Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Prairie Is Not So Easy
If you haven't been to the grassland, you can't understand the sparseness and profundity of "the sky is vast, the wilderness is vast, and the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep"; If you have not been to the grassland, you will not know the heroism and freedom of 'the sky is pressed down and the clouds want to rub shoulders'; if you have not been to the grassland, you will never be able to experience how your soul trembles and is shocked in front of the majesty and greatness of nature!
The beauty of the prairie is not inferior to the sea and mountains, and the endless green extends far to the horizon. The connection between the grassland and the blue sky has a particularly strong color contrast, far exceeding the line between the sea and the sky. This pristine grassland, which will no longer exist after 2,000 years, is now full of life. Flocks of wild yellow sheep graze wantonly, and occasionally startle a few litters of hares and roe deer, scurrying around.
However, now, this beauty has been broken by Liu Tianhao's army.
Liu Tianhao's army started from the clouds and entered the grassland for almost half a month. In the past half a month, they have advanced in a carpet manner, passing through the grassland, and the Xianbei tribes are distributed in three or three, and they are all let go, but if there is resistance, obstruction and harassment of the army, they will all be killed; The news of the 30,000-strong army of Helian seems to have spread to the depths of the grassland, and in the past two months, all the people encountered are small tribes, and in the face of Liu Tianhao's army, they are like frightened birds, and they dare not resist at all! Liu Tianhao also ordered the army to not offend them for the time being.
This situation is also expected by Liu Tianhao. Although Xianbei is warlike, it has not yet developed to the point of blindness and fanaticism, and those small tribes still dare not do it when they hit stones with eggs. Liu Tianhao will not attack them, he wants to create a cognitive misunderstanding for them, that is, if you don't resist me, I won't move you; If you resist me, I will kill you!
Liu Tianhao came to the grassland to capture people, but he couldn't escort one with the army when he saw a small tribe, in that case, they couldn't go far into the grassland. Therefore, Liu Tianhao plans to go all the way in, and come back to rob people again!
Before leaving, Liu Tianhao and the others were full of confidence in the march of the grassland, but now they have suffered a lot. Accustomed to farming life, it is quite difficult to adapt to the grassland at first, especially when fighting to feed the war.
A few days ago, fortunately, the army was eating the wild things of the grassland that they had hunted, and they were eating quite happily. For example, yellow sheep, hares, spores, and even bison and wild horses are available, these wild things are simply inexhaustible in the grassland, and the water source is also abundant, as long as you find a place where a small tribe is located, there will inevitably be water sources of different sizes.
However, after eating game continuously, after half a month, the army was about to collapse, one meal or two meals were fine, and if you ate too much, your stomach could not digest it at all, and even affected the combat strength of the army. Those Changshui soldiers who originally belonged to the nomadic people of the grassland, I don't know if they moved to the Central Plains for too long, or for what reason, they can no longer adapt to the harsh living environment on the grassland. Fortunately, Liu Tianhao's army has not had a major battle in the two months since it was stationed in the grassland.
Just when the army was tired of the grassland life, and there was no war, even the angry Qing Guan Yu began to chatter, how could there be no Xianbei people to gather to resist, Liu Tianhao's army finally drove to the vicinity of Wolf Juxu Mountain, and, according to the scouts, there were several large tribes living on the left side of Wolf Juxu Mountain, and there were about forty or fifty thousand people.
Liu Tianhao weighed and considered the problems they actually faced, and decided to stop the trip to the grassland, starting with these tribes, capturing people and returning to Cloud City. Considering that these tribes were relatively large, he ordered the army to camp at the foot of the Wolf Juxu Mountain, and set up a large camp against the mountain.
On the second day, Liu Tianhao sent a large number of scouts to reconnoiter around the tribes under the mountain, but did not find any signs of the Xianbei people's army gathering. immediately didn't think about it, and directly pulled out the camp and went straight to those tribes.
may have really heard that these Han troops were murderous, and these tribes were surrounded by Liu Tianhao without any resistance after all.
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Guan Yu's expected war still did not happen, it turned out that the defeat of Helian caused too much fear, and after the death of Tanshi Huai, the entire grassland Xianbei no longer had anyone to shake, basically a plate of scattered sand, not to mention the formation of a large-scale army, Liu Tianhao's army basically moved all the large and small Xianbei tribes along the way without any resistance, men, women and children captured nearly 30,000 people, confiscated their horses and weapons, and began to return south to Yanmen.
The Xianbei people may also have moved north or eastward or westward, Liu Tianhao's army went straight into the grassland for nearly a thousand kilometers, and he never even encountered a tribe that could fight, which was indeed unexpected by him.
Liu Tianhao and the others spent nearly a month and a half escorting these Xianbei people back to Cloud City. When he arrived in Cloud City, Liu Tianhao found that the other two armies had not yet returned, but he couldn't help but be worried, his army went straight all the way to nearly a thousand miles without hindrance, but he didn't encounter the resistance army at all, where did the Xianbei people go? The other two roads only have 5,000 people, so there will be no accidents, right? Moreover, at this time, it has begun to enter winter, and it is impossible for the two armies to be delayed in the depths of the grassland for a long time, and the compensation cannot keep up.
After a while, Liu Tianhao found Gao Shun and instructed them to set aside another piece of land in Yunzhong City to settle the plundered Xianbei people, and ordered Mi Zhu to ensure the food supply to the Xianbei people, so as not to mutiny. These people will be of great use to him in the future. Gao Shun was instructed to send troops to strictly guard him.
When everything was arranged, Liu Tianhao casually ate some pasta, and then fell into the bed of the county guard's mansion, and fell asleep, as a modern person who traveled to this era, even the life in the Central Plains has not been fully adapted, so he plunged into the original ecological prairie, and he stayed for more than two months, or military life, which really tired him, not only physically tired, but also mentally tired.
Liu Tianhao slept until the next day, and then got out of bed unsatisfied. Although I still feel a little tired, I have relieved a lot. And, he has more important things to deal with. After all, this Cloud City is now in charge, and it is about his future, so he can't help but bow down to everything.
After washing up, he ate something casually, and hurriedly rushed to the county guard hall, Mi Zhu and Gao Shun were already inside, and it seemed that they had been waiting for him for a long time, and there was a young general standing behind Gao Shun, probably smaller than Tai Shici, and the corners of his mouth even grew a velvet beard; Although this young general is young, he is burly and tall, and he is neither humble nor arrogant in the face of himself, and he advances and retreats in a certain way.
Seeing Liu Tianhao's puzzled face, Gao Shun hurriedly explained,
"This is Yanmen Mayi, Zhang Liao, Zhang Wenyuan!"