In May of the summer of the second year of Jingning, Wang Jin felt that his wife had stuffed too many clothes on him.

He glanced at the bright sun on his head, rubbed the sweat on his forehead and complained: "Didn't it mean that the climate north of the Dynasties is cold, why does it seem to be hotter than Wei County?"

Wang Jin was over thirty years old and was in Suli, the party committee of Yuancheng County, Wei County, Jizhou. He heard his father, who had been an envoy of embroidered clothes in Emperor Wu of Han, that their family was moved from Dongpingling. It was originally a descendant of Tian An, the king of Jibei during the Chu and Han Dynasty. When Tian An was in Han Xing, Tian An lost his country. The people of Qi called it the "Wang Family" because they thought it was a clan.

Although he was not a royal family, the Wang family was also considered a tycoon in Yuancheng County. When he was young, he was sent to Chang'an to study law by his father and served as a magistrate. When he was Xiaozhao, he returned to Wei County as a county official and married Li's wife in the same county, gave birth to two daughters and several sons.

The second daughter was called "Wang Zhengjun", who was the most beloved girl of Wang Jin. When Li was in his arms, he dreamed of the moon entering his arms. Wang Jin felt that the second daughter would be rich and prosperous in the future. If history does not change, he would have a really promising grandson in the future, named Wang Mang.

This time, Wang Jin came to Yunzhong, but he made a special trip to "escort" the soldiers and soldiers of Wei County to serve.

As the emperor's proclamation for the Huns spread all over the world, the empire's war machines started, and the counties and states also received a tribute - how many people were to be sent, how many food, fodder, equipment, armor and soldiers were provided. Both palaces were clearly arranged, and Wang Jin was unfortunately selected.

When he went north, his eldest son Wang Feng, who was already in his teens, was still yelling to go with him to kill the thieves and besieged as a marquis. As expected, he was brainwashed by the story of the marquis of Xi'an. Wang Jin slapped twice before he calmed down.

As a big county, Wei County also provided a lot of manpower. Thousands of people followed Wang Jin and Duwei to the north to Zhao State, Changshan Zhending, passed Jingxing, and trekked on the curved Taihang Yangyan Trail, and made Juzhu to stuff it into Yanmen, and then headed west to Dingxiang and Yunzhong.

I walked on the road for almost two months. As Jizhou, which is adjacent to Bingzhou, it is no wonder that the court did not even have the desire to recruit the prefectures and counties in the south.

The first impression that Yunzhong County gave Wang Jin was that it was flat. If Yanmen and Dai County were still mixed with agriculture and animal husbandry, and were often seen in the farmland, then Yunzhong County would be a completely grassland scene...

The broad and empty plain extends below the convoy, flat and vast, to the end of the sight, like a vast ocean. The hills and mountains are no longer there, there are only endless grasslands, with wind and clouds surging, and the green grass leaves swing like waves, and the whole world has turned green.

Like those Jizhou soldiers who came to the grassland for the first time, Wang Jin couldn't help but take off the crown above his head. After taking a deep breath, he was filled with the smell of grass and cow dung. When he looked up, he saw a falcon high above, hovering in the deep blue sky, and below it were herds of cattle, sheep and horses.

There is a Priest Garden in the clouds. Although the Hetao horse is not as good as the Hequ horse and the Wusun horse is tall, its endurance is amazing. It is a must-have mount for long-distance raids. In addition, the terrain here is very flat, the water and grass are abundant, and it is suitable for agriculture and herdsmen. It is a good place to train cavalry. From a distance, you can see teams of secluded and cavalry training in combat queues.

It's very beautiful, but the only drawback is that the wind on the grassland is very hard, which makes Wang Jin's headache, so he can only wrap the scarf on his head for two layers.

When the Wei County soldiers traveled on the grassland for several days and arrived near Yunzhong City, there were more wonders here.

