When the city of Chang'an was boiling in the uproar, hundreds of Han army scouts were scattered on the vast land like bees on the border of Munan, thousands of miles away.

In the cavalry era, scout warfare was the most intense, brutal, and at the same time the most important component.

Scout cavalry is the same as the reconnaissance planes on American and Japanese aircraft carriers in the Pacific theater during World War II.

It is a key link in determining the victory or defeat of the war.

To put it bluntly, whoever can win the scout war, and take the lead in detecting the enemy's position, deployment, and reality, will win the war!

In order to confuse the Huns, all the Han army scouts put on captured Hujie costumes, rode the horses of the Hujie people, and even brought some surrendered Hujie nobles as a disguise.

This trick is very effective.

Guo Rong relied on the unique sheepskin jacket and felt hat of the Hujie people on his body, and successfully went around from the flank of the main force of the Hun cavalry to behind them.

And all the way north, deep into the cliff plain.

So, he saw that a group of Hun cavalry, about a dozen people, seemed to be the leading force, looking at each other on the distant wasteland.

The distance between the two sides is about seven or eight miles.

Guo Rong could even see that someone on the other side was waving to him.

After thinking for a moment, Guo Rong had already made a decision: "Go!" We get close to them and try to catch them alive! ”

So, he took his subordinates and took the initiative to move closer to the other party.

And those Hun cavalry were also riding their horses and slowly leaning over.

After a quarter of an hour, both sides could already see each other's faces.

The typical stubby stature, round face, and thick eyebrows of the Huns are all exposed to the eyes.

Obviously, the face of the Han army was also clearly seen by them.

Even, they didn't need to see the appearance of Guo Rong and his party clearly, they had already found out that something was wrong!

The Han people, with an average height of more than seven feet, belong to giants in the Xiongnu country!

Not to mention, the Han people grew their hair, while the Huns wore hair and braided hair.

"Han Chinese!" The Hun cavalry screamed and reacted immediately.

They hurriedly drew their weapons from their waists, and immediately tightened their horses' bellies to speed up.

But......

It's too late.

Because, the Han cavalry came premeditated.

And the Huns were just in a hurry.

The battle ended incredibly quickly.

In just a quarter of an hour, this Hun cavalry squad had been captured and killed.

"Master!" A smiling nobleman dragged a Hun who was captured by him to Guo Rong, knelt down and bowed in a very stiff and awkward Chinese language: "The slave has caught a Hun slave for you!" ”

"Well done!" Guo Rong immediately showed a satisfied smile and praised him: "Luxury, you are almost as good as a Zhuxia husband!" ”

When the extravagant Hujie nobleman heard Guo Rong's reward, he smirked like a primary school student who had won the certificate of merit for three good students, and kowtowed busily: "The master has won the award!" Slave An dares to compete with Chinese heroes? As long as they can serve the great angels, the slave and maid are already satisfied! ”

Guo Rong listened, just smiled.

The performance of these surrendered nobles in the Han scout sequence is no longer enough to be described as 'brave' and 'loyal'.

They are like the most well-behaved hounds, like the most docile cats.

It was almost 200% of the strength to complete the orders and tasks issued by the generals of the Han family.

This made Guo Rong a little incomprehensible.

went to consult the servant Zhonggong, and got an answer that made him a little confused - the two devils are more fierce than the devils!

But......

In any case, these people have become the best helpers and translators for the Han scouts now.

"Ask him for me...... Whose subordinate is he and what are you doing here? Guo Rong ordered.

"Yes! Master! He kowtowed and bowed again, then stood up, looked at the Hun who was bound by him viciously, took out a knife from his waist with a cruel smile, walked in front of him, and said something in Hun language.

After listening to the words, the man immediately trembled and trembled with fright, and almost cried and told everything he knew.

After listening to this person's words, he turned around and turned into the docile cat again, nodding at Guo Rong and saying, "Great master, the slave has already asked clearly, he is the little king of the Xiongnu Lan clan's Zuo Dadang household......"

"They were ordered by the Xiongnu's Ding Ling Wang Weilu to contact the ...... of the Guyan King Xuyan to the south."

"Wei Lu is here too?" Guo Rong immediately asked.

