Wei Qing adopted the method of luring the snake out of the hole.

He made people constantly call for provocations outside the city gates, and harassed the enemy army from time to time, and in just one day, he provoked the defenders in Dragon City to be unbearable!

The defenders of Dragon City are not stupid, and of course he will not be fooled by such an obvious plan of the enemy.

But the problem is, the enemy only has a thousand people, so he dares to come to the city gate to call for battle? Isn't this looking for death?

The credit was in front of him, he couldn't hold back, and took the initiative to open the city gate to meet the enemy.

Needless to say, Wei Qing fought with first-class bravery, and he didn't even use much strategy, so he defeated 5,000 enemy troops with 3,000 cavalry!

Then the opportunity for the enemy to be defeated, Wei Qing rushed into the city with all his might, and broke the enemy army!

From start to finish, Wei Qing spent less than three days in total!

Dragon City Victory!

After entering Dragon City, Wei Qing faced such a problem.

Should we directly occupy Dragon City, or return with troops?

Now that the Han is short of manpower, if Dragon City is occupied, it is likely to lead to a long front, so that the situation will fall into passivity.

Wei Qing sighed helplessly.

If it weren't for the fact that the other three roads were either defeated or returned in vain, he would not be so entangled.

But if you occupy Dragon City, the biggest advantage is that you can use Dragon City as a base point to maximize the influence of the Han Dynasty on the border pass.

The pass of Dragon City is not important, but it is not important to say that it is not important.

Although this is not an extremely critical pass, as long as the Dragon City is occupied, the Han Dynasty can attack and retreat and defend.

From this point on, the war of the Han Dynasty against the Xiongnu could be turned from offensive to defensive, and the offensive and defensive momentum was different!

Wei Qing thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to give up Dragon City for the time being!

He is now tired of soldiers and horses, it is a risky move, it is a fluke to take down Dragon City, if he still wants to attack further, it is naturally impossible.

In order to attack again, Wei Qing needs to return to Shanggu County to reorganize his troops and horses, and ensure that the supply line from Shanggu County to Dragon City is unblocked.

In this way, Fang can form a threat to the Huns!

If you are arrogant now and rush into the hinterland of the Huns, you are completely looking for death!

Although he was reluctant, now Wei Qing could only give up Dragon City temporarily.

In order to ensure that he can still easily occupy Dragon City in the future, Wei Qing decided to completely destroy the garrison of Dragon City!

The defenders here have long since collapsed, and Wei Qing has also taken the opportunity to capture more than a thousand captives!

The defenders of Longcheng are about 6,000 people, and this time in the attack on Longcheng, Wei Qing eliminated 2,000 enemies, captured 1,000, and the rest turned into deserters!

It will not be easy to organize the remaining 3,000 people again.

The transfer of personnel also takes time.

It is only a few days from Dragon City to Upper Valley County, and if you ride alone, you can reach it in one day.

As long as Wei Qing moves faster, he has no time to mobilize manpower to take over Dragon City!

And after taking over Longcheng, Longcheng will be used as a needle to pierce the enemy's throat, putting the Huns in a dilemma!

Since the decision was made, Wei Qing immediately picked up the men and left Dragon City with the captives.

The soldiers are fast, if the Huns react, I am afraid that the fruits of this victory will be wiped out in an instant!

The only thing that makes Wei Qing feel fortunate now is that only two of the four-way army were defeated, and the army commanded by Gongsun He on the remaining one road did not make meritorious contributions, but it did not damage its strength.

In this way, he was able to cooperate with Gongsun He to limit the scope of the Xiongnu's attack to a certain range.

If you don't take Dragon City, the enemy will have to be careful of sneak attacks from the rear when attacking!

In this way, the Huns can no longer come and go freely at the border!

On the way back, Wei Qing had been thinking about how to attack next, but when he was halfway through the journey, Wei Qing found traces of battle on the side of the road.

His expression quickly turned unusually serious.

Carefully observing the cleaning battlefield, Wei Qing became puzzled again.

Obviously, it was his men who returned to Upper Valley County first and accidentally encountered the enemy, or even were ambushed by the enemy.

Look at the traces on the earth, where they have been holding out for at least two days!

In this way, the number of enemies must far exceed the remaining 1,000 people, otherwise they would never choose positional warfare!

The advantage of cavalry is mobility, and giving up mobility and choosing positional warfare is undoubtedly self-defeating!

There is only one possibility that can make Vice Admiral Chen make such a decision, he judges that there are too many enemies, which will pose a threat to himself, and even completely destroy his plan to attack!

