A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 215: Stars fall, hide and seek
"Poof~" Tuoba Kan chopped down a Wuhuan man and suddenly noticed a burst of yellow sand rising from the south.

He climbed up and down to the battlements, built a shed over his eyes with his hands and looked carefully, only to see a red hunting flag fluttering in the yellow sand.

"The reinforcements are coming, the reinforcements from the prefect are coming!" Tuoba Kan shouted to his colleagues almost crazily.

The morale of the Liucheng defenders suddenly reached its peak. With only a few dozen Han troops left, they killed all the Wuhuan people at the top of the city, and the Wuhuan people had to retreat to the bottom of the city.

However, due to the Wuhuan commander's order to retreat, the Wuhuan soldiers did not dare to retreat to their own formation. Instead, under the organization of the officers, they prepared to launch another attack just below the city.

A large group of Han cavalry galloped towards Liucheng. A red flag with white characters on it showed the identity of this army. It was the reinforcements from Liaoxi County led by Bai Zheng, the prefect of Liaoxi Province, after receiving Tuoba Kan's letter asking for help.

Originally he brought 7,000 reinforcements, but since most of them were infantry, and the letters for reinforcements were urgent, and fearing that Liucheng would fall, Bai Zheng handed over 5,000 infantry to Han Anguo, the captain of Liaoxi County, and personally took 2,000 cavalry. They rescued Liucheng first, and the infantry arrived later.

Seeing Liucheng right in front of them, a group of Huns suddenly stopped in front of them. Bai Zheng knew he couldn't stop. He narrowed his eyes, increased his strength in the hand holding the gun, and said loudly: "Keep walking, follow me." Rush into the city.”

So the Han cavalry charged directly towards the Xiongnu army without stopping, because they were still some distance away from Liucheng. Upon seeing this, the Xiongnu army generals immediately led the troops and ran towards the back, maintaining a certain distance, and kept throwing bows and arrows back.

At a distance of only one mile, the Han army was shot off their horses.

As they were about to reach the city wall, the Xiongnu general ordered them to abandon their bows and arrows and directly attack the Han army. The Han and Huns started fighting at a distance of 500 steps from the city gate.

"Don't be obsessed with fighting, rush into Liucheng." Bai Zheng ordered the soldiers while killing the enemy.

The Huns also sensed the Han army's intentions and blocked the way, making Bai Zheng's advance very difficult.

After the hanging shooting just now, the Han army only had 1,500 or 600 horsemen, while the Huns had 4,000 men. However, the Huns were good at riding and shooting, but were not good at fighting on horseback, so the two sides were evenly matched.

But because the Han army is small, if it goes on for a long time, it will definitely fail.

Bai Zhengge killed a Hun soldier, looked at the position that looked like the leader of the Hun army not far away, led his cavalry, abandoned the large army, and charged fiercely in that direction.

With the help of force, Bai Zheng successfully reached the front of the Hun general. The Hun general was no match for Bai Zheng and was quickly killed. The general was killed and the Huns were a little panicked. Bai Zheng took advantage of this and returned with his guards. The large army led them to rush to the city gate.

He rushed to the position a hundred steps away from the city gate very smoothly. Suddenly, a dense rain of arrows hit the position less than three steps in front of Bai Zheng's horse.

It was the Xiongnu who was in charge, and realized that something was wrong. He personally led his people, gathered up the scattered soldiers, and rushed towards the Han army again.

The Bai Zheng tribe fell into fighting again.

When the Huns saw Bai Zheng stabbing from left to right, he knew that he was invincible. He called the general on the side and whispered something in his ear, and the general immediately retreated.

Not long after, Bai Zheng, who was fighting hard, felt his scalp numb. He looked at the place where he felt and saw dense arrows shooting towards him. He quickly raised his gun and waved it to make it airtight.

Everything three meters around Bai Zheng was shot into hedgehogs by arrows, including the Huns.

Although Bai Zheng tried his best to wave the silver gun in his hand, he was still shot by several arrows. Fortunately, he had a stomach in his body. The most serious thing was that the arrow shot on his right arm actually penetrated the gap in the stomach. , ejaculated into the flesh.

Bai Zheng only felt that his right hand was weak, so he switched the silver spear to his left hand and prepared to continue fighting.

"General!!!"

Bai Zheng looked towards the sound, and saw his own soldiers looking behind him in horror. Bai Zheng turned around suddenly, and a dense rain of arrows came. Even though Bai Zheng reacted quickly, his right hand was injured and he could no longer defend perfectly. .

An arrow penetrated the wind of the gun and pierced Bai Zheng's neck.

Bai Zheng felt it was difficult to breathe, and the silver gun fell. He covered his neck with his left hand and fell softly.

"General!!!"

Bai Zheng's soldiers who finally rushed in looked at Bai Zheng's body and fell to their knees.

However, there was no room for delay on the battlefield. A soldier who reacted quickly wrapped Bai Zheng in a cloak and tied him tightly. He got on his horse and said, "We must break out of the encirclement and send General Bai's body to the enemy." go back!"

"Here!"

The other soldiers also reacted, got on their horses, and headed towards where they came from.

Under the desperate cover of other Han troops, they finally broke out of the siege, but only a hundred or so of the original thousand Han cavalry remained.

At night, the Han cavalry who broke out of the encirclement finally found the infantry camp. The Huns behind them retreated when they saw the response. At this time, only about ten Han cavalry people survived.

Han Anguo looked at the wrapped body of Bai Zheng with an ugly expression on his face, but he had no choice but to say: "Please send Governor Bai's body back to Chang'an! I will write to the court about the specific matters."

