In the Hetao area, there are mostly grasslands and plains, and there are very few mountains and woodlands.

As for the rivers, they are much less than those in the Central Plains.

In the Central Plains, due to the mountain barrier, the wind is not very violent, but in the Hetao area, it is a completely different scene.

The lush meadows are full of turquoise grass, and the summer breeze sweeps through the blades of grass, rustling the green grass all over the ground.

It stands to reason that only the winter wind, blowing on people's faces, will make people feel faint pain, but walking in the wilderness of the Hetao area, the soldiers of the Luoyang Army clearly feel that the summer wind here blows on the face, and it will also blow the face painfully.

It is no wonder that the skin of those Huns is not as delicate as that of the Central Plains, and even the Huns are second to Liunu, and after living in Luoyang for a period of time, their skin is gradually becoming much more delicate.

led the army to walk on the endless grassland, and looking ahead, Liu Wei could not see the figure of a Hun or a Huns.

Entering the Hetao area to settle, the Huns still maintained nomadic customs to a certain extent, and in the past, the Xiongnu needed grain and cloth, all of which were exchanged with the Central Plains merchants with fur and beef and mutton.

Since the Xiongnu marched into the Central Plains, they often let people send some materials plundered from the Central Plains back to Hetao, which really made the Huns taste a lot of sweetness.

But they never thought that there would be an army in the Central Plains to the Xiongnu, and this army came to the Xiongnu not to plunder the poor materials of the Xiongnu, but to completely drive them out of the Hetao area.

"Your Highness, I haven't seen the Huns for a long time." Following behind Liu Bian, while moving forward, Guan Qing whispered to Liu Bian: "Could it be that the Huns are hiding in a deeper place?" ”

"The Huns are nomadic herders!" Walking forward slowly, Liu Wei did not look back at Guan Qing who was talking to him, but only replied softly: "Their residences are extremely scattered, and finding them is not as simple as we imagined." As soon as he entered the Hetao, the king had already sent people to investigate the nearby places where the Xiongnu gathered! ”

Knowing that Liu Wei had sent people to investigate the gathering place of the Huns, Guan Qing didn't say anything more, but just kept turning his head and looking around.

What appeared in her field of vision was a lush and boundless grassland, such a vast grassland, even if there were tens of millions of cattle and sheep, there was no need to worry about the lack of water and grass for cattle and sheep to eat.

"If we can open up a horse farm here and specialize in raising war horses, our army will not have to worry about the shortage of war horses in the future!" After walking forward for a while, Liu Wei didn't know what he suddenly thought, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he raised his hand and pointed forward, and said to Guan Qing: "Qing'er, you see, the Luoyang army has only 30,000 cavalry at the moment, and even if you count the three guards, there are only less than 40,000 cavalry. If one million war horses can be stocked here, then one day our Luoyang army will become a large cavalry army with all officers and soldiers! ”

"Your Highness seems to have a soft spot for cavalry!" Hearing Liu Wei say this, Guan Qing covered her mouth and laughed out loud, and when she got the laughter, she looked up at Liu Bian, and said with a blushing face: "But Your Highness also knows that when the two armies fight, if one side is full of cavalry, there is nothing to do in the face of the enemy's strong crossbow bows and arrows, not to mention that if you really fight, the cavalry can't cut down the heavy infantry." ”

"That's just as well!" The corners of his mouth maintained an indifferent smile, Liu Wei nodded, and then said no more.

Guan Qing said this, he also knew that compared with heavy infantry, the heavy cavalry won nothing more than two points, one was fast mobility, and the other was the impact force when charging.

As for the fact that after the two armies collided in one place, the cavalry fought with the infantry, and did not have any advantage at all. In particular, if the cavalry fires arrows from a distance, if it confronts the enemy's bow and arrow array, it must be the cavalry who will eventually destroy the whole army.

"Your Highness, the Hun tribe has been found ahead!" As soon as he arrived at Liu Bian's side, the dragoon guard raised his fists and said to Liu Bian: "The tribe is very large, I am afraid there are tens of thousands of people. ：”

Hearing that there was a Xiongnu tribe in front of him, the generals behind Liu Wei all had strange looks in their eyes, and turned their faces to Liu Wei, expecting Liu Wei to give an order to attack the Xiongnu tribe.

"Are there Hun soldiers in the tribe?" To the surprise of the generals, the king of Luoyang, who had killed 672 Xiongnu scouts with brutal means a few days ago, did not immediately order to approach the Xiongnu tribe, but asked the dragoon guard who reported the news.

