Chapter 56: A New Plan
When the sky was about to dark, the whole battle was over. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć On the north shore of the lake, the Pingzhou soldiers in the tent went in one by one to search and drive away, the crowd was divided into several large pieces, the southeast corner was to send supplies, and the remaining Xianbei people were driven to the northwest corner of the original camp.
Wu Kui and the others counted the number of people, good guys, there are tens of thousands of people, it seems that at least a small half of the Xianbei people are here. There are countless cattle and sheep, and there are many gold, silver, copper, etc., as well as weapons, war horses, and so on.
Wu Kui wrote a letter to Zhang Jie explaining the situation of the battle, and stating that the real Xianbei cavalry had fled north, and according to the information obtained from the captives, there was a larger lake 400 miles to the north, like the sea, and they would probably camp in that area. Now this place has to deal with the aftermath of the captives, such as transporting cattle and sheep, transporting horses, money and grain, and escorting the captives. It takes a lot of energy to deal with the aftermath, and now they have to defend this place by the Xianbei people, and the troops are no longer enough for a while.
Wu Kui suggested that all the troops should be concentrated here, and then the Xianbei troops in the north should be concentrated to solve the problem, and it is estimated that the Xianbei problem will be roughly solved, and the rest are scattered men and horses, which is not enough to worry about.
Three days later, Zhang Jie led a large group of men and horses to the shore of this lake, and stationed in the original camp of Wu Kui. Wu Kui's three divisions were all transferred to the north side of the lake. When the generals gathered to discuss how to march, the sky began to rain heavily, and the lake swelled, and the tents near the lake were almost washed away.
The tent was re-planted on the high ground while it was raining and waited for the rain to stop. After waiting for 5 days in a row, the wind and rain stopped, the sky was blue, the grass was lush, pools were seen everywhere, fish swam everywhere, and some of them actually reached the grass and could not go back. The warriors had nothing to do, wandering around, picking mushrooms, catching wild fish, and they were also busy.
The campsite is not so pretty, there is mud everywhere, and there is water everywhere. In some places, planks had to be laid because people could be trapped underneath. On the ground, there is one east and one west, which is chaotic and unorganized.
Zhang Jie came out of the tent, there was just a wooden plank at the door, he stood on the wooden plank and looked at the sky, and looked at the surrounding camp and the soldiers wandering around. He breathed a sigh of relief and ordered his own soldiers to summon the generals above the division commander to come to a meeting in the afternoon. After a while, several fast horses flew out of the camp, and the passing soldiers were splashed with mud one by one.
The water seeped so quickly that there was no bright water on the ground, and the sun was high overhead, and people felt a kind of moisture steaming. In the military tent, Zhang Jie looked at the generals who arrived at Qi and said: "Now that the Xianbei people are all gathered together, it is meaningless for us to push like the previous paragraph." Now it's time to concentrate on repairs, Wu Kui won another battle this time, and captured so much. How is Wu Kui's capture and capture handled now? ā
Wu Kui said: "A few days ago, the first batch of captives has been taken away, it has been raining for the past two days, and it has not moved, and tomorrow we are going to escort 3,000 people, and we are ready to go to the second batch, and if the weather is normal, we will deal with a batch every two days, and it will take about a month to deal with it." ā
Zhang Jie nodded and said: "The captives and herds, we must speed up the processing, in addition, I think the grassland here is very good, the water and grass are abundant, before the captives leave, they should be ordered to repair the city here." ā
Wu Kui nodded, and said that he was already repairing, about 100 miles from the north of the lake, just in the middle of the two lakes. In addition, there is a large river connection between the two lakes, and it is convenient to travel between them by boat. Now some people have been sent to cut down trees and build houses, and to take stones to build cities.
Zhang Jie was very satisfied with this and began to discuss how to enter the army. According to the spies and captives, the west side of the lake in the north is a continuous mountain, as well as cliffs, the terrain is complex, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is here that the Xianbei people set up camp, and it can be said that they are heavily armed. Now several Xianbei tribes have gathered, and the public has recommended Lord Ebony as the leader, and a few days ago, it was that Ebony that attacked Wu Kui in the evening.
Now Ebony has a large army and the heavy troops that were gathered before, and the strength is even stronger, and Ebony is extremely fierce, and now the foreign enemy is current, and the Xianbei people need Ebony's command, and several tribes of Xianbei are now obeying him, so you can't underestimate Ebony and Xianbei heavy soldiers.
