Chapter 785: The Fooled Karasuma Man
In fact, this time the Karasuma people were fooled by the Goguryeo people.
The Goguryeo people knew that there were tens of thousands of Gongsun Du's army in the middle between the domestic city and the Changchun city of Fuyu Kingdom, so how could they come to Changchun City?
The Goguryeo people had their own plans. After fighting with Gongsun Du for nearly a year, although Goguryeo suffered a lot of losses and lost the city of Susheng Gucheng, they did not hurt the fundamentals, and they still had the strength to fight to the death with Gongsun Du. In order to attract the attention of Gongsun Du, the Goguryeo people came up with this trick to trick the Karasuma people into attacking Changchun.
Regardless of whether the Karasuma people could take Changchun City or not, as long as they marched into the southern part of Fuyu Kingdom, from the perspective of the situation, they intended to get closer to Goguryeo. From the standpoint of Gongsun Du, he would never allow the Karasuma people to be connected with the territory of the Goguryeo people. Thinking from the perspective of the Karasuma people, if they could take the territory around Changchun City, they would be able to cut off the connection between Fuyu and Gongsun Du, and form a favorable situation with Goguryeo in the east.
Therefore, the Goguryeo people calculated that the Karasuma people would definitely attack Changchun City this time, and the reason why they sent envoys to fool them was just to strengthen the confidence of the Karasuma people.
In June, the Karasuma Xianbei coalition army once again gathered 40,000 troops and prepared to cross the Great Liaoshui to the east and attack Changchun, the new city of Fuyu Kingdom. However, on their way to Changchun, there was still a roadblock to defeat, that is, more than 20,000 cavalry stationed on the east bank of the Great Liaoshui.
After more than half a year of construction, a large-scale garrison has been built in the place where the blue wolf army is stationed on the east bank of the Great Liaoshui, and the important town here is also named "Tongliao" by Zhao Xing.
Of the 20,000 blue wolf troops stationed in Tongliao Town, 10,000 were authentic Fuyu soldiers, but they were now extremely recognizant of their new identity. Joining the Blue Wolf Army means that they have become professional soldiers, not only can they receive military salaries, but they can also accumulate meritorious service and embark on the road to getting ahead.
There are now 20,000 Blue Wolf Army in Changchun City, of which 10,000 are the old troops of the Blue Wolf Army, and 10,000 are the 50 Little Tiger members who are responsible for training. After a winter and a spring of training, this new army has been reborn and has initial combat capability.
In order to completely deter the Karasuma and Xianbei people, and also to train the Little Tigers and the 10,000-fu Yu new army, Zhang Xiu ordered the two brothers Lu Xiang and Lu Kuang to pull the 10,000-fu Yu new army from Changchun City to Tongliao in May, and joined forces with the 20,000 elites of Tongliao, reaching 30,000.
As for the remaining 10,000 blue wolf elites in Changchun City, they were not idle. When Lü Xiang and Lü Kuang led 10,000 new troops to Tongliao, Zhang Xiu asked the 10,000 blue wolf troops originally stationed in Tongliao to return to Changchun, and replaced the 10,000 troops in Changchun City.
Zhang Xiu's idea is the same as Ma Chao's, he took great pains to detour tens of thousands of miles to bring the 20,000 blue wolf army to the northeast, which is the seed and backbone of the formation of the Northeast Army in the future, and it is necessary to maintain a certain base at any time. The 10,000 veteran troops originally stationed in Changchun City did not get the opportunity to fight last year, and this time they happened to change their guards with the Blue Wolf Army on the Tongliao front, so that the soldiers would also feel that the army commander could do things evenly.
After such a back-and-forth of manipulation, in fact, among the 30,000 blue wolf troops stationed in the Tongliao fortress, 20,000 were more than soldiers, and 10,000 were the elite of the blue wolf army. The 30,000 soldiers have formed three levels: ace, elite and regular.
So, with this somewhat uneven level of troops, can Zhang Xiu scare off the 40,000 Wusun and Xianbei allied troops that have poured into the nest? The answer is yes.
Don't forget that Zhang Xiu has several hole cards in his hand now.
The first card, 5,000 indestructible heavy armored iron horsemen among the 10,000 ace troops, is enough to make the Xianbei and Karasuma people fearful.
On the second card, 10,000 elite soldiers are equipped with thousands of military dogs. Although the military dog unit does not look very conspicuous, it is definitely the best to use it to encircle, chase and intercept, and it is impossible for the Karasuma and Xianbei people to quietly break through the Tongliao defense line.
The third card, 10,000 regular husbands and Yu Xinjun, was trained by fifty Little Tiger members. Don't look at the young age of the Little Tigers, but they have received the most formal military training, which means that this Fuyu New Army is a new-style army that is completely armed with Zhao Xing's military thoughts.
Zhang Xiu, who had been waiting for the Kasuma and Xianbei people to send troops in the Tongliao fortress, finally received a report from the Shadow Crew in late May that they had discovered an unusual movement between Karasuma and the Xianbei people, and that there were signs of a large army gathering. Zhang Xiu believed that it would not be long before Guo Huai would definitely send someone to contact and prepare to launch an attack on the Karasuma and Xianbei people.
Sure enough, a few days later, Guo Huai, who was stationed in Gaoxian, sent someone to deliver a letter, saying that everything was ready, and the two sides would jointly send troops three days later. Zhang Xiu sneered a few times in his heart, feeling that Guo Huai was really good at getting stuck in time, and seeing that the Karasuma people and Xianbei people were already coming towards Changchun in the northeast, he jumped out to be a good person. If it weren't for the fact that the current Fuyu Kingdom has been returned to the King of Pingxi, this time the Fuyu people would have to be calculated by Guo Huai.
According to the established strategy, Zhang Xiu immediately raised an army of 30,000 and fought head-on with the Karasuma Xianbei coalition army on the vast plain east of the Great Liaoshui.
This time, because it was just to drive the Karasuma people and the Xianbei people to flee westward, Zhang Xiu did not really think about annihilating the invading enemy, but made a full position and used various means to directly scare the Karasuma people and the Xianbei people away.
Zhang Xiu did this, he put all the more than 10,000 new troops on the terrifying heavy armored black cavalry, and placed this amazing number of iron troops in the front line of the battlefield, while the original heavy armored cavalry and light cavalry were uniformly dressed in Han army uniforms, covering in front of the two wings of the heavy armored iron cavalry.
The reason why the inexperienced 10,000 Fu Yu Xinjun was made to wear heavy armor was because Zhang Xiu followed the advice of Zhao Tong and Xu Da and let this army feel the deterrent power of heavy armor and iron cavalry in advance. Anyway, when the Xianbei and Wusun people on the opposite side saw this 10,000 ultimate cavalry, they definitely didn't have the courage to come to seek death, and they were able to train the troops along the way, so Zhang Xiu naturally adopted this suggestion.
If the Karasuma and Xianbei people were so insane that they dared to risk their lives to fight the heavily armored cavalry, then the 20,000 elite and ace troops covering the flanks of the 10,000 new army were not vegetarians, and they didn't mind teaching these guys a lesson with a variety of weapons such as longbows, sabers, crossbows, and thunderbolts.
It turns out that the Karasuma people and the Xianbei people have really been frightened by the heavily armored iron horsemen. When they rushed to a few miles in front of the Blue Wolf Army and saw clearly the troops blocking the road, they turned around and ran westward without saying a word.
On the way south, now that Guo Huai had led his army to block the way, the Karasuma people and the Xianbei people had no choice but to flee westward, trying to break into the desert north of Youzhou and find a place to stay.