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After two months of training, the 20,000 soldiers and horses in Yanbei did not look completely different, but it can also be seen that this army is holding back its strength.

Holding back the strength to fight to the death with the Gongsun Chan army in the southern pass!

The Han army, which worried the whole Suli tribe, was finally about to leave the camp, and the people in the tribe were not only clapping their hands to celebrate, but also faintly disappointed. As soon as the Han army left, the good deeds that could be exchanged for cattle and sheep swords for occasionally helping the Han people were gone.

However, Yanbei did not disappoint Su Li, and before leaving, Yan Bei called Su Li to his military camp, pointed to the vast seven camps and said, "These are yours." ”

Not only the huge military camp, but also more than a thousand bronze swords and spearhead bows and arrows, and almost all the things that Yanbei plundered all the way were given to Su Li at this time.

"The road to the south is not easy, I need you to find a subordinate who knows the way to guide my army until we reach Handi." Yan Bei said his request, which was extremely simple in Su Li's opinion, but the next thing was not so easy to do, Yan Bei said: "I also need you to send a team of soldiers and horses to drive cattle and sheep for me." Of course, in return I will leave you with the remaining thousands of livestock. ”

He went south to fight, and did not have the energy to drive these cattle and sheep, and his men had begun preparations as early as a month earlier, slaughtering many livestock to make jerky. A sheep chops off two or three hundred catties of meat, and finally mixes it with large salt particles to make less than fifty catties of jerky.

But this thing is absolutely durable, a soldier carries a horse's hip sac of jerky, and there is water along the river, enough to eat for a month.

Su Li didn't agree quickly this time, but said with a sad face: "General Yan, can I find the best subordinates for you to guide your Excellency's army, but send troops and horses?" It's not an easy thing to do, and spring isn't just about you going to war, it's about us too...... I can send you a maximum of nine hundred young riders, without horses and weapons, and you yourself will arm them. ”

"Nine hundred?"

Yan Bei muttered repeatedly, in fact, he didn't care how many people Su Li would send to him, he only had a clear meaning of Li Li, after this separation, the two sides could be an independent force that was friendly with each other, and it was best to develop for a long time.

"You mean, you want to give me nine hundred young riders who haven't been to battle?" The implication of Su Li's words is already very clear, his tribe also needs to guard against the plunder of the surrounding Xianbei adults this year, so he can't hand over the experienced warriors to Yan Bei, Yan Bei nodded, and then said conclusively: "Nine hundred young riders are no problem, but I still need one person, Tu Servant Bone, I hope he can also go to Han Land with me." ”

Yanbei didn't want these 900 people to be just a one-shot deal, but wanted to use these 900 people as a link to establish more exchanges between the two sides. And as the small leader of the tribe, the slaughter of the servant bone is undoubtedly the best choice.

"In this matter, I still need to ask the thoughts of the slaughtering servants, of course...... If he is willing to go to Han with the general, it will be his blessing. However, if the slaughter of the servants is unwilling, I hope that the general can bear more. ”

"It's nature."

In the blink of an eye, Su Li and Tu Fu Gu said Yanbei's thoughts, Tu Fu Gu did not have any objection, just like the Han people hope to pass through the Western Regions, the Xianbei people also hope to communicate with the Han people, of course, this is just the wishful thinking of the Xianbei lower nobles, but this idea can be put on the agenda after Yanbei appears. For the butcher bone, isn't this his chance?

Follow the powerful generals of the Han Dynasty to make achievements on the battlefield and claim your own merits!

Everything was settled, and all the things that Yanbei general did not need were left to Su Li, who handed over to Yanbei's nine hundred young Xianbei soldiers, including Tu Fu Gu, to wait for the big battle in Han Land.

In the past winter, although Yanbei had taken great care to protect his soldiers, his men were still inevitably reduced...... The winter outside the plug is not so easy to pass.

First it was a simple wind chill and brain fever, and then the cold spread in the army, more than 400 good men were lying in bed and unable to move because of the disease, and finally more than 100 people relied on strong bodies to survive, and more than 200 good men were defeated by wind cold and lost their lives.

In addition, some sergeants fell down because they dug ice caves on the surface of the Leshui River in winter to get drinking water, and were drowned alive, some people went out of the camp to let their horses get lost and could not come back in the ice and snow, and some soldiers on duty at night were found frozen into ice when they got up in the morning.

The scattered attrition adds up to nearly five hundred.

This is something that can't be helped, when Yanbei was still a lone ranger in the desert, he never thought that he would have the Pao Ze brothers end up with such a wimply death; But when he became the leader of an army of 20,000 men, he finally understood that the sergeant looked like a ...... in his position Yanbei didn't know how to describe it.

What he wanted to convey was consumables.

Those people are like paper kites, and he is the hand holding the other end of the thread. Tens of thousands of soldiers fought for him, but the faces of these people were not as clear as Jiang Jin, Wang Yi and others in his opinion, at most they were like Chen Zuo, and even he couldn't call people's names at all, but he wanted them to shed blood for him.

