Chapter 260 True or False
The powerful combat power of the Hu Ben Army shocked Hu Chuquan. However, Hu Chuquan was far more shocked. In the other direction, the Longxiang Army had already broken through the outer defense of the Hun cavalry under the leadership of Lu Bu and killed the Huns formation. Facing the 70,000 Huns army, the Longxiang Army, which had only 3,000 people, under the leadership of Lu Bu, launched a charge towards the Hun cavalry without hesitation. They wanted to break through the layers of defense of the Hun cavalry in the shortest time and join forces with Ma Chao's troops surrounded by the core!
Lu Bu's Fangtian Painted Ridge is like a trumpet of life. Every time he waves it, it will take away the lives of at least two Hun cavalry. Behind him, the three thousand Longxiong Army, the dragon horn guns in his hands crisscrossed, echoing each other to exert the power of the nine-style Longxiong Styles to the limit. In the shadows of the guns, the Huns could not tell how many long spears they were facing, and they were often confused and were already stabbed by the Longxiong Army.
The three thousand brave Longxiang Army broke through three blockade lines in a row, completed the drilling of the Hun cavalry, and came to the core, joining forces with Ma Chao's troops. The performance of the Longxiang Army not only made the Huns stunned, but also the new recruits who were the Han army were also stunned. On weekdays, they always heard about the four elite troops such as the Blood Killing Army. The rumors about these four elite troops can be described as heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals. Therefore, many new recruits were filled with this question: Are those four elite troops really that powerful? Some arrogant new recruits even believed that those rumors were just exaggerated by the facts. In fact, the four elite troops were not as powerful as the legend.
Until today, the Hu Ben Army angrily killed five thousand Xiong cavalry in the blink of an eye, completely violating the principle of cavalry defeating infantry; and the Longxiang Army completed the drilling of tens of thousands of Xiong cavalry with three thousand people. There were countless bodies of Huns left behind them. They used their own performance to justify the title of their elite troops. They told the Huns with their actions, and also told the suspicious Han army recruits: Look. What is the real elite Han army!
After Lu Bu's Longxiang Army and Ma Chao converged, Taishi Ci also led the Hu Ben Army to speed up and rubbed the ribs of the Huchuquan battle formation. Five thousand Hu Ben rushed and slashed all the way, killing thousands of Huns, and successfully joined Lu Bu and Ma Chao. At the beginning, Zhuge Liang only stipulated that the three of them could rush for half an hour. With the three of them converged, half an hour was almost here. After the three of them launched two charges against the Huns, they began to retreat.
During the retreat, the recruits were at the forefront. This position was the safest. The three thousand Dragon Xiang Army was divided into two, with wings on both sides of the recruits. The five thousand Hu Ben returned to Ma Chao's command, and arranged a strict wheel formation. At the end of the team, the strength of Ma Chao and the Hu Ben Army was a strong shock to the Huns. After thinking about it again and again, Hu Chuquan gave up the pursuit. One was already a little scared by the Han army, and the other was also afraid that the Han army would have ambushed again. After all, after half an hour of fighting, the Han army camp dozens of miles away could calmly send another reinforcement.
In just half an hour of fierce fighting, Hu Chuquan saw the strong side of the Han army. Fortunately, the elite Han army was only part of it, not all. Judging by the proportion of the number of people in this battle, every 10,000 ordinary Han army would be matched with the corresponding eight thousand elite soldiers. In this case, among the 60,000 Han army that came this time, there were about 20,000 elite troops with strong combat power. This ratio was within the acceptable range of Hu Chuquan. If all the 60,000 Han army were elite soldiers like Long Xiang and Hu Ben, Hu Chuquan would not have to fight again in this battle, and he would just surrender.
After counting, the Han army left almost no corpses in this battle, only a few more than a thousand people. Among these more than a thousand corpses, the elite troops wearing the Iron and Light Armor were rare, less than one hundred. On the other hand, their own losses were as high as ten times that of the Han army. The results accumulated from the previous few small victories were simply a drop in the bucket compared to this war loss.
With a depressed mood, Hu Chuquan took his troops back to his camp. Through this confrontation, Hu Chuquan believed that he could see the strengths of the Han army. The Han army was not as strong as the rumors, because there were a large number of ordinary soldiers in the Han army, and their military qualities were much worse than those of the Huns who lived on horseback for many years; but they were by no means useless. The combat effectiveness of those few elite Han army was so strong that it was simply a level that humans could do. They were all brave men who were one hundred. After understanding the personnel configuration of the Han army, Hu Chuquan realized that with the strength of his tribe alone, he could only draw with the Han army at most, and it was impossible to achieve the final victory. If he insisted on fighting to the death, both sides would be injured.
