Chapter 356: Xianbei Escapes at Night

Zhao Yun's temperament is calm and calm, but it does not mean that he is a conservative person, and at some point, his boldness and radicalism even Guo Jia cannot bear it.

For example, now, when faced with the choice of advance and retreat, Zhao Yun insisted on concentrating all the cavalry to launch a fatal blow against the Xianbei people, so as not to be dragged on the grassland by the Xianbei people for a long time, and some other accidents would occur.

Last time, it was also Zhao Yun who took the initiative to propose a strategy to attack the surrendered city, and it turned out that the operation led by him was very successful, not only achieving the strategic purpose, but also the tactical purpose, successfully pulling the Xianbei people to the Youzhou battlefield, and at the same time striking at the arrogance of the Xianbei people.

After listening to Zhao Yun's proposal, Liu He frowned and thought for a moment, and asked slowly: "If this night attack is commanded by Zilong, I don't know how sure you can be?" ”

Zhao Yun had already made up his mind and replied: "The cavalry officers and men of our army have been selected at various levels before being selected, and all of them have passed the physical examination of night vision, so there are no blindfolded soldiers, and the subjects of night raids are often organized in peacetime training, so soldiers are no strangers to night combat." If Childe can divide half of the firearms brought by the army to his subordinates, his subordinates will have seven points of certainty that tonight's night attack will be successful! ”

Guo Jia reminded Zhao Yun and said: "After a battle during the day, the physical strength of the sergeants and horses of the army is serious, at this time, Kebineng is already forty miles away from our army, if the night attack is a severe test for the physical strength of the soldiers and the war horses, I wonder if Zilong can think about it clearly?" ”

Zhao Yun nodded and replied: "Regarding the physical strength limit of the soldiers and the endurance limit of the war horses, I have also carefully calculated, as long as I feed the war horses more essence now, and give the soldiers more food to help them get excited before leaving, the army will set off at three o'clock and arrive at the camp of the Xianbei people when it is close to Chenshi." It was the perfect moment to launch an attack. ”

"Okay, according to Zilong's strategy, even if you let the soldiers use the firearms brought with the army this time, as long as you can break through the camp of the Xianbei people and deal a heavy blow to the Xianbei people, even if these firearms are all consumed, they will be used to the fullest, and I will not feel distressed at all." Liu He finally made a decision and agreed to Zhao Yun's suggestion.

Zhao Yun was appointed by Liu He. Immediately gather all the cavalry, including even three thousand heavy cavalry. After a fierce battle during the day, only 18,000 of the 20,000 cavalry Liu He brought to the grassland this time were left, and the remaining 2,000 were lost in battle. Zhao Yun asked the heavy cavalry battalion to remove the heavy horse armor and steel armor, and put it with light leather armor. Maintain the same counterweight as the light cavalry, so that it does not affect the overall marching speed of the troops.

Because he undertook the task of attacking the Xianbei camp in the second half of the night. After Zhao Yun gave various orders. He began to inspect the preparations of the battalions, and Zhang He was appointed by Liu He as the commander of more than 10,000 left-behind infantry, and he was entrusted with the defense of the camp at night.

Zhang He had no complaints about this division of labor, although Zhao Yun was responsible for the attack, he was also responsible for staying behind, after all, Liu He and Guo Jia and a large number of other core officials in the command were concentrated in the camp. Don't dare to make a mistake at this time.

Three thousand years ago, when the Xianbei cavalry approached the Han army camp ten miles away, Zhang He sent out to patrol and guard the rangers at night to find traces of the Xianbei people, these patrol rangers are carrying a kind of alarm equipment similar to the "Monkey in the sky" in the fireworks of later generations, as long as they find the movement of the Xianbei people. A bamboo tube will be quickly lit, and a fire and a loud noise will be emitted into the air as a warning signal. Because the number of Xianbei troops attacking was not large, the alarm signal set off by the sentry cavalry was only a single tube, so after the soldiers in the Han army camp heard the sound of warning, except for the soldiers on duty at night, they were ready to meet the enemy, and the rest of the soldiers who should rest continued to rest and did not panic at all.

The Xianbei people walked around the camp of the Han army, but wherever they went, they were quickly discovered by the patrolling sentinels, and the warning signals in the sky exploded one after another, so frightened that these Xianbei cavalry did not dare to approach at all, but after a while around the periphery, they returned to report to Kebineng.

After returning to the camp for fear of being punished, the leader who led 3,000 Xianbei cavalry to attack the Han camp only said that the Han army's defense was extremely tight, and there was no opportunity to take advantage of it. Kebineng didn't have much hope for the troops who sent this sneak attack, but now that he learned that the Han army was heavily guarded, he felt a little more at ease. The more vigilant the Han army was at night, the more obvious their intention to continue fighting with them during the day became, and naturally they would not make any moves at night.

Zhao Yun, who was patrolling the cavalry battalions, learned that the cavalry of the Xianbei people had intended to attack the camp, and said to himself: "It seems that Kebi Neng is really going to change his strategy, but this is just right!" The failure he sent to attack the camp would only make him think that our army was well defended and was unwilling to fight at night, which would be more conducive to our army's attack in the second half of the night! ”

In the middle of the night, Kebineng sent a small group of troops to attack and harass, but also encountered the warning and frightening of the Han army, and returned unsuccessfully.

