Chapter 330: Repel the Enemy (Part 2)
The Huns rushed to Dingxiang City again, and the defeated army along the way knew that the Jin army had not had much force last night. Although the Huns lost a lot of people, they also killed a lot of Jin army. Liu Tong, the head coach of the Xiongnu reinforcements, sneered secretly when he heard this. Seeing Zhao Ran's joke, Zhao Ran was extremely ashamed and wished he could plunge his head into the ground.
If it weren't for the fire here and the thick smoke obstructed the sight, I could make a wrong judgment and even if I was at a disadvantage, I could win the final victory. It was also the result of losing troops and losing generals. Obviously, defeating the Jin army could make up for the merits.
There were not many Jin troops in Dingxiang City, and maybe there would be an empty city by then! I just regretted that I was panicked and could not see the tricks played by the Jin people...
With the continuous improvement of intelligence, the tactics of the Jin army gradually became clear last night. The Jin army behind the Xiongnu cavalry camp was the deadly killer, especially the Jin general who shot Yan Guide with one arrow in the chaos was included in one of the list of the Xiongnu's must-kill.
If Yan Geng De had calm command, it would probably not be Zhao Ran's turn to make the choice to retreat last night's battle.
The remaining Xiongnu camp was still in place, but Yan Guide's head was high above the banner at the head of Dingxiang City. Regardless of the factions among the Huns, seeing the heads of the elites in his family hanging on Jincheng, the four thousand Xiongnu infantry and 1,400 Xiongnu cavalry were extremely excited!
Liu Tong said with a gloomy face: "If you are lucky, General Zhao will go to ask Yan Guide for the head of the dead, so that the deceased can have a complete body."
The clash between the two countries was like fire and fire. The Jin people used Yan Guide's head to show off their power. It was just that when it was useful, how could Zhao Ran negotiate? But under the excitement of the crowd, countless eyes stared at Zhao Ran in an instant, and Zhao Ran could not say a word.
Zhao Ran was also a clever person. At the moment, he could only swallow his bitter fruit and say, "Rong Mo will come and ask for it!" Once this sentence is said, it is equivalent to bowing to Liu Tong. But if he does not lower his head, his prestige in the army will plummet!
When he arrived at the city, Zhao Ran cleared his throat and shouted loudly: "Listen to the Han people, the head on the flagpole is the head of our general Yan Guide. The battle between the two countries should not affect the dead. Send the head back quickly so that the dead can be buried in peace!"
Seeing that Zhao Ran wanted to be tough, but was worried that he would anger the Han people, and was begging but afraid that he would be underestimated by the Huns, Liu Tong couldn't help but laugh. He had already figured out the deployment of the Jin army in Dingxiang City along the way, and the troops last night were only more than 3,000.
However, the Xiongnu infantry he brought him had 4,000 people, and according to common sense, he would be defeated. But these 4,000 Xiongnu infantry were all elite soldiers under Liu Qin's command. It would be no exaggeration to fight one or ten in the past. It was no problem to capture such a city!
In addition, Zhao Ran brought more than a thousand cavalry to assist him in siege, but was suppressed by himself. Even if he broke the city, he still belonged to him. Why not do it?
The Jin army on the city was ready to fight, but he did not expect that the Huns would ask for the head of the Hun general Yan Guide first. At that time, Zhao Ran, who was shouting around the city, had his own soldiers to inform Dingxiang's garrison Huan Xuan.
When he came to the city and looked down, Zhao Ran raised his head and shouted constantly with anxiety. Huan Xuan was slightly surprised to see this, and looked up at the main general in the Hun army in the distance, as if he had realized something.
"Isn't this General Zhao Ran?" Huan Xuan responded to the city.
Zhao Ran rode a horse and circled around the city. No one answered for a long time. Now, seeing someone talking, he hurriedly shouted: "It's Zhao Ran! I dare to ask who you are!"
Huan Xuan laughed in his heart, but responded: "Shoot the arrow!!"
With a loud shout, more than a hundred hard crossbows shot down the city! Jin State and the Huns were not just about the momentum, but they were in a state of dying. Huan Xuan was not in the mood to tell the barbarians what reason was.
Unpredictable, he was treated like this. Zhao Ran hurriedly waved his weapons and pulled the arrows, and tried his best to slap the horse and retreat into his own formation. Unfortunately, he had been wandering under the city for a long time and was already too close. The hundred powerful crossbows shot one person. Even if you blocked it, you would not be able to stop it...
