Chapter 567: The Battle of the Ventilation Valley
Yu Fuluo looked at the grain transport team in the valley below from the mountain, and it was completely chaotic and camped along the road of the valley, without any rules and regulations for camping.
"Haha, a homeless person is a homeless person, just like this to transport food, if this is a real confrontation between the two armies, no matter how many people they have, they don't have to worry. As long as their food is robbed, their military spirit will be scattered. ”
Yu Fuluo laughed.
"Then the king, let's attack the past now? Robbed them of their grain? ”
The tribal leaders who had submitted to Fura were a little impatient.
"No, don't worry, we're mainly taking food this time, and they're too scattered in the valley below. If we attack and kill the past now, if they see that it is impossible to protect the food, and they are not willing to leave it for us if they set fire to it, then will we not be in vain? Yu Fuluo stopped: "Let's wait until after nightfall, they fall asleep, and then attack and kill." We don't have to care how many of them we killed. As long as we ensure the safety of our food, we must not let them be ruined. ”
"Yes, yes, our purpose this time is to seize the money and food, it doesn't matter if you kill or not. Hehe, those are some homeless young people who have just been formed, they have never fought at all, I am afraid that as soon as we kill them, they will hold their heads and run away, and those grains will naturally fall into our hands. ”
"That's right, that's what it means. When the time comes, they will also be captured as much as possible while ensuring food security. With so much food, we also need to move it by hand. Yu Fuluo said.
"Or is the Right Virtuous King thoughtful, then, is it better for our people to ambush first?"
"Well, lay an ambush first, let everyone eat something, but don't light a fire, so as not to alarm them and let them escape."
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Yu Fuluo They also had a major mistake, an intelligence mistake, they actually did not spy on Liu Xian borrowing men and horses from Ding Yuan in Bingzhou, let alone knowing that the commander who escorted and escorted grain for Liu Xian was Zhang Liao.
But this doesn't seem to be to blame for Fura. Because when Zhang Liao led 2,000 men and horses to Zengshan County, it was actually the time when Liu Xian began to subdue those tribes. At that time, the people and horses in Zengshan County went in and out, and every time the tribe was in and out of the people, there were generally hundreds or three or two thousand people, so Zhang Liao led two thousand people to Zengshan County, at that time, who knew what kind of people and horses were?
Although Liu Xian did not deliberately hide anything, as soon as Zhang Liao arrived, Liu Xian sent him out to be responsible for escorting and escorting the grain. Under such circumstances, Yu Fuluo's spies did not spy on the existence of Zhang Liao's team at all.
Escorting and escorting food is equivalent to logistical work.
Zhang Liao is cautious by nature, and under normal circumstances, he will ensure that nothing goes wrong, after all, the work of escorting materials is indeed not tolerated by the slightest sloppiness, and a carelessness may lead to a complete failure.
Liu Xian trusts him so much, and entrusts him with such an important matter, then Zhang Liao will definitely do a good job.
However, this time the escort of so much grain actually looked so sloppy. This...... Fake, of course.
Xi Zhicai had already sent someone to tell Zhang Liao, asking Zhang Liao to find a way to lure Yu Fuluo's men and horses to appear, and it was best to set up an ambush circle for Yu Fuluo's men and horses, and eliminate and capture some of Yu Fuluo's people as much as possible.
Here, this valley, the locals call it the Valley of Ventilation.
Because the valley passes through a seemingly criss-crossed landscape, but the road in the valley is relatively easy to follow, and the locals also pass through this valley.
There are a lot of large and small oxen and horse-drawn carts to escort grain, and it is difficult to travel if the road is not easy to walk. Therefore, it is easier to walk through this ventilation valley.
However, if you want to set up an ambush, it is also relatively easy in this ventilated valley, because the valley is also connected to dozens of large and small canyons that slope out. In those canyons, there are many military horses lurking. It can be said that even 100,000 soldiers can be hidden.
As far as marching and fighting are concerned, this is indeed a better place for Tibetan soldiers to ambush.
Zhang Liao believes that if the Xiongnu thief army in Shangjun wants to snatch the grain they are escorting, most of them will choose to do it here.
Therefore, Zhang Liao decided to lure Yu Fuluo's men here.
