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The war horse neighed, and the wind flew. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

More than 300 horsemen galloped on the official road, and the sound of "Dede" made by the frequent contact between the horse's hooves and the ground was compact and dense, like a storm, breaking the tranquility of the earth.

Most of the knights on the war horses are burly, and their appearance and clothing are clearly different from those of the Han Chinese, all of them have long faces and long noses, narrow sleeves and beards, and everyone carries a big bow on their backs, showing their fierce spirit. Those who often walked on the northern frontier could recognize the identity of these cavalrymen at a glance.

They are Xianbei people.

The grassland was in great drought, and there were countless losses of cattle, sheep and livestock, and the Xianbei people on the grassland went south one after another and entered the Han area. Whenever a catastrophe occurs on the grassland and their livelihoods are affected, they often remember the Han "neighbors" in the south. The Han people are an agricultural civilization, build cities and reclaim land, and the harvest is stable, and the Xianbei people often choose to plunder the Han people when they encounter famines.

Before the Wuhu Rebellion, the elite of the Han soldiers was very commendable.

Relying on strict discipline, superb command art and advanced military equipment, when the Han soldiers faced the northern alien races, they were often able to win more with less, and used the war knives and spears in their hands to kill the northern alien races. No alien dared to ignore the bravery of the Han soldiers, the once invincible Huns, was gradually declined by the Han people under repeated blows, and the Xianbei people, who were originally enslaved by the Huns, took the opportunity to rise, they occupied the Mongolian steppe, annexed the Xiongnu remnants of more than 100,000 lands, and became the new grassland overlord.

During the period of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongxiong Tanshi Huai unified the Xianbei tribes, and the land was divided into three: the east of the right Beiping is the eastern Xianbei, the right Beiping to the upper valley is the central Xianbei, and the west of the upper valley is the western Xianbei. The three departments are managed by adults, and they are directly under the sandalwood acacia.

After the unification, Xianbei began to invade the Eastern Han border again and again.

12 years ago (177 years), Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty ordered Xia Yu, the captain of Wuhuan, Tian Yan, the general of Xianbei, and Zang Min, the general of the Xiongnu Zhonglang, each led more than 10,000 cavalry, respectively, from Gaoliu, Yunzhong County, and Yanmen County, and attacked Xianbei in three ways. The Han army went out of the fortress for more than 2,000 miles, and the Xianbei leader Tan Shihuai ordered the eastern, central and western three adults to lead the people to meet the battle, defeated the Han army, and the Xianbei power reached its peak.

But the heyday of Xianbei was very short, in the fourth year after the defeat of the Han army, the Xianbei communist lord Tan Shihuai died, his son and Lian were difficult to convince the public, Xianbei split. Xianbei in the west rebelled, and Monan split into three groups from the east of Yunzhong: one is the Budugen group, with tens of thousands of people, according to the areas of Yunzhong and Yanmen, the second is the Kebineng group, which is distributed in Daijun, Shanggu and other places, and the third is a number of small groups under the leadership of the original alliance "Eastern Lord", scattered in western Liaoning, Youbeiping and Yuyang.

In recent years, the Xianbei tribes have attacked each other, and the internal friction is serious, and the weather of the sandalwood period is no longer restored.

However, even if they were divided into several major forces, the Xianbei people were still the most powerful ethnic group on the grassland.

Due to the fact that the Eastern Han Dynasty has also suffered internal and external troubles in recent years, the wind and rain have been turbulent, and the Xianbei people have happened from time to time.

In fact, even during the period when the national power of the Han Dynasty was at its strongest, it was not uncommon for the grassland peoples to go south and plunder. The Han people are good at foot warfare, and the nomads are all cavalry, and no matter how elite and warlike the foot soldiers are, there is no way to catch up with the cavalry that comes and goes like the wind, which is a structural problem.

