Chapter 167: Being smart is mistaken by being smart
Xiao Shanyu frowned after hearing the voice from behind him, and said with some uncertainty.
"In the other way, does Your Highness mean that you will send another wave of cavalry to test it, but what if the enemy sends out more than two hundred people to ambush this time?"
"What's so difficult about that, let's just send a thousand cavalry to fall behind the bait this time, I don't believe that their ambush army can exceed this number. ”
Xiao Shanyu turned his head to look at the young man sitting on the chair and nodded, and in front of the dignified King of Liaodong, who was still qualified to sit on the chair, and could be called His Royal Highness by Xiao Shanyu, there was no one else except Chu Tianxiong, the second prince who came to guard the border with him.
When he first came to the grassland, he swallowed the two thousand cavalry of Xian Yu's family with a single move, which made all the departments of the grassland nervous, they knew that there was a ruthless character at the border of Great Chu, but they didn't know that person was the second prince of the Great Chu State!
Of course, there is still one person on the grassland who knows that there is a second prince on the border, that is, Helian Zejun who is still coveting the cattle and sheep on the grassland and he has spent a lot of effort to lay the intelligence network to Dachu, but it is obvious that he will not tell the other families about this.
After repeatedly deducing Chu Tianxiong's method in his mind, although Xiao Shanyu also thought of some other possibilities, he didn't think that those barbarians on the grassland could think of so much.
"Your Highness's plan is indeed good, but we must not be sloppy with the leaders of this decoy, if they are eaten before the cavalry behind us arrives, our plan will be completely ineffective. ”
Regarding this, Chu Tianxiong nodded seriously, but he also seemed to have a good idea of this, he stood up and said slowly.
"I really can't be sloppy, the distance must not be close or far! So this time, I decided to go into battle myself!"
Hearing that Chu Tianxiong was going to go by himself, although Xiao Shanyu was not shocked, his expression still looked a little nervous.
"Your Highness, there are many people in the army who can do this, so it's better to let the dog Xiao Wangbei go!"
Regarding Xiao Shanyu's kindness, Chu Tianxiong said with a smile.
"This is not necessary, I am still worried that General Xiao Xiao will rob me of my credit! I have been in the grassland for a long time, but I have not made much credit, not long ago there was news in Beijing, saying that in the next few years there will be a period of stability in Dachu and the grassland, so maybe next year in the spring, I will return to Beijing, before I leave, I must do something to get the record, otherwise after I go back, those people in Beijing will think that I came to the grassland to play!"
Chu Tianxiong has been away from Beijing for some time, so after he returns to Beijing, he must have to find some ways to gain a firm foothold, and the best way to gain a firm foothold when he returns from the border is military merit!
Thinking of this, Xiao Shanyu did not object again, and he estimated that the risk of going out this time was not so great.
"In that case, then there is His Royal Highness Lao Er, and I will let the dog lead a thousand cavalry troops to follow you. I will also keep an eye on the movement in the direction of the grassland, and if anything goes wrong, I will immediately lead my troops to arrive. ”
Chu Tianxiong nodded, and then with a wave of his robe, he went down to prepare, this battle can almost be regarded as his last battle on the border, so even if he has a great certainty, he has to prepare more in order to be foolproof.
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Two days later, ten miles outside the Tianshan Pass, a team of fifty people from the pass appeared here, they looked vigilant, always paying attention to the movement coming from all directions.
"Tell the tun chief, the front found the other party's twelve horsemen as bait, whether to pursue or not, please ask the tun chief to indicate. ”
The head of the tun is naturally pretended by Chu Tianxiong, but the fifty people around here are all the guards he brought from the capital, and these fifty people can be one as ten!
"In fact, at this time, both sides are clear that what is playing now is just bait, and what we really need to see is the backhand that each side has prepared. ”
Without too much hesitation, Chu Tianxiong was also very confident in the thousand horsemen who were following him, so he immediately ordered.
"Chase!"
The fifty horsemen began to speed up the pursuit, and the twelve horsemen in front had no intention of throwing them off.
The two sides galloped on the grassland for dozens of miles, and after such a long time, the distance between them did not change at all.
Just when the team led by Chu Tianxiong was still chasing after me with the twelve horsemen, a team of people quietly appeared less than a mile away from the two teams in front of them.
"General, those fools in Da Chu have been fooled again, and how long have they been chasing them, do you see if we are going to send someone to eat them!"
The young master of the Xian Yu family glanced at the centurion beside him speechlessly, and that look almost said directly that you are a fool.
"Don't worry, these fifty rides are just for stuffing between your teeth, and the real hard dishes are still to come. Let them chase after them for a while, and we'll follow them first to see how things go. ”
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In Da Chu's cavalry, a person beside Chu Tianxiong said to him.
