Chapter 48: Liu Bei's Night Attack on the Allied Forces, the glory of Shache in the past

Now that the strategy and time had been chosen, Liu Bei and his 11,000 cavalry set off quickly, and then sent scouts along the road in an attempt to hunt down enemy scouts along the road.

Maybe it's an affirmation of its own army, or maybe it feels that it hasn't entered Khotan County yet, and the entire Shule coalition army is still marching in Pishan Kingdom, but it didn't send scouts!

Liu Bei marched in a hurry but for half a day, and finally arrived at the junction of Khotan and Pishan before nightfall, the whole army rested, and after nightfall, after Liu Bei's army was full of food and drink, he wrapped his hooves and went all the way to the Shule coalition army!

When he arrived five miles outside the garrison of the Shule coalition army, it was already unitary time, so Liu Bei asked the soldiers to dismount and rest! Then we will wait to find out the distribution of the enemy camps!

It wasn't until the first time that the scouts came to tell him that the enemy's camp was like a daytime march, with the first half of the camp for cavalry and the second half for foot soldiers!

So Liu Bei summoned the generals: "The scouts have found out that the front of the Shule coalition army is a cavalry battalion, and the rear is a foot battalion, and I still want to attack its northern battalion to relieve the pressure on the garrison of Wenhe, but my friends are worried that our army will be blocked by its cavalry when the time comes, and I want to leave 2,000 cavalry to stay on the south side of the enemy camp to meet our army!" ”

After changing his tone, Liu Bei continued: "Zhang Ren, you will lead two thousand Black Flag troops to meet us in the camp, and the rest of the Black Flag Army will be under my command by the deputy general Tuoheti!" ”

"No"

"The rest of the army will set out with me to attack the enemy camp at night."

Everyone promised!

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Liu Bei still led the army, using Lu Bu as an arrow, forming a sharp arrow array, and directly charging towards the north of the enemy camp.

Starting, accelerating, running five miles in an instant, although the horses are wrapped in the hooves, but the sound of nearly 10,000 cavalry running can no longer be covered, two miles away from the enemy camp, the enemy generals have rushed out of the camp, of course, will never ask whether it is an enemy attack, because their own cavalry are in the camp! Then they shouted at the heralds and formed a formation to resist each other!

At this time, Liu Bei was already at the gate of the camp, "Inform me, no matter what the enemy camp is like for a while, we won't stop, just kill the enemy camp!" ”

The reason why the lethality of the cavalry is much greater than that of the foot soldiers, and it is several times that of the foot soldiers, the main reason is the speed, for the cavalry in high-speed movement, the foot soldiers are like crops in the field, and they can cut as much as they want!

Therefore, Liu Bei issued this order to ensure his absolute superiority!

Under the leadership of Lu Bu, the martial god, the entire army smashed into the enemy's camp like a sharp arrow, killing people when they saw them, and picking up the camp tents when they saw them, and the momentum was like a broken bamboo.

In the camp of the Shule coalition army, the soldiers who had just woken up and rushed out of the big tent had not yet figured out what was going on, so they were directly killed by Liu Bei's army!

In half an hour, Liu Bei led the army to kill the entire camp, and at this time, the Shule coalition army had begun to assemble into small camps.

After Liu Bei led his army out of the enemy camp, he turned around and continued to run, preparing to do it again.

So the Shule coalition army that had just assembled a part was shattered under the impact of Liu Bei's army again, but where Liu Bei did not impact, it was already full of quite large camps, and some camps had reached 10,000 people.

If the camp of 10,000 people has a capable general, it may be able to withstand Liu Bei's rush, and Liu Bei's army can break through the Shule camp so easily, mainly because: 1. The Shule camp is defenseless; Second, Liu Bei's army has the martial god Lu Bu, in the whole process of rushing and killing, the Shule camp did not have Lu Bu's enemy, as an arrow to easily break through the defense of the Shule army, so that the army will no longer have obstacles, even if there are obstacles, only a sporadic part of the people are blocked and left behind, and the army is unhindered!

Killing through the Shule army camp again, Liu Bei did not stop, and directly led the army to the south. After a stick of incense, he joined Zhang Ren's army and ran all the way to the territory of Khotan County! At the same time, scouts are released all the way to check whether there are enemy troops chasing after them in the rear, and also to find out if there are ambushes in front of them! This time, because of the huge disparity in strength, Liu Bei was extra careful!

After entering Khotan County, Liu Bei found a relatively safe place for the army to rest. At the same time, the losses of this battle are counted.

In this battle, it was mainly a night attack, and the enemy army was defenseless, so Liu Bei's army suffered little losses, and only two hundred horsemen were missing or killed or wounded! The rest of the army was partially wounded, which did not affect the battle at all!

Until the end of the day, the scout came to report: "Lord, after the sneak attack of our army last night, the Shule coalition army did not pull out the camp early this morning, but reorganized the camp It seems that they will still camp in place today, and at the same time send a large number of scouts, making it difficult for our army scouts to find out the news." But no army was found to have left the camp! ”

"Very good, continue to investigate, there is news to report quickly!" Liu Bei commanded!

