Chapter 273: Siege and Interception
Wei Qing and Gongsun He had been fighting with the more than 100,000 cavalry of the Huns for half an hour at the south gate of Yuyang City.
Seeing Yi Zhixian leading 200,000 Hun cavalry to rush towards them, Wei Qing immediately understood that he couldn't stop it.
"Let them go!"
Wei Qing let out a loud shout.
Gongsun He frowned.
"General, now we swear to leave these more than 300,000 Hun cavalry here, and we can't let them go."
"Let them go!"
Wei Qing's mind is now full of two allusions: the death of lips and the cold teeth, as well as the false Dao and the sword.
Zhang Yuan's meaning is obvious, the Han army cannot be allowed to become a weak party.
Now there are two of the weakest forces in the four forces, and the strongest Han army joins forces to attack the second strongest Xiongnu headquarters army.
If the strongest Han army fought to the death with the second strongest Xiongnu army, then the result would be obvious.
The third-strongest Wuhuan people became the strongest of the four forces because of the two forces of the first and second strongest.
No one dares to guarantee what Wuhuan Dadan Yu will think.
Wei Qing saw that he was about to win, and he reversed his adventurous posture when he was besieged in Yuyang City before, and became more and more calm.
At this time, Wei Qing was the general of the Han Dynasty, not Zhang Yuan's younger brother.
The Han infantry retreated a step back under the command of Wei Qing, and then leaned against the edge of the city wall.
"Let's go to the north, so that the Huns can only flee east."
"Whoa!"
"Zhao Ponu, you lead 20,000 cavalry to join the 50,000 cavalry of Hou Gongsun Ao, and bite the tail of the Hun cavalry."
"Whoa!"
Only by chasing and fighting in this way will the battle loss ratio be pulled apart.
Wei Qing never fights uncertain battles.
Yi Zhi obliquely watched Wei Qing take the initiative to avoid, and was overjoyed in his heart.
The convergence of the two Xiongnu armies brought Yi Zhixie's strength back to 300,000.
But he didn't dare to stop, the Han army plus the army of the Hun Evil King and the alliance of the three forces of the Wuhuan people made Yi Zhixian frightened.
"Da Dan Yu, Wei Qing led 200,000 foot soldiers to the north, they must have thought that we would break through to the north and choose the nearest road.
We're going to have to go east! ”
"Okay, go to Youbeiping!"
Yi Zhixian roared wildly.
Zhang Yuan watched Yi Zhixian lead 300,000 Hun cavalry towards the direction he expected, and only then did he put down a stone in his heart.
"Send someone to tell Wuhuan Da Shan Yu, let him also go to the east, chase the Huns, and prevent Yi Zhi from going crazy and turning back to fight the evil king.
If he doesn't go, all my promises won't count! ”
"Whoa!"
Sent someone to inform Wuhuan Da Shan Yu, Zhang Yuan turned to Zhao Xin, the Marquis of Xi, and said.
"We immediately went out of the Great Wall from the north and followed the Great Wall to the pass of Beiping on the right."
"But there are many passes along the way!"
"Go directly to Junmi City in Beiping County!
The other Huns in the pass will not go, those 300,000 cavalry in the pass want to pass, it will take half a day, and in this half a day, the evil king and Gongsun Ao can destroy half of Yizhixi's troops as long as they are not waste!
In addition, every time you pass through a pass, let those veterans know, and immediately release wolf smoke when they find the traces of the Hun army! ”
"The last general understands!"
Zhang Yuan: This is going to fight a speed war.
To the south of the Great Wall, there are many mountains, hills and rivers, and to the north is the boundary of the Flat River.
The speed of the cavalry could not be raised in the hills and mountains.
And Zhang Yuan and they detoured from the north of the Great Wall, although they walked a lot, but the speed would definitely be much faster than that of the Hun cavalry.
The 200,000 foot soldiers in Wei Qing's hands are useless, and now they are fighting for their own speeds.
"Let people send Zhang Qian to Yuyang City!
Let the great general Wei Qing come over, and the general Gongsun He will lead 200,000 foot soldiers to strengthen the defense along the Great Wall! ”
"No!"
Although Zhang Yuan is now only a hussar general and does not have the title of Great Sima, he has become the core of tactics!
These 450,000 Han troops were all heading for victory according to Zhang Yuan's plan.
Zhang Yuan's behavior of commanding Wei Qing would inevitably be impeached by that group of imperial historians if he was in Chang'an, but now on the battlefield, even Zhang Qian, who was tied up, didn't feel anything wrong.
