Chapter 326: The Unowned Prairie (Part II)
This day is destined to be remembered by history, since the founding of the Turks, and the Central Plains Dynasty confrontation for more than 200 years, the Turkic attack on the Central Plains for the first time to defend the situation reversed, Liu Yu is also destined to be remembered by history, he is comparable to the historical general Jin Yao.
Perhaps in the future, a city will rise on the grassland, called Liu Yucheng.
The Turkic Iron Wolf Guard died in the first battle, and the remaining cavalry of the tribes fled in disarray, and then the imperial army launched a tracking for hundreds of miles, in order to completely reshuffle the steppe tribes, and there was no trace of the Turks on the steppe.
But at this time, Liu Yu didn't know that a crisis was coming, and some of the generals led by Min Shaoqing were preparing a campaign to defect, and Liu Yu personally forced these people who had a grudge against him onto the road of confrontation.
Although the Turks were almost wiped out in the First World War, after all, there were still grasslands to rely on, there were royal courts, and there were other tribes, and some of the troops that were hastily assembled could not resist the onslaught of the Shun Dynasty army, but because of the mysterious geographical location of the Turkic royal court, Liu Yu could not directly smash the Yellow Dragon. The two sides fought a second round of battles all the way to about 1,300 miles north of Jinyao City, and the Shun Dynasty army won a complete victory.
The Turks continued to retreat, and at this time, Liu Yu was ready to evacuate because of insufficient supplies, but at this time, Min Shaoqing and other generals sent a message to Liu Yu, saying that they had found the location of the Turkic royal court and asked Liu Yu to wave his army over and directly break the Turkic royal court.
Liu Yu had a question in his heart, he himself sent a lot of sentry spies to find out the location of the Turkic royal court, but he still had no clue, how did the border army know the exact location of the Turkic royal court?
Liu Yu had suspicions in his heart that it might be fraud, but he definitely didn't expect that the war in the north was not over yet. Min Shaoqing dared to attack him. The victory temporarily paralyzed Liu Yu. So Liu Yue informed the army to advance to the established position. After walking more than 700 miles to the north, the position of Liu Yu's vanguard army was already more than 3,000 miles away from the border of the Shun Dynasty, deep into the hinterland of the grassland.
Then a war unfolded in the hinterland of the grassland, the Turks were already homeless wild ghosts, completely unable to deal with Liu Yu's offensive, Liu Yu's Third Route Army was gradually distanced from each other, and Liu Yu felt ominous about disaster relief, and was ready to retreat together. The Turkic cavalry suddenly gathered and moved closer to Liu Yu's Chinese army. After waiting for Min Shaoqing to come for a long time, Liu Yu instinctively felt that he had been betrayed.
The Turks are now in a state of collapse, and to be able to assemble an army so quickly and hit his middle army impartially shows that it was premeditated and the information is extremely accurate, which is almost impossible to achieve in the steppe. Unless someone leaks his whereabouts, and the leaker of this matter is likely to be Min Shaoqing and other generals. The fact that they didn't have reinforcements for a long time proved the problem.
This time, the army was invited to pursue, and Liu Yu's troops were all lightly armed. There was no baggage to back it up, only muskets and a small amount of dry food. Under the suicidal attack of the Turks, Liu Yu's Chinese army could not bear it, and at this time, Huo Yi was addicted to chasing the enemy, and Hua Ji'an persuaded him not to move, while the other route army was lost in the grassland under the leadership of Li Mi and Sui Yi, and was delayed for two days, so that Liu Yu could only deal with the onslaught of tens of thousands of Turkic cavalry with 2,000 Chinese troops.
Liu Yu's army fought and retreated, retreated for about 400 miles, and there was still no trace of reinforcements, Liu Yue completely affirmed the strategy of Min Shaoqing and others at this time, more than half of the two thousand soldiers and horses were lost, and Liu Yue had such a big setback for the first time on the battlefield. Subsequently, Liu Yu's soldiers and horses were trapped in the Beihan Mountain, and they were trapped for six days.
At this time, not only did the border army that pressed behind not come to help, but even Huo Zhi and Li Mi's department were nowhere to be seen, because Min Shaoqing deliberately deviated from the order of the agreed place, and after Liu Yu's Chinese army "disappeared" on the grassland, Min Shaoqing sent a letter to Li Mi and Huo Yuan, making them feel that Liu Yu was continuing to chase the Turkic cavalry. The information on the grassland was not smooth, and when Li Mi and Huo's department continued to pursue thousands of miles north and found that there was no trace of the army passing by, it was too late to come back.
Liu Yu led a small number of men and horses, only 2,000 cavalry, but they were the most elite part of the entire new army. Even if they encountered a lack of water and food, they were bitten by the Turks, but they were still indomitable, and the two sides fought fiercely in the North Cold Mountain for six days and six nights, and the soldiers around Liu Yu were reduced to more than 700, and the Turkic cavalry was sharply reduced from more than 10,000 cavalry to more than 6,000, and the two sides still did not distinguish the winner.
Liu Yu instinctively felt that even if he won this time, he would probably be calculated by Min Shaoqing and other border generals after he went back, so Liu Yu decided to break through to the north.
Seven hundred against six thousand, Liu Yue can be said to have no chance of winning, after all, the Turks use sabers and other cold weapons, which can be said to be not bad, and Liu Yu's soldiers and horses have high combat effectiveness at the beginning, but after all, they rely heavily on guns and ammunition, so they have been fighting for six days without sleep, and they can only use the most basic method to break through and seek reinforcements. At this time, only the troops led by Li Mi and Sui Yi could be relied on, and the number of Huo Yi's stormtroopers was too small to be a backing.
On the ninth day of June, Liu Yu launched a breakthrough battle at noon in the scorching summer. Originally, this was the time of the day when the yang energy was at its peak, and the Turks were also very tired after a battle, and they did not guide Liu Yu to choose such an incident as noon to choose to break through, originally they thought that Liu Yu would continue in the Northern Cold Mountain until the reinforcements arrived. In a war, Liu Yu took the lead.
But after all, the troops are in a great backward position, and the fighting spirit of the soldiers is not strong, the Turks have long been prepared that Liu Yu will lead the troops to break through, set up a number of defensive fronts at the foot of the mountain, a round of breakthrough will suffer heavy losses, although some soldiers and horses broke out under the leadership of Liu Yu, but Liu Yu only has a few dozen horses left, Liu Yue is conceited, and he will not believe that these dozens of people can defeat the enemy.
The vast grassland, there is no guide to lead the way, Liu Yu is also completely lost, Liu Yu only knows that the road to the northwest direction, there are several battles along the way, Liu Yu's department and the pursuers launched a few battles, but because Liu Yue was outnumbered, the soldiers desperately covered, so that Liu Yu, the commander, could escape, and when Liu Yue gave up these comrades who lived and died together and abandoned his horse to flee south, the Turks did not realize his escape at all, and Liu Yu could finally escape.
And Liu Yu really became the commander of the light pole at this time, there was no one around him, not even horses, no weapons and no food, only a body and a mouth that was hungry from time to time.
After a heavy rain, Liu Yu was even lost in his direction, and could only walk in one direction by feeling, hoping to get out of the grassland.
On the other hand, Min Shaoqing completed his calculations against Liu Yu, and he was full of thoughts that the whole army would be under his control, and the army of the Great Shun Dynasty would truly return to imperial power. (To be continued......)