Chapter 869: Breaking through Helan Mountain

When Lü Di received the news of the victory in the Battle of Yunzhong, his army had just left the Hengshan Mountains and entered the ancient Datong Basin.

Looking at this barrier of the whole Jin Dynasty, the gateway to the north, and the throat of the later Jin, Hebei, and Inner Mongolia, the ancient Datong basin area known as the "key to the north", Lu Turan sighed, he planned to completely clean up the troubles here, and build a county here independently, the county is called Yanmen County, and on the basin that guards the Yunzhong Road, build a big city, the name is Datong, and it is the city of Yanmen County.

Knowing that the victory in Yunzhong and the 150,000 army of the Hu people were annihilated, Lu Di was very happy and launched a general attack order for the army: the 20 battalions were ordered to take their respective battalion generals as the main generals, and attack in 20 directions, sweeping all the mountain valleys and basins between the north of the Hengshan Mountains and the south of the Yinshan Mountains; He also ordered the Juyong guards of Beiping County and the guards of Chengde and other places to immediately go out of Yanshan, march westward, and take the important places occupied by Daijun and the Hu people.

Almost at the same time, Zheng Bang, the envoy of the Qi army, arrived in the country of Yiqu, and after submitting the credentials to the king of Yiqu, the king of Yiqu did not hesitate to lead the army north and attack the base camp of the Linhu people, the ancient Ordos Plateau.

A month later, the Donghu people south of Yinshan were completely cleaned up, except for some Donghu people who saw that the situation was not right, and immediately fled north with their tribes to the north of Yinshan, the other tribes were all killed in battle or surrendered, and those who surrendered voluntarily in the surrender were given the surname by Lu Di in recognition of their deeds, and turned Hu into Qi.

As for the Donghu people who passively surrendered, Lu Di did not have the slightest mercy, belittled them, and became slaves of the Qi people.

Those Donghu people who fled north to the north of Yinshan, Lü Di did not let them go, because Lü Di knew that in the near future, the powerful Huns would appear in the north, so he ordered his son Touman to lead an army of 100,000 to chase and kill.

In another month, the 600,000 troops of the Qi army joined forces at the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain, in the Luliang Mountain area in the east of the ancient Yellow River.

Soon the army broke through the Dingxiang area controlled by the Linhu people, and the army continued to advance westward, and two months later, the army fought again with the Linhu people who carried the black dragon banner, defeated the 36 tribes of the Linhu tribal alliance, and captured the Jiuyuan Wuyuan (Tumochuan Plain) area in the later Yunzhong.

After the war, the Qi army captured a total of countless trophies, cattle, sheep and horses, which is needless to say, but it should be said that they also captured 4 million deer.

This huge number of deer shocked the entire Qi army, and Lu Di was even more shocked and almost knelt down, you must know that in the Central Plains today, although the natural ecology is good, there are many deer herds, but there are not so many of them!

Lu Di planned to build Jiuyuan County in the place where the deer herd was captured, and govern the city, which was called the predecessor of Baotou in later generations, Lucheng.

In addition, in this battle, the Qi army saw the legendary creature for the first time, the camel!

The Qi army captured about 50,000 camels, and what was even more bloody was that Lü Di formed a new cavalry, the Camel Army.

The army continued to advance westward, sweeping north, until it reached the foot of Helan Mountain in the west, Daqingshan, Wolf Mountain and other mountains in the north, due to the cold weather, the Qi army had to stop.

Lu Di came to Helan Mountain, oh, of course, it is not called Helan Mountain at this time, Lu Di looked at the dense forest, snow-covered, blue and white towering mountain, it was poetry and prosperity, and gave this mountain a name: Helan Mountain! And carved the stone tablet of his great achievements of "stepping through the lack of Helan Mountain" with his own hands and buried it at the foot of the mountain.

Thinking that the west of Helan Mountain and the north of Yinshan Mountain were endless grassland deserts, and it was not interesting to attack again, Lu Di ordered the army to meet on the bank of the ancient Yellow River after the weather warmed up, waiting for orders.

At the same time, Lü Di formalized the Guhetao Plain into Shuofang County, and the royal decree of the three counties of Jiuyuan County and Yunzhong County was issued.

