Thirty-six bloody breakthroughs

On this day, when the sun was setting in the west, the soldiers of Li Ling's troops were armed with bows and crossbows, and vigilantly just walked out of the Dongjunji Pass and entered the barren hill area. Suddenly, www.biquge.info a small group of cavalry rushed out from the side. Li Ling shouted loudly: "Release the arrow!"

The sergeants fired a thousand arrows, the enemy cavalry in front fell in response to the arrows, and the rear cavalry turned around and fled.

Li Ling shouted, "Catch it alive!" and the soldier switched to shooting the body and legs of the horse. The horses fell to the ground, and the rebels were beheaded, and only one prisoner was captured. After interrogation, he learned about the enemy's situation, which further boosted the morale of Li Ling and the soldiers. The enemy army has lost more than 30,000 cavalry in many battles, and is afraid that we have reinforcements, so they dare not make a desperate bet, and now their morale is not high. Moreover, Li Ling led his troops to retreat back to the Han territory, and the enemy did not dare to chase after him. Shan Yu means: chase to fifty miles away from the Han border, and withdraw if you can't catch up.

At night, under the starlight, the two sides camped more than a mile apart, and both sent troops to stand guard on high places and be vigilant for defense. After midnight, General Han Yannian of Li Ling's department patrolled the post and found that a soldier standing guard fell asleep with an arrow in his arms. He woke him up angrily with a whip and reprimanded: "How can you fall asleep standing guard?" The soldier hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy: "My lord, I am really too tired!" General Han snorted and scolded unrelentingly, and the soldier cried and cried when he was beaten.

In the silence of the night, the sound of General Han's scolding and the cries of the soldiers spread far and wide. When the Hun sentry heard this, he wrote down the location, quietly called two people to change into Han military uniforms, sneaked into the sentry post, saying that he was replacing him to stand sentry, and robbed the soldiers who had been trained and beaten to the Hu camp. After being coerced and lured, the soldiers surrendered to the Hu army, saying: Li Ling's military headquarters has no backup, the soldiers have suffered many casualties, there are only more than 800 people with combat ability, and the news that arrows and crossbows and other weapons are about to run out.

This gave the Marquis Da Danyu, who was about to retire, an injection of heart boosters, and he was overjoyed. Shan Yu immediately summoned his subordinates and discussed overnight...... The soldiers divided into two routes and took advantage of the night to quietly occupy the top of the mountains around Li Lingbu, and surrounded them to the death.

At the beginning of the morning light the next day, the enemy cavalry shouted to the sky: "Li Ling Han Yannian surrender quickly, you are surrounded...... Then, the Xiongnu launched a general attack on Li Lingbu.

Arrows cover the sky and the sun, weapons are strong, and men and horses roar through the heavens and the earth. The soldiers on both sides fell one after another, and stepped forward one after another, fighting together...... Li Ling led all the soldiers to brave the rain of arrows from all directions and fought bloody battles all the way, and broke through with difficulty...... Behind this, there were tens of thousands of cavalry attacking, and in front of it there was a dense interception of the Hun cavalry vanguard troops, and if you want to return to the Han land, you have to fight hard.

For a whole day, the only 500,000 arrows and crossbows of Li Ling's department were finished, and the swords were also broken one after another, and the soldiers had to dismantle the baggage parts as weapons. When night came, the enemy's attack was slow, and Li Ling led his troops to mine stones on the hills to make weapons. Li Ling sat in the night, looking at the remaining more than 500 battle-hardened soldiers and a few captured enemy horses, all of them covered in blood and exhausted. Now that the weapons have been exhausted, the food has been cut off, and there are no reinforcements, our army has fallen into a desperate situation. Suddenly a southerly wind blew, and it was the wind of my great Han land. Experience has taught him that it is less than a hundred miles from dry land. He looked at the south, thinking of the imperial order, of his family, of his oath...... He took a horse in his hand for his own use, and ordered his men to kill all the remaining horses, so that everyone could have a full meal. Li Ling turned over and got on his horse, and when the soldier saw it, he immediately wanted to go with him, but he stopped him and said: "Take the order from the head, one person is enough!"

After a while, the Hun camp was in chaos, and soon it became calm again.

In the middle of the night, Li Ling walked back with difficulty with a broken knife in his hand. Han Yannian stepped forward to support him and asked, "How is it?"

"We must break through tonight! Otherwise, no one will want to go back!" He looked at the hundreds of soldiers sitting around who could fight, and said with a bitter smile, "We people, if each of us has ten arrows and crossbows in our hands now, we can fight with the talkers tomorrow, and we can break through and go home." But now—"

It turned out that he was going to explore the enemy, and the most important thing was to kill Shan Yu and avenge his family and country. He rode around quietly, scouted the breakout place, came to Shan Yu's station, and tried to sneak in and kill him. Who knew that the guy was very well guarded, and as soon as he approached the enemy camp, he was discovered. He fought with the enemy soldiers for a while, abandoned his horse and hid in the shadows. After the enemy army calmed down, he returned in the middle of the night.

"You're right!" General Han agreed, "Your harassment, their departments can't figure out the situation, and they will not dare to boldly besiege us." Let's divide the soldiers who can fight into two ways and break through separately. ”

Someone handed him a piece of raw horse meat. He asked, "Have the soldiers eaten it?"

"I've eaten it all, and now I'm much stronger!" everyone said.

He chewed on the horse meat in his mouth, thinking of a way to break through. He told everyone about the situation and thoughts of his investigation, and everyone agreed with his idea. Li Ling said to the wounded soldiers: "When the dawn they find out that we are gone, they will not kill you, and you may still live." As long as you live, you can go home and serve our big man!"

Li Ling and the others divided their subordinates and capable soldiers into multiple squads and let them break through separately. He gave a simple order to all the soldiers who broke through: "Everyone aim south, look for the enemy's weak spots, and quietly pass over." ”

In the vast darkness of the second half of the night, Li Ling and Han Yannian quietly left the camp with their soldiers and rushed down the hill, they marched quickly to the south, and several small groups of troops unconsciously passed through the enemy's defense area in front of them, and quickly rushed south.

When it was almost dawn, the Xiongnu Shan Yu got the news and immediately organized thousands of cavalry to catch up with them in the south. The enemy's cavalry was much faster than Li Ling's infantry, and when it was dawn, they caught up with Li Ling and Han Yannian and the more than a dozen soldiers who followed them.

They heard the shouts behind them getting closer and closer, and Han Yannian immediately turned around and roared and rushed into the enemy ranks, slashing left and right...... Li Ling and a dozen soldiers desperately resisted...... They were armed with short weapons, unable to withstand the fierce and swift archers. Soon Han Yannian was killed in battle, and Li Ling and several living soldiers were surrounded by enemy troops.

The enemy shouted: "Capture alive! Li Ling surrender quickly!"

"My life is over!" Li Ling saw that he couldn't break through, shouted, and committed suicide with a knife. A soldier stepped forward to grab a knife and shouted: "The general can't!"

At this time, the Xiongnu sent envoys to persuade them to surrender, and said with a pleading emphasis: "General Li! Surrender! The defeat is really not your fault! Your wounded soldiers have all been captured, and if the general does not surrender, they will all be killed!"

Shan Yu fought with Li Lingbu along the way, witnessed Li Ling's courage and bravery, although he lost more than 30,000 cavalry, but he admired him very much. He ordered his subordinates Li Ling, who was destined to live, to let the envoys come to persuade him.