Mythical big man, champion soldier saint

Chapter 242 How Many Famous Generals Are There?

Behind Huo Qubing there were nearly five thousand troops, and they were the same troops that Li Gan and Yao Zhao joined forces to attack Luoqiang.

After Yao Zhao was ordered to return to Chang'an to report on his duties, this team was led by Li Gan and has been active in Xiguan.

Li Gan spent nearly ten months exploring Qilian Mountains step by step, found a passage, and completed the Tibetan soldiers as ordered.

Fortunately, a major cleaning of the surrounding Qiang villages had been carried out before, and there were no Qiang people's eyeliners nearby, otherwise it would be difficult to keep the whole process secret.

In the early hours of this morning, Huo Qubing came to the border to join Li Gan, and led Roshna and other envoys to advance quickly in the mountains.

The road was explored by Li Gan in advance, and plank roads were built at some cliffs that were not easy to travel, and it was barely passable.

The plank road is to drill holes on the cliffs and insert wood to build a passable road, also known as the Fudao, which began in the Warring States Period.

The Han army is very good at this.

In the past, there was the Marquis of Huaiyin's Mingxiu plank road to cover Chencang secretly, and the usual training program for the forbidden army also included the plank road crossing the cliff.

Roshna and the others realized that Huo Qubing was fully prepared when they saw the plank road, which was far beyond their expectations. Obviously, they had made arrangements for this battle very early.

After crossing the Qilian Mountains and coming to the other end, Roshna, Zhang Qian and the others saw nearly five thousand elites waiting here, ready to go.

Huo Qubing led the troops and immediately launched a surprise attack.

They fought out from the Qilian Mountains and swung their troops northward. They became surprise soldiers beyond everyone's expectations, and then rushed into the hinterland of the Western Huns from Yanzhi Mountain and Wushao Mountain.

This road is widened, and the sea is wide and you can swim casually.

Then marched northward in a straight line, took advantage of the trend to attack the Xiangpu tribe, and set fire to the camp.

Cruelty is synonymous with war. There is no need to show kindness to the enemy, otherwise it is cruel to oneself.

It was the morning when the sun was rising, and the third tribe I encountered along the way.

In the sound of Huo Qubing waving his hands and ordering, the rear army was like a wolf like a tiger, led by Li Gan, to kill the tribe in front.

The whole army took longbows and shot two rounds of long-range shots while galloping rapidly. The bowstring trembled and the arrows rained like rain.

Then when they reached a distance of [-] feet from the target, they changed to shooting with crossbow arrows, and finally fought at close quarters.

The Xiongnu tribe on the opposite side was not completely defenseless. Huo Qubing led his troops to kill them all the way. Not only did they run over a small group of Huns on the way, but they also overthrew two tribes, all of which were on fire.

During the raid, it was impossible to carry supplies, so the fire burned them all.

This third tribe is a medium-sized tribe with thousands of people. The Han army did not hide their hiding place, and they discovered it when they came riding.

The whole tribe immediately mobilized, sent out a signal for help, ignited cow and horse dung, and formed a wolf smoke that soared into the sky.

At the same time, on the outskirts of the tribe, wooden thorns were erected to resist horses.

When the radical gave an order, even the children and women over the age of seven or eight in the tribe picked up sharp spears made of wood, with fierce faces, and were about to smash the Han army to the death.

"The Han people came here and wanted to rob us of our cattle, sheep and horses. I will never agree to it! Let me fight these Han people to the death..."

The leader of a tribe in the tribe yelled loudly and was mobilizing the whole tribe to fight.

With a buzzing sound, before the leader of the tribe could finish his sentence, Li Gan opened his bow, shot two arrows in succession, and shot through his throat to death!
Li Gan inherited his father's archery skills and ranked among the top ten in the Han army.

The bow and crossbow attacks of the Han army during the approaching process have killed about a quarter of the Huns in the periphery.

Some of these Han army recruits from Habayashi and Hubenwei came to Xiguan with Yao Zhao two months ago, but they are all carefully selected troops.

Moreover, the nearly two months of battles and continuous fights have allowed this tribe to grow rapidly.

At this time, nearly [-] soldiers and horses rode straight to the Xiongnu tribe.

Huo Qubing was stationed a little further away, followed by a small group of soldiers, Roshna and other envoys, as well as Zhang Qian.

