Chapter Seventy-Three: A Thousand Miles of Tracking

From the moment I left the imperial camp, Li Yan and Liao Li began to attack Cao Wei as I had ordered. After analysis by the three of us, we believe that if the enemy thinks that our whole army is coming, in order to cause me a crushing defeat, he will definitely show weakness and strengthen my will, and he will make some defeats in the early stage. Since the enemy miscalculated, it would be unreasonable for us not to take advantage of this kind of advantage. Now the army marched eastward. We feel that the enemy will not fight back until Luoxian, Wucheng, Jiling, and Shaling counties are captured. If they want to attack me, they must at least retreat across the Great Wall, or even to Yanmen.

And our army will be forced all the way to the Great Wall.

At this time, he received a battle report from Hohe. After receiving this battle report, I suddenly understood why after the fall of the Han Dynasty, among the Hu people who had been suppressed, it was the Southern Xiongnu who took the lead in destroying the Western Jin Dynasty and building an empire.

The time goes back to more than ten days ago.

The sky will be bright and unclear, and the morning star will shine faintly in the eastern sky. After the black storm, thick stratus clouds move on the distant horizon, like herds of bison. On the crescent green state, the Xianbei people, who had been disturbed by the roar of the black storm in the middle of the night, fell asleep deeply, and the sound of snoring came from the various tents, and the horses grazed on the oasis, grazing leisurely.

Suddenly, several horses pricked up their ears and looked up warily to the south.

In the southern desert, a thousand horses were walking silently through the night, softly, without any murderous aura—until, before they came to the oasis.

Li Yu stared at the camp tent in front of him for a long time. Suddenly, he raised his spear and shouted, "Kill! On either side of him, a tide of iron rushed out and swooped down on the tent in the night. They roared loudly, like a terrible ghost in the world, Li Pleiades's tribe had long been completely Hu, and it was completely a force with the discipline and equipment of the Han Dynasty, and the wild and ferocious nature of the Huns. This cavalry is too fast! In the Han people in the Guannai, it is difficult to imagine the murderous aura and power brought by this speed in such a charge! The uncovered grass became the best place for cavalry to charge and kill. They rushed forward, bows and arrows fired, scimitars swung, iron hooves trampled, blood gushing.

The sudden attack made the Xianbei people panic, and in a panic, they ran out before they had time to dress, and some of the iron horsemen who bravely met Li Yu were trampled to the ground in the blink of an eye; Some turned around and fled, only to find that the horses had been driven away; Some of them slammed around like headless flies and screamed wildly. The archers had formed an encirclement, and the soldiers who escaped from the range of their swords and guns were soon pierced through the hearts by sharp arrows. Rows of shooters, alternating to do the most brutal work. This is the way of fighting in the desert, the raid is completed, even if the number of people is several times different, there will be no suspense in the battle.

Like a vulture, the Xianbei people who were suddenly hit were just a piece of meat in its mouth.

It only took less than an hour, and there was no more Xianbei people standing on the crescent moon oasis. Li Yu stood in front of the half-lit Xianbei handsome tent, and under his feet were the bound Budugen and the rebellious Putou.

Budugen was completely stunned. He had failed, but never so badly as he did today. How could there be such a terrible army in this desert? How did they avoid the terrible black storm yesterday and appear in front of them like a divine soldier descending from the sky? How could they be so cruel and tyrannical, and refuse to let go even if they surrender? How could an army of only 1,000 men kill all of his 5,000 men in just one hour? I went all the way north fast enough, I originally planned to bring the Han army behind me into the desert, thirst to death for them, trap them, but I haven't entered the hinterland of the desert, only more than 800 miles, I was caught up, and I was killed, oh my God, these people in front of me, are they really Han troops? Putou was even more remorseful, he had surrendered to Ji Han and avoided this disaster, but he was greedy for a while, thinking that the old master was powerful and Ji Han would be defeated, but he didn't know that overnight, everyone and horses were all lost.

Li Yu didn't pay attention to the thoughts of these two people, and when he found out that Guan Feng was not in this camp and he had already jumped into the air, his heart was already full of pain.

"Where's Princess Relief?" Li Yu's voice was still calm.

Budugen raised his head: "I'll tell you if I let it go." ”

The black-clothed armor soldier on the side waved his scimitar, and with a flash of cold light, he had already cut off the head of a guard next to Budugen, and blood sprayed Budugen's body. Then he put the bloody scimitar on the root of the neck of Budu: "You are not qualified to talk to my lord about the conditions!" ”

Budugen exclaimed, "You...... How dare you...... Do you know who I am? ”

Li Yu asked calmly again, "Where is Princess Xie Wu?" ”

Budugen said: "I am the king of Xianbei in the west, the descendant of Tanshi Huai, how can I be threatened by you?" Hurry up and let me go, or ......"

