Chapter 117: Blocking the news
Ye Chen was looking for a place to rest dozens of miles away from the battlefield, he chose to go to the south, and once something happened, he could run back to Liaodong.
After Ye Chen finished trading with the Wuhuan people, he entrusted them to bring back the surplus horses, leaving only 10,000 for himself, guaranteeing that one person and two horses would be good.
Everyone rested well for a day and a night, and the escort battalion immediately became energetic, not very tired in the first place, mainly because they had been on the road for several days in a row.
"Second brother, the scout in front came to report and found out about the situation." Ye Chen, Tai Shi Ci and Guan Yu will take turns on duty when they are camping, and Tai Shi Ci will report it immediately when he receives the news.
"What's the situation?"
"There is a group of about 10,000 Huns secretly moving towards us."
Ye Chen felt that the matter was a bit big, so he immediately called Guan Yu over, and the three of them sat down and began to discuss.
"Yun Chang, what do you think they will do? Is it to get revenge on us? "This situation is possible, Ye Chen exploded their logistics base, and the Huns suffered huge losses, and they lost hundreds of millions of dollars in materials at one time in terms of value.
Guan Yu didn't rush to answer, thought about it carefully and said: "I don't think it's very likely, because we weren't followed by them when we came back, they don't know our specific whereabouts, and we are now in the hinterland of Wuhuan, they want to retaliate against ourselves, and if we expose our whereabouts, we won't be able to escape." ”
Guan Yu paused for a moment and continued: "I think it's more likely that they will come to attack the Wuhuan tribe. ”
Guan Yu's analysis is very reasonable, Ye Chen deliberately avoided the Wuhuan people, even the Wuhuan people only knew Ye Chen's approximate location, and the Huns were even more unclear.
Ye Chen scattered the scouts far away, the Huns were still far away from them, but Ye Chen was not in a hurry.
The scouts will be scattered so far, there are scouts within two or three hundred miles, and that is because Ye Chen does not believe in the Wuhuan people at all, so he will stay away from their troops and camp.
The Xiongnu continued to advance stealthily, moving less during the day and marching hastily at night.
Although their direction was in Ye Chen's direction, there was still a difference, and according to their current direction, they would deviate from Ye Chen and them by more than thirty miles.
"Report, the Huns are still a hundred kilometers away from us."
"The Huns are still fifty kilometers away from us"
"The Huns passed through us thirty miles away."
"The Xiongnu are heading towards the Wuhuan tribe."
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Ye Chen asked the scouts to report the location of the Xiongnu at any time, and now it has been basically determined that about 10,000 Xiongnu are going to attack the Wuhuan tribe.
Most of Wuhuan's soldiers had already arrived on the battlefield, and the rear was very empty, and there were not many people to defend.
"Second brother, what are we going to do, do we want to warn the Wuhuan people." Tai Shici asked Ye Chen.
"No, let them fight, deepen the hatred between the two of them."
Guan Yu and Tai Shici didn't say anything more, these Wuhuan people, although they were only old and weak and women, were not worthy of pity, because this was war.
Bu Tuji advanced quickly all the way, and was not discovered by the Wuhuan people at all along the way, he easily sneaked into the hinterland of the Wuhuan, where the defense was empty, and he drove 10,000 people straight in.
Finally, Butuji discovered the tribe of Wuhuan, this tribe is not big or small, there are thousands of people, and now the young and strong are on the battlefield, leaving more than 3,000 old and weak.
Butuji licked his lips, he liked the thrill of this kind of raiding the most, and he gave an order, and ten thousand cavalry began to charge.
The people of the tribe found the sudden arrival of the Huns, and the elderly, children, and women all took out bows and arrows or knives to defend themselves.
But the 10,000 charging cavalry could not be stopped, and the cavalry mercilessly crushed them and tore them apart.
In a few moments, the whole tribe became a living hell, with corpses all over the ground and the screams of women.
After killing the old man and the child, the tragic thing of these women came, one by one they were torn apart and ruthlessly ravaged.
Of course, Butu Ji knew his mission, and did not give the soldiers much time, and after hastily enjoying it, he asked them to start collecting food, and there were still a lot of cattle and sheep in a tribe, and they were all concentrated.
After counting and catching more than 20,000 cattle and sheep, Butuji nodded with satisfaction, and the whole process took less than three hours from the beginning to the end, and a tribe was wiped out in three hours.
