Of course, Empress Dowager Dou wanted to see Zhou Yafu.

As the de facto controller of the Han dynasty today, Empress Dowager Dou certainly wanted to meet with this authority figure to determine how the war might end.

Zhou Yafu was obviously mentally prepared for this, and almost without a moment's delay, he followed the temple people sent by the Empress Dowager Dou into the Changle Palace.

Talked a lot;

Empress Dowager Dou and Zhou Yafu talked a lot.

From the sighs of Zhou Yafu's past to the wishes for Zhou Yafu's future;

From the humiliation of the Han family in the face of the Huns, to the difficulties they are facing now.

After more than two hours of long talks, Empress Dowager Dou finally made up her mind to support this war that should not have broken out so early and should not have broken out at this time.

The Son of Heaven personally promoted, the Empress Dowager made it clear that she supported, the court and the outside were united, and the people of the world were full of joy!

Under this unprecedented unity, the war machine, which had been dormant for many years, once again roared in this land of China.

"Da Lang is in the battle array, when he judges the situation, he makes a decision immediately!"

This is an elderly father and grandfather, passing on his only experience to his children and grandchildren who are about to go on an expedition.

···

"In this battle, if you can't bring back the head of the three or five Huns, don't call someone an adult!"

This is the meritorious lords and nobles who have lived in Chang'an for a long time, and they are inspiring their sons and nephews who are about to lead the army out in the most appropriate way in their own way.

···

"You go in peace, the old and young at home, there are people to take care of ······"

This is a brave Han girl, making a promise to her lover and secretly making a promise to 'marry you when she comes back alive'.

It is in this inexplicable tragic and slightly strange order, one after another figures carrying new bags, with long swords tied to their waists, straddle the only longbow in the family diagonally on their backs, and walk out of the house under the eyes of their parents, elders, friends, and lovers.

After saying goodbye outside the house, they each walked towards the place where the local soldiers and men gathered.

Chang'an was not idle.

To be precise, the people in the most prosperous and wealthy capital of this era are not idle.

——In this battle, the Northern Army, one of the two forbidden armies in Chang'an, was the framework for the entire army.

Among the lieutenants of the eight departments of the Northern Army, three units were ordered to go on the expedition, with a total of 6,000 people, and without exception they were promoted to the rank of sergeant, the chief of the army to the chief, the chief of the army to the commander of the tun, and the chief of the tun to the commander of the qu -- the promotion of the wartime temporary post at the first level per capita.

The three lieutenants of the Northern Army, which originally had 2,000 people each and a total of 6,000 people, also swelled to three partial armies of 10,000 people each, totaling 30,000 people.

If nothing else, this war is a contest between these 30,000 people and the invading enemy.

And the Northern Army, as one of the only two forbidden armies of the Han family, is completely based on the soldiers of the 'Guanzhong Liangjiazi'.

In other words: the Northern Army is the child soldiers of Guanzhong;

For these soldiers who are about to go on the march, the people of Chang'an have melancholy and tragedy in their hearts, but more importantly, they are still proud.

"Lang Jun, Lang Jun!"

"These chickens, my old hen just got off, take them on the road to eat!"

"Eat your full stomach, kill a few more Hun barbarians for me!!"

···

"Hey, it's just a little coarse cloth, just put it on."

"Seeing that it's going to be autumn, the north is already bitterly cold, don't be so cold that you can't swing your sword······"

···

"How polite are you?"

"No matter how valuable this sword is, if it can't cut the Hun barbarian, isn't it still a pile of broken copper and iron?"

"Take it!"

"If you really want to repay the kindness of the old man, bring a few Hun heads back!"

···

"It's not wine, it's not wine, it's honey······"

"You stubborn cow, why are you so inflexible?"

"When you really get to the face of that Hu Qi, can't you warm up and strengthen your courage?"

In the hearts of the people of Guanzhong, the Northern Army has always been an undoubted brand.

Obviously, for their own cards, the Guanzhong people do not hesitate to maintain in any way.

On the street is such a warm scene of military and civilian fish and water, and above the court, it is even more orderly and busy.

The interior of the Shaofu was opened;

The treasury of the Prime Minister was opened;

Chang'an Taicang also opened.

Dry food made of corn, coarse cloth with hemp as the carrier, live cattle and sheep herding, as well as all kinds of dried fruit peels and sauces were all sent to the north first.

Weapons and ordnance such as swords, halberds, bows, feathers, and arrows followed.

Starting from Chang'an, the slowly expanding army along the way finally drove to the battlefield.

The breath of war quietly descended on this piece of heaven and earth.

At the same time, Cheng Buzhi, who had been transferred to Yanmen County in advance, finally brought the letter sent to him by Zhou Yafutuo and came to the place where Yanmen Taishou: Zhidu was located.

