In the middle of February of the fifth year of the reign of King Wei of Wei, the weather gradually warmed up after the cold winter, and both the Qin army and the Wei army were already actively preparing for the war after the spring, and the first to take action was Menghu, Huahu, Mu Wu and others who were stationed in Yuncheng at this moment.

To be precise, as early as the second half of the first month, Meng Hu and Hua Hu couldn't bear to find the trouble of the 2,000 Qin cavalry, and Mu Wu said so badly that the two of them postponed the date of the battle for half a month.

On February 15, knowing that Menghu, Huahu, and Mu Wu were about to lead the cavalry to attack and find the Qin cavalry, Yuncheng ordered Du Su and the garrison Sima to set up a banquet, and the right to celebrate the achievements of these three people in advance, and after eating and drinking, Menghu, Huahu, and Mu Wu led a total of 3,000 cavalry under their command and left Yuncheng in a mighty manner.

At this time, there was still enough snow in the wilderness outside the city to sink into the horses' hooves, but the cold weather had greatly improved, as long as you took care to control the horses, so as not to make the horses stumble because of the slippery ice and snow, and the cavalry was not unable to act in such weather.

"According to the scout's report, someone had seen traces of cavalry in the mountains southeast of Yeyi. …… I guess the cavalry is hiding there, so let's go and see what it's all about. ”

While hurrying on the way, Mu Wu said to Meng Hu and Hua Hu.

Hearing this, Meng Hu blinked his eyes, and after thinking for a long time, he also thought of what the mountains southeast of Yeyi were called, but Hua Hu took out the marching map, and guessed the approximate hiding location of the Qin cavalry with a serious expression.

Since Xu County has not received any news about the Qin cavalry so far, then the Qin cavalry should be in the area surrounded by Yeyi, Yuncheng and Shangcai, considering the concealment, it is indeed very likely to hide in the mountains southeast of Yeyi.

Thinking of this, Hua Hu and the others immediately led the army straight to the place.

In fact, as Mu Wu and Hua Hu judged, the Qin general Hu Yu and his 2,000 cavalry, after looting enough food and winter clothes for the winter in Yuncheng last year, quietly hid in the mountains southeast of Yeyi, waiting for the weather to warm up so that they could harass and attack Yeyi.

In mid-February this year, in order to hide people's eyes, Hu Yu pretended to be an ordinary civilian and walked to the Yeyi area to take a peek.

As for Ye Yi's initial impression, how to say it, Hu Yu felt a little similar to Xianyang, the capital of his Qin State, that is, Ye Yi did not have a city wall.

In fact, strictly speaking, Xianyang, the capital of Qin, has a city wall, but the area of the enclosure is not large, almost only the level of Yangzhai in South Korea, but why do some people say that Xianyang has no city wall?

The reason is that too many displaced people defected to Xianyang, and Xianyang City could not accommodate the hundreds of thousands of nationals at every turn, so they had to gradually expand outward.

During the period of outward expansion, in fact, the Qin State also planned to build the city wall several times, but each time it was not ready, a large number of displaced people defected to Xianyang and built houses in Xianyang, which forced the Qin State to expand the scope of the city wall again.

After repeating this several times, the construction date of the city wall was greatly prolonged, and the cost required had become astronomical, and considering that in recent years, almost no one in the Central Plains had been able to attack Xianyang, and they were always blocked at Hangu Pass, so the Qin State simply did not bother to expand the city wall.

As a result, Xianyang became a city without walls.

And now the situation of Yeyi is similar to that of Xianyang of Qin, this city built by the former important minister of Chu State, Ye Gong Shen Zhuliang, it itself has a wall, but because it accepted more than 100,000 displaced people of Chu last year, Yeyi can only expand externally, and place a large number of Chu people who have defected to the city in a few newly built townships outside the city.

During this period, Ye Yiyi also thought about building the city wall, but when he and Qu Yuan calculated the cost of building the city, both he and Qu Yuan were a little frightened.

Because they found that to rebuild a city that could accommodate hundreds of thousands or even 200,000 people, not only would it take decades to build, but the cost would be enough to support at least 200,000 troops.

It is no exaggeration to say that a project of this scale is no longer something that Yeyi can afford, so Xiang Yi gave up building the city, and turned to the second, asking Yi Sima Le to continue to expand the guards responsible for public security and anti-theft, and use manpower to maintain the law and order situation in Yeyi.

