Chapter Seventy-Three: Descendants of Li Ling

When I returned to the lower place prepared for me by the fourth uncle, as soon as I entered the door, the Li brothers came to see me alone, and they knelt down with tears on their faces.

"Your Highness! The villain asks for a decree to kill Hu Yanyu! ”

"What?" I was stunned, "What do you two mean by this?" Hu Yanyu is a guest of honor of our army, how can you say a killing word at will? ”

"What Hu Yan Pleiades," Li Sheng said, "He is the first rebel general of the Li family, Li Ling." Although I don't know his real name, he is also from the Li clan, and he has a jade pendant on his chest, how can he hide our eyes! ”

"After Li Ling?" I stood up.

Li Ling was the general of Emperor Wu, in 99 BC, the Han army attacked the Xiongnu Khanate in two ways, one was the general Li Guangli, sent troops to Jiuquan, went deep into the Western Regions, reached the Tianshan Mountains, and was defeated by the Xiongnu. On the other hand, the general Li Ling suffered even worse. At that time, Li Ling led 5,000 infantry, from Juyanhai (Inner Mongolia Ejina Banner), to the north deep into the desert, after 30 days of marching, in the Junji Mountain (Mongolian Gobi Altai Mountain), and the Xiongnu Hou Danyu's 30,000 people, Li Ling battled, killed thousands of people. Alone gathered reinforcements, a total of 80,000 cavalry, Li Ling had to retreat. But the strongest infantry could not escape the pursuit of the cavalry, and the Hun corps was divided into two wings and spread out left and right, sandwiching Li Ling's corps in the middle. Li Ling fled, and a few days later, when he reached an unnamed valley, he stipulated that only soldiers who had been wounded more than three times were allowed to ride in a car, if they were wounded more than twice, if they were injured more than once, they would continue to fight, and another 3,000 men would be killed. After walking for another four or five days, they arrived at a livestock area with lush reeds and grasses, and the Hun Corps set fire to the wind, but Li Ling set fire to save himself first. Then they marched south to the mountainous area, and Hou Danyu ordered his son to attack, and Li Ling's army set up an ambush in the woods, and the Xiongnu lost another 3,000 men. And Hou Danyu, with the respect of the head of state, personally commanded sixteen times the enemy's elite soldiers, pursued for more than ten days, but still could not win, he was so angry that he went crazy, and the attack became more fierce. Li Ling traveled south in the desert for another four or five days, and again killed 2,000 Xiongnu. At this time, Hou Danyu had already discovered that Li Ling was a lone army and was in hot pursuit. The two wings crossed Li Ling, closed in front of Li Ling, blocked the retreat, and arrows rained down, shouting surrender. Li Ling continued to fight, and within a day, 500,000 arrows were fired. When the arrows were exhausted, they abandoned the baggage of the vehicles and marched on foot, with 3,000 men left, and entered the Khan Mountain (Mongolian Puyan Bogdo Mountain), and the Hun corps blocked the valley pass. In the evening, Li Ling wandered and sighed, "Give each of us ten more arrows, and we will be able to support the border." However, he no longer had an arrow. In the middle of the night, Li Ling ordered the drum to break through, but the drum could not make a sound. Li Ling ordered to rush out in all directions, firstly to distract the enemy's attention, and secondly, to hope that someone would escape back to Dahan to report the news. He and another general, Han Yannian, got on the horse and led more than a dozen soldiers to flee across the Lingnan Mountains. The Hun Corps pursued like a tide, and Li Ling only had short weapons on his body, which could not stop the enemy. In the end, Han Yannian was killed by an arrow, and Li Ling was captured. This battle, if it weren't for the mistakes of historians, it should be the most bullish, classic and incredible battle against cavalry in the entire era of cold weapons.

