Chapter 162: Chasing Closely
The direct reaction to the fire in Fengning camp is that the grazing tribes around Fengning scattered and fled overnight, in fact, Fang Zhiwen has no intention of further looting the surrounding area of Fengning camp, in Fengning camp, more than 100,000 people have gathered, and there are more than 300,000 herdsmen around.
Even if Bunton's reaction will be relatively slow, if the tribes around Fengning spontaneously organize, they can still put together tens of thousands of cavalry troops, even if they are not elite cavalry, just by virtue of the numerical advantage, they can put huge pressure on Fang Zhiwen, in case they are bitten by these militiamen, it will even bring the danger of destruction to Fang Zhiwen.
There are also Xianbei people in the northwest, they must have seen the fire in the night, it is hard to say whether the Xianbei people will come to pick up the cheap, but Fang Zhiwen can't take risks, so, after stabbing him hard, Fang Zhiwen took the troops, escorted the booty and more than 20,000 slaves and retreated overnight.
A camp of more than 100,000 people, and 20,000 troops stationed, but in the end only more than 20,000 slaves and 2,000 prisoners remained, how tragic this battle situation was, so the Wuhuan cavalry, who arrived in a hurry after dawn, almost went crazy after seeing the tragic situation at the scene.
That night, the herdsmen who escaped by luck spread Fang Zhiwen's nickname of the black devil who ate meat and drank blood all over the grassland, these two words can stop the Hu tribe's Xiao Er's cry at night, make the grassland warriors bow their heads, and dispel all evil and nonsense, where the black devil goes, the blood flows like a river! The Hu people hated and feared Fang Zhiwen's name, and the unexpected benefit was that in the future Fang Zhiwen's battle with the Hu people, more and more Hu soldiers were captured and surrendered.
When Badun heard that the Fengning camp was broken by Fang Zhiwen, now it had been burned to the ground, and the prosperous Fengning camp in the past was like a ghost domain. The eyes were full of broken and charred corpses, and the clear wet water was also stained red by the blood of the Wuhuan people. Eyes are cracking.
"Chase! Catch him even if you chase him to the edge of the sky! I'm going to tear him with my own hands 1
Badun personally took 50,000 elites out of the horse. Take the south road and go straight to the west of Fengning, where is the Wuhuan team of 10,000 people who are responsible for tracking Fang Zhiwen. was carefully biting behind Fang Zhiwen's troops, waiting for the arrival of the large army of Bunton. Before that, they didn't have the courage to provoke the famous Fang Zhiwen.
As for why Fang Zhiwen was easily bitten by them, of course, it was not because he was dragged down by slaves and captives. It was Fang Zhiwen who deliberately let the Wuhuan people bite him. On the night of the attack on the Fengning camp, Fang Zhiwen asked Duan Zigang to escort the captives and slaves north across the water to meet Li Jiehu, who had come to meet him, while he led the team to the west, and deliberately showed his traces to attract the attention of the Wuhuan pursuers. Cover for Duan Zigang's retreat.
With the tail behind him, Fang Zhiwen headed west. The scattered tribes that avoided the Xianbei people ran for two days, and finally received the flying pigeon message from Duan Zigang, the two of them had safely converged, Li Shehu had already embarked on the journey back to Lingxi Village after receiving the prisoners and booty, and Duan Zigang asked for instructions on what to do next.
Fang Zhiwen thought about it for a while, and decided to let Duan Zigang go east, move freely in the junction of the western part of Changli and the eastern part of Youbeiping, waiting for further orders, Fang Zhiwen himself was also ready to speed up the south into Lou Ban's territory, and use Lou Ban to get rid of the tail behind him.
But before he could give the order to turn, the news brought by a newly arrived carrier pigeon made Fang Zhiwen hesitate.
It's time to strike!
Bun Dun led 50,000 elite Wuhuan cavalry from Guliu Town, and it is expected that it will be close to within a hundred miles this evening, this is an opportunity! An opportunity to divert the tiger from the mountain, if Fang Zhiwen can attract Bundun all the way behind him, then in another half a month, when the snow covers this prairie, the Wuhuan Bandun tribe will be in a state of no owner, which has huge benefits for the establishment of Fengning City, at least it can greatly reduce the battle damage in the early stage of the city's construction, which is conducive to the smooth construction of Fengning City.
However, the danger is also huge, Badun is a sixth-order archer, with 50,000 elite troops, whether Fang Zhiwen can retreat under their encirclement and interception is a very serious problem, Fang Zhiwen is not a player after all, he may not be able to come back again, although the Valhalla in Linxi Town is about to be built, but Fang Zhiwen is not sure, the so-called rebirth, whether his soul can still exist alone, maybe it will be wiped out by the Zhi Brain, according to the principle of the Zhi Brain, uncontrollable factors should be wiped out.
If Murong Fang or Zheluo are allowed to undertake this arduous task, because their ranks are too different, they will inevitably be at a serious disadvantage in terms of speed, and they will be caught up by Bun Dun if they can't run far at all, rather than letting these two cadres die in vain, it is better to run away now.
But if he let go of this opportunity to keep Bun Dun away from the clan, Fang Zhiwen can imagine how cruel the bloody battle under Fengning City will be when Fengning City is established, and it is really hard to say how many subordinate generals will die at that time, and Bun Dun will be an opponent that Fang Zhiwen needs to face sooner or later, if he doesn't trample Bun Dun under his feet, how can he sweep away Wu Huan? How can you gain a foothold in the grasslands? How can they confront the powerful Xianbei people head-on?
