Speaking from the heart, Ma Chao's suggestion still sounds full of temptation, the Han army can be so confident in the Northern Expedition, relying on the crossbow as a big killing weapon, if Tuoba Xianbei is really ready to fight a decisive battle with the Han army in the Jiuyuan area, with the big killing weapon of the fine cavalry and the crossbow, the Han army can definitely fight in one battle, and the rest is just to sweep away the remnants of Tuoba Xianbei.

Xu Shu didn't think so, but he thought deeper, Tuoba Xianbei already knew that Budugen and Fuluo Han himself and Jingqi were all buried under the crossbow of the Han army, so would they still choose to concentrate their forces and fight to the death with the Han army?

As long as he changed his thinking a little and put himself in the position of Tuoba Lin, Xu Shu was sure that if he was Tuoba Lin, he would definitely not take such a big risk.

Therefore, Tuoba Xianbei gave up Manbo and let the Han army directly take over an empty city, which made Xu Shu not happy, but groaned and became suspicious.

He looked up at Ma Chao, Xu Huang, and Hu Chuquan, and saw that the three of them had anticipation on their faces, so he knew that Xu Huang and Hu Chuquan agreed with what Ma Chao said.

Sighing lightly in his heart, Xu Shu lowered his head and looked at the map again, from Meiji to Manbai, and then from Manbo to Heyin City, and then crossed the river, that is, the cities of Jiuyuan, from the topography of Tuoba Xianbei, if you want to rely on the cities of Jiuyuan, the best strategy is to gather troops north of the river and launch an attack when the Han army crosses the river.

In doing so, it is indeed possible to greatly reduce the power of the Han army's crossbows, and the Han army only relies on fine cavalry and foot soldiers, and has to cross the river, which is indeed difficult to say.

Thinking like this, Xu Shu still shifted his gaze to the east, focusing on the two counties of Yunzhong and Dingxiang east of Manbo, shook his head and said, "We don't know what the intentions of Tuoba Neighbor are. It is a little inappropriate to regain the Hetao homeland this time, as far as our army is concerned, there is no room for the slightest mistake, so it is still according to the original plan, after taking Mambo to stabilize it, the army will go east and join Zhang Liao's army, which is the most important. ”

Ma Chao took a step forward. I still wanted to continue arguing, but out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that Xu Huang on the side shook his head at him slightly, and he was stunned for a moment, thinking of what Lu Bu, the general of the chariot cavalry, said to them before leaving Chang'an. and what his father Ma Teng said to him, he immediately closed his mouth in amusement. There was no sound.

Xu Shu's full mind. All the bets were on the map in front of him, and he didn't notice these small movements between Xu Huang and Ma Chao at all, but Hu Chuquan, who was watching from the sidelines, saw it clearly, and at the same time, he was stunned, but he also realized something.

It's just that no matter how he understands it. Although Xu Shu is a literati, in Lu Bu's army, he is the actual commander, but in his heart. still insists that Xu Shu, as a literati leading the troops, is too cautious, so that he is a little timid.

The next day, after receiving further feedback from the scouts, the army went straight to Manbo, which had become an empty city, and after a cursory inspection, Xu Shu roughly learned that the entire city was still roughly intact, the city walls were not damaged, there were no traps or ambushes left by Tuoba Xianbei in the city, and even the four city gates, although they had suffered varying degrees of damage, the traces showed that they were hastily done before evacuation.

This also means that the entire Manbo City, with only a little effort, can be repaired, and the foot soldiers are stationed in it, that is, it will become a strong city, not to mention that the Xianbei army that has never been good at attacking the city is the three-way army led by Xu Shu, and it is almost impossible to attack the city without paying a heavy price.

At the same time as repairing Manbai City, Xu Shu took Manbai City as the center and scattered scouts in all directions, focusing on the two cities of Shanan and Jiling in Yunzhong County, and within a few days, the military information near the two cities continued to come back, showing without exception that the Xianbei army also did not show signs of holding out in these two cities.

Sure enough, when Xu Shu left Xu Huang to garrison in Manbo and personally led the army to the east, he received further rewards from the scouts.

Upon learning of this military situation, Xu Shu couldn't help but gasp on horseback.

But he didn't expect that the Tuoba Xianbei Department entrenched in the Wuyuan area, as well as the head of the head entrenched in the Dingxiang and Yunzhong areas, which made him gasp even more, were all behind.

Guy is not only the three cities of Manbo, Shanan, and Jiling as empty cities, but even the three cities of Tongguo, Wucheng, and Luoxian in Dingxiang County are also empty cities, so that when he led the army to join Zhang Liao, the two armies had never fought with the Xianbei Iron Cavalry.

Such a strange situation convinced Xu Shu that the two Xianbei commanders, Tuoba Lin and Kuitou, did not want to fight the Han army to the death in Jiuyuan and Yunzhong, so they completely abandoned these peripheral cities, but must have other intentions.

For this reason, Xu Shu appeared to be more cautious, relying on the three cities of Manbo and Shanan Jiling, scattering scouts, focusing on the direction of Yunzhong and Jiuyuan.

However, after a few days, he found that it was really difficult to spy on the real intentions of Tuoba Lin and Kuitou, Gain Manbo to Jiuyuan, a distance of nearly two hundred miles, and the scouts could not detect that far at all, and the distance from Jiling to Yunzhong, although the distance was only a hundred miles, as soon as the scouts arrived near the Baiqushui of Shaling City, they were surrounded and killed by Xianbei scouts and even small groups of rangers, and it was also difficult to approach the area in the clouds.

