Chapter 118 Self-inflicted
Once the Xianbei soldiers and horses in the position of the Chinese army began to retreat, the feint troops that were originally blocked in front of the Han army immediately became chaotic, and they were killed and brought back to life by the three weapons of the Han people's "poisonous smoke burning car", "deadly bed crossbow" and "pit father iron thistle".
Although the weapons of the Han army are vicious, they are all defensive in nature, as long as the Xianbei people want to retreat and turn their horses, they can quickly leave the battlefield.
Of course, there are exceptions. For example, the 4,000 Xianbei cavalry that Suo Nu brought to the end of the Han army, their luck was not so good, because they ran head-on into the 2,000 Han cavalry who were waiting for work, and when the leader was killed and no one commanded, although they could escape without their lives, the Han army behind them would not let them retreat so easily.
Zhao Yun and the twenty black-armored knights were like a deadly scythe, and in the blink of an eye, they had already killed hundreds of Xianbei people, and the Han cavalry that followed behind them was also scrambling to shoot arrows at the fleeing Xianbei people.
If it weren't for the saddle and stirrup, only Zhao Yun and twenty black-armored knights of the two thousand Han cavalry were equipped with saddle pedals and horseshoe, and today's Xianbei cavalry would have died even more wretched and ugly.
The Xianbei people in the upper reaches began to cross the river and retreat to the north, while the Xianbei cavalry in the lower reaches fled to the south.
If it was someone else, he would either immediately cross the river to the north in a panic, or flee to the south, and he would definitely not come to Macheng, which was heavily garrisoned, but Kebineng was very human, in order to be able to evacuate the main force of the Chinese army from Kaiyouzhou, he had already saved the plan to abandon the upstream as a feint force of thousands of people, as for the 4,000 people who were chased and killed by the Han cavalry downstream, it is estimated that they could not escape even one.
Kebineng's idea was brutal, but also practical, which was to leave the troops acting as feints and let them cross the river in a mess behind the main force, so that the cavalry rushing out of the Han camp could be prevented from entanglement with the main force. It's still more than sixty miles away from Macheng, and if it's a little closer than ten miles or so, it's not necessarily immediately dangerous.
If it weren't for the fact that the Macheng garrison who received Liu He's summons wanted to recapture Ningcheng before Yan Rou arrived, this time Xian Yufu would definitely lead about 8,000 cavalry to ambush on the north bank of the upper reaches, just waiting for the Xianbei people to launch a fatal blow when they crossed into the river!
As soon as the Xianbei people in the upper reaches began to move, Li Yan immediately organized nearly a thousand people armed with wooden sticks to rush out of the gang, and quickly removed the thistles and the corpses of the fallen Xianbei people scattered in front of the team, as well as the remains of the stacked carts and crashed cars that were burned beyond recognition, so as to open the way for the cavalry in the battalion to attack.
Soon after, a clean passage dozens of steps wide was cleared out in time, and Li Yan hurriedly reminded Sun Li: "Commander Sun, you can lead the cavalry to pursue!" ”
Sun Li, who had been waiting for a long time, had already roared away on his war horse without waiting for Li Yan to finish speaking.
"Changshan Zhao Zilong is here, who dares to fight!" The fake "Zhao Yun" roared at the Xianbei people who were crowded into a pile not far away and were eager to cross the river, and they killed them with their guns.
The Xianbei people had already learned Zhao Yun's power many times, and suddenly saw this white-clothed and white-horse devil rushing up again, so they were even more panicked, and many Xianbei people who were originally pushing carts didn't care about looking for horses, and jumped directly towards the cold revenge water.
Although the fake Zhao Yun covered his face, his killing skills were clean and neat. I saw that after Sun Li rushed into the enemy group, he went on a rampage to pick the place with many Xianbei people, and it didn't take long for dozens of Xianbei people to die under his gun.
The two thousand cavalry who rushed out with Sun Li were originally stationed in Macheng, and they were also holding their stomachs, and they hated the Xianbei people who came to rob the grain three times and two times, and now they caught up with the opportunity to beat the water dogs, how could they easily let it go?
Robbing people's grain and grass and cutting off people's food channels is like killing parents, this kind of revenge must be avenged!
Fifteen miles west of Guangning City, Yan Rou personally led 15,000 Wuhuan soldiers and horses to Ning County, where the Wuhuan Captain's Mansion was located, he didn't have time to take care of the safety of the Han army's food team, as long as he captured Ning County, he could intercept Kebineng by turning around, how could he let go of such a good thing that killed two birds with one stone?
In Yan Rou's subconscious, he wished that this time Kebi could best annihilate all the grain teams of the Han army, and then the Xianbei people also lost seven or eight thousand troops.
Yan Rou would never have thought that the Xianbei people did lose seven or eight thousand troops this time, but the Han army that guarded the grain lost less than one percent of the 4,000 cavalry and 1,000 infantry!
Guangning City is in the east of Ning County, and Ning County is only more than 20 miles away, these two cities have a "Ning" in their names, in fact, they are specially used to garrison the sister city of Biansai. Ningcheng and Macheng are located on the north and south banks of the water respectively, like two strong gates, and now Liu Yu led the army to garrison the south, but the north was once occupied by the Xianbei people due to Yan Rou's repeated efforts.
Fortunately, Guangning City is located in the east of Ning County, blocking the Xianbei people's attempt to attack Youzhou from Ning County to the east, otherwise the harm caused to the people of Youzhou by Kebi's entry into the Kou this time would not be like now, only limited to a radius of thirty miles from Ning County.
