Chapter 57: Skirmishes

In the battle, the Xiongnu lost more than 30,000 soldiers, and Uweishan led the army to flee north for 500 miles in a hurry, losing countless soldiers and horses on the way, and his vitality was greatly damaged. {sxs.} The advantage of the previous big win is gone. Meng Chao, the general of the Northern Liang Dynasty, waved his army to the north, and drove straight along the way, and the Huns did not dare to take its edge. Li Guang, the general of the Northern Liang Cavalry, led an army of 8,000, like a sharp knife rushing forward and slamming into it, with fierce momentum, and stabbed directly at the heart of the Xiongnu tribe - the Xiongnu king's tent. Along the way, the Huns fought and retreated, their morale was sluggish, and the safety of the king's tent was in jeopardy.

The Northern Liang people wanted to force the Huns to relocate the royal tent? This is an extremely shameful thing, but in terms of strategy, the Huns are already at an extreme disadvantage, and they are completely suppressed by the Northern Liang people. One defeat in a war is enough to decide many things! Although the two sides are still deadlocked, each side of the two wars has one win and one loss, and the loss ratio is almost the same, but the actual situation is very different. The latter of the Northern Liang people is on top, and the momentum is booming, and this morale has an absolute advantage; In addition, the war horses on which the Huns marched most relied on were lost nearly half at the moment, which was undoubtedly a great reduction in the combat effectiveness of the Hun soldiers, so at this moment, both sides seemed to have the strength to fight, but the balance of victory had quietly tilted towards the side of the Northern Liang! It was not so easy for the Huns to regain the fertile land on the occupied steppe again.

And at present, the most troublesome thing for the Xiongnu Uwei Shan is not the temporary success or failure of this war. For a heroic, heroic and decisive leader, the temporary battle situation does not explain any problems, feng shui takes turns, and either side is unlucky, so Uwei Shan Yu is most concerned about the life and death of the entire grassland, and is worried that Duan Zhong said that the people who cross the Northern Liang will be in the water source on the Xiongnu grassland...... Poisoning.

At present, the army of the Northern Liang has been five or six hundred miles deep into the hinterland of the grassland, and hundreds of miles further is where the core king of the grassland is located, as long as the Xiongnu royal tent is forced to move to the northwest, so that the Xiongnu soldiers can be damaged a little more, and they cannot pose a threat to the Northern Liang in the short term, then the army of the Northern Liang can implement this set of strategies, forcing the Huns to live only in the northwest of the grassland, and on the border between the grassland and the Northern Liang, the number of soldiers can even be reduced, after all, they want to cross the border of nearly thousands of miles to harass the Northern Liang people, It's not an easy thing to do. And just in this way, the strategic purpose of the Northern Liang people has been completely achieved, and then they can safely withdraw their troops and begin to prepare for the battle of crossing the river in the south. This kind of loss is completely within the range that the Beiliang people can bear.

Therefore, the choice that Uwei Shan is facing at the moment is very clear, whether to hold his position and fight against the Northern Liang people, or to use the guerrilla tactics that the Huns are best at to gain the strategic initiative? At this point, Xiongnu Shan Yu made a very bold move that Duan Zhong admired! Since the Northern Liang people dared to plan to release poison on the water source above the grassland, then the Huns could also do the opposite, and poison the water source on the grassland themselves to stop the advance of the Northern Liang people!

I have to say that such a move was completely unexpected by Duan Chong, but if you think about it carefully, it is undoubtedly an extremely wise choice at this moment! Since the Huns were unwilling to give up the vast land of the steppe for strategic transfer, nor were they willing to let the Northern Liang people turn this fertile land into a wasteland, the Huns preferred to do this work themselves and control the losses within an acceptable range. First, although the Huns poisoned this water source, the scope and amount would be controlled within a certain extent, which might make the water source unusable for a short time, but it could successfully hinder the footsteps of the Northern Liang people, otherwise once the Northern Liang people continued to advance, the water source that became poisonous water may be more than that; Second, the Huns did not poison all water sources, so the Northern Liang people could not distinguish which water sources were poisonous and which were non-toxic, and they did not dare to use them anyway. On the contrary, in this way, the Huns could grasp the distribution map of clean water sources, so that they could have a great advantage in guerrilla warfare! Even if they prepared for the worst, the Northern Liang people would only sprinkle poison on the water sources within a radius of 500 miles of land they occupied, which was much better than the original situation of large-scale sprinkling!

