In the following three days, Ma Chao's army encountered more and more Xiongnu Hubu, but never encountered the main force of the Xiongnu. The largest of these tribal alliances was only about 5,000 cavalry. At the beginning, the 5,000 people chose to divide their troops to defeat the Han army, but the scattered squad just approached and ushered in a rain of arrows and suffered heavy losses. When retreating, he was caught up by the Han army and shot fiercely, and he didn't confront you head-on at all, and finally got together, and there were only more than 3,000 people left.

The leader was quick to break the opportunity and ordered the small teams to be surrounded one by one, forcing them to fight each other in short quarters. The idea was good, and after paying a heavy price, the three centurians were finally surrounded. But before the short battle, several reinforcements suddenly came around, each of which was about 100 people, and it was also a shameless cavalry tactic.

These Huns are skilled in equestrian skills and can shoot arrows on horses, but if they want to be accurate, they have to make their horses stop or stand on the ground. In the face of the huge advantage, the Huns had fewer and fewer iron cavalry, and in the end there were less than a thousand people left. Seeing that the whole army was about to be wiped out, these people could no longer care about the livestock and the old and the young, and began to break through as if they were dead. Although the army pursued for more than 50 miles, most of which had been annihilated, a few escaped in the end.

Three days of unscrupulous slaughter almost made these soldiers red-eyed, the grassland was full of smoke, where Ma Chao's army passed, all the livestock were snatched, the old and the young were all killed, the women of appropriate age were all escorted back to Xiliang, the camp tents were all burned, and only a small amount of food, fine iron and other materials were also collected and transported back to Xiliang by Yang Yuan's troops. At the same time, in order to save feather arrows, each battalion must try their best to recover feather arrows every time they clean up the battlefield.

The three-day harvest was undoubtedly huge, and at this time there were 100,000 livestock and more than 30,000 war horses. The battalion presided over by Fa Zheng had already received the supplies brought back from the front, and sent a message to Ma Teng, asking him to quickly send a large army to meet him.

And Yang Yuan's 2,000 follow-up troops were simply not enough, so he had no choice but to let these 2,000 people guard the prisoners and let the prisoners complete those labor. Fortunately, these captives were all Han slaves and Hun women, and the resistance was not great, and after they had seen the brutality of Ma Chao's army, they could not afford to resist at all.

In this way, 2,000 people plus tens of thousands of prisoners are barely enough, at least those captured materials can be transported to Xiliang one after another. On the fourth day, King Zuo Xian and King Zuo Gu Lihu, who were guarding the court of the Xiongnu king, finally got the news of the invasion of the Xiliang army, and hurriedly contacted the major Huluo in a hurry, and temporarily formed and collected 50,000 iron cavalry to meet the battle, led by Tu Gehu himself. Coupled with the 100,000 main forces that attacked Bingzhou and the 10,000 cavalry of the unlucky ghost Yu Fuluo, the Southern Xiongnu had gathered 160,000 troops, and they were all cavalry, you must know that the Southern Xiongnu at this time only had a population of more than one million.

Not long after the 50,000 army came out of the royal court, Ma Chao got the news of the scouts, and immediately ordered the whole army to assemble.

Ma Chao was the first to speak, and said: "There are more than 400 miles to the Southern Xiongnu Wangting Dazhai, this time the Southern Xiongnu sent 100,000 troops to attack the state, and it was difficult to get down urgently, and this time 50,000 troops were sent to meet our army, what do you think." ”

A few people, you look at me, I look at you, and finally Meng Da said: "Lord, the last general knows that the entire Southern Huns are only more than a million people, except for the 100,000 main forces attacking Bingzhou and the 50,000 iron cavalry facing our army, I am afraid that they have done their best, and the last general thinks that at this time he should divide his troops to attack the royal court and frustrate his spirit, then the Huns can fight a certain battle!" ”

Ma Chao nodded noncommittally, and continued to ask, "What does General Pang think?" ”

Pang Deluo pondered: "The grassland people are different from our Han people, these people are almost all soldiers, shepherd sheep and horses in peacetime, and carry a knife on the horse in wartime to be a pawn, although Zijing's words are reasonable, but they are too light on the enemy." ”

Wang Shuang also nodded and said: "The last general also agrees with General Pang's meaning, although these few words are refreshing, but they are all strong to defeat the weak, to the outnumbered, victory comes too easily, the army will inevitably have the heart of the enemy, if you rashly divide the troops to attack the Hun royal court, I am afraid it will be unfavorable!" ”

Ma Tie jumped out and shouted: "Big brother, these Huns are just a group of rabble, let the younger brother take the military horses of the headquarters to meet the battle, and set an axe to behead the head of the sudden call and sacrifice it to the eldest brother's account." ”

Ma Chao laughed in his heart, this kid was still too young, and immediately feigned anger and said: "Nonsense, our army is only a few thousand, how can we confront the Hun iron cavalry several times as large as yourself, do you want all the soldiers under your command to die on the prairie?" Don't get out of the way yet! ”

"No!" In addition to being afraid of his father Ma Teng, Ma Tie is only afraid of him, the eldest brother.

Ma Chao thought for a while and said: "The advantage of our army lies in the unparalleled cavalry and incomparable mobile surname, once surrounded by this 50,000 army, even if it can break through, it will suffer heavy losses, and the secrets of the saddle and stirrups can no longer be kept, so we must make use of our strengths and avoid weaknesses, and continue to win with guerrilla tactics, do you still remember the sixteen words that Grandpa Mao said?" ”

Several people glanced at each other, and almost said in unison: "The enemy advances and I retreat, I advance and retreat, the enemy is stationed and disturbs me, and the enemy is tired and I fight!" ”

"Yes, Pang De, Wang Shuang, Ma Dai, Meng Da obey the order!"