When the former army rushed into the formation, they used Li Gan as the front edge, forming a front arrow formation.

Li Gan yelled repeatedly during the charge, gathered the troops in the rear, and waved the gun in his hand in the air.

Phantoms shot out from the spear, like throwing spears, piercing through the air.

In the Xiongnu tribe, several people who looked like leaders were stabbed to death by Li Gan one after another, with blood splashing down.

During the charge, the team changed rapidly. The two corners of the back array accelerated first, leading, from the front arrow array to an upside-down triangle, and then the two rear teams began to close and gallop relative to each other.

The middle area where the queues are staggered is the Huns tribe.

The entire tribe was then merged by the team, covering them crosswise.

In the end, the cavalry formation of the Han army turned into a cross X shape.

Seen from a distance, the team closed like a pair of scissors, sandwiching and cutting the Huns tribe in the middle.

When the horse's hooves stepped over, everything was involved in the array and shattered.

This is the most lethal basic formation in the military formation, that is, the scissors formation, which is very fierce.

Because the army will swing the battle gun in their hands like lightning in the process of opening and closing, forming a stab.After the queue passed, as long as it was an enemy within the range, there would be at least one more bloody hole pierced by the war gun.

Sweeping back and forth twice, opening and closing the scissors, very few Huns survived, and there were corpses lying on the ground everywhere, bloody red.

It's so cruel... Roshna turned her head in the distance.

She also knows that there is no mercy in war, but she just doesn't want to witness the process with her own eyes.

Roshna turned her head to look at Huo Qubing, just in time to see his ice-cold eyes.

This night's experience made Roshna truly realize how powerful this hero who is not yet 20 years old but already famous all over the world is. His flexible use of troops has raised command operations to another level.

Seeing his process of marching and fighting, Roshna and others felt a feeling that was hard to express.

With the Huns taking the lead and occupying favorable terrain, Huo Qubing's dispatch of troops almost changed the situation on the battlefield of the Western Huns.

No one could have imagined that he would come across the Qilian Mountains and cut directly into the Yanzhi Mountain and Wushaoling area.

The food and grass of the Huns were threatened, and the situation was virtually dominated by Huo Qubing.

He seized the vital points of the Xiongnu's food and grass, and the entire Western Xiongnu's soldiers and horses were pried to stop it.

The battlefield situation has therefore undergone huge tilt and uncertainty.

Who wins and who loses depends on how Huo Qubing fights next.

All the art of war and methods of war are actually teaching soldiers how to find the enemy's weaknesses and avoid attacking the weak.

This is what soldiers mean by deceitful ways and tactics.

A military strategist cheats on the battlefield, whoever can trick the opponent around, and he has the advantage, with the minimum consumption, earning the maximum results, is the foundation of invincibility.

There are often brilliant strategists who win more with less, because they can concentrate their advantages, stir up the overall situation, and attack the enemy's weakness.

Confronting the attack head-on and rushing to kill, in fact, it was a failure.

Only when we meet on a narrow road, or when we attack by force, we must fight for courage.

What real military strategists compete for is the means of command and the wisdom of looking at the battlefield to see who can turn their hands around and tease the opponent in the palm of their hands.

Roshna's thoughts fluctuated, and she asked, "What is Huo Hou going to do next?"

"Take a few tricks with the Huns first."

Huo Qubing said indifferently: "I'll eat up these small Xiongnu kingdoms bit by bit, and I'll see if they come or not!"

Because the Western Xiongnu is adjacent to the Western Regions, it is similar to the situation in which there are many countries in the Western Regions. The tribes are also called small countries. This is a difference caused by geo-culture.

After Huo Qubing finished speaking, he made gestures, and his soldiers immediately issued an order to set fire to the camp, withdraw the troops, and prepare to rush to the next place.

After breaking a small Xiongnu country, the Han army quickly completed the flat push.

"We smashed several Hun tribes in a row, and the Huns are already alert. Wouldn't the flames of the burning camp reveal our position more quickly?" Zhang Qian said from the side.

"What about exposure?

Let them come and take the opportunity to mobilize the Western Huns to see what ambushes they have here. "Huo Qubing said calmly.

Zhang Qian is also familiar with military affairs, and he personally led soldiers in the official history, so he seems to have realized something after hearing the words.