The arrows on his body increased one by one, and Zhao Ran was still waving his weapons and galloping back and forth. However, the war horse was hit by countless arrows. He turned his head and ran a few steps before he lost his strength to pounce on the ground. Zhao Ran could only follow the war horse and pounce on the ground. He looked at the Hun soldiers holding their shields high and rushed to rescue him with fear and helpless eyes. Liu Tong looked even more anxious.
Helplessly, the water from far away could not relieve the nearby fire. When the Hun soldiers arrived, Zhao Ran had already lying motionless, and was shot into a hedgehog with his people and horses!
"This is how the barbarians invaded our country!" Huan Xuan shouted solemnly on the top of the city, pointing at the Huns' army under the city.
Arrows on the top of the city were like rain, and the Huns rushed forward to rescue them in a hurry, but they had no preparations. At this moment, Hula suddenly gathered under the city, and could not attack the city, but retreated was a problem. He was shot by the Jin army's arrows, leaving four or five hundred corpses on the ground, and finally withdrew from the Jin people's range.
Unexpectedly, a Hun general came to die. The head of Dingxiang City cheered and thundered, and shot hundreds of barbarians without any effort. This was a slap in the enemy's spirit and a small victory!
Huan Xuan reviewed his left and right and said, "If we are just such stupid people outside the border, we should have hope of restoring our territory. In this battle, we will reduce the barbarian spirit. The strategies of the ancestors' childish people will definitely succeed!"
He retreated out of the opponent's range in anger. He looked at the five or six hundred corpses on the ground and felt dizzy. He gritted his teeth and pointed at the head of Dingxiang City, and cursed with gusty words! It was far away from the original and was speaking the language of the Huns. The Han people could not hear it clearly, and even if they could hear it clearly, they did not understand the meaning.
No one expected that the Han people here were not in compliance with the rules at all. They came up and shot and killed Zhao Ran who was sent to negotiate. Although the two countries were fighting, there were still written and unwritten rules on the battlefield that both sides had to abide by. They asked Zhao Ran to negotiate, just to stand on Zhao Ran and establish their own position from then on.
The purpose of killing Zhao Ran is Liu Tong. As long as he can ride on Zhao Ran's head steadily, it is enough. It is not to let Zhao Ran die. If he knew that the Jin army was so heartless, with Zhao Ran's personality, he would not be willing to die even before his own soldiers...
It's better now. Zhao Ran's limelight has been revealed and he has no chance to compete for favor with him. However, he killed Zhao Ran's life with his own hands. Even because of the unexpected actions of the Jin people, this crime was not something that Liu Tong could afford.
You should know that this time, the Allied Forces outside the Frontier have launched a large-scale southward movement, and all tribes and tribes are unprecedentedly united. Anyone who has ulterior motives and refuses to work hard has already learned the methods of the Great Khan of the Huns outside Juyang City. Now other clans are still obeying the instructions honestly, but Liu Tong, as a member of the Huns, is targeting his compatriots in his own tribe. The consequences of this matter can be imagined...
Seeing that the army had lost its spirit, Liu Tong had to retreat to camp to fight again in the future. He had to restore his morale to the soldiers. At the same time, he had to remember the shame and had the determination and motivation to avenge his shame. In order to prevent the lessons of the past, he was attacked by the Jin people here, the density of scouts and the coverage range were almost spread across dozens of miles!
It is not easy to attack the Huns camp!
At this time, Zu Ti lurked behind the Huns army with more than 200 cavalrymen, saying that the rear was not the rear of the Huns camp, but was far away on the official road from Jiuyuan to Dingxiang. The location of Zu Ti's more than 200 cavalry along the way had already exceeded the scope of the Huns' investigation, because from the beginning, Zu Ti's target was not the Xiongnu reinforcements.
But food and grass!
The Huns' Iron Cavalry came to the camp at Dingxiang City a few days ago. The knight carried only a few days of food rations, and most of the baggage stored in the camp was straw collected from everywhere, etc. It was enough for people to have food rations, but war horses needed unified captivity and feeding.
