Chapter 864 Fatal stupidity
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Li Jing agreed to Yang Lin’s request to send troops to rescue Li Siyuan.
"Li Si'an, the leader of the cavalry, and Dong Zhang, the leader of the military cavalry,! Come forward and obey the order!"
"The last one will be here." Li Jing's ninth disciple and eleventh disciple came out of the order and replied loudly.
Li Jing glanced at the two young disciples. In recent years, their performances were remarkable, but compared with the performances of Liu Xun, Gao Siji and others, they seemed a bit too ordinary. As disciples of King Li Jing of Qin, there were also outstanding senior brothers such as Liu Xun and Wang Yanzhang, they were expected by the Qin army. However, Li Jing knew that these two people were by no means ordinary people, and they could still achieve higher glory, but they had not yet obtained such an opportunity.
But they are ready. After these two famous generals with dazzling brilliance in history, after several years of waiting, the hidden dragon is in the abyss, and it is time to soar into the sky.
"I will ask you and the two of you to lead the cavalry to send troops immediately and go to rescue Li Siyuan immediately." After a pause, Li Jing said again: "If Li Siyuan is at the entrance of the Great Wall, then you will annihilate the Hu soldiers in one fell swoop. If Li Siyuan is not at the entrance of the Great Wall, but is still at a place where he is separated from Staff Yang, then rescue Li Siyuan, but."
"After rescuing Li Siyuan, I will ask you to be defeated by Hu Bing. Retreat all the way to the entrance of the Great Wall."
Li Si'an, nicknamed Flying General, has a strong and brave face, and is usually silent and silent. At this time, he frowned, "Sir, just 20,000 Hu cavalry soldiers, 5,000 soldiers of my cavalry are enough to annihilate them. Even if Li Siyuan is to be rescued, the Wu cavalry army is more than enough, so why bother to be defeated?"
Li Jing smiled, "You also said that only 20,000 Huqiu are just some miscellaneous fish. Since that's the case, our appetite is more than that. I let you defraud, so I naturally want to lure the enemy, but it's not the 20,000 miscellaneous soldiers!"
Jing Xiang's eyes lit up, and he already understood in his heart.
"Does Your Highness want to catch a big fish?"
"If you want to catch a big fish, I am not interested in the small fish and shrimps." Li Jing said with a faint smile.
In war, one of the most important things is that the enemy cannot always take the initiative. They must not be dragged away passively, and the rhythm must be controlled in his own hands. Li Jing's plan is actually very simple. He will send 10,000 cavalry to rescue Li Siyuan first and lure them over at the same time. He will lead his troops to set up an ambush at the entrance of the Great Wall, and then annihilate the 20,000 japanese Hu in one fell swoop. Of course, as he said, this is not his ultimate goal. He plans to show off his Qin King flag at the entrance of the Great Wall and lure the enemy again.
"The last general will receive the order!" After understanding that the King of Qin did not look down on the combat effectiveness of their armies, but to catch a larger fish, both Li Si'an and Dong Zhang immediately received the order.
Li Si'an immediately led the Killing Cavalry Army. Dong Zhang led the Wu Cavalry Army to rescue under the leadership of Yang Lin.
Subsequently, Li Jing ordered the leader of the Leopard Cavalry, Qiu Shengong, Feixiong Army, Xuan Cheng, and Yingyang Army, Li Wei, each of them led the infantry of the headquarters, plus the guards led by Wang Chong, the guards of the three guards of Gao Sixiang, Qin Zongshou, Guo Zhenhai, and the three guards of the three generals of the Crane Control Cavalry led by Gao Rong, and the vanguard of the Iron Cavalry Army formed by the village soldiers, Hu cavalry, and Xuejun, followed closely and moved towards Huaian.
Li Si'an and Dong Zhang's two cavalrymen marched rapidly with flags.
But then Li Jing led most of the troops to stop, holding people and horses wrapped around their hooves, and even torches were not allowed to be beaten. The army only relied on the night moonlight.
The vanguard of the Iron Cavalry Army, the vanguard of the vanguard of the vanguard, requested to speed up the march, but the reply received was: "Those who dare to raise the fire will kill!"
Li Si'an's two armies were in the open, and his troops were in the dark. He would never let the Hu people discover them in advance, which would alarm the snake and scare away the mixed fish. Although Li Jing's target was a big fish, the mixed fish was not allowed to escape.
The cavalry and the military cavalry were running with each other, as if they were storms, but Yang Lin always felt slow. Li Jing had arranged for Yang Lin and the hundred Shatu warriors to stay in Duanyun Ridge, but Yang Lin insisted on being a military guide despite his fatigue. Even the hundred Shatu warriors were willing to stay.
