Your Majesty, please draw the card

"Good news! Good news! Your Majesty, good news!"

Liu Xi stood up suddenly: "Where is the good news? Tell me quickly!"

"Returning to the emperor, the news from General Baima that our army successfully ambushed King Zuoxian's troops in Shangmaping, wiped out [-] enemies, and captured countless horses. King Zuoxian was killed by General Baima, and the rest of the barbarian generals have also given their heads. "

"That's great... that's great..." Liu Xi was so excited that he didn't know what to say.This battle wiped out nearly one-third of the elite of the Xiongnu. It was an unprecedented victory in a century, and it can be said that it established the victory of this war.

Liu Xi's heart was surging for a long time before he remembered to ask: "How about our army's losses?"

"My Majesty, seven hundred soldiers of the Volunteer Army were killed and three thousand were injured. They completely defeated the Xiongnu."

Liu Xi was overjoyed: "As expected of Zilong!"

In fact, there is also a certain element of luck for Zhao Yun to obtain such a result.First of all, he chose the place as the battlefield of the ambush very cleverly, which can make good use of the advantages of his side's multi-arms coordinated operations.Secondly, he caught Zuo Xianwang by surprise, and the Huns never expected that there would be the main force of Dayan in the area they had already occupied.The third and most important point is that he beheaded King Zuo Xian as soon as he came up. The Huns had no leader and failed to organize effective resistance, so that they were defeated by the volunteer army.

"Did Zilong say where he's going next?"

"General Baima said in a telegram that the whole army will go north to look for opportunities to fight the Xiongnu Shanyu."

If they go north, the Xiongnu Shanyu still has [-] cavalry in his hands, which is roughly equivalent to Zhao Yun's force.The key depends on whether the Huns have transferred back the troops from Yanmen Pass. If the two troops have not converged, the Volunteer Army will have some advantages.

The current situation from south to north is that Dayan's troops stationed in Shangjun, the Xiongnu's troops attacking Shangjun, the volunteer army led by Zhao Yun, Yizhixie Shanyu's troops, the Xiongnu army under Yanmen Pass, and the Yanmen Pass guards led by Bai Qi. Plus a big prince whose location is unknown.In such a situation of stacking layers, Zhao Yun's troops in the middle are actually very dangerous, and he may be flanked by the Huns at any time.

Liu Xi frowned and asked, "Gongjin, can our army take advantage of the victory to attack and contain the Xiongnu army in Shangjun?"

Sima Cheng led his troops out of the city gate many times before, but the purpose was to attract the Huns to attack, and he did not prepare for a real field battle.Liu Xi was very worried that Yi Zhixie Shanyu would order the Huns to turn around and encircle and suppress the Volunteer Army, trying to really entangle the enemy.

Zhou Yu said with a smile, "Your Majesty, it's time and time. Now our army will not only take the initiative to attack, but also take back the lost ground bit by bit. Doesn't Your Majesty want to conquer in person? This is the best opportunity!"

Liu Xi wondered, "How do you say that?"

"It's very simple. Fighting is about the morale of the army. The Xiongnu army who attacked Shangjun has long lost their energy. The reason why they refused to retreat is because of Shan Yu's order and because they believe that reinforcements will arrive soon. The emperor only If we need to release the news that King Zuo Xian’s troops have been annihilated and King Zuo Xian is dead, the Huns’ army will be in disarray, and the emperor can just take this opportunity to push the front line north and save our people in Dayan.”

"Then what if this part of the enemy army is also pushed to Zilong's side?"

"A troop that even King Zuoxian could swallow in one gulp. Now that the patriarchs of the small tribes in the upper county see the volunteer army dodging before it's too late, how can they foolishly bump into it and die? As long as the emperor advances fast enough, maybe You can also cooperate with Zilong to act, and it will be all in one battle!"

This proposal made Liu Xi's heart skip a beat.

"Okay! Come on, invite General Sima!"

When Sima Cheng heard that the emperor was going to take the initiative to attack, he immediately became excited.In the Battle of Shangmaping, Dayan's prestige was played out, which made every Dayan soldier proud.Sima Cheng's only regret was that he did not fight this battle. At this moment, he wished he could immediately kill all the Huns in the city, so as to boost the momentum of the frontier army.

Liu Xi was also eager to try. He has practiced martial arts for many years but he has not even had a chance to perform it once. If he can go into battle and kill the enemy, it will be a great consummation in life.But when this time really came, he didn't want to take the credit of the generals.After all, the emperor's personal conquest, the first part of all the credit should go to the emperor.Haven't there been emperors in history who liked to use this to add officials to themselves, making their subordinates very unmotivated to go to work?The frontier soldiers have persevered so far with blood and sweat, so they can't get more than half of their credit at the critical moment, right?

The final result of the discussion was that the emperor should first deliver a pre-war speech, then Sima Cheng would lead the army to attack, and the emperor's imperial driver would follow the army northward.In order to improve the deterrence against the Huns, Liu Xi also came up with a bad idea.He found someone to forge the head of King Zuoxian and hung it on a high pole so that the Huns would be terrified.Anyway, King Zuo Xian was really dead, and no one dared to confront him when he did this.

