Chapter Twenty-Eight: Preparing for War

Jiluo Mountain

"Report~!"

Outside the main account of the Han army's battalion, a herald ran all the way and shouted, Liu Bei and others, who were having a small meeting, heard that their faces sank, this situation must have happened something big, and with a wave of his hand, the herald was summoned.

"Report to the general, most of the men and horses in the Northern Hun camp have been gathered."

"Ha, it's a hands-on operation, and my bones are stiff."

Sun Jian reacted almost instantly when he heard this, and then burst out laughing, it was boring enough to find some trouble with a small group of Wuheng every day, and now it was time to start a real war.

Liu Bei also smiled, he had been squatting in Jiluo Mountain for so long, and the consumption of people eating horses and chewing every day was simply terrifying, and if he didn't go to war, he couldn't stand it long with the current reserves of the Han army.

"Pass my military orders! Prepare your troops and closely monitor the movements of the Northern Huns! General Jian, I still bother you to go to monitor it yourself. ”

Jian Shuo nodded, and strode out of the main account after solemnly agreeing, this matter has always been done by him, and it is natural to deal with him.

"Everyone, the big war is about to start, encourage it!"

Liu Bei looked solemn, bowed seriously and saluted the generals, from now on, you can't come nonsense anymore, you should work together in the face of the enemy, if Sun Jian dares to disobey the general's orders or discount his own orders, then he will really have to fight each other.

"Humph! A certain family is not so ignorant of the general situation. ”

Sun Jian understood that Liu Bei was giving him an ultimatum, although he was still a little dissatisfied, but he could still tell which was more important, as long as Liu Bei didn't use him as cannon fodder, it was not impossible to listen to his orders.

Yanran Mountain

The Northern Xiongnu Shan Yu Huyanhao led 40,000 Xiongnu headquarters and 90,000 Zahu Hao Hao to start the journey south, among them, Langel led 3,000 sentinels to explore the road in front, Huyanhao led 5,000 Xiongnu guards to march, 20,000 Xiongnu headquarters sat in the center, and Su Bu Crazy and Huyana Eagle each led 10,000 headquarters for the left and right wings.

The rest of the large number of miscellaneous beards were cut into four pieces, and the entire Northern Xiongnu headquarters was clustered in the center and guarded all around. Once attacked, Hu Yanhao, who was marching in order to boost morale, would lead the 5,000 Hun guards to slowly retreat, and then mobilize the surrounding Zahu to resist the attack.

Of course, he didn't think that he would be attacked, on the surface, the Han army in the east was busy suppressing Wuheng at this time, and I heard that the guy who had been dancing very happily recently, and they all began to join forces with Liaodong Xianbei to resist the attack of the Han army.

In fact, when he proposed to him two days ago to turn east to fight the Han army, he was very moved. After all, they didn't really want to fight with the Han family this time, fight for land or something, even if they defeated Wuwei City, they couldn't keep it, wasn't it just to give an explanation to the ancestors, to the clansmen, and to themselves? Can you feel a little solace when you leave the land where you have lived for hundreds of years? Whoever fights is not fighting, why do you have to gnaw on the hard bone of Wuwei City.

But Hu Yanhao, who had been thinking about it for a long time, finally rejected the proposal of the mirror, because the Han army would run, and he would kill the thirteen armies with him, as long as he was not brain-dead, he would choose to avoid, and when the time came, whether to chase or not, if he chased into the territory of Bingzhou, it would be more convenient to directly enter Wuwei.

If he didn't chase the U-turn and go home directly, he wouldn't have to do it, and the old thing in the Subu family would definitely take the opportunity to pull him off the horse.

Wuwei City

Huangfu Song stared at the map on the desk with a solemn expression, and was silent for a long time. Ever since the Northern Huns who received Wuyi Village began to gather the old and young in the miscellaneous hu, he keenly felt the breath of war.

"How's General Zhu doing?"

Huangfu Song didn't raise his head, and asked in a deep voice

Yan Zhong, who took over the management of Wuwei's intelligence, immediately returned

"General Zhu has arrived in Delete Dan, and at the same time, King Xiu Tu has also been called, leading 10,000 elite horsemen to Delete Dan, and now he should have arrived in Fanhe."

