Chapter 401 [True defeat to lure the enemy]
Jilusai is located in the northwest of Dengkou County, Shuofang County, at the south entrance of Halongge Canyon in the south of the south of Langshan. The canyon runs through Langshan, with a flat valley bottom. It is adjacent to the Han Great Wall in the north and adjacent to Tushenze in the east. It is a northwest department of the Han Dynasty. It controls the traffic throat of Langshan. It began to be established in the Western Han Dynasty. The city of Shucheng is built on a cliff, made of stone, and is square, standing on the west side of the gorge, and is located on the high ground outside the Halongnai Valley mouth. It is about four feet above the bottom of the valley. It can be said to be a dangerous pass that is easy to defend but difficult to attack thousands of men.
Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, Jilusai has actually lost its original role and has become a broken small city, where only some hopeless descendants of the veterans of the Han army garrison remain here, making a living by trading with the Xianbei and Xiongnu.
Pioneer Taishici led 20,000 troops into the city gate and immediately renovated and improved the broken city wall here.
At the same time, Xu Huang led 20,000 troops to Gaoque Pass, which was a gap in the Yinshan Mountains northwest of Bayannur, and looked like a gate, so it was named. It is said to be the end of the Great Wall built by King Wuling of Zhao and an important pass for the Qin and Han Dynasty Great Wall. The Qin Emperor and Han Wu of the Qin Emperor and Han Dynasty repeatedly went out from here to cross the Langshan north to attack the Huns. However, two hundred years after the Eastern Han Dynasty gave up these passes, there was a piece of weed here. Because neither the Huns nor the Xianbei people were interested in defending here, they preferred the nomadic career of migrating through water and grass.
Taishici personally urged people and horses to repair the chicken and lushes.
He kept patrolling the city wall repairs and gave guidance based on his own experience.
A military officer asked: "General Taishi, why do you attach so much importance to this Jilushou? There is really nothing to be said about this broken pass."
Taishici turned his head and looked at the military academy student who joined the army. It turned out that he had never had a military career before. No wonder he asked such a simple question.
Taishici knew that the lord valued these military academy students, so he did not be as cold and harsh as he was to the general soldiers in the army. He patiently explained: "In the previous dynasty, the Xiongnu land Shanyuting was placed in the northwest of Shuofang County. When we sent troops to attack the Xiongnu, we had to go through the Dingxiang, Yunzhong, Wuyuan, and Shuofang routes, and attacked from Shuofang. The main route to cross the Yinshan Mountains was this Jilushu. From there, we went north forty miles, which was Dabagou. Then we could cross the Yinshan Mountains and enter the northern part of Mobei. This Jilushu was a shortcut to the northern part of Shuofang."
The army joined the army suddenly realized: "It is said that the Tuoba tribe of the Xianbei occupied the old land of the Xiongnu. When Tuoba Jiefen went south, he also had to pass Jilusai?"
Taishi Ci thought to himself, no wonder the lord valued these military academy students so much. Although they had no experience, they were smart and smart, able to learn from one example and grow up very quickly. They were much more creative than those veterans who didn't know a single word.
Taishici said in a deep voice: "One hundred years ago, General Dou Xian and Geng Bing led 8,000 elite cavalry from here to go out of the frontier, attacked the northern Huns, and fought in a panic. However, General Dou Xian was impeached by the treacherous minister Yuan An, and was afraid of the emperor at that time, and forced to commit suicide. From then on, our Han army never sent troops from Jilu Pass again, and could only watch the Xianbei people enter Shuofang from here to rob our great men. Now, all this will eventually change. Our lord will take us out of here to defeat the Xianbei people, so that the Hu people will no longer dare to shed their horses in the Senei."
A few days later, Wei Yan personally led the army to Jilusai.
Wei Yan entered the city from the only south gate, climbed the city wall along the stone path, looked around, the mountains and ridges to the north were majestic and spectacular, the mountains were empty and open, and the rivers were tilted, and to the east of the stone city, the valley entrance was wide and unobstructed, and the passing cars, horses and pedestrians were visible at a glance, which was very easy to guard. The east wall of the stone city is the most dangerous. It is built close to the edge of the high steps. This terrace rises from the bottom of the valley, and the wall stands like a wall, as high as six meters. With the two meters high stone wall, the total is as high as
Eight feet, if there is no special equipment, it will be difficult to climb. The top of the city wall is about one twelve feet wide and the wall base is about one twelve feet thick. The four corners of the city wall protrude outwards more than eight feet, which looks like a horn tower platform. If an ambush is set here, you can monitor and block enemies attacking from the bottom of the city. All the materials for building the city are natural stones, and the cushions are filled with mud and the surface of the city wall is neatly built. However, due to years of erosion, many places of the wall have collapsed, and it has been repaired by Taishici.
