Chapter 244: Mohuer's dilemma
Looking at the 80,000 Mohuer Donghu cavalry that followed the charge of the Longxi Army and separated towards both sides like a tide, Xin Sheng, who followed the 50,000 cavalry of the Longxi Army to charge together, first had doubts in his heart, and then ordered the whole army to give up the attack and speed up the defense line of nearly 100,000 Hun cavalry, so as to rush to the direction of the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army that was fighting in the shortest possible time.
At this distance, Xin Sheng could clearly see the tens of thousands of Jiuyuan Army foot soldiers rushing left and right in the dense Hun cavalry array, as well as the 100,000 Hun cavalry of Morton's own formation who were rushing forward to help.
Although it is not clear why the Hun cavalry in front of him, who is obviously here to stop his 50,000 Longxi army and is twice as many soldiers as he commands, blocked the formation symbolically for a while, and then directly moved out of the way, but how could Xin Sheng let go of such a great opportunity.
As long as they were close to the Jiuyuan Army's foot soldiers, even if these Hun cavalry wanted to pursue and form a siege again with the Hun cavalry besieging tens of thousands of Jiuyuan Army foot soldiers, Xin Sheng was not worried.
The general Meng Tianzheng personally led reinforcements from Xianyang to help. This is where Xin Sheng's confidence lies.
It is true that the Jiuyuan Army is elite. However, Xin Sheng, who has served as Meng Tian's deputy in the Jiuyuan Army for nearly ten years, knows very well that there is a difference between the Jiuyuan Army where the general Meng Tian is and the Jiuyuan Army where Meng Tian is located.
If the current Jiuyuan Army is a wolf, then as long as the banner of the great general Meng Tian arrives. Then these more than 100,000 lonely Jiuyuan troops will become fierce tigers in an instant. No one knew better than Xin Sheng and the soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army what Meng Tian meant to the entire Jiuyuan Army's 300,000 Qin troops.
I think this is also the reason why, in the original history, after the death of the great general Meng Tian, the 300,000 most elite Jiuyuan Army of Great Qin quietly disappeared in Great Qin.
Although Morton urged the 100,000 Hun cavalry in his own formation to go out to help the 200,000 Donghu cavalry who had been attacking the tens of thousands of Jiuyuan Army for a long time, most of his mind was on the more than 80,000 Donghu cavalry of Mohuer, who went to stop the Longxi army that was rushing to help.
Morton knows one thing very well, that is, as long as his 100,000 Donghu cavalry join the battlefield, the tens of thousands of Qin soldiers in front of him who are still alive and well, it will only be a matter of time before they are destroyed.
Even if the 40,000 Hun cavalry of the Subu Varpage were defeated under the attack of the cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army, it was only a matter of time. But that's not a momentary thing. There is no doubt that the cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army defeated the same number of Hun cavalry, but it also took time.
What really determines whether Morton's battle can completely wipe out the nearly 100,000 infantry of the Jiuyuan Army in this wilderness is only whether Mohuer's more than 80,000 Donghu cavalry can stop the Qin reinforcements who came to help.
As long as Mo Huer can stop the Qin cavalry that rushed to help for half an hour, Mo Dun will be sure to cripple or even annihilate the foot soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army who are under heavy siege. The killing of tens of thousands of soldiers of the Qin Jiuyuan Army was something that had never happened in the history of the entire Xiongnu clan. The significance to the entire Xiongnu is no less than Morton's overthrow of Yueshi and Donghu.
In the final analysis, the Yueshi and Donghu on the side of the Huns' couch, and the ambitious Morton have never been in their eyes.
However, now in less than a quarter of an hour, tens of thousands of Qin cavalry who rushed to help have broken through the defense line of more than 80,000 Donghu cavalry and rushed to kill. And it doesn't seem to have even started a fight. Even if Morton is a pig, he knows that he has been put in a position by Mohuer, who has always seemed to surrender and has always wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of him.
If it weren't for Mo Huer's deliberate release of water or the direct release of the road, even if the Qin cavalry was more elite than the Jiuyuan Army, but they who trekked to break through the defense line of more than 80,000 people under Mo Huer, they would not have won so easily.
Looking at the chaotic group of Donghu cavalry who followed behind the Qin cavalry, Morton's eyes were split.
He had never hated a person or a clan so much as he did now, and he had never regretted it so much now. But at the moment it seems that regret is useless.
"Woo woo"
The desolate and long sound of the horn instantly resounded throughout the heavens and the earth. This time the sound of the horn seemed to be extraordinarily long and loud.
The 100,000 Hun cavalry who were about to catch up with the rear of the Jiuyuan Army's infantry crossed a long half-arc with the sound of the horn, brushing the Jiuyuan Army's infantry and began to retreat. The Donghu cavalry that blocked the retreat of the Hun cavalry along the road were cut off by the Hun cavalry without hesitation.
The soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army rushed left and right in the Donghu cavalry formation, and under the encirclement of the Donghu cavalry who reacted, the range of activity has been reduced more and more, and there is a tendency to be compressed to a corner.
It can be said that the Hun cavalry helped the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army a lot. Because of the actions of the Huns, the Donghu cavalry, which had gradually stabilized their positions, became chaotic again, and they fought their horses to avoid the Hun cavalry who wanted to retreat, but the Donghu cavalry also fell into the situation of attacking each other in the front and rear.
