The scorching sun hung in the sky, and the wind blew.

The earth is yellow, the forests are dyed, and the grasslands are covered in gold.

In early autumn, it is the day when herders harvest pasture grass and prepare forage for winter.

Autumn and winter are also good times for cattle, sheep and livestock to grow fat.

Green Wolf Valley, a place that sounds like a valley, is actually a grassland.

However, it is a low-lying place, resembling a valley, and is often infested with wolves, hence the name.

Ten days ago, there was a big battle in the Valley of the Green Wolf, with more than 100,000 men and horses on both sides, fighting bloodily all day until nightfall.

In the battle, the Han army, that is, the Xiliang army, suffered heavy casualties, and the barbarian army, that is, the Fuluo army, did not take much advantage, and the casualties were huge. The only difference is that the barbarian army battle formation is intact, and it has not been broken through by the Han army from beginning to end, and the Han army battle formation has been chiseled through by the barbarian army. Therefore, the barbarian army still won, and the Han army was defeated again, and then withdrew its troops and retreated thirty miles.

The barbarian army could have taken advantage of the situation to chase and kill the Han army, covering it up in one go, hoping to expel the Han army from the grassland and reverse the previous defeat. However, when the Han army retreated, they abandoned a large number of weapons and baggage, and fled in a panic, so that the barbarian army only cared about grabbing the baggage and had no time to pursue the Han army, so the Han army was allowed to withdraw calmly, and missed a good opportunity to further expand the results of the battle.

After more than ten days, midsummer has passed quietly, and autumn is officially ushered in on the grassland.

The wind is howling, the wind is blowing the grass low, and the ground is yellow.

The sun is scorching, the earth is hot, the autumn tiger is still strong, and the heat wave is sweeping the wasteland.

In the past, this time was the most exciting season for men in the steppe tribes, because it was a good time for autumn hunting. Before autumn, the warriors of each tribe would prepare their horses, scimitars, bows and crossbows, as well as some sturdy and durable leather bags, and then go to the royal court to assemble and set out for the Han realm. The scene of the prancing horse galloping through the territory of the Han people. The wanton killing of Han slaves, snatching money and food, and wantonly ravaging the good times of delicate and tender Han women made countless grassland warriors enthusiastic and fascinated.

However, before leaving, men will not forget to feed their women. At the turn of summer and autumn, the women took off their thin summer clothes and changed into autumn clothes to cover their bodies tightly. Such a scene makes men more and more excited, and they always have to hug women to vent before going out. Because war requires more than just brave and fearless conquests. It also needs tenderness to soothe, and the excited and tense heart needs to be vented and released, and women are undoubtedly a good medicine to motivate men to be fearless.

The venting before the expedition was crazy, thorough, and fun. Although the man prides himself on being a warrior. But whether he is a warrior or not only knows himself. Raiding the Han realm is indeed exciting, but once you set foot on the battlefield. Whether they will return alive is unknown.

The Prairie warriors know it. The Han people are cowardly, the Han people are timid, the Han people are very rich, and the white and tender and silky bodies of the Han women are even more maddening. However, in addition to being excited, they also knew that the Han people were actually very powerful. The ten Southern Xiongnu tribes were also not enemies of the Han Dynasty.

Dahan is like a lion under the sky, but it is a pity that it has the strength to dominate the world, but it advocates generosity, benevolence and gentleness, and puts on a benevolent face that is kind to me. So a group of steppe hungry wolves dared to show their wolf teeth in front of the male lion. Repeatedly sneak up on it, even if it can't eat the lion, it can still plunder enough qiē from it. Once the lion is angry, the wolves will turn around and run away with the plunder, and when they have no choice but to bow down and make a comeback the next year.

In this way, even if the male lion is in front, the steppe wolf is not afraid, repeatedly sneaks up and encroaches, and gradually grows the wolf pack, stronger than one day at a time, and better than a year.

However, since the autumn of two years ago, the Great Han Lion has not woken up, but a fierce tiger has appeared in the land of Xiliang Sanzhou, which is Li Li and the Xiliang Army under his command.

The Southern Xiongnu tribes forcibly occupied the land of the four counties in the north of the state, the grassland of the Muma Hetao, and the money and grain that could be snatched in the state had already been plundered, and the rest were fortified cities that could not be grabbed, and there were Taihang Mountains in the southeast to block it, so they could only turn their eyes to the land of the three states of Xiliang. However, the Xiliang Tiger is not as arrogant as the Han Lion, the lion is arrogant, boasts of nobility, and has empty eyes; But the tiger is fierce and abnormal, but whenever he encounters someone who dares to offend the tiger, he will definitely give a thunderous blow, and he will not give up until he reaches his goal.

