sweeping the world

Chapter 562 Speed ​​up the process
"Enter the basin behind that hillside, rest for half a day before marching."

"promise!"

Xie Ai's current position is at the border between the Tuobadai Kingdom and the Rouran Tribal Alliance. He was ordered to lead 1 cavalry to the north, accompanied by thousands of peasants. They tried their best to walk through the desolate areas along the way.

The Tuoba Dai Kingdom is currently being invaded by the Han army led by Ran Min himself to the south, and Tuoba Gu leads the Tuoba Dai army to deal with Ran Min. Most of the Tuoba Dai army is dragged on the grasslands in the southern region.

Xie Ai entered the Hetao first, walked from the direction of Jiuyuan to the Yinshan Mountains, and then went north to the Junji Mountains. During this period, he passed the Fuyangju Mountains.

This time Xie Ai went deep alone and didn't want to do anything else, just to learn from the former champion. The difference is that Huo Qubing's thousand-mile raid was against the emptiness of the Xiongnu, while Xie Ai was running for the alliance of kings.

The kings met at the former site of Langjuxu Mountain. Rouran Khan must have gathered heavy troops there to show off his strength. The kings who went to the alliance must also bring elite escort troops. How tough it must be over there.

Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, one must have enough confidence to go to the Tiger Mountains. Xie Ai's confidence is the cooperation of Ran Min and the reinforcements promised by Liu Yan.

The person who made up his mind to carry out this thousand-mile raid is Ran Min. According to him, if things are done well, it will be a great cause to capture or kill many kings. The risk can be ignored under the premise.

Of course, Ran Min will not tell everyone those words. When Xie Ai led the army to set off, Ran Min personally rushed to Hetao to boost morale. Those who have met, and more directly said that everyone who participated in the thousand-mile raid will leave their names in history. In addition to their reputation, they also got generous benefits before they set off.

There must be a brave man under a heavy reward, not to mention that now is the stage of the Han people's re-emergence after a series of tragedies. There will be no shortage of courageous and adventurous people. They are told that if they can complete the task, they will lay the foundation of the Han Empire. History The established historical facts will be created by their own hands.

Xie Ai stood beside his horse, watching the cavalrymen pass by with flickering eyes.

Each cavalry has three horses, two war horses and one pack horse. In addition to the necessary military equipment, they carry seven-day rations.

Those rations were only to prevent people from getting separated and looking for troops again. Every five days, the troops would redistribute seven-day rations. The soldiers lamented that the military was well prepared, and the generals who could understand the inside story became more and more in awe of their king.

The troops entered the basin, and the rangers released earlier came back to change shifts. There were rangers and scouts cruising around them no matter day or night.

Before leaving the main force to perform military duties, the cavalry will hand over a broken green cloak (like camouflage) from Paoze, which can effectively enhance concealment.

I didn't pretend to be a barbarian because I couldn't pretend. There are no old, weak, women and children in such a large-scale army. I can't pretend to be a migrating tribe. I won't look for trouble if I can avoid it. Keep your mouth shut.

The grasslands are very vast, and the Hu people are destined not to gather together like farming peoples. Each tribe lives far apart, and it takes two or three days at the fastest to communicate with each other. They usually don’t have anything to do That's why Huo Qubing was able to run for thousands of miles without being discovered. In addition to doing a good job of scouting, he wiped out the tribes along the way and was not discovered in time. When he was discovered, he would have slipped away.

When Xie Ai led his army northward, there was no battle before entering the Rouran Mountains. According to the Xiongnu guide, it may be a bit uncertain after passing the Rouran Mountains. After all, the Huns were not the Xiongnu in the Western Han Dynasty. He has not been to the area north of the Rouran Mountains for a hundred years.

That's right, there were Hun guides among the Han army, some of whom had long ago surrendered to the Han Kingdom for planning, and there were also guides found with Liu's help. Before the Han army broke into the Rouran Mountains, it turned out that the guides were still very reliable. .

Tuoba Dai's army withdrew from Yanmen, and Ran Min led his army into the southern part of Tuoba Dai's country, but the war in the southern part of Tuoba Dai's country was just a harassing war, and the area where the real war broke out was Shuozhou.

The battle of Shuozhou was presided over by Li Tan, while Dingxiang was still under siege. The city that had been besieged for two months was full of stench. More than [-] people were either killed when they broke through the siege or struggled inside the city. There are [-] to [-] living people, of which [-] to [-] live in Miyagi.

