Chapter 10 The Capture of the West and the Attack on Hu

In full swing, the words "Chinese. Wu language.

At that time, the southern state of Wu participated in the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains under the leadership of Wu Wangfucha, and even broke the state of Lu and Qi, so he led troops to meet with the state of Jin in Huangchi to compete for the position of the leader of the alliance. And at this moment, Goujian, the king of Yue behind him, suddenly raised an army, cutting off the back road of Wu, Wu Wangfucha and his courtiers were frightened, but they also knew that the Jin army was in front, and it would be more dangerous to leave in a panic at this time, so they came up with a trick.

On the second day, the Wu army had a total of 30,000 troops, divided into 30,000 phalanxes, the left side was full of red clothing, red flags, red armor, and red feathers, correspondingly, the middle group was all white military uniforms, and the right group was all black clothing. The three army formations set off in the middle of the night, came to the front of the Jin army camp early in the morning, lined up neatly, cheered non-stop, the Central Plains overlord Jin monarchs and ministers went out of the camp to see, only to see the Wu army array in full swing and like the sea, in the end it was a little panicked, so they recognized the combat strength of the Wu people, and let the Wu army calmly leave Huangchi and return home.

Of course, this kind of tactic of relying on the army's neat formation and neat equipment to obtain psychological deterrence is not uncommon in history, and even everyone has a feeling of being self-taught, because this is one of the most basic tactical qualities of human beings, and Wu Wangfucha's operation is just one of the outstanding examples...... From primitive people applying oil paint on their faces to tattooing their bodies in tribal times, this is what it means. Even in Baishan Mountain, north of Pingcheng, Yanmen County, where Gongsun Xun shot roe deer, the Xiongnu Mao Dunshan once divided the 400,000 army into four, 100,000 white horses, 100,000 green horses, 100,000 black horses, 100,000 red horses, and besieged Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, on all sides, which is also the same tactical idea.

To put it bluntly, four words - show off your might!

And the interesting thing is that when he returned to his eyes, it was the Marquis of Subu Gudu, in fact, he also had a similar plan, he planned to let fifty or sixty thousand people suddenly appear in front of Mayi City, complete the formation, and use a huge number of cavalry formations to shock the big clans and people in Mayi City, so that the other party would completely submit.

What's even more interesting is that Gongsun Xun, who has been waiting in Mayi for a long time, actually has the same idea as the other party.

Under the almost stunned gaze of a small group of Huns who were forced to the front of the city, a white horse banner that was well known in the whole northern Xinjiang but was the first time that most of the Huns saw it was above the city gate tower in the north of Mayi City.

The white horse on a red background, showing in the wind, is stunned.

But this is only the beginning, before the leader of these people turned around to find the nobles behind him to report the military situation, the horn sounded one after another in the city of Mayi, and then the city took the initiative to lower the drawbridge and open the city gate...... In this situation, the Huns who suddenly came to the front were not only surprised, but even more frightened, because with the opening of the city gate, a large number of white-horse cavalry continued to pour out of the city of Mayi!

These cavalrymen were tall and well-polished, dressed in finely polished shiny iron armor, wearing white cloaks, iron helmets, and white feathers, and even with bright white and black flags hanging under the spears on their hands...... What's even more terrifying is that the dozens of majestic cavalry horses that came out at the beginning actually had iron horse faces on their heads!

This group of Han people is so rich that they have iron armor for their war horses!

The few Huns who jumped to the front of the city didn't have time to think about it, and their first reaction was to turn around and flee...... Think about it, from the perspective of the Huns, the equipment on a hundred of them is probably worth more than the equipment on one person in the Youzhou Army, what are you fighting? What to fight?

The Huns who were too prominent in front turned around and fled, but the elite Han cavalry riding white horses did not pursue, but took advantage of the situation one after another, from the north gate, from the east and west gates, and then calmly gathered in the north of the city, followed by the local young men of Mayi, they were armed with spears, bows and arrows, according to the requirements of the Han army, wearing undyed white clothes, and followed by the white horse cavalry under the city wall.

The elite of the military array is so good, looking from afar, it looks like a white flower blooming on the field outside the city in early winter, which is extremely gorgeous, making people ashamed of themselves...... In fact, many Huns were already stupid just by looking at it.

But that's not all.

