Chapter 346: Engagement
After Ang lived in the military camp, he couldn't hide it, and the troops knew that they kept the secret, and the soldiers at the bottom only knew that Chang'an sent the commander over, but no one knew who it was, but it should be very powerful, with the rekindling of the beacon fire in northern Xinjiang, the major military families of the year were all the children of the clan, and for more than a year, they all played a great reputation. Compared with the soldiers from civilian backgrounds, both martial arts and the art of war are much higher, and the army is speculating that this mysterious commander is from the high gate, but he is usually unknown, but in fact he is an unfathomable master, this time it was personally invited by the White Tiger Festival, and for a time rumors such as this quietly rose in the army, in short, in the word of mouth of the soldiers, the faceless commander was spread stronger and stronger.
After Li Ang found out, he just sighed lightly, he knew that the reason why there were such rumors in the army was actually because the soldiers were uneasy, so he imagined how powerful he was as a faceless commander, although the Great Qin Legion was strictly trained, it was always an era of cold weapons, and morale was especially important. As for the White Tiger Festival Hall's request on how to deal with it, Li Ang just told them not to worry too much, after all, it was those soldiers who were encouraging themselves, and it was no big deal.
Although the Huns did not know much about the movement of Daqin's troops and horses, they also saw some clues, and immediately mobilized a large army to confront Li Ang. Liu Bao, the commander of the Huns, was born in a royal family. It is the Xiongnu who is good at using troops and generals, after he knows the location of the main force of Daqin, he saw the intention of the White Tiger Festival, and the place where he is now stationed is a plain at the junction of the Xiongnu and Daqin, but there are hills and hills. As long as Daqin breaks through here, the front is an endless prairie, then you can drive straight into, straight to the hinterland of the Xiongnu, although the Xiongnu have already changed the yuan, and follow the Han land code system, build a large city, but there are still more than half of the people in the country are still living a grazing life of chasing water and grass. If it is entered by the Great Qin Army, it must be a heavy number of casualties, just like the fifty years since the founding of the Great Qin, even if they have fled thousands of miles north, but the Great Qin Army will come to the north every two or three years, the number is not much, only 350,000 cavalry, see a tribe to destroy a tribe, the Xiongnu were almost wiped out, and then fled to Haixi Europe. It took a hundred years to recover.
"Daqin wants to kill us as before, do you agree?" In the handsome tent, Liu Bao looked around at his generals. Asked loudly, after defending for a year, the Great Qin Legion finally couldn't help it and was going to take the initiative to attack, for him, this was a good opportunity, he wanted to break the myth of the invincibility of the Great Qin Legion in this place again, and let them know. The steppe empire that scared the Han people back then is back.
"Kill all the Han people." Some of the generals shouted, the Xiongnu Northern Escape was too miserable, their ancestors passed down from generation to generation, and told their descendants about the events of that year. It is to warn his descendants not to provoke Daqin, but some things will never change, when a nation and a country become strong, he will definitely expand outward to conquer other nations and countries, it has nothing to do with hatred, everything is for the sake of interests. When decades ago, when the Xiongnu were still struggling to recover, they would never remember those hatreds, and when they talked about Daqin, they only had awe, but when they were strong again, they would bring up those past events, and let all the Huns hate Daqin and the Han people to start a war, because the Xiongnu wanted more land and more wealth.
Looking at the surging generals, Liu Bao was very satisfied, Daqin regarded them as wolf cubs, but he forgot that the wolf cubs would one day become tall blue wolves, even if the tigers were strong, but when they were weak, the blue wolves could still bite the tigers to death, the current Daqin Legion was no longer the terrible tiger and wolf division of the year, they lost the iron blood and ruthlessness of their ancestors in peace, although such an army was well-trained, but it was not invincible, the Hun cavalry revived again from the slaughter in Haixi will tell the Daqin Legion, They are no longer kings, they will be defeated. Liu Bao's words made the generals in the handsome tent shout again, "Long live the Huns!" ”
Liu Bao did not make any superfluous arrangements, he knew that there was no trick in this battle, the place that Daqin wanted to attack was what they had to defend, there was no escape, and he didn't want to escape, only by defeating the Daqin army in front of him on the battlefield, the Xiongnu could achieve the final victory. Liu Bao gathered an army of 400,000, including 200,000 cavalry, and the rest were auxiliaries and people. So in less than three months, the originally inconspicuous plain area where Great Qin and the Xiongnu confronted each other gathered 700,000 troops, reaching the level since the start of the war
scale, a tough battle is inevitable.
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Li Ang did not participate too much in military affairs, he personally came to sit in the town this time, mainly to encourage these cutting-edge staff officers and front-line soldiers in the White Tiger Festival Hall, if he intervened, how to let them get the real tempering, and this time it was a duel with a dignified division and the Huns, these generals from the Yuan Yuan official staff officers will only do a better job than him in coordinating the various troops, in addition, they are three months in advance, and they know more about the 130,000 main infantry cavalry and their officers at all levels than him.
