The winter solstice is second only to the New Year and La Festivals. According to the tradition left by the Han Dynasty, it is generally necessary to worship Taiyi and Huangdi to pray for the emperor and the country. In accordance with the solar terms, during this period, the gentleman is concerned about peace and quiet, all officials are in vain and do not obey the government. Therefore, the court will have five days off, and even the frontier military will stop and rest in a rare manner.

During the Wang Mang period, he believed in the response of heaven and man, and the five-day holiday was still there, but after the fifth reunion came to power, the holiday was cancelled!

"A hundred bureaucrats and officials can only enjoy the holidays during the day. If the turmoil is not at peace today, I will not have a day to sleep. How dare I relax? The officials have doubled their salary in these five days, and everything else will be the same."

But the Winter Festival ceremony in the palace still needs to be held. After Wang Long, who was in charge of rituals and music, he also said auspicious words to the fifth reunion after he arranged the ceremony.

"Your Majesty, there are three meanings when the winter solstice arrives. One is the end of the Yin extreme, the other is the beginning of the day, and the third is the end of the day, so it is called the end."

Wang Long explained: "According to the heavenly officials, the day is the shortest during the day and the night is the longest, but from then on, the sunshine time has increased day by day. Just as after a year of war in our dynasty, all parties gradually stabilized, which is why the worst comes... "

The fifth reunion was not grateful, and only wrapped in a sable fur and said, "The sunshine is getting more and more day after the winter solstice? Why do you feel that it is getting colder and colder?"

He warned the important officials meaningfully: "The cold winter in Bingzhou is approaching, and the war in the north has no result for a day. I dare not say that winter is coming!"

After the Winter Festival ceremony was held in a hurry, the Fifth Reun summoned Wan Xiu, Jing Dan and others to discuss the upcoming decisive battle in Bingzhou - because the communication between the two places was long, maybe the battle had begun.

Lingwu, full of obstacles, Fuping... Listening to the names of the border, the familiarity came to my face. The fifth reunion is twenty-eight today. When I reach middle age, my mentality is naturally different from the powerful when I was eighteen years old. I only sighed to Wan Xiu: "Junyou, it has been ten years since we first fought against the Huns in the New Qinzhong?"

Wan Xiu promised: "Your Majesty was in the northern garrison in the sixth year of Tianfeng (19 AD), which was exactly ten years. If the first invasion of the Huns was the criterion, it was the first year of Dihuang (20 AD), and it has been nine years since then."

Wan Xiu could not forget that year. In the fifth reunion, Ma Yuan and the other three galloped on the frontier, performed the way for heaven, and killed a group of cruel and tyrannical "king troops". He could not forget the fireworks that bloomed from the beacon towers under the mountain. Sixty years after peace between the north and the south, the Huns provoked war again.

Time flies too fast. Speaking of which, Xin Qinzhong is his place to start. He relied on his own efforts and stabbed friendly forces on his back, and obtained the first army, gained a little bit of military power. With Ma Yuan, Wan Xiu was the strongest, and thus established a team that later anti-new forces.

But the fifth reunion is somewhat indebted to his "land of dragon prosperity".

"Ten years ago, the new army attacked Sanshui, but was escaped by Lu Fang. At that time, the general and the prefect only got two fake Lu Fangs in the front line. Nine years ago, Wen Yuan fought in Xin Qinzhong, and although Wen Yuan's relatives and enemies Lu Fang killed all his subordinates, the thief was able to escape into the Huns. He was supported by the Shanyu and became a puppet, causing harm to the frontier for a long time."

As the first enemy of the fifth reunion, Lu Fang was ignored for too long. The fifth reunion was helpless. In his early years, he had to plan to fight against the new great cause. After becoming the king and the emperor, he would have to fight civil war with all the princes. If one was not careful, the clown in the jumping Liang became the "Son of Han", recognized Shanyu as his father, and always wanted to lead the invasion to the south.

Jing Dan, the chief censor, said: "This is helpless. When His Majesty was elected as emperor, he decided to set an end to the plan to stabilize the internal affairs before resolute foreign powers. The method of attacking and seizing, starting from the central government, Your Majesty first destroyed Liu Ziyu, then defeated the Red Eyebrow Army, and obtained the fertile land of Ji, Yu and Yan. From then on, the country was rich. Later, Youzhou was regarded as an internal minister, Qi, Chu Wangfeng was invincible, and only Wu, Shu had not yet settled, and the north was settled, so that he could calmly look back on the Hu. This time, Your Majesty freed up his hands and killed Lu Fang all over Ai!"

