According to the climate characteristics of the northern border, Zhang Xiaowu analyzed that the northern border was supposed to have entered a rare rainy season. Over the years, the water of the Jialan River has been rising briefly at this time. But this year is different. The snow volume has decreased significantly since last winter. It has not rained for a month when it was in the spring. Everyone can see that this is a severe drought year. The drought in the northern border often means that they must continue to survive through war and plundering others. Even if the Marines migrated from the black forest, this law is inevitable, which is why the Sardinians are so afraid of the Marines going south.

At this time, due to the drought, the water level in many places of Jialan River is shallow, and even some places can wading across the north bank by riding horses, providing convenience for their wandering.

Zhang Xiaowu immediately sent people to survey the water depth and mark it. At the same time, he led the cavalry south and plundered and massacred a large number of people who moved here to fight for war and consume the war mobilization ability of the Marines. After they snatched the horses, they also exiled a large number of uneaten cattle and sheep on the grassland and let them fend for themselves. As for whether these cattle and sheep were fed to the grass wolf in the end, he ignored them.

Finally, Nie Feng couldn't help but persuade: "Xia Zhang, is it inhumane for us to do this?"

Zhang Xiaowu looked far away and looked to the north: "Inhumanity? Some are a bit. But the inhumanity to the enemy is for the longevity of the holy man. This world has two sides, one is a person in the sun and the other is a ghost in the dark."

Nie Feng couldn't understand and said, "But even killing children is unethical."

Zhang Xiaowu held Ma Zhuang and sighed: "Xia Nie, you can't understand my slaughtering practices, and questioned the relationship between the massacre of old men, women and children and the recovery of the five cities in Saibei. But this and the other. At first I didn't expect that it would be so difficult to recover the five cities in Saibei. If I were just enemies of Sardin, I would have countless ways to drive them away. However, the speed of the rise of Martin was beyond our expectations, and it also forced our plan to change, and it would be even more difficult to recover the five cities in Saibei."

The generals also smiled bitterly. The Martials conquered the Beiyi people in just one year, and indeed slapped the Holy Han in the face. You must know that in order to force the Beiyi Khan Kingdom, the Holy Han Empire almost exhausted one-third of its national strength, which eventually led to the Xuanwu Legion being defeated by the Birch River, and the Martials actually conquered them.

Zhang Xiaowu said bitterly: "The only one who supports our dreams now is our two thousand rebels. At first, our enemy was only three thousand Sardinian troops, but now we may face more than 200,000 northern coalition forces such as Marine. Our choices and ways of doing things will inevitably change. Cruelty is no longer allowed to be considered."

Nie Feng stopped talking. Although he did not agree with Zhang Xiaowu's method, he supported his choice.

After the robbery, the Han cavalry almost arrived at Tucheng after one person and two horses or three horses.

Looking at the Tucheng from afar, Zhang Xiaowu was filled with emotion. He started his journey from Tucheng and finally returned here more than ten years later. Tucheng and Mucheng did not change much. The Mucheng people did not have architectural talents or styles. They quickly adapted to Tucheng's houses and even imitated the Han architecture. There were dirt houses and courtyards everywhere outside Tucheng, and there was no city protection. As the location of the royal court of the Mucheng, the Mucheng people blindly believed that no one would attack this place, so there were only more than 2,000 troops garrisoned here.

Zhang Xiaowu did not know that Tucheng became the royal court of the Marines. He always thought that anyone who seized the Crow Gold Granary would set up the capital in Jincheng, and all he had to do was to alert the snake. So he ordered an attack on Tucheng and set fire to the grasslands and tents around Tucheng.

The sentries of the Martialis first mistakenly thought that these cavalry wearing herdsmen's clothes were their own people. Since the Martialis conquered the north, tribes from all over the country have been constantly surrendered to the Martialis and rushed to the royal court to accept the canonization. Therefore, the Martialis in Tucheng were caught off guard and the buildings outside the city wall were burned to death.

At this time, the person who guarded Tucheng and was in charge of the royal court was the queen Qingmiaoer, the wife of Marine Khan Ayegu Langtai. She was the sister of Marine General Asongtai. She was forty-four years old this year. She was shocked but not panicked to command the Tucheng defenders. Qingmiaoer had courage and wisdom that men could not match. After Langtai inherited his brother's position as Khan, Qingmiaoer helped him unify the north. Qingmiaoer's contribution was not inferior to that of Langtai's generals. Langtai said that if it were not for Qingmiaoer being a Marine woman, I was afraid that everyone would become his subordinates.

In order to prevent spies from entering the city, Queen Qingmiaoer closed all the city gates and urgently indicated that the people would expand their troops. In two days, Tucheng defenders increased from 2,000 to 8,000, and the morale of the defenders was greatly boosted. Qingmiaoer then ordered her nephew Doerhu to lead one thousand cavalry and one thousand herders to attack from the north gate, bypassing Tucheng and surrounding the group of "bandits" who came from unknown places from behind.

After Zhang Xiaowu burned and massacred the outer periphery of Tucheng, he immediately evacuated with his cavalry. When Doerhu led his army to arrive, he only saw the enemy's tail. Doerhu was so angry that he ordered to chase him, but was soon persuaded. Then the Marine cavalry saw that the enemy in the distance actually stopped and provoked them.

Doerhu was furious and led his army to pursue him. However, although their war horses were excellent, they could never catch up with the "bandits" with one man and three horses.

