Liu He stayed near Jiangyi for two days, and after successfully recovering Xu Huang, he immediately led his army along the Fenshui Ancient Road all the way north, and when he came to Yong'an County 20 miles away, he was stopped by a force guarding the junction of Hedong County and Taiyuan County.

The army that blocked Liu He's way belonged to the "Foreign Legion" under Yuan Shao, and it was the remnants of the Southern Xiongnu Yufuluo who was driven out of Hedong by Duan Xuan.

As mentioned above, in the fourth year of the first peace, the Southern Xiongnu Department attached to the Han Dynasty rebelled in Fuluo in the area of Pingyang County, Hedong County, and was squeezed out of Guanzhong by Li Dao and Guo Yan.

The defeated Yu Fuluo led the remnants of his subordinates north to Xihe County, and encountered a strong interception by Yuan Shao's general Gao Lan near Tongtian Mountain, and had no choice but to surrender, so Yuan Shao had a Southern Xiongnu cavalry of more than 5,000 people.

When it comes to the Southern Hun cavalry, we have to talk about how the Huns, who had dominated the northern desert for hundreds of years, went into decline.

The Xiongnu are a nomadic people with a long history in the north, they mainly live in the Gobi Desert in the north of the Han Dynasty, when Qin Shi Huang did not hesitate to spend huge manpower and financial resources to build the Great Wall, it was to guard against this group of evil neighbors from the north.

During the Western Han Dynasty, the Huns were in trouble in the north of the Han Dynasty, and after several generations of cultivation, the Han Dynasty produced an emperor Liu Che who was famous for his martial arts, so the Huns ushered in their nightmare.

Zhang Tang, a minister under Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, once had a famous saying that made people's blood boil - "Those who commit strong men will be punished even if they are far away!" This sentence was said to the Huns who were invincible at that time.

After decades of hard fighting, the great general Wei Qing and the hussar general Huo Qubing completely defeated the Huns back to their prototypes.

Since the sixth year of Emperor Yuanguang of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu began to be attacked by the army of the Han Dynasty, and the Xiongnu withdrew the main force to the Mobei region in the sixth year of Emperor Yuanshuo of the Han Dynasty, and the Xiongnu State of the Han Wu Emperor Yuanjia four years has completely withdrawn from the Monan region.

One only has to take a closer look at these era names of the Wudi period, and it is not difficult to see how eager the Han people were to completely eradicate the scourge of the nomadic peoples from the north.

The word "light" in the era name "Yuanguang". It has the meaning of restoration. Where does Emperor Wu want to recover? Naturally, it is the vast northern region.

The word "Shuo" in the era name "Yuan Shuo" contains the meaning of Heshuo. Emperor Wu established Shuofang County on the fertile Yellow River steppe at the foot of Helan Mountain in Yinshan Mountain, precisely to block the southward advance of the Xiongnu.

The word "hunting" in the name of the year "Yuanjiao" contains the meaning of patrolling. At that time, Emperor Wu had completely driven the Huns out of Monan, so he used Yuanzhan as the era name, which meant to prevent the Huns from going south again like hunting.

Emperor Wu reigned for fifty years, almost exhausted the wealth accumulated by the Han Dynasty during the reign of Wenjing, and sacrificed the lives of millions of soldiers, which drove the Huns back to Mobei. Incredible.

At the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu, who had been declining, experienced a major split, in which the Southern Xiongnu entered the Central Plains and annexed, while the Northern Xiongnu migrated westward from Mobei to settle near the Caspian Sea. Historically, the closest descendants of the Huns were Kazakhs, and the direct descendants were Turkic.

After the division of the Xiongnu, the Xianbei people who had been enslaved by them began to rise, and after nearly a hundred years of development and growth, they have now become the biggest hidden danger in the north of the Han Dynasty. The Southern Xiongnu tribe, which was originally attached to the Han Dynasty, is now also taking advantage of the internal turmoil in the Han Dynasty. began to stir up again, causing chaos in the area of Bingzhou.

If history continues to develop along the original trajectory, then the Han nation will survive for decades after the turmoil of the Three Kingdoms. is about to usher in the darkest and longest period, that is, the tragic "Five Hu Chaohua"!

The "five hu" in Wuhu refers to the nomadic tribal alliance of the five Hu people, namely the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Qian, Qiang, and Di. Among them, the most ferocious of the Qian, is actually a branch of the white Xiongnu. The Di people are a branch of the Baima Qiang people, so the Wuhu Chaohua is actually mainly the Xiongnu, Qiang and Xianbei people who are harming the Han people.

In Liu He's view, the Han Dynasty's approach to the Huns. In one sentence, that is, shoveling grass does not remove roots, and the spring breeze blows and grows......

When the sentinels in front returned to report to Liu He that the Southern Huns Yu Fuluo led the army to block his way, Liu He only said one sentence to Zhao Yun: "Try not to leave a living mouth in this battle, how many can be killed!" ”

When Zhao Yun heard this order, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that the son, who had always been gentle and benevolent, would be so hostile to the Southern Huns.

The reason why Liu He issued this cruel and cold-blooded order was because he did not have any good feelings towards the Huns and Xianbei people in his bones, and sooner or later he would have to cut down the roots of these enemies on horseback in the future; Second, these Southern Hun cavalry are now attached to Yuan Shao, which is the biggest threat to Youzhou, and if they can eliminate more this time, it will be equivalent to weakening Yuan Shao's strength.

