Chapter 212: Beginning of the Northern Expedition

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On April 12, the army went north.
After Kou Qianzhi's calculations, he said that the day was a lucky day. He was a Taoist priest and had a lot of astrological signs.
So, for a time, the mighty Black Mountain Camp suddenly seemed like a awakened dragon, and there were non-stop troops marching from the hinterland, meandering towards the north.
Perhaps the days that Kou Qianzhi said are really good days. The rainy spring should be sunny, but the sun hardens the soil, but the turf provides the best protection for the horse's hoof, so that the soft and hard ground Suitable for the army to pull, even when the wheels fall into the ground.
Before departure, General He Mulan and others were summoned to the camp of Stuart Chief Han Han and told what they would do next.
It is nothing more than to break through the camp of Rouran people, plunder their cattle and sheep, and kill their young and leader until they reach the soft court.
Somehow, He Mulan frowned slightly when he heard such an order.
But she knew this was the era, so she just frowned, and didn't express any other opinions.
Just as He Mulan had scored dozens of slaves, many enemy generals and soldiers were captured in the camp in Montenegro. Through interrogation and various methods, the Northern Wei Dynasty investigated the pastures grazed by all herders in Rouran, and even knew which tribes often camped where.
Numerous scouts have found out where there are water sources along the way before the Northern Expedition. The maps sent by Di Yefei also helped a lot.
This war, for Rouran, has no hope of victory.
No matter whether it is the right time, the right place, or the peace, they all have nothing.
He Mulan and others are responsible for the route on the western line. Rouran, like the Huns, takes the place where the sun rises to the left, as if it is a person facing away. Therefore, most of the people living on the western line are ordinary herders and other Hu. To the east, there are the descendants of King Rouran Khan and other big tribe masters.
The process of marching was very boring. Most of the Northern Wei Dynasty were cavalry and cavalry. Most of the infantry was used for siege. In the northern expedition, cavalry accounted for the vast majority, which determined that a group of people spent most of their horseback Up.
Want to pee? Dismount to find a place farther away.
Think uh-huh, take the horse to a farther place and finish the horseback to catch up.
It stands to reason that He Mulan is now the leader of the Tiger Army, but in this regard, it is no different from other soldiers.
I don't know if there is a general who has been solved when it is convenient. If it is really so dead, it will be too aggrieved.
He Mulan tried to drink less water and eat less. Their trips in the previous days were very slow, because they had to occupy water sources in Rouran and set up camps. After having a base camp, they could use their cavalry to loot around.
Otherwise, things are grabbed, but there is no water to drink and cook. In this vast grassland, hungry may be hungry, and thirst may not be impossible.
The first night, they stopped at an unknown source of water and camped. Because of traveling with heavy weight, the first day was not very fast, and has not yet entered the territory of Rouran.
The left and right forces of the Montenegrin camp couldn't wait to fight with the creeps. At this turtle speed, they couldn't help but be a little impatient, relying on the comfort of the future.
This was He Mulan's first march with tens of thousands of people. Hundreds and thousands of bonfires formed a swaying strip of light along the small river where they came from, because the tents that were set up along the water source looked like two rivers.
The camps of all the generals were set up in higher places, which were said to be higher, but in fact they were not much higher. He Mulan's peanuts and other soldiers were cooking water, setting fires and burying pots. When marching, even generals, there was nothing special about them, and most of them were made by them.
That night, Chang Sunhan summoned them to the military tent, pointed at several maps and said, "We have reached the destination we are going to in two days. There are two ways to go now. The first is to occupy this water source. It ’s time to split the road and break through several big tribes nearby ...

Chang Sunhan ordered several tribes near a water source.
"This takes more time, but it is more secure."
"The other one is to walk slowly behind, the cavalry first, break through these five tribes, and then bring the population and trophies here, and set up the camp."
Chang Sunhan ordered the water source again.
