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After Zhao Yun received Cao Zhang's general order, he immediately ordered his troops to go out of Linfen to wait, and after Cao Zhang crossed the Fenshui, he immediately joined forces in the direction of the Caonan Xiongnu to attack the army. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

According to the tomb keeper's spy, the Southern Xiongnu army is two hundred miles west of Linfen, and now after a few days, it stands to reason that it should have arrived near Linfen, but the other armies have not yet arrived, so it should be stationed somewhere near Linfen, and the distance from Linfen should not be very far, so Cao Zhang ordered the sergeant to bring only five days of food, and then went west to find the army of the Southern Xiongnu.

After walking out of Linfen for about ten miles, Cao Zhang immediately sent cavalry to scatter out to investigate the approximate location of the Southern Xiongnu, the location of Pingyang County is now the southwest of Shanxi Province, the terrain is mostly mountainous and hilly, Taihang Mountain, Luliang Mountain, Wutai Mountain, Beiyue Heng Mountain, Zhongtiao Mountain are all famous high mountains in Shanxi, so the terrain is relatively undulating, in this kind of place to investigate the enemy army must wait in the downwind, the military scouts call this reconnaissance method called "waiting for the wind".

The so-called "waiting for the wind", as the name suggests, is to wait for the wind to come, the wind can bring a lot of useful information, such as if there is a large group of people and horses moving upwind, there will be a strong smell of horse manure in the wind, or the military buried pot to make rice and raise the fire will be blown together with the residue of incineration.

The spies Cao Zhang sent now were to go to all the downwind places within a radius of 100 miles to "Hou Feng" to find out the location of the Southern Xiongnu army.

At the same time, scouts were sent downstream of the water source to check for large amounts of excrement and discarded debris, which could be used to determine a large-scale military operation.

After arranging these things, Cao Zhang let the 4,000 cavalry rest in a pine forest under the hills, and at the same time called Zhao Yun and Gongsun Xu to his side to discuss matters.

Cao Zhang said to the two: "Now I have scattered and sent spies to investigate the traces of the Southern Xiongnu, and after finding it, I will immediately send troops to attack that night. ”

The reason why Cao Zhang brought Zhao Yun and Gongsun Xu instead of Xiahou Xu was because Zhao Yun and Gongsun Xu had been in the same army and should have a tacit understanding when they started fighting, and secondly, both of them had worked under Gongsun Zhan, who was a powerful foreigner, and they must have rich experience in fighting with foreign tribes, and if they want to get the best results, these two are definitely the best choice.

Gongsun continued: "The army of the Southern Xiongnu should be near here, in order to avoid us from discovering the conspiracy of their joint forces to besiege the forces of all parties, they will not send spies to investigate the situation of the battle in Linfen, but wait for the cavalry who intercepted the army grain to go back and report, and then proceed to the next step, now Captain Zhao has killed the cavalry who intercepted the grain road to a great defeat, to these rout troops to avoid the eyes and ears of our army, and to cross the Fenshui, the place where the Hu army is stationed has never been fixed, so they have to spend time searching, Now that our army has almost passed the group of routs that intercepted the grain route, as long as we can raid the Xiongnu army within three days, this plan to attack it will definitely be successful, if after three days, the spies still have not found out the whereabouts of the Southern Xiongnu, we still need to think long-term. ”

Zhao Yun said: "The Southern Xiongnu and Qianghu and Tuoba Xianbei are menacing, naturally they will not hide and hide, and the Southern Xiongnu have sent cavalry to intercept our army's military rations, obviously full of confidence in this operation, and will never think of the possibility of failure, at this time it is already expected that our army has no military rations, and can only be trapped in the lonely city of Linfen, waiting for reinforcements from Jiangyi, so Yun guesses that within a day, our army spies will inevitably be rewarded!" ”

Cao Zhang nodded and said: "Zilong's thoughts coincide with mine, the boss of the Southern Huns is quite bold, if I don't keep an eye on it, Boning's military rations must have been copied, but the commander of the Southern Huns will definitely think that his strategy is foolproof, so he marched all the way over, and was discovered by the tomb keeper!" In that case, we are here waiting for the scout to return. ”

After saying that, Cao Zhang asked the two of them to restrain their sergeants to rest, and at the same time they were not allowed to make a fire, and the horse manure discharged was immediately landfilled, and they could not excrete and defecate into the water, because he Cao Zhang would send scouts, and the Huns would also send them, so this precautionary work must be done well.

A day later, one of the scouts returned to the place where he was resting, and told Cao Chang that he had smelled a strong smell of horse manure seventy miles downwind, so he climbed up to a hill to check and found that there were groups of tents less than ten miles away, and the style of the tents was very different from that of Middle-earth.

After Cao Zhang got the report, he immediately called Zhao Yun and Gongsun Xu and told them about the situation, Gongsun Xu sneered: "We are only twenty miles away from Linfen here, and the Huns are seventy miles away. ”

Zhao Yun said: "It's not surprising, although the Wei family and the Huo family have strong soldiers like tomb guards to help, they can still only trap Xiangling and Jiangyi, these foreigners think that we have no one in the Middle Earth, so they act so arbitrarily." ”

Cao Zhang said: "We will set out at once tonight, the seventy-mile road will only take three hours, and we can reach it in the middle of the night, and then we will immediately attack, and we must beat them until the whole army is annihilated." ”

Gongsun Xu and Zhao Yun immediately set out after receiving the order, and three hours later, Cao Zhang and 4,000 cavalry led down to the place where the Southern Xiongnu army was stationed seventy miles away.

