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The Ordos Plateau is uplifted, the Yinshan Mountains go west, and the Yangshan Mountains go north, intersecting each other, and the big rivers that rush through the canyons of the mountains have been rushing for millions of years.

Brought abundant water.

It also brings a lot of sediment!

Especially during the flood season, the violent river rolls up the sediment of Yinshan and Yangshan, forming a terrifying mudslide, breaking through the limitations of the river and spreading to the plateau, low-lying and plains of the entire plateau.

Due to the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau, warm and humid air currents from the Indian Ocean cannot reach here.

The climate here has become gradually drier, colder and windier.

The wind of the plateau blows the earth along the canyon.

It has swept up the sediment left on the earth by the great river for millions of years.

The sediment is constantly moving through the ground by the action of the wind.

A long and narrow strip of sand dunes has been formed.

And, because of the increasing human activity in this area, the vegetation has been destroyed.

The size of these dune belts is growing larger every year.

Now, the canyons and plains of the entire plateau, in spring and summer, are still green and green, and thousands of miles of fertile fields.

However, in autumn and winter, as temperatures drop, winds increase and vegetation fades.

The dunes then moved unscrupulously through the plains and canyons.

Under the action of the wind, the dunes move very fast.

These yellow or red sand dunes are sometimes, and under certain conditions, two or more sand dunes will gather into one large sand dune.

And once this large sand dune is formed, it will immediately form a small desert with a radius of tens of days.

At this time, a supply convoy of the Han army trekked with difficulty in such a small desert area that was moving.

The sediment from the large river is very soft, and the dunes are often very deep.

The wheels often sink into deep sand dunes and it takes seven or eight people to lift them out.

So, the whole convoy was moving very slowly.

It's almost turtle speed.

But fortunately, this damn hell is finally coming to an end.

Not far ahead, a grassy field covered with dead grass had appeared.

This made the more than 100 Han soldiers who led troops to defend this supply convoy also breathe a sigh of relief.

In the Qin and Han dynasties, military law was strict.

All military operations have a time limit.

Any army must rush to the designated area within the specified time.

Otherwise, it is a missed date.

Failure may have no effect on ordinary people, at most it is to scold a few words and kill the copper.

But for officials, it is a tight spell.

Officials, death to those who miss the deadline!

If it is an officer, it is a crime of one more degree, and it should be cut in half!

Although you can pay to redeem your death, your future and career will be completely abolished.

No one is going to be out of business at a time like this.

"Second and third sons, when we get out of this damn sand dune, we will rest ahead......" Sima of the Han army, who was in charge of guarding the convoy, rode on horseback and encouraged the people.

The people in the convoy laughed heartily.

If it was in the past, such as the current conscription of transporting military rations and materials, the people of the Han family would be afraid to avoid it.

Because, this kind of conscription not only requires the people to bring their own dry food, but also puts their lives in danger!

The most important thing is that it is exhausting and tired, but it does not even benefit at all.

But now, the transfer of military rations for the army is a delicacy that many middle-aged men and those peasant children who cannot enlist in the army are scrambling to participate in it.

There is no other reason.

Just because today, from the beginning of the Battle of Mayi, the Han family's conscription policy was adjusted.

Although it is said that the transfer of military rations and materials is still voluntary labor.

However, eating is the responsibility of the imperial court.

Moreover, you can also eat meat and oil and water at every meal.

Even, after the supplies are delivered to the front line, you can add food!

In each person's bowl, there can be an extra piece of dried fish!

However, the most important thing is that in the year and the second year after the service, the people enjoy the preferential treatment of halving the field tax, exempting all miscellaneous taxes, and exempting the two members of the family!

It's horrible!

In fact, it is equivalent to paying people to work for themselves today!

Not to mention, the full exemption of miscellaneous taxes is simply a natural sound for ordinary people.

No miscellaneous taxes, meaning no apportionment.

As a result, there was an immediate frenzy of supporting the army in the border counties of the Han family.

Although it may not reach the level of support that the people's soldiers of later generations will receive.

But it can also be called a military and civilian situation.

Half an hour later, the convoy was out of the dunes and into the shade of a ravine.

The Han army parked the convoy at the intersection of the canyon mouth, and surrounded more than 100 large cars into a circular car formation, and the people sat on the ground in the car formation.