"Chief, something seems to be wrong now, those steppe barbarians seem to see our intentions, otherwise they would be too calm. ”
After chasing so deeply, Chu Tianxiong also felt that the current situation was a bit beyond imagination, he guessed that the people of the grassland would lure the enemy deeper, but he also didn't expect that they had already chased here, and the people from the grassland still did not appear.
"Chase for five miles more, and if the situation is not right, retreat!"
If you continue to go deeper, you will reach the area where Xian Yujia focuses on prevention and control, and when you get there, you may encounter a cavalry team of more than 1,000 people at any time, and it will be difficult to retreat even if you are followed by a thousand cavalry.
That is, when Chu Tianxiong said this, the young master of the Xian Yu family instructed the centurion beside him.
"Alright, now you can take your men and kill them, but you have to remember that I can't kill those fifty no matter how good you are, and at least half of them will be left alive. ”
"Yes, General!"
The centurion, who had been impatient for a long time, immediately went to the back to find his men, although he still did not understand why his general had a strange request to keep half alive, but he didn't seem to need to understand, he just had to do it.
Soon, the steppe centurion's two hundred men and horses were already in place, and when he felt that Da Chu's fifty horsemen had fallen into their encirclement, he rushed out with his men.
Just like Tu Xiong's situation before, after seeing these two hundred horses, Chu Tianxiong immediately led people to turn their horses' heads and run in the direction of Tianshan Pass.
After ten miles of pursuit, the centurion did not feel anything unusual, for he knew that his general was behind.
However, just when he took it lightly, a large number of black cavalry suddenly appeared behind the fifty horsemen of Da Chu, and at a glance, I was afraid that there were only hundreds.
That's not all, when they were about to run back, hundreds of cavalry troops appeared behind them, Chu Tianxiong's move to return the other way to the other was really used to the extreme, except for the change in the number of people, the others did not change at all.
Looking at the sudden situation, the centurion's eyes were panicked and a little overwhelmed, he was obviously the kind of reckless man who only knew how to lead the charge and did not know how to plan.
However, his general did not disappoint him, and when the Great Chu cavalry appeared, a large area of their grassland cavalry also appeared on the side, and the number seemed to be seven or eight hundred.
"Commander Tun, it seems that this time it is a commander who is not in the family, and these cavalry troops who suddenly appeared plus the two hundred cavalry surrounded by us are estimated to be about a thousand. ”
On the battlefield, Chu Tianxiong was always extremely vigilant, even if his subordinates were reporting the situation at this time, he still looked at the two hundred horsemen who were surrounded without blinking.
"Commander, our cavalry is also a thousand cavalry, and it's hard to say whether this can be won. ”
"Let the five hundred horsemen in the rear go and hold back the eight hundred horsemen on the flank of the enemy, and we must eat the two hundred horsemen in the middle with two charges, and then surround the eight hundred horsemen. ”
"Yes. ”
Hearing Chu Tianxiong's order, one of the fifty horsemen immediately sent one person to inform Xiao Wangbei, who was leading the army among the five hundred horsemen in the rear, and the direction of the five hundred horsemen quickly changed.
Behind a small dirt bag, the young general of Xian Yu's family smiled happily at all this in front of him, but the commander standing next to him ruined his good mood.
"General Xiuzhi, you wanted to lure the enemy deep into my understanding before, but at this time, we still have a full 1,200 horsemen hiding behind the dirt bag, why don't we go out together and eat those 1,000 horsemen completely?"
Xian Yu Xiuzhi's eyes on this centurion were better than those of the centurion, but it was not much better, but although his subordinates were stupid, he still patiently explained.
"This person still has to eat a full meal before he dies, so it's not a big deal to let those people in Da Chu taste the sweetness first, not to mention that if we show all the cavalry out at once and fight with others, will people still fight with us? Besides, have you ever seen that gambler put all his gambling money on it as soon as he came up? Even if there is such a gambler, in the end, he is the one who loses the most!"
Seeing that there was no trace of panic in the formation in the field, the Da Chu cavalry Xian Yu Xiuzhi said slowly.
"It's like these Great Chu cavalry troops, they always think that there are no gamblers on the grassland that they can look down on, so they always take our grassland lightly, and this time I will make them pay!"
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When the five hundred cavalry of Great Chu collided with the eight hundred cavalry that appeared on the side of the grassland, the fifty cavalry of Chu Tianxiong and the five hundred cavalry in front also fought with the two hundred cavalry in the middle.
In just an instant, the steppe centurion lost at least fifty people, while only a dozen or so people on Da Chu's side fell under the horse, and two survived.
But on the other side, it was miserable, the grassland cavalry was already stronger than the Great Chu cavalry, not to mention that it was still five hundred against eight hundred.
Although Da Chu's five hundred horsemen were grouped together and only defended and could not attack, twenty people were still cut off their horses, and the grassland side only paid the price of three or four horsemen.
And although the centurion of the steppe was generally very stupid and couldn't see the situation clearly, he also had some cleverness at this time, and when he lost fifty horsemen again, he immediately left behind the twenty horsemen who were entangled with the Great Chu cavalry, and then rushed to the side of the large army with the rest of the men and horses.
And Chu Tianxiong immediately chased after him with his men and horses, and that centurion was worthy of being a good soldier in the army who killed Tu Xiong, in this environment, he took the lives of five Great Chu cavalrymen, if he was more daring, this result could be expanded.
Just when the cavalry armies, which were divided into four battle formations, were about to collide together, a new change took place on the battlefield.
A group of men and horses rushed out again from the place where eight hundred grassland cavalry troops had appeared before, and the number was about five hundred, and the Great Chu cavalry army also rushed out a group of about five hundred cavalry troops behind them.
It turned out that in order to ensure Chu Tianxiong's safety, Xiao Shanyu increased the number of cavalry troops following them from one thousand to fifteen hundred!
So even at this time, the situation on the battlefield still looks very anxious, and for a while it will not be clear which side has the upper hand.
However, Xianyu Xiuzhi on the small dirt bag looked very excited when he looked at the dense thousands of cavalry soldiers fighting together below, even when he saw his own cavalry being cut off his horse, he did not show a trace of sadness, because he only knew that none of the 1,500 cavalry of the Great Chu Cavalry under this day could not run out of his palm!
"After sixty breaths, all our remaining cavalry troops will be put into battle, this time I will bite off a piece of meat from the body of the king of Liaodong! Commanding so many cavalry troops, at least he must be a general of the fourth grade!"
When both sides had already made up their minds to fight to the death, the accident happened again, and a large number of cavalry troops appeared in the place where the five hundred steppe cavalry had just rushed out.
At this time, Chu Tianxiong no longer cared about the number of cavalry that suddenly appeared, because he knew that even a small two hundred cavalry would be fatal to their current situation!
"Break through! Break through in the direction of Tianshan Pass! My guards go to the front to form a sharp knife and tear a hole in me!"
Fifty people rushed all the way to the front to escort Chu Tianxiong, and this means that Xian Yu Xiuzhi did not end up by himself, otherwise at this time, he could recognize at a glance that this guy who was surrounded in the middle was the key person of Da Chu.
However, the scene at this time was already a little chaotic, and the ancients often said that the defeat of the army was like a mountain! Although Chu Tianxiong was not defeated yet, there was also some decline!
Moreover, the sharp knife composed of his fifty personal guards has also been cut off, no matter how powerful his personal guards are, they are also human beings after all, not to mention that in such a complex situation, their martial arts cannot be exerted at all, unless they are really masters who can be a thousand first-class masters to have some effect!
And it was when the Great Chu cavalry was hopeless about the hard battle and only wanted to break through, a long rainbow suddenly swept out from the rear of the battlefield and fell into the enemy's army, and after a fist burst out, at least thirty people died in front of him, and at least one hundred people retreated together to leave an open space.
It was also at the moment when this Changhong appeared, Xian Yu Xiuzhi, who was already very happy, immediately jumped up with joy, and his eyes were not only surprises!
"A master!"
When he saw the terrifying strength of that person, Xianyu Xiuzhi exclaimed in surprise, and then jumped up and shouted.
"I guessed wrong! I guessed wrong! What kind of big fish is there for these 1,500 riders, and there is only one big fish among these people that is really big! Could it be Xiao Shanyu's son Xiao Wangbei? But this is impossible! His son is not qualified to let the first-class master follow and protect him! Could it be that he himself is here?"
The bold idea popped into his mind, but he quickly shook his head with a smile.
"If Xiao Shanyu were to come in person, what I was thinking about would not be how to eat these thousand five hundred horses, but how to escape with my people. But no matter who he is, if he kills everyone here, that big fish won't be able to escape!"
"Temukage!"
Xian Yu Xiuzhi suddenly shouted into the void, and what was incredible was that a figure really slowly appeared in front of him, to do this, this person must at least be a top master of the second grade!
"The subordinates are here. ”
"Take my order to bring the thousand wolf riders I hid to the battlefield, in addition to the big fish that doesn't know where to hide, I also want to leave this first-grade master here!
As he spoke, Xian Yu Xiuzhi threw the man a pitch-black token with a lifelike wolf head depicted on it!
"Yes!"
After receiving the order, the man disappeared into the air again, and Xian Yu Xiuzhi's side also returned to calm, and he once again looked at the changes in the field with cold eyes!