Chapter 391: The Empty City Ce Xianbei is Trapped
Xu Huang soon received a secret report from Li Tiezhu, and Xu Huang was thrilled after reading Li Tiezhu's crazy idea of annihilating the main force of Xianbei in Wuyuan City in one fell swoop.
The base camp almost never stopped transmitting the battle reports of the Xihe front line to the north, and Xu Huang naturally knew that now that the war in the south was basically over, Bingzhou could already free up his hands and concentrate on solving the problem of alien invasion in the north.
If the Xianbei people who led the team south this time can be arranged to annihilate in one fell swoop, then there will be no boundless trouble in the north of Bingzhou for a long time in the future. Not only did Zhao Xing hate the greedy and brutal ethnic inferiority of the Xianbei people, but even Xu Huang felt that this nation, which only knew destruction and killing, was really not suitable for living around the Han people.
The Xianbei tribe was either assimilated by the Han people, or went to other places to harm other ethnic groups like the Huns who moved west, and wanted to continue to stay in the north of Bingzhou to be powerful, but Zhao Xing did not agree, and the 100,000 soldiers of the Zhenbei Army resolutely did not agree.
After thinking about it again, Xu Huang felt that the risk of deliberately abandoning the Five Plains was worth taking, so he immediately began to set it up.
Xu Huang first sent a secret letter to the generals of Hu Chuquan, Wu Anguo, and Li Tiezhu, informing everyone of the combat intentions and ideas of the northern division of the Zhenbei Army, and naming the operation as the wolf extermination plan. After receiving feedback that his forces had unanimously agreed to launch the Battle of Wuyuan, Xu Huang immediately ordered the Xianbei people who had taken refuge in Bingzhou to set off from their respective stations and go to Wuyuan as bait. At the same time, Xu Huang sent soldiers to protect and transfer the people and a large amount of property in Wuyuan City to Heyin City.
The leader who suffered the loss of Wu'an under Guangmu City, still did not give up, and led his people to the east, and successively visited Shuofang City, Xi'an Yang City, and Chengyi City, and is now wandering in the Yiliang area. These days, Kuitou's temper is becoming more and more irritable and restless.
There was no news of a great victory for the imperial coalition forces in the south, while the north was like an iron bucket run by the Han Chinese, making it impossible for them to swallow at all. If this continues, the grain and grass carried by the tribesmen in the south will be exhausted, and if it is freezing in the cold today, it will become a problem whether they can return to the north smoothly and safely.
When Kuitou was bumping around around Yiliang like a headless fly, he suddenly received a piece of news that made him very excited: the Xianbei people in Wuyuan City were in rebellion, and Xu Huang, the Han general who guarded Wuyuan, was hurriedly mobilizing troops from all over to suppress it.
This news came too timely, and it made Kuitou's originally disheartened heart flood again. Since going south, he has rarely seen the tens of thousands of tribesmen who were forced to go south, and thought that they had all died of the plague, but he didn't expect these tribesmen to survive tenaciously, and they also mixed into the city of the Han people.
Just when the leader hesitated, he suddenly found that the Han army stationed in Yiliang had disappeared overnight, leaving only an empty city. The leader was worried that this was a trick of the Han people, so he sent a small team of men and horses into Yiliang City to investigate, and found that the Han people had really fled, and the direction of retreat was the area around Wuyuan City. The chief, who was already a little hungry, immediately led his people into Yiliang and scavenged all the grain and grass that the Han people had no time to take away, and finally barely ate half full.
The leader who had eaten the benefits was naturally more concerned about the rebellion of Xianbei in Wuyuan City, so while resting in Yiliang City, he asked Tanma to inquire about the news of Wuyuan City. It didn't take long for the news that made Kui Tou even more excited finally came back - the Han army in Wuyuan City was nowhere to be seen, and I heard that they were beaten away by the Xianbei people, and now they have fled to Heyin City, and Wuyuan City has left a lot of grain, grass and wealth.