At the same time, Uwei Danyu finally changed his strategy and began to shift from positional warfare to guerrilla warfare. After all, at this moment, Uwei Shan Yu's actions already have some tendencies to break the jar and break, if he doesn't take the initiative to drive the Beiliang people out of the grassland, then there will be more and more troubles. Half of the remaining tens of thousands of cavalry of the Xiongnu, totaling 20,000 people, were scattered into a squad of 500 people, and the camp and army of Beiliang were harassed indiscriminately around the clock. With incomparably high mobility, the Hun cavalry can really be said to have come and gone without a trace, leaving the Northern Liang people helpless. When marching, suddenly a 500-person Hun cavalry descended from the sky, whistling and rushing, shooting a round of arrow rain in the distance and taking away the lives of dozens of Northern Liang soldiers and then drifting away, and when stationed at night, there will be a few Hun cavalry quietly appeared outside the camp through the darkness, and suddenly shot hundreds of rockets into the camp, ignited a few camp tents and galloped! Although such an act could not bring any substantial damage to the army of more than 100,000 in the Northern Liang, it was still unintentional that such a lingering harassment like a fly brought enough panic to the people of the Northern Liang and seriously affected the speed of the march. What troubled the Northern Liang generals the most was the complete collapse of the information system, and the scouts sent out would encounter a sudden Hun cavalry from time to time, and the result was naturally only to wait for death. In just a few days, the number of scouts in the Northern Liang has decreased sharply, and I am afraid that if it continues for a few more days, the generals of the Northern Liang will no longer be able to get any of the latest information!

For this reason, the Northern Liang people also divided the cavalry into countless squads, and counterattacked and resisted the harassment of the Northern Liang, but the effect received was unsatisfactory, after all, the speed of the Hun cavalry and the familiarity with the grassland were incomparable to the Northern Liang people, and once a Northern Liang cavalry team chased too far, it was possible to lose its way, like a headless fly on the grassland, and the final result was either annihilated by the Hun troops, or left to fend for itself, and it was difficult to find a meeting with the army!

However, this was only the beginning, after a few days of marching, the Northern Liang soldiers began to have symptoms such as diarrhea, vomiting, and fever. These symptoms were obviously a manifestation of poisoning, and after some research by the Northern Liang generals, it was finally understood that the Huns had poisoned them. In this world, the Huns poisoned the Huns in a very simple way, throwing rotting animal carcasses into the water source, so that the water source was basically undrinkable! But this kind of pollution will not last long, but it cannot be dissipated in a short time, which is undoubtedly choking the throat of the Northern Liang people and giving General Meng Chaoda an army.

It is clear that Uwei Shan Yu has moved away from qualitative thinking and has begun to use strategic vision. It is true that a large-scale battle can determine the trend of a war, but a small-scale battle can completely suppress the outbreak of a large-scale war. Although this method of poisoning and retreating is a bit broken, it has undoubtedly achieved good strategic results. The army of the Northern Liang, which was expected to approach the Xiongnu king's tent within ten days, did not complete half of the journey in eight days.

And in the past few days, Duan Zhong followed Wu Shilu and Princess Suo Yali to finally return to the king's tent and joined the army led by Wu Wei Shan Yu. And the generals in the king's tent obviously have two factions at this moment, one faction is naturally the main battle faction headed by Wu Shilu, hoping to set up a battle with the Northern Liang people before the king's tent; On the other hand, the main concession faction led by Han Ke believes that the king should move northwest and continue to harass and attrition with the Northern Liang people, after all, such tactics have been quite effective in the past few days, but if you want to achieve the desired results, you still need long-term persistence, so that the soldiers of the Northern Liang people will completely collapse mentally and physically, and defeat themselves without a fight!

And back in the king's tent, Duan Zhong finally realized Han Ke's status and role here, which was really different...... The rights that the people of the Northern Liang can obtain here. So in the past few days, Duan Zhong has been worrying about who laid the nail in this Han Ke, or is it ...... He's completely deceiving himself? If that's the case, it's terrifying! However, now that Han Ke has mastered his eyeliner and old bottom in the Huns, Duan Zhong can only continue to cooperate with him!

In Duan Chong's view, there is no doubt that the strategy that Han Ke adheres to is the most correct. So at the moment, Duan Chong is just waiting for Uwei Shan Yu to show his attitude, if he really supports Han Ke, Duan Chong needs to find a way to find out his old bottom, and find out who his master is no matter what. If Uwei Shan Yu decided to follow Wu Shilu's advice and fight the Northern Liang people, then there would be room for relaxation.

Now a lot of news makes Duan Chong a little frightened, and the only thing that comforts Duan Chong is that Zongzi finally quietly contacted him again, which reassured Duan Chong. And Zongzi also came with an extremely important news, that is, Xiao Zhengrong is taking the lead in approaching the king's tent under the forward cavalry general Li Guang at the moment, if the two teams are facing each other, then the first opponent of the Huns will be Li Guang and Xiao Zhengrong's team! And there is no doubt that this team is the elite of Beiliang!

When the Huns harassed the Northern Liang army, they all tacitly avoided the forward force of General Li Guang. Because for a vanguard army that is always ready to fight, there is no point in harassment, and more importantly, this cavalry general Li Guang is good at riding and shooting, and the number of 100 steps through Yang is superb, and the soldiers under him are also very good at archery, if they are harassed, I am afraid that they will be shot into a hedgehog before they reach the front!.

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