Chapter 35: Into the Camp
Soon, Sun Yang came to Huo Qu's illness and said, "See the general." ”
Huo Quzhi said: "Ben Jiang thought about it, the king tent of the Qiang Shan Yu must be about a hundred miles to the west, if we attack a 10,000-person tribe of the Qiang tribe in the north first, we will definitely alarm the Qiang Shan Yu, and then think of a surprise attack, it will no longer be possible." Therefore, I will ask you to immediately lead a thousand soldiers to attack the 10,000-strong tribe in the north, and after you have horses, kill the Qiang tribe directly from north to south. ”
"The last will obey. Sun Yang took the order and left.
Sun Yang led a thousand soldiers to leave, Huo Qubing was not worried about their safety at all, and there were only about 1,000 soldiers in a 10,000-person tribe, and they were not necessarily elite soldiers.
Huo Qubing led 3,000 soldiers to the west by night, and by the time of the fourth watch, they had already traveled 80 miles.
"Driving...... ...... driving"
A team of 1,000 Qiang cavalry headed north, and Huo Qubing and other 3,000 people squatted in the distance to watch. Huo Quzhi understood that Sun Yang's movements were discovered by the Qiang people. This is what he wants, the plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, although he has only lost about a thousand people, he is also very satisfied.
The Qiang cavalry went away, and Huo Qu ordered: "Move forward quickly!"
On the fifth watch, Huo Quzhi and others had already touched three miles away from the Qiang king's tent, and they could already see many patrolling Qiang soldiers.
The tribe of Qiang Shan Yu is called the Jiang tribe, which is the largest tribe of the Qiang tribe, with 300,000 people, all of whom are distributed in the vicinity of the Qiang Shan Yu king's tent.
The Qiang people alone have about 10,000 guards, and if it were normal, there would not be so many guards. It can be seen from the Qiang tribe that the whereabouts of Li Ze and others were exposed, and the Qiang tribe sent people to stop them.
To Huo Qu's surprise, even if Li Ze's whereabouts were exposed, according to the speed at which the information was transmitted, the most at most now would be to pass the news to the Qiang Shan Yu. For a time, the Qiang people did not have so many troops to send to the south.
The only thing that can be explained is that when Sima Cuo led the army north to chase the Xiongnu, Qiang Shan Yu should have received some rumors, so he ordered the tribes to gather adult men in the king's tent and obey the transfer.
Huo Qubing was also a little surprised, his division of troops actually accidentally asked the Qiang Shan Yu Jiang Han to send the Qiang cavalry summoned to the south, otherwise his surprise attack plan might not be successful.
Looking at the dense camp of the Qiang people three miles away, and the fact that there was a team of patrolling guards not long ago, Huo Quzhi understood that the field of vision here was wide, and they would be exposed to the enemy in front of them. It is impossible to move forward quietly, and ordered: "Thousands of people will listen to Hou Yuan's orders." ”
"The last general will obey the order!" said a tall, muscular strong man next to Huo Quzhi respectfully.
"I order you to take a thousand men to detour to the southeast, and then kill the Qiang camp without worrying. ”
"No"
Thousands of generals ordered to go.
At ten points on the fifth watch, the shouting of killing sounded in the southeast direction, and Huo Qubing could see that the Qiang battalion had a general leading the army to the southeast, and there was also a constant noise in the Qiang battalion, with more and more torches.
However, to the east of the camp in front of them, a Qiang general led about 5,000 men from the camp and stationed at the camp gate.
Huo Quzhi said secretly: "Sure enough, there are also capable people among the Qiang people." ”
However, if he only has this ability, how can he be qualified to lead an army alone.
It didn't take long for the sound of horses' hooves from the north to gallop and kill directly towards the Qiang king's tent, fighting with the Qiang soldiers in the north.
But the Qiang general in the east was still unmoved.
Huo Quzhi was not in a hurry at all, and waited patiently.
At the gate of the east camp of the Qiang people, the Qiang generals are still the old gods, and they have no intention of helping the north and the south.
"General Mu, the enemy is coming from the north and south of the king's tent camp, let's hurry up and support. A general persuaded.
And this wooden general still closed his eyes and was unmoved.
