July 185 AD.

Shooting the tiger knelt on the ground, tears flowing non-stop.

He was about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a slightly tender face, a pair of very prominent thick eyebrows, and a pair of bright eyes under his eyebrows, looking terrifying.

Li Hong pulled him up and said with a smile: "Don't cry. I promised him the last time I met your father. As long as the Wuye Tribe has difficulties, I will definitely help."

"Telection. The troops gathered immediately, crossed the Qiushui River overnight, and rushed to Yangjiao Mountain on the border." Li Hong turned his head and said loudly to Tie Yue.

"Gather the guards and set off immediately." Hu Ding and Qicheng hurried out to gather the team.

"Old man, how about you temporarily stationed in Macheng with the rear guard? As soon as the magistrate of Liu County arrives, you will immediately lead your troops to set off."

Tian Chong nodded and asked, "Do I go back to Zhuolu?"

"Yes, we meet in Zhuolu. There are nearly 400 wounded soldiers, who are willing to join the Han army. You bring them together. After we cover the Wuye tribe to retreat safely to the border, we will rush over immediately."

"Sir..." After seeing Li Hong finish speaking, Tian Chong hurriedly walked out of the tent and shouted.

Li Hong looked at him strangely. Tian Chong lowered his voice and whispered: "Ministry, there are more than a dozen carriages in that batch. Our guard station has few people, so it is probably unsafe."

Li Hong knew that he was referring to the property given by Tuoba people. Seeing Tian Chongshen's mysterious appearance, Li Hong laughed out loud.

"Who knows? It's okay, it's okay."

"No. If something happens, the governor blames us and we will all lose our heads." Tian Chong widened his eyes and grabbed Li Hong's arm, as if he was afraid that he would run away soon.

"Okay, OK. What do you think you should do?"

"I asked Xiaolan to take Yitun's men and horses to go with me."

It was already afternoon when the troops arrived at Yangjiao Mountain. In front of Yangjiao Mountain was an endless grassland, which was a place for the Xianbei people. Without orders, the army of the Han Kingdom could not enter and exit at will.

Li Hong ordered the entire army to rest. Zheng Xin's scout team immediately went deep into the Xianbei border and explored the location of the Wuye Tribe.

She had to follow the tiger, but was stopped by Li Hong.

"Don't worry. Your father should have a way to get out." Li Hong pulled the Shohu to his side and comforted him with a smile.

"I've been out for five days. At their speed, they should have arrived at Dishuiwei. When I left, my father repeatedly told me that as long as the tribe's people arrived at Dishuiwei, he would send people to wait for us in Yangjiao Mountain. Now there is no one here, something must have happened to the tribe." Shehu was anxious and tears flowed out involuntarily.

Li Hong didn't know how to comfort him, and he was very anxious. Although he had only met Shemo Ci and had no friendship with the Wuye Tribe, this matter was related to the loyalty of the Han Dynasty and the lives of more than 20,000 men, women, and young and old in the Wuye Tribe. As a great country that is powerful all over the world, if the Han Dynasty could not even protect a small tribe that defected to it, it would not only break its trust in this tribe, but also make all the weak nations or tribes that came to rely on it.

Li Hong considered Xu for a long time. He now suspected that the Wuye tribe had been pursued and besieged by the Xianbei people. He was preparing to lead his troops deep into the Xianbei border to launch rescue operations.

Li Hong ordered his subordinates to invite several military officers such as Yushi, Wu Zhao, Li Song. He explained his guesses and ideas, and then solicited everyone's opinions.

Yushi's face immediately pulled down, "Sir, the war between us and the Xianbei people has ended. If we send troops to the Xianbei grassland for such a small tribe, once the two sides fight, it may trigger revenge from the Xianbei people. If they rush their troops south again, this disaster will be a big disaster."

"The Wuye Tribe belongs to the Danhan Mountain. If Shemoci leads her troops to leave the Xianbei and enter the Han Dynasty, it will be betrayal from the perspective of the Xianbei people. Now the Wuye Tribe is still a subordinate of the Danhan Mountain. We take the liberty to enter the country and help them escape. Are you a little meddling in other people's business and looking for trouble for nothing?" Wu Zhao immediately took up the words of Jade and added.

"It is indeed inappropriate for us to do this. First, there is no order from that adult, and second, there is no official document to be based on. Crossing the border without reason not only violates military discipline, but also violates national laws. Once investigated, it will be a disaster for the nine tribes. Do not joke about everyone's lives." Li Song said seriously and very seriously.

Li Hong and a group of eager people were stunned, all of whom were cold and speechless.

