It was a sunny morning in July, and the wilderness beneath Gohara Castle woke up early in the morning. In the faint mist, a low, solemn voice came with the sound of the horn. Although this kind of voice is not loud, it is neat and shocking, and it is the slogan of victory issued by thousands of people at the same time.

Behind this sound gradually became clear were the sound of footsteps, this neat and firm footsteps was like the sound of war drums in the flood era, shaking the whole army of Rouran while conveying the belief that they were unstoppable, and that all enemies in their direction would be defeated.

The Rouran coalition waited nervously, waiting for the final answer to appear in the light mist. At this time, all the people were listening to the distant voices, where they were secretly speculating, and they were all trying to hold their breath, gently soothing the mounts, which were a little disturbed by the tense and solemn atmosphere.

As the sound grew louder and the sun rose higher and higher, the mist finally slowly disappeared between heaven and earth, driven by the sun and strong winds, and was replaced by an endless black.

Countless black phalanxes moved slowly in the sound of footsteps and slogans, and the flags fluttered in the wind on the black top, making a popping sound, and the tips of the spears of Rulin shone with cold light in the black, covering the black of the ground with a layer of shining scales.

Countless small black phalanxes were moving on their own, and then they formed a huge phalanx, and finally a dozen huge phalanxes covered the entire land. Although each small phalanx moves independently, as if it has nothing to do with the next phalanx, this individual movement is very strange to form the movement of the whole large phalanx. Their footsteps and slogans, though different, rose and fell with each other, blending harmoniously into one, just as countless rushing rivers finally formed a vast ocean.

The black ocean was moving slowly forward, and their fighting spirit and confidence soared into the sky. The sound of neatness is like the waves of the sea, surging forward layer after layer, although the sound is not as strong as the stormy waves, but the power it contains in the neatness and solemnity makes everyone standing on the opposite side feel a burst of momentum rushing towards them.

The Rouran coalition army was like standing in front of the waves, and this kind of power that filled the earth between heaven and earth already made them a little afraid.

"Mr. Xu. What kind of power is this? How we've never encountered it before. Tuoba Wingkey asked softly, turning his head. What could not be suppressed in the voice was a kind of fear from the heart.

"The King. This is the momentum of the king. The so-called king, the hegemon is powerful, and the strong are threatened. In mid-October last year, the "Zhenbei General's Mansion Newspaper" in Beifu once said that the tyrant captures people with his strength, and the king surrenders people with his strength, which breaks the essence of the military soldiers in Beifu in one sentence. "Since the fight with Beifu, Xu Qian has been paying close attention to Beifu's every move, and he has to spend a lot of money every month to get all kinds of mansion newspapers from Beifu for research. After more than a year, Xu Qian can be regarded as a "Beifu expert" in the country.

"The king's momentum? Descend to the people? After listening to this, Tuoba Shi Yijian looked at the black ocean that was getting closer and closer in the distance in a daze, and muttered in his mouth.

"In the past, there was the Tai'a Divine Sword, which can be described as the sharpest edge in the world, and cutting gold and jade is like cutting mud and wood. The blade of the sword came out of the sheath, shooting straight at the doumang, and it sounded through the nine heavens and all the soldiers in the world surrendered. So the sword of the king. Xu Qian said leisurely.

Tuoba Shi Yijian finally understood. Xu Qian meant that Zeng Hua had turned the Beifu soldiers into Tai'a Sword, which was not only extremely sharp, but also swordsmanlike. Before the fight started, the momentum of the "fierce flames" had already made you three points scared.

The Beifu army finally stopped, and the neat and shocking sound suddenly disappeared, and the wilderness suddenly seemed to be back before dawn. The silence, the silence that was about to erupt, was so overwhelming that one could barely breathe. However, Tuoba Shi Yijian sadly found that including himself, the minds of the Rouran coalition army were unconsciously controlled by the Beifu soldiers, and with the every move of the Beifu soldiers, they affected the changes. Tuoba Shi Yijian is also a generation of heroes, and he understands that such a battle has already lost three points before his side is fought.