The next day, the news of the annihilation of King Zuoxian's army gradually spread in the Huns' barracks.Zhou Yu was right, the leaders of the tribes really don't want to fight anymore.

Although Yi Zhixie Shanyu tried his best to block the news, someone still brought out the information that Shuofang was looted.For the tribes on the front line, this incident was like a bolt from the blue. They were still waiting to share the fruits of victory in front of Shan Yu, but the fruits of victory were gone in an instant.

For ordinary Huns, risking their lives to go south is to plunder and to ensure that they can survive on the grassland in the coming year.Before this expedition, the Huns were united as never before, not only because of Shan Yu's order, but also because of the severe snow disaster last year. If some oil and water were not scraped from the Southern Dynasty, many tribes would not be able to survive.Therefore, except for a small group of people who, like Yizhixie Shanyu, had the ambition to establish a new dynasty, most of the Huns came for money and food.Now that the blood of the tribe's soldiers has been spilled, the results that should have been achieved have been wiped out because of Shanyu's whimsical desire to establish Shuofang as the capital. The tribe leaders have to start thinking about how to spend the next year.There are only so many places on the grasslands where there is plenty of pasture, and there are only so many people who can support them, so what should we do?

Kill Yizhi Xie Shanyu and seize the fattest pasture!

This idea grew like a poisonous weed in the hearts of many Huns.Shan Yu's headquarters has lost so much, does he really have the strength to rule the entire grassland?The law of nature is so cruel, if the total population on the grassland decreases, the probability of survival will naturally be higher.It is also from this that the powers of the grassland peoples have changed countless times.It is also because of this reason that the Xiongnu Chanyu is usually not the first to send his direct troops to fight.

In the south, people from the Southern Dynasty came with the head of King Zuo Xian.Some tribes in the Xiongnu army camp fled. They wanted to find a way to grab something while they could still leave, and went back to guard the tribe's pasture.Some tribes struggled to withdraw their forces. As for whether the reason was really to defend Shan Yu as they said, only they knew it in their hearts.In the end, only those tribal leaders who couldn't make a decision after thinking about it left and right were left, but how could they be the opponents of the generals who wanted to make contributions like the Volunteer Army?

Kill all the barbarians and find a Marquis!

The soldiers sang all the way to the north, and the situation of the war seemed to turn around in an instant.At the beginning, the Dayan army was unable to resist a simple horse attack by the Huns, but at this time, the Huns fled when they saw the Dayan army from a distance.

Another reason why the morale of the Dayan army is rising day by day is that the Huns were extremely brutal even in the process of escaping.As if it was expected that in the next few hundred years, they would no longer be able to go deep into the hinterland of Dayan. Every place along the Huns' evacuation route was looted, and the people were slaughtered like pigs and dogs. They couldn't beat the pursuers , you can only vent the fire in your heart on the unarmed people.Little did they know that this devastated scene further aroused the fighting spirit of Dayan soldiers and became their last reminder!

In the eyes of the generals of Dayan in the past, the Huns were brutal barbarians, but now they are just a group of animals, and they don't need to be treated as human beings at all.

kill!kill kill!

Only with the blood in your hands can you wash away the blood in your heart!In order to wash away the blood of parents and brothers scattered in the dust!

On the tenth day of April, Dayan's troops had already advanced to the Yuzhong area, regaining most of the lost ground, and the whole army was full of joy.The common people sang the anecdote about "General Nine Fingers" Sima Cheng, saying that he was the star of the world, and because he had made an oath in the heaven to destroy the barbarians, he was born with one finger less than others.

For this reason, Liu Xi went to ask Sima Cheng.As a result, this iron man with the demeanor of a Confucian general said with embarrassment that his finger was indeed broken for the oath, but it was because of a drinking accident and vowed not to drink again during the expedition.Liu Xi laughed, and gave Sima Cheng a pair of armor in recognition of his meritorious deeds, and wrote a small poem, which confirmed Sima Cheng's story of "swearing to break the Xiongnu's fingers".

Liu Xi is in a good mood recently.On the one hand, it was because of the victory that he finally breathed a sigh of relief.On the other hand, because Zhao Yun's telegrams were sent very frequently, the battle situation on Zhao Yun's side was also quite good.

The Xiongnu Shanyu hurried south without waiting to join the troops at Yanmenguan. As a result, the vanguard was swallowed by Zhao Yun, who was now confronting Zhao Yun across the river.Zhao Yun planned to have people work day and night to build the ferry, and then divide the troops into two groups, some of them continued to guard the river bank, and the main cavalry went around to the lower reaches of the Yellow River to cross the river, catching the Huns by surprise.

"The battle situation is very good, and the last general has not been injured. The emperor should take care of himself."

Liu Xilai read the telegram dozens of times, and finally couldn't help laughing out loud.He knew that Zhao Yun finally couldn't bear to report his physical condition after being asked many times by him, but he couldn't express his happiness when he saw that his idol was doing well.

"I'm fine, please miss me."

This telegram made the general on the white horse laugh.