Whenever the battlefield is at night, it will always return to calm, the reason is that the steppe people have color blindness, they can't see at night, can't fight at night, and the fierce fighting during the day has made people feel deeply tired, and it is very difficult to sneak attack the other party in frontal positional warfare.

As usual, one day the soldiers of the Black Wolf Army will light the torches, and then throw the torches out hard, scattered torches burned at a distance of about 100 meters, they reflect each other with the stars in the sky, the only difference is that the stars in the sky are lit up very beautifully, but the torches on the ground are scorched the corpses of the dead, sometimes can ignite a large distance of flames, emitting a disgusting smell of human flesh. If you ask if www.biquge.info will cause a fire on the plains, it can be said responsibly that the turf on the battlefield has long been trampled and gone, and the plains without combustibles want to ignite a monstrous fire...... Hard.

In contrast to the light in front of the position, the low wall was pitch black, and through the faint light, a group of soldiers could occasionally be seen patrolling by, and everything seemed to be no different from usual.

Behind the low wall, the bonfire was still lit, and the soldiers who had fought for a day gathered around the campfire to talk casually, boasting to each other about their achievements today, and comparing the number of people killed. The defensive battle was assisted by the arrow array, and the wolf army withstood for four consecutive days, and the number of casualties did not exceed 2,000, while the Huns lost at least 20,000 casualties in these short four days, and the light and serious injuries were conservatively estimated at 15,000 to 20,000. And be proud of it.

The conversation between the non-commissioned officers continued, and slowly the junior officers joined in, if not on the battlefield. It's more like putting on a huge feast, and it can be inferred that the wolf army doesn't feel difficult to defend, and neither the mental state nor the physical load has reached the point where it can be unbearable.

The grass-roots officers of the wolf army are all selected from the original war servants, and most of the middle-level officers are transferred from the original tiger and leopard cavalry army.

Each corps of the five armies is equipped with staff officers of the left and right armies, political advisers of the left and right departments, and counselors of the left and right branches. Collectively known as the staff officers of the army. Such a configuration is ahead of its time in today's era, and it may be that it hasn't been long since it was built, and this advanced configuration has not yet played its due role. Some of the staff officers who accompany the army do not even understand their duties, but as time goes by, they will sooner or later understand what a 'staff officer' is and what the duties of a 'staff officer' are.

Fang Hao was one of the army staff officers who woke up to his duties relatively early. He gave Chen Xi a piece of advice. It reversed Chen Xi's erroneous notion that a fake defeat requires a defeat.

At this moment, at the rear of the first line of defense, Fang Hao led a group of people who were adding to the grass man. Grass is the most indispensable plant on the grassland, and a company of 5,000 people rushed to produce nearly 2,000 straw figures in about an hour, and they are being loaded and sent to the front line.

Waiting for the carriage to drive into the barracks, the middle-level officers were recruited, and Chen Xi's order was for the middle-level officers to assemble the army and prepare to retreat. During the retreat, it is necessary to restrain the troops from silencing and strictly observe the order.

The mid-level officer was stunned when he heard the news of the retreat from the herald, and did not understand why he was retreating under the good circumstances. Although they were confused, they did not dare to ask more, and began to gather their subordinates and repeat the orders conveyed by the Chinese army to the junior officers.

Chen Xi's concept is fixed, so he will always think that he should lose a game and then retreat, but he doesn't know that there are many practical examples in the past that show that there are many ways to retreat, and resisting to the death to show the signs of defeat and then retreating is only one of them, and there are more ways to show that he can't stick to it and choose to retreat.

Fang Hao suggested: After four days of perseverance, the number of arrows fired by the wolf army exceeded 500,000, and the Huns did not know how many arrows the wolf army had, and they would only create an impression from their own casualties, that is, the wolf army shot a lot of arrows. In the afternoon battle, the headquarters of the Right Virtuous King sent eight offensive troops in a row, and the consumption of arrows under the blocking of the wolf army regardless of the number of arrows was even greater, since the Right Virtuous King Jishan was willing to send his own elite attack, then Jishan must have thought that the arrows of the wolf army were almost gone, why not push the boat down the river, act according to the conjecture of the Virtuous Spirit, and retreat quietly overnight?

It's a deceptively simple ploy, but it's very complicated to operate.

After the straw men arrived, the soldiers carried the straw men up the wall in batches, and on a moonless night, they could only see vague figures from a distance, like the night guards of the wolf army. In order to make the spies hiding in the pile of dead bodies of the Xiongnu not suspicious, Fang Hao ordered people to tie a thin rope to the flagpole about fifty meters apart, and then hung the straw man, and arranged four soldiers to pull the thin rope hanging with the straw man back and forth to pretend to be a patrol team.

