Chapter 396 Take the initiative to attack
In the sixth year of Zhongping, April was the season for grinding the seeds. The east and west Qiangs sounded the horns at the same time. Under Han Sui and Ma Teng, more than 100,000 Eastern Qiangs were heading west. Han Sui and Ma Teng were extremely cautious, fearing that Dong Hu would attack their two million cattle and sheep and supplies, and more than 100,000 people were divided into 100,000 teams, like a huge circular military formation occupying a hundred miles, slowly crushing towards Jincheng Pass...
The commander Langyan to stop after stop. In less than a day, Dong Chong, Dong Gu, Zhong Xiao Jieyi, who were still farming in Wuwei, all put down everything in his hands. Thirty thousand elite cavalry one by one and one by one, and thirty thousand cavalry entered the Jincheng Sect within ten days, but Han Sui and Ma Teng had just entered Didao.
"Report... Report..."
"Reporting to the lord, Han Sui's troops still did not make any changes, and the thieves did not act in separating troops from Lian County."
Dong Hu waved his hand, and the spy quitted his fists, but the generals were a little confused.
"Lord, why did the old boy Han Sui stop? Even if he needs rest, there is no need to rest for so long, right?"
Sun Niu was a little confused. Dong Hu stood in front of the rough map, frowned for a long time, and then stretched out again.
"hehe……"
"They just come and fight us, so let's go and fight them."
Sun Niu was excited and very happy.
"Lord wise! Our Hei Niu will take his brothers to block the door and starve them to death in Dido City!"
Dong Hu thought for a while...
"Bone, you will lead tens of thousands of cavalry to detour to Shouyang and Ji County, cutting off the retreat between Han Sui and Ma Teng."
"Shouyang City should be easily captured, but Ji County is Ma Teng's nest. There must be some soldiers and horses left in the city. It is easy to capture them. It is not advisable to attack and lose their troops. As long as we defeat Han Sui and Ma Teng's troops, each city will open the city gates and surrender."
Dong Gu stood up and held his fists solemnly.
"promise!"
Dong Hu looked at Sun Niu and said solemnly: "Hei Niu, lead the troops to Didao, but you have to be careful. There are countless gullies in Liangzhou, so you need to send more spies to investigate carefully. There is another thing you need to be careful. It is April, and it is the time when the water is rising in spring. You must check the water level every day. You are the commander of the infantry. You should know that the camp should not be stationed in the low-lying area of Linhe River, and you should not overturn the boat in the gutter!"
Sun Niu's expression was instantly solemn.
"promise!"
Dong Hu nodded silently. The water surface of the Yellow River is wide, so it is impossible to block the Yellow River. However, some parts of the Tao River are narrower. Although this is the time when the water rises faster, no one dares to say whether Han Sui and Ma Teng will block the river. After all, they have more than 100,000 people.
There are many water attacks and fire attacks in "Three Kingdoms". Dong Hu attaches great importance to this and repeatedly instructs Sun Niu to avoid capsizing in the gutter.
More than 100,000 people ran to Didao but stopped. Dong Hu guessed that the biggest possibility was that more than 100,000 people had a dispute, and had a large disagreement over the active attack. This dispute could easily occur among Liangzhou people, unless Han Sui and Ma Teng had absolute prestige.
The spy could not find out the specific information further, and could only guess. But what Dong Hu didn't know was that the fact was just as he thought. After running to his territory, the leaders of Longxi County actually entered the city and were unwilling to continue moving westward. Han Sui was so angry that Ma Teng and the others were about to chop off Zhang Xiao and Song Jianwei, but Didao City was blocked by 30,000 to 40,000 people, and even if it was attacked, it would be difficult to take it down in a short time.
What to do?
...
"asshole--"
Kuiba slammed the wine bottle on the ground, drew his sword and rushed out of the central army's tent. He was about to kill the damn Zhang Xiao and Song Jian before he could get out of the tent...
"Bang!"
Han Sui slapped the table heavily.
"General Kuiba, if you attack Didao today, we will die! Even if you retreat to Ji County immediately, your tribe members will chop off your and my heads due to dissatisfaction!"
“Huhu…huhu…”
He was breathing heavily, his eyes were angry and scarlet, and the palm of the big knife pressed against his waist was swollen...
"I just had 30,000 cowards, without them... I'll still chop up that damn wool kid!"
"snort!"
Kuiba was furious, and suddenly shook his arm and left the central army's tent. More than ten leaders and patriarchs of the clan were also leaving with him. The atmosphere in the hall was even more depressing and heavy...
"Now I can only fight to the death."
Han Sui suddenly spoke, Ma Teng raised his eyebrows and sighed softly.
"Ma is not worried about anything else, just because he is afraid that Zhang Xiao, Song Jian and others will suddenly come out from behind when our army is fighting Dong Hu. If General Han fights with all his might, there will be no one behind him..."
"Report...Report--"
A spy with a small flag on his back ran into the hall.
"Report to the general! The spy found that Dong Hu personally led 20,000 cavalry to attack our army, only fifty miles away from our army."
"What--"
Everyone was shocked, and dozens of people in the tent stood up with a loud bang, and Han Sui even came to the spy in three or two steps.
"Where did Dong Hu personally take 20,000 cavalry?”
"explain--"
The spy was startled by Han Sui's roar.
"Zhengdong...is Zhengdong."
Everyone was stunned, but Han Sui's face suddenly turned pale.
"Zhengdong? Are you sure it's Zhengdong?"
"Yes... it's Zhengdong."
"Go and invite Kuiba now! Go quickly!"
...
Han Sui was frightened that the Taoshui River Valley flowed north and south, and it was the easiest way to enter Didao along the river valley, but this did not mean that apart from the flat valley, the hills with ditches could not enter Didao, nor did it mean that the valleys and ravines could not directly enter the rear of Didao City, especially the mountain cavalry galloping horses.