Just when the Han army in front of the city was arrayed, in the mountains to the west and south, after the gentle slope of the 300,000 Tibetan army of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the past, a continuous horn suddenly sounded, and then in the almost horrified eyes of the Huns, the number was even more astonishing, and it was destined to be more deadly.

Both sides are full of flags, people and horses, of which the west side is red armor and flags, looking like fire, and the south side is black armor and flags, looking like an abyss!

What's even more terrifying, the south side is far away and can't see clearly, not to mention, on the west slope closer to the west, the Huns can see clearly, the red army formation on the hillside is actually full of cavalry! Moreover, there was no extra flag in this cavalry formation as a cover, and these Han cavalry were swaggering on the hillside within the sight of the Huns and divided into a neat dozen or so parts, of which two or three were on the flanks, and were placed in a long goose posture for cover, and then seven or eight were in the middle, each of which was divided into more than ten places, and were respectively lined up into a triangular sharp arrow breakthrough formation, and each sharp arrow breakthrough formation was about a hundred people.

The Huns, who have a little military experience, know at a glance that this is a typical Han military system, the so-called 50 people in a tun, 100 people in a team, 200 people in a song, and then each part of the system is about 5 tunes and 10 teams and 20 tuns, nearly 1,000 people...... In other words, there are nearly 10,000 cavalry on this side of the mountain! Nearly 100 Arrows Rush Forward!

There are no superfluous flags, just from the department to the song, from the song to the team, from the team to the tun, each layer has a level of flags used to command and indicate the formation, it is simply clear at a glance.

The west is so clear, the north is not clear for a while, and the same is true when you think about it...... This is consistent with the previous information, the white horse general Gongsun Xun came from Youzhou and brought 20,000 or 30,000 people, if you add the local soldiers and horses of Yanmen County, wouldn't it be right to gather 30,000 people to ambush here? !

And with such a strong army, it makes people dizzy at a glance, even if there is no ambush, how can it be fought?

The Huns who have flocked to the open space of several miles north of Mayi City are not fools, and at the thought of this, many leaders immediately shouted to their subordinates to retreat, but at the crossings of the mountain col behind them, the Hun soldiers and horses who did not know the situation in front of them were still pouring out, and it was possible to say that they would turn their heads when they turned their heads.

And not just the Huns who ran fast in front, who had just entered the basin and had just gathered a few big nobles, and the future commander of the Xubu Guduhou looked at the opposite hill and counted his breath, and he still didn't understand what was going on?

This is clearly the other party's 'Ma Yi scheme'!

What is the 30-day deadline for General Baima, what is the gathering of officials in Yanmen County to go to Pingcheng, and what is the demarcation of wasteland...... It's clearly a flaw that tempts yourself and others to come here!

And what that Zhang Ze did was exactly the same as his ancestor!

But before he and the big nobles around him drew their knives and cut people, Zhang Ze, who was already in the distance behind him, had already changed his tone, and took the initiative to shout loudly: "Don't make a mistake with yourself!" Don't forget what you said at breakfast! It's come to this, what's the use of you killing me except to vent your hatred? Instead, we will be retaliated against by our Zhang family! Keep me, in case you are surrounded, there will still be someone who surrenders, and you in the province will die in vain. ”

Shan Yu, the Marquis of Xubu Gudu, glanced at Zhang Ze blankly, then turned around and looked at the Hun soldiers and horses that were still pouring into the basin behind him, almost cold, but he had nothing to say...... Is there really nothing to say, he really doesn't know what to do and what to say at this time?

Is it to order the whole army to fight to the death, or to order the whole army to flee directly?

If it is a decisive battle, will it bravely rush to the small number of white horse cavalry in front, or will it turn around and hedge against the red army formation on the flank, which is definitely full of thousands of horsemen?

If he escaped directly, would he throw behind the 20,000 or 30,000 horses that had already entered the basin as sacrifices, and he and most of the nobles would directly turn around and flee along the same route, or would he order the whole army to flee among the mountains and fields? But even if you have a decision, how can you give an order? And how to turn these remaining soldiers and horses who are still pouring into the basin because they don't know it?

But no matter what, at this time, as the commander of the whole army, the more he hesitates, the more he is wasting everyone's lives...... Correspondingly, at the head of Mayi City, the horn sound of the Youzhou Army has stopped, and it has been replaced by the rumbling drums!

