Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Unexpectedly, as soon as they went down the mountain, they heard the sound of the other party's arrows, and immediately more than ten warriors galloped over and killed them on the spot.

Now the water carried by these hundreds of Liang soldiers is collectively managed, and each person can only drink one sip per hour.

Not far from the hills, two Hu Qi riders were standing on their horses and looking up the hills.One of them asked another older man with a goatee: "Patriarch, do you think Liang Jun can be fooled?"

The name of this elderly man is Yaoluoge, and he is the leader of a tribe in the Yuanhe tribe.But now, he is still the leader of several Yuan He tribes who have formed an alliance.The reason why this alliance was formed is naturally mainly for the uninvited guests on the grassland-the Lu Bu Army.

More than two months ago, Lu Bu's army arrived on the banks of the Orkhon River.Yao Luoge discovered this situation immediately. At first, he thought that the Han people went deep into Mobei to avenge Xianbei's invasion of Liangguo, and would launch a hit-and-go attack on Xianbei's various ministries.

He hurriedly moved his tribe far away from the opponent's garrison to avoid the opponent's soldiers.Unexpectedly, the Han army remained silent.Send someone to investigate again, and the other party actually built a city on the banks of the Orkhon River on their own.

This news shocked him extremely.The Han people went deep into Mobei to build a city. This is something that has never happened in ancient times. Even if Huo Qubing went deep into Mobei hundreds of years ago and swept the Xiongnu, he did not even build a camp in Mobei.

He immediately thought that the Han army must be planning to carry out a long-term suppression of the Xianbei tribes, and even the grassland nomadic tribes.Of course, the first to bear the brunt were the various tribes of Yuanhe in the middle reaches of the Orkhon River.As long as the Han people take root here, unless their tribe moves to other places, they will be able to hide from the first day of the new year but not the fifteenth day.

How easy is it to move away?What's more, winter is coming soon, and there is no time to move far.Yao Luoge finally made up his mind to unite with various nearby tribes and tribes to fight against each other.He spent more than a month, sent hundreds of messengers, and traveled thousands of miles himself.Finally, more than [-] tribes, large and small, were persuaded to unite against Liang.

At this time, Yao Luoge listened to the question from his subordinates and sneered: "It's okay if they don't get fooled, we will wipe out the hundreds of Han people in front of us first. There are only three to four thousand of them who came to the grassland, and we will Let's see how long they can hold out like this piecemeal."

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In Beiming City, Lu Bu personally led two battalions of heavy cavalry and two battalions of light cavalry, winding southward like a long snake on the grassland.

Hundreds of battles away, on a slope, two Yuan He people hiding in the grass showed surprise on their faces, and the older one said: "The Han people have finally been fooled, so go and inform the leaders."

The young man agreed, got up and rushed to the back of the slope, got on a horse hidden here, and drove away with a whip.

Half an hour later, Rolling War Riders pressed down from the sky towards Beiming City like a dark cloud, and there were as many as three or four thousand of them.

After they rode their horses and approached Beiming City, they circled around Beiming City and shot arrows densely into Beiming City.At first it was just an ordinary arrow, but in the end it became a rocket.

Rockets fell into Beiming City like bolides. It was already autumn, and the grass and plants on the grassland in Mobei had already withered and turned yellow. What's more, there were mostly wooden temporary buildings in Beiming City.

It stands to reason that these rockets are enough to start a fire.But apart from a few wisps of green smoke coming out of Beiming City, there was no major reaction.

The Yuan He cavalrymen held the reins with one hand, and swung an object connected by a rope with the free hand.The object turned out to be burning.As soon as they let go, these high-speed rotating objects flew out, and were ruthlessly thrown towards the unfinished wooden city wall of Beiming City.

These things are skin bags made of processed marmot skins as thin as paper, filled with a mixture of kerosene and tallow and mutton oil, which will shatter after a violent impact, and flammable materials such as hay and catkins are wrapped around the outside.Yuan Hebing tried to use this to burn down the city wall of Beiming.

Lamp oil is also a rare commodity on the barren Mobei grassland. These Yuan He people used it as a weapon, which shows that they spared no expense.

