Chapter 487: Snow Field Attack
Gongsun Du really understood.
Because he also knows very well the combat methods of those alien rangers, those Wuhuan cavalry, Wuhuan people, if they really kill the Liaodong region, they will be like locusts, where they pass, there is not a single grass.
Zhao Yun asked him to return to Liaodong, evacuate the people of Liaodong as much as possible, place the people of Liaodong in the city as much as possible, or let those who could not hide in the city go to the mountains to hide. This is in case, in case Zhao Yun, Tai Shici, and Gongsun Zan fail to stop the attack of the Wuhuan cavalry army, they can reduce the losses of the people of Liaodong as much as possible.
As long as the people are hiding, then those Wuhuan people will be left empty, so that they will not get supplies in the first place. At that time, if the Wuhuan people wanted to get supplies, they could only attack one city at a time. And the prepared New Han Army, how could they let those Wuhuan people capture the city lightly? Generally speaking, even if it is a small town, as long as the city is still intact, it is still possible to withstand the attack of the Wuhuan people for a few days.
Gongsun Du also knew very well that once the Wuhuan cavalry army really entered the Liaodong region, they would definitely divide their troops and scatter and plunder. In this way, the New Han army could be given the opportunity to break their cavalry army individually.
Counting up, in this war with the Wuhuan people, the New Han Army seems to be standing on an undefeated position. It just takes their place to minimize the damage as much as possible.
Gongsun Du knew that Zhao Yun, Tai Shici and other New Han troops, why did they come to the north to conquer the Wuhuan people? Isn't the ultimate goal to protect the people of the Han Dynasty? If he can do a good job of evacuating the people, it is equivalent to allowing Zhao Yun, Tai Shici and others to have no worries. So. They can let go of the Wuhuan tribe's army to the end, and they can play the unique tactics of the cavalry more freely.
As a matter of fact. The Wuhuan people have made a fatal mistake. Or rather, barbarians are barbarians after all. No matter what, they are not as smart as the Han Chinese.
How so? I'm afraid that the Wuhuan people themselves have not thought about it, their biggest advantage is actually the ranger, elusive, coming and going like the wind. Seriously, the Wuhuan people, or rather, the Devils, it was their ambitions that ruined themselves.
Think about it. The area outside the customs is vast, and there are mountains and rivers, grasslands and forests, and the geographical shape is a little more complicated than the northwest desert, even if it is not as barren and harsh as the northwest desert, and not as steep as the northwest. But there are steppe forests, those forests that are not inhabited. It's their best place to hide.
If the Wuhuan people had not all gathered together, they would have gone their separate ways, as before, with one tribe at a time as the base unit. For every two thousand people is one horse. Break into the pass from all directions and plunder, drill holes when there are holes, and run away when there is danger. In this way, I am afraid that the New Han Dynasty will have no way to take them.
Always. It's not that the armies of the Han court are invincible to the aliens outside the border, it's that they are too cunning. They rushed to grab it and left, without much thought. That's why they can survive forever. However, now they not only want to plunder, but also want to encroach on the land of the Han people, so that the nature is different, and their ideas and practices are different.
Because plunder alone is not the same as encroachment. Plunder, you can act flexibly, and to invade, you have to forcibly attack a certain city. And if they want to attack the city of the Han Dynasty, they can't capture it with one or two thousand men and horses. Especially when the New Han Army still had a large number of garrisons, the Wuhuan people could only gather a large army and concentrate their forces to attack a certain city and place in the Han Dynasty. In this way, the Wuhuan people are tantamount to putting aside their strengths in vain, and they can no longer be like the wind.
They didn't know that in addition to various reasons, there was also a very important factor, that is, Liu Yi had been coming, and he had not sent troops to attack the Wuhuan tribe outside the pass, and he had not sent troops to seize the vast land outside the pass, because outside the northern pass, the terrain was too complicated and too capable of Tibetans, and no matter how many military horses the New Han army sent, it was possible to be annihilated in the vast forest.
This is also one of the reasons why Liu Yi thought it was a good opportunity after Liu Yi learned that the Wuhuan tribe had actually gathered a large army and was preparing to invade the Han Dynasty. The New Han Army wanted to find them, but they couldn't find them, and they actually gathered together by themselves? Isn't this self-defeating and giving the New Han Army a good chance to destroy them in one fell swoop?
You must know that the Wuhuan people have assembled a large army, then, unlike the Han people, the grain and grass of the military horses are rice and flour, and their military food is their cattle and sheep. There must be a large number of Wuhuan people gathered together.
