May 185 A.D.

May. The sky is high and the clouds are light, and the wind is beautiful.

The water of the Sangqian River is clear and cold, and under the gentle blowing of the spring breeze, it sings happily all the way to the southeast. The big trees on both sides of the bank and the grass on the embankment have been dressed in tender green, and they look full of life and beauty.

The cavalry of the Tuoba tribe formed three columns and was wading across the river to Fuyang, the seat of the county seat of Shanggu County.

Tuoba Feng slowly dismounted, walked to the river with a peaceful expression, and looked around.

Since last month, the army has been attacking the Han Kingdom with Karasuma Marshal Tito, and the offensive has been very smooth. The allied forces of the two clans defeated the troops of Captain Gokarasuma Kei Chou at Gwangnyeong Fortress, the seat of Captain Gokarasuma and occupied Gwangnyeong Fortress.

Tito led Karasuma's army to chase Ketsu and drove him into Juyong Castle. Subsequently, his troops were divided into two routes, with one pretending to be the main force, Chen soldiers in Fuyang, and pinning down the defenders of Fuyang. However, the main force launched a fierce attack on the Xiguan of Juyong City.

The troops of the Tuoba tribe, under the leadership of the heroic Tuoba Tao and Tuoba Hui, went down the Qiushui and captured Macheng and Sangan in Dai County, Xia Luo and Pan County in Shanggu County, and surrounded Zhuolu City.

Just when the battlefield of Shanggu was winning one after another, bad news came from Yuyang. Murong Feng's troops suffered a crushing defeat under Yuyang City, and had already retreated to Guangping City in defeat. The leaders of the army, Murong Ji and Murong Chong, were ambushed by the Han army on the way to retreat, and the whole army was annihilated and killed on the spot.

Tuoba Feng immediately threw in the main force and stormed Zhuolu City. The soldiers and civilians in the city, under the leadership of the county commander Zhandai, swore to hold the city for eight days until they all died in battle. Zhuolu City was immediately lost.

Tuoba Feng admired Murong Feng's methods very much, and he was invisibly killed while talking and laughing. Looking back at the consequences of Yuyang's defeat now, what is regrettable is not the thousands of casualties, but the fact that Murong Feng used this war to easily eliminate the Golden Eagle and Black Eagle tribes, reunite the divided Murong tribes, and basically completely uproot the opposition forces of Xianbei in the central region. Now that Central Xianbei is only Murong Feng's voice, all the tribes in Central Xianbei are under his control, not only has his strength increased dramatically, but also a huge threat to Danhan Mountain, and Helian now has no ability to dictate to Central and Eastern Xianbei and do whatever he wants.

After Lu Longsai's defeat, Eastern Xianbei's strength has been greatly reduced, and he has lost the capital to compete with Murong Feng. Mijia, Que Ji and the others were very clever and immediately formed an alliance with Murong Feng, taking Murong Feng as the leader, completely forgetting that the tribe under their command should show allegiance to Danhan Mountain instead of the ambitious Murong Feng. Murong Feng instigated the Xianbei people to start a war, but he took the opportunity to use the war to eradicate dissidents, establish a solid alliance in Xianbei in the central and eastern regions, and regain a huge power, what did he want to do? Does he want to be the king of the Xianbei people himself?

After the Tuoba tribe helped and Lian to eliminate the traitors of Danhan Mountain last year, replacing the Red Sun tribe and taking control of the power of Xianbei in the west, the power of the Tuoba tribe swelled dramatically. Tuoba Feng is a very fanatical person, very fanatical about power, wealth, and territory. This time, at the invitation of Murong Feng, he jointly sent troops to invade the Great Han Kingdom, and carried out a two-way attack on the east and west, with a very positive attitude.

Of course, he would not follow Murong Feng's plan and let his troops carry out a feint attack in the direction of Shanggu County to contain the forces of the Great Han Kingdom. He wants to occupy Upper Valley County.

He has great ambitions, he wants to be like Tanshi Huai, open up the territory, lead the Tuoba tribe to lay their own country, and establish their own country. The direction of Shanggu County was originally the sphere of influence of the central Xianbei and Danhan Mountains. If he takes the opportunity to take Shanggu County in one fell swoop this time, his power will also expand to the doorstep of the Danhan Mountain Royal Court and Murong Feng, and he can directly pose a threat to them. In addition, Shanggu County has a vast territory and abundant products, which can bring a steady stream of inexhaustible wealth to the Tuoba tribe, which is the key to the success or failure of a tribe, and it is also the real purpose of Tuoba Feng's intention to seize Shanggu County.

Zhuolu County's stubborn resistance was completely unexpected. In Lower Luocheng, the people of Pan County heard that the Xianbei people were coming, and fled when they heard the news. Although there was some resistance during the siege, there was no threat at all. I thought that Zhuolu City would also be successful overnight, but I didn't expect to encounter extraordinary resistance. Tuoba Feng's main purpose was to capture Fuyang and occupy the entire Shanggu County. Therefore, he did not throw all the main forces up, causing the troops to be delayed for many days under Zhuolu City.

