Zhao Chongguo found that the generals of the "Western Regions" did have a very good set of how to cross the desert, such as Feng Fengshi, who has been in the Western Regions for nearly ten years, how to camp with the camel team as a wall to prevent wind and sand, and how to avoid the vehicle from falling into the difficult quicksand, he is quite experienced, plus many military officials in the army are veterans of the "Xiliang Iron Cavalry" led by Ren Hong, and they are familiar with the Gobi.When he was praised by Zhao Chongguo, Feng Fengshi smiled and said: "The general is too modest, this curtain seems to be vast, but in fact, it is far less dangerous than the White Dragon Pile and the Great Sand Sea in the Western Regions. ”The Great Sand Sea is vast for nearly 10,000 miles, accounting for most of the Western Regions, and the length of this Xiongnu curtain is comparable, but the width is far inferior.Bailongdui and Mohe Yanze can be called the sea of death, there are no birds in sight, there are no beasts under it, and when you look at the dead poplar trees, there are only human and animal bones as signposts.Compared with the white dragon pile, this curtain is simply a place of ointment, most areas are not deserts but bare rocks, each desert is not continuous, occasionally there are grasslands and shrubs, the grassland completely covers the lower slopes, especially recently it is the rainy season, after a rain passes, Artemisia take the opportunity to sprout, half of the desert is green.It is no wonder that the Xiongnu were able to move 100,000 households in the south of the desert to the north of the desert, and the herdsmen could even drive their cattle and sheep across this moat in the rainy season.They were even able to find a small lake left in the desert under the guidance of the Huns who surrendered to the Han army, and the reeds, sand bamboos, white thorns and other plants grew on the lakeside, forming an oasis, like a blue gem held on a golden yellow interlining.However, Su Tongguo, who was the vanguard of Zhao Chongguo's army, stopped the soldiers from rushing over and drinking hard, and after riding around the small lake, he dragged out hundreds of dead livestock from the lake that had completely rotted and festered."
When the Xiongnu heard that the Han army was coming, they sent witches to plant cattle and sheep in advance on the roads and in the water where the Han army passed, and used them to curse the Han army.""
The Xiongnu deliberately polluted the water source, and if you drink this water, you will get diarrhea and other diseases."
Feng Fengshi is very familiar with this scene, when the Marquis of Xi'an was in the Western Regions, he specially taught the military officials, saying that the water where the animal carcasses are buried will breed many small insects that are invisible to the naked eye, and if you drink the raw water, it will turn over the river and the sea in your belly, and the intestines will be pulled out for you.There is a legend in the army that General Huo Hussar died young after he was hit by this trick during the last expedition.But there is a trick to break it, and that is to boil the water and drink it.There is no shortage of fuel by the lake, not to mention that the baggage camp also brought a lot of dried cow dung for backup, and some people even said: "When the grain is really short, these dried cow dung look quite similar to Hu cakes, and they can even be eaten for emergency relief" I don't know if it is serious or joking.The soldiers stayed in the kettle for a long time and thirsty before they drank the strange-tasting water, and although some people were still vomiting with disgust, it did not produce large-scale diarrhea and dysentery, which ruined the combat effectiveness of an army.It's a pity that the livestock don't have this treatment, the camels eat plants to replenish water, and the pack horses get sick because they drink the raw water in the lake, as long as they can't walk, all the people who are abandoned by the army are the same, and the sick and injured are all sent to the same number of people as the fallen ones to be transported back in wagons, and there is a beacon temporarily set up by the Han army in the south of the Great Gobi, and if you are lucky, you can be rescued.The attrition is not too much, at the beginning of July, after more than 20 days of trekking, Zhao Chong's army of 80,000 people went out of the Gobi in three ways, and re-entered the grassland, but the green in front of him was lighter than that of the south of the desert, mixed with a little bit of yellow, autumn has arrived, and a mountain range in the northwest and southeast direction in front of him is in sight, that should be the Junji Mountain where Li Ling was defeated.But until here, they still haven't seen the main force of the Huns, only sporadic scouts came to inquire about the news, and when they were caught, they just relied on the riders of the small tribes in the south, and they didn't know where the main forces of Da Dan Yu and the Huns were."
Most of them are the same as in the past, and they are settled in the area of the Tula River in Yuwu Water and the Lengge River in Zhiju Shuise."
The first thing Zhao Chongguo did after the end of the curtain was to send scouts to the east more than a thousand miles away to inform Ren Hong.Although he has the mind of not inferior to the younger generation, Zhao Chongguo has always put the overall situation first, and he knows that when he comes here, the Middle Route Army and the East Route Army can only retreat from each other by being horns and advancing together!
Zhao Chongguo stamped his seal on the letter and handed it to the scout: "Tell the Marquis of Xi'an, how can you say that you have no clothes, and you are in the same robe with your son, and you should work hard to punish Shan Yu in this battle." ”As a fox in the desert, Ren Hong came out with a large army a few days before Zhao Chongguo, because he was well prepared and brought many camels, the Great Gobi did not cause much trouble to the Eastern Route Army, but let Ren Hong have a new understanding of the Huns.Can you organize more than 100,000 or 200,000 nomadic herds to migrate across the desert several times, and don't you quickly defeat and cripple them and keep them for the New Year?
