In the cold sky, a goshawk was flying, it was not afraid of the human arrows below, it slid down fearlessly, sliding across the battlefield for miles, it clearly saw the corpses of the Hu clan children who died under the enemy's swords, guns and crossbows, the blood that gradually soaked into the sand and red earth, and the very exciting smell of iron and blood. The Qing army, which had set up an ambush at the Red Mountain Pass, began to clean up the battlefield, organize the formation, and have a big battle with the main force of the grassland, even if it was the most sharp Dingzhou army, it still paid a very heavy price.

The goshawk vibrated its wings and flew higher, and then Jǐng was terrified to find that from the direction of the Shituhai meadows in the northeast, a light cavalry force of Qingguo, numbering at least 4,000 people, silently marched towards the depths of the grassland along the lower edge of the natural undulations of the sand dunes and meadows.

With a strange roar, the goshawk seemed to feel the slaughter and terror of the light cavalry, and flew towards the higher cold clouds, I don't know how long it flew, it finally broke through the cold clouds, and swept low towards the hillock next to a lake.

There were thousands of steppe Xihu soldiers on this hill, mixed with some northern warriors who had moved from the northern snowfields, but this group of soldiers was obviously the ones who had escaped from the battle of the Red Mountain Pass before, and their morale was very low, and many of them had been injured.

Shan Yu Subida's lips were a little dry, but there were no blood stains on his body, he looked indifferently in the direction of the red mountain pass in the distance, knowing that the Dingzhou army there was regrouping and could not rush over in a short time, presumably those Qing people did not dare to go deep into the grassland to pursue.

He glanced at the royal court warriors around him, looked at the injuries on the bodies of these sons, and thought of the previous battle at the Red Mountain Pass, his eyes became cold.

As soon as the grassland enters winter, it rarely uses soldiers, which is something that Xihu and Qingguo have become accustomed to, the biggest reason is that because the weather is cold and the ground is freezing, the grain and grass are at a loss, and the Hu people's means of coming and going like wind and electricity are difficult to use. And this winter, this Shan Yu obeyed Hu Ge's Jian Yì, raised the most sharp knight in his hand, and began to attack Xiliang Road, which seemed to be an unwise choice, especially the current bleak situation, which seemed to confirm this.

Thirty years ago, the declining Shan Yu royal court produced such a figure as him, who was able to survive and grow in the gap between the left and right virtuous kings, and extremely wisely accepted the brute horses from the ice and snow in the north, broadened his mind, and absorbed the people of the Central Plains into his court tent...... If it weren't for such an era, if there weren't such a few amazing and brilliant characters on the eastern continent, Shan Yu Subida would undoubtedly grow into a master of the grassland and a powerful figure in all directions.

How could he make such a low-level mistake? Su Bida's gaze swept over the hill and landed on the bearded girl on the horse at the top of the hill, and his expression became extremely complicated and low.

The reason why he chose to venture to attack Qingguo's Xiliang Road in the cold winter this time was that Shan Subida had his own way of thinking, because he knew that the Nanqing court was now in civil strife, and there was a cold war between His Majesty the emperor and his favorite minister, and Hu Ge ...... The corners of Shan Yu's eyes narrowed slightly, looking at the direction of the Red Mountain Pass in the distance like an eagle, thinking in his heart, Hu Ge, who dared to betray the grassland and collude with the Supervision Yuan, should be dead, what a stupid person, how many people who deal with the Supervision Yuan can survive smoothly?

In this year, Hu Ge rose on the grassland, what did he secretly rely on, Shan Yu had already investigated some rumors, so he also guessed why Hu Ge chose to invade Xiliang Road in such a winter. Shan Yu Subida is extremely concerned about the political rumors in Qingguo Kyoto, and it only takes a little calculation to calculate that it must be related to the little Fan who has lost power.

