Chapter 200: Encirclement and Reinforcements
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For Song Jingang's battle plan, the generals discussed it all night, and finally agreed to prepare to besiege Fanyang with a large army, so as to induce Liu Wuzhou to send troops from Yicheng to rescue, and then encircle the point to send reinforcements, intercept Liu Wuzhou's reinforcements with the main force, force him to accept the decisive battle, and then give full play to the advantages of the grassland ranger field battle and win the decisive battle.
This tactic can be said to be very capable of giving full play to the advantages of Li Chongjiu's cavalry. However, the plan is just a piece of paper. In order to prepare for this decisive battle, Li Chongjiu stepped up the training of this 10,000 grassland rangers, and on the other hand, sent a large number of spy reports to spy on the terrain of Yixian and Fanyang, where soldiers can be used, where ambushes can be laid, and where to fight a decisive battle.
However, 10,000 cavalrymen eat horses every day, which is a large expense, not to mention people, that is, the hay that the war horses eat every day, which is an astronomical amount. When Li Chongjiu thought of a solution to this problem, it was Eto, but when Ying Hefu heard about it, he laughed out loud, obviously not taking it seriously.
It turns out that every Hu person on the grassland wears several professions, usually hunters, herdsmen, warriors, and of course, ancestral trade robbers. The Han people called this kind of behavior Kou Plagiarism, while the Xi people called themselves Dacao Valley. The word grass grain is very vivid, because the herdsmen have to go around collecting hay every autumn to store it for the sheep and horses to spend the winter. Of course, Li Chongjiu will not let the Hu cavalry fight grass valley on his own territory, he will be the Taishou in the future, govern Shanggu County, and rob his own people now, even if he comes to power in the future, he will definitely not be popular with the people.
Therefore, Li Chongjiu temporarily moved the cavalry to Yanmen County, the original imperial court set up a horse herding supervisor in this border county, and then because the Turks surrounded Emperor Yang of Sui in Fenyang Palace, so the horse herding supervisor was abolished, but although there was no war horse, but the pasture was still there. Li Chongjiu simply camped the 10,000 cavalry in Yanmen, and while practicing, he ate locally.
One day in October, when the new snow began to fall, the people of Shanggu County changed into winter clothes to prepare for the winter, but such a heavy snow and early fall weather was not cold for the Hu people on the grassland. Not to mention the white and black disasters on the grassland, only to say that the wind on the grassland is now together, and the climate is much colder than that of the Central Plains. Rouran, when the Turks were strong, they took advantage of the autumn and winter to invade the Han land in the south every year, firstly to fight the grass valley, and secondly, to avoid the harsh winter on the grassland. Sometimes the Yellow River froze, and the steppe cavalry could even cross the river on the ice and return to the steppe in the spring.
The ground was covered with fresh snow, and the grass had not yet been wiped, but only a thin layer, and suddenly the ground trembled, and the snow pit was broken by the horses' hooves. The Hu cavalry, armed with horned bows and horses straddled quivers, swept from west to east like a torrent, and the smoke and dust rolled towards Fan Yang.
Now less than two zhang high Fanyang County is on all sides, and tens of thousands of troops have surrounded Fanyang City from front to back. The guards of Fanyang City looked for the appearance and saw countless people under the city with their hair and left hair, wrapped in leather, and many people were not afraid of the cold to empty their right arms from their clothes and pull out the horn bow on their horses, so it was naturally convenient for the right hand to draw arrows, which showed the courage of the enemy army. And the city is in full swing on all sides, and the formation is arranged, each cavalry is at least three horses or more, and the white air exhaled by the war horse rises to the air, and the city is like covered with a layer of white mist, covering the faces of the Hu people on the horses.
Seeing this scene, he was immediately shocked, Fan Yang is in the interior, and it is not as strong as the border county and border city, not to mention that compared to Jixian County, a big city like Jinyang, with this low city and a mere 3,000 defenders, can resist this Hu army for a few days.
"General, with our lonely city, we will definitely not be able to resist so many horsemen, and the last general is willing to risk his life to lead more than a dozen horsemen to fight out of the siege and report to Liu Dashuai!"
"No need," Xunxiang waved his hand, a few green tendons jumped out of his forehead, and shouted, "This is only sixty miles away from Yi County, Liu Dashuai must have already known, we can wait for reinforcements with peace of mind." ”
The camp of Liu Wu and Zhou's army in Yi County, the scene before the arrival of a big war.
Liu Wuzhou put on a heavy armor, strode into the big tent under the guidance of a row of guards, stood up to greet the generals, and pressed his hand: "Sit!" ”
The armor clanged, and the generals sat on a long table in pairs, Liu Wuzhou walked to the main seat and said: "Fan Yang was besieged, everyone already knows, Fan Yang City is short and outnumbered, if you don't send troops to rescue quickly, the city will be broken!"
Before Liu Wuzhou's words fell, the next general stood up and said: "Tell the commander, according to the report of the spies, the enemy army has not yet attacked the city, do you want to take a look and say, the last general is worried that the enemy lured our army to the rescue, and then set up an ambush halfway." ”
Liu Wuzhou laughed when he heard this, and said: "You said yes, and in my opinion, it is also true." The Hu cavalry is long in field battles and short in siege cities, if they do not have absolute superiority, they will not attack our own strengths with their own shortcomings, and there will be ambushes on this road. However, our army knows that the enemy's plan is nothing more than this, so what is there to fear! ”
Hearing Liu Wuzhou say this, all the generals slapped the table and laughed.
On a hill thirty miles near Fanyang, under the white and yellow Yue, it was the honor guard of the Khan Li Chongjiu. Li Chongjiu's hands were behind him, standing on the top of the mountain, and the white hair made of white cow hair was fluttering in the wind.
"Report!" A soldier dragged a long voice to Li Chongjiu and said, "Tell the Khan, Liu Wuzhou led an army of 10,000 out of the barracks, and now he is rushing here. ”
"Oh," Li Chongjiu asked, turning around, "how are the enemy forces distributed?" What is the speed? ”
The soldier said: "Liu Wuzhou personally led the army to march slowly behind, and with 4,000 armored troops at the head, he marched forward quickly, so that he could resist the city of Fanyang in less than a day. ”
Li Chongjiu nodded and said, "Order all troops to lie in ambush on the mountain road, and don't send troops without waiting for my order." ”
After the soldier retreated, Li Chongjiu waited patiently for the news, and it didn't take long to receive the news that Liu Wuzhou had entered his ambush circle in this short distance of sixty miles.
"Report!"
Another spy came to report, Li Chongjiu saw that the other party looked panicked, obviously Liu Wuzhou did not have a plan, only heard the spy tremble and said: "Our army ambushed in the Bird Valley was suddenly set on fire by Liu Wuzhou's army, and the Etuo army was besieged in the valley. ”
Li Chongjiu heard that his intentions were seen through by Liu Wuzhou, and secretly said that it was really Liu Wuzhou, and famous generals like Xue Shixiong were cunning and cunning.
"Dahan, at the mouth of the valley, Liu Wuzhou's army guarded with a crossbow, and asked me to set fire to the hay and burn the mountain, the fire is very huge at the moment, the two thousand cavalry of the Eto army are trapped in the valley and are not allowed to enter or exit, if the fire continues to burn, the two thousand men and horses will all be burned to charcoal, Khan quickly think of a way." The spy said anxiously.