And on this day, after Qin General Hu Yu spied on Yeyi's situation from afar, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

When he led his army to invade the territory of Yunxian last year, although he once sacked several villages and killed more than 3,000 Wei people, he never led the army to attack the county seat of Yanxian, the reason is very simple, the cavalry is not good at attacking the city, in front of the towering city wall of Yancheng, even the cavalry has to look at the city and sigh.

And now, Ye Yi has no exterior walls like Xianyang, the capital of his Qin State, isn't this a godsend?

As long as he led his army to Yeyi, although he could not attack the walls of Yeyi, those towns outside the city were almost defenseless in front of his cavalry.

As long as he wants, he can make Ye Yi pay a heavy loss at any time.

"It seems that this is the reason why Bai Shuai sent me to attack Ye Yi."

Hu Yu thought secretly in his heart.

But thinking about it, he didn't dare to act rashly at the moment, because Yeyi was different from other Wei cities, this city was the fiefdom of Fangcheng Ling Meng Zhong, and Meng Zhong also had cavalry under his command, and the number was more than the cavalry under his command, reaching nearly three thousand people - this was Hu Yu's estimate, and he felt that this number was about the same.

Considering that the other party also has cavalry who are good at long-range harassment and sneak attacks, Hu Yu feels that he should be more cautious.

At the very least, find out where the cavalry is.

Thinking of this, after returning to the mountain col of the garrison, Hu Yu sent cavalry to Yuncheng to monitor the movements of the cavalry of the three thousand square city.

Unexpectedly, these cavalry sent out turned around and returned to the garrison halfway, and told Hu Yu an astonishing news: the cavalry of the 3,000 square city garrison in Yuncheng was heading straight towards the place where he was stationed.

Discovered?

Hu Yu, who learned of this, frowned, and immediately ordered his cavalry to be ready to evacuate at any time, while continuing to send scouts to see if the Fangcheng cavalry was heading for Yeyi or really coming towards him.

In just half a day, Hu Yu learned the news that the Fangcheng cavalry was indeed coming for them.

War?

Or withdraw?

Hu Yu frowned and thought.

If the other party was only 3,000 foot soldiers, he would not hesitate to order his cavalry to attack and eat this Wei army in one bite - the tactics used by the cavalry under Meng Zhong in the battle of Yique the year before last, he Yiqu people had already started to use it more than a hundred years ago, and it was nothing at all.

But the other party is 3,000 cavalry, and if he really wants to fight, Hu Yu doesn't think he is very sure.

After all, the other party is not a weak brigade, and thirty percent of them are cavalry veterans who have participated in the Battle of Yique, compared to those cavalry soldiers under his command who have not encountered a real fierce battle so far, I don't know how much stronger, not to mention that the number of opponents is still above them.

But the problem is, although he doesn't want to fight, he can't get away, the cavalry chases the cavalry, where can the fleeing side finally flee to?

After thinking about it, Hu Yu felt that it was still necessary to preemptively ambush this Fangcheng cavalry.

Thinking of this, he consulted with several of his generals, and asked them to lead the cavalry to ambush the mountain pass, and he personally led a hundred cavalry to lure those Fangcheng cavalry first, and when those Fangcheng cavalry chased him, he led them into the ambush place.

So, after the arrangements were made, Hu Yu led a hundred cavalry to attack and wandered among the valleys of this hill.

Sure enough, only an hour later, he heard a movement like a tremor, and immediately, when he looked into the distance, he saw a line of cavalry appear on the edge in the distance, and then, countless cavalry continued to appear from that sideline, mighty.

"Sure enough, there are nearly 3,000 cavalry......

After squinting his eyes and estimating from a distance, Hu Yu was also secretly surprised in his heart.

You must know that as far as he knows, Wei has not yet formed cavalry, and Wei's army is still mainly composed of chariots, foot soldiers, and crossbowmen, but a Fangcheng order of Wei has 3,000 cavalry in his hands, and it is said that these 3,000 cavalry are all crossbow horses with crossbow tools, which made Hu Yu feel a little curious about the origin of Meng Zhong: This Central Plains man actually understands the power of cavalry?

