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

An unknown number of Han troops appeared north of Jinyang.

This news shocked Bi Gui like a thunderbolt.

"Shu captives... how could 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 was usually gentle and elegant.

Although he is past middle age now, he still gives people a sense of grace and grace.

But at this time, his magnanimity was completely gone.

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

But I saw him falling to the ground, his face pale, his eyes dull, and he was muttering and repeating:

"Why are the Shu captives there?"

Just a few days ago, news came from Guanzhong that two of the three armies of Shu captives had retreated.

Especially Feng Thief, he should be at Yinshan Mountain right now, fighting with Ke Bineng!

Why are there still a group of Shu captives emerging from Yanmen?

Did they fall from the sky?

"Envoy!" When Li Xi saw Bi Gui's appearance, he immediately wanted to slap him twice to wake him up:

"The urgent question now is not where the Shu captives will come from, but how to defend Jinyang! You are responsible for the safety of a state, but you act like a woman when things happen. Isn't it true that you are unworthy of your majesty's trust?"

Bi Gui regained some of his consciousness after Li Xi drank him like this. He rolled his eyes like a dead fish twice and said tremblingly:

"Yes, yes! The most urgent thing now is to find a way to defend Jinyang..."

Just thinking that there were only a few hundred county soldiers in Jinyang now, he suddenly felt weak all over again, as if he had fallen 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's lapel, pulled him up, and said urgently:

"Your Majesty, you should immediately send people out of the city to catch up with the five thousand soldiers and have them turn back immediately. This way, there will be at least one defender in the city."

"If the Shu captives want to go south to Jinyang, they must pass through Jiuyuan County. The Huns in Jiuyuan County can be ordered to 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, the remaining three tribes, the left, right and middle tribes, are all in the counties south of Jinyang."

"The envoy can send people to various counties to summon them. Even if it is an emergency, at least ten thousand people can be gathered at the foot of Jinyang City to ward off the Shu captives."

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

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

On the left is Zishi County in Xihe County (later south of Fenyang), which is also close to the border of Taiyuan County.

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

The commanders of the five Xiongnu tribes are all named Liu, and there is also a Han army Sima Jianzhi in the tribe.

This was done, firstly, to dismember the Xiongnu so that they could no longer cause trouble and annex the state, Hedong and other places.

The second is to use the Huns to protect Bingzhou and prevent the Xianbei Hu from the north from going south.

Although this time, the people coming from the north were not Xianbei people but Shu captives, but the method of dealing with them was the same as before.

It’s just that plans are not as fast as changes after all.

The Shu captives came too quickly. Yanmen blocked the front leg before sending the military information over, but the Shu captives on the back leg were already not far from Jiuyuan County.

More importantly, most of the soldiers originally stationed in Jinyang were transferred away from the beginning of the Guanzhong War, and now only 5,000 remain.

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

But fortunately, each Xiongnu army has military commanders and horses assigned by the imperial court, and I believe they will be able to recruit many of them.

The current plan 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, everything can still be saved.

"That's right! Send the order, send the order!"

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

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

Li Xi couldn't help it anymore and sprayed his saliva directly on Bi Gui's face:

"Your Majesty! I want you to send someone out of the city immediately to deliver the order!"

I’m not asking you to learn how to speak like me!

I am your mother!

He was almost driven crazy by this extremely incompetent guy.

On weekdays, few people can talk about classics as well as him. They also say that he is a talented person, but I didn't expect to meet him like this.

Li Xi felt extremely regretful at this time.

When the imperial court recruited him many times, he didn't agree to become an official, so he blindly agreed to this guy and took up the post of Bingzhou Biejia.

"Yes, yes, come, come! Give me my order..."

Bi Gui of Jinyang was panic-stricken, and the Northern Commander of the Xiongnu who was already approaching the city was even more unprepared.

The day before, many Xianbei Hunan escaped and were intercepted by me. They were still thinking happily that they had hundreds more Xianbei slaves on their hands.

Who would have expected that today we would receive a report that a large army holding high the banner of the Han family was approaching Jiuyuan County.

Only then did the Northern Commander realize that these Xianbei slaves were simply being driven south.

Although the commanders of the five Xiongnu tribes all have the surname Liu, there are some differences between the northern Xiongnu and the left, right, middle and south tribes in Taiyuan County.

The main tribe in the northern Xiongnu is the Xiutu tribe. They are not the southern Xiongnu, but the Xiutu tribe belonging to the northern Xiongnu.

The reason why the surname was changed to Liu was because during the Pre-Han Dynasty, Maodun Shanyu was considered the brother of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, so after adding it, he considered himself to have the same surname as the Emperor of the Han Dynasty.

The remaining four tribes are all Southern Xiongnu.

Since the Xiongnu split for the first time, Huhanxie Chanyu first went to the Han territory to ask for surrender, and then asked himself to be his son-in-law. Only then did Wang Zhaojun come out of the fortress.

It is precisely because of this origin that when the Southern Xiongnu arrived in the Later Han Dynasty, most of them claimed to be the son-in-law of the Han family, and often took Liu as the Han family's surname.

Some of the more radical ones, like King Youxian of the Southern Xiongnu, even claimed to be descendants of Emperor Guangwu after being the general who conquered the Liao Dynasty during the Later Han Dynasty.

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

It can be seen from this that the watchdogs raised in the Han Dynasty for two to three hundred years were still very effective.

But while rescuing the Han emperor, the Huns saw with their own eyes that the prestige of the Han emperor was trampled on at will.

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

Therefore, it is not without reason that Cao Cao placed the Southern Xiongnu to the south of Jinyang, but placed the Tu Xiu tribe to the north.

Obviously, no matter how unrighteous the Hu people are, the marks left by the Han on the Southern Xiongnu who were tamed by the Han Dynasty for more than two hundred years cannot disappear so easily.

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 Han and then forced to move inland, did not have so many complicated feelings towards the Han emperor.

Moreover, due to the historical division of the northern and southern Xiongnu, the Xiutu tribe who came from the northern Xiongnu would not be so close to the southern Xiongnu tribes.

These historical reasons were enough to make it easier for the Xiutu tribe to choose to obey Cao Wei.

So when the northern commander 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 the thieves came in a lot and very quickly.

From the time the enemy was discovered to the time the thieves arrived at Jiuyuan, it only took less than half a day.

As the rolling cavalry continued to approach Jiuyuan County, the Northern Huns commander suddenly discovered that they were facing an embarrassing situation.

Although they still retained their herding habits, they also had to learn to farm.

To put it nicely, it means half-farming and half-grazing; to put it worse, it means being neither a man nor a fool.

Although there is Jiuyuan County, he cannot defend the city...

After all, where in the world are there any barbarians who are good at defending cities?

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

city?

What it is?

Wouldn’t it smell good when used to pen cattle and sheep?

But how many people can control the strings of the Xiongnu who farmed the land?

General Guan's lips curled up slightly when he saw that the two or three thousand cavalry troops that the Huns had improvised at the foot of Jiuyuan City were inferior to those of Xianbei Hu.

The reason why it is necessary to keep going all the way is to achieve this effect so that the opponent does not have enough time to prepare.

Either they abandon the city and flee to the south, or they improvise their forces to fight.
To be continued...