Huo Qubing had nearly 5,000 troops behind him, and it was the same force that Li Dang and Yao Zhao combined to attack Wuqiang.

After Yao Zhao was edicted to return to Chang'an to report on his work, this team was all led by Li Kang and had been active in Xiguan.

In the space of almost ten months, Li Dang gradually explored the Qilian Mountain, found a passage path, and completed the Tibetan army according to the order.

Fortunately, a major cleaning of the surrounding Qiang villages has been carried out before, and there is no Qiang people's eyeliner nearby, otherwise it is difficult to keep the whole process secret.

In the early hours of this morning, Huo Qubing came to the border pass to meet Li Kang, and then led Roshna and other envoys to advance rapidly in the mountains.

The road had been explored by Li Kang in advance, and plank roads were built at some cliffs that were not easy to travel, and they were barely passable.

The plank road is on the cliff, digging holes and plugging wood, and building a passable road, also known as the compound road, began in the Warring States period.

The Han army is very good at this.

In the past, there was the Ming Xiu plank road of the Marquis of Huaiyin, the training project of the plain forbidden army, and the plank road to cross the cliff.

When Roshna and the others saw the plank road, they realized that Huo Qu's illness was well prepared, far beyond their expectations, and they had obviously made arrangements for this battle at a very early stage.

After passing through Qilian Mountain and coming to the other end, Luo Shina, Zhang Qian and others saw nearly 5,000 elites, waiting here, ready to go.

Huo Qubing commanded the troops and immediately launched a surprise attack.

They fought from the Qilian Mountains, waved their troops north, and became a surprise army that everyone expected, and then rushed from the Yanzhi Mountains and Wusheling Mountains into the hinterland of the Western Xiongnu.

The road is wide, and the sea is wide and you can swim freely.

Then he marched straight north, attacked the Lupu Department and set fire to the camp.

Cruelty is synonymous with war, and there is no need to show any mercy to the enemy, otherwise it will be cruelty to oneself.

It was the morning of the rising sun, and the third tribe I met along the way.

In the sound of Huo Quzhi waving his hand and ordering, the rear army was like a wolf and a tiger, and under the leadership of Li Dang, they went to the front tribe to kill.

The whole army took the longbow and galloped first two rounds of long-range shots, the bowstrings trembled, and the arrows rained down.

Then when they reach a distance of 50 zhang from the target, they will shoot crossbow arrows vigorously, and finally they will fight in close combat.

The Xiongnu tribes on the opposite side were not completely defenseless, Huo Qubing led the troops to kill all the way, and not only crushed the small border posts of the Huns on the way, but also overturned the two tribes, all of which were in flames.

During the attack, it was impossible to carry supplies, so the fire burned all.

This third tribe was a medium-sized tribe inhabited by thousands of people, and the Han army did not hide it, and when they rode in, they discovered it.

The entire tribe immediately mobilized, sent out a signal for help, and ignited cow and horse dung, forming a cloud of wolf smoke rushing into the sky.

At the same time, on the periphery of the tribe, wooden thorns were erected to reject horses.

As soon as the leader gave an order, even children and women over the age of seven or eight in the tribe picked up spears sharpened from wood, with fierce faces, ready to fight to the death with the Han army.

"The Han people came and wanted to snatch our cattle, sheep and horses, but I will never agree! Fight to the death with these Han people......"

The head of a tribe within the tribe, shouting loudly, is mobilizing the entire tribe to fight.

With a buzz, before the head of the tribe could speak, Li Dang opened his bow, fired two arrows in succession, and shot him through the throat to death!

Li Kang's archery skills inherited from his father and ranked in the top ten in the Han army.

The Han army rode and approached with a bow and crossbow attack, and had killed about a quarter of the Xiongnu men in the periphery.

Some of these Han soldiers were Yulin and Tiger Benwei recruits, who had come to Xiguan with Yao Zhao two months earlier, but they were all carefully selected troops.

And the nearly two-month campaign, the continuous fighting, has made this army grow rapidly.

At this time, nearly 5,000 soldiers and horses rode and attacked the Xiongnu tribe.

Huo Qubing stationed his horse a little farther away, followed by the team's own soldiers, Roshna and other envoys, as well as Zhang Qian.

When the front army rushed into battle, Li Dang was the leading edge and formed a sharp formation.

