For three days, Lai Dan and his men followed the convoy of high-cars, traveled through mountains and rivers, and moved more than 200 miles northwest of Puchanghai, and arrived near a canyon, and then watched the convoy of these convoys of high-cars enter the canyon with their own eyes.

Then, Lai Dan led his men to climb a nearby hill, climbed up to a high place and looked into the distance, and saw the canyon like clouds and crowded with livestock.

There are countless figures of people who are moving in it.

Just by visual observation, Lai Dan estimated that there were at least thousands of Xiongnu people in this canyon and nearby, with as many as 200,000 to 300,000 livestock. There is no doubt that this is the baggage of the Xiongnu's Weili army!

"The Huns actually put their supplies here?" Lai Dan licked his lips, feeling ecstatic.

Originally, the Han army speculated that the Huns might have put their baggage in a dense forest or mountain gorge area at the foot of the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains.

But I didn't expect that the Huns actually went the other way and put their baggage on the flank of the battlefield, on the south side of the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, directly opposite the Puchanghai!

After thinking about it carefully, Lai Dan suddenly figured it out.

The baggage here means that the Huns did not give up on the attack, and they were still planning and planning a conspiracy.

Moreover, since ancient times, military strategists have been virtual and real, real and real, and the first priority is to confuse and paralyze opponents.

What's more, the one who is in charge of the war in Yuli is Li Ling, the Han cavalry commander at that time!

Li Ling was always bold in using troops and was extremely aggressive. He led only hundreds of cavalry to the hinterland of the Huns, crossed the Huns, and entered the Yuwushui River to investigate.

Now, although it is bold to release the baggage to the flank of the battlefield, it is hidden here and is located in a canyon between the Puchang Sea and the northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains.

The Han army, who came from Luntai, needed to travel across the entire Weili before attacking here, otherwise they would have to go around hundreds of miles, come out of the White Dragon Pile from Loulan, and cross the Puchang Sea to threaten the place.

Moreover, the number of people is too small to shake the defense here.

If there are too many people, it will undoubtedly alarm the enemy and turn the raid into a strong attack.

"Let's go!" Lai Dan quietly retreated from the hidden place of the hill and greeted his subordinates: "Let's go back and report to the general!"

Since this rat nest was discovered by the Han army, there is no room for avoidance!

only……

Lai Dan was a little worried that the Huns might be transferred, so he left a few slim people with jerky and cheese enough for their monthly meals, and then quickly left the place with the rest and returned to the Han army camp.

After two days, Lai Dan and his men caught up with the main force of the Han army who were advancing towards Luntai.

At this time, Li Guangli's troops had arrived at the periphery of Luntai.

In the distance, the once majestic Luntai City and its surrounding water conservancy facilities and land have been destroyed by the Huns.

What you can see is a ruin.

Li Guangli brought his men into the ruins of Luntai, and then he saw a continuous tomb in the middle of the ruins.

The tomb was sealed in the Central Plains style and a monument was erected.

The inscription says: The place where Li Sheng, the commander of Han Luntai, fought to the death, was respected by King Jiankun of the Xiongnu.

Li Guangli walked to the stone tablet and stared at the inscription, with moist eyes. He stretched out his hand to gently stroke the inscription. Finally, he couldn't help but sigh: "Sheng'er, uncle is here to pick you up home!"

Li Sheng, the commander of Luntai, was his nephew and a rising star in the Li family, and he has always been valued by him.

Li Sheng was cautious and brave. He should have enjoyed wealth and prosperity in Chang'an. Like his brothers, he fought cocks and dogs, had a lot of wives and concubines, and lived a drunken life and dreamed of death.

However, when he was eighteen years old, he came to Hexi with money without telling his parents.

Start with a big-headed soldier and accumulate merits step by step to become the commander.

A year ago, I volunteered to guard this round of Taiwan.

pity……

Li Guangli looked at the stone tablet and tomb group in front of him, and sat cross-legged on the ground.

"Uncle has harmed you, Sheng'er!" Li Guangli murmured to himself.

Li Sheng, I will not die.

Luntai will not fall!

