Wei Cao did not answer Lu Yao's question.

He stared at the geographical map spread out in front of him by Lu Yao, and was silent.

Lu Yao didn't pay attention to Wei Cao's expression, and he didn't mind if Wei Cao would answer. General Yingyang and Daijun Taishou came to the grassland, originally to convince people with their strength, not to fight for a battle of words. The only fish that escaped the net of the Lu clan in Jiangdong joined the army alone since the second year of Tai'an, and after thousands of births and deaths, he was finally able to lead tens of thousands of elite soldiers to sweep across the desert. At this moment, Lu Yao is no longer the desperate and down-and-out military master who was chased and killed by the Huns!

Twilight has arrived, and tonight the moon is sparse and the stars are scarce, and it is a clear night. In the silent barracks, there was a sudden sound of dense footsteps, followed by the sound of horses' hooves stomping on the ground, the neighing of war horses, and the sound of armor colliding together, merging into a noisy but still gloomy sea of sounds.

Outside the camp gate.

"General, the scout battalion has 200 light cavalry, and has set off in advance according to the military order. There are 2,000 cavalry in our army, all of them have been assembled, and General Hou has ordered! ”

Lu Yao stepped out of the tent, stretched out his hands, and a saloon guard stepped forward, putting on armor for him and straightening his outfit.

Lu Yao looked forward to the cavalry team gathered in the night, his eyes were as sharp as knives: "What about Ding Miao, Xue Tong, Liu Yao and the others?" ”

"General Ding's two thousand elites are close to the source. The troops of General Xue and Liu Er were halfway and waiting for our department. ”

"What about Shen Jin?"

"General Shen's subordinates are carrying all kinds of baggage equipment and are ready to set off at any time."

The kung fu of answering in two sentences leads the horse left and right. Lu Yao mounted his horse and galloped past before the two thousand elite horsemen, and was satisfied to see that although it was an emergency military order, the morale of every soldier was high, and he did not relax at all.

He raised his whip and shouted: "Go! ”

Since he decided to intervene in the war in the grasslands of Northern Xinjiang, Lu Yao had no intention of smashing the fierce and powerful Xianbei tribes in front of him. He stayed in the southern part of the steppe for many days to wait for the chaos in Tuoba Xianbei to escalate and gradually become out of control. When the Xianbei tribe such as the Balie Division, the Yefu Lu Division, and the Weinai Lou Department and the Buyu tribe who stopped here went to the east and west, and the large Xianbei forces in the grassland on the dam gradually left, Lu Yao could use cavalry to raid the source of the river, defeat the Puliuru and Qiluo tribes in the east of Tuoba Xianbei, subdue the Jin forces in the grassland, and seize the essence of the grassland on the dam, so as to cut the control area of the Xianbei people in northern Xinjiang into two sections!

Once this goal has been successfully accomplished, subsequent actions can be taken as appropriate. In the south, it relies on the Chengchiwu Fort of Daijun as the foundation, and the Daijun army as the pillar, while the north uses the Fengmei grassland as the barrier and the Hu and Jin ethnic groups as the wings. It is true that it has the advantages of agriculture and animal husbandry, which can advance or retreat, and can be fought and harmonized; If it is properly managed, it will be true as he said before, and the matter of Qi Huan and Jin Wen will be heard.

In order to cover up this intention, Lu Yao's military operations over the past few days have all been trickery. He sent a number of cavalry to search for small tribes of the Xianbei people in all directions, plundered the population and materials, and established a huge prisoner camp, making great movements. Every day, there are thousands of cavalry of the Jin army crisscrossing all over the country, although many Xianbei spies are often hunted and killed, but there are inevitably people who flee back to the north to inform the leaders of the Jin army of the situation of the Puliuru and Qiluo tribes.

Because this action was very similar to Lu Yao's plundering and coercion in Daijun, even He Yun and other middle-level officers were kept in the dark. Until tonight, when Lu Yao finally explored the geographical situation of the grassland on the dam clearly, when the troops of the generals of all walks of life have been lurking in position, this night when the moon is as clear as water and suitable for marching and fighting will become a nightmare for the Xianbei people!

Lu Yao took the lead, followed by thousands of iron horsemen. The title of the person, the horse picks the bell, does not hold the pine, and walks on the moon.

The grassland has a wide field of vision, the road is unobstructed, there are occasional slopes and valley forks, and the scouts who go first have also left signs to guide the way, and the marching speed is extremely fast, and they crossed most of the grassland on the dam that night.

At this time, Lu Yao suddenly thought that in the entire northern grassland, I don't know how many people and horses were in such a hurry as their own army?

The grasslands of northern Xinjiang are thousands of miles long, how vast, even if there are a hundred times more scouts under Lu Yao's command, it is impossible to grasp all the information on the grassland in real time, but Lu Yao is right, the Jin people have the allusion of "Qin loses its deer, and the world chases it", and on the grassland, when Tuoba Xianbei himself killed the powerful tribal leader Qu Shuai, this powerful clan in the north is no different from a fat deer in the eyes of the surrounding forces.