The cavalry of the escort was on guard on the perimeter.

Recently, the roads have not been safe.

The Hun cavalry roamed the gorges and mountains, attacking any Han supply convoys they could find.

Two or three convoys have already been attacked, and even one convoy, more than a thousand people, only a few hundred escaped, and all others and supplies were burned or robbed by the Huns.

Therefore, the team of this Han army is very vigilant.

Even during breaks, there are sentinels who climb up to the canyon to act as eyes and ears to provide early warning to the convoy.

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In a mountain forest more than ten miles away from this Han army.

More than a thousand Huns sat around the turf and ate the cheese they had brought with them.

Many of them had wounds on their bodies.

Fox Be, through a thorn bush, walked up to these Hun warriors who were closing their eyes and recuperating, cleared his throat, and said, "Warriors, there is prey again!" ”

These Huns immediately stood up one after another, held a bronze weapon in their hands, stuck out their tongues, and licked their lips.

They are Lu Hou people.

Lu Hou is a very special tribe among the Xiongnu tribes.

Since twenty or thirty years ago, they were moved to the foot of the mountains in Hexi by Lao Shangdan, and were responsible for dealing with the Qiang and Xiaoyue people who were hidden in the ravines and plateaus.

The social model of the Luhou tribe has quietly changed.

They live in a remote and impoverished place.

Lu Houren, even if he was the head of Qu Shuai and the clan, was barefoot and naked like ordinary herdsmen, with his hair scattered.

The harsh living environment and extreme natural climate have forced the Luhou people to go back to the way of life that their ancestors used to live tens of thousands of years ago.

They live in clans and in groups.

All livestock and tools, as well as property, are the common property of the clan.

If the prey is hunted, it must be shared by the whole clan, and no one will hide it.

Except for King Lu Hou, who is hereditary, all the official positions and status of other tribes are based on strength.

These characteristics make Lu Houren have the prestige that can make the Qiang people frightened and make the Xiaoyue clan tremble in the mountains west of the river.

Many times, the Qiang people and the tribes of the Xiaoyue clan hiding in the mountains of the Hexi Corridor, as long as they saw the shadow of Lu Houren and heard the voice of Lu Houren, they would immediately run away.

Because, every warrior of Lu Hou is a time-tested mountain warrior.

They can run in the mountains, climb cliffs that ordinary people can't climb, they can walk silently in the dense forests, and they can walk hundreds of miles day and night on mountain trails full of gravel and thorns.

They can even bring a bag of mare's milk wine and a few pieces of cheese to survive for days in the wilderness.

For the Luhou people, it is daily to drink dew when they are thirsty, and to eat wild beasts and even insects and poisonous snakes when they are hungry.

Now, these beasts from the mountains of Gaolan Mountain and Rouge Mountain in Hexi, like a poisonous snake, spitting letters, looked at and looked at the convoy of the Han army in the distance.

"Warriors!" Fox Be, holding the mace in his hand, waved it, and said to the warriors of these clans: "Get on your horses, go conquer, go and kill!" ”

"God forbid!" He raised his weapon, knelt down and shouted, "Let the blood bear witness to the strength of the great Luhou!" ”

"Let the blood witness the strength of the great Lu Hou!" More than a thousand Lu Hou soldiers shouted loudly.

For the Lu Hou people, killing the enemy, robbing the enemy's wife and children, and wealth is the greatest help to the clan and the highest reverence for the gods.

Therefore, Lu Houren has a nickname in Hexi: vulture.

And they do, as they are called, eat everything their enemies have to eat.

All men taller than the wheels will be killed.

Only women and children can live.

Women will be brought back to the clan by the Lu Hou people and become their reproductive tools.

As for the children......

The Luhou people often sold them.

In the past, Hujieren was Lu Houren's biggest customer.

Every year, the Luhou people would sell hundreds of small slaves to the Hujie tribe in exchange for valuable livestock and salt from the Hujie people.

At this moment, this barbarian tribe from Hexi, more than a thousand cavalrymen, rushed out of the dense forest, with a fierce momentum, rushed towards the Han convoy that was resting in the canyon.

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Naturally, the Han army discovered them immediately.

The poignant siren sounded as soon as it came.

