vs 22 Strategizing for a Thousand Miles [6]
The division of the state and state did not intend to kill the Huns. They hoped that the Tai marching army would severely punish several Xiongnu tribes who dared to plunder the Han land. However, for the Xiongnu's royal court in Meiji, the state army did not mention how to deal with it.
And the arrogant reaction of the "Little Heavenly Master" surprised Liao Hua too.
According to the military orders conveyed by his superiors, as well as the information revealed by Liao Hua when he met Zhang Ma, Zhang Mad sent a team of infantry to sweep away several small Xiongnu tribes close to the Han land. However, the main cavalry and scout team of the Taixing Army had to directly attack the royal court of the Huns under the personal command of the arrogant!
Therefore, as a member of the scout team, Liao Hua's main task is to clean up all the pedestrians on the way of the Taixing army. Only by ensuring that the royal court of the Huns was unprepared for the surprise attack of the Taixing army could the Taixing army succeed in eliminating the head of the rebellious Huns in one fell swoop.
At that time, the Taimarching army relied on such a record to effectively deter the surrounding hostile forces, so as to successfully grab a piece of territory along the fertile Yellow River!
With the site, the resurgence of Taiping Road can be reliably guaranteed. Liao Hua admits that he is not a devout Taiping Taoist, but just following the crowd. However, now the expansion of the power of Taiping Dao has been linked to the future development of Liaohua, so Liaohua has naturally done his best to achieve the great cause of Taiping Dao.
After getting the information he wanted to know, Liao Hua ignored the pleading gaze in the herdsmen's eyes, casually pulled out his waist knife, and waved it lightly, causing the captives' begging for mercy to stop abruptly. At this time, several other Han army scouts had already led their horses, drove up the surrounding flocks, and returned in the direction where the army came.
Liao Hua's subordinates, the skills of driving sheep are not too bad. However, by the time they met the arrival of the cavalry, it was already an hour later. Although the scouts had a great harvest, they plundered no less than a hundred sheep along the way. But in the face of more than 3,000 gobble-up mouths, these sheep were only enough for the army to eat a meal.
As the winner of the harvest of the captivity, the dinner of Liao Hua's department had a whole hind leg of sheep compared to other soldiers. What made Liao Hua even more excited was that the leader of the Taixing Army was arrogant, and when he was inspecting the camp, he sat next to Liao Hua's group and ate a piece of roast mutton.
As the supreme commander of an army, although Zhang Qiang has assigned specific things to his generals. However, in order to win the morale of the army, Zhang Qi also had to insist on some behaviors to share weal and woe with the soldiers.
For example, when the mantle of the whole army is properly repaired, he will return to his military tent only when he is arrogant; He did not begin to eat until all the soldiers had eaten.
These practices have been slowly explored by Zhang Mad after receiving the teaching of the art of war from the military advisor Cheng Yu over the past few years, and then linking the military book with the actual leadership of the troops. It is said that Huangfu Song, the biggest culprit who destroyed the Yellow Turban Army that year, led the troops in this way. Although this made Zhang Qi feel extremely hard, it was undeniable that the effect was very good.
By the time Zhang Mad had walked around the camp, drank the broth from the cauldron of seven mouthfuls, and shared the bread of the six hundreds, night had fallen.
In this day and age, marching in the wilderness is definitely not an activity that is beneficial to physical and mental health. Walking on the endless, sparsely populated prairie, the supply of the army completely depended on the carts and horses accompanying the army. Due to the inability to obtain food supplies on the spot, the food of the army can be described as crude.
During the Han Dynasty, the main grain grown by farmers was millet, which was later known as millet. As for the staple foods of wheat and rice in later generations, they were in the nature of miscellaneous grains at that time, and they were not commonly cultivated.
Moreover, due to the lack of grain processing technology, wheat is usually cooked in a pot without even removing the husk. The wheat rice cooked in this way is said to be more satisfying than the husked wheat because it is mixed with a lot of wheat bran.
In order to eat a meal of dumplings, a common food in later generations, Zhang Qiang had to make people specially hull the wheat, grind the flour, and almost go into battle to make noodles himself, which was what he wanted. For this reason, the military advisor Cheng Yu secretly also specially advised Zhang Zheng:
ββDon't make this kind of food to eat in the future, it's too hard to work and waste money!
The usual food is like this, and the encounter on the march is even more conceivable. If it weren't for the scouts who had taken these sheep captive, even in their arrogant capacity, they would have had to use a piece of air-dried bacon and a spoonful of fermented salted bean paste, and then mix it with cooked and hulled corn.
Of course, the soybean paste of 2,000 years ago will naturally not be the kind of delicacy of later generations.
This thing has a nickname, called "Lei Buzuo sauce". This sentence was originally a common saying that you can't make meat sauce on a thunderstorm day to prevent mold and spoilage. However, because soy products are easy to make the stomach flatulent, after people eat soybean paste, the abdomen is flatulent, like thunder, so it has the nickname of "thunder does not make sauce".
After finishing the chores in the army, he returned to the tent, and although he was a little tired, he still couldn't rest immediately. After all, he is the head of an independent force.
The idea of attacking the court of the Southern Xiongnu was a decision made by Zhang Mad after meeting with Ding Yuan, the assassin of Bingzhou, and Wang Yun, the former assassin of Yuzhou.