The general of the left army's town general broke through the map, pondered for a while, and said, "Master Situ, this water source is too big. If you want to occupy it, it won't be taken for a while. If you give it to the worms, The news scattered and fled, delaying the fighter instead. "
"Furthermore, worms are more familiar with us here. If we find our whereabouts first and poison the water, we are even more dangerous. Although we say that there is some risk in the rear, we are cavalry, longer than attack, after a day or two. Time, there is no pressure on supplies. "
Yuan Po holds a fist.
"The end will think that you should break through the tribe before setting up camp!"
"What about the rest of you?"
Situ Han would lead the two left and right armies because General Xia Hong of the right army was his general and Yuan Poyang was the younger man he took care of in Pingcheng.
Yuan Pozhen and Situ Han had a good personal relationship, and naturally dare to put forward other opinions. Xia Hong thought that no matter which one was the same, but after thinking about it, he finally said:
"It's nothing more than a quick word, and the second one will also be chosen."
The battle policy was determined, and the rest was the question of how to divide the troops. When the scouts returned the news, the attack was.
"Don't leave in a hurry after breaking through the creepy camp. This is the season for grazing. Wait until the evening when your own herders return. At this time, you will be waiting for the rabbits to catch many herdsmen and cattle and sheep.
Long Sun Han knows the creeps well.
"If someone runs, there is no need to catch up. The water source all the way to Wang Ting will be guarded by our people. As long as these nomads do not want to die of thirst, they will eventually surrender to us."
"General Xia, what do we do if we surrender to us? Are you and waiting for the people behind to pick them up?" He Mulan couldn't help but said, "There are old and weak women ..."
Long Sun Han took a look at her unexpectedly, and when he found out that this young man, his eyes showed a clear expression: "My Da Weijungong is calculated at the first level, but this time the worm is broken, aimed at breaking its roots and weakening its national strength. Therefore, Your Majesty gave an order. If there are young men and women, try their best to flee the domestic service. Those old, weak women and children, if you want to gain military service, as long as you don't do too much, no one should say ... "
"The end is not about military merit ..." He Mulan froze, knowing that Long Sun Han had misunderstood, but he seemed to have no intention of saying more, He Mulan was not good at holding him to explain, and shut up.
With the goal, after the generals returned, they called in the deputy generals and the generals to convey the orders of the west coach; the vice generals and the generals would convene Bi and the centurion to continue to communicate.
This passed down from level to level. Everyone knew that there might be a battle three days later, and everyone was fighting, and they just wanted to fly.
On the other hand, the scouts carefully cultivated by the Montenegro camp are hiding in the grass, behind the stones, and some do not even need to avoid it. As long as they are sitting there wearing old and tattered clothes like creeps, they can spy on them without danger. Message.
The creeps never thought that the Wei people would come over, even if the Wei people were a country established by the Xianbei people, and the Xianbei people were also the nation on the grassland.
But Xianbei people have left the grassland for too long. They built their houses with solid stones and wooden blocks to live in the stones and woods. They learned the words and etiquette of the southerners and gradually abandoned the pedigree of the prairie and became "more Civilized "people.
From the perspective of creepers, Rouran didn't let Dawei at all.
Cattle and sheep? They also have cattle and sheep.
land? Nothing can grow on this land except grass.
dignity? It is their softness that is being beaten one after another.
Just as a poor beggar didn't worry about a rich man patronizing his broken house, the worms grazed and played peacefully without any premonition of danger coming.
A scout sits behind a scooter and wears a leather hat that can hide his face, counting how many tents the worms set up with animal skin and sheep felt.
He had to figure out how many people were in this camp and how many strong men could fight.
The scout saw men cutting the tips of arrows and wooden spears near carts and tents, a crude weapon that could often be seen in the hands of squirrels who traveled south in the winter.
‘It ’s used for hunting now, and in the winter, it ’s time to hit our brothers. ’Scouts thought,‘ Wormies shoot more arrows, but then again, they ca n’t find much wood. Really want to fight, so also surrender ... ’
The scene in front of him was not all that. He also saw the dancing girl, heard the baby crying, and the woman scolded the child and chased the figure running by.
