Chapter 23 Twenty-Three Snowball Scheme

The sky is getting dark, 100,000 cavalry have been encamped, in the big tent of the Chinese army, Sima Coo has a sad face, forty-five days have passed since he left Xianyang, and it is now the fifteenth winter month of the first year of King Qin.

He once wanted to give Yingzheng a satisfactory answer a year ago, but now it seems that it is impossible, and after more than ten days of pursuit, he can't even see the shadow of the enemy, so he can't help but have some air barriers.

He has issued a military order, withdraw the army to Longxi County early tomorrow morning, take advantage of the emptiness in the Xirong clan to take the Xirong Qiang clan first, and then go south to destroy the Xirong clan and unify the western region of the Qin State, waiting for the direction of the war between the Yue clan and the Xiongnu, and then make a decision.

"General Qiqi: General Huo Qubing asks to see him!" Sima Cuo's off-the-books guards came in to report.

Sima Cuo was a little surprised, the general in the army could not leave his post without a military order, it seems that something happened, could it be that there is news of the Huns. Thinking of this, Sima Cuo, the veteran, was also a little excited, and ordered the guards with a happy face: "Let him come in quickly to see the general." ”

"Nuo" was ordered to go out to spread Huo's illness.

Huo Qu walked into the handsome tent quickly, and Sima Cuo saw the joy on his face that could not be concealed, so he concluded his conjecture. But he still asked quietly: "General Huo has something to report to this commander!"

After Huo Quzhi saluted respectfully, he couldn't wait to say: "General Qi, the scouts of the First Army of the last general have found traces of the Huns. ”

Hearing this, Sima Cuo secretly said that this was really the case, and asked, "Is the news accurate?"

Huo Qubing said affirmatively: "The scouts under his command found the corpses of the people of my Qin State, tracked them to the north, and found a snowy road that was not covered by snow after the army walked, and the last general sent four teams of scouts to confirm many times that only a hundred thousand troops passing through can leave such a wide road of nearly a mile, and there is a great certainty that it is the Huns." He also sent 500 cavalry to chase after him, and he would bring back accurate news of the Huns tomorrow morning. ”

"Okay, good, the emperor lives up to his wishes, and he was finally caught up by us, and the Huns are waiting for my Daqin's anger. The three armies were ordered to rest tonight until noon tomorrow, and after noon they pursued the Huns with all their might. Sima Cuo swept away his previous gloom and ordered confidently.

The herald of "No" took the order and left.

The three days passed quickly, and God was not even in the heavy snow, and the sun was unusually shining for three consecutive days, and the soldiers of Daqin, who had been galloping for three days, were also amazed.

At sunset, the sunlight presents a beautiful scene in the world under the reflection of the snow. Zhuge Liang was the only one shaking a feather fan, admiring the beautiful scenery of the sunset.

"General Qiyu: The Huns stopped in a basin twenty miles ahead, and it seemed that they were going to camp in that basin for the night. "Scouts watching the Huns came to report.

"The order went down, and the whole army rested for two hours, took out the dry food and water that they had brought, and gave the general enough food and drink to eat. Sima erroneously commanded.

"No"

Seeing the herald leave, Sima Cuo turned around and saw Zhuge Liang squatting on the ground, looking at Bai Xue in front of him thoughtfully, and walked forward curiously. Facing Zhuge Liang, he asked, "Sir, this is... ”

Zhuge Liang came back to his senses when he heard Sima Cuo's voice, and replied: "Let the general laugh, I don't know how the general is going to deal with the Huns, the scouts have found out that the Hun cavalry is about 150,000, and our army only has 100,000 soldiers, so it is possible to have the ability to fight with one enemy and two, but if you want to annihilate the 150,000 Hun cavalry, it can be said that it is difficult to enter the sky." ”

Sima mistakenly understood what Zhuge Liang meant, fighting in this grassland, it can be said that it is difficult to completely destroy the 150,000 cavalry of the Huns, as long as the Huns concentrate their forces to break through in that direction, they may succeed, after all, 100,000 people want to encircle 150,000 people, and it is impossible not to let go of some enemies when fighting in the grassland. Moreover, we cannot use ordinary encirclement tactics, otherwise our own army will not have one in ten combat effectiveness.

Sima Cuo also had to admit this fact, and replied with some regret: "In the first battle, I was able to kill 50,000 Huns, and if I was wrong, I would be satisfied." ”

The Huns did not know their existence, and tonight's sneak attack would inevitably have great results, with Sima Cuo's many years of experience in leading the army, plus the equipment of the Qin army to kill 50,000 enemies, Sima Cuo was still confident.

Zhuge Liang smiled mysteriously and said: "At that time, Liang may be able to help the general, and it should not be a problem to kill 80,000 enemies." ”

"What? 80,000? What is the second plan of the sir?" Sima was shocked, Zhuge Liang said that he could kill 80,000 enemies, and added 30,000 on the basis of his 50,000, you must know that it takes 100,000 Qin soldiers to kill the enemy in a bloody battle, and he himself is ready to die in 20,000 Qin troops. But Zhuge Liang easily added 30,000, how did this not surprise him.

"The time has not come. Zhuge Liang's voice floated as soon as he went, and the person was already a hundred steps away.

The Hetao Plain, in a basin.

There are many tents, and the light of the burning torches is reflected in the snow so that they are clearly visible from a long distance, and the light of the torches is a guiding light in the night.

At this time, in the tents, the Huns were eating, drinking, and merry, enjoying their spoils, delicacies, and the women of the Qin State who were robbed by them were being pressed under them and humiliated. But they didn't know that death was coming to them step by step.

