In the blink of an eye, it was early summer of the ninth year of Jian'an. As Lu Bu wished, the Dingling tribes on both sides of the east and west sides of the southern North China Sea were all subdued.

However, a Dingling people in the northern part of the North Sea continued to attack the Dingling people who surrendered to the Northern Prefecture. It was an alliance of several Dingling tribes in the north, distributed in a large forest between the grassland belt in the northwest of the North Sea and the frozen land of the frozen land in the northwest of the North Sea.

Foreigners regard them as Dingling people, but they call themselves Evank people. They are semi-herding and half-hunting, and in addition to raising cattle and horses, they are more breeding livestock such as reindeer, which are both cold-resistant and cart-pulling. They also raise wolves as dogs for hunting and fighting.

In fact, the attacks of the Dingling people in the southern part of the North Sea did not start now. In previous years, there would have been some small-scale conflicts at the junction of the sphere of influence from time to time. However, since the Dingling tribes in the southern part of the North Sea joined the North Prefecture, the frequency of such conflicts has suddenly increased and the intensity has become greater.

On the west coast of the North Sea, the tribes of Toulidu are busy in the settlements. The snow accumulated over the winter has almost melted. They are also going to drive their horses to the grassland with hay to grazing.

Although the Dingling people located at this latitude are nomadic peoples, due to climate reasons, cattle, horses and other livestock are actually kept in huts and kept in captivity most of the year, and only in summer, it is stocked on the grassland for only three or four months.

This is also the reason why the Dingling people were unable to fight against the Huns and Xianbei in the south in history. Their captive horses were naturally unable to compete with each other's good horses.

Tolidu inspected the work of his subordinates in the settlement, and he looked at all this with satisfaction. Since he defected to the Northern Mansion Army who had defected to Lu Bu, he no longer had to worry about the salt and food in the tribe.

Because of his contributions in the Battle of the North Sea, his tribe was assigned to the best land on the grassland on the west coast of the North Sea. The number of livestock in the tribe fences was increasing, and the tribe became more and more populous.

At this time, a personal guard who hurried to him destroyed his good mood. The man said in a panic: "Khan, no, the Evanks are here again. It seems that they have brought a lot of people this time. They have arrived seven miles northwest."

Toli glared at him: "Don't panic, what's the ones who raise deer are afraid of? In previous years, we were also defeated by our subordinates..."

Before Tolidu could finish his words, two more blood-stained Dingling people broke in, one of them had an arrow in his body. He endured the severe pain and said intermittently: "Khan, the Evank people attacked... and killed several of us. They said that the grassland on the North Coast belonged to them, and they were not allowed... and we would not go there to grazing again in the future, otherwise we would kill each other once. He also said that our tribe was asked to move the camp away as soon as possible and get out to the south!"

Toridu's lips trembled with anger and said angrily: "It's outrageous. They are getting more and more arrogant. The warriors of the tribe have all set up their horses. I want to see how crazy these Evanks are!"

Soon, Tori Duo led the three or four hundred Dingling cavalry to the scene. The other party seemed to have been ready, and neither party had any extra words. They started fighting after meeting. This is the rule on the grassland.

The quality and quantity of Toridu's war cavalry were better than the other side. In less than a moment of fighting, the Evank people seemed to be unable to support it. The Thunder's scimitar cut through the sword lights and cut down three Evank's war cavalry in succession.

When he rushed to the fourth man excitedly, he heard the sound of horns. With the sound of horse hooves, rows of war cavalry rose on the skyline in the northwest. A reinforcement army of Ivank arrived. The two cavalry teams in front and behind together had more than 2,000 people. All the males in the Toridu tribe combined were less than 800.

After Tolidu tried hard to overturn another person, he shouted in panic: "The opponent has too many troops, retreat! All retreat!" After a while, the Tolidu war cavalry retreated like a tide, and the other's war cavalry also rushed in like a tide. After chasing Tolidu for a while, he stopped chasing and turned around to collect the livestock that the tribe of Tolidu was raised on the grassland.

Toolid and his men retreated to the camp, and they were not breathing even ashamed, so they rushed to the tribe's people to move urgently. They were so busy that they didn't even take away the camp tent, so they drove the remaining cattle and sheep, and a large cart full of supplies moved southwest along the west coast of the North Sea.

After only one hour, several huge gray wolf and hunting dogs jumped over the camp fence and sniffed around the camp. Immediately afterwards, the noise sound of the horse hooves of the Ivanke warriors came from outside, and nearly two thousand warriors swept over like clouds.

Seeing that the gray wolf and the hounds did not give warnings in the camp, these Evank people rushed into the camp one after another, and found that the other party had moved. They whistled each other and chased after each other...

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Beiming City has changed a lot now, and the city wall has evolved from the original pure wood wall to the stone wall, and these stone walls are made of glutinous rice slurry clay.

Regular houses were also built in the city, no longer those temporary sheds that were hidden under the ground. Unlike the houses in the Central Plains, these buildings are all stone houses, with very small windows and mezzanine walls.

In winter, the house can also burn charcoal in the mezzanine for heating. All houses have basements for storing winter supplies.

At this time, the largest building in the city, the Northern Region Chief Envoy's office, just saw Lu Bu, and he knelt in front of Lu Bu, wanting to tell him about the attack on his tribe by the Evanks.

Lu Bu walked slowly to Tolidu, grabbed his shoulder, lifted him up, and said, "Tolidu, don't have to be so polite, get up and talk. Have you been attacked by the Evanks?"

Toli said in surprise: "So the Jiedu already knows it? Ask the Jiedu to send troops to conquer the Evanke people and make the decision for our troops."

Lu Bu nodded and said, "Yes, I know this, because before you, several people had already reported to this Jiedushi that their tribe had suffered the same attack. But..."

Lu Bu paused and continued, "But the best strategy is to attack the enemy without fighting. It is best to subdue these tribes with some means. I think that the grain road and salt road of these people will definitely pass through the area around the Beihai Sea and introduce grain and sea salt east of the Xianbei Mountains. So as long as all your tribes block the trade routes, the North Prefecture will come forward to induce salt and grain, so that they should be able to subdue them."

After hearing this, Toli immediately said with anxiety: "But Jiedu doesn't know that the Evanks don't eat salt or food."

It was Lu Bu's turn to be surprised. He had never heard of anyone who did not eat salt or food.
Chapter completed!