It's a pity that it was this great general who was arrested and executed by Emperor Wu Liu Che for the reason of surrendering all his relatives, and when he learned the news, he was angry and surrendered to the Xiongnu. In contrast, Guan Yu, who met his father, was much luckier than Li Ling, if Guan Yu met Emperor Wu, he would be rated as a martial saint in the future, but I was afraid that even the villagers of Guanxi Xie Liang would be affected by him. And Huang Quan, who also surrendered to Cao Wei in history, his father treated his family well, and his father said: "I am responsible for Huang Quan, and the right is not worthy of me." And Cao Wei created the news of the murder of Huang Quan's family and sent it to Huang Quan, and Huang Quan also saw at a glance that this was a rumor. The monarch and the ministers are so concentric, it is really a good story for the ages, and this is the only point, the father's strength is far better than that of Emperor Wu.

I asked, "If this is the case, why should he be killed if he is of the same clan as your brother?" ”

"Li Ling is a traitor to my Li family, a shame to my Li family, my Li family's family motto is to swear to stand with Li Ling's descendants, only with their blood can we wash away the stain on our family!"

I stood up and looked at the Li brothers kneeling on the ground, their innocent eyes were so pure. I sighed, shook my head, and the shadow of Hu Yanyu appeared in front of me, no wonder he took the initiative to jump out and report his name Hu Yanyu, and Liu Bao also said, "Yes, his name is Hu Yanyu". Since it's called Hu Yanxuan, it's "good" or something, although I thought it was weird at the time, I didn't expect it.

I said to the Lee brothers, "Get up." Li Ling is not a shame for your Li family, but a shame for my big man. It's not that Li Ling is sorry for Dahan, but that Dahan is sorry for Li Ling. Maybe you won't understand this for a while, but I hope you will understand later. ”

I took a turn in the account, Hu Yan's skills, I didn't fully show it, but with only one martial art, I Ji Han should also be first-class, not under Zhang Bao Guan Xing, among the younger generation, I am afraid that only Jiang Wei can compare with it. I couldn't help but feel like I wanted to take it. Moreover, among the Huns, if they can subdue the hearts of such a person, they will be able to withstand thousands of troops.

I couldn't help but think that if I had known that Hu Yanyu was the Li family, I would have arranged a martial arts competition during the day, so that the Li brothers would face Hu Yanyu to see how he behaved and whether he could miss his homeland. But it's too late at this time, Liu Bao leaves tomorrow, and I can't stop him now. At that moment, I picked up my pen, wrote four sentences of Shicai on fine silk, dried it, rolled it up, and said to the Li brothers: "You two, go to the post house now." I will give Liu Bao and the others a Shu brocade cloak each, and you will hand it over to their subordinates with your own hands. This fine silk must be handed over to Hu Yan's hand together with the cloak. ”

The Lee brothers promised.

After the Lee brothers left, I stroked the helmet. Its production is not exquisite, the style is clumsy, and there are even a few pieces of human skulls embedded on the top, which has a kind of wild desolation and atmosphere. I know that Gaozu Liu Bang once gave the Xiongnu a single piece of exquisite armor, helmets, chest guards and other places are made of gold and silver. But they used this helmet as a family heirloom. What a nation to conquer!

What is even more difficult is that they used to have a broader mind than the big man. So, what about me?

Befriending the Southern Xiongnu, in fact, what I value more is their prestige, they are now only tens of thousands of people, even if they are in the annex state, it is difficult to make any big moves. In the short term, our army will focus on defense and stability, and it will be difficult to carry out large-scale conquests. In the future, its flowering will still be on the grassland, against the emerging Xianbei people.

The Huns left, and Hu Yanyu didn't say anything. On the contrary, the Li brothers were a little disappointed. An "enemy" for generations has been turned back into a relative by me with a few words. If that person is called Li Pleiades, judging from the name, it is their clan brother, and this change makes the Li brothers a little unbearable.