"It's just that the two evils are the least." Di Wulun didn't think his strategy was wrong, but it was not as optimistic as Jing Dan and others, because the war once again deviated from his plan.

The original plan was that Geng Bozhao led his troops north and swept the Shuofang in one breath while the main force of the Huns was conquering Hexi and Lu Fang was not under the cover of Lu Fang. He did not seek to regain the counties in Bingzhou, but to destroy it! He hoped to eliminate Lu Fang's regime, burn the city and farmland, and force the local people to move south - because the fifth reunification had done some calculations and found that he had no ability to defend Hetao before the world was unified.

However, things went wrong, and Lu Fang and the Xiongnu were also playing with the truth and reality. Their main force was still in the Shanyuting. After the Wei army rushed to Hexi, they went south to Xinqinzhong!

Now that we are ready, the two sides think of one another, and then the army of both sides gathers in Xin Qinzhong.

Moreover, in the original plan of the fifth reunion, Geng Bozhao recruited troops in June, started in July, and could drink Mashuofang in September. However, the efficiency of Wei State was not high. It took half a month to recruit the Sanhe soldiers in Guanzhong, and it took another period of time to delay the road, and it was not until this month that it was in place.

The Huns were similar. The name of this generation of "Hudu and Sidao Gaoruoyi Shanyu" was very long and had average abilities. He was definitely not a hero, but he happened to catch up with a good time. He was probably still hesitating whether to attack Hexi or Bingzhou? There were many factions within the Huns, who wanted to fight, but not, and even dragged it until the beginning of winter.

From this point of view, the war between the Hungary and Wei really has the meaning of pecking at each other.

This is obvious. This large-scale war is the whole. A small dynasty in the north that is difficult to unite, of course, cannot be compared with the prosperous Han and Wu periods. The Huns, who have been peaceful for several generations and have been guardians for the Han Dynasty for decades, have actually fallen a lot, and it is difficult to immediately regain the glory of their ancestors after reindependence.

Wu Lun had to comfort himself like this: "If you peck at each other, you will be able to peck at each other. Only the winner will be qualified to eat the other party's corpse and continue to become stronger."

The topic goes back to the war itself, and the fifth reunion said: "Now that I have received the exact news, Lu Fang led tens of thousands of Xiongnu cavalry south and would meet the general of the ches and cavalry to move mountains. In Jun You's opinion, how will this battle be fought?"

Wan Xiu looked at the map and pondered for a long time. He was quite familiar with the terrain in Xin Qinzhong and said, "This time, the Huns' main attack, if I am the general, I should defend first and then fight back."

Wan Wen stated his plan: the Huns army came from afar. After leaving Shuofang, it was difficult to find water and plants along the way. Entering the southern foot of Helan Mountain, the local autumn grass was almost dead. The Wei army could play the sturdy walls and clear the fields, and burn down all the food and grass and residences along the way. Anyway, the Huns repeatedly invaded in the past ten years, and the counties north of the Yellow River in the New Qinzhong were almost scorched earth. The Wei army could temporarily abandon the soil and retreat a hundred miles apart, retreat to the riverside, and then fight again.

The Huns' army originally wanted to support the war, but in this way, logistics would be lost, and people, food, horses and materials would become a big problem, which would be enough to exhaust the enemy.

But Di Wulun shook his head and said, "Although it's good, this is your fighting method. This battle was led by Geng Bozhao, the general of the chariot and cavalry, and according to his style..."

The fifth reunion smiled: "There will never be any concessions, nor will it allow the Huns to have a chance to breathe. Instead, they will immediately face it. When they meet on a narrow road, the brave will win!"

...

Since Huhanye Shanyu surrendered to Emperor Xuan of Han, the border town in the middle of the New Qin Dynasty was closed, and the cattle and horses were deployed in the wild, and there were no warnings for dogs barking for three lifetimes, and the common people were killed in the battle. It was not until the first year of Emperor Wangmang that the beacon was ignited again.