Wei Qing quickly rode a horse in front of Zhang Yuan.
"General!"
"The hussar general is really strategizing!"
It has always been Zhang Yuan who has been contacting Wuhuan Dadan Yu and the evil king.
Wei Qing has not contributed to this aspect, and today's situation is all promoted by Zhang Yuan.
The beginning of all this good situation was also because of Zhang Yuan's victory in Fuyangju Mountain.
"General, the next 80,000 cavalry will be handed over to you, I, Zhang Yuan, really don't have the ability to lead the troops to charge."
"Hahaha, it's good to have this way now."
Zhang Yuan didn't say much to Wei Qing, and directly led the army north out of the Great Wall.
At this time, in the fox slave city, the 100,000 army under the command of Gongsun Rongnu and the 100,000 Hun evil cavalry led by the sudden bone blocked the 100,000 Hun cavalry in the fox slave city.
As for the 100,000 troops of the Wuhuan people, they have already run away.
The protruding bones are inducing the turtles in these 100,000 urns to surrender.
It works out not bad, these people are already thinking about surrendering.
The Wuhuan people didn't do anything before leaving, and the cronies of Wuhuan Da Shan Yu gave Yi Zhixi's Da Dan Yu Scepter to Gongsun Rongnu.
With this big single Yu Scepter present, the psychological defense line of the Huns soon collapsed.
Within an hour of the siege, they all surrendered.
Gongsun Rongnu found the abrupt bone and asked him to follow him to Yuyang City.
Then Gongsun Rongnu asked Gao Buzhi to lead 50,000 foot soldiers to watch the 100,000 Xiongnu prisoners.
He and Zhao Buyu led 50,000 foot soldiers towards Yuyang City.
When they arrived, they found that the ground was full of corpses and war horses without owners.
"General Zhao, you take the soldiers to drive all these war horses together!"
"No!"
The greatest wealth outside Yuyang City has been ignored, and the tens of thousands of cattle and sheep in the Xiongnu camp have also been ignored.
However, these tens of thousands of cattle and sheep are not much, that is, the consumption of the Xiongnu army in one day.
But these tens of thousands of war horses outside the city can immediately equip the 50,000 troops under Gongsun Rongnu.
The combat effectiveness may not be able to catch up with the regular cavalry for a while, but at least you can chase the cavalry teams in front that have disappeared but left behind a mess.
The direction and route of the Huns' escape are simply not too easy to distinguish.
All the way were the corpses of the Hun cavalry, and the ownerless war horses.
There were thousands of defenders left in Yuyang City and the people of the city, and Gongsun Rongnu immediately chose to chase the Hun cavalry after understanding it.
Otherwise, there is nothing for them to do.
Of course, the vulture wanted to follow the footsteps of the evil king, so he chased east with Gongsun Rongnu and his army.
Now behind Yizhi's slanted ass there are not only 300,000 Hun cavalry under his command, but also more than 100,000 Hun Evil King's army and more than 60,000 elite cavalry of the Han army, plus 200,000 Wuhuan cavalry intact.
In today's battle, Yi Zhixi's loss is the greatest.
Excluding the 100,000 Hun captives who surrendered in Hunu City, almost 40,000 or 50,000 cavalry had died on his side.
It's a huge loss!
However, this loss continued to expand, and 20,000 cavalry were killed on the side of the Evil King, most of course, most of them were killed in the battle with the army under Yi Zhixian at the beginning.
At that time, the difference in strength between the two sides was not large, but there were wavering people under the hands of the Evil King, and this combat power was of course inferior to the army under Yi Zhixian's hands.
But until now, there are no soft-hearted people under the command of the Evil King.
It's all red-eyed, and it doesn't matter if everyone is of the same race.
"They must be trying to break through from the Great Wall of Beiping on the right.
You first lead 30,000 cavalry directly to the northeast, see the Great Wall, walk close to the Great Wall, and take a shortcut!
Be sure to get me in front of them! ”
The carved eagle was stunned.
Is his 30,000 men a death squad?
Still, he took the order of the Evil King.
The Evil King of Hun had already used the army under his command as a bargaining chip in exchange for military merits, and it was really nothing to send 30,000 cavalry to take a shortcut and block the battle in front of Yi Zhixi.
If it weren't for the fear that Yi Zhi would turn his head obliquely, he would have sent out 70,000 of the 80,000 troops around him, leaving only 10,000 to protect his personal safety.
