Chapter 385: Retreat to Changchuan

"The king remembers that in the southwest of the land, there was a 'river stream', which meandered through a hill called 'Yaling Gorge' by the locals, and flowed through a canyon called 'Yaling Gorge'. This canyon is half a river stream and half a mud road, and the mud road is muddy and difficult to walk. If the general intends to ambush the advance cavalry of the Qian, this is a good place. ”

Seeing Sima An looking at the map for a long time and being silent, Zhao Hongrun looked ahead and said calmly.

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Sima An looked at Zhao Hongrun in surprise when he heard this, he knew that the map of Sanchuan was in his hand, and His Royal Highness King Su beside him did not turn his head sideways to look, but he clearly remembered the local landforms recorded on the map?

"It is rumored that Su Wang Hongrun, well-read and strong, can walk around the monument and never forget...... Maybe it's not a rumor?'

Sima Anxin was surprised, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Your Highness, why don't our army temporarily camp in Changchuan." ”

"Huh?"

Zhao Hongrun was slightly stunned when he heard this, after all, in his memory, "Changchuan" is a low hill through which "Chuanjian" flows, and "Chuanjian" is named after it.

It is undeniable that the area of "Changchuan" has low hills, plains, and mountain streams, and the terrain is quite complex, making it a good location to set up camp.

However, as Baili Ba, the general of the Junshui Army, said, camping is divided into "focusing on attack" or "focusing on defense", as proposed by Sima An, the general camp is located in "Changchuan", which is clearly a military camp that "focuses on defense".

Building such a military camp can't help the Dangshan Army annihilate the advance cavalry of the Qiang tribe that will arrive in just half a day!

It stands to reason that the suggestion put forward by him Zhao Hongrun is the best choice.

However, Sima An didn't seem to be in a hurry to design and annihilate the advance cavalry of the Qian tribe, and set up camp in Changchuan in front of Yaling and Yaling Gorge in one fell swoop, to be honest. This is not in line with Sima An's mentality of 'as if he can't wait to kill all the foreigners in the world'.

If something is abnormal, it must be a demon!

"Hasn't the general given up yet?" Zhao Hongrun asked with some emotion after thinking about it slightly.

Hearing this, Sima An's eyes flashed a few different colors, and he asked with a light smile: "Why did Your Highness say this?" ”

Zhao Hongrun looked at Sima An for a while, and said calmly: "The next step of the general is to hope that this king will write another letter. It's called Wu Ji, and he led the merchant army to ambush on the other side of Yaling Gorge, right? ”

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Sima An's eyes changed slightly when he heard this.

Zhao Hongrun talked about this, how could he deceive himself again, so he smiled bitterly and said: "Three days, I beg His Royal Highness King Su to give him another three days." ”

Zhao Hongrun looked at Sima An, nodded after half a ring, and said, "Okay!" And the king gave the great general three days. However, three days later, the people of Ruo and Gong still did not help the people. If you betray your friendship with my Great Wei, then the general should recognize these tribes as my Great Wei's friendly neighbors, and must not do anything to hurt each other's friendship. ”

When Sima An heard this, he said: "If he betrays his friendship with my Great Wei and betrays the trust of His Royal Highness King Su, he will lead the Dangshan army to ...... him."

"Expelled from Mikawa!" Zhao Hongrun interrupted Sima An's words.

"......" Sima An frowned. Subsequently, it may be that this is acceptable. He nodded.

It turned out that the reason why Sima An begged Zhao Hongrun to give him another three days was to wait for the Qiang people and the Qiang tribes in Gong and Yu to rebel against the water and cut off their grain routes.

After that, the soldiers of the Dangshan Army began to set up camp in Changchuan in a hurry. I saw these soldiers cutting down the trees in the nearby mountains. They built a fence for the camp on the nearby low hills, and then they drove the sheep they had obtained from the Brownhorn tribe into the camp and slaughtered the sheep for meat and made them into jerky. Acts as a military ration.

Speaking of these sheep, because some of them were lost on the way, and the soldiers of the Dangshan Army along the way did not forget to hurry up to make jerky, therefore, the original tens of thousands of sheep are now only one-third, but instead, the bags of every Dangshan soldier are stuffed with jerky.

In this case, Sima An didn't care at all whether the people of Gong and Luo would cut off their grain routes.

On the other hand, he even hoped that these foreigners would betray them, because in this way, His Royal Highness King Su beside him would no longer prevent him from using force against these foreigners.

After all, His Royal Highness King Su was almost identical to his Sima An in terms of dealing with the 'foreign clans who betrayed the friendship of the Great Wei'.

About half a day later, the advance cavalry of the Qiang people really chased the marching route of the Dangshan army and came unexpectedly.

At this time, in fact, the Dangshan Army had not completely completed the construction of the barracks barracks, at most it was only half built, and there were no marching tents in the barracks, except for Sima An's handsome tent and Zhao Hongrun's royal tent.

There was no way, the advance cavalry of the Qiang people came too fast, and it took only half a day to rush to Changchuan from a few miles away, and then build a military camp in Changchuan.

Fortunately, at this time, the military camp of the Dangshan army was built on those low hills and occupied the advantage of the high ground, so although the advance cavalry of the Dangshan people chased in front of them, they did not immediately attack the Dangshan army, but watched from a distance.

On the side of the dwarf hill, Zhao Hongrun and Sima An, who heard the news, also looked at the advance cavalry of the Qian tribe in the distance on the dwarf hill.

