Chapter 114: Burning the Logistics Base
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Ye Chen and the others secretly moved to a distance of fifty miles from the Xiongnu logistics base, and then set up camp to let the soldiers have a good rest.
In fact, the current guard battalion is not very tired, mainly because it is a little tired on the grassland, because it has not gone through any major battles, but there is nothing wrong with resting more and recuperating.
At night, the Huns did not find the existence of this team.
After dark, Ye Chen and the others began to act, first marching slowly to ten miles away, and then everyone dismounted and led the horses slowly, otherwise once the horses galloped, the ground would shake, and the enemy might find out in advance, because this was a logistics base, and the enemy had already released scouts.
However, they had very few scouts, and the escort battalion sent a large number of scouts to intercept them, so most of them remained undetected after approaching.
In the middle of the night, Ye Chen and the others had already moved to two miles away from the Hun camp, and most of them had already begun to sleep, this was the hinterland of the Huns, and they would never have thought that someone would come to sneak attack, so they slept very peacefully.
In the second half of the night, it was estimated that they were all asleep, and at this time Ye Chen and the others were ready to start acting.
"Big brother, Yun Chang, this time we are still acting in three directions."
Guan Yu and Tai Shici said that there was no problem.
"This time it will definitely not work with the previous sneak attack, there are too many tents here, there are people living here, and there are piles of supplies." Ye Chen looked at Guan Yu and Tai Shici for a moment and then said: "So I plan to attack with fire and burn their tents and grain and grass, so that the Xiongnu will be in chaos, and they will not have much combat strength at that time." ”
Ye Chen and the others had few people, and although they attacked secretly, they didn't want to have big casualties, so they planned to attack with fire and burn everything.
"This idea is okay, attack with fire, and the tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses inside will definitely be in chaos, scurrying around the camp, and after the impact, I don't think there are many Huns to fight.
"Guan Yu came to Youzhou in his early years and has some understanding of things on the grassland.
"Well, the cattle and sheep will definitely be in chaos when they are frightened, and we will retreat after we are finished, and we can't get too close, so as not to be affected."
After the three of them discussed, they began to assign tasks, and then the escort battalion began to move.
The Huns were still asleep, unaware that death had come.
"Stomp, stompe, stompe"
Five thousand cavalry began to charge, and the ground shook.
"Hey, what's the sound?" The Hun soldiers on the night vigil noticed the movement.
"It seems to be the sound of cavalry charging." A Hun soldier took over.
"Oh, why do you send troops to support at night, is the front tight? I've never heard of it. "The soldier didn't even think that this cavalry was here to sneak attack.
"That's not right."
"Something is wrong."
"The sound seems to be coming from the east, and our support troops should be coming from the west."
"What, is it an enemy attack, hurry up and alert, there is an enemy attack."
Although the Hun soldiers discovered the problem, it was too late, and the escort battalion was in front of them in a blink of an eye.
The escort battalion, led by Ye Chen, Tai Shici and Guan Yu, surrounded it from three directions, and as soon as it got closer, it shot out the prepared rockets.
After a rain of arrows, some people began to shoot ordinary arrows, while others continued to shoot with rockets.
There was a lot of grain and grass piled up in it, these were the rations of the horses, and there were a large number of horses in the Xiongnu, and it was impossible to graze during the battle, so they could only use forage.
The fire soon broke out, and the Xiongnu camp was in chaos, and cattle, sheep and horses began to rush and collide in chaos.
The cattle, sheep and horses that were on fire were even more frenzied, rolling around the camp, leading the fire to a place where it had not been on fire before.
At first, the Hun soldiers also planned to extinguish the fire, but before they could act, many people were knocked down by cattle, sheep and horses, and then trampled into meat by those behind.
Some of the Hun soldiers found out the problem and knew that the fire could not be extinguished, but there were cattle, sheep and horses rushing around, and they had nowhere to escape, only a few people could escape.
Moreover, the direction in which they escaped was only to the west, where they were not surrounded, and even if they escaped in the other three directions, they would be killed by the guard battalion.
Looking at the fire that was burning more and more, Ye Chen smiled, this time it will definitely hit the Xiongnu hard, the Xiongnu have no logistics base, and many military activities have to be dragged down.
Ye Chen just calculated that there were at least two or three hundred thousand cattle and sheep here, and there were many horses, and there was also a lot of grain and grass, and many tents were specially used to stack these things.