Fang Hao has been preparing after receiving the order in the afternoon, in order to create the appearance of hasty retreat, ordered people not to tamper with everything in the barracks, the military tent items of the cantonment soldiers were turned over, and the soldiers needed to throw the spoils of war everywhere, in addition to loading all the horizontal knives, bows, and crossbows, the armory also converted the big tent containing these weapons into a cantonment tent, and the big tent for long-range attacks left nearly 10,000 ordinary arrows and more than 200 crossbow arrows, these bundled arrows were placed very neatly, giving people the impression that it was too late to move. In addition, the main account of the Chinese army is a completely different scene, everything in the main account is removed, and nothing is left, which is completely in line with common sense.

Of course, if you don't want to alarm the Huns, you can't retreat all at once.

At this moment, in order to ensure an orderly retreat, Chen Xi summoned five deputy commanders to inform them of the matters that need to be paid attention to in the retreat, and then asked the five deputy commanders to convey to the subordinates, Qu to restrain the tun, and to restrain the team, supervising layer by layer.

"Leave a song of soldiers here talking loudly to cover the retreat?"

"No! Except for the soldiers who pull the strings on the low walls, there is no need to leave too many people behind. In addition, it is necessary to leave dozens of old war horses and cut the war horses, so that the war horses can continue to scream. ”

As a soldier, all of them are lovers, and when they heard that they were going to cut their horses, the captains who stayed in the tent and waited for the dispatch all frowned deeply.

Chen Xi did not hesitate. He agreed with Fang Hao's suggestion.

The noisy camp fell silent, except for the occasional neighing of a war horse that filled the night sky. It's all the same as it was before. Beneath the surface of silence. After a quiet busyness, the horses were equipped with wooden strips, and the horses' hooves were thick mats wrapped in straw.

Chen Xi waved his hand, and the first batch of 5,000 retreating soldiers silently turned their horses' heads, and the captain of the first division led the evacuation.

Under the starry night, the soldiers who lined up to evacuate were at a loss. They were still talking loudly about the victory just now, and they were all stunned when they received the order to retreat for a while, and the difference in mood was huge, forming an eerie silence.

Chen Xi looked at those confused soldiers helplessly. He couldn't explain anything to the soldiers at this time. After watching the spot for a while, until the third group of retreating troops left, Chen Xi turned around and walked towards the low wall, where he came to the wall to look at the Huns' camp. There are many campfires there. It can be vaguely seen that the Hun soldiers are around the bonfire, and you can hear the Hun soldiers roaring and screaming from a distance, as if they are going crazy with alcohol?

"Retreat like this, will Jishan really catch up?"

On the surface, he acted decisively, but in fact, Chen Xi was completely unsure in his heart, he took the risk out of helplessness, after all, the longer it dragged on here, the greater the chance that the Huns would find that they would set up an ambush circle, and if the entire grand strategy would go bankrupt because of their own reasons. Beheading is a trifle that leads to the defeat of the war. At that time, it was useless to punish him.

A slight contemplation on the battlefield attracted Chen Xi's attention, and he squinted his eyes to see a vague figure crawling forward among the pile of corpses, until it came to a halt near the surrounding area illuminated by the torch.

"Spies of the Huns?"

Chen Xi turned his head and motioned for his soldiers to prepare to shoot arrows, but when he turned his head, he saw a figure prostrate on the ground in a squatting position.

"Don't shoot yet! See what he wants to do? ”

Footsteps suddenly sounded from the city road, and a soldier ran over quickly, holding something in his hand, approached and saluted respectfully, and lowered his voice: "Tell the commander, Captain Chen on the left flank sent someone to send this ...... on Pegasus."

Chen Xi was just about to take it, when a warning from his own soldiers sounded, "Be careful!" As soon as the words fell, Chen Xi heard the familiar sound of breaking the air, followed by the muffled sound of arrows inserting into the mud.

The arrows shot by the man who was crawling in the pile of corpses were not very powerful, and after he shot the arrows that had been pulled out and the wooden tips were wrapped in cloth, he immediately retreated, which made people feel a little inexplicable.

Due to the lack of light, Chen Xi had to retreat from the low wall, and spread out the cloth ball with the help of the torch inserted behind the low wall.