Zhang Xiaowu was also waiting for the pursuit of Marceli and was exhausted when he was exhausted. Most of them were resting. A small number of them provoked the pursuers who were riding and shooting and harassing the Door Tigers, causing the Door Tigers to be exhausted.

Zhang Xiaowu's move was due to the fact that he saw a special campus group match when he was young. A sports student who practiced long-distance running and a campus gangster competed for his girlfriend. The gangster gathered a large group of people to surround the long-distance running students. As a result, the long-distance running students took advantage of their advantages and ran five or six meters in front of the group of gangsters. The gangsters couldn't catch up, and they were unwilling to chase them. As a result, they were all so tired that they were half tired. The long-distance running student then carried bricks back and drove all the gangsters one by one, picking up more than a dozen people, which was famous throughout the school. Now he also used this kind of fatigue tactic to torture Doerhu, not asking for shooting and killing many people, but asking for torture them.

When Doerhu realized something was wrong, it was already dark. They immediately ordered their subordinates to form a group of guards and wait for rescue. Doerhu believed that the enemy would attack at night and asked the soldiers not to unload their armor and prepare for battle at any time. Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, the "brethren" only shot rockets with tinder oil at the horse's herd, which caused the horse's herd to be frightened. Doerhu's men were dispersed by the frightened horse's herd. He himself fled with more than 20 confidants, and most of the others fled in scattered and were intercepted by the "brethren".

By dawn, when Barhu gathered his troops again, there were only more than 500 men left under his command, most of whom lost their war horses. At this time, the offensive and defensive sides exchanged identities, Zhang Xiaowu led his army to pursue, and Barhu and others fled desperately. However, the cautious Zhang Xiaowu only ordered his subordinates to shoot the enemy, and did not allow melee combat and strong attacks.

In the end, Barhu fled back to Tucheng with only more than 100 elite troops, but was ordered to be executed by Qingmiaoer for losing two thousand troops.

The victorious Zhang Xiaowu was not proud. His opponent was an inexperienced young general. Beating a child was considered bullying. But he felt that the pursuers of the real enemy were coming soon, so he ordered the entire army to retreat and choose a brief discussion on crossing the river. After crossing the Jialan River, they continued to march northward and began to march towards the Swallow City, the royal court of the Tatha people.

Shortly after they left, the reinforcements of Marinha really arrived.

General Ahaili, the queen general, led 30,000 reinforcements to help at night, but after arriving at the battlefield, only the corpses of Barhu's troops were found, and the enemy's traces disappeared.

Among Ahaili's men are bird raising experts. They are good at raising Qingxiao. Birds like Qingxiao are good at hunting. They are good at detecting prey, so they have become good helpers and national birds of the Marines. Ahaili judged that the enemy must have a large number of war horses, and then sent Qingxiao to detect the enemy's war horse traces. Soon they discovered the traces of the "bandits", and these people actually crossed the Hebei.

Ahaili was so excited that he said to his generals: "These enemies were too cunning and went to the hinterland of the north. But I was more confident in killing them, and ordered them to cross the river and continue to pursue them."

However, Qingmiaoer sent someone to pass on the message, asking Ahaili not to pursue blindly. Through conversations with Doerhu's subordinates, Qingmiaoer believed that the number of "bandits" was not large and their combat effectiveness was not high, and their only good at running and harassment. The reason for Doerhu's defeat was that he was inexperienced. More than half of the soldiers were trampled to death at night, but not many were killed, because more than 300 soldiers fled back to Tucheng from various places in the later period.

"The only time they fought head-on with us was to chase and shoot General Barhu and escape back to Tucheng." A soldier complained, "If General Barhu had taken us back at that time, why would he be left behind for his opponents and were shot and killed all the way."

Qingmiaoer let the soldier go down and smiled bitterly. Barhu was his nephew and Asongtai's youngest son. He was skilled in martial arts, but he was a fool in leading troops. He lost 1,500 soldiers of the Marine Army. He was really not enough to calm the anger of the people. Ahaili knew about it and cursed: "How did Asongtai teach him? He only taught him martial arts, but not him marching and setting up formations? He actually circled the war horses together at night? He was simply a bastard!"

Qingmiaoer said: "Okay, it's useless to scold a dead person now. General, please consider how to defend the royal court and attack the Sardinians."

Ahaili said: "Queen, if this group of people is just good at escaping, it will not be troublesome. In the north of the Seitoui, no one can do without the Jialan River, so you only need to guard the Jialan River and prevent them from drinking water."

Qingmiaoer nodded and agreed. Although Qingmiaoer was just a woman, it was she who prompted the rise of Marin. Because she was in charge of command, Ayegulangtai dared to lead his army to fight everywhere to create the Great Qing Khanate, which belongs to Marin.

Ahaili said: "I leave 10,000 cavalry to guard the royal court and lead 20,000 people to hunt Sardin."

"Have the king set off?" Qingmiaoer asked.

Ahaili smiled and said, "The king originally planned to encircle the left and right wings. General Moguhada led 10,000 people from the west side. I led 30,000 people along the east road and bypassed the Roland outpost to encircle Sardin City. I only supported him after receiving dangerous news from the royal court. Now I am afraid I will be late, but I believe that Moguhada will definitely shock the Sardinians to be absent-minded."

Qingmiaoer said excitedly: "Please wipe out the last stubborn enemy in the north as soon as possible."

Ahaili answered with great confidence: "Yes, Queen."
Chapter completed!