In May of the sixth year of the Han Dynasty, Longting.

Mika, the Eastern Xianbei Lord, finally arrived at the Dragon Court with 10,000 iron horsemen and a large number of livestock weapons. Immediately after him, the other two eastern Xianbei lords, Su Li and Que Ji, also arrived with 10,000 horses. In this way, the Xianbei army gathered in the Dragon Court reached 50,000 people.

It's just that in the face of the 130,000 army led by Yue Fei, who was waiting for the battle, Ke Bineng was still at a loss, and the 50,000 Xianbei army was not the opponent of the Han army at all.

"Why haven't the people of the Western Xianbei come yet?" Micah asked angrily, "I am late to Suli and them because we have a long way to go, and we still have to bring so many livestock weapons, but Western Xianbei is only a few hundred miles away from the Dragon Court, and they are crawling and crawling. ”

Bu Dugen didn't speak with a cold face, but Fu Luo Han explained in a whisper: "We got the news that Yan Liyou was swallowed by the 50,000 army led by Li Yi's general Zhang Fei in Liangang Mountain, and all the 10,000 troops were buried in Liangang Mountain, and he only escaped with more than 100 horsemen. ”

Que Ji asked, "What about the deduction of the law day?" What about bald hair?

"When Zhang Fei entered the desert, he was the first person to kill." Fu Luo Han lamented, "The Ritsuri deduction has been dead for more than a month, and the Heavenly Wolf Tribe has long since disappeared. The bald Pi Gu was ambushed by Zhao Yun, another general under Li Yi, in Baiyun Mountain, and the whole army was wiped out, and the bald tribe was gone. ”

"How so?" Micah, Sully, and Que Ji's eyes widened in disbelief, "Although we have suffered consecutive defeats in the past two years, we are not so vulnerable, right?" This is the desert, it is our place, how can the Han army have such a strong strength? ”

"Li Yi's iron horsemen are all from northern Xinjiang, and when Li Yi was doing business with us a few years ago, he collected too much information about the tribes of the grassland, and their familiarity with the situation of the grassland even surpassed ours. They were familiar with the terrain of the desert, and the timing of the attack was very sudden. The attack speed is even faster. The strength of Xianbei and Danhan Mountain in the north is weak and unable to cope with the battle, and this battle will be lost no matter how it is fought. "If we can gather forces for a counterattack in the shortest possible time, we may be able to defeat them, but now you see how many men and horses we have gathered?" That old bastard was only a few hundred miles away from us, and he didn't come to assemble or bring us food, so it seemed that he was planning to surrender to the Han Chinese. ”

Que Ji asked, "When will he arrive?" Did the king send someone to urge? ”

"He's not coming." Bu Dugen said, "I have already sent someone to Yanran Mountain. Zhi Luo Luo said. He only had 20,000 men, and he didn't want to go head-to-head with the Han army. In fact, he just wanted to preserve his strength. ”

There was silence in the tent.

After a long time, Bu Dugen stood up and said, "I'll go to Yanran Mountain in person." It's okay if he doesn't come, but he has to provide us with food, otherwise, it will be difficult for us to hold on. ”

"Nope." Kebineng waved his hand and said, "Let's go with the king." ”

"Give up the Dragon Court?" Budugen asked in surprise.

"Yes, give up the Dragon Court." Kebineng said. "The Han people's attack speed this time was too fast, the tribes of Xianbei and Danhan Mountain in the north did not withdraw, and the army was seriously short of food, so we had to continue to retreat. Withdraw to the area of Yanran Mountain and Wolf Juxu Mountain. ”

"Evacuate directly to Wolf Juxu?" Fu Luo Han looked at Ke Bineng dumbfounded, a little incredulous.

"Let's go to Yanran Mountain first, whether the Han army pursues it or not, and we will go to Wolf Juxu a month later." Kebineng said expressionlessly. "There are not so many livestock in the western Xianbei that can continue to supply the needs of tens of thousands of troops, so we must immediately send people back and let the central Xianbei and the eastern Xianbei send the livestock directly to the Wolf Juxu Mountain."

"Kebineng. We're not guarding the Dragon Court anymore? Returning to the mud asked in despair, "Let's not play Sweat Mountain?" Don't want to be a country of Xianbei? ”

Kebineng sighed and said slowly: "We have lost all the opportunities, we are passive everywhere, and there is no way except to retreat to preserve our strength and Xu Tu to make other strategies." Now we are short of troops and food, and even if we want to fight, we are powerless. ”

"If the troops are insufficient, we can urge them to go back to Luoluo, and if the food is insufficient, we can rob them again, but this Dragon Court must not give up." "It's only May, and the prairie hasn't even entered summer yet. If you give up the Dragon Court now, the Han people will be able to fight Wolf Juxu next month. Kebineng, do you want us to be defeated in Ding Zero and avoid trouble in the North Sea? ”

Kebineng nodded solemnly.

"The Han people marched into the desert with an army of more than 200,000 troops, and the supply of grain and grass was very huge, and they couldn't do it with their current national strength." Kebineng said, "You see, what is the purpose of them now concentrating all the tribes and livestock of Xianbei and Danhan Mountain in the north to Danhan Mountain, Qiyang City, and Surrendered City? In addition to not letting us loot, it is more important that they themselves have to eat. Look at it again, nearly half of the 130,000 Han troops on the Dragon Court are iron cavalry, and the main force of the Han army's foot soldiers are all stranded in Qiyang City, why? Not because they can't go fast, but because they can't supply food and grass anymore. ”

"In that case, then why should we give up the Dragon Court?" Budugen asked.