Before he finished speaking, the black-clad soldier's knife was embedded in Budugen's neck, and blood flowed down the blade.

Budugen panicked: "I said, I said." Guan Feng was taken away by Sima Wang. I can take you there. ”

Li Yu looked to the east and said calmly: "I know the road." Kill them all, and it will be lighter to walk with the human head. Without looking back, the horse slowly departed eastward.

Everyone shouted for mercy, and Bu Dugen shouted: "I am Lord Xianbei in the west, send me to Ji Han, and you will get more rewards than rescuing the princess!" I am Lord Xianbei in the west, a descendant of Tanshi Huai, I know where the treasure of Xianbei is, let me go, I can take you to find it! You bastards! Is it more precious to kill than to get a treasure? ”

A swinging steel knife and a rolling head gave the most definite answer.

Putou sighed loudly: "I regret it so much! I could have avoided this unwarranted disaster. As soon as he finished speaking, the human head had already hit the ground, rolling and falling in front of Budugen.

Budugen looked at Putou's dead eyes and trembled. Could it be that the western Xianbei of the mighty desert died like this? He shouted again: "Leave me alone, I will give you the treasure of Xianbei!" ”

With a swing of the black-clothed armor's steel knife, he cut off the head of Budugen. He sneered, "Go to the underworld to take care of your treasure!" Even your heads are too much for me to work on. ”

The black-clothed armor soldier came behind Li Yu: "Lord, all the Xianbei people have been killed, and more than 300 Han heads have been found in the tent, which should be the princess's subordinates." ”

Li Yu nodded silently and said: "Leave a hundred people to clean up the battlefield, return to Shuofang City with their heads, send a letter to Your Majesty to report the matter, and the rest of the people will take the Xianbei people's war horses and set off immediately, chasing Sima Wang and Yan Huan, they have been away for a few days, and we have to recover this time." ”

"Feng'er, since you are my fiancée, I will also rescue you from heaven to earth!"

Two days later, Li Yu chased him to Manyi Valley. The flag in front of the banner is unfurled, covering the sky and blocking the way forward.

"Lord, in front of me is the man and horse of Kebineng's son-in-law Yu Zhuqi."

"Yu Zhuji?" As soon as Li Yu urged the horse, he rushed forward.

"I'm hunting, irrelevant people avoid!" In the distance, I heard Yu Zhuji's unbridled laughter. Yu Zhuyu was a big man, tall and strong, like a giant bear. He is famous in northern Xinjiang and has the courage of ten thousand people.

Li Yu said loudly: "Li Yu borrowed the way!" ”

Yu Zhuyu said: "No one can borrow it, let go of the leopard I surrounded, who will pay me?" ”

Li Yu rode up his horse, only to see Yu Zhuyu encircling seven or eight leopards in the middle of the road, although the leopard was heavily surrounded, it was still the head of the trapped beast, with teeth and claws, extremely fierce. Li Yu shouted: "I'll pay for it!" Bending the bow and arrows, a sharp roar sounded, and in the blink of an eye, five leopards fell to death on the road.

Yu Zhuyu said angrily: "You dare to kill my leopard? ”

Li Yu sneered: "If you stop me from saving my female leopard, I will kill your leopard!" ”

Yu Zhuyu narrowed a pair of small eyes into a line: "Can I think that you are provoking me?" I will kill all your thousand, and wash away my reproach with your blood!" ”

Li Yu said: "Very good. Three years ago, if you don't feel like you can enjoy the battle in Luronse, don't worry about fighting again! ”

Yu Zhuyu's small eyes suddenly widened, his legs inadvertently exerted force, and he sat down and took a few steps back from the war horse: "It's you?!" Plug the North Korean Dragon! ”

Li Yu nodded: "Yes, Han Long is one of the incarnations of this king. If you give way, I owe you a favor, and you will be at peace. If you don't dare to sleep from now on, come and test the sword of this king. ”

Yu Zhuyu laughed: "Why did the prince say this, how much of a life." In fact, Ben Shuai was joking with the prince. Knowing that the prince was here, thinking of our alliance with Ji Han, I came here to point out the direction, the prestige of the Hun Iron Cavalry King, Ben Shuai had heard of it for a long time, but he didn't expect it to be an old man. Cao Wei and those people went south from this road two days ago, why, there is a princess among them? It's a pity that I came late, otherwise I would have stopped him. ”

Li Yu didn't break it, and arched his hand: "Thank you, Li Yu will have something to report on another day, and today is urgent, please let the marshal go." ”

Yu Zhuyu waved his hand and said, "Come on, make way for the Iron Rider King!" The Xianbei people were divided into two columns, Li Yu whistled, and the whole army passed through the Xianbei array like the wind.

