This general is not easy to understand

Xie Yuan led the army northward, and the scouts came back two or three times along the way. The reports were about small groups of ripples of cavalry fleeing, with less than a hundred people, and they ran away after snatching things. Only then did they realize that there were actually no traps.

This is completely different from Xie Yuan's previous experience in siege and defending the city, and from his combat experience in the southwest mountains and forests, and even from the combat experience of Wei State.

Although the Wei State was a nomadic people before, since entering the Central Plains, after nearly two hundred years of integration with the Han people, and accumulated experience in combat with various regimes in the pass, including cavalry and infantry, they will also use siege chariots.

But this place is full of desolation and vastness, without cities or dense populations, or rugged mountains or endless plains.

The Ruru who came to attack were all cavalrymen. If they couldn't beat them, they would run away. They would run very fast and could not even catch up.

When those people broke through the city wall and came, they probably didn't expect there would be reinforcements in the town. After seeing Xie Yuan and the others coming, they did not resist at all and retreated quickly like the wind.

Until Xie Yuan and his men pushed all the way to the edge of the city wall, filling the broken defense gap, and they did not encounter any resistance seriously.

On the city wall, Xie Yuan closed the map in his hand, sighed irritably and said:

"How to fight this? Your Majesty said he would hurt them, and he would not dare to commit it again within three to five years. Do you have to chase them all until they are killed?"

Shi Yuhengjia stood beside her, looking at the wiggle cavalry fleeing in the distance, and said in a relaxed tone:

"It's not impossible. If you are willing, you will take a year or two to take them to the snow-capped mountains in Mobei and then send someone to occupy their pastures. Then they will migrate back and fight back, which will take four or five years later."

Xie Yuan felt that Shi Yuhengjia always spoke sarcastic words, but now it is not the time to quarrel, so he gave him a blank look and said directly:

"No time, no one. Say something useful."

Shi Yuhengjia turned his head and looked at Xie Yuan. Seeing her cold expression, she looked ahead. Although there was annoyance between her eyebrows, her eyes were firm and capable. She couldn't help but show a smile of appreciation. Then he looked ahead and said:

"There is another way to fight, but not chase the cavalry, but instead catch the wriggling civilians, drive their women and cattle and sheep to the military town, and force them to move inward.

This was what Emperor Taiwu did back then. After all, war requires population and food. Without these two things, they can’t even break the line of defense, so why are they fighting?”

When Xie Yuan heard this, he thought of Shen Liuzhen saying that the Ruru people did not agree to Taiwu's internal migration policy and did not agree to merger. No matter how negotiations were, they insisted on fighting against Wei on the northern border. So he asked:

"Ordinary people should hope to live a good life. If the policies are relaxed and they are allowed to choose on their own, will they still use force? No matter what, the life of Wei State is better than outside the pass... If they can live well, there is no need to come to the pass to grab things all the time."

Shi Yuhengjia looked straight into Xie Yuan's eyes, with a relaxed smile on his face, and said:

"Ordinary people may think so, but the Rouran Prince's Court would not think so. If they surrender to our Great Wei, they could only be a small border general in the military town. In comparison, don't you think it would be better to be a king with the power in the barren grass in the north?"

Xie Yuan didn't say anything.

Power is not that attractive to her. Because having power means more responsibility. She leads an army and often has to worry about casualties. She always feels that she holds the lives of many people in her hands and dares not slack off at all.

A king who holds great power in one word must dominate the fate of a country. Do you think that you don’t have enough business and are under great pressure? What’s good about it?

Thinking of this, Xie Yuan said it, with a very disdainful expression: "What's good about it?"

Shi Yuhengjia smiled frivolously, looked at her and said:

"Hmph... You are a woman after all, you don't understand."

Xie Yuan heard his tone and his expression and became angry. Then he looked at him with the corner of his eyes and said coldly:

"Hmph, those who are greedy for power for their own selfishness may not have any sense of responsibility and do not know the reason why the world is for the public... This general doesn't know at all!"

Shi Yuhengjia was shameless again, and the smile on her face disappeared. She looked at Xie Yuan and was angry and helpless, not knowing what to say.

At this moment, a group of people came from the city wall in the distance. The leader was a very tall and strong Xianbei man with loose hair covering his ears, a bright light armor, and a fur hat on his head. He came here with a fierce momentum.

A personal soldier ran over first and whispered to Xie Yuan:

"We are the governor of Jixing Town. We can't stop it, so we came over directly."

Xie Yuan raised his hand to stop him and signaled that it was okay. Then he walked back two steps from the city wall, stood in the middle of the road, pressed his one hand on the sword, and watched the other party approach.

The man walked while scanning the surrounding environment. The more he looked towards Xie Yuan, the more he looked, the Han people standing guard almost everywhere he saw, the darker his face became.

He stopped five steps away from Xie Yuan, and then did not hide his rudeness and contempt, looked Xie Yuan up and down, and said in very unfamiliar Chinese words:

"Xie Yuan? Woman?"

Xie Yuan was also not polite and responded coldly: "It's me... who are you?"

Seeing that Xie Yuan was not wearing all the armor, she only wore her breastplate and skirt, and could barely see her identity, she sneered at the corner of her mouth and said sarcastically:

"What a joke! This piece of armor cannot be worn, and he is still fighting! He also became the commander of the Central Guards?!"

Xie Yuan had long been accustomed to the contempt of others, and the countermeasures were very simple. He sneered immediately and said:

"Can you speak with facts? If you want, I can practice with you and be with you at any time."

Xie Yuan's eyebrows were already quite powerful, and the demeanor of the generals she had raised for years was even more imposing. This was confident and convincing when she said it.

Suddenly, the governor of Jixing Town's expression changed from contempt to suspicion. Then he looked Xie Yuan up and down without any concealment, as if his face was written: Is it true or false?

At this time, Shi Yuhengjia, who had been standing by the city wall and was blocked by Xie Yuan's personal soldiers, walked up to the front and greeted the governor of Jixing Town with a relaxed tone:

"Heyan!"
Chapter completed!