The city in the clouds is like a white gem dotted on a green grassland, surrounded by blue dry water, and is beautiful and incomparable. It was named after the city site selected during the State of Zhao. It was built and destroyed many times until it followed a group of swans and geese and geese. There seemed to be light under the birds. The people of Zhao thought it was a sign of auspiciousness, so they built the city here. They led the swans and geese and built the clouds, so it was called Yunzhong.

What surprised Wang Jin and others the most was that among the undulating hills around Yunzhong City, there were many "giants" with yellow bodies and black hats standing on those undulating hills.

They were several feet tall and had four long arms that were slowly turning, which scared the soldiers of Wei County so that they dared not approach them.

It was not until the patrol of General Ma Wei in front that they walked forward carefully. When they arrived near, Wang Jin discovered...

This is not a giant, it is clearly a big house similar to an oval-shaped pointed barn. The four giant arms are actually wooden instruments. They are slowly rotating under the ever-stop wind on the grassland, making a squeaking sound.

Wang Ren couldn't help but feel curious and wanted to know what was being done in this "barn". However, because the soldiers guarded outside and were not able to get close, he saw cattle and horse trailers coming here. There were pounded wheat on it. It entered through the front door of the "barn", and transported from the back door was ground wheat noodles...

This was actually a place to grind noodles. Wang Jin wanted to take a look again, but the commander was already urging everyone to rush to rush. Later, Wang Jin realized that this was the work of Geng Shouchang, the ruler of the Grand Marshal Taicang. Geng Shouchang not only set up Changping warehouses in various counties, but also used his superb Nine Chapters to assist the Xi'an Hou and the craftsmen to build this thing, called "Windmill".

It is said that the four rotating arms can drive the stone mill inside, and they can grind the surface without humans and animals, day and night. Since last year, windmill mills have been built in the Sanfu Chang'an and the border counties where the Huns were going to fight against the Huns. There is nothing else in the frontier, and the northwest wind is blowing all the time.

After the Wei County soldiers settled down near Yunzhong City, tasks followed one after another. You and his troops were skilled in cavalry and shooting, and were the main force in this battle. The Jizhou soldiers were just baggage brigades. They were asked to continue to build stove pits outside the city, and the number was so large that it seemed to rebuild the land.

After the stove pits were repaired, the wheat noodles from the windmill mill were transported from Changping Warehouse one after another. The leading soldiers who were specially transferred from Hexi began to bake naan. The rising flames made the smoke around Yunzhongcheng, and the crispy wheat fragrance overflowed.

The grassland is vast, and the Huns are likely to use their old tricks to withdraw people's livestock to the north of the desert. The Han army that penetrated the grassland may not find food for a whole month. Naan is the staple food for maintaining combat effectiveness, and 60,000 people have three months of food.

According to Geng Shouchang's plan, one person can pack a naan a day, and in more than three months, one hundred pieces are calculated. Sixty thousand soldiers are 6 million pieces of naan. Relying on ox carts, camels, mules, donkeys, etc., it takes at least 60,000 livestock. When the dry food is exhausted, these animals can be eaten. They are walking granaries.

It just made people suffer like Wang Jin.

"It hurts my stomach." Wang Jin felt very uncomfortable after eating a piece of naan. He drank a few sips of noodle soup to get better. People in Jizhou could not accept Hu cakes unless Ren Hong changed it to Huo Shao in the future.

The Muyuan outside the military camp was also busy killing pigs and sheep, and even killing cattle sent by various vassal states. Any new recruits who had never been on the battlefield were called to watch after training, so that they could get used to dealing with blood and the five internal organs.

Bones and drains to the soldiers to make soup to improve their food, and the meat is marinated with salt, cut into long strips and exposed to the sun in May. The Marquis of Xi'an believes that the elites cannot fight just by eating staple food, and meat is also essential. If they can adapt, it is best to try even cheese. If they encounter the Huns on the grassland, they are mostly seizures.

Transporting grain, repairing stoves, and moving naan are the busy and daily lives of the soldiers of Wei County, which are very different from the previous imagination of the golden swords and iron horses.

