both the Han and the Northern Xiongnu received information.

There is no way - in the Western Xiongnu country, no one is optimistic about it anymore and it is difficult to carve.

As for Gu Tu - if he preemptively controls the single in his hands, he may still be taken seriously.

However, he is now taking Zhelan's main force to monitor and carve in Juyan, which disappoints many well-intentioned people.

In this time of life and death, to be disappointed is to be abandoned.

No one will have the patience to wait for the Zhelan people to take control.

Everyone knows that the survival of the Western Xiongnu is not at all determined by the Western Xiongnu itself.

Han and Northern Xiongnu, if any one ends, the Western Xiongnu will die!

Nowadays, the Han army sharpens its knives, and the meaning of the drunkard is well known.

Those who were unwilling to surrender to the Han family could naturally only get closer to the Northern Xiongnu.

"Hu Yan Dangtu can still do such a thing!" Juli Lake sighed after learning about the matter: "It's also a character......

It's just a pity that this hound is a hunting dog for military ministers.

He can't tolerate this remnant of the previous dynasty!

After hesitating for a moment, Ju Lihu immediately ordered: "Go and tell the king of the day that Ben Danyu ordered him to lead his troops close to Xingxing Gorge and wait for the order!" ”

"Thy will, great plough solitary!" A nobleman took the order.

The king of Rizhu is a relatively important nobleman in the Xiongnu system, and he is not allowed to be appointed by the non-twin clan since ancient times.

But in today's Xiongnu system, the so-called Richai King has become a synonym for the miscellaneous king.

In other words, this order of Juli Lake has already shown his attitude - whoever wants to go south to die, he will go by himself.

He's not going anyway!

The current Xiongnu are far from enough to fight with the Han army!

Han cavalry is less than 10,000, full of 10,000 invincible!

Now in the direction of Heli Mountain, the Han Dynasty has gathered at least 20,000 cavalry, and by the time spring comes, this number will definitely be doubled!

Tens of thousands of Han cavalry were enough to destroy and eliminate the little bit of family wealth that he had accumulated with great difficulty.

Anyway, even if the Han Dynasty occupies the Hexi Corridor and wants to fight to the Western Regions, I'm afraid it will take three or five years.

So, he wasn't in a hurry at all.

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Half a month later, in the second day of November in the ninth winter of Yuande, Liu Che also received the sheepskin that was urgently transmitted to Chang'an from Heli Mountain.

In order to send this sheepskin to Chang'an, the cavalry who ordered it took over in turn, day and night, running and killing more than a dozen horses, and even two people were frostbitten - there is no way to this weather, the carrier pigeon system is basically useless, and you can only return to the past transmission system.

Fortunately, in recent years, the straights within the Great Wall have been fully maintained, so even in winter like this, riders can gallop.

Otherwise, I'm afraid it will drag on for more than half a month!

After reading the content on the sheepskin, Liu Che was already overjoyed!

It's a pie delivered to your door!

Regardless of whether what the sheep said is true or not, the Han army can send troops immediately!

Although it is winter, it is difficult for the army to move.

But this did not prevent the Han army from sending troops!

Liu Che believes that as long as there is a Han cavalry, he will plant his battle flag on Qilian Mountain - no matter what method is used!

Then, the battle of Hexi has already been decided!

Perhaps, some of the main forces of the Northern Xiongnu can be in Hexi!

Therefore, Liu Che immediately issued an order, ordering Wei Chi to immediately set off from Chang'an to Heli Mountain, and at the same time issued an edict to the governor of Anbei Prefecture, Yizong, ordering Yizong to immediately concentrate all his forces, and from now on, mobilize the militia and people of the counties in the north to clear the roads and clear the snow together with those slave laborers.

In this way, as long as the weather warms up, the Han army will immediately enter a state of war!