Two hundred and ninety-six broken prisoners
Outside Nanqu City, there were spies sent by Bai Di everywhere. These people came and went without a trace. As soon as the Tang army left the valley, they would be completely exposed to their sight.
If you want to completely annihilate Bai Di in Southern Qu and Northern Qu, you must avoid these things and send troops to block the passage from the basin to the grassland, and force Bai Di's cavalry to fight head-on with the army.
Fang Li rubbed his forehead: "Is there any Han army here?"
"I'm afraid there is no more." Jia Xu stroked his chin's beard, "As far as I know, most of the Korean army has retreated to Pucheng, and the defenders in various places south of Loucheng have been wiped out. Now only our army is left around Nanqu."
"It's better if you retreat, so as not to get in the way here." Fang Li smacked his lips and stopped asking questions, "Forget it, I'm worried about this and then this battle will not be able to be fought. All the generals obey orders!"
"Son Ce was ordered to lead the Han prisoner army, and the Zhou army had a total of 40,000 infantry and cavalry to attack Nanqu, and Wei Liao led the Wei army to assist!"
"I ordered Hua Xiong to lead 10,000 Tang cavalry to head north day and night, trying every means to prevent the Baidi people from withdrawing back to the grassland!"
"The rest of the soldiers and generals set out with me to attack Beiqu overnight, and seize Beiqu City before Bai Di reacted!"
The guard of Nanqu City is the 1000-man Gu Yong of the Baidi Gu tribe. He is a typical grassland man who likes field battles and raids. His ten thousand tribal cavalry are all elites who are proficient in cavalry and shooting. They hate battles and defend the city.
When the three tribes were sharing the spoils, Nanqu City was distributed to the Gu clan, and Guyong was left to garrison because he was the clan leader's most trusted brother.
On the first day of taking office, Gu Yong ordered his subordinates to gather all the people in the Central Plains in the city, kill the elderly and children, and the women were rewarded to the warriors in the army, transporting all the strong men back to the grassland to serve as slaves.
Therefore, in Nanqu City, except for the women who survived and were still trampled and humiliated, only Bai Di's soldiers were left.
After doing all this, Guyong began to enjoy himself. He had no intention of repairing the city defense and preparing to defend the city. He was immersed in the fine wines of the Central Plains and the belly of women every day until the spy came to report a Korean army to appear in the valley.
"Han Jun?" Gu Yong raised his head from the chest of the abducted Central Plains beauty and looked at the spy kneeling in the tent in confusion, "Has Han Jun been beaten away long ago? Are you blind or something?"
"Captain Ten Thousand Man, it's true, the young man saw it with his own eyes!" The spy looked confused. "Just just after midnight, the young man went to patrol the mountain side and found an army of about 40,000 people coming out of the valley, all wearing Korean military uniforms!"
"Nonsense! Where did the people in the Central Plains have so many soldiers!" Gu Yong's brain was a little clearer, and he didn't believe what the spy said. "My elder brother has figured it out long ago. South Korea has only more than 50,000 troops, most of which were killed by us. Where did so many people pop up again?"
The spy knelt on his spot, not knowing how to answer.
At this time, Han Jian, a military advisor from the Central Plains who accompanied the drums and bravely drinking and having fun in the big tent, suddenly laughed: "Captain Wanfu, my subordinates heard that the Tang Kingdom of the Central Plains attacked South Korea. The Korean army sent half of its troops to the east, perhaps they turned around to support it."
"The Korean army in the east?" Gu Yong's muddy head turned around, focusing on it, "What the military advisor said is very true! There is no other explanation, the cunning Central Plains people!"
Han Jian shook the wine in the jar: "Captain Ten Thousand Man, the Korean army has more than 40,000 people, but our army has less than 10,000. Should we retreat to Beiqu and make plans?"
"Retreat? Military advisor. Don't make me laugh." Gu Yong showed a hideous smile, leaned over and bit his bruised breasts on the beautiful woman's purple chest. Seeing her crying out in pain but still laughing with force, she laughed wildly, "What kind of cowards are the Korean army? Don't the military advisor know? So what about 40,000 people? You can only tremble under the sabre of my grassland warrior!"
After saying that, before Han Jian persuaded him, he pushed the woman in his arms to the floor, and gave her reward to the spy who came to report the news despite the woman's wail. Then he called the personal soldiers outside the account: "Send the order, let my warriors stop enjoying themselves, and first go and clean up those Century baby soldiers who are overestimating their abilities!"
If it was reinforcements from other countries - such as Qin, Guyong would be a little cautious, but the Korean army, who was beaten by Bai Di every year, would have been 40,000 to 50,000 or 100,000 people. Guyong was confident that he would beat him with his ten thousand elite cavalry!
Han Jian wanted to speak but stopped, but in the end he didn't say anything. He was originally a general guarding the border of the Korean army. He was surrounded by Bai Di when he was invading the border two years ago. When the food and grass were exhausted, he led hundreds of deployments to surrender to Bai Di in a short period of time without reinforcements.
In the eyes of Bai Di people, the Central Plains people with tender skin, such as Han Jian, were not qualified to lead troops at all, so they gave him the position of military advisor and asked him to lead the way for him.
Han Jian, who was broken, had never dared to resist at first, but now he was willing to hold Bai Di's thighs in order to seek wealth and glory. He had long stopped treating himself as a Korean. He sent all the young and strong men to the grassland and killed all the children to eliminate future troubles.