But it is obvious that Hu Chuquan could not accept such an ending. Once his troops were killed, Yu Fuluo's plot to kill people with a knife would succeed. What else would he do to compete with Yu Fuluo? At that time, Yu Fuluo would kill him was easier than killing an ant. Yu Fuluo sent him to resist the Han army. Although he nominally valued him, Hu Chuquan understood that Yu Fuluo wanted to take the opportunity to eradicate his power and clear his threat. Originally, Hu Chuquan didn't want to come, but there was no way. The Right Xianwang stood firmly on the side of Fuluo. The combined forces of the two of them were not something that Hu Chuquan could compete. Hu Chuquan agreed to resist the Han army as a vanguard.
When he thought of Yu Fuluo and Qubei colluding with each other, Hu Chuquan felt so much hatred that his teeth hurt. Now that the strength of the Han army has also been seen, Hu Chuquan suddenly found that he was at the forefront of the storm. If he retreated, he would definitely give Yu Fuluo an excuse to conquer him, but his strength could not confront Yu Fuluoga. If he advanced, Hu Chuquan had no confidence in defeating the Han army. It was truly a real dilemma. No matter how he chose, he might lead to his indignation. Hu Chuquan had already begun to regret why he agreed to lead his troops to resist the Han army.
Just when Hu Chuquan was in a dilemma, the horse explorer sent a shocking news: the entire Han army retreated. Hu Chuquan was stunned, then furious, pointed at the nose of the horse explorer and cursed: "What is the reason for our army's defeat just now? Wasn't it just misled by the Han army's vanguard troops and ambushed the Han army? What kind of retreat? It's just a cover! It's a cover to induce our army to pursue! It's enough to trip over a stone once, and you'll be tripped a second and third time? Be more brainy in the future, don't bother me if you have anything to do, and disappear in front of me before I decide to kill you!"
The snoop was scolded by Hu Chuquan. He ran away in a panic and fled in a panic. He never dared to mention the retreat of the Han army. Unexpectedly, three days later, Hu Chuquan sent someone to call him to the tent and scolded him again: "How did you find out the news? The Han army has been withdrawn for three days, but you didn't hear any news? Are you blind or deaf? How could the retreat of the 60,000 Han army have no movement? What's the use of this king to keep you? Come and pull it out and kill it!"
After killing the poor explorer, Hu Chuquan personally led the army to the camp where the Han army had once stationed for investigation. In the camp left by the Han army, Hu Chuquan's subordinates could not find a grain of food, and even found many stoves for making fires and cooking. Instead, some iron weapons were found, and there were quite a few. Although some of them were a little damaged, many of them could still be used after repair. This batch of weapons was about 5,000, and more than 5,000 pairs of ordinary Han army's iron armor were also turned out from various camps. A small part of them were brand new, and it was obviously just distributed to the Han army for use.
Hu Chuquan walked around the Han army camp and carefully surveyed every inch of the land in the camp. He found that in the land in the camp, except for the places where there were stoves, there were obviously few footprints in other places, and there were no traces left by the daily training of the Han army. Hu Chuquan frowned and came to the large tent of the Han army's central army, which was once where Ao Lie presided over the military.
Sitting where Ao Lie sat, Hu Chuquan ordered people to take some of the weapons and armor left by the Han army and observe them carefully. Through the signs, Hu Chuquan inferred that the Han army should have indeed retreated, and the reason for retreating was that the Han army was not well-fed and could not maintain the daily life of the army. The remaining weapons and armor were the best proof that these equipment should be distributed to new recruits in the Han army with weak combat power, but the new recruits were finally recruits. In the case of insufficient food and grass, and worried about the death of the battlefield, they began to flee. The number of people who fled should be about 5,000, which coincided with the remaining five thousand weapons and five thousand pairs of iron armor.
In addition, the scarcity of footprints in the Han army camp is another proof of the lack of food in the Han army. Because of insufficient food, the Han army was lazy to walk around in order to maintain physical strength. Even routine daily training was exempted, so that Huchuquan could not find traces of Han army training in the camp. At the same time, the number of stoves also indirectly reflects that the Han army did not have enough food to cook into food.
All of this proves that the Han army was indeed forced to withdraw due to shortage of food. However, Hu Chuquan, who was killed by the Han army, was no longer willing to trust his eyes easily, and said to himself in confusion: "Is it true? Or fake?"
Before he knew it, Hu Chuquan had completely fallen into Zhuge Liang's thinking induction. He walked on in confusion according to the path that Zhuge Liang had paved for him in advance.
Chapter completed!