"General, the Hun camp seems to be continuous, with a large number of people, but there is no order, like a plate of scattered sand, if the night god takes advantage of the Huns' sleep and attacks the Hun camp at night, he will be able to inflict heavy damage on the Hun cavalry."

Above the head of Shouyang City, a captain general couldn't help but say angrily.

It was really unbearable for the Huns to so blatantly station their camp outside Shouyang City and repeatedly provoke them.

Especially.

The Huns did not set up camp and did not take any precautions.

"A sneak attack in the middle of the night will be successful." The lieutenant general said in a loud voice: "The last general asks for orders and attacks the Hun camp at night."

Li Ku, the garrison of Taiyuan, shook his head and said, "The 100,000 cavalry of the Huns, even if they are scattered around, it is definitely not something we can deal with."

"It's easy to sneak attack, but it's hard to come back."

Li Ku vetoed the captain's request and said, "Go back and rest, it seems that the Xiongnu are not planning to attack the city, and we don't need to increase casualties in vain."

In the face of Li Ku's cowardice, the captain said angrily: "General, the Huns are deep in the depths of our territory, how can they watch the Huns wreak havoc on Taiyuan."

"If you can't stop the Huns here, the whole of Taiyuan will be under the iron cavalry of the Huns."

Li Ku's eyes were stunned, and he snorted coldly: "Those who disobey military orders and go out to fight without authorization will be killed."

"If it weren't for the fact that the Huns were not good at attacking the city, and the purpose was not Shouyang, with the strength of the city, I am afraid it would have been broken in less than half a day."

"Night attack, it seems that the Hun camp is chaotic, but have you thought about it, the camp ten miles deep is enough to deal with any kind of night attack."

"Do you think the Huns are all fools, so close to Shouyang City, undefended?"

Li Ku's irritable reprimand suppressed the thoughts generated by the anger of the soldiers.

He was angry, too, but so what.

Since learning of the military order of the imperial court, he has guarded Yangquan Pass to prevent the Huns from suddenly emerging from Taihang Mountain.

But what caught him off guard was that the Huns actually emerged from the Tiger and Leopard Ridge forty miles north of Yangquan Pass, and rushed all the way to Yangquan City, and in a hurry, he led the army back to Yangquan.

What he didn't expect was that after the Huns broke through Yangquan City, they plundered Yangquan Cang, did not defend the city, and even the people in the city did not loot, so they left Yangquan and went straight to Shouyang.

In a hurry, he led the army to Shouyang again, but the Huns did not intend to attack the city, but camped outside the city.

Beyond Shouyang, it is the plain area of Pingchuan, in fact, he knows better that with the current strength in Taiyuan, unless the Huns are determined to attack the city, otherwise, he will not be able to intercept the Huns at all.

A rash attack only increased casualties.

provoked the defenders in Shouyang City, just to lure him into battle.

Avoiding the city is the most correct choice now.

Be that as it may.

But he still didn't dare to be careless, and now he was not thinking about them attacking the Huns at night, but whether the Huns would attack them at night.

The number of the Huns was ten times that of them, and once the city gate was broken, even if he had a thousand abilities in Shouyang City, he could not stop the Huns.

"Aggrieved, too aggrieved!" The lieutenant shook his arms and roared in dissatisfaction, and turned angrily and left the city.

Seeing this, Li Ku shook his head, and after inspecting the city defenses, he also went back to sleep.

The Huns did not plan to attack the city, as Li Ku expected, in the second half of the night, the entire Yangquan City was quiet outside the city of Yangquan where the falling needles could be heard, and even the bonfires were only scattered in a few places.

Thundered!

However.

Just before dawn.

The whole Yangquan seemed to have an earth dragon turned over, and the house shook.

Li Ku, who was asleep, woke up and turned over, and asked in surprise, "What happened?"

Even so, Li Ku had already rushed out with his armor on.

"General, the Huns have made a move." A soldier who kept vigil came to give a report.

Li Ku frowned, and he didn't care about anything else, so he quickly ran away

Dongcheng Head.

It's been taking quite a bit of time.

Standing at the head of the city, I saw smoke and dust billowing outside the city, and groups of Hun cavalry hurriedly swirling in place.

The Hun camp at the forefront, which was already dozens of miles away from the city, quickly disappeared from view.

Hundreds of thousands of cavalry crisscrossed the country, with no head in front and no tail in the back.

"This is, in the direction of Yucheng!"

Li Ku's heart sank slightly, and the situation at this time made him very uncomfortable.

The Huns had the strength to storm cities.

But instead of choosing to attack the city, he did not hesitate to take a detour.

This is what worries and frustrates him the most.

With the strength of Taiyuan alone, it was difficult to intercept the Huns head-on outside the city.

So.

As long as the Huns did not attack the city, then there was nothing he could do.