The Youzhou cavalry under Liu He was mainly composed of Han Chinese and Wuhuan people. Historically, the Han people and the Wuhuan people have teamed up to deal with the Huns and Xianbei people many times, so when they encountered the Southern Hun cavalry blocking the road this time, the Youzhou cavalry did not need to be mobilized at all, and they naturally had a kind of common hatred and hatred in their psychology.

After Zhao Yun received Liu He's order, he did not immediately organize a large army to attack, but carefully discussed it with Guo Jia, Zhang He and others, and then formulated a more ruthless and dangerous plan.

This plan is divided into two steps.

In the first step, Murong Ping led a team of the most elite light cavalry pretending to be horse bandits, breaking into the places where the Southern Xiongnu tribes lived, killing people and setting fires everywhere, attracting the greatest hatred as quickly as possible, and then mobilizing the Southern Xiongnu cavalry scattered in several counties, and then leading them to the vicinity of Huoda Mountain in the northeast of Yong'an County.

In the second step, when Murong Ping attracted the annoyed and angry Southern Xiongnu cavalry to the vicinity of Huo Dashan, Zhao Yun, who was ambushed in the mountains, led the main force to attack, killing and wounding the Xiongnu cavalry under Fu Luo to the greatest extent.

After the plan was finalized, Zhao Yun immediately selected the most skilled cavalry under his command for Murong Ping, and then equipped them with the best war horses with the best endurance and double horses, so that Murong Ping took advantage of the cover of night to rush into the southwest of Taiyuan County's Jieshan.

It was a long night that was destined to be impossible to sleep......

In Jiexiu County, the blazing fire spread from one place to another, and the attacked Southern Huns did not care about packing up their belongings, and rode their war horses one after another, swearing to the sky that after they caught these bold horse bandits, they would be skinned and cramped to relieve their hatred for tonight.

Murong Ping watched the long dragon of torches hanging behind him grow stronger and stronger, and shouted loudly to the brothers around him: "Brothers, work harder!" Go ahead and burn a few tribes, and we will retreat in the direction of Huo Dashan! ”

These light cavalry, carefully selected by Zhao Yun, are all veterans of the battlefield, none of them are blindfolded, they are very good at killing people and setting fires in the dark night, they ride on the back of a horse supported by a high bridge saddle, and calmly and calmly fire arrows at the pursuing Southern Huns.

These Southern Huns, who came to chase after them with torches in their hands, were first-class live targets in the dark night, and as long as they approached Murong Ping's small team, they would be shot off their horses.

Just imagine, the Youzhou cavalry is now uniformly equipped with double-foot stirrups and Takahashi saddles, and secretly received the most shameless and insidious "Mangu" tactical training in history, as long as they are willing, even if there are tens of thousands of Southern Hun cavalry behind them, they will not be able to stop them from continuing to kill people and set fires.

The reason is very simple, there is no wireless communication in this era, even if the Southern Huns who were harassed in front have gathered and begun to pursue, but the rear is still sleeping, who would have imagined that a cavalry squad of only a few hundred people would dare to break into the Southern Xiongnu tribe famous for its cavalry warfare so unscrupulously?

An attack that made the Southern Xiongnu vomit blood lasted from night to dawn, and after a rough calculation, Murong Ping had already patronized all the dozens of tribes of the Southern Xiongnu who had settled in the two counties of Jiexiu and Pingzhou.

Seeing that the sky was bright, and there were more than three or four thousand Southern Huns chasing behind him who wanted to take revenge, Murong Ping turned his horse's head and led hundreds of inexplicably excited cavalry under him to rush towards Huo Dashan with a shout.

Yu Fuluo, who had been biting the "horse bandits" escaping in front of him, had red eyes, and he saw that this group of horse bandits was actually fleeing in the direction of Huo Dashan, revealing a bloody mouth, and said with a cruel smile: "This gang of miscellaneous people dare to flee in the direction of Huo Dashan, they must have been cornered by our warriors!" Boys, work hard, these fools are fleeing on horseback into the rugged mountains, and their time of death is near! ”

"Kill these and avenge the dead clansmen!"

"Rush, these bandits can't escape......"

At noon, Murong Ping led a small group of cavalry to the foot of Huo Dashan and could not stop. Because, there is no road ahead......

Murong Ping said to the knights with a relaxed face: "Count the number of people, and then the brothers will drink water and rest on the hillside while watching General Zhao clean up this group of Southern Huns!" ”

The soldiers burst into a burst of knowing laughter, not taking the Southern Huns, who had gradually gathered around, seriously.

Yu Fuluo, who had been chasing for most of the night, finally saw what the group of god-killing horse bandits in the distance looked like, he wiped the sweat on his face with his sleeve, and then turned his head and shouted to the clansmen who rushed up behind him: "Warriors of the tribe, the group of arson and fire to our houses and shoot our people's miscellaneous pieces are in front, let us rush up together to drink their blood and eat their flesh!" ”

"Kill!"

"Drink up the blood of these bandits!"

"Tear down their bones!"

"Peel off their skin and use them as cushions!" (To be continued......)