But the invasion of the Huns was just a small-scale test. After being hit by the fifth reunion, he retreated. The new dynasty was destroyed. The Huns followed Lu Fang and once seized several counties on the southern foot of the Beiyi Mountain (Helan Mountain), and even crossed the Yellow River to invade Fuping. Thanks to Geng Yan's support from Bingzhou, he barely defended it.

With the completion of the Bingzhou military cavalry and Lu Fang's regime's weakness appeared, the Wei State then inserted the five-color flag back to the southern foot of the mountain.

Lu Fang was always unwilling to accept the land that ruined his brothers. This time he spent a huge price to get the Shanyu to send 40,000 cavalry south. He was determined to win. After all, since ten years ago, this was the largest invasion!

When the Huns and the 70,000 Hu and Han coalition forces were upstream along the Yellow River and struggled to pass through the vast Wulanbutong Desert, the scouts in front also sent rewards.

"What? Geng Yan did not retreat to the Yellow River, but led his troops to the north of Lingwu (now northwest of Helan County, Ningxia) to camp?"

Lu Fang was overjoyed when he heard this. On the way he came, he was worried that the Wei army would be as strong as the last time the Fuping Defense War and lure them into the deep. Although the New Qinzhong was plain on the grassland, the Han Dynasty was engaged in water conservancy here and dug many ditches. It felt a bit like the Jianghuai water network was traversing and was very unfriendly to the cavalry.

But Lingwu County is located at the foot of Helan Mountain, and the ditches are far less dense than the south of the Yellow River. Geng Bozhao led the troops this time, including Guanzhong and Sanhe infantry, and he actually gave up his strengths and put them into consideration. This is a way to die!

Lu Fang was overjoyed and immediately informed the Huns, hoping to speed up the pace and strive to defeat the Wei army in Lingwu, so that he could drive straight into the new Qinzhong in one breath, and kill back to his hometown!

"Ten years ago, I was forced by the fifth relationship and had to flee north. I dare not forget my brother's hatred day and night. The humiliation that day must be retrieved this time!"

...

In the Guanzhong of Wei, 50,000 soldiers from Sanhe arrived in Xinqin last month after a long journey. After a ten-month rest, they moved to the north of Lingwu County. This place was surrounded by towering mountains and the water of the Yellow River, and was surrounded by deserts in the north. The terrain on the other side of the Yellow River was narrower, which was not conducive to the large army's advance. However, just in case, in order to prevent the Huns from breaking directly, Geng Yan had already let the old subordinate of the fifth reunion: the Wei Wei Zang, lead nearly 10,000 people to guard the garrison.

So, as the fifth reunion expected, Geng Yan would never make any concessions. Just waited on the edge of the desert, when the Huns emerged, they had to fight him head-on!

But Geng Yan was confident, but his subordinates did not. The generals and the captains were inevitably talking: "The ancients said that the Huns went up and down the mountain and went out of the streams, and the horses of China were not with each other; the dangerous roads were inclined and storms, and they were not with each other; the Chinese riders were not with each other; the wind and rain were tired, hungry and thirsty, and they were not sleepy, and the Chinese people were not with each other. This was the Huns' skill, so they should not fight with them in the plains. Even if they wanted to fight, they had to use light chariots and rush cavalry like Wei Qing and Huo Qubing."

However, although there are many veterans recruited by the Fifth Reunification War in the Unification of the Northern War, most of them are infantry, and most of them are strong crossbows and long halberds. Even if they have strong armored blades, they cannot play their advantages here. Why not just clear the walls and clear the fields, retreat to the Yellow River and use gullies to fight?

They advised Geng Yan openly and secretly, but Geng Yan had his own theory: "For New Qin, our army and the Huns were both guest soldiers. At this point, the expedition was hard, wounded, tired, and even lazy in the army. The enemy was the same as me. If one side retreated at this time, the soldiers would not understand why, and morale would inevitably fall! Once the three armies seized their spirits and the generals seized their hearts, it would be difficult to fight."

Geng Yan told everyone: "I like to use roundabout strategies, but after the last fierce battle in Huaibei, I realized that a real battle still needs to be consistent with it. Therefore, I use the banner of the right and dignified Chen to meet the enemy here!"

"In this battle, our army can lose troops and the number of troops. This general can use the advantages of armored soldiers and skills to save them, but he cannot lose momentum!"
Chapter completed!