Things were beyond Zhao Junsheng's expectations, he and Gao Xu took turns on duty, Gao Xu kept the first half of the night, Zhao Junsheng kept the second half of the night, until after dawn, the Rouran people did not come, and the dark posts arranged on the periphery of the camp did not send a warning sound, and the second batch of secret posts went over to replace them, and none of them were missing.

This is strange, the Rouran people didn't come to the night attack, they weren't fooled, Zhao Junsheng felt that he was a little excited, this Mo Gu Zhengxiong seemed to be a Rouran person with some brains.

Gao Xu had already woken up, he got up and turned his head to look, nothing seemed to have happened in the camp, and the Rouran people didn't attack the camp last night?

"General, the Rouran people didn't come, did they see through the trap we set?"

"Very likely, this Mo Gu Zhengxiong seems to be a person of merit!" Zhao Junsheng smiled.

"That'······ Shall we continue on our journey, or shall we stay here and find a way to deal with him? ”

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while, took out the map and looked at it, and instructed Gao Xu: "Send someone to investigate the location where the Rouran scouts fought with our guard post last night, and see which direction they are coming from!" ”

"Yes!"

After Gao Xu left, Zhao Junsheng continued to check the research map, and he deduced that the location of the Rouran people should not be very far from here, and there were not many locations suitable for camping at all.

In order to choose a location for the camp of the army, two basic conditions must be met: first, there must be a water source; second, it should be suitable for the army to hide; Third, you can't be too far away from the tracking target, because it's too far to catch up.

Now the Wei army is in the light, and the Rouran people are in the dark, so the Rouran people must be suitable for hiding when looking for a place where they can camp, followed by the water source, the knight can only drink the drinking water he carries within three or five days, but the livestock can't, the livestock drink a lot of water, and it is impossible to carry it all the time, so there must be a water source near the camp.

Zhao Junsheng searched on the map for a while, and the location suitable for the Rouran people to camp was filtered and eliminated by him, and only two remained.

"Which of these two positions will the Rouran people be?" Zhao Junsheng muttered to himself.

Soon, the soldiers and the people woke up one after another, and some people went to the river in groups to wash their faces, and the men, with the help of some women, began to make fires and make food.

As soon as Zhao Junsheng put away the map, Gao Xu came to report: "General, we don't know which direction the Rouran scouts came from, but they left traces when they retreated, no matter which direction the Rouran scouts came, the direction they withdrew in the end was southwest!" ”

"Southwest? Are you sure? ”

"Yes, sure, the Rouran scouts in the north, south, and west directions all withdrew to the southwest in the end!"

"Good! Since the Rouran people have become shrunken turtles, then let's find the door ourselves! After Zhao Junsheng finished speaking, he stood up and ordered: "Order Bai Jinguang, let his 1,000th cavalry be ready for battle, bring three days of dry food and drinking water, and set off in an hour!" I have decided to take the 1,000th cavalry to take the initiative to find fighters, leave the 2nd and 3000th cavalry to you to command, and you can take them to escort the people and cattle and continue to withdraw southward, according to the normal pace of marching! ”

"Command!"

The grain and livestock belonged to the people, and Zhao Junsheng could only borrow them at this time and return them to them when he returned to Wuchuan Town.

The men gave priority to preparing dry food and drinking water for the soldiers of the 1,000th cavalry, and when they had finished eating and drinking, they prepared the dry food and drinking water for the next three days, brought tarpaulins, blankets, weapons, bows and arrows, and each rode a horse and led two horses to assemble.

Before leaving, Zhao Junsheng beckoned to Li Bao, and Li Bao brought over a birdcage and handed it to Gao Xu.

Zhao Junsheng said: "This is the messenger eagle, I will give it to you, if you are attacked by the Rouran people here, if you think you can't resist it, write a distress letter and put it in the bamboo pipe of the eagle's feet, just let it fly out, it will find me!" ”

In fact, Zhao Junsheng is also just in case, Gao Xu has 2,000 elite cavalry here, and Mo Gu Zhengxiong only has about 1,500 people in his hands now, in the case of a head-to-head confrontation, Mo Gu Zhengxiong can be said to have no chance of winning.

Gao Xu took the birdcage and promised: "Subordinates obey!" ”

Zhao Junsheng stepped onto the war horse, took the cold iron gun handed over by Li Bao and nodded to Bai Jinguang: "Let's go!" ”

Bai Jinguang raised his hand and waved forward: "Let's go!" ”

Twenty miles, for a cavalry army with three horses per cavalry, it really shouldn't be too close, and Zhao Junsheng did not order the soldiers to deliberately hide their whereabouts and reduce the movement of the march, so the army was detected by the Rouran people when they were still ten miles away from the camp of the Rouran people.

"Qu Shuai, a thousand men and horses of the Wei army are killing in the direction where our army is, they must have guessed our location!" The ministry will report to Mo Guzhengxiong.

The Rouran people are eating, they slept enough last night, and they are full of energy, even if they go into battle at this time, they will not suffer.

