Volume 6 "Warriors" Chapter 177: Waving the Army
The sea of sand is boundless, the wind blows, the wind and sand cover the earth, the vision becomes gray and yellow, the withered grass that has been brought up flutters and twists the dance, it rolls and sticks to the black robes, the young warrior reaches out and pulls up the mask, the exposed eyes narrowed into thin lines, he slowly lies on the ground, slowly, his body is covered by the sand, and after a while he loses his trace. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Sandstorms, terrifying forces of nature, and strong winds and yellow sand seem to cover the whole world in gray and yellow.
In the distance, in the sea of sand, the wind howled and became a tornado, and the sand was surrounded by the wind, spiraling and rising from the ground. It began as a small circle of sand swirling, and as time and the eye of the wind increased, a twisting and tumbling tornado roared up, and it roared in rage, moving with the current, everything in its path was swept up by the wind, and the continuous collision caused the already unsolid stones to smash into pieces.
Take a closer look, a rolled up gray wolf danced its four paws wildly, it kept rolling, and when it was about to be swept into the eye of the storm, its limbs were torn and broken, and its body burst out with a string of blood flowers, and then the whole body was stirred to pieces, and the skeleton without flesh quickly collapsed, and the bones of the whole body turned into a part of the debris that swirled around the eye of the storm.
A big foot in black boots stepped on the sand surface, and when it fell in, it quickly pulled out, and then another big foot stepped on the same position, and the advancing army kept repeating the same rhythm, and after the fiftieth big foot walked through, the sand surface that no one stepped on anymore instantly became smooth again.
Zooming up......
A detachment of fifty infantry of the Black Flag Corps walked at the same pace, unarmoured. He didn't carry too many weapons, and he was dressed as a scout. The leader stopped, and the whole team stopped. They pulled on their masks as ordered by the military, and then all lay motionless on the ground.
The scorching heat, sand and dust, on the horizon is the grass and green land on one side, and the sand desert with no end in sight on the other.
The hot grains of sand burrowed into the clothes, as if they had been thrown into an ant heap, and there was an indescribable discomfort, but none of the scouts who were half-lying on the ground 'snorted'.
"Where's Xiao Jiu?"
"The wind is tornadoing. Should it be buried? ”
Lao He's face darkened for a moment, and then he cheered himself up, "Disperse." Enter the position of each on alert! He was about to turn around and climb down the hollow, suddenly turning his head to stare at the whistling tornado in front of him, which was a shrouded world. The scout's instinct was telling him: there seemed to be something behind that dust mist?
The other direction is different from the yellow sand that flies in the sky. Here is a peaceful green grass and white clouds. The scouts who had been sent out to guard dug deep into the pit and hid themselves inside, simply covered with camouflage. Scouts hiding in a ballade-like crater look ahead through a gap in the camouflage, and the ground shakes when the animals run past them, and the pit is sensitive to ground vibrations, making it easy to mistake a large group of cavalry for a gallop when the enemy is attacking.
Suddenly there was a roar of the eagle, and a black dot swooped down from the sky. Make a nice arch and re-pull it up. The goshawk flapped its wings to find a place to feast on the prairie squirrel it caught, and it chose to go northwest. When the wings fanned the first rhythm, the eagle's whistling sounded again, and it saw a black oppressive thing appear in front of it, and the animal instinct made it want to avoid danger, and when it turned around, the weasel on its paws broke free, and the goshawk ignored its prey, and flapped its wings away.
The yellow squirrel 'squeaked' and rolled in the air, it fell on a soft haystack, and the lucky little thing crawled wildly, and actually fell in place, it landed on an iron helmet and made a 'poof' sound, and a hand reached out to grab it, and before it could 'squeak' its neck made a bone breaking sound, and its little head fell weakly.
The thin middle-aged man, he tore off the head of the weasel, his head was raised upward, his dry lips became moist because of the blood of the squirrel, and the Adam's apple, which was constantly shaking up and down, made a 'grunting' sound.
There was a murmur that shouldn't have appeared, and the eyes of the middle-aged man who were drinking freely contracted, and he shook off the yellow squirrel that was about to be skinned in his palm, and his eyes scanned the surroundings sharply. He saw a wild goose lying on the grass with an arrow, and then he also saw more than a dozen knights dressed as herdsmen in the distance. There was a slight wooden grinding sound, and the crossbow machine with the cold bolts was lifted, and he lowered the rate of his breathing, his eyes fixed on the herdsmen who were still advancing.
The flat meadow, with dozens of soft grass piles floating slightly upward, looked like piles of weeds tangled in the wind. In the crevices of the haystack, the triangular arrows are aimed at the herders who are already approaching and are about to dismount to pick up their prey.
The face of the herdsman who dismounted to pick up the prey did not have the joy of hitting the prey, and the palm of the hand that stretched out to pick up the prey was covered with calluses that would take a long time to form with a knife.