However, this is not the time to think about this kind of problem, seeing that the oncoming Fangcheng cavalry is about to approach, Hu Yu immediately asked his cavalry to pretend to be panicked and flee, along the valley between the hills on both sides, turn around and flee.

Seeing this scene from afar, Meng Hu, Hua Hu, and Mu Wu issued an order to stop advancing almost simultaneously.

After a while, the three of them took Cao Chun, Cai Cheng, and Lu Wen to discuss together.

During this period, Hua Hu snorted towards the valley and said contemptuously: "Speaking of which, who is the general who led this Qin cavalry?" Using such a superficial trick to lure the enemy, is he underestimating me? ”

Hearing this, Cao Chun, Cai Cheng, and Lu Wen couldn't help but laugh, after all, the tactics of those Qin cavalry on the opposite side to lure the enemy were too crude.

Even if it was them, it could be seen that the other party must have set up an ambush behind the mountain pass, not to mention the tall feet of Hua Hu and Mu Wu, the two Zhuang masters?

"Then again......"

As if thinking of something, Cai Cheng asked Meng Hu in surprise: "In other words, Meng Sima also ordered to stop advancing at the same time, could it be that Meng Sima also concluded that the other party had set up an ambush?" ”

Hearing this, Menghu's deputy general Cao Chun interrupted with some unhappiness: "Cai Cheng, what do you mean by this?" ”

"Hahaha." Cai Cheng waved his hand and explained: "It's just curiosity......"

Meng Hu didn't care about this, and boasted loudly: "That's natural, as the number one general in Fang City, how can a small ambush make me fall for it?" I can see it at a glance......"

Hearing this, Hua Hu asked coldly, "How do you see it?" ”

"Uh...... They can't see that they are running away when they see me waiting? ”

"Humph! The other party only has more than 100 cavalry, we have 3,000 cavalry, you don't run in exchange for you? ”

"This ...... So what judgment do you say? ”

"Hmm...... Ah Wu, you tell him. Hua Hu turned his head and pushed the matter to Mu Wu.

Shaking his head helplessly, Mu Wu said in a deep voice: "We have encountered several groups of Qin cavalry in a row who are watching our army's movements from a distance, calculate the time, the commander of this Qin cavalry must have known that our army is coming, but he did not immediately gather the cavalry under his command, and still asked a team of more than 100 cavalry to wander here, which in itself is unreasonable." And this hundred-man cavalry, seeing that we were not in a hurry to leave, but stayed for a moment, until our army approached, and then they turned and fled. …… From this, it can be seen that this hundred-man cavalry is just a decoy. ”

Hearing this, Cao Chun, Cai Cheng and Lu Wen praised one after another.

Although they have thought of what Mu Wu said, their thinking is indeed not as clear and coherent as Mu Wu.

"Musima is a great general."

Cai Cheng said to Lu Wen with emotion.

Hearing this, Lu Wen reluctantly smiled.

It is undeniable that he also thinks that his main general Mu Wu is a general, and in terms of grasping the battle situation, he is even above Menghu and Huahu, but sometimes, Mu Wu smirks in private, which makes it impossible to connect it with the talent of the general.

Shaking his head, Lu Wen diverted the topic and said, "Then what should I do next?" ”

Hearing this, Cao Chun and Cai Cheng looked at Mu Wu one after another, although they more or less knew some of Mu Wu's faults, but they still felt that compared with Meng Hu and Hua Hu, Mu Wu was still the most reliable.

Seeing this, Mu Wu touched his chin and thought: "You can plan and trap this cavalry in turn." …… In this way, Ah Hu, you will taunt them later, and say that we have seen through his tricks, and as for the rest of the people, they will simply dismount and rest. The cavalry on the opposite side saw that our army was slacking off, or that it was possible to take the opportunity to attack, and when the time came, we would suddenly attack......" Speaking of this, he waved his right hand and made a fist gesture: "Hit it hard in one fell swoop!" ”

Hearing this, Cao Chun, Cai Cheng, and Lu Wen nodded secretly.

Look at other people's tactics to lure the enemy, and be silent at all, isn't that Qin general on the other side just a fool?

After everyone finished discussing, Meng Hu and Cao Chun led the cavalry slowly towards the valley.

