Chapter 312: Timing
"Where is Old General Han Qiong marching now?" Among the handsome tents, Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, Pang De, Zhang Xiu and other generals all came to hand over orders to Chen Mo.
"Back to the lord, General Han Lao previously designed to defeat Su Muyan and repel the difficult building, and now he has led his troops to approach the White Wolf Mountain." Zhao Yun bowed and said.
"Ling Ming." Chen Mo nodded, thought for a moment and said.
"The last general!" Pound stepped forward when he heard this, and bowed.
"Take the people of the headquarters to find General Han, stay under his command and listen to it, and give him this order arrow, and let Zhang He lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to Liucheng!" Chen Mo handed a command arrow to Pang De and said, "Tell General Han that if the Karasuma Royal Court does not move, then don't be too anxious, but if he wants to rescue Liucheng, he will immediately wave his troops and approach the Karasuma Royal Court." ”
Liucheng has been trapped by him, but the siege is definitely not possible now, there are cavalry around him, and the infantry is only Chen Mo's personal guard, and this is the old nest of Badun, according to the information obtained before, although Karasuma was cleaned up very miserably during this time, it can be regarded as indirectly helping Badun and driving the surrounding tribes to Liucheng, and now in Liucheng, there are more people and horses than in the past, of course, this is also the result that Chen Mo wants.
Bao Geng's death, the hatred of Youzhou, only kill one of them, it is difficult to eliminate the hatred in his heart, especially this time he went north, Chen Mo found a very serious problem, not to mention anything else, but the Karasuma people have been divided within the Han Dynasty, and when the princes conquered, they quietly grew stronger, and as far as the information collected so far, the three kings of Karasuma have added up to more than 100,000 people.
What kind of concept is this, if there is no such thing as this time, Karasuma will accumulate strength for a few more years, once he goes south, I am afraid that it will not only be Yuyang and Liaoxi counties that will be poisoned, but the entire Youzhou, and once the other party goes south on a large scale, Chen Mo does not have enough cavalry in his hands, and loses the dangerous defense, even if Karasuma is finally expelled, he will only be left with a broken Youzhou, and even Jizhou may suffer from poison.
Karasuma is like this, but what about Xianbei? What about the Huns?
Chen Mo found that his understanding of the Hu people was far from enough, and the threat was not only from within the Han Dynasty, but also from the outside, these alien races that were once not valued by the Han people, over the years, as the princes of all parties set their sights on the rest of the states and counties, these foreign races were no longer restrained, and their strength grew wildly in silence.
Chen Mo let Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao and others kill wantonly this time, not only for revenge, but also to weaken the power of these alien races.
Of course, killing by oneself is inexhaustible, after this battle, Chen Mo is ready to try to stir up internal disputes in the grassland, so that the grassland falls into a situation of mutual conquest, so that they can consume each other internally, of course, this is a later story, the thing to do now is to destroy Karasuma.
"The last general commands!" Pound bowed and took the order, got up and left.
"Feng Xian?" Chen Mo turned his head, looked at Lu Bu and smiled.
"What does the lord command?" Lu Bu got up.
"Now that we don't have as many soldiers and horses as Liucheng, you lead your troops to continue to roam around, destroy the Karasuma tribe, plunder their cattle, sheep and livestock for military resources, and the soldiers have worked the northern expedition and have meat to eat." Chen Mo smiled.
"The last general commands!" Lu Bu nodded and took the order, this kind of thing suited his appetite.
In the next two days, the wind and waves were calm, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, and Zhang Xiu took turns to go out of the city every day.
Three days later, Zhang He was ordered to come to meet Chen Mo, and at the same time, a large number of siege equipment were brought by Zhang He.
"My lord, are you going to attack the city immediately?" Zhang He asked.
"There's no hurry, it's the same!" Chen Mo shook his head, now is not the best time to attack the city.
As for what was missing, since Chen Mo didn't say anything, the generals didn't ask any more.
In Liucheng, when he saw a large number of Han infantry troops gathering outside the city, he couldn't sit still.
"The people of the royal court are still in the future?" He looked at his generals and frowned.
"Never." The general shook his head and said, "King, the people we sent have not returned for a long time. ”
Badun's face was gloomy, these idiots really made up their minds to sell themselves!
"Don't wait for them, pass on my military order, gather troops and horses tomorrow, go out of the city in four ways, and break through the Han army camp!" He said coldly.
"Yes."
Although the Karasuma people have such a city as Liucheng, they are not good at defending the city, and in terms of troops, they are not worse than the Han people, or even more, if they defend the city, Liucheng is so big, and the city wall is not high, not to mention the advantage of troops, not to mention, the city defense equipment is not as many tricks as the Han people, it is better to go out of the city to fight, and the chance of winning is greater.