But from the nan that started baking and storing, and from the hurried footsteps of the county and state soldiers who had been arriving from various counties to the clouds, Wang Jin had already smelled the breath of war.

Wang Jin only looked south when he was homesick, hoping that he could finish it before putting on the winter clothes his wife asked him to bring more!

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While the rear was busy training and preparing war materials, Ren Hong's general's magistrate was near the Great Wall in the northeast of Yunzhong. Here, the central commander's garrison, which is the area of ​​Hohhot in later generations. In addition to a few military farms, there were endless grasslands around it, and the sky was like a dome, covering all the fields.

He was waiting for the return of the scout troops who went out to investigate. Duan Huizong, a son of Tianshui Liang, was no longer the young man who was blocked outside Ren Hong's house and said he would go to Beijing to seek justice. This son once won the first place in the optimistic polo competition and was appointed as a cavalry. Before going to the battle, Ren Hong specifically asked the emperor for people, and brought this Duan Huizong, who was in the sword and spear, also liked to hold a sword behind his back. Because of his superior riding skills, he sent him to take a thousand Bingzhou cavalry out of the border to detect the enemy.

Standing on the barrier, you can see that the number of riders has not changed. It should be that they have not been attacked by the enemy. The posture of the few people in front of them is different from the past. Their feet are not simply stuck on the belly of the horse, but are stepping on something.

What else can it be, stirrups!

Ren Hong used to hide this thing, for fear that it would be unfair to be used by the Hu people in the Western Regions and that it would be better for the Hu people to use it. This time he decided to destroy the Huns, and the lions fought against the rabbits with all their strength, not to mention that the other party was a centipede worm, so there was no need to hide it.

But what disappointed him was that when the Tunqi Camp first equipped this item, the Youth lieutenant was not shocked. The Dingxiang County Magistrate Wang Ping, who was the first to attack the Huns, told Ren Hong that he had followed General Hu to the Huns many years ago, Guo Chang and Tian Guangming went south twice to pacify Dingyizhou County (Yunnan). He had seen this during the rebellion of Kunming Yi.

Wang Ping was a veteran. During the Xiaowu era, he was a Qu Chang and had a rich resume. He was a military chief of Tian Guangming. Later, he lost his official position because of a good alcoholic crime. When the country attacked the barbarians in the north and was recruited, he was re-enlisted.

After seeing the stirrups, he patted his stomach and laughed and said that he had seen it a long time ago. He described it: "In the past, officials attacked the people of Yunnan and rebelled in Kunming. Although the local area is located in the south from the forest mountains, there are also cavalrymen. They rode a short-legged Yunnan horse, tied a rope on each side of the front edge of the horse, and hung down to the belly of the horse. The rope ends with a circle. When riding a horse, the big toes of each foot are stretched into each other and kicked to the belly of the horse."

Ren Hong was very unhappy. Why didn’t you advise the general when you saw this?

Wang Ping's answer was full of arrogance: "This southwestern barbarian species is short and not good for riders! Why do you need this thing for the cavalry of Yongliang and You in the Han Dynasty?"

In his opinion, the so-called "stilt" of Xi'an Hou was just a piece of wood or iron bar added to the rope ring of the Yunnan people, so that the knight could step on it with his entire foot.

Weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is. When trying to promote stirrups, Ren Hong discovered that the arrogance of the Han army had been engraved into his bones.

When he asked a team of people to play in stirrups in a polo game in Chang'an to show his superiority, he attracted countless booings from all officials and Hou, believing that this was cheating and taking advantage of it.

When they received the emperor's consent to promote it in the army, they also encountered countless walls. The cavalry of each army believed that this was a question and insult to their riding skills. Several song leaders took the lead in resisting, and they were as proud as warriors who refused to use guns in later generations.

The knights accepted it with tears in their eyes that the judge had to deal with it as a military order.