Titu, who besieged the Xiguan of Juyong City, sent people to urge him every day, hoping that he would end the battle of Zhuolu City as soon as possible and rush to the battlefield of Fuyang. His troops were in Xiguan, and in order to play a diversion role, they continued to attack the city, and they had already lost a lot of men and horses. But Tuoba Feng was unmoved, in order to reduce his own siege losses, and also in order to consume the strength of the Karasuma people, he besieged and attacked step by step, intending to gradually squeeze the will of the defenders of Zhuolu City, consuming their physical strength and provisions. It wasn't until the scout reported that the news of the reinforcements of the Great Han State was found in the direction of Taihang Mountain that he threw the main force and took Zhuolu in half a day. The people in Zhuolu City had already evacuated, leaving the army and people who held the city to swear to the death. They fought bloodily until they were all killed.

Tuoba Feng then left Tuoba Tao's troops to guard Zhuolu, and led the three cities of Xialuo, Panxian and Zhuolu. During the attack on Fuyang, Tuobatao's main task was to protect the flanks of the main army, to ensure the unimpeded flow of supplies from the direction of Macheng and Quang Ninh, and to safely transport the looted goods from all over the upper valley back to the tribe.

As for the Han army who came to help, he didn't pay attention to it at all. What worries him a lot is the Karasuma people.

There are more than 9,000 tribes in Kamiya Karasuma, and it is the most powerful group of Karasuma tribes today. They mainly live between the white mountains and black waters, and take the Black Feather King Nanlou as the big leader. Kamiya Karasuma has always had a very good relationship with the Han people, and has sent troops to help the Han people attack the Xiongnu and Xianbei people several times. The Han court did not treat them badly, and rewarded them a lot, the leader was crowned king, sent the princess and relatives, and opened a market in Shanggu. For decades, they got along well with each other.

The current Black Feather King Nanlou is highly respected and has a very high prestige among the Hu people in northern Xinjiang. He himself is a warrior who is famous in the desert, with strong martial arts, thousands of large and small leaders, tens of thousands of troops, and his strength is second to none in northern Xinjiang. He is also a tribal leader who is sleek and flexible, and extremely skilled in diplomacy. Whether it is the dead Xianbei King Tan Shihuai, or the Xiongnu Dadan Yu Qiangqu, not to mention the emperor of the Han Kingdom, they are all his friends, and no one dares to provoke him easily.

This time he sent troops to invade the Han Dynasty, Murong Feng personally visited the Nanlou in Feiying Yuan, told him about the matter, and hoped to get his help. is already in his sixties, and he still has black hair and is in good spirits. He looked at Murong Feng, who was younger than himself but had gray hair, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "You kid is trying your best to occupy the land of the Han people, causing countless people to stain the battlefield with blood and throw corpses into the wilderness, and sooner or later you will be punished." Since ancient times, anyone who causes the scourge of war for no reason and owes a lot of blood debts has never ended well. Sooner or later, a man like you, with blood on his hands, will die. ”

"My mother is the princess of Dahan, this is a well-known thing in the world. It is absolutely impossible for me to send troops to help. You're just trying to tell me to sit on the sidelines. Okay, I promise you. With decades of friendship, this little thing is nothing. But I would like to warn you of one thing, which I once said to Sandalwood Acacia. ”

"The Huns and the Great Han Kingdom fought each other for hundreds of years, what did the Huns get? When the Huns were at their strongest, there were more than 200,000 iron horsemen, but now they occupy an inch of land in the Great Han Kingdom? ”

"Not an inch."

"The Great Han Kingdom still dominates the world, and no one can shake it. On the other hand, the Huns, the north and south are split, and they have declined. The Southern Xiongnu people bowed down to the vassals, attached themselves to the Han Dynasty, and were able to enter the territory of the Han Dynasty to survive and multiply. And what about the Northern Huns? First, he was driven thousands of miles away by the Han people, and then he was driven and killed by you. The remnants fled westward, far from their homeland, and were nowhere to be found. ”

"Can't you see something from the Huns?"

Murong Feng smiled proudly, said nothing, and left.

When Tuoba Feng heard about it, he scoffed even more. "What kind of thing are the Huns, they can be compared with our Xianbei people. It's hard to get old, and I don't have the guts anymore. ”

There are two other major forces among the Karasuma people in Kamiya-gun. One is Nanlou's nephew Tito, whose stone vulture tribe lives at the western foot of Baishan and has a very good relationship with Danhan Mountain. Nanlou didn't like him getting too close to Xianbei people, and often reprimanded him. Tito is also a hero, and like many Hu leaders, he looks down on the Han people in his bones, and is always thinking about the wealth of the Han people. He was very dissatisfied with Nanlou's pro-Han policy, if he hadn't been afraid of Nanlou's strength, he would have waved his army south. This time, he was moved by Tuoba Feng's words, knowing that he had the support of King Xianbei and Lian behind him, and in the face of the property at his fingertips, he was immediately bold. He hid the difficult building, and Tuoba Feng hit and made peace, and the coalition attacked.