Ren Hong did not rush to march, but rested on the grassland north of the desert for a few days, waiting for the two detachments to converge.The army must be divided across the desert, and the supply pressure of 60,000 men is very great, and they can drink a small lake in the desert to dry up, cut off the flowing river on the grassland, and the mounts are also buried in their heads and chew violently, and when their bellies are swollen, they have gnawed a rich grassland.However, there is also a particular division of troops, and those who are obviously not suitable must not be allowed to take charge of themselves.When Wei Qing went out to attack the Huns, he asked Zhao Shiqi and Li Guang, two veterans, to take a long detour to the east of the water source, but Li Guang lived up to expectations, got lost again, and missed the battle of Mobei.It wasn't until Wei Qing finished the battle and missed Shan Yu that he went south to cross the desert again, only to encounter the lost and wander around in the Great Gobi, and finally went back to the south of the desert with a confused face, so the guide is very important, Ren Hong has been very favored to the king of Xilu who led the way these days, and the candidate for the partial division chose Zhang Qianqiu, who has always known the army, to go to the west, the clever Zhao Han'er to the east, and the veteran Dingxiang Taishou Wang Ping to take it with him."
Our marching route is similar to that of Huo Hussar."
When the military discussion in the camp, Ren Hong found their location on the map, when Huo Qubing took 50,000 horses out of the generation, more than a thousand miles of right Beiping, just after the curtain, he met the army of King Zuo Xian to meet the battle, a battle down, King Zuo Xian fled, Huo Qubing opened the pursuit mode, chased north for two thousand miles in one breath, and chased until the core of the Xiongnu Gonglu River in the Krulun River.When I asked, I knew that these two were the sacred mountains of the Huns, so Huo Huqi happily went up the mountain and soaked urine, and then sealed the wolf Juxu Mountain, Zen in Guyan, and climbed to overlook the Hanhai.But Ren Hong and the others didn't have this good luck, they were out of the fortress for two thousand miles, except for the occasional scouts who approached, and they didn't even see the shadow of the Hun army.Now the commander of the left is the brother of the Zuoxian King Ji Hou Shan, the king of Zuogu Li, Hu Tu Wusi, this person has always been known for his impulse to fight, but now he avoids fighting, Ren Hong knows that the Huns learned the lessons of the battle of Mobei, and feel that only two thousand miles is not enough to exhaust the Han army, and to continue to clear the wilderness, the Han army's battle line is stretched "just like the four-year battle of the Han Dynasty." ”Although Dingxiang Taishou Wang Ping can't speak, but after all, the veteran, the experience is there, he said that the war in the third year of the Tianhan Dynasty, the second division general Li Guangli rode more than 100,000 out of Shuofang, and the strong crossbow general Lu Bode went out of Juyan to meet the second division; The guerrilla general Han said the five plains, because the general Gongsun Ao went out of Yanmen.The Xiongnu went north to the Wen Han army and withdrew their baggage, old and weak to the north of Yuwushui.Li Guangli fought continuously with 100,000 cavalry of Shan Yu's army in Yuwu Shuinan for more than ten days, but could not win, and led the army back.Han said that he had not seen the Hun army, and he returned in vain.Gongsun Ao fought unfavorably with King Zuo Xian and retreated.The multi-line parallel is to reduce the supply burden, and the second is to seek the enemy, but it is also easy to be broken by the Huns.After fighting with the Xiongnu for so many years, the other party's arrangement is no longer mysterious: "Although the whereabouts of the Xiongnu are changeable, one thing is certain, the main force of the Xiongnu must be waiting for work near the settlement point of its troops." ”"This time is different from the fourth year of Tianhan, Da Danyu, your rear may not be stable."
It was not only Wuhuan who made a secret agreement with Ren Hong in the city of Dangdang, but also Xianbei, who coveted the Gonglu River Basin.On the third day after the end of the extinction, the soldiers had almost rested, and Zhang Qianqiu, who was a partial division in the west, also sent someone to report that he had received a letter from Zhao Chongguo's scouts.Ren Hong laughed after reading it: "The old general said, see you in the court!"
”Although Ren Hong and Zhao Chongguo's target Shan Yuting often moved around, the general scope was fixed, and it must be near the holy mountain Guyan Mountain and the Wolf Juxu Mountain.This also means that the Huns have enough time to react.Unlike the barren curtain, the core area of the Xiongnu was actually a fertile area, with many pine trees in the Guyan Mountains, the Yuwu water meandering quietly, and the pastures stretching out from the foothills.Last month, the whole pasture was still full of grass and flowers, and after entering the middle of July, the scorching hot wind swept through the grassland, sweeping the green all over the ground, and the whole grassland suddenly turned yellow.In addition to the kings of the right to stay in the east of Yanran Mountain to defend against the North Court, Wusun may attack, the Xiongnu twenty-four long gathered in Shan Yuting, there are no military ministers, Yizhi Xianshan in the heyday of three or four hundred thousand horsemen, now the whole country is young and strong but more than 200,000, 50,000 horses on the right, Shan Yu and Zuogu Liwang Zhizhi only 150,000 horses, and the two Han armies are almost the same.The old and weak women and children have been relocated to the north and west of Zhijushui, far away from the edge of the Han army, and the cattle and sheep have suffered heavy losses on the way to the migration, and this winter must be very difficult.At present, Xulu Quanqu learned the news from his son Zhizhi and Youxian Wang, and knew that the Han army invaded the Xiongnu in the west, middle and east, and the west road entered the right land.Is it like the Battle of Mobei, following the example of Yizhi Xiandanyu and taking the initiative to attack the south to meet the enemy?
Or did he follow his father's Hulu Gushan Yu, Chen Dajun waited for the Han army to arrive on the bank of Yuwu Water, betting that they would not be able to meet on time?
No, he only has 150,000 or 60,000 horsemen, and he can't sit and wait for the Han army to join the division, so he has to break through each one.After a moment of thought, Xulu Quanqu announced his plan, raised the Path Treasure Knife, and looked at the twenty-four long roads in the golden tent."
No matter how many ways the Han people come, I only have one way!"