Chapter 707: The Battle of Mobei (Part II)

"It's a nice day."

Outside the Yanmen Gate, Dongfang Shuo yawned and admired the beautiful weather outside the gate.

The people waiting outside the tent suddenly gathered around, and stuffed the music in their hands into Dongfang Shuo's arms.

After a lot of effort, Dongfang Shuo was already full of hundreds of notes.

He didn't talk nonsense, said hello to everyone, and went into the big tent with the song.

In addition to the heavily armed Weiyang palace guards in the big tent, there were only a few Lang officials who were valued by Li Yunze.

Putting the music on the desk, Dongfang Shuo stretched his waist, "You look at it, and then go to bed." ”

Seeing that Dongfang Shuo actually went to the back tent to sleep, the Lang officials also looked at each other.

In the unspeakable silence, Sang Hongyang coughed and said, "Everyone, let's start." ”

Everyone responded, stepped forward to pick up a stack of songs, and each of them looked for a few cases and began to open and dispose of them.

As for where the Son of Heaven is, it's not here anyway.

The Son of Heaven went on an expedition, the crown prince Liu Xiu stayed in Chang'an City to supervise the country, and the prime minister's father assisted in the national affairs.

However, there will still be a large number of people flocking to the outside of Yanmen Pass, which naturally needs to be disposed of.

What these Lang officials who were left behind by Li Yunze have to do is to deal with these slack.

At the same time, Dongfang Shuo, who was in charge of this matter, also very simply pushed everything to Sang Hongyang, who had recently begun to emerge, which could be regarded as a test and training.

It depends on Sang Hongyang's own inadequacy.

The Son of Heaven is not outside Yanmen Pass, this place was originally a bait.

If the Huns are fooled, it is best to come directly to the center to bloom.

It doesn't matter if you are not fooled, there are lines standing here, and they are naturally the backbone of the army out of Cyprus.

As for where Li Yunze is, of course, he is in Huo Quai's army.

"You don't have to ask for everything."

In a camp thousands of miles away, Li Yunze, who was sitting on the horse, waved his hand, motioned to Huo Quai, and said, "The general is outside, and the king's order is not affected." You can fight how you want, don't ask, you just don't know. I just followed and watched, and went about my own thing. ”

Huo Quzhi breathed a sigh of relief, saluted and turned to leave.

When Huo Qu was sick and left, Li Yunze thought about it and greeted the accompanying Lang official, "Su Wu." ”

"The minister is here."

"Where did Sima Xiangru go? Tell him to come back and write. ”

"Whoa!"

After the young Su Wu saluted, he came out of the tent, showed his identity card, and searched everywhere in the camp for traces of Sima Xiangru.

Now in the army, or in the army on the march.

If you don't bring your identity card, Jun Sima can cut it if he catches it.

This is military law, and the Son of Heaven doesn't have much to say.

Following the Son of Heaven to go out of the Saiwai, Su Wu, who was agitated, walked around and didn't see any trace of Sima Xiangru, so he had no choice but to ask when he saw someone.

"Good Samaritan"

Facts have proved that there are still well-wishers in the military camps where martial arts are vigorous.

Someone showed Su Wu the way, and it turned out that Sima Xiangru actually went out of the camp.

In the barracks outside during the war, the sergeant must have a military order if he wants to leave the camp, and if he does not have it, only the body can go out, and the head must stay.

At this time, those who can enter and exit the barracks are the Lang officials around them, because the army can't control them.

Of course, if the Son of Heaven knows about it, there will definitely be no good fruit to eat.

Su Wu, who came out of the camp with his identity card, found Sima Xiangru who was in a daze on the bank of an unknown river only a mile away from the camp.

"Sima Langzhong, why are you here?"

Sitting on the bank of the river, Sima Xiangru, who was obviously in deep thought, raised his head, "It's Su Wu." It's nothing, it's just that I'm irritable and come out to relax. ”

The young Su Wu asked curiously, "Why is this?" ”

In his opinion, Lang Zhong, who can follow the Son of Heaven for a long time, or even write an edict specifically for the Son of Heaven, should be very happy and happy, why is there irritability?

"I have been in Chang'an City for 20 years, and I finally passed the national examination and entered the court, but I am still a Lang official after 20 years"

This topic really made Su Wu difficult to answer.

Those who can be officials by the side of the Son of Heaven are all young talents, and after sharpening their learning experience for a few years, they will be sent to work everywhere, basically starting from the county order.

The only exception is that he is similar.

has been a secretary for the Son of Heaven for almost 20 years, and he is the only one in the whole Han Dynasty.

Su Wu could feel Sima Xiangru's sadness, but he didn't know what to say.

But fortunately, he quickly came back to his senses and hurriedly said, "Sima Langzhong, the Son of Heaven ordered a certain person to come to find him, saying that he had a will to write"

"Huh!?"

Sima Xiangru, who was still sad before, jumped up from the ground and shouted, "Why didn't you say it earlier?!" ”

"You didn't either" Before Su Wu finished speaking, Sima Xiangru over there had already run in the direction of the barracks like a gust of wind, but he startled the firehead soldiers who came to fetch water, and thought that something was wrong. On Su Wu's side, he could only spit out the last word." ”

Sima Xiangru hurriedly returned to the big tent, but fortunately, Li Yunze was in a hurry to write a letter and did not punish him.

