Chapter 26: Plundering military resources, Xiahou's overlord army was divided into four routes, and when Hu Wang Zhongquan planned to attack the camp at night

After Xiahou Ba sent troops from Fenglin, he divided his more than 2,500 people into four teams, Xiahou Ba led one team, and the remaining three teams were led by the generals of each team to divide into four directions of northeast, due north, northwest, and due west to sweep.

At the time of dividing the troops, the general Su Kuang once raised objections, saying that Xiahou Ba's move was too alarming, and each team wanted more than 800 people but intended to plunder as many as 340,000 Qiang tribesmen. Xiahou Ba replied: "There are four advantages in the division of troops, although there are many Qiang people, but due to the Liangzhou Assassin Shi (Guo Huai) several battles were frightened by the Wei army, this is one." Second, the strong people of the Qiang people were mostly summoned by the king of Hu to fight with the Liangzhou Thorn History, and the first people who migrated were mostly the old and weak women and children of the Qiang people, although there were many people, but the combat power was extremely low, and when they saw the arrival of our Wei army, they were bound to flee by the road. The three divided their troops, and it was difficult for the Shu army to know the details of our army, even if they wanted to send troops to intercept our army, they had no way to start. Our four armies are all cavalry, if we communicate on time, then we will plunder and burn the Qiang people's materials in equal parts, and then we can quickly gather together in case of accidents, this is the four also. ”

Xiahou Bayu laughed: "With these four benefits, how can I Xiahou Ba not divide the army?"

The congregations will bow down separately. Xiahou Ba immediately ordered: "Pass on my military order, all looting materials, take away what can be taken away, and burn all that can't be taken away, and not leave a grain of rice or wool for the Qiang people!" After the war, I will definitely take credit for you! ”

After receiving the order, the generals took their soldiers and went in the direction of the plan. Sure enough, the Qiang people had already been killed by the Wei army, and when they saw the arrival of the Wei army, they fled for their lives, and all the cattle, sheep, tents, grain and other materials were thrown away in the wilderness, and they were collected by the Wei army, and all the cattle and sheep that could not be taken away were slaughtered and burned together with other materials. Suddenly, the entire grassland was filled with thick smoke. Fortunately, the places where the generals burned were far away, otherwise they would have been discovered by the scouts of the Shu army.

The direction chosen by Xiahouba's first team is northwest. Approaching evening, Xiahouba was riding on a horse and leading a group of soldiers to march forward unhurriedly on the grassland.

Since the troops had just plundered a migration tribe of 1,000 people of the Qiang people, each soldier was bulging above his horse and even around his waist. In this regard, Xiahou Ba did not give too strict instructions to the Wei army, after all, the northwest direction is the main migration direction of the Qiang people, and in five days, Xiahou Ba's headquarters has gone through more than ten large and small battles, plundering tens of thousands of Qiang people, and many soldiers have been exhausted, and they have complained. In order to boost the morale of the soldiers, Xiahouba had no choice but to acquiesce in the gold, silver and other materials plundered by the soldiers to be owned by individuals. So when a brave soldier privately put a small piece of looted silver horn into his pocket and found that there was no general reprimand, this almost rapid action spread to the whole army, copper, silver, fur, etc., were privately carried on his body, so that although the soldier had fought many times, basically every soldier blushed with excitement. For ordinary Wei soldiers, in fact, where is this to fight, as soon as those Qiang people saw the arrival of the Wei army, they immediately scattered and fled, and then the Wei army basically did the work of burning fireworks. Encountering such a good thing that can make a fortune without playing with life, all the soldiers are very excited, and their morale has reached a peak.

At this time, a herald suddenly rushed up from the rear of the team on a fast horse, and in an instant, he had rushed to Xiahou Ba's three zhang away, rolled the saddle and dismounted, and said on one knee: "General, our army came to report that last night Liao Hua, the general of the Shu army, went out of the city with a large number of cavalry and went straight to the north. ”

Xiahou Ba was stunned and said, "Oh? How many centaurs are there? ”

"I couldn't see it clearly in the middle of the night, there were about two or three thousand people."

After hearing this, Xiahou Ba looked around at the generals and said with a smile: "If the Shu army does not come out, I am a little worried, but now that the Shu army is coming out, I can rest assured." ”

General Xue Fengxian said: "The Shu army is coming out, it is obvious that it is coming for our army, why is the general not worried but happy?"