Although during the meeting, Wang Yun behaved silently, completely looking harmless to humans and animals. However, knowing who proposed the "serial plan" in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he naturally would not take this dignified and righteous "Wang Situ" lightly.
I don't know if it's influenced by the information of later generations, in short, no matter how arrogant you look at Wang Yun, you always feel that this one always looks like he is harboring evil intentions. There is no way, with the experience of Boss Dong Zhuo, it is natural for him to be a bird with a frightened bow last time.
Because of this jealousy of Wang Yun, which led to potential uneasiness in his heart, Zhang Qiang re-discussed a proposal with the military advisor Cheng Yu that had been rejected.
Originally, the "surprise attack on the royal court" plan proposed by the cavalry thousand people Chang Lejin actually didn't like it because the risk needed to be taken was too great. However, things have changed, and Wei Xiao, the envoy of the "Taiping Dao" in Bingzhou, was sent out to contact him, bringing back unexpected good news.
This change has greatly improved the success rate of the surprise attack on the Xiongnu royal court. Eighty percent of the certainty may be a little worse. But with a success rate of more than seventy percent, it is already worth a try.
Under all kinds of opportunities, Zhang Arrogant decisively changed the battle plan, decided to personally lead the army, travel lightly, and surprise attack the Hun royal court!
This is not the first military adventure of insolence. But, no matter how many times it is, an adventure is an adventure. Even if the arrogant psychological quality is far beyond ordinary people, after all, he is not a reckless man who puts his life on the line.
However, the current surprise attack army has already touched the distance of only forty or fifty miles from Meiji, the royal court of the Southern Xiongnu. From a military strategic point of view, this surprise attack already has a chance of victory of more than 50 percent.
If the Southern Huns had not learned of the arrival of the army before the departure of the army tomorrow, the success rate of this operation could soar to nine!
Of course, the army can lurk in such a close place, and it is completely impossible for the army to march with people who are not familiar with the place. Even if it is a state division, there is not much possibility, enough to do this. In this marching surprise attack, the one who played the greatest role was from the Taiping Road lineage in Bingzhou.
Bingzhou Taiping Road is the most complete one of the eight Taiping Dao in the world. The leaders of Taiping Dao, Guo Tai and Guo Daxian, although their talents are not obvious, they know how to cultivate obscurity. After the end of the "Yellow Turban Uprising" that year, after several years of careful management, the power of Taiping Dao in Bingzhou not only did not shrink, but grew a lot stronger than before.
In this surprise attack on the Southern Xiongnu royal court, the main force was of course the cavalry of the Taixing Army, but the men and horses sent by the Taiping Road in Bingzhou actually reached more than 1,000 horsemen. In addition, Bingzhou Taiping Dao also provided the Taixing Army with information about a large tribe of 1 Hu people of the Tu tribe.
Before going to the Southern Xiongnu royal court, Zhang Mad personally led the army, and under the help and guidance of the Taiping Dao of Bingzhou, he wiped out the large tribe of Tu tribes with 500 tents and a population of nearly 3,000 in one fell swoop.
Tu Ge was a branch of the Xiongnu people, but was not controlled by the Southern Xiongnu royal court. On the contrary, in order to compete for good pastures and water sources, there are still some contradictions between the two sides. Destroying this great tribe of slaughterers will not raise the vigilance of the Huns. On the contrary, if the Southern Huns learned the news, they would secretly gloat.
And to destroy this tribe of slaughterers, insolence is not only to avenge the Han people who were captured by the slaughterers, but also to collect war resources. From the tents of the Tu people, the Taixing army harvested countless forage, as well as up to 3,000 pack horses and rideable horses, including more than 1,200 war horses.
As for the other possessions, including the various belongings that Tu Ge had plundered from the hands of the Han people, they were worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Not to mention anything else, just such an attack has already recovered the cost of the Taixing army's dispatch this time.
ps: 1 Tu various ethnic groups, also known as Hugh Tu Ge, the name of the Xiongnu tribe. From the Later Han Dynasty to the Western Jin Dynasty, he lived in the border counties in the northwest. In the second year of Yuanjia in the Western Han Dynasty, the Han hussar general Huo Qubing led tens of thousands of horses to cross the Yanzhi Mountain (now in Shandan County, Gansu) and Juyanze (now in the north of Ejina Banner in Inner Mongolia), captured tens of thousands of Huns, and captured the golden people who sacrificed to the sky of King Hutu.
Because of the failure of the king of Kun evil (a chaotic evil) and the king of Xiu Tu, Yi Zhi Da Shan Yu wanted to summon the two to the court of Shan Yu to be punished with death. The two kings were desperate and decided to surrender to Han. But when the Han Dynasty sent Huo Qubing to meet them, King Hutu wanted to regret it again. As a result, King Kun killed King Hutu and annexed King Hutu's soldiers, and King Hutu's wife and children returned to Han.
However, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was also well aware of the way to divide the barbarians. After the subordinates of the Xiongnu Xiutu King surrendered to the Han Dynasty, they were separated from the Kunxi King by the Han court and placed in the northwest border county, which was later called Xiu Tuge. Hugh Tu each settled in the border county far before the Southern Xiongnu, although they were the same Xiongnu, but there were differences.
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