Yingyang Xiaowei Department!
There are 1,200 people in the establishment, and 300 dare warriors. The brave warriors are wearing full armor, and even have rattan masks that are characteristic of Luo Shi. Despite the small number of people, war is never a simple game of numbers.
Li Shimin was able to make a surprise attack with three thousand Xuanjia troops, capture two kings at Hulao Pass, and Li Jing was able to attack the Turks with three thousand elite cavalry. As long as the right thing can be done at the right time, any miracle is possible in ancient wars.
Luo Wuji looked up at the sky, and then at the boundless grassland. At the end of the grassland was the Yin Mountain, and at the foot of the Yin Mountain were forests and lakes. The climate there was warm, and it was one of the sacred mountains of the Huns. It raised countless living creatures. Children born in winter.
The Huns in this era were able to have such a large population because the warm and fertile Hetao and Yinshan Mountains raised countless Huns. If we lose this place, I am afraid that the infant mortality rate will greatly increase. Those children born in winter will all die in the extreme mountains. In the cold wind of the northern land.
This is probably another piece of trivia, that is, the grasslands are not all covered with endless grass, but there are forests and lakes. The higher the mountain, the more snow there is, the more lakes and rivers there are.
Not only the grasslands on the Xiongnu side, but also the Tianshan Mountains and other terrains in the Western Regions are even more obvious.
The spirit soldiers could not speak and only obeyed orders, but of course the dare warriors had to ask clearly. The father of the dare warriors who followed Luo Wuji to the grassland this time was also a dare warrior. He followed Luo Zhongkan to the grasslands, and then returned to Zhaocheng. After giving birth to him, "Sir, this vast grassland is endless, where can we find the Huns?"
Luo Wuji looked around after hearing this, then raised the riding crop in his hand and pointed forward, and said loudly: "I think there will be Huns in that direction. Let's grab some locals to be our guides."
My power of thinking has always been reliable, and Luo Wuji has no doubt about it. Although the brave warriors think it is a little unreliable, it doesn't matter. Even if we go deep behind enemy lines, we will accompany the young master to fight to the end, and what Luo Wuji said is It sounds reasonable to capture some locals as guides. With locals as guides, wouldn't it be possible to know where the Huns are?
As for the Huns being unwilling?
This is just a joke. The Huns are the most primitive slave system. Among the Xiongnu tribes, the differences between nobles, herdsmen and slaves are very obvious. Those slaves at the lowest level hate the Huns nobles more deeply than the Han people who are far away. too much.
No one can ask a slave who struggles on the edge of life and death every day and lives a life worse than death to protect the whereabouts of the Xiongnu nobles.
As long as Luo Wuji gives him a meal or two, those slaves of the Huns or the poor herdsmen at the lowest level will rush to provide information to Luo Wuji, and even bring their own dry food to kill the Xiongnu Chanyu and avenge him. That's reality.
In fact, the same was true in the Han Dynasty. Why did the royal family protect small landowners and why did Han law protect small landowners? Because these people were the main force in maintaining the stability of the Han Dynasty's rule and the main force in the army. If these people came home after serving and saw that the land was being destroyed, The powerful annexed, and the family was wiped out by the powerful, but the royal family still didn't care. Can these people still serve the Han Dynasty as usual?
Of course it's impossible!
The Han Dynasty has done quite well on this point so far. With the tomb-relocation system in force, large-scale land annexation has not yet occurred. However, the Xiongnu is different. In addition to the royal court, the Qilian Chanyu's basic base is those of various The king of the tribe relied on the strength of the royal court, the Chanyu system, and personal prestige to rule the Xiongnu Empire. He was worse than the Emperor of Zhou Dynasty, and could not control the internal affairs of each tribe at all.
This resulted in the fact that once the Xiongnu Empire was gathered together, it was indeed extremely powerful. However, without the call of the Xiongnu Golden Sword Order, it could be said to be a piece of loose sand, and the system was extremely loose. After all, it was impossible for millions of livestock to be grazed in one pasture. They are all scattered one by one.
Wei Qing wanted to attack the system of the Xiongnu. This was information obtained after ten years of war with the Xiongnu and a lot of sacrifices.
Now Luo Wuji wants to find people on the grassland at will, which is in line with the situation of the Huns. The scene of 1,200 people and nearly 3,000 horses galloping together is quite terrifying, and the smoke and dust raised are even greater. .
Luo Wuji sat on the galloping horse, feeling the wind on both sides constantly caressing his cheeks. The refreshing feeling was unimaginable. He immediately fell in love with the feeling of galloping on the grassland.
The army was marching at full speed, and suddenly someone on horseback asked loudly: "Sir, what should we do if the army cannot find us and cannot provide logistics?"
Luo Wuji laughed loudly and said: "What kind of logistics do we need when we enter the grassland? Bring dry food and water. When we find the Hu tribe, the cattle and sheep in the grassland will be our food. Wherever we hunt, we will eat!"