And with a large number of Wuhuan people and military horses gathered together, it is equivalent to them taking the initiative to expose themselves to the front of the New Han Army, and it is impossible to fight when they want to, and leave when they want to.
In this way, the New Han Army can use the tactics they have been using to deal with the Great Han, and we will be like their rangers. Seeing that there was a gap in their camp, they went to attack, fought and left, and so on, they could slowly consume the population of the Wuhuan people. The more they consume, the closer the Wuhuan people are to extinction. Because in the end, they can't escape if they want to.
Gongsun Du really understood, he stood up, and said with a serious expression: "Zilong, Ziyi, Bo Jue, you can rest assured that you will deal with the Wuhuan army." You don't have to worry about Liaodong's affairs. Hey, for so many years, the Wuhuan people haven't taken too much advantage in my Liaodong, and even, in recent years, the Wuhuan tribes in Liaodong, Liaoxi and other places have almost been driven away by my Gongsun Du. If to cope with their predation, we have our own set. So, you can watch it, if you can fight, you can't stop the Wuhuan army, and you don't need to run into the enemy. It is the right thing to preserve our strength and keep harassing them. Of course, when my Gongsun Du returns to Liaodong now, it will take three to five days to evacuate or concentrate the people of Liaodong. So, you'd better hold off the Wuhuan army for me for five days. ā
"Good! I'll give you five days, one qiÄ, and I'll ask you Brother Gongsun Du. Zhao Yun saw that Gongsun Du understood what he meant, and said with great joy: "Don't worry, in case the Wuhuan army really enters Liaodong." They will surely scatter and plunder. When the time comes, our cavalry will annihilate them one by one. Five days later. You only need to keep it for a few days to ten days. We can almost launch a major counteroffensive and wipe out these Wuhuan people in one fell swoop. ā
"Good! Then I'll go back to Liaodong overnight and prepare. It is estimated that the Wuhuan army will attack us soon. Gongsun Du said happily.
"Uh, I get it, too. But wait. Gongsun Zhan also understood, but he hurriedly said: "Hehe, I have a mention yƬ, that, Ziyi...... Hehe, let's change it. That is, well, you stayed behind to lead the 200,000 New Han troops that were blocking the Wuhuan army head-on. Let me lead 100,000 cavalry to attack the Wuhuan cavalry in your place. This one. I'm more experienced. ā
"Oh? What do you think of Ziyi? Zhao Yun looked at Tai Shi Ci and said.
"Haha, what's this. I, Tai Shi Ci, also understand Brother Gongsun Zhan's thoughts. Okay, I'm going to change it with you, you lead 100,000 cavalry and Zilong's 100,000 cavalry to attack the Wuhuan army. "Tai Shi Ci knows that Gongsun Chan has a deep hatred with the Wuhuan people, so he naturally wants to be an adult. Let Gongsun Chan vent well.
In fact, for commanding the cavalry to fight, Gongsun Chan is more suitable than Tai Shici. Especially, if they were facing the ordinary people of Wuhuan separately. I believe that Gongsun Chan is much more ruthless than Tai Shici, and he will definitely kill them mercilessly. For those who want to exterminate the Wuhuan people, it is indeed more appropriate to send Gongsun Chan to lead the army to attack the Wuhuan cavalry.
"Well, that's it. Then, the matter of meeting the enemy in this big battalion has Brother Lao Ziyi. Zhao Yun hugged Tai Shi Ci with his fist.
"You're welcome. Well, I think. Without further ado. Zilong and Gongsun Zhan, it's best to send troops as soon as possible. lest the Wuhuan army block all our military horses in this Grand Canyon. Taishi Cijian said.
"Naturally, we have intelligence that the Wuhuan army will attack us early in the morning at the latest. Therefore, I think that when they are moving, I should attack and disturb them first, so that they can't send troops so smoothly. ā
"That's right! We'll send troops tomorrow. Gongsun Chan said eagerly.
It was agreed that the generals would have their own orders and prepare to go separately.
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Three days later.
Up and down Chifeng Mountain, a piece of snow white, as if wearing silver makeup.
The whistling north wind is raging.
Although the north wind was cold, it finally stopped after such a continuous snowfall.
Early this morning, the vast earth suddenly sounded a low and mournful trumpet.
The tents in the big camp of Wuhuan, covered in snow and like a white hat, seemed to shake one after another.
