Chapter 28 Target Blue Cold Mountain
This is the first time that Tianxing has seen the endless prairie. The setting sun adds a mysterious charm to the beautiful green mountains and green waters. The river water stretches forward in a winding manner. Birds of prey such as carvings, eagles and other birds of prey flew freely in the sky and looked down at the earth.
What excited Tianxing the most was that he finally saw with his own eyes the characteristics of the prairie depicted in the music song: the sky is vast and the wilderness is vast, and cattle and sheep are seen when the wind blows the grass.
There are more than 20,000 cattle, sheep, and horses on the grass on both sides of the river, eating grass leisurely with their heads down. There is also a herdsman's house that looks like a dot from a distance, dotted on the prairie, like a beautiful landscape painting.
He ordered the army to rest first. Tianxing only led Taishi Ci and 10 other people to rush to the herdsmen's house, intending to bribe him as the guide of the army, and at the same time, he bought all the animals he had stocked as military supplies.
Before Tianxing and others arrived at the door, a herder came out after hearing the sound. The herder was wearing a sheepskin coat, sheepskin boots, and holding homemade bows and arrows. He said vigilantly: "Who are you? What do you want to do when you come here?"
When Tianxing heard that this person actually spoke standard Chinese, he asked, "Are you a Han person?"
The herder said angrily: "No."
"Then are you from Wuhuan?"
The herders shouted even more angrily: "Not."
"Then are you?"
The herder pondered for a while and said sadly: "I am not anyone, I am a free man."
When Tianxing heard the words of the herdsmen and the standard Chinese he spoke, he understood that he should be a great man who was captured by the Wuhuan army. The reason why the Wuhuan people did not imprison him was because the Wuhuan people knew that even if they fled to the Han border city, the generals in the city would not open the city gate and let him in, because if this person was a spy of Wuhuan, then the city would not be far from falling.
This herder should have the ability to grazle, so he was arranged by the Wuhuan people to grazle. They were not worried that the Han army would come to rob, because after two crushing defeats, the Han army now only knew to hide in the high city to defend their attacks and would not take the initiative to go out of the city to attack.
Seeing the herdsmen looking at the south from time to time, Tianxing smiled and said, "Do you really want to go home now?"
The herder was stunned for a moment, then nodded firmly.
Tianxing turned his head and looked at the cows, sheep, and horses everywhere with a smile and said, "Actually, I am the commander of Yizhou of the Great Han Dynasty, named Tianxing. I am under the order of the Emperor of Han to destroy the Wuhuan tribe. When our army returns to the court with victory, I can send you home." After that, he showed him the token of General Tian to make him believe in himself.
When the herdsmen heard that they had hope of going home, they didn't care whether the token was true or not. They grabbed Tianxing's hand tightly and said excitedly: "Thank you, General Fu Jie."
"No need to thank you. This is my duty. It's just that we just entered the grassland and don't know the situation of Wuhuan and the terrain of the grassland. So I hope you can be our army's guide. And you also know that Yizhou is located in the southwest, without cavalry, and all my army is infantry, so I want to arm the army with the horses you grazed."
Fu Jie said loudly without hesitation: "General, as long as you can go home, I am willing to do whatever you ask me to do. General, please wait a moment, and I will come when I go."
Fu Jie turned around and crawled into the house, and heard a quiet discussion from inside. After a while, Fu Jie led more than ten herders out, "General, they are also free people now, please let the general let them go with me."
Tianxing was very excited when he saw these more than ten herders, "No problem, as long as he is a great man, the general of the people, can take them home."
Soon 10,000 war horses in this pasture joined the Tianxing Army, and Tianxing assigned them to the army led by Taishici.
Looking at the majestic 10,000 cavalry, Tianxing was very excited and his first cavalry unit was officially equipped.
But Tianxing understands that in order to allow more troops to follow him and fight for victory, instead of becoming the mouths of vultures and other scavengers in this vast prairie, only with more cavalry can it be done.
"Fu Jie, do you know other places where the Wuhuan people raise war horses?"
Fu Jie thought for a while and said, "General, there is a mountain in the northeast, called Lan Leng Mountain. The Wuhuan people raised 100,000 war horses at the foot of Lan Leng Mountain."
Tianxing knew in his heart that the Wuhuan army would definitely attack and block the way to Lan Lengshan, but Tianxing was not helpless in the face of the main cavalry of Wuhuan. As long as they dared to come, Tianxing would be very sure that they would never return.
Tianxing led the army to move quickly towards the northeast, or to be precise, towards 100,000 war horses.
In the camp of the Wuhuan tribe, Qiu Liju and Zhang Ju, the two leaders of the Wuhuan tribe, were drinking and chatting, suddenly a soldier ran in quickly and reported: "Report to the two kings, our whistle cavalry found an army of 800,000 people moving towards our Lan Lengshan Horse Race Farm."
Qiu Liju raised the table angrily and said loudly: "Damn, I didn't expect the Han people to fail to abide by the agreement. I signed a peace contract with us yesterday. Today I will send troops to attack our horse farm. I will definitely not let them go. I must make them regret it."
Zhang Ju nodded and said, "Laoqiu, we still have 550,000 troops. I will lead 300,000 troops to destroy this army that seeks death. You will lead 250,000 troops to attack the Youzhou border and massacre several cities to let them see how powerful we are. But don't forget to bring me a few watery girls back."
Soon the sound of the horn unique to the Wuhuan tribe sounded, and the two leaders led their respective armies to run towards the distance.
As the Han-Wu War was not long after, the main cavalry of the Wuhuan tribe along the way had not returned yet, and it was impossible to stop Tianxing's advancement, and the journey to Lan Lengshan was getting closer and closer.
Fu Jie pointed to a mountain in the distance and shouted: "General, look, that is Lan Lengshan. At our current speed, if nothing unexpected happens, we will reach it tomorrow at noon."
From a distance, a towering mountain stands on the grassland. The peaks are towering like clouds. You can vaguely see the white snow above the clouds, which is very beautiful.
"Lord, lord." The shouts of the whistle cavalry came from behind. The whistle cavalry came to Tianxing and said breathlessly: "Lord, you found the Wuhuan whistle cavalry 10 kilometers behind. I think the main force of Wuhuan will arrive soon."
Tianxing quickly ordered all the troops to enter a state of combat, forming a huge round barrel formation, with 10,000 cavalry in the center, Tianxing placed 100 small stone catapults plundered from Chengdu's arsenal at the front, and relied on advanced weapons and equipment to win the war.
A quarter of an hour later, Tianxing heard the sound of huge horse hooves trampling on the earth in front of him. After a while, a line appeared in the distance where the sky was connected. The line became thicker and thicker, and Zhang Ju led a 300,000 troops to come.
Chapter completed!