After Bai Zheng's soldiers were on the road, Han Anguo said to the other generals: "Now that the governor is dead, Liucheng has probably fallen. It will be useless for us to go to support him. For the sake of the overall situation, I decided to withdraw my troops and return to the county. City to prevent the situation from deteriorating further."

The other generals agreed, so the Han army broke camp overnight and retreated towards the original road.

The next day, the dilapidated red Han flag of Liucheng was pulled down and thrown down the city wall, while the Huns' brand-new prairie eagle flag was planted on the top of the city.

Chang'an, Weiyang Palace.

When the Huns invaded Shanggu, Yuyang and other counties, the Han Emperor had already ordered Wei Qing to lead 30,000 cavalry to attack the Henan area where the Huns were entrenched, that is, the Hetao area. The rear of the Xiongnu army quickly captured Gaoque and cut off the connection between the Xiongnu kings Aries and Loufan who were stationed in Henan and the court of Shan Yu. Before the army set off, they received an urgent military message from Han Anguo, the captain of Liaoxi County: "Liucheng fell, the prefect Bai Zheng died, and the Huns ravaged Liaoxi County. I had to garrison the county to prevent it from being destroyed."

The Han Emperor's face was ashen, and he held the general's report tightly in his hands. After calming down, he ordered: "Order Gongsun Ao, the lieutenant of Dai State, to send troops from Dai State to support Liaoxi County and prevent the situation from escalating."

Later, he ordered a large reward to the Xiuwu Marquis Mansion and generous rewards to Bai Zheng's surviving family. His son Bai Li was admitted to the Yulin Cavalry and served as the Yulin Military Marquis, in charge of five hundred cavalry.

After receiving the news of Bai Zheng's death, General Wei sent the white-haired man to the black-haired man in the white room, but he couldn't afford to fall ill.

Wei Qing had already marched to Luo County with an army of 30,000 people. When he saw Bai Li, who was running all night, wearing a white stripe on his head and mourning clothes, and came to take up his post, he sighed in his heart and didn't say anything more. He just patted him on the shoulder. Let him return to the team.

June
Wei Qing's army arrived at Shaling in Yunzhong County. Under the cover of Yunzhong Prefect Li Guang, 30,000 cavalry quietly left the border and headed west.

Half a month later, Wei Qing's troops arrived twenty miles east of Gaoque.

"The whole army should rest for an hour and prepare to charge." Wei Qing ordered after seeing that he had arrived at his destination.

"Boom!!!"

The Huns outside Gaoque heard the noise from the horizon.

"It's thundering?"

"Woooooo~"

"Enemy attack!!!" The vigilant Hun sentry immediately roared.

But the Han army came too quickly.

"Kill!!!" I saw a young general in the Han army wearing a white robe and a white cloth strip on his head, holding a silver spear and leading 500 cavalry, charging straight into the Xiongnu high ground. Que's residence.

There was nothing else in Bai Li's eyes, only two words: "Revenge!"

With Bai Li as the arrow, the Han army was very fast, and the battle was over in just half an hour.

Wei Qing looked at Bai Li, whose white cloth had been dyed red, and said directly: "There will be a big battle next, do you still have the strength?"

Bai Li immediately said: "As long as you kill the Huns, the general will have inexhaustible strength."

"Okay, I will appoint you as the vanguard of the army. Remember, you must be fast, disrupt the Huns' formation, and don't be reluctant to fight. When the Huns there are organized, you will rush there."

"Please rest assured, General."

After resting for a night, Wei Qing left 5,000 men to garrison this important place, and ordered: "We must not let a single Huns go north."

Then he sent Cavalry Sima Luqiu and five thousand people to continue westward, interspersed with Long County, and completely surrounded the troops of King Aries and King Loufan.

Then with the remaining 20,000 people, they rushed straight into the Hetao area.

King Aries and King Loufan received the news that the Han army had occupied Gaoque, and only more than 10,000 people gathered in a short time.

"How's it going? Do you have any news about the people you sent to contact Dragon City?" King Aries asked anxiously.

Lou Fanwang slapped the table and said: "No, every time one goes, there is no news in the end, and none of them comes back."

"It seems that the Han people have cut off the news between us and Longcheng! But this is useless, we can't hide forever! The Hetao Grassland is so big, and as time goes by, some tribes will definitely betray our whereabouts. "

"Then what should we do, surrender?" King Lou Fan said irritably.

"Why don't we go south!" King Aries suggested.

"Are you crazy? The south is full of desert. I've never seen someone who can get out after going in. No, absolutely not. I would rather be killed than die of thirst in the desert."

"This won't work, that won't work either, so what do you think we should do?"

"The Han people won't be able to stay here for long. As long as we are not caught and the Great Chanyu doesn't get any news about us for a long time, they will definitely send people to rescue us. When the time comes, we will cooperate with the reinforcements inside and outside. As long as Gao Que gets it , and we will live.”

"For now, that's all we have to do."

Afterwards, the two kings once again gave the order to move their positions, and after avoiding the scattered sentries of the Han army, they quietly left the valley where they were hiding.

"General, we have been searching for half a month. The Hetao area is so big, and Gaoque is also occupied by us. Could it be that they fled south into the desert?" A general said.

"Impossible, the desert is not that easy to enter, especially since they are all horses and there are so many people. Entering the desert area without complete preparation is no different from entering the tomb." After Wei Qing analyzed it, he decisively The idea of ​​the two Huns kings hiding in the desert was rejected.

"General, we have to hurry up. News came from Liaoxi County that the Huns who looted in Liaoxi County have retreated, and the Huns who attacked Yuyang and Youbeiping border towns have also retreated. Soon they will After receiving the news that the Hetao has been lost, when the Huns are outside and King Aries and King Loufan are inside, we will be passive." Another general reminded.

Why doesn't Wei Qing know? But in such a small area, where could they go?
(End of this chapter)