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At this time, in the camp of the Shule army, in the main army tent, the general of the Shule State and Ting sat on the main seat with a gloomy face, and the generals of various countries below were arguing!

"General, yesterday I suffered the most damage in Shache Country, the 4,000 cavalry who went out this time were not damaged, and the remaining 6,000 foot soldiers suffered 5,000 casualties, and I also asked the general to send troops to exterminate the murderer." Shache Country Leader Jackpot shouted.

Speaking of this Shache country, during the period of Emperor Guangwu, when the king of Shache was a virtuous, he also had a glorious time to rule the entire Western Regions!

After Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, the countries of the Western Regions cut off contact with the Central Plains and took refuge in the Xiongnu, but only the king of Shache did not defect to the Xiongnu. Because his king Yan was sent to Chang'an to serve Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty when he was a child, he felt that the culture of the Central Plains was more advanced than his own national culture, and sincerely longed for the Han Dynasty, so he did not surrender to the Xiongnu, and told his children that he could not live up to the Han family for generations.

After Yan's death, his son Kang ascended the throne and began to fight with the Xiongnu, and also paid attention to the situation in the Central Plains from time to time. At the beginning of the founding of Emperor Guangwu, Dou Rong was ordered to canonize Kang as the King of Hansa Che Jiangong Huaide, the Grand Governor of the Western Regions, and could govern the fifty-five countries of the Western Regions.

In the ninth year of Jianwu (33 AD), Kang died, and Xian officially became the king of Shache. In the fourteenth year of Jianwu (38 AD), Xian and Shanshan King An sent envoys to Luoyang to meet Emperor Guangwu and express his willingness to belong to the Han Dynasty.

In the seventeenth year of Jianwu (41 AD), Xian sent an envoy to Luoyang again to pay tribute, and at the same time asked Emperor Guangwu to appoint Xian as the protector of the Western Regions, but Emperor Wu of Han did not allow it, and Xian held a grudge against the Han. In the same year, Shache Wang Xian declared to the Western Regions that Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu canonized Xian as the protector of the Western Regions, so all the countries in the Western Regions obeyed Xian's jurisdiction and called Xian Shan Yu. Known as Shan Yuhou, Xian's personality began to become arrogant, leviing heavy taxes on the countries of the Western Regions, and repeatedly attacking the Western Regions countries that did not obey him, such as Qiuzi, which made the countries of the Western Regions fear that they will be annexed by Shache or completely become vassals.

At the beginning of the twenty-second year of Wu (46 AD), Xian sent an envoy to meet Shanshan Wang An, and Xian hoped that Shanshan could cut off the road with Han. Ahn disagreed with Hyun's approach and killed the Shache emissary. When Hyun found out, he was very angry and immediately sent troops to attack Shanshanguo, and An was defeated and fled to the mountains. Xian plundered and slaughtered Shanshan before leaving. In the winter, Hyun attacked the great power of the Western Regions, killed the king of Qiuci, who killed them, and annexed the kingdom of Qiuci.

Because Emperor Guangwu has not sent troops to come, and they are afraid of Shache, they have attached themselves to the Xiongnu, but Shache has become more and more powerful, making Xian more and more arrogant. During the 14 years from the 22nd year of Emperor Guangwu's founding to the 2nd year of Emperor Yongping of the Han Ming Dynasty (46-59 AD), Xian directly defeated and destroyed eight countries and established his hegemony in the Western Regions.

In the third year of Yongping (60 AD), Humo Ba of Khotan established himself as the king of Khotan, and then together with the people of Kumi, he killed the generals of the Shache State stationed in Pishan. Hyun was very angry and sent the prince to lead an army of 20,000 to attack Humeba, but he was defeated by Humeba's multinational coalition and fled, and more than 10,000 people were captured or killed. After Xian found out, he personally requisitioned the armies of several countries and led tens of thousands of people to attack Hugh Moba, but was defeated by Hugh Moba's coalition forces, and Hyun could only flee back to Shache in panic.

Humo Ba took advantage of the victory to pursue and led troops to surround the city of Shache, but when attacking, he was killed by arrows, and Khotan had to retreat and return to China, and set up Guangde, the son of Humo Moba's brother, as the king of Khotan.

The Xiongnu took advantage of the new defeat of Shache and united with Qiuzi and other countries to attack Shache, but did not break through Shache and had to retreat. Guangde took advantage of Shache's vitality to attack Shache again, but did not win, but married the daughter of Xian.

In the second year (about 61 AD), the prime minister of Shache contacted Guangde and secretly rebelled. After Guangde got in touch, he personally led the people to Shache City. He captured Hyun alive and killed Hyun in the third year.

After Xian's death, there was no overlord in the Western Regions who could dominate alone, so a crazy war of annexation and plunder began. Xiaowan, Jingjue, Ronglu, and the last countries were annexed by Shanshan; Qule, Pishan and other places were ruled by Khotan; Yu Li, Shan Huan, Gu Hu, Wu Greedy and Leaving and other countries were occupied by the car division.

Later, the battle of Dougu Tianshan defeated the Xiongnu and deterred the Western Regions, and there were Ban Chao envoys to rebuild the Western Regions Protectorate, and countries were no longer allowed to annex each other, and these annexed countries were restored.