Overlord!

Zhuge Liang's strategy of seducing the east and attacking the west undoubtedly achieved miraculous results.

Wuhuan of the three counties were all confused by him, thinking that his main target was the area inside the fortress of Shanggu County. After all, Master Wuhuan of Shangjun was defeated in Nanlou and fled outside the fortress. In the territory of Shanggu, Wuhuan was without a master.

At this time, according to common sense, the Song general should also attack Shanggu for meritorious service.

These Wuhuan really did not expect that the Song Dynasty had such ambitions in the first year of its founding. Not satisfied with conquering Shanggu, they actually wanted to regain half of Youzhou in one fell swoop, from Shanggu to Yuyang, from Youbeiping to Liaoxi, All within his ambition.

Therefore, while Tian Yu marched westward with great fanfare, all the Hu people did not notice that Zhuge Liang, Zhang Liao and other generals had led an army of 20,000 people, and they had stopped and launched a surprise attack on the Wuhuan Royal Court hundreds of miles away.

Zhuge Liang only used some strategies, and his march achieved the same unexpected results as Cao Cao.

Under the leadership of Tian Chou, a famous scholar from Hebei Province, they marched to the fortress, exited Binhai Road, crossed Jieshi, and attacked Liucheng.

Tian Chou, this is a typical Youzhou hero and local celebrity.

Because he had served Liu Yu before, he was imprisoned by Gongsun Zan. He was later released and returned to the north after being persuaded by others.

Tian Chou then led hundreds of people from his clan and his followers to make an alliance and said: "If I don't avenge this, I can't stand in this world!"

Then he entered Xu Wu Mountain and built a piece of land with far-reaching terrain and suitable for farming to support his parents. More than 5,000 households from nearby people have returned.

So he made a stipulation to his followers: "I'm here now, not just for peace, but for big things and revenge. I'm afraid I won't achieve my ambition, and frivolous people will invade each other, and they will steal for a while, without any foresight." ."

Therefore, the adherents were restrained by the laws of killing, injuring, stealing, and filing lawsuits. The most severe laws were death, and the second was the punishment of crimes. There were more than twenty articles.

It is also used as a wedding ceremony, and it promotes the teaching of schools. It is carried out by all the people in the class, and everyone follows it, and does not pick up any leftovers.

In the north, Xiran was impressed by his prestige. Wuwan and Xianbei sent translators to pay tribute to him, and Tianchou accepted it.

Wuhuan and Xianbei even had to send envoys and pay tribute to a separatist force like Tianchou with more than 5,000 households, which shows their fear of the Han family.

Previously, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shang and others had sent envoys with generals' seals and ribbons to summon them for help, but they were all rejected.

However, as the Song Dynasty unified the world, before they could recruit him, he took the initiative to lead five hundred young men from the clan to serve as the vanguard of the imperial court.

Zhuge Liang also praised it, saying: "Take refuge in Wuzhong Mountain, reject Lulong in the north, and guard key points in the south. It is quiet and indistinct. After plowing, you can eat. The people will follow you and Xian will support you. The king traveled out of the fortress, and Tu You left. There are more than 900 miles in the mountains, and there are 500 soldiers in command, guiding the valleys, and the merits are great."

The reason for such praise is because the Song army encountered the same problems as Cao's army when they went out of the fortress. It rained outside the fortress and the valleys were blocked.

There is no other way. When the Song army goes out to the fortress in April, they will definitely encounter precipitation brought by the summer monsoon.

Jiangshui was not a big deal for the Song Army. The most important thing was to take the Pinglu and Quanzhou canals. The Song Army had always paid more attention to the navy.

There is a tradition of taking advantage of the heavy rains in summer to enter the area by boat.

But the problem is that the rainfall this time is just right. The shallow water cannot carry cars and horses, and the deep water cannot carry boats.

When the army marched to Lulongsai, there was no road outside the grassland and it was extremely muddy.

In fact, this can also be seen that the Han Dynasty lost control of the frontier. Lulongsai was originally a Han Dynasty frontier and an important military town.

However, due to the long disrepair and the cut off roads, it was very difficult for the army to set off to this place, like going deep into a desperate situation or traveling into a foreign land.

Tian Chou also took advantage of the army to rest in Lulong Fortress and found Zhuge Liang and said: "General, although the new power of the imperial court is powerful in the world, Hu relies on his distance and must not be equipped. Because he is unprepared, he will attack suddenly. , can be destroyed. Especially now that the summer is coming, the roads are blocked, and the situation has been difficult for a long time. Hu must have thought that we would wait until autumn and winter before advancing again."

"However, there is still a small path that can be followed here. The old Beiping County was in Pinggang, and the road went out of Lulong and reached Liucheng. Since the founding of the military, it has been ruined and cut off for two hundred years. Now the captives will have a large army and there will be no end. , You can't advance and retreat, you are slack and unprepared. If you return to the army, cross the danger of Baitan from Lulongkou, and come out of an empty place, the road is short and convenient, cover up your unpreparedness, and you can be like a bird without fighting."