The trumpets are continuous, the orders are lined up, the drums are rumbling, and the heralds are marching ...... In other words, just when the Huns were at a loss, the Han army did not stop for a moment and was about to attack immediately!

It turned out that Lou Gui on the city wall saw from a distance that some of the Huns who poured into the basin were frightened by the strength of the Han army, and when he turned around and tried to evacuate, he blocked the northern crossing with the follow-up troops.

And Gongsun Xun had no reason to indulge the fighter, after hearing Lou Zibo's suggestion, he directly ordered to attack with drums.

The ambush soldiers on the hillside to the south in the distance did not mention it, and the Han army on the hillside near the west heard the sound of drums, and under Han Dang's order, the battalions, units and teams immediately slowly increased their speed and went to the basin below; And the white horse in front of the north gate, under the leadership of more than ten flag lancers with iron-faced horse covers, directly accelerated forward.

"I wanted to put on all the dozen or so horse armors in the arsenal of Yanmen County, but I didn't expect that I couldn't install them, so I could only wear armor to scare the Huns who had never seen the world." Gongsun Xun saw this scene in the city, but shook his head again and again.

"It's a white horse again, and it's tall and strong, where can you get it together in a hurry?" Lou Gui sighed beside him. "And this kind of horse armor is extremely consuming for horses, and it is impossible to do it unless it is a strong horse, and it will be exhausted to death after a few uses...... I don't know why the imperial court made this kind of full-body horse armor that day? There are only a dozen in the entire Yanmen. ”

"It's still useful," Gongsun Xun sighed. "Since ancient times, the military is dangerous, the so-called war can be determined for ten years, in the battle array, if there are so dozens of armored heavy horses, men and horses with iron armor, rampage, who can be it? Maybe it's all the answer. ”

"It's still too expensive, and it's not necessarily worth it." Lou Zibo stretched out his hand and said. "In this way, a hundred horsemen and armor are ridden heavily, and their money and food are enough to support three hundred ordinary armored iron horsemen, or a thousand light horses, and three thousand are replaced by serious foot soldiers wearing leather armor and spears and bows...... With this money, what about changing it for 3,000 foot soldiers? Three thousand foot soldiers set up a fortress and shoot indiscriminately with bows and crossbows, and a hundred heavy horsemen will surely die. ”

"But has Zibo thought about it?" Gongsun Xun shook his head and smiled while glancing at the battlefield that was about to fight. "If you use heavy riding, you can free up 2,000 people to farm and support your family......"

Lou Gui did not answer...... It's not that he is completely speechless, but between the words, in front of him?? On the alluvial plain, the face of Baima Yicong had already taken the lead in engaging with the Huns.

The two of them seemed to have a good time before, but as Gongsun Xun said, the military is dangerous, and the victory or defeat of a major battle involving tens of thousands of people is enough to determine the political direction of a region in the next ten years. The Youzhou army entered the state and went to Yanmen this time, and never really worried about whether it could receive Yanmen, which was in a vacuum of political power, but after taking over Yanmen County, the peace and order here still had to be guaranteed by human lives...... Of course, this refers to the human lives of the Huns.

As for the reason why the two of them were talking and laughing and pretending to be posturing just now, it was just because the drums of war were beating, and most of the direction of the war was not decided by them...... In other words, as the commander of the first army, and the 'military advisor' who formulated the strategy in the army, he had already done his best before the moment when the drum was beating.

release prisoners of war to paralyze the other side and expose flaws; sent out the dead to lure the enemy deeper, and deliberately agreed to meet each other in the middle of the night to exhaust each other; In the near area, heavy troops are set up in ambush to wait for work, and in the distance, strong men and people are filled, and they are uniformly arranged, showing off their military might, and frightening the morale of the enemy; There were even some Einsatzgruppen teams ready to charter the venue...... What else?

The next thing will depend on the soldiers and those middle- and low-level officers who personally fight on the battlefield...... Of course, fortunately, Gongsun Xun's proud Youzhou elite did not disappoint him.

