The north wind was howling, and the howling wind was mixed with countless white snow, blowing on the skin on the face and causing pain. Heaven and earth are all white.

The cold wind is howling on the grassland, and the last time there was white snow was more than ten years ago, when a large number of livestock froze to death, and many small tribes went south to grab it, but most of them died there.

The successive fiascos made the Huns dare not go south easily, and the Hun kings had been licking their wounds all these years and then drawing blood from the Western Regions.

even took the opportunity to annex those disobedient tribes, which made the strength of the Huns stronger and stronger.

After drawing blood from the Western Regions, exchanging markets with Daqian, and making their own blood, the Xiongnu have recovered and become stronger.

The grassland is different from the Central Plains, there are many grasslands on the grassland, where there is grass to breed cattle and sheep, and where there are cattle and sheep, there is food, and with food can feed the population. It is nothing more than the lack of anti-risk ability of the grasslands.

In this era, the gap between scientific and technological development has not been completely widened, and without those advanced weapons, population is the measure of national strength.

When the population recovers, the strength will be almost restored, and then there will be weapons and food and grass, and war can be started. There are no so-called technological barriers, and a country can be completely strong in a single generation.

The Huns became stronger, but they did not know what kind of powerful country they were facing.

Wang Jing has been on the throne for more than ten years, and he dug the Luohuai Canal to make the world's commerce and trade more prosperous, the most obvious manifestation of which is that there is more money and food.

After recuperation, the gap between the Great Qians and the Xiongnu became wider and wider, and the speed of the steppe empire's strength accumulation was inherently inferior to that of the agricultural civilization.

As long as the emperor is not confused and stupid, even if he loses battles in a row, he can drag the nomads down through war. Of course, this is stupid.

In real history, in the war between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu, the losses of the Han Dynasty were no less than those of the Xiongnu, but the Xiongnu finally disappeared. The grassland bears far less population than the farming people, and the cattle and sheep are difficult to preserve, and the grassland and the Central Plains go to war, as long as they do not grab enough supplies, it is a failure.

Billowing smoke and dust swept in, the deafening sound of horses' hooves sounded, and once the number of cavalry exceeded 1,000, it became very difficult to make accurate judgments when running.

The soldiers guarding the border pass are not afraid of the Huns' attack, the Huns' weapons are still some gaps compared to Daqian, only the golden wolf guards of the Hun royal court have full body iron armor, and the vast majority of ordinary Huns are no armor or leather armor.

In addition, the crossbow arrows of the Great Dry are more powerful than the bows and arrows of the Huns in terms of range and power, and if the Huns want to break through the border pass, they do not have several times or even ten times the number of troops, so they don't even think about it.

The Huns were also well aware of this, and they usually did not attack the city, but instead made a detour to a weakly defended place, or went to the villages to plunder, relying on their speed to flee before the big soldiers arrived.

In the past, the big cadres and soldiers had a headache in the face of this kind of guerrilla warfare because of the number of horses and riding skills, but not long ago, the situation changed after the appearance of new cavalry who came to replace the border guards.

The cavalry of the Huns roared outside the city, and the defenders in the city also attacked, and after seeing the cavalry of the great cadres, these Huns laughed and did not take these cadres in their eyes at all.

The Huns slowed down their horses, drew their bows and arrows one after another, and a rain of arrows came at the cavalry of Daqian.

These Huns were poor, and the arrows they used were also very messy, in addition to iron arrows, there were also bone arrows, and the Huns deliberately soaked these arrows in gold juice in order to increase their lethality, and once they were injured by these bows and arrows, the chance of wound infection was extremely high.

In this era, wound infection is almost insolvable, and it can only be resisted by personal physique.

It's a pity that they met their opponents this time, just after the Huns shot a wave of arrows, they saw the chasing Daqian cavalry control their horses with their legs, and easily turned around and avoided most of the arrows. And the remaining arrows fell on the cavalry, and they were directly bounced off by the armor.

"The second and third sons, who have made great achievements, and sealed their wives and sons in the near future! Kill the enemy with me! Rush! ”

The Huns reduced the speed of their horses because of archery, and the cavalry suddenly launched a sprint, and the Huns did not expect that the cavalry of the Daqian cavalry entered so quickly.

The war horses didn't have time to speed up at all, and the cavalry that was facing the big cadres had already rushed up. One side responded in a hurry, and the other side charged positively.

The first group of big cavalry even took out the crossbow arrows that had been wound in their hands and shot at the Huns who had not yet reacted.

"Collapse!"

The bowstrings sounded.

In the next second, I saw dozens of Huns falling directly from their horses, crossbow arrows piercing through their chests, and blood flowed out in an instant, staining the ground red.

The Huns were shocked, and they drew their weapons to deal with it, but the cavalry of the Great Cadre had rushed to the front, with the help of the galloping horsepower, the Great Cadre soldiers crossed the knife quickly, and the Huns only felt a gust of wind swept away, and the neck was in pain, and the next second fell off the horse.

Thousands of cavalry galloped by, and in just a few moments, they chiseled through the Huns, and a large number of Huns died.

The huge casualties made the Huns terrified, and they did not have the courage to fight back, but it was too late. Daqian's cavalry spared a circle and chased after the Huns.

Luoyang, the capital of the gods.

The battle report was sent over at the first time, and the great cadres were knighted for their military merits, and they attached great importance to military merits, and every time they fought no matter how big or small, they needed to report to the imperial court and calculate their military exploits.

Zhang Liang looked at the report in his hand, dozens of casualties were killed and wounded, and 932 Huns were beheaded, such a large casualty ratio made him feel unreal, and he subconsciously thought that the front-line soldiers falsely reported their military exploits. However, looking at the seal letter of Han Xin, the general of Zhenbei below, he felt that the battle report was very credible.

You must know that in the past, there were conflicts between the Xiongnu and the Great Qian, and the casualties of the Xiongnu and the Great Qian were usually maintained at 1.5 to 1.

Although there were fewer casualties among the cadres, the difference in casualties was not as large as this one.

Seeing this, Zhang Lianglian hurriedly asked the adjutant to find out all the battle reports during this period of time for review.

"Prime Minister, there are still three copies of this month's report on the Xiongnu Koubian."

As a result, he was surprised to find that although the casualty rate of the Huns in the remaining two battle reports was not as high as this one, it was also far higher than before.

At the same time, several successive war reports also let him see some other clues, and the number of Huns this year has increased significantly.

"In the past three years, the climate and food at the border have all been found, and we have to see what it is!"

The imperial court has always been concerned about the climate, and Si Tianjian keeps records every year. Soon the adjutant found the information, and after Zhang Liang quickly looked through it, he found that the harvest in the border areas had been average in the past three years, and the number of heavy snowfalls in winter had also increased.

Seeing this situation, he immediately realized that nine times out of ten, the Huns would not be able to withstand the natural disasters and would go south to plunder!

(End of chapter)