Chapter 11 The Long River Sunset Fifty-third Festival June Up, the Desert. The emperor of the Han Dynasty and the general Li Hongtong led a total of 15,000 people into the desert, including the Tiger Benyu Forest Battalion, the Hu Cavalry Battalion, and the Xianbei Iron Cavalry in the west.

Ten days later, the army reached Tushenze at the northeastern end of the Red Bull Desert (present-day Ulan Buhe Desert).

Tushenze is a big lake, the lake water comes from the Yellow River, the clear water and blue sky are fragrant and the grass is very beautiful.

Here from the beginning of the Great Qin is the main reclamation border area in the Hetao area, after the Northern Xinjiang Army recovered Shuofang, Wuyuan and other northern border counties, reopened the Tun Reclamation, more than ten years have passed, now here is the people are prosperous, cattle and horses are wild.

Zhang Yi, the Taishou of Shuofang County, sent grain, grass and livestock by order, and brought the latest news from Chang'an. The great Sima Xu Rong and the Taiwei Zhang Yanshu told the general that the situation in northern Xinjiang was becoming increasingly tense, and asked him to rush to Jin Xueyuan as soon as possible, and join forces with the Mobei Metropolitan to protect Tieyue to control the Hu tribes in the desert, wait for the opportunity to attack Danhan Mountain, and help the hussar general Xian Yufu to attack and kill Fu Luohan.

Since the death of the southern Xianbei King Shooting Moci and the eastern Xianbei Lord Miga last year, the situation in the desert has been chaotic for a while, and the kings of the central and southern parts of the desert, such as Kirby Bear, Shooting Tiger, and Shooting Yingtong, have been driven out of the desert one after another.

The Han were at a loss for what to do about it, except for threats and warnings, they had not seen a frontal confrontation between the iron cavalry and the Xianbei people, and even after Fu Luohan led the army across the Great Wall, they still endured it and tried their best to mediate and mediate between the Hu tribes, which greatly boosted the arrogance of the rebel tribes and increased their confidence in retaking the desert.

The big leaders of the Xianbei tribes, such as Fuluohan, Shelong, Jiamo, Queji, and Suli, met many times. After careful discussion, they determined that the strength of the Han Dynasty had been severely damaged after years of war, and even though the general Li Hong and his Northern Xinjiang Army were still brave and good at fighting, but now the main army of the Han Dynasty was contained in the two major battlefields of the southern and western frontiers of the Central Plains, and they were no longer able to mobilize heavy troops to defend the desert and northern Xinjiang.

This can be seen from Yan Wudang's command of Fengyun Iron Cavalry to the south of Jinyang, and Xian Yufu sat in Youzhou to defend the troops.

The Han have lost the strength and self-confidence to control the desert, they have already come up with the idea of abandoning the desert, and now is the best opportunity for the Xianbei people to regain their strength in the desert.

The general Li Hong and the army of the expedition to the western Xinjiang did not appear on the desert for a long time. The information obtained from various sources can confirm that although Li Hong and his army defeated the Qiang in the West Sea, they were also beaten to the death of the Qiang people.

If nothing else, in order to recover and defend the western frontier, the Han army will not be able to go north to conquer the desert for a long time.

Xianbei people were overjoyed. In the name of the Great Xianbei King, Fu Luo Han sent envoys to all the Xianbei tribes in the desert, trying to persuade them to betray the Han and form an alliance against the Han Dynasty, drive the Han people out of the desert, and rebuild the Great Xianbei royal court.

The emissaries of Furohan galloped day and night on the prairie, and many Xianbei tribes began to waver, and some of them secretly formed an alliance with Furohan when they could not predict the future development of the situation, and stepped on two boats to ensure the interests of the tribe.

At the same time, Fu Luohan, Shelong and others tried every means to win over the Karasuma people in Baishan, and Gamo and Shamad Khan also took the initiative to lend a helping hand to the Karasuma people in Liaodong.