The last time Fan Xian entered the grassland, he cleaned most of the spies in Xiliang Road and the eyeliner sent out by the grassland, Wang Ting's strength was damaged, and in the end, Fan Xian fled with a few hundred black horses under Shan Yu's nose, this fact made Su Bida feel infinite humiliation, especially every time he looked at Songzhi Immortal Ling, this humiliation was even more unbearable.

Hu Ge's pseudo-attack on Xiliang Road this winter was an opportunity for Shan Yu, after a long talk with Songzhi Xianling, he rejected Wang Nu's request for his cautious construction, and wanted to take this opportunity to plan what he wanted, taking advantage of Fan Xian's momentum of wanting to use foreign troops to help Dingzhou's position as a general, gather the forces on the grassland, and attack Xiliang with a decisive momentum!

This is a clever strategy, presumably the general Li Hongcheng in the state also got the news of Fan Xian, and he would only think that Hu Ge was pretending to attack, where would he expect that Shan Yu would take advantage of the situation to attack on a large scale and attack him unprepared!

Who would have expected that around Hongshan Pass was actually more than 100,000 Qingguo jīng rui!

............ This was the most shameless ambush, after this battle, Hu Ge was ambushed to death, the royal court and the Youxian Wang Department suffered heavy casualties, and at least more than 20,000 grassland youths died on the red soil!

Thinking of the pain of the previous battle, Shan Yu's eyes narrowed more and more, and his mood became colder. He grabbed the horse's belly and came to Songzhi Xianling's side, and said in a cold voice: "You said that he just borrowed my cǎo Yuan Zhibing to help Li Hongcheng stabilize his position. ”

Begonia Duoduo didn't turn around, and the leather jacket on her body shivered in the cold wind: "As Shan Yu, such a risky gamble should never have been done, I never really believed him...... But I don't think this time it has anything to do with him, he's just a pitiful, dead pawn. ”

The two of them were silent at the same time, they were able to calculate Fan Xian's response and the strategy of the grassland Hu people clearly, and they had already planned it, so as to achieve a fiasco that had not been seen in the grassland for thirty years.

In front of His Majesty, the Emperor of Qingguo, it seemed that Yiqiē's tricks were nothing more than the foreplay of his killing moves on the chessboard.

The goshawk finally landed, and landed on the indifferent outstretched arm of Subida, the sky was frozen, and the beast flew in the cold cloud for a while, and then shivered with cold, and the hairy feathers on his body looked particularly gloomy.

Su Bida's eyes shrank, and he said in a deep voice: "There are thousands of light horsemen in the northeast who are covering up......" He said in a cold voice: "Qingren's plan this time is very great, I don't know which general dared to send another strong army into the grassland after this battle, such a cold weather, do these Qingren still dare to hope to wipe out the royal court?"

Having said that, he was also extremely shocked by the strength of the Qing army and the determination to destroy it at this time, although there were still thousands of grassland children around the lake, but he had just experienced a big battle, and it was when he was tired and depressed, and then he charged head-on with the four thousand light horsemen who had been gathering momentum for a long time, and the victory or defeat was unknown.

Su Bida scolded viciously in his heart Qingren despicable, he didn't give himself the slightest chance to rest, but as a king, how dare he let his angry feelings wash away his reason, and in the first time, he had already issued a jǐng notice to the subordinates below the hillside, and suddenly the royal court warriors around the lake suddenly took action, and the speed of action was extremely fast, and they couldn't see the previous injuries and low feelings at all.

"Go with this king?" Shan Yu turned the horse's head and glanced back at the Hu woman on the hill.

"I'm going to Nanqing. Begonia Blossom lowered her head slightly, her eyes never left the direction of the Red Mountain Pass, her face was quiet, but her voice revealed a trace of self-blame and introspection.

She could see that countless resentful spirits were rising up in that place, because of Hu Ge's trust in someone, because of his trust in someone, because of his trust in himself, tens of thousands of soldiers on the grassland fell into the siege of Qingguo's iron cavalry, with heavy casualties, and their severed limbs were spread on the ground like dead wood in a rotten swamp.