Early the next morning, the four gates of Liucheng opened, a large number of cavalry surging out, Zhao Yun who was patrolling saw this, let people blow the warning horn, brought their own soldiers and horses, when the enemy army was not completely out of the city, fiercely met the soldiers and horses who went out of the city at the north gate for a while, the Karasuma cavalry had not completely gone out of the city, and could not let go at all, Zhao Yun rushed like this, and immediately retreated to the city, and was almost taken into the door by Zhao Yun.
On the other side, Zhang He, who received a warning from Zhao Yun and was also aware of the movements of the Karasuma people, quickly arranged for men and horses to defend the camp.
"Out of town?" Chen Mo stood on the arrow tower, looked at the large number of Karasuma soldiers running around the camp outside the camp, turned his head to look at the messenger and said: "Inform Zilong, don't go back to help for the time being, let Zhang He guard the camp, set off wolf smoke, and let Feng Xian return to help as soon as possible." ”
"Whoa!"
On the battlefield, there is naturally a way of communication on the battlefield, the battalion is commanded through the command flag, while Zhao Yun's side transmits some simple orders through the sound of horns, and Lu Bu's side is mobilized by wolf smoke.
Soon, a long horn sounded in the camp, and at the same time a puff of wolf smoke rose into the sky.
After Zhao Yun drove back the cavalry at the gate of the city, he was about to return to help, when he heard the sound of horns from the large camp in the distance, frowned and listened carefully for a while, then turned his head to look at the generals around him and said: "The lord has an order, no members for the time being, and the generals will continue to run around the city with me." ”
Although he didn't know what Chen Mo's plans were, Zhao Yun didn't dare to go far, just ran around Liucheng, waiting for Chen Mo's next instructions.
On the other side, Lu Bu, who was sweeping the Karasuma tribe around, also saw the wolf smoke on the side of the camp.
"Withdraw!" Regardless of the tribe that had been half burned and the herds of cattle and sheep, Lu Bu directly asked people to throw these things away, and drove back with men and horses.
On the other side, outside Chen Mo's camp, he divided the soldiers and horses into two groups, ran around the camp, and constantly shot arrows towards the camp, which did cause a lot of trouble to the soldiers of the Han army, not only did they have to be nervous all the time, dealing with the clusters of arrows that might be shot at any time, but also had to guard against the enemy suddenly rushing up.
The walls of the camp are not high, and those who are agile can climb up with a run, and some Karasuma people have no bows and arrows, so they rush directly to the nearest place and throw the horse fork in.
Zhang He naturally didn't just take a beating and didn't fight back, and the archers didn't aim, and after the general calculated the range of the opponent's detour, he released arrows towards that range.
The two sides have come and gone, and there are losses to each other, but the battle is not fierce.
Chen Mo stood on the arrow tower, watching the opponent's cavalry tactics, and quickly calculated the opponent's possible attack direction and Zhang He's response in his mind, confirming that he had not really led the cavalry to fight, but he was no stranger to the cavalry tactics, the reason why he did not personally command, firstly, these generals under his command were really good, and secondly, he was the commander, and what he had to do was to coordinate the overall situation and grasp the fighters, rather than going into battle in person, so as long as the subordinate generals did not have too many problems, Chen Mo would not easily do the generals' things.
The battle between the two sides continued until noon, when a melodious horn sounded in the distance, which was the trumpet of Lu Bu's troops.
After Chen Mo heard the voice, his eyes lit up, and he immediately ordered: "Ma Chao, Zhang Xiu!" ”
"The last general!" Ma Chao, who had been waiting on the side and couldn't go to the battlefield for a long time, hurriedly stepped forward when he heard this, and Zhang Xiu also followed.
"You two immediately gather your cavalry and prepare to leave the camp." Chen Mo shouted.
"Whoa!"
"Sound the horn and order Lu Bu and Zhao Yun to immediately attack the Karasuma cavalry outside the camp!" Chen Mo turned his head and looked at the herald.
"Whoa!"
"Inform Zhang He that as soon as the enemy retreats, immediately lead the army out of the camp and prepare to attack the city!"
"Whoa!"
With the continuous issuance of orders, all the soldiers and horses in the entire military camp began to mobilize, and at the same time, in the direction of Liucheng, Zhao Yun heard the horn sound from the direction of the big camp, and also knew that the time had come, and immediately rushed away with the men and horses in the direction of the big camp.
Lu Bu also received the order, and he did not hesitate, and went straight to the direction of the camp with his soldiers.
Rushing around the camp, wanting to wait for an opportunity to break through the enemy camp, he noticed that something was wrong, and hurriedly ordered the troops to withdraw from the camp and prepare to withdraw to the city, and at this time, Lu Bu and Zhao Yun arrived almost at the same time......