Instead of colliding with Bang Dun when sticking to Fengning, it is better to choose now, now is an opportunity to kill multiple birds with one stone!
Fang Zhiwen gritted his teeth, and immediately replied to the reconnaissance general of a pigeon, ordering him to try his best to estimate the speed attribute of the Bunton troops, on the other hand, Fang Zhiwen immediately ordered his troops to speed up to the north-west, prepare to cross the water to the west, and then go north along the gap between the Xianbei and the Huns in the east, at least before he made a final decision, he must first keep a sufficient safe distance from Bunton.
If he really decided to run away with Badun, Fang Zhiwen would rather run away and run towards Mobei, which was already snowing, to see if Badun really had the courage to chase down.
If these Han troops can be forced to the north, Badun believes that in the grassland on his own home field, he will be able to finally seize these, and more importantly, in that team of Han troops, Fang Zhiwen, the lord of Miyun, is among them, if he can solve him, the dilemma faced by Badun will naturally be lifted. So, even though he understood that leaving the station might throw his territory into temporary chaos. It may make the horse thieves who are wreaking havoc in their own turf even more rampant. But these are trivial things compared to the elimination of Fang Zhiwen.
As long as Fang Zhiwen is destroyed and he returns to the division with a blow, the territory can be stabilized. And after eliminating the deadly threat from the Miyun City Fortress, Bunton was able to truly free up his hands to integrate the Wuhuan tribe. Striding towards the ideal of his own big black huan.
Therefore, after receiving the news of Fang Zhiwen's whereabouts, Bun Dun almost immediately made up his mind to fight. His decision was definitely not made out of anger at the slaughter of his own people. It is the result of careful consideration, and the goal is very clear, that is, to kill Fang Zhiwen at any cost.
Pigeons can also fly at night, and this situation is also true in reality, but the pigeon can accurately find the target person, and this magical skill is of course given by the brain. After nightfall, Fang Zhiwen finally waited for the pigeon that made his heart anxious. The scout cavalry judged that the 'cruise' speed of the army of Badun was about thirty-five, which was similar to the speed of Fang Zhiwen's troops, and the speed of Fang Zhiwen's troops was thirty-three after the bonus of props, so it can be estimated that the cruising speed was sixty percent of the maximum speed, so the maximum speed of Badun's troops was fifty-nine, and Fang Zhiwen's was fifty-five.
Of course, this may also be a smokescreen deliberately released by Badun to paralyze Fang Zhiwen, and how to judge and choose depends on Fang Zhiwen's own decision.
It can be calculated that in the process of pursuit, it is impossible to move forward at full speed, at full speed, the war horse can only run for half an hour and must rest, and with cruising speed, the war horse can gallop for two hours in a row, and then rest for half an hour, and can run again for two hours, and so on, so that long-distance pursuit can only use cruising speed.
Of course, there is a way to increase the speed, that is, one person and two horses, in this case, the two horses take turns to gallop at eighty percent speed, and change horses when they are tired, so that they can increase some speed, but one day or two is OK, and if it continues, the state of the war horse will seriously decline, so it is best to use the cruising speed for a long time to chase the battle.
The difference between the cruising speed of Bunton and Fang Zhiwen is two, which means that the distance between the two parts will be shortened by ten miles per hour, from the time the sun comes out to the time when it gets dark, Bunton has a total of six hours to pursue, and he must rest for half an hour to eat during the period. If you rotate with two horses, you can shorten it by more than thirteen miles in one hour, but you need to rest for at least one hour.
In this way, now it is completely impossible to catch up with Shang Zhiwen in one day, because there is no golden eagle to guide him in the sky, it is not easy to find the traces, and Fang Zhiwen can take advantage of the night to open the distance, so it is unlikely that he will directly catch up with Shang Zhiwen.
However, because the grassland is the home of Bunton, it is more convenient to get supplies, so Bunton will adopt a tactic of forcing and pursuing, opening a net in a certain direction to sprint and chase in turns, forcing Fang Zhiwen towards the desert to the north, so that Fang Zhiwen will be cut off from food and grass supplies, unable to stop and effectively repair, and finally in the case of running out of ammunition and food, he will either turn around and fight back desperately, or be chased to the point where he has no power to resist and be annihilated.
Those who don't understand cavalry warfare on the grassland will not know that this is the real wolf pack tactics, and chasing the enemy to death is the essence of wolf pack tactics.
After Fang Zhiwen fully calculated the speed of Bunton's pursuit, he quickly understood the tactics that Bunton could use, and after careful consideration, Fang Zhiwen decided to bet with Ratun to see who was chased to death in the end.
The key reason for Fang Zhiwen's decision is time, it is already late autumn, and in half a month, heavy snow may fall on the Saibei grassland, and in the further north, it should have begun to snow, once Fang Zhiwen passes through the desert, on the Mobei grassland, he will fall into the same situation as Fang Zhiwen without supplies, and when the time comes, the number of troops will be a burden.
Even if Fang Zhiwen has such a decision, but just in case, Fang Zhiwen also needs to set aside another backhand, so that when the situation is critical, it can be the last straw, whether it is a life-saving straw or the straw that crushes the opponent.