The autumn and August 19 of the third year of Han Yuande.

In the city of Mayi, people are already panicking.

One bad news after another kept coming from the north of Mayi.

By now, all the Han army posts and villages before Mayi have all fallen.

The Xiongnu soldiers are only twenty or thirty miles away from Mayi City.

With such a short distance, the Huns only needed one charge to reach the city of Mayi.

The Huns did not hide their intentions in the slightest.

Aries, Lou Fu, Zhelan, and even the Great Xuan of the Right Virtuous King stood tall and erect, and tens of thousands of cavalry wreaked havoc everywhere.

Smoke rose from many villages, and even hills were set ablaze by fires, which remained unextinguished overnight.

"There are as many as 40,000 horsemen on the enemy this time!" In the Yanai of Mayi County, a man dressed as a scribe talked eloquently to Ma Yiling: "The Ming Mansion should make plans as soon as possible!" ”

The number of 40,000 invaders alone is already more than the permanent population of Mayi City.

According to Ma Yi's statistics last year, the total population of the whole city, including soldiers and merchants, old and weak, women and children, was only more than 17,000.

The strength of the Xiongnu was more than twice the total population of the city of Mayi.

As long as you are not a fool, you know very well that Mayi City is already undefensible.

The difference is only that it was broken by the Huns in a few days.

"Planning?" The county magistrate of Mayi County laughed: "What does Mr. want to say, just say it directly!" ”

"The student thinks that the Ming Mansion has three strategies at this time!" The scribe said confidently.

"Please sir!" The county magistrate squinted his eyes and quietly touched a teacup.

"This is the best policy, of course, is to know the times for Junjie. The Ming Mansion should quickly descend the Xiongnu, so as not to be robbed by the rebellion of the horses......" The scribe said loudly: "Now. The right virtuous king of the Xiongnu drove tens of thousands of troops, and the momentum was violent. If the Ming Mansion stubbornly resists the Xiongnu soldiers, the students are worried that after the Huns break the city, they may retaliate against the soldiers and civilians of Mayi and slaughter the city......"

This person was not wrong, when the Xiongnu invaded, they encountered cities with fierce resistance. After breaking the city, they often choose to slaughter the city to vent.

It's just that......

The county magistrate stood up, looked at the scribe, and asked, "If this official is not mistaken, Mr. seems to be a Confucian student, right?" ”

The county commander looked down at his crown robe, muttered to himself, and said, "This official is also a Confucian student!" ”

"Yidi has a king, it's better than Zhuxia's nothing!"

"Kong said to be benevolent, and Meng said to take righteousness. The Spring and Autumn Period is righteous, and the poems and books contain the way of the first kings and saints! ”

"Poetry and books in the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Nizi and I, have never taught me to steal life. What's more, bending the knee to flatter Yidi, being sent to the left, and betraying the ancestors? The county magistrate sighed: "Sir, I am really disappointed!" ”

"Someone!" The county commander said sharply: "Escort this thief down." The head of the owl hangs above the city gate! ”

Immediately, two sturdy servants came in, and they couldn't help but say. And he pressed the scribe to the ground.

"How stupid the Ming Mansion is!" The scribe cried out, "Resist stubbornly, and take the way of death!" Why should the Ming Mansion be for its own reputation. And disregard the lives of the citizens of the city? ”

"Hahaha......" The county magistrate laughed: "It's you who is stupid, and the fool behind you!" ”

He bowed his hand in the direction of Chang'an and said, "Anzhi China has its own saints? ”

"Ten days ago, the Son of Heaven issued an edict ordering the Flying Fox Army and the Juzhu Army to pull out the camp and leave the customs!"

"At this moment, the two armies of Flying Fox and Juzhu are only fifty miles away from my Mayi......" Shi Shiran, the county order, sorted out the crown and hat: "Your Majesty has seen thousands of miles, and has already seen through the tricks of the Huns and other deeds!" ”

When the scribe heard this, he collapsed to the ground, foaming at the mouth, and kept repeating in his mouth: "Impossible, how can this be ......?"