"How's the situation with Yu Ban?"

"It was slightly different from the plan, and it was attacked by more than 30,000 Qianghu under the unity of the Northern Xiongnu, but it has been defeated, and it is going all the way to the southeast at this time, and it should have reached Anyi at this moment."

"Ordered him to lead the headquarters to return to the army immediately, and Geng Han and others continued to attack and kill Qianghu"

Huangfu Song frowned, he originally planned to let Yu Ban kill the chicken and respect the monkey at once, and then use some garbage family private soldiers to replace him, put on Yu Ban's full body armor and pretend to be an elite to deter those restless Qianghu, the ghost knows that Yu Ban This guy killed a chicken and even killed a monkey, but fortunately, he met a group of private soldiers of the family, otherwise he would really have to be a moth.

"How's Liu Bei's situation?"

"At this moment, the whole army has begun to enter Jiluo Mountain, preparing to avoid the Northern Xiongnu army heading south, if nothing else, it should be able to successfully block the Northern Xiongnu after entering Wuwei County."

"Where is the remaining fifteen thousand forest reinforcements sent by His Majesty at this time?"

"I have crossed the Yinhe River two days ago, and I will be able to reach it in ten days at most."

Hearing this, Huangfu Song pondered for a moment, and suddenly raised his head and said in a majestic voice

"Order, Pang Shu, Ma Teng, and Zhang Ji led all the troops and horses to rush to Duyeze five days later, and deployed troops to the north, west, and south respectively, divided into three snipers, mainly attacking Zahu, and retreating with one blow!"

"Command!"

The three of them got up in unison and clenched their fists to accept the order.

The soldiers and horses of these three people all belong to the county soldiers, and they are mixed with ordinary young and strong county soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is at the second-rate level, but these three main generals are indeed quite good generals.

Moreover, these two men are all cavalry, so it is easy to run. But what's interesting is that the direction of development of these two is different, Pang Shu belongs to the light cavalry, mainly to interfere, investigate, chase and kill the rout to eliminate the weak chickens and horses, Zhang Ji belongs to the assault cavalry, and the shooting frequency and hit rate of the bow and crossbow have been significantly improved after being equipped with saddle stirrups, which makes him very excited and has a tendency to change to an archer cavalry.

As for Ma Teng's temporary light cavalry, he had a thousand heavy cavalry in his hands. When he just arrived in Wuwei City, in order to show his heroism and generosity, Huangfu Song waved his hand and said that the treasury was wide open, and you should say what equipment you want.

After all, now Wuwei City is almost a collection of materials from the entire Liangzhou, such as Guanghan County in the north of Yizhou, Sili's Right Fufeng, and Zuo Fengyi, all of which said: The soldiers can't be sent, but the materials can still be supported, so all kinds of materials of all sizes are constantly transported to Wuwei City, plus the looting of Qianghu, Huangfu Song can now be said to be rich.

Then Ma Teng opened his mouth to see five thousand heavy cavalry armors, not only for people, but also for horses! Huangfu Song's smiling face froze instantly, slowly turning gloomy, and finally under his evil gaze, Ma Teng took away a thousand sets of heavy cavalry equipment.

After Ju Yi learned about it, he killed the treasury on the same day and said that he wanted a thousand strong crossbows and a solid hardwood iron shield, and in the face of Huangfu Song's selection of people and devouring him, he blatantly refused to retreat, and asked for these if he was bitten to death, and hinted that if you Huangfu Song didn't give it today, tomorrow he would be full of Han propaganda that a certain big Han general would speak as a fart, and it stinks.

In the end, Huangfu Song's face turned blue and pressed Ju Yi's shoulder and said: If you can't get a thousand elite soldiers who satisfy him when the war starts, you will wait for him to cut down the sacrificial flag!

1,000 crossbows! Now it is to defend the city, it is self-evident how much role it can play, fortunately, Pang Yu, Zhang Ji and the two are still of good character, but they have changed their horses and equipment normally, as for the other private soldiers of the family who want to come over and take advantage, looking at Huangfu Song's face, thinking about his little arms and legs, forget it, he can't afford to provoke him.

