Chapter 258: The soldiers are divided into three ways
August 26 of the first year of Great Qin II.
The sun gradually moved westward, and finally slowly disappeared at the end of the sky. Boundless darkness began to envelop the entire land, and a thin moon like a woman's willow eyebrows shone a faint moonlight.
Tonight, it seems that even the countless stars in the vast sky know that it will be a night full of killing and blood, and they all quietly disappear in the high sky, not daring to peek.
Tonight, it should have been a quiet autumn night, it should have been a night of hunting and predation for wolves. However, it was disturbed by the thunderous roar of horses' hooves that seemed to resound throughout the savannah.
The area at the junction of Daqin Jiuyuan County and Yunzhong County is more than 100 miles. Countless torches fell like stars on the sky, dotting the vast wilderness shrouded in endless darkness.
Within a radius of more than 100 miles, all the wolves held their breath and looked at the crowd of people riding four-legged food who were roaring past with torches, and the wolf eyes glowing with blue light showed a fierce wolf light mixed with helplessness and doubt.
The night is the best gift from God to the wolves. And the dark night on the prairie is the moment of carnival for all the wolves. But tonight, the two-legged creatures holding the flaming torches that disgusted and feared the wolves were disrupted by the four-legged food stuff.
Although I wanted to rush up and tear these hateful creatures, the blazing torches made all the wolves dare not act rashly, so they could only crouch in the grass and watch resentfully as a ** food galloped there.
The unlucky wolf brothers, who showed their bodies, were shot by these torch-carrying foods with strange humming noises as one of the most annoying foods of the great wolves.
That kind of food, in the human world, has a very vivid name, hedgehog.
If the fifty cavalry teams of the Jiuyuan Army are the stars falling from the sky to decorate the prairie, then Meng Tian's Chinese army is the galaxy that fell from the sky to the earth. It stretches for dozens of miles across the prairie.
At this time, if someone looks down from mid-air, they will find that in addition to dozens of small galaxies moving rapidly in the pitch-black wilderness, four galaxies that are much larger and the same huge fire dragon are also moving forward rapidly.
In addition to Meng Tian's huge fire dragon lying across the grassland, Xin Sheng's 50,000 Longxi army was in a prismatic shape with the other three small stars. And the prism is still expanding rapidly.
The three most prominent points are moving in the north, east and west respectively, and at the same time there is a tendency to run towards the north at the same time. However, Xin Sheng's Longxi army was only following the regiment at the front.
Dozens of other small fire dragons are crossed in the middle of this prism, except for Xin Sheng's 50,000 Longxi army that fell behind, the rest of the small fire dragons are galloping for a while, and quickly approaching the three most prominent points of the prism.
And in the depths of Yunzhong County in the distance, a slightly smaller fire dragon is galloping rapidly from east to west, if this fire dragon continues to move forward, it will cross with the large fire dragon running to the northeast, of course, the biggest possibility is to collide.
After all, in the middle of the night, as long as it is close to more than ten miles, the sound of tens of thousands of war horses galloping can be heard clearly. No matter what the considerations are, Wang Qian will lean over to find out if he is his own person.
Obviously, the 50,000 Longxi army of Xin Sheng was followed behind, and the fire dragon that fled in the east, west and north was the Hun cavalry. From the depths of Yunzhong County from east to west came Wang Gan's 20,000 Vermilion Bird Army.
Dozens of small fire dragons gradually approached the three huge fire dragons that were running wildly.
Boom!
A thick pillar of fire with countless sparkling sparks rose from the plain completely enveloped in darkness. Countless sparks that were still making crackling sounds were scrambling to break through the sky and leave, rising higher and higher. Gradually like a golden pillar that intends to connect with the sky.
This golden pillar is clearly visible dozens of miles away.
Seeing this pillar of fire that suddenly appeared in the dark night sky, the Longxi army and more than 300,000 cavalry who followed Meng Tian shook at the same time. Have you finally found the trail of Maudun?
And Meng Tian, who was in an army of more than 300,000 people, was shocked when he saw this pillar of fire.
It's in the West!
Not in the North!
If Mao Dun didn't flee from the north, did he still want to kill him?
When the army pursued Maudun, it had been more than two hours since Maudun retreated to the direction of Yunzhong, which was enough time for Maudun to run a hundred miles away. Although the war horses will be tired, the chasing Qin army and the war horses of the Donghu people will also be tired.
In addition, it was dark, and in the end, the army could only follow the trails left by the cavalry. It's just that no one expected that Maudun would run to the west unconsciously.
This distance doesn't seem to be much away from the Qin army.
The feeling in Meng Tian's heart may not have disappeared, and then, another pillar of fire rose into the sky, and this time the direction of the pillar of fire was in the east. And that's not all.
Just as the army saw that this other pillar of fire was tickling more obviously, a third pillar of fire that reached into the sky appeared again in the vast wilderness, and this time in the north.
The three pillars of fire, like three golden-red pillars that reach the sky, stand between heaven and earth.
