The speed of Zhao Yun's march was not very fast, because it was six or seven hundred miles away from the surrendered city, and there were some small tribes blocking the road in the middle.

In order to achieve the purpose of the attack, Zhao Yun chose a route slightly further north, which would take two more days, but it would be convenient for the troops to move covertly.

The procession entered the place known as the Mongolian Plateau from the northeastern part of Daqing Mountain, and the weather became more and more severe and cold, and the soldiers wore thick fur hats and sheepskin gloves, and rode on the back of war horses wearing neck guards and belly crotch, silently marching westward.

The wind blowing from the northwest was like thousands of sharp and tiny blades, cutting the cheeks of the soldiers, and in order to resist the cold, everyone covered their faces with the protective face of the lower edge of the leather hat, so as not to let the cold wind blow into their mouths and noses.

Yan Rou and Tang Meng were standing on a high slope at this time, as if they had forgotten the cold, Yan Rou carefully held the clairvoyant mirror and looked carefully into the distance. Tang Meng scratched his ears and cheeks on the side, and wanted to snatch the treasure from Yan Rou's hand and take a good look at the world in the distance. Tang Meng thought to himself: The general is really generous, he is willing to hand over such a precious treasure as the clairvoyant mirror to Yan Rou, I think my old Tang has seen it once by now!

Yan Rou took a closer look, handed the clairvoyant mirror to Tang Meng, and said: "The tribe thirty miles away from the distance, there are at least more than three thousand people, and there will be no less than eight hundred men in the prime of life who can fight. ”

Tang Meng picked up the clairvoyant mirror and looked into the distance, and said, "No matter how I look at it, I feel that the tribe in the distance seems to have only a thousand people. How do you deduce that they have more than three thousand? ”

"Look at those yurts, they are obviously taller and more spacious than the ones I saw before, and the number of smoke columns they use to make fires for cooking......" Yan Rou patiently explained to Tang Meng.

"Okay, let's go and report to the general!"

After listening to Yan Rou and Tang Meng's reports, Zhao Yun immediately ordered: "Zhu Chihu, order you to lead two thousand horsemen from the north to take this tribe away!" ”

"The last general commands!" Lu Chihu showed a mouthful of big yellow teeth and replied loudly with some excitement.

A moment later, he led two thousand cavalry out of his headquarters and circled behind a low-lying slope. Then it suddenly appeared in the northeast direction of this Xianbei tribe.

When the warriors in charge of guarding the tribe discovered Tang Meng's team. It was already less than ten miles, and he desperately rang the gong hanging on the bucket to remind his people that a strong enemy was coming.

"Brothers, don't leave your hands behind for the rest of the meeting. Today you don't kill them. They're going to come and steal our stuff when we turn around. Kill our people! Listen to my orders, and you must kill all the men in this tribe later, and not a single fish will slip through the net. So that they will no longer be able to send soldiers to Kebi in the future. ”

At this time, the tiger was like a fierce beast with its fangs exposed, and like a ferocious executioner, constantly encouraging the soldiers to kill more, and would rather kill by mistake than let go.

The cavalry on the horse were all elite men who had experienced a hundred battles, and even if Chihu didn't say anything at this time, they would not have the slightest compassion. This is about the irresolvable hatred between the Han people and the Xianbei people, who can only be washed away with blood and life, and there is no kindness and benevolence at all.

Soon, a group of disheveled men rushed out of the tribe, and they hurriedly picked up weapons and bows and arrows, but they were faced with the elite cavalry who had already sharpened their swords, and the fate of death could not be escaped.

The 2,000 cavalry formed a tight attacking formation, first accurately shooting the Xianbei people who rushed out to resist with arrows, and then skillfully slashing the throat of the oncoming enemy with their sabers......

Their movements are uniform, their eyes are cold and merciless, they seem to have rushed out of hell......

An hour later, Lu Chihu returned and reported to Zhao Yun: "In this battle, 769 Xianbei adult males were killed, 37 were wounded and 4 were killed!" ”

"Drive the old and weak women and children in this tribe south, and let them go to pay tribute to Kebineng!" Zhao Yun said lightly.

The secretary of the army then wrote in the battle record book: "On the fourth day of the army's expedition, Du Lieutenant Chihu led 2,000 horsemen into battle, killing 769 Xianbei adult males, wounding 37 of our army, and killing 4 of them, and winning a great victory. ”

The next day, the clerk wrote in the battle record book: "On the fourth day of the army's expedition, Du Lieutenant Tang Meng led 2,000 horsemen into battle, killing 854 Xianbei adult males, wounding 43 of our army, and killing 5 of them, a great victory. ”

The next day, the clerk wrote: "On the fifth day of the army's expedition, General Xiaocai led a thousand horsemen into battle, killing 1,351 Xianbei adult males, and our army was wounded 27 people, and no one died. In addition, the cavalry general himself killed 172 enemies in this battle, all of whom were shot. ”

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As the troops marched westward, the clerk recorded more and more numbers, and by the tenth day, the number of Xianbei heads had exceeded 20,000.

And it came to pass on the twelfth day, that the city was in sight.

