My lord! "The original county should go out of the city to greet Zeng Hua.

"Okay, no need to be polite." Zeng Hua has always been more pragmatic, so everyone doesn't mind him rushing to be "virtuous".

"Mr. Bingtai, how are things going?" Zeng Hua asked as soon as he sat down in the Linrong City County Mansion.

"Back to my lord, it's done. The Horse Scout Division and the Detective Cavalry Department teamed up this time to attack and brought back a total of three Neiying. Xie Ai is still so unhurried.

"Oh, come in!"

"Yes, my lord," Xie Ai replied, then turned to one of the entourage "secretaries" and instructed, "Go and invite your guests over." ”

After a while, five men entered, led by the secretary of the retinue, three of them in strange costumes, one in a leather robe and a head full of braids; An eagle-eyed hooked nose is very different from the people of the Central Plains; The third wears a yarella hat characteristic of the Huns. Although the other two people were dressed in fur coats, they could be seen at a glance that they were different from those three.

I saw the two of them come forward and salute and said, "Gu Yuan, the commander of the Horse Division/Yao Yao, the commander of the Reconnaissance Cavalry Department, has seen the general!" ”

The three men followed behind and bent down to salute.

Zeng Hua, who had read the briefing, knew that Gu Yuan and Yao were both from the Southern Xiongnu of Fengjun, and they had sincerely returned to the Northern Mansion for many years, and they had entered the Horse Exploration Division and the Reconnaissance Cavalry Division respectively. Under the dispatch of the "organization", the two of them operated in the name of merchants in Monan and Mobei, because the Beifu spirits, tea and other items they carried were very popular in Monan and Mobei, and they themselves were quite powerful. Therefore, he became a guest of the leaders of the various departments in the south and north of the desert, and obtained a lot of information. This time, they teamed up to rebel against the three Rouran nobles as internal responses.

"My lord, please let my subordinates introduce," Gu Yuan and Yao looked at each other, and finally reached a tacit agreement that Gu Yuan would come forward to report, "This is the head of the Rouran Headquarters-Sutu Neighbor Division, because Rouran Khan Bati killed his father and annexed his people. He changed from the chief of the neighboring tribes to an ordinary chief. That's why I hate Bhati to the core. Gu Yuan introduced the first Neiying Dao. This is a neighbor of Cibu and has a gentle appearance. With a white face, he is worthy of being of noble origin and should be well educated.

"My lord, this sudden neighbor is Shen Yi and wise, although the family is already weak, but it can deal with the situation, so that the family is free from the poisonous hands of the Bati Khan." Gu Yuan continued. As an intelligence officer in Beifu, it is necessary to do a comprehensive analysis of the subject.

"This is the Hu Lv clan of the Rouran Ele Clan, and his father was originally the chief of the Rou Le Ministry. When he was eighteen years old, the enemy of the Rouran headquarters and the lord of the Lu Lin clan deliberately took away his wife because his daughter was the favorite concubine of the Bati Khan. and then annexed the Hu Law Department. The Bar Association was furious. With 500 cavalry, he counterattacked the Yi tribe of the Lu Lin clan by night, killed the lord of the Yi tribe of the Lu Lin clan, and finally fled into Jinshan (now Altai Mountain). ”

"Hu Lawyer's Association is ambitious. Good at fighting and knowing the soldiers, with more than 1,000 troops repeatedly defeated the Bati Khan, encircled and suppressed the army, and it was a famous town in the Jinshan area. ”

Gu Yuan's second place in the introduction of the lawyer association is burly, his eyes are like an eagle, and he is quite imposing.

"This is Ulolanto, the leader of the Ulolan tribe of the Huns in Mobei. Since the rise of Xianbei, Rouran is strong, and the remnants of the Xiongnu who remained in Mobei have become the target of oppression. If it weren't for the fact that Ulolanto was brave and good at fighting and was famous in the Mobei grassland, I am afraid that the Uloran tribe would have been swallowed up and there would be no slag. Gu Yuan continued to introduce the third internal response, and saw that this Ulolanto looked strange and magnificent, with ape arms and legs, and should be a brave man who was good at riding and shooting long.