With a series of bangs, these oil sacs hit the city wall or fell on the top of the city.They ignited piles of fires, and quickly burned the dry grass and catkins wrapped outside the bag, but failed to ignite the wooden city walls.It turned out that the wooden city wall had long been drenched by Liang Bing's water.

Seeing this, the leader of the Yuan He people shouted angrily: "The Han people are cunning, and they have been prepared for a long time. There is no need to burn them, and they will attack the city directly." After saying that, he personally threw out the claws that the Xianbei people used to.The rest followed suit.

Countless claws flew towards the head of Beiming City overwhelmingly, and countless figures jumped up from the saddle, dragging the rope, and quickly climbed up the unfinished and low head of Beiming City...

Chapter 320 Back to the Carbine

"Kill!" A Yuan He who was climbing the wall of Beiming City heard a loud shout, and the voice came from the other side of the wall.In a blink of an eye, countless spear blades emerged from the wooden wall full of gaps.

With the sound of the sword piercing into the flesh, the sharp spear blade pierced the Yuan Heren's chest. Like the rest of his companions who climbed the wall together, he fell from the city wall like peeling wall skin.

Seeing this scene, the head of Yuan He's heart immediately sank.Before he ordered the withdrawal of troops to stop the siege, something even more frightening happened.On the horizon behind him, a row of banners rose, and then there were layers of figures of war cavalry.Lv Bu led four battalions of cavalry to kill the carbine again.

Pang Tong's plan for Lu Bu was that Lu Bu's main cavalry stopped ten miles south of Beiming City.If Yuan He's soldiers did not come to attack Beiming City within two hours as Pang Tong expected, they would go directly to rescue the trapped Liang army in Yanran Mountain.

As Pang Tong expected, he asked the scout Peregrine Falcon, who had already been placed on guard outside the city, to report.The main cavalry returned immediately and raided the Yuan He people outside Beiming City.

The horns of the Yuan He people began to whine, and Yuan He's cavalry, which had been walking around the city, quickly turned around and faced the cavalry of the Liang army who were only a hundred battles away.

The arrows of Lv Bu Qingqi's flying feathers rushed towards these Yuan He people like migrating locusts.The Yuanhe people who besieged Beiming City were not equipped with full armor like the cavalry of the Xianbei headquarters. Facing the dense rain of arrows, they were hit by arrows and fell off their horses.

The Yuan He people also pulled strings to fight back, and many Qingqi Feiyu were also injured by arrows.It's just that Yuan He's arrows didn't seem to have any effect on Lu Bu's heavy cavalry. The arrows touched the heavy armor, jingled and fell to the ground.

After releasing the arrow, Qingqi Feiyu immediately reined in his horse's head, galloped away to both sides, and made way for the heavy cavalry behind him.At this time, the distance between the two armies was less than twenty battles.

A Yuan He leader suddenly saw another person in his sight.The man was in his thirties, with sword eyebrows and star eyes, and a strong figure.Holding a big halberd that is rarely seen on the grassland.Before the leader came back to his senses, the opponent was within a few feet, and the halberd had pierced into the leader's chest.

Lu Bu stabbed the leader of Yuan He off the horse, and continued to gallop on the horse, the halberd in his hand filled the sky with shadows of blades.All the Yuanhe people who were close to him were hit by their halberds and fell under their horses.

Those heavy cavalry also put their spears in their hands and pierced the Yuan He cavalry who were coming at high speed.Then they swung the mace together again, sweeping towards the opponent like a mountain and a sea.

A vigorous and agile Yuan He cavalryman, with a sway, dodged the opponent's swift and fierce shot, and grabbed the opponent's gun with his left hand.The right hand raised the scimitar high, and was about to swing it down.

Not wanting the opponent to let go of his pistol, he took off his mace and swung at Yuan He.The Yuan Heren had just dropped the lance he had seized with his left hand, when he saw the spiked stick coming towards him, he hastily blocked it with his scimitar.

With a clang, the scimitar was knocked flying, and the big stick hit his temple.The Yuan He man fell from the saddle like a wooden stake.

A quarter of an hour later, all the Yuan He people present understood that even if they had twice as many people on their side as the opponent, it was impossible for them to be their opponent.