Wei Yan stood on the chicken and deer gate, remembering a beauty of the eternal period, Wang Zhaojun.
In the third year of Ganlu (51 BC), the Huns Huhanye Shanyu entered Chang'an for the first time. Emperor Xuan of Han ordered the seven counties along the way to welcome him. The Shanyu arrived in Chang'an and was treated by Emperor Xuan's special courtesy. When he returned from Chang'an, he traveled through Yinshan from Jilusai to the north. The Han Dynasty not only sent troops to escort the grains, but also turned 34,000 hu of rice and steaks to support him. Since then, "there has been no trace of resumption of troops in the Shuofang for more than 60 years."
There was no fireworks warning for several generations, and the people were in full swing, and the cows and horses were spreading wilderness. In the first year of Jingning in the Western Han Dynasty (33 BC), the Shanyu returned to the court. After Emperor Yuan, the queen of the good family in the palace, Zhaojun gave Shanyu a gift. Zhaojun and Shanyu went out of the frontier, and went from Jilusai through the Halongenae Valley to the north of Mobei. After Huhanye Shanyu and Wang Zhaojun returned to Mobei, due to internal disputes, the couple had both lived in Jilusai Shicheng for eight years.
Lu Su climbed to the top of Jilusai City, and his communication with Han people on the border in recent days has eliminated his previous knots. He fully agrees with Wei Yan's ethnic policy. If he is not a member of our race, his heart will be different. If he cannot be Chineseized, he must be strongly suppressed.
Lu Su carefully studied the map of this area and said to Wei Yan with a smile: "My lord is here in Jilusai, and I think that Tuoba will definitely come to Jilusai. Our army was very tired before attacking dozens of Hun tribes in Hetao. The Tuoba Xianbei had not taken over the war before and waited for the effort. Whether it was the battle between the two armies and the battle in Jilusai, it was not the best strategy."
Wei Yan asked with a smile: "I guess Zijing has made a decision, please tell me in detail."
Lu Su took out a map, pointed to a place, and said to Wei Yan: "Lord, from Tuoba tribe to Jilusai, we have to pass through this dam ditch in the middle. It is better for us to ambush our opponents in the dam ditch."
Twenty miles north of Jilusai is the mouth of Dabagou, and there is also a stone city that echoes Jilusai. To the north and southwest of Jilusai, there are beacon towers where there are twists and turns in the valley or branches. The rough distance between beacon towers ranges from one to two miles. These beacon towers, Jilusai and Dabagou Shicheng, together form the military defense line to defend the Hetao area in the Western Han Dynasty. The establishment and prosperity of Linrong, Jinhun, and Sanfeng and three counties of Shuofang County in the Western Han Dynasty were closely related to the powerful military defense line in the Jilusai area as a backing, but the Eastern Han Dynasty gave up all this.
Wei Yan shook his head gently: "We used a plan to burn the Huns coalition forces. I believe that Tuoba had known it for a long time. He would definitely be wary of us using the plan. We would be ambushed in the dam ditch, and I am afraid he would see through it."
Lu Su thought for a moment and smiled: "That Tuoba had just moved from Beihai to the former land of the Huns. They didn't know the truth about the lord and the Wei army. We might as well send a group of troops to fight against the Tuoba tribe first, only defeat but not win, and lure the Tuoba tribe into our ambush circle."
Wei Yan looked at the newly-entered 20,000 Hun cavalry. Although all the Huns were very strong, they were used to nomadic life, unruly by nature, without discipline, and loose. Although their chief general Xu Huang was good at governing the army, they could not transform them in a short period of time.
Wei Yan pointed to the 20,000 newly formed Xiongnu cavalry: "Why do you have to pretend to be defeated? We will be defeated. Send these 20,000 cavalry to test it and consume the combat power of the Xianbei cavalry."
Tuoba Jiefen, the leader of the Xianbei Tuoba tribe, rectified the strong tribe man and prepared to go to war in the past few days, while sending people to investigate the details of Wei Yan and Wei army. The results of the investigation made him very frustrated. He began to feel that Wei Yan was not easy to mess with, and he felt full of regret.
But the bold words at the Xianbei Heads Conference in the West had already been expressed and could not be taken back. The Xianbei Lord of the Western Region also issued a formal order to send troops to him. He could only bite the bullet and bring all the young and strong men in the entire tribe with him and lead the troops to the chicken deer.