This hellish sand scene, even if it was her, she couldn't help but shake her heart, and at that moment, the current head of Tianyi realized that among thousands of troops, a person's strength was actually really small, and nothing could be changed.

"I want an explanation, and if I can't, I'll have to give you, and the people who died. After saying this, Haitang lightly clamped the horse's belly, turned into a light smoke, galloped down the hill, and galloped away in the opposite direction to Rì's head.

Fan Xian asked Hong Yiqing to bring her a message, and the words had already been brought, but because of the matter between Xiliang and the grassland, Haitang couldn't get out for a while, and at this moment, she had to go to Kyoto.

Shan Yu Subida didn't turn around to look at the smoke and dust again, and with a loud shout, he led the remnants of his subordinates to march towards the depths of the grassland, he believed that as long as he returned to his true hometown, those Qingguo light cavalry who pounced behind him like wolf cubs could no longer pose any threat to him. And in the west of the grassland, the 10,000 Northern Barbarian Iron Horsemen who only obeyed the orders of the Songzhi Immortal Order were still 7,000 alive and waiting for them.

――――――――――――――――――――Compared with the inexplicable war in the central and northern parts of the mainland, the war with Hu in Xiliang Road, Qingguo, undoubtedly has a more far-reaching and important impact in history. The beginning of this war was actually just the orders issued by Fan Xian's group in a small courtyard bought for more than 100 taels of silver in a certain courtyard in Kyoto, Qingguo.

It was precisely because of these orders that Hu Ge led the former subordinates of King Zuo Xian to launch an offensive on Xiliang Road, but Shan Yu's eagle-like eyes saw the relationship between Hu Ge and Fan Xian of the Supervision Yuan, and took advantage of the situation, but all this qiē was expected by the Dingzhou military.

The big net of the Red Mountain Pass, I don't know how many Hu people's lives have been harvested, after this battle, the Zuoxian Wangbu was all lost, the royal court and the Right Xianwang were seriously damaged, the prestige was lost, and the tribes on the grassland began to move stupidly, and the initial germination of the country's founding ambition with the help of the Northern Qi Heaven was shattered, and within a few decades, the grassland was in chaos, and there was no longer an opportunity for unification.

This battle, the defeat of Xihu, far-reaching impact, known as the Qingzhou victory.

In addition to the battle of Hongshan Pass, there is also an extremely important reason for the constant turmoil on the grassland, which is the 4,000 light cavalry discovered by the goshawk. A young general fully planned the battle of the Dingzhou army's ambush of Xihu Jīng Rui, and this general broke away from the battlefield of Hongshankou when the battle started extremely abruptly, and as the commander, he led the 4,000 light cavalry hidden in the east side, and launched a pursuit for half a year towards the remnants of the royal court.

This pursuit was carried out in the ice and snow, galloping on the wasteland, whether it was a pursuer or a deserter, they all lived an extremely cruel life, and this pursuit finally made Shan Yu Subida lose his courage, and he could not contact the seven thousand northern barbarian iron horsemen scattered in the far west.

Walking through the winter, walking through the chūn days, walking through the wind and snow and the long grass, this jaw-dropping pursuit operation lasted for a total of five months, when the last remaining strength of the royal court finally contacted the last 7,000 iron cavalry left on the grassland by Begonia Blossoms, the brave and heroic light cavalry of Qingguo finally withdrew from the grassland.

In the five months in the grassland, this light cavalry of only 4,000 men burned and plundered all the way, I don't know how many Hu tribes were destroyed, and maintained the difficult pursuit in the grassland with iron-blooded means and discipline, and when they returned to Qingzhou City the next year, only 800 of the 4,000 people remained.