Xiahou Ba smiled and said, "If the Shu army does not send out cavalry, it will have to attack my camp with all its might." In order to avoid the loss of our battalion, we had no choice but to gather troops and return to the rescue. Now Liao Hua has come out with his troops, because the Shu army has not yet gone all out to attack our army's camp. As for Liao Hua, Xiahou Ba paused and smiled: "On this vast grassland, we can advance or retreat, can Qi An find where our army is?" ”

The generals were all impressed.

Xiahou Ba ordered: "Immediately inform the partial general Ding Yi, General Pi Ma Feng, and Xu Jiongru to avoid the Shu army from afar, and do not entangle and fight." ”

"Whoa!" The herald clasped his fists and saluted, then turned and mounted his horse and walked away. (Note 1)

Xiahou Ba was about to open his mouth to say something more, when suddenly another herald in the distance sang and reported in, "Report-"

"Tell me!" Xiahou is domineering.

"General Yu, thirty miles ahead, Yulin found that a Qiang army was camping, and I came to report it."

"Oh?" Xiahou Ba was stunned for a moment and asked, "Have you ever found out which tribe it is, who led it, and how many people are there?"

"General, there are about more than 1,000 Hu soldiers, there is no banner to explore the horse and not find out which Qiang tribe it is, but the leader should be a Qiang Hu King, Tanma saw an octagonal tent from a distance. (Note 3)"

"Probe, report!"

"Whoa!"

After the herald stepped down. Xiahou Ba suddenly ordered: "Order the whole army to stop and bury the pot on the spot to cook." ”

Feng Xian hurriedly said: "General, this place is only thirty miles away from the place where the Qiang people are camping, if we bury the pot and cook on the spot, won't the Qiang people notice it?" ”

Xiahou Ba said with a smile: "The Qiang people have lived on this grassland, and our whereabouts have long been known by them, and now the Qiang people are encamped, and they are clearly pretending to be pretending to be loud and dare not fight with our army." In this case, if he does not come, I will go to meet this Qiang king Hu. ”

Xue Fengxian said: "The general is courageous, and the last general admires." It's just that our army has been exhausted from successive battles, and there are many Qiang people in our army, if our army rushes to Nahu for a long time, it will be worried that our army will not have a chance of victory. ”

Xiahou said domineeringly: "This time, King Hu of the Qiang people is going to be wings, and there must be something important to discuss with the Shu army, so our army must make every effort to stop this matter." I expect that if this team of Qiang people is defeated, then Jiang Wei'er will have to delay on this grassland for at least half a month, which is beneficial and harmless to my Wei country. If we ignore them and allow them to converge, then our army has lost its initiative. ”

Xue Fengxian and the generals were all impressed when they heard this, and they all bowed their hands and said, "We are willing to be sent by the general." ”

Xiahou Ba asked, "Where are the three of Ding Yi?" ”

Xiahou Yuan, the chief secretary of the army, replied: "General Ding Yi is in the west of Sanhe (Note 2), General Ma Feng is 70 miles to the north, and General Xu Jiong is 150 miles to the northeast. ”

Xiahou Ba pondered for a moment and said: "The herald Ding Yi and Ma Feng must lead their troops to Yulin tonight, and set fire to the forest when the Qiang camp is in chaos, and then rush to the Qiang camp to fight." ”

"Whoa!"

Xiahou Ba then looked around and ordered: "All the soldiers obey the order!" ”

"The last general!" The generals surrendered together.

"Arrange for the soldiers to rest immediately after their meals. Tonight, I will wait for the second watch to set off, and the affairs of the third watch must rush into the Qiang camp! ”

"Whoa!"

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Note 1: In fact, the ancient communication system was not like in the current TV series, a scout can enter the military tent and report the military situation to the main general, if it is really like that, how many main generals are not enough to assassinate. Military intelligence is reported by scouts to heralds, who then report to the commander-in-chief.

Note 2: In ancient times, one combination was thirty miles of road, and three of them were ninety miles of road.

Note 3: Historical records record that the Qiang and Xiongnu people set up tents based on the number of ropes, and the ordinary Qiang people built tents with four or six ropes, and added two ropes for each noble level above, until the time of Genghis Khan, and later Genghis Khan abolished this rule, and since then ordinary Mongols can build really solid tents.