"Send scouts to follow the movements of the Huns." Li Ku ordered in a bad mood: "Order the defenders of Yucheng to defend the city and avoid the battle, and the rest of the soldiers in Shouyang City will follow me to Jincheng."

Li Chuan quickly ordered.

Li Ku's order made the lieutenant very dissatisfied, and said angrily: "General, are we just like this, watching the Huns run rampant all the way in Taiyuan, and we are not hindered?"

"Execute the military order, and if you dare to talk more, don't blame General Ben for sacrificing your flag." Li Ku said in a cold and deep voice, "You go back to Jinyang with General Ben!"

Let's talk about it.

Li Ku went down the city wall and returned to the camp without looking back.

Li Kunai is the general of the Taiyuan County garrison, and before the commander gives an order, he has the absolute right to rule over the military of Taiyuan County, and the right to transfer is by no means something that the captain can shake.

Even if there are soldiers who are bent on fighting at this time, they can be under Li Ku's military orders.

The defenders of Shouyang still quickly packed up their equipment, and before the Huns disappeared, they also set off for Yucheng and Jinyang.

Because most of them were foot soldiers, the march was much slower.

After only two or three miles, the Huns disappeared.

"Report, general, the Huns are heading straight for Yucheng along the Xiaohe River, and the speed of their camp has reached Xiaohe Township, and there is no intention of resting."

"And general, the Huns are very strange, the nearby villagers heard the noise, heard the Huns coming, and hided one after another, but the Hun cavalry did not have any signs of tracking, but turned a blind eye and went straight to Yucheng."

Half an hour passed, Li Ku walked on the mountain road leading to Jinyang with nearly 10,000 foot soldiers, and the scouts who came and went kept going back and forth, always reporting the movements of the Huns to Li Ku.

"So fast?" Li Ku frowned, from Shouyang to Yucheng for nearly three hundred miles, it takes three full days for foot soldiers to arrive, and even for cavalry, it takes two days.

But now.

It was only more than half an hour, and the Hun cavalry had already galloped more than 50 miles, if so, it only took half a day, and the Huns would arrive in Yucheng.

"This, what are the Huns going to do, are they crazy, the speed of eight hundred miles is expeditious, isn't this war horse going to run away?" The dissatisfied lieutenant's attitude calmed down slightly at this time, and after hearing the scout's report, he couldn't help but exclaim.

"What's more, if the Huns run like this, I can't say it, I will turn defense into attack and raid the Hun camp." Li Ku frowned and said, "If this continues, at least half of the Hun war horses will be abolished, even if it is a head-on encounter, it will not be without the strength of a battle."

"Kanyutu!" Li Ku's brows furrowed in a deep voice.

Quickly, a guard took a huge parchment roll and spread it on the ground in front of Li Ku.

Then, Li Ku and several accompanying lieutenants squatted next to Kanyutu, and their brows were about to lock into mountains and rivers.

"General, according to the habits of the Huns in the past, the place where they passed must be a scene of looting and slaughter, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a corpse all over the field, but from Yangquan, last night's Shouyang, and today's Yucheng, the Huns don't seem to have this idea, on the contrary, it is more like a hurried march."

"Moreover, the last general has a feeling that maybe General Wu's idea of attacking the Xiongnu camp at night last night is a good strategy." A lieutenant couldn't help but say:

"From Hubaoling to Shouyang, it is also more than 300 miles, and the Xiongnu attacked Yangquan to plunder grain and grass, and did not rest, last night the Xiongnu cavalry was sleepy and lacking horses."

When Captain Wu heard this, he immediately got up irritably and shouted: "I'll just say, I'll just say, the Huns don't even have a defense, it's a good opportunity to attack at night, but you don't listen to me, and you miss a good opportunity to defeat the Huns in vain."

Li Kubai glanced at the grumpy Captain Wu, ignored it, but stared at Kan Yutu and said, "Go on!"

The lieutenant didn't pay any attention to it, but continued in a deep voice: "Moreover, I am afraid that the purpose of the Huns today is not to attack the city, but to cross the river, cross the Xiao River, otherwise, it would not be so urgent."

"If the Huns react to us and intercept Hengjiang, although there is still a huge gap in terms of troops, if we gather troops to defend the Xiaohe, it will be enough to delay the Huns southward for seven or eight days."

"At that time, Shangdang, Hedong, Hengshan, and Handan can all come to support and completely drag the Huns in Taiyuan."

"And now, even if the general quickly transmits the Yucheng guards to defend the Xiaohe, it will be too late."

"And this step is slow, step by step, the real purpose of the Huns is probably to cross the Lingshi Bridge, cross the Fenshui, and enter the east of the river, not to attack Jinyang."

