Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 465 Raising soldiers for a thousand days should be a miracle

Dong Ting fell.

The Han army disguised themselves as Huns and occupied Dongting.

All the way down from the southwest of Dong Ting, stretching for hundreds of miles, is Xu Huang's defense line of more than a hundred miles.

At this time, the Cao army was still fighting the Han army everywhere, and the scene fell into anxiety.

Wu Dang led [-] Han troops, and just after taking down Dong Ting, he held a meeting in Dong Ting to discuss the next move.

Deng Ai volunteered to be an investigator, pretending to be a Hun and went to Sangquan to check the situation.

They waited for nearly half an hour and hadn't returned to Deng Ai. While they were wondering, two scouts came back and reported to Wu Dang: "Report, General Yingyang learned from an old man that Cao Jun's grain and grass were in Yucheng, so he went to raid Yucheng." gone."

"Bullshit!"

Wu Dang angrily threw the writing brush in his hand on the table, and angrily said: "What's the matter with Deng Ai? Believe what others say, and the truth is false on the battlefield. If the news is false, wouldn't it be ruined?"

Wu Tao also frowned and said, "Shi Zai is indeed impulsive."

"It's more than impulsive!"

Wu Dang said angrily: "It's simply lawless, according to the law, it should be beheaded!"

"It's not that serious."

Shan Yi quickly said: "Maybe Shi Zai just went to investigate?"

"Investigation?"

Wu Dang was still angry, and said angrily: "Didn't you hear? He went to make a surprise attack, how could he act like this without authorization?"

"Senior Brother, don't be angry, Shizai has already passed, since it is irreversible, let's think about what we should do now? Should we go southwest to attack Cao's army, or go south to take Sangquan?"

Huo Yang persuaded.

What should I do next?
Wu Dang hesitated for a moment, looking at Jiang Wei.

Among the six, Jiang Wei and Deng Aigui had the most ideas. Before Shijun left, he had asked him to listen to their opinions more.

Now that Deng Ai suddenly left the team and went to Yucheng, he could only listen to Jiang Wei's thoughts.

Jiang Weisi said: "Senior Brother Shi Zai dared to go, so he is sure. But he only brought a few hundred scouts to go, which is indeed a bit dangerous. Brother, in my opinion, it is better for us to divide into two groups, and you can defeat Cao Jun all the way." , I will go all the way south to stop Cao Jun's retreat, and I will rush to help Shixiong brother by the way."

Is the army divided into two groups?
Wu Dang thought for a while, and finally he could only nod his head and said, "Okay, then do this."

At present, the five men divided the troops, and Jiang Wei led the cavalry formed by more than 1000 horses snatched from the Huns to go south to Sangquan. Wu Dang and the others went southwest to take the main force of Cao's army.

Fortunately, there are many Liangzhou Qiangdi in the Han army now, all of them are good at riding horses, and it is easy to form cavalry, so they soon split up.

Deng Ai galloped on his horse, looking at the plain in the distance.

The plain stretches as far as the eye can see, and there are Han people and Hu people living on the land of Hedong everywhere.

Their hundreds of Huns did not attract much attention.

Because Hu and Han lived together on the boundary of Hedong, around 217 AD, Cao Cao divided Bingzhou Xiongnu into five tribes, and appointed the noble one as the commander of the tribe, and don't let the Han people be Sima to supervise them.

Among them, the left part is Juzishi County (Fenyang), the central part is Daling County (Wenshui County), the right part is Qi County (Qi County), the south is Puzi County (Xi County), and the north is Xinxing County (Xin County). ), still headed by Qubei stationed in Pingyang, the fifth department.

Later, Cao Wei Xing sent troops to attack Xiliang, and ordered the Xiongnu Chanyu Huchuquan and Zuoxian King Liubao to send troops to assist them. After being repelled, some Huns, Qiangdi and Han people moved to live in Hedong to graze and serve as army horses.

So let alone the Huns, it is not surprising that there are Qiang and Di people here, especially in such a war, Cao Jun will also order the Huns and Qiang and Di people to send soldiers to assist.

The only trouble is that occasionally you will see other Huns and Qiangdi troops rushing westward to the front line. The other party stared at the hair and left by himself.

This group of people looked fierce and murderous, and they were not easy to provoke at first glance. Although they were going in the opposite direction, the Huns and Qiangdi people were not stupid, so they naturally knew what to provoke and what not to provoke.

Soon they arrived in Yucheng almost all the way unimpeded.

Jiucheng is a small city, also known as Jiushuai, which was first built in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Jin Dynasty.In the Han Dynasty, it was not a county seat, but could only be counted as a township, pavilion, and townhouse. It was only because there were some ancient city walls that they were used as a city.

At present, there are still more than 1000 Cao troops in the city. It is better to say that it is a stockade than a city. There are some ancient walls outside the city, and some military facilities are scattered around it.

Hundreds of Huns suddenly appeared on the road. Cao Jun on the high oar in the distance just glanced at them, and then went about their own things without vigilance.

