Chapter 20 The Wolf Dwelling in Distress
"What sound?" Huo Quzhi suddenly frowned and said, and just as Huo Quzhi's words fell, everyone heard a thunderous sound from a distance, and everyone was no stranger to this sound, this was the sound of horses' hooves, and it was the sound of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of war horses galloping. "Ya * Wen * Yan * Love * First * Hair"
"Not good, there is an ambush." Many of them roared in a panic, but fortunately, Huo Quai's command were all big Han elite horsemen, although they were a little flustered, they quickly calmed down, and they faced the formation faster than before.
"Now is not the time for battle, the enemy is prepared, and our army will be defeated if it rushes into battle." Huo Quzhi's face was calm, but he kept thinking about it in his heart. As the commander of the whole army, he can't show panic at this time no matter what.
"Brother, what now?" Huo Guang is the closest to Huo Quzhi, although he is usually resourceful, but when he encounters these emergencies, he cannot have Huo Quzhi's adaptability.
"Master Hou, there is a mountain road on the side to enter the mountain, and there is no enemy army in the canyon behind you." Huo Qubing has not yet made arrangements, and Yi Jixuan, the general of the Huns, has already told what he saw.
"This canyon can no longer be retreated, it is likely that the Huns deliberately left this road for us to throw ourselves into the net, and ordered the whole army to take the mountain road. The herald ordered Zhao Ponu to cover the army as the rear. "At this time, no one dares to return to the canyon, in case the Huns also bury heavy troops at the other end, the tens of thousands of troops entering the canyon will be really cornered, so as a last resort, Huo Qubing can only choose to temporarily enter the mountain.
Although the mountain road is narrow, it is not conducive to large-scale cavalry combat, but such terrain is not only unfavorable to the Han cavalry, but also to the Hun cavalry. Moreover, the terrain in the mountains is changeable, and it is impossible to place an army of tens of thousands and 100,000, which can limit the numerical advantage of the Xiongnu army.
Huo Guang also felt that Huo Quai's choice was the best at the moment, but when he moved to the mountains, Huo Guang couldn't help but glance back at the canyon. I don't know why, Huo Guang felt that there was no Hun ambush in that canyon at all. Because everyone will think of the benefits of setting up an ambush in the canyon, then the Han army will definitely not return, and the Huns will be able to guess the choice of the Han army. But this is like a conspiracy, so that you don't dare to retreat even if you know that there is no ambush in the canyon.
In the past, Huo Guang had only heard in books that the way of using soldiers was real and unpredictable. It is only now that I deeply realize that this mystery of using soldiers is really a book that can never be read through!
Although the Han army has always wanted to fight a decisive battle with the army of the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, this decisive battle also has to pay attention to timing, and it is not considered an escape for the Han army to avoid its edge at the moment. The 50,000 Han troops who were very successful in "Ya * Wen * Yan * Qing * Shou * Fa" retreated into the Wolf Juxu Mountain, and they were not entangled by the Huns during this period.
As soon as they entered the mountains, the Han army soon discovered that something was wrong, because the Huns did not follow into the mountains, although this is what the Han army wanted to see, but it was very unreassuring.
"Report ...... Master Hou, the Huns did not attack, but made a look of encampment at the foot of the mountain. Soon a soldier hurried to report, and sure enough, the Huns did not attack, but made a siege.
"Grandma, these Huns are thinking that we are trapped in the mountains. Master Hou, his subordinates are willing to lead the army to kill him. "Gao Buzhi's personality is the most hot, and he can't sit still at the moment. And in the past, it was often the Han army chasing the Huns, but this time it was retreated by the Hun army behind closed doors, and Gao Buzhi also held a fire in his heart.
"Be honest with me." Huo Quzhi glared at Gao Buzhi, and his words were quite unkind. You must know that both of them are actually marquises, and they are still about the same in terms of titles alone. But Gao didn't know each other and knew each other very well, so he shut up, and he was honest all at once, and he couldn't see the slightest complaint.
"Li dares to serve a lot." Huo Quzhi called out the names of the two.
"The subordinates are here." The two immediately separated from the crowd and appeared in front of Huo Quzhi.
"The two of you take some people to check the terrain in the mountains, and come back as soon as possible to report to Benhou." Huo Qubing instructed the two that this was indeed not the time to fight with the Huns, and it was imperative to understand the surrounding terrain first.
The two quickly left with the soldiers, but Huo Guang felt that something was very bad in his heart. He estimated that Li Dang and Fuduo would not find a way out of this place smoothly, since the Huns intended to besiege them here, it meant that the terrain here was very unfavorable to the Han army.
"How long can the grain and grass that our army carry with us last?" Huo Quzhi asked again, the army was besieged, and the grain and grass were also the biggest hidden danger.
"Back to Hou Ye, the soldiers of our army only have rations with them, which is enough for two days at most." This time it was Wei Shan, the capital of the Northland, who answered Huo Quai's illness, although Wei Shan is also surnamed Wei, but he has nothing to do with Wei Qing.
