Chapter 20 Invite the Zi Tribe
The 10,0800 Han troops led by Huo Qubing were led by five generals under his command, each with 2,000 soldiers under his command.
There are many servants and Gao Buzhi, as well as Zhao Ponu, each of whom commands a thousand Huns and a thousand Han elite cavalry.
Li Tian and Zhang Taishu respectively commanded 1,500 Han elite cavalry and 500 Xiongnu troops.
The reason why Huo Qubing scattered the Xiongnu troops and the Han elite cavalry and distributed them to each general was not because he was afraid that the Huns would rebel, but because he wanted them and the Han elite cavalry to become a whole and not have so much discrimination and hostility between each other.
In fact, there are not many contradictions between the Xiongnu troops and the Han soldiers, and the credit is ultimately caused by the decades of war between the Han and the Huns.
Two years ago, after Huo Qubing had just selected 10,000 elite cavalry, the 6,000 Han army and the 4,000 Huns had not done anything at first, but as time went by, the inevitable contradictions between the two sides intensified little by little, and finally evolved into a large-scale brawl soon after, and even armed fighting.
Huo Quai's news was also obtained after the fact, for the champion Hou, he would never allow this kind of thing to happen, so he scattered all the Huns and the Han soldiers, and would not let the Huns find the Huns, and the Han army looked for the Han army, and sometimes even arranged for the Huns and the Han soldiers to sleep in a tent, the result is obvious, just look at the appearance of them getting together to drink last night, and now the soldiers under his command, whether they are Huns or the Han army, have become a whole.
In addition to the 10,000 people that Huo Qubing asked for from Liu Che, the remaining 800 people were Huo Quzhi's personal guards, that is, the 800 people who won the first battle with him......
Wei Qing sighed, and then waved his hand, Huo Quai, who was still an ordinary captain at the time, had an unprecedented 800-person personal guard, you must know that Li Tian, as a lieutenant general of the Beijing army, only had fifteen personal soldiers around him, and only sixteen if he counted Qian Mingguang......
Of course, although there are only 800 people directly assigned to Huo Quzhi, the supreme commander of the 10,000-strong army is still firmly in Huo Quzhi's hands.
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In the handsome tent, in view of the various situations in front of him, Huo Qubing promulgated the next way of marching the army.
"Li Tian, tomorrow you will lead your soldiers to act as the vanguard of our army, and lead the army to attack and the front, General Li, remember, no matter when you are not in the place, your troops must not be twenty miles away from my main army, and the scouts of the whole army are transferred to your command, how to use them, and what I need, I don't need to say more, in addition, if you encounter the enemy, blow the trumpet to warn."
Li Tian clenched his fists, "The last general understands." ”
Huo Quzhi continued: "Zhang Taishu, there are many servants, Gao does not know, leading the army to occupy the middle position of our army, if General Li encounters the enemy in front, Zhang Taishu, you and the soldiers under Gao Buzhi have the strongest ability to march, but when you hear the sound of the trumpet, you don't need to get my military order, you can lead the army to support, and General Fuduo and I will respond in the rear." ”
The three generals surrendered their hands together, "The last general commanded." ”
"Zhao Ponu is in charge of breaking off, be careful and vigilant along the way, if the main force of the Huns suddenly appears in the rear of my army, I will ask you."
Zhao Ponu responded with a fist, "The last general will definitely live up to the general's trust." ”
Among the five generals, Li Tian is the most calm, Huo Qubing can let him act as the vanguard of the army with peace of mind, followed by Zhao Ponu, for Zhao Ponu, Huo Qubing is more appreciative, because he feels a trace of familiarity in Zhao Ponu's body, this familiarity is like looking in a mirror, so it may be a bit exalted Zhao Ponu, but Huo Qubing still thinks that Zhao Ponu is the same as himself, belongs to a tactical talent, so Huo Qubing can rest assured that the task of the palace will be handed over to him, Huo Qubing believes, That person is not going to let himself down.
As for Zhang Taishu, there are many servants, and Gao is not knowledgeable, these three people are all fierce generals and can fight vicious battles and ruthless battles, so Huo Qubing left them in the Chinese army, and they don't need to perform the difficult task of opening the road after breaking off, just let them lead the army to rush and kill at a critical moment.
Making full use of the advantages of the generals under his command to make a reasonable distribution, Huo Quzhi has become more and more like a general, just like his uncle Wei Qing.
After assigning the tasks of the generals, the five of them withdrew from Huo Quzhi's handsome tent in turn, and Huo Qubing also fell asleep after looking at the topographic map of Hexi for a while, tomorrow is very important to him, so he must raise his spirit.
Because he was going to meet the head of the Invite Zi tribe tomorrow, Huo Qubing must know a lot of things he wanted to know from his mouth.
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On the second day, as soon as the sky was bright, Li Tian led two thousand elite horsemen to march from the grassland north of Wusheling Ridge to the Lingzi tribe that he had memorized, and when the army marched, Qian Mingguang and Sun Ming rode horses and galloped beside Li Tian in the front, and Qian Mingguang's heroic face was full of excited smiles all the time.
Fifteen minutes after Li Tian led his army, the 6,000 Chinese troops led by Huo Quzhi also advanced along the grassland north of Wusheling Ridge, following the shallow marks left by Li Tian's war horses and whipped forward.