Mo Gu Zhengxiong gnawed on the jerky and slowly stood up, he swallowed the last bite of the jerky and ordered: "The herald retreats immediately!" ”

The general was a little difficult to accept, "Qu Shuai, we have more people than them, why are you retreating?" Just fight them! ”

Mo Gu Zhengxiong was furious: "You are stupid, their camp is only twenty miles away from here, once we are entangled, we can't end the battle quickly, and when their reinforcements arrive, we can't leave if we want to!" Without further ado, give the order immediately! ”

The general was scolded, only to realize that his vision was still too short-sighted, no wonder he could only be a general, and Mo Gu Zhengxiong could be the leader.

"Yes, subordinates go immediately!"

After the horn sounded, the Rouran people finished eating and quickly assembled.

Before Zhao Junsheng arrived with his men and horses, more than 1,500 Rouran cavalry retreated to the northwest under the leadership of Mo Gu Zhengxiong.

Zhao Junsheng stopped his horse, jumped down and observed the horseshoe prints and several piles on the ground.

He got up and said loudly: "The Rouran people haven't gone far yet, let's chase in the northwest direction!" ”

After speaking, he turned over and got on his horse again, "Follow me, fast marching speed, and catch up with them in the sky and on the ground!" ”

Bai Jinguang loudly conveyed the order: "Pursue in the northwest direction!" ”

After the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, the army quickly moved away, leaving behind a large number of horseshoe prints and horse dung.

On the way to pursue, Zhao Junsheng found that the Rouran people were constantly changing the direction of the march, and around midnight, Zhao Junsheng led the team to chase to the foot of a mountain, and the Rouran people in front of them were only less than two miles away, and they had already seen the tail of the Rouran cavalry.

"Bai Jinguang, did you find anything?" Zhao Junsheng asked loudly as he bumped on horseback.

Bai Jinguang clasped his fists and said: "General, these Rouran people are going around, I am almost stunned, they seem to be taking us in circles!" ”

"That's right, they're taking us around in circles! Pass the order, speed up again, and catch up with them and hit them in the tail! ”

"Yes!"

As the marching speed of Zhao Junsheng's team increased, they got closer and closer to the Rouran people.

"Qu Shuai, if it goes on like this, we will soon be caught up, so it is better to turn around and launch a counterattack!" The ministry general suggested to Mo Gu Zhengxiong on the back of a bumpy horse.

Mo Gu Zhengxiong turned his head and looked, the Wei cavalry was too close, even if they turned around and launched an attack now, it was too late, the Wei army was pursuing, they could attack directly, but the Rouran cavalry couldn't, they had to turn around and have to form a whole team, so it was too late at all, I was afraid that the Wei cavalry would be scattered before the formation.

"No, it's absolutely not okay to turn around and attack, it's too close!"

The general said anxiously: "What should I do then?" We can't be chased all the time, we only have two horses, they have three, we can't outrun them! ”

Mo Gu Zhengxiong thought for a while, and quickly ordered: "Pass my order, everyone will disperse and flee in all directions, and assemble in the camp of the main force of the Wei army last time before sunset today!" ”

"Yes!"

As the order was issued, the Rouran cavalry broke into pieces and fled for their lives in all directions, scattering in a hurry.

Zhao Junsheng and Bai Jinguang, who were chasing behind, saw this scene, and Bai Jinguang shouted: "General, the Rouran people scattered and fled, and now we can't catch up if we want to, how can we chase them?" ”

Zhao Junsheng stopped his horse, took out the map and looked at it, a smile quickly appeared on his face, and he ordered Bai Jinguang: "Pass the order, chase and kill the fleeing Rouran cavalry with the teeth as a unit and the fastest pursuit speed, kill when you catch it, leave no prisoners, kill as many as you can, before sunset today, each tooth is still assembled here!" ”

"Yes!"

Mo Gu's plan to fight for the hero is good, if the other leading generals encounter this kind of scattered escape, there is really no way but to give up, but he is facing Zhao Junsheng and the cavalry trained by him.

The enemy was scattered in pieces, and he chased and killed them in pieces, and he knew that the Rouran people must not have arranged the tactics of combining troops in one place to break each one in a hurry.

If Zhao Junsheng and his men were chased and killed, before he gave the order to break up into pieces and escape, he would definitely make a quick assembly somewhere after the escape, and use superior forces to carry out various deployments to break the pursuers.

This tactic has not appeared at least in this era, and if Zhao Junsheng has not encountered the situation of being hunted down, he does not plan to use it, because this tactic is too lethal to the enemy for the cavalry, and the cavalry has been in the hands of the barbarians for most of the time.

Zhao Junsheng only looked at the map to know where Mo Gu Zhengxiong would choose to assemble his team, within a radius of dozens of miles, only the location of the campsite of the main force under his command the night before yesterday could be camped, and the Rouran people could hide there and get water there.

The sun gradually turned west, and at dusk, groups of Wei cavalry began to return to gather around Zhao Junsheng, and some of the teeth that returned were intact, and some of them lost a few soldiers.

When it was dark, all those who were supposed to come back returned, and those who could not come back were brought back by their companions on horseback.

"General, everyone is back, we have lost more than fifty brothers, according to the head statistics brought back by the brothers, this time the division of troops to chase and kill a total of more than eight hundred and eighty Rouran cavalry!"

Zhao Junsheng's face was serious, and he ordered: "One hour of rest time to solve all the things of eating, drinking, and Lazar, and after an hour, we will go to Mo Gu to fight for the hero!" ”

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