This morning Shen Chen's army approached Puban, Xu Huang immediately mobilized the cavalry of the Xiongnu and Qiangdi tribes to help out, and at the same time sent people to the rear to escort a batch of supplies to the front line.

So Yucheng also knew at this time that the enemy was coming to fight again.

Moreover, Xu Huang also sent someone to tell this side before that the Huns might come to ask for horse feed, so they said hello in advance.

The grain and grass of the Huns were also provided by Cao Jun, and the Huns had come to ask for food before, so when Cao Jun saw hundreds of cavalry in Hun costumes, he thought it was the frontline Huns who came to ask for grain.

"These Hun cavalry are not very good at fighting, and they eat more than anyone else."

A Cao Jun complained.

Another old Cao Jun shook his head and said: "The main reason is that horses use a lot of feed. It is not a trivial matter to raise war horses. You have to feed them with beans."

"The damn Han army hasn't fought for more than a year, so why did they have to come?"

That Cao Jun cursed.

"There's nothing to scold. Fight wars. I hate the Huns more than the Han army."

Old Cao Jun glanced at the Huns in the distance.

Although the Huns were defeated by Cao Cao, they have been dishonest in recent years, not to mention that the blood feud between the Han people and the Huns cannot be resolved in a day or two.

For the Hu people outside the Great Wall, the Han people have a natural hostility.

It's a pity that the imperial court lost consecutive battles in the south and Huainan, which made the western front very passive. They had to recruit the Huns to help them join the war.

Otherwise, what kind of thing is it that Wei's army provided food and grass to the Huns.

Soon the Huns approached the outside of Jiucheng, and Cao Jun outside went up to stop them. The Cao Jun who complained before scolded: "Stop, password!"

Although he guessed that the other party was here to get food and grass, he still had to ask.

However, Cao Jun soon realized that something was wrong. Although the Huns who came were wearing Huns' costumes, their hair was loose like that of the Huns, which slightly covered their faces.

However, the exposed skin is not like the flushed or bronzed skin that has been exposed to the wind and sun for many years in the desert, but the serious yellow skin of the Han people.

He was puzzled for a moment, wondering.

Deng Ai showed a ferocious smile on his face, and in the astonished eyes of the Cao soldier, he suddenly drew his knife and slashed down!
"Pfft!"

Blood splattered and heads flew high.

This shocking change immediately shocked Cao Jun who was standing guard outside, and shouted one after another.

"The Huns rebelled."

"Come on someone."

"Blow the whistle, blow the whistle."

All kinds of messy sounds resounded outside the camp.

Deng Ai didn't care about this, he raised the knife in his hand and killed another person, roaring: "Kill!"

"kill!"

Hundreds of Han cavalry roared and mobilized their horses to charge.

The gate of the camp was too late to close, and they rushed forward.

It happened that the soldiers of Cao Jun who were guarding in the camp ran out one after another when they heard the movement.

He ran into the Han cavalry head-on.

An officer of Cao Jun was quite calm, shouted and organized soldiers to immediately form a formation to intercept them, and at the same time ordered people to close the gate of the village.

Deng Aile turned his horse and summoned a few personal guards, and rushed directly towards the officer.

A moment later, the man was beheaded by himself, and the formation that had just been organized was also overwhelmed by the rest of the Han army.

For a moment, the entire camp was in chaos.

There were the sounds of houses collapsing, all kinds of screaming and wailing, and even cries of surrender and flight.

In the chaos, no one knew who lit the fire. The camp was full of flames, and the sounds of killing were fierce.

All of a sudden, there was a cry of ghosts and wolves at the gate of the village, "The camp is broken!"

The Han army came in?

This is a thought in the minds of all the soldiers of Cao Jun in Yucheng.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Jun's soldiers had no intention of resisting, and turned their heads and ran to another camp gate to the east.

In an instant, the flames burst into the sky.

However, it didn't take long for Cao Jun, who had just run out of Jiucheng, to be stopped by the generals defending the city.

After beheading several fleeing soldiers, the general organized a team of hundreds of people, entered through the east gate again, and launched a counterattack against the Han army.

There are millions of stones, grain and grass stored in Jiucheng. If it is burned, the general will die, so he can only choose to go back and fight for his life.

The two sides engaged in a desperate battle in the camp. On the chaotic battlefield, no one noticed that at this time, more than 1000 war horses were slowly approaching on the official road to the west of Jiucheng.

The people who came were a group of authentic Huns cavalry.

Because he was temporarily recruited by Xu Huang to join the war, the leader of the Xiongnu tribe living in Hedong called five or six thousand cavalry to assist.

But in order to preserve horsepower during wartime, horses should not only eat grass, but soybeans.

Therefore, Xu Huang also gave a warrant before, asking the logistics side to prepare some soybeans for the Xiongnu tribe as horse feed, and people from the Xiongnu tribe will come to pick them up today.

Deng Ai was dressed in the Huns' costumes, and he made a mistake, which made Cao Jun relax his vigilance.

When the Huns in the distance arrived at Jiucheng, they saw thick smoke billowing in the city from a distance, and were surprised for a moment.

