Let's take a look at the situation on the side of Xiangzhuang in Shanwucheng, during the period when the Han army's Li Zuoche was surrounded in the Bantianling Heights, in fact, Xiangzhuang has always maintained close contact with Nie Zheng, the defender of Mayi, through a number of small roads, and on the day when the main force of the Han army arrived in Mayi, we knew that Xiang Kang personally led an army of 430,000 to the north to the territory of Yanmen County.

Receiving this news, Xiang Zhuang of course did not dare to have any slackness in his great joy, and immediately let the Shanwu defenders, who had already entered a state of alert, be ready to attack at any time, but Xiang Zhuang did not expect that the decisive battle between Han and Hungary would come so quickly, and it was just in the evening of the third day, and the scouts who closely monitored the movements of the main force of the Huns reported that Xiang Kang had personally led the army north from Ma Yi and took the initiative to fire the first shot of the decisive battle between Han and Hungary.

"So soon? Your Majesty is moving so fast this time! ”

In addition to being surprised, Xiang Zhuang did not dare to have any slackness, and hurriedly ordered the scouts to strengthen the investigation, and arranged dozens of fast horses to take turns to relay the news, so that he could know the latest changes in the Bantianling battlefield sixty miles to the south within an hour, and at the same time ordered all the defenders of Shanwu not to leave their weapons and not to disarm them when they rested, and each person received three days of dry food and horse food, and was ready to go to battle at any time, and prepared the grain and grass for the pursuit of friendly troops before a rainy day- Although at this time, Xiang Zhuang could not determine who would win the decisive battle between Han and Hungary.

Then, after these things had been arranged, Xiang Zhuang asked Wang Peng, the Han general who helped him lead the cavalry, "General Wang, what did you do with anything I secretly explained to you the day before yesterday?" ”

"Please rest assured, general, it's all done." Wang Fei immediately replied: "There are three hundred marksmen who are good at riding and archery, and more than fifty of them can speak a lot of Xiongnu dialect. In addition, the Xiongnu military uniforms and forged Xiongnu soldiers' waist cards were also prepared and could be issued to them at any time, as well as poisoned arrows soaked in strychnine, which were also fully prepared for them. ”

"Good." When Xiang Zhuang heard this, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered: "Immediately send them clothes, waist cards and poisoned arrows, and let them go out of the city overnight, and go south to the area of Niupigou to disguise themselves as Xiongnu barbarians and ambush." If our army wins the battle of Bantianling, the Hun barbarians will inevitably take the shortcut road of Shanwu to flee north, and they will definitely pass near the cowhide ditch, and then let them blend into the crowd of the Hun defeated soldiers, find a way to get close to the Khan banner of Maodun, and use poisoned arrows to shoot the Maudun barbarians for me! ”

"Remember, tell our soldiers to get their clothes torn and dirty, preferably with some blood on them, and make sure to pretend that they have lost the battle! Also, if this thing is successful, each of them will have a heavy reward, and those who die in battle will be given a triple pension! ”

Wang Fei agreed, hurriedly rushed down to carry out the order, and arranged for the Han soldiers to disguise themselves as Xiongnu soldiers and go out of the city to ambush. As a result, Xiang It, who was helping Xiang Zhuang to lead the infantry next to him, heard that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked Xiang Zhuang: "Uncle Qiu, what's the matter?" Are you going to sneak up on the battlefield and assassinate that brute in Maudun? ”

"It's not me, it's Guangwu-kun." Xiang Zhuang replied with a smile: "Guangwujun secretly explained to me when he was leaving, saying that he would do everything possible to drag the main force of the Huns near Mayi, so as to create an opportunity for our main force to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Huns near Mayi, and said that as long as he can succeed, I received the news of the decisive battle, so I arranged for the marksman to change his disguise as the Hun barbarians, ambush the Huns barbarians on the only way to flee north and return to the grassland, and then take advantage of the chaos to mix into the defeated crowd of the Hun barbarians, and snipe the jackal of Maodun with poisoned arrows!" ”

"Will it work?" Xiang It said with some concern: "The Huns are all cavalry, even if they lose the battle, there will definitely be a large number of Hun defeated soldiers fleeing north, just rely on three hundred cavalry to sneak attack the Maodun barbarians, isn't it a bit hanging?" ”

"Don't worry, even if you are not 10% sure, there is 6 or 70% hope." Xiang Zhuang said: "Guangwujun also said that as long as we win the decisive battle, he will persuade His Majesty to pursue with all his might, and not give the Maodun barbarians a chance to regroup on the road, plus we will definitely send troops to intercept the defeated Xiongnu troops and completely disrupt the battlefield, and then our marksmen will definitely have the opportunity to sneak attack the Maodun barbarians." As long as we succeed in doing so, we won't have to worry about the Xiongnu in the south for at least twenty years. ”

Xiang It, who likes to pour cold water and sing the opposite, is still a little uneasy, and after careful calculation, Xiang He suddenly had an idea, and hurriedly said: "Uncle Qiu, if you don't do this, for the sake of safety, we'd better arrange another trap to assassinate the barbarian Maoton, so that the Maodun barbarian can avoid the first one but not the second." ”

"What trap?" Xiang Zhuang asked curiously.