When the Rouran coalition army seemed to have a sudden realization at this time, but the Beifu army was already lined up there, and it would not be interesting to send troops to invade again. However, Tuoba Shi Yijian and Bati both knew in their hearts that if the Beifu army dared to come out, they would not be afraid of your cavalry assault, and they must have been fully prepared for a long time. And the Beifu soldiers are backed by Wuyuan City, at least they are not afraid of you outflanking and sneaking attacks from behind and on both wings, if you dare to attack from the front, then it depends on how many troops you are willing to fight.

Just as Tuoba Shi Yijian and Bati were thinking about the ground, the formation of the Beifu army changed, and thousands of Xiangle high-speed wooden carts were launched in the formation, but there was a wooden box on this two-wheeled high-wheeled high car. The wagons were not laid out in a continuous row, but were laid out in a heap on the east and west, as if in disarray, and each of them was haphazardly tied with spears.

But the discerning people such as Tuoba Shi Yijian gasped when they saw it, these vans piled together had become an extremely strong fortification, and with those spears that shone with cold light, it was simply impossible for people to approach. Since the van can't break in, then you can only rush in from the middle of the van, but the gap left by the van is not only very narrow, but also long, equal to a man-made canyon, the cavalry rushed from there is simply to find death, dozens of bows and crossbows across there can definitely make you turn your horse on your back, and there are more than dozens of bows and crossbows behind the van, there should be tens of thousands of bows and crossbows.

This kind of van formation is the only magic weapon for the Beifu Army infantry to deal with the cavalry, and now it is even more perfect. Coupled with the Divine Arm Crossbow and the Bed Crossbow, even in the wilderness, as long as they form a formation, they can fight against the cavalry, not to mention that now they are backed by Wuyuan City, where there are many stone cannons, and that thing is several miles away from a dozen things, and it is absolutely long-range cover firepower. But Tuoba Shi Yijian and Bati didn't know anything about it, even Xu Qian, who claimed to be Beifutong, was only well-known and didn't know the facts.

Soon, under the city of Wuyuan, the Rouran coalition army and the Beifu army confronted each other, and the eighty or ninety thousand cavalry did not dare to take the initiative to attack in front of the fifty thousand infantry army, which made these "warriors" on the grassland feel very faceless for a while, although the Beifu army in front was quite imposing. But it has not yet made them discouraged, not to mention that the cavalry on the steppe has a natural sense of superiority over the infantry of the "southerners". But the commander above did not speak, and the soldiers of the coalition forces below did not dare to attack indiscriminately, so they had to wait patiently.

But the Beifu army did not have the "patience" to wait. I saw a group of cavalry rushing out of the array, and the iron hooves flew wildly, as fast as lightning, and like thunder, surging forward. Run in a while

Coalition forces are in front of them. Then the momentum turned. Swept in front of the coalition forces. And then the whistle. Arrows flew out like a torrential rain, especially the Beifu generals who took the lead, his arrows were urgent and accurate, people shot two arrows, he had already shot five arrows in a row, and it was among the arrows.

After a while, the cavalry of the Northern Mansion turned again. Running back, because the whole army of the Rouran coalition has been angry by this provocative rain of arrows, and is about to move. However, the general of Beifu, who had taken the lead before, fell last all of a sudden, and suddenly reined in his mount, fixed there, and then unhurriedly faced the coalition army formation that began to make a commotion another rain of arrows. I saw that he sometimes had an arrow in his backhand, sometimes an arrow in his hand, and sometimes an arrow in his back. Sometimes an arrow from the side. The movements are clean and neat, and the posture is coherent and elegant. Opposite him, however, there were coalition officers and nobles who were shot one by one from time to time. They all turned over and dismounted. Dare to love this guy and treat the coalition officers and nobles as a target.

Seeing this, the front army of the coalition couldn't help but make a noise, and thousands of cavalry cursed loudly for this unusually bold Beifu cavalry general, he didn't take the grassland warriors seriously. Bati couldn't hold back any longer, gritted his teeth, and gave the order to attack on all fronts.

Seeing that the oxtail in the middle of the coalition army was swaying back and forth, the generals and nobles at all levels of the Rouran headquarters immediately gave an order, and tens of thousands of Rouran cavalry, who had already held their breath, rushed out, like a flood that broke the embankment, and rushed towards the Beifu military array.