Not far away, the lambs and calves strolled freely, the herds searched for green grass, and the scent of lamb overflowed from the campfire, and the scouting scents seemed to thunder.
‘I ca n’t look at it like this anymore. ’The scout said to himself that he felt his heart softened in such a scent, making his fighting spirit no longer firm.
‘It ’s almost inquiring anyway. Hurry up. ’
He pretended to be troublesome and ran away.
"Well, Mom, why didn't that Aber come to eat sheep together?" A girl was helping her mother to roast sheep. Someone ran away after seeing the car and blinked strangely.
The woman stretched her neck and looked down, seeing that the man ran out holding her stomach, and nodded her head with a smile: "I haven't watched my stomach? The more I smell the incense, the more sad my stomach is."
Before leaving the tribe, the scolding scout turned back.
The little boy in a fur coat ran around on a horse, apparently just learning to ride a horse, and a few adults beside him joked at him, making him even more breathless.
"Let's run a bit farther, it's better not to come back ..."
The scout jumped on his horse and lowered his head to hold on.
Because here will soon be razed.

In the battle between Heishan Camp and the south, He Mulan only felt the two words-"difficult".
They are like hyenas that follow their prey. They are not powerful or fierce. They will disperse in a dozen, but they will also kill you when they attack.
They will abandon their companions without fear, just to be able to escape. They will also throw out other affiliated tribes-Gaoche, Xianbei, Turkic or other races-as cannon fodder, hiding behind these people to shoot arrows or escape.
He Mulan hates this race because they let her see too much blood and tears, because they have no dignity and honor as warriors.
But she just hates it and doesn't hate it. Because in this era, the development of each nation is often the blood and tears of another nation. She cannot change the general trend or the heart. The creepy destruction is inevitable. What she can do is worthy of being in the process. heart.
He Mulan's Tiger Riders set off after scouts detailedly returned intelligence from the tribe in this area. The information came to He Mulan in detail and even guessed, thinking that the detective's scout might have been disguised as a worm and walked in and swayed the information gathered.
The scouts of the Montenegro camp are boldly fatal, and it is not surprising that the metropolis has some whispering words that can do such a thing.
They did not raise the flag or play the flute. Although they were not called strange soldiers, they did not have a big fanfare. In the silence, there was only the ready to condense the air, and the sound of the collision of the armor on the soldiers.
Behind them, the army's miscellaneous soldiers and soldiers watch over their substitute horses. Each batch of horses is just replaced, and they have enough horsepower to start the charge at any time.
There are eagles flying in the sky, overlooking the people and horses below. He Mulan heard that many tribes of Donghu would raise falcons. He Mulan did not know whether they were raised by worms, but at this time she could not care whether to shoot these eagles.
The tribe they want to attack is less than a thousand people.
She took three thousand fine rides.
No matter how you fight, you will win, and with a creepy temperament, I ’m afraid they have already cried and surrendered before they started to fight?
Surrender early.
It's better for her to have a kill in the name.
Tiger Rider quickly arrived at the spot scouted. As he said, herders went out to graze in the morning and only returned in the evening. It was best to launch an attack at night.
This is indeed the case. When He Mulan led his subordinates through this camp, many people still did not understand what happened.
Many Wei people and worms look alike. They are all Donghu tribes, migrating around, and people of all looks after mixed blood, so when He Mulan rushed into their tribe with a tiger hoe, these worms People thought they had arrived.
An old man rushed out of the camp, cursed at them, and was shot dead by an impatient soldier. There were sounds of children and women crying everywhere, and the tiger riders deserved their names, just like the tigers going down the mountain, panic everywhere.
Without He Mulan's imaginary crying for mercy, those who could take up weapons or other tools to resist all resisted, and the woman drove her cattle and sheep to resist the cavalry.
But how can cattle and sheep resist war horses and Chang Ge? After a while, blood flowed.
"What are they shouting?" He Mulan had no intention of participating in such a slaughter, but she was the coach and could not order to stop the attack.