Bai Ma Yi was never more than 1,200, and it was only a thin layer when it was spread out, but under the leadership of Zhao Yun, Tian Yu, and Wen Ze, he galloped directly to drive the Hun soldiers and horses in front of him like cattle and sheep...... For the Huns, after seeing the Han army waiting for work, the exhaustion, hunger, and cold that had been covered by the excitement almost instantly surged up, and no one was willing to resist, and everyone was fleeing.

But it was useless to escape, and when it came to the gentle slope in the west, tens of thousands of Han cavalry roared down, and hundreds of red arrows and sharp formations went straight into the Hun army formation in the basin, like a red-hot iron stone breaking through the water clay pot, startling countless Hun soldiers and horses to scatter and escape...... However, the crossing is blocked, and the surrounding area is blocked by the terrain of the basin, and it is impossible for these scattered soldiers and horses to escape at once, so countless people have become fierce ghosts on the battlefield!

The iron cavalry trampled, the rebels rushed themselves, the spears were stained with blood, and the blades were piercing.

In other words, the two armies are fighting, of course, one side is waiting for work, and the other side is marching hard continuously; One side is condescending, and the other side is at a loss; One side makes a decision at the moment, and the other side hesitates and loses its temper; One side is in a suspicious formation, showing off its might, and the other side is half-entering, and it is difficult to advance and retreat...... But more, it's still the four words of strength and weakness!

Strong is strong, weak is weak!

The strong win, the weak lose, the winner lives, the loser dies, on the battlefield, the cavalry fights, where is there so much saying?

The Youzhou army is a rare elite in the world, the Hun soldiers are the old and weak soldiers, the Youzhou army is the strong soldiers, and the Hun soldiers are poor and sour who can't even eat...... Winning a battle is not enough for him!

In fact, long before the ten thousand horsemen galloped down, the Marquis of the Bone Bone was palpitating, and took the initiative to drag Zhang Ze back and fled in a hurry...... Even he was unfazed!

At this time, in fact, there were nearly 20,000 Huns who had not yet turned into the basin with a wide field of vision, but when they heard the sound of horses' hooves, shouts of killing, and wails in front of them, and saw the nobles fleeing from the mountains and fields full of stones regardless of the safety of their horses, how could they not understand that there was a great defeat ahead?!

However, when they hurriedly followed their instincts and turned back the way they came, these people couldn't help but rush and trample on each other...... The cavalry advantage that they were proud of in the past turned into a life-seeking thing in a short period of time, and countless people died in their own horses' hooves, but there were also many people who escaped by relying on the opportunity to be chased and killed by the Han army with enough of their own clansmen behind them.

From the beginning of the battle of Bai Ma Yi, Gongsun Xun sat still at the head of the city, and when he saw the red Han army of 10,000 cavalry rushing down under the leadership of Han Dang, breaking the tens of thousands of cavalry of the Huns, although he was not touched by the battle formation, he couldn't help but think of a past, and then laughed for a while:

"Uncle Zi, in the past, in Liaoxi, you and I and Cheng Demou watched the Han army and the Wuhuan army break Xianbei with one blow on the hillside...... Have you ever said that a great husband should lead the hosts? ”

Lou Gui sighed with his hands: "Yes, I do have that." ”

"But today, Demou and you have not fulfilled this ambition, but let Yigong take the lead." Gongsun Xun couldn't help laughing. "Do you want to give you a chance to lead the troops to chase the Huns later?"

Lou Gui shook his head: "At this time and that time, the young people were negative, ignorant and incompetent, so that they regarded the heroes of the world as nothing, and regarded military affairs as child's play; Now that he has made a little progress, he knows that the military war is dangerous, and every move is a myriad of human lives, which should not be taken lightly...... Gui has no ability to command, how can he lead ten thousand armies? As for the pursuit of the Huns this time, it is even more involved in the disposal of the Huns, so it is better to let Yigong lead the troops in front, and then the prince and marquis will follow in person. ”

Gongsun Xun bowed his head slowly, but he didn't say much.

In this battle, the Han army took advantage of the basin to kill and wound tens of thousands, and the Huns were terrified, but the Han army did not receive it when it was good...... On the contrary, according to the plan, they continued to pursue at the tail of the tail, in order to continue to inflict casualties, and make sure that the Huns completely lost the ability to attack Shanxi.

On the other side, the Marquis of Xubu Gudu left in a hurry, in the end, relying on the numerical superiority of the Huns and the instinct of the routers to follow the road when they came, barely maintaining a full 20,000 or 30,000 remnants, all the way to the northwest to flee.