As a last resort, they opted for positional warfare in the hope of delaying time!

They only need to delay for two or three days to buy Wei Qing enough time to attack Dragon City.

After the Dragon City was broken, Wei Qing would have no worries.

Because at this time, whether it is stationed in Dragon City or returning home, Wei Qing will definitely be able to find the enemy's traces early.

In this way, he can calmly retreat to Dragon City and send people back to Shanggu County to ask for help.

There are 3,000 soldiers and horses, and it will not be a problem to hold on for a few days, and when the support arrives, these people are naturally the turtles in the urn!

They have no choice but to harass, only to drag the enemy here.

Because if you choose to harass the enemy, not to mention how much effect these more than 1,000 soldiers and horses can play, harassment will not stop the enemy's footsteps at all!

These Huns will only be at most a day or two at night, but when they find traces of Wei Qing's attack on Dragon City, they will definitely choose to speed up and support Dragon City!

So if they want to hold back the enemy, their only option is to engage in positional warfare!

Wei Qing is proficient in military affairs, and he analyzed the trend of things just from the clues on the battlefield.

But what he didn't understand was that, according to common sense, the 1,800 soldiers and horses gave up the mobility of the cavalry, chose to fight a positional battle with the enemy, and even garrisoned it for two days, and there was absolutely no reason to survive!

Moreover, Wei Qing also found that the enemy even used fire oil, catapults, lathes, crossbows and other siege equipment!

He couldn't imagine what kind of psychology the Huns would use siege equipment on a group of cavalry that had lost their mobility!

What puzzled him the most was naturally the traces left on the ground!

At the end of the battle, it was clear that one of the two warring parties had cleaned up the battlefield.

In this battlefield, Wei Qing rarely saw the corpses of the Han army, as if the corpses of the Han army had been taken away!

But the dead Huns were buried in piles in case of plague!

Wei Qing even found traces of fire stone collisions on the corpses of the Xiongnu that were accidentally scattered.

This made him feel extremely ridiculous!

If the Huns had won, they would certainly not have treated the enemy's corpses like this.

Being able to appear in this situation can only show that Vice General Chen won the battle and brought back the corpses of his comrades!

Only this result can explain the current situation.

Wei Qing couldn't believe what kind of tactics could allow more than 1,800 Han troops to defeat the Xiongnu who were several times his own? And it's also positional warfare?

What was even more incomprehensible to him was why there were so many catapults and traces of burning flames on the enemy's body!

It was as if it was not the Xiongnu on the attacking side who used siege equipment, but the Han army on the defensive!

How could their cavalry carry siege equipment?

This is also the most incomprehensible part of Wei Qing!

Unable to figure it out, Wei Qing simply sped up and rushed back to Shanggu County.

Everything that happened here was so strange that it was hard for him to understand.

On the way back, he couldn't help but think more, could it be that there were also people who were empowered among the Huns?

It's no wonder that Wei Qing thinks so, who would have thought that there is only Qin Tian in this world?

Hurried back to Shanggu County, and seeing that Shanggu County was safe and sound, Wei Qing was relieved.

As soon as he entered the city, Wei Qing immediately inquired about Vice General Chen's news, wanting to know what was going on.

After learning that Vice General Chen not only returned unharmed, but even brought back thousands of prisoners, Wei Qing was surprised and at the same time felt very lucky.

Fortunately, Vice General Chen successfully escaped, and was surprised that Vice General Chen was able to escape in this desperate situation, and even captured the enemy army.

Wei Qing immediately summoned Vice General Chen.

As soon as Vice General Chen saw Wei Qing, he knelt on the ground: "General, my subordinates are ashamed of their trust in the general, and they actually let the brothers lose more than half!" ”

As he spoke, Vice General Chen wept bitterly.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's good that people can come back."

Wei Qing inquired about what happened to Vice General Chen, and nodded constantly.

Everything at the beginning was the same as his judgment, and there was no difference in the slightest!

When he heard that Vice General Chen was in a desperate situation, Wei Qing couldn't help but clench his fists and pinch a cold sweat for Vice General Chen.

But here, the style of painting has changed abruptly.

"Wait, you said you met an immortal?" Wei Qing couldn't help but interrupt.

"Is that immortal dressed in ......white?"

Vice General Chen nodded again and again: "The general is really a god, he even knows what the immortal looks like!" ”

He looked at Wei Qing with admiration, but in his heart he thought that the immortal was invited by the general?

Wei Qing rubbed his eyes and smiled helplessly.

"My big man and this immortal are really very close......" Wei Qing rubbed his eyes: "That's it, you go on." ”

When he heard that Vice General Chen and others were going to die in anger, Wei Qing couldn't help but applaud.