"Good! Welcome to the three, Gu Duwei, you tell them, I worship the three heroes as captains as the general of the Great Jin Town, and in the accompanying army, you tell them that I can help them fulfill their long-cherished wishes. Zeng Hua nodded and said.

"It's Lord Earth!" Gu Yuan hurriedly responded, then turned around and muttered in soft words, the three of them shook their faces, knelt down with a plop, and bowed to Zeng Hua for a while.

"Hurry up, please!" Zeng Hua hurriedly picked up the three "newly-recruited" subordinates, and then picked up the three of them to look left and right, the more they looked, the more they liked it, and couldn't help shouting: "Someone!" Today I am happy to have three heroes, there is nothing more happy than this, the order to go down, set up a picnic outside the city, for the three new brothers to catch the wind and wash the dust! ”

After listening to Gu Yuan's translation, the three of them were overjoyed, all three of them were heroic heroes on the grassland, and when they saw Zeng Hua so open-minded, they suddenly felt "like-minded", and they had a little feeling of meeting the "Ming Lord".

Coming to the outside of Linrong City, there were already thousands of flying feather cavalry sergeants densely surrounded here, and when they saw Zeng Hua and others coming, no one gave orders, and suddenly stood up together, and the scene that was still chaotic just now instantly became silent.

Xie Ai and the others are all from Laobeifu, and they have seen a lot of this kind of scene. But the three of them were newcomers, and suddenly they saw thousands of people standing like a forest, silent as a mountain, and thousands of pairs of eyes staring straight at Zeng Hua with an incomparable reverence, just like everything on the grassland looking up to an eagle.

"Sergeants!" In the silence, Zeng Hua's shout spread far away.

"General!" Thousands of soldiers shouted in unison, and their voices rushed towards the three of them like a mountain of mountains, making the three of them stunned for a while.

"Is the meat cooked?"

"It's burned!"

"Is the wine poured?"

"That's it!"

"Lift it up!"

Thousands of soldiers raised their helmets one after another, and it was full

Good wine in Beifu.

"Today, three brothers have joined our Beifu, let's welcome them with a drink!"

"Good!" Thousands of Flying Feather Cavalry soldiers shouted in unison.

At this time, Zeng Hua and the others took off their helmets and turned around, while several sergeants holding big wine jars came over and poured them full one by one.

Seeing that the three of them were a little unaccustomed to it, Zeng Hua took the helmet wine and shouted at the thousands of people: "Come." Tell the three new brothers, what should my Beifu soldiers and brothers be like? ”

Thousands of voices roared at the same time: "Wine and blood together, life and death together!" ”

"Live and die together! Drink! Zeng Hua roared, picked up his helmet and drank it full, and all the people in the open space raised their helmets and drank it all.

After a while, everyone drank the wine in their helmets. Everyone was made enthusiastic by the booze and rhetoric just now. After Zeng Hua announced his will. He began to sit down in twos and threes. Booze on alcohol. Laughter rose to the sky. And the three of them were even more in tears, this is the place that is really worth "joining".

"Su, Su, Sutu Neighbor Cibu," Zeng Hua called for a long time before he could clearly name the name of Su Tu Neighbor Cibu, this name is too awkward, "Your name is too awkward." You don't mind changing your name. ”

After listening to the translation, he nodded again and again: "General Hui, I don't mind." Originally, our name was just a spoken language, not even a written word, and if we could be appreciated by the general, it would be an honor in the next three lives. ”

"Then I'm not welcome, you might as well change your surname to Dou and your neighbor. How is it? Zeng Hua picked up the short knife on his waist and drew the word Dou Lin on the ground. Su Tu's neighbor Cibu was suddenly overjoyed, and quickly knelt down and thanked him repeatedly.

Looking at Hu Lawyer's Association and Uloranto's expectant eyes. Zeng Hua smiled: "Your names are very smooth, you don't need to change them." After that, Zeng Hua wrote the names of Hu Lawyers Association and Ulolanto on the ground. The Bar Association and Ulolanto nodded, agreeing with the two "official" names.

Soon, the three of Dou Lin were surrounded by Jiang Nan, Ye Lixun, Zhang, Dang Decoction Tu and others, eating roasted big-tailed sheep together, drinking wine in "big helmets", while Zeng Hua and Xie Ai were gathered together, slowly drinking wine and eating meat, while listening to Gu Yuan and Yao's introduction to Rouran and other Mobei situations.

