The ninth son of the emperor was demoted at the beginning. I have a famous Chinese general.

"damn it!"

"Follow me out."

Seeing this situation, Zhuoermu roared, drew the scimitar at his waist, and led the cavalry to rush towards the valley entrance.

At this moment, he had no choice but to fight his way out.

Hu Yan's cavalry followed without hesitation and rushed towards the valley entrance.

It’s just that their thoughts are beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

The valley entrance was small, and the Daqian soldiers were in a very tight formation, almost stacked up layer upon layer. How was it possible to break out?

In a blink of an eye, Zhuoermu and Huyan cavalry were surrounded.

The following battle was a complete one-sided massacre.

The Daqian soldiers occupied the high ground and continued to shoot with bows.

In less than half a quarter of an hour, all 5,000 cavalrymen led by Zhuo Ermu were killed in the valley, and Zhuo Ermu also died tragically under the rain of arrows.

"Hurry up and clean up the battlefield, there will be another wave coming."

After the battle, Huo Qubing immediately gave orders.

Zhuoermu didn't return for a long time, Hulun Zhuo would definitely send reinforcements, and Huo Qubing didn't mind taking on another wave.

Of course, the premise is that the number of enemy troops is not too large.

If the number of troops exceeded five thousand, Huo Qubing would not engage in battle.

Fighting a war of attrition was not an option for him. He had a total of 11,000 cavalrymen under his command and could not afford to lose them.

"promise!"

The order was given and the soldiers went into the battlefield to collect the spoils.

Afterwards, Huo Qubing and his cavalry quietly left the valley.

Not long after, three thousand Huyan cavalry appeared.

As expected, all three thousand men were wiped out.

When Hulun Zhuo personally led the army to the scene, all he saw were corpses scattered all over the ground, and the Daqian cavalry had long disappeared.

"Trash! It's all trash!"

Looking at the corpses all over the ground, Hulun Zhuo was furious.

A total of 8,000 warriors were killed in vain, and he only had a total of 40,000 troops.

The key point is that he hasn't even seen the enemy, and he doesn't even know how many troops the enemy has.

How could this make him not angry?

"Chief, calm down."

"The enemy is too cunning. We must treat them with caution."

"I think we should expand the search area and first find out more about the enemy."

Seeing Hulun Zhuo furious, the deputy general beside him hurriedly tried to persuade him.

"Well, you're right."

"Pass the order down, send more scouts immediately, expand the search area, and make sure to find the enemy!"

Hulun Zhuo ordered angrily.

"As ordered!"

The lieutenant hurriedly accepted the order.

In the next two days, Hu Yanzhuo sent out a large number of scouts to search for the whereabouts of the Daqian cavalry.

Unfortunately, nothing was found. Not only were the Daqian cavalry not found, but even the trace of the Donghu tribes was not seen.

In desperation, Hu Yanzhuo had to continue leading his troops into the interior of Donghu.

.......

At the same time, in the direction of Hulan.

Li Chenglin was leading a large army slowly approaching Hulan.

This army was composed of the Beiting and Anxi armies, including 30,000 Anxi cavalry and 30,000 Beiting infantry.

The total number of troops in Beiting currently stands at only 40,000.

For this operation, Li Chenglin mobilized almost his entire army.

"Father, I heard that Hulan City has been rebuilt?"

During the march, Li Xin suddenly asked.

Li Xin hadn't returned to Beiting for a long time and didn't know much about the changes in Hulun City.

I just heard that Ning Quan went to Hulun and expanded the city.

"Yes, it was expanded. The current Hulan City is at least four times larger than before, and the city walls are also higher."

"So our attack on Hulan this time is not that easy."

Li Chenglin said seriously.

"Haha, father is joking."

"So what if the city is expanded? We have 60,000 troops. Taking Hulan won't be a piece of cake."

Li Xin disagreed.

"General Li is right. It's just Hulan. The Protector General shouldn't take it too seriously."

Qu Gaoyi also echoed.

Qu Gaoyi is the commander of the Anxi reinforcements this time. He is a close confidant of Fang Xiaolian. He is in his forties and has superb martial arts skills.

"Well, I hope so."

Although he said this, Li Chenglin did not dare to be careless in his heart.

After all, Hulan has a lot of troops, as many as 20,000.

In fact, if the grain-producing areas had not been occupied, he might not have attacked Hulan.

Because we don’t have the ability and we are not sure.

But the fall of the grain-producing areas, coupled with the support of the Anxi Army, made him change his mind.

And now is the best opportunity to attack Hulan.

Because Ning Quan is currently far away in the Western Regions, and when he left, he took all the heavy cavalry with him.

What Li Chenglin feared most was Ning Quan's heavy cavalry.

In field battles, heavy cavalry is invincible.

........

On the afternoon of the second day, Li Chenglin led his army to the city of Hulun.

After arriving, Li Chenglin did not launch an attack immediately, but chose to set up camp.

It is not easy to take down Hulan easily, we must proceed step by step.

From the intelligence he had gathered in the past few days, he knew that there were eight thousand defenders in Hulun City.

Eight thousand soldiers are obviously more than enough to guard the small city of Hulun.

Moreover, Hulun City is backed by the Hulun River, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.

It is not easy to break through.

In addition, there were 5,000 troops stationed in the Xiongnu camp west of the city.

In addition, there are 7,000 cavalrymen whose whereabouts are still unknown.

In the past, these 7,000 cavalrymen would have been his biggest threat.

But he now has 30,000 Anxi cavalry under his command and is not afraid of the enemy at all.

As for the Hun camp, Li Chenglin didn't need to consider it at all.

It was a good thing that he didn't attack the Hun camp, because the Hun garrison there would never dare to take the initiative to attack.

Li Chenglin was also puzzled as to why the enemy troops were sent to garrison the Xiongnu camp.

Logically, they should concentrate their forces to defend the city.

What's in the Hun camp?

It was nothing more than 30,000 civilians, more than 10,000 slaves, and 50,000 to 60,000 cattle and sheep.

Is it worth sending troops to defend just these?

Li Chenglin wondered if the opponent's commander had gone crazy.

But this is a good thing. The fewer defenders in the city, the better.

Otherwise, if they are all concentrated in the city, it will be more difficult to capture Hulun.

"Send the order to the generals to discuss the matter!"

A moment later, Li Chenglin summoned all the generals to discuss the matter.

Li Chenglin decided to launch an attack tomorrow and try to capture Hulun within ten days.

He would not underestimate Hu Lan's strength, but he would never overestimate it either.

Although there are many defenders in Hulun, they are mainly surrendered soldiers from Qinglongzhai and Persian prisoners of war. Their combat effectiveness and morale are definitely not very high.

Therefore, it will not be a problem to capture Huluan within ten days.

At the same time, on the Hulun city wall.

Li Jing and Guan Yu were standing on the city wall observing the enemy's situation.

Ning Quan went on a diplomatic mission to the Western Regions and took Li Cunxiao, Zhang Fei, and Huo Qubing with him. Huo Qubing was far away in Donghu, and Lu Bu was leading his army outside.

Only Li Jing, Guan Yu and Xiang Yu stayed in Hulun.

Xiang Yu was stationed in the Xiongnu camp, so only Li Jing and Guan Yu were left in the city.