"What really makes the last general puzzled is that the Huns used to be entrenched in the land of Hetao, Taiyuan and Hetao are separated by important mountains, and the Huns have not been involved in the land of Taiyuan, but look at this marching route."

"The general is in Yangquan Pass, the Huns avoided the general and came out of the rare places like Hubaoling and went straight to Yangquan, and when the general returned to Yangquan, the Huns did not stop for half a minute and plundered the grain and grass and went straight to Shouyang."

"Last night, there was no doubt that the Huns had strange people to conspire with them, but they became the best defense without defense, so that we did not dare to attack at night easily."

"And today, although the road from Shouyang to Yucheng is a plain, it is also a mountain range, among which the big roads and small roads extend in all directions, if it is not for those who are extremely familiar with the terrain of this place, it is difficult for the Xiongnu to go straight to Yucheng so quickly and with a clear goal."

"And Yucheng seems to be the target of the Xiongnu, but its status is only the city of Jinyang and Shouyang, for transit, in the north of the Xiaohe, once the Xiongnu cross the river, there will be no threat to Yucheng."

"And from the southern cities, only Qicheng further south has the strength to defend, which is separated by more than four hundred miles, no matter whether we transfer troops from Jinyang at this time or we pursue them, they can't pose a threat to the Xiongnu who are tired of people and horses."

"This place of 1,200 miles, I'm afraid, I can't defend the Lingshi Bridge in time."

The lieutenant frowned at the analysis.

The crowd fell silent.

"The Huns are moving too fast, if that's the case, it's really going to be one step at a time, and Lao Tzu is so damn that he let the Huns go so far and cross Taiyuan County!" Li Ku clenched his fist and slammed it on the ground.

However, he did not think that his decision yesterday was wrong.

The defenders of Shouyang were only 10,000, and in the face of the menacing Huns, they had to defend the city and wait for help.

He also couldn't imagine why the Huns were so familiar with the terrain of Taiyuan and the military deployment of Taiyuan, and with lightning speed, they bypassed the first line of defense, avoided the Taiyuan garrison camp, and crossed down in the weakest place of the Taiyuan guard.

There are 30,000 soldiers and horses in the Taiyuan garrison camp, nearly 10,000 cavalry, mainly distributed in the north adjacent to Yanmen County and Dai County and the place of Bacheng adjacent to Hengshan County, only 3,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Lingshi Pass in the rear, 3,000 soldiers in Jinyang camp, and the rest of the cities, only a small number of county soldiers defend.

Under normal circumstances, if the traces of the Huns are found, the defenders are summoned to resist, and once the Hun cavalry is too much to deal with, there are places for help all around, which is enough to stop the Huns from going south.

But now.

"General Ben trusts your judgment, you can't waste any more time, since the Huns want to go south decisively, then close the door and beat the dogs." Li Ku said in a deep voice, "Change the route and go to Yucheng."

"Spread the battalions and go straight to Qicheng."

"There is only a big gamble, betting that the Huns will die south, instead of attacking the city, otherwise, if we pursue it like this, I am afraid we will be eaten by the Huns."

Li Ku also made a lot of determination.

At this time, the Xiongnu troops were far more powerful than the Taiyuan garrison camp, and once they encountered in the field, they only had to send food in the face of the Hun cavalry.

But.

Li Ku is gambling, betting that the Huns will not stay in Qicheng, and will not divide their troops to intercept the defenders of Qicheng, and when the army gathers in Qicheng, the Huns will attack Lingshi Pass.

And, after breaking the pass, he will not hesitate to rush into the east of the river.

However.

Just as Li Ku ordered the whole army to go to Yucheng, the scout came back again non-stop to report:

"Report, general, the Huns have divided their troops, it seems that the Donghu people and the Huns have divided their troops, there are tens of thousands of horsemen, after crossing the Yu River, they divided their troops to the south, went south along the Yu River, and attacked in the direction of Shangdang."

Li Ku frowned, and could only shake his head and sigh: "The Huns and the Donghu people are really crazy, this is to be put to death, such a march, after this battle, most of the Hun war horses will be abolished!"

But anyone who understands military affairs, even if he can march thousands of miles a day, will not march in a hurry.

Yicheng 800 miles to expedite the report, will run away three war horses, in order to pass the military situation across thousands of miles in one day.

No matter how good the war horse is, the land of a hundred miles will rest for more than three moments, and after three hundred miles, whether the war horse will be abandoned can only be left to fate.

Right now!

Li Ku didn't think much about it, and hurriedly said: "Hurry up and go to General Qi Wu, our march will not change, keep an eye on the movements of the Huns, since the Huns have chosen the battlefield in Hedong, then they will surround the Huns, and then encircle and suppress."

"After this battle, the Xiongnu no longer have the strength to go south."

However.

At this time, Li Ku didn't know at all what the real purpose of the Xiongnu going south at all costs was.