The North is in danger of being destroyed.
If you don’t go to the North, where else can you go?
The young commander next to him was furious, "You shaman are talking nonsense.
You must be inaccurate in divination.
The north of Mobei has always been a forbidden area for southerners.
Commander, it is already September.
As long as it lasts for another month, the north will The cold wave will sweep across, and when it snows, will the Han army still dare to stay in Mobei?"
Tuoba Jiefen's face was uncertain.
He weighed it for a long time and ordered: "Le Lin, take the shaman away from here, and send a few warriors to follow him to protect his safety.
The army will immediately turn eastward."
"Yes, Marshal" Two hours later, at dusk, the sky was getting dark.
Yan Xing and Li Ru led the army to arrive here.
There were still traces on the ground that the Xianbei people stayed here to kill cattle and cook meat.
A scout squatted on the ground to check, then stood up and walked over to Yan Xing on horseback, clasping his fists and saying: "General, the Xianbei people must have just left not long ago, no more than two hours, they seem to have turned eastward."
The Xianbei people have not stopped after last night's battle, and have been marching all night.
Today, there is continuous marching during the day, and the speed cannot be increased.
However, after a night's rest, Yan Xing's army is full of food and drink, and there is one man to man both sides, and there are horses in reserve.
It can be ridden, and its marching speed is much faster than that of the Xianbei people.
At the Xianbei people's marching speed, they could only travel 70 to 80 miles in two hours.
However, it was getting dark at this time.
If we pursued rashly, we might be ambushed.
Once we were ambushed, we might be in danger of annihilating our entire army, so fighting would be risky.
But this is definitely not a time like this.
You are already sure of winning, so why take such risks?
Yan Xing made a decision in his heart.
His purpose was just to bite the Xianbei people's tail and not let them have a chance to breathe.
He ordered: "Send the order and the whole army will camp here."
The soldiers were busy in the camp, setting up simple tents, collecting some horse dung, cow dung and sheep dung left on the site and lighting them on fire, and set up iron pots to boil water and meat for soup.
Before it got dark, some soldiers dug up some wild vegetables nearby, washed them, threw them into the pot and cooked them together.
The sheep bones, cow bones and horse bones left by the Xianbei people were also collected by the soldiers and thrown into the fire to be burned together.
After the moisture in the bones was dried, the bones burned vigorously and emitted a faint blue firelight.
Li Ru took a bowl of broth and a cake and walked to Yan Xing and sat down and said, "The enemy is seventy or eighty miles away.
The general knows it but can't rush over.
Doesn't he feel particularly aggrieved?"
Yan Xing turned his head and glanced at Li Ru, "Huh, you know that and you said that I've been feeling unhappy in my heart."
Li Ru smiled and said: "General, there is no need to be anxious.
The predecessors are not all stupid people.
It is impossible to destroy them all in one fell swoop.
Even if the general kills Tuoba Jiefen and destroys Tuoba this time, Xianbei, and what about Eastern Xianbei?
You must know that the strength of the major tribes in Eastern Xianbei is not much weaker than that of Tuoba Xianbei.
I heard that After Tan Shihuai's death, a leader named Kebineng rose up in eastern Xianbei, who had a very high prestige among the eastern Xianbei people; there were also the Wuhuan people south of the eastern Xianbei, and the strength of the Wuhuan people should not be underestimated.
The leader After Qiu Liju's death, his nephew Tadun took pictures of the three kings under his command, including leaders such as Nanlou, Su Puyan, and Wuyan."
"General, the battle still has to be fought.
Today's world is a great opportunity for you to wait for military men to make contributions.
There are still opportunities to make contributions.
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General, you must not act too hastily.
Do you know what is the greatest sorrow of a military general?"
Yan Xing was surprised and asked: "What is it?"
Li Ru said leisurely: "The person died, but the battle was not over yet, and the credit was not earned yet.
What's even worse is that it is not worth it.
The war was over, the credit was earned enough, but the person died.
Do you think it was worth it?"
Yan Xing is not a stupid person.
How could he not understand what Li Ru meant, which was to let him take it easy and not to stumble in front of the horse because of greed for merit, and not to show too much sharpness, otherwise it would cause trouble for himself.
Yan Xing sighed: "Master Li's words are really insightful."
When Liu Cheng arrived here at noon the next day with his main army, Yan Xing had already led his army to continue chasing the Tuoba Xianbei people.
Liu Cheng reined in his horse and stopped after looking at the traces left by Yan Xing's army.
A scout reported to him: "My Lord, judging from the direction of the traces, the Xianbei people should have turned east here.
General Yan They should be chasing after them with a large army.”
It was originally heading north, but it suddenly turned east.
Liu Cheng was puzzled, and he looked at Guo Jia.
Guo Jia touched his beard, took out the map and looked at it.
After thinking for a moment, he said: "My Lord, six hundred miles to the east is the territory of the Xianbei people in the east.
If Tuoba Jiefen does not want to be annexed by Kebineng, he must After marching for a day or two, we will turn north and then go north.
Gong Lu Shui, his purpose of turning eastward, my subordinates speculated that he was probably aware that his marching route would reveal his destination, so by turning in this way to confuse us, his final destination should not be Change, his people need a safe place to rest.”
Liu Cheng asked: "Where does Fengxiao think their destination will be?"
Guo Jia took out the map, unfolded it, searched on it, pointed to a location and said, "It should be here."