"Rouran was a different race of the Xiongnu, and the first khan was Mugulu, who was captured as a slave by the nobles of the Xianbei Tuoba Liwei (reigned 220-277 AD) when he was a child. Because of the baldness of the head, and forgot his real name, he was named Mugulu (Xianbei language) by the owner. When he became an adult, he was exempted from slavery as a pawn. By the time of Tuoba Lu (reigned 307-316 AD), he fled into the desert and valley for capital crimes, and recruited more than 100 fugitives to take refuge in the neighboring tribes of Sutu. After his death, his son Chelu will succeed to the throne and have his department. ”

"Chelu will be strong and ambitious, first against the neighboring tribes, that is, the ancestors of the Dou neighbors, and then continue to annex other tribes, with a lot of tribes and wealth, become a hereditary noble, and call themselves Rouran. However, Rouran has always belonged to Tuoba Xianbei, and the age of tribute horses and mink skins. In winter, they migrate to the south of the desert, and in summer, they still live in the north of the desert. In the summer, the crowd is scattered to herd livestock, the autumn fat is gathered, the back is cold to the warm, and the south comes to copy. Therefore, although the service belongs to the Tuoba Department, it is sometimes dependent on Tuoba Xianbei only superficially due to disputes over interests. ”

"After the death of Cheluhui, through the Tunu puppet to the Bati Khan, and Rouran after decades of development, there are more than 60 kinds of surnames of the tribes under its control, among which the tribes belonging to Rouran are Yujiu Lu, Tong Lu Lin, Ermian, Sutu Linbu, Afugan, Suxi, and Xuwu; Those belonging to Donghu Xianbei include Tuoba, Qiudun, Wuluzhen, Shugegan, Weichi, Guhun, Pilou, Bediyan, Monalou, Qidouhun, Kufuguan, Wenpen, Shuli, and Wuluo (Wuluohou); There are Yijan clan, Hu Lu clan, sub-Fu Luo clan (department), Da Ben Gan clan, Ya Yin clan, Ta Mo Gu clan, Qi Jin clan, Weefu Li clan and the eastern high car, etc.; Belonging to the remnants of the Xiongnu, there are the Ba Ye Ji Department (one said to belong to the Eile), He Shuye Bone Department, and the Wu Luo Lan clan; Those who belong to the Turks include the Ashina clan; Those who belong to the Zhuhu of the Western Regions include the Long family, the Gao family (one says that they are Han people), Xi Liyuan, Xing Ji Luo Hui, Hou Yiyi, etc. The power reaches the north of the Beihai Sea, the north foot of the Yin Mountain in the south, the Xianbei Mountain (now the Great Xing'an Mountains) in the northeast, and the Didou Yu is connected, the southeast is adjacent to the Kumoxi and Khitan of Zuole (Xilamulun River), and the west is far away to Wusun and Yueban. ”

"In this way, Rouran is actually composed of many ethnic groups and tribes such as Xianbei, Eile, Xiongnu and Turkic, and the hereditary nobility of its tribe should be separated from the Tuoba Xianbei tribal alliance." Zeng Hua nodded and said.

"Exactly, General." Yao replied.

"Go ahead and talk about the Ele Ministry."

"Yes, the Great General," Gu Yuan replied, "the people of the Ele first lived near the Beihai Sea (present-day Lake Belga). The Huns called it Ding Ling, and the Xianbei people called it a high car because of its use of wheels and a tall car. In the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, the ancestors of the Uldi lived in Beihai (in the area of present-day Lake Baikal). It is bordered by the Xiongnu to the south and Wusun to the southwest. During the reign of Mao Dun Shan Yu, the Xiongnu conquered many tribes, and at that time, Ding Ling, like other surrounding tribes, was enslaved by the Xiongnu. Many Ding Ling people were taken captive by the Xiongnu and became Xiongnu slaves. ”