Another force is the Bailu tribe living near the Sangqian River in Shanggu County, and its tribal leader is called Lu Pofeng. He is Nanlou's most valued nephew, and Nanlou has always wanted to train him to be the new Black Feather King of the Kamiya Karasuma clan. But Lu Pofeng didn't seem to look down on this tribal king at all, and rarely went to Feiying Yuan to visit Nanlou. His martial arts are unrivaled in the Karasuma clan and he is known as the number one master of Karasuma. There were once more than 100 Karasuma warriors who were not convinced, and took the initiative to go to Sangqianhe from all over the country to compete with him, but they were all defeated, and they caused a sensation in northern Xinjiang for a while.

With the help of the Han Chinese, some of the Karasuma tribe still insisted on grazing, but a large part of the people had already begun to engage in farming and sericulture, and their income and living standards had been greatly improved. They not only lived together with the Han people, but also intermarried with each other, imitated the living habits of the Han people, learned the culture and language of the Han people, and had a harmonious relationship with each other. This area has become a model for Hu and Han people to live in peace and live together. Many small tribes and fallen tribesmen have traveled long distances to join the White Deer tribe in search of a stable and subsistence life. It is also for this reason that the White Deer tribe has become an enemy that all the Hu people who hate the Han people want to eradicate. In their eyes, the people of the Bailu tribe have deviated from the ancestral aspirations of the Hu people, forgotten the hatred of generations, and betrayed their ancestors, their brothers, and even their own nation for a comfortable and prosperous life, and are a group of heinous traitors.

Tuoba Feng mobilized Tuoba Tao, Tuoba Hui's two heroic commanders, and 10,000 iron horsemen, to attack the Bailu tribe living near the Sangqian River, killing them in one fell swoop and completely erasing them from the ground. However, his plan fell through. His troops did not kill a single one except for burning some thatched huts. The Karasuma people and Han people in the entire vicinity of the Sangqian River have all disappeared, and everything that can be taken away has been taken away.

Tuoba Feng was very angry. It must have been the Black Feather King Nanlou who notified the deer of the White Deer tribe of Lu Pofeng at the first time, so that he calmly organized all the tribesmen to evacuate. He gritted his teeth with hatred and secretly vowed to take revenge on Nanlou.

"My lord, the messenger sent by the commander is here, do you want to see him?"

Tuoba Feng turned around and said to Tuoba Hui: "It's gone, you tell him to go back and tell Titu that tomorrow morning we will meet under Fuyang City." ”

Tuoba is of medium stature, with a black and red face, a thick beard, and a pair of eyes that always faintly shoot a hint of vigilance, and he looks like a person with a steady and thin heart. He had no intention of leaving, his brow furrowed slightly, as if he had something to say.

Tuoba Feng turned back again and looked at Tuoba with questioning eyes. Tuoba Feng was a typical northerner, with a tall and mighty body, a tiger's back and a bear's waist, but a purple-black face unexpectedly revealed an air of elegance, slightly hiding the violence and suspicion in his eyes.

"Is there something wrong?"

"According to the scouts, Lu Pofeng's troops appeared in the area of Chengshan, and were defeated by Tuoba Tao's troops and fled into Taihang Mountain. Xiaoshuai Shashi surrounded Lu Pofeng's family in Huangzhang Mountain. ”

"Oh." Tuoba Feng was happy, "Did you catch it?" I heard that Lu Pofeng has three Han wives, all of whom are very beautiful, but they all caught them? ”

Tuoba looked at Tuoba Feng's smiling face timidly, and said in a low voice: "The reinforcements of the Han people suddenly appeared and rescued them all. ”

Tuoba Feng's face suddenly sank, "You can't do such a thing." What about shalestones? ”

"Shashi's troops were surrounded by the Han army, and they were all wiped out, and not a single one of them escaped. When Tuoba Tao arrived, the Han people had already run away. ”

For the first time in more than ten days, Tuoba Feng heard that his troops had been frustrated, and the muscles on his face twitched involuntarily a few times. He suppressed his anger and asked in a muffled voice, "How many people have you lost?" ”

"More than six hundred."

"Do you know who the leader of the Han army is?"

"Leopard."

Tuoba Feng's eyes seemed to erupt with fire. Leopard again. It seems that this leopard has become a nightmare of the Tuoba tribe since he left Murong Feng. First his son died, then his brother Tuoba Cambodia died, and then the handsome Tuoba Hong died, and every time the people of the Tuoba tribe were killed by him.