Zhuge Liang and Zhang Liao looked at each other, both slightly shocked by this bold plan.

But at the same time, I think this plan is feasible.

The most critical thing is that after leaving Lulong fortress in this battle, the army will leave the borders of the Central Plains and enter the upper Luanhe River Valley. It will march for more than 500 miles in this difficult area, turn eastward at Pinggang, and pass through the pastureland of Xianbei. , once again entering the mountains on the border of the Han family.

This means that the army will completely surround Tadun's camp. Once Tadun is defeated, he will have nowhere to escape!

For the Central Plains army, the most difficult thing is always marching. As for arriving at the battlefield and whether they can win the battle, the generals in the army are not too worried.

In this battle, the Song Army dispatched more than 20,000 elite infantry cavalry!

Although there may be more than 200,000 people in the Wuhuan Royal Court, they may not be able to dispatch more than 50,000 elite cavalry.

Even these elite cavalry are mostly composed of conscripted herdsmen and string controllers.

The elite black armor cavalry of the Central Plains can be defeated and scattered in one attack.

There are no more than a few thousand tribal warriors who are truly brave and good at fighting and wearing armor.

When the elites of the Han family can successfully deliver their troops around their battlefield, they have only one possibility of defeat.

So after Tian Chou left, Zhang Liao asked Zhuge Liang: "We have taken this battle by surprise, to protect Wuhuan's army with great fanfare and attract the enemy's attention, and the main force will circle the Xianbei pastures and attack Wuhuan, and we will surely defeat it. But has the general thought about how to deal with Wuhuan?"

Zhuge Liang frowned and clenched the letter in his sleeve. He believed that Zhang Liao must also have a copy of the same letter!

He is the prince's young master. Although he is also an important minister of the Song Dynasty, he has been labeled as a prince.

The direct lineage who are truly controlled and dispatched by the emperor are actually generals like Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun who have not yet taken sides.

Otherwise, the emperor would not directly appoint them as deputy generals in the army.

So when Zhang Liao asked, Zhuge Liang was silent for a moment, nodded and said, "We have a clear plan."

Zhang Liao nodded with satisfaction and said: "That's good. If Wuhuan cannot be properly settled, it will lead to disaster in the long run. General, please rest early. We will continue to march tomorrow."

The Song army had a clear planned route and set off immediately, marching nine hundred miles. Perhaps for Cao Cao, it was a grand feat worthy of great praise.

But for any unified Central Plains dynasty, it is just an ordinary war with the outside world. In this battle, Zhang Liao was the vanguard. He crossed the mountains and marched in front of the soldiers, with his head exposed and his arms exposed. He walked nearly a thousand miles day and night, eating only meat and drinking water, which made him strong and strong.

It only took half a decade for the army to leave the upper Luanhe Valley from Lulongsai, and then march eastward to the Xianbei grassland, regaining Pinggang County, the hometown of Youbeiping, hundreds of miles outside the Great Wall, and then continued eastward, attacking Liaoxi County today. The county government is Yangle County.

Yangle is located in the easternmost part of Liaoxi County, and to the east are the Liaodong vassal states and Liaodong County.

Therefore, Liucheng, where the Wuhuan Royal Court is located, is actually dozens of miles west of Yangle.

After the Song army regained Pinggang, their whereabouts could no longer be hidden!

Because Pinggang is too close to Liucheng, only more than two hundred miles away.

By the time Wuhuan's messenger conveyed the military information to Wuhuan's court, Wuhuan could no longer leave.

Because while the messenger was reporting urgently, the Song army was also advancing rapidly.

By the time Taton received the news, the Song Army's forward was already less than a hundred miles away from them.

Hanli is smaller than the later generations, less than a hundred miles, which is the distance of dozens of miles in the later generations.

With convenient transportation, this is the distance that future generations of children living in urban areas will have to travel to go to their grandparents’ homes in the suburbs or rural areas.

It takes less than an hour to drive. Therefore, if Wuhuan offered no resistance and retreated hastily, the Song army's cavalry would pursue them unscrupulously and appear beside their fleeing queue within a few hours.

As long as the Song Army's cavalry charges once, Wuyangyang's nomadic herdsmen will collapse instantly.

And more importantly, preventing the evacuation of 200,000 people cannot be done in a day or two!

Except for the army, no organization can mobilize 200,000 people in one day and then move hundreds of miles away and still maintain stability.

Not to mention moving hundreds of miles, even if we force 200,000 people to move 20 miles in one day, this will be impossible to achieve in future generations.

So after Tadun learned that the Song army appeared in his northwest direction, he immediately ordered without hesitation: "Gather the tribal warriors and follow me to fight against the Song army!"

Tadun, as Wuhuan's great chanyu, was different from ordinary people. He was brave and good at fighting and had extraordinary talents. All the elders on the border could compare with Maodun. Therefore, relying on his obstruction, this person dared to suffer death and conquered hundreds of barbarians.

