Chapter 989 Tieling

  After receiving the alarm from Yanmen Fort, Bigui, the governor of Bingzhou, who had just sent his only 5,000 troops to Yanmen Fort, suddenly received another alarm from Jiuyuan County:

  An unknown number of Han troops appeared in the north of Jinyang.

   This news made Bi Gui feel like being struck by lightning.

   "Shu captives... how could the Shu captives... how could they be there? How could they be there?"

  Bi Gui was considered a handsome man when he was young, but he is always elegant and refined.

  Although he is over middle-aged now, he still gives people a personable feeling.

   But at this time, his bearing was completely gone.

  After the shock, it was replaced by fear, panic, and bewilderment.

  But seeing him fall to the ground, his face was pale, his eyes were dull, and he muttered and repeated:

   "Why are the Shu captives there?"

  A few days ago, there was news from Guanzhong that two of the three armies of the Shu captives had retreated.

  Especially Feng thief, he should be at Yinshan now, and he can fight Kebi more than ever!

  Why is there still a way of Shu captives emerging from Yanmen?

   Did they fall from the sky?

   "Emissary!" Seeing Bi Gui's appearance, Li Xun immediately wanted to slap him twice to wake him up:

   "The current urgency is not where the Shu captives came from, but how to defend Jinyang! If you are responsible for the safety of a state, but behave like a woman when things happen, don't you feel ashamed of your Majesty's entrustment?"

  Bi Gui regained his sanity after being drunk by Li Xun, his eyes like dead fish rolled twice, and tremblingly said:

   "Yes, yes! What is urgent now is to find a way to defend Jinyang..."

   Just thinking that there are only a few hundred soldiers in Jinyang now, his whole body becomes weak all of a sudden, like falling into an ice cave:

   "It's just... just how to keep it now..."

  Li Xi finally couldn't bear it anymore, stepped forward and grabbed Bi Gui by the skirt, pulled him up, and said anxiously:

   "The envoy should immediately send people out of the city to catch up with the five thousand soldiers and make them turn back immediately, so that at least there will be one defender in the city."

   "If the Shu captives want to go south to Jinyang, they must pass through Jiuyuan County. The Xiongnu in Jiuyuan County should do their best to stop them!"

   "In the past, Emperor Wu divided the Xiongnu into five tribes. Except for the northern Xiongnu in Jiuyuan County and the southern Xiongnu in Puzi County, there were three remaining left, right, and middle tribes, all in the counties south of Jinyang."

   "The envoy can send people to the counties to summon them. Even in an emergency, at least ten thousand people can be summoned to gather under the city of Jinyang to keep away the Shu captives."

  Cao Cao divided the Xiongnu into five tribes in the north, middle, left, and south. Needless to say, the north was placed in Jiuyuan.

  The central part is in Daling County (the northeast of Wenshui County in later generations), and the right part is in Qi County (in later generations of Qi County). These two parts are both in Taiyuan County, not far from Jinyang.

  The left part is Zishi County in Xihe County (south of Fenyang in later generations), which is also on the border of Taiyuan County.

   Only the south, located in Puzi County (later Xi County) in Pingyang County, is far away.

  The commanders of the five Huns are all surnamed Liu, and there is also Sima Jianzhi of the Han army in the tribe.

   What he did this time was to dismember the Xiongnu so that they could no longer cause disasters in Bingzhou Hedong and other places.

  The second is to use the Huns to defend Bingzhou to prevent the northern Xianbei Hu from going south.

  Although this time, it was not the Xianbei people who came from the north but the Shu captives, but the way to deal with it is the same as that.

   It's just that planning is not as fast as changing.

  The Shu captives came too fast, too fast, and Yanmen sent the military information over in the front foot, and the Shu captives were not far from Jiuyuan County on the back foot.

   More importantly, most of the soldiers originally stationed in Jinyang were transferred away from the beginning of the Battle of Guanzhong, and now only 5,000 people stay behind.

   And under the urgent time, it is definitely impossible to gather all the Huns.

   But fortunately, every Xiongnu has an army Sima placed by the court, and I believe that many of them will be recruited.

  The current strategy is to find a way to hold back the Shu captives and wait for reinforcements from Guanzhong or Luoyang to arrive.