As a result, the Southern Xiongnu tribe has gathered tribal warriors many times in the past two years to invade the Xiliang border, but they have been repeatedly frustrated, and instead of grabbing the money, food and women they want, they have suffered heavy casualties. After the war, countless cattle and sheep were taken away by the Xiliang army, and hundreds of small tribes, large and small, were wiped out by the Xiliang army, and people and animals were looted. Therefore, for more than two years, the warriors of the Southern Huns have found nothing on the Xiliang border, and they have suffered an unprecedented fierce blow on the bloody battlefield. So much so that they no longer dared to step into the Xiliang border for half a step, and when they heard the name of the Xiliang Tiger, they changed color, and they had already turned into a group of cowardly wolves.

But wolves are wolves after all, predation is instinct, and as long as there is an opportunity, they are bound to make a comeback.

This time it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the troops to invade the Xiliang border in Fuluo, although the allied forces in Chiyang City suffered heavy losses in the first battle, but then they won successive battles, regrouped, and the army was strong. It happened to be the arrival of autumn, so the tribal warriors entrenched in the Hetao grassland gathered again, and rushed to the camp north of the Green Wolf Valley to join Yufuluo's army at the beginning of autumn to form a more powerful Koubian barbarian army.

In just more than ten days, Yufuluo's army, which originally had only more than 60,000 soldiers and horses left, not only received grain and grass relief, but also got more than 70,000 people who controlled the strings to join the army. As a result, the barbarian army grew again, with a total strength of nearly 140,000 cavalry, including 110,000 cavalry and only more than 30,000 foot soldiers.

The addition of these new forces to the barbarian army has made the composition of the coalition more and more complex. Although the main force of the barbarian army is still 60,000 men of the Southern Xiongnu tribe, the remaining 80,000 soldiers and horses are from various tribal forces. Among them, the Xianbei tribe increased its troops by 30,000, the Qiang tribe increased its troops by 20,000, and the Yueshi tribe sent 15,000 troops, and the remnants of the Juyan and Zhangye Qiang tribes jointly sent more than 10,000 troops.

Fortunately, the leaders of these tribes still respect Yu Fu Luo as the commander, the leader of the Xianbei tribe, Bu Dugen, and the leader of the Beidi Qiang, Qian Wei, as the deputy commander, and the leaders of the other tribes are of equal status, and they are also the generals under the account of Yu Fuluo.

On the third day after the formation of the Barbarian Alliance, with the unanimous consent of the commander Yu Fuluo and the two deputy marshals Bu Dugen and Qian Wei, an envoy was sent to the Han army Dazhai to write a war letter. Three days later, they faced the Valley of the Green Wolves.

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Under the clear sky, the north wind is gentle, bringing the breath of autumn.

Green Wolf Valley, a huge low-lying valley that usually holds enough for 100,000 cattle and sheep to inhabit, is very crowded at the moment.

At the northern end of the valley, the soldiers are Gosensen, the banner hunts, and the 110,000 barbarian war cavalry are waiting in line, showing three squares with clear boundaries on the left, the center and the right.

In front of the Chinese army. Coach Yu Fuluo was dressed in black armor, wearing a red brocade robe on his shoulders, wearing a purple and gold crown, carrying a bronze sword at his waist, and a black horse about a foot tall and a body length of one foot and two feet in his crotch. It is mighty and extraordinary, and the handsome posture can be seen at a glance.

On his left side. It is the western Xianbei that is entrenched in the area of Yanmen and Yunzhong. At this moment, he was also dressed in black armor. Wearing a cyan robe, the green horse under the crotch is abnormal, so that the beloved horse knows at first sight that this horse is also a rare horse. The difference between him and Yu Fu Luo is that he carries a black-backed war knife two feet long in his hand, and his body is far taller and stronger than Yu Fu Luo, and he is powerful. It seems that the force is extraordinary, and he should be a person who is skilled in martial arts.

The Xianbei tribe was originally the largest tribe in the grassland, and in the early years, the Xianbei tribe was good at the stone acacia to unify the Xianbei grassland, and then the Xianbei tribe was divided into three parts. That is, the western, central and eastern Xianbei, the central Xianbei occupies the Xianbei Wolf Mountain, builds the Xianbei Dadan in the royal court, and leads the three Xianbei. However, after the death of the Xianbei male lord Shi Huai, his son and Lian succeeded to the throne of Da Shan Yu, and his control over the three Xianbei was sharply reduced, resulting in civil strife in Xianbei and falling apart. In recent years, the central Xianbei has been actually controlled by Kebineng, the eastern Xianbei has fled to Liaoxi to avoid disaster, and the western Xianbei has also been divided into two parts, one is the Budu Gen Department, and the other is the tens of thousands of troops led by the Budu Gen brother Fu Luo Han.

After the split of the Xianbei tribe, Budugen was the weakest of all the tribal leaders who called themselves Xianbei Shan Yu, and his power was not as strong as that of his brother Fu Luo Han. However, although he and Fu Luohan fought openly and secretly, they never attacked head-on, at least not a large-scale fighting broke out, and they have always maintained a brotherhood on the surface. Therefore, after the defeat of Chiyang City, he asked Fu Luo Han for help, but he did not expect Fu Luo Han to readily agree and personally lead 30,000 people who control the strings to come to support.