"Emperor Xuan of the former Han Dynasty was born in the first three years of his grandson, and on the way back, he encountered heavy snowfall, and the snow was more than a zhang deep. Civilians and livestock froze to death en masse. Wuhuan, Wusun and Ding Ling, who were usually enslaved by the Xiongnu, took the opportunity to attack the Xiongnu. As a result, tens of thousands of Hun cavalry were killed. Since then, the Xiongnu state has declined greatly. Ding Ling, Wuhuan and other departments began to become independent and powerful. At the end of the Han Dynasty, the edict was divided into several parts, and one continued to remain in Beihai

It is called the Eastern Gaoche, a nomadic in the Mobei Egen River and the weak Luoshui area of the car headquarters, that is, the Eile Department. There is a part that moved south to the hometown of Wusun and the area of Jinshan, which is called the western Ding Ling, and the Ding Ling that went south to the south of Yinshan was mostly Xianbei, or integrated into Rouran, and one part entered Bingzhou and Jizhou, divided into Dingzhou Ding Ling, Zhongshan Ding Ling, and Beidi Ding Ling, but the number is not much. ”

"After Tuoba Shiyi retreated to the north of Yinshan last year, he first fought with Bati Khan. Although the Bati Khan was outnumbered, he was numerous. However, its subordinates are even more dispersed than the Dai Kingdom, and they are spread over a vast area of tens of thousands of miles, how can they be prepared by the previous generation army. Tuoba Shiyi led 50,000 iron horsemen to defeat the Rouran army at the foot of Yanran Mountain. Bati Khan softened. And Tuoba Shiyi didn't dare to push too much, so the two got together. When the Bati Khan heard that he was going to invade the south, he immediately hit it off with Tuoba Shiyi, and mobilized about 70,000 cavalry from all over the country, while Tuoba Shiyi prepared 30,000 cavalry, which was combined into 100,000, and prepared to go south. It's just that horses, cattle and sheep have survived a harsh winter, and they are all thin and tired, and they should take advantage of the spring grass season to replenish their fat, and they are expected to move south in April. ”

After listening to Gu Yuan and Yao Di's introduction, Zeng Hua couldn't help but bow his head and think deeply, and when Gu Yao and the others saw this, they quietly retired and went to drink and have fun with the generals.

"My lord, I am going to defend Yunzhong County with cavalry as the main defense and infantry army as the supplement, and Wuyuan and Shuofang County as the defense with the infantry army as the main defense and cavalry as the supplement." Seeing Zeng Hua think for a while and raise his head, Xie Ai spoke.

"That's great!" Zeng Hua nodded, he was very confident in Xie Aidi's defensive ability.

"You don't believe that Mr. Bingtai can hold this Shuozhou defense line?" Zeng Hua turned his head and saw the solemn look on Lu Zhen's face next to him, so he quipped.

Lu Zhen blushed all of a sudden, and was speechless for a long time, this Xie Aike was his nominal master, how could he dare to talk about it so much?

"You don't know Mr. Bingtai's ability, when Northern Zhao Shihu committed Liangzhou, he was defeated by Mr. Hey, and in the end he could only lament that I set Kyushu with a partial teacher, and now I am trapped in Caohan with the power of Kyushu." Zeng Hua said with a smile, but his face was full of reverence for Xie Ai.

"Thunder, you said that Tuoba Shiyi led the army south, where will it attack?" Xie Ai arched his hand to Zeng Hua, saying that he didn't dare to do it, and then pointed to Lu Zhen with a smile.

Lu Zhen thought for a long time, and finally said happily: "Could it be Shuofang Wuyuan?" ”

"Exactly, Tuoba Shiyi has lived in the clouds for a long time, and is naturally very familiar with Yanmen and Taiyuan, knowing that there are many dangerous mountains, if these 100,000 cavalry enter the state, our Zhenbei army can be based on the city, so that these 100,000 iron cavalry are in a dilemma. And Shuofang Wuyuan County, although there is a natural danger of the river, but as long as it passes here, the Henan Highlands can directly threaten the rich land of Sanfu, so that Tuoba Shiyi can hit the key point of my Beifu in one fell swoop, and can make a lot of money. Xie Ai explained slowly.

"I understand, Sir is aimed at this kind of attempt to deploy the Tuoba Shiyi, 170,000 heavy troops gathered on the north bank of the river, first defend the city, plus the cavalry mobile strategy, drag this generation of national coalition troops to death!" Lu Zhen suddenly realized.