"Hurry up, please hurry up, two yamen!" At Duanyunling, after hearing Li Jing's dispatch of troops, Yang Lin also knew that perhaps what Li Siyuan said was to stand firm at the entrance of the Great Wall to wait for assistance, but it was just a lie that made him leave with peace of mind. They might have been surrounded by the Hu people. The days when they fought together and broke through the siege together, so that this Chinese scholar truly regarded Li Siyuan and other Shatuo people as life and death brothers. He was responsible for the heavy responsibility of rescuing soldiers, so he had to bring the reinforcements back, and he had to bring the reinforcements back as soon as possible.
Every time the delay was delayed, I don’t know how many soldiers would die in battle, and he didn’t know whether Li Siyuan could last until the moment the reinforcements arrived!
However, Li Si'an and Dong Zhang did not accelerate any further. For the two, the will of the King of Qin was their iron hooves. Li Siyuan and the others would save him, but they had their own rhythm. Even if the cavalry was galloping to help, they could not advance at full speed at will. They had to maintain their remaining strength in preparation for combat at any time. Moreover, they believed that Li Siyuan, who was valued by the King of Qin, would never be wiped out so easily.
If Li Siyuan couldn't wait for them to rescue, he could only say that he was incompetent.
"Hurry!" Yang Lin, who was gritting his teeth and following Li Si'an, shouted.
"Don't worry, this speed seems to have not reached the fastest, but it is more stable. This is the speed at which you can reach the battlefield as fast as possible and rescue Li Siyuan."
The nights in June are always particularly short!
June under the Great Wall also became extremely hot. The temperature at this time was still tolerant for the Shatuo Army, who had lived in Daibei for decades. However, for the grassland tribes from the north of Yinshan, especially those from the northern desert, the hot weather even became their most terrifying enemy.
During the day, they kept drinking water and had to hide in the shade of trees at the foot of the mountain to resist the fireballs in the sky. But even so, the hot weather was still unbearable. Only at night, the cool evening breeze made them feel a little more comfortable.
However, on such a night, Tiemushu and Gui Chier could not sleep peacefully.
Today, they finally blocked the extremely tired Shatuo defeated army again. Li Siyuan's flag was flying high, making all the Hu people's eyes red as blood.
Li Siyuan couldn't run anymore, so they finally stopped and retreated to a small valley on the banks of the Dongyang River. They cut down trees and piled up at the entrance of the valley, dug a ditch temporarily, and inserted a lot of pickets. However, Tiemura was very happy. When the flying Shatu cavalry began to stop galloping, they hid in a small valley and tried to resist stubbornly, this already shows that these Shatu people were completely desperate.
More than 20,000 tribal troops chasing them all the way around surrounded the small valley.
Then, instead of attacking immediately, they decided to encircle the valley and then belonged. After the other lucky people rode their horses into the Dongyang River, took a shower happily, and then hid among the trees to rest.
Not only were there hot fireballs outside exposed to the sun. The heat made them unable to attack, but they were also exhausted by chasing them one day and one night. Since the Shatu people were blocked in the small valley, then let's rest first. After they have sufficient energy and after dark, they can just go into the valley and destroy them.
After dark, Tiemushu, Gui Chier and the tribal leaders of the Hu army held a meeting together. Everyone discussed while eating roasted horse meat.
"The boys have already raised enough strength. I will ignite the torch tonight. I must kill all these damn Shatuo bastards!" Tiemutu said viciously. They had judged the direction of Li Siyuan's breakthrough before, but they did not stop Li Siyuan. Six thousand people intercepted 4,000 defeated soldiers, but they let the other party escape from their noses. This was a great humiliation. What made him even more angry was that they chased him for a day and a night, but suffered heavy losses. From the mountain village, they surrounded Li Siyuan.
Up to now, more than 30,000 Hu soldiers have dealt with more than 10,000 defeated soldiers. Five days have passed and they have lost more than 10,000 people, but Li Siyuan still has more than 3,000 people. If the Hu soldiers Li Siyuan killed in the battle of Niupai Pass and Baishuiluo, there will be 40,000 Hu people who have died at the hands of Li Siyuan. Even those old and weak are mostly bait, it will make the tribes very sad. If they don’t attack them immediately, if they drag on them, they will really become the laughing stock of the tribes.
