On the ruins of an empty city at the junction of Hetao Grassland and Beidi County, a new horse market was opened for the exchange of goods and horses between the nomadic tribes in the Central Plains and the north.
It didn’t take long for this horse market to become the largest free market in the Hetao area.
But this horse market is actually a bait.
Zhang Liao's army in the Hetao area has been fighting with the Southern Xiongnu Yufuluo for a long time.
They have gone through dozens of large and small battles and won eight out of ten battles.
However, they have been unable to annihilate Yufuluo's main force, and they have not killed or captured Yufuluo himself. .
This leads to the war going on endlessly.
So Zhang Liao used Lu Bu's strategy and opened a horse market as bait.
There were no iron mines on the Huns' grasslands, and they would not produce iron.
They did not cultivate their fields and therefore had no food.
So there were only two ways for them to obtain iron and food.
One is to exchange, and the other is to rob.
Before the Yufuluo tribe of the Southern Xiongnu rebelled, they would exchange livestock, horses, and furs for iron, weapons, grain, cloth, and even silk and porcelain from the Central Plains.
But since Yu Fuluo's rebellion, they were unable to trade with each other in the Guanzhong Plain.
They could only trade indirectly with Youzhou and Jizhou under Cao Cao's control through the Xianbei people in the east.
This would definitely cost the Xianbei people in the middle a lot. piece.
Therefore, horses that could be exchanged for one thousand shi of grain or one thousand knives could only be exchanged for 500 shi of grain or 500 knives.
The impact of this situation on Fuluobu cannot be seen in the short term.
But as time went by, Humphrey felt the pressure, and there was a gap between supply and demand for food, weapons, and especially arrows.
The lack of food prevented the horses from gaining weight, which in turn resulted in the same number of horses being able to exchange for a smaller amount of supplies.
In order to prevent this vicious cycle from continuing, Yuvrou thought of another way to rob.
But it was not that easy to go south to rob the Guanzhong Plain.
Lu Bu built Wubao in Beidi County and Shangjun County to train his country bravery.
Although the garrison of these strong fortresses is small, they are unable to be broken by the Huns' cavalry.
Moreover, Wubao is generally equipped with a large number of crossbow machines.
What's even more frightening is that he doesn't know which fortress hides Lu Bu's terrifying iron cavalry and elite tiger and sharp shooters.
Those cavalry were real cavalry.
The heavy cavalry, both men and horses, were armored, while the light cavalry were able to make perfect arrows when galloping.
Those archers used a bow with a very long range, and all their arrows were accurate.
Humphrey had made several attempts, and sent several hundred cavalrymen to try to penetrate deep into Beidi County and Shang County, but they all suffered bloody blows.
If you can't even penetrate into these two border counties, how can you talk about entering the Guanzhong Plain.
Just when Yu Fulo was at a loss, an opportunity came.
Zhang Liao actually built a horse market in Beidi County near the Hetao Grassland.
However, this horse market was only open to the tribe of King Zuoxian of the Xiongnu, which was a southern Huns tribe friendly to Lu Bu, and King Zuoxian never recognized Yufuluo's status as a chanyu.
Therefore, if Yuvrou wants to make profits from this horse market, he can only rely on robbing.
Late autumn is the season for harvesting grain and the season for fattening sheep and strong horses on the grassland.
Of course, it is also the most prosperous time for the horse market.
An endless stream of horse teams and ox carts pulling food supplies entered the city, and there was an endless stream of bargaining and haggling at the horse market.
At this time, a burst of dust rose on the horizon to the northwest outside the city, and nearly 10,000 war horses lined up in several lines to fight towards the city.
It was Humphrey, who came out with all his strength to rob this horse market cleanly.
In addition to the cavalry at the front, there were also a large number of baggage ox carts following behind.
They were pulling siege equipment and also carrying back loot.
The trumpet sounded, and the four gates of Tucheng were quickly closed by the soldiers stationed in the city.
These soldiers put on their armor and changed their weapons in the shortest possible time.
It turns out that they are the most elite infantry soldiers in Lu Bu's army, including the black armored iron guards of the system, the archers in the Huben army, and the Mo swordsmen.
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Altogether there were nearly two thousand people.
Humphrey, who rushed to Tucheng, saw the city gate that had just been closed.
He shook his riding whip in the air angrily and said, "What a shame, it's too late."
He had to wait for the ox cart behind to pull up the trebuchet.
More than an hour later, the trebuchet finally arrived.
Hufro pointed at the thin earth wall with his riding whip and said: "Concentrate on one point and blast a gap for me to come out."
Each trebuchet requires dozens of people to operate the trebuchet to throw huge stones and hit them on the earth wall.
The earth dregs are splashed and dust is flying.
Cracks begin to appear on the wall and become wider and wider.
Song Xian, the general who defended the city, ordered the soldiers in this section to go down to the city to avoid flying rocks, and also to prevent casualties caused by the collapse of the city wall.
After withstanding dozens of bombardments from boulders, the thin earthen city wall could no longer hold up and collapsed suddenly for a large section, which was a hundred or ten meters long.
Humphrey was overjoyed and quickly ordered the cavalry to charge.
The Xiongnu cavalry swarmed towards the gap in the city wall.
When these cavalrymen rushed up to the dusty, bumpy adobe ruins, their horse speed had been reduced to a minimum.
None of these Hun cavalry knew that the God of Death was waiting for them in the dust.
A Hun cavalryman squinted his eyes to prevent dust from blurring his eyes.
He heard a loud command, and then found a row of shining blades emerging from the dust and mist.
They were nearly four meters long Mo Dao.
The sharp blade easily penetrates the horse's body and human body.
As the horses roared and neighed, all the Huns cavalry fell off their horses one after another.
In this way, more than 300 Huns cavalry fell in succession.
All this was seen by Humphrey.
"Pause the charge and mount the archers," he ordered loudly.
The Hun cavalry behind continued to rush towards the gap in waves.
When they arrived, they did not rush in, but fired rounds of arrows.
Shoot at the Mo Dao soldiers hiding in the dust, and then turn around after shooting.
After a while, the dust finally fell to the ground at the gap, and the Mo Dao soldiers holding long swords could no longer be seen.
Yuvrou ordered: "Continue to charge, and the archers will cover."
The Huns' horsemen rushed towards the gap again.
This time, almost every horseman holding a sword was followed by an archer.
If Mo Dao's soldiers came to line up to intercept them again, , will face their powerful shots at close range.
The speed of the horse plus the speed of the arrow is enough to penetrate the armor of Mo Dao soldiers.
This time no one sniped at them, and the Huqi finally rushed into the city.
But they immediately discovered that something was wrong.
Juma antlers were placed in the streets and alleys of the city.
They could only circle along the street at the base of the city wall, and then fired arrows at the soldiers behind Juma, but they were all blocked by the heavy infantry with swords and shields.
Blocked by a large shield.
Accurate arrows flew towards them from the roof, from inside the house, from behind the big shield and other corners, shooting them off their horses one by one.
Humphrey had also galloped into the city at this time.
Seeing this scene, he did not want to give up this long-planned action.
"Dismount and fight," he shouted loudly
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