But when they reached the border wall outside Wuzhou, the Huns suffered a second large-scale casualty...... As in the Battle of Zen No City, the abandoned border wall with no garrison served as a deadly hindrance to the defeated army at a critical moment...... In front of them was an abandoned city wall built according to the dangerous terrain, and the deserters were not only men, but even the horses were extremely tired, and at the same time, there were thousands of lightly armed Hu people in the Han army, who did not leave the battle line from beginning to end, and chased all the way here...... In such a situation, how can you not die?

The people in front climbed over the mountains and abandoned side walls without looking back, while the people behind were slaughtered...... The Huns' escape over the border wall this time was completely exchanged for human lives.

Even later, seeing that the cavalry of the Han army continued one after another, the left-behind officials in Wuzhou County actually had the courage to send hundreds of armed Ding Zhuang to participate in the interception and siege...... In later generations, this place was called Pinglu, and it was renamed Pinglu, not without reason.

Of course, in the end, the Marquis of Xubu Gudu is Shan Yu, in the end, he is the leader of the various tribes, and there are still people who are willing to fight to the death for him, so he still successfully climbed over the side wall and escaped from Shengtian, but this time there are only more than 10,000 Huns who have followed.

As for those who didn't follow, it was definitely impossible for them all to die, and if they really wanted to disperse and escape into the mountain nest, half of the people would definitely be able to escape, but even so, it meant that nearly 20,000 people had become ghosts under the sword of the Han army.

suffered such a big defeat, the Marquis of the Beard Bone was like a frightened bird, he didn't dare to stop at all along the way, and he didn't have time to deal with Zhang Ze, who was taken by his side...... However, regardless of the casualties or the consumption of horses, they traveled day and night to the valley that separated them from the subjuji of Subu, that is, where the later generations were located, they finally despaired.

It turned out that there were thousands of Han soldiers here, waiting for work for a long time. Even, many Huns led by the Han army generals still know each other - Gao Shun, the leader of the Han army who has been stationed in Pingcheng for many years, has been famous for a long time across the river, and everyone is an acquaintance.

So they all know that this person led thousands of Han troops to block here, but it was not something they could rush over if they wanted to.

"Lao Zhang!" The bearded bones, who were no longer human, leaned on a withered yellow crooked neck tree, and then summoned Zhang Ze, who was also imhuman, but energetic. "I kept my promise and didn't kill you, you must also keep your word and be a messenger for me!"

Zhang Ze looked at the high-lettered banner on the pass in the distance, first nodded lightly, but then slowly shook his head: "Da Danyu, the messenger will naturally do it for you...... But Gao Sima here, you must know that people were promoted by General Baima from a subordinate of the white horse, and they will never sell your favor without authorization, and they must wait for General Wei to come over in person before negotiating. ”

The Marquis of the Beard Bone was speechless.

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Xun cut Dong through Yanmen, stationed in Mayi, sent Wang Xiu, Tian Feng, Han Dang, Wei Yue, Yuwen Black Otter, Tai Shi Ci and troops west into Luliang, Wuzhou, to encircle the Xiongnu, Xun Wei and Lou Gui left a thousand people to defend the city. Tian Feng, Tai Shi Ci narrow road encountered the Xiongnu Hugh slaughter of the various departments of the sub-tribe of more than 10,000 people, the battle could not go to Wuzhou to encircle, the Xiongnu single in the Xubu bone Marquis led 100,000 people through Wuzhou to the front of Mayi. Everyone is terrified, only Xun is self-willed, the city is lying down and drumming, not out of the nunnery, and put on the solemn, personally climb the city tower, sit upright and do not move, re-order to open the four city gates, with Zhao Yun, Tian Yu, Wen Ze led the white horse from more than 1,000 arrays in the north of the city, showing off the might. The Xiongnu often said that Xun used soldiers like gods, strong across the northern frontier, and saw that the situation was weak, suspected that there were ambushes, so they led the army to the north of the mountain. Wake up tomorrow, return to the city, and all the armies of Youzhou are coming, surrounded on all sides, rushing down from a high position, and the Huns 100,000 people are defeated. β€”β€”"Heroes of the Late Han Dynasty". Wang Cang

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