Kebi can gallop on the grassland with 30,000 iron horses.

This time the Han attacked Xianbei, Ke Bineng was prepared, he had long expected that Li Yi would march out of Dayan Mountain from the direction of Youzhou, so as to contain himself and Miga's army to support Danhan Mountain and other Xianbei. But in the face of today's declining Xianbei Kingdom, today's Great Han Kingdom and the powerful Li Yi, he is also powerless and unable to turn the tide.

Since the defeat of Yanmen County two years ago, he has seen today's situation. King Putou contacted the lords of Xianbei in the central part and Xianbei in the west, and sent troops to the Han Kingdom, but was defeated in Yanmen County. This defeat lost most of the forces of Danhan Mountain, Central Xianbei and Western Xianbei.

The decline of Danhan Mountain, Central Xianbei and Western Xianbei directly affected the strength of the entire Xianbei country. In the past, in the Xianbei country, the most powerful was the western Xianbei, and then the Danhan Mountain and the central Xianbei. The decline of these major forces has allowed other tribes that were relatively weak before to see the opportunity to rise, which led to the internal chaos in Xianbei in the past two years.

Of course, it is precisely because of this reason that he has the rapid rise of Kebineng, otherwise he would not know where to play in the mud.

With the great loss of the strength of the Xianbei Kingdom, the ensuing crisis is the threat from the Great Han Kingdom. For decades, the Xianbei people have always ignored the Great Han Kingdom, invaded wantonly for decades, and regarded the Great Han Kingdom as a piece of delicious fat, but Li Yi's birth suddenly made earth-shaking changes in the northern frontier of the Great Han Kingdom. First, the Xianbei people were defeated in successive battles, and then Li Yi was going to fight them.

With Li Yi's character, after the defeat of the Xianbei people in Yanmen County and the civil strife that lasted for two years, he was bound to take advantage of the victory to attack the Xianbei country. He will not give up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attack, once the Xianbei people are relieved, the situation in northern Xinjiang will be reversed, and the advantage that the Han people have exchanged for the blood and lives of countless soldiers will be lost.

Fighting a war, in the final analysis, is about money, especially an army like the Great Han Kingdom, which is dominated by infantry. Without huge military resources and abundant military supplies, it would be impossible for the army to move an inch. The Hu people were much better at this, and the soldiers of the army, which were mainly light cavalry, were their people and slaves, and they did not need military salaries, and they could go south to fight as long as they carried countless livestock.

In the territory of the Han people, with a large population and wealth, the survival of the army can be basically maintained by fighting war. But if the Han army attacked them, there would be no such convenience. The desert is vast, deserted, and the winters are long. Even after plundering the Hu people and their livestock, it was difficult for the Han army to occupy the land and survive for a long time.

For hundreds of years, in this boundless desert, the Han Kingdom and the Xiongnu, and the Xianbei people, as well as some Qiang people, have spent this kind of mutual attack, what is the result? The desert is still the world of the Hu people, no matter how strong the Han Kingdom is, in the end it failed to conquer the Hu people in the desert. It failed to turn the desert into the territory of the Great Han Kingdom. No Xianbei people are worried that their desert will become a pasture for the Han people, and no one is worried that their people will become slaves of the Han people.

However, the appearance of Li Yi changed all that. He assembled an unprecedentedly powerful cavalry. Even stronger than the cavalry of the Xianbei people. Although nominally Li Yi only had 60,000 cavalry under his command, in Kebineng's opinion, Li Yi's army of more than 200,000 was all cavalry, because he was in his infantry army. It also almost reached one horse per person, and it could be regarded as a cavalry in battle.

Whoever has a large and powerful iron horse will be able to dominate the desert. This is the unchanging truth of the desert for thousands of years. Kebi can feel a little afraid of Li Yi's iron horse, this time, can we still defeat the Han army's iron horse?

Li Yi's strength was too strong, and the Han army's northern Xinjiang army was extremely strong. In Kebineng's impression, it seems that only more than 300 years ago, when the Great Han Kingdom had 600,000 border troops in the era of their greatest Emperor Wu, did it have such invincible strength in the world. Although today's Han army cannot be compared with the army of Emperor Wu's era, how can today's Xianbei State be compared with the powerful Xiongnu back then?

Kebineng didn't know if the Xianbei people could hold the desert this time, but he knew that the Xianbei people would not admit defeat easily. On the desert, under the protection of the heroic spirit of the king of Tanshihuai, the Xianbei people will not be defeated, and they will definitely not be defeated.

Although the Xianbei people are not enough to compete with the Han people in terms of military strength, the Xianbei people still have a chance, that is, the rotten court of the Han people. No matter how powerful the Ren Han army is, how brave Ren Li Yi is, they all want food and grass, can the rotten Han court support this costly war for a long time? Kebineng does not believe that the Han court today still has the strength and determination. The strength of the Son of Heaven is weak, the eunuchs and the foreign relatives are fighting openly and secretly for the imperial power, and the rebellion in the Great Han Kingdom has been repeated, and it has just experienced six years of war.

It is impossible for those ministers in the Han court not to know such a reality, so why did they launch an expeditionary war at this time? Was this war deliberately waged by their rotten imperial court in order to eradicate Li Yi's threat?

Kobi could gradually figure out a lot of things, and he already knew how to fight this battle.

"Driving the ......" Kebineng roared, and whipped on the back of the war horse, "Command all departments, speed up, speed up......"

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In late April, Li Yi, the general of the expedition to the north, arrived at the Wuyuan camp.

In the afternoon of the same day, Li Yi summoned a group of senior generals such as Anyi General Zhang He, Zhenwei Zhonglang General Mu Guiying, Xingping Zhonglang General Xu Da, Lieutenants Chang Yuchun, Xun Di, and Zhang Yan, as well as Xu Maogong, Liu Bowen and other major staff officers to discuss the matter.