Mayi.

It once caused the Han family to suffer huge losses, and even almost lost the sad place of the founding emperor······

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"Yanmen ······"

"Yanmen Pass ······"

"Yanmen Guguan~"

Standing at the head of the city of Mayi, Zhidu did not look at the direction of the Huns: the north, but looked at the south, which was guarded by Mayi.

On Zhidu's side, looking at Zhidu facing the direction of the side wall, sighing the word 'Yanmen', Cheng Buzhi couldn't help but sigh for a while.

"Alas~"

"Back then, King Wuling of Zhao Hu Fu rode and shot, defeated the invasion of Lin Hu, Lou Fu and other tribes in the north of Zhao State, and set up three counties of Yunzhong, Yanmen and Dai."

"Later, the famous general Li Mu was stationed in Yanmen to guard the grassland barbarians."

"In that battle, Li Mu broke more than 100,000 Xiongnu elite cavalry, so that the Huns did not dare to approach the northern border of Zhao for more than ten years."

"It's just that the once weak Xiongnu tribe has now become a hundred barbarian powers that dominate all the tribes of the grassland;"

"In the face of the Hufu Zhao Qi of the Huns, he also became the elite foot soldier of my Han family······"

As he spoke, Cheng Buzhi only sighed again, and then lowered his head with bitterness.

Elite foot soldiers, just nice words.

Remove the word 'elite', and then only the pawns remain.

is like the Han family who can only compete with an infantry phalanx in the face of a large group of Hun cavalry······

"I'm not nostalgic for the past."

"I'm thinking: After this battle, should I suggest that Your Majesty renovate the Yanmen Ancient Pass."

"After all, back then, when King Wuling of Zhao Wuling rode and shot and fought the grassland barbarians, Yanmen Pass was the most important pass in northern Zhao."

"Although so many years have passed, but also in the face of the invasion of foreign cavalry, Yanmen Pass should still be able to play its due role?"

As he spoke, Zhi Du couldn't help but turn his head slightly and looked at the classmates beside him, or the junior brother Cheng didn't know.

Seeing that Cheng didn't know what to say, he immediately stood at the head of the north city wall of Mayi just like Zhidu had before, but along the direction of the city, he set his eyes on the direction of Yanmen Pass south of Mayi.

"Hmmm······"

"I can ask the teacher for advice."

"After all, the two of us can already be regarded as the center of the temple for a long time."

"Whether we can do this or not, I'm afraid only the teacher can give us the answer······

Regarding Cheng Buzhi's opinion, Zhi was noncommittal.

Compared with Cheng Buzhi, Zhidu's understanding of the Chang'an court is naturally deeper.

- After all, no matter how you say it, he is also a cool official who has been a lieutenant, an official to the real 2,000 stones, and has made a name for himself as a 'goshawk' in Chang'an.

If it weren't for today's son, Liu Sheng, who was already the former crown prince, instead of the late Emperor Liu Qi, who was the first emperor of Xiaojing, Zhi would even dare to pat his chest and say: No matter how long I leave Chang'an and the court, I will never 'neglect the height of the temple'!

But nowadays, everything is different.

The former lieutenant has become the current Yanmen guard - the Yanmen guard who has made meritorious contributions;

The former imperial historian, single-handedly promoted the policy of cutting the domain, so that the culprit of the outbreak of the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu became the Beidi Shou - the Beidi Shou who was also allowed to make meritorious contributions to the crime, and the 'sins' were heavier than those of Zhidu.

In addition, the current war is imminent, even if Zhi Du is unwilling, he has to admit that Cheng Buzhi is indeed the most appropriate way at the moment.

——Wearing a sinful body, it is really inconvenient for Zhi to have extraneous branches.

Even if he wanted to propose to Zisheng today to renovate Yanmen Pass, it would at least be after this battle, when Zhidu personally returned to Chang'an to report the battle situation.

The best ······

"It is best to bring the news of the great victory to your majesty and ask for ······"

Thinking like this, and finally looking into the defense line where Yanmen Pass was located, Zhi Du finally reluctantly withdrew his gaze from afar.

Turning sideways, he finally faced his junior brother Cheng Buzhi, looked up and down for a while, and then grinned at the corner of his mouth.

"Your Majesty has sent an edict and a talisman."

"In this battle, I am the main commander, and Jun is the deputy commander."

"My brother and sister have also waited for such a good opportunity."

"Even the teacher is inevitably worried about this war, and no less than three copies of the transcribed fragments of military books have been delivered······"

As he spoke, Zhi Du did not forget to smile bitterly and lowered his head, and took out a thick stack of white paper from his arms.

