Chapter 245: Choice
In the first option, Mohuer needed to give up the 200,000 Donghu cavalry that followed Morton southward, and then lead the remaining 80,000 Donghu cavalry back to Langjuxu Mountain alone. And it was still necessary to arrive before the Morton messenger reached the Wolf Juxu Mountain.
Only in this way can Mohuer have the opportunity to perfunctorily inquire about a large number of Xiongnu nobles such as the Xiongnu Right Xian King and the Left and Right Gudu Marquis who stayed in the Wolf Juxu Mountain. Of course, this is only possible.
After all, Morton led 300,000 Donghu cavalry southward, and the main purpose was nothing more than two. The first is to consume the last 300,000 young men of the Donghu clan, and the second is to take the opportunity to take Jiuyuan and recapture the Hetao Plain and Henan, which is the best.
Mo Huer understood these two points, as one of the top two nobles of the Xiongnu clan, it was impossible for the Right Xian Wang, the Left and Right Gu Duhou and others who stayed in the Wolf Juxu Mountain to digest the Donghu people.
Mohuer led more than 80,000 Donghu cavalry back to Wolf Juxu Mountain alone, and the first thing he had to face was the inquiry of these Xiongnu nobles who stayed behind. Morton did not return, but the Donghu people, who were themselves used as cannon fodder, returned, and from any point of view, the possible surnames that could be confused were very small.
Of course, Mohuer can also choose to learn from Morton's original approach to dealing with the Donghu Royal Court, and directly raid Wolf Juxu Mountain.
However, the months of staying in Wolf Juxu Mountain made Mohuer very clear about the fierceness of the Huns. Even if the elite of the more than 200,000 Hun cavalry who stayed behind could not gather together and be stationed in Wolf Juxu Mountain at any time, he was able to touch the Wolf Juxu Mountain to raid without alarming anyone.
The second option is premised on the fact that the Qin people will accept Mohuer's surrender. Of course, there is another most important point, that is, after this battle, both the Qin people and the Donghu cavalry have suffered heavy casualties in the battle.
If before the battle, Mohuer was completely sure that the warriors of the Donghu clan would obey his orders and surrender to the Qin. But now, to be honest, Mohuer himself doesn't have much confidence in his heart. Too many Donghu people died at the hands of the Qin.
Those Donghu cavalry who died in battle are likely to have their fathers, brothers, and blood relatives of the 80,000 cavalry behind them.
Both options are so uncertain.
Looking at the more than 100,000 Hun cavalry who had already traveled farther and farther, Mohuer knew that he had to make a choice no matter what.
He knew very well that from the moment he deliberately made way for the Qin reinforcements to be discovered by Morton, the Xiongnu and Donghu clans had completely left no room for relaxation.
If the time is not delayed for half a minute, the hatred between the Donghu cavalry and the Qin people will be greater. Morton's escape from Qin would be a little more dangerous, and the danger of the hundreds of thousands of Donghu people who were guarded by the Huns around Wolf Juxu Mountain would be even greater.
However, Mohuer did not regret his choice, and he also believed that most of the warriors of the Donghu clan would not blame him for his choice. Because of everything they experienced along the way to the south, as well as the two encounters with the Qin people when they arrived in Jiuyuan City, it is believed that many Donghu people have completely lost trust in the Huns.
The spoils of war are not shared by the Donghu people, the Donghu people who eat the worst, the Donghu people who do the most, and the Donghu people who charge ahead are also the Donghu people. Even a small cavalry pawn, as long as he is a Huns, can ignore the leading generals of the Donghu people and even the commander of a thousand and ten thousand commanders at all. For ordinary Donghu warriors, they are even more beaten and scolded, and they don't take the Donghu warriors who once fought the Huns in the prairie in their eyes.
Although all the Donghu warriors dare not speak out most of the time, the hatred is gathering more and more.
If Mohuer had known that surrendering to the Xiongnu would bring the Donghu clan to this point, Mohuer would definitely rather take more than a million Donghu people to die in battle than choose to surrender to Morton.
Definitely different from the dull trumpet sound of the Huns, it suddenly sounded from the formation of the Mohur army.
Now on this wilderness with a radius of dozens of miles, there are nearly 500,000 troops who are fighting. Except for the remaining nearly 60,000 infantry soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army, the remaining soldiers are all cavalry.
The roar of the hooves of hundreds of thousands of galloping horses has become the only sound in the world.
At first, the dull sound of the horn was completely muffled by the roar of the earth-shattering horse's hooves, but as time passed, the more than 80,000 Donghu cavalrymen who followed Mohuer's side finally completely overpowered the roar of the horse's hooves and the shouts of killing.
The earth-shattering horn that suddenly sounded behind him made Xin Sheng, who was in the Longxi army, suddenly startled. Could it be that the Huns really had an ambush? Now the vanguard of the 50,000 cavalry of the Longxi Army is still more than two miles away from the battlefield, and it is impossible to meet the tens of thousands of infantry soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army who have already beaten more than 100,000 Donghu cavalry in time.
If the Huns really had ambushes, then under the front and rear attacks, the situation of the Longxi army, which could only fight hard from afar, would be extremely dangerous.