After Yan Zhi told Liu He the night before, Liu He immediately sent a fast horse to report to Liu Yu, and suggested that Xian Yufu lead a force to immediately move north, and occupy Ningcheng in one fell swoop while the Xianbei people had just left and Yan Rou's troops were still in Guangning.
Liu Yu also knew the importance of Daoning City, so he did not hesitate to allocate 8,000 soldiers and horses to Xian Yufu, and ordered him to immediately go out of the city to the north, close to the Great Wall, and avoid meeting Kebineng from the south on the way.
In this way, when Kebi can lead the army south, at a certain moment, Xian Yufu happened to pass by him, but Xian Yufu was in the west, Kebi was in the east, and the two armies were more than forty miles apart, and there were many hills and ridges in the middle, so it was difficult to find each other.
When Xian Yufu arrived at the outskirts of Ning County with his troops, he sent spies to reconnoiter and found that the Xianbei people entrenched in the area of Ningcheng were nowhere to be found, so he returned to report to Xian Yufu. Xian Yufu was overjoyed, and immediately urged the soldiers and horses to rush to Ningcheng, and before Yan Rou arrived, the soldiers occupied this important border town without blood!
Since the Qin Dynasty, the Han people resisted the nomads in the north, generally using a combination of point defense and line defense. Among them, the point defense is to use the large-scale garrison of the border fortress city, and the line defense is to block the northern tribes with the help of the Great Wall. Without the border towns as solid support points, there is no way to talk about line defense. This is also the reason why Liu Yu would rather give up attacking Kebineng's main force for the sake of what is going on, and let Xian Yufu rob Ningcheng.
The Xianbei people did not come here to occupy the city of Youzhou for a long time, but to carry out robbers and plunder; Yan Rou was different, not only did he want to occupy Ningcheng for a long time, but he also had ambitions for a large area north of the Revenge River. Therefore, from the perspective of the overall situation, preventing Yan Rou is actually more important than annihilating Kebineng.
When Yan Rou came to Ningcheng happily, he was surprised to find that there were already Han soldiers standing on the top of the city, and the banner with the word "Liu" on the face stabbed his eyes even more!
"How is that possible! Where did these Han troops come from? Yan Rou really couldn't figure it out, so she immediately sent someone to the city under her own banner and asked the leader of the city to come out and answer.
Not long after, Xian Yufu appeared in Yan Rou's field of vision.
Yan Rou shook her head and smiled bitterly, patted her horse and came to the city, and talked to Xian Yufu.
"Brother Yan, this time you are one step too late!" Xian Yufu greeted Yan Rou with a smile.
"Captain Xianyu, why didn't you come here to rescue the grain team besieged by the Xianbei people?" Yan Rou asked very depressedly.
"Hehe, didn't I think that Brother Yan would have you in Quang Ninh City! The first two times it wasn't Brother Yan who was on the sidelines, forcing Na Ke to dare not move a little. Hey, I almost forgot, why didn't Brother Yan lead the army south to support this time, but what did he do in Ningcheng? ”
Okay, these two guys are asking each other why they came to Ningcheng, but no one cares about the safety of the food team!
Yan Rou and Xian Yufu already had some friendship, but now seeing that he had completely controlled Ningcheng, it was not easy to turn his face on the spot and take Ningcheng from Xian Yufu's hands, so he had to say depressedly: "Since there is Xian Yu Duwei guarding Ningcheng here, I will lead the team to the south to support Zhao Duwei!" ”
Xian Yufu said to Yan Rou and said, "Then there is Lao Yan Sima!" Please go to the south quickly, it's too late, I'm afraid that Zhao Duwei won't be able to support it. ”
Yan Rouxin said: It's best that you can't support it! Let Kebi take the grain and grass, and see if you can still talk cool here!
Yan Rou took advantage of the excitement and left. In order to soothe her wounded heart, Yan Rou decided to take the soldiers and horses to find Kebineng's bad luck, but halfway through, she suddenly received shocking news from Tanma.
The Han army's grain team defeated Kebineng at the water's edge, killing more than 3,000 Xianbei people on the spot, capturing more than 4,000 prisoners, and Kebineng led the remnants of more than 8,000 people to flee north across the water and go straight to Guangning City!
What is Quang Ninh City? Yan Rou's lair now!
Is this Nima's a god horse situation? How can it make people dizzy like a marquee?
It turned out that after crossing the water, Kebi Neng suddenly thought that Yan Rou might have recaptured Ningcheng at this time, if he led the army to escape to the west at this time, the exit had been sealed, which was basically equivalent to hitting the city wall, in case Macheng and Ningcheng sent a large army to block at the same time, wouldn't he die in Youzhou?
Kobineng immediately changed the route of retreat, and went the opposite way, heading straight for Quang Ninh.
When Yan Rou followed Liu Yu south, he led a force of about 20,000 people, of which 15,000 were Wuhuan cavalry and 5,000 were attached Xianbei people. Some time ago, he sent troops twice to rob grain, but Xiahou Lan fought back desperately, stealing chickens and losing nearly 2,000 people.
This time, Yan Rou led 15,000 people to Ningcheng, so there were only 3,000 soldiers left behind in Guangning, and most of them were attached Xianbei people.
Kebineng led the army to arrive at the city of Guangning, intimidated and wooed, and as a result, he said that the Xianbei people who defended the city were moved, and they actually opened the city gate and welcomed Kebineng in!
After getting supplies in the city, Kebineng immediately abandoned Guangning City and continued to flee north with his team, and more than 3,000 Xianbei soldiers who defended the city also left with him, leaving a looted Guangning City!
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