Zhang Liao deliberately controlled the team escorting the grain, and when they arrived in this ventilation valley, it was late in the sky, but it was not yet dark. In this way, they camped in the valley to rest, and it seemed normal.
In addition, the large and small bags of grain on the oxen and horse-drawn carts that are being escorted now are not actually grain. Those bags are all weeds.
This, if you are careful, will also find that the ruts of those ox carts and carriages are actually very shallow and not heavy.
But in order to confuse the Hun spies who were observing the grain transportation team from a distance, Zhang Liao would deliberately overturn some oxen and horse-drawn carts from time to time to let some grain pour out. And deliberately slowed down the speed of the escort, making people pretend to be very difficult, and gave those Hun spies a sense that these grains were too heavy, causing the speed of the march to slow down.
In fact, the real grain is still in Hedong County, Bingzhou, and has not been transported to Hexi.
In order to cooperate with Zhang Liao to crack down on the Huns who came to rob the grain, Xi Zhicai also quietly transferred some tribal men and horses from the military camp in Zengshan County in batches after Liu Xian's consent. Concealing the two or three thousand men and horses sent by Yu Fuluo to take refuge, they quietly operated to the ventilation valley and hid in some canyons.
The whole ventilation valley is about four or five miles long, and there are ten or twenty canyons on both sides. Find any canyon to hide in, and you can hide 10,000 or 20,000 horses.
In fact, Xi Zhicai only quietly transferred nearly 10,000 horses over.
In fact, there were some mountains in the middle of the ventilation valley, but after many years of passing, and then the government sent people to open up some mountains, so it can become a straight valley passage.
Of course, there is also the relationship of geological changes, there have been earthquakes, and some mountains that have been damaged have collapsed, so that with a little dredging, it becomes a valley road that can be passed directly.
Yu Fuluo also did not send spies to search every fork and canyon in the ventilation valley, and he didn't know that he had ambushed the men and horses early.
After dark, many fires were lit along the valley road, and the soldiers were making fires and cooking. The people were coming and going, and the soldiers and the young man who was in charge of driving the oxen and carriage were talking loudly, and it seemed to be very lively.
However, the Huns in the dark in the distance, they didn't know that the seemingly lively situation in the valley road was deliberately created by Zhang Liao's people, and at this time, the carriages and ox coachmen who escorted the grain had quietly retreated. Of course, when he quietly left, he pretended to untie the cattle and horses that were pulling the carts and pulled them to feed. This is so that when there is a fight, it will cause damage to these cattle and horses, or frighten those cattle and horses to pull those oxen and horses around in a random manner.
Ox carts and horse-drawn carts with weeds on them were nothing, but cattle and horses were valuable treasures. Zhang Liao also tried his best to avoid losses on his own.
Ox carts and wagons are damaged and can be remade very quickly, as are the bags of grain, but it takes some time for the cattle and horses to be able to raise them again.
At this time, Yu Fuluo was also patient, he did not rush to attack, but wanted to wait for the team escorting the grain to sleep before making a move, so that he could catch these people by surprise and not have time to destroy the grain on the oxen and carriages along the road.
At night, the ventilation valley slowly quieted down.
But the wind is a little loud, which is also one of the origins of the name of the Ventilation Valley. Every night, you will hear the whirring wind.
The fires in the valley road are also slowly decreasing, and they are extinguished a little.
Yu Fuluo had already mounted his war horse and rode in one of the valley valleys, and behind him were thousands of Hun cavalry.
There were also more than 10,000 cavalry, each of which was hidden in another canyon, and at this time, they were all ready, and they all got on their horses, waiting for the order of Yu Fuluo to rush in.
"Hun warriors! In front, there is a large amount of grain for the Han people, which is already meat in our hands! As long as we seize this batch of grain from the Han people, then we can get a large number of supplies for our tribe, and for a long time, we don't have to worry about food, this is a good time for our Xiongnu tribe to develop and grow in Shangjun. Boys! Kill all the Han people! Snatch up their food! Rush! ”
"Kill!"
Yu Fuluo raised his spear, and with an order, thousands of cavalry troops started together, and with a bang, the sound shook the entire ventilation valley.
After that, shouts of killing rang out everywhere in the valley, and for a moment the sound of horses' hooves was loud, and there was a rumbling vibration like an earthquake.