"Write a letter to Wei Qing, saying that Huo Qubing may delay his trip and will not be able to arrive on time to cooperate with the siege of Yizhixie, and ask him to think about how to deal with it. No need to reply, let him make his own decisions. ”

Mobei is too big, and Hanhai is too big.

In this era when communication basically relies on roaring, how can it be possible for the two soldiers and horses to attack separately and together.

And Yi Zhixian is not an NPC, so he stupidly stays there and waits to be attacked.

The choice now is to see who Yi Zhixian wants to resist first with the main force.

In Li Yunze's opinion, there is a high probability that Yi Zhixian will still choose to take the main force to fight Wei Qing and resist Huo Quai's illness with a partial division.

The reason is very simple, Wei Qing has many pawns there.

After these years of war, since Li Yunze came up with cuirassiers, the Huns have never won in the face of the Han iron cavalry, and they have already been beaten out of the psychological shadow.

The only thing that could give them some confidence was to attack the Han soldiers.

As for the tens of thousands of elite cavalry on Huo Quzhi's side, Yi Zhixian no longer had confidence, and could only hope that they could get lost in the Hanhai Sea at the best, and it was really okay to be blocked by King Zuoxian.

As long as his side can defeat the Wei Qing Division, which has the largest number of people and is regarded as the main force, then this time it will be considered a victory.

In terms of strategy, Li Yunze had already arranged it, that is, to divide his troops to attack on the left and right, the purpose was to destroy the living force of the Huns as much as possible, and at the same time force them to go south to the steppe with abundant water and grass before the arrival of winter.

As long as the Huns were forced to spend a winter in Mobei and even further north, Li Yunze estimated that they would have to lose at least half of their population, cattle, sheep and horses.

It only takes one winter, and the Huns will no longer be able to resist the Han Dynasty, and without a hundred and eighty years of hard work, they will never want to slow down.

Of course, Li Yunze couldn't give them 180 years to recover.

After the battle of this Armageddon, every year in the future, there will be Han army iron cavalry deep into the grassland to sweep, especially in autumn when the horse is fat, absolutely no tribe is allowed to graze in the place where the water and grass are abundant.

These tribes on the grassland either surrendered to the Han Dynasty, were scattered and resettled everywhere, and gradually integrated into the Han Dynasty and became part of the Han Dynasty, or they completely disappeared into the long river of history.

In terms of tactics, then leave it to Wei Qing and Huo Qubing to play freely.

As for himself, he is a play-watcher.

Look at the scene.

Huo Quai's illness was not ambiguous, and after Li Yunze's instructions, he led the army all the way north, and rushed directly into the Hanhai.

He's certainly not a stupid student running around.

Over the years, the Han family has been smuggling luxury goods through smuggling merchants, and they have also found many Huns who are dissatisfied with life from the Xiongnu.

Those selected among them became the guides of the army.

With these guides who traveled back and forth between the south and the north of the desert and crossed the Hanhai Sea many times, plus the compass and telescope that Li Yunze made, even Li Guang would not get lost.

Before setting off for Hanhai, the most the army did was to load water.

In addition to the few dry rations and military supplies, almost all the available transportation capacity was used to carry water.

The reason is simple, the Xiongnu will inevitably throw dead cattle and dead sheep into various oases along the Hanhai Sea to cut off the water resources of the Han army.

There are many foot soldiers on Wei Qing's side, and there are countless people, and the method they use is to load buckets in large carts and transport them over stiffly.

And Huo Quzhi is full of cavalry here, and what he pays attention to is a quick horse attack, so he directly brings enough at one time, and then he runs thousands of miles regardless of it.

When riding a horse across the Hanhai Sea, it was indeed very uncomfortable.

Although everyone has a straw hat, the blazing sun is still unbearable.

And at night, it was another cold wind, and the cold wind raged on the spacious Hanhai Sea, and the people who blew shivered.

All of this, the soldiers of the Han army silently endured.

What is the best soldier in the world? That's it!

In comparison, Rome, which was on the other side of the world at this time, ended the Punic War and was expanding rapidly, but their soldiers were typical of taking money to do things, and only when the money was in place could they do things, let alone endure extreme weather in the middle of the sea, and they dared to follow the centurions to kill the generals on the spot.

The so-called Hanhai is not all desert, but more of a bare Gobi desert.

The Han army encountered several oases along the way, although it was not big, but there were also spring lakes, as far as Li Yunze was concerned, it was much larger than the crescent spring in the future market.

Unfortunately, it was useless, there were rotten cattle and sheep floating in the lake, and the soaked water rose like a ball.

Naturally, the Han army did not take water, but they swept away all the trees and weeds on the shore of the lake and turned them into fuel to make a hot meal.

After seven or eight days of such difficulty, a touch of green finally appeared in the distance.

Finally, I crossed the Hanhai.

At the end of the green, there was a river like a white jade belt meandering, and the Han army's eyes were full of longing when he looked over there.

It's just that on both sides of the white jade belt, there are tents and countless cattle and sheep.

The soldiers and horses of King Zuoxian of the Huns have been waiting here for a long time.

Want to drink water?

Yes, just win!