The usual road to Liangzhou is to enter Shouyang County along the Weishui River Valley, enter Didao through Bird and Mouse Mountain, and then head north along Taoshui River Valley, and then turn to Jinchengsai. This road is a road that almost everyone must choose. The main reason is that people traveling to Liangzhou need more or less carriages to drag goods, and carriages need to walk on a flatter road. But this is the road for carriages to walk on, which does not mean that camel carriages or cavalry must also walk on such a road. In fact, as long as you bypass Longshan, camel carriages or horse teams, as long as you carry enough dry food, you can run wherever you want. Some ravines can block heavy carriages, but they cannot stop cattle, sheep and horse horses.
When the spy said "east" rather than "north", Han Sui was instinctively frightened and uneasy. Dong Hu led 20,000 cavalry to appear in the east, obviously to take a detour to block their retreat. The two armies had not yet fought but were about to attack the rear...
Han Sui, what did Ma Teng want to do? Dong Hu didn't know, Zhang Xiao and Song Jian led 30,000 people to hide in Didao City. Outside the city was surrounded by a hundred thousand troops. It looked like a guard under Didao City. No matter how powerful the scout camp was, it was impossible to detect what happened in Didao City. I just thought that Han Sui and Ma Teng wanted to fight an offensive and defensive battle with Dong Buyi under Didao City. This was extremely stupid for Dong Buyi's generals to take the initiative to let them attack.
Han Sui's spy was not wrong. Dong Hu did take 20,000 cavalry, but after reaching 50 miles east of Didao City, Dong Gu led 10,000 cavalry to attack Shouyang City in the south. After capturing Shouyang City, Han Sui was completely cut off. Ma Teng fled back to the road of Ji County. At the same time, he had to divide his troops to attack Ji County. Dong Hu personally led 10,000 troops to approach Taoshui Valley, occupied the loess high slopes east of Didao City, and threatened the entire Taoshui Valley from a high point.
Just when Han Sui and Ma Teng were about to take out 20,000 elite cavalry to fight Dong Hu, the spy heard another 40,000 infantry and cavalry led by Sun Niu appeared in the north and came over. Han Sui and Ma Teng were in a dilemma in an instant...
"At this time, we are fighting against the water, and our army has no way out. Dong Hu is good at raiding and is led by 20,000 cavalry. If he is determined to avoid war with our army, it will be difficult for our army to fight with him, but there are 20,000 infantry among the 40,000 soldiers and horses led by Sun Niu."
"Please fight at the end!"
Kuiba was full of hatred and needed bloody slaughter to avenge his tribe. Han Sui and Ma Teng whispered and finally agreed. As Kuiba said, Sun Niu's troops had 20,000 infantrymen, and the Taoshui Valley was only ten miles wide at most, which greatly limited the range of the detour. Both sides could only face the bulls, but there were still some places where they could set up ambush in advance and suddenly came out.
Liangzhou has countless gullies and ravines, and there are many places that can suddenly break out, but a battlefield suitable for 100,000 people is not easy to find. Han Sui and Ma Teng finally chose the battlefield fifty miles north of Didao, because this is the confluence of Guangtong River and Taoshui. Compared with other places, the terrain here is wider. At the same time, Ma Teng can take the lead in ambushing a soldier in the Guangtong River Valley.
Sun Niu was extremely cautious and sent out countless spies, fearing that Han Sui had set up an ambush behind him. There were 5,000 light cavalrymen who acted as spies alone. All the ditches along the way had to be investigated, and at least one must ensure that no one would suddenly come out within a radius of ten miles. However, his movements were extremely fast. Zhang Liao and Xu Huang were the pioneers and led ten thousand cavalry into the Taoshui Valley. Han Sui and Ma Teng hurriedly ordered the general Yan Xing and Pang De to lead 5,000 cavalry to meet them. Both sides were entangled and fought in the Taoshui Valley, which was only a few miles wide. They were both elites. One side was Dong Buyi Cong Hehuang Qiang, the other side was Yuezhi, and the other was the Huangzhong Yi Conghu composed of Lu Shuihu. Both sides were elite among the elites, and they were the same elite riders and shooting Hu cavalry.
The Taoshui Valley is too narrow to carry out large-scale entanglement and shooting, and cannot exert the flexibility and speed of stirrup blessings. Both sides use small-scale cavalry to fight back and forth. Although the scale is smaller, it only took two days of entanglement and fighting, but the loss of each other is shocking. In just two days, the loss of each other has been 20% lost.
Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Yan Xing, and Pang De fought several times and failed to decide the outcome. When Sun Niu led the large infantry troops to the preset battlefield, the single-handed battle between the two sides was over.
Zhang Liao and Xu Huang felt quite distressed about the broken soldiers in their hands, but Sun Niu was a little uneasy.
"How can we not die when we go to the battlefield? Huang Zhongyi, the Hu fighting power is not weak, and he can change his life one to one, so we have already won a game."
As he said that, Sun Niu patted both of them on the shoulders and kicked the horse to the remaining seven or eight thousand Qiang cavalry with a very serious expression.
"We are all from Liangzhou, so it's fine if we don't know anything else, but no one from Liangzhou doesn't know about Duan's affairs. Who were the 10,000 staging cavalry led by Duan Taiwei back then?"
Sun Niu pointed to countless camps inside and outside the index.
"No defeat in one hundred and eighty battles-"
"Why is Duan Taiwei defeated all of them-"
"It is based on ten thousand Huangzhong righteousness——"
"Ten thousand Qiang people who fought against Hu and ran away with their heads, but now--"
Chapter completed!