Chapter 298: Four Wastes, One Hero
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The great desert across the grassland is a natural dividing line, the Mobei grassland and the desert south grassland are divided into two, and become a relative system to operate separately, the Xiongnu Shan Yuting is located in the core area of the Mobei grassland, Longcheng, and the principle of the desert south grass has become the control area of the Zuoxian Royal Court, as for the Youxian Royal Court is not in the desert grassland at all, but on the plateau desert closer to the Western Regions.
Hanhai is also known as the Gobi, Hanhai is difficult to cross is to describe the desert Gobi to an army interception effect, the newcomer to the northern army cavalry encountered the big desert that could not see the edge, almost everyone was playing the drum in their hearts, whether they prepared enough dry food, whether the water was enough, whether the sandstorm and quicksand would swallow life, in case of encountering the Huns, would they be wiped out.
There were worries on all sides, especially when the commander of this army was only sixteen years old, even younger than the youngest of the Northern Army, and the pessimism and distrust from the heart gradually spread, especially their commanders always made strange demands, such as going out day and night as much as possible to move at a uniform pace, hunting as much as possible along the way and not wasting their rations, and it looked more like coming out for an armed parade than going straight to Dragon City.
In response to the continuous doubts, Wei Qing chose to respond with a straight face and an expressionless face. He knew that it was useless for him to choose silence or force his arguments, and that he would only expose his weakness or impulsiveness, and that a businesslike tone would allow him to silence all doubters at the lowest cost.
As it turned out, he was quite right.
From the beginning of the fortress to the present more than ten days, only three unfortunate encounters are on the way to the Xiongnu tribe, the cautious Wei Qing chose to disguise as a Hun cavalry to fool the past, it is obvious that the Huns did not expect that there will be a possibility of the Han army suddenly appearing in the hinterland of the grassland desert. This is as incredible as a Xiongnu army suddenly appearing in Guanzhong.
Thousands of miles deep into the grassland, from the first three days of rapid running, to gradually slow down the speed of day and night, Wei Qing used his command and vision to repeatedly avoid the Hun cavalry grassland sweep, although he did not receive the news that Gongsun He's whole army fled back to Yuyang County in embarrassment, but only need to be seen from the strange movements of the Xiongnu rear. The other four routes of the Han army must have suffered a heavy setback.
"Order the whole army to speed up and advance in the northwest direction with all its might."
"General, what are you hiding from this time?"
"The main force of King Zuo Xian swept the troops, don't talk nonsense and carry out orders." Wei Qing put away the binoculars, and he could make a basic judgment by looking at the number and scale of the eagle flock coiling in the sky.
Usually the eagle is monogamous and fixed, and there are few large-scale cases, and the large-scale appearance of eagle flocks is not normal, and there are only two possibilities. It's nothing more than that there is a big tribe there that is comparable to the court of Zuo Xian, or there is an elite army that continues to rush west.
In addition to the Shan Yuting of Mobei Longcheng, there is no larger grassland tribe than Zuoxian Wangting, obviously the possibility of the latter is infinite, only a large force of cavalry will violate the convention to appear dozens of eagles flying around, the Huns like to use eagles to reconnoiter the enemy. It is equivalent to a pair of eyes in the sky looking down on the earth.
Experienced generals can make tactical adjustments by observing the changes in the flock of birds and the commotion of the animals, a skill that Wei Qing learned from stealing from the Yulin Cavalry, although his own stealing master is far less sharp than that of the stolen person. However, the low threshold and strong effect are still very high, and it is not shameful to steal the stunt of the master Yulin at his age. What's more, it is impossible for Yulin to jump out and investigate.
The cavalry of the Northern Army rushed out of the northwest direction for more than 30 miles, and after receiving the transfer of the whole army to the northeast direction, it continued to advance at a slow speed. Most of them go around hundreds of miles just to avoid patrols, no matter how much energy and time is wasted, the effect of detouring is very good.