The steppe cavalry has an absolute advantage in power, and it is a headache to run after grabbing.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, various countries overhauled the Great Wall in order to choke the passage for the grassland peoples to go south and plunder. Over the centuries, the Han Dynasty's national power declined, and for other reasons, it did not continue to maintain a sufficient garrison along the Great Wall. After hundreds of years of continuous erosion and destruction, part of the Great Wall collapsed and was not repaired in time, and the majestic Great Wall gradually became an ornament.

Today, Xianbei people can penetrate deep into the hinterland of Youzhou from multiple gaps in the Great Wall.

This Xianbei cavalry crossed the Great Wall from near Pinggu and looked for looting targets in Yuyang.

After Liu Yu, the pastor of Youzhou, learned of the invasion of the Xianbei people, he asked the counties to take strict precautions, but the Han Dynasty had been weak for a long time, the armaments were lax, and the county soldiers were mostly foot soldiers, which were of great use against the cavalry. Of course, there are many naturalized grassland tribes in Youzhou, with the captain of the Wumara and the captain of the Xianbei, all of which are cavalry, and the naturalized Wuheng and Xianbei people can also be recruited to fight, but these cavalry units are concentrated in Guangyang County, and other counties can only ask for more blessings.

After this Xianbei cavalry crossed the Great Wall, it has not encountered the main force of the Han army so far.

But their actions did not go well.

The Xianbei people plundered in the south, and they did not have the ability to attack the fortified cities, so they would mostly choose to attack the villages with weak defenses. The first blow was immediately far away, and even if the surrounding Han troops rushed to the rescue when they heard the news, it was too late to prevent the tragedy from happening. Raiding villages is very safe, there is almost no risk, although the benefits are not too high each time, but the cavalry has an advantage in hurrying, and it is a big deal to run a few more places, and there will be what you need.

This Xianbei cavalry, following the valuable experience passed down from their ancestors, "visited" the village.

I went to seven or eight villages in a row, but I couldn't find a single villager.

The cavalry leader thought that the nearby villagers knew that Xianbei was going south and fled to a well-defended township or county seat, and it was normal for the Han people near the Great Wall to have this awareness.

Fluttering, the leader was furious.

The villagers near the Great Wall know to run, so they can't run away from the villagers, right?

Wait for the brother to gallop on the horse, and grab the others clean!

All the way south, running from Pinggu to Luxian, all the villages were abandoned, and the cavalry leader came back to his senses: where were the villagers hiding from the Xianbei people in advance, it was clear that the wolves had done a good job!

This belated awakening brought tears to the eyes of the cavalry leader.

They wasted a whole day, carrying little dry food left, and this Xianbei cavalry was about to run out of food. The dream of robbing the village seemed to be unrealizable, and the Xianbei people decided to find a smaller township nearby, preferably a first-class township, with a maximum of two hundred defenders and more than three hundred brave Xianbei cavalry of this size, who were fully capable of killing into the town and grabbing anything they could take away.

Attacking the township may have come at a cost, but they have no other choice.

The Xianbei cavalry quickly found their target.

That first-level township was obviously tormented by wolves, the wooden fence had many gaps, and the defenders in the town looked weak and demoralized.

Xianbei people rushed to the township!

"It's a Xianbei person!"

"The Xianbei people are here!"

There was chaos in the town.

Crying, screaming one after another.

Despite the fear, the militia bravely rushed to the gate and fence, and the young men ran out of the house with sticks and kitchen knives. They know what the result will be when they are rushed in by the Xianbei people, these vicious wolves from the northern grasslands, ** captive and do all kinds of evil.

They must resist, even if they know they are not opponents.

Hold on a little longer, and maybe help be there to help them fight off the fierce Xianbei people.

The wooden gate of the town was quickly broken down by the Xianbei people, and more than 20 militiamen guarding the gate were slaughtered.

The soldiers and civilians in the town finally collapsed, and they all looked for a place to hide in the town.

The Xianbei cavalry laughed and rode into the town, ready to exercise the prerogatives of the conquerors.

At this moment, a small yellow ball flew in and exploded!