The Karasuma people of Baishan and the Karasuma people of Liaodong fought more and more frantically, and the battle became more and more intense. The Karasuma people lived in the Han Dynasty, and the fratricidal fighting among the Karasuma people made the situation in the border counties worse, forcing the Han army to intervene.

In this way, almost all of Youzhou's troops were swept into the two battlefields of Baishan and Liaodong, and they were unable to take care of the central and eastern deserts.

In order to stabilize the border counties as soon as possible and quell the war between the Karasuma people, the Han people had to bow their heads to the Xianbei people, hoping that they would not openly interfere in the affairs of the Karasuma people, causing the situation to get out of control.

The Xianbei people put forward very harsh conditions, and Fu Luohan demanded that the Emperor of the Great Han immediately recognize his status as the king of Xianbei.

With the promise of the Son of Heaven of the Great Han, Fu Luohan can justifiably lead the various tribes of the Hu tribe in the desert, and he can temporarily get rid of the threat of the Han army to him, and gain time for himself to stabilize the desert tribes and develop his strength.

Once he is full-fledged and can compete head-on with the big man, he can break away from the control of the big man and dominate the desert.

Xian Yufu's attitude made the Xianbei people very dissatisfied, and he let Xian Yuyin mess with Shelong Hu on the battlefield of Shanggu and delay time, while sending troops to support Liaodong, and Liaodong Du Li Su to flank the Karasuma rebels.

The Xianbei people decided to return the color, by the way, to test the bottom line of the Han people. In early May, the eastern Xianbei king Jiamo, Qu Shuai Chenglugui and Shama Khan led their troops across the Great Liao River and raided Xuansu County, capturing the county of Gaoguri within three days.

The army then crossed the small Liaoshui and besieged Xiangping City, the county of Liaodong County. Liaodong County Taishou Gongsun Du defended the city, and sent people to cross the sea to Qingzhou, ask for help from Zhang He, the assassin of Qingzhou, and report to Chang'an.

At this moment, Li Su and Gongsun Xu were leading the army to fight fiercely in the area of Changli and Yangle at the western foot of Yiwu Mountain.

Once Xiangping was lost, the supply of grain and grass for the army was cut off. Li Su was accompanied by the army of Liaodong Karasuma Dadan Yu Dunjie.

Li Hong's expression was grim, and he looked at the map on the desk and was silent.

"According to the original plan of the imperial court, General Lü Bu will lead his army south to attack Xuzhou in July, but now because of the sudden change in the situation in Liaodong, he has to make adjustments." Fu Gan held Chang'an's letter in one hand and pointed to the map with the other and said,

"Da Sima and Taiwei decided to give up the attack on Xuzhou and instead fully support Liaodong. The imperial court has issued an order to worship Zhang He, the assassin of Qingzhou, as the general of the town protection, holding the Jieyue, and leading the two battalions of Hai and Changxia with 10,000 troops to cross the sea to support the Liaodong battlefield. The grain and grass on the battlefield in Liaodong will be transported by sea from Donglai County in Qingzhou and Yuyang County in Youzhou to Liaodong respectively, which can greatly save the consumption during transportation. ”

"Where's our food, grass and ordnance?" Saifeng asked,

"The army needs a lot of grain, grass and ordnance to attack Danhan Mountain, when will the imperial court send these things to Jinxueyuan?" Fu Gan shook his head and smiled bitterly,

"The Prime Minister once said that the grain and grass supplied to the battlefield of Shanggu will not be supplied until after the autumn harvest in October, so ......"