Liu Cheng turned around and looked puzzled: "Lang Juxu Mountain is such a famous location, Tuoba Jiefen would choose to rest here, he would not be afraid of repeating the mistakes of the Huns."
Guo Jia smiled and said: "My lord, please don't be intimidated by the reputation of this place.
Although this place is famous, it is indeed a good place to recuperate.
My lord, please see, Langjuxu Mountain is surrounded by Gonglu River and Yuwu River."
Sandwiched in the middle is the source of these two rivers, and the surrounding land is fertile.
The water and grass are abundant, suitable for large-scale grazing, and it is easy to regain strength.
Looking at its geographical location, once an enemy invades, the people living here can calmly cross the Gonglu River or Yuwu River.
If the enemy crosses the river to pursue them, they will be attacked.
If the enemy retreats before blocking them, they can return again."
Liu Cheng thought for a while and said: "Feng Xiao, I want Ma Chao to lead 5,000 cavalry to Langjuxu Mountain first, and wait here for Tuoba Ha to challenge Fen.
I, the general, will take the rest of the people to speed up and catch up with Yan."
Okay, join forces together and then speed up To pursue Tuoba Jiefen, it would be great if we could catch up and annihilate him.
If we can't catch up, even if we get rid of him, he will eventually go to Langjuxu Mountain.
We still have backup forces at Langjuxu Mountain.
What do you think about waiting for him?"
Guo Jia cupped his hands and said, "That's okay."
Liu Cheng thought for a while and said, "But I'm not worried about asking Ma Chao to take five thousand people to Langjuxu Mountain alone.
How about I go with him as a courtesy?"
Guo Jia made excuses to refuse and said, "I dare not try my best."
"Well, I will order you to be Ma Chao's military advisor and lead an army of five thousand with Ma Chao to Langjuxu Mountain."
"Follow your orders" An hour later, Ma Chao and Guo Jia rushed to Langjuxu with 5,000 people.
They did not have the task of pursuing or marching on this trip, so each person was only equipped with one horse, but they also brought another 1,000 horses as Ready for use.
Liu Cheng was not in a hurry to catch up with Yan Xing's men.
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He divided the remaining 20,000 men into three groups.
The first group of 5,000 men was commanded by Chen Dao, crossed the Yuwu River in the northwest direction, and continued to move northwest.
Advancing northward, it is called the West Route Army; the second branch of Yang Rutong With Wang Shuang as his deputy, the same number of 5,000 people slowly advanced northward along the marching route of Ma Chao and Guo Jia, called the Middle Route Army; the third force of 10,000 people, led by Liu Cheng himself, followed Yan Xing The army's footprints continued to pursue eastward, known as the East Route Army.
In the tooth tent, Liu Cheng looked at Chen Dao, Yang Ru, Wang Shuang and others and said: "I will ask the quartermaster to distribute the baggage to the ministries later.
I solemnly say here that there is no benevolence, justice and morality in this battle.
Etiquette, justice and integrity are the only difference between victory and defeat.
You can do anything to win.
After that, there will be no more logistics and supplies.
You need to solve all the needs by yourself.
How to solve the problem?
You can support the war with war.
You can eat mountains and rivers.
Even if you eat grass roots, you must keep the soldiers full. , this is the best time to test your talents as commanders."
Several generals nodded to express their understanding.
Chen Dao cupped his fists and asked, "General, when and where will we meet?"
Liu Chengdao: "The time and place of the rendezvous are temporarily undetermined.
The search scope of the West Route Army will be placed in the vast area west of the Anhou River and will continue to advance north.
Once the Xianbei tribes and troops are discovered, do not hesitate to annihilate all the Central Route Army."
The search scope is placed in the area north of Yuwushui, and it continues to advance north.
It is not allowed to stop or retreat without orders.
Once discovered, The Xianbei tribes and troops were immediately annihilated; the East Route Army's search range was placed in the area south of Langjuxu Mountain and continued to advance north.
The purpose of annihilating any enemy troops or tribes they found was to cut off Tuoba Jiefen from obtaining supplies.
Since he wants to drag us down, let’s let him drag us down.
Before he can drag us down, we will drag him down first.”
Yang Ru asked: "Lord, after the army is divided into three, how can we communicate in time between the two sides?
The army cannot stop moving forward.
Once separated, no one will know where anyone is."
Liu Cheng clapped his hands, and six falconers came from behind.
Each of them had a long iron armguard tied to their right arm, and an eagle stood on the armguard.
Liu Cheng said: "Each army is divided into two eagle trainers.
The three armies contact each other every two hours.
The army will not run too far in two hours.
With the flight speed and field of vision of the eagle, it can be easily Find the target so that both of us know the approximate location of the other."
Chen Dao, Yang Ru, Wang Shuang and others all looked happy and said: "This method is good."
At this time, a fast horse galloped towards this side.
After the knight dismounted, he ran to Liu Cheng, knelt down on one knee and clasped his fists, saying: "My lord, General Yan Xing sent a messenger to report that Tuoba Jiefen's troops are about to arrive at the Xianbei people in the east.
There seems to be signs of entering the Xianbei territory in the east."
Liu Cheng thought about it and gave the order: "Give Yan Xing an order so that he does not have to have any scruples.
As long as Tuoba Jiefen leads people into the territory of Xianbei in the east, he will lead his troops and pursue them."