Amazing, report to Chang An
"It's Huangkouyi!"
Xu Jia responded: "We left the frontier fortress last night, and the champion urged us to march. We were all swept up by a force of energy, and our horses' hooves were flying. When we arrived at Huangkouyi, the opponent was trying to divide his troops and wanted to attack from two directions.
Stop our Han army.
Huo Hou observed the troops from a distance and said that the enemy's aura was chaotic and their fighting spirit was not strong. As long as the enemy's three men were defeated, the enemy would be in chaos, so he ordered to charge into the formation."
Li Yanqing snorted imperceptibly.
This is very consistent with his impression of Huo Qubing. He has nothing to spare, he has always been fearless, and he will attack the enemy whenever he encounters it.
Zhang Jun nodded slightly: "Soldiers are good at observing qi, especially on the battlefield. There is even a special practice method for observing qi. It can judge the number of the opponent's soldiers based on the gathered aura of the enemy and our situation.
Relying on the smell in the air and the sweat stains on the bodies of men and horses, we can judge how long the opponent has been marching, whether they are tired or their morale is high, and whether they are suitable for attack."
"The prefect is right."
"The battle situation was as expected by the Marquis. We... no, it was the Imperial Army under the Marquis. They were like running tigers and defeated the opponent in one fell swoop."
"The Marquis seems to have used some kind of military technique to control the casualties for a period of time, and used Mulangtuo to attack the Huns general in a sneak attack.
Xu Jia said: "I don't know. Huo Hou only said that we should escort the princess and Bowang Hou to the northwest. He will wait halfway."
Huo Qubing released the formation diagram that he had obtained from the Military Mansion, sacrificed by the Half-Saint Wu Qi, and re-adjusted by himself.
Xu Jia frowned slightly: "Of course it's not just the Imperial Army."
The Xiongnu soldiers also fought all the way to the ancient Qiang tribe. They must have wanted to visit us to ask for guilt. They happened to bump into us and engaged the Marquis's soldiers and horses in battle.
"Two thousand Qiang people!"
Border town, study.
But if his opponent is many times his own, he will never rush in and fight.
As evening approached, the border gates were opened wide.
"The scouts said there are four."
The textures on the formation diagram flashed, the white tiger and Xuanwu transformed into the formation diagram, and the roar of the tigers was deafening.
"We went to the northwest and defeated four of them, all with lightning attacks. After the fourth one, the flames shot into the sky. The Marquis said that the Qiang people were supporting each other and they had destroyed four Qiang strongholds in a row, so the other side must have been alert.
But they couldn't understand the changes in the array, were separated by the array, and couldn't join forces. They had long been trapped in a situation where they were still fighting.
Is the difference in military strength really so huge?
To achieve this, you can't just rely on military talent. You need to be assisted by information such as the enemy's situation, strength and weakness.
"The Marquis provoked a confrontation between the two sides, and then we went to attack the ancient Qiang tribe's lair. The Marquis personally took action and beheaded Dian Zhen, the leader of the Ancient Qiang tribe.
That's why the two sides started fighting," Xu Jia explained.
At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Han Xin, the Marquis of Huaiyin, repeatedly defeated powerful enemies with weak troops.
"At that time, the Imperial Guards under the Marquis' command changed their formations while galloping, forming a sharp array, passing their power to the person at the front, and breaking out of the attack. The fighting power that broke out at that moment was something I have never seen in other teams.
This trip to Xiguan was a collaboration between Huo Qubing and Ru Bohu from the very beginning.
The Huns felt they were being ambushed and immediately retreated.
Then the two military symbols of White Tiger and Xuanwu, corresponding to the west and north directions respectively, were imprinted on the formation eyes of the formation diagram. The halo circulated, prompting the formation symbols of the military strategists to be spit out one after another.
Under the cover of the formation map, the eight hundred Han troops changed their formation and chipped away at their opponents bit by bit.
When the Han army thrust out their spears, they were able to imbue some of the white tigers and Xuanwu with their power attributes, which they used to deal with the Xiongnu tribes during offense and defense, and were indestructible to everything.
So after he defeats the chasing Huns, Xiguan will be stable for a period of time.
Li Yanqing breathed a sigh of relief: "I just said there shouldn't be more than a hundred forbidden troops. How can the Qiang people's combat effectiveness be so weak?"
Of course, even if Huo Qubing defeated the enemy camp, everyone would not be convinced.
"Then the Marquis led us to advance northwest. By daybreak, we had destroyed six Qiang camps, large and small."