The general of the Beifu cavalry who was in the brunt did not panic at all, and when he saw the Rouran cavalry rushing forward, a series of arrows shot out more than 20 arrows in one breath, and immediately shot the more than 20 Rouran cavalry who rushed to the front to the ground, and then shouted: "I am Lu Zhen, the guard of Shuofang County in Beifu, and you can fight with me if you have the courage." After saying that, he turned around and left, leaving the Rouran cavalry behind and only screaming.

The furious Rouran cavalry had only one belief, that is, to flatten the Beifu army formation in front with iron hooves, especially the Beifu general who ran like a rabbit in front, because he was too arrogant, dozens of times more arrogant than himself, and there was no way to go out to meet people after such a person was not killed.

Lu Zhen soon returned to his own position, but the Rouran cavalry behind him was not so easy, even approaching the Beifu army was very dangerous.

The Rouran cavalry, who was running rapidly, suddenly heard a whistling sound in the air, as if a meteor from outside the sky was cutting through the sky and flying straight over. Before they could react, hundreds of stone bullets fell from the sky, like a meteor shower directly hitting the Rouran cavalry, and dozens of cavalry who couldn't dodge were directly smashed into flesh and mud, and the round stone bullets did not stop suddenly because there was a pile of flesh and blood buffer. With a weight of four or five hundred pounds, and a flight of four or five miles in length, how could a few flesh and blood bodies stop it?

The unabated stone bullet roared on the ground, or rolled in all directions at random, or flicked to a high place, no matter what, as long as the stone bullet was next to it, it was either dead or wounded, and suddenly hundreds of Rouran cavalry turned into blood gourds, vaguely estimated that even their mother could not recognize it.

The shock of the stone bullet just hit the Rouran cavalry, and there was a burst of bang in the Beifu military array, and then there was a terrifying sound of breaking the wind, hundreds of "spears" flew straight over with a sharp whistling, only to hear the sound of banging one after another, hundreds of Rouran cavalry were "pierced by an arrow", and many cavalry who rode straight were stabbed inexplicably, and then flew up by the castrated and ferocious "long arrow", flew sideways for a distance and then snapped to the ground, and even more were nailed to the ground by an arrow with a man and a horse, Then he stared at the ground with eyes like dead fish, and slowly wailed and gasped for breath.

This is not the greatest horror, when the Rouran cavalry desperately rushed through the distance of eight hundred feet, a huge buzzing sound sounded, and a black cloud covering the sky rose into the sky, with a buzzing sound across a huge arc towards the Rouran cavalry. The stunned Rouran cavalry watched helplessly as the black clouds got closer and closer above their heads, and they had nowhere to escape but to accept the baptism of death and blood.

Only a crackling sound was heard, and the rain of arrows finally fell to the ground, and in that moment the whole land fell into dead silence, and then it was a while before men and horses began to wail. Open your eyes and look. I found that the ground in front of me was densely packed with arrows stuck in the ground, like a black wheat field, and the people and horses lying on the ground, whether dead or wounded, were also stuck with arrows, forming a strange harmony with the arrows on the ground.

Undeterred, the Rouran cavalry continued to rush forward with all their courage, stepping on the corpses and blood of their comrades. But the arrows fired by the 20,000 crossbows were like a rainstorm in May, continuous and extremely violent. They destroy everything they cover with a distinctive buzzing sound. Iron bars and arrows fall from the sky. Just be "targeted" by them. Then the leather armor on the body of the Rouran cavalry was no different from a thin layer of paper, and blood splattered out of the blood groove on the arrow's body, like red flowers blooming in the air one by one.

The blood made the Rouran cavalry even more crazy, they were blinded by the red, and the smell of blood burned them to the point of almost flying. They continued to instigate their mounts, like a tidal wave, surging into the Beifu military formation again and again. But the cloud of arrows made it difficult for them to walk, and the van made it impossible for them to deploy. And the narrow passage was firmly controlled by the Beifu longbowmen. The longbowman's swift and swift shot at this small area was a nightmare. After a while, the passage of the workshop was full of corpses, these brave Rouran cavalry could not compete with the Beifu infantry army that had the upper hand, in the face of hundreds of years of advanced weapons and almost perfect tactics, these cavalry advantages were gone, only a few Rouran cavalry charged to the "valley mouth" Mo knife hand, wielding the Mo knife so that these Rouran cavalry finally ended the painful journey.