Tuoba Feng laughed. Tuoba Yan was taken aback and looked at Tuoba Feng in surprise.

"Adult ......"

"Good, good, good." Tuoba Feng said three good words in a row.

"We originally thought that Liu Yu, the assassin of Youzhou, was under the pressure of Xiongba's army, even if Gongsun Zhan's Liaodong reinforcements arrived in Yuyang, his troops were still at a disadvantage in terms of numerical strength, and they would not send reinforcements to the Shanggu battlefield. Now it seems that we were wrong. Liu Yu may have seen the intention of our army, the purpose is not Yuyang, but the frustration of Shanggu, so he still sent reinforcements when the situation on the Yuyang battlefield was very bad. ”

"How many people did the leopard bring?"

"I don't know. Our scouts did not find them. However, it is estimated that it should be between two and three thousand. If the number of troops is large, it is easy to expose the traces, and it is impossible for us not to find out. ”

Tuoba Feng looked at the river with a grim expression. The troops were crossing the river, noisy and very lively.

"If Lu Pofeng and Leopard's troops meet, they will have four or five thousand men, which is more than the troops we left in Zhuolu. Tuoba Tao's first 3,000 men have already lost 600 people, and we are at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers. If the flanks of the troops are not protected, and the food and grass are not safely guaranteed, how can the frustration be frustrated? ”

"Murong Feng is really incompetent, he didn't come out of his own, but he let Murong Ji lead the army, and as a result, he failed miserably in Yuyang, and it also affected us."

The more Tuoba Feng thought about it, the more angry he became, and he scolded.

"My lord, there is Liu Fan, the Taishou of Shanggu County, in Fuyang, with at least 2,000 defenders, plus 1,000 troops of Cao Peng, a soldier of Dai County, and 3,000 people defending the city. According to our original plan, it would take about ten days to attack with 15,000 men. But now that reinforcements from the Han have arrived, the siege conditions are not very good. Are we going to bring in the troops left in Macheng and leave enough troops in the Zhuolu area to deal with the Han army? ”

"No, Tuoba's troops must not move. Those 3,000 are our reserve force, and we must not move until then. ”

"Guangning has the Dancing Leaf Tribe's Ink Shooting, and the Tianshui Tribe's 3,000 army, you can also mobilize it." Tuoba said softly.

Tuoba Feng shook his head, "They are the people of Danhan Mountain, and this time they sent troops to get more spoils." Transferring them to the front requires the approval of the king and Lian Shou. The king does not agree, who dares to transfer privately. Don't mess with ideas. ”

"Then ......" Tuoba Yan wanted to say something, but he didn't dare to say it.

Tuoba Feng looked at him coldly, "Do you want to say that we will retreat to Zhuolu and stick to the area west of the Sangqian River." ”

As if he was afraid that Tuoba Feng would kill him in a fit of rage, Tuoba Yan took a step back, lowered his head and said nothing.

"Tell me." Tuoba Feng pointed to Tuoba Xuan's nose and said.

"My lord, it is still beneficial for us to occupy the west of the Sangqian River, and then gradually squeeze the northeast region of Daijun, and stabilize the battle line at Zhuolu. First, we don't have to pay a huge price, second, we can avoid a head-on conflict with Lord Murong Feng, and third, once we send troops to annex Yunzhong County, this place can completely meet everything we need to launch a flank attack. It's enough to have this piece of land. ”

Tuoba Feng did not speak. He looked at Tuoba with contempt and suddenly laughed.

"Why can't you have a conflict with Murong Feng? He wants Yuyang, and I can own Shanggu County. ”

Immediately, he said murderously: "A little slave, how big a wave can he make, see if I don't catch him this time, I will be eaten alive." ”

"The Tuoba tribe dispatched 15,000 people this time, if it only occupies five small cities of the Han people, a small piece of land, it will be too cost-effective. The Great Han Kingdom is on the verge of death, can't you see it? The Han people are no longer as powerful as they used to be, and they, like the Huns, have completely decayed. This time we have a good opportunity, we have taken advantage of the time and place, and if we lose it, I am afraid that we will never find such an opportunity again. ”

"You're getting less and less courageous, you're getting more and more cautious, and you're getting less and less courage. Are you really old? ”

Tuoba Feng looked at Tuoba and said mockingly.

Tuoba Xuan didn't seem to care, and said stubbornly: "My lord, we must draw troops back to Zhulu. Now the troops attacking Fuyang are close to 9,000 people, and it is completely possible to send 1,000 people back. In any case, we must first ensure the safety of the grain and grass. If there is a problem with food and grass, our army will be ......"

Tuoba Feng couldn't bear it anymore, roared, suddenly pulled out the long knife at his waist, and slashed it fiercely.