In the vast desert, Leshui is like a lifeline, feeding hundreds of thousands of Xianbei people on both sides of the strait. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Autumn is a big day for all the Xianbei tribes, because every winter outside the Saiwai is the boundary between life and death for the Xianbei people. From January to November, Leshui will freeze, and countless cattle, sheep and horses will freeze to death under the sudden drop in temperature, and the children who have not yet grown up will find it difficult to withstand the cold.

The heavy snow in winter is a good year for the Han people within the Great Wall, and for the Hu people outside the Saiwai, it is an annual white disaster!

Compared with the life of Han men and women weaving, the Saiwaihu people have to come much simpler, fighting in the spring, giving birth to children in the summer, making children in the autumn, and hiding in the felt in the winter to sharpen their weapons to cope with the big war in the spring of the next year.

And in this desert when men and women are going into felt tents to make children, a group of uninvited guests are ushered in by the Leshui River.

Han Chinese merchants who spoke the Xianbei dialect sprung up into the desert, visiting tribe after tribe, exchanging Han clothes and small toys for their spirits and animal skins and animal fats solidified by wild animal meat...... Whether it is the Xianbei people, the Wuhuan people, or the Xiongnu people in the past, as long as they have a tribe that migrates along the water source, most of them will not be embarrassed by the merchants.

They need things from the Han region, whether it is to please women or to enjoy food and clothing. The Hu people on the grassland had mixed feelings towards Han land in this era, like a bad neighbor. They knew that the man in the neighbor's house was not only rich and strong, but the lady was very gentle and kind.

Therefore, they like to cheat or snatch small objects once in a while, so as not to anger the man. So what is the situation that will anger the strong man of the neighbor? Snatch his land.

Therefore, they usually choose to rob their population and a small amount of wealth, and when the edict of the Han emperor reaches the hands of any tribe lord, they bow down again and are very well-behaved!

After all, more than 300 years ago, the most powerful neighbor of the Han family, the Xiongnu, Yin Jian is not far away, no matter who it is, the Qiang, Xianbei or Wuhuan, they will not think that they have been stronger than the Huns.

It's just that over the years, the authority of the Han landlords has become weaker and weaker.

The men of the Xianbei tribe rejoiced in the respect that the Han merchants had for them, but they ignored the beasts that had opened their bloody mouths on their sides.

At night, Gao Ran turned over on his horse with an iron spear, a linen towel covered his face and only revealed a pair of sharp eyes, staring directly at the continuous felt tents in the distance, and said directly to the people beside him: "Junyi, you can remember, later the fire will rush out together, arrange a military marquis department to collect the horses and livestock, and the rest of the soldiers and horses will surround us, we will attack and kill the entire tribe!" ”

Next to Gao Ran was a young man with a figure of nearly eight feet, who looked a few years younger than Gao Ran, and his age was on par with Yan Bei. His name is Zhang Jaw, although he is young, he has been a veteran soldier for several years, as early as the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he was recruited by the Han Emperor Liu Hongzhi to enlist in the army, and later garrisoned Hejian by virtue of meritorious service to become a military marquis. During the Yanbei rebellion, he was outnumbered and captured in the face of more than 100,000 Wuhuan cavalry in the south, and was exchanged for Yanbei under Yanbei when he exchanged money and grain with the Wuhuan people for prisoners.

Now, this young man named Zhang Jaw is already a military marquis in the Xiaoya Army, Gao Ran admires this young warrior from the Zhang clan in Moxian County, Hejian, and wants to train him to be the military Sima of the Xiaoya Army, so this time he was transferred from the Xiaoya Army to follow him.

Although his clan is also considered powerful in Hejian, according to Yanbei's previous power in Jizhou, it is obviously not a good choice to confront him; On the other hand, Yanbei did not infringe on the interests of Haoqiang, and all systems were like the rule of the Han Dynasty, so it did not provoke a backlash from Haoqiang. Zhang Jaw temporarily followed Yanbei with the attitude of riding a donkey to find a horse.

In this magnificent and passionate era, countless lower-class wealthy families hope to restore the glory of their ancestors. Just like the Koji clan where the koji is located, the Zhang clan with open jaws is also the same. His family was not a side branch of Zhang Liang scattered among the rivers, but after Zhang Er, the king of Changshan Jing, who was divided by Xiang Yu in the late Qin and early Han dynasties, their ancestor Zhang Er later returned to Emperor Gao and was named to the state of Zhao, also known as King Jing of Han Zhao.

Time passes, in the blink of an eye for nearly four hundred years, the Zhang family in Hejian has lost the glory of its ancestors, and the descendants of the former royal family are now just one of the many big clans in Jizhou, and they can't even be called the crown family.

When he heard Gao Ran's words, he nodded his head quite calmly, and his eyes also looked at the tribe from afar. The merchants in front have already found out the situation of this Xianbei tribe in the daytime, there are more than 500 horses and more than 1,000 cattle and sheep, and the population is about 1,000, which is not big or small. And by now, the merchants must have blended in with the tribe and waited for an opportunity to set fires.

Zhang Jaw looked up at the sky, people can easily get lost in the desert, but fortunately, there is a river called Leshui near here that allows them to distinguish the direction.