"Hmm...... the king of Huhun? King Tushen? There are also a few small kings who claim to be from the Helan Mountain tribe who want to cooperate with us to defeat the Xiongnu Youxian Wang? Kill Ji Shan??? Chen Xi's expression was very strange, as if he wanted to laugh and couldn't laugh, he remembered what happened on the left and right wings in the afternoon: "The Xiongnu really don't seem to be calm inside?" ”

Chen Xi just took a look, he decided to transfer this information to his own adult, and let Lin Bin judge the truth of the matter. Now that Chen Xi has issued a military order to retreat, even if the Huns of Huhun Division, Tushen Division, and so on from Helan Mountain fight with Youxian Wang's Department tonight, it has nothing to do with him, not to mention that it may be that the Huns are plotting!

"Commander?"

Fang Hao looked sloppy, his robe was sticky with grass clippings, as if he had arranged the arrangement of other wall sections by himself.

Chen Xi thought for a moment and handed the white cloth ball to Fang Hao.

Fang Hao came to tell the news that the baggage had retreated, and thought of the key to leading the Huns to chase after him, and when he saw the cloth group, he was stunned for a moment, took it and looked at it, and hesitated: "This ...... Or is it true? ”

Chen Xi didn't care about the truth at all, and asked Fang Hao what was the matter here.

Fang Hao is not the commander of the first army and can't understand why Chen Xi is so bland, if the Xiongnu tribe in Helan Mountain really wants to cooperate, this is undoubtedly a great good thing for the five armies. He suppressed the curiosity in his heart and expressed his thoughts on how to lure the Hun army into pursuit.

"Huh? Leave behind an escort of unimportant baggage and retreat at a slow pace? ”

"Exactly! If the Huns knew that our army was retreating early in the morning, and did not see that the soldiers of our army might not immediately chase but rest here, even if the Hun army chased after them, it would inevitably be divided into front, middle and rear, so that although it could be ambushed, the results of the battle might not make the adults (Lin Bin) satisfied. ”

Chen Xi had already planned for this, and he had already arranged a group of men and horses to be used to attract the Huns, but Fang Hao said that it was a good suggestion to keep baggage. Judging from the greed of the Huns, as long as they saw the frame full of utensils, cloth and other things, they would inevitably be greedy, and a group of Huns chased after them. The other Huns will definitely be blushing when they see that they have really grabbed something, and the Hun army, which has no wartime discipline, will not stop as long as it is touched.

"But the baggage was chosen?"

"The election was chosen, but ...... The soldiers seemed puzzled by this, but complained about the officials' private theft of the spoils. I ordered the soldiers to register the property they had sacrificed, and promised that they would be returned twice as much after the war, so that the soldiers would not complain. ”

You can see it. Fang Hao was worried that Chen Xi blamed him for making his own decisions.

The five armies had a clear order: in a state of war, soldiers could collect booty from the battlefield on their own, and six-tenths of the loot collected would be handed over to the quartermaster. Keep four-tenths of the loot for yourself.

This is a generous military rule, and no country has yet openly allowed soldiers to keep the spoils of war. Needless to say, the Han army needs to hand over all the captured things to the officials and be divided by the officials. I don't even have a tenth of what I can leave. It also depends on whether the method of hiding is good or not; The armies of the nomads are the same, good things need to be handed over to the chief, sometimes if the chieftain is not rewarded, there is no hair, sometimes for the distribution of the spoils of war often cause private fights, the formation of coalition battles, a small private fight into a tribe-to-tribe war is more frequent. (BC Thing)

Since the Quartermaster Department followed the second group of retreating troops, Fang Hao had to collect it from the soldiers. That's what comes up to us.

Chen Xi knows a little bit about Fang Hao's personality, and Fang Hao always does things without compromise. So it gives the impression that it is full of bad water. He just nodded and resisted the responsibility, as for whether he blamed Fang Hao for acting without authorization, only God knows......

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The sky is slightly bright, the Huns' military camp resumes the busy scene, there are soldiers everywhere happily bring sheep or cattle ready to be slaughtered and eaten, some individuals are busy and do not forget to pick up the leather bag and pour it violently, look at the comfortable expression when drinking, not like drinking water.

In order to be able to break through the defense line of the Han army today, and cooperate with the right valley Liwang court to attack from the flank before tomorrow, Ji Shan has already planned to make a bloody investment, and his order is "Eat!" "Eat as much as you want!" , which was specifically allowed to drink alcohol during the morning.

If he wanted to launch a general attack, Ji Shan had to suppress the internal instability first, so he invited the kings of the tribes, ignoring that it was early morning, and let people summon women, good wine and good meat.

"Grandma's, last night the Han army was so noisy that Lao Tzu couldn't sleep, and his neck was sore!"

