Chapter 252: The drums of war in the sky sound again
It's another winter, and the enemy tribe is finally starting to move here, because they don't have enough food. The waters near the Dolus River www.biquge.info are already the territory of the Yan Hanshui and their alliance, and only by defeating the Tang and his alliance and plundering resources can these tribes survive.
So even in winter, they can only go out on the expedition. But...... It's not without good news. A powerful country found Gu Gebi and promised to send 20,000 troops to give Datang a fatal blow at a critical moment.
This country is very strong, so strong that there is no room for refusal. Of course, he also has a little capital now, and he can have 30,000 young people in his hands, and these people are warriors when they take up arms. "We must fight quickly, we can't afford to drag our food and grass...... "Gu Ge must think.
And Yan Hanshui has been deploying the problems of various races in the past year, so that the members of the alliance have gained some benefits, so there are not many soldiers. Most of the soldiers are busy with infrastructure construction, so Yan Hanshui calculates that all the soldiers together will not exceed 50,000.
Don't think that 50,000 people is a lot, and only about 30,000 people can be mobilized. There are also many robbers and bandits in this place, and each tribe must leave many soldiers on guard.
The location of the Doros River is very large, and in order to avoid a sneak attack by a small group of enemies, it can only be guarded by dividing forces. Of course, fortunately, when Yan Hanshui was planning, he only made a few large areas. Merging many small tribal races together is more troublesome, but now less dangerous.
However, in order to avoid infiltration warfare with the enemy, Yan Hanshui can only fight a decisive battle as soon as possible. If the places she built were to be broken down one by one, the year would basically be in vain. "There must be a direct decisive battle, and we now have the capital." The current situation, whether it is Yan Hanshui or Gu Gebi, both sides cannot afford to drag it out.
Since you can't afford it, let's do it...... The smoke and cold water are also released, and after this battle, you can keep the peace for a few years. So she immediately seized the time to transfer troops, of course, the military issue was still handed over to Li Bin, and Yan Hanshui was afraid that she would ruin the battle by blindly commanding.
Li Bin is also commanding so many people for the first time, so he is also cautious in dealing with the enemy, after all, they still have the bottom of the combat effectiveness of the soldiers on their side, as long as there are no major problems, it will not be a problem to defeat those tribal alliances. Yan Hanshui hesitated for a moment, and then asked people to ride fast horses and tell Yang Zhengu of Gaochang in Xizhou about this matter. After all, he is Yan Hanshui's direct boss, and if Yan Hanshui goes to directly notify Beiting Li Yuanzhong to protect it, it will be overstepping. Although the smoke and cold water have made things clear to the upper echelons of the North Court here in the Dolas River, it is beneficial to them, so they have adopted a supportive attitude.
Yang Xinggu nodded after seeing the message of Yan Hanshui. asked people to repair a book and bring it to Li Yuanzhong to protect. About half a month later, the 28,000 troops of Yan Hanshui came to the location of the fire-seeking tribe in front. There is now a small tribe here that hunts fish from the Dorus River for the Alliance.
Since there were a lot of 20,000 people, Li Bin put all the soldiers outside the tribe to set up camps, and eliminated scouts, and beware of Gu Gebi's sneak attack. Of course, the food is great, and the tribe here has long prepared tofu crucian carp soup.
Tofu, the Han Dynasty has it. Put these two things together, it's really a fresh. Of course, this is also because of the smoke and cold water, otherwise this group of people would know about grilled fish.
Compared with Datang's side, Gu Gebi is much more miserable. Because the food has been out of food in the past few days, everyone knows where to grab food if they don't go to the Datang Alliance, and they have to explain to the tens of thousands of people. You must know that they are about 30,000 young and strong, and all of them together can have 100,000 people. 100,000 people in the grasslands have crossed the border with locusts, and they have eaten everything they can eat.
Gu Ge was in the camp with several chiefs, and their food was naturally brought in. But everyone's face was not very good, and it was winter, and all the civilians and soldiers were hungry and cold.
"Great Khan, more than 200 people in our tribe froze to death yesterday, and we won't be able to last long if we continue like this." A tribal leader said to Gugebi.
Gu Gebi counted the current situation of each tribe and found that nearly 2,000 old and weak people were frozen to death and starved to death yesterday alone. He frowned: "The wolves have brought news of the enemy, and the enemy is already in sight." Just defeat them and we'll be able to live. Tonight, you should take more people to cut down trees, so that the soldiers can spend the night warmly. ”
At this time, someone came in: "The allies not far away, sent a few carts of grain. The man was so excited that everyone in the tent shouted out with joy.
Gu Gebi nodded: "Great, I'll go down and prepare later." Let the warriors eat all the food today, and defeat the alliance of the Tang Dynasty in one go tomorrow! ”
That's right, he was talking about warriors both times, that is, those young and strong. If you are old and weak, you can only rely on fate. Not only that, but Gugobi continued: "Give every tribe a bowl of minced broth to all those who are over forty years old and can move. Then tomorrow let these people be the vanguard and consume the arrows of the Datang Alliance. ”
The minced broth is basically the broth of those who have frozen to death. But as soon as the news came out, the leaders of all the tribes in the camp were amazed. "Great Khan!" Before he could finish his words, he was directly interrupted.
"Don't say it, don't you know the current situation? Tomorrow's battle, winnable and dead, we have no room for anything! And my great chief, isn't it our tradition to leave the old man to fend for himself in the winter when there is not enough food? Gu Gebi coldly swept around, and the whole camp said no more.
The whole camp still came out one after another, and no matter what, this group of tribal coalition troops had eaten once tonight. Although there may have been all sorts of strange things in it, everything they could find was thrown into the pot to cook. And those old and weak also silently took over the human broth after learning that they were going to be cannon fodder tomorrow.
Most of these people have lived for forty or fifty years, and have long accepted these things calmly. That's the rule of this kind of place, it's better to give the tribe a chance of survival with your own death. On this night, whether it was the alliance on the Tang side or the tribe of GuGebi, they were all desperately eating and drinking. They all know that tomorrow is going to be an uphill battle.
And here in Yanhanshui, several generals of the Tang Dynasty and Turks arranged the position of the battle under the guidance of Li Bin. Yan Hanshui suddenly thought about it, then looked at the Turkic tribe and asked, "Do you all have iron horses?" My suggestion is to be safe, Li Bin, what do you think? ”
"Safely, I know that. We can't afford to lose, or our alliance won't have any place here. Li Bin also gritted his teeth, and then pointed on the map.