The prey is in front of you, and the gluttony has already heard the wind. Throughout September of the first year of Yongjia, thousands of miles from Jiuyuan to Shanggu were in the northern Xinjiang plains. Tens of thousands of horsemen of various tribes marched back and forth, slaughtering each other frantically. Its brutal and tyrannical performance is no less than any major war during the Central Plains War.

In the easternmost section of Tuoba Xianbei's territory, the Weinai Lou tribe, which broke away from the Tuoba Xianbei Alliance, originally planned to return to Liaodong's hometown with the help of the Yuwen Ministry, but unexpectedly halfway through the march, it was suddenly attacked by the army of Wang Jun, the assassin of Youzhou. Obviously, the alliance between the Ministry of Liberal Arts and the Ministry of Denailou was a scam from the beginning. Whether it is the Youzhou Thorn History or the Yuwen Department of Xianbei in the east, they do not expect a new tribe to carve up the pastures in Liaoxi, but they have coveted the population and herd of the Weinai Lou Department for a long time.

However, the Xianbei people are a brave and strong nation after all, and the Weinai Loubu is a tribe that has lasted for two hundred years. Although they suffered heavy losses in the initial raid, the men of the Nawei tribe put up a desperate resistance under the command of their leader, Beijin. When the spear is broken, he uses a scimitar; When the scimitar is blunt, he uses a dagger; When the dagger is broken, he uses the hard stone he has picked up everywhere; When the stones are exhausted, use their teeth and claws!

Such a revolt was completely unexpected, and the bloody battle between the two armies lasted for three full days, and the fierce fighting was fought on every inch of the grassland, and there were corpses everywhere, and at any moment there were new corpses covering the original battlefield. When the last resistance of the Weinai Lou tribe was completely defeated, what was presented in front of Wang Jun and Mo Gui, the patriarch of the Yuwen tribe, was an endless body of severed limbs, and almost thirty percent of the Youzhou army's battle losses. At that moment, Wang Jun and Yuwen Mogui could only look at each other, and each saw each other's iron blue faces.

At the western end of the Tuoba clan's territory, tens of thousands of cavalry of the Tiefa Xiongnu divided into more than ten routes, and broke through the big river moat at the same time at multiple ferries north of the river meander, and entered the territory of Tuoba Xianbei in the west. The vast grassland west of Shengle was originally the homeland of the Xiongnu, and it was only 20 years since it fell into the hands of Xianbei. Wherever the Tiefa cavalry went, many Hun remnants immediately responded with troops. Moreover, Bai Xianbei attacked in the Yunzhong area at the same time, and Tuoba Yilu was caught off guard.

Although Tuoba Yilu was a lord in the west, after many years of suppression by Lu Guan, he could mobilize no more than 30,000 cavalry, and since the change in Danhan Mountain, many of his brave subordinates have died in battle. Although he claimed to have succeeded Tuoba Xianbei Dadanyu smoothly, in just a few days, he didn't even have time to integrate the tribes that originally belonged to him, let alone call on the Tuoba Xianbei tribes to come to help in the war, so his strength was even weaker. He reluctantly led his troops to fight against Bai Xianbei several times, but he was defeated in consecutive battles, leaving thousands of corpses and losing all the way. At the same time, the Tiefa Xiongnu took advantage of the opportunity of horse fat in early autumn to expand their forces like a snowball, and their troops were doubled in just over ten days, overwhelmingly outflanked.

Baibe Xianbei is a dissident force that Liwei intended to eliminate for the first time when he sacrificed to the sky in Danhan Mountain; The homeland of the Tiefa Xiongnu was all occupied by the Xianbei people, forcing them to flee to Hexi. Both of these clans have been the sworn enemies of Tuoba Xianbei for nearly a hundred years, and now the chaotic situation of Tuoba Xianbei is giving them a good chance to take revenge. The armies of the two tribes rolled forward, killing and plundering along the way, without mercy. Tuoba Xianbei's adult Ding Da was killed in battle, women and children were all taken captive as slaves, and the loss of cattle, sheep, horses, and other herds was roughly estimated to be nearly one million.

When the Tuoba Xianbei clan was on the verge of despair, the reinforcements sent by Liu Kun, the assassin of the state state, finally arrived. Compared with the great battle of tens of thousands of iron cavalry on the grassland, the Jinyang army is naturally outnumbered and difficult to match. But this time, Lu Chang, the general who led the army north, was a hero who stuck to the lonely city of Jiexiu and forced Liu Yuan to retreat! He led thousands of soldiers into the Shengle City built by Yilu, and nailed it like a nail to the throat of Yunzhong County in Khanshi, and let the armies of the two clans attack but did not move, and finally gave Yilu a chance to breathe.

In addition to the great war between these two places, the central part of Tuoba Xianbei was attacked by six tribes such as the Balie clan and the Yefulu clan; There is no deer back to plunder the hinterland; The Xianbei tribes that lost their command were wary of each other, and eventually new and old hatreds were intertwined, attacking and killing each other...... Blood irrigates every grassland like a flooding river, and it is difficult to describe the many wars and turmoil, from east to west, the grasslands of northern Xinjiang are full of smoke. Every day, everywhere, there are fierce battles and riots.