Yuan He, the leader of the army, saw that the situation was not good, and immediately ordered someone to retreat, and then he himself fought and retreated, turned his horse's head and fled westward.Yuan Heren's ox horn began to whine again, but this time the sound of the horn changed to a different rhythm.Yuan He's cavalry rode their horses and galloped wildly, and fled in all directions in a panic.

Lü Bu did not give up hot pursuit either, and only urged two thousand war cavalry to pursue for a while. After completely dispelling these Yuan He cavalry, he withdrew his troops and regrouped to head south again.

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Yanran hills.Only four feet deep and two feet wide, the urgently dug trench was full of Liang Army soldiers curled up into a ball.A large number of three-foot round shields covered the trenches, and almost all of the shields had arrows stuck in them. There were seven or eight more, and two or three less.

The soldiers of the Liang Army could only maintain this uncomfortable posture and squat in the ditch, otherwise they might be injured by Yuan Heyouqi's arrows as soon as they showed their heads.

At this time, they started a new round of drinking water.Each group of ten people passed a bamboo tube, and each person could only drink a small sip of water.

Among the group of people, the last person turned the bamboo tube upside down, and only six or seven drops of water fell into his mouth.The soldier had no choice but to slam the empty bamboo tube on the ground and lick his chapped lips.

The captain of the battalion who was in charge of these heavy troops was also very anxious, and the rescue troops they were looking forward to from Beiming City had not arrived yet.What is also strange is that the Hu Qi surrounded by the hills did not launch an attack for a long time.

A guard next to him suddenly patted him on the shoulder and said, "Captain, look!".The captain of the supply battalion followed the soldier's direction and saw a falcon hovering in the air. The falcon with white head and brown body was the East China Sea peregrine falcon commonly used by Liang Jun's scouts.

The captain thought for a moment, and immediately figured out what was going on.Immediately said to the people around: "Our reinforcements are here, and they are nearby. It's just that it's not the time for them to attack. Presumably they will wait until the enemy can't bear their temper and launch an attack before attacking. Everyone, keep going , ready to fight!"

These words quickly spread to all Liang soldiers in the trench, and everyone's morale immediately rose a lot.

Under the hills, Yao Luoge, the leader of the Yuanhe tribal alliance, also became anxious. Liang Jun did not come to rescue the trapped soldiers, which was completely beyond his expectations.

At this time, another leader of the Yuanhe tribe beside him said: "The reinforcements from the Liang army have not yet shown up, and the part of our army who went to prepare to attack the Han people's city has not responded. We are monitoring the Han people's city. There was no response from the secret whistle. Obviously, the Han army did not come out of the city. So everyone is still waiting."

Yao Luoge looked at the sky, and the sun would set in another hour. He pondered for a long time and ordered: "Then gather your troops and kill the wolves that have fallen into the pit first."

Several bull horns sounded again, and from some slopes in the hilly area at the foot of Yanran Mountain, a team of cavalry poured out and gathered with Yaoluoge to form a huge cavalry formation.

Yao Luoge drew out his saber, pointed at the opposite hill, and shouted: "Charge! Wipe out all the Han people on this slope." Immediately, all the riders shouted, shouted, brandished their weapons, and rode their horses towards the hill. Come up.

Every Liang soldier in the trench was extremely nervous, but they still huddled motionless in the narrow trench.Because they were attacking upwards, and the slope of the hill was relatively steep, when Yuan He's cavalry rushed to the front of the trench less than three feet away, their speed had already become very slow.

With a shout, countless spears stabbed out of the trench like a forest, followed by horses roaring and neighing, and countless Yuan He people's war horses were stabbed by the forest of spears that suddenly appeared.They jumped up and down in pain and fright, and the person on the saddle immediately rolled off the horse.

Chapter 321

"Stab!", "Stab again!" With a sound of command, hundreds of spears stabbed repeatedly in front of the trench.The horses of the Yuan He people, as well as the riders who fell off the horses, were constantly pierced by the spear blades.

A Yuan He rider who fell off his horse got up from the ground and jumped into the ditch with his sword held high. He was pierced in the belly by the spear blade in mid-air, and then the spear blade was cut all the way to his chest, and he was disemboweled. The body had just fallen into the ditch.