Hearing about the immortal's methods, Wei Qing was also surprised in his heart.

"I didn't expect the immortal to look gentle and elegant, but he has thunder means." Wei Qing sighed.

Knowing what had happened, Wei Qing finally put his mind at ease.

Since it was an immortal who made a move, there was naturally nothing to doubt.

"Sure enough, it's an immortal!" Wei Qing said with emotion.

It's just a pity that I can't see the immortals now, otherwise Wei Qing must be thankful.

Soon, Wei Qing regained his spirits, ordered his troops and horses, and prepared to go to receive Dragon City.

With so many captives in hand, and thousands of them have seen the methods of the Immortal Family, it is simply not too simple to manage!

These people can be used as laborers, thrown out to clear the wasteland, and make up for the lack of labor in Upper Valley County.

Clearing the wasteland is really going to kill people! Naturally, ordinary people cannot be used to open up wasteland.

As long as you send someone to take care of it, you are not afraid of any storm caused by these people, they have long been frightened by the immortals!

If it was nothing to just see the scene of the fire and rain in the sky, the effect would not be as good as it is now.

But through the mouth of the Xiongnu, Wei Qing and Vice General Chen learned that the big leader actually thought that the immortals were just a trick for the Han people, and specially pretended to invite a high priest to deal with them.

Now that the high priest is finished, they have been completely scattered.

Now all the Huns have no doubts about the majesty of the Great Han Immortals, they are afraid that the wrath of the immortals will fall on their heads, and they can't be more honest if they are honest!

Send out men to take over Dragon City, and it's a perfect victory!

Wei Qing immediately wrote the battle report into the envelope and sent it back to Chang'an!

……

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, stood in the garden, his face sad.

The fact of the border battle was not smooth, first the Huns disturbed the border, he felt that it was time to launch a counteroffensive against the Huns, but he didn't expect the counterattack to be so unsmooth at the beginning!

The four-way army, which has been fighting for less than a month, has lost two roads in a row!

The only remaining road is also unable to attack, and can only be garrisoned under the siege of the enemy!

In this case, if you attack rashly, you will only be surrounded by enemies and easily destroyed!

How can this situation make Liu Che happy?

Recently, Liu Che didn't think about tea, and he was so anxious that he had several hot bubbles on his tongue.

He now desperately hopes that even the slightest bit of good news can come from the border pass!

I am afraid that if I want to use troops against the Huns, I will not be able to integrate such a powerful momentum in China!

If it fails again, Liu Che doesn't even dare to think about what domestic public opinion will become!

Anyway, they were all friendly before, so why don't you continue to be friendly now?

Thinking of this, Liu Che was irritable.

He wants to make contributions, wants to complete the great cause that his predecessors can't do, and wants to eliminate the danger of the Huns in one fell swoop!

But now that the teacher is not good, Liu Che is really irritable!

Just as he was about to go back to the dormitory to rest, the eunuch ran in anxiously: "Urgent report at the border pass, urgent report at the border gate, great victory in Longcheng!" ”

"What did you say? Victory at the border! Liu Che's face was full of joy, and the depression in his heart instantly dissipated a lot.

"Quick, bring me the battle report!" Liu Che was overjoyed and hurriedly asked people to hand over the battle report.

He glanced at ten lines, and swept the battle report in an instant.

"Capture three thousand enemies and take Dragon City!"

"Okay, well done, Wei Qing, my general Wei! I'm right! Liu Che immediately laughed after reading the battle report.

"Quickly let people get the map, let me see where this dragon city is!"

Comparing the battle report, Liu Che used the sand table to correspond Wei Qing's forward route with the geographical location of Dragon City.

This time, he looked at it extremely carefully, and it took him half an hour to think through this battle report of just a thousand words!

"Good, good, great!"

Liu Che looked up to the sky and laughed wildly!

With this victory, the next Han campaign against the Xiongnu will be much less pretentious.

"I want to see, who dares to say that the Huns are invincible?" Liu Che snorted coldly and slapped the battle report on the table!

With the victory in Dragon City, there will naturally be a second victory, and then more victories!

Liu Che seems to have seen a rising, never-before-powerful empire appear in his own hands!

"Huh? How can there be such a long letter? Liu Che muttered as he opened another thick letter.

"It was sent back with the battle report, what does General Wei have to repay? It's so urgent. ”

"You can't be asking for a reward, are you?" Liu Che smiled slightly: "General Wei is still a little anxious, and he has made great contributions, can I not reward you?" ”

(End of chapter)