"The last general!"

Ma Chao took a deep look at the four of them and said: "Pang De, Meng Da and the two led two thousand iron cavalry from the left side to attack the royal court, Wang Shuang, Ma Dai took the headquarters of two thousand iron cavalry from the right side to attack Wang Ting, the Huns have sent 160,000 troops, and the remaining troops will definitely not be too much, wait for the flexible use of troops, after the two teams meet, first transfer the tiger from the mountain to find a way to lure it to send troops, and then take advantage of the weak sneak attack, the royal court Dazhai can be broken in one fell swoop!" ”

"Obey!"

Ma Chao said again: "The 50,000 army is less than two hundred miles away from us at the moment, so we will set off immediately, with two horsemen, full feather arrows and dry food, and strive to achieve the predetermined goal before dawn tomorrow, and we will definitely destroy the royal court completely!" ”

The four of them were full of confidence and said in unison: "The last general will not disgrace his mission!" ”

Ma Chao nodded, and said: "Ma Xiu, Ma Tie immediately straightens out the army and horses, and we will contain the 50,000 army with leisure and labor, and buy time for General Pang and others." ”

"Obey!" With 3,000 to 50,000, the two of them did not have a trace of fear, but were extremely excited.

Ma Chao pondered for a while and said to Yang Yuan: "General Yang's task is relatively heavy, you need to do this" arranged many matters, the generals took the orders and left, and Brother Xiao Ma took Ma Xiu, and Ma Tie prepared for war on the spot.

The two-hundred-mile road was only two or three hours for the Hun cavalry, but it was late at this time, and the Hun cavalry did not attack immediately, but set up a large camp fifty miles away from Xiao Ma Ge. During this period, Tu Gehu naturally received a report from the spies, and learned that the Han army was divided into two roads and detoured from the left and right sides, and there were about 2,000 soldiers and horses on each road.

After pondering for a while, he suddenly understood the intention of the Han army, and said with disdain: "The royal court has 20,000 iron cavalry led by King Zuoxian, and it is simply whimsical for the Han dog to attack my royal court with a few thousand people. ”

The next day, 50,000 Hun iron cavalry pressed up like a dark cloud, these Hun cavalry wore leather armor, or held a long knife or spear in their hands, the military appearance was neat, the war horse was majestic, it really deserved to be the main force, and the small horse brother army encountered before the stragglers were very different.

Brother Xiaoma's 3,000 cavalry lined up, but the horizontal aspect did not lose the formation, and the difference was that these cavalry each rode alone, with a long knife hanging on their waists, six pots of feather arrows hanging on the left side, and two strong bows on the right, all wearing light leather armor and anti-arrow vests.

The place where the two armies intersected less than two arrows stopped invariably, and Xiao Ma Ge slapped his horse out of the crowd with his halberd, and shouted: "Listen to the Southern Hun rebels, I am Sima Ma Mengqi of other departments under the command of Xiliang Taishou!" Now ordered to beg for thieves, the Southern Xiongnu surrendered to my Han Dynasty for more than 100 years, the Son of Heaven has always been waiting for you, today he dared to rebel for no reason and invade my Han and the state, it is really a crime that cannot be punished, if you want to live, you should quickly dismount and surrender, otherwise you will personally lead the army to break through the Hun royal court, capture the king and the leaders of the Hu tribe alive, the Huns, men, women and children will not stay, all killed! ”

Suddenly he was furious when he heard this, he had heard that the Han army burned and looted all kinds of evil, and almost all the people were wiped out, but now he saw that it was a twelve- or thirteen-year-old little doll, an official the size of a sesame mung bean, and he threatened to capture him alive in front of him, and immediately said angrily: "Arrogant, are you Han people all dead?" Actually sent a little doll to fight, the warriors of the Huns, who will cut off this person's head? The king rewarded ten catties of gold and gave three Han beauties. ”

"My son is willing to go!" The answer was a young general, full of iron armor, burly nearly nine feet, with a full beard, looking at Ma Chao with fierce eyes. This person is the son of Tu Gehu Tieshu Bone, who is quite brave in the Southern Xiongnu, and the weapon used is a one-legged bronze man weighing sixty pounds.

Brother Xiaoma's army was too ruthless, killing tens of thousands of Huns in a few days, and stealing countless horses, food and other materials. Although it has not hurt the Xiongnu roots, this breath is really difficult to swallow, and the 50,000 Hun soldiers are also the same, eager to attack immediately and cut the more than 3,000 horsemen into meat sauce, in order to avenge the death of their compatriots.

The iron bone longitudinal horse that got the order rushed up with the one-legged bronze man and shouted: "The iron bone is here, and the Han dog is here!" "The sound is like thunder.

Although Brother Xiao Ma has killed a lot of people since the expedition, he has not experienced the real battle generals, and Ma Chao's cavalry is mainly based on strong bows and crossbows, never short of soldiers, and the first time he encounters a strong enemy, he is also high-spirited, and he will go to battle with a halberd. At this moment, I only heard a loud shout: "Hu Luxiu is going rampant, the little master Ma Tie is here!" ”

Ma Tie roared and slapped the horse out, and whispered: "Big brother, kill chickens with a cattle slaughtering knife, and wait for the younger brother to kill this thief!" ”

Although Brother Xiao Ma was eager to fight, he was also embarrassed to compete with his brother, so he said seriously: "Fourth brother be careful, don't underestimate the enemy, and press for your brother!" ”

"Okay!" Ma Tie cheered, picked up the Xuanhua double-edged axe and rode up to meet him. Ma Chao picked up the sandalwood strong bow and secretly buckled the wolf's tooth arrow and was ready to respond at any time.

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