Chapter 27: The Heroic Tiger Strikes Shuo Fang

Zhang Yiliang pondered and meditated, although the situation was embarrassing, there were several ways to try. First, Xianbei snatched Shuofang City from the Xiongnu, and more than 1,000 Huns died in battle, and the Huns must be itching with hatred, and they can unite with the Xiongnu to attack the city. Second, lead the disciples of the Langya Sect to infiltrate the city, assassinate the king of Nawulu, and go back with his head to receive the reward. Third, the strong attack, the Xianbei people are also cavalry, they defend the city purely amateurish, lead a thousand people to storm a gate, kill into the city, the two sides fought a bloody battle.

Attacking is the next policy, joining forces with the Huns is the middle strategy, and assassinating the king of the Ulu is the best policy.

However, in any case, these more than 5,000 Ulu soldiers must be completely annihilated, slaughtering the enemies of the people of more than a dozen villages, and not killing a single Ulu king.

Zhang Yiliang thought hard for a long time and got a plan: to assassinate the king of the Ulu, so that the Ulu tribe would be leaderless, and the team without the command system would become fat meat to be slaughtered. At the same time of assassinating this thief, a group of masters were arranged to infiltrate Shuofang City, open the north gate, the south gate, and the west gate, and each gate formed a team of 100 people to attack, forcing the Wulu army out of the east gate, and ambushing 700 people outside the east gate, waiting for the opportunity to annihilate them all.

The soldiers and horses from all walks of life are properly distributed. Zhang Yiliang found Xiao Jianli and arranged the tasks of the Langya Army. The Langya army of more than 50 people all infiltrated Shuofang City masked and divided into four routes. Zhang Yiliang and Xiao Jianli were the first to assassinate the king of the Ulu. In addition, a dozen people from each team went to the north gate, south gate, and west gate to kill the Ulu army defending the city, and opened the city gate to let the tiger army enter the city.

After the Tiger Ben army entered the city, everyone shouted: 100,000 Jin troops are here, and the east gate can flee for their lives......

After two or three hours, the troops were dispatched, and all the men and horses were in place. Just after the child's time, the black-pressed Langya disciples climbed over the wall and sneaked into the city. Zhang Yiliang and Xiao Jianli found the Shuofang Mansion where the King of Ulu lived, sneaked into the courtyard, and saw that the King of Ulu was discussing something with several Ulu commanders. Look at the period and break in.

The people in the house are all experienced generals, and their knives never leave their bodies, and when they see a situation, they draw their knives and fight. Xiao Jian left to greet the generals, Zhang Yiliang wanted to turn out the King of Wulu with a unicorn phantom flash, and didn't want him to use the candle flame around him to smash it, Zhang Yiliang urgently hit a unicorn cirrus palm, and the candle flame was pushed to the window and ignited the house.

The Ulu King shouted, "Someone!" The guards outside the courtyard pulled in dozens of people. Xiao Jianli killed the lieutenants of the Ulu Division. The guards who came in at the door slashed and threw a dozen corpses outside the door, blocking the doorway, and the guards squeezed and pressed them, so that they could not enter the house. King Ulu hid under the table, Zhang Yiliang shook the ground with a palm of the unicorn, shattered the table, grabbed King Ulu's collar with his hand, held it to the door, stepped on the shoulders of the soldiers outside, jumped on the beam of the house and flew away.

Zhang Yiliang stood on the roof and shouted to the group of guards: The Jin army of 100,000 people has been killed from the three gates of the southwest and north, and you have a chance to survive if you escape from the east gate now.

Xiao Jianli killed a few more people, knowing that Zhang Yiliang had already escaped, he made a move of a leopard to push the elephant, pushed the incoming soldiers out of the house, and flew away with a light effort.

At this time, several city gates were opened by the black-clothed men of the Leopard Army, and the Tiger Ben Army rode in and killed them, and when they saw the Xianbei people, they cut them down, and shouted while slashing and killing: There is no Jin army at the east gate, and the Xianbei soldiers are fleeing for their lives!

The city lost its commander, and the Xianbei soldiers came out of the barracks, frantically snatched the horses and ran into the streets. Suddenly, the streets were flooded with people. The defenders of the three gates in the southwest and north did not have time to organize a defense, so they threw away their armor and ran towards the city. The Xianbei army was accustomed to galloping across the vast meadows, and five thousand men and horses were surging through the streets of the city, where could they still run. Countless people trampled on each other, and they all moved towards the east gate, opened the east gate, and poured out of Shuofang City.