The thirteen herders, dressed in different costumes, appeared very silent. They untied the water bags on horseback, and their eyes did not forget to scan the surroundings while drinking water, and the pair of eyes that kept turning gradually narrowed into a thin line when they scanned the slightly raised weedy pile, "The scout hiding methods of the pre-Qin people!" "Gesture to each other with eyes, put away the hydration bag at the same time, and turn around......
'Whoosh-'
A weedy, triangular bolt pierced the air, and it sang sharply and burrowed into a herdsman's vest.
The blood that had not yet fallen was thrown out, and it always landed first before the screams rang out, and the herdsman who had been hit by the arrow stared wide-eyed at the crossbow arrows that were constantly vibrating on the turf, and let out a belated scream......
'Whoosh-whoosh-'
The sound of breaking through the air continued to sound with pleasant screams, and the herdsmen who were hit by the arrows fell off their horses one after another.
Fifty slightly raised weeds were lifted, and scouts in black robes crawled out of the pits, walking straight to the bodies that had been shot to the dead, retrieving their crossbow arrows and examining the bodies.
"It's the Huns' scouts." The middle-aged team led to stand up, "There are scouts to explore the way, and the army of the Huns will not be far from here!" ”
Without a word, the fifty scouts were divided into two teams. One team galloped towards the headquarters, the other up a short hill.
The team leader looked at the burning wolf smoke and drew his scout knife. He turned his head to look in the northwest direction, and silently said in his heart: "War is coming!" Then he led his subordinates to the east side.
On the distributed cordon, five miles away, the wolf smoke that represented the discovery of large-scale enemy troops was ignited, and the Black Flag Army stationed in Guangmu began to act.
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As the overlord of the steppe, the Xiongnu were destined to be silent forever, they were in a stalemate on the Western Front, but this does not mean that they will remain indifferent after being provoked many times.
"The Han army is coming!"
The news of the Han army's million-strong attack on Heshuo spread everywhere. Legend has it that the soldiers of the Han Kingdom fought extremely fiercely, as long as the tribe of the Huns was defeated. Old men and grown men must all be killed, and women and children taken captive and enslaved.
While the rumors were circulating, the Xiongnu tribes in all directions were attacked one after another, and several armies under the banner of 'Han' were slaughtering in the traditional territory of the Xiongnu. These 'Han troops' do not love war. The purpose is only to kill and destroy.
The Huns, who had never encountered this situation, panicked and kept asking for help from the Shan Yu royal court who was attacking the Western Regions, and each tribe had the same reason for asking for help, "The Han army is here!" "This is information that the Hun authorities knew.
When the military minister Shan Yu heard the news that the Han army had invaded Heshuo, his first reaction was to laugh, and began to repeat and tirelessly say: "Fake! It's all fake! The Han people were timid and did not dare to enter the grassland. "As for who it is, I can't guess who it is (the name of the military minister Shan Yu). After deciding to attack the Western Regions, he handed over the affairs of the East to Yi Zhixian to manage.
The aristocracy of the Xiongnu believed in the words of the military minister Shan Yu, according to their assumptions. The Han Kingdom should be overwhelmed by the attack from the south now, where can it still have the ability to enter the grassland!
When the remnants of the Xiu Tu Department and the Lou Fu Department cried out with their true feelings, the nobles of the Huns were stunned, it turned out to be true, half of Heshuo had been captured, and the Aries Department was exterminated. They interrogated in detail, and only then did they learn that it was an army under the banner of 'Han', which did not recognize itself as the army of the Han State, but called itself the Han army.
The military minister Shan Yu didn't smile, he urgently recalled Yi Zhixi, who was on the front line, and asked angrily: "What's going on with that!?" ”
Yi Zhixian was also in a state of confusion, and Yi Zhixian never imagined that the miscellaneous army he had fought would rise rapidly within a year and become a force that could threaten the Xiongnu.
It must be noted that the transmission of information in this era is too slow, and it takes half a month or even more to know that the slow distance of two or three thousand miles is not that the Xiongnu nobles who stayed in the east have not passed on relevant information, but most of them are just a random glance, regarded as a newly rising tribe, and are not regarded as a threat.
No one can say clearly, which made the Xiongnu aristocracy panic even more.
Heshuo is a very important strategic place, and the loss of Heshuo not only means that the Xiongnu have lost the most powerful geographical location that threatens the Han State, but also the barrier of Longcheng and Wolf Juxu Mountain, which are of great significance to the Xiongnu.
In addition to his rage, the military ministers held a traditional gathering of nobles.
The shaman pretended to be a ghost in front of a pile of miscellaneous stones, and the great shaman said in an eerie and terrifying tone: "Here comes the sudden devil, who will lead an army of millions to chase him from the east!" The Great Huns are going to bleed, a lot of blood......" said the Great Shaman who fainted gloriously and arduously.
The chaotic prophecy always has people who believe that the war with the Western Regions Alliance Army in a stalemate stage simply stopped, and finally made the commander of the Western Regions Alliance Army, Lie Jiaomi, detect a little clue and is making every effort to find out what is happening in the East.
Lie Jiaomi was the spiritual leader of Wusun, a 'great power' in the Western Regions, and now has a number of vassal states, and is one of the three main states that resisted the Xiongnu invasion.