Although Yuan He's war cavalry who rushed to the front suffered heavy losses, thousands of war cavalry continued to rush up the hills.The trenches were full of human and horse corpses, as well as horses screaming after being injured.

"Stab!" With an order, the heavy soldiers in the trench stabbed out again with their spears, and another group of war horses and fallen riders were shot.But there are also many fish that slip through the net.

A Yuan He cavalryman jumped over the ditch with his horse, and there was a muffled bang. The horse's front hooves were kicking on the bronze headgear of a heavy soldier. Drenched in blood, he fell to the ground and died on the spot.

The Yuan He cavalryman was about to turn his horse's head and charged again, but his mount was pierced into the hip by a spear.The war horse let out a mournful cry and leaped forward, and the rider fell off unexpectedly.He just rolled into the ditch, and was immediately tied around the neck, and then his neck was cut open.

Yao Luoge saw all the battle situation in his eyes, thinking that he had found the key to the problem.The enemy crouched in the trench and fought with long-handled weapons. For the Yuan He cavalry who rode on horseback and fought with scimitars, it formed an advantage that I could only stab you, but you could not cut me. .

Yao Luoge immediately shouted loudly: "Warriors rushing to the front, dismount to fight, jump into the trench and fight them at close quarters."

Not only Yaoluoge, but also many Yuan He cavalrymen also discovered this way. Before Yaoluoge could hand down the order, they jumped off their horses when their horses rushed close to the enemy's trench, and swung their sabers at Liang. Army to kill.

Although Liang Jun's spears were still stabbing round after round, they could not keep all Yuan He people out of the trenches after all in the face of wave after wave of crowd attacks.

Many Yuan He cavalrymen jumped into the trench on foot with their scimitars, and fought with Liang Jun at close range.Many of the latter were also forced to discard their spears, draw out the daggers at their waists, and fight to the death with the Yuan He people in the narrow space.

In this way, more Yuan He cavalry could rush into the trench.The situation was evolving in favor of the Yuanhe people.In this critical moment.The sound of drums and trumpets came from the sky.Lu Bu's two thousand warriors arrived.The light cavalry was in front and the heavy cavalry was behind, forming two horizontal cavalry arrays, sweeping towards the hill.

Yaoluoge turned pale with fright, and shouted: "Why did the dark sentry rangers who were guarding outside not come to notify in advance when the enemy army is coming?" , have all been beheaded.

"Quickly send the military order, reorganize the cavalry formation, and meet the enemy!" Yao Luoge shouted anxiously.But how could it be possible for thousands of Yuan He troops to reorganize the cavalry formation within half a moment.Their horns sounded a few times before Lu Bu's cavalry was within a hundred paces.Qingqi Feiyu's arrows have been shot.

Lu Bu's army still used the usual tactics. After firing rounds, the light cavalry spread out to the two wings, and continued to shoot loosely on the enemy's two wings.Heavy riding is to impact and crush the front.

Those Yuan He cavalry were not inferior to Liang Jun's Qingqi Feiyu in riding and shooting, but their speed was slightly slower than the latter.But when he bumped into Liang Jun's heavy cavalry, he would only be crushed.The two major regiments passed by alternately, and there were three or four hundred corpses of Yuan He's cavalrymen.

The Yuan He people were so frightened that they didn't dare to turn their horses' heads to confront the opponent again, and because the opponent's light cavalry had flying feathers and heavy cavalry's iron armor, they couldn't use their own cavalry to shoot the opponent's kite.They could only escape in different directions under the leadership of their respective tribal leaders.

Lu Bu ordered Qingqi Feiyu to chase after him for a while, then he rang the gong to withdraw the troops and counted the battlefield.There were nearly a thousand Yuan He soldiers who died in front of the trenches and under the attack of Lu Bu's cavalry. If the Yuan He people who died in the battle in Beiming City were added, there would be thousands of Yuan He soldiers.

One must know that Yuan He's various ministries that Yaoluoge had entangled could dispatch a total of more than [-] troops.In just one day, the Yuan He tribe's coalition forces lost more than [-]% of their strength.Lu Bu expected that they would not dare to provoke Liang Jun again in the short term.