"The Xiongnu barbarians invaded the south before, and after breaking through the mouth of the tiger, they razed the pass there to the ground, obviously wanting to leave a way to retreat just in case. In that case, why don't we set up camp there with a squad of infantry, pretend to be guards, and then ....... ”

Before Xiang Qi finished speaking, Xiang Zhuang had already shook his head and said, "It's too child's play to do this, do you dare to guarantee that it was the Maodun barbarians who rushed to kill the tiger's mouth first?" As long as there are dozens of Hun defeated soldiers who arrive at the mouth of the tiger first, and find what you left behind, you will definitely not let go, and then you can only kill a few Hun defeated soldiers at most, why bother to allocate troops for just a few Hun defeated soldiers, and spend so many hands and feet? ”

"Not necessarily." Xiang It said unconvinced: "Even if there are Hun defeated soldiers who flee there first, in order to curry favor with the Maodun barbarians, it is very likely that they will patiently leave those things and sacrifice them to the Maodun barbarians." ”

"It's too child's play, it's impossible to succeed." Xiang Zhuang still shook his head and refused, and urged: "Go and urge our soldiers to prepare for battle, don't waste time." ”

Seeing that Xiang Zhuang insisted on not listening, Xiang It had no choice but to obediently leave the headquarters under Xiang Zhuang's urging and go to the infantry team of the Han army to supervise the preparation for war, but during this period, Xiang It, who finally came up with a solution, refused to give up, and after carefully considering the detailed steps of his plan, he simply arranged for one of his henchmen to lead the team, and secretly sent a hundred infantry out of the city behind Xiang Zhuang's back, and rushed to kill the tiger's mouth overnight to act according to the plan......

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Let's take a look at the situation on Maudun's side, after the first to lead the army north to flee to the vicinity of the camp of the Huns, in addition to immediately ordering the evacuation of the tribesmen to protect them as much as possible, Mao Dun originally planned to collect the defeated troops here, and then flee north in clusters. But what Mao Dun didn't expect was that Xiang Kang would let the soldiers he brought get on the horses that pulled the carts on the spot, and directly launched a pursuit, far faster than Mao Dun expected, and pursued to the vicinity of the scene much faster, and directly attacked towards his banner.

Every minute and every second of time is extremely precious to Mao Dun, he does not want to waste time by fighting with the Han cavalry, and seeing the surging crowd of defeated soldiers of his own army, the degree of chaos is far above his imagination, and it is impossible to gather and reorganize in a short period of time, Mao Dun had to temporarily change his mind, and let his guards hold the Hun Khan banner in advance to lead the defeated soldiers to flee north, and escaped for more than 20 miles in one breath and stopped to collect the defeated soldiers.

What happened next surprised Mao Dun again, he gathered tens of thousands of remnants in the north, and just met with his half-brother Zuo Xianwang, more Hun cavalry recruited the main force of the Han cavalry led by Guan Ying and Yang Xi, all the Han cavalry who could fight on horses also took advantage of their weapons to cut down the Hun cavalry who had to hold the war horse and hold the horse's belly to fight, and the ghost cried wolf, and killed hundreds of thousands of Hun cavalry to the head of the mouse and the upper hand.

Seeing this scene, he had reorganized the anger of tens of thousands of troops, and subconsciously wanted to wave his army to meet the attack, but Zang Di grabbed him and said: "Great Khan, don't waste time, the infantry brigade of the tyrant army will definitely arrive soon, and the rioter cavalry can all fight on horseback, even if we go around in circles on the battlefield, we can drag us down, and when the infantry brigade of the tyrant army arrives, we will definitely suffer a big loss." ”

Thinking that this was indeed the truth, Mao Dun gritted his teeth, but still yelled, "Continue north, and get rid of the barbarian pursuers first!" ”

Everything was expected by Li Zuoche, in order to get rid of the Han army's pursuit as soon as possible, Mao Dun really did not have time to stop on the way to the north to live the whole team, more than 200,000 Hun cavalry has always been in a rather chaotic situation desperately north, the Han cavalry that has received the order has also been in pursuit, and once again in the area of Shilie Mountain shattered Mao Dun's dream of trying to collect the defeated army, forcing Mao Dun to be unable to effectively command the army all the way north. However, Li Zuoche missed a little......