Xu Maogong first briefly explained the latest front-line battle report to Li Yi.

"At present, the three armies are progressing smoothly, and we have not received any news of fierce confrontations between the armies and the Xianbei people. It seems that the Xianbei people were indeed not ready to fight, and as a result, they were caught off guard by us and retreated. At this rate of attack, in May, the three-way army could completely converge at the Dragon Court. ”

"Is there any news of Central Xianbei and Eastern Xianbei?" Li Yi asked, "Has Kebineng's army already gone north into the desert?" ”

"Yesterday we received an urgent report from the scouts from Youzhou, saying that the Xianbei Lord in the central part of the country, Kebineng, had already set out from Shanggu on April 17 with a large army, and according to the distance estimate, they should be almost at Danhan Mountain. Since Kebineng has gone north, the armies of the eastern Xianbei Lord Mijia, Suli and others are estimated to be almost in the desert. Xu Maogong said with a smile, "When the Xianbei people are at stake, the royal court and the ministries temporarily give up their previous suspicions for the fate of the country. It is also expected that we will abandon our grudges and work together to defend against the enemy. It's just that we still can't know exactly whether Gongsun Zhan and Tian Kai's diversion attack will work, and we don't know how many iron horses Kebineng and Micah and others brought to the north. The number of Xianbei troops going north to support will be directly related to our expedition to Wolf Juxu Mountain, so I have already ordered Xiao Zuojia to send scouts. ”

Xiao Zuo continued: "According to the news sent by the scouts from Youzhou in the past two days, the feint attack of Gongsun Zan and Tian Kai did not achieve the purpose of containing Kebineng and Miga, Su Li and others to go north to support. There are too few iron cavalry in the Youzhou army. The food and grass are also insufficient, and they cannot guarantee a long-term attack, let alone fight deep into the Xianbei territory. So it's normal for this feint to be seen through by Kebi. However, in order to ensure the safety of their respective territories and clansmen, Kebineng, Mika, Suli and others must leave enough troops to resist the attacks of Gongsun Chan and Tian Kai. In this way, I think that even if Kebi and Micah, Su Li and others want to lead most of the main force north, it will probably be 30,000 to 40,000 iron horsemen. ”

"Among the four Xianbei divisions, the eastern Xianbei region is the smallest and has the smallest population. The army is the least. Liu Bowen then added, "Xiao Zuo's estimate I think it's about the same. To ensure that we can successfully expedition to Wolf Juxu and Dragon Court in the later stage, the key is to look at the present, and to see whether our three-way army can take advantage of the opportunity to seize the opportunity to enter the depths of the desert as quickly as possible. Cut off the retreat of the bald Pi Gu and Bu Du Gen, and annihilate the tens of thousands of troops of the bald Pi Gu and Bu Du Gen in front of the Dragon Court. Without enough troops, Kebineng has great ability, and he can't save the Xianbei country. ”

"Danhan Mountain is gone. The other Xianbei is gone, and the entire Xianbei is groaning under the trampling of our big man's iron hooves, just ask. How long can the central Xianbei of Kebineng exist? Can Eastern Xianbei still survive on its own? Li Yi said calmly, "I asked Gongsun Zhan and Tian Kai to attack Xianbei in the central and eastern Xianbei, not to contain their forces, but to tell Kebineng that we have launched the most powerful attack on the Xianbei country." I need him to bring all the main forces of the central Xianbei and the eastern Xianbei to the desert, and I want to fight him to the death in the desert, and the victory will be decided in a battle. ”

"This time we are on an expedition to the desert, our strength is strong, the advantage is very obvious, whether it is the root of the step, or the ability to do so, as long as there is a little brain, no one will start a fierce battle with our sharpness. Therefore, before the battle reaches the Dragon Court, the progress of the army should be quite smooth, and the Xianbei people have no better way to resist our attack except to retreat and flee. ”

Li Yi spread out a new map on the desk and continued: "I have told the commander of the three-way army several times that before the army reaches the Dragon Court, the most important thing is speed. A hundred miles a day is not an ideal speed for me, and it is better to advance one hundred and fifty miles a day. In this way, the army can rush to Longting in seven to ten days, that is, five days later, and fix the battle line between Fuyangju Mountain, Longting and Jiluo Mountain. ”

"Twelve years ago, three generals, Tian Yan, the general of the Broken Xianbei Zhonglang, Zang Min, the general of the Hun Zhonglang, and Xia Yu, the captain of the Hun Guard, led the army to the battle. In order to avoid its sharpness, Tanshi Huai led hundreds of thousands of ethnic groups to move north as a whole, and as a result, the Xianbei people have always had sufficient food and supplies, and our army has become a fatal key point with the extension of the expedition, and finally defeated. ”

"What lesson does this defeat teach our descendants? That is to turn the advantages of the Xianbei people into our advantages, and our disadvantages into the disadvantages of the Xianbei people. Li Yi pointed to the new map in front of him and said slowly, "Therefore, I plan to suspend the attack after the army has completely controlled Longting, Fuyangju Mountain and Jiluo Mountain, and instead concentrate on appeasing the Xianbei people, and prepare to build the Beiting Protectorate on the territory of Xianbei and Danhan Mountain." ”

The generals left the table one after another and gathered around Li Yi. On this new map, the territory of the Great Han Kingdom has extended to the middle of the desert, and the Xianbei and Danhan Mountains, other parts of the Xianbei people, have been drawn into the Great Han Kingdom with cinnabar pens, which is very eye-catching. And on this new territory are written five quaint big characters: Beiting Duhufu.

The generals' blood boiled suddenly, and the achievement and excitement of expanding the territory made everyone smile. (To be continued.) )