"The general is not good, the enemy in the south is about to kill the camp at the south gate, and the general company asked me to come and report and ask the general to go to support. The enemy is so strong that a rain of arrows killed five hundred of our brothers, three thousand, and now less than half. A Qiang soldier covered in blood knelt in front of General Mu and said.
After listening to the soldier's words, General Mu was a little dilemma. First, he didn't expect the Qin army to be so heroic. Second, he always believed that the attacks in these two places were a cover, but the south was in danger, and if he didn't save it, in case it was the enemy's real main force and entered the camp, he could not escape the blame. Save, if it's a pretense, what should it be.
"Report, General Mu, the enemy has been discovered three miles away from the camp to the west. There were probably more than 5,000 people in the formation. "A Qiang cavalryman came on horseback to report.
"Okay, it's finally here. Leave 1,000 men to guard the east gate, and the rest will go west with Ben to kill the enemy. General Mu said happily.
"What about the general's south gate?" The soldier from the south gate hurriedly asked when he saw that General Mu was going to the west gate.
"Let Liancheng hold on, Ben will destroy the enemy in the west, and he will go to the rescue. ”
To say this is to be far away.
The soldiers from the south gate had no choice but to ride away.
Huo Quzhi, who was in the distance, saw the East Gate guard leaving, and a confident smile flashed on the corner of his mouth.
After waiting for half a ring, he ordered: "The whole army listens to the order and advances at great speed." ”
In an instant, two thousand soldiers of the Qin army quickly formed a long phalanx and rushed forward at great speed under the leadership of Huo Quzhi.
Two and a half miles!
Two miles!
"Buzz...... Buzz ......"
The loud horn sounded at the east gate, Huo Qubing knew that he had been discovered, looked at the Qiang warriors who were already in battle, and said, "Faster." ”
The soldiers sped up again.
One mile!
400 meters!
300 meters!
200 meters!
100!
Huo Quzhi looked at the enemy at the east gate, flashed a trace of ridicule, and ordered: "Prepare the bow and crossbow!"
The bows and crossbows on the strings of arrows have long been lifted by the soldiers.
"Shoot!"
The "whoosh" feather arrows shot towards the enemy, and the camp of the Qiang tribe was different from the Central Plains, the periphery of their camp was also a fence, and the camp gate was just an entry and exit channel. There are no watchtowers in the Central Plains camp or anything like that, and there is no place to shoot arrows from a high position.
Therefore, the Qin army's 2,000 arrows killed about 300 people, and while shooting the feather arrows, they did not stop loading the arrows, but accelerated faster.
"80 meters. ”
The feather arrows of the Qiang tribe "swished" at them, and although the Qin army had shields, they still killed and wounded hundreds of people.
"60 m"
"50 meters"
"20 meters"
"10 meters"
In a short distance of 60 meters, only 1,500 of the 2,000 people led by Huo Quzhi remained.
"Kill. ”
Huo Qubing led the soldiers to shout, rushed towards the enemy, and fought at close range, and the effect of bows and arrows was already minimal.
When the Qiang generals saw the Qin army rushing up, they also ordered the soldiers to replace their spears and axes and kill the Qin army.
The Qiang warriors were armed with rattan shields and leather armor, while the Qin warriors were equipped with bronze armor and bronze shields.
The two armies collided, the Qiang warriors fell into the downwind, the spear-wielding soldiers stabbed the spears to the Qin army, but were blocked by the bronze shield, the sound of "dangdang" was endless, as for the axe-wielding, before they got close, they were killed by the Qin army's soldiers Changge a meter away.
There are also some Qiang warriors who are on horseback, but the Qin army's shield array is a hedgehog, whoever is close to who dies, only to meet a few breaths, and two hundred Qiang people fell.
was forced by the Qin army to constantly retreat.
"Kill"
The shouts of killing came from behind the enemy, and it turned out that General Mu, who was heading to the west, received the news of the enemy coming from the east gate, and hurriedly led 2,000 people back to help.
For General Mu's reinforcements, Huo Quai's illness was not surprising at all, he tried hard not to engage the enemy in the plain clearing, because the enemy took advantage of the cavalry, they could only retreat to defense, and could not get close to the enemy camp at all.
