The royal tent of King Ding Ling was located on the west bank thirty miles south of the mouth of Zhiju Water flowing into the North Sea.
However, there were also a large number of Ding Ling people living and grazing on the east bank.
In view of the difficulty of crossing the river, King Ding Ling held a grand welcome ceremony on the east bank of the estuary for the arrival of the Han army.
Almost all the Ding Ling people living on both sides of the river came out to welcome the Han army.
The number of Ding Ling people living here accounts for more than half of all Ding Ling people.
There are also some Ding Ling tribes scattered around.
Some have been slaughtered by Bu Dugen, and some still exist.
Especially around Beihai, there are many Ding Ling tribes. .
King Ding Ling was very hospitable, and after having a good meal and wine, he appointed his concubine to serve Liu Cheng.
Liu Cheng saw that the woman was the most beautiful among the Ding Ling women, but when he thought that she was King Ding Ling's concubine , he was a little embarrassed, bringing tens of thousands of people here, eating other people's food, drinking other people's food, and sleeping with other people's wives.
This seemed very unethical.
Just as he was about to send someone to send the woman back to King Ding Ling, Chen Qun came out to dissuade her: "Master, you must not do it.
As far as my subordinates know, this seems to be the highest etiquette for Ding Ling people to receive guests.
Only the most valued and respected guests can do it."
Talents are treated like this.
If the lord sends someone to send him back, King Ding Ling thinks that the lord looks down on him and thinks that his concubine is not beautiful enough and cannot serve others.
This is disrespectful and insulting to him.
This will make Ding Ling and ours "Relationships deteriorate" Liu Cheng was stunned: "He is forcing me to sleep with his wife.
There is such a strange thing in the world."
Li Ru smiled and said: "My lord, the barbarians are crude and crude.
I have heard that some barbarians use the same woman for father and son, and for several brothers to use the same woman.
It's not surprising.
My lord is very lucky, and a spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold." , I won’t disturb you.
Farewell, farewell.”
Guo Jia, Chen Qun and several other generals also smiled, clasped their fists and bowed before retreating.
Only Liu Cheng and King Ding Ling's concubine were left in the tent.
Liu Cheng was quite helpless and waved to Princess Ding Ling, opening his arms and asking her to come over and take off his armor and clothes.
The woman actually understood what he meant and her face turned red.
He came over and took off his armor for him.
After a while, a humming sound came from the big tent.
Early the next morning, Princess Ding Ling left.
Liu Cheng walked out of the tent refreshed, expanded his chest, and stretched his muscles.
The guards brought meat and milk tea.
He had just had breakfast when he heard the guards coming.
Report outside the door: "Lord, King Ding Ling wants to see you."
"Oh, please come in quickly" "yes" King Ding Ling walked in and saluted Liu Cheng and asked: "Just now my cavalry came from the west and killed two horses.
He reported that a troop of soldiers and horses was found half a day's journey west of my royal court.
According to the traveler, The description of the horse, the knights of that army are all wearing the same armor as your people, I don’t know if they are your people.”
After listening to the translator, Liu Cheng immediately understood that it must be Chen Dao and Yang Ru who had been heading north after joining forces, and happened to reach the southernmost beach of Beihai.
Liu Cheng said: "King Ding Ling, you guessed it right.
Those are indeed my people.
I forgot to tell you about this yesterday.
I asked them to go west because I was worried that the Xianbei people would flee to the west."
"This puts me at ease."
King Ding Ling breathed a sigh of relief and said: "In addition to talking about this matter, I also want to discuss with you the sending of troops to attack the Xianbei people.
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According to my patrol investigation, the Xianbei people's The location is about two miles northeast of us A day's journey away, the most they can do is go to the north shore of this sea.
If they go further north, there will be no good grazing land.
The livestock will lose weight if they don't eat enough forage, and they will definitely freeze to death in winter, so I think We can catch up with them in two days."
Liu Cheng asked: "King Ding Ling, do you have a topographic map around this sea?"
After King Ding Ling understood what Liu Cheng meant, he immediately gave instructions to the person behind him.
Not long after, King Ding Ling's entourage brought a roll of sheepskin.
He opened the roll of sheepskin.
Liu Chenggong saw that the roll of sheepskin was probably very old. , there is a map drawn with reddish-brown liquid on the parchment.
This map is not exquisite because the person who drew this map is really not very good, but it is very detailed, with a hill and a strip of The creeks and woods are marked.
Liu Cheng pointed to some claws or teeth drawn north of the North Sea on the parchment and asked: "What do these mean?
Why is this map only drawn on the north shore of the sea and not there?"
King Ding Ling said: "It is very dangerous to go further north, very dangerous.
There are a large number of ferocious beasts there.
They are so huge that they cannot be hurt by swords, guns and arrows.
There are also some strange phenomena that often occur there.
My ancestors lived there in the past." , are often eaten by ferocious beasts, and die due to some strange phenomena.
Also, it is too cold there.
It is already very cold in this season.
I went there once last year."
Liu Cheng knew that in ancient times there were still many unexplainable natural phenomena and ferocious beasts that would not be seen in later generations.
Since King Ding Ling said that the north was dangerous, it was definitely not a lie.
Liu Cheng said: "I plan to divide the troops into three groups to advance northward to pursue the Xianbei people: The first group, which is the group of troops I deployed to the west, has about ten thousand people.
