In March of the fifth year of Yuan Zhao, all things germinated.

The cold in the north also slowly began to dissipate, and the young grass on the grassland slowly began to sprout, and the herdsmen of the Xianbei Department survived all winter, and finally could come out of the tribe to herd horses and sheep, but after a winter of consumption, the grain of the Yuwen tribes was consumed, and even the food of the Yuwen Zhao king's tent was almost eaten, Yuwenzhao gave orders to several other tribes, and soon the 70,000 cavalry they had promised before were all far away from the king's tent.

Yuwen Zhao's king tent sent out 50,000 people, a total of 120,000 cavalry, basically one horse per person, plus logistics and horse supplies, a total of more than 200,000 war horses, and drove towards Jizhou.

The Central Plains Dynasty suffered from the lack of horse farms, and the place where horses could be herded was too far away from the center, and there was always a shortage of war horses, but this problem was not a problem in the north, and the four tribes of Xianbei together controlled most of the pastures in the north, so it may not be easy for them to take out 200,000 strong, but it is easier to take out 200,000 horses.

These cavalry, and the cavalry of the Central Plains Dynasty is very different, the Central Plains Dynasty whether it is cavalry or foot soldiers, most of them are negative, but these nomadic cavalry are almost all light horses, generally simply get some livestock fur on the body, the right to be leather armor, and then there is a quiver, waist across the scimitar, in the frontal battlefield to cavalry guerrilla-based, these people grew up on horseback since childhood, sometimes seven or eight years old began to ride a horse to hunt, even if it is a thirteen or fourteen-year-old doll, riding and archery kung fu to exceed the cavalry of the Great Jin.

You must know that when Li Xin entered Yulinwei, there were very few people who could ride horses in Yulinwei, and Li Xin still learned to ride horses on the way to the southwest, and suffered a lot.

After the team was assembled, Yu Wenzhao gathered the generals of all the departments in his royal tent.

Yu Wenzhao's words were simple.

"We don't have much food left."

His face was calm, and he said: "All winter, everyone eats all the grain stored in previous years, and the male animals of each department are slaughtered, and the mothers are also killed two or three percent, and they can't be killed, and if we don't do anything, some people will starve to death." ”

"If you don't go to the customs to grab things, the people who starve to death will be your family."

Yuwen Heavenly King took a deep breath and said: "Pass the order, this time we will go to Jimen Pass, first, we will loot near Jimen Pass, and second, we must find a way to break through Jimen Pass, as long as we enter the pass, we can transport back enough food for us to eat for ten years, countless wealth." ”

Speaking of this, Yuwen Zhao paused and said in a deep voice: "The things that were snatched back this time only need to be handed over half, and the remaining half will belong to the individual." ”

This sentence is the point, as soon as this sentence is spoken, the group of people in the big tent are breathing a lot heavier.

"Okay, it's useless to talk nonsense, the rations are only enough to eat for a month, and if you can't grab anything for a month, you deserve to starve to death!"

"Let's go!"

Several generals saluted Yu Wenzhao's shoulders.

"Yes!"

More than 100,000 cavalry, as well as tens of thousands of Han people outside the Guanwai who were forcibly recruited by the Ministry of Yuwen, drove to Jimen Pass.

At this time, in Jizhou City, a middle-aged man dressed in purple shook his head helplessly in the face of the piles of military affairs in front of him.

His name is Ji Yong, he is the son of the Yue Guo Mansion, and he is the uncle and ancestor of today's son, when the Yue Guo Gong was young, he was also a general with soldiers, and he helped the court to suppress a lot of bandits, and he was very famous in the clan, but the Yue Guo Gong was already old and faint, and he could not lead the troops.

Before coming, the Son of Heaven had already told him that as long as he could keep Jimen Pass within three years, the title of the Duke of Yue would no longer be surrendered, and when he took the title, he would still be the Duke of Yueguo, and if he could make achievements in Jizhou, he would also get a hereditary Duke of the country.

This level of reward is undoubtedly very rich, so rich that his father, who was already a little confused, pushed him to Jizhou, and he couldn't think of it.

When he came, the pomp was very large, and there were 500 Yulinwei personally escorting him here, and after arriving in Jizhou, he only went to the camp of the Zhenbei Army two or three times, and then received a letter from the Son of Heaven, in which he told him that if something happened, try to listen to the advice of the generals of the Zhenbei Army, and do not make decisions on your own.

In fact, Ji Yong is not a stupid person, he knows very well that although he is a general of Zhenbei, there are not many people in the Zhenbei Army who can really listen to him, so he simply didn't even go to the Zhenbei Army camp, and simply hid in Jizhou City, hiding for a few months.

But after hiding for a few months, he finally couldn't hide, Wang Dun, the deputy general of the Zhenbei Army, took the two central guards of the Zhenbei Army, and suddenly sent the military affairs of the Zhenbei Army to his house in Jizhou today.

He sat on the chair and flipped over, then looked up at Wang Dun, and said with a wry smile: "General Wang, I have already said before I came to the Zhenbei Army, what the Zhenbei Army was like before, and what it will be like in the future, if there is anything you can handle by yourself, I just came here to hang a name, and I can't take care of things." ”

Wang Dun is in his fifties this year, he has been with Ye Ming all his life, and he has been with Ye Mao for several years, the old general Ye Ming died, and the young general returned to Beijing to mourn and never returned, these veterans of the Zhenbei Army were a little angry in their hearts, but Ji Yong has been very honest since he came to Jizhou, and they are not good at turning their faces with this Ji family.

So, Wang Dun lowered his head and hugged his fists, and said in a deep voice: "General Ji, this is the intelligence that our army's spies have found in the past few days, the Yuwen Department in the north has made a lot of changes these days, and a large number of cavalry are gathering, I believe they will soon make a big move, please General Ji write to the court for help as soon as possible, and also suggest Yunzhou City and Yunzhou Army to inform the military situation." ”

"All the beacons near Jizhou may have to send additional manpower, and the materials for defending the city at Jimen Pass must be supplemented, and then there is to report to the Ministry of War, so that the Ministry of War will immediately escort the war preparations over!"

"And then..."

Wang Dun said more than a dozen questions in one breath, most of which were things that needed to be prepared during the war, after listening to these, Ji Yong was a little foggy for a while, he smiled bitterly, and said: "General Wang, you should do these things, you don't have to come and ask me......"

Wang Dun's face was a little red when he was angry by this sentence, and he lowered his head and said in a muffled voice: "There are some things that only General Ji has the right to do, such as contacting Yunzhou City and writing to the imperial court, all of which must be signed by General Ji." ”

"Especially for the contact with the imperial court, General Ji must write a letter himself."

Speaking of this, he paused, and said a little angrily: "After General Ye returned to Beijing, he couldn't even get out of the capital, and most of the words we said were not trusted by the imperial court. ”

Ji Yong looked down at the documents handed over by Wang Dun and others, and then frowned slightly: "There have been no major problems in Jimen for more than forty years, and it is not appropriate to suddenly ask for so many materials with the imperial court......

Wang Dun glared angrily.

"What does General Ji mean, I'm waiting to lie about the military situation?"

He said angrily: "Xianbei has gathered at least 100,000 people, and it is only a few hundred miles away from Jimen Pass at this time!" ”

"Do you want the last general to take General Ji to take a look outside the gate in person to see what the Xianbei people look like!?"

The prince of Yue Guo was taken aback and smiled bitterly.

"General Wang doesn't need to be excited, I write, I write it......"

(End of chapter)