Xu Jia's tone became more and more excited:
"At that time, the two opposing teams were only two to three hundred feet apart. However, the troops led by the Marquis defeated the enemy so quickly that they had no time to respond. The prefect and Bowang Hou may have imagined how fast the offensive was on the battlefield at that time."
Xu Jia finished explaining the whole process.
However, just by listening, it is not difficult to imagine the fierce life-and-death battle between the two sides at that moment. The competition was not only about combat power, but also about bravery without fear of death.
This is what the war was about. The Huns came to Kou Pass every year just to plunder these trophies.
This was hugely different from their previous judgments. Huo Qubing used his troops so skillfully and ferociously that he seemed to be able to seize the opportunity with just one quick word. He was able to defeat six Qiang camps in one night. What's more, he also used many tricks, so he was able to control everything.
The enemy controls the changes in the situation between the enemy and ourselves.
They all have similar methods to accurately judge the enemy and ourselves, attack the enemy's weakness, and become invincible.
"Yes, the Xiongnu stopped slaughtering the king's soldiers and horses. After fighting with the Qiang people, they also suffered some losses.
"In addition, Huo Hou said that the Xiongnu royal court's central army was defeated before, and the Xiongnu tribes in the east and west wanted to retain their strength and peek into the lush area of ​​the central royal court headquarters. At this time, they would never dare to send a large army to fight with our Han army.
Send thousands more people to harass.
Xu Jia is right.
Zhang Jun is still paying attention to the march map:
"Huo Hou drew a thick black line here, approaching the Qiang village in the northwest. He wanted me to send border troops to occupy these places. Huo Hou wants to expand the road to the Western Regions?"
"Even if the Qiang people wear Han army clothes, they will not identify themselves when they see the Huns. How can they take action and suffer heavy losses?" Zhang Jun had the same doubts as Xu Jia at that time.
Now that the leader is dead, the resistance to breaking the camp is not as great as expected."
Including predicting in advance that the Qiang people might set up ambushes at two locations, among which a red cross was marked at Huangkou Yi, indicating that Huangkou Yi was the most likely place.
Li Yanqing was speechless.
When Captain Zhao Ponu led his troops to fight out from the flank.
Xu Jia's description almost exactly matches the route outlined on the march map.
Livestock, cattle and sheep, money, medicinal materials, and the Qiang camp seemed to have been swept away.
I wonder if the ancient Qiang stronghold that was defeated and burned is considered evidence?"
These are Huo Hou’s original words.”
Before it was clear whether Huo Hou was real or not, the Xiongnu Chanyu personally went to persuade the Qiang people to send troops, but they did not dare to take action rashly again."
This is a true military calculation, predicting the enemy ahead.
"No, I saw Zhao Ponu, the captain of another Imperial Army group, showing up halfway.
In the border area between the northwest prairie and the loess land, the sun was shining brightly, and the Huns soldiers led by Jin Wu were at the end of their rope.
With the Marquis's military front and the fighting strength of his subordinates, the Huns should have been defeated by now!"
The spears and spears broke through the armor, and with every blow, a Qiang man was bound to die. When they met, hundreds of Qiang men fell from their horses."
For Zhang Jun, who understands military affairs, he felt astonished after seeing this marching map.
The Xiongnu general Jin Wu also tried to sacrifice a sheepskin scroll, which was a technique of the Xiongnu shaman, but was suppressed by the power of the formation diagram.
"Huo Hou is now leading people to hunt down the Huns cavalry?"
In the morning, too many were seized, so the Marquis asked me to come back, and he and Zhao Ponu's 600 elites, with a combined force of nearly 800 men, went to hunt down the Xiongnu team."
In later generations, during the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Li Jing used three thousand fine cavalry to attack the Turks and defeated the powerful Eastern Turks who once approached the city of Chang'an.
"I have not counted, but there are always tens of thousands of people who were beheaded directly. Those who were indirectly killed by us when we broke up the camp, and those who were tricked by the marquis into killing each other must be not less than the number of direct enemies killed, or even more.
"
It was already this morning when we returned from the Miao village.
Then they changed their direction and pushed southward, and also defeated the two Qiang villages in the south."
After Zhang Jun saw the march map, he already knew that he was limited to his own understanding of war. Without Huo Qubing's perspective of combat, he could not see the opportunity to win with less, let alone achieve such a casualty ratio in a confrontation.
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Bringing back the soul...
To be continued...