Chapter 119: The Battle of Mobei
Facing such an unchanged scenery for a long time will make people feel that they will never reach the end, and some people with fragile minds are prone to despair because of this, so Huo Quzhi will organize some entertainment activities in the barracks, such as: Keju.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Huo Qubing were both very fanatical fans, and the two often fought in teams in the palace and had a lot of fun. Now Huo Qubing has moved the course to the Gobi Desert in a barren land, and even moved to the desert with yellow dust.
It also enriches the lives of the soldiers in the barracks, and at the same time exercises the physique and cultivates the fine qualities of resourcefulness, courage and decisiveness, perseverance and invincibility.
During the Battle of Hexi before, Huo Qubing had already organized many Keju competitions, and this time he did not hesitate to move this move to the Battle of Mobei.
This is Huo Qu's disease, the deviant Huo Qu's disease, the unscrupulous Huo Qu's disease, the disdainful Huo Qu's disease, and the love-hate Huo Qu's disease.
Although the Gobi is deserted, there are many high-flying goshawks in the sky, and these eagles hover the sky and soar freely.
Whenever the horse gallops and chases with them in the vast and vast world, there will always be a thousand pride in the heart, the end of the sky is the sky, the end of the Gobi is the Gobi, the clouds flow, all the way to the north, to the end of the heaven and earth.
If Chu Jinmo is a fierce tiger in the mountain stream, he is fierce and straightforward, aggressive all his life, and he is never willing to lie dormant. Then Huo Quzhi is the goshawk of the desert, heroic and confident, the pride of everything, and everything under the clouds is an ant.
After galloping on the red land of the Gobi for several days, one day at dusk, the scenery finally changed, and the smell of dry dust came to the face, and the golden sand dunes and wild camels in twos and threes met the eyes of the soldiers of the Han army.
Under the clear blue sky, the desert is vast, desolate, majestic, thousands of miles of undulating sand dunes are as high and low as the solidified waves, the expedition has finally completed most of it, Huo Quzhi looked up to the sky with a long roar, and took the lead in the long yellow sand, the desert is lonely, the sun sets over the long river, the desert is magnificent, but his figure is desolate.
So this ancient lonely desert, since then ushered in thousands of horses galloping, when the sun gently jumped from the horizon, the distance finally appeared a line of Hun troops around the boundless.
Huo Qubing hurriedly ordered the army to stop, to gain this short time to rest for a while, and to feast on the war meal, ready for the upcoming battle.
Lu Bode reminded Huo Quai, and marched in a hurry for a few days, but the army had left the baggage troops far behind, and there was not much food and grass left, and there was no meal to eat.
Huo Quzhi said with a smile: "Don't worry, when we beat this Uwei child, we can take food from the enemy!" ”
The sun rose higher and higher, and under the indigo blue sky, the tired soldiers of the Han army were gently shrouded in a layer of warm sunlight, feeling that the morning light of the desert was so gentle. The Hun army was getting closer and closer, but the sound of hooves was obviously a little flustered, they didn't expect the Han army to come so quickly.
Huo Quzhi suddenly raised his sword and shouted: "Rush!" The 50,000 Han troops immediately set out in unison, but when they saw the horses' hooves surging and the sand and dust rising into the sky, like an angry sea, covering the entire horizon in a blink of an eye.
The Xiongnu army hurriedly responded to the battle, but as soon as they made contact, they obviously fell behind, they did not expect that after such a long march, the soldiers of the Han army could still be so brave.
In just half an hour, the first wave of encounters between Han and Hungary ended, King Zuo Xian lost nearly 10,000 forward troops, and the Xiongnu King Bicheqi was killed by the Han army, and even Zhang Qu, a close minister sent by Yizhi to supervise the army of King Zuoxian, was also captured. The Han army lost less than a thousand troops.
Huo Qubing ordered: 50,000 Han troops surrounded more than 100,000 Xiongnu troops on three sides, the forward troops rushed into the Xiongnu position again, and the rear troops fired on three sides to support their firepower.
Uwe was furious: Biche Qi is simply useless, and he really loses the face of this king; Zhang Qu was even more useless, and he lost Da Shan Yu's face. It seems that this king has no choice but to dispatch a secret weapon, General Zuo, you go, don't be ashamed this time.
The so-called Zuo General is the military commander of the Xiongnu Zuo Xianwang. This person can do this position, and he naturally has some skills.
Sure enough, as soon as General Zuo arrived at the middle army, the Hun army immediately stabilized its position and began to frantically counterattack the Han army, and as a result, the Han army, which had the upper hand and was about to break the enemy's front, was forced to retreat.
In the flat, boundless desert, if an all-cavalry force could be encircled in a roundabout way, the following two results would surely be produced:
First: for an all-cavalry unit, being able to surround another all-cavalry unit is a great tactical advantage imaginable.
Because we can fire at the enemy in all directions, even if it is only encircled from three directions, the enemy will be in an extremely bad tactical situation. What Huo Quzhi has to do now is to maximize this tactical advantage as much as possible.
Second: due to the harsh tactical situation created by the encirclement, the enemy will have to withdraw from the area where he is enhancing. However, encircling the enemy forces and then trying to annihilate them in one fell swoop is not an easy direct goal to achieve.
