Chapter 299: Chase and Run
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Wei Qing's forbearance was rewarded, he used nineteen days to ambush and intercept more than 7,000 people, and the price he paid was only 600 battle losses, unfortunately his ambush was finally exposed.
The Huns soon noticed the abnormality in the north, and for half a month they did not see the desert in the north and moved south to the designated pasture, and the big tribes sent scouts to go deep into the desert Gobi to search everywhere, and Wei Qing's troops could be exposed to the eyes of the Huns at any time.
At this time, the other four roads were a foregone conclusion, the Huns seemed to have a change in the Monan grassland, and Wei Qing's department was lying in the eyes of the Huns Shan Yuting's eyes to play an ambush, and if he was not careful, all 10,000 horses of his department were donated.
The tribal cavalry appeared more and more frequently, and finally the time came when it was necessary to retreat.
"General, are we going to throw away the spoils of war?"
"According to military regulations, all loot that cannot be taken away must be discarded and destroyed, and this is a military order that cannot be changed."
Captain Cui Hu felt very sorry, nearly 8,000 heads were evenly distributed and almost every cavalry had a beheading, which was enough for the low knights to be promoted to a first-level title, just because the cavalry carried a limited number of things, even if one person with three horses could not fit a herd of cattle and sheep, and there were many Han people who were enslaved by the Xiongnu tribe.
Although there is one more Han people and two more horses, the Han people have more food and luggage than the lightly armed and simple cavalry of the Northern Army, the marching speed is slower, and the perseverance to persist in long-distance attacks is insufficient, so it is easy to fall behind and be recaptured by the Hun cavalry. As a result, the rescued Hermes-Epitek fell back into the mouth of the tiger, and Wei Qing decided after several considerations that he had to throw away most of the war power. In particular, the Han law stipulates that military decapitation must be salted with lime and properly preserved, so beware that the sergeant deliberately makes an unrecognizable head to kill the good and take the merit.
Scouts bring bad news. There were more and more signs that the Huns were setting up an encirclement network, targeting precisely the 10,000 cavalry of the Northern Army who were still lingering in the desert, and after interrogating the last Xiongnu prisoners, Wei Qing immediately issued the order to retreat.
They didn't know that only two hundred miles away, a main force of the Huns was slowly approaching, the wolf flag of the king of Zuogu Li was fluttering in the wind, and Yi Zhi led the army of tigers and wolves to sweep through Monan, personally leading the battle to annihilate the cavalry of the Han army, although the lieutenant Wang Xin escaped by luck. However, for the first time, he managed to completely destroy a Han cavalry, successfully breaking the rise of Hanphobia in the past year, proving that the Han army was not an invincible black-armored monster as imagined.
The status of Zuogu Liwang Yi Zhixian has also been greatly improved, and his personal prestige in the Xiongnu is only slightly inferior to that of Zuo Xian Wang's begging man, compared to Zuo Xian Wang's pursuit of Gongsun Ao's hard pursuit and hard work, but it has dragged down the accumulation and improvement of personal prestige.
In the past half month, there have been unusual warnings one after another, and a variety of signs indicate that there is very likely to be a cunning Han cavalry hidden in the northern desert. As a result, the military minister Shan Yu appointed Yi Zhixian to temporarily take over the logistics and grain routes.
The new official took office with three fires, and Yi Zhixian took advantage of the slackness and irresponsibility of the small Xiongnu nobles to kill people, and successfully deterred the leaders of the small tribes to actively cooperate with him to complete the task of raising grain and grass, and then was facing the officials to remove the Xiongnu nobles who relied on nepotism to eat and drink. And for the first time, the logistics method of the Han region was used to manage cattle and sheep, although that method was the old yellow calendar from decades ago, but it was better than nothing.
Yi Zhixian didn't have time to burn the three fires through in a hurry. The small tribes that kept disappearing in the desert Gobi caught their attention, and the large tribes with tens of thousands of people did not have any trouble. All small tribes, whether they are small tribes with two or three hundred people as family members, or medium-sized tribes with two or three thousand people well-known in one area, will inexplicably disappear.
As the chief officer in charge of the logistics of the grain road. In order to deal with the military minister Shan Yu and the major tribes of the Xiongnu, the king of Zuogu Li tried his best to catch the particularly good effect, so he simply did not do anything and personally led the team north to capture this cunning fox.
"The Bank of China said, how many main forces do you say on the other side? How sure are we that we will encounter annihilation? ”
"Don't worry, the king, at least there won't be a lot of people, otherwise our big tribe will definitely be swallowed up by him, which shows that the fox hidden in the desert is not strong enough."
Yi Zhixian disagreed: "Your assumptions are too accidental, if the leader of that fox is very cunning and deliberately puts out bait to lure us into the bait, then wouldn't it be the king himself who suffers?" ”
The Bank of China said that he was lost in thought, and he had thought of a similar hypothesis, how many troops were hidden in the desert Gobi Desert, and whose commander was their commander? Could it be Cao Shi, the general of the chariot cavalry, any wrong judgment may bring a devastating disaster, after all, no matter how cunning the wolf is, he doesn't know whether it is a flat river or an abyss.