The pillar of fire in the north is the farthest away from Meng Tian, and it is nearly a hundred miles away. It was also sixty or seventy miles away from Xin Sheng's Longxi army. The two pillars of fire in the west and east were the closest to the Longxi army, less than fifty miles away, and it seemed that they were sixty or seventy miles away from Meng Tian.
The three pillars of fire could not have been lit by the Huns, but could only be the elite cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army who scattered around to explore the traces of the Hun cavalry in Maodun and reported the traces of the Huns to Meng Tian who was following behind.
Maudun really divided his troops! And one point is three ways! Meng Tian frowned slightly.
It seems that it is the best choice for Mao Dun to divide his troops and then Meng Tian, as long as Mao Dun is not in the water in his head, knowing that the Qin army will definitely pursue after the Donghu people, the division of troops can have a chance to escape and ascend to heaven.
It's just that I don't know if Mao Dun knows that the Donghu people not only did not fight with the Qin army, but chose to take refuge in Daqin? Also, must Mao Dun be one of the three Hun armies?
Or are these three armies all tricks used by Mao Dun to hide people's eyes and ears and confuse the Qin army, so as to facilitate their escape? Meng Tian's brain was thinking quickly, but he gave orders one after another.
"The Vermilion Bird Army listened to the order, and immediately sent scouts, and each person searched for no traces of the Huns within a radius of two hundred miles! Once the traces of the Huns are found, they will immediately ignite the fire and report it! At the same time, he sent someone to send an order to General Xin, the general of Longxi, ordering him to immediately fly his horse to catch up with the Hun barbarians who fled north, and immediately rush to the east road to support after defeating him. ”
"Whoa!"
"Mohuer listened to the order and ordered you to select a powerful general of Donghu to lead the 100,000 cavalry of Donghu to immediately go to pursue the Hun barbarians in the east. Once you catch up, you don't have to fight to the death, you just need to entangle the Huns immediately. Then the army has its own reinforcements to help and wait! Remember, you must entangle the Huns and barbarians, and you can't let go of a single pawn or horse. ”
Meng Tian stared at Mohuerdao closely.
Naturally, there was an interpreter who could speak Donghu next to him and told Mohuer about Meng Tian's military orders. Hearing the interpreter's stammering words, Mohuer followed the example of the Suzaku soldiers, and bowed to Meng Tian on the horse and said respectfully, "Obey!" ”。
"Hurry up and make arrangements, and the general will personally lead the Suzaku Army and Er to pursue the Hun cavalry on the Western Road."
"Yes!"
As orders were issued, Meng Tian's more than 300,000 Chinese troops instantly divided into two roads, and the 100,000 Donghu cavalry roared and whipped the war horses under their crotches and chased after the Hun cavalry on the east road.
Meng Tian led the combined army of more than 200,000 Suzaku troops and Donghu people towards the west road.
Although he was not worried about Mo Huer playing yin for himself, Meng Tian still made preparations and took more than 100,000 Donghu cavalry with him, including Mo Huer, who also stayed by his side, and there were 50,000 Suzaku troops, even if the Donghu people really wanted to yin themselves, Meng Tian was sure to retreat. Of course, this is just the result of Meng Tian's always cautious surname, and there is no reason for the Donghu people to do so.
100,000 Donghu cavalry pursued the Hun cavalry on the east road alone, with the combat power of the Donghu people, Meng Tian didn't think they could really win the Hun cavalry that way, let alone know how many Hun cavalry there were. And he can't leave the Donghu people with the same idea of consuming the strength of the Donghu people as Mao Dun, so Meng Tian said that the 100,000 Donghu people who went to the east road to pursue did not have to fight for their lives, but only needed to entangle the Hun cavalry along the way.
If nothing else, the Longxi Army should be able to settle the battle first. Although the reputation of the Longxi Army in Daqin was not very good because the former commander Li Xin failed to destroy Chu with the enemy, Meng Tian was well aware of the combat power of the Longxi Army.
What's more, it's still Xin Sheng who leads!
Of course, the most important thing is that Wang Qian's 20,000 Suzaku Army that entered Yunzhong County will definitely be able to see the pillar of fire lit by the Jiuyuan Army if nothing else. It is not clear how Wang Gan led the army to Meng Tian, but Wang Gan still understood where he wanted to come from far and near.
Whether he knew that there were Huns there or not, he would understand what was going on when he saw the three pillars of fire that suddenly lit up. Wang Qian was the army of 100,000 cavalry that Meng Tian said went to support Donghu to kill the east road. Ordering Xin Sheng to go to Donghu to support after destroying the Hun cavalry on the northern route was just for the sake of safety.
The three-way fire dragon galloped towards the place where the three pillars of fire were ignited, and the roar of the earth-shattering horse's hooves resounded throughout the prairie.
The three pillars of fire have been burning there, but the Huns did not choose to extinguish the three pillars of fire, obviously the Huns at this moment know very well what is happening, and they are seizing the time to flee for their lives.
Yunzhong County!
Wang Qian was indeed as Meng Tian thought, and saw the three pillars of fire rising in the air!
(To be continued)