The entire battlefield suddenly became a mess. The foot soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army are like fish in water.
If someone who doesn't know sees the situation on the battlefield, they will definitely think that the 100,000 Hun cavalry is helping the soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army to kill another wave of Donghu cavalry, which has the largest number of people.
The Hun cavalry, who were trying their best to resist the slaughter of Li Gang's 40,000 Yuan Army cavalry, heard the sound of the horn coming from Morton's own formation, and instantly left the battlefield, desperately whipping the war horses under their crotches and gathering towards Morton's location.
But now that the cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army and the Hun cavalry are slaughtered together, the dogs and teeth are intertwined, and they can leave if they want to. What's more, the head of the main general is now in the hands of ignorance, and the only thing the Hun cavalry who have lost their command can think of and do is to turn the horse's head and desperately whip the war horse with a horsewhip and escape!
Although I don't know why the great Morton suddenly blew the trumpet to withdraw his troops, no one dared to disobey him. There are too many bloody examples of the previous Ming Di thing.
Disobeying the orders of the great Morton Shan Yu is almost equivalent to the death sentence of the whole family.
The Hun cavalry, which had no will to fight, wanted to run, and the elite cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army naturally would not let go of the opportunity to beat the water dogs. In a short distance of only a few hundred paces, the number of Hun cavalry beheaded from their horses far exceeded the results obtained in the nightmare battle between the two armies for nearly half an hour.
In the end, the Hun cavalry, which had been completely killed by the cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army, finally got rid of the pursuit of the cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army and ran towards the place where the Morton wolf flag was. This is still the result of Li Gang taking the initiative to give up the pursuit and killing, and instead turn around to support the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army who were still rushing left and right in the Donghu cavalry formation.
Within a moment of the 120,000 Hun cavalry gathering and returning to their positions, the Morton wolf banner began to move, speeding up and retreating from the battlefield in the direction of the clouds. He didn't care about the life or death of any Donghu cavalry at all, and seemed to have given up the 300,000 Donghu cavalry of Mohuer.
Mohuer, who was following behind the butt of the Longxi army, saw the Hun cavalry that had been approaching the battlefield retreating, and then gathered under Morton's wolf flag and quickly left the battlefield.
Looking at the remaining more than 100,000 Donghu cavalry who were about to be caught between the two Qin cavalry and dragged on the battlefield by the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army, a few struggles flashed in Mo Huer's eyes.
From the Qin cavalry who chose to rush to the aid in different ways, and pretended to give the order to resist for a while, so that the Qin reinforcements could smoothly penetrate the defense line of his more than 80,000 troops, Mo Huer had prepared for the worst in his heart.
However, even so, he still repaid a little luck in his heart, that is, to bet on whether Morton was willing to give up the good fruits that were about to come, that is, to completely annihilate the Qin people who were under siege.
As long as Morton hesitated for a moment, then the Hun cavalry would begin to engage with the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army. Once the battle is received, it will not be so easy for any of the Hun cavalry, Donghu cavalry, and Jiuyuan army foot soldiers who are killed together.
After all, hundreds of thousands of people are fighting to kill, not one or two people fighting. If you say you won't fight, you won't fight, and if you want to stop, you can stop.
If this is the case, Mohuer will give up the Donghu people who still have more than 100,000 people left, and the harvest in exchange will still be very huge. The elite of the Huns under Morton fought against the Qin people, and even if they could win, they would lose both. If the Qin reinforcements arrived, Morton would even die in the territory of Great Qin. This is arguably the best outcome for Mohul.
However, Morton is a hero after all.
Morton, who had been staring at Mohuer, was furious, eager to eat Mohuer's flesh, drink Mohuer's blood, and kill all the Donghu people. However, after discovering that Mohuer was in defiance, he did not hesitate and immediately ordered the withdrawal of the army.
Stay in the green mountains without worrying about no firewood. Morton didn't know this, but he knew three of them.
Morton knew very well that the biggest mistake he had made was to kill Morhul without being on the road. Without Mohuer, the Donghu people have only one ending, that is, to use it as cannon fodder for Morton to go south to fight the Qin people and consume it.
Morhull's plan, Morton had seen it clearly in a moment. The most correct response was also made.
As long as Morton can leave today, as long as Morton can return to Wolf Juxu Mountain safely, with Morton's means, the fate of the Donghu people, Mo Huer is already shuddering when he thinks about it.
Now, the problem has not fallen on Morton, it has fallen on Morhull.
He was faced with an exceptionally difficult choice. This choice is not only related to the remaining more than 100,000 Donghu cavalry who have fallen into the battlefield, but also to the hundreds of thousands of Donghu old and weak women and children who were placed by the Huns around Wolf Juxu Mountain. Of course, there is also his own net worth.
Giving up more than 100,000 Donghu cavalry, Mohuer could immediately return to the prairie along the southbound road, and then lead more than 80,000 Donghu warriors to directly kill Wolf Juxu Mountain. But in the face of the more than 200,000 Hun cavalry left around Wolf Juxu Mountain, can his more than 80,000 Donghu cavalry resist? The answer is definitely no. Moreover, Morton's messenger may have arrived before him.
Of course, there is another option, that is, to take refuge in the Qin people. Turn the horse's head and kill the Huns.
However, will the Qin people help him save the Donghu people? Can the Qin people leave Morton's 200,000 Hun cavalry? Mohuer was also unsure.
(To be continued)