When he raised his head, he was about to hand over the military book in his hand, but he found that the junior brother in front of him, Cheng Buzhi, took out a stack of white paper from his arms with a wry smile that was no different from his own······

"This ······"

"Hi ·········"

···

"This battle really makes the teacher ······"

They sighed and smiled wryly, and then took back the military books copied on the white paper as treasures, and then turned their bodies to the outside of the city wall;

Looking at the north of Mayi, a few miles wide between the two mountains, the two brothers and sisters only looked pale.

After a while, the two of them took a deep breath in an extremely tacit agreement and put their hands on the battlements at the head of the city.

"Ma Yi."

"It's obviously a very good place for ambushes, but now it's going to be a 'declare war first'."

"It's really a tyrannical thing······"

Hearing Zhidu's sigh, Cheng Buzhi only nodded with embarrassment.

He patted his palm lightly on the wall stack, and the regret on his face deepened.

For both Han and Hungary, Mayi is by no means a strange place.

More than 50 years ago, the battle of Pingcheng, Han and Hungarian, which took place between the supreme rulers of Han and Hungary, began with Mayi.

At that time, Han Xin, the royal family of Han, was named the king of Han, and under the order of Emperor Taizu Gao Liu Bang, he was stationed on the border wall of Zhaobei and Daibei.

After the extreme defense line construction period, Han Wangxin took the initiative to ask for the move: move the royal capital from Jinyang north to Mayi, so as to organize the border wall defense better, faster and more conveniently.

Emperor Taizu Gao agreed.

This promise laid the most undesirable bane for the later Battle of Pingcheng.

- Mayi, the junction of the Han and Hungarian forces, the absolute front line after the outbreak of the war.

To the north of Mayi, the Han family has only one Wuzhou fortress with the nature of an early warning station, which can warn the Fengsui of Mayi more than 100 miles behind him.

The same was true of that war.

The Xiongnu marched south, Wuzhou Saifengsui warned him, and Ma Yi was in full array;

It's just that from Wuzhou to Mayi, which is only a distance of more than 100 miles, so that Han Wangxin in Mayi City has not had time to stop the city defense, and he received the news that the Xiongnu Shan Yu envoy asked to meet.

Perhaps out of consideration for delaying time, Han Wangxin received the envoy sent by the Tyranny.

Then, Han Wangxin surrendered.

Dedicated to the king's capital Ma Yi in the sooth, and led tens of thousands of border guards under his command, turned the spear, and approached his own fiefdom: Daiguo.

- That's right;

Han Wangxin's 'Korea' is actually the current Daiguo.

The border defense generals defected, and the Great Wall defense line was completely messed up because of the gap in Mayi.

And the final result of this king against the king was that Liu Bang, the Taizu of the Han Dynasty, won first and then lost, and when the Xiongnu Shan Yu Maodun lured the enemy deeply, he finally fell into Baishan Mountain.

It was also this battle that laid the strategic policy for the Han family for more than 50 years, which lasted for more than 50 years, of 'making peace with the Xiongnu and securing the outside, and slowly slowing down the land to settle the interior'.

Until today, until the throne of the Han family, through Taizu Liu Bang, filial piety Liu Ying, former young Liu Gong, later young Liu Hong, Taizong Liu Heng, filial piety Liu Qi, passed to the seventh generation of the Son of Heaven: today's Liu Sheng.

It is only today that Mayi, a military town that once stood on the border between Han and Hungary, has reappeared in the field of vision of the known world······

"To the north of Mayi and to the south of Wuzhou is the mountain path sandwiched between these two mountains."

"Although the diameter is dozens of miles wide, as long as it passes through Wuzhou, the Huns will be regarded as entering the urn."

"It is only necessary to hide enough troops on these two mountains first, and cut off the enemy's retreat as soon as the Huns crossed the Wuzhou fortress······"

Looking at the outside of the city wall, the natural ambush terrain sandwiched between the two mountains, Zhi Du only subconsciously licked the corners of his lips, and even swallowed his saliva gently.

On Zhidu's side, Rao has always been known for his 'conformist' way of governing the army, and Cheng Buzhi inevitably shook his head regretfully.

"It's a pity."

"In this battle, both the enemy and the enemy know in their hearts - we know that the Huns will definitely come, and the Huns also know that we will definitely be ready for battle in Mayi."

"In a war like this, which both the enemy and us know very well, there is no longer an ambush option."

"The only thing the two of us need to think about now is: whether to stick to Mayi."

"According to my opinion, in this battle, His Majesty's task for the two of us is 'not defeated, that is, victory'."

"So I tend to stick to it."

"But the final decision is still up to the manager."

"I just hope that Senior Brother will think clearly: now, Senior Brother and Beidi are still guilty······"

(End of chapter)