Some meritorious soldiers who were willing to stay here, Lu Di gave a large number of slaves and land each, and some even gave tens of thousands of slaves and hundreds of miles of land, which can be called the local land overlord.

These people were formed into the class of doctors and gentlemen in each county, and the county code was mobilized by the Minister of State. Lu Di was not worried that these people would betray him Lu Di, because these people knew that they were alone and without the support of the powerful Central Plains Dynasty, they were just a fart.

Of course, the people who were given land and slaves were not only the meritorious soldiers of the Qi army, but also the Linhu tribes who directly surrendered to Lü Di, and those tribes saw that the Qi army was attacking, and did not go to attack, but took the initiative to surrender.

These tribes who surrendered received Lu Di's reward, and their loyalty soared, you must know that Lu Di's words mean that their people will not be in danger of being swallowed up by other tribes, they will live the same happy life as the Qi people in their own land, and even their clansmen's children may enter the power core of the Qi country, become generals, and become important ministers.

Spring is coming, the snow has melted, and Lu Di is almost scared to pee!

Because of his decision to let the Qi army be stationed on the banks of the ancient Yellow River!

Ling Xun!

Yes, Lingxun, the Lingxun of the ancient Yellow River in this era was very large, especially in the Guhetao Plain area.

Looking at the more than 500,000 Qi troops who were lucky enough to avoid Ling Xun, Lu Di knelt on the ground and cried to the heavens, if his 500,000 army was submerged and destroyed by Ling Xun this time, his ambition to dominate the world, I am afraid that he will not be able to realize it in this life, and he may also suffer vicious consequences: within the Qi State, the old nobles who annexed the countries may rebel.

Lu Di killed a thousand cows, a thousand sheep, a thousand deer, and a thousand swans, and sacrificed to the heavens, earth, mountains, rivers, and rivers, so that he felt more comfortable. And gave an order to the gentry of the three counties to sacrifice every year, and not to slack off.

The sacrifices of this era are different from those of later generations, and the sacrifices of later generations cannot be enjoyed by the living, and all sacrifices in this era must be distributed to those who participate in the sacrifices after the sacrifices.

So a thousand cows, a thousand deer, a thousand sheep, and a thousand swans did not give the gentry of the three counties a toothache, after all, after sacrificing cattle, deer, sheep and geese, the last meat was still their own.

Besides, there are tens of thousands of gentry among them, and they can't row one by one when they turn down.

At the end of the flood season, it was March, all things were flourishing, and the spring flowers were romantic.

Lü Di got two pieces of news, one was the news that the 100,000-strong army led by Wang Zitouman had entered the north of Yinshan to pursue and kill the Donghu people.

Prince Touman successfully pursued and killed the Donghu people who fled north, but was attacked by the northern barbarians from further north, the army fought a battle, the Qi army won a great victory, and the prince Touman captured 43,400 prisoners, and Wang Touman suggested that in the northern grassland, build a big city to keep a peek at the grassland movement.

Lü Di agreed, and directly named the big city Toumancheng, and at the same time issued an edict to the national capital Linzi, ordering the death row prisoners in his prison to be stationed here to avoid capital crimes.

No one wants to die, and Lu Di believes that those condemned prisoners from all over the country will soon make Manchester City extremely prosperous and prosperous.

In fact, just as Lu Di thought, thirty years later, Touman City has become the "pearl" and "tumor" of the vast grassland in the north of Yinshan Mountain.

It is said that he is a pearl because this is the largest slave trading market in Qi State, a cattle and horse trading market, where many legendary death row prisoners were born and became rich.

It is said that he is a cancer because of the existence here, which makes the grassland tribes live in great war pain. Where can there be slaves without war? This is the cancer of the grassland.

After Lu Di ordered Touman to build Touman City, he could lead the main army south, return to Bingzhou County, and wait for the next royal order.

The second news is that the Yiqu people successfully swept through the old nest of the Linhu people, the ancient Ordos Plateau area.

In response to this news, Lü Di convened a plenary meeting, because he wanted to decide the next strategy, that is, whether to cross the ancient Yellow River and enter the ancient Ordos Plateau to start a war with the Yiqu people.

As a result of the meeting, the overwhelming majority of the people supported it, went directly south, and destroyed the Yiqu.