During this period, Cao Chun asked Meng Hu out of curiosity: "Sima, Fang Cai, are you really sure that there will be an ambush behind the valley?" ”

Meng Hu was annoyed when he heard this, and said angrily: "What? Even you don't believe me? ”

Cao Chun hurriedly explained: "It's not that I don't believe it, but I have also seen it with my own eyes, the timing of Sima's order to stop the cavalry under his command is almost the same as that of Huahu and Mu Wu, which shows that Sima has indeed sensed that something is wrong, but Sima can't say the reason, which is really puzzling......

"Well...... this"

Meng Hu snorted for a while, and then said: "Actually, I just feel that there is danger behind the mountain, and there may be an enemy ambush or something......

Hearing this, Cao Chun's eyes widened in shock: "That's it? ”

"Well, that's all."

“……”

When he opened his mouth, Cao Chun didn't know what to say.

Because Menghu's explanation is powerful in all ways.

『…… This is a reckless man with beastly instincts......

Touching the stubble on his chin, Cao Chunqiang held back the smile in his heart.

"Cao Chun, are you thinking about something rude to me at this time?"

"Of course not, how is that possible? You think it's wrong......" Cao Chun immediately denied.

Meng Hu looked at Cao Chun suspiciously, but quickly put this matter behind him, looked at the opposite side of the valley, and said with interest: "Having said that, the Qin general on the other side doesn't know what to think, this kind of superficial strategy wants me to be fooled?" ”

Hearing this, Cao Chun also nodded in agreement.

After all, in his opinion, as the commander of a team of 2,000 cavalry, the Qin general on the opposite side was indeed substandard, as if he had not read any art of war.

Not to mention, Cao Chun's guess was really right, although the Yiqu Kingdom also once rose to the craze of the Central Plains culture, but it was only among the nobles of Yiqu, and Hu Yu was a civilian-born general, he really didn't read much of the art of war, so that he swore that the strategy that could make Wei Qi scheming was simply a three-year-old child's thing in the eyes of Hua Hu, Mu Wu and others.

Not long after, Meng Hu and Cao Chun led 300 cavalry veterans under their command and entered the valley.

At this time, Meng Hu pressed his hand and said, "That's it." ”

Cao Chun glanced at Meng Hu in surprise, nodded and didn't say anything.

Immediately, I saw Meng Hu shouting at the top of his voice: "Listen to General Qin on the other side, your strategy like a three-year-old child has been seen through by me...... Well, I am the first fierce general Meng Hu in Fangcheng, if you have the guts, you will lead the army to attack and fight with our army for a few hours, if you don't have the guts, you should go home early to find your mother to eat your mother, hahahaha......"

When the words fell, the cavalry veterans under Menghu's command also laughed cooperatively.

Hearing Meng Hu's words from afar, Hu Yu's face turned red.

I don't know if he was ashamed that his strategy was easily seen through by the Wei army on the other side, or if he was angry at Meng Hu's humiliating words.

However, he was not an impulsive man, and he guessed that the Wei army might also intend to lure them out of the valley, so he ordered his cavalry to stay put.

In this way, Meng Hu scolded for half an hour, scolding dryly, and still didn't see any changes in those Qin cavalry.

Annoyed, Meng Zhong scolded in a low voice: "This damn guy is calm. ”

Cao Chun nodded when he heard this.

Although the strategy of the Qin general on the other side was very ridiculous, it was indeed calm.

Thinking of this, he persuaded Meng Hu: "Why don't we go out first and change Hua Sima to try?" ”

As soon as he heard this, Meng Hu was a little unhappy: "Can he do it?" ”

But having said that, Meng Hu still agreed with Cao Chun's opinion, after all, he really couldn't scold.

After a while, Meng Hu and Cao Chun returned to Hua Hu, Mu Wu and others, and at this time, the Wei cavalry on this side had all dismounted to rest, taking the opportunity to recover the physical strength of the war horse.

After hearing Meng Hu finish talking about the situation in the valley, Mu Wu thought for a while and said: "There is no need to go again, and then send someone to go, it will make the Qin general suspicious, if you just rest here, in this way, he Qin General will definitely order an attack when he sees that our army is negligent in taking precautions." …… Huahu, for the sake of prudence, you lead a group of cavalry to go first and ambush in ......"

At this point, he looked the way he came, pointed to a grove in the distance, and said, "Just lie in ambush over there." As for Cai Cheng, follow me for the time being. ”

"Okay."

