Chapter 178: The Confusion of the Dead
He looked around at the still smoking camp, full of corpses and burned tents, some of the thick wooden stakes had not been completely extinguished, and white smoke was still curling slowly.
The mood of the Ton was the same as the surrounding environment at the moment, it was all desolate, and the dreams and goals in his heart had also been burned clean by Fang Zhiwen's successive fires, which were even cleaner and more thorough than the dilapidated camp in front of him.
A gust of north wind blew, sending smoke into Badon's mouth and nose, and Badon choked and coughed, and woke himself from his contemplation.
"King, do you want to chase it?"
"Chase?! What do you chase, can you still run? Immediately pack up the camp to see if there is any grain and grass left, and contact Taki to ask if he needs reinforcements. ”
"No1
Looking at the face as black as the bottom of the pot, the general hurried down to convey the order, although the soldiers ran for most of the day, and saw the miserable scene in front of them, but the morale was okay, the general could probably guess the soldier's thoughts, because at least there was no need to stay in the boundless forest sea, and he would rather face the cruel reality in front of him than face the unknown horror.
"King! Fang Zhiwen went east with the remnants of the army, and I saw that their surplus horses were all carrying grain and grass on the horse. ”
"How many extra horses do they have?"
"I'm afraid there are thousands of horses."
"Damn the Han Chinese! They even burned the dead horses here because they wanted to starve us to death1
"King, we still have two or three days of surplus food, it is better to set off to the south now, two or three days is enough to reach the residence of the Xiongnu tribe."
"Do they have any surplus to sell to us? Do we use robbers? Aren't you afraid that the Huns will besiege us? ”
"Rather than die alive, grab it, and when the time comes, you can disguise yourself as the Han army."
Badun smiled rarely: "Not bad! Now that you understand that this matter will be handled by you when the time comes, remember, you must not leak the news, otherwise you will be one."
"My subordinates understand! King, shall we take a break and go? ”
Badon shook his head, and found that there seemed to be something on his beard, and wiped it with his hand, it was actually some ice ballast, it seemed that he got it when he was in a hurry, and his current appearance was probably very embarrassing, thinking of the culprit who made him so embarrassed, Badun's heart felt a dull pain again.
"Wait, let's see if we can gather some grain and grass, and then let the soldiers have a hot meal
"My lord, I am fortunate to be alive and well-off1
Fang Zhiwen looked at Zheluo's body clean, but there were traces of water in some places, and now it was frozen, so he nodded with satisfaction Zheluo likes to take the lead in the battle, this is what Fang Zhiwen has repeatedly warned, and the archers are not allowed to rush into battle if it is not necessary.
Although each general has his own style, the characteristics of the class must be respected, and as for the fit and resonance between the personality of the general and the characteristics of the class, maybe we will talk about it when there are more classes in the future.
Although the new heavy crossbow dragoons in the Battle of Fengning this time are only a transitional class, Fang Zhiwen is not ready to eliminate this type of troops in the future, because this type of army is basically an infantry equipped with a horse, so the cost is much lower, and the maintenance cost is only half of that of the assault cavalry, so as a mobile defense force and a fire projection force, this kind of heavy crossbow dragoon has the value of existence.
It's just that this kind of fight-and-run troops, no one under Fang Zhiwen likes to lead now, so they can only re-train a general with heavy crossbow expertise, this should be remembered, and I will write to Xueyin and Zhizhong in a while.
"It's good, I didn't get hurt this time, hehe."
The lord 1 Zheluo grinned a little embarrassedly.
Seeing the wrinkles on the corners of his eyes when Zheluo smiled, Fang Zhiwen couldn't help but blurt out, "Zheluo, how old are you?" ”
"Huh? What the? Oh, my subordinate is Chinese New Year's Eve years old today. ”
"It's time to start a family, you should have a family, right?"
"The original family of the lord, according to the rules of the grassland, after I surrender to the lord, the family will be divided into slaves for others." Zheluo's expression was a little gloomy.
"Oh, let's start a family again, I'll do it when I go back, they should be able to get a lot of beauties this time, and when the time comes, one person will give you a few."
"Hehe, let's wait for the lord to become a family, how can there be a reason for subordinates to run in front of the lord."
Xiangxiang sneered on the side, and Fang Zhiwen smiled a little embarrassed.
"Whatever you want, don't talk about that. How many soldiers did Badun send to feed you? ”
"Two thousand, there is a third-order general."
"Well, it's getting stingy. Zheluo, there is an important task for you. ”
"My lord, please command."
"You take 2,000 men and horses to the south immediately, slaughter and burn all the Xiongnu tribes closest here, and take away the grain, grass, cattle and sheep to deal with them separately, of course, you must leave a little Wuhuan people at the scene."
"My lord, this is something that we don't have Wuhuan people1
"I've got it here, we've robbed a lot."