"Returning to the master, yes!" He replied: "According to the captive, Ding Ling Wang Weilu has led his main force across the Gonglu River three days ago and came south, and now it is only three hundred miles away!" ”

"Three hundred miles?" Guo Rong immediately condensed: "That is, in three days at most, Wei Lu will arrive here!" ”

And the troops of the Guyan King Xuyan are at most eighty or ninety miles away.

In other words, both of them may return to the teacher after four or five days at most.

Guo Rong turned his horse's head and ordered: "Clean up the battlefield immediately, bury the corpses, and then retreat immediately!" ”

"I must go back and report to the servant immediately!"

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At this time, the void Yan Yan finally sensed that something was wrong.

He had now led his army into the area of the Makunan and arrived in the Shiozawa area.

It is less than two hundred miles away from Yuze.

If the cavalry is advancing at full speed, at most two days, you can see the shadow of Yu Ze.

But......

Along the way, the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense.

Although, the scouts reported that scattered Hujie cavalry had been spotted approaching.

But these Hujie cavalrymen seem to be very afraid of his scouts?

Usually before they get close, they disappear without a trace.

Moreover, until now, Tu Gushu did not send anyone to contact him.

By this time, if you don't know that there is a problem.

Then he's a little too stupid.

"Tu Gu shoots this bastard!" Rubbing the jade wrench on his thumb, Xuyan looked up at the sheepskin map hanging in the dome, which was a typical Xiongnu work, rough and simple, only a general geography and topography, gritting his teeth, Xuyan had to consider a terrible result - something was likely to be wrong with the Hujieren.

Just, what exactly is the problem?

Confused.

"Someone!" He shouted.

A few cronies and nobles who were waiting at the gate of the vault immediately opened the tent door, walked in, prostrated in front of him, and kissed the carpet in front of him: "Great King Guyan, what do you command?" ”

"Remember Shiozawa we passed by yesterday?" Void asked.

"Remember!"

"Send someone to occupy the place at once!" Xuyan Yan ordered: "Then send an order to the whole army, from now on, to retreat backwards and go to Shiozawa to assemble!" ”

"Send someone to Gong Lushui immediately, contact King Ding Ling, and ask him to lead the army to meet him immediately!"

As a qualified Xiongnu commander, Xuyan still knows the severity.

He understands very well that once the call is really wrong.

Either way, he wasn't fit to move on.

Because ahead, it is highly likely to be a trap.

In this vast grassland, cavalry is a kind of flexible but extremely heavy force.

The reason for this is that the cavalry moves very fast.

As long as you don't consider the formation, it's very simple to run two or three hundred miles in one day and one night.

And bulky, too, because of this.

After the day and night, all the cavalry had to be repaired.

Even if the man still has strength, the horse is exhausted.

Once in this state, the cavalry is directly degenerated into infantry.

Therefore, in the war, the cavalry of both Han and Hungary must occupy a base that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and can be used as a base for camps.

It serves as a place of repair and defense for the cavalry.

And this base, first of all, must be large enough.

It must be able to meet the needs of thousands of people and tens of thousands of horses.

Secondly, there must be a convenient source of water.

Finally, and most importantly, there must be abundant pasture and relatively high terrain as cover.

And there is only one such place within a hundred miles of this vicinity - the hilly area north of Shiozawa.

Although the terrain is not as dangerous as Shiozawa.

However, there is a source of water.

At the same time, there is a large amount of pasture and a relatively large space.

It also has a higher terrain than the grassland.

With the order of the Void Eagle, his army immediately went into action.

Moreover, it is very orderly and performs its duties.

First, a detachment of about eight hundred light cavalry immediately set off and headed north.

At the same time, other troops, alternating cover, gradually retreated.

The scouts of the Han army immediately discovered this latest move of the enemy army.

Countless people immediately reported to the south.

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By the time Zhang Yue got the latest report on the enemy situation, it was already the afternoon of March 28, the spring of the second year of Yanhe.

"The Huns Guyan Wanqi retreated north?" Zhang Yue sighed with regret, looked at the sand table, and sighed: "As long as the enemy cavalry advances another eighty miles, it will completely enter the encirclement of our army......"

If the Huns dared to advance another eighty miles, even if Weilu's cavalry was behind them, Zhang Yue would immediately encircle and annihilate them regardless of it.

Today, the enemy is retreating.

This dream has been dashed.

However, this was also expected.

After all, the Huns were not stupid.

In the past three days, they have penetrated more than 200 miles into the south of the Makunan, and the distance between them and Yu Ze has been getting closer.