"Kamiya?" The priest spread his hands and shouted,

"The desert, we are fighting in the desert. As long as we reach Danhan Mountain, Fuluohan will withdraw across the Great Wall, and how can there be any battle in Shanggu? ”

"We'll figure it out ourselves." Li Hong waved his hand and said,

"If you don't have food and grass, can't you be ambushed? This is the desert, and there are livestock on the desert. The rainy season is followed by autumn, which is the time when livestock grow fat. When the livestock are fat and strong, we can send troops. ”

"That won't be until October." Jiang Ji frowned and said,

"Now that the situation in the desert is changing rapidly, the people of the Hu tribe are panicking, swaying from side to side, and they may not be willing to obey the holy decree of the imperial court and send livestock to us as military rations." He pointed to the letter in Fu Gan's hand,

"Moreover, Da Sima and Taiwei don't seem to have any intention of issuing an order to levy them, and they are obviously also worried that doing so will anger the Hu tribes and exacerbate the deterioration of the situation in the desert."

"Do you have to have a holy decree?" Li Hong sneered,

"When I put down the desert rebellion, the booty alone will be enough to repay the losses of the tribes." He turned his head to look at the priest's edge,

"Send someone to urgently inform the Hu tribes, so that the kings of all tribes will go to Jinxueyuan to meet the emperor of the Han Dynasty." The priest bowed down to receive the command.

"The book told the Huns that the Xiongnu Dadan Yu Liu Bao and the first Lingqiang King were stormy and sandy, and they tried every means to prepare livestock and forage for General Yan Rou." Li Hong paused for a moment and said to Fu Gan,

The letter told Yan Rou and asked him to lead the Changshui battalion to rush to Daijun to attack and kill Xiuwulu. Tell Wu Xiong of Jizhou again, ask him to lead the army out of the Flying Fox Fortress, cooperate with General Yan Rou, and kill Xiuwu Lu for me. ”

"Killing Xiuwu Lu of Daijun is equivalent to warning Fu Luo Han and telling him to get out of the Great Wall for me immediately." Li Hong had murderous anger in his eyes and said angrily,

"If he continues to stay in Shanggu, I will burn Danhan Mountain to ashes." In mid-June, Liaodong. More than 500 large ships entered Liaodong Bay and anchored at the mouth of the Liaohe River.

Zhang He, the general of the town guard, and Li Su, the protector of Liaodong, have not seen each other for many years, and the two chatted affectionately for a while, and Li Su immediately asked, "Where is the general?" Did the general go to the desert? ”

"I don't know." Zhang He said,

"I heard that he was seriously wounded in the Battle of the Western Sea, and I don't know if he is well. If the injury is severe, he may still be recuperating in Hexi. Li Su didn't speak, his face showed disappointment, and then he whispered: "Has Lord Koji stayed in the Western Frontier?" ”

"Yes." Zhang He's smile gradually faded, and said gloomily,

"I heard that the general buried him in Longqi. At that time, he was the lieutenant of the western region, and he was stationed in Longqi for many years, which was once the battlefield where he defended his territory. Li Su looked up at the mountains and forests in the distance, and couldn't help but think of Lu Longsai.

"If I die in battle, you bury me in Luronse." Li Su said suddenly,

"Don't forget." Zhang He looked at him in amazement,

"You and my brother haven't seen each other for many years, why do you say such things as soon as we meet?"

"Lord Gongsun Du died in battle." Li Su said sadly,

"Eleven days ago, he died in battle in Xiangping City." Zhang He was shocked,

"Xiangping City lost?" If Xiangping City was lost, the gates of Liaodong County and Lelang County (the western part of the present-day Korean Peninsula) would be wide open, and it would be very difficult for the army to launch a counterattack from the direction of Liaodong Bay.

"No, Gongsun Kang and Gongsun Gong, the sons of Lord Gongsun, are still holding on." Li Su said,

"The Xianbei people and the Karasuma people have joined forces, our troops are seriously insufficient, it is difficult to rescue, and Xiangping City is in danger." Zhang He's thick eyebrows are deeply locked, and he is anxious to find a countermeasure,

"Can the Buyeo people and the Goguryeo people move?"