"That is to say, we will have to fight the Huns tomorrow at the latest, but they want to trap us on this mountain. I only see if Li Kang has found anything on their side. Huo Qubing also felt tremendous pressure, although this mountainous area also limited the attack of the Huns, but the Han army also lost the opportunity for a large-scale counterattack, and the Huns only wanted to trap the Han army alive, and the situation was already extremely grim.
"Oops...... Is it because I changed history and let the stirrups appear in the Han army in advance, but it also made the Huns also start to use stratagems, it seems that there are also masters in the Hun army, and this recruitment of troops trapped the wolf house completely fell into the Han army to death. How to break this game? Huo Guang was also very anxious in his heart, there was no such thing in history at all, he could only attribute this change to the cause and effect caused by his change in history. ( Pingnan Romance)
An hour later, Li Dang and Fuduo returned. However, the news they brought back was not good at all, and it could even be said that the last bit of hope of the Han army was dashed.
"Master Hou, the situation is not good. We've seen that there are a few roads down the mountain, but none of them can accommodate a large army. Only a few soldiers could pass each time, and we also saw that there were Hun cavalry all around, as long as we moved, the Hun army could move quickly, and if we went down the mountain, we would only be surrounded by enemy troops. Li Dare told all the information he had detected, and all the generals were gloomy when he heard it.
"It's a dead end...... Either be trapped alive on the mountain, or go down the mountain to break through. However, once they went down the mountain, they could not go out with a large number of soldiers, and if the number was small, they would be sent to death. And the Huns are on flat land, as long as our army moves, the Hun army can quickly arrive. Could it be that I am going to die in this place in less than a year after crossing the Western Han Dynasty? Huo Guangsi also felt that there was no good way to crack it, and it can be said that from the moment the Han army entered the canyon, it fell into the trap of the Huns.
"You go and appease the soldiers, let Ben Hou be alone for a while!" Huo Quzhi turned his back to everyone and said, I don't know what he was thinking at the moment.
All the generals consciously turned around and left, although the situation was extremely grim, but the existence of Huo Qubing became the last pillar in the hearts of the Han army. Huo Guang did not leave with everyone, but sat silently beside Huo Quai, but he didn't say anything, just sat quietly, letting Huo Qubing think quietly.
"We can't lose this battle......" After a long time, Huo Quzhi sighed. Huo Guanggang wanted to answer, but Huo Quzhi continued: "The Han and Hungarian ethnic groups have been fighting for decades, and millions of people have been killed and injured. Just last year, in the autumn of the third year of Yuanzhen, Yizhi's oblique troops divided into two routes, attacked Youbeiping and Dingxiang, and killed more than 1,000 officials and people. If our army loses this battle, Yi Zhixian and King Zuo Xian will inevitably join forces to go south, and then our Han will be difficult to resist, and the lives will be ruined and blood will flow! ”
Huo Quzhi's tone was extremely heavy, and even this feeling was the first time Huo Guang felt it in him. However, the facts are indeed as Huo Qubing said, this battle was originally fought by the strength of the Han Dynasty, if the 50,000 elite cavalry were buried in Mobei, the Han Dynasty would inevitably collapse, and then the Huns' iron hooves would have no resistance to the south!
"Brother, don't be discouraged, I believe that our brothers are of the same heart, plus the soldiers use their lives, there is not necessarily no way to win!" Although Huo Guang didn't have any good solutions, he knew that he couldn't say anything depressing at this time, but he still had the confidence to mobilize Huo Quai, as long as Huo Quai's spirit did not fall, the military soul of the Han army was there.
"Ah Guang, you want to be resourceful, what good strategy do you have?" This time, Huo Quai's eyes also lit up, and he thought that Huo Guang had thought of some way to solve it.
"This ...... I haven't thought about it yet. But my brother let me think about it for a while, and the old gentleman once told me that there is no endless way, and any plan of time has its loopholes. As long as we find the loopholes in the layout of the enemy's army, there will naturally be a way to crack it. Huo Guang could only stubbornly continue, but in order to make Huo Qubing believe, he moved out the mysterious old man who made up it.
"This is indeed reasonable, it seems that the old gentleman who taught you is also a strange person, is it a descendant of the Mo family?" Huo Qubing heard Huo Guang mention the mysterious person who designed the stirrup again, and through these remarks and all the things Huo Guang said before, Huo Qubing thought that this person was a descendant of the Mo family. Because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not respect Confucianism for a long time, although the successors of other Zhuzi doctrines rarely appeared, the hundred schools of Zhuzi still existed.
"Perhaps...... After all, there are many strange people in the world. I heard that there is an Oriental lord in the court who is the heir of the Yin and Yang family? Huo Guang is very happy to think like this, through this period of understanding, Huo Guang also knows that there are still hundreds of schools of thought in today's society, although they are not as prosperous as in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and some of the doctrines and successors are also incognito, but most of the doctrines and descendants of the hundreds of schools of thought are still popular in society. The Dongfang Lord mentioned by Huo Guang is the famous 'Zhisheng' Dongfang Shuo who is famous in history and is hidden in the dynasty.