Luo Wuji was joking here, but he didn't know that Huo Qubing had said the same thing just now. Both of them gave up and did not prepare to explore around the army. They directly led their soldiers and horses to find the Xiongnu tribe who wanted to kill people.
However, the grassland is indeed vast and abnormal. Luo Wuji observed the consumption of the horses and gradually made everyone stop and restore their power. "See if the horses' hoofs are injured. Make sure to check them. This is a fatal thing."
In the era before horseshoes were invented, the main damage to horses came from hoof injuries. Basically, after a war, the horses were scrapped. This was acceptable to the nomadic empire, but it was unacceptable to the Central Plains dynasty. After all, the cost of raising horses is too high, and they are basically one-time consumables. In real history, a large part of the reason why Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che spent so much money on fighting the Xiongnu was that the losses of horses were too great.
Once the horse's hoof is injured, the armored knight may fall off the horse directly. When the horse is galloping at high speed, it is really too dangerous.
"I feel like we're not far from the Huns."
Luo Wuji looked up at the sky, used his power of thinking again, pointed towards the distance, and said: "That must be the tribe of the Huns. I hope to meet someone big, preferably King Aries or King Loufan. It would be even better if we could meet the Xiongnu King Ri Zhu and even King Gu Li."
But this is just a dream. The Han army has not yet completely penetrated into the desert, and the left and right kings of Xian and left and right Guli are basically unreachable.
After some repairs, Luo Wuji started marching again. For him, there is no difference between day and night. Dare warriors are warriors and rich in nutrition. Naturally, they will not have the night blindness that most people in this era have. This is why night blindness is the reason for night attacks. Why is it that the camp is full of elites? Those ordinary auxiliary soldiers can't even see anything. How can they bear the heavy responsibility of night attacks?
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The main tent of the Han army.
"General, the prostitute Captain Yao and Captain Ying Yang are nowhere to be found. They are running all the way without saying where they are going. The military supplies cannot be delivered to them. What should we do?"
Wei Qing frowned when he heard this. It's easy for Luo Wuji to say that he had known this would happen a long time ago. Huo Qubing was nowhere to be found. He just promised not to run around, "The prostitute Colonel Yao is gone? Do you know where he went?"
The captain who came to report was confused when he heard this: "I only saw Captain Yao leading his troops out of the camp, and then went all the way to the west. No one knows where he went."
Wei Qing heard this and cursed: "What on earth does this bastard want to do?"
In fact, the goal of Huo Qubing and Luo Wuji was only to leave the army a few hundred miles away. The two of them knew very well that if they really left the army too far and went deep into the hinterland of the Xiongnu, they would not be doing meritorious service, but seeking death.
"General, what should we do now?"
After thinking for a while, Wei Qing still believed that Huo Qubing knew the seriousness, and immediately said in a deep voice: "What can we do? Attack Dragon City according to the original plan and attract the Monan Xiongnu army."
Wei Qing is a qualified commander, and these unexpected circumstances cannot affect his judgment of the situation. After these ten years of war, the Huns have suffered a lot of losses. All the tribes closest to the Great Wall have moved away, so the Han army will not be as powerful as It was just like Zhou Yafu in the past, he was discovered as soon as he entered the grassland.
Moreover, no one would have thought that Wei Qing would dare to go straight to Dragon City, the Holy Land of the Huns. This was because he was not worried about being cut off from supplies and supplies, mainly because Monan was too close to the border of the Han Dynasty.
Under this situation, even if a large amount of manpower and material resources were mobilized, and non-war losses were minimal, the Han Dynasty was so wealthy that the government's grain stocks were more than enough for the war in Monan.
The main force of the Han army quickly advanced towards Dragon City, while the Huns were still completely unaware.
Huo Qubing and his Jingqi were on their first jungle outing in their lives, thinking of giving a big gift to their uncle and uncle and giving the Xiongnu a little bit of a shock.
Luo Wuji led the brave warriors to gallop on the grassland, looking for the main force of the Huns by relying on my ability to think.
Probably because of King Su's blessing, the spirit soldiers who went to investigate really brought back news about the Xiongnu tribe. Although the spirit soldiers could not speak, they could directly transmit it to Luo Wuji's mind.
Luo Wuji raised the whip in his hand and said excitedly: "My sons, there is the Xiongnu tribe in front of us. There are only a few thousand people. This is the meritorious service given to us by King Su."
Unless it was a large kingdom like Shanyu Wangting or Left and Right Xian Wang, Luo Wuji really didn't take a few thousand people seriously, and only three hundred brave warriors were enough.
The brave warriors did not expect to encounter the Xiongnu tribe so quickly. The tribe of thousands of people was not considered small, and they were basically at the household level.
The group of people got on their horses, and Luo Wuji said loudly: "Everyone is half-armored, regardless of formation, move forward at full speed. When we are three miles away, put on full armor, change horses and charge again. We must win the first battle!"
"Here!"
The sound echoed endlessly on the grassland, and the war and killing really began!
(End of chapter)
