In the afternoon of the same day, almost all the main forces of the Han army under the Zhidu Department entered the nameless heights.
Now, of course, it has a name.
"Since this place is in the south of Heyin, and the mountains in its north are slightly parallel to Heyin, then, let's call it Thorn South" Zhi Du took Mo Dao soldiers, climbed a high hill, and looked at the scenery of Heyin on the other side and said.
Thus, the name of Thorn South was decided.
This is also in line with the values of Han literati doctors.
The so-called grass and trees have branches to the south.
And when Zhidu stood on this hill, he realized that this place was not only across the river from Heyin in the east.
It is to the north, walk another hundred and ten miles, go deep into the Yangshan Mountains, and you can go straight to the Jiuyuan County of the old Zhao State.
It's a pity that Zhao Zhijiuyuan County has long been buried by the wind and sand.
Even the county seat of Qin Zhijiuyuan County is probably only ruined.
However, Zhi didn't have time to be nostalgic for the past and the present, because, after standing here, he found that this section of the river was not frozen.
In other words, the scale of the freeze is too small.
The surging river rushed forward, heading towards Zengshan Pass when the Han army came.
Countless ice floes, mixed with the river water, tumbled endlessly.
Even after more than ten miles, the sound of the rushing river and the breaking of the ice are still clearly visible.
Zhi Du wore gloves and held up a pair of glass clairvoyant mirrors made by Moyuan, looking at the local area from afar.
Then he saw that on the other side of the river, there were shadows and shadows, and there were cavalry in action, although he could not see the appearance of the people, but he could see these cavalry staring at the high platform across the river.
Zhidu put down this expensive glass clairvoyant mirror and carefully put it away.
This clairvoyant mirror is not cheap Just this one, the cost is close to 500 gold It took a full year for the ink master of Moyuan to gather more than a dozen sets of glazed clairvoyant glasses needed for them.
Then, in the process of grinding and trial manufacturing, most of it is lost.
In the end, only six pairs were made of the remainder.
One pair is naturally owned by the Son of Heaven, and the other five pairs are all handed over to the general of this operation.
This pair here in Zhidu is currently the only six pairs of clairvoyant mirrors in the world.
Although the ink masters of the ink garden patted their chests and assured that five years later, the Han family would be able to popularize this thing even if it was Sima Xiaowei.
But Zhi Du didn't believe it much.
This kind of pure and transparent glass like the sky is not easy to make This is a masterpiece of ghosts and gods.
Not to mention five years, Zhi Du feels that in another hundred years, such glass will be a luxury and a treasure "Zhao Sima" put away the clairvoyant mirror, and Zhidu called a cavalry Sima of the Thorn Gate Army, and ordered: "You immediately lead a hundred cavalry to reconnoiter along the big river, and I believe that there must be ice that can cross the river."
Now, it's the second day.
There were only two days left for the Han army to occupy Heyin.
In any case, the Han army must be stationed in Heyin before the Yiwei day, and complete its mission of attracting the strength of the Xiongnu, so as to create favorable conditions for the main force of the Han army in the direction of Yunzhong to create an enemy that clears Ziling and Honghu Sai, enters the river, and goes straight to Gaoque This is a task and mission that can be transferred without the advance of the Righteous Column or other objective conditions.
A soldier takes obedience to orders as his duty.
Now that the military order has been issued, can the fighter plane be delayed for other reasons?
This is a great sin that will encircle friendly forces and lead to the complete failure of the entire strategic deployment "No" Sima gave up his hand, and then led the fighters' cronies and troops towards the distant river.
In Zhidu's sight, they passed through a ravine through a gap in the hills, went deep into the bank of the great river, and then walked along the riverside.
"Newspaper" At this time, a messenger with an arrow galloped over, he galloped to Zhidu, and reported a sealed emergency military situation to Zhidu: "General Che Cavalry Urgent Report" Zhi Du took it and looked at it, and then, shaking his head, picked up a pen and wrote some words on a piece of paper, then sealed it, handed it to the messenger, and instructed: "Send it to the general of the chariot immediately" Since Ji Xin has dedicated his pigeon raising and pigeon training skills to today's son.
Shaofu specially trained dozens of pigeon breeders, domesticated carrier pigeons professionally, and used them in the military.
Of course, now, the carrier pigeons cultivated by Shaofu are not mature.
Therefore, at this time, the carrier pigeons that the Han family can call are the more than 30 pigeons that Ji Xin dedicated to the Son of Heaven.
On this expedition, there are professional carrier pigeon people with carrier pigeons with the army.
Relying on carrier pigeons, the three-way army of the Han army has always been able to exchange battlefield information as quickly as possible.
This is also the reason why Zhidu got the news just one day after Yizong came out of the plug.
However, this carrier pigeon is also worn out when used.
Especially outside this plug, there are many birds of prey.
By now, Zhidu has lost three pigeons.
When this battle is over, I am afraid that the carrier pigeons that can be used by the Han family will only have a single digit.
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However, what Yizong said in the letter made Zhidu feel a little Alexander.
"I can't imagine that our army needs to face so many enemies" Zhi Du sighed in his heart, and there was a trace of fear for the future.
But more than that, it's the excitement There is not much to say in the letter of righteousness.
Basically, it's just two pieces.
The first thing is to tell him that the enemies that the Han army needs to face this time are more than one-third of what was expected before the war.
Before the war, according to reconnaissance and intelligence.
The Han army generally estimated that in this place between the rivers, including Yulinsai, Gaoque and other important places.
The Huns probably had hundreds of thousands of Yiluo, about eight to ten thousand horsemen, and the total strength was about 50,000.
Even if the Xiongnu sent reinforcements from Munan and Hexi, their total strength would not exceed 60,000 within ten days.
It is comparable to the strength of the Han army.
But now, Yizong's intelligence shows that the Huns' strength in this river is not ten, but as many as fourteen thousand horsemen Among them, it even includes the headquarters of his left general, the headquarters of Shan Yu, and the thousands of horses of the Huyan, Lan and Subu clans.
Just the absolute main force of these Xiongnu Empires is more than 70,000 horsemen And every Xiongnu headquarters of 10,000 horsemen is the elite of the Xiongnu Empire, and the combat power of each one is not much worse than that of the Zhelan people.
In the course of decades of war between Han and Hungary, the Xiongnu invasion was huge.
However, even the most time, 140,000 cavalry invaded south under the commander of Lao Shangdan, but there were only five 10,000 cavalry in the headquarters Many times, when the Xiongnu invaded, it was one or two headquarters of ten thousand horsemen as the main force, coercing servants and slaves, and the momentum was violent.
And the headquarters of the Huns is ten thousand horses Zhi Du took a deep breath, and felt a little palpitating.
In recent years, the Han family's infiltration and intelligence reconnaissance of the Xiongnu have become more and more detailed.
Therefore, the reality of the Xiongnu Empire has also been figured out.
The Xiongnu alone boasted of controlling 400,000 strings.
But in fact, the towns and tribes under his rule are far more than that.
It's just that it's hard for him to fully mobilize and mobilize.
After all, when the Han army of 60,000 troops left the fortress, the Han treasury and the strategic savings in the north, as well as manpower and material resources, were exhausted.
In the same way, the Huns simply could not organize an army of this size of 400,000.
Even with the addition of slaves, plus miscellaneous servants, and those servants, it is impossible to have such a scale.
After all, one can imagine that 400,000 people, at least 800,000 horses, millions of herds.
Livestock and people of this size are enough to turn the steppe into a mobile scourge even more terrifying than locusts.
They will eat up all the grass in their path, and even the roots of the grass in the soil will be gnawed off.
They will drink all the water they have along the way, and they will leave behind mountains of human and animal droppings.
Then, by the next year, there will be no grass growing in the area they have passed, and it may even form a sand dune area or even a desert So that the Xiongnu could never graze in these places again.
It's almost no different from suicide.
So, in fact, when the size of the army reaches the figure of 100,000, even the Huns will be difficult to bear.
With an army of 200,000, it is almost the limit.
As for the story of the 400,000-strong invasion of Manan like the Battle of Pingcheng, it is almost impossible to happen again.
Because, the Huns did not have such conditions.
This is also one of the theories of the Han Dynasty's pre-war prediction judgment.
