208 Ambush at Taniguchi
"Since you want to talk to each other so much, please take it, let's go to a good place."
Without saying a word, Li Ling directly pulled Guo Kai and walked in the direction of Handan City, his so-called good place was the trench of the Qin army at the front of the moat that had been dug overnight.
Seeing that he was finally able to discuss peace with Li Ling alone, without the pressure brought by so many soldiers with loaded guns, Guo Kai was a lot more energetic, and he walked with the wind.
It's a pity that it was precisely because of this that he perfectly missed Li Ling's hand waving at Baili Meng after turning around.
When the two of them left the camp of the Qin army and jumped into the trench more than one meter deep hand in hand, Baili Meng immediately took action and tied up all Guo Kai's entourage on the spot and threw them into a tent.
Subsequently, except for the 1,000 Qin troops in the direction of Handan City in front, the remaining 9,000 people immediately all moved, checked the ammunition, and gently led the war horses in an orderly manner away from Handan, until they went out for more than a mile, the soldiers rode their war horses and moved forward slowly, until they made sure that the movement of the horses would not attract the attention of the Handan defenders, and then they galloped away.
It turned out that just when Li Ling was talking to Guo Kai earlier, the soldier who came in a hurry had come to report the situation to Baili Meng, and the scouts had already discovered Li Mu's army, which was only less than forty miles away from the position of the 38th Army at this moment.
Forty miles away, it won't take too long for two armies moving in the opposite direction to meet, but your Qin army has scouts, and the Zhao army also has scouts.
After discovering the scouts of the Qin army, Li Mu realized that the Qin army might have been blocked outside the city gate of Handan at this moment, and it was likely that a team of soldiers and horses had been sent to intercept him, so he immediately decided to immediately change the direction of his march and venture straight into the center of the straight line between Fanwu and Handan, which had not been set foot before, in an attempt to bypass Li Ling's back and turn from Li Ling's left flank to the right flank.
Li Mu's idea is logically no problem, when the enemy focuses all his attention on the front and left flank, then the right flank is bound to be extremely empty, and this is the best place for him to launch a surprise attack.
It's a pity that all this is based on the fact that the intelligence of the two sides is equal or even just unilateral and transparent to Li Mu.
Unfortunately, it is also a scout, Li Mu's scout can only rely on the naked eye to observe, but the scout of Baili Dream is equipped with a telescope!
This means that it is impossible for the intelligence of the two sides to be equal, and it is impossible to tilt in the direction of Li Mu.
After discovering that Li Mu's army suddenly made a ninety-degree turn and changed its trajectory, Baili Meng immediately realized Li Mu's intentions, and immediately decided to send a team of more than 1,000 people to continue the search in the previous established direction, creating the illusion that the Qin army still did not find the change in the actions of the Zhao army, and the remaining troops quickly turned around and advanced at full speed, heading straight to the right front of the current direction of Li Mu's march to set up an ambush.
Both sides were racing against time, but the Zhao army, which was overwhelmingly a foot soldier, could not outrun the Qin army on the war horse no matter what.
After finding a low, narrow plateau covered with shrubs as an ambush position, Bailimeng immediately began to prepare for an ambush with the eight thousand men and horses on hand.
Five hundred men were responsible for driving a full eight thousand war horses away from the position, until they disappeared into the horizon, and when they turned around, Baili Meng saw the figure of Zhao Jun.
"Listen to me, everything is based on my gunshots, I don't fire, no one is allowed to fire!"
Lying on the slope and covering himself with weeds, Bailimeng's order was quickly spread by word of mouth to the seven thousand five hundred soldiers of the 38th Army who had set up an ambush on the left and right.
It didn't take long for the Zhao army to approach the valley mouth area, and the Qin army set up in ambush at the valley mouth could even hear the Zhao soldiers chatting with each other as they marched.
Seeing Zhao Jun getting closer and closer, Baili Meng was lying on the commanding heights, beads of sweat slowly oozing from his palms, he was very nervous and excited, this was the first time he had commanded the troops to fight according to his tactical assumptions.
However, just as the vanguard of the Zhao army arrived at the mouth of the valley and was about to enter the valley, they suddenly stopped.
"Commander, did they find us?"
A soldier lying next to Baili Meng asked in a low voice.
"Don't worry, it shouldn't be yet, you must calm down."
said that he wanted to calm down, but under such a solemn atmosphere, who was not nervous?
Soon, Bailimeng saw a person riding a tall horse and running to the mouth of the valley to look, this person was Zhao Guowu Anjun Li Mu!
Just after Li Mu carefully observed for a while, he saw that with a casual finger of his hand, several soldiers immediately ran out of the Zhao army and ran directly to the slopes on both sides of the valley mouth.
The 38th Army was all ambushed on the high ground on the right, and there was no one on the left, but it was the right side of their ambush, and the location where those Zhao soldiers rushed up the slope was the ambush position of the Qin army!
"Calm down, you must calm down, don't move, don't move!"
The situation is too critical, but there is nothing he can do, Baili Meng couldn't help but cover his mouth directly, but he was still praying quietly, praying that the few Qin army soldiers who were now under Zhao Jun's feet must not move, and they must not be discovered by Zhao Jun.
For the perfection of this ambush, Bailimeng has driven away all the war horses, and the troops have been completely pulled apart and spread on the side of the valley, if the Zhao army finds the abnormality at this time, does not enter the valley, but directly turns around and leaves, or reroutes and rushes directly to Handan City, Bailimeng cannot stop it at all, and it is impossible to catch up with the Zhao army.
And at this moment, in front of Handan City, there are only a thousand soldiers of the Qin army!
It will be a disaster then, and Li Ling is still there!
"Ah~~!"
A howl suddenly sounded from the slope on the right side of the valley mouth!
Zhao Jun at the mouth of the valley immediately took out the weapons in his hands one after another, and he was on guard.
And Baili Meng, who was in the distance, also pinched a handful of sweat, lightly put his finger on the rifle trigger, and began to slowly pre-press, ready to fire at any time.
"What's going on!"
"Quick, help, help."
I saw that several Zhao soldiers who were originally on the slope on the right side of the valley mouth walked down the slope with a soldier in their arms and returned to the Zhao army's formation.
"The trap, he just didn't notice stepping on it."
"How's it going up there?"
Li Mu stepped forward to take a look at the wounded soldier and began to inquire directly.
"General Qiyu, I didn't find anything."
"Hurry up and help me to the back for treatment, the wound is too much."
After learning that there was no situation, Li Mu squatted down directly and looked carefully at the man's wound, which was deeply visible, and Li Mu felt distressed for a while.