Yao Luoge fled back to his tribe's camp in embarrassment, and hurriedly ordered the tribe to move the camp.His wife and several clan elders asked in unison: "Didn't we just move once, where are we going to move?"

Yao Luoge said with a dark face: "Move to the west, to the Tianshan Tiehu Department."

Everyone exclaimed: "Moving to Tianshan? Running so far?! And it's too late, this winter is coming soon, and the white snow will fall as soon as we say it. We will freeze to death on the way! Besides, when we reach Tianshan, We are not familiar with the place, and we can't find a place to exchange livestock for food. If we don't freeze to death, we will starve to death!"

Yao Luoge waved his hand and said, "I moved to Tianshan without saying anything. Now that we can move to the west more, we can avoid those Han people in the east. If we don't go, there will be annihilation! The Han people Liang Jun will definitely take revenge and kill us! In winter, when the white snow falls, we will not be able to move our nest, and we can only wait for the Han Chinese who are dozens of miles away to slaughter us!"

An elder in the clan stroked his gray beard and frowned and said, "But Yaoluoge, these are all your own guesses. Those Han people didn't even say that they were trying to kill us. They haven't even taken the initiative to attack us for so long. We once, I can't believe they can't find us."

Yao Luoge smiled wryly and said to the old man: "Father Banluoer, you are so stupid. These thousands of elite soldiers of the Han people came here to build the city, not to kill us? Could it be that they came here to herd horses or farm land?" They don’t need to come here to herd their horses, and they don’t need to come here where the water and grass are so rich in the Hetao area in the south? Come here? It’s even more impossible to cultivate land. This place is frozen for half a year, and it’s impossible to grow land.”

When Yao Luoge talked about the excitement, his face changed again: "Even if they didn't want to kill us, they must be trying to conquer us. Just like they managed those Han peasants, they required us to perform regular labor and pay various taxes. endowment. They will even forcibly conscript our children and women as slaves. Are you willing to do this?”

Everyone who spoke was dumbfounded, only "Papa Banluoer" was still murmuring: "But when our Yuanhe tribe was subordinate to the Xiongnu, we also had to serve Shanyu in the army, and we also had to pay cattle, sheep, horses and Slave, even before Kebi Nengda Shanyu died, we treated Xianbei like this..."

Yao Luoge interrupted him sharply: "Then why is it the same thing!?" But Yao Luoge did not continue to explain why it was not the same thing, but said flatly: "I have made up my mind, we will start tomorrow. Move west!"

Chapter 322

Yao Luoge wanted to take his tribe westward but failed.That night, a violent north wind roared from the northern frozen wilderness, bringing blizzard with it.In the camp of the Yuanhe tribe, the people who were already asleep under the blankets were awakened by the cold, and then they heard the whistling wind in their ears.

Some tribal people hurried out to check outside the felt tent.It was freezing cold outside, and the wind was so strong that the grease torches in their hands were blown out.Yao Luoge only felt that something like a blade hit him on the face, and he caught it with his hands, and unexpectedly caught a large piece of snowflakes.

A woman has already screamed: "It's not good! It's Baimaofeng! Baimaoxue is here!" Yao Luoge's heart fell into the ice hole, not just because his plan to move westward could not be realized.

In previous years, before the arrival of the white-haired snowstorm, there would be signs of the weather, and the tribe would prepare for it early.But the first snow this winter is Baimao Blizzard.

The cattle, sheep and horses in the pen also began to bleat and neigh uncomfortably.Even livestock will freeze to death if they stay out in the open during a white-haired snowstorm.

In the past, in order to prevent the livestock from freezing to death, the tribe would set up a hut surrounded by felt in advance to house these livestock.But this year, because Yaoluoge's tribe just moved, and this winter's snowstorm came so early.So such a grass shed has not been built yet.This caught them off guard.

"Quick! Quickly free up some tents and transfer these animals to the tents!" Yao Luoge reacted and shouted loudly.

The members of the tribe immediately carried their belongings from some tents to other tents in the storm.For nomadic tribes, these livestock are the entire basis of survival.