With more than 2,000 people and more than 2,000 war horses, the daily consumption is obviously difficult to satisfy for a long time by searching everywhere. Infantry who applied for siege will naturally apply for all the money, grain and supplies needed by the infantry and cavalry. The infantry was eager to rush to Dingxiang and captured the city as soon as possible, so naturally they would travel lightly. The money and grain they carried with them were not much, so behind the Xiongnu reinforcements, there must be a transportation team that transported money and grain to be responsible for replenishing the more than 6,000 Huns.
The money and food carried by this transport team are the lives of the Huns in Dingxiang City. Once this transport team is attacked and burned, even if the Huns are brave and good at fighting, they will not be able to capture Dingxiang City in a few days under the prerequisite that they are about to run back to Jiuyuan when they are about to go hungry.
Most of the transportation teams were Han people, but were equipped with a few Hun soldiers and slaves to supervise the work along the way. Such a team was invincible in front of Zuti. More than 200 Jin cavalrymen rode the war horses they had just seized the day before yesterday. Many people used unfamiliar postures to kill and expel the Hun soldiers and barbarian slaves outside the border.
Zu Ti even roared and galloped with a long spear in his hand. The Hun soldiers and generals were killed wherever he passed, which was simply unstoppable!!
The blazing fire once again bloomed under the night sky. This time it was not the military camp, but the food trucks! The Han people in charge of transportation did not need to be driven away, and they had long run away without any shadows. The remaining Huns were treated as key points as soon as they fought. When they could organize their troops, there was nowhere left.
When I saw the difficult to resist, I remembered the fleeing Xiongnu soldiers who were shot and killed by Zu Ti and Jin soldiers who were good at cavalry warfare. A ruthless flame instantly swallowed hundreds of wars!!
Zu Ti smiled knowingly as he watched the fire, raised his horse whip and led more than 200 cavalrymen to disappear under the night, and he didn't know where to go.
In the Hun camp under Dingxiang City, Liu Tong looked at the faint fire behind in shock and suspicion. Listening to the scout's constant reward, his face had already turned into pig's liver.
"Damn Jin people! They actually attacked my food and grass!!" Liu Tong's eyes were covered with blood, and his whole body was trembling with anger, and he wished he could capture Dingxiang City immediately.
But when the fire broke out, the entire army knew that without the support of money and food, who would fight to attack the city? Liu Tong gritted his teeth and said, leaving half of the troops to guard the camp, and the rest of the people came with me to see what happened!
"Brother, if we have enough troops, if we continue to kill at this moment, it will definitely make the Hun general unable to fly!" Zu Yue, who was hiding in the forest, looked at the Hun cavalry passing by at the distance and said hatefully.
Zu Ti nodded slightly and said, "Although the Huns are barbarians, their combat effectiveness is amazing. They have gained the advantage in the previous period and still have to lose their troops and generals. Tonight we have to miss this opportunity!"
The more than 200 Jin cavalry gathered here were a cavalry that was temporarily organized after obtaining the Huns' war horses. Most of them just know how to ride, but the fighting skills and cooperation between them were a mess. It is still difficult to suddenly attack the transport team. If you want to fight the experienced Huns' cavalry, especially the arduous task of assaulting the opponent's chief general, you should not think about it.
Zu Yue said indignantly: "The barbarians have repeatedly rushed in. My great Jin Dynasty are all passively beaten. Even if the brother can repel the Huns again and again, it will be useless and it will be difficult to save the overall situation!"
The rest of the people present also lamented that Hu Fen had already died, and the rest were Ma Long and Meng Guan, who were all defending everywhere without hearing any actions. Zu Ti continuously designed to retreat to the enemy to protect Dingxiang City was just a temporary solution. If you want to completely stop the Huns and destroy their might, you still need the main force of Jin to dispatch them.
Now that the Huns have no money and food, they will withdraw their troops in the next few days, but it is unknown whether the Huns army will come again next time. No matter how good Zu Ti's plan is, he will encounter the general who has the opportunity to stop and kill the opponent today, but because he is unable to catch his strength, he can only sigh and be unable to kill the enemy.
To have a good general, you must have enough combat power to exert the talents of the general.
Zu Ti tightened his horses, looked at the iron cavalry and followed another team of Xiongnu infantry soon after, and sighed slightly, "Although this Hun general was trapped, he was quite scheming. It is still unknown whether he could plot against this person next time. I believe that people from all over the country have understood the national situation, but it is just difficult to move for a while."