Seven hundred tiger cavalry had already been surrounded on the grass outside the east gate, and the one who stopped in front was a company, where was this group of fierce and fierce cavalry willing to let go of a Xianbei person, and when they came out of a wave, they would charge once, and the Xianbei people could only retreat. After a few steps back, I heard the sound of killing, heavy cavalry, strong crossbowmen killed from both sides, and soon outside the east gate was corpses all over the field, and blood flowed like a river.

How could the more than 5,000 Xianbei soldiers be annihilated so easily? When the news of an ambush outside the city reached the east gate, the remaining 2,000 or so Xianbei soldiers looked like they were fighting against the odds. Zhang Yiliang ordered: The outside is relaxed, the inside is tightened, the three hundred heavy cavalry in the city, and the fifty disciples of Langya fought hard to kill for a while, not only the blood of the Xianbei people flowed all over the ground, but the heavy cavalry and the disciples of Langya were also covered in blood.

The Tiger Ben cavalry who were ambushed outside the city retreated a mile outward. A group of martial arts masters and heavy cavalry in the city, some soldiers in Xianbei lost their armor and became infantry, and some people still rode war horses, but they couldn't hurt the heavy cavalry and Langya disciples. In the street fight in the city, the Xianbei people want to call the Han ancestor master. It didn't take long for them to be forced to the grass outside the east gate.

The Xianbei Wulu army thought that they would have an advantage when they came to the grassland, and some middle-level officers led the stragglers to rush in the direction of the company several times, and fell into the arms of Zhang Yiliang.

The Wulu army had a strong enemy in front of it and pursued the soldiers in the rear, and they were distracted, and they also took care of one or the other when they charged, and they were afraid of the front and the back. After a few rounds, a group of people were killed by strong crossbows, a group of tigers and wolves were killed by a company, and they were chopped by heavy cavalry knives and axes chased from the east gate, and a group of people died. It didn't take long for the Xianbei Ulu tribe to be scattered, and some remnants of the defeated army remained, so that the Tiger Ben army surrounded the heart.

Zhang Yiliang tied the king of the Ulu to a wooden frame and stood outside the encirclement, allowing him to see with his own eyes how thousands of Ulu people were beheaded. The hundreds of Xianbei soldiers who were surrounded seemed to have the intention of surrendering, some discarding their weapons, and some raising their weapons above their heads.

The soldiers all looked at their coach Zhang Yiliang. Zhang Yiliang remembered that this group of Xianbei people drove straight into and slaughtered the people of more than a dozen villages, and he hated it so much. He said: This group of bandits, slaughtering more than a dozen of my villages and towns, if you let one go, you and I will be sinners of the nation. Kill!

As soon as the order was raised, the tiger cavalry rushed into the battle like wolves and tigers, annihilating all the people of the Xianbei Ulu army, leaving no one alive. At this time, it was already dawn, and he saw the dazzling fires everywhere, and the smell of blood wafted in, Zhang Yiliang suddenly felt nauseous, dizzy, and fell off the horse.

Everyone helped Zhang Yiliang up, carried him into the palace of Shuofang City, found a doctor, cut the pulse and asked for a consultation, only to know that it was because he was too nervous, and his heart was difficult to bear his strength after he was suddenly released. After prescribing a few medications, Zhang Yiliang rested for a day before he got better.

Shuofang City was operated by the Han Dynasty for two hundred years, the majority of Han people in the city, learned that it was the Han general Zhang Yiliang led a thousand tigers to defeat more than 5,000 people in Xianbei, and the people in the city rushed to visit. After the Tiger army entered the city, they distributed the looted property of the Ulu army to the poor people in the city.

According to post-war statistics, the Huben cavalry battalion killed more than 100 people and wounded more than 300 people. More than 5,500 Xianbei defenders were annihilated. Zhang Yiliang sent 300 tiger ben to escort the king of Wulu to Luoyang, and was sent by the imperial court. He stayed in Shuofang City to privately inquire about his mother's news, but found nothing.

Zhang Yiliang didn't know that just after he tried his first battle, Duan Wumuchen of the Xianbei Duan Department had already gathered 30,000 Xianbei cavalry in the Xianbei Liaozhong region and were looking for him along his route to the northeast. If it weren't for the timely detour back to the northwest and then south, I am afraid that it would be eaten by Duan Wumuchen's 80,000 rangers at this time.

