Chapter 488 The war in Northern Xinjiang has started again

Just when Liu Quanzhong and Liu Cunxiao brothers were working hard for the strength of the Xiongnu, one day, a guest suddenly came to the Xiongnu Governor's Mansion, this person was the envoy of the Fuyi King Budugen, and he asked for a meeting with a lot of money mainly to ask the Xiongnu for help. √∟，

It turned out that after the envoy returned, Budugen and Pufulu heard about Liu Qi's conditions, and immediately agreed to surrender to the Han Dynasty, and sent envoys to each present 500 horses, 2,000 cattle and sheep, and sent protons to Luoyang to show their sincerity.

But I didn't expect it to lead to the attack of Kebineng, Bu Du Gen's strength was originally weaker than Ke Bi Neng, plus Ke Bi Neng united Cao Wei's Bingzhou Assassin Guo Huai, so after the first battle, Bu Du Gen was defeated, and he could only retreat to the Pingcheng of Yanmen, and had no choice but to ask for help from the Xiongnu Governor's Mansion and the Bingzhou Assassin Shi Pond respectively.

Because the distance between the Xihe County Zhili Stone where Pang De is located is nearly 700 miles more than Meiji, where the Xiongnu Governor's Mansion is located, the Xiongnu Governor's Mansion of Liu Quanzhong and Liu Cunxiao has become the closest reinforcement to Yanmen, according to the envoy sent by Budugen, if no reinforcements arrive within ten days, Pingcheng will be difficult to keep.

Liu Quanzhong was shocked when he heard the news, he was between the special relationship between his biological mother and the emperor, and he also regarded himself as the son of the Han Emperor.

But he knew that Deng Ai was very scheming, so he ordered the messenger to be taken down to rest, and promised that he would soon send troops.

After the envoy went down, Liu Quanzhong asked Deng Ai: "Now that the situation in Pingcheng is critical, the general wants to lead his troops to help, why did the military advisor signal to stop it?" ”

But he saw Deng Ai smile and said: "The Metropolitan Governor's words are wrong, and the general is not trying to stop it." Instead, he asked the general to send troops immediately, and asked the messenger to rush back to Pingcheng immediately, and tell the defenders of Pingcheng that we were about to send troops to support, but our march speed could be slower, and there are three reasons here. First, Cao Wei's merger of states and assassins Guo Huai was not a mediocre general. He would certainly have thought that we were going to come to our aid, and he would certainly have laid an ambush on the way, waiting for us to work on us, and if we moved slowly, we would not only wear down their patience, but also recuperate, so that if both sides encountered, we would not be defeated because of fatigue. This second, hehe. Pingcheng is dangerous, and the number of people at the root of Budu is not too small, as long as we deliver the news of sending reinforcements, they will definitely stick to it, so it will not be a problem to hold on for ten or eight days more. ”

Deng Ai paused, and then smiled: "Third, we can completely use this battle to consume the power of Budugen and Kebineng, if the last general is expected to be good. Guo Huai should also fight with this idea, so that Xianbei is getting weaker and weaker. I have to continue to take refuge in us, general, you must know that Xianbei is different from the Xiongnu, the current Xiongnu are completely our own people, and Xianbei is just an ally, we are strong. They will naturally cling to us, but once we are weak, they will take advantage of the fire to rob, and if they are not of our race, their hearts will be different. That's what they're talking about. ”

Liu Quanzhong listened to Deng Ai's words, suddenly realized, and said with a smile: "Brother Deng is really worthy of being a general sent by the emperor, it is really amazing to have such a calculation, although our two brothers are coarse and fluent, but they are still much worse than you in the art of war." ”

Immediately, Liu Quanzhong ordered someone to invite the envoys of Budugen, telling them that they would send troops immediately, asking the Xianbei brothers to grit their teeth and persevere, and asking them to believe that the Xiongnu reinforcements would arrive as soon as possible.

After the envoy left, Liu Quanzhong immediately ordered the army and horses to be reorganized, and set off early the next morning to Pingcheng. In order to let the officers and men of the army not worry about the problem of grain and grass on the way, Liu Quanzhong specially ordered the army to prepare half a month's worth of grain and grass.

