Chapter 11 Feeding War with War
The next day, Hu Li and Zhao Yun found the iron ore under the lead of a bandit, and after seeing this open-pit iron mine with very rich reserves, Hu Li said to Zhao Yun with great joy: "Second uncle, it seems that we are going to set up this place as a base camp, I went to the Zhen family in Wuji County, Zhongshan this time to prepare to exchange horses for iron ore with them, but unfortunately it was destroyed by the housekeeper of the Yuan Mansion. ”
"That's right, we must protect this iron mine, and this hill is enough to accommodate thousands of people, I will return tomorrow and let everyone move over, this will be our base camp in the future." Zhao Yun also said with a happy face.
In the evening of the next day, all the people of Zhending moved over, and Hu Li spent the whole day arranging for people to strengthen the fortifications of Niutou Mountain. Returning to the cottage with everyone who stopped construction, Hu Li saw a woman holding a child looking at him affectionately, it was Zhao Yu holding Hu Yu at the door waiting for Hu Li to come back.
Half a month later, after the construction of fortifications, mining and refining iron ore, and crafting weapons and armor of the cottage were on the right track, Hu Li and Zhao Yun took one hundred and fifty Changshan wolf horses transformed into bandits to the Saiwai grassland, and arrived at the Gouzhu Mountain stronghold half a month later. So far, there are a total of 230 wolf cavalry plus the 120 reserve cavalry in the Gouzhu Mountain stronghold, and there are 70 wolf cavalry and more than 500 logistics personnel in the base camp of Niutou Mountain.
Seeing that the training of Gouzhu Mountain was very fruitful, Hu Li, Zhao Yun, and Xiahou Lan unanimously decided to find a suitable Xianbei tribe to train their troops. After three days of searching for Hu Li's golden eagle, a Xianbei tribe with 500 warriors was found in the west 400 miles, because there were too many enemies, Hu Li and the three of them discussed for a while, and decided to bring 230 wolf cavalry and 120 reserve cavalry, and in the evening of the next day, Hu Li and others arrived at a location 30 miles away from the Xianbei camp. After dark, Hu Li, Zhao Yun and Xia Houlan used the owl's vision to clean up the sentinels on the periphery of the camp, and then Hu Li controlled two golden eagles to set fire to the Xianbei people's camp, while the Xianbei people only cared about fighting the fire, Hu Li controlled the head wolf with twenty-eight wolves to drive Hu Li from the camp to the Xianbei camp, and at the same time manipulated the tiger to disturb the Xianbei people's horses, and after the Xianbei camp was completely chaotic, Hu Li led more than 350 horses to the Xianbei camp to kill.
When the Xianbei people were fighting the fire, they were hit by a thousand wild horses, more than 100 people were trampled to death, and then they were slaughtered by the wolf riders, and finally when they were ready to fight back under the organization of the tribal patriarch, they found that their horses were scared by a Siberian tiger and ran away, without horses, the Xianbei people couldn't escape if they wanted to, and the last one was wiped out by the Changshan wolf.
The next day, more than 300 wolf riders returned to the camp of Gouzhu Mountain with more than 200 wagons of booty, more than 1,200 Hannu and more than 3,000 war horses, and thousands of sheep. Hu Li selected 700 people from more than 1,200 Han slaves to be assigned to the Changshan Wolf Cavalry, and the Han slaves who survived the cruel torture of the Xianbei people were all young and strong, and there were a small number of craftsmen, and the wolf cavalry suffered 50 casualties in this battle, and after 700 people, it reached 1,000 people. Hu Li asked more than 500 Han slaves and wounded wolf riders to enter the customs in batches to go to the base camp of Niutou Mountain after bringing enough rations, so that the number of combatants in Niutou Mountain reached 100, and the logistics personnel reached more than 1,100 people, and Zhao Yu and Zhao Quan, the oldest wolf riders, were in charge of everything in Niutou Mountain. On the side of Gouzhu Mountain, there are only 1,000 battle wolf riders left, and such a pure combat formation is very abnormal, so Hu Li decided to return to Niutou Mountain after destroying another Xianbei tribe. First, because the Xianbei people will sooner or later find out that the small tribe that has been wiped out, they will definitely organize an army to encircle and suppress, and second, because the system requires Hu Li to occupy a territory with a population of more than 100,000 within five years, otherwise it will be wiped out, and Hu Li only has more than three years left, and with the population density on the grassland, it is difficult to reach 100,000 people, so Hu Li must return to Niutou Mountain for development and wait for an opportunity to seize territory.
After a month and a half of training for a thousand wolf riders, Hu Li finally discovered a large Xianbei tribe with two thousand people in the vicinity of Wuhou Qinshui through the golden eagle, and after determining the target, Hu Li told Zhao Yun and Xiahou Lan the news obtained from the reconnaissance, and the three decided to destroy the small tribe in the middle first, and then gradually encroach on the target Xianbei tribe. Ten days later, a thousand wolf riders arrived at a hundred and fifty miles away from the Xianbei tribe to set up camp, the small tribes along the way were all surrounded and wiped out, the collected materials and more than 2,000 Han slaves were brought back to the Niutou Mountain base camp by Hu Li in batches, a thousand wolf riders after more than ten battles of all sizes in these ten days, they have also seen blood, and they can barely be regarded as elite.
Hu Li through the vision of the golden eagle, found that the Xianbei tribe will send two hundred Xianbei warriors every day to supervise the three thousand Han slaves in the lower reaches of Wuhou Qinshui grazing, Hu Li and Zhao Yun led five hundred wolf cavalry elite under the guidance of the golden eagle's vision secretly surrounded the two hundred Xianbei warriors, while the Xianbei warriors dismounted to rest, rushed up, killed them by surprise, although the Xianbei warriors immediately got on the horse and wanted to break through and escape, but the horses were frightened by the Siberian tigers and wolves brought by Hu Li, and the speed could not be raised at all. In the end, the whole army was wiped out. After sending people to let the 3,000 Hannu return to Niutou Mountain in batches, Hu Li cleaned up the traces of the battle, and deliberately made signs that the Hannu fled in multiple directions to confuse the Xianbei people.
In the evening, the Xianbei people found that the two hundred Xianbei soldiers and the three thousand Hannu had not returned to the camp, and sent 1,500 Xianbei soldiers to check the situation. Knowing the route of the Xianbei warriors, Hu Li successfully surrounded and raided the 500 Xianbei warriors who were chasing to the west with a thousand wolf horses. With Zhao Yun, Hu Li and Xiahou Lan taking the lead in the unstoppable advance, as well as the Siberian tigers and wolves suppressing the speed of the horses around, after a fierce fight, Hu Li successfully surrounded and annihilated the 500 Xianbei warriors at the cost of more than 100 casualties. After quickly cleaning up the battlefield and resting for a short time, Hu Li led the remaining nine hundred wolves to attack the camp of the Xianbei tribe where only three hundred Xianbei warriors remained.