Hearing his brother's judgment, Zu Yue was silent for a while and also understood his brother's meaning. The Great Khan of the Huns Liu Yuan had the ability to successfully use the psychology of the Jin army and the mentality of the monarch and ministers of the Jin State in the court, leading the Jin State's nose in both military and political.
Since there is such an arrangement, it is believed that there must be people outside the Great Wall that have restrained the main forces of Jin State. Only in this way can the Huns' Grand Chanyu Liu Yuan concentrate on this journey, and frequently divide his troops and drive straight into the hinterland of Jin State without fear! If this is true, Liu Yuan's strategy may not be able to find an opponent in Hebei!
"Brother is very talented. If the court is willing to appoint it, he will definitely be the only one!" Zu Yue sighed sincerely. If you don't use talents like Zu Ti, it can be said that it is a loss for Jin State.
However, although Zu Ti was born in a wealthy family, he had just passed his twentieth year and had not yet become famous, so he could only contribute to the three-point land of Dingxiang for a while.
With a frown slightly, Zu Ti moved his heart and said, "Since this Hun general is scheming, he should search our traces everywhere after seeing the fire! Without further ado, it is best to escape quickly!"
There is no doubt that Zu Ti led more than 200 cavalry and Jin troops to escape into the mountains under the cover of night, waiting for the Huns outside Dingxiang City to retreat without fighting.
Half an hour later, the Hun general Liu Tong looked in the hills with a gloomy face, and looked into the distance and said thoughtfully: "The Jin people are only hundreds of cavalry, and they are not in a state of climate! If I had known that the other party was so difficult, I would have sent troops to protect the food route!!"
A deputy general said: "Do you want to continue to investigate the whereabouts of Jin cyclist?"
"No need, looking at the horse's hoof marks the cavalry team of the Jin people was just a hasty creation. Since there was the act of cutting off my food route, it was not only the case for using troops. I guess it was a team that had been formed by Zhao Ran's defeated army. Such a team did not dare to fight head-on, and would inevitably hide in the mountains. We were nervous and had no extra time to search these people. What the general wants now is how many opportunities to capture this city within two days!" Liu Tong felt aggrieved and planned to get up to apply for money and grain while taking the lead in siege.
As the sky was getting brighter, Liu Tong stood at the gate and was still thinking about the strategy of forcing the city, repeatedly thinking about his winning rate.
Thinking of the decisive decisiveness of the Jin general Huan Xuan in the city and the mysteriousness of the ancestor outside the city, Liu Tong, who had always been on the battlefield, felt a sense of fear. Even if he had a high opinion of his decisive battle with such an opponent, he would not have the absolute certainty to win!
This is almost unwilling to do outside the Great Wall...
After thinking for a while, Liu Tong finally sighed slightly. If he had more troops in his hands, he would have been likely to capture the city. However, the loss of Zhao Ran and hundreds of soldiers yesterday caused the morale of the army to plummet. Another fire at night lost food and grass. It can be said that the army had no intention of fighting and had the intention to leave.
What you can get by forcibly driving the soldiers and generals to fight is defeat, and only if you wait for the opportunity to start over. There is still a chance to avenge shame!
The Huns retreated slowly, and the infantry took the cavalry first and the cavalry were behind. Liu Tong was in good order and was very upset about this setback. If he had not been deliberately targeted Zhao Ran, with the power of the two, the unity of the army might not have been such a defeat.
But now everything has become empty. It was only then that I understood why the Great Shanyu Liu Yuan wanted to vigorously promote the unity of the coalition forces, and even used extreme means to control all forces! If the tribes outside the Great Wall could not cooperate sincerely, but instead suspected each other, I was afraid that the last hater would be drunk in this battle with Jin...
On the far hill, Zu Ti took more than 200 cavalry and looked at the retreating Xiongnu infantry and cavalry again, and everyone looked solemn. After a lucky victory, the command and dispatch shown by the other party was first-class even in the Jin army.
At Dingxiang City, Huan Xuan led the soldiers and civilians out of the city to welcome Zu Ti back, and twice designed to repel the Huns and keep the area safe. Most of the credit was Zu Ti's advice. No one denied this, but Zu Ti also said bluntly that this was Huan Xuan's bold use of his credit.
If Huan Xuan had not recommended himself to take charge of military power without selflessness, he would not be able to perform his skills even if he had no ability.
Chapter completed!