Chapter 273, The Calm Before the Storm
Ziyou and Wang Jian looked over, and Wei Yi put down the military newspaper in his hand.
"According to the news that Luo Wang passed back, Li Mu mobilized his 30,000 Wuling iron cavalry to leave Yanmen Pass three days ago, and his whereabouts are unknown." Wei Yu said.
"It seems that Li Mu can't sit still, in this way, our pressure is much less, as long as Li Mu's movements are noticed by the Huns, it will be our chance." Ziyou said with a smile.
Li Mu left Yanmen Pass with Wuling Iron Cavalry, what else could the Huns do except go north? It's not going to fight Yanguo, right? Although it is said that in addition to fighting the Xiongnu, Li Mu is also a professional in fighting the Yan Kingdom, but in the face of the situation of the Xiongnu going south, even if Li Mu wants to fight the Yan Kingdom, his Wuling Iron Cavalry will not allow it.
From the birth of the Wuling Iron Cavalry, the main target was the Xiongnu in the north, and for the Zhao State, the harm of the Xiongnu was more serious than that of the Six Kingdoms.
"I'm afraid that Li Mu will move too fast, and we haven't collected our pockets, so the Huns will withdraw." Wei Yu said.
The strength of the Wuling Iron Cavalry under Li Mu, they are very clear, and only the Iron Eagle Ruishi can compete with the Wuling Iron Cavalry in the entire Qin State, and they are still in a weak position, although the Huns are not weaker than the Wuling Iron Cavalry, but the army is in Shangdang County, and the various tribes here can leave a limited number of people, Li Mu and others are not to say that the momentum is like a bamboo, and there is no one to stop.
"Speed up the march, we must hurry, Li Mu will not wait for us." Wang Jian said.
"It would be nice if Li Mu was also our person." Ziyou joked.
But this sentence attracted the attention of Wang Jian and Wei Yi, and Ziyou smiled awkwardly. Ziyou knows what these two people think, as the only two commanders of the three armed forces who are enough at the strategic level of each country today, Wei Yu and Li Mu are worthy of being welcomed by the six in any country, and the two are even more opponents, but Wei Yi's mind is all on joining forces to resist Qin, and he naturally does not want Li Mu to enter Qin to help Qin.
And Wang Jian is bent on competing with Li Mu, as a middle-aged faction of the same soldier, as the so-called Wen Wu first, Wu Wu no second, Wang Jian and Li Mu always have to divide the high, after knowing the gap between himself and Li Mu, Wang Jian wants to work hard to surpass Li Mu, otherwise he will not treat Wei Yu as his own father in the Wang family, so that he can write the book of war with peace of mind, in order to follow Wei Yu to learn the art of war and make up for his own shortcomings.
Wang Jian and Wei Yu also knew that Ziyou was joking, Li Mu was very loyal to Zhao State, so it was naturally impossible to surrender to Qin, and under Wei Yu's arrangement, the army increased its speed again.
At dawn, the Tuli brothers of the 100,000 Xiongnu army under Touman marched towards the border city, looking at the border city blocking their way, the Tuli brothers immediately sent an army to attack, because with the experience of attacking a few days ago, the Xiongnu army did not rush to attack, but held a leather and wood shield on the head, used to resist the rain of arrows of the Qin army.
When the Xiongnu army that was attacking in an orderly manner was ready to deal with the rain of arrows, the imaginary rain of arrows did not appear, and when the Xiongnu army approached, they found that there were no defenders on the walls of the border city, only the banner of the Qin State was fluttering.
"Captain Dudu, the defenders of the border city have withdrawn, and the current border city is an empty city." A cavalryman came to the horse in front of Tuli and Tu and said.
"What!? The Qin army withdrew? Tuli said incredulously.
"Yes, Captain Zuo, the Qin army in the border city has withdrawn." The knight said.
Tuli looked at his younger brother Tuqian. Tulitu's first two brothers, it has always been the elder brother Tutuli who led the army to charge into battle, and Tu Qian was responsible for making plans, and occasionally participated in the charge, in the face of this unexpected thing, Tu Li needed Tu Qian to take ideas.
"Let's search the border city and see what the situation is inside." said in front of the picture.
"Yes."
After the cavalry left, Tuqian looked at Tuli and said
"Big brother, you are waiting here for news in the city, and I will report this news to Da Shan Yu."
"Okay." Tuli nodded.
After Tu Qian left, Tu Li patiently waited for the results of the search.
At this time, Wang Ben, Mengwu and others who evacuated the border city took a large number of supplies to Changyi, and when they were about to arrive in Changyi, they met the vanguard army that came to meet them, after the response, Mengwu led the golden fire cavalry to be responsible for the guard, Wang Ben and others The border city defenders retreated to Changyi to rest, and the vanguard army began to build fortifications and camps.
And on the Xiongnu side, after Touman knew that the Qin army had withdrawn, he felt like he had punched the cotton with all his strength, and after the border city was really empty, Touman led the army towards the border city, looking at the empty border city without leaving the slightest thing, Touman didn't know what to do for a while, he saw the Qin army abandon his city and retreat for the first time.
"Is there any grass or grain in the city?" Touman asked.
"No, there's nothing left in the city, not even pots and bowls." Tuli said.