Li Dang shouted in the middle of the charge, gathered the troops of the rear troops, and waved the war gun in his hand in the air.

The war spear sent out phantom shadows, like throwing spears, breaking the enemy in the air.

In the Xiongnu tribe, several people who looked like leaders were stabbed to death by Li Dang one after another, and blood was splashed.

In the charge, the team changed rapidly, the two corners of the rear formation were the first to accelerate, ahead, from the sharp arrow formation to an inverted vertical triangle, and the last two columns of teams began to close and gallop relatively close.

The middle area of the queue is the Xiongnu tribe.

The entire tribe was then merged and cross-covered.

Eventually, the Han army's cavalry formation turned into a crossed X-shape.

From a distance, the team was like a pair of scissors closing together, sandwiching the Xiongnu tribe in the middle and cutting it open.

When the horse's hooves stepped over, everything was swept up in the array, shattered.

This is the most lethal basic formation in the military formation, that is, the scissor formation, which is very fierce.

Because in the process of opening and closing, the army will wave the war spear in his hand like lightning, forming a stab. After the queue passes, as long as it is an enemy within range, there will be at least one extra blood hole on the body that has been pierced by the spear.

Sweeping back and forth twice, the scissors opened and closed, and there were very few Huns who could survive, and the corpses were everywhere on the ground, and the blood was red.

It's cruel...... Roshna turned her head in the distance.

She also knows that there is no mercy in war, but she doesn't want to see it with her own eyes.

Roshna turned her head to look at Huo Quai, just in time to see his eyes as calm as ice and snow.

The experience of this night made Roshna truly realize how powerful this world-famous general, who is not yet 20 years old, and whose flexibility in the use of troops has raised the command of combat to another level.

Seeing his march and battle, Roshna and others all had a feeling that was difficult to express concretely.

Under the circumstance that the Huns took the lead and occupied a favorable terrain, Huo Quai's dispatch of troops almost changed the situation on the battlefield of the Western Xiongnu.

No one could have imagined that he would cross and kill from the Qilian Mountains and cut straight into the Yanzhi Mountains and the Wusheling area.

The grain and grass of the Huns were threatened, and the situation was virtually dominated by Huo Quai.

He seized the vital point of the Xiongnu's grain and grass, and the entire Western Xiongnu's soldiers and horses were pried and rushed to intercept and stop.

The situation on the battlefield, as a result of which there is a huge tilt and uncertainty.

Who wins and who loses depends on how Huo Quzhi fights next.

All the ways of the art of war and the means of war are actually teaching soldiers how to find the enemy's weakness and avoid the weak in the real attack.

This is the meaning of the soldiers' treacherous ways and the scheming of the soldiers.

Soldiers deceive on the battlefield, who can play the opponent around, and they have the advantage, with the least consumption, to earn the maximum results, is the basis of invincibility.

There are often clever soldiers who win more with less, because they can concentrate their advantages, stir up the overall situation, and attack the enemy's weakness.

Attacking and killing head-on, in fact, it fell into success.

Only when we meet on a narrow road, or when we attack, we are brave when we fight.

The real battle between soldiers is the means of command, the wisdom of looking at the battlefield, and seeing who can turn over the clouds and rain and tease the opponent in the palm of his hand.

Roshna's mind fluctuated and asked, "What is Huo Hou going to do next?" ”

"Let's go through a few tricks with the Huns first."

Huo Quzhi said lightly: "I will eat these small Hun countries little by little, and I will see if the borage will come!" ”

Because of its proximity to the Western Regions, the Western Xiongnu are similar to the situation of many countries in the Western Regions, and the tribes are also called small countries, which is a difference caused by geography and culture.

Huo Qu made a gesture after saying that, and his own soldiers immediately gave the order, set fire to the camp, collected the troops, and prepared to attack the next place.

Breaking a small Xiongnu country, the Han army quickly completed the flat push.

"We have broken several Xiongnu tribes in a row, and the Xiongnu have been alert. Wouldn't the light of the fire reveal our position sooner? Zhang Qian said on the side.

"What about exposure?

Let them come, take the opportunity to mobilize the Western Huns, and see what ambushes they have here. Huo Quzhi said calmly.

Zhang Qian is also familiar with military affairs, and he has personally led soldiers in the official history, and he has an understanding when he hears it.

