Chapter 293: Cutting the grass and eradicating the roots The winter in Xudu also ushered in the first snow.
Chengxi Street.
The snow is colorful and flying, the streets are covered with a thick layer of snow, and there are few pedestrians walking around.
Tap There was a sound of horses' hooves, and I saw several knights galloping towards them, trampling all the way to broken jade, and the snow flakes were flying, and their robes were covered with a thin layer of snowflakes, and the horses were snorting heavily, apparently from a long distance.
Hearing only the neighing of horses, the knights stopped in front of a large mansion.
This mansion flies the eaves and walks the wall, the momentum is magnificent, in the snowflakes like the crystal palace of ice sculptures, it has become the most beautiful and brilliant scenery of the west street of the city.
On the red lacquered gate, the three gilded characters of "Prime Minister's Mansion" on the wide horizontal plaque are eye-catching.
This name is enough to make the princes of the world jealous and awe-inspiring, including Liu Xie, the son of heaven of the Han Dynasty, even Gongsun Bai does not dare to underestimate it.
Especially in this western expedition, Cao Cao was able to annihilate Li Dao and Guo Yan in one fell swoop in three months, cut off the heads of Li Dao and Guo Bi and returned them, and dedicated them to the Han Emperor Liu Xie.
When Liu Xie was in Chang'an, he was bullied by Li Dao and Guo Yan, and even almost died on the way to escape, and now seeing Cao Cao avenging his revenge, he finally vomited the depression that had accumulated in his heart many years ago, and he was afraid of Cao Cao's power after all, so he worshiped Cao Cao as the prime minister of the Han Dynasty and served the same position as the general Gongsun Bai.
Therefore, when those knights looked at the three words "Prime Minister's Mansion", their faces showed extremely respectful and pious looks, and even the guards at the door looked extremely respectful.
In the back garden of the Prime Minister's House, the cold plum is dotted, and the pink petals and the snow color reflect each other.
In a pavilion decorated with heavy snow, two officials were playing chess, on either side of the chess table, charcoal was blazing, and on one of the stoves was a small bronze tripod, and in the boiling hot water inside the tripod was a pot of hot wine.
Cooking wine game, Baume & Mercier.
The person on the left, with a square face, wearing a black fox fur, and his eyes are bright, is Shangshu Cheng Yu.
At this moment, his brows furrowed slightly, obviously falling behind.
The person on the other side has thin eyes and a long beard, and he is not very tall, and if you don't look at his eyes, you will think that this person is just plain-looking, and you may have contempt.
But when his eyes look at you, even on the edge of the blazing coal-fire, you feel a chill like falling into an ice cellar.
Those are two murderous auras that naturally manifest, the murderous aura of the male among the heroes who slaughtered millions of people, if it were not for the strong soldiers who had been on the battlefield for a long time and saw through life and death, they would have fallen into this boundless murderous aura.
This person is naturally Cao Cao, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty.
The situation on the chessboard has obviously been tilted in favor of Cao Cao, and Cheng Yu's chess momentum has been trapped by Cao Cao.
Cao Cao lifted the wine jug from the ding, poured a bottle of hot wine for Cheng Yu first, and then poured himself full, raised the wine bottle and laughed: "Zhongde's chess skills seem to have regressed a lot."
Cheng Yu thought about it for a long time, and finally sighed, threw the white son in his hand on the chessboard, took the hot wine in front of him and drank it all, and after smacking his lips carefully, he laughed and said: "The prime minister swept through Guanzhong with a thunderous momentum, Li Dao and Guo Yan were all awarded the head, such a momentum, even if it is unstoppable on the chessboard, it is natural for the official to lose the chess." ” Cao Cao showed a hint of arrogance on his face, and suddenly seemed to remember something, his expression became gloomy, and he asked, "How is the situation in the land of annexation?"
” Cheng Yu's face also became solemn, and he said in a low voice: "Yuan Tan has been given the head, and all the places in the south of the state belong to Gongsun Bai, and now Gongsun Bai leads the army to confront the 80,000 cavalry of Huchuquan across the river, and they can't hold each other, seeing that the wind and snow have risen, I am afraid that we will have to wait until next year to fight again." ” Cao Cao nodded and said: "I heard that the Huns also know the art of stirrups, I am afraid that it will break 80,000 cavalry, which is by no means easy on Ang'er's side, and the training and expansion of tiger and leopard cavalry will be accelerated." ” Yuan Tan can learn the art of stirrups, how can Cao Cao lag behind, and the tiger and leopard spirit under his command is naturally equipped with double stirrups.
After Cao Cao occupied Guanzhong, he opened up the passage with Liangzhou, and bought a large number of Xiliang Liangliang horses, and the 3,000 tiger and leopard horses under his command have been expanded to 5,000 people, and they are all equipped with Xiliang war horses more than seven feet high, plus the use of double stirrups, has become the most mysterious and elite troops under Cao Cao, and it is still expanding.
The two drank a few bottles of wine in succession, and did not continue to play chess, but chatted about the wars in various parts of the world.
While he was talking, suddenly a servant stepped on the snow and rushed over, and said urgently: "Qi Yu Prime Minister, the Huns sent an envoy to ask for a meeting."
As soon as the words fell, Cao Cao and Cheng Yu's eyes showed surprise, and it took a long time for Cao Cao to say: "Pass" When Cao Cao and Cheng Yu finished reading the secret letter sent by the Xiongnu envoy, they were both shocked and stunned.
"The Huns sued for peace with 80,000 cavalry, but they were so easily broken by Gongsun Bai, and even the Hun royal court was lost" Cao Cao's mouth opened widely, and his face was full of incredulity.
Cheng Yu beside him was also dumbfounded, looking incredulous, and couldn't believe that this was the truth.