For for any all-cavalry unit, as long as their formation and strength are largely intact, and at the same time they are located in a suitable terrain, they can usually break through this improvised encirclement very easily.
Because they are highly mobile troops, their commanders can suddenly concentrate their forces and choose a suitable place to rush out of the army.
Therefore, it is generally impossible to annihilate the cavalry, but it is very easy to deal a serious blow to the enemy in the encirclement, but the premise must be one of the following two situations:
First: the enemy is not properly commanded, or the commander has decided to sacrifice part of his forces in order to save other troops. For example, the aforementioned situation of Yi Zhi abandoning the army and fleeing.
Second: the combat effectiveness is fragmented, the phenomenon of collapse and disintegration has already occurred.
Huo Quzhi realized that he must now work towards the second scenario in order to achieve the greatest results. The second point is a prerequisite for the destruction of the enemy's organizational structure, trying to disperse the enemy's forces in a defensive position so that they can be broken individually.
And once the enemy army has been completely defeated, it is necessary to pursue it with all its strength in order to expand the results of the battle, and try to make the enemy lose forever the opportunity to regroup his forces, which in turn requires the supremacy of speed, and the organization of the pursuing troops and the necessary supply system as quickly as possible.
Thinking of this, Huo Qubing immediately summoned all the captains to the tent and asked: "This wave of enemies is very tenacious, who of the captains wants to fall into battle but the enemy, cut the generals and hold the flag, and lead my army to follow up and break it?" ”
Li Dang let out a long laugh, stood out proudly, and said, "Zuo Xian Wang's captain has already understood!" Kill the flag and hold the flag, it must be me! ”
The captain's eyes all looked at one person.
Who? Li Kang.
It was Li Kang, who had led more than ten people to penetrate the 40,000 ** formation of King Zuo Xian two years ago, as if entering a no-man's land.
I looked at this young man who was about the same age as Huo Quai, and secretly said in my heart: "Li Kang! I haven't seen him for a few years, and I can't imagine that he is no longer the young man who recklessly saved people in the restaurant, and now he is also serving under Huo Quzhi! ”
Huo Quzhi nodded, "Okay, I'll send you!" ”
Two years ago, Zuo Xian Wang Jun had almost wiped out the 4,000 children of the Li family, which was really a red eye for enemies.
Li Dang led a thousand-strong Han army to rush into the Hun enemy formation like lightning, clashes left and right, unstoppable, and killed the whole body like a bloodbath.
Under the coercion of the surging murderous aura of the Han army, all the soldiers of Zuo Xian's royal department finally recognized this fateful enemy and shouted: Li Kang, Li Kang, the madman is here again, flee quickly!
When the Xiongnu Zuo General saw that the big thing was not good, his fighting spirit suddenly turned into a must, and he quickly abandoned the army and retreated to the rear. Li Dang took advantage of the situation to go straight into the Xiongnu Chinese army, chopping melons and vegetables, and sending more than ten people such as his own soldiers, banners and drummers to the western sky.
Then he jumped into his own hands, directly surrendered the command vehicle of the Chinese army of the Huns, raised his flag and drums, and drove back majestically.
Huo Qu was overjoyed and ordered the whole army to charge again, at this time the command system of the Xiongnu had been completely destroyed by Li Kang, and the whole army fell into chaos, where could it still stop the charge of 50,000 Han cavalry pouring out of the nest, and suddenly the whole line collapsed, and King Zuo Xian was desperate.
He now understands why Huo Qubing was able to ride 800 horses across Monan and 10,000 horses to sweep Hexi. Now Huo Qubing has 50,000 fine horses, 50,000 elite horsemen, and strong generals under his command, who can be his opponent! Withdraw brothers, this battle has nothing to fight!
So Uwei led the army to quickly withdraw from the desert and retreat north into the grassland, although he lost tens of thousands of troops in this battle, but at least kept most of the main force of nearly 100,000 people, he should feel extremely lucky.
But alas, something even more terrible is yet to come.
As the sun sets, the sunset is like blood, reflecting the yellow sand-covered earth with a hazy and strange pale pink.
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ hussar general laughed at the nineteenth chapter of the biography and said that after Gongsun Ao got lost in the desert and couldn't go to join Huo Quai, he was very uneasy, and after returning to Chang'an, he went to Wei Qing first.
"General, what should you do? This time I got lost and died. You have to save me", Gongsun Ao frowned.
Wei Qing comforted: "It's okay, you see that Li Guang and Zhang Qian don't fight as well as you, and you don't have anything to do!" ”
Gongsun Ao said: "Don't mention Li Guang, they have Sima Qian's studio, and a lot of water troops help wash it away." Not to mention Zhang Qian, who stayed in the Xiongnu for more than ten years without betrayal. I was fined a lot of money the last time I went out with Li Guang, and I was almost crazy poor, and my family was already destitute. Or is it better to follow the general, just go out to get a soy sauce and come back and seal the marquis, there is wood? ”
Wei Qing patted Gongsun Ao, "Don't be afraid, good brother is angry." I'll help you plead with the emperor, and I'll lend you this money first. ”
Gongsun Ao was relieved.