"How many casualties?" Liu Yuan stood on the edge of the stream, scooped up the water with his helmet, and splashed it on the armor, and suddenly the red blood flowed out, and after splashing more than a dozen times in a row, the blood finally faded, and then he squatted on the side of the armor, wiped it with a piece of skin, and wiped it vigorously.

"Two hundred and twelve brothers didn't follow!" The guerrilla general Cai Kaiming said with some sadness. "The minor injuries have been counted, three hundred and six, but there is no major problem, the doctor has dealt with them briefly, and they can basically continue to fight."

Liu Yuan nodded, and if he didn't follow, it naturally meant that he had been sacrificed. In fact, after the battle, after marching at such high intensity for most of the day, it was impossible for the seriously wounded brother to hold on.

Cleaning the armor, Liu Yuan stood up and said, "Tell the brothers, make a fire and cook." Save some dry food, don't eat it yet, the injured mules and horses in the team will be slaughtered and eaten first. ”

Cai Kaiming was taken aback: "General Liu, this is not appropriate, it has been half a day, although the scouts have not yet returned, but the enemy's cavalry should not be far from us, and when the fire and smoke come, our position will be exposed." ”

Liu Yuan smiled: "If you don't make a fire, won't the other party know your location?" Eat and drink enough first. In such weather, it is also good for the brothers to bake a fire and warm their bodies. ”

Cai Kaiming blinked his eyes for a while before he said, "General Liu, what are your calculations?" ”

"Look, such a large forest, if you were a cavalry general, would you rush in?" Liu Yuan asked.

Cai Kaiming shook his head: "No." When the cavalry entered the woods, there was no advantage. ”

"Yes, so the enemy's cavalry, will they come in? Unless it's a super idiot who leads the team. Liu Yuandao.

"Can be so blatantly ......" Cai Kaiming still hesitated.

Liu Yuan put on his armor and said, "I guess the enemy will be very smart, they will definitely not go into the forest, but will take a long detour to overtake us." Then they waited for the footmen behind to come up, and then they pushed us out of the woods with the footmen, and they waited outside the woods to clean us up. ”

"It's a regular way of playing." Cai Kaiming nodded.

"Look, if you don't want to go into the woods, you have to get around the mountain in front of you, and they will probably be able to go around in front of us tomorrow morning to block us."

"Isn't that still blocking us here!" Cai Kaiming spread his hands: "Wei Dongsheng's army losses are actually not big, now I am afraid that we are reorganizing the army and will definitely come to chase us again after we regain our strength." ”

"That's right!" Liu Yuan said: "So, I'm going to go back and bang him again." ”

"Turn back?" Cai Kaiming was suddenly petrified.

"Brother, we are fighting this time, not so that we can break out of the encirclement, but so that we can attract more enemies to our side." Liu Yuandao: "If you don't hit the enemy a few times, how can you attract more enemies?" ”

"How are you going to fight?"

"As you said, Wei Dongsheng's department is now regrouping, and it will take time for morale to recover. Tonight, I'll take half of the men and kill a carbine. Liu Yuan said: "You take half of the men and horses, stay in this forest, and wait for those cavalry to break in." ”

"Didn't you say they wouldn't go into the woods?" Cai Kaiming was stunned.

"Naturally, you won't get in at first." Liu Yuan laughed, "But, when Wei Dongsheng was killed again, the enemy's cavalry naturally suddenly realized, it turns out that we have no intention of going in the past, and they who feel deceived will definitely rush back to block us, at this time, they will naturally have to go through the forest." They wouldn't have imagined that I had half of them here waiting for him! Brother, you are not unfamiliar with the ways of hunters, right? ”

"Half of the people went to knock on Wei Dongsheng's camp, is it too little? Now that guy has at least seven or eight thousand people! ”

"If you fight such a battle, what does it matter if there are many people and few people? The point is a surprise. Liu Yuan said: "Early this morning, when we just started to attack, I found that many soldiers in the Wei Department didn't seem to have good eyes. ”

"I noticed it too."

"Night blindness!" Liu Yuan said happily: "Over the years, our Datang army has not had such a thing, so we have actually forgotten such a thing." These Hunan troops, where are they like our Datang army that eat well and are well nourished, a considerable number of them have night blindness, and it is the right time to go to them at night. ”

Cai Kaiming took a deep breath.

"General Liu, you can leave the matter of the forest to me, if they dare to wear the forest, I will let them walk around without food."

"Now, make a fire and cook."