The leader who got the accurate news immediately led the clansmen towards Wuyuan City, and saw a lot of traces of fighting and burning along the way, it seems that the fight between the Han people and the Xianbei people is very fierce, and the war has burned into Wuyuan City. When he was about to arrive at Wuyuan City, the leader received news that the rebel clansmen had now sent troops to Heyin and were preparing to take the second city in one fell swoop.
The leader then sent a vanguard to Wuyuan to investigate the truth, and the spies who came out not long ago reported that the city of Wuyuan was now almost empty, only a small number of Xianbei people were stationed, waiting for the big boss to go to the garrison for protection. After hearing this, the head was overjoyed, and hurriedly took the clansmen who were about to run out of grain and grass, and broke into Wuyuan City.
After the Xianbei people who had little harvest entered Wuyuan City, they immediately began to search everywhere. When Xu Huang arranged for the troops and the people in the city to retreat, he deliberately abandoned some items and grain and grass that were not very valuable, although in his opinion the value was average, but in the eyes of the leaders and Xianbei people, it was a rich harvest.
The well-fed leader and the nearly 80,000 clansmen under his command did not want to help the clansmen who were ruthlessly abandoned back then to attack Heyin, but sat in Wuyuan City and waited for the good news that Heyin City was breached. This kind of good deed that they can sit back and enjoy without having to die themselves, and they enjoy it with such peace of mind, as if they have forgotten the thing that forced 40,000 or 50,000 tribesmen to carry the plague south.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and the leader who was still dreaming in the warm Wuyuan City was suddenly disturbed by the guards who rushed in. The guards anxiously reported to the chief: "Report to the big chief, there are a lot of Han troops...... There are a lot of Han troops outside the city!"
As soon as the head heard the words of his own soldiers, cold sweat broke out on his forehead in an instant, and he hurriedly rushed to the head of Wuyuan City, and saw the only spectacular scene that he could see in this life. The Han army, which has more than 100,000 people, has been blocked in the four directions of Wuyuan City, and the neatly arranged bed crossbows and catapults and the Han infantry in strict formations fully and undoubtedly show that the Xianbei people are trapped in Wuyuan City!
How could the Han army besieging the city have such a huge number of 100,000? Zhao Xing, who had learned of the wolf extermination plan, was also very supportive of Li Tiezhu's bold plan, and immediately ordered the two armies of the Flying Tiger and the Blue Wolf to follow the 20,000 Huangxuan soldiers led by Hu Che'er to gallop to the aid of Wuyuan in the starry night. 40,000 cavalry plus 20,000 Xianbei mercenaries, 20,000 Southern Huns, plus more than 10,000 Qingxu volunteers, isn't it an army of 100,000?
From the rare crazy encirclement and annihilation plan of the Zhenbei Army, it is not difficult to see how enthusiastic and eager the Zhenbei Army is to get rid of the long-standing threat of Xianbei. To tell the truth, when fighting against the imperial court coalition army, the soldiers of the Zhenbei Army were not so excited and eager, and as soon as they heard that they could surround the head and die in Wuyuan, everyone's desire to fight had reached an astonishing level of volcanic eruption.
The leader looked at the Han coalition army outside the city with some trepidation, and the Han coalition army that had been deployed seemed to faintly see the picture of himself and his clansmen about to fall. Despite this, there was no panic on his face, but he shouted frantically: "If the Han people can defend the city to the death, so can we! We will go down with the Han army to see who can't eat it! If there is no food to eat, we will kill the horses!"
What the leader didn't know was that Zhao Xing and Xu Huang were preparing to die with him and starve to death the 80,000 Xianbei people trapped in Wuyuan! Zhang Liao, who had already received the battle report, was now rushing to reinforce with 20,000 dragoons, and the Zhenbei General's Mansion was also preparing a large amount of grain and grass baggage, which would be personally escorted to Wuyuan City by Qin Yilu and Liu Jili, the two chief managers.
With Qin Yilu and Liu Jili going north, as well as Ma Jun, the director of the Crouching Tiger Weapons Research Institute, and a group of craftsmen under him, they also wanted to join in the fun, wanting to take the opportunity to test the power of the new weapon......