Chapter 11: Ambush
In the next few days, Li Sheng's father and son were all in the army, led by Chang Bin, Gao Xingshu, and Zhuge Yunzhi, and were familiar with customs defense, armaments and other military affairs. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Li Sheng has been familiar with military books since he was a child, and he is very quick to get started. Xuan Qi is a master who likes to be free, but when it comes to blood, he has two big heads, and at the moment, he simply pulls Zhuge Yunzhi around in the name of patrolling, but he is also happy.
A few days later, there was news that Helian Bobo, the third prince of the Huns, personally led an army of 50,000 and was about to arrive in Suzhou. Li Sheng immediately gave an order to go, ordered the whole army to be on alert, raised his tent in the camp, and discussed with the generals of all walks of life about the plan to meet the enemy.
Li Sheng expected that the Xiongnu's dispatch of troops this time must be related to his assumption of office, and he wanted to take advantage of his first arrival to give himself a dismount. It seems that only when the enemy who will attack in the future is beaten and afraid, the Huns will be afraid and will not attack again.
After all the generals gathered, Li Sheng immediately took out a map and carefully inquired about the terrain on the road from Yanmen Pass to Suzhou. After asking clearly, Li Sheng explained his intention to the generals, so that the invading enemy could not even see the wall of Yanmen Pass, so he returned with a feather.
After the generals discussed, they were all a little surprised by Li Sheng's boldness, but they secretly nodded to each of Li Sheng's subsequent arrangements and took the order.
On the second day, 50,000 troops went straight out of Suzhou City and rushed towards Yanmen Pass. Just less than twenty miles out of the city, the wooden bridge over the small river in front of it was broken for some reason, and the Xiongnu army had to send people to speed up the repair of the bridge. After more than half an hour, the army continued to move forward.
After entering the mountain for ten miles, several huge rocks on the mountain road were blocked in the middle of the road, and it took two hours to clear it before it was completed. Seeing that he could not reach the appointed place on time, Helian Bobo had to advance for more than ten miles, and then set up camp in a valley.
Before dawn, with the sound of a gong, countless torches lit up on the mountains on both sides, and rockets coated with black oil fell densely towards the valley. The Hun army was in chaos all of a sudden, and the people shouted and the horses neighed, and they had to organize the army to attack the mountain, but the ambushes on both sides were gone.
Finally, at dawn, when I counted it, most of the cowhide tents were burned, and only a few hundred people were killed by arrows, trampling on each other, but more than 4,000 people were killed and trampled to death by frightened horses, and nearly 10,000 soldiers were injured. And the baggage and the grain and grass of the army were burned seven-eight out of ten.
Helian was so angry that he ordered 5,000 cavalry to escort the seriously wounded soldiers back to the city of Suzhou, and at the same time transport grain and grass from the city of Suzhou. Helian Bobo ignored the dissuasion of his generals and insisted on taking the remaining less than 40,000 men and horses to kill Yanmen Pass.
At noon, when they arrived at the pass, no matter how Helian Bobo ordered the army to scold, the defenders of Yanmen Pass were immovable, ignored them, and let the Hun soldiers outside the pass scold dryly.
Until the afternoon, seeing that there was no movement at the gate of Yanmen, and almost all the siege equipment and other baggage he brought were burned, Helian Bobo had to order to camp under the gate. In the middle of the night, the 5,000 cavalry originally sent to escort grain and grass should have arrived overnight, but there was no news, so Helian Bobo sent a small team of cavalry to follow overnight.
By the time it was near noon on the second day, there was no news of even the cavalry sent out last night, and Helian Bobo finally panicked, because even eating at noon had become a problem. Helian Bobo was only easily radical and a little arrogant, but he was not a stupid person, and he knew at this moment that the enemy attack on the night before yesterday must be a trap, and I was afraid that the two teams of cavalry sent back to escort grain and grass and urge food were already more than lucky.
Helian Bobo immediately ordered to go, leaving 5,000 men and horses, and spread the formation a little. The 3,000 men and horses were still shouting and cursing in front of the battle, but the other 2,000 men and horses were running back and forth in front of the camp on horseback, raising dust in the sky. Half an hour later, Helian Bobo quietly slipped out of the camp with the remaining 30,000 horses, with thick cotton cloth wrapped in their hooves, without even packing up the tent and the few remaining baggage.
More than 30,000 light horsemen did not let go of their horses until they walked out of ten miles, and then they let go of their horses a little and retreated towards Suzhou. After walking another ten miles, Helian Bobo ordered the whole army to let go of their horses and gallop, and they must go out of the mountain before dark.
The defenders on the wall saw that the enemy was screaming and scolding, and the dust in the sky blocked the view again, but for a while they didn't know what the Hun army was doing. The defenders leaned against the wall and watched the Hun soldiers tossing back and forth. An hour later, the 5,000 Hun cavalry suddenly recoiled and retreated. The defenders on the pass finally saw the clue, and hurriedly organized men and horses to rush out of the pass and chase after the Huns.
The pursuers were only five thousand Hun cavalry from a distance, and they did not come close. Only when encountering individual backward Hun soldiers will the pursuers quickly catch up.
Helian Bobo, with his men and horses, who had not eaten for lunch, tired and hungry, ran forward twenty miles again to the valley where he had been attacked the day before. The valley was long, stretching for ten miles, and the army dragged in a long formation. The two ends of the valley are extremely narrow, and the whole valley is shaped like two gourds with the bottom facing the bottom, placed together.
When the last cavalry entered the valley, there was a rumbling sound behind him. The war horse was frightened and kept neighing, but at the mouth of the valley behind him, countless boulders rolled down from the hillside, and the mouth of the valley was already tightly blocked. The cavalry was in disarray, but they did not dare to delay, but only rode forward and galloped wildly. The sound of sighing sounded, and on the slopes on both sides, countless long arrows fell densely, and the cavalry team was even more chaotic, all crowded together, and rushed forward desperately.
Long arrows continued to fall from the sky, like driving cattle and sheep, forcing Helian's rear cavalry to flee as fast as they could. The riot spread rapidly, and the arrows kept falling off their horses, and they were trampled into meat sauce by iron hooves in the miserable howl. The galloping horses collided with each other, and countless cavalrymen were injured and overturned.
Helian was at ease in front of the army, and when he heard the noise behind him, he secretly said that it was broken, and ordered the army to advance at full speed and rush out of the valley. Helian Bobo took the lead and rushed to the front. In the distance, the valley mouth was already visible, and the road began to narrow to accommodate only three or four horsemen. Helian was overjoyed, and the whip struck the horse's hips fiercely, and the fast horse rushed towards the valley like an arrow.
Suddenly, with a bang, a long arrow flew straight towards Helian Bobo's face. In the exclamation of the pro-soldier team, they saw that Helian Bobo was about to be hit by an arrow. But seeing Helian Bobo suddenly turn over, he had slipped from the horse's back to the bottom of the horse's belly, and the long arrow poofed, but it shot straight into Helian Bobo's fast horse, entering from the hip, leaving only the tail of the arrow, still trembling incessantly.