After a while, because of the cold, the Wuhuan people, who were basically staying in the tent, were like ants, and they came out of the tent one after another, and filled the camp at once.
On this day, it was the day when the Wuhuan army officially marched to Liaodong. The Wuhuan cavalry, which had been drawn to form the vanguard cavalry, first assembled on the snowy field to the east of their Wuhuan camp.
It didn't take long for a large area of Wuhuan cavalry to be lined up. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered together, and the snoring of war horses and the shouting of Wuhuan cavalry made the position as noisy as a market.
Hundreds of thousands of war horses and hundreds of thousands of Wuhuan people, you breathe out, I breathe out, and the white breath exhaled makes the entire snowfield seem to be covered with a layer of fog.
The Wuhuan battalion was dismantled by people, and in addition to hundreds of thousands of vanguard troops, as well as hundreds of thousands of vanguard troops, there were also rear troops. The rear army is responsible for dismantling the camp tents, making bags, and transporting, and finally, it is the general Wuhuan people, which is also equivalent to the logistics baggage team of the Wuhuan army. It will also be an incomparably huge scene, and when the time comes, countless livestock will be driven to the end.
If a qiÄ is as good as Lou Ban thinks. Then, they will kill Liaodong very smoothly.
But how can there be such good things in the world?
Just before the Wuhuan camp, a dense Wuhuan cavalry army was gathered, and before it had time to form a formal marching column, in front of their military formation, a cavalry army suddenly appeared.
This is the 100,000 cavalry of the New Han Army led by Zhao Yun.
Zhao Yun and Gongsun Zhan's soldiers were divided into two roads, although they went to the army together, but Gongsun Zhan's military horse had quietly gone around to the north of the Wuhuan camp, so now in front of it, there was only Zhao Yun's military horse.
Because of the snow on the ground, the charge of the 100,000 cavalry was not too loud, and even, the speed of the charge was not too fast, far less than the usual speed. However, the momentum of the cavalry when they charged was even better than before.
The snow dust raised by the iron hooves was like a huge white wave rolling in.
"The New Han Army? Damn it! Why is it that every time our army is ready to go to war, the New Han army will be killed? ā
Su Muyan, who was commanding the Wuhuan cavalry in front of the formation, saw the cavalry coming from afar, his face changed, and he couldn't help but scold.
Nanlou, Su Muyan, Wuyan and other Wuhuan leaders, they betrayed Badun and supported Lou Ban instead. But because their tribe is also a large tribe with more military horses, they are deeply valued by Lou Ban. At the same time, after they changed to support Lou Ban, most of them wanted to get more benefits, so they all wanted to show themselves in front of Lou Ban, the new Wuhuan king, and they all asked for help, hoping to join the vanguard army and take the lead in attacking Liaodong.
In this way, Lou Ban asked Su Fuyan to lead the military horses of his headquarters selected by him to be the vanguard. said okay, Lou Banhui personally led 100,000 cavalry as the vanguard, but if he said it, he didn't say it. Of course, all the clan leaders, in order to show themselves in front of the new Wuhuan king, don't care about this.
The New Han army rolled in from a distance, and it couldn't get close for a while. Wu Fuyan hurried to see Lou Ban.
"The king of Louban! The New Han Army is coming! ā
"What's the panic? The king saw it, but their cavalry raised snow and dust, and he could not see how many horses they had. But so what? Even if all of their New Han army were killed, it would only be 300,000 or 400,000 cavalry troops. Hum! Do they think that this king is a man? Can they be defeated so openly? It's just in time, and the king is about to fight them in a decisive battle! Spread the king's command! The vanguard cavalry army that has been assembled will immediately meet the New Han Army and decide the victory with the New Han Army! Lou Ban ordered quite calmly.
As Lou Ban said, the New Han Army only had 300,000 or 400,000 military horses in the eastern direction of Liaodong. And their Wuhuan camp here, with more than one million Wuhuan cavalry troops, do they need to be afraid of the New Han Army?
After listening to Lou Ban's order, the Wuhuan cavalry, who was originally a little flustered about the sudden appearance of the New Han Army, quickly calmed down.
"All Wuhuan warriors obey orders! Kill all the Han dogs in front of us! With this king! Lou Ban raised a scimitar and shouted.
A rumbling sounded, and the Wuhuan cavalry on the snowfield no longer cared about whether to form a formation or not. Just like that, he went directly to the New Han Army to meet him. (To be continued......)