In this way, the 30,000 cavalry of the Evil Tribes began to break away from the army and went in the other direction.
When Gongsun Ao saw it, he gritted his teeth.
This evil king really wants military merit, not the lives of his subordinates.
Gongsun Ao didn't dare to do this.
There is a gap between people and people.
There were three people on top of Gongsun Ao's head, one Wei Qing, one Zhang Yuan, and one Gongsun He.
Each of the three had military powers, but he didn't.
Although the evil king surrendered, he was still the king of the Huns, and his own army was commanded at will.
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In this way, hundreds of thousands of cavalry ran wildly across the territory of the Han Dynasty.
In less than two hours, I arrived at Pinggu County, where Yuyang County and Youbeiping County meet.
When had the defenders of the city seen such a scene?
The earth trembled.
They could only close the gates tightly, not daring to think otherwise.
When they saw that there was a cavalry in black armor among the hundreds of thousands of cavalry, and it was still the chasing party, they felt much more relieved.
At the very least, it proves that the war is moving for the better.
Not long after the 400,000 cavalry passed through Pinggu County, Wuhuan Da Danyu led 200,000 cavalry to chase after him.
Before the defenders of Pinggu County could react to what was going on, two quarters of an hour later, another cavalry of 150,000 men crossed the border.
There were Huns and Han troops.
If the county magistrate of Pinggu County hadn't received Zhang Yuan's order in advance, saying that he couldn't open the city gate no matter what the situation, he really wanted to go out and ask.
Our Han now has so many war horses that we can play chase battles with the Huns.
After Pinggu County, which is the endless county seat of Youbeiping, Yi Zhixian was happy when he saw this county seat.
Finally escaped to Youbeiping.
Although the enemy cavalry behind him was still biting hard, as long as they got out of the Great Wall, everything would be fine.
Yi Zhi has already made a plan in his oblique heart.
When he got out of the Great Wall, he let the 300,000 troops under his command disperse directly.
From the northwest to the northeast, this large area was their escape route.
When the time comes, he will see how the Han cavalry behind him and the rebels of the Evil Department will chase after him!
To the north of the Great Wall, the 80,000 cavalry led by Wei Qing arrived at the Junmi county seat of Beiping in the right with many steps.
This is the largest pass of the Great Wall in the section of Youbeiping County, which can allow 5,000 troops to pass side by side at the same time.
The Great Wall is cut off here, which is why such a county town was built here.
If you can't pass through here, there is only one pass left that can cross the Great Wall further north, the county seat of Feiru in Liaoxi County.
Further east is the Yanshan Mountains, and there is no pass until the sea.
As long as the Hun cavalry passed the county seat of Feiru and continued to the east, it was really a dead end, and then they had to swim across the Great Wall to the east.
Zhang Yuan also followed this army to Junmi County, and his body and bones were about to fall apart along the way.
But it's much better than the previous time I fainted.
When you arrive in Junmi County, you can rest here first.
Wei Qing asked Zhao Xin to enter the city to contact the county magistrate of Junmi County, and asked him to mobilize the people in the county to dig a ditch and set up a barrier at the gap in the Great Wall.
Then he asked the 80,000 cavalrymen to cut down trees in the mountains and forests on both sides, and the trees were still breached.
Estimating that no matter how fast the Hun cavalry was, it would take an hour to arrive, so Wei Qing walked to Zhang Yuan's side.
"The master father is dead!"
Zhang Yuan saw that Xiao Ding was standing alone next to him, and the rest of the people were far away, so he moved his mind to tease Wei Qing and relieve the tense atmosphere.
"I know."
"I told you that kind of people don't live long."
"I didn't expect him to be so arrogant."
Wei Qing felt that King Qi's death must be directly related to the master's father.
A prime minister forced the princes and kings to commit suicide, and there was no one left for the lord's father.
"It doesn't matter if he's arrogant anymore, the important thing is that you have to listen to me in the future."
"It's natural to admit defeat and admit defeat."
Wei Qing didn't believe that Zhang Yuan could force him to do something harmful to the big man, so he simply admitted it directly.
"One more point, what should Brother Chu do?"
Zhang Yuan suddenly mentioned Chu Da, and Wei Qing also frowned.
"There was no one left in the Hun tent, Gongsun He sent someone to search a few times, and just let someone ride a fast horse to tell me."
"Then Brother Chu must be by Yi Zhixi's side."
"There is also a possibility of being killed."
Although Wei Qing didn't want to, he still said this possibility.