Li Xiaoquan said: "This group of Xianbei people see that we are strong, and they may not dare to fight, and as soon as our army arrives, they will inevitably flee in all directions." We may not be able to catch up. So our goal is the same as before, not to eat their soldiers, we want to eat their power, such as the crowd of people, cattle and sheep in addition to the soldiers, once these are controlled by me, they will starve to death in the future. Autumn is coming soon, as long as we capture his cattle and sheep as soon as possible. When winter came, they had to surrender or freeze to death. ā
Seeing that the individual nodded in praise, Li Xiaoquan continued: "They thought that we must have come to the army, the defense must be tight, and relying on the favorable terrain, it is difficult to attack. We went the other way and pulled the troops over first, forming a confrontation situation, and if he dared to attack, he would hit him hard, and they could only defend. It is impossible for their cattle, sheep and horses to be gathered together, and the cattle, sheep and horses around the Great Lake, as well as the Xianbei people grazing, can be swept away first. This is consistent with the strategy of the king, and it can destroy its foundation. ā
Everyone thought it was possible.
Zhang Jie passed down the order, Wu Kui stayed here, one division of Wu Kui was used to continue the escort, and one division defended, not only the Xianbei people, but also the Huns here, and there was a new city to be built. If everyone tacitly agrees, Wu Kui will make meritorious contributions again, and everyone will have nowhere to stand, and Zhang Jie is also a balancing act.
Wu Kui accepted the order very calmly, and one of the most elite divisions under his command was led by Ma Biao, after all, it was also brought out by Ma Biao, so there would be no problems in command.
Wu Kui is not there, and Li Xiaoquan's pioneer Ma Biao can't be snatched away. Early the next morning, Li Xiaoquan's army set off first, with a total of three divisions and nearly 10,000 men, marching northward. After a day of sun, a lot of stagnant water has evaporated, and the march is very smooth.
The march was nearly 150 miles in a day, and in the evening, the camp was set up, and the Tanma in front reported that the Xianbei people had discovered Li Xiaoquan's march, and the army was assembling in the hills west of the lake, and it seemed that they were going to defend it according to the danger. Li Xiaoquan secretly sent mine-throwers to quickly move towards all the important intersections of the Xianbei army for a week.
The next day, Li Xiaoquan marched another 150 miles. On the third day, the march was 70 miles, and in the early afternoon we set up camp.
Li Xiaoquan's camp is located in the southwest corner of the lake, and although there is no lake in sight, it is much cooler.
On the fourth day, Li Xiaoquan advanced another 20 miles, and a large river that flowed into the Great Lake from the southwest to the northeast blocked the way. The river was turbulent and rattling, and the reeds on both sides were densely covered, and the reeds began to see the tents of the Xianbei people from behind, which were still a little far away, but they could already be seen clearly. Like small white flowers all over the side of the blue hills, the camp is higher, and then to the west, it is still a camp, the mountain is gradually rising, and the rolling green hills can not be seen at a glance. There were many watchtowers around the tent, and although they couldn't see clearly, they felt that they were looking at the place.
Li Xiaoquan no longer hesitated, just by the river, taking the river as a risk, and set up camp.
Li Xiaoquan took the division as a unit, placing one division at the forefront of the river and two divisions at the back, each other as horns.
After everything was arranged, Li Xiaoquan ordered the soldiers to cut down trees and build bridges by the river, so as to start the war in the past, but there were no big trees here. The soldiers had to look around, for two days, they could see Li Xiaoquan's soldiers, it seems that large and small pieces of wood are placed by the river, it seems that the bridge is still far away, and the boat bridge is not enough, too small affects the army, if it is too big, the wood is not enough.
What Li Xiaoquan did was clearly seen by the other side, and Lord Ebony also knew. Send people to intensify surveillance and move the archers forward to the river. As soon as there is a move to build a bridge or cross a river, let the archers exert their strength.
At first, there was less wood, but later there was more and more wood, and it got bigger and bigger. There are more and more archers over there, and the defense is getting wider and wider.
In this way, about 5 days passed in a row, and on this day, a person came from the east and handed it to Li Xiaoquan with a piece of brown paper, Li Xiaoquan opened it, smiled slightly, summoned the commanders of each division, and dispatched troops.