Chapter 328: Arriving at Danhan Mountain
Rising early the next morning, the first division hurriedly had breakfast and then set out camp and began to hurry, walking for a morning, and finally arrived at the Xianbei royal court of Danhan Mountain, where Budugen gathered all the people in the tribe who could ride horses and shoot arrows.
He urgently mobilized some of the people of his clan who had not gone with him because they were too young and too old, and some sturdy women were also mobilized, riding horses and carrying bows, and forming a large army with men to resist the invaders.
The women of the Xianbei people are not those who do not go out of the door, do not step out of the second door, do not touch the spring water with ten fingers, and are delicate and delicate, they have grown up in the desert with a harsh environment, and have been tempered by the wind, sand, rain and snow, they are female men who can get on horses, hold bows, and shoot wolves. Many of them are not much worse than men in archery and martial arts, so when their numbers reach a certain level, they can also become a large combat force.
These old people, children and women add up to 50,000, plus the 50,000 elite people brought back by Budugen, Budugen instantly has 100,000 "string controllers", which is quite a bit of "resurrection in situ". It's just that after a deeper investigation, you will find that half of the quality of these "string controllers" is much worse than the original elite soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of these 100,000 cavalry and the previous 100,000 cavalry is not the same at all.
"It turns out that this old boy Budugen ran back to move the rescue soldiers, no wonder they didn't come to attack last night." In the large formation of the first division, Zhang Bao looked at the formation of the Xianbei people on the opposite side and said to the left and right with disdain.
Before the people on the left and right could answer, they suddenly heard the herald's report again: "Report...... The news came from the No. 3 hot air balloon that in the northwest direction of the Xianbei Royal Court, a continuous departing carriage and horse convoy was found, and it was initially estimated that the Xianbei people in the royal court were fleeing from the royal court. A herald ran to Zhang Bao's horse, knelt down on one knee, and reported to Zhang Bao with his fists clenched.
Hearing the words of the herald, Zhang Bao and the generals suddenly realized that Bu Dugen did not fight with the first division yesterday, not only returned to the royal court to collect the 50,000 old and young women reinforcements, but also organized the evacuation of the royal court.
Although the Xianbei royal court also has some fixed buildings, it is much more difficult to relocate than the ordinary Xianbei tribe, but it is not absolutely impossible to relocate. No matter how difficult it is, it can't be more difficult than Xuchang, the capital of Wei, when the Shu Han army approached, even a metropolis like Xuchang was forced to abandon, and the Xianbei people had to give up their royal court no matter how unwilling they were.
What's more, most of the people in this so-called royal court actually still live in tents, and they still retain the habits of nomads and can move out at any time. The more troublesome are those who live in fixed buildings, and there are some special buildings such as altars and royal palaces.
It is easy for people who can live in fixed buildings to come out with a few tents, but it is indeed a bit difficult for them to give up a stable life, abandon most of their family business, and live a wandering life of displacement and no fixed place to live.
However, just last night, Bu Dugen rushed back to the royal court overnight, ordered everyone to evacuate in the name of "King Xianbei", and vigorously preached the brutality and terror of the Han people.
"You can't just let them run away, send someone to chase after them." This was Zhang Bao's first reaction after hearing this news. It's no wonder that he thinks like this, he has already regarded the people and things in the Xianbei Royal Court as his trophies, but now he finds that the things in his pocket have run away, of course he will be anxious.
"Commander, wait!" Hearing Zhang Bao's words, Chief of Staff Du Fei hurriedly came out to stop him. Du Fei was known as a prodigy when he was a child in the countryside, and it is said that he could memorize the Analects at the age of five and compose poems at the age of ten. Later, he entered the Dahan Longteng Academy to study, and even skipped grades again and again, and finally ~ entered the Military Research Institute, graduated after two years of study, and was assigned to the Hong Army.
In addition, because he has a solid military foundation, is resourceful, and has repeatedly made military exploits, he is now only in his early twenties, and has become the chief of staff of the First Division.
"Oh? What advice does the chief of staff have? Zhang Bao saw that it was the division staff officer who spoke, so he stopped giving orders and waited until he heard his opinion.
"Division commander, our army is dominated by infantry, the mobile force is insufficient, and the enemy's cattle and horses and other animal power are much more than ours, how can we chase? Besides, the fleeing people are in the northwest of the royal court, and we are in the southeast, and we have to cross the entire royal court to catch these people, and before passing through the royal court, we have to face 100,000 Xianbei cavalry. How could we have pursued them without defeating these 100,000 cavalry? Du Fei said.
"Uh" Zhang Bao was speechless for a moment, he felt once again that it was really inconvenient to have no horses, if he had a capable cavalry, he could let them quickly go around the city and go to the northwest of the royal court to intercept those Xianbei people who had escaped. Even if those people had already fled the city, the cavalry could ride their horses and chase after them, and they would surely be able to capture a large number of Xianbei people in the end.
But in this situation, although he knew that the Xianbei people had escaped from the city, he couldn't do anything, and he sighed that he couldn't do anything. Although there were many cattle in his troops, most of them were donkeys and mules, which had little strength and stamina, and could not be used as cavalry mounts, nor were they fast in pulling carts, so they could not be used for military purposes at all.
Think about it, why did these 100,000 Xianbei cavalry know that they are invincible, but they still stand in the way of the first division's advance, and they are not trying to block the enemy army and buy time for their relatives and friends to escape. Obviously, they also knew the current situation of the Han army, knew that the Han army had poor mobility, and could not threaten the safety of their clansmen before defeating their own army of 100,000, so they were willing to sacrifice themselves and block in front of the royal court, trying to delay the advance of the Han army.
Some people may wonder, since the royal court is a city, why did the Xianbei people not stand in the city and defend it, but came out to fight the first division in the field? The reason is simple, the cities built by such nomads have no walls at all and have no city defenses. At most, there are wooden fences in some places to keep out the animals or to prevent wild animals.
The so-called city gate is nothing more than a simple archway made of a few thick wooden piles, so to speak, the city is a completely undefended city, you can enter the city from any direction, or leave as you like.
Such a city could not even engage in street fighting with the enemy, because there were only a few fixed buildings in the city, and most of them were tents. The enemy can burn the city to the ground with just a single fire, and there is no need to fight you in the streets.
After listening to the words of Chief of Staff Du Fei, Zhang Bao also suddenly woke up to the fact that he was in a hurry and made a military mistake. So, Zhang Bao said: "Then let's defeat these Xianbei cavalry first." ”
100,000 Xianbei cavalry sounds like a lot, but it is not put in Zhang Bao's eyes at all, with firearms troops, there is no difference between 100,000 cavalry and 100,000 stretches in his eyes, anyway, it is a matter that can be ended with a lead bullet.