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Chapter 895
Xie Yuan led the army to march north, and the scouts came back two or three times along the way, reporting only a small group of creeping cavalry fleeing, less than a hundred of them, and ran away after grabbing something, only then did they realize that there was no trap.

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

Although the Wei State used to be a nomadic people, since entering the Central Plains, after nearly 200 years of integration with the Han people, the experience accumulated in fighting various regimes in the pass, both cavalry and infantry, and they will also use siege chariots .

But this place is full of desolation and vastness, with no city or dense population.Either it is a rugged mountain, or it is an endless plain.

The Zhuzhu who came to attack were all cavalry, they ran away if they couldn't beat them, they ran so fast that they couldn't even catch up.

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

Until Xie Yuan led his people all the way to the edge of the city wall and filled up the broken defense gap, there was no serious resistance.

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

"How do you beat them? Your Majesty said that they will be beaten so badly that they won't dare to do it again within three to five years. Are you going to chase them all the way until you kill them all?"

Shi Yuhengjia stood beside her, looked at the creeping cavalry fleeing in the distance, and said in a relaxed tone:
"It's not impossible, if you want, spend a year or two, take people, drive them all the way to Mobei Snow Mountain, and then send people to occupy their pastures, then they will migrate back, It will take four or five years to call back."

Xie Yuan felt that Shi Yuhengjia was always making sarcastic remarks, but now was not the time to bicker, so after giving him a blank look, he said directly:

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

Shi Yu Hengjia turned his head to look at Xie Yuan, saw her expression was cold, looking forward, although there was irritability in her brows, but her eyes were firm and capable, and she couldn't help showing a little appreciative smile, and then he Looking ahead again, he said:

"There is another way to fight over there, but instead of chasing those cavalrymen, we focus on capturing the sluggish civilians, driving their women, cattle and sheep to the military town, and forcing them to move inward.

That's what Emperor Taiwu did back then.After all, war requires population and food.Without these two, they couldn't even break through the defense line, so what else would they fight? "

When Xie Yuan heard about it, he remembered that Shen Liuzhen had said that Zhuzhu people disagreed with Taiwu's inland relocation policy and the merger. No matter how they negotiated, it would not work, and they insisted on confronting Wei Guo at the northern border.So asked:
"Ordinary people should want to live a good life. If the policy is relaxed and they are allowed to choose by themselves, is it still necessary to force it? Anyway, life in Wei State is better than that outside the customs... If they can live well, There is no need to keep coming to the pass to grab things.”

Shi Yu Hengjia looked directly into Xie Yuan's eyes, with a relaxed smile on his face, and said:

"Ordinary people may think so, but the Royal Court of Rouran doesn't think so. If they belong to my Great Wei, they can only be a small side general in the military town. In comparison, don't you think that in the barren north On the grass, would it be better to be a king who promises everything and holds great power?"

Xie Yuan didn't say a word.

Power is not that attractive to her.Because power means more responsibilities, she leads an army, and she has to worry about casualties from time to time. She always feels that she holds the lives of many people in her hands, and she dare not slack off in the slightest.

The king who holds great power with his word, wants to control the fate of a country, is it because he thinks that he doesn't have enough affairs and the pressure is not enough?What's so good about it?
Thinking of this, Xie Yuan said it with a disdainful expression: "What's so good about that?"

Shi Yuhengjia smiled frivolously, looked at her and said:
"Hmph...you are a woman after all, you don't understand."

Hearing his tone and expression, Xie Yuan became angry, then squinted at him from the corner of his eyes, and said coldly:

"Hmph, those who are greedy for power for their own sake, probably don't have any sense of responsibility, and don't know the truth that the world is for the public... This general is not rare at all!"

Shi Yuhengjia was humiliated again, and the smile on his face disappeared immediately. Looking at Xie Yuan, he was angry and helpless, and didn't know what to say.

At this time, 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, wearing Mingguang armor, and a fur hat on his head, looking menacing. came over here.

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

"It's the Governor of Jixing Town. We couldn't stop him, so we came here directly."

Xie Yuan raised his hand to stop him, indicating that it was okay, then he took two steps back from the edge of the city wall, stood in the middle of the road, put one hand on the saber, and watched the opponent approach.

As the man walked, he scanned the surrounding environment. Seeing that the closer he was to Xie Yuan, almost all Han people were standing guard as far as he could see, his face became darker.

He stopped five steps away from Xie Yuan, then made no secret of his rudeness and contempt, looked Xie Yuan up and down, and said in very unfamiliar Chinese:

"Xie Yuan? A woman?"

Xie Yuan was also rude, and answered two words coldly: "It's me... who are you?"

The other party saw that Xie Yuan didn't wear all the armor, but only wore a breastplate and a skirt, so he could tell her identity, so he sarcastically said:
"What a joke! This body can't even wear armor, and it's still fighting! And it's the commander of the Central Guard?!"

Xie Yuan has long been used to others' contempt for her, and the countermeasures are very simple. Dang even sneered and said:

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

Xie Yuan's eyebrows were originally quite powerful, and the general demeanor she had cultivated with troops all year round was even more imposing. When she said this, she was confident and convincing.

Immediately, the Governor of Jixing Town's expression changed from contempt to surprise, and then he unabashedly looked Xie Yuan up and down, as if written all over his face: Is it true?
At this time, Shi Yuhengjia, who had been standing on the edge of the city wall, blocked his sight by Xie Yuan's personal soldiers, came to the front, and greeted the Governor of Jixing Town in a relaxed tone:
"He Yan!"

(End of this chapter)