Chapter Seventy-Six: Stratagem (1)

Losing the trace of the Xuanqi army, even the 30,000 troops sent out to urge food had no news, which made Helian Lu finally start to panic. An army of more than 200,000 people will consume countless grains and grasses every day, and in three days at most, the grain and grass in Ulan Gumu City will be swept away.

After consulting with the generals, Helian Lu finally made a decision, took all the food, grass and cavalry, and prepared to start returning to Mulun to join Ivanov's army. At this moment, Ivanov had driven the army of Helenkhan to the south bank of the Orkhon River and reoccupied the area around the Selenga River.

Helian Lu's army went all the way to the east, gradually entering the mountains of the Hangai Mountains. It has been two days to the east, and the grain and grass are approaching, but there is still no news of the 30,000 army urging food, and what is more serious is that none of the scout teams sent out in all directions have returned, as if they have been swallowed up by this mountain. Helian Lu had lost hope for the food urging army, and now the only way to do it was to rush back to Mulun as soon as possible.

An army of more than 200,000 formed a long dragon more than ten miles long, with horses' hooves rattling, and went forward. In the evening, when they had reached Bayantes, the mountains were high and dense, and night was approaching, the army was stationed in the small town in the valley, waiting for the next day.

In the middle of the night, a gong suddenly sounded, alarming Helian Lu, who was still sleeping. Helian Lu didn't even wear armor, so he rushed out of the felt bag, and his own soldiers outside the felt bag had already greeted him. In the dark night, it was a flood of rockets that shot down from the surrounding mountain beams, instantly igniting countless cowhide felt bags.

Helian Lu scolded secretly, knowing that the sentry post sent out to patrol at night must have been eaten by the elusive Xuanqi army again. In the raging flames, countless war horses were so frightened that they ran in all directions, and they couldn't hold it at all. In the chaos, Helian Lu was led by his own soldiers to hide behind a rock, not only to prevent accidental injury from the startled horse, but also to avoid the rain of arrows falling from the sky.

Helian Lu ordered the grain and grass to be protected, and at the same time hurriedly asked the old Mao soldiers to start searching for enemy traces on the surrounding mountain beams. The rain of arrows finally stopped after half an hour, and the old soldiers who rushed up the mountain only found the corpse of the sentry, but they could not see where the enemy was at all.

In the chaotic canyon, the fire began to subside, and it was quickly extinguished by the old soldiers. Two hours later, the east showed a trace of fish white, and the old Mao soldiers, who had been tossing for half the night, sat on the ground in a pile of east and west, watching their companions who were killed by sharp arrows, burned by fire, and trampled to death by frightened horses were carried together, and gradually burned to ashes in the flames.

More than 10,000 lives have disappeared in this way, and there are still less than 150,000 horses scattered and fleeing. Six-seven out of ten of the felt bags were burned, and the rest were occupied by more than 30,000 wounded veterans, and moaning was everywhere. Half of the grain and grass were burned, and I didn't even know if I had eaten at noon. Helian Lu endured the pain and let people start collecting horse corpses, which may be the rations of the 200,000 army at noon.

The army with more than 30,000 wounded soldiers did not begin to advance slowly until after noon, but the speed was much slower all of a sudden, because there were no horses, many old soldiers could only ride in two, and with the drag of the wounded soldiers, they couldn't get up quickly. Helian Lu even wanted to abandon these wounded soldiers for a moment, but he was afraid of causing the dissatisfaction of the old Mao soldiers, after all, this was not the Hun cavalry under his original command.

The sound of horses' hooves rattled forward, but there was a fork in the road ahead, leading to Mulun to the east and Bletai to the southeast. The front army slowly moved forward, and suddenly someone found that on the fork in the road to the southeast, a white-robed general on a war horse, was standing with a spear horizontally, with a contemptuous smile on his face, but it was no different from Mr. Bai described in the battle report.

Amidst the loud shouts, countless cavalry began to rush into the fork and chase towards Xuan Qi. Xuan Qi turned the horse's head unhurriedly, rode the horse forward, the horsepower of the sweaty BMW was excellent, and soon distanced himself from the pursuers, and Xuan Qi had to stop and wait for the arrival of the pursuers.

Helian Lu saw the commotion of the front army from afar, so he asked people to inquire, and learned that it was Mr. Bai who was alone and came to provoke, and a group of cavalry had already gone to pursue him. As soon as Helian Lu heard these three words, his eyes immediately turned red, and he didn't care if there were traps in front of him, so he rode forward, rushed straight into the fork in the road, and chased forward.

Xuan Qi stopped walking, but there were more and more pursuers behind him, densely crowding the entire mountain road. Seeing that Xuan Qi had already rushed into the mountain road between the two mountains, Helian Lu, who had been chasing wildly for a while, woke up slightly, stopped the army, and sent two teams of scouts to climb the mountain beams on both sides to investigate.

Seeing that the pursuers had stopped, Xuan Qi sent scouts to investigate the mountain beams on both sides, knowing that Helian Lu was suspicious and afraid that he would walk into his trap, so he stopped moving forward, parked his horse in the mountain road, turned his head to look at Helian Lu, and showed a mysterious smile. Helian Lu looked at Xuan Qi from afar, although he gritted his teeth with hatred, he still didn't dare to move forward, so he had to scold Xuan Qi.

Xuan Qi didn't bother to pay attention to it, but instead took out an oiled paper bag from his arms, took out a roast leg of lamb from it, and tore it with a big gulp. Helian Lu's eyes were even more on fire when he saw it, and he could only helplessly eat the meat of the war horse to satisfy his hunger, the other party actually had such a delicious roast leg of mutton, which was simply showing off his grain and grass being burned. Helian Lu finally couldn't hold back any longer, and without waiting for the scout to return, he rode his horse and rushed out. Xuan Qi slowly wrapped the uneaten roast leg of lamb and put it in his arms, then turned the horse's head and walked forward.

There was another fork in the road ahead, but to the south was the mountain road to Ula in Chechnya, Xuan Qi chose to go south without hesitation, and Helian Lu had to lead the army to follow closely. The pursuers formed a long formation in the mountain road, kept moving forward, and soon chased more than ten miles.

At this moment, from the mountain road to Bltay, tens of thousands of cavalry quickly rushed out, and the leader was Helian Nian. Tens of thousands of cavalry quickly cut off the old Mao cavalry who had not yet rushed into the fork, and a battle quickly began. The cavalry who had already entered the fork wanted to turn around and come to the rescue, but suddenly more than a dozen boulders rolled down from the hillside, blocking the mountain road that was not very wide, and the war horses could not pass through it at all, unless they gave up the war horses, they could climb with their bare hands.

Helian Nian took the lead, and the spear in his hand was like a dragon going out to sea, and it instantly stabbed an old soldier in the throat, and the old soldier rolled off the horse and drowned under the horse's hooves. Helian Nian's hands shook, and another shot stabbed an old Mao soldier in the chest, and with a loud shout, the old Mao soldier was actually picked up from his horse by Helian Nian and thrown out with all his might.