They will go north along the west coast of the sea until On the north coast of the sea, prevent the Xianbei people from escaping to the west; on the second route, you will lead your troops and horses along the east coast of the sea to be pursued.
If the Xianbei people are found, send them out immediately.
Quickly notify me; on the third route, I will lead my people to pursue in the northeast direction.
The horizontal distance between our two groups is no more than half a day's journey.
If one of them encounters the Xianbei people, just send a messenger immediately to report the news, and then If you delay for a day, another army of soldiers and horses will come to support, and then the two soldiers and horses will besiege the Xianbei people together.
What do you think of my plan?"
King Ding Ling thought for a while and said: "General, your idea is very good.
I think there is no problem, so let's do it."
After finishing speaking, King Ding Ling returned to his royal tent and began to mobilize troops, prepare cattle, sheep, and supplies for the expedition; Liu Cheng sent people to order Chen Dao and Yang Ru to lead their troops to continue northward, along the west coast of the North Sea.
Go north to the north shore of Beihai to prevent the Xianbei people from escaping westward.
The next day, Liu Cheng and King Ding Ling led their armies respectively.
King Ding Ling took his 6,000 soldiers and horses, and recruited another 4,000 people from the whole clan, making up 10,000 people to be searched and pursued along the east coast of the North Sea. , this is already the entire work of the entire Ding Ling clan.
With the fighting strength, almost all the men among the Ding Ling people who could mount a horse, shoot a bow and hold a sword were sent out, leaving only the old, weak, women, children and children.
If only a thousand elite cavalry came to kill them at this time, the Ding Ling people would be defeated.
Must be exterminated.
Half a day after Liu Cheng led his army to set out, he found that the terrain was no longer as flat as before.
Mountains and ravines began to appear.
Most of the leaves on the mountains had fallen off, and the ones that had not fallen off were all coniferous trees.
When Liu Cheng saw this situation, he knew that there was not much time left for him.
He must solve the problem of Budu root as soon as possible, and then quickly lead his troops back south.
Otherwise, the army is likely to be stranded here by the cold current and heavy snow.
Once the temperature drops to the point where the soldiers The level that they could not bear, the fatal disaster for the soldiers.
In view of the increasingly complex terrain as you go north, Liu Cheng had to order Ma Chao to send out a large number of scouts to prevent the army from being ambushed.
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Although this is the territory of the Ding Ling people, there are not many Ding Ling people themselves and the area is vast.
It's sparse, and no one can guarantee that there aren't other barbaric tribes living here.
"Lord, the brothers of the scout team have discovered many wolves in succession."
Ma Chao came to Liu Cheng and reported during the march.
Liu Chengdao: "Wolves, look at the many mountains, canyons and deep valleys around here.
Isn't it normal for wolves to appear?
Do they still dare to attack my army?
Don't worry, continue on your way."
Ma Chao said hurriedly: "No, my lord, you may not have seen those wolves.
Each of them is the size of a calf."
Liu Cheng was shocked and said: "Are you kidding me?
How can wolves grow to the size of calves?
Then they are not yet sperms."
"My lord, I will guarantee with my head that everything I say is true.
I will never dare to deceive or deceive my lord."
Seeing that Ma Chao didn't look like he was telling lies, Liu Cheng immediately realized the seriousness of the problem and said quickly: "Chen Qun, bring the map quickly.
Bring the map that King Ding Ling gave me."
"Yes, my lord" The map was quickly sent to Liu Cheng.
Liu Cheng immediately opened it and looked at it.
He looked up at the surrounding mountains and terrain, then looked for it on the map.
His expression changed, "It's not good that we have gone too far.
We have already Entering the Far North.
Today seems to be the fifth day of our departure.
King Ding Ling said that once you enter the Far North, you will encounter all kinds of incredible phenomena.
Meng Qi, where is the calf-sized wolf you just mentioned?
If you can see it, take me there quickly.”
"My Lord, please come with me."
Ma Chao immediately agreed and took Liu Cheng to check on the wolves.
On the mountains on one side of the army, a snow-white wolf stood on a bare rock.
Liu Cheng couldn't help laughing when he saw its size.
Since traveling to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, this is the first time he has seen such an unnatural phenomenon, like a calf-sized wolf, which he could only see in movies and TV series in his previous life.
Things are getting serious Liu Cheng immediately ordered: "The entire army immediately stopped advancing and arranged in a neat and tight defensive formation on the spot, and then slowly retreated to the rear."
The soldiers also realized the problem and immediately followed Liu Cheng's instructions.
The military formation was quickly completed and began to retreat slowly.
Before dark, the army finally withdrew to a flat area.
Liu Cheng immediately ordered all the vehicles to form a circle, arrange the vehicle array on the outside, and circle all the soldiers and horses in the circle.
The cavalry all turned into infantry.
In front of a wolf pack the size of a calf, the cavalry and cavalry tactics were useless at all.
Now they could only use everything available to deploy defense, hoping to survive the night.
"The ten thousand crossbows we brought can finally be used.
Send the order and distribute all the crossbow arrows.
In addition, the beasts are afraid of fire.
Send some people to pile up enough firewood a hundred steps outside the defense circle." heap" At this time, the sky had not completely darkened.
In the defense circle of 20,000 people, Liu Cheng and the soldiers found wolves appearing all around, with more and more numbers.
Each one was the size of a calf.
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Everyone's expressions were expressionless.
Everything has changed.
What Liu Cheng was worried about finally happened: