In the first year of Yuanting, in the middle of January, on the Haomen water west of Haomen County, the cold wind swept over the high riverbank, the dead trees in the wilderness, the south has been warm in spring, but the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is still lonely.At the western edge of the Haomen water, a stream goes backwards into a narrow ravine, where the terrain is steep and strange, the scenery is beautiful, the vertical distribution of vegetation is very obvious, the top is rich pasture, the vast pasture, and the mountainside is forested.This place was called "Tulugou" in later generations, which means a beautiful field in the Qiang language, and it was originally a summer pasture for frying Gongqiang.Because they spent the winter in the wide river valley east of Haomen Water, they were attacked by the Captain Huqiang and the Xiaoyue clan, and they had to migrate here.A tenth of the cattle died on the road, and now its leader, Frying Liang, was desperate to enter Haomen County and make up for the losses by looting."
It's not a big man, the whole length of Haomen water is frozen, and it is sturdy, I saw a group of yellow sheep looking for food stepping over without hindrance, and it is no problem to pass a large group of people."
As a local native, he knew that the river would not thaw until February, and that it would melt before planting wheat in March.This means that the northern part of Jincheng County has opened the door to the 5,000 Qiang soldiers of Gongqiang and Xianlingqiang.Winning a big victory after raising troops, or occupying the Jincheng County Mansion, was the plan set by Yang Yu when he met in the Great Elm Valley.They knew very well that the reinforcements of the Han Dynasty would arrive next month, and before that, the territory of Jincheng would accept the seal of the Guiyi Qiang, and Zhuqiang, who was watching the battle, knew that the Han army was not invincible.When the main force of the Han army arrived, the Qiang ran into hundreds of ravines, and as long as the Han soldiers dared to enter the mountains, they would be attacked in the steep river valleys favorable to the Qiang.Using the terrain to grind slowly, instead of winning a decisive battle, drag on for a year and a half, as long as the Xiongnu cut off the Hexi Corridor, the war will be completed.Yang Yu, who was familiar with the local mountains and rivers, understood that if he wanted to plot Jincheng, it was not enough for him to attack Heguan with more than 10,000 people, but also to open up the situation from the north.So some people took people around the valley to the place where Gongqiang settled.A few days ago, Ren Hong, the captain of the Qiang Guard who guarded Haomen County and sent people to patrol the riverbank day and night, had hurried south with more than 1,000 horses, and only the sporadic Xiaoyue Yicong rode on the east bank of Haomen Water, and the total number would not exceed 3,000.As a neighbor, he still doesn't know the urine of Huangzhong Hu very well: "Although Xiaoyue's is a dog of the Han people, he will never give his life, and when he sees that there are many of us, he will withdraw with a casual beating." ”Waiting for the opportunity to cross the Haomen River, go south along the river valley to Yunwu, and appear in the rear of the Han army, it will definitely make their morale collapse.Even if you can't conquer Yunwu, you can still disrupt the northern part of Jincheng, or take Lingju to open up the path for the Xiongnu to enter Jincheng, or wait for the five departments of the wolf surnamed Xiaoyue thousands of miles away in the north, whose leader Wolf He has had enough of the bitter cold of the Qaidam Basin, and is willing to return to Hexi no matter what the cost.But the Xiongnu envoy Daigo Ada, who came here with Youfei, dissuaded: "Don't be too happy, since the captain of the Qiang Protector is Ren Hong, he will not be easily deceived." ”Daigo Ada tells Yufei and Tanliang about his painful experience in the Western Regions."
In the battle of Loulan three years ago, I arrived with two thousand horsemen with Wang Shuai, and Ren Hong recruited one or two hundred Ruoqiang people to help.In order to delay time, they were told to arrive at the camp in the morning, quietly withdraw in the evening, and come back again the next day.If this is the case, it makes me think that Ruoqiang also has thousands, so he failed to attack Loulan in time, and actually called the Han army reinforcements to arrive. ”As for the battle of the iron gate and the canal plow, Ren Hong's discord with the kings of the Huns made Daigo Ada remember it vividly, and he and the king of the right valley were left empty by someone to empty the white wolf, and they were played around, and finally let the plan of the right part regain the Western Regions fail, thus achieving Ren Hong's throne."
This person has a name in the Western Regions, called the Desert Fox, which means cunning as a fox, in the words of the Han people, he is good at the art of war, with him, things will never be so simple.Daigo Ada was also bitten by a snake once, and he was afraid of the well rope for ten years, and he babbled to the two about Ren Hong's power, but he was ridiculed by Yu Fei and Fried Liang."
I thought that the Xiongnu envoy who dared to cross the Han land to Qiang was a warrior, but I didn't expect to be so timid."
Although the Qiang people had surrendered to the Xiongnu, they had never been slaves to them, and the two proud plateau warriors ignored Daigo Ada's warning, and still led the troops out of the valley the next day, entered the wide bank of Haomen Shui, and rushed towards the county seat of Haomen.The Xiaoyue clan who was cruising on the opposite shore quickly discovered the actions of the Qiang army, and the beacons placed in the pavilions also lit the beacon smoke, and according to the number of people they saw, they chose different beacons, accumulated salaries, or familiar recipes.And when the Qiang people arrived on the other side of Haomen County, ready to cross the ice river as long as a mile, accompanied by a crisp sound of hooves, theoretically went to the south to rush to the south of the Han people to help the river pass recruited troops but flocked out of the city, on the opposite bank of the formation, next to the red yellow Han flag, is a "Ren" word flag.Although Daigo Ada didn't know Chinese characters, he guessed what was wrong, spread his hands, and said to Yu Fei and Yu Liang in the tone of a person who had come over: "I'm right, right?"
Although I left the desert and came to the Hehuang Valley, the fox is still a fox. ”"Xi'an Hou is really not wrong."
Looking at the dense chaos of Qiang soldiers on the other side, Xin Qingji breathed a sigh of relief and became excited, there was finally a battle to be fought!
At the beginning, his father gave him two choices, one was to go to the Western Commander's Army as a servant, and the other was to continue to serve in the Huqiang Captain's Mansion, and Xin Qingji finally chose the latter.When Ren Hong rejected Taishou's request for help a few days ago, Xin Qingji was very incomprehensible, the county government was in trouble and warned the captain of Huqiang, why didn't he save it?
When Xi'an Hou and his father were deliberating, the most common sentence was not "the overall situation is important"?
When it was Ren Hong's turn, he didn't care about the overall situation.Xin Qingji is still too young, and he doesn't understand that the most important thing about being an official is to find his position and do a good job in dividing the boundaries of his duties.Since it was already decided that Xin Wuxian would be in charge of the west, Haoxing would be in charge of the south, and Ren Hong would be in charge of the north, so they would each perform their duties, and the brothers would climb the mountain and work hard.When the south side was tight, he called Ren Hong to save it, if something happened to the north during this period, who was it?
Ren Hong knew that Haoxingci, the old bureaucrat, would definitely sit idly by and let himself bear the consequences.Even if he looks at the overall situation, he shouldn't go south, in the words of Ling Fuchang of Lingju County: "Yunwu lost only one bad county, if Lingju is lost, the entire four counties of Hexi will face the enemy!"
”What's more, Ren Hong knew that if he went south with the recruits, the Xiaoyue clan, who seemed to be a good dog, would be unrestrained, and it was hard to say that he would turn back into a wolf."
The reason why the Xiaoyue clan is willing to be used by me is that I reached out to help the branch secretary when he was in distress and gained some trust from them.The second is that the Qiang people are very xenophobic, forcing the Xiaoyue clan to fall to the big Han.The third is to get food and be able to survive this cold winter.Fourth, the dog chain is in my hand, which is the old and weak women and children of the three Xiaoyue tribes placed on the backwater side of Wuting. ”As for Ren Hong's own immobility, he sent the Xiaoyue clan to help, if they arrived in the hinterland of Jincheng County, their wildness did not change, they robbed the village, killed people, and investigated afterwards, who is responsible?
This is the principle of using the Rongdi tribe, always keep a hand, and don't trust them completely.Ren Hong thinks about it, and the best way is not to move.Even if the river pass is broken, Yunwu should be able to hold it, after all, the reinforcements from Tianshui and Longxi are ready to arrive, so let Haoxing Taishou be anxious for a while.What's more, Ren Hong expected that the fried Gongqiang on the other side would definitely make a move, after all, he was attacked by him a few years ago, more than 100 people died, and the heads were still piled up on the shore of Haomen Water, becoming a large ice sculpture, and Fried Liang would come to Haomen County for revenge.It's still the old routine, Ren Hong deliberately let people leave Haomen with great fanfare, and collected the patrol troops by the Haomen water, creating the illusion of going south, but in fact, he gathered the soldiers in the city, continued to nail the horseshoe, and used up all the iron in Haomen County, and finally equipped 500 horsemen.Sure enough, today finally made him wait!
A thousand Han soldiers followed behind Ren Hong, mostly horsemen, and according to the promise, everyone wore warm boots, and almost everyone wore leather armor.And as the smoke rose straight up, the righteous servants of the three thousand Xiaoyue tribes stationed nearby were also coming one after another."
Sanzhiyi saw the beacon smoke from Hu Qi, and if he wants to rush here, it will take one moment for the nearest and two for the farther."
Zhang Yaoli was a little anxious, because there were more than 5,000 Qiang captives on the other side, but there were only 1,000 of them: "Xi'an Hou, let's pull the team back to the county town to garrison." ”"It's okay, I don't know how many soldiers I left in the county."
Ren Hong was full of confidence: "When they see that I have few soldiers, they will wonder if there are ambushes behind them" Before the words fell, Xi'an Hou was slapped in the face.Han Dangdang's loud voice reported: "Xi'an Hou, Qiang Yu has begun to cross the river!"
Indeed, the Qiang cavalry on the opposite bank began to divide into two groups, each with more than 2,000 horses, and slowly walked across the frozen river and marched towards the east bank.Because the Qiang horses were a little slippery on the ice, most of them dismounted, led them slowly, and walked cautiously towards this side.Ren Hong didn't know that this was an adventure instigated by Daigo Ada, and he said to Yu Fei and Fried Liang: "I think about it, this Ren Hong will use tricks to deliberately scare people, and the best way to deal with him is to catch a fox like a wolf, don't hesitate, just rush over and kill him!"
The terrain of this river valley is open, and even if a herd of fire bulls rushes out, it will not hurt. ”"What is a fire bull?"
It's not that he didn't understand, but Daigo Ada was afraid of this and that, and after seeing Ren Hong, he was like seeing an enemy, and he became eager to try, and he also fulfilled their wishes, so he shouted that the people were divided into two teams to cross this frozen long river.Daigo Ada pulled out his arrows and walked to the left with Fried Liang, he stared at the Han general on the opposite bank, riding a red horse and wearing a white robe and armor, and said secretly: "Ren Hong is Ren Shilang, Ren Shilang is Ren Hong, don't think that this time you have changed your coat color, from a red fox to a white fox, from a confessor to a captain of the Qiang Guard, I don't recognize you!""
Xi'an Hou, Xiaoyue's clan has not yet arrived, we are one thousand enemies and five thousand, I'm afraid it's not an opponent, let's withdraw!"
Withdraw to the county seat. ”Zhang was in a hurry, and reminded again.And Ren Hong, who lost his calculation, turned around and saw the faces of the recruits in Lingju and Haomen, different from the recruits who would be scared in the first battle, and there was no fear on the faces of this group of veterans, light heroes, and evil teenagers who took the initiative to recruit.Zhao Jia is right, this group of Jincheng people wanted this and that when they were recruited, there were many thieves, but when they went into battle, they really did not show their cowardice, and they deserved to be the "Diao Min" who were shameless thieves.Ren Hong knows that today's first battle is particularly important, one blow, then decline, three and exhaustion, in this war, you can't just count on the Xiaoyue clan to work hard, right?"
Rush."
He drew his sword and pointed at the group of more than 2,000 Qiang soldiers on the left, which was a fried Gongqiang and a fleeting fighter."
Zhang wants to leave and bring someone to meet him on the shore.Zizhi, Lao Han, and Ru took five hundred horsemen equipped with horseshoe grippers, followed me, ran on the ice, and rushed them against the Qiang on the glacier!
”If Daigo Ada looked closer, he could find that Ren Hong really didn't look like a fox at this moment, but like a tiger walking in the snow.Jincheng at the beginning of January was very cold, and his mouth was white, but Ren Hong's outdated words made Xin Qingji's blood boil, and the recruits' hearts were hot."
Gentlemen, back in the Western Regions, I rode thousands of miles to find a feudal marquis, and one person destroyed a country.""
And to-day, I have five hundred horsemen!
How many countries are enough to destroy?
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