A Xianbei handsome man stepped forward and said to Yu Zhuyu: "Dashuai, if you don't close the siege, they will really escape." ”

Yu Zhuyu seemed surprised: "Together? What is the circumference? They are working hard with Cao Wei, aren't they just thinking with us? ”

"But, Cao Wei gave a lot of money to buy the road?"

"Pig brain, no matter how much money you have, you have to spend it. The Hun Iron Cavalry King, originally only sung among the Huns, but he had never heard of any meritorious deeds, but he didn't expect that it was him, who met him three years ago......"

"In that battle, it must have been a big handsome victory." Xiao Shuai said flatteringly on the side.

Yu Zhuyu ignored him: "Hehe, no wonder a thousand people dare to cross the desert, and they can wipe out Budu." It turned out to be the descendants of the Han who defeated the Xiongnu with 5,000 infantry and 100,000 troops, which was terrible. Although I'm not afraid of him, but the interests of our Xianbei people are the most important, although the Han people are strong, let them kill themselves, they have all killed, and we don't need to do it. ”

Xiao Shuai admired: "The big handsome is wise." ”

At this time, a ride came like a fly.

"Dashuai, under the banner of the Black Iron Order, don't let go of the Wei people."

"What?" Yu Zhuyu was stunned.

"Emperor Ji Han has brought a large army of 150,000 people to the northern frontier, and sent an envoy to meet Lord Kebineng, who thinks that we are an ally with Ji Han, so he issued a black iron order flag to capture the Wei people and rescue Ji Han's princess."

"Damn, is it okay two days earlier. Send Xinying to inform the handsome man in front of him to let him block the Wei people, and I will immediately lead troops to catch up with him by super shortcut. ”

Sima Wang and Yan Huan rode on horseback, cautiously along the way. Sima Wang's already thin little face looked even more skinny at this time, with a sickly green in between. Sending troops to attack Shuofang this time was a clever plan of the Metropolitan Governor Sima Yi, but it was not easy along the way. Bu Dugen is bent on revenge, and it is easy to take advantage of it, but the leader of his subordinates, Putou, who surrendered to Ji Han, has not been able to settle down, trekking from a distance, attacking the enemy for thousands of miles, he is the main army, without his cooperation, this one is simply impossible to fight. Sima Wang was so angry several times that he almost killed him, ending the plan and returning the same way. And because he has to pass through the central Xianbei control area, the central Xianbei, who is heavy on bribery, is insatiable, and a group of wolves follow him to ask for benefits. Then there was the thousand-mile desert, where drought and storms nearly killed me. finally got out of the desert, and captured Guan Feng with a trick, thinking that it was all right, but he was ambushed cumulatively, and suffered heavy casualties, especially a fire in the forage field, more than 1,000 people and 2,000 horses were buried in the fire. After capturing Xi'anyang, he didn't expect Ji Han to poison the wells in a frenzy, and more than 600 people, including Sima Wang, were poisoned. Thinking of all these days, Sima Wang was a little afraid, it seemed easy to go behind enemy lines, but as long as one link was not paid attention to, the whole army would be wiped out, and there would be no place to bury him.

Fortunately, now as long as you cross the Qingshui River in front, you will enter the area controlled by Cao Wei. However, all of a sudden, countless flags rolled up from the sky.

"Xianbei people!"

"Prepare to meet the enemy, it's Xianbei people!"

Sima Wang looked nervously ahead, and then looked at the car beside him. In the car is the first beauty of Ji Han, Guan Feng, the princess of Xie Wu, who was in the desert at that time, Bu Dugen commanded five times the number of Ji Han's men and horses, and did not catch her, but Yan Huan personally went out to capture her. After being captured, Sima Wang tied her with a cow tendon rope, but she actually broke the cow tendon on the strong seam of the carriage, although the wooden thorns on her hand were deeply pierced, and the blood was dripping without making a sound, and then she killed the guards of the chariot while marching, grabbed the horse and fled, and it took a lot of effort to capture her back. In desperation, he had to use drugs to stun her and make her sleep all day.

"When the enemy army is near, I will shoot the leader with an arrow, and you will lead people to rush over." Yan Huan said.

"Let's look at the situation, it's better not to do it or not to do it, these nonsense people, you have to have money."

The interpreter in front shouted: "We are merchants of Great Wei, and we have contacted your family. Please let it go. ”

But the Xianbei people on the other side shouted: "Put down your weapons and spare you from death!" Let the princess come over! ”

Sima Wangdao: "Oh no! They even know their own details, and they can't buy it with money. ”

Yan Huan flew forward and fired his bow eighty paces away from the enemy. This arrow was too fast, and before the Xianbei handsome man on the opposite side had time to take his weapon, there was an extra arrow tail on his throat, and he heard the sound of his own blood spurting like the wind, and before he could say anything, he turned over and fell to the ground.

The Xianbei people were in turmoil.

Yan Huan mounted his horse and charged, shouting loudly: "Kill me with me!" ”