After a while, he lay on the ground, crying and laughing: "The villain is guilty, guilty!" As he spoke, he kept prostrating.

It looks like he's gone crazy.

But the county order turned a deaf ear, and still waved his hand: "Drag it down, cut it!" ”

Then he went to the inner chamber, changed his crown, put on his armor, and fastened his sword.

He knew that although the Juzhu Army and the Flying Fox Army were already close at hand.

But Mayi City is still inevitably a bloody battle.

The next day will be the hardest day for Mayi.

After receiving the information that the main force of the Han army came to help, the Huns were very likely to launch a crazy offensive against Mayi, and might even take Mayi at all costs.

And Ma Yi had to survive this difficult twelve hours.

This is not only for the people of the city, but also for victory.

"The enmity of Xianggong Fu IX, the Spring and Autumn Period!" He raised his head and drew his sword out of its sheath: "Fifty-six years since Pingcheng, it's time to repay the blood debt to the Huns!" ”

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Three hours ago, at dawn.

The vanguard of the Juzhu army stopped its march at a mountain junction sixty miles away from Mayi City.

Cheng Buzhi rode down from the mountains, took dozens of horses, inspected the geography of this intersection, and then nodded, and ordered: "Order the whole army to camp here and build fortifications!" ”

The battle of tens of thousands of armies is actually not a simple matter as people imagine, the commanders of the two armies will press all the troops, and then divide the victory and defeat.

Since the Warring States period, the pace of war has been getting faster and faster, but the duration of the campaign has been getting longer.

At the beginning, when Bai Qi came to prominence, he attacked the new city of South Korea, and the battle of the new city was only fought for three months.

However, over time.

The duration of the campaign began to increase.

To its peak battle, the battle of Qin and Zhao Changping, from the beginning of the exchange of troops between the two countries to the end of the battle, it took more than five years before and after.

Even if Zhao Kuo was surrounded by the Qin army in Changping for several months, it was several months.

The defeat of the Zhao army took forty-six days.

The battle of the dynasty and the battle of Haixia actually lasted for two months.

This is still only counting the time after Han Xin and Peng Yue joined the battlefield.

And the battle of Heijo, although it is claimed to be only seven days.

However, there were dozens of battles in Jinyang, Taiyuan, Panshi and so on. Only then did the king of Pingcheng see the king.

In the era of cold weapons, I want to be in positional warfare. Destroy any army with more than 10,000 men and no demoralization. In fact, it's all water milling.

In many cases, it is the patience and willpower of the commanders on both sides.

Of course, the upcoming Battle of Mayi will be unlike any previous battle in Chinese history.

This time, both warring sides will use cavalry as the main force.

All of them will use cavalry to test and confront each other.

The crossbowmen and infantry phalanxes, who have been singing protagonists in the war for decades in the past, will be completely reduced to a supporting role in this war.

However, Cheng Buzhi is very clear. In the Juzhu Army and the Flying Fox Army, more than half of the troops are still infantry and crossbowmen.

There is no doubt that the strategic purpose of commanding the main forces of the two Han armies is not to destroy how many Huns, or how many heavy losses to the Huns.

From the very beginning, the task assigned by the imperial court was to let the two armies of Juzhu and Flying Fox attract the main force of the Xiongnu in the front, and create favorable fighters for the Xiliu battalion and the hussar army ambushed in the foothills of Wuzhou.

So. From this point of view.

Then there is really only one thing he needs to do: tell the Huns, come and fight me!

"Bring me the map!" Cheng Buzhi dismounted and said.

Soon, there were Han soldiers who were responsible for keeping and carrying the map. Carrying a wooden map on his back, he came to him.

This is an old-fashioned map drawn by the Juzhu Army.