Although Xin Sheng saw the movements of the more than 100,000 Hun cavalry in Morton's own formation, he never thought that the Hun coalition army would have infighting when it was in full swing with the Jiuyuan army.
Xin Sheng thought that Morton would find out about Meng Tian's arrangement, and then send a large army to deal with Meng Tian.
If even the reinforcements led by Meng Tian himself were blocked by the Huns, then the situation of his 50,000 Longxi army and more than 100,000 Jiuyuan troops from afar would be considered a real danger.
However, the next action of the "Hun cavalry" who was fighting with the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army in formation made Xin Sheng a little confused.
The earth-shattering horn sounded!
All the Donghu cavalry who were fighting with the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army and fell into the realm of their own formations heard this familiar and unfamiliar horn sound, and they were all stunned at first, and then they all stopped their movements and looked in the direction where the horn sound came from.
The sound of the horn of the Donghu clan that has not been heard for a long time, and the sound of the horn of the Donghu clan, which has not been heard for several months, makes the cavalry of the Donghu clan, who have been accustomed to the long and high-pitched horn sound of the Huns, can't help but be in a trance for a moment, thinking that they have an illusion.
The dull sound of the horn has not stopped, and the sound of the bull's horn sounded by tens of thousands of people has become the only sound in the world!
The Donghu cavalry finally affirmed that it was not their own delusion. It was indeed the familiar sound of the trumpet that I thought I would never hear again.
This is the clarion call of the Donghu clan to assemble!
I don't know when it began, after the first Donghu cavalry left the battlefield and galloped in the direction of the horn behind the Longxi army, more and more Donghu cavalry gave up the fight with the infantry of the Jiuyuan army, avoided the galloping 50,000 Longxi army cavalry, and ran in the direction of the Mohuer army.
In just a few dozen breaths, the Donghu cavalry, which had only 112,000 people left to fight with the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army, all left the battlefield and rushed away.
Whether it was the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army, the Xinsheng Longxi Army who was galloping to join the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army, or the more than 30,000 elite cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army who also came to rescue Li Gang, who was surrounded by the Donghu cavalry, were stunned by the sudden movements of the "Huns".
No one would have thought that the Huns would choose to withdraw their troops at this time.
Could it be that the head of the commander of the Huns was in the water or was he caught in the door?
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that as long as the Longxi Army is stopped, by the time the more than 30,000 elite horsemen of the Jiuyuan Army arrive at the battlefield, I am afraid that the infantry of the Jiuyuan Army has been almost killed by hundreds of thousands of locust-like Hun cavalry.
Could it be that the Huns had any conspiracy?
When more than 100,000 Donghu cavalry pulled a long zigzag line, bypassing the Longxi army and running towards the back of the Longxi army, Xin Sheng, Li Gang and others really understood that the head of the Huns' commander was indeed caught by the door.
The Huns really gave up the good results that were about to come and chose to retreat. Are the Huns so arrogant that they think they can confront the elite of nearly 150,000 Great Qin with less than 300,000 cavalry?
These more than 100,000 Great Qin soldiers are in one place, do the Huns still have a chance? The answer, naturally, is no.
However, these issues are not for Xin Sheng, Li Gang, Meng Yu and others to consider. Since the Huns chose to withdraw their troops, how could they let go of this great opportunity? Although there were still more than 100,000 Xiongnu troops who broke away from the battlefield and retreated to the direction of Yunzhong.
But as long as this cavalry that is obviously the main force of the Huns can be eliminated. Even if the more than 100,000 Hun cavalry who retreated to the direction of Yunzhong were able to escape from Daqin, the Huns who had lost nearly 300,000 cavalry would inevitably be injured.
In a year or two, it will no longer be possible to go south, let alone threaten the Great Qin Frontier like it is today. A year or two later, I am afraid that there is no need for the Huns to go south, with the mind of His Majesty the Second Emperor now, I am afraid that it will be time for the Huns to consider how to deal with the elite of Great Qin who are going north.
The retreating Donghu cavalry quickly assembled in the direction of Mohuer.
Xin Sheng's 50,000 Longxi Army, the remaining less than 60,000 infantry soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army, and Li Gang's more than 30,000 Jiuyuan Army elite cavalry are also seizing the time to converge. No matter what the Huns planned, as long as these more than 100,000 Great Qin elites could join forces, it would be impossible for the more than 200,000 Hun cavalry on the opposite side to make any big waves.
Without the arrival of reinforcements led by the general, Xin Sheng and the others were already sure that all the more than 200,000 Huns would be left on the outskirts of Jiuyuan City.
After a cup of tea, the two assembled armies confronted each other in a wilderness full of broken limbs and a pungent smell of blood, no more than three miles apart.
In three miles, the cavalry only needs less than a stick of incense to complete a charge!
The battlefield, which was originally roaring with hooves and shouting to kill the sky, fell into a dead silence. Only flags fluttering in the air fluttered in the wind.
Under the dazzling sun, both armies seemed to be gathering momentum, seizing the time to let the soldiers recover their strength. The huge murderous aura seemed to have frozen the air between the two armies, and both sides seemed to be waiting for the moment to charge.
Suddenly.
A knight galloped out of the still Donghu cavalry formation and went straight to the large formation of the Jiuyuan Army.
That knight is the commander of the Donghu clan now, Mohuer!
(To be continued)