Chapter 209: The Battle of Wuhuan
From the beginning of Cheng Li to Duning City, he actively prepared for war, preparing to first eliminate the Wuhuan tribe of Shanggu County. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
After Tian Feng arrived, he was appointed as the chief of the general's mansion and the military advisor, and the two worked closely together to carefully calculate and determine the final plan.
After Gao Shun evaded, the two began to reorganize the army.
The gathering of so many Han troops on the border attracted the great attention of the Xianbei and Wuhuan people in central China, and all tribes gathered their armies and prepared to meet them; Scouts were also sent to patrol the border areas non-stop, and spies were sent to keep a close eye on the movements of the Han army.
Cheng Li and others were very slow to reorganize the army, and by mid-April, less than half of the cavalry and infantry had been carried out.
The armies of Yan Liang and Zhang Fei were reorganized into four parts each; Xu Lin was also promoted to the rank of Sima of the other department, with four complete songs under his jurisdiction; Each song has 5 cavalry tuns, the same as the armies of Yan Liang and Guan Yu.
Cao Xing of Gaoliucheng, Xue Yin of Pingcheng and Cheng Pu of Macheng were also transferred back, and the three were also appointed as Sima of other departments, and the cavalry was reorganized, and the four cavalry songs were also under the jurisdiction.
Fortunately, Gao Shun successively sent more than a dozen middle-level military attachés, otherwise the progress of the reorganization would be even slower; However, with the cavalry troops of six other Simas, it was more than enough to deal with the Wuhuan people.
Pingcheng, Gaoliucheng, and Macheng each stationed a middle-level military general to guard it, and the infantry in each city increased to 2,000 people.
After the heavy infantry arrived, under the command of Dian Wei, Cheng Li and Tian Feng were very satisfied with the reinforcements sent by the lord, and conducted a confrontation exercise with the attacking battalion of the Ko Min, and the 400 heavy infantry could resist the attack of 2,000 officers and soldiers of the attacking battalion.
The Koji people were very depressed and were transferred to Quang Ninh City to station. It was announced to the outside world that it was unfavorable for the people to train the troops, but Cheng Li explained that he must be optimistic about the Wuhuan Yi army in Guangning City, and he must not let them make trouble, otherwise there will be no mercy, and he must not be polite and soft to the Wuhuan people.
In the small space in the city, Cheng Li believed that the 2,000 righteous cavalry were definitely not the opponent of the 2,000 attacking battalions.
Lu Min understood Captain Cheng Li's good intentions, pretended to be lost, and led the siege battalion to Guangning City to station.
The news continued to pass back, the nervous heart of the Xianbei people still could not relax, Bu Dugen was very shrewd, and he had long seen that the border army of the Han Dynasty had bad intentions, not only actively reorganized the army in Ningcheng, but also recovered Zhongling and Shanwu counties, and constantly strengthened the military strength there, which was obviously to divide the Xianbei people into two sections, east and west, and could not support each other.
Now he is very conflicted, whether to move westward and get closer to the Helian King of Yunzhong County, or to unite with Xianbei in the central part of the country?
In order to maintain the peace of the border county, all the rules are the same, in view of the Xianbei people who are about to move recently, remind the Wuhuan king to strengthen vigilance; They were also required to assemble at least 3,000 cavalry, and in the event of a battle against Xianbei, the Wuhuan people must send troops to fight.
Nanlou thought to himself, isn't the Xianbei people's assembly of troops due to your Han army? He was an old fox, or he wouldn't have been the king of the crisis-ridden border county for so long, and he was skeptical of Cheng Li's overtures, and decided to trade this season's grain in advance as a test of the attitude of Captain Wu Huan. And Cheng Li did not hesitate to ask to continue normal trade with it.
This move dispelled the fear of Nanlou, but he was still cautiously vigilant, very concerned about the progress of the reorganization of the Han army, attached great importance to the dynamics of the border army, and all kinds of secret agents were activated.