On the south back of the basin, there is a black Qin army soldier tying the horse's mouth, leading the horse's reins towards the basin's basin.

In the dark night, the banner above the 100,000 Qin troops, a huge black Qin character, hunted in the wind.

The word Sima on a banner above Sima Cuo's head actually gave people a murderous feeling, and those two words were even more chilly under this slight moonlight.

Sima Cuo led Zhuge Liang and a few people to stand at the mouth of the basin, looking at the countless tents in the center of the basin that were shining with fire, and the murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

Five white-robed scouts came back from below the basin, and the leading Wu Commander came to Sima Cuo and said respectfully: "General Qiyu: My subordinates have found out that most of the Huns are camped in the center of the basin, and the grain they have stolen and the people of our Qin State are imprisoned in the gap in the east of the basin, and there are 30,000 Huns to take care of them. ”

Huo Quzhi was the first to speak: "General, the last general is willing to be the vanguard and lead the army to kill the Xiongnu camp." ”

Wang Jian was not far behind and came out and said: "General, the last general is willing to be the pioneer." ”

Sima Cuo did not answer the plea of the two of them, but looked at Zhuge Liang beside him, Zhuge Liang smiled slightly: "General and three generals, please see!" After speaking, he pressed the snow on the ground into a ball with his hand, and rolled forward with the goods, and in a moment a snowball with a diameter of two feet appeared in front of everyone.

Sima Cuo and the three of them immediately understood Zhuge Liang's intentions, and Sima Cuo once again quickly walked to the mouth of the basin, and roughly visually measured the distance between his position and the Hun tent, about a thousand meters or so.

Sima Coo almost laughed heartily and said excitedly: "Okay, okay, the Huns have chosen a good grave for themselves." ”

The four of them retreated to the back of the southern part of the basin, and Sima Cuo said loudly: "Huo Quai's illness listens to orders!"

"The last general!"

"I order you to lead the first army from the west to the north of the mouth of the basin, and the general's Chinese army to surround the north and southwest, and let the soldiers snowball after reaching the north, the bigger the better. After rolling, push it to the mouth of the basin and wait for Ben General's order. ”

"No" Huo went to the sick and hugged his fist to take his life.

"Where is Wang Qian?"

"The end will be!" replied Wang Jian bent down.

"Order you to lead the 30,000 soldiers of the Second Army to ambush at the gap in the basin, and wait for our Chinese army and the first army to attack, and the 30,000 Huns guarding the people there will inevitably return to the central government, you must attack quickly, protect the people of Daqin, and not let them become hostages of the Huns." ”

"The last general commanded. Wang Jian said.

Before I knew it, two hours had passed, it was already late at night, and the fires in the basin had dimmed a lot, except for the patrolling Huns, the rest were still asleep.

However, there were large snowballs as high as one person at the mouth of the basin, one by one, basically surrounding the basin mouth into a circle of about 10,000 large snowballs.

"General, the flag on the General's side has sent a signal to prepare. Huo Quai's deputy general Li Ze came to Huo Quai's side and said.

When Huo Quzhi heard this, he instructed the heralds: "Let the soldiers prepare." ”

"Release" The commanders of the north and south ordered at the same time.

The five soldiers who received the order worked hard at the same time to push the big snowball in front of them in the direction of the central camp of the Huns.

"Zizi" remembered that the snowballs began to be very slow, and after rolling for a certain distance, they not only became larger, but also became much faster, and the 10,000 snowballs became bigger and bigger, and it became a behemoth to roll out of a distance of 500 meters, and even the soldiers of the Qin army who made these snowballs were full of disbelief. The Huns patrolling in the center of the basin also noticed that something was wrong, and looked at the snowball that was getting bigger and bigger in all directions, and began to be shocked, frightened, and desperate.

There is nowhere to run.

The Huns in their sleep were also awakened, and ran out of the camp to look at the snowballs that were somewhat bigger than tents, and they had only one thought, what happened?

Seeing the big snowball rolling in all directions, these Huns ran towards the camp tent, collided with each other and trampled on each other, killing and wounding countless people, rushed to the camp tent and collided with the Huns who came out of nowhere, and some people died inexplicably.

"Ah......h

"Help......"

"No...... No...... Step on my ......"

Exclamations, screams, endless.

The 30,000 Huns at the gap in the basin were not treated like this, and they were also horrified, and then secretly congratulated themselves on being sent to guard these Central Plains slaves.

The 30,000 commanders were also shocked when they saw this scene, if he was surrounded by that big snowball, the consequences would not be imagined.

"Not good, Prince. This person came back from the fright, and remembered that Zuo Xianwang Mao Dun was in the camp of the Chinese army, and he may have died under the snowball at this time.

"The whole army listened to the order and went to the camp with the general to become the prince. "The Hun general Hamu ordered.

"General, this big snowball must have been pushed by the enemy, looking at the number of snowballs, the enemy has at least seventy or eighty thousand people, the prince must have been more than lucky, we still feel like withdrawing." Another general admonished.

With a "poof", the admonishing general was stabbed through by Hamu, and the Hun general looked at the big knife that passed through his chest, raised his head and looked at Hamu's cruel and cold-blooded face, with an expression of disbelief.

Hamu led his corpse to the side, his bloodthirsty gaze swept over the rest of the Xiongnu generals, and asked coldly, "Who else wants to withdraw the army?" ”

Those Hun generals had already been frightened by Hamu's cruelty, and hurriedly shook their heads, for fear that they would be one step slower and go to persuade that man's footsteps.

"Okay, get on the horse with Ben and save Prince Maudun. ”

"Yes, General Ha. ”。

"Driving ......"

30,000 Hun cavalry headed towards the Xiongnu army.