Bati saw that his men were falling to the ground one by one like wheat that had been cut to the ground. His eyes were so red that he was dripping blood. 60,000 cavalry. Losing 20,000 men in less than three hours, this made the always arrogant Bati unbearable, and he gritted his teeth and ordered his subordinates to continue to charge. In any case, as long as you rush through the defense line of the Beifu infantry army, it will be a victory.

However, the flame bomb that flew out of Gohara City shattered Bati's last efforts. These flying flame bombs are really like meteors, falling to the ground and not only knocking down a large area, but also turning into a large pile of black smoke, flying everywhere The sparks are made of something, splashing wherever they go, and even if they stick a little, they will quickly cause a raging fire.

Several rounds of flame bombs were fired, and the place three to five miles in front of the Beifu army formation immediately turned into a sea of fire, and thousands of Rouran cavalry were desperately fighting in the sea of fire

Fleeing, but the relentless fire eventually consumed them one by one, leaving them with black corpses.

Seeing such a tragic situation, Bati sat on his mount and looked up to the sky and sighed, tears streaming down his face. The First Battle of Gohara ended in this way with the defeat of the Rouran coalition forces.

But Bati was not reconciled, he pulled Tuoba Shiyijian all the way to kill the past, and knocked on the gates one by one in Yiliang, Chengyi, and Anyang City to invite battles, but without exception they were all defeated, and the Beifu army in Shuozhou fought more and more easily, and finally beat the Rouran coalition army to less than 40,000 people. At this time, Bati, who had received the turmoil in the Le Ministry, had already woken up, so he had no choice but to swallow this bitter fruit and lead his troops to flee north.

On the way, they encountered the pursuit of Ye Lixun, and less than 5,000 cavalry remained, and Bati and Tuoba Shiyijian had already repented of their bowels.

From the south of Junji Mountain, until the Tuyuan Water and Lishui Source in the north of the mountain, there is the temporary pasture of the Tuoba Xianbei Department, which gathers nearly 600,000 Tuoba Xianbei people, and then to the north is the land of the Five Rivers, which is the territory of the Rouran Headquarters, where there are more than 400,000 Rouran Headquarters members.

Bati left Tuoba Shiyijian behind and continued north with hatred. The remorse and resentment in his heart are estimated to be difficult to wash away even with Beihai.

Tuoba Shi Yijian, who returned to the headquarters, had already figured it out, and he knew that Beifu had set a huge trap for him from the beginning, starting from April when he led his troops to Yinshan and went straight to Shuozhou.

Ye Lixun's activities in Monan and Yinshan North made him think that this was just a feint and harassment by Beifu, which further showed that Beifu planned to resist passively and played into his own hands. But he didn't expect that Beifu's plan was to use the Shuozhou River defense to consume the strength of the coalition army, and send another way to sweep Mobei. According to the current information, all the troops except for the eastern high car have descended to Beifu, and Donghu Xianbei is either afraid of being killed or killed, anyway, he doesn't dare to follow Rouran anymore. In this case, Rouran's periphery has been cleaned up, and now it depends on Zeng Hua's braised or steamed Rouran headquarters?

Where is Tuoba Xianbei's way to go? Tuoba Shi Yijian was deeply puzzled, judging from Zeng Hua's layout in Mobei, he was just targeting Rouran, and he seemed to be open to his Tuoba Xianbei Department, how would this Zhenbei general deal with himself and Tuoba Ministry?

Just as Tuoba Shiyijian was thinking hard, an old subordinate came down to see him.

"King!"

"Mr. Yanfeng!" Tuoba Shi Yijian saw the person coming, his eyes suddenly widened, didn't this confidant and strategist already fall into the Northern Mansion? How did it suddenly appear here?

"Back to the king, his subordinates have been left in Chang'an. Last month, Mr. Wang Jingluo, the head of Beifu, received a letter from the general of Zhenbei, so he sent his subordinates to Mobei to convey the ultimatum of Beifu. Yan Feng said indifferently.

"What ultimatum?" Tuoba Shi Yijian guessed Yan Feng's intention.

