Chapter 292: Into the Prairie

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The heavy wind and snow on the grassland have been blowing for three days, and they have stopped for a while. The winter sun is slightly exposed, and the person who shines is slightly warmer.

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves woke up the small animals that were sleeping in winter, and from the south, an elite iron horse composed of golden iron horses, was heading north to the place where the Humiliated King was stationed.

After Li Chongjiu confirmed that the Humiliation King's troops attacked Li Hu, he reacted immediately, and the next day he mobilized the Raider Cavalry Regiment, and the 3,000 iron cavalry composed of the Wansheng Army quickly launched a surprise attack on the garrison of the Humiliation Wang's troops.

Attacking Li Hu, this matter touched Li Chongjiu's scales, his wife and children's family are what Li Chongjiu values and cherishes the most, and if the humiliating royal department dares to make this decision, he must be prepared to bear Li Chongjiu's anger.

Therefore, Li Chongjiu immediately mobilized 3,000 iron cavalry to set off to the north and directly smashed the garrison of the King of Su.

"How far is it from Uzhumuqin?" Li Chongjiu stationed in Ma and asked Eto.

Eto looked at it, pointed to the pine forest in the distance, and said, "Just turn over here." ”

Li Chongjiu nodded and opened the sheepskin map in his hand.

The place where the king of Hufu is stationed is the land called Grape Mountain on the grassland, and it is called Wuzhu Muqin in the people of Murwei, which is rich in grass and water, known as cattle and sheep, and thousands of miles of green fields, which is the same famous grassland as the Khitan people in the Horqin grassland.

In the past, in the eyes of the Han people, it was the land of ghosts, and few people could reach this place in the past, even if the army of the Han, Wei and Jin dynasties was extremely strong, there was no record of crusade against this place, because it was too deep into the grassland, far away from the center of the Han people, so it has always been regarded as a wilderness, and no one went there.

However, in the past few years, with the famine of the north, the number of merchants in Yuyi has increased, and they have become pioneers in the unknown land. The Han merchants centered on the two towns of Huaihuang and Yuyi, and constantly radiated to all parts of the grassland, trying to open up more new trade routes. The Han merchant horse team can be seen shuttling through the reckless grassland, between cattle, sheep and horses.

Therefore, the sheepskin map in Li Chongjiu's hand was hastily drawn by the local merchants of Huaihuang Town, and they named this place as Weak Water Prefecture.

The so-called weak water means that there are many rivers in the local area, but the water flow is as depressed as scattered, and the river surface can often be spread for several miles, more than ten miles, but the river is extremely shallow, and the banks of the river are muddy, often sinking people and horses into it. The river is very shallow, can not row a wooden boat, can only sit on the sheepskin raft of the Fan people to cross the river, because can not float so called weak water.

Of course, it's winter, and the grassland is full of ice and mud, so you can't see it, but you still have to walk carefully.

Li Chongjiu heard Etuo say that this weak water river, generally known as the Lugu River by the grassland people, originates in the mountains of the north. When it comes to this mountain, Eto, Inghefer, and even Ugunai are extremely reverent, and he says that this mountain, they call it a holy mountain, because their ancestors migrated from a steppe further north of the mountain to the south.

Now this grassland is now occupied by the Murwei people and the Xi people, and it is a more vast place than the Xi Wuzhumuqin grassland and the Khitan Horqin grassland. After Li Chongjiu heard about it, he had already guessed that the grassland mentioned by Yinghefu and others was one of the three major grasslands in the world, the Hulunbuir grassland.

The Hulunbuir grassland is also the cradle and birthplace of the Tunguska people, giving birth to countless grassland peoples.

Whether it is the Jin, Khitan, Murowei, Xianbei, and many other grassland tribes, they all originated from this grassland, and then gradually migrated to the four directions, and then in the wars with various ethnic groups, they either perished or integrated.

Li Chongjiu is now leading the army, deep into the grassland, now camped in a pine forest, for the Han soldiers in the army, they knew that they would follow Li Chongjiu expedition to the Ahui Department, that is, they were excited, this is the Han army has never had something in the past, and now Li Chongjiu led them out of this step.

But for the Xi people and the Yan people, this is just an ordinary expedition, and many people take it as a hunt. After arranging enough sentry posts, the people drove out a few moose from the forest, shot them on the spot, and then skinned them and cooked them to eat.

Li Chongjiu was in the big tent, discussing this surprise attack with Eto, Inghefu, Ugunai, and Wang Mahan. Hiding traces from Huaihuang Town, running long distances for three days, suddenly appearing in front of the eyes of the humiliating king and launching a sudden blow, it is to have an unexpected result.

In the reckless winter, it is difficult for the Humiliation King to believe that there will be people who will start a war at this moment, so the tribes must be scattered and not gathered.

However, the surprise attack is not just a talk on paper, saying that the surprise attack can be a surprise attack, this is a highly technical work, which requires continuous and repeated reconnaissance, timely correction of the route, and strict control zhì does not leak the slightest rumor, Li Chongjiu led this 3,000-man iron cavalry, lightly armed, within three days of speeding more than 300 miles, now almost put the war knife under the nose of the humiliating king.

The military council discussed all night, and a parchment paper was full of maps depicted in the days of the expedition. These are invaluable things.

In the cold wind, Li Chongjiu immediately wrote a letter to Lin Dangfeng, asking him to enter the grassland merchants in the future and draw a topographic map for himself. This topographic map is an incomparably precious thing, and for the Han Chinese, who do not know the geographical advantages, it is equivalent to something more than 100,000 troops.

The next day, Li Chongjiu's cavalry officially stepped into the grape mountain grassland.

Whether it is the weak water state of the Han people's life, or the Wuzhu Muqin called by the Muwei people, but the guest is as the host, and the humiliating royal department that occupies this place has its own name, which is the grape mountain grassland, so the grassland departments also use this to call this place.

The leader of the Huwang tribe is the Ahui clan, and he has a force of twenty or thirty thousand tents, which is the strongest among the five tribes of the Xi tribe.

In addition to their own use in battle, they also paid tribute to the Turks, and most of the attached armies in the Turks also used this war horse.

Now Li Chongjiu's front scouts returned to the palace and found the tents of the herdsmen of the Humiliation King on the southern slope of the pine forest, with a strength of about 3,000 tents.

Li Chongjiu immediately took the forehead to ask them to watch the battle. Etuo returned to Li Chongjiu This is not the place where the Khan court of the leader of the Humiliated King Clan, Ahui, but a pasture for the winter of the Humiliated King Clan.

Li Chongjiu looked at the pasture, the sound of the horse chirping did not stop, listening to its chirping, he knew that it was strong and powerful, it should be the Wuzhumuqin horse.

Thinking of this, Li Chongjiu and the generals all had the same thoughts. (To be continued.) )