Five miles west of the Yanqingdun Beacon Tower, across the Zishui River Valley, there is a crowd of people on the sloping earth slope that protrudes into the river valley at the Heye Peak of Heituo Mountain.
Everyone was sweating profusely and busy as hell.
A temporary earthen village made of trees and stones has been built on the slope.
In front of the village, hundreds of people were working hard.
Several winding trenches extended all the way to the edge of the valley.
In this nearly dry river valley, hundreds of people were moving stones, turning the valley into a jagged stone formation.
The stones are of different sizes, scattered in disorder, and have sharp edges and corners. If people and war horses pass through this area, they will definitely fall and cut the horses' legs.
"Dig! Dig hard! The deeper the better! If the Tartar cavalry dares to attack, they will be unable to move an inch here!"
Zhao Muyun stood on a high mound and shouted, "I will turn this place into the Tartars' Waterloo!"
Although Han Zhong didn't know what the Waterloo Zhao Muyun was talking about was.
But in his opinion, every order Zhao Muyun gave now was extremely wise and would definitely make the Tartar cavalry suffer.
Now, Zhao Muyun asked the Dayin people who were originally building a city for the Tartars in Shulechuan to take out their tools and build fortifications again.
He did not choose to intercept on the road beside the valley, but gave up the road and chose to stay on the hillside.
Firstly, the time is too tight, secondly, the workload is too large, and thirdly, we have too few people.
He concluded that after Fan Nan launched an ambush in Shuozhou, the Tartars would become desperate and would pay a heavy price for being stuck in the middle of the road.
He had finally managed to get three hundred Wuhuan cavalry, one thousand infantry and six hundred auxiliary troops, but he didn't want to lose them all here.
Therefore, Zhao Muyun made a prompt decision and chose to build an offensive on a protruding hillside on the west side of the valley to block the Tatar cavalry passing by.
The distance from the road to the hillside is well within the range of a compound bow.
During the two days of building the fortifications, Zhao Muyun collected all the captured Tatar bows and arrows, and referring to the five compound bows he had made before, he copied them and made two hundred simple compound bows.
Moreover, they had four to five hundred family members of the royal court as hostages.
If King Zhelan's army wanted to retreat back to the grassland from Shuozhou, they could only pass through here and there was no other way.
The defense system composed of earthen forts, trenches, composite bows and stone formations would cost the Tatars a huge price to break through.
The entire hillside was extremely busy, and the trenches became wider and wider, and more and more were dug.
Under Zhao Muyun's command, Han Zhong, Tang Yanhai, Huan Naxue, Lin Feng, Shi Gang and others carried out his orders in an orderly manner with their respective responsible personnel.
After Zhao Muyun completed tasks such as contacting the Wuhuan and harassing the Tatar rear, he also arrived at the last important task of his grassland trip:
Intercept King Zhelan who was retreating from Shuozhou and cause greater damage to his manpower.
In order to cooperate with Fan Nan's army, they planned to recapture the three states of Yun, Sheng and Feng in one fell swoop.
However, until this point, Zhao Muyun did not know that Fan Nan had been defeated outside Wu Zhou City and retreated to Shuozhou.
He didn't even know that Timur's 800 cavalrymen were chasing him all the way.
Perhaps it was the goddess of luck that particularly favored him, as Timur not only missed his target, but also accidentally fell into the range of Zhao Muyun's interception!
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It turned out that Zhao Muyun and his group had attacked the royal court of King Zhelan, kidnapped King Zhelan's family, burned the royal court to ashes, and then marched south all night without stopping.
It took two days to reach the northern foot of Heituo Mountain.
He did not go directly from the buffer zone at the temporary boundary marker between the two countries through the Zishui River Valley to Jingbian Military Town, but instead all his men crossed the Heituo Mountain.
The route they took was exactly the secret route that Bai Shouren used to smuggle salt and iron.
The northern exit of the secret passage was revealed by the four Bai family bodyguards who had pledged their allegiance to Zhao Muyun.
Under their guidance, a group of more than 2,500 people, including 500 captured Tartar family members, all successfully entered the Black Camel Mountain.
After walking through the secret passage in the valley, we arrived at the foot of Heye Peak in less than half a day.
The Yanqingdun Beacon Tower, not far to the east, can also be seen from afar.
Zhao Muyun remembered vividly the battle at the foot of Heye Peak.
He immediately sent two teams of scouts, Tang Yanhai and Wang Tiezhu, to investigate the situation, and discovered that there were no Tartars stationed in their more than ten beacon towers.
It was not until the Jingbian military town, fifty miles to the south, that there were five hundred Tatar soldiers stationed.
The Tartars never imagined that Zhao Muyun would appear behind them with such a large group of troops.
Zhao Muyun acted decisively and decided to build a defense system next to the river valley to intercept the Tartars and block their retreat for Fan Nan.
Timur, who was chasing from behind, wasted half a day because he took a detour to the south bank of Canglang Lake to see if his tribe had been attacked.
In addition, there is at least one day's time difference between them and Zhao Muyun and his group.
By the time Timur's cavalry followed the footprints, Zhao Muyun and his party had already entered the Black Camel Mountain.
In order to confuse the public, Zhao Muyun also asked Huan Naxue to lead 300 Wuhuan cavalry to create a large number of footprints on the grassland.
Even if the Tartars came to chase them, they would mistakenly think that Zhao Muyun and his party were returning to Shuozhou from the Zishui River Valley.
As expected, Timur did not know about the existence of such a secret passage, so he led his 800 cavalrymen in pursuit southward from the Purple Water Valley.
However, when he chased to Jingbian Military Town and confronted the Tatar leader who stayed there, he found that he had come to nothing.
Timur was furious and led his troops out of the Zishui River Valley to the north. He divided into two teams and pursued to the west and east, but there was no trace of Zhao Muyun.
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