As the alarm was lifted, the speed of the Northern cavalry's march slowed down again.
"All obey the order, bury the pot and cook on the spot and rest quickly, and we will continue to march north for at least eighty miles when it is dark." Wei Qing took out binoculars and scanned the endless grassland desert, the desertification situation is gradually deteriorating in this era, the self-rescue ability of the grassland desert is relatively weak, usually there is no reaction before the desertification of the land begins, once the desertification begins, it becomes the kind of serious reaction that says the wind is the rain.
From resolute disbelief to resolute belief, from one extreme to the other, especially the Huns are very concerned about the desertification of the grassland and the expansion of the desert, the Han people are most afraid of the salinization of the land leading to the end of the harvest when they grow grain, and the Huns are most afraid of the desertification of the grassland leading to the extinction of pasture, and in the end, everyone's living space is getting smaller and smaller, and it is the turn of the Huns to cry.
Wei Qing took out his small notebook to make a detailed record of the day, his habit is to sort out all the experiences and experiences of the war and store them in different places, beware of sudden situations that disrupt his strategic deployment, at least the daily plan must be done very well, and it is not the fault that he can't complete it, but he can't meet the requirements if he doesn't perform well.
He also learned this method from Yulin riding, Qu Shunhou Chen He held a small book to ask everywhere all day long, Wei Qing didn't understand Chen He's intention to ask around with a small book at first, and only later did he understand that he was just constantly summarizing his own mistakes, and the plan of how to avoid it was not written on the spot, Wei Qing thought it was very fun to take it and write it according to the cat and the tiger, and then it became less and less written and became just a simple play.
"The original plan was to take a shortcut all the way to the foot of Dragon City, but I don't dare to make a decision lightly now, after all, 10,000 people rushing to Dragon City may not be able to survive a few lives."
Wei Qing communicated with several lieutenants.
Every lieutenant is older than him, so every lieutenant is very arrogant to him, and it is easy to scare you into having to make concessions, Wei Qing's forbearance again and again did not let them learn a lesson, but made them intensify their criticism of important military and political affairs, and several captains once said in unison that they did not need to attack, as long as they put the Fifth Route Army in the border county to wait for work.
"Doctor Taizhong, your plan is very good, but because your tactics are too conservative, why are we not willing to use cavalry to attack directly?"
"We think Dr. Taizhong is a bit of a matter of assumptions. It is very incorrect to think of yourself as a general of chariot and cavalry, and the heroic talents from the Pingyang Marquis Mansion have no influence on Wei Qing alone. ”
The gossip did not stop, knowing that Pingyang Hou Cao Shi came out to simply express his attitude, so the scolder gradually put away his scolding thoughts, focusing on the Han-Hun decisive battle that was about to open the formation, and Wei Qing responded calmly to what had happened recently. As long as it's not the results they use their own abilities to fight, it's useless.
"You all listen, this time the target is the tribe of Shan Yu Wangting who came out of Dragon City, where more than 100,000 cavalry are rapidly decreasing, indicating that our friendly forces are attracting a huge amount of firepower, and our results will be obtained from these Huns who are going south, and the battlefield is located in the hinterland of the grassland desert, and all areas within a radius of five hundred miles will be clear as soon as possible. We are rich and dangerous! ”
After judging that the five-way attack on the Huns was completely a situation of death, Wei Qing has been thinking about a way to get out successfully, breaking into the grassland desert and thinking about retreating with all his body will take a little more thought, the density of the Hun cavalry patrol is very large, and it seems that he was frightened by the Han army's Yulin cavalry. I'd rather work more and patrol around than be rushed by the ghostly black-armored cavalry and kill indiscriminately.
Wei Qing was very bold, he decided to take a risk to make a fuss in the blind spot of the desert Gobi, if the Huns are the overlords of the grassland who rule millions of herdsmen, then the desert Gobi is an insurmountable mountain in front of the Huns. Any accident can happen in the desert, so every time you cross the desert Gobi, you must be prepared for losses.
