Chapter Seventy-Four: Surrender without killing, and death without horses

"Your Majesty! There seems to be a battle on the other side of the mountain, and Jia Shangshu and they are here. ”

Hearing the rumbling drum coming from afar, Liu Xie immediately sent someone to kick up the mountain to reconnoiter the movement of the pass.

Soon the soldier returned: "Your Majesty! There were a lot fewer Huns in the pass, and they were all out of the ice wall, and it seemed that there was a war over there. ”

Liu Xie's face twisted, and he ordered: "Immediately attack the pass, support the officers and soldiers of our army on the other side of the mountain, remember that if you attack the pass, you will find that the Hun brigade has retreated, and immediately withdraw." ”

After giving the order, Liu Xie asked people to continue to climb higher peaks and continue to monitor and investigate.

Liu Bao's troops left behind to guard the pass were too small, and he wanted to break through the interception of the Han army that had just arrived, so he didn't plan to return to the pass.

Seeing this, Liu Bao had to collect troops to help and keep the pass.

Because Jia Xu's arrangement blocked his plan to break through, Li Yan and Xu Huang led the two armies to outflank and break through, killing Liu Bao's cavalry and causing many casualties.

The advantage of cavalry is that it is a surprise attack and a safari, and it is very stupid to fight with the infantry of the Han army.

There is no point in fighting like this, no, if the pass is taken away by the Han army in the south, he will not even have a temporary resting nest.

So Liu Bao had to order a retreat and retreat into the ice wall built by Liu Xie.

The first breakthrough was fruitless, and Liu Bao organized another breakthrough on the same day, but due to the resolute resistance of the Han army in front of him, Liu Xie's southern feint and returned to the pass.

After two failures and one night of repair, Liu Bao launched a third breakthrough the next day.

Because of the loss of nearly half of the troops the day before yesterday, and the fact that there were still troops to defend Liu Xie, the combat effectiveness was greatly weakened, and he was forced back by the rain of arrows of the Han army just after the sprint, and had to give up the third breakthrough in a hurry.

Then, because of the complete northward movement of the Beibu, the danger in the north of the Han army was eliminated, and the defenders of Jiangyi City were also transferred, and the troops besieging Liu Bao did not decrease but increased, and Liu Bao completely lost the opportunity to break through.

Surrounded by a group of people in the pass, unable to move.

"King! We don't have much food to last a day. ”

To make matters worse, Liu Bao heard this report, Liu Bao sighed heavily, and the whole person became bald and manic.

Be careful that he was still ambushed by the Han people, and until now he has not thought about where he went to Beiluo in vain, and what happened to Jiangyi City.

How could he fall into this step, there is no hope of breaking through, so he can only sit and wait for death.

"Master Jia, Liu Bao can't rush out, what should we do now, do we want to drag them down? They don't have much to eat. Xu Huang asked.

Jia Xu shook his head and said: "It has to be delayed, but it can't be delayed for a long time, Your Majesty didn't say that the ice talisman can only make the river surface freeze for three days, after today, the river will freeze again at night, and the river will return to the previous one in a few days, and the Huns' war horses can pass from above, in case Liu Bao knows about this situation and will flee westward, we may not be able to catch up." ”

Li Yan asked urgently: "Then how to do it?" ”

When things come to this critical juncture, we can't let the tiger return to the mountain, or we will take the initiative to attack and attack the pass at night.

"Tighten your pockets, strengthen the siege, and build a man-high ice wall outside the ice wall every two battles to block the cavalry charge, whether it is east, west or north, you can't give the Huns a chance, I will trap them to death." Jia Xu's eyes flashed with a hint of ruthlessness, and if he hit the snake, he would be killed.

The generals were ordered to do it immediately.

Then Jia Xu said to one of his henchmen: "At the same time, persuade me to surrender, tell Liu Bao and his subordinates how they were sold, how they ended up in this field, and give me to break their military hearts." ”

"It's my lordship! I'll do it! The henchman took the order and left happily.

Soon, the Han army continued to block the direction of Liu Bao's other main faces leaving the pass, and at the same time began to exert a psychological offensive.

Liu Bao and his subordinates learned that they had been sold.

This guy actually wanted to go around and attack Wenxi, and enter Nanhedong to plunder before them.

At the same time, he also understood that this guy was also ambushed, and almost half of his subordinates were lost, and he had fled north in a panic and returned to the northwest of Fen.

As for the melting of river ice, it was the Han Emperor who prayed to the gods, and the ancestors of the Han gods helped the Han people cut off their own retreat after the manifestation of the ancestors.

If the treachery of the lowly and the escape without telling them angered them, the melting of the river ice made him fearful.

The peoples of the steppe are more in awe of the gods who dominate nature, and every winter, as soon as the gods are angry, the grasslands will be plagued, and the population, cattle, sheep and livestock will inevitably die in large numbers, and the strength will plummet.

So this wave of psychological warfare soon spread among Liu Bao's subordinates.

In the face of the hopelessness of breaking through and the punishment of the gods, the fighting spirit of the remnants of the Xiongnu army was even more depressed.

A day passed, the Hun army in the pass did not move at all, and Liu Bao himself was haggard and anxious, borrowing wine to kill his sorrows.

In the Han army camp in the north, Jia Xu stepped on the watchtower and looked at the Xiongnu camp at the pass and said with a smile: "Big things can be expected, the Huns have no food, and then they have to kill horses for food." ”

Li Yan's face was full of excitement, there were still many Huns in the pass, and there was also a king, and it was Shan Yu's son, this time it was a big victory, and even Zhao Yun was extremely excited.

It seems that they have found the scene when they swept the grasslands in the northern part of Youzhou with General Baima in Baima Yizhong, which made people's morale high and their blood boiling.

Xu Huang didn't show too much optimism, and said with a worried face: "Kill horses for food, and then the Huns should fight for the last time, and I am afraid that this battle will increase some casualties." ”

Jia Xu nodded and thought deeply, although he wanted to kill and trap this group of Hun troops, but he didn't want to have a bloody battle like the day before yesterday, the army of the Son of Heaven was not much, and it would be heartbreaking to lose a little.

Then he said: "General Xu is very right, so you can't let Liu Bao kill the horse, otherwise although this battle is won, there will be no spoils, and it will be a loss." ”

Zhao Yun was born in cavalry, and he was extremely fond of horses and attached more importance to them.

glanced at Xu Huang, Xu Huang had contact with Zhao Yun in the past few days, learned about Zhao Yun, and admired each other a little, and understood what he wanted to say with one look, but it was not easy to say.

He took the initiative to ask: "What does Shangshu think, if only these horses could be kept." ”

Xu Huang also had cavalry under his own subordinates, and he also had a great need for horses.

Jia Xu looked at the Hun camp at the pass, and said without changing his face: "Continue the psychological offensive, explain to Liu Bao and his subordinates, surrender and do not kill, take the number of horses as the number, how many war horses can be captured by our army, and decide how many prisoners to keep, two horses for one life, and death without horses!" ”

Xu Huang, Zhao Yun and others all praised: "Shangshu is a good plan." ”