"The whole army pulled out the camp, continued to the south, passed the border city, and behind it was our world." Touman said.
"Yes."
Looking at the empty city, Touman was a little angry, they spent so much energy attacking the border city, but they got nothing.
"Damn the Qin army, there is no food left for us." Touman scolded secretly.
As the Xiongnu army continued to move south, soon the spies scattered by the Xiongnu army returned.
"How's Changyi doing?" Touman asked.
"If you go back to Dadanyu, the Qin army set up a camp outside Changyi City, and the large camp is continuous, with about 200,000 people. All other fortresses outside Changyi City were under martial law. The spy said.
"The Qin army gave up holding on to Changyi, and instead the army was stationed outside the camp?" Touman said with a gleam in his eyes.
"Yes."
"How far is the Qin army camp from us?" Touman asked.
"A hundred miles."
"Hahahaha, blessed by the wolf god, the Qin State must treat us as other Central Plains people, and choose to fight with us in the field, I will definitely let them know how powerful my Hun sons are, these arrogant Qin State troops." Touman laughed
"The whole army set out, let all the troops who had gone out to look for food come back, and march twenty miles and stop camping."
"Da Dan is prudent, the Qin army dares to fight with us in the field, and there must be a backhand." Ram Ling said.
"Needless to say, the Prime Minister is not as powerful as he imagined." Touman said.
"All the troops are attacking."
The Xiongnu army advanced forward, stopping at a distance of eighty miles from the Qin army camp and began to set up camp.
Some of the Xiongnu tribes who had been plundering the villages also returned to the camp and began to camp and rest.
On the Qin army's side, the army led by Wei Yu, Ziyou and Wang Ben also arrived at the camp, and neither side sent out spies to investigate the situation of the other party, and the information of the other party continued to gather in front of the case of their respective commanders, and the three of Wei Yu, Wang Jian and Meng Wu stood in front of the map and constantly marked the Xiongnu camp and the possible attack route, and planned various actions that could be counterattacked.
There are three fortresses in front of Changyi City as defense, and after the border city is abandoned, there are still two fortresses of Changli and Tonghuyi and the finished product of the big camp to accompany each other, and an inverted triangle pocket is waiting for the attack of the Huns.
And Touman also saw this, held his own combat meeting, although Touman has a violent personality, there are serious deficiencies in the governance of internal affairs, but he can suppress many tribes to achieve the unification of the Xiongnu situation, relying on his excellent combat ability, before because of the reason of King Zuoxian, Touman let the border city and King Zuo Xian continue to pull and want to use this to consume the strength of the Zuo Xian Wang's department, and King Zuo Xian also saw that this has not been fully committed to attacking the border city.
Now in the face of the entire Qin army, Touman has also shown his true strength, and the Hun camp is no longer as chaotic as before, unified patrol, unified stationing, after the spies of the Qin army reported the situation of the Hun camp, Ziyou turned out the previous military report and said
"It seems that the Huns are serious, we can't count on anyone else, we must be ready to fight the Huns."
"Touman is not a fool, he won't get into such a pocket formation, where do you think he will attack first?" Wei Yu asked.
"Common sense, common sense is below, if they take down common sense, it is equivalent to having another entrance to the south, although they can't loot the richer places near Changyi, but they can catch up with the people who fled to the vicinity of Gaonu, and looting these places is enough for them to survive the winter." Meng Wu pointed to the position of common sense and said.
"I also think it's common sense, the copper kettle post has a river as a barrier, and there are a lot of traps around, and there are vast plains near Changli, once the Huns charge, it is difficult for Changli to resist." Wang Jian said.
"Let the Yulin army dispatch, they have always wanted to prove themselves, this is the first hard battle with the Huns will be handed over to them, tell them that they have to deal with the elite cavalry of the Huns, let Feng Wuxuan be ready." Wei Yu said.
"I'll go with Feng Wuxue." Ziyou said.
"Why?" Wei Yu asked.
As a supervising army, he should be responsible for military discipline in the army, and Ziyou is still the king of Qin, so the life and death of going to the battlefield can be avoided or avoided.
"The Yulin Army was proposed by me to establish, I should be the founder of this battle, Feng Wuxue's ability is enough, but it is the first time to deal with the Huns, I have seen Li Mu how to deal with the Huns in Yanmen Pass before, I can give some opinions." Ziyou said.
"Okay." Wei Yu thought for a while and agreed with Ziyou's idea.
"The people of the hundred families should be on the way, and when they arrive, General Lao Fumeng will help me receive them." Ziyou said.
"No problem." Meng Wu said.
After General Wei Yu gave the order to Ziyou, Ziyou found Feng Wuxue, and then followed the 30,000 Yulin Army who went out to follow Ziyou to Changli, the Yulin Army on this expedition was in addition to the newcomers who were being trained and the people in charge of water warfare, these Yulin Guards were equipped with the latest equipment, and everyone could be said to be armed to the teeth, after receiving the order, these high-profile Yulin Army soldiers couldn't wait for a long time.
As the best-treated army of the Qin State, and also the closest army to the King of Qin, they have been in the spotlight and criticized since their birth, and now they need to use the blood of the Xiongnu to cleanse themselves of criticism.
(End of chapter)