The 50,000 troops led by Sun Ce were all "foreign corps", of which 30,000 were Korean prisoners who disrupted the establishment and reinserted the Tang army officers. The combat effectiveness was simply incomparable to the elites of the Tang army, and it was very difficult to fight together.
In order to exert its maximum combat power, Sun Ce led the remaining 8,000 Wei troops as the vanguard to open the way for the army, and used the Zhou army, which was already completely in control, as the rear army. He was led by his sister Sun Shangxiang, who was temporarily promoted to the lieutenant, and was the central army, who was always thinking about revenge. At the same time, he changed into Korean uniforms to cover up.
Among the 50,000 "foreign corps", the strongest combat effectiveness was the 8,000 complete Wei army under Wei Liao's command; the most worthy of relying on was the 10,000 Zhou army, who had not suffered much damage in the battle of crossing the river; the Korean army had the weakest combat effectiveness, but the strongest desire to fight, especially the closer to the border, the more you could see the tragic situation of Rong Di passing by. The Han army was full of red eyes and vowed to seek revenge for the Bai Di people.
The army was not moving fast, and it was only less than eight miles away when it was dawn. It was estimated that Fang Li and Hua Xiong's army should have gone far at this time. Sun Ce ordered the army to repair it on the spot and wait until the sky was completely bright before setting off. Anyway, it is impossible to fight night battles with these soldiers.
The plains in spring were green. Not long after the army stopped, the vanguard's spy came to report that it was found five miles away and there were about ten thousand people.
The spy was specially left by Fang Li, the White Army, and the information would never be wrong.
"More than ten thousand? It seems that it is a full-scale outing to fight our army to a decisive battle." Not far away, the enemy will arrive soon. Sun Ce will immediately order without hesitation. "The whole army will form a formation!"
The three thousand Yuan garrison crossbowmen of the rear army immediately stepped forward and set up a shooting formation in front of the formation, just waiting for the enemy to enter the range. Behind the crossbowmen are sword and shield soldiers and long spear soldiers who are waiting for the battle. Once the enemy cavalry approaches, they will immediately fill the gap left by the crossbowmen's retreat.
Sure enough, less than a quarter of an hour later, Bai Di's cavalry appeared on the horizon in front of him, and even the earth was trembling under the sound of horse hooves.
"It's indeed an elite army, and it's well-known." Wei Liao's horse was slightly behind Sun Ce, and he whispered, "General, our army is complex in its composition and is not good at fighting against the wind. We can't fight head-on with them."
Sun Ce nodded, noticing the movement ahead without blinking.
To Sun Ce's surprise, the enemy seemed to know that the range of the Yuanshu crossbow was farther than that of the ordinary crossbow, and stopped just one step outside the range.
Just as he was wondering, a fast horse among the Baidi people rushed over from the formation, and it seemed that he was here to pass the message.
"What a strange thing. Why did the grassland people learn this trick?" Wei Liao frowned, "These barbarians have always rushed forward and won with their courage."
Sun Ce raised his eyebrows, which was not very strange.
He was born in the Wu Kingdom and had seen many people in the Southern Barbarians. It was the first time he fought with Beidi who grew up on horseback, so naturally he had never personally experienced the "routines" of these grassland people.
Without the order of the commander, the Yuanshu crossbowmen could only hold back no matter how itchy the hands of the Yuanshu crossbowmen were. Seeing the cavalry wearing leather armor coming to the formation of the three armies, they shouted loudly: "Where is the commander of the Korean army? We, the commander of ten thousand men, have something to say!"
"Central Plains people?" Wei Liao saw clearly the very different appearance of the other party and the grassland people, and couldn't help but feel angry, "As a Central Plains people, he helped the evil and harm the people, damn it!"
Sun Ce did not pay attention to these details. He ignored Wei Liao and Sun Shangxiang's stop and rode out, slowly swayed behind the crossbowman, shouting: "I am the master, just say anything!"
The cavalry was the military advisor Han Jian, Gu Yong and others did not speak with the people in the Central Plains, so they could only let him pass the message.
Han Jian did not dare to protest and ran over tremblingly. He was worried about being shot to death by the other party along the way. Fortunately, he was safe and sound so far. Seeing the main general appear, Han Jian took a deep breath: "Long-lasting man, I will ask you, the main general of the baby soldier, do you have the courage to fight him for three hundred rounds!"
"One-on-one fight?" Sun Ce was stunned, "You Wanfu is going to fight with me alone?"
Han Jian nodded righteously: "That's right!"
"...Puchi." Sun Shangxiang in the rear did not hold back and laughed, "General Wei, this ten thousand men are interesting. Are you going to fight one-on-one in front of the army? It's just a playhouse!"
"The other party regarded us as the Korean army. It may be disdainful, but it may also be a fraud." Wei Liao had no intention of joking with a girl, and Ce Ma came to Sun Ce, "General, don't pay attention to him!"
Sun Ce raised his spear calmly and calmly: "It is impossible to fight one by one. Anyway, our army's mission is to hold back these ten thousand troops and buy time for Hua Xiong and his lord."
Wei Liao nodded and stopped persuading him.
Seeing the other party responding, Han Jian breathed a sigh of relief, turned his horse's head and was about to leave, but was stopped by Sun Ce.
Chapter completed!