Soon after the group of Xianbei people who came to attack and harassed withdrew, the cavalry of the Han army, under the joint command of the main general Zhao Yun, the deputy general Xiahoulan, and the partial generals Sun Li and Yan Rou, rushed straight towards the camp of the Xianbei people.

Zhao Yun did not expect that the army could avoid the eyes of the Xianbei people when it moved on the vast grassland, what he had to do now was to follow the Xianbei people's exploration horse to the Xianbei people's camp, completely tear open the Xianbei people's camp with a fierce and powerful blow, and then completely defeat the Xianbei people before this dawn came.

For example, the last time Zhao Yun commanded the action of attacking the surrendered city, it was like a fluttering sword stabbed in the hand of the great master of swordsmanship, so that the opponent could not understand the trick at all and was killed by the sword, and this night attack on the camp of the Xianbei people was a fatal knife cut by the great master of swordsmanship with all his strength, even if the enemy could see the trick clearly, as long as he couldn't avoid it, he would be split in half by this sharp knife!

Kobineng had already rested in his tent, and according to the nomadic habit of going to war, he was lying down and sleeping, so when he found the scattered sentinels returning to call the police in panic, a harrier rolled over and mounted his horse.

"The Han army is coming, and the tribes are quickly ready to fight!" Yan Rou used all her strength and shouted a little sadly in the camp. With his shouts, there are various sounds of gongs and drums, which fully shows how urgent and fierce the Han army's attack is this time.

When Zhao Yun and his team rushed to the outside of the Xianbei camp, most of the Xianbei people had already woken up from their slumber and hurriedly mounted their horses, preparing to fight the incoming Han army.

"Use firearms, destroy the red deer, and tear down the fence of the Xianbei camp!" Zhao Yun coldly ordered.

At the same time, some soldiers who were specially responsible for discharging firearms risked their lives to approach the camp of the Xianbei people, throwing a large number of fist-sized bumps filled with gunpowder towards the camp of the Xianbei people, and some soldiers carried long cylindrical objects and sprayed fire oil at the camp of the Xianbei people.

A violent explosion sounded like firecrackers at the edge of the Xianbei camp, frightening the Xianbei horses and running wildly, and the raging fire burned away the fences and horse rejection defenses that the Xianbei people had planted on the periphery of the camp.

Zhao Yun was not afraid of the Xianbei people rushing over and fighting hard at this time, because even if the Xianbei people didn't come to him to fight hard, he would have to make a break with the Xianbei people. Kebineng mobilized several forces to rush over with the intention of obstructing and delaying the movement of the Han army, but was rushed by Xiahou Lan and Sun Li with several commandos. Although the new firearms used by the Han army were limited in their killing power, they were very effective in creating chaos, especially causing a large area of fright to the Xianbei people's war horses, making the Xianbei people's camp crying and shouting into chaos.

In this chaotic situation, the advantages of the Han cavalry that no one suffered from night blindness and the advantage of often organizing night raids were completely revealed, they could still maintain a tight and strict offensive formation in the dark night, and could still quickly transmit various combat orders, while the Xianbei people did not have these advantages, although they were warriors on the prairie, at least forty percent of the soldiers could not see at night, and there was a lack of unified command between the various tribes, A single Kebineng simply cannot dispatch and direct a large army to effectively retreat and block.

Once the chaotic situation begins, even if the gods descend to earth, it is irreparable, Zhao Yun saw that the time had come, so he ordered loudly: "Each battalion will attack, spread out in a fan, and chase and kill the enemy soldiers within three hundred miles!" ”

The cavalry of the Han army attacked in an orderly manner, unstoppable, and Kebi could see that the general trend had gone, so he had to desperately flee to the west under the protection of the personal guards.

At this time, with the help of the arrival of dawn, the cavalry of the Han army spread out in a fan according to a group of 200 people, and began a ruthless pursuit of the fleeing Xianbei people.

Zhao Yun seemed to have figured out Kebineng's thoughts, and he asked Yan Rou to be his guide and personally led a thousand people to pursue to the west, and this was exactly the direction that Kebineng fled.

In order to reduce the resistance of the Xianbei people blocking the road along the road, Zhao Yun asked the soldiers who rushed in front to show their banners, and after the Xianbei people who fled for their lives saw Zhao Yun's banner, they were also like seeing demons, and they didn't dare to stop in front of Zhao Yun's team at all.

When Kebi could learn that Zhao Yun was actually chasing in the direction of his retreat, he had a feeling of being stared at by a tiger on his back, and he immediately took off the coat he was wearing, and let one of his own soldiers continue to flee westward, while he himself broke away from the team and fled to the north among other small tribes.

Two hours later, Zhao Yun led the team to catch up with the unit where "Kebineng" was, and after some pursuit, Zhao Yun pierced the back of "Kebineng" with a bright silver gun, only to find out that it was a fake after careful inspection.

Zhao Yun was unwilling, so he led his troops to pursue hundreds of miles north, and killed many leaders of the Xianbei people along the way, but there was no trace of Kebineng. (To be continued......)