On this day, 40,000 cavalry of Tuoba tribe arrived at the mouth of the north side of Daba ditch. Daba ditch was the old path of the Yellow River. The Yellow River had already diverted its route to the east hundreds of years ago, but the ditch became the Huns. The Xianbei people had to pass through the road from Mobei to Shuofang County. There was no road here, and when there were too many people, it became a road. The bottom of the ditch was very flat, and it was very easy to ride a horse. The only thing to worry about was the valleys on both sides of Daba ditch, with weeds densely covered with weeds. If Wei Yan was ambushed here, Tuoba Jiefen took all the young and strong men of the tribe. If he was ambushed, the Tuoba tribe would be finished. As we all know, Wei Yan likes to ambush the enemy the most.
Tuoba Jiefen sent scouts to climb up the ditches on both sides and investigate carefully.
Tuoba Jiefen himself led most of his troops and marched slowly.
The scouts sent by Tuoba Jiefen had just climbed up the slopes of the ditch on both sides when they saw a large group of cavalry coming from the south side of the Daba Groove. They did not use the banner and looked strange and inexplicable. They were a little different from the usual Han cavalry, but for a while, they could not tell where they were different, because these cavalry were indeed wearing Han armor.
The generals, with a face as bronze as an ancient bronze, had silkworm eyebrows and deer eyes, short beard under the jaw, majestic and mighty, galloped on Hualiu, waved a big axe, shouted loudly: "Xianbei wild dogs, dare to come to the big man to find food!"
Tuoba Jiefen was furious and quickly sent warriors from Tuoba's army to challenge the Han generals on the opposite side.
The warriors of the Tuoba tribe could not take three moves and were killed by the opposite man with an axe.
The Han general on the opposite side took this victory and shouted loudly: "Clash, kill a Xianbei soldier, reward ten acres of ranch, kill a Xianbei general, reward a hundred acres of ranch!"
Tuoba Jiefen found it very strange, why did the reward order offered by the Han general opposite to him be the reward ranch?
Xu Huang, holding the Xuanhua Axe, led 20,000 Xiongnu cavalry and rushed straight to the 40,000 Xianbei cavalry led by Tuoba Jiefen.
Tuoba Jiefen is worthy of being the ancestor of Tuoba Tao, the later Emperor Wu of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Although he was a barbaric nomadic background and did not know the writing, he was self-evident and well-versed in his own way. He was able to stand out from dozens of Xianbei tribes with the Murong tribe and establish so many countries later. It was closely related to the military attainments of Tuoba Neighbors, Tuoba Jiefen, Tuoba Liwei and others. Under their leadership, the Tuoba tribe was brave and good at fighting, and his combat effectiveness was definitely among the top in the current Xianbei tribes.
Tuoba Jiefen had long expected that the Han army would leave the city to take on the battle. He calmly sent the most elite cavalry to line up in front of the formation to fight the Han army.
When the Hun cavalry first started to come, they were quite imposing, but once the two armies approached, they quickly fell into a disadvantage.
If these 20,000 Southern Xiongnu cavalry were led to deal with the general Han army, they would have some attacked stones with eggs for the Xianbei cavalry, because since the Xianbei Khan Tan Shihuai came out, the Xianbei people have been suppressing the Southern Xiongnu. The Southern Xiongnu had many years of psychological disadvantages in the face of the Xianbei people. They had originally seen Xu Huang kill the opponent's general and their morale was greatly boosted, but once they rushed to the Xianbei people, they saw Xianbei cavalry who were more ferocious, fierce and confident than their appearance, they could not feel weak, just like the Japanese met Americans.
After Xu Huang killed the Xianbei general, he shouted and rushed, then drove his horse to flew to the side, watching the Huns' cavalry hedge against the Xianbei cavalry.
The result is self-evident. These newly formed Xiongnu cavalry are no match for the Xianbei cavalry at all. In addition, the Xiongnu cavalry only has 20,000 people and 40,000 people and 40,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,000 people and 30,00
Tuoba Jiefen could see that these enemy troops were originally the Hun cavalry who surrendered to the Han Dynasty. He couldn't help but say furiously: "You Huns are traitors to our children on the grassland. What are your faces when you are a front pawn for the Han people? "
Tuoba Jiefen's scolding and accusations made these Southern Xiongnu people speechless. Should they tell Tuoba Jiefen that their wives, children, and their livestock and property were under the control of Wei Yan and Wei army?
Wei Yan implemented the mature administrative system to the grassland. Any area within a radius of twenty miles would be built, a Han pavilion chief was set up, and a Han pavilion chief was set up to command the township soldiers. Every ten pavilions were set up as a county, and every ten counties were set up as a county, and every Han county magistrate was set up as a county, and each county town had a battalion of elite cavalry. Such county, county, pavilion chiefs were all Han people, and officers above the squad leader in each level of army were Han people. What could they do if they were taken by Wei Yan? After being held by Wei Yan, Wei Yan could only be driven by Wei Yan.
Chapter completed!