The iron cavalry that completely changed the situation in the west of Qingguo and completely dispelled the idea of Xihu in the grassland to invade the Central Plains, their commander was actually the commander of this Qingzhou victory. As a senior general who should have been in the camp to guide the country, but bravely lowered himself into the grassland to pursue, Qingzhou's victory, in addition to the Qingguo Emperor's unsparing plan, this young general is the real powerful horn sè, Shan Yu Subida defeated in the hands of this person, not wronged at all.

This young general's name is Ye Wan, the eldest son of Ye Chong, the eldest son of the Nanqing Privy Council, and the brother of the second princess Ye Ling'er, who left the Dingzhou Army at the age of seventeen and went to the Nanzhao front, has gradually been forgotten by the people of Kyoto, and has also been forgotten by Fan Xian.

............ When Ye Wan sat in Qingzhou, commanded the deployment of the Battle of Hongshankou, and killed the Hu people shouting to the heavens and the earth, the nominal supreme military governor of Xiliang Road in Qingguo, the general Li Hongcheng, was placed under house arrest in the general's mansion in Dingzhou.

With him in the mansion, there is also a palace ceremony that left the position of commander of the forbidden army and came to Dingzhou to take over. The military reports from Qingzhou were continuously sent to the general's mansion, and Gong Dian and Li Hong sat on both sides, looking at these military situations silently without saying a word.

The troops put into battle near Qingzhou are basically the headquarters of the Dingzhou Army on Xiliang Road, all of which are native border troops, and the Ye family has been operating here for decades. Now His Majesty the Emperor has transferred the Ye family back to Dingzhou, leading these Dingzhou veterans to attack fiercely, and of course there is no problem at all with the cooperation.

And the half of the Nanzhao border army that made Fan Xian's heart palpitate did not actually pour into Dingzhou City as he imagined, but only stopped in the north of Cangshan in the west of Kyoto, and then chose one of them to enter Dingzhou City, the number was not large, but it was enough to control the General's Mansion.

The handover of military power in Dingzhou is not actually the handover of sergeants, but only the handover of generals, the eldest son of Yefu entered Dingzhou, and with the cooperation of the forbidden army and other forces led by the palace code, he took the military power from Li Hongcheng's hands very easily.

If it is like Fan Xian's arrangement, if there is not suddenly one more young general in the world who uses soldiers like a god and the Dingzhou army regards him as his own, then when Hu Ge leads the crowd to attack with false intentions, Li Hongcheng can take advantage of this opportunity to delay the time he will stay in office for another year and a half.

The general's mansion was very quiet, and after being silent for a long time, Li Hongcheng said calmly: "On the march to fight, I am not as good as Ye Wan." ”

Gong Dian raised his head, glanced at him, and after a while, he replied: "Ye Wan grew up in the Dingzhou army since he was a child, and he has been practicing martial arts on horses since he was three years old. ”

"It's no wonder that this person is rarely heard from in Beijing. Li Hongcheng nodded.

Gong Dian sighed and said: "Ye Shuai suppressed his merits back then, but he also thought that he was too young and his military merits were too strong, but I was afraid that it would cause people to be jealous, after all, the eldest son of Old Man Qin was in the death camp back then. ”

"Qin Heng is not as good as him. Li Hongcheng looked at the military newspaper in front of him, shook his head and said: "Ye Shuai knows the art of harmony with light and dust, no wonder he can hide such a son for so long." ”

"What I think of in this life is to pacify Xihu. Gong Dian is also a general from the Dingzhou Army, he looked at Li Hongcheng and said: "It is a matter of course to be loyal to His Majesty, no matter what the world thinks of my Dingzhou Army, but for the interests of His Majesty and Qingguo, we are willing to do anything." ”

Li Hongcheng smiled bitterly, knowing that this sentence was about Ye Ling'er marrying the second prince back then, but as a result, the Dingzhou army finally defected in the Kyoto rebellion, giving the second prince the heaviest blow.