"If the Han army can't completely defeat us, he won't be able to dominate the desert and destroy the Xianbei country, so he can only chase after us." Kebi looked at the crowd and asked, "The more than 130,000 troops pursued later, how much grain and grass will the Han army consume?" Taking a step back, even if the Han army launched a pursuit with 50,000 iron cavalry, his consumption of grain and grass was very staggering. ”

"As long as we retreat quickly, the Han army will inevitably chase fast, so that when we retreat to Beihai, the Han army will have nothing to eat." Kebineng said, "As long as we no longer hold on to the Dragon Court, we will grasp the opportunity on the battlefield, and the Han army will fall into passivity." Winter in Beihai comes earlier and faster than here, and it is difficult for the Han people not to die. ”

"Ke Bineng, twelve years ago, this is how we defeated the Han army, Li Yi has a lesson from the past, and he may not be able to fall for it." Micah whispered, "The Han people's previous conquests of the desert did not necessarily end with the victory of Wolf Juxu, they generally ended with the coming of winter. So I think as long as we stay until winter and Li Yi has no food and grass, he will naturally withdraw his troops and return to China. ”

"From a large country to a small tribe, population is the foundation, the potential of the war force. In the past few years since Li Yi ran Northern Xinjiang, how many people have migrated from other parts of the Han Kingdom to Northern Xinjiang? If he hadn't done this, could Li Yi have such a powerful force? Are we in such a situation today? ”

"Originally, our war potential was about to be exhausted because of the continuous defeats and civil strife in the past few years, and if the Han army was allowed to plunder more than 200,000 of our clansmen and millions of livestock back to China, the Xianbei country would be completely finished. What can we do with our tens of thousands of troops? With no food, no clothing, and no reproduction on the grassland, the Xianbei country can only go to self-destruction. Kebineng said categorically, "For the hope of the Xianbei country, and for the Xianbei people to continue to reproduce, we must defeat the Han army and recapture everything that they have robbed." ”

Everyone listened to Kebineng's words and fell silent.

The Xianbei people evacuated the Dragon Court.

Yue Fei quickly reported the news to Li Yi.

Li Yi summoned Xu Maogong and others to discuss for a long time, and decided not to pursue for the time being. At present, the condition of the Son of Heaven is getting worse and worse, the situation in Luoyang is unstable, and the prairie is complicated, so it is better to take another look.

So Li Yi hurriedly wrote Yue Fei, leaving 30,000 iron cavalry to garrison Longting, and the rest of the men and horses immediately returned to the surrendered city and Zhiyang City.

Not long after Li Yi's order was issued, a news reached Qiyang City: Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven, had died.

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On May 13 of the sixth year of Zhongping in the Han Dynasty, Liu Hong, the son of heaven, was only 34 years old when he died, and he reigned for 21 years.

He was an incompetent son of heaven in this dynasty, when he was young, he was indulged in pleasure, pampered the officials, ignorant of the government, and when he was old, sensible, and wanted to do something, he ushered in the biggest rebellion of the exiles in this dynasty.

With the rebellions of the Yellow Turban Army, the Great Han Kingdom also fell into a precarious situation, and then there were more rebellions, more Hu invasions.

Just when the Great Han Kingdom was struggling to survive, the Son of Heaven did not think about change, but because of his own selfishness, he led the Great Han Kingdom into a more terrible battle for imperial domination.

Although the Son of Heaven is incompetent, one thing is the clearest, today's Han Kingdom is terminally ill, even if Emperor Gao and Emperor Shizu Guangwu are reborn, they have no way to revive the Han in just over ten years, and in the end they can only end up helpless like today's son.

The Son of Heaven is stronger than his uncle Emperor Xiaohuan in that he left the imperial system for the Han Dynasty and made great contributions to the continuation of the Han Dynasty. He is worse than Emperor Xiaohuan in that he has no merits worthy of special mention, although hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Han Dynasty fought countless battles for him, but the result was that the rebellion was fought more and more, and the territory was fought less and less. So he didn't have any glory, he could only be called "Ling", which was a big difference from Emperor Xiaohuan's "Huan". "Spirit" means that he is laissez-faire, unable to see the wise and wise, and has no political achievements.

On the second day of the death of the Son of Heaven, the general led 10,000 northern troops into Mengjin and stationed in the Baijun Mansion on the orders of Empress He. (The Hundred Counties Mansion is the liaison official residence built in Beijing by the state and county governments of the Han Kingdom, which is equivalent to the current offices of local governments in Beijing.) )

On the same day, the ministers of the Three Princes and the Nine Emperors headed by Yuan Kui supported the great prince Liu Wei as the new emperor of the Great Han State in accordance with the laws of the Han Dynasty, and Liu Wei was 14 years old at the time.

The new emperor honored his mother, Empress He, as the empress dowager. Empress Dowager He was in charge of the dynasty, granted amnesty to the world, and changed the name of the year to Guangxi.

The new emperor named Liu Xie, the emperor's younger brother, the king of Bohai. Liu Xie was nine years old at the time.

The new emperor appointed the general Yuan Kui as the Taifu, and together with the general He Jin, he participated in the affairs of Shangshu and dealt with the government affairs.

Soon, the new emperor appointed Xun Shuang as the doctor of Guanglu, Yuan Shao as the captain of Sili, Wang Yun as the Yin of Henan, Liu Biao as the Zhongcheng of the Imperial History, He Hao as the candidate of the Northern Army, and Zheng Tai as the Shangshu. (To be continued.) )