Creepy people even shoot arrows at their children. Even rabbits can bite people when they are anxious.
But she was still curious as the worms shouted for resistance.
He Mulan went north and brought out peanuts. She didn't understand anything at all, and she brought peanuts for an interpreter at a critical time.
Peanuts had a complex face and whispered to He Mulan: "They ... they said that before the winter war, the cattle and sheep of last year had also been handed over ... They seemed to think of us as the tribe owners."
He Mulan froze for a moment, never thinking they were calling this.
At this point, the camp had been broken. He Mulan had ordered before that, those who were not allowed to kill at will and resisted were all captives, a population of Dawei, and booty.
But when you really kill your eyes, there are also accidental killings.
A tiger owl rides on a longitudinal horse and is about to step on a child's body, but is suddenly skimmed by a horse that rushes on the side, and deviates a few steps in the other direction.
The man was about to yell at each other for not having long eyes, but suddenly saw He Mulan sitting on the horse and shut up in shock.
"We are soldiers, not beasts." He Mulan said ugly. "Ready to withdraw troops, tie up these captives and leave them to the people behind, leaving two hundred cavalry ready to meet the returning shepherd, and others will join me to attack other tribes."
"General, we haven't cleaned the battlefield ..."
"When you are done cleaning, this tribe is all gone!" He Mulan ordered the horns to be blown, and ordered two centurions to stay in the camp, and continued to move eastward with the tigers.
There are about seven or eight clans in this area. She must pick all the camps before sunset and then return to the camping place by night.
If during the day, so many people run in one direction, their whereabouts will soon be exposed.
The second, third, and fourth tribes were razed to the ground by He Mulan's men.
Everyone doesn't know why their coaches left the camp as soon as they were in a hurry, but because He Mulan ’s name of
smart general
was too obvious, even if they were confused or even dissatisfied, There is no time to collect loot, but the Lord who followed them will continue to go east.
Only He Mulan knew that she was not in a hurry, but was afraid that countless women and children looked at her with despair and hatred after the fighting.
Why are there people who are full of pleasure in this look? It should not be a pleasure to be hated at any time.
When the scout detected the last camp, it might be that the Wei people made too much movement, or that some individual who had escaped earlier had passed on to pass the message, and what remained was only an empty camp.
The cattle and sheep are still grazing, and the cattle and sheep at night are still roasting on the fire, cooking some broth, but there is no smoke in the entire tribe.
It is very easy for young people to run across a horse, but it is so difficult for a tribe to escape all because they have elderly people, children, pregnant women, and patients who are not tall people. Just run and run, if even the old, weak women and children run along, being caught back is an instant thing.
It's getting late at this time, although some of He Mulan's departments will have some regrets, but today's record is enough to satisfy them, so Luo Hun unfortunately looked at the camp and said to He Mulan:
"People here should have heard the news early and left. Are we going to meet with other generals now?"
In each tribe, they kept men and women taking inventory of loot, and the handymen did not dare to buckle. Those young men, women, old people and children would be driven back to Wei, but most of the time, only the strongest people could reach Dawei alive.
If it was another general, probably the command department would search again when I saw the smoke here, but He Mulan ran all the way from noon to the evening, she was already exhausted physically and mentally, she was not a person with any ambitions to fight. So he said in his words:
"Stay ..."
Just then, there was a weeping cry and no idea where it came from. Although it is not very obvious, in the empty camp, the baby's cry suddenly appeared, which is naturally very obvious.
"I ... am I hearing it wrong?"
"I seem to have heard it. Are there any children crying?"
"Why does it seem to come from underground?"
"Strange, does Creep also have a cellar?"
Before He Mulan ordered it, there were many experienced scouts who took the Tiger Rider and started searching along the tent.
Worm people are often oppressed by large tribes and endlessly fight internally. It is not surprising if there is any hiding place.
He Mulan wiped her face tiredly, and really didn't want to see any more.
She even wanted to cry when she didn't hear it.
But the scouts and the gong cao's eyes were clear. These people were not her men, and she could not order them not to search.