Since the chaos in the late Han Dynasty, he and the surrounding tribes have taken in more than 100,000 people who fled from Youzhou, so they have strong power.

He even intervened deeply in the war in the Central Plains and sent troops to help Yuan Shao defeat Gongsun Zan, a prince in the Central Plains who was good at conquering and fighting.

Therefore, he was quite proud of his talent and was not afraid of having a field battle with the Song army.

His personal guards immediately galloped between the various tribes, and finally within two days, they gathered 30,000 cavalry.

But the grassland was too vast, and some tribes did not know how to herd their sheep and hid in the valley, so the Wuhuan people could not completely gather together.

Wuhuan's organizational skills are really poor. Even if they meet on a scheduled date, their nomadic lifestyle is bound to make most of them miss the date, let alone a hasty gathering within two days?

These 30,000 people, under the command of Taton, headed west to meet the unexpected Song army.

As a general of the Song Army, Zhang Liao saw at a glance that the enemy army was numerous and unorganized, so he said to Zhuge Liang: "The way of fighting lies in the general using his ears well, not too many. Now the enemy army is gathered in grass, and they are afraid to fight. Although The army is very large, but if its momentum is weakened and its energy is frustrated, it can be defeated in one battle."

Zhuge Liang replied: "Yes! Let the whole army make drums and horns and raise flags. All the armies march forward together with the roar. The general goes to the battle formation in person and falls into the formation suddenly."

Zhang Liao immediately accepted the order, rode out with five thousand cavalry, and followed the enemy.

The two armies fought under the Jinshan Mountain. The fierce parties were heavy and the dust was noisy. However, Zhang Liao took the lead, regardless of his life, charging left and right, moving forward in every direction. The armies fought hard and achieved victory!

The Wuhuan captives collapsed and the dead were thrown into the wild. In the first battle, the Song army beheaded Shanyu Tadun and more than 20 people below the famous king, and took more than 200,000 prisoners!

The Song army stayed in Liucheng for more than three days, and their cavalry went out in all directions, looking for nearby nomadic tribes. All Hu men and women, regardless of race, Xianbei, Wuhuan, and Zahu were gathered in Liucheng.

At the same time, the captured Hu men and women were digging pits in the north of the city, which were more than two feet deep and six or seven miles wide.

At this time, the Hu people still didn't know what the Song army was going to do, but the fleeing Xia remnants completely collapsed and begged the supervisors crazily and hysterically, trying their best to prove that they were Han people and Xia nobles living here. The same blood flows with Song Gong.

But Song Jun's face was ashen and he was completely indifferent. Unless the other party can speak Chinese or write Chinese characters, they will be hit with a knife and cut down directly in the deep pit.

Three days later, the young men of Wuhuan dug holes with their hands, which were dripping with blood. Their fingernails were broken, and their flesh and blood were exposed among the muddy sand and gravel. They were dirty and painful. I just prayed that the Song army would be able to show their noble hands because of their obedient and diligent loyalty. A military order from the shogunate made all the expectant Hu people collapse completely in an instant, crying and wailing all over the place!

"The ambitions of Rong Di are not the same as those of Hua, and they are not of my race, so their minds must be different. I am afraid that they will cause trouble in the future, and they will be trapped and killed."

So in the battle of Jinshan, the Song army trapped more than 180,000 Wuhuan men and women!

Except for a handful of beautiful women and children under nine years old, not even the shamans, wizards, doctors, craftsmen, etc. in the tribe were left behind.

The entire Wuhuan Royal Court was almost completely destroyed in one battle.

Even though there was complete silence between heaven and earth, and the wailing sounds were completely dissipated in the wind, Zhuge Liang stood on Liucheng City, looking at the huge pit in the north, and his heart was still throbbing.

But there was nothing he could do. This order was secretly issued by the emperor himself.

Zhuge Liang can only bear all this reputation for the emperor. If he doesn't do it, either Zhang Liao or Zhao Yun will come up with secret edicts, take over his command of the entire army, and then trap and kill 200,000 Wuhuan.

For the sake of the prince's family, he could only resolutely carry out the emperor's order and almost killed all the Wuhuan men, women and children.

This is the will of the emperor!

That's right, compared to the slow integration and constant handling of border disasters, Sun Ce felt that the result of this kind of killing was undoubtedly faster and more direct.

Moreover, Sun Ce didn't think that this would disgrace the reputation of the Song Dynasty. If anyone did object, it must be because the Song Dynasty was not decisive enough or ruthless enough in killing.

Xue Rengui targeted the Tianshan Mountains with three arrows, and then surrendered more than 100,000 troops.

Who has ever heard of anyone having any criticism of Xue Rengui?

On the contrary, he praised him highly: "The general set the Tianshan Mountains with three arrows, and the soldiers sang songs into the Han Pass." Moreover, the nine surnamed Tiele have since become weak and will no longer become a border threat.

The Song army completely defeated Wuhuan in this battle. From then on, there will be no Wuhuan Huchen in the Han territory, and Han people will repopulate the land of Youzhou. (End of chapter)