"Beifu has already passed on the general army of Beida, and ordered all the 100,000 cavalry troops in Shuozhou to go north, and now it is only three hundred miles away from Junji Mountain. General Zhenbei said that the king used to be a minister of the same court, so he was naturally different from the barbarian leader of Bati, and he did not dare to force each other too much. The general set up a feast in Chang'an, hoping that the king would bend to the banquet to relieve his past suspicions with the feelings of his colleagues. ”

"Eliminate the suspicions!" Tuoba Shi Yijian sighed, "It's a good sentence to explain the previous suspicions, this strategy, this kind of bearing, I can't catch up with Tuoba Shi Yijian in ten lifetimes." That's it! can be defeated in the hands of a person like a general, although I am defeated, you are honored! ”

In mid-September, Tuoba Shiyijian led his troops to Beifu. However, some nobles did not want to surrender to the "Nanren Beifu", so they led 100,000 troops to the north and defected to Rouran, most of these people were Tuoba side branches or his surname, such as the Helan tribe that was beaten to heavy losses last year and had a deep blood feud with the Beifu.

At this time, Tuoba Shi Yijian didn't bother to care about them, there was always a time for you to regret and cry. He just followed the requirements of Beifu, nearly 500,000 Tuoba into three parts, one moved back to the Central Plains of Yunyuan, one moved back to the north of Yinshan, and the other moved back to the south of Yinshan, all of which were under the control of the Beifu army, and ceded Junji Mountain to the surging 100,000 Beifu cavalry.

After arranging these, Tuoba Shi Yijian listened to Yan Feng's advice, took the family, accompanied by Yan Feng, Xu Qian and others, and braved the goose feather snow that had begun to go quickly to Chang'an.

And in the heavy snow, Zeng Hua and others were on the way. After the defeat and flight of Tuoba Shiyijian's soldiers, Zeng Hua ordered Lu Zhen, Yang Su, Dang Tu, Fei Ting, Gong Tangxiu, Dangsu, Feng Yangli and others in Shuozhou to lead 70,000 iron cavalry, join Ye Lixun's 10,000 cavalry, and follow north until Junji Mountain.

When he knew that Tuoba Shi Yijian had surrendered, he ordered a full-scale "extreme war" against Rouran, and all the soldiers and horses under his command, whether it was the Eile Division, the Donghu Xianbei Division, the Xiongnu Division, or the Feiyu Cavalry Army in the south, would continue to invade the entire line of Rouran's headquarters in the Five Rivers Valley.

The armies did not seek to defeat how many Rouran cavalry and how many Rouran troops they killed, but they robbed the cattle and sheep of the Rouran tribe at the first opportunity, and all those who could not be taken away were killed and buried on the spot, and all the tents, carts and other materials were burned. For a time, nearly 200,000 cavalry poured in from all directions day and night, snatching and killing the cattle and sheep of Rouran's troops, burning all the materials in Rouran's camp, and making the entire Five River Basin a mess.

The "extreme war" lasted for a while until the end of October, when the snow fell in the north of the desert, Zeng Hua's subordinate departments finally stopped, burped and counted the loot they had robbed, and then prepared to spend the winter in peace.

"General, there is Yin Mountain in front." Zhang Yu said.

Zeng Hua nodded: "Okay, let's continue to hurry, I hope to enter Bingzhou at the end of the month, and it will be convenient to go back to Chang'an at that time." ”

"General, there should be no problem with the speed of our trip." Deng Yao next to him replied.

Zeng Hua left the 100,000 Feiyu Army in Mobei, and handed them over to Jiang Nan, Ye Lixun, Lu Zhen, Yang Su, Dang Tangtu, Gong Tangxiu, Dangsu, Feng Yangli, Fei Tinggu and others to lead, relying on the cattle and sheep stolen from the Rouran Department to survive the winter, and next spring, these 100,000 iron cavalry will establish a new order in Mobei. However, Zeng Hua himself took Zhang and Deng Yao, under the escort of a thousand cavalry guards, and quickly returned south, preparing to return to Chang'an for the New Year.

At the beginning of November, Zeng Hua and his entourage entered Taiyuan, in mid-November, Zeng Hua entered Hedong County, and crossed the river into Yongzhou Feng in Puban West, at the end of November, you can already see Weishui in the distance, and Chang'an is finally coming.