Gongsun He didn't know about Chu Da, he just wanted to see if there were any living people, but he wouldn't choose to see the identities of those dead people at this time.
"Impossible, just watch.
Brother Chu's ability to protect himself is still very strong. ”
"I hope so."
Xiao Ding was confused on the side.
Sure enough, they are all big heroes, and the words they say are all twists and turns, which makes people incomprehensible.
"When I go back this time, I may be getting married."
Wei Qing sighed and said when he saw Xiao Ding standing aside.
Zhang Yuan was also silent.
Wanhu Hou, the Great General, the Great Sima.
The official positions and glory that can be obtained, Wei Qing has already obtained them.
Even the three sons were already liehous.
How can you seal it again?
Seal Wei Qing's nephew Huo Quai's illness as a liehou?
Don't say that Wei Qing won't agree, and Liu Che won't do a scandalous drama for his favorite child.
Since there is no way to seal it, it is either to let Wei Qing roll the calf, find a fault with Wei Qing, and deprive Wei Qing of all the glorious titles.
Either you can only find a princess to marry and make Wei Qing a royal person.
A relative is a relative, but a relative who is married to a princess is a royal family.
There is a fundamental difference.
The reason why relatives have a foreign word is that they are outsiders, and even if you don't have the surname Liu, the royal family is half an insider.
Because Wei Zifu married Liu Che, he didn't marry all the Liu clansmen.
But the Liu clan married Wei Qing, and Wei Qing was the son-in-law of the Liu clan.
"Then do you like Her Royal Highness the eldest princess?"
Xiao Ding stood next to him and was startled, and quickly left this place of right and wrong, he felt that his brother-in-law was too daring to say it.
Wei Qing blinked his eyes, lay on the ground, plucked the green grass and put it to his mouth.
"I can't talk about liking it, and I can't talk about disliking it.
All I have always had was respect, and you also know my relationship with Her Royal Highness the eldest princess.
I've always treated her as the master's house, and now it's a little uncomfortable for this kind of thing to fall on my head. ”
"But Her Royal Highness the eldest princess has been a widow for several years, isn't it just waiting for your cow to break up."
"You're still talking.
On the one hand, your marriage is that Her Royal Highness the eldest princess doesn't want Xiao Ruo to enter the palace. On the other hand, she is worried that the Queen Mother and Her Majesty will promise her to you. ”
Zhang Yuan believed what Wei Qing said, so he trembled.
It's a little scary to think about, okay!
Fortunately, it was Xiao Ruo who married him, and Princess Pingyang didn't look down on him Zhang Yuan, if she did, it would be troublesome.
No matter how well Princess Pingyang is maintained, she is still a woman in her thirties.
will be forty soon, and now it is ancient times, if Zhang Yuan can't marry home, Princess Pingyang will die earlier than Zhang Yuan in a few years.
However, Zhang Yuan knew that Princess Pingyang had lived longer than Wei Qing.
During Liu Che's reign, the capable generals under him did not live long.
But each of these women can live more than the other.
Hell too.
Master Dou can't die every day now.
Wei Qing is Wei Zifu's younger brother, and then Wei Qing died of illness Wei Zifu is still alive and well, and if he hadn't committed suicide in the end, maybe he would have lived a long time.
These people seem to be hanging their lives for the sake of power.
For example, Dou Yifang, Queen Mother Dou, Queen Mother Wang Wan, and Princess Pingyang.
"Don't make fun of me.
I don't even know how to tell Zhuo Wenjun when I go back.
She spent all winter in Chang'an City and didn't go to Lantian Mountain. ”
"Brother Yuan, you just take love too seriously, and lovers will definitely be troubled by love."
Wei Qing was helpless when he said this, and he didn't want to divorce his wife.
Zhang Yuan only knew that Wei Qing had divorced his wife, but he didn't know when.
These people still see position of power as the most important thing.
The two chatted and chatted, and time passed like this.
An hour later, Xiao Ding ran over again.
"General, hussar general, our people saw that tens of thousands of Hun cavalry were coming here!"
"Only tens of thousands?"
Zhang Yuan was a little unconvinced.
"There are almost 30,000 cavalry, I can't see whose subordinates it is, but it must be the Huns."
Wei Qing didn't think much about it, immediately got up from the ground and began to let the 80,000 cavalry wait in formation.
Regardless of whether it is the army of Yizhixian or not, there can be 30,000 Huns here, which can also mean that Yizhixian is not far from here!!