"Kill!"
Yu Fuluo took the lead, rushed to the main valley of the ventilation valley, picked up the improvised simple roadblocks on the side of the road with a spear, and rushed into the oxen and horse carts loaded with bags of grain along the way.
"Everyone, listen to the order, don't destroy and overturn these oxen and carts! And don't kill the cattle and horses that pull the carts, those are all grain, and we will need those cows and horses to pull the carts for us when the time comes! Only kill the Han people who resist! Well, those who surrender on their knees do not kill! Mainly captives! ”
Yu Fuluo was really excited at this time, those truckloads of grain were really valuable treasures in his eyes.
Those cows and horses, in fact, only untied the ropes and tied them to the woods on the side of the road, the sudden change naturally frightened them, and they looked a little chaotic, but they did not run around.
The cavalry was fast and rushed along the smooth valley road.
They opened the tents one by one.
Yu Fuluo also picked up a military tent on the side of the road with a spear, and then rushed in with men and horses.
But what stunned him was that he didn't find anyone in the military tent.
But he didn't think too much about it for a while, and followed the horse, and then went to pick up another military tent.
In this way, one after another, he didn't even find a Han person.
In the valley road, it looks a little chaotic, and when you look at the past, it seems that it is all in a scuffle. But in fact, those who rushed all the way were Yufuluo's cavalry.
Suddenly, Yu Fuluo suddenly felt that something was not right, something was wrong with this situation. Not to mention the coachmen who drove the oxen and wagons, even the soldiers who escorted the grain did not see a single one.
In front, there were already his cavalry rushing all the way along the valley road, and I don't know if the cavalry in front of him had touched those soldiers of the Han people.
He quickly stopped his horse and shouted to the left and right: "Not good! Why didn't you find any Han Chinese? Hurry up to the front to observe and see if there are any Han soldiers, otherwise, we may fall into the tricks of the Han people and fall into their ambush! ”
When the pro-soldiers and generals on the left and right heard this, they hurriedly responded to the order and moved forward quickly.
After a while, a personal soldier came back in a hurry and reported to Yu Fuluo.
"Report! King Youxian, our cavalry met the cavalry of the Han army in front, but they did not have many men and horses, only about a thousand horsemen. ”
"Hmm...... According to our spies, there were only about 2,000 cavalry of the Han army escorting this batch of grain, and about 1,000 infantry, and the rest were some oxen and coachmen. Now there are only about a thousand horsemen? And what about the other thousand horsemen and the other thousand infantry? ”
"Report, there may be a thousand horsemen outside the valley mouth, those infantry, may ......"
"Possibly! Anything is possible! Most likely, they are lurking around us, so send someone to find them! Yu Fuluo said.
"Could it be that they used those 2,000 cavalry to ambush us? No, just their one or two thousand men and horses, how can they ambush us? A tribal leader also said with some doubts.
"Joke! With the two or three thousand men and horses they escorted the grain, even if they let them ambush us, they are looking for death. Don't worry about it for now, hurry up and pull away the oxen and carriages along the road for the king, and take their grain first. ”
"Wait...... You Xian King, come and see, the grain on these oxen and horse carts...... No, these are not food, we were fooled! ”
At this time, someone finally checked the oxen and carriages on the side of the road and found that the bags were not filled with the grain they were expecting, but some weeds.
"Kill!"
At this moment, in some canyons in the ventilation valley, there were also sudden shouts of killing.
"Report!"
"King Youxian, there is a Han general in front who led two or three thousand men and horses to kill from the valley mouth, our army can't resist the enemy, and has been killed all the way by the other party."
"Report! In some canyons in the valley, there are also a large number of cavalry killed, and our men and horses have been divided into sections. ”
"Report ......"
The situation took a sharp turn for the worse, just now it was Yu Fuluo who led the army to attack those Han troops on the ventilation valley road, and now, in turn, he was attacked by the Han army instead?
"Not good! It's really an ambush. Since there are already two or three thousand men and horses in front, why are there other military horses to fight out? Obviously, Liu Xian is very likely to have hidden a large number of military horses here a long time ago. Broken! ”
"Right Virtuous King! What now? ”
"Withdraw!"
What else can I do? Yu Fuluo shouted angrily.