Feed his ambitions, conquer the city step by step, fight every step of the blood, and in the end, where they fall, draw the end of their own story.

In troubled times, human life is unimaginably cheap.

In fact, Yanbei still has a fear of the future in his heart...... He found that the path he had traveled was becoming more and more similar to that of Zhang Chun, who he had likened to a ship that was about to sink and himself to a passenger on a donkey looking for a horse.

Now he was like that, watching his men treat him like a sinking ship, while others drain every penny of value before he sinks.

The cycle of cause and effect, retribution is unpleasant.

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A man with a knife in his arms is always tough when he walks down the street. A fierce general with soldiers and horses, it has become a proper duty for the army to run rampant in the state and county.

What's more, Yanbei went from having nothing to having anything, and lived outside the fortress in winter, which made the whole army extremely eager to return to Han, and now don't say that the soldiers and horses of Meng Yi, the middle general of the Han Dynasty, may be in front of him, even if the divine soldiers descend from the sky, the 20,000 screaming good sons and daughters under Yanbei's hands will kill him.

With this anger, Yanbei left a large number of cattle and sheep, and only took the elite soldiers and soldiers on the way home.

Following the tributary of Leshui into the Han land, the seven troops and horses went straight to the Great Wall in the north of Liaodong County.

This winter, Yanbei's subordinates were more elite, and the first to bear the brunt were the four soldiers and horses who had participated in the Saibei massacre before. The elite cavalry led by Zhang Leigong, Sun Qing, and Lu Yi and Gao Lan's Xiaoya army.

With the plundering of more than ten Xianbei troops, the scarce military resources in the Han land were extremely cheap in the hands of Yanbei, although he only had 20,000 soldiers, but the subordinates of these fierce generals had more than 7,000 war horses and more mules and horses that could carry weapons and armor.

Originally, Yanbei had more military horses, but because of the wear and tear of the horses' hooves and age, there were only 8,000 military horses who could serve as military horses in the end. When age is not suitable for fighting, the old war horse can only take a back seat and become a pack horse.

So far, Yanbei's Zhang Leigong and Sun Qing's two divisions each have 1,500 fine cavalry, 2,000 in the Lu Yi department, and 2,000 in the Xiaoya army of the Gaolan department. Of course, there are also nine hundred Xianbei horsemen under the slaughter of the Xianbei people.

Only a few of these cavalrymen rode the short-legged horses of the Han region, and many more were the Xianbei horses that were generally seven feet tall at the shoulder, which were faster and more powerful, but the endurance of long-distance runs was slightly worse.

For the time being, Yanbei has not found any difference between the application of Xianbei long-legged horses and Handi short-legged horses in war, and now he only wants to replace all his subordinates' war horses with Xianbei horses if possible...... After all, he didn't have a piece of land that belonged to him, he didn't have enough craftsmen to make ordnance for him, and he didn't have any iron ore resources in his hands.

He could only hope that the many foot soldiers under his command would be able to resist the enemy's frontal attack when the army was in battle, and then tear the enemy's line apart with the heavy soldiers of the Tooth Army, and then chase the rout with light cavalry to cause a victory.

Now that he has suffered several wars, he is not what he used to be tactically, but strategically? He is still the little pony boy who rides sheep in Liaodong.

Outside Liaodong, which is relatively far away from the Central Plains, Yanbei drove the army to finally pass at the end of February, looking at the Mianchang City shrouded in the sunset of the long river in the vast mountains, and the 22-year-old Yanbei gently reined in the reins and raised the horsewhip towards the Great Wall.

"Touch the city pass tonight, take over the city defense, and let's go home!"

Just as the soldiers and horses of Yanbei crossed the Great Wall like locusts ravaging the wheat fields at night and marched towards their destination Liaodong, Jizhou, which was thousands of miles apart, was undergoing unexpected changes because of his arrival.

In Jizhou in history, during this period of time, there were still the remnants of Zhang Chun and Qiu Liju wreaking havoc on each other, because Gongsun Zhan's pursuit all the way to the east and Zhonglang's bullet pressure on Meng Yi made it relatively stable. But now because Yanbei once sat in the central part of Jizhou, the Wuhuan people only invaded a few border counties of Jizhou, and after he led the army north, he did not leave the slightest garrison, and the four counties in the central part of Jizhou were like unarmed children sitting on treasures.

Taihang Eight Paths, among the Black Mountains.

Zhang Yan, a young man who succeeded as the leader of Montenegro after Zhang Niujiao's death, gathered all the thieves in the mountains and planned an operation to get out of Montenegro during the political window in Jizhou...... They are fed up with hiding, poverty and hunger in the Taihang Mountains.

Last winter, the old and weak women and children living in Montenegro did not survive again, instead of dying like this, why can't they fight hard, not to shout for the yellow sky to stand like a few years ago, just for everyone to live like a human being?

Tens of thousands of Montenegrin thieves, under the leadership of Zhang Yan, called themselves the Montenegrin Army, walked out of the Taihang Eight Paths, and pounced on Julu, Changshan, and Zhongshan...... Pounce on every empty garrison city in the counties of Jizhou!