"I don't know what Fan Xian said to you in private, but if you lead foreign thieves to attack this time, you just want to protect your position as a general......" Gong Dian's eyes narrowed, and he said with a chill: "I am extremely ashamed of Fan Xian's move. ”

Li Hongcheng raised his face, looked at Gong Dian calmly, and said, "Who do you think I am? Who is Fan Xian? Since I dare to let Hu Ge come, I naturally have my means, even if Ye Wan doesn't come, do you think I will let Hu Ren take advantage of it?"

"After all, it didn't happen, and there was room for reversal. Gong Dian said: "But I think His Majesty must be extremely disappointed in Lord Xiao Fan......

He paused, and then said: "After the prince returns to Kyoto, please bring a message to Lord Xiao Fan for Ben General, Ben Jiang has always admired him, but this time he is a little disappointed, the boy was born in heaven and earth, how can he use the blood of the soldiers as a bargaining chip?"

Li Hongcheng took a deep breath, looked at Gong Dian with a smile, and said calmly after being silent for a long time: "You still don't know Fan Xian after all, if he is really a horn who will succeed in ten thousand bones, if he really doesn't take the lives of the soldiers of Qingguo as one thing, now this Daqing ...... I'm afraid that it has already become a torn shirt full of holes, no matter how majestic and majestic your majesty is, where can you stop him from tearing this shirt from the inside? You underestimate his ability, and you also underestimate his character. ”

Gong Dian was silent, but there was a chill in his heart, he didn't know that in front of His Majesty, that little Fan had already suffered such a big blow, could he still have any backhand power?

............ The Battle of Hongshankou, although it was an ambush battle, but in the face of tens of thousands of grassland cavalry like wolves and tigers, the Qingguo Imperial Court, more precisely, His Majesty the Emperor of Qingguo, put great effort into this. In addition to Li Hongcheng's military power, another secret decree gave Ye Fu's eldest son Ye the power to command completely, the so-called use of people is not suspicious, suspicion is not needed, the emperor's confidence in the young general or gambling, in the end is a complete victory.

Victory needs a foundation, soldiers are needed, in order to defeat the Hu people on the grassland, the soldiers in several large military camps inside and outside Dingzhou City were all emptied, and all the Dingzhou troops attacked, plus Qingzhou a genus, and finally obtained such a result, and now in Dingzhou City, it is the group of soldiers brought by Gongdian himself and the small number of Nanzhao border troops left by Ye Wan are maintaining order and law and order.

Li Hongcheng returned to the mansion in silence, looked at the big map in the study in a daze, and then said to the doorman who had been accompanying him: "I am going back to Kyoto soon, I will send you out of Dingzhou, as for how to escape in the future, it depends on your ability." ”

The doorman was silent for a moment and then said, "Ziyue thanked the general for his great kindness. "This person is Fan Xian's confidant Deng Ziyue, who is fully responsible for the affairs of the Supervision Yuan in Xiliang, but after the drastic changes in Kyoto, Deng Ziyue became the corner that the imperial court must capture, and no one thought that this person was so bold that he actually hid in the general's mansion.

"This Qingzhou victory, in addition to His Majesty's holy eyes like torches, and General Xiaoye's soldiers like gods, the Supervision Yuan is also fully activated, Yan Bingyun has been in Dingzhou City, presumably Kyoto doesn't know. Deng Ziyue sighed and said: "Lord Xiao Fan's plan has all fallen into His Majesty's calculations, and when the matter comes, it is impossible for me to turn my back on Daqing's interests and inform those Hu people...... I believe that Lord Xiao Fan and his subordinates should also be a general idea. ”

Li Hongcheng was silent for a moment and said: "I suddenly feel that Gong Dian's words make sense, no matter how much Fan Xian tosses, he is not His Majesty's opponent after all, and he is reluctant to let the people of Daqing fall into a miserable situation, since this is the case, why bother?"