It is worth mentioning that perhaps a few days ago, Wu Wu revealed information about the Qiang people to the Dangshan Army, which made Sima An have a little trust in him, at least at this moment Wu Wu and Una are standing next to Zhao Hongrun, and Sima An will no longer show disgust.

"This amount...... It's amazing. ”

From the side, Bai Fangming, the general of the Dangshan Army, put his hand flat on his eyebrow bone, squinted at the large group of advance cavalry of the Qiang tribe in the distance, and muttered: "Good boy, how many war horses do you have to have?" ”

Listening to his muttering, several nearby Dangshan Army generals glanced at him speechlessly.

But then again, the advance cavalry of the Qianzu tribe in the distance, the war horses they have, really made them a little blushing.

You must know that the advance cavalry of the Qian nationality on the opposite side is no more than five or six thousand according to Zhao Hongrun's eyesight, but because one person is matched with three horsemen, the number of war horses has reached more than fifteen thousand.

This is in the eyes of the generals of the Wei State. It's a waste of luxury.

"If you can capture some horses......

I believe that at this moment, most of the generals of the Dangshan Army are fantasizing about this.

Including the general Sima An.

After all, the general's gaze was not so much murderous as 'I wanted something'.

At this time, Wu Wu opened his mouth and reminded: "Like I said, the tribal warriors of the Qiang people. Unlike your country's army, which has a logistics army that specializes in logistics, their food for the past few days is carried on the back of one of the other two horses. And, from this moment on, their feet will no longer set foot on the ground, and they will eat and drink on horseback. ”

"is also solved on horseback?" Bai Fangming asked inappropriately, causing everyone nearby to show strange expressions.

"Uh...... Yes. Wu Wu nodded, made a strange pose, and explained, "Like this." Half-sitting on horseback pulling ...... Hmm, solved. ”

"Fortunately, Una can't understand my Da Wei......

Zhao Hongrun glanced at Una, who had an expression of "I don't know what Brother Wuwu was talking about", and then glanced at the generals of the Dangshan Army, but saw that their faces were full of expressions such as "Oh, I see" and "It's really a long experience".

Obviously, the gang was actually curious about it.

At this time, Sima An asked in a deep voice, "What about ...... How do they solve the problem of drinking water? Do horses carry water on their backs? ”

"Every cavalryman is equipped with two water bladders. The exterior is sheepskin sewn. Inside is the stomach pouch of the sheep, or...... Not. "Sheep bubbles" made ......"

"Sheep bubbles? What is that? Bai Fangming interjected.

"Sheep bladder ......"

Zhao Hongrun glanced at Bai Fangming, but wisely did not speak.

Sure enough, when Wu Wu explained what the 'Sheep Bubble' was, all the generals of the Dangshan Army showed strange expressions.

"Less interjection!" Sima An glared at Bai Fangming fiercely, and then said calmly to Wu Wu, "You go on." ”

"In fact, the sheep bubble is washed and used to hold water...... Okay, I'll move on to the cavalry. Wu Wu wisely terminated his intention to explain the benefits of sheep bubbles to these Wei people. Continuing on the question of drinking water for the cavalry: "These two water bladders are enough to sustain a tribal warrior for a day, in other words, they will always be by your side during the day. Shoot a soldier with a longbow. If they run out of water in the water bladder, they will first retreat half of the cavalry, go to a nearby stream or mountain stream to replenish drinking water, fill the two water bladders, and then these people will return again and exchange with the other half of the cavalry. ”

That is to say...... Impeccable? Wen Xu, the general of the Dangshan Army, frowned and asked, "What about sleeping?" Also on horseback? ”

"Of course." Wu Wu nodded, and said with some pride: "Any tribal warrior must master the art of sleeping on horseback. Maybe you Wei people can't accept it, an excellent tribal warrior can let his companion hold the reins, and he is lying on his back on the back of the horse and falling asleep, in the process of running the war horse. ”

"How could it ......?"

The generals of the Dangshan Army showed an unbelievable look when they heard this, after all, in their opinion, the thing of 'lying on their backs and sleeping on a running war horse' was too unbelievable, so they were not afraid of falling off their horses and falling to their deaths?

"General Ben has a general idea of what the cavalry is capable of...... So in your opinion, in this situation, how will the cavalry of the Qiang tribe on the opposite side attack the barracks of our army? Sima An asked Wu Wudao.

Hearing this, Wu Wu smiled and said: "In the absence of the slave army to consume the physical strength of the enemy soldiers, the cavalry of the Qiang tribe will become much more cautious in their combat methods, and will not make unnecessary attacks, let alone rush up the mountain rashly, and will only shoot the soldiers of your army with longbows. ”

"It's easy to prevent, is there?"

"And then there'...... It is said that the location of the general's camp is good, and there is a mountain stream under this low hill, so that the "siege" method used by the cavalry of the Qian tribe has no effect. However, they may block the stream with something in the upper reaches of this mountain stream, so that the soldiers of your army will not have water. Or, use feces to pollute the stream water so that the stream water that flows near the low hill is no longer drinkable, otherwise it will become sick. ”

"Hmm. Anything else? ”

"Finally...... Wu Wu didn't know what he saw at this time, so he snorted his mouth forward and said, "Oh, here it is." …… The challenge of solo riding. ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw a very loud language from under the low hill.

Everyone took a closer look, and then they found that there was a very strong cavalry of the Qiang tribe, fighting under the low hills.

"Fighting generals in front of the battle......

Sima An touched his chin, his eyes shining thoughtfully. (To be continued.) )