"Not really! The Han army must know that we are going to attack generally, and they are preparing war horses. The spies on the front line reported that the Han army strengthened its vigilance last night, and the patrol team on the city wall tripled, and they walked back and forth all night, and when they reached the east, they all shrank back, and no one stood on the city wall, so they must have carried arrows! ”

Everyone present couldn't help but think of the power of the Han army's large-scale arrow array yesterday afternoon, and their expressions that were originally smiling froze and looked at Ji Shan, who was sitting in the first seat.

Jishan still eats meat and drinks a lot, ignoring the direct gaze of the kings of various tribes. He listened and thought about how to deal with it if he couldn't attack it today, he had dragged on long enough in Guangmu, and he didn't know when he would be able to regain control of Heshuo if he dragged it out like this.

Yesterday, Ji Shan had just ordered the troops to be withdrawn, and the envoy sent by the military minister Shan Yu from the Western Regions immediately entered the camp.

The envoy brought a message of supporting the plough and lonely Du, urging Jishan to end the war in Heshuo and rush to aid the Western Regions, and the coalition forces in the Western Regions seemed to have suddenly gone crazy, and launched a counteroffensive on the whole line under the command of the commander of the Western Regions coalition forces, Lie Jiaomi.

It is conceivable how angry the military minister Shan Yu was, he was listening to the people of the Western Regions laughing at the Xiongnu people for being captured by the Han people in the east all the time, and fought a big defeat, and was shouted by the people of the Western Regions, the Xiongnu army in the Western Regions was generally depressed, and the Western Regions coalition army also took advantage of the low morale of the Xiongnu people to launch a counteroffensive, and won a few rare battles. Under the rise of the Western Regions, the people of the Western Regions are becoming more and more courageous, and the Huns are becoming more and more cowardly, and if there are no new changes in the war situation, the Huns will not want to attack the Western Regions.

With Yi Zhixian's general attack plan and the strict orders of the military minister Shan Yu, Ji Shan really can't do it without fighting his life now.

"Wait! What did you just say? ”

The tribal king, who had just taken a big bite of beef, was shouted, and the meat was swallowed without bite, causing a violent cough of "cough, cough, cough".

"Say ......, say what?"

Ji Shan didn't ask anymore, he stood up, "Someone!" Two Huns rushed into the tent, "Quick! Send someone to find out why there is no one on the wall! After he finished speaking, he began to walk in the tent, and saw that the tribal kings looked dazed.

About a quarter of an hour, someone came back and said: There was no one on the city wall, but it was just shrunk to the back wall section, which was difficult to find, but the Han army defending the city wall was much smaller than usual, probably only more than 2,000 people.

A tribal king asked in confusion, "What's wrong?" The Han army is like this every day, is there anything different today? ”

Ji Shan was asked, he seemed to think of something during the conversation with the tribal king, but when he really thought about it, he couldn't think of it, but he subconsciously felt that something was wrong.

"Last night...... The neighing of the Han army's war horses seems to be ...... Something seems wrong? ”

Nomads live with horses all year round, and if you listen carefully, you can tell whether the sound of a war horse is a high-pitched neigh, a low neigh, or a mournful cry after being injured. It's a pity that these people were all distracted by the terrifying large-scale arrow array of the Han army, and they didn't care about them at all. Now Ji Shan deliberately asked, and he was a little restless, and some people reacted in hindsight.

The tribal king of Zeyan's tribe moved his butt slightly, he tried his best to shrink back, and his expression was a little weird, as if he had long known that something was wrong with the Han army and wanted to cover it up.

King Zeyan is the Xiongnu tribe of Helan Mountain, and he has secretly united with King Huhun, King Tushen, and the same little kings of the Helan Mountain tribe, and he did find out that something was wrong early and deliberately concealed it and did not report it. However, it was nothing that he didn't shrink back, and this shrinkage was immediately noticed by Jishan.

Ji Shan habitually narrowed his eyes and slowed down his voice: "How many people were shot and killed by the Han army by our spies last night?" ”

The ten thousand households under the account of the Right Xian Wang didn't think much about it, gnawed on the leg of mutton, and said vaguely: "Thirty-three." ”

Hearing this, there was not much difference between the spies who were shot and the usual, and Ji Shan was just relieved, but outside the tent was another bloodstained soldier......

The tribal kings stood up, their hands on the hilts of their swords for whatever reason.

"Wang ...... Rajah! I risked my life to crawl over the pile of dead men near the city walls, and ...... Found...... When I stood up, there was no Han army archery, and when I threw the hook rope and climbed up, I took a look...... Look, see it's all dummies! Chinese...... The Han army is all gone! ”

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Oh... Typhoon Phoenix! Directly hit Fujian, special alert ...............

Well, I want to say that Honor didn't buy an engine before, and he wasn't afraid of a power outage.

(To be continued,) (To be continued.) )