Chapter 531: Besieged
Accidents are always unexpected.
An hour later, Cheng Pu and Han Dang, who were sent out, had already returned one after another, and they had already found Li Hu and Xi Shen's troops, both of which had been stationed in place.
But after waiting for a long time, Zhang Chong still didn't wait for Ma Chao's team to return, and it wasn't even clear whether they had caught up with Xu Huang and them.
Zhang Chong, who is usually mild-tempered, couldn't help but scold:
"This Ma Chao is really a doll, he can do such a thing."
The other rampage generals did not dare to say anything, but they were silently worried about Ma Chao in their hearts.
At this time, Ma Chao ran back with a few rampagers, sweating profusely.
After one of the young generals with uneven fluff at the corners of his mouth got off the horse, he galloped towards Zhang Chong under the yellow and landed on one knee:
"Tell the king, Shi will take us along the horseshoe prints to find Captain Xu, but Captain Xu's pursuit is too fast, and the brothers can't find them at all. Later, we chased beyond the mountains, and the trace was lost. Shi Jiang ordered me to return and report the situation to the king, and then Shi Jiang went into the mountain by himself and said that he would find Xu Xiaowei and them. ”
Zhang Chong was silent for a moment, he thought about it, then looked at this young general and asked:
"What's your name, look at the eyes."
The young player was actually quite excited, but he still tried to reply calmly:
"The last general is called Ma Dai, and he is now the deputy team of the Left Qu Right Tun of the Rampage Division."
Zhang Chong looked at Ma Dai, who had a somewhat similar face to Ma Chao, and suddenly blurted out:
"Oh, you're Marten's son! Looks like your father has given birth to a good son! ”
Ma Dai's mind was relatively calm and delicate, and he didn't know whether this was a good word or a bad word, so he could only hang his head and be silent.
At this time, Tian Chou on the side asked Ma Dai:
"Do you know where you're chasing?"
Ma Dai shook his head.
It's not that he's unprofessional, but he's a northwest earth hammer who just came to Hebei to take refuge in his father for less than half a year, and then he was recommended to the horizontal team for training.
But Ma Dai quickly made up for it:
"I waited until I passed through the end of this flat hill, and then I crossed a mountain road and entered a small flat land, and not long after that I saw a large pool, which branched off into a large river to the northeast."
Tian Chou listened carefully, combined with the landform in his impression, and then said to Zhang Chong:
"Your Majesty, from Deputy Marsh's description, Ma Chao and they should have found Yushui before, and a little further north is where Liucheng is located. And Captain Xu's department is likely to have pursued to Liucheng. ”
Zhang Chong has been thinking.
Suddenly, he asked Cheng Pu and Han Dang, who were waiting on the side:
"Where did Li Hu and Xi Shen stop?"
Cheng Pu's foreword:
"Captain Li is stationed twenty miles northeast of us with the Flying Dragon Army."
Han Dang took over:
"When the last general found Captain Xi, he was leading the Flying Leopard Army to pursue the Wuhuan people in our southeast, probably about twenty miles."
Zhang Ran smiled, and then said to the left and right:
"From this point of view, one of them is in the north and the other is in the south, but I, the Chinese army, have become the front army."
Then, Zhang Chong ordered Han Dang and Cheng Pu again:
"You two will return the same way now, and give orders to the two armies of the Flying Dragon and the Flying Leopard, so that their whole army will pursue them to the east, find my traces, and follow me."
Han Dang and Cheng Pu understood, and after holding their fists, they hurriedly returned the same way with the team.
And after doing this, Zhang Chong said to Ma Dai:
"In a while, you will be the leader of the whole army, take us to find that place, and let's go to annihilate the Wuhuan people."
Ma Dai didn't understand, obviously his brother didn't find Captain Xu, and Captain Xu himself went deep alone, why the king's expression was so happy.
It seems that Ta Ma Dai still has a lot to learn.
So, he hurriedly took a few of his subordinates, flew on the horse, and shouted before the whole army.
As the riders flew and passed on, the horsemen who had stayed here got on their horses again and ran towards the gap in the mountain road to the east.
As a Wenchen, Fu Zhu's equestrian skills are already very good.
But even so, the long running right away made the sides of his ass hot.
At this time, he knelt on the back of his horse and said loudly to Zhang Chong:
"Wang, I didn't expect this battle to be wrong, but I don't know if Xu Huang has merit or a mistake.
Zhang Chong laughed, couldn't help but be excited, and said:
"Of course this Xu Huang has merit, or a great meritorious. Without his lone army, how could those Wuhuan people stay? If you don't stay, how can you create an opportunity for our army to encircle and annihilate? ”
It can be said that the current situation is not a small good, nor is it generally good, but a great good.
Originally, what was Zhang Chong most worried about?
That is, the assault riders in front fought too fiercely, and those Wuhuan people were killed to the point that they were so frightened that they didn't even dare to defend the old nest Liucheng, so they retreated into the Xianbei mountains.
That's going to be hard.
Therefore, Zhang Chongcai ordered all the troops to stop the pursuit, reduce the pressure on the Wuhuan people, and not ask them to take the initiative to counterattack, at least let them have the courage to defend Liucheng.
