Chapter 197: A Sentinel Battle in the Night
The king of the right valley personally mobilized the leaders of the various tribes.
Perhaps the king of Yougu Liwang had the dream of letting the Huns win the Central Plains and create a grassland emperor. But most other people's ideas are not so complicated, and most people just want to grab a handful.
To be honest, their leaders are doing well, but their tribes are not having a good time.
The Xianbei people in the north used to be just primitive and barbaric vassals, but now there is a great tendency to kick out the Xiongnu and make up with other tribes. Some tribes and pastures on the edge of the loop were harassed by these white-eyed wolves.
However, the traitors such as Qiangqu, Yu Fuluo, and Hu Chuquan turned to the Han people in the south, abandoned the aspirations of their ancestors, and took the cowards of the clan to take refuge in Dong Thief and Tong Rebellion.
And that child rebellion is the most shameless and treacherous. Two years ago, he also sent people to take the initiative to show goodwill and open up trade routes. As a result, at the beginning of this year, this guy directly asked the imperial court to canonize Hu Chuquan as Shan Yu. The meaning of this puppet is too obvious.
Now that this boy is begging for death in front of 100,000 troops, how can he give up this opportunity?
The more he thought about it, the more proud he became, and he ordered the army to camp on the west side of Fenshui, and the Han vassals and a group of slaves built a pontoon bridge to cross the river overnight.
At this time, the Fenshui was wide and deep, and there was only a thin layer of ice floe in winter, which could not support the soldiers and horses to cross the river. So it was necessary to build a pontoon bridge to get over the first obstacle.
"During the period when the other party is building the pontoon bridge, we can send a small group of elite troops to disrupt the opponent's progress and demoralize them." I am willing to lead a few soldiers and horses to attack the pontoon bridge at night.
Geng Qing added, "Our soldiers and horses eat well, especially with the supply of vegetables and mutton, which can be seen at night. The leaders of the other side ate a lot of meat, but the slaves who worked and the landlords who were vassal did not see anything at night. ”
"So you can let the guard battalion and the engineer go with you, and carry a sheepskin raft to destroy the other party's pontoon bridge. Maybe the enemy will be forced to wade through the ice to cross the river. ”
Tong Yuan said, "Okay. Geng Qing listened to the order. ”
Geng Qing hugged his fists and said, "The end will be." ”
Tong Yuan said, "You are responsible for commanding this raid, selecting two hundred elites, carrying sheepskin rafts, oil, and fire, and striving to destroy the pontoon bridge." ”
"No!"
Tong Yuan looked at Qubei and said, "Go to Beibei and listen to the order!" You lead 300 soldiers, carry rockets and sound the dyprosium, assist Geng Qing, and strive to kill and injure the opponent's rebels. ”
Qubei said confidently, "Please rest assured, Qubei will not disappoint the lord." ”
The advance of the old Xiongnu court had more than 20,000 troops, and according to the scouts' visual measurements, it was estimated that there were between 1,000 and 4,000 people in the city. With such a disparity in troops, they thought that the soldiers and horses in the city would not dare to go out of the city to die no matter what.
"Bai Ye, you have been to Hedong, I heard that it is very rich there, you can tell us about it."
Seven or eight Han people, who were as hungry as hemp rods and had a flattering face, said to a chubby Hun soldier.
This was very rare in this era, and this Xiongnu centurion was very intoxicated by the feeling of enslaving the Han Chinese. For him, driving the miscellaneous beards to become commonplace, buying and selling those brave but powerless Qiang, was not enough to give him any sense of accomplishment.
But that's a Han person, a man who is so powerful that he has a great respect when he hears his name! He is just a centurion, and he can let the Han people prostrate around him, which can make him blow for a lifetime.
"Then I'll tell you about the room over there, which is full of corn, and although it tastes dull, it's easy to get full. And there are beauties everywhere, soft and weak and can't pull the cow, but it's good to play. ”
After hearing this, most of those Han people left behind Harazi, who had already lost their reason and personality in suffering, and life and indulgence were all their motivation.
However, one of the old and the young looked at each other, first slightly stunned, then silent, and then happily listened to the Huns' nonsense.
The two of them were not sentinels lurking among the Huns, and the Dreadnoughts had no plans to waste their soldiers in this way.
In addition to surviving, these two people also retain the dream of returning to the Han land. The military strength of the Xiongnu did have a certain strength, and they were especially good at dealing with temporary lightly armed troops with a limited degree of armament.
In previous local conflicts, village and town self-defense militias such as theirs were easily defeated. Therefore, the patriarch and the big family hurriedly organized the sale of their sons and daughters, praying for the situation of maintaining the land and being willing to be a lackey.
The Huns had a very limited degree of civilization, and vassals like them had only two destinies. First, they become beasts that believe only in strength, and live a life of indulgence. Second, it is reduced to the slaughter of others, and is used as a sacrifice in battle.
These two are uncles and nephews, and returning to Han will definitely mean that the family will be reduced to the slaughter of others. However, people always have dreams and hopes, and it is difficult for people to stop here, so they plan to find an opportunity to escape.
The night was too cold, and the Huns in sheepskin furs gathered around the fire to keep warm, and these Han vassals could only surround the outside, constantly changing the parts of the warmth.
As for those slaves, engaged in such high-intensity labor, they can only be reduced to disposables. Since they are disposables, they will be gone after three days, so naturally there is no need to think about them now.
"Ahh Dead man! ”
Someone shouted on the other side of the slave group, and the Hun centurion glared and didn't care, there were their people who took turns guarding over there, and it was normal to kill a few.
"Hahaha, it's free!" "The Han army will win!" "The Great Han is mighty!"
The more the Hun soldiers and the vassal army listened, the more wrong it became, and some simply pretended not to hear and continued to warm themselves. The centurion shouted and said angrily, "Get up! The three of you go and report the news, and the others follow me! ”
"Whew!" Han Chinese vassals swooped down on the slave heap in a crowded formation with torches.
"Put!"
Suddenly, a group of sharp arrows knocked down a group of people from the side. A salvo was not enough, and the arrows swept like a storm.
They had already crossed the sloppy Fenshui, and they maximized the speed of fire advantage of their bows, and most of those who hit the arrow were not killed instantly, and their wails were so loud that they scared the other survivors into running away.
"Humph! Over there! ”
Just now, the Hun centurion and more than 30 of his henchmen deliberately threw away the torches and walked twenty paces away from the cannon fodder who swarmed up. Now he saw the attacker's position clearly, and immediately burst into suppression.
Although there were only about thirty of them, they were proficient in archery, and they shot more than 200 arrows in just a few breaths, and immediately suppressed the attackers.
King Zuoxian, who went to the humble and noble to be subordinate, was well aware of these tactics, and the first batch of Xiongnu archers they shot were under the cover of the Han shield spearmen, and they did not suffer much damage.
Instead, he approached a group of elite guards battalions, ready to take out these shooters with sore arms in one fell swoop.