"Enemy attack!" On the cliff, a vigilant Han soldier shouted loudly while blowing his whistle: "Northwest direction, more than 1,300 in number, Hun cavalry!" ”

With his warning, the Han cavalry in the canyon immediately moved.

The more than 1,000 people who were resting immediately lifted the carts that were close to them and took down a long sword and a bow and crossbow from the cart.

At this critical juncture, the results of the Han family's decades of persistent military training for the people in the north were immediately displayed.

Although, none of these people are soldiers.

Even, the vast majority of them are honest farmers.

But at this moment, they were extremely skillful in raising their swords and spears in their hands, lined up in front of the car formation, and formed a circle.

In the center of the circle, more than 400 crossbowmen crouched down and quickly wound the crossbows.

And the other more than 200 people were not idle, they opened a hole in the car formation, and let the Han cavalry on the periphery enter the car formation.

In this way, at the moment of the arrival of Lu Houren, the supply convoy of the Han army formed a solid defensive formation with the transport carriages and horses as the core.

If these Hun cavalry wanted to attack, they would definitely be shot into a sieve by the Han militia in the car formation.

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Hu Bei, I saw the changes of the Han people from afar.

A sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth.

At the beginning, the Han Dynasty supply convoy put on such a defensive formation, which made Hu Bei suffer a big loss.

At least more than two hundred fighters were lost.

But now......

Hu Bei raised his hand and stopped the advance of his troops, he reined in his war horse, and looked at the nervous Han Dynasty convoy from a distance.

Then, he dismounted with his soldiers and lit the stove in front of the Han army's chariots.

"You have the ability, so that the people of the Han Dynasty will always stay like this!" The fox did not raise his head and looked at the sun in the sky, there were still three hours at most, and it would be dark.

In this canyon, the temperature at night can freeze people into ice sculptures.

The people of the Han Dynasty can't afford it at all!

The Han army on the opposite side obviously understood this truth.

Therefore, Hu Bei immediately heard a scolding and cursing sound from the Han Dynasty formation on the opposite side that he couldn't understand at all.

"Scold...... Scold......" Fox Don said triumphantly: "You have no strength, I think you can scold?" ”

For Lu Houren, as long as they can win, they don't care what means they use!

However, in the next second, Hu Bei's pride froze on his cheeks.

Because he saw wisps of green smoke rising from the cliffs of the canyon opposite.

"Damn! Wolf smoke! Fox Be's face changed drastically.

Wolf smoke is the standard for the Han Dynasty army to ask for help, and the rise of wolf smoke means that all the nearby Han army escorts will move closer here.

If it was two days ago, Hu Bei would not be afraid of any Han Dynasty reinforcements at all.

But now, he doesn't have the guts.

"These Han Dynasty people actually brought wolf smoke...... Fox Bei jumped to his feet, glanced at the convoy of the Han army fiercely, then got up and blew the chirping, and ordered: "Let's go!" ”

As soon as the wolf smoke rises, it means that reinforcements from the Han Dynasty will appear at any time.

The fox didn't want to bump into the reinforcements of the Han Dynasty.

Because......

They're Zhelan!

Although, the armor, weapons and clothing of those Han Dynasty cavalry were completely different from those of the Zhelan people in the past.

However, the way they rode their horses, the direction of raising their whips, and even the characteristics of riding horses, all clearly and unmistakably informed Hu Bei that those guys wearing Han army vests were the Zhelan cavalry that once threatened the grassland!

As a whip of Shan Yu, the name of the Zhelan people is too loud!

What's more, people are now changing their pistols for guns and are well-equipped.

The fox is more than a thousand rides, but he doesn't dare to follow the whip of Yu Yu.

Of course, the most important thing is that Hu Bei and his tribe did not come here to fight the Han Dynasty people and fight to the death.

General Zuo called Yan to slaughter and ordered them to come here, not to ask them to exchange their lives with the Han Dynasty like fools.

Lu Houren is well aware of his mission.

Their presence here is the greatest threat to the Han Dynasty.

From time to time, they appeared to sweep up Han convoys that were not vigilant or unresponsive.

At the same time, it slowed down and slowed down the other supply convoys of the Han Dynasty as much as possible.

Therefore, the fox does not walk neatly and without nostalgia. (To be continued.) )