Duan Wumuchen searched for Zhang Yiliang in Xianbei for several days, learned that Zhang Yiliang had entered the territory of the Xiongnu, and heard that more than 8,000 people of the Wulu army had been completely annihilated, and he did not dare to break into the territory of the Xiongnu to pursue him.

Although the Xiongnu were beaten by Wei Qinghuo and other cattle in the Han Dynasty, the hundred-legged insects died but did not stiffen, and the nearly 100,000 cavalry of the Southern Xiongnu were not vegetarians. Xianbei and the Xiongnu fought dozens of battles, defeated more and won less, and the victories were all won by the Xianbei heroes decades ago.

At this time, Xianbei, although the territory is wider than that of the Xiongnu. However, since Kebi Neng was assassinated by Han Long, Xianbei was divided into more than 30 tribes, large and small, and there were only three major tribes with more than 50,000 troops, namely Xianbei Murong Division, Xianbei Duan Division, and Xianbei Yuwen Division. Of course, the Xianbei Tuoba Tribe, which is quietly rising, should not be underestimated.

Xianbei is the most complex Hu clan after the Three Kingdoms, dozens of tribes appeared in succession in the later Wuhu Chaohua drama, to record them all, I am afraid that thirty "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" will not be able to be written.

After learning about the situation of the Xianbei people, Yiliang found some Huns who had a good relationship with the Han nationality and loved peace to understand the situation of the Xiongnu. The Huns are very proud of their history, after all, their ancestors have been proud of Monan for decades. After Kebi was able to unify Xianbei, he wantonly invaded the territory of the Xiongnu, and many tribes among the Xiongnu bowed down to the Xianbei people, recognized the thief as their father, and regarded themselves as Xianbei people. In total, 500,000 or 600,000 people became "Hun traitors."

At present, the strongest Xiongnu tribe is the Southern Xiongnu. The Southern Xiongnu are the descendants of the Xiongnu and are the Xiongnu tribes led by Mao Dunshan and his descendants. It reached its peak during the period when Huchuquan was the king of the Xiongnu. It is precisely with Huchuquan, a descendant of the Xiongnu who is red-rooted, that the Xiongnu territory in the western part of Monan was retained.

However, Hu Chuquan was later tricked by Cao Cao and deceived to Luoyang to be Cao Wei's hostage. After the Sima clan seized power, they gave the surname "Liu" to the descendants of Huchuquan, and let them return to the Xiongnu to take power and defend the land, after Huchuquan was Liu Bao as the king of the Southern Xiongnu, and Liu Bao was succeeded by his son Liu Yuan after his death. The Southern Xiongnu maintained good diplomatic relations with the Han Chinese, and the condolence mission looted by the Xianbei Ulu army was the Southern Xiongnu mission.

In addition to the renegade "Huns" and the Southern Xiongnu Liu, the Xiongnu also had several tribes in Monan, scattered in the vast northwest region of Monan, Mobei and the Hexi Corridor.

Among the five hus in the north, the largest area is the Xiongnu and Xianbei, two big clans with no bounds. However, the big advantage is also their disadvantage, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the property is extremely poor, so they have to rob everywhere, and the whole clan lives with their heads pinned to their belts. The Xiongnu had two or three million men, five or six hundred thousand who could fight, and Xianbei was relatively sluggish, with an estimated population of five or six million (including five or six hundred thousand "Hunsian traitors") who could fight, one million.

So, how many Han people were there in the Central Plains at this time? The Three Kingdoms were like a meat grinder, which wrangled the population of 60 million from the Han Dynasty to more than 8 million, and the population recovered to 35 million in the 70 or 80 years of Cao Wei and the Western Jin Dynasty. Based on this alone, Sima's family can also be regarded as a meritorious service to the nation. Of course, wanting to use this credit to cover up the mistakes made by their Sima family is a drop in the bucket.

The Tiger Ben Army came to report, and they found the mourning mission that had been captured by the Xianbei Ulu army. Zhang Yiliang went to the court of the Southern Xiongnu to meet Liu Yuan on the pretext of escorting the delegation back to the Southern Xiongnu. In fact, the purpose was to inquire about the situation of the Pormembrane tribe. This is a very brainless thing, a general leading troops, without the permission of the imperial court, without greeting the imperial court, goes to a neighboring country for a friendly visit without saying hello to the imperial court? This political mind is too many negative points.

Liu Yuan, the king of the Southern Huns, was naturally very happy, with good wine and food, beautiful women to chat with, and he spoke authentic Luoyang official dialect. In addition to living in tents, the Southern Xiongnu were sinicized in other aspects, and their food and clothing, etiquette, and language were quite close to those of the Han people.