Wusun was also the object of enslavement of the Xiongnu in the early days, but the situation changed after the military minister Shan Yu ascended the throne, and the countries of the Western Regions gradually became stronger, so that the Xiongnu gradually lost control of the Western Regions, which is why this attack on the Western Regions happened.
Due to the lack of information at that traditional gathering, the nobles of the Xiongnu were unable to negotiate a result. In the end, a conservative strategy was made: on the one hand, it continued to confront the Western Regions coalition forces; On the other hand, the division of troops was carried out and the army returned to the east.
It has to be said that the Xiongnu were under the leadership of the military minister Shan Yu. Although it still maintains the status of the overlord of the grassland, its strength is too weak compared to the period of Mao Dundan. The total strength of the Xiongnu Maodun Shan reached 700,000 during the period, and now there are less than 350,000 troops under the command of the military minister Shan Yu.
That was a month ago......
At this moment!
Yizhi sat on a tall war horse with his crotch slanted, and his mount did not belong to the Hequ horse species, but was the Wusun War Horse (West Pole Horse) that was grabbed in the Western Regions. Under the support of the fiery red war horse, and then there is a unique armor outfit, which looks mighty and extraordinary when you look at it obliquely.
"Only three of the scouts sent out?"
"Yes. The king of the right valley. ”
Yi Zhi obliquely looked at the right pawn, "Didn't you find out how many people there were in the Han army?" His eyes were gloomy, and the whip that kept flicking made a 'snap-pop-' sound.
A month is enough time to learn a lot of things. He felt that Lin Bin's rise was a legend, a legend that was enviable to the point of madness!
Monali was a very rough and sturdy man, and he was one of the leading commanders who secretly allegiance to Yi Zhi in the court, and this time he was willing to lead 50,000 cavalry to listen to Yi Zhi Xian's tent. It also made the strength of Yizhi's oblique return army to the east to reach 80,000.
"The perimeter of the Han army is heavily guarded. Except for the sand sea, the area is controlled, and the scout cannot enter it. ”
"Damn it! Why was Guangmu occupied by the Han army!? Didn't the wild men who shepherd the beasts move!! ”
The restrictive nature of the times, although there is no shortage of talented subordinates under Yi Zhi's tent, no one tells him how important intelligence is.
In fact, except for Lin Bin's forces, countries in this era do not attach much importance to intelligence, and only take the initiative to investigate when they encounter emergencies or want to deal with a certain force.
Right Danghu showed a hideous expression: "That person named Lin Bin is a powerful enemy!" ”
Yi Zhixian did not deny the words of the right master, and he knew what kind of enemy he would be dealing with. Yi Zhixian regards Lin Bin's rise as a legend. Naturally, it is not to be taken lightly.
A middle-aged man in Hanfu rode a horse behind......
Yi Zhixian seemed to attach great importance to the visitor, and personally patted the horse to welcome him.
The person who came was a beardless. The middle-aged man who spoke in a strange voice called that person obliquely: BOC said!
The Bank of China said that there was no need to describe the resentment of the Han State, and he was very happy that the 'Han army' took the initiative to provoke the Xiongnu this time, and the westward expansion of the Xiongnu was not something he wanted to see.
"With the help of the military advisor this time, it will be much easier to deal with the Han army?"
Bank of China said a few words of modesty, in a tone full of resentment: "I heard that Lin Bin had an enmity with the Han State and was driven out by the ministers of the Han State, why don't we start from the other side and not rush to fight Lin Bin?" ”
The whispering of the two of them looked very strange......
After a while, Yi Zhi obliquely explained to the right household: "Camp in Beihe first, and wait until you find out the reality of the Han army before acting!" ”
Both sides adopted the strategy of standing still and sending a large number of scouts (scouts) to spy on each other.
Since then, the battle between scouts and scouts has officially begun.
Things were beyond Lin Bin's expectations, the wolf smoke in front continued, and the military reports continued to be sent back, and after receiving the arrival of nearly 100,000 Hun troops, he immediately urgently ordered the leopard riders and wolf riders to march in the direction of Guangmu.
Leopard and wolf riders pull out; The Tiger Cavalry was stationed on the Wujia River (a tributary of the Yellow River) northwest of Guangmu in accordance with military orders, with the aim of putting pressure on the Xiongnu army on the flank.
After nearly six days of scout warfare, the scout battalion of the Black Flag Army suffered heavy losses in the battle with the Xiongnu Yizhi Xian, until the leopard cavalry reached Guangmu, and a large number of elite rangers in the leopard cavalry joined the contest between the scouts and the scouts, and the pressure of the Black Flag Army was reduced.
"An absolutely elite Scout?"
When Lin Bin heard the scout battle in the rear, and when the death rate of the two sides was killed, he could imagine that Yi Zhixian had come over with his elite troops, and this battle would be the fiercest battle in history!
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Dizzy, Xiamen 4.4 magnitude earthquake, honor this side and Xiamen close, in the morning sleep was suddenly pushed in the wife was scared awake, all day long in a daze...... (To be continued) (To be continued.) )