Chapter 419: Stealing the camp at night
Under the initiative of the Wei army to retreat, Su Li successfully took the encircled front army out of the encirclement, counted the number of people, so angry that Su Li jumped like thunder, in a short period of time, the front army lost half, and the rest were almost all wounded.
There is no way to be angry, now that it is a fait accompli, Su Li has no choice but to arrange for these remnants of the defeated soldiers to rest and heal their injuries, and as for revenge, it can only come slowly. In order to allow the remnants of the former army to rest and heal as soon as possible, Sully ordered the army to camp on the spot.
After arranging sentry posts, patrols and other matters, Su Li summoned all the generals in the army to discuss the follow-up battle. It's a pity that most of the generals in the Xianbei army are tribal chiefs, and these people's military talents are limited, otherwise, their group would not be overpowered by the Kebineng Group and the Budugen Group.
There are also some people in the army who were sent by the Hong Army to join the army, but it is a pity that the main task of these soldiers is to supervise and engage in ideological education work, and they are also very average in terms of military ability. What's more, for fear of causing a backlash from Suli and other tribal chiefs, Liu Hou has not yet made up his mind to vigorously rectify this Xianbei cavalry, so these recruits basically have little say in this army at present.
Su Li was also worried that his troops would be swallowed up, so he did not pay much attention to these soldiers, and every time this military meeting was held, these soldiers were only equivalent to the delegates, basically only listening from the sidelines, and only interested in the fact that they were not discussing the rebellion, and these soldiers rarely expressed their opinions.
Just these tribal chiefs, who have not even read much books, discuss and discuss, what good way can they discuss? In their minds, if there is an enemy in front of them, then send enough troops to crush it, and with their warriors, these eagles of the grassland, as long as they pounce and bite like wolves, no matter how powerful the enemy is, it will not be a problem.
When it comes to tactics, they only know about charging, chiseling and chiseling, of course, they also know about encirclement, cutting and cavalry harassment, but that's all, and more, they really don't know.
Su Li was very anxious, they had been fighting with the First Division before, and everyone else had the final say, and he had long wanted to come out and do a good job alone. Now it is rare to have this opportunity, Zhang Bao let him take charge alone, leading the troops against the Wei army on the Western Front alone, he held his breath, and wanted to perform well and let the world see how powerful he was.
He used to be the master of a piece, according to the standards of the grassland, he can be counted as a king, in fact, he was indeed named the king of Xianbei by the emperor of the Han Dynasty, with his identity, he was naturally unwilling to take refuge under the command of Zhang Bao, a little hairy boy, for him to drive, like a sharp knife in his hand, pointing where to fight.
Of course, he has no opinion on surrendering at Liu Hou's feet, who wants someone to be the Son of Heaven and the co-master of the world? Comparable to the entire Han Dynasty, he didn't have the ability and courage to ask himself, but Zhang Bao was different, Zhang Bao's identity was just different from him, why should he be commanded by him?
With such thoughts, he has always wanted to lead an army alone and fight independently, just like before he surrendered to the Han Dynasty. However, if you want to achieve this goal, you have to prove that you have the ability. He also inquired clearly, the most important ability and combat merits in the Hong army, if you want to have the corresponding status and position, the only way is to exchange ability and combat merits.
Therefore, he really wanted to grasp this opportunity, make some achievements, and make a great feat, so that the little emperor would be impressed by him. In that way, he will have the opportunity to lead the army independently in the future. He doesn't doubt this at all, just look at the vulture bones who are also barbarians, don't people still get reused and become a division commander?
He also hoped that one day he would become a general in the main battle unit of the Han army, instead of commanding a force similar to a servant army as he is now, always rushing to the front, doing the hardest and most tiring things. However, the hope was beautiful, but the reality was cruel, and the former army, on which he had high hopes, was inexplicably defeated, and it was defeated miserably.
Compared with the loss of 5,000 men and horses, what made him even more sad was that this fiasco would definitely add a stain to his military career, and he would become the commander of the main battle unit and lead the army to fight alone.
This made him feel extremely anxious, but it was useless to be anxious, and finding a way to solve the problem was the right way. However, so many people have been discussing for a long time and have not come up with a good solution, what can I do?
In fact, their problem is not only that these people in the command are not intelligent enough, but also that their scouts are not strong enough this time, so the command system of Su Li is almost a smear. They do not understand the situation of the enemy at all, nor do they know what is going on around them.
As the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is invincible, and they are now committing the rule of "not knowing the other", in this case, it is difficult to make the right choice. When it was dark, the meeting broke up unhappily, and everyone was tired from the journey, and the generals and chiefs of all walks of life returned to their tents to rest.
When the night is dark and the wind is high and the fire is set on fire, today is a good day when the night is dark and the wind is high and suitable for killing people and setting fires. When it is ugly, it is the time when people sleep most soundly, and most experienced generals will choose this time to launch a night attack, which can have the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort.
About ten miles away from the Xianbei cavalry camp, a huge black shadow appeared covering the sky, and this black shadow was so big that it could not be seen at a glance, like a black cloud enveloping the entire earth.
In front of the black shadow lay a group of Xianbei cavalry, all of them mortally wounded, and their wounds were bleeding, and they couldn't survive. These are the scouts of the Xianbei cavalry, and they have all been killed now.
Needless to say, these black shadows that could not see the edge at a glance were the Wei army who came to sneak attack. They marched on their horses, silently without making a sound, showing good discipline.
The so-called "tie of horses" means that people hold "pieces" in their mouths, that is, small sticks shaped like chopsticks, so that people cannot speak and do not make sounds, while horses wrap their hooves with soft things such as cloth and grass so that they do not make the sound of horses' hooves when they walk.
Of course, the horse also has to hold the chew in its mouth, and all the ones that have a horse bell must be removed, anyway, everything that makes a sound must be taken to prevent them from making a sound. In this way, the whole team can march silently.
In this way, the Wei army slowly approached the barracks of the Xianbei cavalry by the most primitive means of silence. However, although the Xianbei cavalry surrendered to Shu not for too long, after all, they were still affected by the Hong Army, at least, some of the troops joined the army to do supervision and ideological education work in this team, and they more or less brought some of the Hong Army's style of doing things.
One of these ways of doing things is to be vigilant when camping. Therefore, the Xianbei cavalry sent scouts outside the camp and many more soldiers patrolling inside and outside the camp than before. Now, this tight defense finally had some effect, and the Wei army was finally discovered by a patrolling Xianbei cavalry about three miles from the barracks.