The north of Wuwei City is actually very desolate, a large area of desert Gobi, only one is Nozawa, there used to be many people begging for a living in the vicinity, since the border of the miscellaneous locusts, now almost all of them have become Jedi without a little people. However, sniping is a good place, there is interference, the war horse can't run, and if you are not prepared, you can't carry out an effective pursuit.

Five days later, Pang Shu and Zhang Ji, who led the troops to Dunoze, saw that Ma Teng's head was hot for a thousand heavy cavalry, although the heavy cavalry had many defects, the cost was huge, and the battle was inflexible or something, but it was fierce enough! In addition to chariots, none of the chariots on the steppe can be cheaply compared with the heavy cavalry. Especially the camp, it is simply a steel beast, and everywhere it passes, it is all flesh and mud.

I knew that I would be shameless to take the benefits first, as for Huangfu Song, if he was offended, he would be offended, who would let him talk nonsense.

And Han Sui outside Wuwei City is very busy, since a large number of reinforcements arrived, Huangfu Song has completely disliked this guy, and even the soldiers and horses have been suppressed in the range of four to five thousand people, Han Sui is deeply desperate for this, just such a little soldiers and horses, plus some private soldiers of the family to hold the camp, how is it possible. Once the camp is lost, Huangfu Song will definitely chop him off for the reason of unfavorable defense, so after several nights of hard thinking, he decided to build a dock fort!

By the way, the dock fort was prevalent in the reign of Wang Mang Tianfeng and developed to a certain height, but in the Han Guangwu Emperor in order to strengthen the rule of the order to destroy all the dock forts, and strictly prohibit the construction, although there is no indiscriminate use, but on the bright side can not build the dock fort.

Han Sui didn't dare to do this under Huangfu Song's nose, so he pleaded for a long time at Huangfu Song's desolate place, and Huangfu Song agreed as soon as his heart softened, but warned Han Sui that it must be demolished after the end of the war. Han Sui naturally promised again and again, and then decisively summoned a large number of young men to start building the dock fort.

In order to save his life, Han Sui's IQ skyrocketed, not only inlaid a large number of blades and wooden cones on the walls of the dock fort, but also did not even open a gate on the dock fort, but only opened a small hole more than one meter high for daily personnel to enter and exit, once the war started, it was directly blocked.

And outside the dock fort, not to mention, a large number of rejected horses, a large number of ravines, a large number of horse pits, and a lot of tung oil has been prepared, which is clearly placed next to the ravine, it is obvious that Han Sui is planning to can't bear it and give himself a light, the fire ring besieges the city, and if there is a seed, come to do Lao Tzu!

Han Sui really didn't want to die, he would end up in this battle, either die in battle, and then become a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty again, or fight to the death, kill enough Hun headquarters, and it is best to kill a big man, so as to get Liu Hong's amnesty, even so, it is estimated that he will be transferred from Liangzhou to the central government to be stared at. As for rebellion, forget it, if you dare to think about it, a knife will stab you in the back the next moment.

Therefore, when he saw Han Sui's dock fort, his heart was cold, not that he couldn't fight, but the price he needed to pay was too great, and it was not worth it, because due to the limitation of the scale of the dock fort, the hidden soldiers in it would not exceed 8,000 people, and after removing the men guarding the city wall, there would be about 3,000 people left, and 3,000 people rushing out would have an impact on the Xiongnu army? Not at all.

Although Han Sui never thought about going out, and Huangfu Song didn't think about asking Han Sui for support or anything. This is a thorn in the throat of the Xiongnu army, if you attack Wuwei City with all your might, in case the elite of the 8,000 men and horses in Wubao will capsize once they kill the backstab. If you take the lead in attacking Wubao, you will be disgusted by the arrangement, and it will be impossible to defeat it in a short time with the quality of Zahu, and then you will have to guard against the Han army in Wuwei City.

Therefore, both Huangfu Song and Han Sui understood that the Northern Xiongnu must send a headquarters to lead a force with a number of no less than 40,000 horses and horses to attack the dock fort, or besiege the dock fort, and this is also the purpose of the emperor Fu Song.