In such a situation, the Bashang grassland area north of Daijun, the north is the Puliuru clan and the Qiluo clan and the Jin people and the displaced people group confront, and the south is the Jin people's Daijun army slowly gathered and surrendered the small tribes that have not had time to migrate, although the small-scale battle has not stopped, but after all, there is no big war, and it has unexpectedly become a relatively stable place, which also allows Lu Yao to launch this long-distance raid.

The general trend of Northern Xinjiang is like this, and everything that Lu Yao can think of has already been calculated. But after all, he is not the kind of near-demon character who has no last resort in later novels, and he has something that he can't calculate after all.

A hundred miles north of the army camp of Daijun, there is a vast intertwined area of lakes and meadows.

It was early in the morning, the moonlight had not yet faded, and the thick fog was filled. In the distance, the mountains are obscured by a thick fog, and the rolling plateau meadows are lush with vegetation, and different shades of green are laid out in layers like delicate brocade. The clear river flows, twisting and winding with the green terrain, drawing a graceful arc, as if the jade belt and jade ring are intertwined with each other. And where the river overflows, there are lakes and marshes dotted around.

This is where the water comes from. From this to the southeast, the water rushes through the deep gorge and dangerous valley, cutting a gap in the mountains, and finally reaches the sea in Youzhou. If you trace upstream, you can find many streams and springs flowing from the grasslands. The abundant water source provides abundant products here, making it a paradise for the Tuoba Xianbei people, who used to migrate south from the vast desert mountains in the north of the secluded capital, and were able to rest and inhabit when passing through this place. The muddy and treacherous swamps are intertwined, and they constitute a dangerous situation for outsiders. The bones of animals drowning in the swamp can be found everywhere along the lake's waterfront, which is a testament to the danger of this place.

Since the news of the Danhan Mountain Incident arrived, the Jin people under the command of the Wei clan have rapidly shrunk their forces here, relying on the complex terrain to confront the hostile Hu'er tribe. And the forces of the Puliuru clan and the Qiluo clan gradually invaded this place after several temptations.

To the south of the source, the Puliuru clan and the Qiluo clan each built two large camps. Of course, according to the eyes of the Jin people, these two large camps are just a collection of many chaotic tents. However, these two large camps, one east and one west, held the passage to the east of the water, and each of them gathered more than 4,000 Xianbei cavalry; Its strength forced the Jin people to the lake and marsh area of the source of the source, unable to move.

At this moment, in the fog, you can see the Xianbei soldiers walking back and forth in the camp, and you can hear the noisy voices of people and horses, everything is the same as a few days ago. But if you get closer and investigate carefully, you can find that there are not many people in the camp, and in a dense forest more than ten miles southwest of the camp, there is a huge army lurking in it!

At the edge of the dense forest, a Xianbei warrior about twenty years old, with a fierce appearance and a gold ring in his ear, chewed blades of grass and looked out from time to time. After a moment, perhaps a little impatient, he took a few steps back, casually lifted a heavy sword and danced a flower. The huge blade cut through the air, stirring up a low sound of breaking the sky, and in the wind, he asked mockingly, "Uncle...... Are you sure that Lu Yao will come? ”

This young warrior seemed to be born with the killing intent of a fierce beast, and although he only asked casually, he was shocked that several warriors beside him suddenly retreated. But not far from him, a huge fat man with a round face and a thick neck and a fat body was half-lying on a brightly colored soft felt blanket, tearing at the whole half-baked sheep in front of him, and there was no tension. After a burst of "squeaky" chewing, he leaned his neck sharply and swallowed a large piece of mutton with more than two catties, and then laughed: "Duan Wenyang little baby, what are you anxious about?" Don't worry, since I'm Luo Jin who has accepted the thousand horses that ordered the Duke of Liaoxi to be respected, I will naturally arrange everything properly. That Lu Yao tried to sneak attack my Luo Department through here, and he would lead the army here in half an hour. Hey, hey, haha! Don't you know that if we wait for work at ease and attack them unprepared, we will kill them...... Kill them without leaving a piece of armor behind! ”

"Don't worry! Feel relieved! With the laughter of the fat giant man Luo Jin, the fat and flesh around him were churning like ocean waves, but his eyes under the cover of his heavy eyelids looked cold: "It's just that what the Duke of Liaoxi promised us must also do......"

That young Xianbei warrior is none other than Duan Wenyang, the son of Duan Wu Bechen, a powerful general under the command of Wang Jun of Youzhou Thorn History, and Duan Wu Bechen. Hearing Luo Jin's words, Duan Wenyang stared at him fixedly for a long time, and nodded slowly: "After the matter is completed, my Duan Department will replace the county, and the Luo Department and the Puliuru Department will all be on the dam; My father will also tell you the history of the assassination of the king of Youzhou to obtain the official canonization of this place for you. ”

He slammed the horse slashing knife into the ground, and said proudly: "My Duan Xianbei never forgives any enemy, and never treats any friend badly!" ”

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