No one knows exactly how Shihu recovered. It is a fact that the Longteng guards have been sticking to the palace city. The Han side is not very interested in what the Dingxiang palace city looks like. The Han army only needs to firmly surround Dingxiang to death. I am willing to do it even after ten years.

The general responsible for presiding over the siege of Dingxiang was replaced by Zhang Wen. He used to be a subject of Shihu, and later served as General Zuo of Ran's Qin State, and is now a general of Han State.He commanded two standing armies and 17 soldiers from counties and counties to besiege Dingxiang. It was really just a siege. To be on the safe side, he dug trenches and repaired earth walls outside the city. come out".

Li Tan led his army into Shuozhou. Before the Han army arrived, three of the seven tribes of the Xiongnu announced their cavalry response, and the other three chose to continue to stand on the side of Shijie, and the remaining one fled to the northwest and entered the Zhang family. Liang country's border.

The Han army advancing into Shuozhou consisted of two imperial guards, three standing armies, and nearly [-] county and county soldiers. Li Tan's offensive was very swift and violent. From the very beginning, he followed Liu Yan's direct instructions to invest in the imperial guards, regardless of losses and costs. It is offense.

No one can stop the Imperial Guards from launching a fierce attack. They are an army that has never been afraid of death. No matter how bad the situation is, they will fight to the last person. There is absolutely no possibility of deserters.

Li Tan was actually surprised why such an elite army was allowed to fight regardless of losses. If a good plan is made, the losses can be reduced, but what Liu Yan wants is to sweep, regardless of the cost. It seems that if you fight slowly, it will happen What unpredictable risk.

In fact, there is only one reason for Liu Yan to sweep Shuozhou regardless of the cost, and that is that the troops need to be consumed before they can be recruited again.He invested less in the imperial guards before, in order to let those non-systematic Han troops grow up in blood and fire. stand up.

For a country to be strong, it must not rely solely on the systematic army, this Liu Yan knew in his heart.

Before Li Tan took over to attack Shuozhou, Shi Xuan had already fled to Yunzhong to join the remnants of Shi Jie.

Shi Bin, another Prince of Shijie, failed to escape. He played hide-and-seek for nearly a month, and was later bound and sent to Li Kuang by the generals of the Qiang and Di tribes.

Before Shi Bin was captured, Tuoba Shiyijian withdrew his troops, and his subordinates died, fled, and surrendered. There were no more than two hundred people around him, and more than half were Qiang and Di people.He wanted to persevere to the end, but the people under him were unwilling, and Li Kuang hadn't seen any promises. The Qiang people and the Di people did it themselves in order to survive.

As for Murong Yanguo, Liu Yan personally arrived at the Youzhou front line and joined the Imperial Guard as the main force in the battle, while the rest of the troops became assassins.

Still the same sentence, as long as Liu Yan is willing to join the Imperial Guard, no one can stop him. The Imperial Guard has no feelings or fear, and only knows to accept Liu Yan's orders. If there is enough time for Liu Yan to recruit repeatedly, Wherever Liu Yan wants to conquer, he can eventually conquer it.

As soon as Liu Yan became ruthless, it took only three days to capture Zhuo County, which the standing army had not conquered for half a month, and then sent troops to Guangyang, Liangxiang, Changxiang, Anci and other cities, and it took seven days to clear the land. Fanyang County.

On the Youzhou side, Liu Yan personally commanded the imperial guards to wipe out Fanyang County, and the standing soldiers and some county soldiers broke into Dai County.

Murong Yanguo didn't have any psychological preparations at all in advance. They thought that Fanyang County, which had assembled a large army, should be able to hold on for half a year. They really didn't expect to be swept away within seven days.

Fanyang County is the frontier of the friction between Youzhou and the Han army. Before that, Murong Yanguo managed it very carefully. The 14 garrison troops were gone within seven days. The news has not been sent back to Longcheng, and Dai County was invaded again.

As for the personal conquest, it should be able to achieve some results. Liu Yan used seven days to prove his strength. The problem is that the imperial guards in his hand are almost exhausted. Advance northward, before Murong Yanguo can't react, push it to the base of Jicheng, and then stabilize the battle line.

During the war in Youzhou, Lu Tai led the multinational coalition forces to attack the east side of Murong Yan Kingdom.

The multinational coalition has a total strength of [-], so few are because the last battle of Majushui lost too much. Goguryeo really didn't have young and strong troops to replenish its troops. Baekje and Silla wanted to leave room for it. Only the Japanese islands Those vassal states are doing their best to replenish their military resources.