Although it is not as good as the paper maps that Cheng used when he was in Chang'an.

But, in general. This map is still very helpful.

Look at the mountains and plains and beacons on the map.

Cheng Buzhi slowly built a battle map in his heart.

At the moment, in his eyes. Within this Wuzhou fortress, the radius north of Mayi City is more than 200 miles. will surely become a battlefield.

Therefore, every commanding height, every key road junction, and every strategically important village in this region will become the key to the contention between the Han and Hungarian armies.

And the key to victory lies in who can occupy more key points in the war.

Especially such an enemy as the Huns.

Compressing their activity space, in Cheng Buzhi's view, is the key to victory.

After all, the space of a cavalry is two hundred miles and a hundred miles, and the role it can play is simply incomparable.

If its activity space is only a few tens of miles, it is actually no different from waiting for death.

The poisonous snake in the cage, no matter how venomous, cannot bite anyone.

Gazing at the map, I thought about the three-dimensional battlefield I had built in my mind.

Cheng Buzhi's hand was on the village on the plain thirty miles south of Mayi.

"Please tell the former general......" Cheng Buyi called a herald and instructed: "Please give the general an order immediately, the whole army will speed up and seize the Huang Pavilion!" ”

On this map, Huang's Pavilion is located in the center of the straight road between Mayi City and Yanmen Pass.

Thirty miles to the north, it is Mayi, to the west, you can detour back to the soft underbelly of the flank of the Xiongnu army, and to the south, it is the rear of the Han army.

Holding this place can prevent the Hun cavalry from infiltrating the Yanmen Pass, and can support the defenders of Mayi City anytime and anywhere, and the Xiongnu will not be able to surround Mayi.

And the Xiongnu could not encircle Mayi, and they could not penetrate Yanmen, so they had only one choice - to recycle their own forces.

And this is exactly what Cheng Buzhi needs to see.

Once the Xiongnu forces were recovered, it was equivalent to the bloodless Han army, and the entire battle line was compressed to the north by fifty miles.

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"Found reinforcements from the Han army?"

Under the great command of the right virtuous king of the Huns, Yin Zhi was shocked when he heard the news.

"Where have they been?" Yin Zhixian asked nervously, "How many people are there?" ”

"Great King, the vanguard ranger is sixty miles away from the city of Mayi, and has found the vanguard of the Han army, which is preliminarily estimated to be about two thousand cavalry, and is now stationed at a junction fifty miles away from Mayi, and has set ......up camp," replied a Xiongnu nobleman beside Yin Zhi.

"Fifty miles!" Yin Zhixian immediately jumped up.

This means that the distance between the reinforcements of the Han army and the city of Mayi is only two hours at most.

He looked up at Mayi City, which had been surrounded by Hun cavalry and regiments, and bit his lip.

Then, he asked the ghost: "Aries, Lou Fu and Zhelan." Do the three tribes know about it? ”

"Hui to the Great King, responsible for guarding and cleaning up the rangers of the Han army south of Mayi. They are all under the command of the king, and the slaves and maids have not had time to tell the king of Aries and the others! The nobleman said.

"Don't tell them yet......" the warlord grabbed the reins. Then he craned his neck and looked into the distance.

At this moment, he had a huge question in his heart - why did the Han Dynasty send troops in advance?

On the premise of knowing that he had no news of his illicit relationship with the Han Dynasty, Yin Zhixian's heart became very uneasy.

"It is unlikely that King Donghu will know the news that the two tribes of Aries and Zhelan are heading south!" He thought to himself.

Zhelan and Baiyang went south, taking the territory of King Kun Evil and King Xiu Tu, and when these two tribes entered the Hetao Plain from the Hexi Corridor, in order to keep secrets, they all changed into the banners and costumes of Kun Evil and Hu Tu.

