Chapter 30: Liu Yu's defeat

The grain transport officer is called Su Kuan, who turned out to be the captain of the Youzhou Military Academy, who commanded an army of 5,000 people. Because of the poor command and training, most of the soldiers under his command did not have good combat skills, and they were almost dismissed by Liu Yu. Fortunately, because the power in the family is not small, and he has some relationship with Liu Yu, Liu Yu did not retreat, but changed to probation and retention, specifically responsible for transporting grain.

But judging from the more than 10,000 troops and horses and vehicles under Su Kuan's current command, Su Kuan seems to have been promoted and reused, which is inexplicable.

Because Su Kuan knew He Bai's achievements in the past few days, he was not dissatisfied with He Bai, who was almost a bare pole, and was quite friendly to He Bai. The marching and camping were all accompanied by food and shelter, and enjoyed the same treatment.

The grain army was very safe on the way, and did not encounter any dangers, thinking that the rebels were already weak, and did not dare to send rangers to travel around and plunder.

On this day, the grain army was only half a day and forty miles away from Liu Yu's army, and Su Kuan ordered to go down to the village on the road, camp near the water, and set up camp by the river.

He Bai stood on the small hillside near the water and looked south, and in the dim dusk, he could see nothing. He Bai muttered to himself: "I can reach the Youzhou army tomorrow afternoon, and I don't know how the battle situation of the enemy and our army is?" ”

Su Kuan on the side said with a smile: "Liu Lingjun has strict discipline, humbly accepts construction, and uses 30,000 elite soldiers to deal with 40,000 rabble, and the victory or defeat is not difficult to predict. It's a pity that it's getting late and the horses are weak, otherwise I would have hurried to the big army camp for the New Year. ”

Yes, another year has arrived, tonight is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, tomorrow will be 188, He Bai and others have traveled to another world for almost three years. It seems that nothing has been accomplished, as if time and opportunity have been wasted.

Su Kuan had a broad heart, but He Bai showed a worried look, because Liu Yu's political ability was good, and his ability to govern the army was also good, but his ability to command operations was too trendy.

In history, Liu Yu once attacked Gongsun Zhan's more than 10,000 troops with an army of 100,000, but was defeated by Gongsun Zhan, and in the end even he was captured alive. If it weren't for Gongsun Chan himself being a loser, this battle would have become an example of winning more with less.

He Bai then said: "I don't know about the traitor Zhang Chun, but Wu Yan, who calls himself the King of Cliffs, is not an easy person to match. He has thousands of Wuhuan cavalry under his command, and his combat strength is quite strong, and if he is careless, he will be defeated in the duel. ”

Su Kuan laughed and said: "Brother He, why should you be so unfounded, you are just a Sima from other departments, but you should not worry about Liu Yuanjun's affairs." Let's go, the camp is built, let's go back to the camp and drink together. As he spoke, he pulled He Bai towards the camp.

Because the army close to Liu Yu was today the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, He Bai recalled most of the Wudou Blood Cavalry, leaving only a team of thirty cavalry in the south to continue to investigate the enemy. The whole army gathered together to drink and have fun, so that the martial arts and blood horsemen had a Han New Year.

It's just that He Bai's army is responsible for guarding, meat can be eaten, dancing can be danced, fights can be fought, mare's milk wine can be drunk, but only allowed to drink six points of drunkenness. The Wudou Blood Rider knew that He Bai's military discipline was very strict, and they were all slaves, so they didn't dare to disobey it, so they each took the wine according to their own amount of alcohol, and drank it. Because there is a lot of other food, the Martial Blood Riders are also very happy.

He Bai didn't have the heart to dance, so he went to bed early. However, in the dream, He Bai dreamed that the camp of the army suddenly burst into flames, and the overwhelming rebels broke through the camp and came straight to kill. That fierce and violent appearance suddenly woke He Bai up from his dream.

He Bai was relieved to find that the surroundings were quiet and nothing had happened. You must know that the war of taking advantage of the enemy to celebrate the New Year and launching a surprise attack is not without history, if someone else leads the army, He Bai is not worried about anything. But if Liu Yu leads the troops, He Bai can't guarantee it.

He Bai felt the urgency of urinating in his abdomen, so he walked out of the tent to pee, but just after releasing water outside the tent, he was suddenly startled away by the red light in the darkness in the south, and he didn't even care about urinating on his feet.

He Bai shouted sharply: "The whole army is on alert, the martial arts and bloody cavalry are gathered, and the ...... are assembled."

The martial arts blood riders who stayed near the left heard He Bai's loud howl, and the martial arts blood riders who were accustomed to He Bai's emergency gathering packed up their clothes, leather armor, weapons and packs, ran out of the tent in leaps, and ran to He Bai's side to gather together, and it took only seven minutes in total.

When they also saw the red light in the south, they immediately knew that He Bai was not fighting an emergency assembly, but really had an emergency military situation.

At this time, the nearby Han soldiers came out of the tent one after another, looking around with worried eyes. And Su Kuan was not dressed properly, and ran out of the big tent on the side in a panic, and when he saw He Bai, he asked in surprise, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? Brother He, is there a thief robbing the camp? Or is it the night terrors of the Great Army? ”

When the army is camped in the wilderness and there are enemies around it, they are most afraid of night terrors. Once the night terror, it is basically the result of the soldiers killing each other and suffering heavy casualties. It is more likely to cause total annihilation.