Foreigners like to light a huge fire in the camp at night, and they will send people to guard it all night, so Cao Zhang saw the fire in the camp tent of the Southern Xiongnu from a distance, and the big banner of the Southern Xiongnu was faintly visible under the firelight, and there was no font number on the flag, but the pattern of a goshawk, and the tomb keeper next to him said: "My lord, that is the banner of Liu Bao, the king of the left sage of the Southern Xiongnu, this person is the son of the former Xiongnu Shan Yu Fuluo, and the nephew of the current Xiongnu Shan Yu Huchuquan." ”

Cao Zhang nodded and said: "Bo Kang, let the 1,000 people under your command prepare the anointing oil, and the other 1,000 people prepare the fire sickle, and set fire to the camp first, Zilong, you take the Tun cavalry battalion to rush into the enemy position first." ”

Zhao Yun agreed and led the Tun cavalry camp to go first, and after Zhao Yun ran a hundred steps, Cao Zhang and Gongsun Xu followed with the Hu cavalry camp holding the fire-starting thing.

At this time, when the moon was dark and the wind was high, the horses of the Huns were tied to the wooden poles that were erected, and the people who were in the tents that had been set up, only the night sergeant guarding the fire did not fall asleep, and the Hu cavalry battalion led by Zhao Yun took the lead in rushing into the camp of the Huns, and the shouts of killing filled the whole camp.

The two Huns guarding the fire were killed before they could mount their horses, and the soldiers of the Huqi battalion arrived, and a thousand people sprinkled the anointing oil on the tents, and the other thousand lit the velvet on their horses with fire sickles and threw them on the camp sprinkled with the anointing oil, and the fire spread to the entire camp in an instant.

The Huns ran out of the tent with rolling and crawling, but they were killed one by one by the sergeants under Cao Zhang's command, and there was no power to fight back at all, some Huns ran to the side of their war horses, and wanted to get on the horses, but the war horses were frightened by the fire and difficult to control, and the Huns could not get on the horses smoothly and were immediately killed.

Cao Zhang came to the Hun tent with dozens of horses, but saw a disheveled Hu man with two or three horses fleeing from the west of the big tent, this Hu man held a big knife about three meters long, wearing a sheepskin coat, and the Hun knights around him were dressed very differently and shouted to the people around him: "That person may be King Zuoxian, follow me!" After saying that, he pursued first.

Dozens of horsemen followed, the Huns were good at raising horses, so their mounts ran very fast, and the horses under the cavalry camp of Cao Zhangzhi Jinwu Temple were also high-quality horses, so they were not thrown away by a few Huns when they were pursuing.

After chasing out of the camp of the Southern Huns for several miles, the front riders suddenly bent their bows and arrows on their horses and turned around to shoot, only the man in sheepskin continued to run wildly.

Cao Zhang hung the spear on the side of the horse's body, took out the Zhemu bow on his back, and used his legs to control the horse and bend the bow.

Cao Zhang sneered and shot another arrow at the horseshoe net of the horse under the Hun seat, you must know that the horse's legs are relatively thin, it is difficult to shoot, but the knight on the horse in that position can't reach it even if he has a long knife, so if he shoots, the person will only fall off the horse.

"Huh" arrow broke through the air, straight to the horse's leg, but the horse knight heard the wind and threw his long knife backwards, knocked away the arrow that must hit, Cao Zhang quickly shot two arrows straight to take both sides of the horse's leg, the Huns showed superb riding skills at this time, at the moment when the arrow was about to hit, a shout, the crotch horse went forward, and dodged two arrows, the Huns grew on horseback, riding is naturally superior, it is rare that this person listens to the wind and discerns the blade's kung fu so powerful, when the grasp is excellent, made Cao Zhang even more convinced that this person was Liu Bao, the king of Zuoxian.

In the Xiongnu, a nation with supremacy of force, there is no extraordinary force, it is impossible to be a leader, at this time there are only three arrows left in Cao Zhang's quiver, and at this time the mount of Liu Bao, the king of Zuoxian, is still a hundred steps away from them, if he chases down for a long time, in terms of the Huns' riding skills that can sleep on horseback, he has a lot of possibilities to escape, so Cao Zhang bent his bow and arrows again, and the arrow still shot to the horse's leg.

Liu Bao jumped again to avoid the arrows, but Cao Zhang shot two arrows when he rose up, straight to the horse's leg, in the air Liu Leopard avoided the two arrows at the same time through the horse leg of his crotch mount, the Hun horse neighed and fell after landing, Liu Leopard rolled in the air and landed steadily, and at this time Cao Zhang had taken out the snake spear and rushed to the first, holding the snake spear with the momentum of the fast horse rush straight to Liu Leopard. (To be continued.) (To be continued.) )