Fifteen minutes after the Chinese army left the camp, Zhao Ponu also set off with the last 2,000 soldiers of the palace.
Wusheling Ridge, belongs to the southernmost point of the Cold Dragon Ridge of the Qilian Mountains, the elevation of the main peak is about 3,562 meters, standing on the crisp and verdant main peak, looking towards the surrounding undulating mountains, only to see the whole Wusheling Ridge, winding, the mountain is extremely steep, like a giant dragon that soars up.
Looking at the towering Wusheling Ridge, Qian Mingguang was in a surging, especially when he saw the snow-capped Qilian Mountains thousands of miles away after the Wusheling Ridge, Qian Mingguang on horseback couldn't help but let out a loud roar.
"Huns, your grandfather Qian is here!"
The army marched all the way, the horses galloped, the flags were unfurled, and the 10,000 army was like a long dragon galloping on the grass west of the river, and the herdsmen along the way saw the arrival of the Han army again, and they were so frightened that their souls were not possessed, but just like the herdsmen of the ethnic minorities who had just entered the west of the river, the Han army did not pay any attention to the herdsmen who were pale and secretly set up their bows and crossbows, and in their stunned eyes, they went away.
Li Tian led the vanguard army to run for more than 80 miles, and after an hour and a half, Li Tian led the army to the location of a large number of Xiongnu vassal states.
This is the Invite Zi tribe.
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Under the clear blue sky, the sheep made a soft sheep sound, and the dark-skinned herdsmen, dressed in animal fur clothes, were the same as before, grazing in a leisurely manner.
On this grassland with abundant water and grass, flocks of sheep are distributed in groups on the surrounding grasslands, under the gaze of the herdsmen, silently gnawing on the grass in front of them, and the herdsmen guarding the side are waving the long whips in their hands, constantly driving them, so that the sheep do not always forage in a meadow, it seems that the ethnic minorities of the Han Dynasty have a sense of protecting nature.
While driving the sheep, the herders looked at the surrounding meadows vigilantly, fearing that wolves would attack their sheep.
More than five or six miles behind this grazing meadow, you can see a continuous stream of tents, but they are extremely simple
The women of the Invite Zi tribe either slaughtered sheep with their husbands for lunch, or did some rough work, and from time to time you can see some shabby-dressed children playing and chasing by.
And the men of the Invite Zi tribe, except for the herdsmen and the elderly, most of them are busy making weapons, that is, bows and arrows, in case of an attack by the enemy, this enemy cannot be Huo Quai, it can only be the Huns.
The Invite Zi tribe, which is a tribe that is not very popular with the Huns in the local area, the two sides have had large-scale conflicts more than once, if it were not for the evil spirit, Hugh slaughter, worried that the direct slaughter of a subsidiary country would have a bad impact on other subject countries, I am afraid that disobedient subject states like Invite Zi would have long ceased to exist.
Although they were not exterminated, the people of the Xiangzi tribe still had a very difficult life, looking at their clothes and the tents they lived in, even the tents where the leader of this tribe, that is, the lord of the Xiongnu vassal state, lived, could only barely be compared with the camps where ordinary soldiers of the Han army lived.
On this day, the people of the Invite Zi tribe were still running for their own lives as before, but soon, a horn of warning suddenly sounded in this simple but highly cohesive tribe.
At the sound of the trumpet, the woman took the child and hid in the house, the man took his weapon and rushed out of the tribe as fast as he could, and the herdsmen who were grazing were anxiously driving their flocks away from the big men who were rushing like them.
The total population of the tribe has reached 60,000, which is considered a large tribe, and there are 6,000 men who can participate in the war at any time......
After hearing the sound of the warning horn, the sturdy men of the 6,000 Invitationzi tribe immediately rushed outside the tribe with their weapons and followed the old leader, and waited for the battle.
Because it was only a warning through the sound of a horn, the people of the Invite Zi tribe didn't know who came, and they thought that it was those damn Xiongnu nobles who chose the girl of their tribe as a plaything.
Can...... When the 6,000 men of the Invite Zi tribe stood in an extremely loose formation outside the tribe, that is, Ai Na stood up......
They first saw the figure of their herdsmen fleeing with their sheep in panic, but then followed by the sound of hurried horses' hooves, and after less than two minutes, the old leader of the Invited Zi tribe who was over sixty years old saw a big man wearing red armor, holding a halberd, driving a war horse under his crotch to roar towards them.
The Chinese character banner dancing in the wind made the old leader panic for a while.
Not the Huns, but the Han army...... But how could the Han army appear here, could it be that the war broke out again?
Don't think about it, anyway, the person who came must not be good, the old leader immediately made a decision, and shouted loudly to the Invite Zi warriors behind him, "Prepare to release the arrow!" ”
In the next second, when the old leader had just finished saying the words of preparing to release arrows in the language of Invite Zi, a scene that made him dumbfounded happened, those Han cavalry who were obviously rushing like him did not appear in his mind, waving a knife to kill, but stepping on the grass on the side, far away.
From beginning to end, no one had seen these invitings who had been pointed at them with bows and arrows in hand.
The old leader of the Invite Zi tribe was stupid.
Don't....... We...... Is it air?
Don't...... Didn't they see the herds of sheep and cows?
Don't....... Don't they need to take the heads of our people to lead the army?