If these livestock are lost, it means that all tribe members have only three ways to go.One is to starve and freeze to death, and the other is to find other tribes who are willing to take him in and belong to them.It is equivalent to selling yourself as a slave to them.The third is to rob other tribes of livestock and property to survive the crisis.

When everyone was in a hurry in the dark, they suddenly heard a few loud noises, and a felt tent was blown over by the strong wind.The supports of the tent had been scattered all over the place, and the felt and light wood had been blown somewhere by the strong wind.

These felt tents are customary to the nomadic tribes of the steppe and have a solid structure.It is not easy to be blown down by the wind.But the wind tonight is really too strong, even stronger than the Baimao wind in previous years.

Yao Luoge's face has turned pale.He shouted again: "The wind is too strong, let's ignore the livestock and strengthen the tent first...".As soon as he opened his mouth, a gust of bone-chilling air poured into his mouth, forcing him to shut up.

However, the people in the tribe did not have to wait for his order, but also knew that these tents should be rescued first.If these tents are blown down by the strong wind, all of them will become frozen corpses under the snow that night...

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The soldiers of Liang Jun in Beiming City were also awakened by the snowstorm.They were not awakened by freezing, but by the sound of howling wind.

They live in a temporary wooden shack, two-thirds of which are underground, and only one-third is above the ground.Therefore, the wind has almost no effect on it.In addition to people living, there are also pits prepared by Weimao and livestock.

In addition, the soldiers of the Lu Bu Army are generally equipped with standard winter clothes and blankets.More than [-] catties of charcoal were allocated to each shed for use in the most severe cold.So they don't worry about the severe cold at all.The only threat of the white hair wind to them is that the heavy snow may seal the doors and skylights of the shack.

However, those sentries wearing bearskin coats on duty at night had an extra task, which was to remove the snow from the top of the huts from time to time, so that when the sun came up, the people in the huts could at least climb out of the skylight.

The long winter night finally passed, but the wind and snow in the sky did not stop, and the horn for the exercise did not sound for a long time.But many soldiers still came out of the shack curiously to watch this white-haired snowstorm that they had never seen in their lives.

At this moment, they all understood why the barbarians called such a snowstorm the white hair wind.I saw that the sky and the earth were full of flocs that looked like wool balls.They not only fell from the sky, but also were blown up from the ground, so dense that people couldn't see the scenery beyond three battles.

A soldier wrapped his bearskin coat tightly around his body, tentatively took two steps forward with difficulty against the wind, and as soon as he stopped, he was blown back a few steps by the cold wind.The snowflakes in the air hit his face, which hurt like being cut by a knife.

"The wind is too strong, it's too cold..." He had just opened his mouth to say a few words to the soldiers beside him, when the mist sprayed out of his mouth formed ice on his beard and hair.Due to the severe cold, he and the others hid in the shack again.

After more than an hour after dawn, the momentum of the wind and snow finally subsided.The whole world has been covered in white ice and snow.The sound of horns suddenly sounded, it was the order for Lu Bu's army to go out.The soldiers who thought they didn't have to go out for exercises today had no choice but to crawl out of the huts and gather on the school field where the snow was knee high.

Originally, in this kind of wind and snow weather, the Legion didn't need to do exercises.However, Lu Bu believed that they would often face such severe cold weather in the future, so the soldiers must be adapted to the severe cold in Mobei as soon as possible.Today's exercise, all the soldiers only do one thing, that is to sweep the snow.

In Lu Bu's shack, several charcoal pots were burning, making the room as warm as spring.The generals are all sitting around the table, conducting today's meeting.

Lu Bu suddenly asked: "I'm curious, how do Hu people live in this kind of weather?"

Everyone thought that he had come up with a whim and said such a sentence on a whim.Only Pang Tong replied seriously: "You can send a few scouts to investigate."

The rest of the generals laughed and said to Pang Tong: "Army Commander Pang Tong, the snow outside Beiming City is likely to reach people's navels, and horses can't walk. How can they send scouts? Besides, this kind of weather is just for watching. To see how the barbarians are doing, is it necessary for the scouts to investigate at the risk of being trapped halfway and freezing to death?"