Chapter 40: Soldiers Leave the Hu Kingdom
Three days later, Qin vigorously reorganized the soldiers and horses, personally led the two divisions of the Storm Battalion Xuelongwei, and about 1,000 people went out of the town of Xiguan and entered Dongshi County of Hu State.
It is worth mentioning that when Xu Miaozhu knew that Qin Dali had sent troops to the Hu State, he chased after him with his own Zhanfeng battalion without an order. was severely reprimanded by Qin Dali.
139 of the Han calendar, April.
With this grain rush of the Snow Dragon Army, the war between Hu and Qin Dali officially began.
The state of Hu, divided into nine counties, is located in the west of the Han state, of which Ningzhi County is connected with the territory of Liu Ya, the king of Zhenbei, while Dongshi County and Wanyang County are connected with the territory of the Weiguo Army.
Due to the civil war in Hu, most of Hu's soldiers and horses had been evacuated from Han and entered Wanyang County, and then transferred to other counties, and the two sides were in opposition.
After crossing Hefeng Town, it entered the scope of Dongshi County, and the last time Qin vigorously ambushed the 10,000 troops of the Hu people was in Dongshi County.
Dongshi County is the most partial county of Hu State, the terrain is dangerous, mostly mountains and rivers, and the Hu people are mainly nomadic, several counties in the north are nomadic counties, and the war horses of the Hu people come from the northern counties.
However, with the increase of population, the Hu people did not have enough food to support, so they launched a long-term war to invade the Han State, one is to reduce the number of people in the country, the other is to rob the Han State of food, and the third is also the most important, they captured the Han people, brought them into the territory of the Hu State, became their slaves, and planted food for them.
The climate of these three counties bordering the Han State is the most similar to that of the Han State, so most of the captured Han people lived in these three counties and grew food for the Hu people.
On this day, Qin Dali led his cavalry troops and officially came to Dongshi County, the closest pass to the Han Kingdom.
This fortress was not very large, only two hundred Hu people guarded it, and when they found Qin Dali's army, they immediately panicked.
For so many years, only the Hu people attacked the Han people, and they had never seen the Han army come to attack them.
About two arrows away from Guansai, Qin Dali summoned several generals and was discussing countermeasures.
"Big brother, this pass is a bit difficult to attack, there are steep peaks on both sides, and our horses can't go up at all, so we have to pass through this pass." Ma Xiaoniu frowned.
"Even if we don't need horses, we go up on foot, according to what we just observed, it's useless to go up, the barrier is built between two cliffs, and we can't go down at all." Xu Miaozhu glanced at Qin Dali and said cautiously.
It was already a taboo in the army that she came with the army without permission this time, but she didn't regret doing it.
Qin nodded vigorously, and asked with his eyes towards an adjutant general on the other side, "Wenshan, tell me about it." ”
Hua Wenshan was slightly different, he didn't expect Qin Dali to ask himself about this general, so he hurriedly calmed down and said: "Lord, the last general thinks that what General Ma and General Xuan said is reasonable, if it is a regular battle, we have no way out at all, only to attack from the front, but this will cause heavy casualties to our army." ”
"But...... In the past few days in Hefeng Town, the last general occasionally watched the training of the Snow Dragon Guard, and they were all elite soldiers, and they could all descend from the steep cliffs. ”
"So the last general thinks that we can wait for dark, and after dark, Xue Longwei will quickly descend from the two cliffs, and open the gate before the Hu people can react."
"The army can go straight in."
"That's right, why didn't I think that with the Snow Dragon Guard, we could easily break into this barrier." When Ma Xiaoniu heard this, he patted Hua Wenshan's shoulder and said, "Yes, Lao Hua's brain is still spinning fast." ”
Qin Dali looked at everyone with a smile, and then whispered a few words to a snow dragon guard beside him.
Soon, a team of dozens of people quietly left from the Snow Dragon Army.
Inside the gate.
"General, the spies came to report, the Han army outside the Guansai doesn't seem to have the intention of attacking us, they are camping in place and are burying pots and cooking."
"What do you mean? Their Han army came so far just to let us watch them eat? Blick muttered to himself suspiciously, and for a moment, he couldn't figure out what the hell the Han army was doing.
"That'...... General, do we need to report the news and ask General Karasuma to send troops to support? ”
Hearing this, Bref waved his hand and said, "Wait for the time being, send a few more spies out to see what the hell his Han army is doing." ”
"Also, let the soldiers patrolling all over the country come back and guard the pass."
"Yes, General."
In fact, Blif is still very confident, although the fortress is small, but the terrain is dangerous and easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Han army is light cavalry, and there is no siege weapon, and at the same time, the combat effectiveness is low, with his own men, it is easy to hold this pass.
The night is gradually falling.
The two sides faced off nervously for a day, and there was no fighting, which couldn't help but make the Hu people breathe a sigh of relief.
Under the cover of night, except for the people and horses patrolling and standing guard, everyone else fell asleep early, but on the other hand, Qin Dali's side was completely different.
One by one, they wiped their weapons and sorted out their preparations.
"Let the brothers be ready, as soon as the city gate is opened, the army will rush in as fast as possible, all the Hu people, kill." Qin Dali said coldly.
"Yes."
At this time, on the peaks on both sides of the pass, dozens of black figures were ready.
suddenly
The first few people fell straight down the cliff, and the people behind saw this and walked over like them.
With the help of the night, they were like geckos, clinging to the cliff one by one, and quickly headed towards the gate.
At the bottom of the cliff, several Hu soldiers were talking in a whisper, they didn't notice anything strange above their heads, and they were still talking about the day's events.
suddenly
A few black rays flashed,
Puff --
I saw the soldiers of the Hu people fall to the ground, and in their necks are sticking black short arrows.
The surrounding troubles to be solved, the man in black quickly landed and hidden.
One of the men in black looked around and made a gesture of action.
The black crossbow lay flat on his chest and headed towards the gate.
This is Qin Dali's equipment specially configured for the Snow Dragon Guard, due to the nature of the hand crossbow, although it is not suitable for large army battles, but it is very suitable for a special army like the Snow Dragon Guard, the hand crossbow is flexible and easy to carry, in addition to its short attack distance, it is actually very suitable for combat.
Qin Dali, who was outside the stopper, with the help of the torches stuffed with the Hu people, immediately shouted when he found that the plugged door was open: "Kill me." ”
"Kill......"
Thousands of iron horsemen burst out in an instant, rushing towards the Guansai.