Everything was ready, Tian Feng asked, "Captain Cheng, when will you attack?" ”
"Tian Junjun, don't be in a hurry about this matter, send an order tomorrow, let Nanlou send 3,000 cavalry to help, and then annihilate it halfway, and then launch a general attack on the Wuhuan tribe."
"Haha, Captain Cheng is so calculating, what if he doesn't send troops for some reason?"
"Then you can justifiably launch a general attack, and I am worried that there is no reasonable excuse to destroy them."
Tian Feng objected: "The troops of the Wuhuan tribe have already assembled, and it is really inappropriate to forcibly attack. If you let the building escape, it will be a big trouble in the future. If it can't be resolved quickly, the Wuhuan tribe also has enough food to support. What can I do about it? ”
"What's the plan?" Cheng Li asked.
"Let the existing cavalry followers take the lead, if they dare to resist, there is no mercy for killing, and their families are in our hands, how dare they resist?"
Cheng Li said with a smile: "Haha, the military division has filtered, only more than 7,000 people are left, at most 10,000 elite soldiers, and the righteous servants we have incorporated before have all lived a good life, this time it is only for the difficult building, under the heart attack, how much determination can they have to resist the war?" It was regarded as a training exercise before attacking Xianbei. ”
Tian Feng felt that it made sense, the war with the Xianbei people needed a head-on confrontation, a duel of strength, a collision of iron and blood, and it was necessary to exercise the army's ability to attack fortifications in advance, so he agreed to Cheng Li's plan.
On the first day of the fifth month, Nanlou received a notice from Cheng Li, the captain of Wuhuan, asking to lead 3,000 cavalry to help and attack Xianbei in central China.
Difficult building dilemma, to go or not to go?
And Cheng Li didn't give him time to hesitate at all.
The next morning after notifying the martyrdom, the troops were ordered to launch a surprise attack on the Wuhuan tribe.
The choice of this time was very unexpected, Nanlou and all the Wuhuan people did not have a little mental preparation, and they faced the blow of tens of thousands of cavalry, and the Wuhuan people were caught off guard.
The cavalry was divided into 3 routes, Yan Liang, Zhang Fei and Xu Lin each brought 4,000 people, and they went on a rampage to kill the camp of the difficult building, and the Wuhuan people who dared to resist were all ruthlessly crushed along the way.
And the elite of the Wuhuan tribe on the periphery has been transferred to the camp of Nanlou, and the young and strong of these peripheral tribes are very few, even if they resist with all their might, they are not the opponent of the Han cavalry.
The Wuhuan people were not stupid, and found that as long as they did not resist, the Han army would let them go, so they threw away their weapons and gave up resistance.
And after more than a year of publicity, they have already learned that the Wuhuan people who were originally incorporated by the Han army are living a good life, not only have no taxes, no need to pay tribute, and those who participate in the Han army's righteous cavalry can get the same salary and treatment as the Han people, they have long looked forward to that kind of life, and no one is willing to continue to work for the Wuhuan nobles.
Besides, they are not the descendants of the king of Nanlou, there is no need to die for this, they are dead for a hundred years, but their wives and children will become the property of others.
The three-way cavalry shouted all the way to surrender and not kill, all the way unimpeded, only encountered weak resistance, and finally surrounded the camp of the difficult building from three sides.
Tian Feng sits in Ningcheng and guards the rear.
Cheng Li, under the escort of Dian Wei, led 5,000 unorganized cavalry to take over the Wuhuan people and their camps that had given up resistance.
In the face of so many cavalry, the Wuhuan people were frightened, and all of them gave up resistance, confiscated their weapons and were placed in centralized custody.
The Wuhuan people in the Nanlou camp are either Wuhuan nobles, or his descendants, and they are vested interests, they know that if they are defeated, they will lose their previous superior life, so they come in with stubborn resistance and desperately fight back.
In order to get the head of the difficult building, Yan Liang, Zhang Fei and Xu Lin rushed to the front of the team; Xue Yin, Cao Xing, Cheng Pu and others have been idle for so long, and they finally got a chance to go to the battlefield, and all of them were high-spirited, hoping to get the head of the difficult building.