By the time Zhao's reinforcements arrived, the entire fortress had turned into ruins. The fire had burned the walls black, and the large number of burnt corpses showed how cruel the war had been here. Sima Shang dismounted and walked into the fortress. The soldiers following him had gloomy faces and eyes filled with murderous intent.
"Search the entire fortress to see if there are any survivors?" Sima Shang said in a deep voice.
The soldiers dispersed, some began to sort out the corpses, and some searched for survivors. As the corpses were sorted out one after another, the faces of these soldiers became gloomier.
"Report, there are no survivors. Linmen Village Fortress, 200 defenders, all...killed." The soldier in charge of statistics said solemnly. Generally, there will be one or two survivors in this kind of siege battle, but Linmen All the 200 defenders of the village fortress were killed, and no one was alive. It took half a day from the time the beacon fire was lit to the time they arrived. No one knows how they managed to hold on from 2,000 people until all the people evacuated.
"Bury them generously, they are heroes." Sima Shang said.
"yes."
Li Mu looked at the intelligence that was constantly being sent back. There were ten cavalry groups infiltrated by the Xiongnu and Hu people. Six of them were intercepted and killed by them, and four escaped. He looked at the disaster-stricken villages and Linmen Village in the intelligence. In the fortress scene, Li Mu tightened his grip on the Zhenyue Sword at his waist and stared at the map of the tribes on the grassland, with undisguised murderous intent in his eyes.
At the gate of Yanmen Pass, Ziyou, Xue Nu, Concubine Yan and Gongsun Bai rode their horses to the gate of Yanmen Pass.
"Who are these people below the city?" the soldiers on top of the city shouted.
"Confucian Ziyou, the famous scholar Gongsun Bai, came to see General Li Mu. We have important matters to report to General Li Mu." Ziyou shouted.
"Who are the two people behind you?" the guard guard asked as he looked at Xue Nu and Concubine Yan behind Zi You.
"She is my maid, please inform General Li Mu." Ziyou shouted.
"Confucian? Don't you know there's a war going on here? Are you bringing a woman with you? Scholars really know how to play." The soldier whispered and then shouted, "Wait where you are, I will inform the general."
Li Mu on the city gate tower looked at the Huns and Hu soldiers retreating again below with a serious face. In the past few days, the Huns and Hu people had taken turns attacking Yanmen Pass. The situation was the same in other cities. However, after the infiltration of Hu cavalry last time, Li Mu ordered all the cities, fortresses and villages within a hundred miles of the border to be strengthened, and the villages to build reinforced earth walls to prevent the Huns and Hu cavalry from invading again.
"General, the soldiers have come to report that the Confucian Ziyou and the famous Gongsun Bai want to pay a visit to the general." Sima Shang walked to Li Mu and said.
"Confucian Ziyou? The famous Gongsun Bai? What are they doing here at this time?" Li Mu said with a frown.
Li Mu wondered why these two people came when there was a war going on at Yanmen Pass. Especially Ziyou. Li Mu has also heard about the famous Mr. Ziyou, but he doesn’t want to see him at this time. Judging from the deeds he heard, this Mr. Ziyou is very trouble-making, and every time He could cause a lot of trouble every time, so he didn't want to see this person for fear that he would do something weird and disrupt his plan.
Sima Shang saw Li Mu's confusion and suggested:
"General, do you want me to use the excuse of being busy with the military to drive them away?"
Li Mu thought for a while and said
"No, let them come to see me at the General's Mansion."
After receiving the order, the soldiers guarding the gate opened the city gate and let Ziyou and his party in. Under the leadership of Sima Shang, they arrived at the general's mansion.
"Mr. Ziyou, Mr. Gongsun, and the general are waiting for you in the hall." Sima Shang said.
"Thank you, General Sima." Zi Xingli said.
Ziyou led a few people into the hall. Li Mu had been waiting for a long time, and there were also guards nearby. Li Mu asked directly without any nonsense.
"I wonder why some of you came to Yanmen Pass to find me at this time?"
Gongsun Bai, Xue Nu and Yan Fei looked at Zi You. They came with Zi You. As for Zi You's purpose, they didn't know.
"Now the Xiongnu and barbarians are invading the border, so they come to help the general." Ziyou said with a smile.