It has to be said that his plan is very novel. So much so that more than 10,000 cavalry felt incredible, hundreds of thousands of Hun cavalry wandered around the grassland, Wei Qing dared to put 10,000 cavalry under the nose of the Huns to hunt and sneak attack, and it was in the desert that the Huns were most worried and afraid of. It's a bit dark and you can't catch the fox's tail.
Originally, there were many people who disagreed, but the matter has come to an end, and it was they who ran to the Gobi Desert in all directions, and now they turned around and went south 99 percent of them were going to be killed or captured alive by the Huns, so it was better to fight and quietly set up an ambush circle in the hinterland of the desert, and he wanted to use his actions to prove that his relatives were not synonymous with shame, and he could still become a great battlefield commander.
So in the next ten days, there are constantly Hun tribes from the north of the desert to cross the desert in the process of losing a trace, the most terrible is the missing tribe up to men, women, old and children, down to chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep all disappeared, not even a live mouth escaped, not at all like the impression of the big sandstorm or the big quicksand, although these two can kill people but refuse to cause not even a living mouth to escape from the group annihilation,
The Huns were very anxious, many of the Hun cavalry their own tribes suddenly disappeared, the original high-spirited team fell into unnecessary conflicts of views and ideas and serious opposition, the nobles who were not damaged resolutely disagreed with the Hun cavalry to the north to investigate the case, and the damaged Hun cavalry decided to recover the losses and continue to maneuver, just like a mad gambler, the more he lost, the more he insisted on winning back.
Wei Qing's harassment was fruitful, killing no less than 7,000 large and small tribes in ten days, and at the same time, he also learned about the situation of the other four roads from the captured Huns.
The light car general Gongsun He was the first to retreat, and the people who died on the spot were almost 8,000 lives, fortunately they ran relatively fast and were not completely annihilated, but unfortunately the main general Gongsun took the lead in escaping, resulting in the collapse of the whole army, and a general with basic common sense might be able to survive 8,000 people, instead of 8,000 people killed in battle.
Gongsun Ao, the middle doctor, fought and retreated with 40,000 Hun cavalry, and retreated all the way to the territory of Yunzhong County to drive away the pursuing cavalry, and the 10,000 cavalry under Gongsun Ao lost 4,000 lives.
Lieutenant Wang Xin's whole army was wiped out, Wang Xin would not lead the troops to fight at all, and he panicked when he encountered a 20,000 cavalry of the Hun tribe, and was defeated by the left and right sandwiches, only Wang Xin himself escaped with more than 20 henchmen and guards, Wang Xin is the one with the least balance of power in the Northern Expedition of the Five Routes, and he is not as good as Gongsun He, who is good at bragging, he is a typical relative who comes to gild.
Taiwei Tian Wei returned to Shuofang County unharmed, and under the banner of defending against the Huns between Shuofang County and Yunzhong County, it is said that he never left the border of Shuofang County a hundred miles away, almost heard the wind and fled back quickly, his level is slightly better than Lieutenant Wang Xin, knowing that he can't fight at all, he would rather be a coward than a bird.
Wei Qing was silent, he didn't know what expression to use to express correctly, none of the four roads army was reliable, he originally predicted that the other four roads might be dealing with the main force of the Huns in Monan, but now it seems that he really looks down on them.
Li Dang laughed and said: "In addition to Gongsun Ao's usefulness, the other three are really wastes in the waste, General Wei is not a high-ranking disciple of the Che Cavalry General, I Li Dare admire your command methods!" ”
"I admire it too!"
The captains of the Northern Army laughed, at first glance, Wei Qing's command level was not too outstanding, but if he compared it with the other four waste dim sums, he was definitely a very good general. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Pay attention to the ~ point / official account (WeChat add friends - add official account - enter qdread), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to the qdread WeChat public account! (To be continued~^~)——9h+10978787——>