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 Hongshan 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 elite Dingzhou army, it still paid a very tragic price.

The goshawk vibrated its wings and flew higher, and then was alarmed 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, and looked at the wounds on the ground of these sons. Thinking of the previous battle at the Red Mountain Pass, his eyes turned cold.

Winter on the prairie. They rarely use soldiers, which is something that Xihu and Qingguo are used to, and the biggest reason is that because the weather is cold and the ground is freezing, the food and grass are at a loss, and it is difficult for the Hu people to come and go like the wind and electricity. And this winter, this Shan Yu followed Hu Ge's advice, raised the most elite knights in his hands, and began to attack Xiliang Road, which seemed to be an unwise choice, especially in this bleak situation at the moment. This seems to be confirmed.

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 Subida would undoubtedly grow up to become the master of the grassland. Powerful characters.

How could he make such a lowly mistake? Su Bida's gaze swept through 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 Xiliang Road in the cold winter this time was that Shan Subida had his own way of thinking, because he knew that the Nanqing Imperial 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 like an eagle in the direction of the Red Mountain Pass in the distance, thinking in his heart that he dared to betray the grassland. Hu Ge, who colluded with the Supervision Yuan, should be dead, he is really a stupid person, how many people who deal with the Supervision Yuan can survive smoothly?

In this year, Hu Ge rose on the grassland, and what was the ground he was secretly relying 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 Xiao Fan Lord who has lost power.

Fan Xian entered the grassland last time. After cleaning most of the spies in Xiliang Road and the eyeliner sent out by the grassland, Wang Ting's strength was seriously damaged, and in the end, Fan Xian still fled with a few hundred black horsemen Shi Ran under Shan Yu's nose, this fact made Su Bida feel infinitely humiliated, especially every time he looked at Songzhi Immortal Ling. This humiliation is even more unbearable.

Hu Ge's pseudo-attack on Xiliang Road this winter. It was an opportunity for Shan Yu, after a long talk with Songzhi Xianling. He rejected Wang Nu's request for his cautious advice, and wanted to take this opportunity to plan the plan, taking advantage of Fan Xian's desire 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 more than 100,000 elites of the Qingguo had been gathered around Hongshankou! In 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 tragic pain of the previous battle, Shan Yu's eyes narrowed more and more, and his mood became colder. As soon as he clamped the horse's belly, he came to Songzhi Xianling's side, and said in a cold voice: "You said that he just borrowed my grassland soldiers 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 all the intrigues and tricks were just the foreplay of his killing moves on the chessboard. The goshawk finally landed and landed on the indifferent outstretched arm of Subida. It was freezing cold, and the beast flew in the cold clouds for a moment. He shivered from the ground, and the color of the feathers on his body was particularly dull.

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, after this battle, he dared to send another strong army into the grassland, such a cold weather, do these Qingren still dare to hope to wipe out the royal court?"

Having said that, I was also extremely shocked by the strength of the Qing army and the determination to destroy everything it showed. At this time, although there were still thousands of grassland children around the lake, but they had just experienced a big battle, and it was when they were tired and depressed, and then they 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 was despicable, but he didn't give himself the slightest chance to rest, but as a king. Where do you dare to let your anger wash away your reason, in the first time, you have already issued a warning to the subordinates below the hillside, and suddenly the royal court warriors around the lake suddenly took action, and their movements were extremely fast, and they couldn't see the previous injuries and depressed emotions 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 Duoduo lowered her head slightly, her eyes never left the direction of the Red Mountain Pass, her face was calm, but her voice revealed a trace of self-blame and introspection.

She could see countless resentful spirits rising up there. 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 encirclement of the Qingguo Iron Cavalry, suffering 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, couldn't help but shake her heart, and at that moment, the current head of Tianyi only found out. It turns out that among thousands of troops, a person's strength is actually really small, and nothing can be changed.

"I want an explanation, if I can't. I've got to give it to you. And to give an account to these dead people. After saying this, Begonia lightly clamped the horse's belly. Turning into a light smoke, he galloped down the hill and hurried away in the opposite direction of the sun.