But, looking at it now, it still underestimates the Huns Think about it, from Yulinsai to the south, this land surrounded by Yin Mountain has an area of thousands of miles.
It is almost equivalent to the sum of at least four large counties of the Han family Such a vast land is enough to feed more than 500,000 Xiongnu nomads.
Even if it is one out of five, it can gather 100,000 horses What's more, the intelligence of the Yizong side shows that the high-level leaders of the Xiongnu, the Zuo generals Huyan Dangtu and Zuo Dadanghu Lan Tuoxin, mobilized their respective headquarters forces here before the war. also brought another Xiongnu nobleman, a 10,000-horse cavalry from the Lan clan, to help "More than fourteen ten thousand horsemen" Zhi thought about the content of the righteous information, and couldn't help but scold: "Damn it, damn it, Yidi really can't believe it" With such a large-scale transfer of Xiongnu troops, how could it be concealed from the eyes and ears of the Han family buried inside the Xiongnu Therefore, this incident actually proves that this person is playing tricks fortunately "Fourteen thousand riders" Zhi Du snorted coldly.
In today's Han Army, some proud soldiers proudly shouted the slogan of one Han and three Hu.
As for Hu Benwei and Yu Linwei and Xiliu Ying, they claim to be able to be ten Hu in one summer.
This is an exaggeration, but it also reflects some facts.
Except for those elites in the Xiongnu headquarters and ace fighters like Zhelan, the Han army was crushed in terms of technique and tactics, firepower or physical fitness Even the elite of the Xiongnu headquarters was more powerful than the Han army in front of the main force of the Han army, that is, riding and equestrianism. but In front of the horseshoe and stirrup saddle, these so-called people who draw the bow are scum Cavalry with and without horseshoes are completely two arms in terms of mobility and flexibility.
What's more, the Han army also had the ability to freely shoot bows and aim on horseback.
Moreover, no matter what kind of cavalry, it is impossible to get any advantage in front of the invincible cuirassier array of the Han army The army under Zhidu, judging from Zhidu's assessment, can at least 30,000 Hun cavalry in front of it without falling behind. but Thinking about the other thing that the uprising said in the letter, Zhi Du couldn't be happy.
Yizong asked Zhidu to go north after occupying Heyin and capture the ancient city of Jiuyuan County in Qin and Zhao.
At the very least, we have to make a posture to go north.
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Zhi knows why The answer is simple: the strength of the Xiongnu in Hejian greatly exceeded the pre-war estimates of the Han army.
Whether it is Zhidu, Yizong or Cheng Buzhi, the pressure they are facing is greatly increasing.
Therefore, the Yizong Department needed Zhidu to make sacrifices to attract more Xiongnu troops.
In this way, the Yizong Department occupied a vast area on the south bank of the Great River, and swept away the Xiongnu forces, creating favorable conditions and reducing the pressure.
But "There aren't enough troops," Zhi Du sighed.
Of course, he also wanted to help Yizong.
But, beyond our reach His entire army has a total of more than 15,000 people.
Among them, there were about 9,000 cavalry, less than 10,000.
The rest were infantry, moreover, recruits accounted for as much as thirty percent.
What's more, Zhidu also had to send troops to defend the supply line to prevent the Hun rangers from attacking his supply line from the flank.
This meant that Zhidu had to devote at least a quarter of his strength to protect his supply lines.
The rest of the army, even if all went well, captured Ha Yin unscathed.
However, Heyin also needs to be protected.
If you want to keep Heyin, you must leave at least 3,000 cavalry.
In this way, the actual number of troops at his disposal is only a few thousand.
This also includes foot soldiers.
And going north to the ancient city of Jiuyuan, Zhi is likely to face enemies from Yiliang, Jiuyuan, Gaoque and even Ziling.
Attacked almost from three sides.
So, it's not realistic.
But Yizong's request could not be ignored.
Because strategically speaking, the key to the victory or defeat of this war is still the Yizong and his main force of the Chinese army.
For the sake of victory, some sacrifices and costs are bearable.
"Summoning all the military captains" Zhidu issued an order: "Immediately discuss the matter of going north" t1706231537: