Chapter 287: Night Battle
April 12, the first quarter moon.
It makes sense why Yang Xi chose to march today, and this is also common sense that you must understand as a special soldier.
After the seventh or eighth day of the lunar calendar, the sun sets, and the moon is already overhead, and in the middle of the night, the moon sets, and at this time, exactly half of the moon illuminated by the sun can be seen, which is called "winding".
In this way, it is easy to do, there is a moon in the first half of the night, which is convenient for marching, and the moonlight is not small, slightly larger than the half moon, and the war horse has better eyesight than a person at night.
In the second half of the night, the moon goes down, then it is really a dark and windy night, and it is good to kill!
There is also Jian Xian's ambush, why Yang Xi is so sure.
At that time, because the building team was ambushed in the middle of the night, it was impossible to kill them all in a short time, and there must have been soldiers and horses who escaped.
He could only run to Kobineng, but it was so dark that it was impossible to march without lighting torches. It is a simple signal light with a torch.
In the vast grassland, torches are lit in the dark night, and the ambush men and horses in front can be seen for ten miles, and the simple ambush is easy.
But when the torch is raised, you can only see a very small area that the torch can shine.
As a qualified military strategist, you must know how to use all the knowledge you know to increase the success rate of war and reduce war losses.
If Yang Xi can't think of this, then his title of the dean of the Military Academy will be in vain.
When the Youtu army arrived, the moon had not yet set, and Gan Ning had already stationed troops waiting, and the two met each other, made a good appearance, made an appointment with the attack time, and marched slowly on the left and right.
At this time, the royal court of Louban was brightly lit, but most of the people had already fallen asleep, and only a few soldiers and horses were patrolling.
This can not be called the royal court, called the wooden village is almost the same, surrounded by a wooden fence in all directions, and there are patrols guarding the fence, but at this time, the patrolmen are basically napping on the wooden pillars.
Lou Ban hadn't slept yet, he was also anxious in his heart, Kebi Neng and Yang Xi, either side, were his enemies.
The one who did not sleep with Lou Ban was the general of Badun's subordinates, who had returned to Lou Ban since he was defeated in Liaoxi County and returned to the north.
Kobineng wanted to annex himself early on, flooding his own warriors into his slave camp.
As for Yang Xi, he killed and captured tens of thousands of Wuhuan Erlang, and even killed his brother Badun, this revenge is no longer shared.
"If I can lose both, then it will be good, at least for a few years, but I can be safe, and then I can be stronger. If one day I can cut off Yang Xi's head and pay tribute to my brother in heaven, it can be regarded as comforting my father's spirit. ”
He said: "If the king can take Yang Xi's head, the south will be chaotic, and Cao Cao will definitely wave his troops south to grab the territory." At that time, the king can take the opportunity to enter Yuyang and Shanggu to rob people and assets, and I am not far away. But the people who want to take Yang Xitou are not only millions, but those who can succeed don't know where. ”
"Yang Xi is powerful, but on the grassland, he is not an eagle. At least for now, it is no worse than that. If the two fight, there will be an injury, and we will wait to see who will win this time. Hirking next to us, it's not just our Wu Huan, but also Kebineng's old opponent Budugen. "Lou Ban is a little gloating.
He shook his head and said, "I always feel that something is wrong, and I can't say what is wrong." Why did Yang Xi attack Kebineng first? Obviously, I, Wu Huan, am the temporary weakling on the grassland, and I am closer to Da Xianbei City. ”
He just muttered and didn't think much about it, but the speaker had no intention, and the listener had a heart.
Lou Ban only felt that he had been pricked by a needle in his head, goosebumps all over his body, and his hairs stood up.
"Do you think it will ~?"
"What did the king say?" I didn't care.
"I mean, if Yang Xi feints to attack Kebineng, but comes to attack my Wuhuan Royal Court, what will be the result?" The more Lou Ban thought about it, the more he felt that it must be so.
He understood in an instant, stood up and said, "It's not good! It must be so! ”
"Quick! Quickly sent more men to patrol the surroundings, and sent spies out for thirty miles to investigate, which was to investigate all night. "Lou Ban is in a hurry.
But now that I think about it, it's too late.
Therefore, Kegan Ning and You Tu and even the royal court, "poo, pong, pong" shot at the night watchman on the wooden village.
You Tuganning surrounded the royal court on both sides, and almost at the same time ordered: "Pour fire oil!" Ignition! ”
Such a big movement also woke up some soldiers and horses in the royal court's tent, but when these people came out to check, there was already a fire outside, and countless crossbow arrows flew towards the royal court's tent.