"No, they have not yet appeared near the Liaoshui River, but judging from the situation in Liaodong, as long as Xiangping is lost, they will definitely raise troops to rebel." Li Su said hatefully,

"Last year, I threatened them to be neutral and not to kill themselves. They were quite obedient, and under the coercion and temptation of the Xianbei people, there was no betrayal. Li Su then pointed angrily at the west and shouted excitedly,

"Today's crisis in Liaodong is a mistake in the imperial court's strategy. I wrote three times and twice, demanding that the war in Liaodong be ended as soon as possible and that Louban, Wuyan and Su Muyan be killed, but the imperial court just did not agree. Saying that there is no food and grass, and saying that they will kill each other first, so that we can reap the benefits of the fishermen. Now, instead of taking advantage of the fishermen, we have buried Liaodong. Chang'an is a bunch of idiots, idiots...... Thousands of brothers died in vain, and Gongsun was even more worthless in death. Zhang He hurriedly dissuaded.

"Don't speak for them, am I blind? The Xianbei people killed Liaodong, Liaodong couldn't hold it, so the court gave us food and let us drive the Hu people out, but do they know how many rebelled against Hu now? There are more than 40,000 Xianbei and Karasuma people combined, and I am only more than 10,000. Even with the addition of Dunjie's Karasuma army, I only have more than 16,000 people on my hands, how can you let me fight? How did you ask me to kill the Liao River? ”

"Zi Rebellion, calm down." Zhang He smiled bitterly,

"In July, the imperial court prepared for General Lü Bu to lead an army to attack Xuzhou. This batch of grain ordnance was originally used to fight Xuzhou. ”

"Hit Xuzhou?" Li Su's eyes were blood-red, and he shouted at the top of his voice,

"Those stupid pigs, don't they know that if Northern Xinjiang is in chaos, what's the point of taking Xuzhou? Cao Cao only has tens of thousands of troops, a palm-sized place, when can't he fight? Why do you have to fight now? What about the Hu people? The Hu people will attack from thousands of miles of border, and how many troops and financial resources will the Han have to spend to keep the northern frontier? Zhang He wanted to explain a few more words, but he felt that the affairs in the court were too complicated, and one or two sentences could not be explained at all, and even if Li Su said it, he might not be able to understand.

"Zi Rebellion, don't roar, since I came, brought soldiers and food, then you and my brother will work together to defend Liaodong, okay?" Li Hu roared a few times, and the resentment that had accumulated in his heart was vented a little, and his emotions slowly stabilized.

"Is there still an army in Lelang County?" Zhang He asked.

"There are about 5,000 people in Lelang County, but I don't dare to recruit them, and Lord Yangyi won't give them." Li Su said,

"The east of Lelang County is Mahan, the northeast is Goguryeo, and the south is Hanhao, once we transfer all the troops of Lelang County, who dares to guarantee that these barbarians will not take the opportunity to raid? There are more than 60,000 households and more than 200,000 people in Lelang County, and if something happens, none of us can afford to take this responsibility. Zhang He hesitated for a long time, and said slowly: "Zi Rebellion, there are only 10,000 reinforcements from me in Liaodong, and there is no second batch of reinforcements. In this way, we pretended to be 50,000 troops to come to help, first boost morale, and then send grain, grass and ordnance to Xiangping City to help them defend the city and confront the Xianbei people for a long time. ”

"Judging from the current situation in northern Xinjiang, the confidence of the Xianbei people to dominate the desert is obviously insufficient, which can be seen from the fact that Fu Luohan tried every means to threaten the imperial court and ask His Majesty to recognize his status as the king of the Great Xianbei. Therefore, I think that the purpose of the Xianbei people in the east to attack Liaodong is to contain the forces of Youzhou, and their fundamental intention is to blackmail the Han Dynasty. Therefore, their attack on Liaodong was fake, and they forced the imperial court to recognize that Fu Luohan's status as the king of Daxianbei was true. As long as we hold Xiangping to the death, the Xianbei people will not be able to advance an inch, and they will definitely withdraw before the winter comes. Li Su frowned slightly, and after a little deep groaning, he said: "What Fu Luohan is most afraid of is that we send troops to fight him, in order to avoid the disaster of clan annihilation, he wants His Majesty to recognize his Great Xianbei King at all costs, and then escape the crime of raising troops to rebel and occupy the central Xianbei." But the problem is that Que Ji, Su Li and others in Xianbei in the east are all old guys who have been crisscrossing the desert for decades, and in their eyes, Fu Luohan is not bullshit, how can they help him? Zhang He smiled, his expression was very bitter,