After being questioned by Liu Wei, the dragoon guard hurriedly said: "Back to Your Highness, there are some Hun soldiers in the tribe, but according to visual observation, there are only three or four hundred!" ”

"Deng Zhan!" Knowing that there were only three or four hundred dragoons in the tribe, Liu Wei turned his head and shouted to Deng Zhan behind him: "Immediately lead the dragoons to raid the Hun tribe and kill all the Huns guarding the tribe." As for the Hun civilians, they are not allowed to kill at will! ”

"No!" After Liu Bian's order was issued, the generals who clearly heard the content of his order were all disappointed, and Deng Zhan also responded in puzzlement, and then asked Liu Bian: "Your Highness, don't kill the Huns, so that the Huns can also know the power of my Han official army?" ”

"What's so powerful?" Before Deng Zhan's words fell, Liu Wei turned his head to look at him, smiled slightly, and said to him: "Whether the officers and soldiers can be brave or not is not how many civilians are slaughtered, but whether they can make the enemy soldiers feel terrified when they are fighting on the battlefield!" The Dragoon Guards are the special elite under the command of this king, how can they do that massacre of civilians? ”

Deng Zhan didn't know much about the words "special elite", but from Liu Wei's words, he could hear that Liu Wei always had high hopes for the dragoons, and he didn't want to let their hands be stained with the blood of civilians.

"Your Highness said yes!" In response to the fist again, Deng Zhan raised his hand and made a move behind him, shouting loudly: "Dragoon Guard, follow me to attack the Xiongnu tribe!" ”

"Roar!" Knowing that there was a battle to be fought, the five hundred dragoons cheered in unison, followed Deng Zhan, and rushed in the direction of discovering the Xiongnu tribe under the guidance of the dragoons who reported the news.

Deng Zhan led the dragoon guards and rushed into the distance. Looking at their backs, Liu Wei also shook the reins, and shouted to the Luoyang army following behind him: "I'll continue to move forward!" ”

The 50,000 Luoyang Army, given the order to continue advancing, rushed towards the depths of the Hetao area like a fire burning in the wilderness.

The place where the Xiongnu tribe was discovered was not very far from the position where Liu Wei and the others were marching, but after walking for about an hour, Liu Wei saw a snow-white tent appear in front of him.

The Huns, who maintained nomadic habits, did not live in houses like the Central Plains, but tents that could be carried away by cattle and horses at any time.

Leading the team, slowly walking towards the Hun tribe in front, when he was still two or three hundred steps away from the tribe, he met a dragoon guard officer on horseback.

The officer rode his horse to Liu Bian's approach, turned over and jumped off the horse, looked at Liu Bian with his face and fists on his face, and said: "Your Highness, General Deng led us to rush into the Hun tribe, and the hundreds of Hun soldiers in the tribe did not resist at all. General Deng didn't dare to be specialized, so I implore His Highness to show it! ”

"Oh?" The words of the dragoon guard officer stunned Liu Wei, he blinked his eyes twice, first glanced ahead with a stunned face, and then beckoned to the army behind him and shouted: "Go to the Xiongnu tribe to take a look, without the promise of this king, no one is allowed to swing a sword at the Huns without permission!" ”

After getting Liu Wei's order, tens of thousands of Luoyang soldiers felt a little breathless.

In the territory of Bingzhou, they saw many villages and towns that had been sacked by the Huns, and they were already holding back a lot of strength in their stomachs, and they only hoped that they could kill a few more Huns happily when they entered the Hetao.

But as soon as Liu Wei gave this order, the soldiers of the Luoyang Army knew that Liu Wei did not intend to let them go on a killing spree, and when they entered the Hetao, they still could not wave their swords at the Hun civilians at will.

led the army and slowly drove into the Xiongnu tribe.

As soon as he entered the tribe, Liu Wei saw two or three hundred Hun soldiers kneeling on the ground with their heads in their hands and under the guard of the dragoons.

Liu Wei led the army into the tribe, and all the kneeling Hun soldiers turned their heads to look at him. The look in those eyes was not fear, but a little expectation.

Looking at those Hun soldiers, Liu Wei's brows frowned slightly, and he felt more and more puzzled in his heart.

This tribe is not small, as the Dragoon Guardian said in the previous report, there are more than 10,000 Huns in the tribe.

When the army entered the tribe, the men and women of the Huns stood outside the tents, and like the Huns kneeling on the ground, they cast their eyes on Liu Wei's body.

The women hugged the children tightly and looked at Liu Wei, their eyes were still a little panicked.

Unlike the women, the men in the tribe looked at Liu Wei and Luoyang Jun empty-handed, and did not feel the slightest panic because they were men and were most likely to be slaughtered.

The children of the Huns are as innocent as the children of the Central Plains. They didn't know why the Hun soldiers who protected them in the tribe on weekdays would line up to kneel down to these Luoyang soldiers wearing red robes, and they didn't know that this Luoyang army, which had just entered the tribe, only needed an order from Liu Wei to make the entire tribe die under the sword.

"Which of the king's people are you waiting for?" Entering the middle of the tribe, Liu Wei stopped his horse, looked around at the Huns standing around, and shouted and asked.

These Huns obviously didn't understand what Liu Wei said, and after Liu Wei shouted, they looked at each other one by one, their faces full of astonishment.

Just when the Huns and Liu Wei had a language barrier and could not communicate, Liu Wei heard a Xiongnu word first come out among the Huns, and then the voice said to Liu Wei: "Your Highness, we are the people of King Zuogu Li!" ”