Xie Ai and Zeng Hua laughed and expressed their satisfaction at Lu Zhen's son Kejiao.

Xie Ai continued: "We are only supplementing in Shuozhou, and the key is the general. The general is there with a sword to seal his throat. ”

Zeng Hua shook his head and said, "I have never liked to squat there and be beaten when I fight. No matter how dangerous it is, the initiative is best in your own hands. ”

After a while, Xie Ai suddenly asked, "General, is this grass pasture animal husbandry really so beneficial?" ”

Zeng Hua couldn't help but smile, this is not easy to explain. When I was in another world, from Xinjiang to Qinghai, to Gansu, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia, everywhere we talked about returning farmland to grazing land and returning grassland to forest. And vigorously promote pasture farming. Zeng Hua also knew that after large-scale reclamation in the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, the ecological environment of the weak land in Henan Province, which is still a grassland, had collapsed, and when he was born, it had become synonymous with desertification. Since he was prescient, he naturally didn't want such a situation to happen again, at least to ensure that the river would not be so muddy.

"yes. There should be a lot of benefits. Agronomy has this booklet. Mr. Bingtai can take a look. It's just that these millions of herdsmen and tens of thousands of miles of grassland, I'm afraid they won't be able to complete this big change in decades, but I can't achieve it, I leave it to future generations to do, and I can't finish everything. Zeng Huale said to Xie Ai.

Xie Ai thought for a moment, and finally nodded with relief.

Then. A lieutenant came over and said to Lu Zhen, "Go back to the county guard, the cattle have arrived." ”

"What's wrong?" Zeng Hua asked in surprise.

"General Hui, I gained a lot from going north to Yinshan last year, and I also got a lot of cattle and sheep. In a few days, the general will be on a long journey, so I will take it out and dedicate it to the general and everyone, and I can't eat so much alone anyway. Lu Zhen replied.

"That's good, hurry up and eat while your little brother Lu hasn't got a family yet. Otherwise, you'll have a family. You are willing, but your mother-in-law is not. When he heard it, he couldn't help but giggle.

"You are poor. Everyone is happy today, so I will take advantage of the excitement to have a lottery. Zeng Hua shouted loudly and called Jiang Nan and the others over.

"Thunder has a dozen cows ready to treat us, but they can't be eaten for nothing. In this way, I, Jiang Nan, Ye Lixun, Deng Yingyuan, Zhang Changrui, the five of us should be the ones who slaughter the cow once, each with the ability to kill a cow, if you can't kill it, you will eat the tail of the cow! Zeng Hua said.

"Good!" The crowd shouted loudly. Except for Zeng Hua, the other four people are all outstanding in riding and archery martial arts in this group, and everyone naturally likes to see them exposed

As for Zeng Hua, everyone will wait and see.

As soon as the news spread, thousands of people came to a mountain, only to see more than a dozen fat Yinshan cattle being driven over at the bottom of the mountain, and the five players had already mounted their horses and sat down, ready to show their skills.

The cattle herding cavalry drove the "herd" a few whips and then rode away, leaving only a dozen oxen running in panic in the wilderness below the mountain.

Zeng Hua and the other five people rode their horses and stood there, watching the cows' every move without turning their eyes.

Deng Yao and Zhang came out one after another, riding horses on both sides of the herd, waiting for an opportunity. Suddenly, Deng Yao kicked the spur, and the mount swooped outward, and just as Deng Yao was about to overtake the herd from the right front, he saw a flash of cold light, and then a red light rose to the sky, and then a headless cow pounced and fell to the ground. It turned out that it was Deng Ya who used a heavy sword in his backhand to cut off the nearest cow next to him with his head and neck, and first completed the battle with a severed cow.

Seeing that Deng Yao had a hand, Zhang couldn't help but be a little anxious, pulled out the horse's head, squeezed it directly from the left side of the herd, and brandished an iron melon hammer against the bull's head next to him, and immediately hit the cow almost sideways, knocked over a cow next to him, and then both fell to the ground, but one skull shattered and died, and one was injured and couldn't move.

