Chapter 68: Two Thousand vs. Ten Thousand Victory
"With only 10,000 cavalry, you also want to break through Shanggu County?"
On the city wall, Song Ren stood beside Xu Kuan, the Taishou.
"Xu Taishou doesn't need to worry, the 50,000 Xianbei cavalry back then, when facing Shanggu County, can only return with a feather."
Compared with Xu Kuan, the head of the Song family was not worried that Shanggu County would be attacked.
The Xianbei people are all cavalry, and their siege ability is too weak.
His Song family has been in Shanggu for a hundred years, and it is not that they have not encountered the Xianbei cavalry attacking the city, but in the end, they can only attack the surrounding villages.
So he wasn't worried at all, 10,000 cavalry was just that, and Song Ren seemed to see that the Xianbei cavalry would at most destroy a few Han settlements outside the city, and then take away hundreds or more than a thousand women, as well as an indefinite amount of property, grain and grass.
The Xianbei cavalry wanted to break through Shanggu County, unless they besieged Shanggu County for more than a month, so that the food and grass in the city were exhausted, or the people in the city surrendered.
It's just that the people living outside the city are suffering, and they can only become lambs to the slaughter in the face of the Xianbei cavalry. All the men will be killed, and the women will be taken captive and enslaved by the Xianbei people.
But in Song Ren's opinion, it's not a big deal, there are so many Han people, what does it matter if some die. His Song family will not be damaged at all.
It is best that the Liangshan hero also lives outside the city and becomes the soul of the Xianbei cavalry.
The only thing that made him a little sorry was that the grain and grass outside the city basically couldn't be saved.
"Huh?"
On the city wall, Xu Kuan and Song Ren both looked strange.
The dust in the distance suddenly turned in a different direction, and he didn't come to the side of Shanggu County again.
"What do you mean by Xianbei cavalry?"
"What's over there?"
Seeing the dust suddenly rolling away to the west, the people on the city wall were puzzled and rejoiced at the same time.
But what's in the west, it seems that there's nothing, what's wrong with the Xianbei cavalry?
"Brother Song, what do you see here?"
Song Ren has seen many Xianbei people attacking the city, but this is also the first time he has seen this situation.
A little embarrassed, he said: "Maybe you want to lure us out of the city, we just need to guard the city gate, don't worry about the rest, the Xianbei cavalry can't make much waves." ”
Xu Kuan nodded: "But I'll still send a few spies over to take a look." ”
Song Ren said: "That's fine. ”
The gates opened, and the two spies rushed out on fast horses.
And before that.
Zhao Hui personally led five hundred cavalry and the Modao team to block in front of Budugen.
Budugen recognized the Modao team at a glance.
"Budugen, aren't you looking for me, I'm here, come and chase me."
In the face of Zhao Hui's provocation, Bu Dugen's eyes instantly turned red.
During this time, the Modao team was on the grassland, which made him lose too much.
Not only cattle, sheep and horses, but more importantly, the prestige of concession Dugen on the grassland has been greatly lost, and many small tribes are ready to take refuge in Kebineng.
Last time, his 500 cavalry failed against Zhao Hui's 100 Mo sword team, and he was cited by Bu Dugen as the first shame in his life.
This time, he led 10,000 cavalry, an increase of twenty times from the previous one.
And the opposite side is only from one hundred to five hundred, Bu Dugen doesn't believe that his 10,000 people can't beat the other party's 500.
If he really couldn't win the battle even with such a big disparity, he could have committed suicide, and he was not worthy of being the leader of the tribe.
"Chase."
At that moment, Bu Dugen changed his plan, and instead of caring about Shanggu County, he chased after Zhao Hui's five hundred people.
Among the 10,000 cavalry he formed, many of them belonged to other tribes, and their tribes were basically attacked by the Modao team.
Not only did Budu have hatred, but their hearts were also full of hatred. Grief for the looted cattle and the people who were killed.
Five hundred cavalry did not run as fast as ten thousand cavalry.
The distance between the two sides is gradually narrowing, but the ambush point of Zhao Hui is also getting closer and closer.
"Chase, you must kill them and avenge your clansmen."
It's just that they haven't caught up with Zhao Hui's five hundred people, and they have already arrived at Zhao Hui's ambush point in advance.
After Zhao Hui's 500 people ran over, the 1,500 people hiding in the dense forests on both sides, under the command of Cheng Yuanzhi, suddenly countless arrows rained down towards the Xianbei cavalry that was pursuing.
"Not good, there is an ambush."
Bu Dugen was shocked, but in the face of the rain of arrows, as cavalry, they were just ordinary cloth armor or leather armor, and they couldn't resist at all.
One by one, the Xianbei cavalry was shot by arrows and fell from their horses, screaming again and again.
The men in front grabbed the horses and wanted to turn around and retreat, but the cavalry behind failed to hold the horses in time and rushed over and collided with their companions in front. 10,000 cavalry were in disarray under the rain of arrows.
"Withdraw, withdraw." Budugen shouted.
It's just that at this time, not many people can hear his voice at all.
In fact, if there is an ambush, Budugen does not stop, and directly leads 10,000 cavalry to rush over.
Their casualties would have been smaller, after all, there were only 1,500 people lying in ambush in the dense forests on either side.
If Budugen rushes straight over, the ambush can only shoot two rounds of arrow rain at most.
But now that the 10,000 cavalry are in chaos, the rain of arrows has not stopped.
By the time Budugen led the rest of the men to withdraw, they had already received five rounds of arrow rain, and half of the cavalry had fallen into it forever.
More than half of the 5,000 cavalry who were lucky enough to run out were also hung up, and many of them lost their horses.
The rain of arrows stopped, but Zhao Hui's five hundred cavalry came back.
Cheng Yuanzhi also rushed out with 1,500 people who were ambushed in the woods.
The panicked Budugen did not dare to look at the number of enemies chasing behind him, but took the remnants of the people and fled the same way, the horsewhip kept pumping the war horses under him, wishing that they could fly up and escape with them.
It's just that one of them lost their horses, and it was impossible to escape.
Zhao Hui followed behind with five hundred cavalry, he didn't care about the Xianbei people who lost their horses, and left these people to Cheng Yuanzhi to deal with.
Five hundred cavalry, each with a longbow on its body.
While Zhao Hui and the others were in pursuit, they took off their longbows, drew arrows from their quivers, and aimed at the Xianbei cavalry fleeing in front.
Because of the stirrup saddle, they were very stable on their horses.
The bumps of the war horses made their accuracy a little poor, but the front was full of Xianbei cavalry, and it was not difficult to shoot.
Zhao Hui led five hundred cavalry, hanging behind the Xianbei cavalry, constantly bending his bow and shooting arrows.
After chasing for more than 50 miles, he collected his troops and returned.
Cheng Yuanzhi had already solved the Xianbei cavalry that had lost their horses.
Hundreds of uninjured horses were also collected.
After Zhao Hui left with the people, the two spies were late.
They looked surprised, glanced at each other, and hurriedly urged their horses back to Shanggu County.
They didn't see the scene of the ambush, but they saw the picture of Zhao Hui's 500 cavalry, chasing 5,000 Xianbei cavalry.
Because they didn't understand the identities of Zhao Hui and the others, they didn't dare to show up.
When did such a powerful force appear in Upper Valley County?
The two spies didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly went back to report the situation to Xu Kuan.