Soon after, this small Hun country was ablaze and burning.

Under the leadership of Huo Qubing, the Han army rushed to the next Xiongnu tribe.

"Huohou seems to like raids very much, destroying the Huns tribe?"

Roshna was a little strange, the champion Hou was very obsessed with breaking the camp, and ran to the next one after one fight, as if he had rehearsed in advance.

"If I can't step on the joint venture, I'm afraid that future generations will scold me."

Everyone was puzzled and didn't understand what it meant.

Huo Qubing is actually referring to the history of the champion Hou, in the battle of Hexi, the process of breaking the enemy camp.

Historically, Champion Hou came out from the northwest corner of Longxi, passed through Lanzhou in later generations, passed Wuting against the current, and advanced westward along the grassland on the northern slope of Wushaoling.

Then it passes through the Chaopu Tribe, the Hunu River, and the Shiyang River.After that, he fought for six days and even defeated five small Xiongnu countries.

Its combat policy is to kill those who resist in the corner, and those who are willing to surrender to the Han can surrender without dying.

Doing so greatly disintegrated the Huns' will to fight.

Afterwards, Huo Qubing crossed Yanzhi Mountain, later known as Dahuang Mountain in Gansu Province, and continued to advance northwest, traveling hundreds of miles, and met Hunxie and Xiutu.

The two sides fought fiercely. Facing the superior strength of the opponent, the Han army still defeated the two coalition forces.

Make the opponent's remnant soldiers retreat and flee for their lives.

The Han army gained a lot in this campaign. Not only did they capture Prince Hunxie, Xiangguo, Duwei and other leaders, but they also beheaded nearly [-] people, winning the first victory on Qilian Mountain North Road.

However, Champion Hou also suffered heavy losses in this battle, and less than half of the more than ten thousand soldiers and horses remained after the battle.

These troops were no longer enough to continue advancing, so Huo Qubing led his troops back to the foot of Gaolan Mountain, south of today's Lanzhou, and encountered the joint sniping of King Zhelan and King Luhou of the Huns.

Huo Qubing commanded his subordinates, broke the two coalition forces again, greatly boosted the prestige of the Han army, and finally returned to the division victorious.

This is the whole process of the first battle of Hexi, with thousands of troops breaking through the enemy's two coalition forces' ready-to-prepare resistance, and defeating the enemy's five small countries, which officially kicked off the prelude to the name of the god of war.

The current situation has changed, and Huo Qubing has also adjusted, instead he came out of the Qilian Mountains, ran northward and horizontally into the hinterland of the Western Huns.

However, the strategic goals of the two generations of Huo Qubing are highly unified, and they both attack the enemy with the weak.

After entering the hinterland of the Xiongnu, the route of the Xiangpu tribe was broken first, and then overlapped again, which is surprisingly similar.

Huo Qubing is now going to show the great achievements of the Battle of Hexi in history first, and there must be such a thing as Six Days and Five Kingdoms.

The sun is like fire.

At noon after the Han army galloped away, a tribe under the command of the Western Huns rode to the burned tribe.

Everyone in this Xiongnu tribe rode tall horses, all members looked cold and solemn, and there was an invisible murderous aura as the team marched.

There were nearly ten thousand people in the team, and the leader was middle-aged, tall and thin, wearing a wolf fur robe, with sharp eyes, as if they would glow.

After he led his troops closer, he inspected the remaining traces of the battle underground, and a slight look of surprise slowly appeared in his eyes:

"The traces outside the tribe are almost all the hoofprints of the opponent riding in a straight line, entangled and killed, and there is no hoofprint of changing advances and retreats.

This shows that the tribe's resistance was completely crushed by the opponent, such an elite team. "

This person's eyesight is quite strong, and he can analyze the general situation of the battle just by looking at the hoof prints.

On the left side behind him, there was a thin Hun woman who sniffed the air and then looked at the horseshoe prints on the ground.

When Huo Qubing left, he did not use the marching strategy, and the hoofprints were obvious.

The woman sniffed the scent to make sure that the hoof prints were not intentionally left by the Han army to avoid chasing in the wrong direction.

After a while, the woman said: "King Zhelan, they are going west."