Then the Huns quickly approached the city. When they passed by, they happened to meet several Cao Jun who had escaped. Cao Jun saw them scared out of their wits and wanted to run away.

The commander chased after him and said in Chinese: "What happened in front?"

"Who are you?"

Cao Jun asked back.

The commander said: "We are King Youguli under the command of King Zuo Xian. We have been ordered to come here to fetch food and grass. General Xu has already said that this is a warrant."

As he spoke, he took out a piece of paper with Xu Huang's seal of the right general stamped on it.

Due to the widespread appearance of paper, the upper echelons of Cao Wei no longer use bamboo slips for document communication, but use paper uniformly, which is much more convenient than bamboo slips.

Seeing that these people were real Huns, the soldiers of Cao Jun pointed to Yucheng with great joy and said, "A group of Han soldiers pretending to be Huns has come to kill them. Please go over and defeat them immediately. The court will definitely reward you."

The commander asked cautiously, "How many of them are there?"

"Only a few hundred?"

Hundreds?

Hearing that there were not many people on the other side, the chief commander said happily, "Okay."

As he spoke, he picked up the scimitar in his hand, howled like a wild wolf, and shouted to the Huns behind him in Hun dialect: "My sons, the opportunity to make contributions has come, follow me to kill!"

"kill!"

The Huns let out a terrifying roar, and the cavalry swarmed towards Jiucheng.

Since Deng Ai is the commander of the first army, he is not a reckless man. When he broke through the gate of the camp, he had left more than ten people guarding the camp to prevent the back road from being cut off.

At this moment, I saw a group of Huns yelling and galloping over on their horses, and the soldiers of the Han army outside the camp rushed in to report the situation to Deng Ai.

"die!"

Deng Ai is waving the ring head knife in his hand, his face is covered with blood, and he is fighting fiercely with Cao Jun.

Millions of stones, grains, and grass alone could not ignite all the flames immediately because of their hundreds of people, and so far they only ignited a piece of granary near the west gate.

After Cao Jun was first repulsed, he quickly organized a resistance. For this reason, Deng Ai had to fall into a bitter fight and entanglement with them.

He fought hard and finally defeated Cao Jun again. Suddenly someone shouted from behind: "General, the enemy's reinforcements are here."

"How many people came?"

Deng Ai panted heavily and turned around to ask.

The scout replied: "Nearly a thousand people are all Huns."

"Follow me out!"

Deng Ai said without hesitation.

This group of uninvited guests clearly disrupted his rhythm.

If it weren't for this group of Huns, he had just repelled Cao's army now, and he only needed to continue to set fire to burn all Cao's food and grass.

But leaving like this is definitely not enough.

The fire had just started not long ago, if they left, Cao Jun and the Huns would quickly control the fire, and the battle would be in vain.

So he could only force the soldiers to gather and fight the Huns outside.

Soon the Han soldiers who had just experienced life-and-death fighting gathered at Deng Ai's position one after another. After an order was given, the soldiers wiped their blood and sweat one after another and came to the gate of the camp.

There was still a big fire burning behind them, and the hot waves forced them to stay away from the flames. After they came out of the camp, they saw billows of dust and smoke.

Thousands of Huns are already less than a hundred steps away from them.

At this time, the Han army was exhausted, and the opponent's number was nearly three times that of their own, which made everyone of the Han army cavalry look dignified.

After the Huns approached, they reined in their horses and stopped, and looked at the Han army from a distance.

Immediately, the commander of the Huns shouted a few words, and immediately the thousands of Huns stopped their offensive momentum, and the left and right wings separated, showing a tendency to encircle the entrance of the camp.

If you charge directly, let's not say that light cavalry are not good at charging, just say that the road is narrow. Directly charging will obviously only cause the soldiers in front to fight, and the soldiers behind cannot come up. Instead, it becomes a refueling tactic.

Therefore, the Hun commander obviously had some tactical qualities, and chose to outflank the left and right sides and attack from three sides, so that the Han army would be beaten passively and fell into a disadvantage.

Deng Ai didn't see this.

He frowned tightly, clenched the steel knife in his hand, and shouted in a deafening voice: "Raise soldiers for a thousand days, make great achievements, make generals and worship princes, and today, soldiers, follow me to kill! "

"kill!"

The Han army roared, and then galloped their horses, launching a reverse charge against the Huns who were three times their size.

If you wait for the enemy's encirclement to form, you will surely die.

So it's better to fight to the death.

Before the enemy's encirclement circle is formed, make a surprise attack first, so that there is a possibility of turning defeat into victory.

Thousands of horseshoes trampled out thunder, and dust and smoke rose in all directions, swirling the wind and thunder.

The Huns obviously didn't expect the Han army to be so brave and fearless, their charging momentum was stopped, and it was difficult to exert their charging power.

The Han army pierced like a sharp arrow, and the enemy and our soldiers in the front row were turned on their backs in an instant, and a large number of them fell down.

The two sides fought together, and soon the sound of killing and screaming spread all over the battlefield.

(End of this chapter)