"Could it be that you Huns are all waste, and you are so vulnerable," Cao Cao asked sharply.
After some explanation by the messenger, Cao Cao and Cheng Yu suddenly realized.
The two naturally knew why Gongsun Bai suddenly appeared near the royal court, and the two remembered the incident of Gongsun Bai forcibly crossing the Huai River.
Gongsun Bai knows how to use witchcraft, which has always been the depression in the hearts of the two, and what amazed the two even more was that Gongsun Bai's strategy and ruthlessness in setting fire to the original.
Cao Cao waved his hand to order the Hun envoy to retreat, telling him to wait for the news, but the Xiongnu envoy had no choice but to retreat depressed.
At this time, Cheng Yucai sighed: "The person who can come up with this trick, I'm afraid it must be Guo Jia, if the lord and Gongsun Bai are enemies in the future, it is best to get rid of this person secretly, this person has the talent of the heavens and latitudes, and he has no last resort, but he is merry and unruly by nature, if he wants to start, there are many opportunities." ” Cao Cao nodded, and said: "It's not time yet, now that the Huns are asking for peace, how should they deal with it?"
Cheng Yu said resolutely: "Of course it is Xu Zhi, the Han Dynasty has been like this for hundreds of years, and now the lord still has Lu Buweiping in the east, and Ma Teng and Han Sui in the west are ready to move, and it is best to let the Huns drag Gongsun Bai."
This matter must not be known to the Son of Heaven, otherwise it will be feared that right and wrong will occur, and it is enough to falsely pass on the edict. ” Cao Cao laughed: "Zhongde really knows my mind." ” Hu Chuquan and the others, who received Liu An's report, were full of resentment and fear, but they quickly calmed down.
Gongsun Bai's performance was originally expected by them, and their real hope was still pinned on the side of the Han court.
However, as Xin Bi said, this trip to Xudu is thousands of mountains and rivers, thousands of miles away, the Huns must at least hold on before the arrival of the holy decree, otherwise once Gongsun Bai has completed the migration of the population, they will have to attack Shanan City.
And Xinbi, who became the military advisor of the Huns, naturally formulated a follow-up defensive strategy for Huchuquan.
Hu Chuquan and others did not hesitate at all, and the next day they withdrew from Shanan City, and the troops retreated north in two ways: Hu Chuquan and Qubei led 20,000 elite cavalry to defend Shaling City and Huxiaoling in Yunzhong County; And Liu Bao, the king of Zuoxian, led more than 10,000 troops back to Yanmen County and defended Yanmen Pass.
The grassland outside the Saiwai is divided into Mobei and Monan.
Monan is from the Great Wall to the north, to the Yinshan Mountains between the large grasslands, that is, the Hetao area, here is the blessed land and survival of the Xiongnu people, and beyond the Yinshan and the desert Gobi to the north, is the broader Mongolian Plateau, where is the world of the Xianbei people.
Monan grassland, to the north is Baidao City, and to the north of Baidao is Tieshan, where is the hinterland of Xianbei people, the water and grass are fertile, and the women and children of Xianbei and cattle and sheep gather there.
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The Yinshan Pass is an important passage from the south of the desert to the north of the desert, as long as the Yinshan Pass is held, the passage of the south and north of the desert can be blocked.
And to the south, it takes Shaling City as a passage, guards the southern exit of the Hetao area, Shaling City itself is not strong, the south of Shaling City is the southern foot of Daqing Mountain, among which there is a dangerous Tiger Roaring Pass, which guards the rush to enter Yunzhong County.
If you want to take the Hetao, you must first take Shaling City, and if you want to take Shaling City, you must first break through the Tiger Roaring Ridge that guards the plug.
Therefore, Huchuquan not only sent heavy troops to guard Shaling City, but also stationed 3,000 elite soldiers to guard Huxiaoling Pass.
As for Liu Bao's return to Yanmen County and guarding Yanmen Pass, he and Huchuquan stationed in Shaling became a horn to contain Gongsun Bai's troops.
Yanmen Pass is in the southeast direction of Meiji Wangcheng, Gongsun Bai Ruo waved his army to the north, and he could not help but be afraid of Liu Bao, who was guarding Yanmen, to go out of the pass to attack his back road.
I can't help but say that Xin Bi is worthy of being the first wise general under Yuan Tan, and this set of defensive plans can be regarded as decent, at this time it is already the beginning of heavy snowfall, and a bigger storm is coming.
In fact, if it had been replaced by other princes, I am afraid that the Xiongnu would have accepted the conditions of surrender long ago, and there was no such thing as pursuit.
However, Gongsun Bai was not another prince, and after the 200,000 people moved south, he had already launched the Northern Expedition.
The Huns were not destroyed, why did the family be the champion Hou Huo's bold words to get sick, but in the end it was a sad word, because he failed to destroy the Huns in the end, but he also fulfilled his promise and did not start a family.
As the champion of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the last year and a half, Hou naturally knew the consequences of cutting the grass without eradicating the roots, and this time he was determined to completely end the chaos in the Monan grassland.
Huchuquan will not die, the Huns will not be destroyed, and they will never return to the teacher A few days later, Gongsun Bering led 20,000 foot cavalry mixed Taiping troops, rushed to Loufu City, and the soldiers came to Yanmen Pass, making a situation to attack the enemy, but in order to block the enemy of Yanmen Pass and prevent them from going out of the pass to attack and disturb Taiyuan.
And Gongsun Bai personally took command, and Zhao Yun, Guo Jia, Yan Liang and Wen Chou and other generals led nearly 20,000 elite cavalry, rolling north, and the soldiers pointed directly at Yunzhong County.
To be continued
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