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 north and central part of the mainland, the war with Hu that took place in Xiliang Road in Qingguo has undoubtedly had a more far-reaching and important impact in history. The beginning of this war was actually just a small courtyard bought for more than 100 taels of silver in Kyoto, Qingguo, and Fan Xian asked the Qi Nian team to issue orders one after another.

It was precisely because of these orders that Hu Ge led the old subordinates of King Zuo Xian to launch an offensive on Xiliang Road, but Yu Subida'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 of this was expected by the Dingzhou military.

The big net in the red mountain pass, I don't know how many Hu people's lives have been harvested, after this battle, the left Xian Wang Department was all lost, the royal court and the right Xian Wang Department were seriously damaged, the prestige was all lost, the tribes on the grassland began to move, Shan Yu Su Bida in the Songzhi Xian Lingdi Wang Daughter, with the help of the Northern Qi Tian, the initial germination of the ambition of the nation, this was broken, for 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 ambushing the elite of Xihu, and this general broke away from the battlefield of Hongshankou when the battle started very abruptly, and led the four thousand light cavalry hidden in the east side to pursue the remnants of the royal court for half a year.

The chase took place in the snow and ice. Gallop across the wasteland, whether 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 couldn't get in touch with the seven thousand northern barbarian iron horsemen scattered in the far west.

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

In the five months in the grassland, this light cavalry of only 4,000 people 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 in the spring of the following year, only 800 of the 4,000 people remained.

It completely changed the situation in the west of Gyeongguk. completely dispelled the iron cavalry of the grassland Xihu to invade the Central Plains, and 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 his rank into the grassland to pursue, Qingzhou's victory, in addition to the unsparing plan of His Majesty the Emperor of Qingguo, this young general is a really powerful character, and he is not wronged at all if he is defeated at the hands of this person.

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

When Ye Wan sat in Qingzhou, commanded the deployment of the Battle of Hongshan Pass, and killed the Hu people and shouted 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.

He was also in the palace with him, and he also left the position of commander of the forbidden army. Gong Dian, who 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 that were put into operation near Qingzhou were basically the headquarters of the Dingzhou Army on Xiliang Road. They are all native-born border troops. The Ye family has been operating here for decades, except for the eldest prince's expedition to the west. In addition to leaving some influence in this place, the Ye family is the emperor of the Dingzhou army. Now His Majesty the Emperor has transferred the sons of the Ye family back to Dingzhou and led these old Dingzhou soldiers to attack fiercely, and of course there is no problem at all with cooperation.

And the half of the Nanzhao border army that made Fan Xian's heart palpitate actually did not 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 easily took the military power from Li Hongcheng's hands.

If everything is arranged according to Fan Xian, if there is not a sudden extra young general in the world who uses soldiers like a god and the Dingzhou army treats him as his own, then when Hu Ge leads the crowd to attack with pretense of intention, Li Hongcheng can take advantage of this opportunity to delay the time he has been 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 said in a snarling voice after a while: "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, and he is in charge of the battle formation. ”

"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 an outstanding son for so long." ”

"What I think of in this life is to pacify Xihu. Gong Dian was also born as a general of the Dingzhou Army, he looked at Li Hongcheng and said: "It is a matter of course to be loyal to Your Majesty, no matter what the world says about my Dingzhou Army, but for the interests of Your 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 Diandi'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 own means, even if Ye Wan can'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 maneuver. Gong Dian said: "But I think Your 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 character 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 am afraid that it has already become a torn shirt full of holes, and no matter how majestic and majestic your majesty is, how 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 Xiao Fan had already suffered this great injury, could he still have any backhand power, but in the face of tens of thousands of grassland cavalry like wolves, 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 with complete power, the so-called use of people is not suspicious, suspicious people do not use, His Majesty the Emperor's confidence in the young general or gambling, in the end after all, achieved 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 has become a role that the imperial court must capture, and no one thought that this person would be so bold that he actually hid in the general's mansion.

"This Qingzhou victory, in addition to His Majesty's holy eyes like a torch, 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 it comes to the end, it is impossible for me to turn my back on the interests of Daqing 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 are reasonable, 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?"