Soon after, this small Xiongnu country was in flames and burning.

The Han army, led by Huo Quai, rushed to the next Xiongnu tribe.

"Huo Hou seems to be very fond of raiding and destroying the Xiongnu tribe?"

Roshna was a little strange, the champion Hou was very obsessed with breaking the camp, and ran to the next after playing one place, as if it had been rehearsed in advance.

"If I can't step on the joint venture, I'm afraid that future generations will scold me."

The crowd was puzzled and puzzled.

Huo Qubing is actually referring to the historical champion Hou, in the battle of Hexi, the process of breaking the enemy camp.

Historically, the champion Hou came out from the northwest corner of Longxi, and later generations of Lanzhou, through the Wuting against the water, along the northern slope of the Wusheling Ridge grassland to the west.

Then it passed through the Lupu tribe, the Hunu River, and the Shiyang River. After that, the war turned to six days, and five small Xiongnu states were leveled in a row.

Its combat policy is to kill those who resist stubbornly, and those who are willing to join the Han can surrender and not die.

In doing so, the Huns were greatly divided and disintegrated into their will to fight.

Then Huo Qubing crossed the Yanzhi Mountain, that is, the Great Yellow Mountain of Gansu in later generations, and continued to advance to the northwest, traveling hundreds of miles, and met with the two departments of Hun evil and Xiu Tu.

The two sides fought fiercely, and in the face of the opponent's superior forces, the Han army still defeated the two coalition forces.

The remnants of the opponent's army were defeated and fled for their lives.

The Han army gained a lot in this battle, not only capturing the evil prince and Xiangguo, Duwei and other large and small leaders, and beheading nearly 10,000 people, and achieved the first victory on the north road of Qilian Mountain.

However, the champion Hou also suffered heavy losses in this battle, and less than half of the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses were left after the battle.

These forces were no longer enough to continue advancing, so Huo Qubing led his troops back the same way, and traveled to the foot of Gaolan Mountain, south of present-day Lanzhou, and encountered the joint sniping of the Xiongnu Zhelan King and Luhou Wang.

Huo Qubing commanded his subordinates, broke the alliance between the two sides, greatly boosted the prestige of the Han army, and finally returned to the division victoriously.

This was the whole process of the First Battle of Hexi, with the 10,000 troops breaking through the opponent's two coalition forces and breaking the enemy's five small countries, officially opening the prelude to its name as the god of war.

The current situation has changed, and Huo Qubing has also adjusted, and he turned out of Qilian Mountain and went north to fight horizontally into the hinterland of the Western Xiongnu.

However, the strategic goals of the two generations of Huo Qubing are highly unified, and they are all weak to defeat the enemy.

After entering the hinterland of the Xiongnu, the route of the first Rupu tribe was reunited, and it was strikingly similar.

Huo Qubing is now preparing to first fight the great achievements of the Hexi Battle in history, and the matter of the Five Kingdoms in Six Days must be there.

The sun is blazing.

At noon after the Han army galloped away, a group of troops under the command of the Western Xiongnu rode to the burned tribe.

All the people of this Xiongnu tribe rode high-headed horses, all of them looked cold, and there was an invisible murderous aura in the procession.

The entire team is nearly 10,000 people, and the leader is middle-aged, tall and thin, wearing a wolfskin robe, and his eyes are sharp, as if he will shine.

After he led his men closer, he inspected the remaining traces of engagement underground, and a slight surprise slowly appeared in his eyes:

"The traces outside the tribe are almost all the hoof prints of the opponent's riding in a straight line, entangled and fighting, and there is no hoof print of advance and retreat.

This shows that the resistance of the tribe was completely crushed by the other party, and it was such an elite team. ”

This man's eyesight is quite powerful, and he can analyze the general situation of the battle just by looking at the hoof prints.

Behind him, on the left, there was a thin Hun woman, sniffing in the air, and then looking at the horseshoe prints on the ground.

When Huo Qu was sick and left, he did not use the marching strategy, and the hoof prints were obvious.

When the woman smelled the smell, she was making sure that the hoof prints were not a trick deliberately left by the Han army, so as not to chase the wrong direction.

After a while, the woman said, "King Zhelan, they are going west. ”

It turned out that this army of soldiers and horses was the famous Zhelan cavalry of the Western Huns, a strong army with a long heritage of the Huns.