Yizhi oblique march is very cautious, especially into the edge of the desert Gobi, the daily travel speed shall not exceed seventy miles, you must know that the Huns with the main force composed of pure cavalry, seventy miles is equivalent to a normal march of an hour and a half (3 hours) of the marching journey, a little faster an hour is no pressure, the fastest half an hour can run the whole distance, anyway, the grassland desert is not lacking is a horse Pingchuan.
The marching speed is very slow, mainly because of the special terrain of the desert Gobi, there are desert cyclones with dragon fist winds rotating around all the time, as well as annoying sandstorms and the most terrible sandstorms, a sweep will beat the Hun army back to its original shape, Yi Zhixian is a native of the Huns, he knows the climate and terrain of the desert Gobi very well.
The 30,000 cavalry under the tent of the king of Zuogu Li were divided into three roads and intertwined with each other, like a needle for weaving clothes sweeping on the desert route to Mobei, and the distance between each other was not more than fifty miles, so although the marching speed was only seventy miles, the area of the sweep and the patrol area of the scout cavalry released were very large, as long as you had patience and spent a month to get the Gobi Desert straightened out.
Yi Zhixian's preparation can be described as extremely sufficient, calculating the main passages leading to the outside of the Gobi Desert, and the opportunity of several large tribes near the passage to make a natural semi-encirclement net, as long as the encirclement net can be spread out, sooner or later the fish that slipped through the net will be swept over.
The Bank of China said that he couldn't figure out the essentials of hard thinking, and subconsciously judged that the strength of the Han army ambushed in the desert Gobi was limited, and according to his intuition, he would guess nine times out of ten, and it was also an acceptable normal situation to miss a mistake.
However, not anymore.
The terrible defeat of the Battle of Yanmen made him unforgettable, the whip that the military minister Shan Yu threw on his face still has an ugly scar on his fat face, from heaven to hell overnight, from the central adviser of Shan Yuting to relying on the begging of the king of Zuogu Li, he was just a strategist with the name of "old dog" before, at least there is the dignity of a middle-level nobleman, now he is really just an old dog, and a lost dog.
Once his position was very important, once a military minister Shan Yu was a very trusted adviser, but a bright future only needed a collapse of the prediction failure, the Xiongnu army in his prediction misjudgment hastily detoured south to raid Mayi, and in just a few hours before the attack of the base camp lair, if not to return in time to save a glimmer of life and escape, into Yanmen County nearly 300,000 Xiongnu army has no way to live.
The battle of Yanmen really scared the Huns, and the once invincible Huns suddenly realized that their southern neighbors had become extremely powerful, and trained terrible black-armored soldiers to wreak havoc on the grassland, and Shan Yu, a military minister who was the emperor of the grassland, was helpless. The hastily mounted imitation stirrup saddle successfully defeated Xianbei and Wuhuan, which was regarded as a preliminary test of the vital role played by the new equipment in the war.
The Huns must master high-end combat power in order to better protect themselves, otherwise their own light cavalry will not be able to penetrate the defense of the black armor soldiers, and the black armor soldiers will easily rush over and raise their sabers and ride guns to slaughter their own people, which will be a depressing news.
The Huns' sweep was very resolute, almost at the same time as Yizhi stepped into the desert, the Huns found a burned camp in the hinterland of the desert, in addition to the common items such as camp tents and wooden fences, there were also grain and grass and cattle and sheep corpses that were too late to take away, and the most angry Huns were found in the burned corpses.
This Han army is a very cunning and ferocious enemy, they may not have the terrifying impact of the black armor soldiers, compared to the cunning and insidious degree is slightly better, tens of thousands of tribal cavalry in the desert in a wide range of searches stunned did not find half a figure, a few days ago the tribal cavalry sent a search team did not dare to go too deep also has a lot to do with it, this Hun scout cavalry is the first to go deep into the hinterland of the Huns, found the burned camp and corpses of the witnesses.
When Yi Zhixian received the news that the camp had been burned in the evening, the king of Zuogu barely marched thirty miles to catch up with the moon and the middle of the sky, and could only watch the boiled duck fly out.
"How can this be true? Why can't you send the information a day in advance? Delaying a fighter should be a capital offense! ”
Yi Zhi slanted in the abandoned camp roared, behind him 30,000 Zuogu Liwang cavalry silently endured, their king against the banner of the fourth king of the Huns on the surface of the infinite scenery, in fact, whether it is military strength or morale experience There is a huge gap, 30,000 Zuogu Liwang cavalry is slightly stronger than 10,000 king's tent cavalry, but the left and right Xian kings have 30,000 king's tent cavalry, and the fourth king of the Huns and the top three left and right Xianwang strength gap is too big.
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