Bi Qian and Lou Ban rushed out of the king's tent, only to see that a fire had already burned outside, the fire burned the dry wood, countless soldiers and horses rushed in from the outside, and cut people when they saw them, and the heads were rolling for a while.
"Hurry up and go to the West Gate to inform Nanlou, Su Muyan, and Wuyan! Just go! Lou Ban yelled.
There should have been slaves who should have flown to the west gate of the royal court.
"Partial, go north, organize people, there is no fire in the north, the other party should choose to enter from the east and west gates."
"Good! Come with me, Lord! ”
Biqian and Lou Ban each took a horse and went to the North Gate Barracks.
But it was said that it was You Tu who was in charge of the West Gate, and at this moment he also broke through the fence and led the army to kill in the royal court, and he was meeting a general, who was naked, carrying a saber and riding a black horse, to kill You Tu, and shouted in his mouth: "The thief will sign up!" It's hard to eat me! ”
You Tu was not afraid at all, rushed over with a knife and slashed at it, only three together, hacked this difficult building to death, cut off the head and hung it on the horse, and continued to lead the troops to kill.
The soldiers and horses of Youtu were divided into dozens of units, robbing the camp all the way, and everywhere they passed, the ghosts cried wolves and howled, and there was not much to live.
The situation on Gan Ning's side was similar, most of the Wuhuan soldiers were naked, and before they had time to put on them, they were shot or hacked to death, and there were not many alive.
Why Yang Xi chose You Tu and Gan Ning to attack at night was to consider that the two of them were brave and killed the enemy without blinking.
The enemy lives and dies, that's the case, in this case, if you send a benevolent lord, the Hu people will not eat this set.
Hu people are wolves, only killing and subduing, not convincing!
The so-called national integration is based on sufficient strength and on the basis of taking the initiative.
Merging and being fused are two different things.
40,000 light cavalry, killing through the royal court, the two armies converged, one south and one north, and then killed separately.
Why is there only 40,000, but the two of them each divided 10,000 soldiers and horses, guarding the gate outside the north and south gates, just waiting for the deserters to rush out, and then besiege and kill.
It turned out that after the two of them met, they discussed not leaving soup for our commander Jian Xian to drink.
However, he said that Biqian and Lou Ban saw that the fire behind them was big, and there was not much resistance on their side, knowing that the general trend had gone, they hurriedly raised more than 10,000 soldiers at the north gate, and wanted to open the door and seize the road.
But the two soldiers and horses only rushed out of the small half, and then the arrows rained down, and countless people fell, and the military horses behind stepped on, and all of them were trampled into meat sauce.
The two knew that there was no way out at this time, and they had to fight out, so they didn't care whether they were dead or alive, they only ordered the soldiers and horses in the royal court to break through, and the two mixed in the soldiers and horses, rushed out of the north gate, opened a gap, and finally fled to the vast grassland.
After running for a mile or twenty, when the two looked back, there were only three or four thousand soldiers and horses left, and they didn't know whether they ran away or were killed.
Lou Ban looked up to the sky and sighed: "Sad! I, Wu Huan, have also been guarding the border for the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, I never thought that I only had a thought, I made a mistake, and I was wiped out, and the Han people were more vicious than my Hu people! ”
It turned out that at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, after the Xiongnu Mao Dunshan destroyed the Wuhuan Kingdom, they only retained a small number of troops in Wuhuan Mountain, and finally took refuge in the Han Dynasty. The Wuhuan people are good at riding and shooting, and they are extremely effective immediately. The Wuhuan people specially selected the elite cavalry to form a team and formed the Wuhuan Cavalry, which was led by the state and county, and made great contributions to the Eastern Han Dynasty war, and the Wuhuan Cavalry also won the reputation of "the world's famous horseman".
In that year, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty launched nine large-scale battles against the Xiongnu in succession, and dealt a heavy blow to the arrogant and arrogant Xiongnu State, the Wuhuan people gradually settled down under the protection of the Western Han Dynasty.
Hou Wuhuan guarded the outside of the Han Dynasty all the way, and after gradually becoming stronger, he attacked the Xiongnu in the north. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Wuhuan people actually killed the Huns and moved thousands of miles north. More than 80 Wuhuan tribal leaders were given the title of king and marquis by the Eastern Han Dynasty, and were allowed to live in the border counties along the Eastern Han Dynasty, and together with the Eastern Han Dynasty, they opposed the Xiongnu and Xianbei, and defended the border for half a century.
Success is also strong, defeat is also strong.
If Wuhuan does not go south to attack the Han Dynasty, continue to be a minister, and block Xianbei for the north of the Han Dynasty, I don't know how its fate will be rewritten.