At this moment, this team was led by Prince Zhelan and chased westward.

In the afternoon after they went, two more teams of soldiers and horses came to the burned Xiongnu tribe.

One of them is a subordinate of the Evil King.

The other team was headed by a young Hun in his twenties.

This Xiongnu young man is thin and tall, with raised eyebrows and sharp eyes, and he is the disciple of Borage, the parent and child of Da Dan Yu Yizhi.

Three people pursued in the direction where the Han army disappeared.

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Chang'an, in the next two days, successively received the Xiguan frontline battle report.

"The 40,000 Chinese troops who left Chang'an have accelerated their march and have reached the northwest border pass."

"Champion Hou led the troops into the Western Xiongnu, and within two days, he successively broke the five Xiongnu countries such as Lupu, shovel sacrifice, Xiaolan, etc., and burned the grain and grass!"

"The Huns and the Hun Evil Department and the Hugh Slaughter Department combined more than 10,000 troops. There are 8,000 people in the Zhilan Department, and 8,000 people in the Department of Shan Yu's son, and the three-way people are chasing behind Huo Hou to intercept them. ”

By yesterday afternoon, Huo Hou led the army to turn around to meet the enemy, and the target was the soldiers and horses of the Hutu Department who were in hot pursuit.

At the right time, the Xiongnu troops were separately encircled, and they did not expect our army to be pursued by many ways, and dared to counterattack.

The two sides fought, and before the other Xiongnu soldiers came up to join the siege, the Hugh slaughter department was beheaded by Huo Hou and killed more than a thousand.

Our army withdrew before the Huns surrounded it.

By yesterday evening, Huo Hou's leading army was frequently interspersed, and the Huns from all walks of life had fought fiercely, but they all escaped before the other side encircled. ”

Dong Xu, who was in charge of reading the news of the war, was sweating on his forehead, and he could also feel between the lines that on the West Xiongnu grassland at this moment, the wind and clouds were turbulent and murderous were everywhere.

Huo Quai's orthodox soldiers fought thousands of miles.

The situation of being pursued by many Hun soldiers was deliberately caused by him, in order to test the reality of the Huns' arrangement.

Huo Qubing may have other strategic intentions, but everyone does not know yet.

In the study, those who know military affairs, such as the emperor and several generals, Dong Zhongshu is also half, and he also heard other flavors from the war news.

Huo Qubing fought with these Huns one by one, and he was able to withdraw at any time in the process, which shows that he firmly controlled the initiative.

However, one message after another came, and it still made people feel that their hearts were constantly tightening.

In the encirclement of the enemy, as long as you are careless and entangled, you will fall into a battle to the death.

If you change someone, you will never dare to be as unscrupulous as Huo Quai.

In a special operation, this is called going deep behind enemy lines.

Dong Xu swallowed his saliva and read out the last sentence: "Huo Hou sent back the last message this morning, saying that he had used the marching strategy to get rid of the pursuers from all walks of life and start the next stage of the battle plan.

At present, Huo Hou's trace has disappeared again, and no new news has come for several hours.

However, the Xiguan Taishou Zhangjun sent a message, saying that the army had left the customs and entered the battlefield. ”

The emperor had irrepressible joy on his face, and looked forward to the ministers and said: "Champion Hou commanded the army to break the five Xiongnu countries in two days, I want to know, who else can do it in ancient and modern times?"

The edict of the mimic of me will kill the champion Hou into the Western Huns, and inform the world as if he has entered the realm of no one, so as to boost the morale of the Han people.

Then he sent an edict to the Xiongnu Shan Yu Yizhixian, telling him that the generals under my command would destroy their Xiongnu. Let him bow his head, or he will be beheaded the next day!" ”

"Yui!" Dong Xu bowed and agreed.

……

Sunset at night.

On the Xiongnu steppe, a Han army suddenly rushed out of the mist and galloped from north to south.

The whole team is like a long knife out of the sheath, and it is murderous.

After the early attack, breaking the camp, tempting, and the confrontation with the pursuers, it is time for a real fight to deter all parties!

In front of Huo Quai, the camp jointly stationed by the Hutu Department and the Evil Department was before, a key position of great strategic significance.

PS: In the middle of the change, rolling and begging for votes~

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