Wisps of smoke rose from the woods, as conspicuous as they were. Soon after the scouts of the Tang army plunged headlong into the woods, the cavalry of the brigade really appeared on the horizon.

About 3,000 cavalry were led by Zhou Can, a general of Ding Hao's troops stationed in Xiangtan, but they stopped outside the forest.

This is an iron law of cavalry warfare.

Such an old forest, although there is a road in it, but it is extremely cramped, the cavalry enters, there is no speed, and it cannot be unfolded if it is unfolded, and if it encounters an ambush by the enemy, it is simply a door-to-door delivery.

Looking at the wisps of cooking smoke, Zhou Can sneered.

"Such a clumsy ploy also wants to lure me into taking the bait, do you really think I'm a three-year-old child?" Zhou Can looked back at the cavalry around him.

Everyone laughed together.

"General Zhou, could it be that the other party is bluffing, the truth is real, the truth is false, maybe they are really inside? Or maybe they had already run away, leaving only a few people to scare us and keep us from going into the woods? Amidst the laughter, one of the generals offered his opinion.

"If they're really in there, we'll go in, and there's no advantage at all." Zhou Can glanced at the other party and said, "Of course, maybe as you said, they have already run away, and there are only a few shrimp soldiers and crab generals left." ”

"Do you want to send someone in to find out the truth?"

"Why bother?" Zhou Can shook his head and said: "Whether they are in it or not, we don't have to pay attention, from here, it only takes half a day to bypass this piece of Lao Tzu, and an army that has reached the end of its rope will allow them to live for half a day?" If they go out of the woods, we will naturally be able to spot them and catch up with them after half a day. If they don't come out of the old forest, when Wei Dongsheng comes, they can naturally force them out. Our precious cavalry is not for such useless consumption. ”

As soon as he spoke, everyone nodded again and again.

Unlike in the north, cavalry is a large-scale configuration, even if it is a foot soldier, riding a horse is just a commonplace. This is because the Tang Dynasty controls the north, and war horses, a strategic material that is difficult to obtain in the south, are not uncommon in the north.

Cavalry is a luxury type of troops, and it costs a lot to train a cavalry and equip the cavalry with a full set of equipment.

Therefore, in the south, the cavalry has always felt that they are several heads taller than the foot soldiers.

Zhou Can's words made everyone think so.

Everything was just as Liu Yuan expected, this cavalry didn't stay long outside the forest at all, and went directly around this old forest and walked by itself.

In the forest, Cai Kaiming, who witnessed all this on the top of a big tree, admired Liu Yuan's calculations.

In the old forest, half of the Tang soldiers ate and drank enough, and then fell asleep comfortably on the edge of the fire. The other half, under the leadership of Cai Kaiming, is busy arranging traps in the old forest.

When the night fell, Liu Yuan led half of the Tang army and once again set foot on the road from which he came.

Wei Dongsheng is an unlucky one.

He never thought that an army that had fled, a Tang army that was being chased by its own cavalry, and had no way to enter the ground, would actually kill a horse pistol and touch his door again.

After the big guy had eaten a full meal, he was convening a meeting of all the generals to discuss how to reinvigorate morale and how to catch up with the enemy.

Because they did not expect to encounter the enemy, and because as soon as the sky dawned, they would set out to catch up with the Tang army again, so the camp of this army was extremely poor, and except for some basic sentry posts, not even a watchtower or anything like that was erected. When these sentry posts were easily touched by the Tang army, the more than 1,000 Tang troops led by Liu Yuan unknowingly approached the camp directly, and the opponent was unaware.

Pity these Hunan soldiers who had just been frightened during the day, and now they finally came back to their souls, and the blow came suddenly.

As Liu Yuan thought, night blindness existed in large numbers in this army. When the battle broke out suddenly, in the darkness of the night, these people scurried around like headless flies, because they could not see clearly, and in their panic they could only wave their weapons indiscriminately to protect themselves.

The effect was so good that Liu Yuan himself didn't imagine it at all.

Wei Dongsheng's army bombed the camp.

Faced with such a situation, Wei Dongsheng wanted to cry without tears.

As time passed, he had figured out that there were not many Tang troops attacking this time, but the problem was that he was completely unable to organize an effective counterattack, and on the contrary, he himself was surrounded by the routed army and fled all the way.

His own soldiers can only barely protect their main general, and they will not be injured by the rebels.

After chasing and killing for most of the night, seeing that the effect had far exceeded his expectations, Liu Yuan decided to withdraw his troops and return to the old forest to see if the cavalry would be fooled.