Although Zhang achieved brilliant results, but it was the most thrilling, and the mount was also hung by the horns, if it weren't for the cleverness of this horse, it is estimated that it would have collided with the ox rushing up from behind.

By the time Zhang and Deng Yao succeeded, Jiang Nan had already wielded a spear and drove a cow out. Jiang Nan used his skillful riding skills and the cold spear in his hand to scare a cow into a panic and squeeze it out of the herd. Jiang Nan continued to wield the spear, unhurriedly driving the increasingly panicked cow, and then when the cow was most flustered, he used the spear in his hand to use the mount to stagger the cow and inserted it into the back of the cow's head for a moment, and immediately stabbed it to the ground.

And Ye Lixun instigated his mount to fall behind the herd not far away, and began to chase after the panicked herd, and he shot an arrow at the last ox, which made the cow tremble in pain, but the arrow did not hit the vital point, and the cow could continue to run after the herd. After a while, Ye Lixun saw the opportunity and shot another arrow, and shot the cow again, and after a few arrows, the cow ran slower and slower, covered in blood, and was about to fall.

Now only Zeng Hua was left riding on the fiery red Hot Wheels without hurrying or impatience, and continued to observe the panicked herd, but his eyes kept on the cow. Seeing that the timing was about the same, Zeng Hua instigated Hot Wheels to rush in a direction that didn't seem to be next to each other.

The cow turned around and saw that its five companions had fallen to the ground, destined to become human food, and couldn't help but be angry and angry.

Now that the four of them should have succeeded, they stopped there, not looking like they meant to be wiped out. The cow's pace also slowed down, ready to take a breath, and the desperate running just now consumed a lot of physical strength. Just as the cow breathed a sigh of relief and congratulated himself on his escape, a red shadow flew from the corner of his eye like lightning, and before the cow could react, he only heard a terrifying string sound, and his neck was in sharp pain, as if something was inserted into the major artery in his neck. The cow felt life disappear quickly in his body, and a red figure quickly disappeared in his eyes.

What's going on?

Tou Niu couldn't figure it out, when he was dodging the other four "human killers", Zeng Hua instigated his mount, saw the right time, and galloped from the side of the head cow, and when he rushed over the head cow like lightning and thunder, Zeng Hua was an arrow, and the sharp arrow shot by the strong bow at close range instantly pierced the neck of the cow. When the cow fell, Zeng Hua, who was hit by a blow, ran unabated and left quickly, leaving only the dead cow there.

The five of them won a complete victory, and everyone couldn't help but cheer.

In the midst of the cheers, Xie Ai turned his head to Lu Zhen and asked, "Thunder, do you see it?" ”

Lu Zhen thought for a while and seemed to understand something, but finally shook his head.

"Chang Rui and Ying Yuan are both fierce and fast, but Chang Rui is only a brave warrior who kills a thousand enemies and injures eight hundred, while Ying Yuan is fierce and knotty, and he sees the right time to kill and is unstoppable. Ye Lixun is patient, falling far away from the herd, shooting the tail cow little by little, it is his ability to see the hand, last year ambushed the Yan army, I don't know how many Yan soldiers died in his hands. Jiang Nan is good at luck, using spears and riding skills to force the bull to panic out of the group, and then take advantage of its flaws to win it in one fell swoop. Xie Ai explained.

"What about the General?" When Lu Zhen heard this, he knew that Xie Ai was explaining to him the specialties of these four people in the use of soldiers, and instructed himself, so he couldn't help but feel excited, and continued to ask.

"General, he has the patience of Ye Lixun, using and waiting for Jiang Nan, Zhang, Deng Yao, Ye Lixun and others to drive the cattle into a panic, and then take advantage of the situation to attack out, like a lion fighting a rabbit, a golden eagle capturing a wolf, and shooting a cow in one fell swoop. And do you say that the general's arrow is inferior to Zhang Changrui and Deng Yingyuan's blow in terms of strength and momentum? Meaning, potential, and section, all in one go! ”

Lu Zhen shook his head, his face full of fanaticism and reverence. And the three of Dou Lin were all in awe and worship on the side, and Ulolanto was even more excited and his face was flushed.

Soon, a dozen oxen were cut and packed up and placed on the campfire, and in a short time the aroma of roast lamb and good wine wafted through the wilderness.