The Goguryeo tribe Gao Tansheng was the one who took part in the Khitan after the Goguryeo Kingdom was briefly restored and quickly destroyed by Li Jing. After the Goguryeo Kingdom was destroyed, he and his tribe became vassals of the Khitan and became his mercenary. This time, he led the warriors from the five thousand clans to grab a vote, but who would have thought that he would encounter Li Siyuan's tough stubbornness. From Baishui to Baishui's pursuit of Li Siyuan, his 5,000 troops have lost 2,000, and 40% of them have died. Even if most of the people died were auxiliary soldiers, it made his heart bleeding.
In any case, he lost a lot this time when he went south. Now he was not thinking about how to make a fortune, how much money he got, what he thought about was how to ensure that the remaining three thousand warriors would not lose anymore. He knew very well that because of these warriors, he could get a grassland under the Khitans and settle the family for the tribe. But if these warriors were gone, the Khitans would definitely be the first to annex them.
"I think that Shatuo is at the end of his journey. At this time, the Shatuo people will fight back to the death. A blow before death will definitely cause us a lot of casualties. It would be better to siege them. Someone has seen that the valley is very small and there is no water source inside, and they have long lost food and grass. As long as they siege, even if they kill horses and eat meat, there is no water. If they don't attack for three days, they will destroy themselves without attacking them. As long as we siege here for three days, at most five days, those Shatuo wild wolves will become a group of Shatuo dead dogs themselves."
Gao Tansheng's proposal immediately received support from several other small tribal leaders who were suffering great casualties during this pursuit. They went south to make a fortune, not to die. Since they had trapped Li Siyuan's defeated army, they only needed to wait quietly for a few days to win, so why bother to pay the lives of the wealthy tribal warriors unnecessary?
On the grassland, the strong prey on the weak, and every tribal warrior is extremely precious.
"I understand everyone's ideas, but I need to be careful of the long night and dreams. This place is not far from the Qin vassal territory. If the Qin army comes to support and the flesh in the mouth flew away, it would be too much regret." Tiemusai didn't expect that these tribes would be so timid and couldn't help but sneer.
"Temuzhan, the Wuzhou of Qinfan is nearly two hundred miles away from here, and Marshal Yelu has taken over the northwest of Weizhou to the south of Wuzhou. Do you think the Qin people dare to go deep into the outer boundary at this time? Wait a few more days and wait a few more days. You are not afraid of having a good meal. What's the matter with Timuzhan? If you really want to fight, then you Tatars will be responsible for the attack and we will put the formation for you." Gao Tansheng did not give Timuzhan face at all. Everyone was not in charge of each other and no one could care about each other.
Seeing this, Gui Chier knew that these guys were determined not to attack now. Of course, he didn't want to attack by their Tatar Warriors. But those cowards were in the back and quietly kicked Thomsaka and smiled: "Since everyone agrees to besieged, then siege it."
The meeting finally decided to continue to siege Shatu's defeated army and not attack for the time being.
The tribes drawn lots and drew out the tribes responsible for the besieged tonight. Then the other tribes each chose a cool place near the valley, set up camps and continued to rest.
Li Siyuan stood on the arrow tower standing at the entrance of the valley, looking at the quiet night, and couldn't help but chuckled. These dog-dreaming Hu people did not attack. They did not attack during the day and did not attack at night.
After a long breath of turbid breath, Li Siyuan finally felt relieved. They had won another precious time for one day, and now they were all counting on Yang Lin to bring back the Qin army reinforcements.
A group of stupid Hu dogs, you are about to pay a heavy price for your stupidity at this time! Li Siyuan held the handle of the knife tightly with his fingers and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth!
Although the Hu people did not attack, Li Siyuan did not dare to relax at all. He was not completely sure whether this was just a trick of the Hu people. Maybe they were numbing them and trying to let them relax their vigilance, and then suddenly launched a large-scale attack. For this reason, Li Siyuan divided the three thousand remaining troops into three divisions, taking turns to be responsible for the guarding and defense, each division defended for two hours, so as to keep vigilant and keep most of them energized to deal with battles that could occur at any time.
Just after midnight, the Hu people outside the valley suddenly slipped out more than a hundred cavalry. They dismounted and walked, quietly circled around the side, climbed from the hillside, and wanted to sneak into the valley. Fortunately, Li Siyuan had arranged a group of defenders on the tops of the mountains on both sides of the valley, and found them in time. After a rain of arrows, the group of Hu people left behind more than a dozen bodies and were knocked back.
Then, after about half an hour of quiet, hundreds of cavalry rushed straight to the entrance of the valley and set rockets at the entrance of the valley. The Shatuo army in the valley was shocked and fell over. Li Siyuan quickly woke up the two men who were resting and rushed to the entrance of the valley to fight, but found that it was just a false alarm. The Hu people shot a rocket and quickly retreated.
Chapter completed!