After returning several times in vain, Xu Shu knew that it would not be a way to go on like this, so he immediately summoned Xu Huang, Ma Chao, Zhang Liao, and Huququan to discuss together.

Needless to say, just a little discussion, everyone unanimously agreed, first concentrate forces, take Yunzhong, and then deal with Tuoba Xianbei.

No matter what the head of the cloud is entrenched in, or the Tuoba Department, what the attempt is, it is always necessary to hand over to them before they can spy on one or two, like now, the two sides do not look at each other, no matter how wise Xu Shu is, he is powerless to guess the other party's attempt.

The next day, leaving Xu Huang to garrison, Huququan led 1,500 Hun elite cavalry, as a vanguard, Zhang Liao and Ma Chao under the leadership of Xu Shu, led 6,000 elite cavalry, 8,000 foot soldiers, 200 crossbows, hundreds of cattle carts, full of grain and grass baggage, mighty, killing to the clouds.

To be able to gather such a scale of elite cavalry, looking at the world, in addition to the Xianbei departments, only Lu Bu has this strength, well-trained elite cavalry, if gathered together, the total number should be more than 10,000, if you add the recruits who are still in practice, the scale is even more impressive.

Such a movement of the Han army was quickly detected by Tuoba Xianbei's scouts, and they urgently reported it to the commander Tuoba Lin.

When the Xianbei king Tanshi Huai dominates the prairie, the desert grassland that spans more than 10,000 miles is divided into three parts: east, middle and west, and a total of 12 adults are set up to govern it, Tuoba Lin is one of the five major people in the west, it is in the eyes of the Xianbei King Tanshi Huai that the eyes are low, Tuoba Lin is good at dancing with long sleeves, and through inclusiveness, Tuoba Xianbei will become the most powerful Xianbei tribe in the western Xianbei tribe.

Otherwise, why could he stand out when Tanshihuai died, the Central Plains was in civil strife, and the Han court was weak, leading Tuoba Xianbei to cross Yinshan, occupy Wuyuan and Shuofang counties, and regard the most fertile Hetao pasture as Tuoba Xianbei's resident grazing land.

It is precisely because of this that Tuoba Xianbei and the head of the head who is entrenched in Yunzhong and Dingxiang, the root of the step of Yanmen, and the Fuluo Han department that is entrenched in Dai County, are hostile to each other and compete with each other.

Now that he learned that the Han army was killing Yunzhong on a large scale, Tuoba Lin was a little worried, did he need to send an army to help the leader?

It was difficult for him to make a decision alone, so he still sent people to summon the leaders of the tribes and gathered in the tent to discuss.

The big tent is still the big tent, and those present, except for Tuoba Jiefen, who was ordered to lead his troops to return to the north, everyone else is also there, and when Tuoba neighbors say the reason, everyone immediately has different opinions, some say that they should stand by, and some say that they should help, and the reasons are also very sufficient, all for the Tuoba family.

Such a result, in fact, has long been expected by Tuoba Lin, and he can't make a decision, these brothers must have their own opinions, but after such a dispute, he has a sense of sudden enlightenment, and immediately has a decision.

When he coughed lightly, the few people in the tent who were originally arguing with red faces and thick necks immediately stopped.

"Although the head of the head has always been difficult with my clan, compared to the Han people, he is still my Xianbei clan, the same clan and the same clan, at this time the Han army pressed the border, did not send troops to help, some unreasonable."

"Besides," after a slight pause, Tuoba Lin turned his words and looked at everyone with blazing eyes, "The so-called hearing is false, seeing is believing, how is the combat power of the Han army's elite cavalry, how powerful is the crossbow, and a battle in the clouds, isn't it a good opportunity to find out?" ”

As soon as the words fell, several people in the tent who were originally in favor of sending troops immediately echoed it, and even the few people who opposed sending troops thought about it carefully at this time, and immediately felt that what Tuoba Lin said made sense.

In the face of the Han army's elite cavalry and crossbows, as well as the elite foot soldiers, the countermeasures they discussed before were mainly to attack and harass the war, rather than the head-to-head duel that the Xianbei iron cavalry was accustomed to in the past.

Seeing that there was no objection in the tent, Tuoba Lin nodded with great satisfaction, and continued in a very affirmative tone: "In view of the importance of this matter, I will personally lead all the troops to go with 3,000 elite cavalry, and if they can fight, they will fight, and if they can't, they will retreat, and strive to find out the combat power of the Han army's elite cavalry, as well as the power of the crossbow." ”

As soon as this remark fell, there was an uproar again in the tent, no matter the leaders of the tribes in front of Tuoba Lin, they were usually a little unruly, but at the critical moment, no one did not think that Tuoba Xianbei lacked anyone, but not without the great commander Tuoba Lin, otherwise, it would not be crowned with the honorable title of deduction when Tuoba Lin was still alive.

Tuoba Lin was very satisfied with the reaction of his brothers, his eyes were also slightly red, he raised his right hand slightly, stopped everyone, and said movingly: "Your brothers are kind, your neighbors have received it, it is my Tuoba family, brothers and relatives with one heart and one mind, can we have today's strength." Spy on the reality of the Han army, it is very important, I don't go to see it with my own eyes, I can't put my mind at ease, I go to the clouds, not to fight with the Han army, with my Xianbei iron horse, how can I go! (To be continued......)

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