Heirs of the Seven Swords of the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 465 The Beginning of the War
  Touman soon found out that he arranged to lure Li Mu's army to deviate from the original planned route.

He wasn't angry about it. This was to be expected. Even if he were to seduce Li Mu himself, it would be difficult for him to avoid being forced to go elsewhere.

The most important thing he has to do now is to send out all the scouts to find out the situation around Li Mu's current route and ensure that there are no ambushes... to be precise, there are no ambushes that are relatively close.

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On the other side, Li Mu's army was chasing other people's bait while using themselves as bait.

This time, Li Mu brought out nearly 20,000 troops, mainly chariot soldiers, with a total of more than 800 chariots. The rest were shield-bearing infantry and archers, and he did not bring any cavalry.

During this period, chariot soldiers have actually begun to gradually withdraw from the ranks of mainstream arms. Countries in the Central Plains are paying more attention to cavalry with better adaptability and more flexibility. Of course, chariots are still very useful when fighting in some plain areas. Yes, it just costs money.

Li Mu brought so many chariots in order to block Touman's way. There is a saying that the effect of using chariots to block the squishy horse archers of the Wolf tribe is really good.

The remaining shield infantry and archers were naturally there to fight a defensive battle. Li Mu had to use more than 10,000 people to withstand Touman's early offensive and delay it until the ambush... In fact, it should be said that reinforcements have arrived, and the ambush will not leave. so far away.

For Touman, if he failed to swallow Li Mu in time in this battle, he would be completely defeated and would have to lose at least half of his troops to break out. The benefits were high but the risks were also high.

The same is true for Li Mu. If he is slightly careless and fails to withstand Touman's attack, he will be dead. Moreover, even if he withstands the attack, if Touman evacuates too early, the external reinforcements will not be able to complete a tight encirclement. , all previous efforts will be wasted.

The boring chase scene didn't last long before he arrived at the ambush site planned by Li Mu. He stopped playing with the bait wolf army and directly began to press forward with all his strength, hoping to eliminate the opponent as soon as possible and welcome... the real of enemies.

The commander's flag of the Chinese army was on the chariot that Li Mu was riding in. Next to him, there was another chariot. The people standing on it were not soldiers, but the two Gu Xunyan Lingji in fluttering clothes.

Gu Xun put on a black swordsman's robe that was slightly closer to the body, with an erhu hanging around his waist as always, while Yan Lingji put on a flame-colored battle skirt that she had not worn for a long time.

"This formation...even though I have seen it once before, I still find it very spectacular when I see it again." Yan Lingji couldn't help but sigh as she looked at the scene of tens of thousands of people fighting in front of her.

The last time she was talking about was actually the time when Lao Ai rebelled. She couldn't hold back her curiosity and went to the front line to observe the melee of tens of thousands of people at close range - the sea of ​​people connected to the sky and the earth seemed to be endless. , all the people could see at a glance were heads, shouts of killing rising from the sky, and the scene of blood and flesh flying everywhere, like a huge stone mill, constantly crushing all the materials put into it, harvesting human lives ruthlessly and coldly.

Now she saw this scene again, and it was even more cruel than the last time, because the wolves were more ferocious than the rebels under Lao Ai's command, and the Northland border army was more ferocious than the Xianyang garrison under Xiong Qi's command. The pawn is more ruthless.

Relying on his extraordinary hearing, Gu Xun was able to barely hear her voice through the loud sounds of fighting, and he said smoothly, "Once there are more than ten thousand people, there are no boundaries, and it looks naturally vast."

"By the way, when you were working under Tianze, you should not have seen such scenes of large armies fighting at all, right?"

Gu Xun's voice clearly broke through all the noise and penetrated into Yan Lingji's ears accurately. After hearing this, she gave Gu Xun an annoyed look:
  "How strong do you think the Kingdom of Baiyue is? What's more, we were rebels back then, so we didn't have that many troops!"    "And I rarely join the army in battles. I only carry out assassination missions."

Gu Xun grinned, accepted this statement, and then jumped to Li Mu's chariot.

"General, when will Touman come?"

As Gu Xun came to the chariot, the noisy and deafening sound suddenly disappeared, as if it was blocked by an invisible soundproof cover, and Li Mu naturally heard Gu Xun's words.

Li Mu was a little surprised because his voice was suddenly cut off, but he soon realized that it was Gu Xun who did it. There was a trace of curiosity in his eyes, but he quickly put it away. He was very powerful and knew some weird magic tricks. Very normal.

"Touman's camp is not too far away from here. With the speed of the wolf cavalry, I'm afraid they will arrive in less than an hour and three quarters."

"Hmm... To be honest, General, according to the ambush position you arranged, even if Touman and the others come, it will be difficult to complete the encirclement before he evacuates?" Gu Xun was wondering about this issue after knowing the details of the plan.

Li Mu did not have enough troops to hold Touman down, and the ambush was deployed too far away. Once he saw that the situation was not good and wanted to run away, there was almost no possibility of stopping him.

Of course, Gu Xun would definitely not let Touman run away, but at least half of the nearly 100,000 wolf army could run away, which would greatly reduce the results of the battle!
  "Mr. Gu is right." Under the heavy helmet, Li Mu nodded slightly, "But I will hold him back."

"You don't have enough manpower, how can you delay and continue to use your life to lure him?" Gu Xun asked in confusion, "Even if he wants to kill you again, he will definitely take care of his own life first?"

"Haha, Mr. Gu, you don't have much confidence in me." Li Mu smiled heartily, his voice a little older but still heroic, "I have been a soldier all my life, guarding Northern Xinjiang for decades, and I am known as the God of Military... Don’t you think I can’t hold off Touman because I only have 20,000 people?”

"Don't worry, it's just the beginning now. As long as Touman steps into this situation, he must die." Li Mu looked at the wolf army that was gradually and completely eaten up by his own army, and half answered, half murmured.

For Li Mu, who is known as the God of Military Formation, of course he has a way to hold Touman down with his 20,000 men, but he just needs to pay a price... Of these 20,000 men, I'm afraid there won't be much left. He will also be put into the most dangerous situation, but there is no such thing as safety when fighting on the battlefield, even if he is the undefeated military god known to the world.

Gu Xun didn't understand military tactics, but using 20,000 infantrymen to hold back 70,000 to 80,000 cavalrymen... After a little thought, he knew the danger involved. Gu Xun thought about it and decided...

"No matter what the situation, Gu can protect the general, so... you might as well be more aggressive in your battle."

That's right, he decided to add fuel to the fire and ask Li Mu to increase his efforts. Anyway, Li Mu is the core as the commander of the first army. If he doesn't die, the battle will continue. As for the casualties of the other northern border troops... the earthen jar will never leave the well. Some sacrifices were necessary to defeat the wolves. As the northern border troops fighting against the wolves, they were already prepared.

After all...kindness cannot control soldiers!
  　Don't worry about the war, it's just nonsense. In fact, no one can stop the Huns cavalry in this situation unless the other party takes the initiative to kill them.

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)