The surrendered city is located in the desert grassland area in the northwest of Gaoque Pass in Shuofang County, built by Gongsun Ao, it was originally built to accept the surrender of the Xiongnu Zuo Daduwei, it is the only surrendered city built in order to accept the surrender of the enemy since the two Han Dynasty, and it is also the farthest one from the border fortress of the Han Dynasty.

The surrendered city is actually a lonely city because it is built outside the fortress, sometimes it is occupied by the Han army, sometimes it is occupied by the Xiongnu, and when Wuzhu stays like a single man, the Xiongnu have been vassals to the Han Dynasty for generations, and there is no war in the northern frontier of the Han Dynasty.

Nowadays, most of the Xiongnu have migrated to the west of the Green Mountains, and the Southern Xiongnu who remained in the north of the Han Dynasty belong to the Han Dynasty, and they mainly live in the four northern counties and the Hetao region of Bingzhou, forming a mixed situation with the Xianbei people in the north, the Qiang people in the west and the Han people in the south. This time, Kebineng led the army south to invade Bingzhou, and the Southern Huns also suffered great losses, and they could now only entrench in the area of Nandan Yuting in Xihe County, obeying the dispatch and command of Yuan Shao, the general of the chariot cavalry.

Zhao Yun knew that the surrendered city was strong and difficult to attack, so he did not rashly lead the army to the city, but asked the more than 1,000 Wuhuan soldiers in the army to change into the clothes of the Xianbei people who had looted along the road, and then let the Han soldiers under his command pretend to be prisoners, mixed with the large number of livestock looted along the road, and approached the city together.

The Xianbei people and the Wuhuan people were originally from the Donghu clan, and their appearance and body shape were very similar, and now the Chihu and his subordinates are all wearing the clothes of the Xianbei people, and they look even more similar.

When the army came to the outside of the city, the defenders of the city who were lax in their guard only asked a few words, and Lu Chihu told the defending generals in a skillful language that his group of men and horses was ordered by the leader of the East Road, Lord Yu Zhuqi, to transfer a batch of Han prisoners and livestock to the surrendered city before the New Year's Festival for the soldiers in the city to drive and eat. The Xianbei general who defended the city was not suspicious, because no one would have thought that the Han army would dare to cross the Xianbei occupied area for six or seven hundred miles in such a cold and freezing weather, and come from such a distance in Youzhou to attack the rear nest of the 70,000 Xianbei army.

Herds of cattle, sheep and Han "slaves" were driven into the surrendered city by Chihu's men wielding leather whips, and the Xianbei soldiers at the head of the city screamed and were very excited after seeing it. However, such a joyful scene was just an illusion, and when Zhao Yun entered the city, he snatched a big bow from the hand of the "Xianbei soldier" who pretended to be guarding him, and raised his hand towards the Xianbei leader at the head of the city, which shot directly through the throat of the Xianbei man who was still screaming.

"Kill!"

With Zhao Yun's order, the soldiers showed their weapons one after another and rushed towards the streets of the city, and in an instant, the surrendered city became a Shura field.

After a fierce battle, the 3,000 Xianbei soldiers who remained in the surrendered city were all killed by Zhao Yun's army, although the Xiao cavalry guards also paid the price of hundreds of casualties, but in exchange for a happy victory.

After the capture of the surrendered city, Zhao Yun asked the soldiers to cut off all the heads of the Xianbei people, piled up a human head "Jingguan" in the open place in the city, and wrote on the ground, "Those who commit strong men will be punished even if they are far away!" Zhao Zilong, the general of the cavalry, left a word here to set an example! "Two lines of big letters. Subsequently, the soldiers quickly replenished military rations and horse fodder in the city, bandaged their wounded companions to stop the bleeding, wrapped the dead robes and bodies with cloth, and placed them on the backs of the war horses they rode before their deaths.

After a rare night of rest in the city, the expedition army took away all the Xianbei horses in the city on the second day, and these horses carried a large amount of gold and silver treasures and the grain and grass needed for the journey. Zhao Yun did not order the burning of all the houses in the city and the grain, grass and livestock that could not be taken away, because the surrendered city was originally the city of the Han Dynasty, and if it was burned down, it would be equivalent to burning his own house.

As for the grain and livestock that cannot be taken away, if they are burned and slaughtered, it is also a waste. These grains and livestock were looted by the Xianbei people from Bingzhou, and although they could not be returned to the people of Bingzhou now, they could prevent the jackal-like Xianbei people from harming more Han people after discovering that the grain was burned and the livestock were killed.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhao Yun led his army to evacuate the surrendered city, leaving only a dead and lonely city behind him.

In order to avoid being intercepted by Kebineng's main force halfway, Zhao Yun chose a more northerly route to return to Youzhou, and encountered some panicked tribes along the way, all of which were dispersed, and did not order the soldiers to kill again.

On the evening of the third day after Zhao Yun left the surrendered city, Kebineng, who was in Wuyuan City, learned that the surrendered city had been attacked and the 3,000 troops left behind were slaughtered by the Han army, so he was naturally furious. Previously, he had received the news that some tribes in the north were attacked by the Han army, and thought that this was just a small force sent by Youzhou to lure the enemy, and now he learned that it was Zhao Yun, the main general of the cavalry guard, who rushed to attack the surrendered city, so he immediately led the army from the direction of Manyi Valley to intercept Zhao Yun. (To be continued......)