Chapter 287: Strong Lu Bu (7)

Everyone was instigated by Li Su's enthusiasm, and after returning home, they encouraged the cavalry in the same way, and everyone was full of expectations for tomorrow's battle.

Early the next morning, the troops set off after a full meal.

Now Li Su can call the shots, so the quality and quantity of food supplied have been greatly improved, so that all the cavalry are very satisfied, Li Su is not worried about the shortage of food, and then in the face of the Huns' downfall, he can eat the enemy, he has a deep understanding of this, and is not worried that the cavalry will starve.

The cavalry still maintained yesterday's formation, but without the drag of the carriage, the speed increased a lot.

All the supplies were carried by 200 horses, and the soldiers of the two cantons were responsible for managing and guarding them; The baggage cavalry of the other five tuns formed a battle unit.

By eight o'clock in the morning, the troops had marched more than 20 miles and were very close to the Xiongnu camp, Li Su ordered the troops to stop advancing, rest for half an hour, and eat food, feed the horses, drink water, etc., followed by a fierce battle, and at the same time wait for Lu Bu's troops to follow.

According to the information provided by the foundation scouts, it was only five miles away from the nearest Xiongnu Yiluo, and fifty miles away from the county seat of Heyin.

Li Su decided to put aside all the Xiongnu towns and rush to the county seat with all his might, so as to achieve the effect of a surprise attack, otherwise the war along the way would make the Huns prepare for the defense of the county seat, which would not be conducive to the occupation.

The scouts were also gathered and followed the troops.

When the time for rest had come, Li Su ordered his troops to set off and enter a state of war, at which point they were only five miles away from Lü Bu's large army.

There are still fifty miles to be reached by the troops in the county seat of Heyin, and although it is a rapid march, it is necessary to control the speed and keep it at about twenty miles per hour, and it takes two and a half hours to arrive, and it is necessary to maintain horsepower so that the cavalry can enter the battle at any time.

In just two quarters of an hour, the troops encountered the first Xiongnu settlement, and Li Su ignored them at all, but made a detour and went straight to the direction of Heyin County.

The Huns were not attacked, and shouted for luck, but they did not dare to be careless, such luck would not happen every time, and the patriarch immediately ordered the livestock to be gathered, the tents were packed, and immediately moved south to avoid the Han cavalry.

The same thing kept happening along the way, and some Yiluo sent personnel to report to Heyin City in a hurry, and let the Yiluo along the way prepare for battle or quickly enter the city to evade; They were all one man and a few horses, and they were more familiar with the route, and their speed was faster, arriving at Heyin City ahead of Li Su's large army.

In the afternoon, when Li Su arrived at the county seat of Heyin, the city was full of Huns, and the towns around the neighboring county town had entered the city and were ready for defense, seeing that there were only more than 2,000 Han cavalry, most of the Huns were no longer afraid, and the Han people could not occupy Heyin City with only these two thousand cavalry, but they did not dare to go out of the city to fight against the Han people, so they began to pray for the Huns outside the city who did not enter the city in time to take refuge, hoping that they would survive; Of course, there are also people who fear that this is only the vanguard of the Han Chinese, and if the Han army arrives, they will definitely fail.

Li Su was very disappointed, so he ordered his troops to continue westward, and this time, instead of marching in a hurry, he began to plunder the Hun settlements and carry out a killing spree.

The young and strong have been withdrawn, and there are hundreds of people in each city, and there are only 100 people in the small ones, how can they be the opponents of the regular cavalry? The large army surrounded the camp of Yiluo, and none of the Huns in it escaped.

Since there was no possibility of escape, there was no point in resisting, and the patriarch did not want to provoke the Han people, so he very readily announced his surrender; If they don't resist, the Han people have no loss, maybe they will open the net and not kill them all, so that they can earn a chance to live for those children and women.

However, Li Su was very disappointed by the results, most of the captured horses were insufficient, and a maximum of three war horses could be selected out of ten, and the rest were all old and weak; In order to ensure that the young and strong can come back alive, they often concentrate the excellent war horses of the whole Yiluo and let them choose, and they often have more than one horse. Li Su could only ask the officers and men to choose the better war horses to supplement the army, and strive to achieve one cavalry and two horses, so as to speed up the march.