Yu Shi laughed and pointed at his beard. Yan Wuwei and others said, "I told you to learn the national law and military discipline from me, and they all ran faster than rabbits. Humph, it was not said that you were not thrown on the battlefield, but on the execution ground."

Fist curled his lips, looked disdainful, and retorted loudly: "It's just fear of death, why do you need to make many excuses?"

The signature smirk on Tie Yue's face suddenly appeared, and he muttered in a loud and small voice: "No one tells me, who knows?"

Yu Shi suddenly stood up, pointed at Tie Yue and shouted, "What do you mean?"

Tie Yue was not afraid at all and shouted loudly: "No one would tell me, who would know that we were fighting across the border? Now, how many people in the entire border county know that the Tuoba people have withdrawn from Macheng? Who knew that we were in a state of truce?"

Hu Zi grabbed Yushi with a smile and advised, "They just joined the army and don't know something. Don't be angry? We are all brothers and we will fight hard on the same battlefield in the future. Why bother to get angry about this? But I think what he said makes sense. Do you think so?"

"You..." Yushi was so angry that he rolled his eyes and sat down on the ground too lazy to speak.

"Sir, let's make an idea and we will all listen to you." The tall, mighty and chubby hammer pushed Li Hong, who was sitting next to him, and said carefully.

"It turns out that our brothers from the horse gang are following the Lord to the death. Please make your decision." Fist shouted loudly, and the tone was obviously meant to instigate.

Wu Zhao couldn't help it anymore. He pointed at his fist and shouted, "Fist, now everyone is a border army affiliated to Lulongsai, Youbeiping County, and there are no horse bandits or horse gangs. The army implements a joint seat system. If you break the law alone, we will all be implicated. If you are beheaded, we will lose our heads. Can you not make trouble here?"

The fist was startled and stopped talking.

Li Song looked at the hesitant look on Li Hong's face and sighed in his heart.

"Sir, do you still want to enter the country?" Li Song asked.

Li Hong nodded.

"There are 20,000 innocent herdsmen in front of them. They have no right to decide their own destiny. When they come to the Han Kingdom, they simply want to live a stable life of food and clothing. What is the sin? They have no hatred with us, why don't we save us? If they are the people of the Han Dynasty, will we save us?"

"The people of the Han Dynasty are humans, are they not humans?"

"I want to bring the troops there. Whether you agree or not, I want to bring people there."

"Sir, would you be more rational? Everyone comes out of Lu Long and is in the same boat through thick and thin. How can you say this? If you must do this, let's go with you. But we don't understand which one is more important, one of the 10,000 or 20,000 Xianbei people or more than 4,000 brothers?" Yu Shi said angrily.

In fact, no matter whether the two sides are in a state of war, as long as the troops enter the Xianbei border, they will violate military discipline. They have never received an order to cross the border. Perhaps after entering the country, they can help the Wuye tribe escape from the grassland smoothly and everyone is safe. However, if they meet the Xianbei army and trigger a war between the two sides, the consequences will be difficult to reverse and uncontrollable. In the future, the criminals will be held accountable. Anyway, the dead are dead, and it doesn't matter. The living will suffer.

Yu Shi and the others have been in the army for a long time and know how powerful it is, so they strongly oppose it. However, everyone has deep comrades and ask them to watch Li Hong take risks alone, no one can do it.

Li Hong looked at Yushi and a cadre with gratitude and said loudly: "Brothers, of course, more important."

"But what we do in the army? Isn't it just to protect the weak? No matter who it is, as long as he needs our help, we should be determined. Is there any mistake in this?"

Everyone was silent, looking at Li Hong with a firm look in front of him, some were helpless, some admired, some admired, and some were grateful. Everyone thought about their own thoughts.

When Li Hong saw that everyone no longer objected, he was overjoyed and said with a smile: "Let's go in the middle of the night and you can arrive at Dishuiwei in the early morning tomorrow."

The wooden stake screamed strangely and shouted in pain: "It's midnight again, are you going to live?"

Everyone was surprised at first, and then burst into laughter.

Wu Zhao kicked his deputy hard and scolded with a smile: "You go and die."

Li Hong watched his subordinates leave one by one, and felt excited. It would be better to have these brothers who want to live and die.

A speeding horse suddenly rushed out of the horizon in the distance, and then more than a dozen war horses rushed out one after another.

Li Hong's heart beat violently.

The migratory army of the Wuye Tribe was caught up by Kuitou's troops in Dishuixiang.