"In the eyes of the Han people, they are all barbarians, but for hundreds of years, who have we fought with? The Huns, the Qiang, the Xianbei, and the Karasuma people, they are also people, and they also have many heroes, and they also have ideals and aspirations. Tanshi Huai once led the Xianbei people to dominate the desert, which is the pride of the Xianbei people and the dream of the Xianbei people for generations. But now this dream has been shattered and shattered by the Great Han, and the Xianbei people have to bow their heads in humiliation, but the dream in their hearts will not be shattered, they hide their pride in their hearts, and always wait for the day when it will explode. ”

"The desert is their roots, their homeland, no matter how barren, they will not throw it away, they will protect it with their lives."

"For the desert, for the homeland, for the dream, for the great Xianbei, the Xianbei people will not hesitate to give up hatred, and will stand together tightly and fight bloodily." Zhang He reached out and patted Li Su's shoulder,

"Respect your opponents in order to defeat your opponents. There are no barbarians in this world, only warriors and cowards. Then he waved his arm vigorously and shouted,

"Take out the courage of the Han people and defeat them, we are invincible." Li Su and a group of Liaodong generals were greatly shocked when they heard this, and they couldn't help but raise their arms and shout: "I am willing to fight to the death with the general...... and fight to the death" That night, the army camped in Wenxian County (near present-day Yingkou).

The scouts of the Liaodong army returned quickly, the Buyeo people appeared in Xiaoliaoshui, the Goguryeo people appeared in Daliangshui, and the reinforcements of the Xianbei people arrived.

The mood of the crowd was heavy, and the atmosphere in the big tent was very depressing.

"Who is the current King of Goguryeo? Or is it still Pegu? Zhang He stared at the map for a long time, and suddenly asked.

"He's dead." Li Su said,

"After we put down the Liaodong Rebellion, he died, and later a battle for the throne broke out in Goguryeo, and the third son of Pegu, Yiyimo, became the king of Goguryeo, and his other two sons, Baqi and Juannu, took 30,000 Goguryeo households to the Han Dynasty in a fit of anger."

"Where are these people now?" Zhang He asked in surprise.

"They live in boiling water." Li Su looked at Zhang He strangely and asked,

"What? Discrete meter? Let Baqi and Juan Nu take the opportunity to attack the capital of Goguryeo? ”

"Yes, send someone to summon them immediately, and we can provide ordnance." Zhang He said,

"Their brothers are killing each other, and we may be able to pick up some bargains."

"The fisherman profits, and the fisherman profits, and I get angry when I hear this sentence now." Li Su scoffed,

"In order to use the Buyeo Kingdom to contain Xianbei in the north and Goguryeo in the south, Gongsun Du married his niece to Wei Qiutai and gave birth to a son, who is now ten years old. We have always wanted this child to inherit the throne, and Wei Qiutai himself agreed, but the Zhujia (ministers) of the Buyeo Kingdom supported his eldest son Jian Juju, and the battle for the throne was fierce. ”

"Good plan, huh?" Zhang He was unimpressed by Li Su's ridicule, and said with a smile,

"You are familiar with the affairs of Liaodong, you immediately send someone to contact Jian Ju, as long as he can persuade Wei Qiutai to defect, we will support him to inherit the throne." Li Su sneered a few times, scolded angrily, and then looked at Zhang He and asked, "Brother Junyi, do I still know you?" Zhang He laughed.

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