Chapter 823: Give it your all
In the end, Ma Chao, who was in Changping City, led the Flying Wolf Army to the north, while Zhang He led the 60,000 Qinglong Army to the south of Guangyang County. As for Li Dian's department, he continued to stay in Changping City and attract Gongsun Du's firepower.
When this plan was first formulated, it was Ma Chao who proposed the division of troops. Zhang He and Li pawn immediately objected. The reason is very simple, after so many hardships and baptisms, the Xianbei people must only be left with strong players, Ma Chao only looked at the 30,000 cavalry, how could he defeat Kebineng.
But Ma Chao laughed, "It's just a little more than energy, don't think too highly." Perhaps, you are afraid of Xianbei people, but Xianbei people are nothing more than chickens and dogs for this general. And my Han cavalry is also the nemesis of the Xianbei people. In this battle, I have made up my mind, and you don't need to say more. ”
Today's Ma Chao has long entered the age of establishment, and he does not have the shyness of the year, nor the immaturity of the year.
More than ten years ago, he killed the Xianbei people to the point of losing their armor. More than ten years later, I can still take the Xianbei people down. Don't think that only Xianbei people have made progress in the past ten years, and our Han cavalry is also growing.
The next day, outside Changping City, Ma Chao held a purple soul electric gun, crossed the shadow, and arrogantly said to Zhang He and Li Dian who came to see him off: "Two generals, when I return, I will carry Kebineng's head." And at that time, I hope that the head of Gongsun Du has been prepared! ”
"Don't worry, general!" Zhang He and Li Dian agreed, Ma Chao immediately pulled the reins, and Yue Ying quickly rushed towards the army that was advancing in the northwest direction.
The Flying Wolf Army, at the earliest, was an army spontaneously formed by the Huns who defected to Cao De. After the Battle of Jizhou, the Flying Wolf Army suffered heavy losses, and Cao De had to arrange a group of Han cavalry to supplement it. In recent years, Cao Deyou has built the Flying Wolf Army into a flying cavalry that has always been composed entirely of people on horseback. Among them, the knights were composed entirely of Huns and Qiang.
Ma Chao went north with such a lineup, coupled with the defense troops arranged by Li Dian in the north of Daijun before, according to Ma Chao's previous victory rate against the Xianbei people, it is estimated that the Xianbei people's southward movement this time will not be beneficial.
Danhan Mountain, once Tanshi Huai first unified the Xianbei tribe when the royal court was located, and after Kebi can unify Xianbei, he also wants to establish his own royal court in Danhan Mountain, but considering that Danhan Mountain is too close to the Han Dynasty, so Kebineng's royal court still has to be further north.
Now, Kebineng is already gray-haired, but Kebineng has led 80,000 Xianbei iron riders to worship Tanshi Huai in Danhan Mountain, and the horse's hooves flew south.
Five hundred years ago, when the Xiongnu rose, the Han Dynasty was still under the control of the Qin Dynasty. At that time, the Huns on the grassland, once it was time for the autumn harvest, would go south in groups, plundering the fruits of the hard work of the Han people for a year. Five hundred years later, the Han Dynasty has changed, and the grassland has changed! The Qin Dynasty fell, the Han Dynasty also fell, and the Huns also fell. It was the Xianbei people who rose, but when the Xianbei people still wanted to plunder the Han Dynasty according to the old path of the Huns, Cao De also rose.
For many years, Xianbei and Cao De have also fought three or four times, but from the beginning to the present, how can Xianbei people have good fruits to eat. But the Xianbei people did not give up, and came to plunder the land again and again. Especially this time, Kebi can be said to have entangled all the combat power of the Xianbei tribe and is ready to fight to the death.
Because, the grassland is too cruel, compared to the Han, that is the gap between heaven and hell. So, they yearn for it, they need it; So, here they are.
In the endless grassland, how difficult is it to defend against the Xianbei cavalry who come and go like the wind? Li Dian is very clear. In the Central Plains, the most effective way to deal with cavalry is to build a large number of obstacles in the places where cavalry must pass, and delaying the advance speed of cavalry can be effective. But on the steppe, who knows where the Xianbei cavalry will attack from. And it is even more difficult to say whether those laid obstacles will come in handy. Therefore, the only way for Li Dian to do so is to wait for the rabbit.
Waiting for the rabbit is the most unscientific method. But Li Dian can't help it, but the "strain" that Li Dian guards is a "strain" full of temptation.
First of all, Li Dian figured out one point, that is, what the Xianbei people went south for. Quite simply, the grain, cloth, money, and women of the Han people. Therefore, Li Dian found some places that were more suitable for cultivation in the north of Dai County, and organized some people to carry out adventurous land reclamation.
Then, Li Dian guarded this wasteland, which did not occupy a large area, in the form of a military camp. Spectacular gates, tall and wide walls...... However, the walls of this wasteland are not made of earth and sand, but are built of huge logs.
See? The Han people dared to run out of the Great Wall to farm, so much food, so many things, and such beautiful women, although they had the protection of the previous wooden city wall, but under the hooves of our Xianbei iron horses, what was it? This group of Han people really doesn't know whether to live or die. In this way, the Xianbei people will have a clear goal when they go south.
No matter where you come from, this is the camp. Therefore, I only need to guard these camps, which is the first line of defense against you Xianbei people.
In fact, there are only three such camps in total. Moreover, the three are only more than 30 miles apart, and they are at the corners of each other. Finally, Li Dian sent a large number of sentinels to Beisan to find out the movements of the Xianbei people.
Therefore, this time, as soon as the Xianbei people's footsteps stepped out of Danhan Mountain, the soldiers and civilians in the three camps already knew about it. Then everyone took everything they could take with them and immediately began to retreat. Of course, there was still a lot of food left in the camp to attract the attention of the Xianbei people.
Ma Chao went all the way north and met many people who had retreated from the three camps. And Ma Chao also learned from the mouths of these people. The Xianbei people went south this time, and the momentum was violent. Within a day or two of their packing up, the Xianbei people traveled nearly 100 miles south.
The Xianbei soldiers were already very close. And the three camps are also more dangerous.
In fact, Li Dian proposed this to wait for the rabbit, and Cao De's approval was just for experimentation. Whether it has any effect or not, Cao De doesn't know. And now this effect has to be interpreted by Ma Chao.
"General! The Xianbei people had already divided their troops to surround the Zhongda camp and launched an attack on the western camp. The soldiers are fighting bloodily, and please come to the rescue of the general! ”
Ma Chao walked forward for another half a day, and the people who retreated to the south were no longer visible, but Ma Chao clearly saw two knights covered in blood and galloping south. They were the soldiers sent by the battalion to ask Li Dian for help again.