Strange to say, no matter it is Goguryeo, Baekje or Silla, they surrendered to Han for various reasons, but it is absolutely impossible to obey and cooperate in everything, but those countries on the Wa Islands are very interesting.

The countries on the Urishima Islands have been competing since they surrendered to the Han Kingdom. Let alone absorbing the culture of the Han Kingdom in a frenzy, they don’t care how they treat the suzerain of the Han Kingdom. Licking, it is still the kind of Han Dynasty who ignores it, and all the countries of the Japanese islands will stick to it, which makes many Han officials feel embarrassed to bully them.

Because Liu Yan's "no longer hiding clumsiness" is also out of real needs. Instead of the country's foreign wars falling into decline because the countries want to unite, on the contrary, the army and the people are in a state of excitement because of the continuous outward advancement. .

The Han army entered Shuozhou, and it seemed that it would soon wipe out Shijie Zhao.

Liu Yan personally conquered Youzhou and captured a county, and soon Dai County will also capture it. The short time it took is shocking and unbelievable.

Murong Yan Kingdom not only collapsed in the south, but also fought with the multinational coalition forces in the east. The two sides were still fighting near Madushui, but this time Lu Tai also brought a huge fleet. With the cooperation of land arms and fleet, Murongge, who is known as the god of war, had no good solution for a while, and the war was stalemate and exhausted from the very beginning.

Under this situation, those who harbored evil intentions began to hesitate, while others who had actually carried out the actual riot felt bitter.They couldn't figure it out, shouldn't it be that Han Guo was in trouble, and it was time for them to have fun?Why is there such a big gap between reality and imagination!
Xie Ai's troops, who had gone deep into the grassland, didn't know too much news. They left the Rouran Mountains and continued to march eastward. The troops were just ready to go, and the scouts reported that there was a Rouran tribe approaching the mountains ahead. .

There is a plain to the east of the Rouran Mountains. If Xie Ai chooses to take a detour, he will have to detour for more than a hundred miles. It is all because the plain is not blocked by sight, and the naked eye can observe dozens of miles.

There should be nearly a thousand people in that tribe. From the appearance, it seems that they are on the way of migration, driving a large number of horses, cattle, and sheep, forming a long queue of vehicles.

Going around, there is no place to go around, and staying in place is waiting to be discovered. Xie Ai's last order was to send out all the troops and wipe out the Rouran tribe here.

At this moment, Xie Ai was wandering around the battlefield after the battle on horseback, corpses were everywhere in sight.

According to the captured prisoners, this is really a migrating Rouran tribe. They migrated southward from the Anhou River (Orkhon River), and there are many other tribes that are also migrating behind.

Of course, it is impossible to bring any captives in the thousand-mile raid. Xie Ai ordered to kill all Rouran people, and did not spend too much time cleaning up the battlefield. He just slaughtered some cattle and sheep and took the meat away, but the horses took them all.

"Further to the east is the former site of Dragon City. To the east of Dragon City is a tributary of the Anhou River (Tula River). In the current season, the water level of the river will not be too high."

Dragon City was built by the Xianbei people on the ruins of an old city of the Huns. Later, the Xianbei people went south and were taken over by the Rouran people. No one can say what the current situation is.

At this point, Xie Ai is very clear that let alone meeting the Rouran tribe on the way of migration, he and others should continue to move forward even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire in front of them, so that they can secretly come thousands of miles away from the former site of Langjuxu Mountain And not being discovered, in fact, it is luck against the sky.

[Going forward, there should be a fight every three to five times...] Xie Ai was actually very nervous and guilty in his heart: [Should we try our best to avoid it?Where are the reinforcements that the king mentioned? 】

Going deep into the enemy's territory, it is absolutely false to be honest in your heart, whether you will be eroded by fear and lose your position, or you will perform military affairs with tenacity.

Xie Ai's troops continued eastward, and before approaching the former site of Langjuxu Mountain, they encountered seven large and small tribes. They didn't know whether their whereabouts were known by Rouran's royal court. The only thing they knew was that they did not. The Rouran tribe organized an interception in front.

[Is it intentional to move forward and set a trap to wait? ] Xie Ai could feel the strong wind while galloping fast, and his mind began to wander: [At this point, there is no turning back! 】

They... have approached within three hundred miles of Langjuxu Mountain!
(End of this chapter)