It turns out that this soldier and horse is the famous Zhelan cavalry of the Western Huns, a powerful army inherited by the Huns for a long time.

At this moment, the team was led by Prince Zhelan and chased westward.

In the afternoon after they left, two more teams of soldiers and horses came to the burned Hun tribe one after another.

One of them is the followers of King Hunxie.

The other team was headed by a young Hun in his twenties.

This Xiongnu young man is tall and thin, with raised eyebrows and sharp eyes, he is Judu's disciple and the parent and son of Da Shan Yu Yi Zhixie.

The three groups of people pursued one after another in the direction where the Han army disappeared.

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In the next two days, Chang'an received the battle reports from the Xiguan front line one after another.

"The [-] Chinese troops of the Imperial Army who left Chang'an accelerated their march and reached the northwest border."

"Champion Marquis led his troops into the Western Xiongnu. Within two days, he successively destroyed Xiangpu, Shovel Sacrifice, Xiaolan and other five Huns, and burned all the food and grass!"

"The Hunxie and Xiutu tribes of the Xiongnu combined more than [-] troops. The Zhelan tribe had [-] elite cavalry men, and the Shanyu's son Tongdanjian's troop had [-] men. Three groups of men and horses were chasing after Huohou and intercepting them."

"By yesterday afternoon, Huo Hou led his army to turn around to meet the enemy, and the target was the soldiers and horses of Xiutu's troops who were in hot pursuit.

At that time, the various ministries of the Xiongnu were encircling separately. They did not expect our army to be pursued by multiple routes, so they dared to fight back.

The two sides fought, and Huohou led the army to kill more than a thousand soldiers before the Huns from other tribes came up to encircle them.

Our army withdrew and left before the Huns surrounded them.

By the evening of yesterday, Huohou led the army frequently interspersed, and fought fiercely with the Huns' chasing troops from all walks of life, but they all escaped before the opponent's encirclement. "

Dong Xu, who was in charge of reading the battle news, was sweating on his forehead, and he could feel the turmoil and murderous intent on the grassland of the Western Huns at this moment.

Huo Qubing's orthodox soldiers moved thousands of miles away.

The situation of being chased by multiple Huns soldiers was deliberately created by him to test the reality of the Huns' arrangement.

Huo Qubing may have other strategic intentions, but no one knows yet.

In the study room, there were those who knew military affairs, such as the emperor and several generals, Dong Zhongshu was also half of them, and he could hear other smells from the battle news.

Huo Qubing fought these Xiongnu tribes one by one, and he was able to withdraw at any time during the process, which showed that he was firmly in control of the initiative.

However, one message after another came, which still made people feel that their hearts were constantly tightening.

In the encirclement of the enemy, as long as you are a little careless and get entangled, you will fall into a deadly battle.

If it were another person, he would never dare to be as unscrupulous as Huo Qubing.

In special operations, this is called going deep behind enemy lines.

Dong Xu swallowed his saliva, and said the last sentence: "Huo Hou sent back the last message this morning, saying that he has used the marching strategy to get rid of all the pursuers and start the next stage of the battle plan.

At present, Huo Hou's trace has disappeared again, and there has been no new news for several hours.

On the contrary, Zhang Jun, the prefect of Xiguan, sent a message saying that the army had left the pass and entered the battlefield. "

The emperor's face was filled with uncontrollable joy, and he looked at all the officials and said: "The champion marquis commanded troops to defeat the five kingdoms of the Xiongnu in two days. I want to know, who else can do it?

To imitate my oral order, to kill the champion Hou into the Western Huns, as if entering the land of no one, to inform the world, so as to boost the morale of our Han people.

Then issue an edict to the Xiongnu Shanyu Yizhixie, telling him that the generals under my command will destroy the Xiongnu.Let him bow his head to pay respects, otherwise his head will be beheaded the next day! "

"Wei!" Dong Xu bowed and agreed.

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Evening sunset.

On the Xiongnu grassland, a Han army suddenly rushed out of the mist, galloping rapidly from north to south.

The whole team was like a long knife drawn out of its sheath, full of murderous aura.

After the early raids, breaking camps, probing, and confrontation with the chasing soldiers, it's time for a real fight to deter all parties!
In front of Huo Qubing is the camp where the Xiutu and Hunxie tribes were jointly stationed before, a key position of great strategic significance.

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