Butuji thought that he had done a good job and no one escaped, so he was so unhurried, but in fact, a few people escaped on horseback.
"Send out scouts immediately to kill these escapees, and not let them pass the news back." Ye Chen gave this strange order to the escort battalion.
Waiting for the soldiers to pass the order, Tai Shici asked suspiciously: "Second brother, why do you want to stop the Wuhuan people from sending the news back, let them pass the news back, and then the Wuhuan people send people to intercept and kill them, wouldn't it be better for the two sides to fight?" ”
"I guess there should be a problem with food on the Xiongnu side, send these people to grab grain, let them continue to loot, and deepen the hatred between the two sides. The Xiongnu could not fight when they lacked food, and when they got enough food, the war between the two sides almost began. ”
Ye Chen guessed well, originally King Zuoxian's strategy was almost completed, he slowly increased his troops, that is, to hit the morale of the Wuhuan people, and to squeeze the potential of the Wuhuan people little by little, the Wuhuan people had basically done their best, at this time King Zuo Xian had already sent a reinforcement of 50,000 troops.
As soon as the reinforcements arrived, King Zuo Xian would start a full-scale attack, but at this time, the food was destroyed, so he had to stop the battle.
Ye Chen sent scouts to not only intercept the Wuhuan people who escaped, but even some of the Wuhuan people who passed by here or returned to the tribe were intercepted and killed, and the Wuhuan people couldn't get any news from this area.
After Butuji plundered the Wuhuan tribe, he was still not satisfied, and continued to go deeper and go to the next tribe to raid.
When it came to the next tribe, Butuji was still carrying out bloody massacres, and the tribe was not young and strong, and it was difficult to resist this group of crazy Huns.
Ye Chen sent troops to isolate the Huns on the periphery, so that the Wuhuan people could not get the news, until Butu Ji killed the third tribe, and the Wuhuan people still did not know that a group of jackals came from their rear.
This group of Huns can be compared with jackals, no matter the old people and children will be killed by them, if there is time they will slowly abuse and torture, if women are caught by them, they will be strong.
After the Huns left, Ye Chen went to the tribe to see, and the scene was extremely bloody and inhumane.
"This is war." Sighing helplessly, Ye Chen continued to do his own thing, not daring to think too much.
After robbing the three tribes, Butuji was finally satisfied, and he robbed a total of eighty or ninety thousand cattle and sheep, but it was not easy to bring back this group of cattle and sheep.
Bu Tuji started his return journey, and Ye Chen was still on the periphery to help him cover, otherwise it would be impossible for him not to be discovered.
In fact, Butu Ji dared to be so bold because he was by King Zuoxian's side, knowing that the Wuhuan people's forces had been squeezed to the battlefield little by little, and Wuhuan had almost no extra troops to send out.
If you want to intercept and kill yourself, you can only withdraw from the battlefield, once you withdraw, the troops on the battlefield will be insufficient, and maybe you will be killed by the Huns.
It is because of this dependence that Butu Ji will be like this, going deeper than 200 miles in a row, plundering three Wuhuan tribes, and carrying a large number of cattle and sheep back.
Ye Chen escorted them back on the periphery, escorting them for more than two hundred miles, and only after a day's journey approached a small battlefield did Ye Chen order the escort to return to the scouts and leave.
Ye Chen immediately ordered the escort battalion to stay away from here, and soon the Wuhuan people would get the news, and if they stayed here, they would not be able to say clearly.
Sure enough, a few hours after Ye Chen and the others left, Butu Ji was discovered, because their team was too large.
There were nearly 10,000 people in Butuji, but it was very difficult for the Wuhuan people to send troops to intercept and kill them at this time.
Qiu Liju received the news two days later, knowing that it was too late to intercept it, and he was angry and smashed the entire contents of the king's tent.
"Order our warriors to attack me and avenge our people." Qiu Liju roared loudly.
The Wuhuan people below are also excited, eager to tear every Hun apart and swallow them alive.
On the same day, the Wuhuan people began to storm the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu resisted desperately, but they still suffered a lot of losses.
In the end, the Huns died more than 20,000 people, and Wuhuan also suffered huge losses, killing more than 15,000 people.
But King Zuo Xian was not worried at all, but was a little happy, the Wuhuan people could compete with themselves with this strength, and then the morale of the Wuhuan people would plummet, and the combat effectiveness would drop sharply at that time.