Shooting Mo uses more than 500 horse-drawn carriages, and the ox carriages form a defensive formation. More than 20,000 people in the tribe are crowded in this small space. No one is afraid or crying. People on the grassland are already numb to this kind of fighting and killing. Except for children, the elderly, and all moving people in the tribe, including women, all picked up spears and raised bows and arrows. Life is not rewarded by anyone, but by themselves.

This place is eighty miles away from the border of the Great Han Kingdom.

Shemoci almost succeeded a little. The Wuye Tribe has been living close to the border, and their habitat is more than 400 miles away from the border of the Han Dynasty. Although their actions were very fast in this operation, the tribe had too many people and was slow to move, and it was still one step slower after all.

After the King and Lian's Western Tour, the King of Danhan Mountain was left behind by his nephew Kuitou. Kuitou was shocked to hear that the Wuye Tribe was preparing to move south to Han. This precedent could not be opened. He led a thousand iron cavalry south overnight and summoned the Tianshui Tribe, Zhuxia Tribe, and Bailong Tribe, a total of 6,000 troops, divided into two groups, covering the border like a covered in the sky.

At the Dishuixiang, Kuitou commanded his troops to surround the Wuye Tribe.

He rode alone to the vicinity of the Wuye Tribe's chariot formation, shouting loudly, Shomoci came out to answer.

Kuitou is young, in his twenties, and has no outstanding features in any shape or appearance. Only those eyes, probably because they struggled in the whirlpool of power in the Mount of Danhan for many years, seemed obscure and difficult to understand, and he could not understand his joys, anger, sorrow, and happiness.

He drove the horse to approach Shimo Ci. The two of them have known each other for many years and are very familiar with each other. Shimo Ci also taught him archery skills for several years. At this time, it was too late to say anything and it was useless. Betrayal is a fact, surrendering is death, and resisting stubbornly is also death. No matter who it is, even Helian cannot save the men, women, young and old in the Wuye Tribe.

"Thank you." She Mo Ci smiled and said calmly.

Kuitou looked at him silently, sighed, trying to say something, but he had no idea what he wanted to say.

He suddenly roared and whipped hard on the horse's buttocks. The whip sounded crisply, and the war horse was in pain. It neighed wildly and left.

Kuitou did not attack that day. Although the commanders of the three tribes shouted to launch an attack, Kuitou firmly disagreed.

He ordered people to inform Helian, hoping to get Helian's instructions. At this time, Helian was in the grassland of tigers and wolfs and was quarreling with the leaders of the three major departments.

Kuitou's considerations are his reason. At this time, everyone in the Wuye tribe had a sense of dying. Once they fought, they would fight with their lives until they died. The troops fought against such madmen, and the casualties would be severe. If they attacked them with 6,000 people, they would know how many soldiers could survive in the end. So Kuitou was preparing to surround them for a few days.

Kuitou wanted to torture their spirits and torture their tense nerves, making those who are greedy and afraid of death feel that there is a possibility of survival, and then shake their determination to die. Over time, in the face of the powerful pressure of death, some people in the Wuye Tribe will definitely betray and collapse, and in the end it may lead to internal strife and collapse without fighting.

Kuitou dragged on for three days.

At the foot of Danhan Mountain, in the Xianbei territory, on its own pasture, it surrounds the prey among the killers like spring hunting. This feeling is so good, relaxed and pleasant. The soldiers and herdsmen of the Wuye Tribe are now like prey waiting to be slaughtered, with no hope of survival.

The people of the Wuye Tribe were not as fragile as Kuitou imagined in the face of death. They persisted tenaciously and maintained high fighting spirit.

Shemo Ci's words gave them the last hope. The leopard from the Han Kingdom was coming to save them.

When he said this, Shemoci himself thought it was a self-deception lie. But like everyone else, he would rather believe this lie and believe that this miracle could happen. This was what Leopard promised him that night.

There is no moon or stars in the sky tonight, and it is pitch black, and you can't see your fingers. There is no wind on the grassland, and insects sing lazily among the grass. The camp in Kuitou was silent, and only a dozen bonfires surrounding the camp flashed with charming light in the night.

She Moci knelt in the middle of the grassland and buried his head in the grass.

Kuitou's only siege and not attack made him feel more and more mentally stressed. He felt that he was gradually unable to hold on and was about to collapse. At this moment, his heart was filled with pain and despair, and he felt that the last little hope in his heart was also being swallowed by this boundless darkness.

He murmured to himself, praying that his father's spirit in heaven would bless the Wuye Tribe.

He suddenly felt a slight vibration on the ground.

She Mo Ci sat upright in horror and looked up at the sky.

The vibration on the ground became stronger and stronger, and the war horses in the carriage began to neigh uneasyly.
Chapter completed!