"I wonder how sir, you want to help me?" Li Mu asked. Ziyou is a military strategist. He may still believe what he said, but Ziyou is a Confucian. Even if he has studied military strategism, the battlefield changes at any time. If you just stop at studying, you will be nothing more than Zhao Kuo.
Ziyou said nothing but glanced at the guards around him.
"Stand back." Li Mu said in a deep voice to the guards beside him.
"Yes, General."
An hour later, only Li Mu walked out of the room. Xue Nu and Gongsun Bai quickly stepped forward to ask.
"General, where is Mr. Ziyou?"
Li Mu did not answer their questions but said
"Mr. Ziyou asked the three of you to stay at the General's Mansion until he comes back."
Different from the worries of Xue Nu and Gongsun Bai, Concubine Yan's eyes flashed with a twinkle, but it was quickly hidden. Ziyou left. She could slip away when she found an opportunity. As for etiquette and rules, she believed that Donghuang Taiyi There is definitely a way to unravel it.
Just when Li Mu was about to leave, he turned to look at Concubine Yan and said
"Mr. Ziyou said before he left. Before the bet is completed, I hope Dongjun will not think about escaping. I will help Mr. Ziyou keep an eye on you. I believe Dongjun has heard of the Condor Shooter."
As soon as Li Mu finished speaking, a man wearing armor and holding a bow in his hand, with sharp eyes like an eagle, appeared on the roof of the house. When she heard the name of the Condor Shooter, Concubine Yan's face suddenly fell.
The vulture shooters are the most skilled in archery among the Huns. Even the masters may not be able to escape from their arrows, especially this vulture shooter is a real master. Concubine Yan was depressed and couldn't help but be curious. What on earth did you do to get Li Mu to send the Condor Shooter to protect Xue Nu and Gongsun Bai... and also to monitor him?
Under the leadership of the Grassland Alliance.
Touman, the leader of Donghu, and the leader of Linhu, the three of them held scimitars in their hands and looked at the map of the Zhao border in silence.
"We have been attacking various border passes for seven days. So far, no city has been captured. At most, we have only captured some unimportant fortresses." Leader Donghu said.
"If you ask me, we should not listen to leader Lin Hu and divide our troops to attack. There is a saying in the Central Plains that soldiers are most afraid of dividing their troops. According to me, our 350,000 troops will attack Yanmen Pass together. As long as we capture this place, the entire Yanmen County is in our pocket." Touman said disdainfully.
After the cavalry they sent out seven days ago came back, except for the people he sent out who came back with victory trophies, Donghu, Linhu and Haozi all suffered heavy losses. This made him shine, as his priest said. In this way, some neutral tribes and tribes under Lin Hu began to lean towards him, hoping to get his blessing, and of course he would not refuse anyone who came.
After discovering the road, they began to divide the work. The main army was responsible for besieging Yanmen, and the rest followed the returning cavalry to attack. However, what they did not expect was that under Li Mu's tactics of fortifying the wall and clearing the field, their attack achieved nothing. So the leaders of each tribe began to have objections. The food and grass for the expedition to the grassland were all planned by their own tribes. Now that they have gained nothing, daily consumption is also a big problem. Coupled with the snowstorm last winter, they can only last for half a month at most.
In order to stabilize the leaders of various tribes, leader Lin Hu proposed to divide his troops except Yanmen Pass to continue the confrontation, and the remaining people to attack other border passes. As long as one of them breaks through, it will be the world of their cavalry in Daidi. At that time, Touman did not say anything, just Watching silently, he wanted to make these people gain nothing for their hard work. At this time, his Huns royal army was capturing a city and opening a gap to the south. He still did not believe that these tribal leaders could not see the situation clearly.
Leader Linhu looked at Touman with a gloomy expression. If it hadn't been for the severe snow disaster this year, he wouldn't have tolerated Touman long ago. If he hadn't proposed to divide the troops and promised that after the city was captured, the tribe that captured it would get 70% of the contents. , these leaders are arrogant people. Because they are not as strong as the three major clans, and because of the attraction of interests, this alliance was formed.
Seeing that there is no benefit now, although these people dare not turn against each other face to face, they still dare to violate the rules, so he proposed to divide the troops, because he also knew that dividing the troops would lead to defeat, so he hoped that failure would allow these tribes to see the situation clearly and stabilize, but Who knew that Touman, a pig teammate, had always been against him.
"What should we do now?" Leader Donghu asked.
