Wei Qing led the vanguard to advance lightly, while Li Guang took Gongsun Ao, Li You and others to move forward steadily, crossed the Yellow River and went west along the Wuting River, and arrived at Wusheling Ridge! Now is not the time for Li You to only take more than a hundred followers to the Western Regions! Fifteen thousand troops to climb over the Great Snow Mountain is obviously not cost-effective! Fortunately, the meadows on the northern slopes of the Wusheling Mountains were accessible to the army.

The mission of more than 100 people may feel that it is easier to climb over the snow-capped mountains than to deal with the Huns living on the northern slopes of the Wusheling Mountains, but in the face of an army of 15,000 people, these tribes of no more than 1,000 people at most can only be regarded as scum! Gongsun Ao swept them away with a few sprints with the cavalry, and Pan Feng didn't even get a chance to make a move.

Li Guang also changed his whimsical style at this time, and fought steadily all the way, so as to sweep away the small Xiongnu tribes along the way, and definitely not leave the Huns a chance to sneak attack him behind his back! Once encamped, Gongsun Ao will always arrange the sentry properly so that the Western Expeditionary Army does not have to worry about the enemy's sneak attack!

Li Guang didn't care about this, King Hutu and King Kun were still on their way back from the Western Regions, since the Bank of China said that after his death, the Xiongnu's understanding of the internal situation of the Han Dynasty suddenly declined, and they may have just learned the news of the army's westward expedition! And Cheng Buzhi had already led his men and horses to guard against the attack of the Huns in Henan and Hebei! Therefore, how could there be so many Hun soldiers in the land west of the river who dared to sneak attack themselves?

However, Li Guang did not stop Gongsun Ao after all, after a period of sand table simulation, he has a clearer understanding of his shortcomings, and now he is making difficult changes.

crossed the Hunu River, and then turned to the 6th battle, successively swept away the five small tribal kingdoms belonging to the Xiongnu, but Li Guang, who dared to resist, slaughtered them, and Li Guang, who was willing to submit to the Han Dynasty, pardoned their crimes; Today, Dong Zhongshu is not trusted by Liu Che, so there are no Confucian scholars to criticize Li Guang's unkind behavior.

Hit by this, the Xiongnu from the Yellow River to the Yanzhi Mountains were almost extinct, and the news came back to Chang'an! Liu Che was overjoyed and set the area recovered by Li Guang as Wuwei County to demonstrate Li Guang's martial arts and military might!

When he arrived at Yanzhi Mountain after doing all this, Wei Qing had been waiting here for a long time! He was not idle during this time, constantly sending small teams of soldiers and horses to sweep the nearby Xiongnu tribes, and inquired about the latest news of King Hutu and King Kunxi; They will reach Yanzhi Mountain in three days, and the accompanying forces have increased, and the king of Zhelan and Luhou and their men joined the Xiongnu counterattack against the Han army, and the Xiongnu's strength increased to more than 60,000, more than three times that of the Han.

"Hah! Just 60,000 miscellaneous soldiers, dare to challenge the prestige of my big man? Li Guang was dismissive of this, and none of the people in the tent showed a look of fear; Through these days of marching and fighting, the power of the new harness has gradually been reflected, and the Han soldiers who can make various tactical movements on horseback by relying on saddles and stirrups are far from being comparable to those Huns! In terms of the riding skills that the Huns were proud of, the Huns had been left far behind by the Han Dynasty.

As for the other pride of the Huns, archery, it is not worth mentioning in front of the Han soldiers! The range of the bows and arrows used by the Huns was far inferior to the elaborate rhubarb crossbow of the Han Dynasty! In the previous battle, Li Guang once personally held a big yellow crossbow and shot the enemy chief a hundred paces away!

The maximum range of the Big Yellow Crossbow can reach 400 meters! Of course, such a crossbow can only work in the hands of a marksman like Li Guang; But even ordinary Han soldiers, the range of the crossbow in their hands far exceeds those soft bows in the hands of the Huns, and the Huns have to meet at least three waves of arrow rain before they can enter the range of their bows and arrows, how can this battle be fought? Often the three waves of arrow rain did not end, and the Huns began to flee in confusion!

Better harnesses, better bows and crossbows, plus elite soldiers selected from the million-strong army of the Han Dynasty, up to Li Guang, Zhong to Wei Qing, Gongsun Ao, Li You, and down to ordinary soldiers, are full of confidence in the victory of this battle!

However, Wei Qing and the others did not underestimate the Huns because of this, they constantly sent scouts to investigate the news of the Huns, searched around near Yanzhi Mountain, and chose the most favorable battlefield for them!

Three days later, King Hutu, King Kunxi, King Zhelan and King Luhou finally came to the foot of Yanzhi Mountain with an army of 60,000 Huns! The Han and Xiongnu began the largest military confrontation since the Siege of Baideng! A total of 80,000 troops on both sides fought fiercely at the foot of Yanzhi Mountain!

As soon as the battle began, the Huns had to attack in a position that was extremely unfavorable to them at the bottom of the hillside, and the Han soldiers took advantage of the Huns' attack from the bottom up and could not give full play to the advantage of horsepower, and used the big yellow crossbow in their hands to shoot countless rain arrows towards the Huns like a torrential rain!

The Huns' attacks were thwarted one after another under the rain of arrows! They wanted to attack from the flanks, but Wei Qing and Gongsun Ao on both flanks cut off their attack cleanly, and the more than 10,000 people invested by the Xiongnu in the early stage were swallowed up by the Han army. Affected by this setback, the Huns could only retreat and return to the camp to rest for the time being.

But Li Guang would not give them this respite, and on the second day, when he was slightly bright, he led the Han army to attack the camp of the Huns! The lightning-fast attack made the Huns chaotic, and Li Guang even shot the Huns' King Luhou with his own hands, which frightened King Hutu and others to flee quickly.

The army that followed took the opportunity to enter the camp of the Huns, and with stirrups and Takahashi saddles, they had the advantage in hand-to-hand combat! The Xiongnu army was defeated and scattered.

And Wei Qing on the other side has been waiting for this time for a long time! The 5,000 elites he led broke through the Hun camp and chased after those deserters!

Three days later, news came from the front, King Hutu was beheaded at the foot of Qilian Mountain, and the King of Kun had no choice but to take his troops to ask Wei Qing to surrender, only the King of Zhelan fled to the Western Regions with the remnants of the defeated army!

After this battle, the Han army killed more than 20,000 Huns, captured countless Xiongnu nobles such as Zikun Evil King and Xiangguo and Duwei, and captured the sacrifice of King Hutu, tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses! Since then, the Xiongnu have completely lost the foundation of survival in the land west of the river.

The Xiongnu tribes, who had not yet suffered the blows of the Han Dynasty, also hurriedly packed up their things and drove their cattle and horses to retreat further west, knowing that this fertile land would never belong to them again!

As they traveled west, they sang sad ballads, "Losing my Qilian Mountain will make my six animals restless; Losing my Yanzhi Mountain, making my wife colorless! ”