Shan Yuting, in order not to let Lu Qizhi, the king of Donghu, smell anything wrong. Even, he sent someone to the king's tent of the Donghu tribe to keep an eye on Lu Itzhi.

Under such circumstances, it is unlikely that Lu Tazhi will be able to detect the southward movement of Aries and Zhelan.

Then here's the problem!

How did the people of the Han Dynasty know?

With a forward probe, there was a Han army of 2,000 cavalry.

One can imagine how big the scale of this support army will be!

At least 30,000 or 40,000 people!

This kind of power is no longer a force that can be mobilized and organized by a certain border county state in the Han Dynasty.

Under the system of the Han Dynasty, there was only an emperor of Chang'an. To be able to use his power to mobilize an army of this size.

And Yin Zhixian knew very well that even in the Xiongnu, he wanted to mobilize more than 30,000 troops. It is also impossible to transfer it immediately after giving an order.

And in the Han Dynasty, an army had to be mobilized. From preparation to camp, even the most elite troops. It also takes seven or eight days to prepare.

The equipment and logistics were all organized. to send troops.

In other words, at least ten days ago, the order of the Chang'an Emperor had already arrived from Chang'an to an important fortress of the Han Dynasty and mobilized the troops there.

"Do you see the flag clearly?" Yin Zhi tilted his head and asked.

"The king, the minions, etc., seem to see a big banner embroidered with a tiger coming from the south, and another flag painted with a long snake behind it......"

"Sentence Note Army!" Yin Zhi gasped: "There is also the Flying Fox Army!" ”

For these two old friends, Yin Zhixian is very familiar.

One of the most hated and respected enemies of his father's time.

It is also the subject of a game he played with slaves on the back of a sheep when he was a child.

The name of that game is called: Kill the Flying Fox (sentence note).

For the Xiongnu, in the Han Dynasty, their greatest enemy was the three hard, smelly stones that stood in their way south.

Wei Shang in the clouds, the Juzhu army stationed in Yanmen County, and the Flying Fox Army lying on the Flying Fox Ancient Road.

For more than 20 years, these three old friends have given the Huns too many surprises and fright.

So much so that even children know that if they want to go south, these three enemies must be eliminated.

"At least half a month ago, Chang'an's order had already been issued to the Flying Fox Army......" Yin Zhi slanted his eyes and thought of a terrible result.

Day and night from Chang'an, the messenger carrying the orders of the emperor of the Han Dynasty carried an order from Chang'an to the Han army camp in Feihukou after running and killing three or more horses.

Then, this army, with a total strength of 20,000 troops, after leaving a small number of guards, pulled out camp and secretly went north.

At the same time, the Juzhu Army, which had been scattered throughout Yanmen County, received an order to assemble.

Countless supplies and ordnance flowed in an orderly manner in the interior of the Han Dynasty.

Hundreds of thousands of people, pushing wheelbarrows, carrying loads of supplies, one after another, heavy loads of materials, under the traction of people and livestock, climbed along countless ancient roads.

If his guess is true.

So......

Yin Zhixian turned his head abruptly and looked behind him.

Then he saw smoke billowing up into the sky.

Yin Zhi stumbled, a little unbearable, and almost fell off the horse.

"King!" Several nobles were quick and hurriedly supported him.

"Immediately send an order to the whole army, shrink back, and at the same time immediately let the king of Aries, the king of Lou Fu, and the king of Zhelan come to this king for a meeting!" After Yin Zhi stood firm, his first sentence was an impatient order.

As the right virtuous king of the Xiongnu, as a Xiongnu royal family who is determined to compete with the military ministers for a single position.

Yin Zhixian's military talent is naturally very good.

He said loudly to the left and right: "We have been fooled, this is a trap!" A trap set by the Han Dynasty! Just like we hunt foxes on the grassland, we first introduce the fox into a trap that has been set, and then, no matter how cunning, clever, and agile the fox is, it cannot escape the fate of being caught in the trap! (To be continued.) )