Chapter 421: The Art of War

As mentioned last time, the night attack plan carefully planned by the Wei generals ended in a tiger, and most of the Xianbei people escaped by the slippery Xianbei people. More than 40,000 Wei troops poured out and worked all night, but only a few thousand Xianbei people were left. Although the exchange ratio of this battle is far lower than the previous battle with the Xianbei cavalry front army, the capture is too small, and it seems that the effort is not proportional to the gain.

The general of the Wei army was naturally very dissatisfied with this result, and if he was not satisfied, he had to find a way to expand the result, so he ordered the whole army to pursue. It is said that the whole army is pursuing, but in fact, it is not the cavalry that mainly runs to pursue.

The other party is a cavalryman, and he is a barbarian who grew up on horseback, so he naturally runs very fast, and chasing cavalry with infantry is simply a joke. Fortunately, the Wei army still had nearly 10,000 cavalry, and these cavalry naturally served as the main force in pursuit.

The infantry still slowly followed behind, and of course, they were not idle, they were responsible for cleaning up the battlefield. The Xianbei people fled in a hurry, leaving behind a lot of supplies, and the thousands of Xianbei people who died also had a lot of good things on them, all of which took some time to deal with.

After these infantry disposed of the things in the original Xianbei camp, they slowly chased them in the direction of the cavalry pursuit, and along the way they also picked up a lot of things left behind by the Xianbei cavalry during their escape. In addition, the pursuing Wei cavalry was able to occasionally capture some prisoners of war, which they would pass over to the infantry.

But in general, after escaping from the camp, the casualties of the Xianbei cavalry were very few, after all, although everyone was a cavalry, the riding skills of the Xianbei people were generally stronger than the cavalry of the Wei army, and the quality of the war horses was much better, and they naturally ran much faster.

This is not difficult to understand, Xianbei people can be said to have started riding horses when they were still wearing open crotch pants, and they have been riding horses for as many years as they have lived, while Wei Jun has ridden horses for three or five years, and some have even just learned to ride horses for a few months, so there is naturally a lot of gap in the riding level of the two sides.

And the quality of the war horses is the same, the horses of the Xianbei people are used to running on the vast grassland, and the horses of the Wei army are very cherished, except for regular training, no one is willing to take them out and run, so the two are not the same in terms of endurance and extreme speed.

In this case, although the Wei cavalry has been chasing behind the Xianbei cavalry, they are always at a distance, so naturally it is impossible to make any gains. If time passes, this gap will become wider and wider, and in the end, most of the Xianbei cavalry will be able to escape the pursuit of the Wei army. However, the farther you run, the more the rout will disperse, and the more difficult it will be for Suli to gather his troops again.

Fortunately, they didn't run long before they encountered Zhang Bao leading the first division to come over in a hurry to respond, and then easily repelled the pursuing Wei army, and the large army only then gained a firm foothold.

After listening to Su Li's story, Zhang Bao was also speechless, this Su Li was once a hero, the leader of one of the three major forces in Xianbei, why is he so hasty?

With such a strong lineup of 40,000 cavalry, Su Li couldn't defeat the Wei army's 50,000 infantry and cavalry mixed troops.

Although he was very angry that he had lost so many people, but as Su Li, Zhang Bao didn't want to criticize him too harshly, if he was at fault in the process, his little emperor brother would naturally punish him, but he didn't need to do much for himself.

So, Zhang Bao encouraged Su Li twice, and then asked: "The other party's main general seems to be a person who is good at strategy and courageous and brave, I don't know that the other party is the famous general?" ”

"This ......" Su Li was speechless, he didn't know who the other party's main general was, and of course he couldn't answer Zhang Bao's question. Now Zhang Bao simply "admired" Su Li beyond measure, and after fighting with the other party for so long, he finally beat people to the point of urine, and he didn't even know who the enemy's main general was.

Is this guy really the King of Xianbei? Could it be a big-chested and brainless figure like a vulture? So how did he lead so many Xianbei tribes? With his rampage in battle, can he really control so many rebellious steppe tribes?

Actually, this is Zhang Bao thinking too much, the force of Suli is the weakest among the three major forces in Xianbei, and the three forces are the most capable of fighting with Kirby, and the three "adults" are also the most talented with Kirby. After all, Kirby can work hard step by step from a small person for many years to earn such a big family business.

That is to say, Kebineng is a rich generation and an official generation who are self-made, while Budugen and Suli belong to the rich N generation and official N generation who inherit the foundation of the previous generation. That is to say, these two people are both from the sons of gentlemen, among which Budugen is the most noble, and he is considered a royal family, but he is also the most unsuccessful.

Relatively speaking, Su Li is a little better than him, after all, although he inherited a large tribe, he can still attract many small tribes to follow him, thus forming a big force that is enough to compete with the other two forces, which shows that he still has some brains.

As for military talent, he also has a little bit, but it is far worse than Kebi Neng, otherwise their tribe will not always be bullied by Kebi Neng. And his little bit of military talent can still be used in the Xianbei people, but when he arrives in the Central Plains, which has a profound cultural heritage, he can only be blind in the face of the real military masters who are full of wisdom.

The culture of the Central Plains has a long history, the history of war, and the culture of war also have a long history. A copy of "The Art of War" alone is profound and breathtaking.

In addition, there are "Sun Bin Art of War", "Wu Zi", "Liutao", "Wei Xuanzi", "Yellow Emperor Yin Fu Jing", "Huangshi Gong Sanluo", "Eight Arrays", "Twenty-four Articles of the Art of War" and so on.

These vast art of war has also created countless military strategists who use soldiers like gods, and these military strategists have played many classic war examples in history that have been passed down for centuries. Obviously, this time, the Xianbei cavalry was unfortunate to encounter a person who was well versed in the art of war.

Therefore, Su Li can't be blamed for this defeat, there is a saying: "It's not that I can't do it, it's that the enemy is too strong." "The opponent he met this time was too strong for him, and the two were not at the same level at all.

Su Li is a noble man of Xianbei, and he has read some Han books, but he really doesn't have much knowledge of the art of war. After all, in that era, the art of war was a rare thing like martial arts cheats, and it was generally not passed on, and it was difficult to get this art of war book, and it was even more difficult to have someone teach it.

It can be said that those who can learn the art of war are people who have great opportunities, and even with Su Li's noble status among the Xianbei people, they are not qualified to learn the art of war.

For Su Li, who has not studied the art of war, it is not surprising that a random general who has learned any one or two of the above art of war will be defeated when everyone has about the same strength. This Wei general is obviously not an ordinary person (people who can learn the art of war are not ordinary people), and Su Li actually lost unjustly.