Now that they had taken the east gate, there were many tents inside, and like street fighting, the cavalry advantage would be gone.
Because there was a shield guard defense in front, and behind the shield soldiers were soldiers who held the battle, so the Qin soldiers in the middle had already wound their arrows.
"Brush"
It was another round of arrow rain, and the 2,000 cavalry led by General Mu were live targets, and it could be seen that hundreds of people fell from their horses with arrows. The horses in front fell to the ground with arrows, and the cavalry behind also tripped and fell to the ground under the action of inertia.
"Appeal ......"
The cavalry behind still stopped.
General Mu turned his head and saw that he only had more than 1,000 subordinates left, and looked at Huo Qubing and the other Qin army was furious, eager to eat its flesh and drink its blood.
An order was given: "Rush." ”
It turned out that the Qiang warriors who were fighting with Huo Quzhi and others had flashed aside.
Seeing the menacing thousand-man cavalry, Huo Quzhi ordered: "Shoot!"
General Mu led the army to brave the rain of arrows and rushed towards Huo Quai, and at a distance of one meter, although some people died under the Qin army's Changge, there were still more than a dozen war horses that collided with the Qin army's shield, knocking the shield and the Qin army's soldiers into the air.
The formation of the Qin army was torn open, Huo Quzhi hurriedly came to this opening, resisting the Qiang cavalry behind, a spear made the tiger mighty, left and right, the Qiang cavalry had no power to resist under his hands.
The Qiang warriors in the Chongru array had no foreign aid and were beheaded by the Qin soldiers. Killing the enemy, the soldiers of the Qin army quickly blocked the gap with their shields.
The Qiang cavalry couldn't retreat, and Huo Qubing in front came with the slaughter of the soldiers step by step, and the Qiang soldiers were a little flustered, and their war horses were also irritable.
"Fight to the death, don't retreat. ”
With a loud shout, General Mu jumped off his horse and came forward from behind.
"Fight to the death, don't retreat. ”
"Fight to the death, don't retreat. ”
"Fight to the death, don't retreat. ”
The Qiang warriors no longer had the panicked look they had just now, and shouted loudly.
"Fight to the death, don't retreat. "Resounding in the sky.
Huo Quzhi looked at the death-defying eyes of the Qiang warriors, and shouted: "Great Qin, invincible." ”
The morale of the Qin army, which had been suppressed by the Qiang soldiers, suddenly rose high, and they shouted together: "Great Qin, invincible." ”
"Great Qin, invincible. ”
"Great Qin, invincible. ”
"Drink, drink, drink. ”
"Kill" the generals of the two armies ordered at the same time.
"Kill......"
Huo Qubing took the lead in fighting with General Mu, and the soldiers behind them were also swordsmen.
General Wood used a spear.
There was a "bang", and the guns and spears collided. The eyes of the two met in the air, and the fighting spirit was high.
General Mu's spear attacked Huo Quai's third leg, Huo Qubing secretly said despicable, and hurriedly bowed back, not expecting that this was General Mu's false move. General Mu's spear slashed from the bottom to the top, and it was about to split Huo Quai's head in two from the chin to the top. Huo Quai's spear pressed down horizontally, blocking the momentum of continuing to move upwards towards the spear.
But the spear was aimed at Huo Quzhi's throat, General Mu stabbed hard, seeing that Huo Qubing was about to die through his throat, at the critical moment, Huo Qubing turned three hundred and sixty degrees to the left and dodged this fatal blow.
The two distanced themselves, Huo Quzhi adjusted his mentality, and the two fought together again.
General Mu made a mistake, Huo Quzhi seized the opportunity, stabbed left and right, stabbed up and down, General Mu had no power to parry, and was stabbed by Huo Qubing several holes in his body.
"Ah", with a miserable scream, General Mu looked up at Huo Quai, full of resentment, and then looked at his own fall. His eyes turned white and he fainted.
Huo Quzhi stepped forward and shot through the throat mercilessly.
Soon, the soldiers also ended the battle, and in the end, all the Qiang soldiers were killed, none of them chose to surrender, and there were only 1,000 people left on Huo Quai's side.
Huo Quzhi rushed towards Shan Yu Jiang Han's royal tent with a thousand soldiers, came to the royal tent, and saw an unimagined scene.