Chapter 418: Fat, Bait, and Slaughter

"Nice ...... Encirclement and annihilation? ”

After listening to Yang Chuan's words, to be honest, the flying general Li Guang was a little confused, and said: "Marquis Changning, there are only 8,000 old soldiers under our hands......

"Eight thousand old soldiers, eight thousand iron armor, plus more than three hundred chariots, an inexhaustible supply of feather arrows, bows and crossbows, are you afraid that you can't beat the Huns?"

Yang Chuan talked eloquently, pointed to a dot on the map and said with a smile: "General Li, give you a month to push our eight thousand soldiers to this position, no problem, right?" ”

Li Guang was still a little puzzled: "In a month, it is no problem for the army to advance for 500 miles, but the Marquis of Changning, even if he pushes the army to the position you said, how can he encircle and annihilate the Hun cavalry that comes and goes like the wind and is elusive?" ”

That's why.

Yang Chuan smiled and waved his hand, and said: "How to encircle and annihilate the Hun cavalry, you don't have to worry about this, you just need to fight steadily, push along this road sideways, and kill all the Qiang Hun tribes when you encounter them."

Then, they robbed their horses, cattle, sheep and livestock, slaughtered them all and dried them to make dried meat as military food for the army.

And also.

Benhou will also send an infrastructure battalion to move with the army, and when they arrive at the designated location, they will help you build a very strong military fortress and help you find water......"

Li Guang was a little anxious: "Just push sideways like this...... Ahem, just swaggering like this? ”

You know, along the way, I'm afraid there are no less than 1120,000 Hun cavalry, right?

Eight thousand iron-clad Longxi veterans, have they become people's targets?

"Don't worry, the Huns' wolf tooth arrows can't penetrate your iron armor at all, plus chariots, long-range bows and crossbows, it's guaranteed to be no problem."

Yang Chuan came to Li Guang with a bowl of wine, soothed softly, and his face was full of harmlessness: "General Li, as long as you fight this battle well, behead 350,000 Hun cavalry, conquer cities, and expand the territory, you can expand the territory of our Han Dynasty by 3,000 miles, and it is not inferior to the contribution of the great general Wei Qing in recovering Henan.......

The four words "Worship the Marquis of the General" were really like a magic sound, and in an instant, they entered the heart of the veteran Li Guang.

I saw that his eyes were wide open, and he asked very honestly: "Really?" ”

Yang Chuan nodded fiercely: "Naturally, it's true......"

……

The army is pulled, the flag is unfurled, and the yellow dust covers the sun.

Eight thousand old soldiers of Longxi marched under the scorching sun, and three hundred chariots rumbled loudly on the rugged ancient road, and they headed westward like this.

Along the way, he was naturally harassed by waves of Hun cavalry, but the number was not large, Li Guang only had to give an order to let three hundred chariots surround in a circle, and the shield armor soldiers showed more than 1,000 cowhide giant shields that were black and black, and then, let more than 1,000 pikemen squat behind the shield armor soldiers, only revealing one or two feet of Bai Sensen's fine iron spear tip, which made those wolves look away.

Eight thousand infantry soldiers are nothing in the eyes of Yang Chuan and Li Guang.

However, in the eyes of the Huns, the infantry, chariot soldiers and crossbow soldiers of the Han Dynasty are actually much more terrible than their elite iron cavalry.

In a word, it is to shake people.

The slow movement of the infantry soldiers, coupled with Li Guang's usual prudence and caution, made it possible to advance a maximum of thirty or fifty miles a day when he stopped and stopped.

As a result, there are more and more Huns hanging far behind, and, as far as the naked eye can see, those wolves are still coming.

The Huns were very intelligent and very good at fighting.

In their eyes, Li Guang's 8,000-foot chariot soldiers had committed a taboo in the soldiers, and the lone army went hundreds of miles into the land, which was simply a piece of big fat sent to the door, and naturally they could not be allowed to escape easily.

As a result, there were more and more Huns following and watching, and after Li Guang's rough calculation, his face turned green.

After only two or three hundred miles, it attracted more than 15,000 Hun cavalry.

Moreover, those wolves gradually showed their sharp fangs, and they didn't have to deliberately dodge, they followed behind the Han army with such open fire, neither attacking nor detaching, and still shaking people without stopping......

If this continues, Hugh will say something about fighting a beautiful 'encirclement and annihilation war'.

These 8,000 Longxi veterans will sooner or later be a piece of meat in people's mouths!

Before leaving, Yang Chuan gave Li Guang an 'infrastructure construction team' of less than 1,000 people, plus a 'fire army' of 300 people, to help repair bridges and roads, and at the same time slaughter and dispose of the stolen cattle, sheep and livestock, dry and grind them, and make them into 'military rations' with excellent taste.