  As long as Jinyang is not lost, then everything can still be saved.

   "Yes! Order, order!"

  Bi Gui heard Li Xi's words, like a drowning man grasping the last straw, he said again and again:

   "Let the soldiers turn around, defend Jinyang, and let the Huns in the north..."

  Li Xi couldn't bear it any longer, and sprayed his saliva directly on Bi Gui's face:

   "Emissary! I want you to send someone out of the city immediately!"

   It's not for you to learn how to speak from me!

  I am your mother!

  He was going crazy with this incompetent guy.

  On weekdays, when talking about classics and classics, few people can match him, and he also said that he is a talented person, but he didn't expect to be like this when things happen.

  Li Xun regretted it very much at this time.

  At the beginning, the imperial court recruited me many times, but I didn't agree to become an official, so I was blind, and I would agree to this guy and take the post of Bingzhou Biejia.

   "Yes, yes, come, come! Pass my order..."

  Bi Gui of Jinyang was panic-stricken, and the northern commander of the Xiongnu, who had already been approached by troops, was even more caught off guard.

  The day before, many Xianbei Hunan fled and were intercepted by him, and he was still thinking happily that he had hundreds more Xianbei slaves in his hands.

   Who would have known that they would get a report today that a large army holding high the banner of the Han family had already approached Jiuyuan County.

  The North Commander finally understood: These Xianbei slaves were simply driven southward.

  Although the commanders of the five Huns are all surnamed Liu, there are some differences between the Northern Huns and the left, right, central and southern four tribes south of Jinyang.

  The main tribe in the northern part of the Xiongnu is the Xiutu tribe. They are not the Southern Huns, but the Northern Huns.

  The reason why the surname was changed to Liu was because in the former Han Dynasty, Mao Dun Shanyu was commensurate with the brother of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty.

  The remaining four are all Southern Huns.

  Since the Huns split for the first time, Hu Hanxie Shanyu first entered the Han territory to ask for surrender, and then asked himself to be his son-in-law. Only then did Wang Zhaojun go out.

   It is precisely because of this origin that when the Southern Xiongnu arrived in the Later Han Dynasty, most of them who were attached to them called themselves the son-in-law of the Han family, and often took the character Liu as their Han surname.

  The more radical ones, like King Youxian of the Southern Huns, even claimed to be the descendant of Emperor Guangwu after the general Du Liao of the Later Han Dynasty.

  When Dong Zhuo was in trouble, the Southern Huns sent troops to Chang'an, Luoyang and other places to rescue the Han Emperor.

   It can be seen from this that the watchdogs raised by the Han Dynasty for two or three hundred years are still very effective.

  But it was when the Han Emperor was rescued that the Huns saw with their own eyes that the prestige of the emperor of the Han family was trampled on at will.

  Many Xiongnu lost their awe, and took advantage of the chaos in the world to plunder the land of Hedong in Bingzhou.

  Therefore, it is not without reason that Cao Cao placed the Southern Xiongnu in the south of Jinyang, but placed the Xiutu tribe in the north to guard the gate.

  Obviously, no matter how unrighteous the Hu people were, the Southern Xiongnu, who had been tamed by the Han Dynasty for more than two hundred years, had already been imprinted with the imprint of the Han family.

  These marks will not disappear easily for no reason.

  Compared with the Southern Xiongnu who claimed to be the son-in-law of the Han family, the Xiutu tribe, who were first defeated by the big Han and then forced to move inland, did not have so many complicated feelings for the emperor of the Han family.

  Because of the split between the northern and southern Huns in history, the Xiutu tribe who was born in the northern Huns will not be so close to the southern Huns.

  These historical reasons are enough to make it easier for the Xiutu Department to choose to listen to Cao Wei's words.

  So when the commander of the north of the Xiongnu saw the banner of the Han family, his first reaction was not the Han army, but where did the bandit army come from?

   It's just that there are a lot of bandits coming, and the speed is extremely fast.

   It took less than half a day from the discovery of the enemy to the time when the bandits came to Jiuyuan.

  As the rolling iron cavalry continued to approach Jiuyuan County, the Northern Commander of the Huns found himself facing an embarrassing situation.

  Although the tribe still retains the habit of grazing, they also have to start learning farming.