A short while later, a pothole hidden in a remote corner of the tribe was discovered. Perhaps it is because the Rouran people's looting of the population has become commonplace. In this way, many clans have been prepared to hide in the beginning, but He Mulan's cavalry came too fast. Other clans did not have time to hide people. Far away there is a lot hidden.
The pit was covered with felt and piled with fresh pasture. It looked like a common place to pile feed, but it was found.
Many elderly people and women were taken out from it. It seemed that the children and young people had been taken away. What shocked He Mulan most was that the cry was really made by a baby!
A pregnant woman gave birth at this time!
In the pool of blood, the pregnant woman stared at the bottom of the pit with big eyes, and the blood under her went deep into the soil, staining the soil with brown-red.
She is not dead, but she is not far away.
Beside her, there was a little baby with a dark body all over, and the little girl was exposed outside, telling everyone that he was a boy.
He had just arrived in the world and made his first cry. The wait was not the joyous laughter that welcomed the birth of the male but the deadly hand covering his nose and nose.
Everyone, including those who worked and scouts, were at a loss looking at the bottom of the pit. Such a scene is more depressing than killing enemies in the battlefield and seeing corpses running across the field.
As the first pit was discovered, several more tunnels were turned over. Almost all the climbed out were elderly people and people with disabilities. Anyone who could ride a horse had already left.
"General, what do you do?"
Murderer rubbed his hands, and there was unexplainable dullness in his heart.
"these people……"
He Mulan is still standing, and she hasn't changed her posture since the child was seen by her.
Breathing suddenly and abruptly, her chest rose and fell. Her eyes stared at the pothole in front of her, as if trying to study why such a thing appeared in a flat land.
She slowly walked over, squatting down and touching the baby's face and neck.
Soft and smooth touch, it seems that the child is still alive, but he has no pulse and has no physiological characteristics. Probably because the hands are too heavy, or the scouts are searching too slowly, even if the child is doing CPR, he can no longer live.
He was very strong, with turbidity such as amniotic fluid on his face and head, and his umbilical cord was even on his navel.
He Mulan has seen many corpses of babies in the past. There are always irresponsible parents who dump their babies in the wilderness or other places where they cannot survive.
Whenever this time, He Mulan and his colleagues would yell and scold, treat these little creatures carefully, send him or her away, and pray for their peace and joy in the next life.
But she never thought that she would indirectly cause the death of a child.
Creeper may be guilty, but what is wrong with the newborn child?
"Peanut, help me tell them ..."
He Mulan stood up slowly, gritted her teeth and said, "We are Wei's soldiers and horses. We will not surrender without killing. We are also humans. We don't kill casually or eat people ..."
Peanut seemed to wake up suddenly, stuttered a few times, and finally shouted He Mulan's words in soft words.
He Mulan ordered people to fill the pothole, bury the baby and pregnant woman, and let their mother and son be buried in one place without further harassment.
She couldn't do anything, she could only do that.
As the general and military officers who arrived later dealt with the "trophy", these old men were with ropes and, together with cattle and sheep, were driven to the place where the Western Army gathered the "trophy".
If you meet other generals, these useless old people and people with disabilities will probably be killed as military merit, and because of the one at the bottom of the pit, He Mulan ordered these people to be taken away, and no one will What objections are raised.
These creepy people thought that they were waiting for their enemy's butcher knives, but they did not expect that the other party did not even kill the old, weak, sick, and wailed, one by one, and couldn't help hoeing to He Mulan.
An old man was crying. He was very sad. He cried for a long time, with tears and no pain. He was weaker than a woman and flustered than a child.
Why did he cry, and how long did he cry like that? What did he do after crying, can these old, weak and sick go to the big account and really survive?
No one knows.
Just as the Northern Expedition began, He Mulan had already risen to understand Jia Guitian's heart.
"Mulan, compared to the‘ aggressor ’...

He Mulan smiled bitterly.
The silky touch seemed to be still at her fingertips.
"... I like‘ defenders ’better.