In addition, there was a young soldier of less than thirty people, with two sand sculptures, who naturally became the so-called scout, responsible for reporting all the situation to Yang Chuan, who was hundreds of miles away.

"Send a message to the Marquis of Changning, saying that we are surrounded by the Huns."

On this day, the army continued to march for more than 30 miles, set up camp in a place near mountains and rivers, stood on a high platform, looked at the Hun cavalry in the distance, and finally couldn't help it.

He summoned those 'young communication soldiers', and said with an unkind face: "You just tell him Yang Chuan, what bullshit encirclement and annihilation battle, this is obviously to send a large piece of fat meat to the Huns, hurry up and let him find a way to break the siege!" ”

A young man nodded, wrote a secret letter very seriously, and after Li Guang read it, he stuffed it into a small emerald green bamboo stick and tied it to a stupid carved leg: "Little San, give this letter to Childe." ”

The stupid eagle suddenly flew up, circled high in the air a few times, and then disappeared into the vast sky, but flew all the way to the east.

Li Guang's hanging heart settled down slightly.

Yang Chuan is a person with a way, this is the unanimous statement of many powerful families in the Han Empire, but Li Guang never believed it, he felt that a male Han husband had to fight with real knives and guns on the battlefield, so that the military exploits of the sky were worthy of respect.

There's a way, it's a fart.

Have the ability to let these Hun cavalry retreat?

And so, day and night passed.

As the day before, when the army advanced more than 30 miles, it once again set up camp and confronted the more than 10,000 Hun cavalry that followed, and no one dared to attack easily.

Yang Chuan's reply came.

There is only one word: continue to move forward, according to the original plan, arrive in the area of Wusheling on schedule, and buy time for the infrastructure brigade in the rear......

Li Guang read the reply and only spit out one sentence: "Grass!" ”

He didn't know that Yang Chuan was not actually in the infrastructure camp, but with two thousand young cavalry from Shuofang County, he made a big circle, and had already come to the Qiang territory on the south side of the Hexi Corridor and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, killing and killing.

All the men were to be killed.

All the women and children were snatched away, and people were quickly taken to the construction site of the infrastructure, where they washed and cooked, carried stones, and carried wood.

As for the cattle, sheep and livestock of the Qiang tribes, they were also driven away in a steady stream and sent to the infrastructure camp to become the rations of the 30,000 people.

Yang Chuan stubbornly believed that as long as it was the population of the Han Empire, wherever it was attacked, the grain, women, cattle, sheep and livestock, as well as the boundless land, should belong to the Han people.

Huo Qubing stabbed a knife into the chest of the Xiongnu Right Xian King, and now he should have opened and closed in Zhangye, Jiuquan, and Dunhuang, killing and killing;

Li Guang's 8,000 veterans, with an infrastructure battalion of more than 1,000 people, attracted no less than 20,000 or 30,000 Hun cavalry within a radius of 1,000 miles.

I heard that there was going to be a war.

Those Qiang people in Yangriha also began to move, ready to support the Huns, so as to reap some benefits in this big battle, which made Yang Chuan very angry when he thought about it.

The Huns are alien races, the mortal enemies of the Han Empire, and even if they fight each other's brains, it seems that they should be, and no one complains about who is too black.

But.

What are you doing with the Qiang people and Di people?

If you let Dong Zhongshu and those big scholars dig into the evidence, maybe one or two thousand years ago, hundreds of years ago, everyone was still the same ancestor.

You must know that among the descendants of Yan and Huang, most of the descendants of Emperor Yan are farmers in the Central Plains, and the descendants of the Yellow Emperor are mostly grassland herdsmen......

Since you yourself want to be the dog of the Huns, then, Ben Hou will discount your five dog legs!

This time, Yang Chuan was very heavy.

He made the 2,000 young soldiers disguise themselves as Hun cavalrymen, burn and loot, and did not kill all the men, but only those who were young and strong, but deliberately let some of the old men go, so that on the way to escape, spread the news that the Huns slaughtered our Qiang tribe, thus causing a terrible rumor.

The Qiang tribe and the Di tribe, after hearing the news, quickly reacted strongly -

Catch up with the cattle, sheep and livestock, take the women, children and children, and retreat quickly!

As for where they can retreat, Yang Chuan doesn't care, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is so big, vast and lonely, even if it runs into hundreds or thousands of Qiang tribes, it can carry it, and when Yang Chuan's layout in Hexi and the Western Regions is completed, it is not too late to slowly clean them up.