As a result, the strength of the coalition army under the command of Yu Fu Luo rose sharply, and the strength of the Xianbei Iron Cavalry was second only to the Southern Xiongnu tribes who fought on the mainland. Although Bu Dugen is the leader of the Xianbei Iron Cavalry and the deputy marshal of the coalition army, in fact, he is just a façade figure standing in the foreground, and the person who really controls this army behind him is his brother Fu Luohan.

The person who stood on the right side of Le Ma was the leader of the Qiang tribe in the north, Qian Wei. He was a stout man in his forties, with curly black hair, two pigtails tied up at the back of his neck, a rough and fierce face, a large beard, and a glittering silver ring hanging from his left ear. At this moment, he is also dressed in black armor, and a russet war horse under his crotch is also a rare BMW horse, with a body length of one zhang and a height of about nine feet, and he is extraordinary. And the weapon he used was also a little different, it was a long-pole axe about two feet long, which was very powerful. It seems that the mountain axe is quite heavy, but the giant axe he holds is as light as nothing, which shows that his strength is extremely large, no matter what his martial arts are, this big axe alone is enough to scare away many people.

The three marshals stood side by side in front of the horse formation, and they were the commanders of the left, center, and right phalanxes in this battle. The generals standing in the second row behind them were the main generals of the battle. In order, Yu Fuluo's younger brother Hu Chuquan, his son Liu Bao, Youxian Wang Qubei and the first warrior of the Southern Xiongnu Luo; After him was Orohan, and there were seven commanders left. This is the most powerful dozen generals in the coalition army, in fact, they are ten thousand commanders, each leading a team of 10,000 people. As soon as the battle began, they would lead their respective cavalry to charge and fight with the Han army three hundred paces away.

The leaders of the barbarian army were different from the commanders or commanders of the Han army. They themselves are brave warriors, and before they become leaders, they must be one of the few warriors in the tribe, otherwise it is difficult to be convinced by the clansmen, and naturally it is impossible to sit in the position of leader. Even if they are born into tribal nobility and have a noble status, if they do not have the strength to convince the clansmen, they will be despised nobles at most, but they will not be able to become leaders. Therefore, these tribal leaders in front of the battle were not mediocre hands, all of them were skilled archers and horses, brave and fierce people, and they were brave generals who could fight well.

Up to now, there may be only one person on the grassland who has completely relied on Zuyin to ascend to the position of Shan Yu, and this person is Xianbei Da Shan Yu and Lian. He is the son of the grassland eagle and the stone locust, inheriting his father's prestige and succeeding to the throne of Xianbei Dadanyu, which is the first precedent in the grassland. It is precisely because of this that the once powerful Xianbei tribe has been in civil strife, and has been divided into five or six large tribes at present, each tribe has its own policy, attacking each other, and fighting endlessly.

The nobility of the steppe tribe is rarely able to pass on for hundreds of years, and the aristocracy generally does not exist for too long. In addition, the aristocracy is not a single existence, it often appears in the form of a tribe, the whole tribe is a noble tribe, its patriarch is a big noble, and the status of its clansmen is much higher than that of others, just like the three, six, nine, etc. between people, and there is a huge disparity. Once a small tribe has a fierce warrior, it means that the tribe will become a new noble, and the old nobles will gradually decline, and then become an ordinary tribe, because the tribe has a limited number of people. The rise of one noble tribe will inevitably accelerate the decline of the nobility of the other tribe, so as to annex the original tribe and become a new large tribe.

Therefore, the barbarian army was significantly different from the Han army. The chief general of the Han army can be a scribe, or even have no martial arts at all, and has no ability to personally go into battle to kill the enemy; But the commander of the barbarian army must be a brave man, and his bravery is convincing enough, otherwise it will be difficult to control the unruly people. In contrast, the Han aristocracy can often be inherited for hundreds of years, or even hundreds of years, even if most of their descendants are gentlemen, they can still inherit the ancestral shadow and enjoy the glory and wealth. The reason for this is that the Han Dynasty has a vast territory, a vast land, a large population, and unlimited creative power, which can accommodate many high-ranking officials and nobles to coexist in the world, because they hold the most important resource - power, so as to ensure that they can enjoy wealth and prosperity from generation to generation.

Yu Fuluo, who was in front of the Le Ma formation, is now in his forties, and he is no longer as brave as he used to be, but he can control the whole army with the prestige he has accumulated in the past. Then there are a number of relatives behind him who support him, his younger brother Hu Chuquan, his son Liu Bao and his uncle to go to the low, so that he can firmly occupy the position of the Southern Xiongnu.

It's just that he still doesn't live up to his name, because so far he has not officially held the enthronement ceremony, and he can't grasp the power of the Xiongnu army. Fortunately, for the coalition forces, it is enough for him to have this Shan Yu name, and other things can only be slowly planned until the end of the war, until he really sits in the position of Shan Yu.

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