   To put it nicely, it is half-farming and half-grazing, but to put it bluntly, it is neither a man nor a barbarian.

  Although there is Jiuyuan County, he cannot defend it...

  After all, where are the barbarians who are good at defending the city?

   Not to mention that for hundreds of years, the Huns have rarely had the habit of building cities.

   City?

What it is?

   Doesn’t it smell good when used to herd cattle and sheep?

  But how many string-controllers can the Huns who planted the land raise?

   It's just that it's too late to escape now.

  The northern commander had no choice but to bite the bullet and lead the army out of the city to fight.

  Looking at the two or three thousand cavalry troops improvised by the Huns under Jiuyuan City, even inferior to Xianbei Hu, the corner of General Guan's mouth twitched slightly.

  The reason why we have to stop all the way is to achieve this effect, so that the opponent does not have enough time to prepare.

   Either abandon the city and flee to the south, or improvise troops to fight.

   Now it seems that this so-called northern Huns are loyal to the Wei thieves...

  Just as the Huns in the north were trying to stop the Han army from going south with their own efforts, the five thousand Wei troops who had just left the city were called back to Jinyang in time.

   After learning about the situation he was facing, the somewhat bewildered General Wei Jun immediately suggested to Bi Gui:

   "My lord, there is a mountain in the north of Jinyang. The local people call it Tieling. It is the only way to go south from Jiuyuan County to Jinyang."

   "The terrain is dangerous there, with mountains on the left and valleys on the right. Thousands of people guard it, and tens of thousands of people are not allowed to pass."

   "The thieves are powerful now, and I have few soldiers. Besides, Jinyang is a big city. It can be said that the city is big but the soldiers are few. This is a big taboo for defending the city!"

   "So instead of defending the city, it is better to resist the enemy based on the mountain pass."

  As soon as Bi Gui heard this, he subconsciously looked at Li Xun.

  Li Xi pondered, but looked at General Wei Jun:

   "General Sima, as far as I know, there is a river valley to the west of Tieling, which can bypass Tieling and go straight to Jinyang. What if the Shu captives do not attack Tieling by force, but detour through the valley?"

   "This is easy to handle!" General Wei Jun, surnamed Sima, named Huan, is from Hanoi, and it is said that he has some relationship with the Sima family in Hanoi.

  But seeing that he seemed to be prepared, he replied, "Didn't the envoy already order the Xiongnu to come to Jinyang?"

  "Hu'er doesn't know how to guard the city. Instead of letting them station outside the city, let them guard the river valley. The river valley is not very wide."

   "No matter how powerful the Shu captives were, it would be difficult for them to spread their troops in the river valley, and Hu'er has a large number of people, so it happened to take turns to go to battle."

   "I don't want to block the Shu captives, but I want to drag them until the imperial court sends reinforcements, that's enough!"

   It sounded okay, Li Xi nodded subconsciously.

  Bi Gui only said that he had already agreed, and immediately clapped his hands happily and said:

   "It's all about the mountains and rivers outside and inside the state, so what if the Shu captives took advantage of my surprise and captured Yanmen, let's see how he broke the barrier of Tieling."

   Immediately arrange it quickly.

  Sima Huan led five thousand Wei troops to reach Tieling, and the camp had not yet been settled.

  Hu people from the north flocked here, all wanting to go south from Tieling to Jinyang.

  Sima Huan immediately had someone block the passage, preventing anyone from passing through.

  The Hu people who fled south had no choice but to gather under Tieling. There were those who clamored, those who cursed, and those who begged, and only asked the defenders to let go of the passage.

  Sima Huan was unmoved in the slightest, and even ordered that anyone who dared to cross the line would be shot with arrows and crossbows.

  Only a small number of Hu people bypassed the river valley.

  When the Hu people under Tieling learned of this passage and were about to turn around the valley, the vanguard of the Central Huns closest to Jinyang had already reached the mouth of the valley to the south and blocked the gap.

  The four tribes of the Southern Xiongnu, no matter whether it is with the Xiutu tribe or the Xianbeihu, it is impossible to have any deadly friendship. How dare they violate Bigui's order and let people go south without permission?

  At the moment, these Hu people who fled south were forced to withdraw from the valley.