But now because Xu Huang's lonely army has gone deeper, a more favorable situation has been created.
What would they do when the others on the opposite side suddenly found that there was a lone army of Tarzan riders who were far less numerous than them nearby?
Not to mention that he is so ambitious, even if he has a little face, he will turn around and go back to fight.
On the one hand, it can also boost the morale of the Wuhuan people, and on the other hand, it can also eat part of the Taishan army first, which may create a later reversal into victory.
Under such temptation, how can the Wuhuan people not be moved?
Therefore, it can be seen that the siege of Xu Huangbu by the Wuhuan people is almost inevitable.
But the Wuhuan people wanted to eat Xu Huang, but they also created an opportunity for themselves to encircle and annihilate them.
And now it depends on whether Xu Huang can withstand him and bring reinforcements.
And at this point, Zhang Chong is full of confidence in Xu Huang, because his name is Xu Huang.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chong couldn't help but shout again:
"Gentlemen, let's hurry up and let those Wuhuan rats see whose world this vast land is in the future!"
The riders sang:
"Whoa!"
So, thousands of horsemen rolled up thousands of feet of dust, and swept towards Liucheng with the wind.
……
In Banla Mountain, which was less than twenty miles southeast of Liucheng, Xu Huang was surrounded here with six hundred assault horses.
At this time, looking at the endless stream of Wuhuan people at the foot of the mountain, as well as the Hu Bu who kept coming from the direction of Liucheng, Xu Huang was both happy and regretful.
Fortunately, thanks to his timely response, when he rushed to this area, he saw the tents all over the place, and knew that he had broken into the habitat of the Wuhuan people, maybe this was where Liucheng was located.
So, just when his subordinates were about to continue the pursuit, Xu Huang hurriedly asked them to stop the pursuit, and then found this mountain wall as a fortification.
Xu Huang didn't know that the place he found would be called Banla Mountain in the future, and that the famous Hongshan cultural site had been discovered here, but he just felt that this was their way of life from a purely military point of view.
Xu Huang's choice is not wrong, the location of Banla Mountain is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
It's not very high, but it's condescending enough. On its east, north and west sides, it is surrounded by mountains, and to its south, the Daling River flows from west to east.
In other words, if the Wuhuan people wanted to attack Xu Huang and them, they could only assemble and attack on the very narrow beach north of the Daling River and south of the Banla Mountain.
This is very beneficial to the defense of Xu Huang, who is at an absolute disadvantage in numbers.
That's good news, but it's also bad enough to be desperate.
First of all, because Xu Huang's pursuit was too fast, a large number of spare horses and materials were left in the rear, and the equipment that could be condescendingly guarded, such as the bed crossbow, was not there, and there were not many arrows left. Fortunately, the brothers were still fully armoured.
Looking at the number of people again, there are only six hundred knights following Xu Huang now, and the others have all run away on the road.
And what about the other side?
According to Xu Huang's rough estimate, these Wuhuan people must have at least seven or eight thousand horsemen, ten times the number of their own side.
Xu Huang's prediction was right, there are really so many Wuhuan people who dare to come here.
As a large alliance of more than 5,000 people, Wuhuan in western Liaoning has a population of nearly 50,000. If you follow the perspective of the whole people, men and women conscripting together, the Wuhuan people here in Guangliu City can gather twenty or thirty thousand soldiers.
Coupled with the looting of the Han land by the Wuhuan people, the number of household registrations is also nearly tens of thousands, and tens of thousands of packers can be recruited.
Finally, the Wuhuan people can also levy other tribes nearby, such as the Murong Ministry, which can gather thousands of horsemen.
It can be said that the war potential of the Wuhuan people in Liucheng is not weak.
That is, Tatun felt that there were few Taishan horsemen who were now pursuing Liucheng, so he only mobilized the tribes near Liucheng to besiege it, otherwise the foot of this Banla Mountain would have been crowded with people.
Therefore, whether it is Tatun or Xu Huang himself, they all feel that this time the result is doomed.
This is also the reason for Xu Huang's remorse.
Didn't he regret why he was pursuing it deeply? Is there something wrong with that? Whoever kills my people is fleeing to the ends of the earth, and he Xu Huang will also ask for his head.
Xu Huang regretted that he couldn't lead the soldiers and fight with these Wuhuan people in an upright manner. And now, on the contrary, it is necessary to discredit the military prestige of the Taishan Army.
This is what Xu Huang regrets, not to mention three thousand, even if his number is doubled, he also has the confidence to hold here.
But now ......, hey.
Just when Xu Huang was thinking about it, Xu Shang walked over with an excited face:
"Captain, what do you think this is?"
As he spoke, Xu Shang held up a dragon-shaped jade.
Xu Huang's mind was still entangled in the battle behind him just now, and he didn't turn around all of a sudden.
Then Xu Shang began to gush:
"Captain, our brothers were digging groundwater, and then they dug up an altar, and there was this dragon-shaped jade on the side, as well as the stone of the beast's head, I thought that thing was useless, so I brought this jade artifact here."
Looking at the dragon-shaped jade in Xu Shang's hand, and seeing the endless Wuhuan enemy army below, gradually, a bold idea emerged from Xu Huang's mind.
Hot girl, just do it!