Their position, northeast of the tribe, was the direction in which they were about to set out. Attacking from here is the best option, because the Xianbei army of the tribe will flee in the opposite direction, that is, to the southwest where they have already traveled. In this way, even if the Xianbei rout army finds the familiar Xianbei tribe, their brigade has already gone to the northeast, in the desert, the Han army is easy to get lost, but the traces will also be carried away by the wind and sand.

The Xianbei people can't catch up with them!

Therefore, Zhang Jaw looked up at Gao Lan, thought for a while and said, "Captain, can you order the cavalry to disperse and surround the northeast of the tribe, the enemy is less than us, and in a panic, it will inevitably flee to the southwest...... By the time they found reinforcements, we would have already fled. ”

Gao Ran glanced at Zhang Jaw, a little surprised. As early as when the Xiaoya Army was training, he had found that this young warrior named Zhang Jaw was good at martial arts and knew more about military affairs, so it was not surprising that he would make such a suggestion, but praised it a lot. After thinking for a moment in his heart, he also thought that this move was feasible, and immediately waved his hand to Zhang Jaw and said, "Yes, you go and give an order, let the horses disperse, and surround the northeast of the tribe with a half-ring." ”

At this moment, Gao Yan suddenly saw a flash of fire from the tribe not far away, and then in more than ten breaths, the night wind of the desert suddenly burned, and then a chaotic shout came from it...... Flames grew louder and louder, and horses, cattle and sheep burst out from the tribe.

It's a big deal!

"It's too late! The herald ordered the cavalry to adjust to a semi-ring in the charge to encircle the northeast of the tribe and drive the rout to the southwest! Gao Ran suddenly rode out of battle, waved his hand to convey the order to the open jaw, and then raised his iron spear with one arm and shouted in front of the neatly lined cavalry.

"Soldiers, the war has been burned, all the kings will follow my life, the horses will step on the enemy's formation, kill a happy one, now listen to my military orders, and charge with me!"

As the chanting dragged a long note and exploded in the desert below the night sky, Gao Ran pulled the reins in one hand and held an iron spear in the other, shouting all the way to gallop towards the burning tribe in front of him. Behind him came the voice of an open-jaw herald, and the young warrior with an iron spear shouted while charging: "Spread out to the wings from the charge, charge and kill the enemy, drive them to the southwest, and fight quickly!" ”

The heavy hooves of the horses could not make much noise in the desert, but at this time, two thousand horses galloped at the same time, and the sound of wind and sand in the ears and the shouts of those Han family athletes who raised their swords and galloped horses converged into the most exciting drum beat.

Murderous riot!

The Xianbei tribe was already in chaos at this time, when the fire burned from the beginning of the various tents in the tribe, many Xianbei people did not take it seriously, the autumn weather was dry, and it was easy for a careless spark to fly to the felt tent and set it on fire, but the animal skin was not so easy to burn, and when the fluff on the skin burned out, it was naturally extinguished.

What really worried them was that the pigs, horses, cattle and sheep pens had been knocked open, and the cattle were scared away by the flames, which was something that the whole tribe had saved their lives, and the tribesmen hurried out of their tents, and ran after the cattle even as the wind and sand cut their faces like blades.

The rabble in the mouth of Lu Yi is vividly expressed at this moment, the first to leave their duties are those sentries who are on duty at night, and then those shirtless and humble men who come out of the tent, without armor and without an inch of soldiers, just hold the horse pole that the tent door is set aside and drill out, and run into the desert of the night.

At this time, a huge sound came from the northeast that shocked the hearts of the Xianbei people, this was by no means the wind like a ghost crying in the desert night.

The bright blade pierced the night, and the roar of the Han people stopped.

Bearing the brunt of Gao Lan, a long iron spear suddenly poked out like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter, and the fast horse galloped through a galloping Xianbei man, and in an instant he opened his chest, the bald man had not even noticed the pain in his body, and his mind was still immersed in the fright brought by the horse that suddenly rushed out in the night, and the horse pole in his palm had already flown out of the long distance and was obliquely inserted into the desert, and his body fell heavily to the ground.

The wide eyes were full of disbelief, and a pair of eyes that gradually lost their luster reflected the Han knight who appeared like a dragon in the dark night, and then his head was crushed by the strong horse's hooves.

With a high jaw on the left and a right, each of them led the cavalry into the Xianbei tribe as a sharp arrow, and the Xianbei warriors were unstoppable, all of them were spears piercing the body or iron ring knives cutting through the neck.

The hot blood spilled through the sackcloth covering his face, and his breath brought out a heavy white gas, and he grabbed the face towel mixed with sand and viscous blood and threw it under the horse, and with one hand he poked the horizontal spear into the tent where the figure flashed, and pierced a Xianbei man through the animal skin curtain. Immediately, his legs clamped the horse's belly and his wrists flipped, and he grabbed the iron spear in both hands and suddenly slammed it horizontally, dragging the iron spear of the heavy corpse and sweeping away the tent support log.

With the sound of the huge tent collapsing, he opened his jaw and shouted: "Kill all the enemy troops, serve the general, kill!" ”