All in all, for now, all he wants is that there are basically no Qiang tribes in this vast territory......

The killings one after another made Yang Chuan almost red-eyed.

In just over a month, he and the 2,000 young cavalrymen traveled thousands of miles and traveled long distances, destroying more than 300 Qiang, Di and Hun tribes, killing more than 7,000 young and strong men, and seizing countless women, children, cattle, sheep and livestock.

Clear the threat of the Qiang tribes to the south.

Yang Chuan was finally able to free his hands and began to carefully arrange, and consciously moved to the area of Wusheling without delaying the construction of roads and cities in the infrastructure camp.

His goal is clear.

That's it.

In the area of Wusheling, fight a real battle of encirclement and annihilation, and wipe out the main forces of the Huns in Longxi, Gulang, Wuwei, and Zhangye in one go, so as to create better conditions for Huo Qu's disease, and make the two 'Hexi battles' in history become one.

"Li Guang has always been cautious and cautious, and he is a good defensive general, and this time, Ben Hou asked him to do his best to fight a defensive battle."

On this day, after destroying a small tribe of the Huns, Yang Chuan and his 2,000 young soldiers chose a place to camp, slaughtered cattle and sheep, feasted on war food, and planned to open overnight to attack another Qiang tribe.

Slowly eating a whole roast leg of mutton, he washed his hands, spread out a map on the desk, leaned down to study it carefully, and chuckled lightly: "Our Fei General should not have imagined that he attracted most of the firepower in front, so that many young and middle-aged men from the Huns and Qiang tribes pounced, but left their women, children, cattle and sheep and livestock behind, and became our trophies."

Zhang Tang passed a message to the brothers, rested on the spot for three hours, and the army marched. ”

Zhang Tang nodded, and went down to give the order with a black face.

Sima Qian and Dongfang Shuo also had ugly faces, and there was an inexplicable trace of disgust and fear in their eyes when they looked at Yang Chuan.

Especially Sima Qian, as the inheritor of the family of historiography, although he is used to seeing dynastic changes and frequent wars, those things are just 'historical events' that exist on paper after all, and there is no way to compare them with the current slaughter along the way.

So, Sima Qian, a red-faced man, couldn't help but speak: "Marquis Changning, let's attack all the way, destroy 321 tribes of the Qiang, Huns, and Di people, kill 9,633 men, and burn countless grassland tents, forage, cattle and sheep dung, etc.

Marquis of Changning, such a killing, it hurts the heavens and the peace.

Otherwise, let's go back first and find a way to fight with it......"

Without waiting for Sima Qian to finish speaking, Yang Chuan spat on the ground: "Sima Qian, if you don't want to fight with Benhou, then get out of here as soon as possible!" ”

"I hate you the most for thinking of yourself as an intellectual after a few days of studying, and you can still have good thoughts about the enemy? Why don't you eat? ”

"You don't want to write a book in the future."

"Sima Qian, Ben Hou put his words here today, if you don't change your view of historiography and have mercy on the enemy, you will be killed sooner or later, don't you believe it?"

Sima Qian was furious.

It's just that when he glanced at Yang Chuan, the Marquis of Changning, whose face was as gloomy as water, this guy's big red face was only a layer redder, mixed with some black, and he muttered: "Kill the eggs of a certain family?" It's beautiful to think about, a certain family has never married a wife and had children......"

After packing up Sima Qian, Yang Chuan turned his head to look at Dongfang Shuo: "Mr. Dongfang, do you also think that Benhou's move hurts Tianhe?" ”

Dongfang Shuo shook his head: "There was once a sage who said that forgiveness and mercy to the enemy is tantamount to being cruel and ruthless to one's own people. ”

"Changning Hou, I, Dongfang Shuo, support you."

Yang Chuan nodded, his eyes staring at the map above the desk, and he didn't seem to be in a very good mood.

He pondered for a long time, then suddenly raised his head and said, "If there is hell in this bullshit world, then let me Yang Chuan go to hell alone." ”

"Ben Hou still doesn't believe it, and he can't remove the roots of the Huns."

"By the way, there are also Qiang people!"

The plot of the sixth volume is a little procrastinated, and the cook himself is embarrassed, but there are too many things at home recently, and he has been in the hospital three times alone, which has seriously affected his writing status.

There are two main problems, one is that the plot is a bit rushed, and the other is that the plot is a bit dry.

Well, it's just uncomfortable.

Of course, all excuses are pale and weak, so it's better to calm down and get back to that feeling of storytelling.

Thank you for accompanying you all the way!

The cook is working on it.

Kowtow.

Bang Bang Bang!

(End of chapter)