When the sky was light, the brigade of the defeated Xiongnu army was only a dozen miles away from Shanwu, and looked left and right at the road he passed when he came south, and after discovering this, Mao Dun suddenly found that the danger was approaching, and hurriedly shouted: "Quick, put away the banner of Ben Khan!" Without Ben Khan's personal order, no more fights are allowed! ”

"Great Khan, why?" King Zuo Xian next to him asked strangely: "Without your banner guidance, our soldiers are easy to get separated?" ”

"If the flag continues to be fought, Ben Khan's head will be in danger!" Mao Dun said with a dark face: "The sky has gradually brightened, the barbarian defenders of Shanwu in front received the news, and they will definitely send troops to intercept us, seeing that our team is in chaos, Shanwu's barbarian defenders will definitely directly raid Ben Khan's Wang Qi, and we are now sleepy and tired, if we can't resist, Ben Khan's head must not be cut off by the barbarian soldiers as a night pot?" ”

After explaining the reason for his order to collect the flag, Mao Dun shouted again: "Quick, put away Ben Khan's royal flag!" Put away your royal banner for me, too!" ”

When the crowd of the Hun defeated soldiers fled to the vicinity of the cowhide ditch, although the 300 Han cavalry pretending to be Xiongnu soldiers successfully blended into the ranks of the Xiongnu defeated soldiers, they could not find the location of Mao Dun in the chaotic Hun defeated crowd, and could only scurry around the crowd like headless flies with special markings. Risking the risk of being spotted at any time to find out in search of Maudun......

The crowd was too chaotic, and the Han cavalry did not have lackeys Xiangyun, of course, they failed to find Mao Dun, but they could only flee all the way to Shanwu City with the surging and rushing Hun defeated soldiers, and Xiang Zhuang really led the Han army to attack and meet the battle, and couldn't wait to open his eyes wide to find where Mao Dun's banner was, and found that it was futile to do so, Xiang Zhuang had no choice but to shout: "Rush up, try to kill the Hun barbarians!" ”

Don't say that the Han soldiers of Shanwu did not work hard to intercept and kill, in this blocking battle, countless Han soldiers successfully got the first level of capture, slashing spears and axes, killing and killing countless Hun soldiers, but the Hun cavalry is too much, like the ocean, almost in an instant submerged the Shanwu Han army with a total strength of only 10,000 people, taking advantage of the opportunity of the good and no soldiers to kill the enemy, roaring and slapping horses from the side of the Han soldiers, quickly disappeared in the north distance, no matter how hard the Han soldiers tried to cut and intercept, They were never able to stop so many Hun cavalry from fleeing north.

During this period, Xiang Zhuang, Xiang It, Wang Fei and others have been trying to keep their eyes open, trying to find the location of Mao Dun's banner to carry out a surprise attack, but what Xiang Zhuang and others have been seeing is always a dense crowd of Hun defeated soldiers, as well as countless innocuous wolf flags and eagle flags, Xiang Zhuang and Xiang It and others are so anxious that they scream, but they are helpless, "Where did Mao Dun go to that barbarian?" Where did it go? Can't be still to come, right? ”

In the end, after most of the Huns' defeated soldiers rushed through the Han army's blocking position, Wang Pin also led the Han cavalry to the north to pursue, and the Lou Fu general Ma Hail who was ordered to snipe had no choice but to come to Xiang Zhuang and Xiang It to resume his life, saying that they had never found the banner of Mao Dun, so they could not complete the task assigned by Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Zhuang was helpless to hear it, and could only say strangely: "Strange thing, where did the barbarian Mao Dun go?" It can't be that we've already killed us, right? It shouldn't be, if he was already dead, it would be impossible for so many Hun cavalry to gather together and flee north? Also, why haven't you seen the banners of the Left and Right Virtuous Kings? ”

"Report ——!"

At this time, a fast horse suddenly galloped from the north, rushed to Xiang Zhuang's front and hugged his fists and played: "General Xiang, General Wang Fei sent a villain to report, after the Hun barbarian brigade crossed Shanwu for more than ten miles, the white-haired sweat banner of the Maodun barbarians suddenly appeared in their army, and went directly in the direction of killing the tiger's mouth. ”

Hearing this report, Xiang Zhuang immediately slapped his forehead heavily and exclaimed in annoyance: "Oh no, why did we forget that the Maodun barbarian would put away his white-haired sweat flag?" Now it's troublesome, we missed this opportunity, and let the jackal escape back to the grassland, and it will definitely be more difficult for us to destroy the Huns in the future. ”

"Uncle Qiu, don't worry." Xiang It next to him suddenly spoke, and said with a dark smile: "Uncle Qiu, didn't you hear? The barbarian who Mao Dun fled in the direction of killing the tiger's mouth. ”