In Li Ang's handsome tent, Han captured the leopard, and several generals of the tiger and leopard riders in the hall were sitting, they were all old acquaintances of Li Ang, but Li Ang was just a small soldier back then, and now in less than ten years, Li Ang has become the first general in the world, and he is their boss, which can't help but make people sigh at the impermanence of the world. However, sighing and sighing, Han Baobao was still very happy about Li Ang's arrival, because no matter what, Li Ang, the reincarnation of Bai Qi, was born in Beiting, and they also had light on their faces.
"Speaking of which, in the middle of the year, I once played to Your Majesty, willing to lead the elite who dare to die into the hinterland of the Huns and disturb its soldiers and civilians, but I was refuted by Your Majesty, saying that only the marshal can do this matter among the generals of the Manchu Dynasty." Seeing that he hadn't seen him for several years, Li Ang was domineering and majestic, Han Baobao couldn't help but say, at that time, the emperor gave him only one sentence of Zhu Criticism in the book, whether he could slaughter the old and weak women and children he met along the road, and build a capital view to scare the Huns, he knew that he couldn't do this.
"The old general is too modest." Han Baobao is the general of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, Li Ang is not lost in his words, and he also knows that he can't kill those old and weak women and children with Han Baobao's temperament, so although his strategy is good, it can't be used.
"At the beginning, I asked the old general for my life, but unfortunately the old general did not grant me what I wanted." Hua Mantang said suddenly, but there was some resentment between his eyebrows, thinking that what Han Baobao said when he rejected him was not good.
Li Ang didn't speak, Hua Mantang is one of the five tiger gods in Beiting, and he is a good hand when he goes into battle, but let him dominate the elite, go deep into the enemy territory, and adapt to the situation is still not strong, you must know that Han captures the leopard's tactics, not only must be ruthless, cold-blooded and ruthless, but also need the quality of a famous general, otherwise, the elite who dare to die will not only not be able to build great achievements, but will be sent to death in vain, and the gains outweigh the losses.
Han Baobao saw that Hua Mantang was not angry, but said with a smile, "This trick of going deep behind enemy lines is not achieved by being able to kill people, although your kid's heart is ruthless enough, but this vision is much worse, and he is not good at using scouts, let you lead the troops, I am afraid that at most I will kill some old and weak women and children, and I will not hurt the Huns at all." ”
Hua Mantang wanted to refute it, but thinking that Han Baobao was his elder, and Li Ang, the coach, was there, it was not easy to say anything, so he only nodded yes.
After chatting casually for a while, Han Baobao and the others got up one after another to say goodbye, they came here just to have a relationship with Li Anglala, and asked him to take care of the tiger and leopard riding and give him more opportunities to make meritorious contributions. Although it was the betrayal of the Turks attached to it, three thousand tigers and leopards were caught off guard, surrounded by more than ten times the enemy army, and finally all died in battle, but it was always a thorn in the heart of the tiger and leopard riders, and they always wanted to seek revenge from the Turks and the Huns.
Sending away Han and the leopard, Li Ang couldn't help but think, leading the elite who dared to die and went deep into the enemy's territory, this is really a trick, but unfortunately he didn't have the opportunity to do this, if Murong Ke came here with him, he could let him go, with Murong Ke's ability to use the cavalry, he would definitely make the Huns suffer heavy losses.
It was nearly the end of August, the two armies were ready for the final preparations, so the two armies of the rangers who had nothing to do with each other began to break out sporadic battles, and the scouts who went out to investigate the enemy camp were endless, at this time both sides were testing each other, but the 200,000 cavalry under Liu Bao's command were all elite, and those who could be singled out as rangers and scouts were all masters, and in less than three days, each side had more than 100 casualties, and Daqin only had a slight upper hand, almost equal, And the falcons released after the two are also in the sky, Daqin's golden eagle and the Huns' doghead vulture are birds of prey, but the size of the doghead eagle is much larger than the golden eagle, one-on-one, Daqin's golden eagle is at a disadvantage, but when the White Tiger Festival Hall came over, he had already considered the Huns' ability to steer falcons, so he brought the tiger head eagle domesticated in the Eagle Garden outside Chang'an City, specially used to hunt the Huns' falconry, in order to ensure the safety of the eagle, under the attack of the fierce and abnormal bird of prey of the tiger head eagle, After the Huns lost more than a dozen dog-headed vultures and goshawks in a row, they no longer dared to let the eagles go up to the sky to investigate Daqin's camp, for fear that even the remaining ones would be cleaned up by the tiger eagles.