At such a close distance, it was impossible to see the Hujie cavalry approaching and converging.

Idiots know that something has happened to the callers.

"General Xu, General Sima......" Zhang Yue looked at Xu Xiangru and Sima Xuan, and asked, "According to the two of them, where are the Huns most likely to retreat?" ”

Sima Xuan smiled slightly, pointed to the direction of Yanze on the sand table, and said, "There is no doubt that it must be Yanze!" ”

Zhang Yue and Xu Xiangru glanced at each other and nodded.

Great minds think alike!

In other words, this is the inevitable choice of the Huns in the current situation.

As old-style cavalry, the maximum distance they could advance or retreat each day was limited.

Moreover, after going so far into the south of the Makunan, it was impossible for them to retreat to Yayuan with a swagger under the nose of the Han army.

They had to build a base nearby before it was possible to choose other avenues.

In this way, it is only necessary to look on the sand table, find a suitable place within the radius of activity of the Hun cavalry for one or two days, and then choose the best place from it, and you can know.

And there's no better place in the region than Shiozawa.

Even if the Han army encounters this situation, they will choose Shiozawa!

It's just that......

I don't know why, Zhang Yue looked at the topography and geography of Yanze, and then thought about the situation reported by the Han army scouts so far.

He suddenly thought of a poem, and couldn't help but chant it in his heart: "Meng Lianggu is a tiger and a tiger is broken, and there is Tianxia for thousands of miles, if I don't see death, I won't save each other, but the G Army has a Gundam ......"

If you think about it carefully, the current battle situation is really very similar to the famous battle in the later generations.

The same absolute trump card!

The most elite cavalry of the Xiongnu Empire, an elite division built with huge investment, went deep into the grassland and entered the hunting range of the Han army.

There are also reinforcements behind them, and there are many of them.

The same may occupy a dangerous position.

Once the Han army has been unable to conquer for a long time, its reinforcements arrive, and it may be the center that blooms.

Of course, there are many differences.

The first is that the Han army is in Yanze, and there is no strength to delay it at present.

Secondly, Zhang Yue still doesn't know how far is the distance between the Ministry of Health and Law and Gu Yan Wanqi?

Can they echo each other?

This is critical.

Ruo Weilu's main force is not far from the Guyan cavalry......

Zhang Yue did not dare to march rashly, so he could only adopt the tactics of onlookers, pressing and confrontation.

Drag them as far as possible in Munan, Yayuan, and Gonglushui, and wait for the Flying Fox Army to arrive before the decisive battle can be held.

I'm groaning and thinking about countermeasures.

Outside the tent, the sound of horses' hooves was heard.

Then, Zhang Yue heard Guo Rong's voice: "Serving the prince, the last general was ordered to go around the rear to investigate, and now that the task has been completed, I am here to restore my life!" ”

When Zhang Yue heard this, he immediately ran out of the military tent excitedly and came out to greet him in person.

As soon as he saw Guo Rong, Zhang Yue immediately asked: "Guo Junhou, where is the Ministry of Health and Law now?" ”

"Qi Yu served the middle prince, the last general led his troops to bypass the Huns' Guyan Wanqi, entered the cliff plain to search, and found a team sent out by Wei Lu, captured a few live mouths, after interrogation, it was learned that the Wei Law Department had indeed crossed the river and came to the south of the Munan, and now, they are about six hundred miles away from Hu Ze, and the distance between them and Gu Yan Wan Qi is at least three hundred li!"

When Zhang Yue heard this, he couldn't help but look up to the sky and roar: "God help me!" ”

Three hundred miles!

Even if the Guyan cavalry is retreating north now, and the Ministry of Guards is advancing, the actual distance between the two will be greatly reduced.

But......

Enough for the Han army.

Because, two days ago, after the Han army swore an oath, the cavalry of Captain Wuheng and Captain Changshui had already set out from Huze, and flanked Guyan Wanqi from the left and right flanks respectively.

Of course, in order to avoid being discovered by the Hun scouts about the intentions and actions of the Han army, a safe distance was deliberately kept from them.

But now, the distance between the main force of the Han army and the Guyan cavalry is actually only within a day.

As long as you can surround them, and resolutely snipe the reinforcements of the Ministry of Defense, prevent them from joining.

In this game, Zhang Yue won!