"No wonder the lord wants to leave those useless things, it turns out that the lord has already had a plan."
Fang Zhiwen smiled proudly: "Hehe, be prepared, when tomorrow Ratun finds that there is a problem with those remaining grains, they will have to rush south to find grain and grass, and when they see the slaughtered Xiongnu tribes. Hehe, I really want to see his face at that time1
"Does the lord want the Huns to besiege Badun?"
"How is that possible? How much time does it take for the Huns to react, and then gather the troops and run away, I just want to cut off the food route of the Huns, and then there are only two ways for the Huns, one is to starve to death on the snowfield, and the other is to rob the Huns and be hunted down by the Huns. ”
"Understood, my lord, how far can we go?"
"I'll contact you at any time, and until I receive a new order, you can continue to carry out this order, and I'll follow behind him."
"What if the troops are divided?"
"At this time, he still dares to divide his troops? We eat as much as we share. Fang Zhiwen bared his teeth and smiled, Bandun is now a tiger that has fallen into a trap, and no matter how powerful he is, he can't do any tricks.
The next day, when he saw the fallen horses and soldiers in the ruined camp, the expression on his face was not as colorful as Fang Zhiwen imagined, but only one color, that is, pitch black!
Badun's skin was already dark, but now it is even darker, and there is a chill in his eyes, and the soldiers around him are silent, and no one wants to look for it at this time.
In fact, none of these centaurs died, they were just laxatives, they were just weak, and the problem was that this ghost place was cold and hungry, and they were sick like this, no different from dying.
"How much have you lost?" The words were almost squeezed out between his teeth, he really couldn't imagine that the grain and grass they pulled out from under the charred fire were actually poisoned, and it was not a highly poisonous with immediate effect, it was a slow-acting croton, Fang Zhiwen's cunning and shamelessness were really outrageous.
"More than 2,000 soldiers, 5,000 horses." A general on the side said with a trivial laugh, lowered his head after speaking, and looked at Badun from the corner of his eye.
"It's your duty to check whether the water grass has toxins, be negligent, damn it! Pull it down and behead it, and pass the head of the whole army 1
"The king spares his life, the king spares his life! a"
He waved his hand impatiently, and the crying guy was dragged away, and after a while, the voice was abrupt.
The rest of the generals all looked at each other with affection, and finally one of the confidant generals spoke up: "King, it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time, let's go south as soon as possible." ”
Badun nodded: "Order, let the soldiers who have lost their horses stay to take care of these wounded and sick, and the others pack up and set off south immediately, and come back to pick them up when we get food and grass." ”
The generals exchanged glances with each other again, could these remaining soldiers wait until they returned? They only had enough food to eat for more than a day, and the nearest tribes to the south were all more than a day's journey, and when they returned, there would probably be only corpses left.
Everyone sighed silently, but this kind of expression could not be shown on their faces, calculated down, there were only more than 10,000 soldiers around him who could fight, if it weren't for the fact that Badun was a sixth-order strong general, Fang Zhiwen didn't want to cause excessive losses to his troops, otherwise he dared to directly lead the troops to destroy Badun.
In the eyes of the soldiers who had lost their horses and could not stand up with diarrhea, the Wuhuan cavalry rode out of the camp with their heads bowed and ashamed faces, and then accelerated towards the south, not so much that they wanted to find food and grass as soon as possible to come back to save their companions, but that they wanted to leave this sad place that made them ashamed to die as soon as possible.
Seeing that their companions finally abandoned themselves in this place where there was no heaven and no land, all the Wuhuan soldiers stripped off their armor and threw away the weapons in their hands fiercely, waiting for death with a resigned appearance.
However, in less than an hour, a group of brown leather armored cavalry appeared outside the camp gate, and the number should be about two thousand, seeing that their attire was completely the costume of Wuhuan cavalry, but the banner behind them showed that this was a cavalry of the Han army.
Although the number of cavalry of the Han army was much smaller than theirs, now these Wuhuan soldiers were not commanded by generals, and because they were abandoned by the main general, their morale had completely collapsed, so they were just a group of ordinary people.
The Han cavalry carefully checked the surrounding environment, and then led the troops into the camp: "Everyone, you have been captured, we will provide you with food and medicine, throw away your weapons, and take your companions with us, hot food has been prepared, and those who don't want to die should leave quickly." ”
The Wuhuan soldiers who were squatting in the camp, no, now they are already the people of Wuhuan, after hearing this, they looked at each other, whether they believe it or not, it is better than being frozen and starved to death, so one person stood up, and then more people stood up, and they tied them into stretchers with branches according to the requirements of the Han army, and carried their sick companions who could not walk, and went east with the cavalry of the Han army.
Now they did not know how fortunate they were compared to their companions who had abandoned them and headed south.