However, this is the result of the old style of unifying the army, the ancient generals killed their own soldiers at every turn, the soldiers were very depressed in life and thought, and the spiritual strings were very tight, once broken, it was the consequence of crazy killing. The martial blood riders have been very happy since they followed He Bai, but there is no possibility of night terrors and night howls.

He Bai calmed down and said, "There is a fire in the south. ”

Su Kuan breathed a sigh of relief, patted his chest and said with a smile: "It must be Liu Yuanjun who robbed the camp at night to destroy the traitors." ”

The corners of He Bai's mouth twitched, and he shook his head and said, "Brother Su, you are a good defender in the camp, don't set the camp south tomorrow." If you encounter a defeated soldier, please put it away. I'm going to lead my troops south. ”

Su Kuan exclaimed in surprise: "What? Brother He is saying that Liu Yuanjun was defeated by the rebels? ”

He Bai smiled bitterly: "I'll take a look, and then send someone to pass on the results to you." ”

After speaking, He Bai and Fu Xing and Chengzhang led the bloody horsemen to drive thousands of war horses out of the camp, and the surplus was left in the grain army.

Galloping all the way south, within a dozen miles, I saw two horses and ten horses hurrying to run by night, and after seeing He Bai's banner in the torch, he was immediately overjoyed, and rode his horse and ran over, which was the forward spy of He Baijun.

One of the Wuhuan people shouted: "Master, the Han army has been defeated, and the rebels, divided into three ways, are chasing after them." ”

Because these thirty cavalry spies did not approach Liu Yu's camp to investigate, but only to investigate whether there were rebels sneaking around the left and right, they did not know the specific situation of Liu Yu's defeat and the current battle situation, so He Bai continued to lead the troops south.

After walking for a few more miles, he saw thousands of cavalry fleeing in a hurry in the dark, and He Bai immediately led his troops to meet them. First, the banner was planted on a small slope, and several knights were asked to raise their torches high to illuminate the banner. He also ordered more than 200 martial blood horsemen to line up on both sides of the road to escape, bend bows and arrows, and ordered the cavalry to gather under He Bai's banner, and if they did not listen, they would shoot them.

More than two hundred martial blood horsemen shouted in half-baked Chinese: "Youzhou cavalry, assemble under the banner of the eagle." Youzhou cavalry, in the ......"

However, the thousands of cavalry paid no attention, perhaps because they were frightened, or perhaps because the sound of the hooves of the fleeing horses was too fast and urgent to be heard. Anyway, Ken came to stop and prepare to assemble, and after seeing that the others did not stop, he whipped the horses and continued to flee for his life.

He Bai was furious and immediately ordered to shoot arrows. However, after a few waves of arrow rain, the Youzhou cavalry became more and more chaotic and fled faster. Seeing that He Bai was dumbfounded, it seems that in the future, there is still no need to stop the fleeing cavalry, basically they will not listen, and they will not stop.

After thousands of cavalry rushed over, He Bai was relieved to find that there were still two hundred horsemen on the small slope who had stopped. It seems that they are bold and careful, and they are good soldiers who are not flustered.

He Bai ran forward and asked, "Which part of the cavalry are you?" Who is the main one? ”

The two hundred horsemen looked at each other, and found that they were not very familiar, only a young man in his early twenties said: "He Sima, we are all cavalry pawns in various armies, not any unified one. The villain Yu Hua is a cavalry Dubo, and there are only four horsemen under my command. ”

"I see, you are now under my command for the time being, Yu Hua, this official appointed you as a hundred generals, commanding one hundred of them, and the rest of the men and horses are under the command of this official. The chiefs of each army shall be chosen by yourselves, and the Dubo shall be commanded by me. Dispatch quickly and assemble at the bottom of the slope. ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately became busy, and began to distribute according to their original positions, the number of years they had served in the army, and the number of enemies they had killed. Twenty minutes later, the assignment was finally completed.

He Bai gathered everyone, and there were already more than 500 cavalry under his command at this time. He Bai asked Fu Xing and Cheng Zhang to lead Wu Dou Blood to ride two hundred meters away as the left and right wings, and Zi and Yu Hua led more than 200 horses in the center as the Chinese army, all the way to the south.

After running for several miles, I saw two horsemen and a foot soldier hurrying from the right side. When the foot soldier saw many cavalry rushing towards him, including faster horses than the number of cavalry, he immediately shouted and shouted, "Leave a horse for your grandfather." ”

After saying that, he strode towards Chengzhang's right wing, which was as fast as a galloping horse, and the sound was like a tiger's roar, so startled that Chengzhang almost fell off the horse.

He Bai was furious and shouted: "Dare to mess with our army formation and shoot." ”

The right-wing martial arts cavalry immediately shot a rain of arrows, and the foot soldier screamed in shock, and hurriedly waved the spear in his hand, and quickly swept away the arrows. However, more than 100 arrows were so easy to dodge, and there were still fish caught in the net that shot the man.

The foot soldier sat on the ground and shouted, "Hurt me." ”

The other two horsemen hurriedly rushed over and shouted, "Third brother, third brother, are you okay?" ”

The foot soldier shouted, "Big brother, second brother is fine, just a few bee stings." ”

One of them stared at He Baijun who was going away and asked coldly, "Big brother, is that guy's name He Bai?" ”

The other rider nodded and said, "Yes, it's him." ”

The rider stared at He Bai's figure and nodded secretly, indicating that he had written him down. The other rider hurriedly shouted, "Third brother, you are injured, come and ride my horse." ”

The rider hurriedly said: "How can this be, the third brother should ride my horse is ......"