In fact, after Liu Quanzhong's order was issued, the Huns' hearts were still full of doubts, because there was only less than 500 miles from Meiji to Pingcheng, if it was to advance at full speed, with the speed of the cavalry, it would be possible to reach it in three days at most, as long as it arrived in Pingcheng, the army would naturally provide grain and grass for Xianbei, so if it was calculated in this way, only three days of grain and grass were enough, even if there was any delay on the way, it would take five days at most, but now the commander asked them to prepare half a month's worth of grain and grass, which is really a bit puzzling.

However, because the Liu Quanzhong brothers have established an absolutely high prestige among the Xiongnu tribes in the past few months, all their orders must be carried out unconditionally, so although they are very confused in their hearts, the Hun cavalry still meticulously prepared half a month's worth of grain and grass according to the requirements.

When the army set off, something that made these Hun cavalry unbelievable appeared again, it turned out that they only walked thirty or forty miles a day, and this speed felt very easy just on foot, where was the need to ride a horse?

The Hun cavalry all regarded horses as their closest companions, and cared for them even more than their own children. Therefore, without Liu Quanzhong's orders, these 30,000 knights all consciously dismounted, led the horses on foot, and at the same time prepared enough water and grass for the horses to enjoy, and raised the horsepower very abundantly.

And just when the Hun army was walking in a car, enjoying the grassland journey very easily and comfortably, the battle of Pingcheng was becoming more and more intense, Budugen led the soldiers on the city to respond calmly, and repelled the attack of the Kebineng army again and again, and the tenacity shown was incredible, but Budugen knew that a big reason for this was that the Hun army had promised that they would come to support them as soon as possible, and this promise made them feel full of motivation. tried his best to resist the attack of Kebineng and Guo Huai's army.

But one day, they suddenly felt that the pressure of defending the city was greatly reduced, and they couldn't help but be quite surprised, but Budugen was pale and cold sweat broke out.

Because a similar situation had happened in the first few days, they were very excited because the pressure of the city battle had decreased, but then they heard that the Pufulu army that had rushed to support was ambushed by Guo Huai, the assassin of Cao Wei and the state, and the 20,000 army lost four or five thousand, so they had no choice but to fight desperately to get out of the siege and flee back to Daijun.

"If Guo Huai repeats his old tricks this time and wants to sneak attack our reinforcements Xiongnu, won't our reinforcements be cut off? If it is said that I should lead the army to attack, first defeat the unguarded Kebineng army outside the city. But with this little strength in my city, how can I beat Kebi Neng? Besides, what if this is a trick of the enemy? Am I not killing myself? Budugen thought about it, and finally could only sigh helplessly, and then ordered to send the elite spies in the city and ordered them to escape by night. Reporting to the Xiongnu army, it is better to come slowly, and definitely not to fall into Guo Huai's ambush, otherwise I am afraid that not only them, but even the Xiongnu may be defeated, so he has no choice but to flee to Mobei. But when he thought of the bitter cold in Mobei, he couldn't help but chill all over.

That night, he stood nervously at the head of the city and watched the warriors who had been ordered to rush out of the city, hoping that they would be able to fulfill their trust. But then he saw that the heads of more than a dozen warriors were all raised high by the enemy on their spears. None of them walked out alive, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly, now for him, the only hope is that the Huns can see through Guo Huai's plan, but when he thinks that the leader of the Huns is just two seventeen or eighteen-year-old children, his heart is filled with despair.

"If I insist, once I see that the situation is not good, I will immediately flee to Mobei. Although the environment is not good, it is better than throwing your life here. Budugen's face was bitter and helpless. A long sigh.

But Bu Dugen didn't know that although the two leaders of the Xiongnu were only seventeen or eighteen years old, the military division under their command had already anticipated Guo Huai's tricks, and had taken corresponding defensive measures from the beginning, and after twelve days of marching, they came to the location where Guo Huai secretly deployed defenses.

At this time, the sergeants under Guo Huai's command were the first to lose their breath. Even Guo Huai himself doubted whether the Huns were going to support through this route, so Guo Huai sent more than a dozen waves of spies to inquire about the news.

But he didn't expect that his spies had already been captured and killed by the prepared Deng Ai, and Deng Ai also found out the hiding place of Guo Huai's army from these spies.

Under such circumstances, Deng Ai decided to personally lead the army to attack the ambushed Guo Huai's army.