There were many Hun old people at the banquet, who were clan elders and virtuous kings. Zhang Yiliang inadvertently talked about the past of the Jin army and the Male Membrane Department more than 20 years ago, and asked the Xiongnu elders about the current situation of the Male Membrane Division. The clan elders thought that this young general was encouraging the Han-Hungarian alliance, and I talked about the Porcelain in a word.

More than 20 years ago, the Por Membrane Department was attacked by the Haolian Division, kidnapped the Male Membrane King, and cut off his head as a night pot. He wanted to take revenge, but his strength was limited, so he joined forces with the Jin army on the border to exterminate the Hao Lian Department. Later, for unknown reasons, the Jin army attacked the Pormask tribe again and forced Malemask into Mobei.

The Huns in Mobei could not tolerate their fellow tribes, so they drove the Por membrane to the south, and the Por membrane was cornered, so they went west. Later, I heard that the Por membrane department was annexed by the Western Xiongnu in the Hexi Corridor, and all the people of the Por membrane have been reduced to the sheep and horse slaves of the Western Xiongnu.

During the chat, the Xiongnu soldiers came to report: A Xianbei army of tens of thousands of people was found in the border area between the Xiongnu and Xianbei, and it has now reached 30 miles east of Shuofang City, which seems to have the intention of attacking Shuofang City.

Liu Yuan said: Shuofang was originally the land of my Huns, and the Xianbei people attacked my city for no reason and killed more than 1,000 of my Huns. Fortunately, General Zhang helped us recapture it, and we should send troops to join forces with General Zhang to retreat from the enemy.

Everything is subject to the command of the king. The old man said.

Then immediately gather soldiers and horses, 30,000 people from the left Xian Wang, 20,000 from the right Xian Wang, and 30,000 cavalry from the right king, and immediately march to Shuofang to block the Xianbei army.

Zhang Yiliang understood that Liu Yuan was killing two birds with one stone. It not only declared the sovereignty of Shuofang, but also gave it a reason to send troops. For the Jin army, Shuofang is a lonely city, the nearest border guards are still two hundred miles away, if Shuofang City is now guarded, the Xiongnu and Xianbei have repeatedly attacked, how many troops are not enough.

So he said: Shuofang was built by Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but later there were disputes in the Central Plains, and I had no time to take care of it. The king of the Southern Xiongnu is also a minister of my Jin Dynasty, and he should indeed send more soldiers to guard this city and share the worries of the court.

Zhang Yiliang said goodbye to Liu Yuan and wanted to go back immediately to arrange the city defense. Who knew that as soon as the horse arrived, he received a military order brought by Yang Jun: Zhang Yiliang invaded and occupied the city of the Southern Xiongnu, destroyed the relationship between the imperial court and the vassal states, removed Zhang Yiliang from the post of captain of the Huben, and Li Qi took charge of the Huben cavalry on his behalf, and quickly withdrew to the northern defense battalion.

It has only been ten days since the Xianbei Wulu army was eliminated and the Shuo Fang was defeated, and the imperial court was already in an uproar. Politicians took advantage of the incident to make a big fuss. At this time, the crown prince Sima Zhen had succeeded to the throne, and the rivalry between Jia Nanfeng and Yang Jun became the main struggle of the imperial court.

Both Jia Nanfeng and Yang Jun wanted to take the credit for the elimination of the Wulu army for themselves. Yang Jun said that the Huben cavalry was the soldier of his northern defense battalion, and Jia Nanfeng said that Zhang Yiliang was the military general he promoted. As soon as Yang Jun disagreed, he would get rid of Zhang Yiliang on the charge of destroying the relationship between the vassal states. Jia Nanfeng had no military power and was knocked out by Yang Jun in this round.

The defeat in this struggle made Jia Nanfeng determined to get rid of Yang Jun, an old horseman. As soon as the hatred value was full, Queen Jia had no time to care about Zhang Yiliang's gains and losses, so she sent people to Sima Lun, the king of Zhao, Sima Liang, the king of Runan, and Sima Wei, the king of Chu, respectively, sending secret letters, asking several princes to lead troops into King Qin.

In addition to being relieved of military power and being pushed to the end, Zhang Yiliang also received a letter of inquiry from the messenger sent by the sect leader Xiao Changlin. The suzerain criticized Zhang Yiliang's brutality in massacring the surrendered soldiers of Xianbei for a long time, and also punished him for a month of reflection behind closed doors.