If he used the emperor's edict to easily quell the Qianghu at the beginning, then the cavalry of Zhao Xindi, who should have been transferred to Lingju, would quickly rush to Luntai for assistance.

With Zhao Xindi's elite cavalry, the Huns even had to knock off a few teeth even when they approached.

Unfortunately, for military merit, Li Guangli used Ling Ju and Luntai as bait.

Now, the war in Lingju has returned to its origin.

Facts have proved that the emperor's edict of Chang'an was extremely correct.

But this Luntai fell.

There were only less than 3,000 defenders breaking out.

There were at least two thousand people who died in battle, including his nephew Li Sheng and a large number of elite Han troops.

The rest were captured by the Huns.

The fall of Luntai was the biggest failure that the Han army encountered after Zhao Ponu defeated the Xionghe River.

Li Guangli stared at the tomb in front of him, then stood up and looked at the city that had become rubble and buried in the ruins.

He pulled out his sword from his waist and swore, "For tooth to teeth, for blood to blood! Sheng'er, don't worry, your grudge, my uncle will repay you!"

This is not only for Li Sheng, but also for himself!

This battle is related to his success or failure in this life.

At this time, Li Duo brought people to Li Guangli and reported: "General, Captain Lai is back!"

"Hmm?" Li Guangli said immediately: "Come on!"

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Li Ling looked at the Ou Tuo Commander in front of him and frowned tightly.

"Li Guangli can really bear it!" He sighed softly: "I'm that way, he still has a speed of less than forty miles a day, which is enough!"

For him, the current group advancement of the main force of the Han army is almost an unsolvable bug!

Because the main force of the Huns, even if the army of the Servant Kingdom was included, was almost as powerful as the Han army that was advancing.

But the quality of the two is simply incomparable!

Among the main forces of the Han army, there are at least 40,000 elite cavalry who can conduct field battles!

Among other infantrymen, at least 10,000 or 20,000 can be fought.

On the other hand, in the Huns, the total number of cavalry in other units was less than 50,000, as well as the main force of the Duke Duwei, and the main force of the Rizhu King.

But this is just paper data. In fact, the Hun army and the Han army are two concepts.

In the past, the Huns had no concept of standing army at all.

Their tradition is to be nomadic, gather in the army whenever there is something to do, and participate in the war under the leadership of the leaders of various tribes and nobles.

That is, after the decisive battle in Mobei, Yin Zhixie Shanyu learned from his mistakes and, with the assistance of Zhao Xin, began the construction of the victorious army of the Huns.

But the Huns are poor!

It is impossible to maintain a large-scale victory.

Even though the wise men feared that they occupied the rich Western Regions, there were countless servant kingdoms available for human and material resources.

He only raised five thousand servants and cavalrymen and less than twenty thousand cavalrymen in the headquarters.

The rest were all inadequate training, even the weapons were simple bronze slals, and even people holding stone tools and wooden sticks.

Such an army is vulnerable to the Han people.

Even those elite victorious soldiers have a considerable gap in their equipment from the Han army.

Not to mention the other side, the Han army has long been an iron-armored army, and its elite Xuanjia Army even uses fine iron and even steel as weapons.

All of them are equipped with strong bows and hard crossbows, and those who ride tall horses.

In contrast, the Huns had few iron weapons, and most people still used bronze weapons.

As for fine iron, steel swords and armor, only nobles and noble warriors are qualified to use.

It was this time when Luntai was captured, relying on the captured Han army armor and weapons, the wise men turned one of the ten thousand cavalry in their headquarters into the so-called "Xuanjia Army".

It is said to be the Xuanjia Army, but it is actually just a full iron cavalry.

Moreover, iron will rust.

Without supplementation, this cavalry will degenerate in less than a few years.

This is also the trouble of the Huns.

The desert is bitter and cold, with a lot of wind, sand, rain and snow. The Han army armor and equipment they seized and smuggled were rusting faster than imagined.

Even if there are many people like Li Ling who teach them how to maintain armor and equipment.

But the problem is that the Huns didn't have that much oil to do this.

They can only choose to maintain those more precious things.

For example, the captured big yellow crossbow parts, crossbow car parts, swords, swords, and black armor.
To be continued...