  After hearing the report from the spies who fled to the south, Shi Bao said with some concern:

   "General, it seems that the Wei thief is already prepared!"

  He didn't understand why General Guan asked the army to rest in Jiuyuan County, which resulted in not taking this dangerous place in time. What a pity, what a pity!

  General Guan had no expression on his face. He said "hmm" and looked fixedly at the mountains in front of him.

  Suddenly ordered:

   "Release that northern commander, as well as those barbarian generals, let them go to Tieling to call the pass, and try the attitude of Wei thief."

   "Huh? General, let them all go? The general is not going to borrow their names?"

  Shi Bao was a little surprised.

   Just like that Nigui Ni, no matter whether he wants to or not, at least on the surface he is surrendering to the big man.

  Now Huo Yi can borrow the name of Master Xianbei to appease the Xianbei barbarians in Yanmen County, and at the same time collect some supplies.

  But during the First World War in Jiuyuan County, the improvised Huns were not enough.

   Even war horses are no match for the Xianbei people in Yanmen. How can they be the opponent of the iron cavalry led by General Guan?

  Without making it through for half a day, the Huns under Jiuyuan County were defeated across the board, and even the commander-in-chief was unable to escape, and was captured by the army on the spot.

  As for the horses, cattle and sheep discarded by the Huns, many of them were sent to the stomachs of the lieutenants.

  Shi Bao thought that General Guan would borrow the name of the commander of the Huns like he did in Yanmen.

   "Yes, it's useless to keep them if they're all released."

  General Guan nodded, "His tribe is all in Jiuyuan County, and now they are fleeing or scattered, so there is nothing to fear."

   "Here."

  After the Northern Commander of the Xiongnu was captured, he was kept in the army. He only thought that he was going to be used by the Han army to sacrifice the flag, but he did not expect to escape from death.

  After the Han soldier untied the hemp rope on his body, he just raised his chin, didn't even bother to say anything, and signaled him to get out.

  The commander-in-chief didn't even dare to say anything, he was afraid that the other party would go back on his word, and without even looking at the direction carefully, he ran away in a panic with a few of his generals.

   I don't know how long I ran, but I met some people who fled south one after another on the road, and then I realized the direction I was going.

  At the moment, he and several generals gathered some tribesmen, and then got some food, and then continued to flee south until the foot of Tieling.

   Knowing that the Commander-in-Chief has returned, the Xiongnu and Hu people around Tieling gathered on their own initiative, hoping that the Commander-in-Chief would lead them through Tieling.

   Re-gathered a lot of clan commanders, and this is considered to have some confidence.

  He went to Lingxia in person, and after reporting his identity, he shouted:

   "I implore the general to let me wait for the sake of my clan and I defending the court against enemies..."

   Before the words fell, there was a faint thunder in the distance.

   Sima Huan on Tieling had no time to answer Bei Shuai's words, his gaze was already firmly attracted by Bei Bei.

  The black cavalry is rushing from all directions, constantly driving the barbarians around Tieling, squeezing them to this side.

   "Lead your people out of here!"

  Sima Huan's complexion changed drastically, and he suddenly sternly said to Bei Shuai under the mountain.

   Zuo Bushuai stood under the mountain, so naturally he couldn't see what was happening in the distance.

  He still wanted to continue shouting, but Sima Huan had no time to tangle with him, so he directly asked someone to shoot with a bow:

   "If you don't get out, I'll kill you on the spot!"

   Seeing Sima Huan being so unreasonable, Bei Shuai, even a clay figurine, was furious:

  I led the people and tried my best to help you stop the enemy in the north, but in the end I got such treatment?

   Just looking at the arrows shining with cold light on the ridge, he had to grit his teeth and turn around angrily. He didn't take a few steps before he noticed the sound of thunder.

   No, this is the sound of horseshoes!

   Sima Huan on the mountain looked at the barbarians who had nowhere to escape, and squeezed towards him in a dazed and ignorant way, like ripples on the surface of a lake.

  He was trembling all over, and it took a long time to squeeze out two words from between his teeth:

   "So ruthless!"

  Ps: Where did the northern Huns come from? There is still no clear conclusion in the historian circle. Here is the conclusion accepted by most people, which comes from the Xiutu tribe of the Northern Huns.

  (end of this chapter)