Guo Huai didn't expect that his ambush soldiers would instead become the target of the enemy's sneak attack. Therefore, when the Hun army arrived in front of him, Guo Huai did not make any precautions at all, and when the army was killed like a tide, Guo Huai's face became extremely ugly, gloomy like the bottom of a pot.

"What the hell is going on? How could anyone in the Hun army see through my plan? Could it be that our people leaked secrets? Or was it sent by the Xianbei Budugen to report the news to the Huns? ”

Guo Huai looked incredulous and said with a low roar.

At this time, Fei Yao, the general beside Guo Huai, pulled his armor and said, "General, the top priority is how we should escape, not how the enemy army comes. After finishing speaking, he ordered Guo Huai's personal soldiers to escort Guo Huai and others to fight their way out of the encirclement.

Guo Huai listened to Fei Yao's words, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh, he just wanted to kill under the protection of the soldiers, but he saw that the soldiers under his command were facing the slaughter of the enemy, and the grief was unbearable, and his heart suddenly hesitated.

It turned out that a large part of the soldiers under his command this time were crossbowmen, and if these soldiers were engaged in ambushes from a distance, they would definitely be the natural nemesis of the cavalry, but now that they were rushed to the front by the cavalry, if they were simply close to the battle, there was absolutely no possibility to resist the attack, and they could only face the fate of passive slaughter.

"This is the most elite crossbow soldier under my command, if there is no them, what will I rely on to conquer the city in the future, and what will I rely on to stop the Hun iron cavalry? Besides, what if I run away? Eventually, they will inevitably be dealt with by military law because of their defeat. Hey, that's it, I'm going to let go today, and I can't leave even if I die. ”

Thinking of this, Guo Huai's face showed a trace of fortitude, and he raised his sword and shouted: "Everyone is not allowed to escape, those who violate the order will be beheaded, today's matter, we will go all out to block the enemy's offensive, otherwise, even if we escape, it will be difficult to avoid the pursuit of the cavalry." ”

After that, he saw Guo Huai take a spear from the hand of the soldier next to him, turn around, and kill him first.

Wei Jun saw that what Guo Huai said before was very reasonable, and now that he was taking the lead, his morale suddenly boosted, and they gathered around him one after another, and turned back with him to kill him.

Guo Huai led this infantry to constantly rescue the besieged soldiers, and the soldiers around him went from 1,000 to 2,000, 3,000, 5,000, 10,000, and finally to 20,000, and about 10,000 of the 20,000 soldiers were crossbowmen, although there were still 10,000 dead in the chaos, but it did not cause the whole army to retreat, and even Deng Ai felt unbelievable in this outcome.

However, due to the huge loss of personnel, Guo Huai knew that this time it would not be easy to attack Yanmen, even if it was to defend his own territory, so he did not hesitate at all, and after the team was formed, he personally led the army to retreat slowly.

And at this time, Bu Dugen didn't know that Guo Huai had lost the battle, he sent people to guard the city day and night, watching the movements of the enemy army under the city, this day was anxious, and suddenly heard the report of the soldiers under his command: "Shan Yu, no, there is another soldier and horse under the city, look at its banner, it is Guo Huai's army that has led the army to leave, how should we behave, please show Shan Yu." ”

Bu Dugen listened to the soldier's report, couldn't help but look dark, and said in a deep voice: "This is really going to be over, look at it like this, it is obvious that Guo Huai defeated the Xiongnu army through ambush, and then led the army back and launched a siege on us, this time we have no army that can support except for the state assassin Shi Pound, but the Huns are less than five hundred miles away from us, and they have come for half a month, and the army of Pang Thorn Shi will come later, so I am afraid that after the arrival of Pang Thorn Shi's army, Our Heijo has long since fallen into the hands of the enemy. ”

"Shan Yu, then what should we do?" The Right Virtuous King beside Budugen asked eagerly.

Budugen couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this: "What else can I do?" The only way is to escape, pass the order, the army is ready, pack up the supplies, evacuate from the north gate tonight, and retreat out of the Great Wall to Mobei. ”

As soon as Bu Dugen finished saying this, he suddenly heard a sergeant break into the tent and said with a puzzled face: "Shan Yu, I don't know why, Guo Huai has withdrawn." (To be continued.) )