Afterwards, Ren Hong did not hear the praise of "Zhen Xiang". Instead, he found that everyone was slandering. When he was patrolling, he still saw some knights deliberately not stepping on stirrups when they got on the horse, and even mocked the timid and short person who stepped on the stirrups.

The real function of stirrups is not to quickly get on the horse. It can enable knights and war horses to be organically combined, and the power of both people and horses can be fully utilized. However, many people deliberately do not use stirrups to show their superb riding skills after riding on horses, which is really annoying.

I won’t even use it if I hang it up for you!

The key to Ren Hong's aura is that although the You Cavalry admired his reputation, they were not as good as Liangzhou soldiers and the guardians, and they trusted each other, and they were indeed the most difficult group of soldiers to lead.

Even if Ren Hong takes the lead, the effectiveness of this matter is not obvious. He can only slowly change this arrogance a few months before the war begins. On the contrary, Gan Yanshou, Duan Huizong and others, after being interviewed by Ren Hong alone and chatted earnestly, barely accepted the stirrup.

After Duan Huizong entered the border, he reported to Ren Hong: "General, the subordinate officials first arrived at Tuodang City, and visited Damu in the north. The whole journey was more than a thousand miles. However, there was no large Hun army, only sporadic herdsmen and livestock, and the rest had moved north."

Ren Hong understood: "This is the old plan of the Hu captains. The baggage tribes in the north are all waiting for Mubei with elite troops."

This was originally planned by Yizhixie Shanyu and Zhao Xin, taking advantage of the vastness of the Huns to move the population and livestock to the area north of the Great Gobi Desert, concentrate troops, and wait for the Han army to cross the river.

So the Battle of Mobei came into being. Although the Huns were defeated in that battle, the Huns gradually became effective in the decades afterwards, and turned defeat into victory. In the three major battles, tens of thousands of Han soldiers were wiped out, a large number of armored soldiers were captured, and even dragged the Han Dynasty to the world, making the people live in poverty.

This is also the reason why the Huns were unwilling to surrender. Although they were defeated repeatedly during their active attacks and the positional wars in the Western Regions were also defeated, they still had a way out and had hope for a turnaround again.

“But this time it’s different.”

After Ren Hong received the information, he made plans with Zhang Qianqiu, Zhang Qianqiu, Wang Ping, Gan Yanshou, Fu Chang and others in front of the map.

"The depth of the Huns is not as big as that in the past."

Ren Hong's fingers crossed the Huns to the north, the North Sea, that is, the Baikal area: "Ding Ling once sent envoys to the Han Dynasty for help. Although it was pacified by Hutuwusi, there were still rebellions. Once the Han army advanced north, Ding Ling would rebel again."

He pointed his finger eastward to the western foot of the Daxinganling Mountains and the Liaohe River Basin: "The Xianbei and Wuhuan were both descendants of the Donghu. When the Huns were strong, they were forced to offer protons and Napibu taxes. Now they have betrayed the Shanyu and are willing to submit to the Han Dynasty. I have sent envoys to lobby and recruit the Xianbei. The Wuhuan Lord went to the city of Tuidang to discuss matters."

Not to mention the west, Ren Hong conquered a large territory when he was the Protector of Anxi. Jiankun was equivalent to neutrality. Hujie, Xiaoyuezhi, and Wusun became younger brothers of the Han Dynasty. Ren Hong dared not say that Wusun had Empress Dowager Jieyou presided over, and this battle would definitely help half of the country's troops.

"The Han-Wu alliance planned by Emperor Xiaowu and Bowang Hou, jointly attacking the Huns, was finally realized today!"

In eleven years, Ren Hong has been in this era for eleven years. His development in the Western Regions with countless Han men, his struggles in the Western Qiang, and his hard sacrifices between the yellow sand and the snow seem to be for today.

This is not a one-on-one battle between the Han Dynasty and the Huns.

It was a tragic group fight!

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ps: It was just dark this day, it was really evening, Chapter 3 is before 0 o'clock.
Chapter completed!