Li Su lived in the border area for a long time, and was unambiguous about the nature of foreign races, adopting the tradition of the steppe tribes, killing the old and weak, and killing the teenagers who were taller than the wheels, leaving only women and children.

The women and children were stunned by the slaughter in front of them, and they were so frightened that they hugged each other tightly and trembled, and they would never rebel again.

To Li Su's gratification, there were more Han slaves rescued, and more than 100 people were rescued in the first settlement, and they were immediately gathered together to join the cavalry unit, while the remaining Han slaves became infantry, responsible for guarding livestock and prisoners.

The Xiongnu Youxian Wang Department has rebelled against the Han and the Xiongnu and became independent, and the treatment of the Han people is even more cruel, as long as they are captured, whether they are Han people, Xianbei people, or people of other races, they are all used as slaves, and the infirm cannot survive.

To Li Su's delight, the cavalry and infantry were basically in half; The cavalry could immediately follow the large force and participate in the rest of the war, and the infantry was used to watch the spoils.

The first raid went so smoothly that it exceeded the expectations of the cavalry, and aroused their enthusiasm for plundering; The soldiers' point of view was different from Li Suke's, they didn't care how many Huns they killed, they didn't care how many Han slaves they rescued, they only cared about the amount of looted supplies, which was related to Lü Bu's reward for them after the war.

The killing of the Han people, the Huns in Heyin City did not go out of the city to stop it, they were all weak people, even if they went out of the city, they were not the opponents of the Han cavalry.

Li Su saw that the Huns did not leave the city, so the troops divided into several ways to plunder, by the evening, had plundered the surrounding six towns, and concentrated in the camp where Li Su was, and rescued nearly 1,000 slaves of the Han and other races.

A lot of cattle and sheep were captured, and Li Su ordered the sheep to be killed to celebrate, so that the officers and soldiers could have a full meal, so that they could have good physical strength and continue to plunder tomorrow.

The scouts kept a close watch on the Huns in the city and kept in touch with Lü Bu.

After Li Su's troops passed, the Huns behind them gathered and prepared to move; Lu Bu's troops followed closely, just to wipe out those Huns, it was very convenient, and there was no need to pack up the supplies, and the troops continued to march.

The measures taken by Lü Bu were somewhat different from those of Li Su, and they did not kill the Huns, and all of them were kept in centralized custody. Lu Bu was ready to reduce all the old and weak to slaves after the war, either to herd him or to farm; As for the young woman, he was ready to give it to the soldiers, who had made it his base and who were to be well run in the future, and who had to marry and become his first people.

Lü Bu divided into four parts, plundered on the left and right flanks, and all the Xiongnu towns that failed to escape in time became Lü Bu's trophies.

That night, Lü Bu set up camp twenty miles from Heyin City.

The scout reported that Lü Bu learned the news of Li Su's failed raid on Heyin City, so he sent a group of cavalry to Li Su's camp and brought an order to let Li Su not continue to plunder tomorrow, according to the original plan, seize the raid on Shuofang City, block the escape routes of the Huns in all this area, and as for the Huns in the area, he can gradually encircle and annihilate them; If Li Su likes to plunder, he can plunder the Xiongnu towns around Shuofang City; The tribes he sent received the wealth of cattle and captives that had been plundered.

On that day, the richest harvest was Cheng Lian, his troops were like picking up cheap, one by one migrating towns, surrounded by him one by one, and captured.

The situation of those Huns was immediately reversed, and they became slaves of the Han people, and those Han slaves who were originally their were now Han officers and soldiers, escorting those Huns, as well as livestock and wagons, to the Lü Bu camp.

He was very happy that a steady stream of booty was sent to Lu Bu's camp, and he did not expect that this operation would go so smoothly, more smoothly than any of his previous operations; Not to mention the abundance of captures, the battle losses were very low, and there were basically no casualties.

When he finished understanding the information, he was overjoyed, he didn't expect Li Su to set off ahead of schedule, and the effect of startling the grass and snakes would be like this.