After the fire broke out, Ye Chen and the others retreated far away, because these cattle, sheep and horses were too crazy, don't think that the sheep were weak, they were even crazier than wolves after being frightened by the fire, and they rushed desperately.
"Order, go around from both flanks and surround and kill the escaped Hun soldiers."
Many Hun soldiers tried to escape from the west while the fire had not yet reached them, but by this time the guard camp had already surrounded them.
"Kill"
Ye Chen led the escort battalion to rush over.
The Huns, who had just escaped from death, thought that they had escaped and ascended to heaven, but they had not had time to rejoice, and the escort battalion had been killed.
Many people don't even have weapons, how to resist, plus their own people are scattered, into a plate of scattered sand, without organization, there is no way to resist at all.
After a while, the cattle, sheep and horses rushed over like crazy, and Ye Chen hurriedly told the soldiers to retreat to the west, forming an encirclement on the periphery.
Not many of the Huns escaped, less than half of the 10,000 escaped, and the rest were either burned to death by fire or clashed by cattle, sheep and horses.
Ye Chen: They have been constantly besieging and killing the escaped Huns on the periphery.
The Huns finally escaped, some had horses, some didn't even have horses, they subconsciously went west, but where there was a guard battalion watching, the first few waves of people were killed from that side.
Later, many people found that they could not escape at all if they went west, so they began to scatter and try to escape from other directions.
Ye Chen ordered a part of the guard battalion to chase after and kill the enemy as much as possible.
Two hours later, most of the escaped Huns were killed, but a few still escaped.
Ye Chen retracted and returned to the guard camp, and at this time the fire had basically been extinguished, because there was nothing left to burn.
Ye Chen walked into the camp, most of the things in it were burned, only a corner was not burned, Ye Chen went to take a look, there happened to be some weapons piled up inside, some arrows were burned, and there were about 200,000 good ones.
Ye Chen ordered people to start cleaning the battlefield, a large number of weapons were found here, in addition to arrows, a total of more than 30,000 weapons were collected, if you search carefully, you will definitely be able to find more, but Ye Chen and they don't have much time.
Ye Chen ordered people to start collecting cattle, sheep and horses, and these cattle, sheep and horses were scattered for more than ten miles.
It was not easy to put it away, but Ye Chen still tried his best to do it.
I don't know where the nearest Huns are, but there is definitely not one within a hundred miles, and it will take a few hours to send the news back, and then it will take a few hours for the Huns to kill, so Ye Chen and they still have time.
In fact, Ye Chen had more time than he imagined, because those Hun deserters did not dare to go west, and there was a guard battalion intercepting and killing before going west, so they fled far to the south and north before turning west, and they had to make a long detour.
As for the east, there were more than 10,000 Hun soldiers, but there were nearly 300 miles away.
A few hours later, more than 100,000 cattle, sheep and horses were collected, including more than 10,000 horses, Ye Chen asked people to put the materials on the back of the horses, and then the cattle and sheep that had been collected were fortunately collected and let them be divided into four directions, and rushed over in groups.
Ye Chen is trying to confuse the enemy, because they stabbed the hornet's nest, the Huns will definitely not let them go, and will frantically search for and hunt them down, so Ye Chen will not fight them to the death, and preserve their strength.
"Big brother, Yun Chang, which direction should we go in now?" After dealing with these things, Ye Chen asked them to drive the cattle and sheep to confuse the enemy first, and Ye Chen called Tai Shici and Guan Yu to discuss countermeasures.
"To the west is to continue to go deep into the hinterland of the Xiongnu, which is too dangerous, and to the east, they have a camp with more than 10,000 Xiongnu in it, maybe they will encounter it." Guan Yu briefly analyzed.
"Yes, that can only go south or north, neither of which is easy to say. My suggestion was to go north, they didn't find us in the camp to the east, and we were obviously Han Chinese, so they would think we were coming from the south, so it should be much safer to go north and take a detour back to the east. ”
In fact, Ye Chen and the others were not worried about whether they could escape at all, but if they met the Huns, then most of the materials of those war horses would be lost.
"Then go north, then east."
Since it was decided, then Ye Chen acted quickly, more than half of the cattle and sheep were driven to the south, Ye Chen asked them to drive out dozens of miles and then return to the team, because Ye Chen and they had horses carrying supplies, and the team was large, so they caught up.
Rushing to the east and north was also partial, confusing the enemy, the enemy might come from the west, so Ye Chen did not order to rush to the west.
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