When he was about to leave Weinan, Zhao Yun won another battle. The Wei army sent a team of 1,000 people out of Tongguan quietly, but was ambushed, and most of them were killed and wounded by random arrows. In this battle, our army did not send a large number of men, and it was the Hubu battalion under Mr. who defended it. The Hubu Battalion is the only team in Ji Han that can be compared to the Bai'er elite soldiers. In this battle, they only had less than a hundred people, but they used Zhuge Divine Crossbows, so they were not injured by one of them, but the enemy army was defeated. It is not easy to make Zhuge crossbows, and Mr. has designed two models of large and small according to different uses. The one I use for self-defense is small, suitable for close combat, but not far, and the large one does not have this shortcoming, but the arrow body is not easy to make, even if the burr on an arrow shaft is unevenly polished, it will affect the use of the entire crossbow machine, so it is difficult to equip and use it on a large scale. But the effect is still extremely obvious.

Tongguan in the Eastern Han Dynasty before the city was not set up, to the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao in order to prevent the Guanxi rebellion, only in the first year of Jian'an (AD 196) began to set up Tongguan, and at the same time abandoned Hangu Pass. According to the "Tong □": "There are two roads from the west of Michi to the pass, and the south route is back to Han, and it is from it before the Han Dynasty. Cao Gong's bad road is dangerous, and the north road is the main road. "When Jian'an was built, the mountain road was changed to the riverside. When the road is set up, there is a Tong pass. Tongguan is named after water. "Notes on the Book of Water" contains: "The river flows south of Tongjiguan Mountain in the Guan, because it is called Tongguan. "Tong waves are turbulent, so take the name of Tongguan, also known as Chongguan. There is the Qinling Barrier in the south, there is the Yellow River moat in the north, there is the year in the east, there is the natural defense line that crosses the east and west, such as the forbidden ditch, the original Wanggou, the Manluo River, etc., and it is bound to become "close the door and choke Kyushu, and the birds can not pass".

It is precisely because of the danger of Tongguan that our army has not attacked hard, but has set up a lot of outposts in the west of Tongguan.

On this terrain, cavalry did not play a role. And the Ji Han army, which is known for being good at walking mountain roads and being good at archery, has taken advantage of a lot. Of course, Guo Huai in Tongguan was not easy to mess with, so he personally went out and pulled out more than ten outposts of our army at night. Later, our army set up a bright post and a dark post at each outpost, and at the same time used meteor artillery to transmit news, so that Cao's army could not attack. All in all, in the case that the Wei and Han armies did not send large troops, Zhao Yun and Pang De and Zhang Ji and Guo Huai won and lost each other in the confrontation, and no one could help anyone.

Crossing the river to the north, we headed for Linjin. Zuo Feng Yiling thirteen counties, namely Gaoling, Chiyang, Wannian, Chongquan, Linjin, Jawyang, Xiayang, Pinyang, Suyi, Yaxian, Zhenxu, Yunyang. Gaoling is Zuo Fengyi's place of governance, but Linjin is the front line, and the geographical location is much more important. Across Pujindu and Bingzhou, Sizhou faces each other. The generals Wu Ban and Feng Xi and the general Wang Ping were here. Although the weight of these three people seems to be inferior to the combination of Zhao Yun and Pang De, they are stable and reliable. Feng Xi is good at water warfare, Wang Ping is good at land warfare, guarding several crossings of the Yellow River and protecting the safety of Chang'an, it should be no problem. Counting, Wu Ban is Wu Yi's brother, and should also be my uncle, he is the main general, it cannot be said that there is no reason for this, but his temperament is relatively gentle, just like his queen sister, and he can give full play to the strengths of his subordinates, not fighting for merit or jealousy, so that Feng Xi and Wang Ping's abilities can be fully utilized. It is a rare thing for a relative to do this.

When there were still more than 100 miles away from Linjin, it rained heavily. In the early spring in the north, there is very little rain, but this time the rain is not only heavy, but also fast. Our group had nowhere to avoid, and we were drenched for half an hour, and although the guards put their cloaks on my head to protect me from the rain, I was still soaked, and when the north wind blew, I felt black in front of my eyes, my hands and feet were cold, my breath was cold, my head was dizzy, and I fell to the ground before I got together.

The guards panicked, and Hesse put his hand on my forehead: "Ah! The young master has a fever! ”

But I was speechless.