Hua Hu nodded, and immediately led more than 300 cavalry veterans, broke into pieces, left the army in batches, and ambushed them one after another to the location that Mu Wu said.

At the same time, the Qin general Hu Yu saw that the Wei army did not move, so he climbed the hill and looked at the situation of the Wei cavalry.

Unexpectedly, he was shocked to find that the Fangcheng cavalry actually dismounted and rested under his nose.

"It's a lure for the enemy...... Or are you taking the opportunity to restore the strength of the warhorse?'

Hu Yu secretly guessed in his heart.

Although he couldn't judge, there was one thing that he knew very well from the Yiqu cavalry, that is, the physical strength of a war horse was very important for a cavalryman.

Therefore, seeing that Wei Qi was dismounting and resting, Hu Yu secretly said in his heart: I made a mistake!

At first, he didn't expect it, until he saw that Wei Qi was resting on the war horse, and then he suddenly remembered that this Wei horse came all the way from Yuncheng, and the horsepower must have been lost, and once the war horse of this Wei horse regained its strength, it was not so simple for them to escape.

"It's better to take advantage of his negligence and lead the cavalry to kill him!"

Thinking of this, Hu Yu immediately issued an order to the soldiers around him: "Pass the order, that Fangcheng cavalry is resting, and if you neglect to take precautions, you can take this opportunity to break it!" ”

"Whoa!"

So a moment later, Hu Yu led his two thousand cavalry and went straight out of the valley and killed Meng Hu, Mu Wu and others.

However, the cavalry of Fangcheng had already taken precautions, and as soon as they saw the Qin cavalry coming, they got up one after another, and even some of the soldiers were quick and had already turned over on their horses.

Seeing this, Mu Wu had no choice but to order: "Tell the soldiers to retreat to that wood, and throw away some flags, weapons, and ......."

Under Mu Wu's order, 2,700 Fangcheng cavalry pretended to be panicked, lost some of their banners and Changge, and scattered and fled in embarrassment.

Seeing this scene from afar, Qin General Hu Yu was overjoyed.

He was originally a little worried, but now seeing those Wei cavalry so panicked, he suddenly put his mind at ease, only to see him holding the reins in one hand, pointing at the Wei cavalry in the distance with a sword in his right hand, and shouting loudly: "Everyone, defeat this cavalry, Bai Shuai will be rewarded!" ”

Stimulated by the reward, the two thousand Qin knights under his command greatly increased their morale, and chased after the two thousand seven hundred cavalry of Meng Hu, Mu Wu and others until they reached the forest.

At this moment, Hua Hu led three hundred cavalry veterans out from behind the woods, went straight to the flank of this cavalry, and cut off its lazy waist.

At this time, Meng Hu and Cao Chun also led the cavalry veterans under their command, reined in the reins, turned around and attacked from the other side of the Qin army, and cooperated with the Huahu team to divide the two thousand cavalry.

"The whole army counterattacks!"

With Mu Wu's order, the remaining 2,400 cavalry all turned their horses and charged towards the cavalry on the opposite side with Changge in their hands.

For a while, it seemed that two torrents collided in one place, and I saw that in the mournful neighing of countless war horses and the miserable cries of the soldiers, the cavalry of the Qin army was knocked over by the cavalry of Fangcheng, and they were knocked off their horses.

On the other hand, the cavalry of Fangcheng fell to the ground with their horses at most, and almost none of them were thrown off their horses due to the collision.

"How is that possible?!"

Seeing the scene in front of him, Hu Yu couldn't believe it.

You must know that he Yiqu once fought with the Xiongnu, Lin Hu and other foreign races, and there was also a hedge between the cavalry of the two sides during the period, but the result was that the number of cavalry of the two armies was basically the same - this has little to do with the strength of the cavalry, purely that the cavalry could not borrow strength when charging each other, and could not stabilize the body on horseback.

However, today, these Fangcheng cavalry can stabilize their bodies on their horses one by one.

This......

How did they do it? You must know that even the warriors of their Yiqu have done this, could it be that these Fangcheng cavalry are even more powerful than the warriors of his Yiqu?

Through observation, Hu Yu found that those Wei horses seemed to rely on two stirrups to stabilize their figures.

Stirrup?

Isn't that something you only used when you got on the horse?

Hu Yu really couldn't figure it out.