Chapter 258: The soldiers are divided into three paths
August 26, the first year of Emperor Qin II.
The sun gradually moved westward, and finally disappeared slowly at the end of the sky. Boundless darkness began to cover the entire earth, and the thin and crescent moon like a woman's willow eyebrows shed a faint moonlight.
Tonight, it seemed that even the countless stars in the vast sky knew that it would be a night full of killing and blood, and they all quietly disappeared in the high sky, not daring to peek.
Tonight was supposed to be a quiet autumn night, a night where thousands of wolves were hunting for prey. However, it was disturbed by the thunderous roar of horse hooves that seemed to reverberate throughout the prairie.
The border between Jiuyuan County and Yunzhong County in the Great Qin spans more than a hundred miles. Countless torches fall like stars in the sky, dotting the vast wilderness shrouded in endless darkness.
Within a radius of more than a hundred miles, all the wolves held their breaths and watched a group of people riding four-legged food holding torches and roaring past. The wolf's eyes glowing with blue light showed a fierce and fierce look.
The wolf light was mixed with helplessness and doubt.
Dark night is the best gift from God to the wolves. And the dark night on the prairie is the time for all the wolves to revel. But tonight, the two legs of the group holding the blazing torches that disgust and frighten the wolves
The creature rides on four legs and the food thing is disrupted.
Although they wanted to rush forward and tear these hateful guys apart, the blazing torches made all the wolves dare not act rashly. They could only crouch in the grass and angrily watch a bunch of food running wantonly.
Some of the unlucky wolf brothers showed their bodies and were shot by these torch-bearing food items with something that made a strange buzzing sound, which was the most hated food for the great wolf.
That kind of food has a very vivid name in the human world, hedgehog.
If the fifty thousand cavalry troops of the Nine Plains Army are like the stars falling from the sky to decorate the prairie, then Meng Tian's central army is like the Milky Way falling from the sky to the earth. It stretches across the prairie and stretches for countless times.
Ten miles.
If someone looks down from mid-air at this time, they will find that in addition to dozens of rapidly moving small galaxies in the dark wilderness, four much larger galaxies and a giant fire dragon are also moving forward quickly.
Moving.
Except for Meng Tian's huge fire dragon that stretched across the grassland, Xin Sheng's 50,000 Longxi Army formed a prism with three other groups of small stars. And this prism was still expanding rapidly.
The three most prominent points were moving towards the north, east and west respectively, and while moving, they had a tendency to flee towards the north at the same time. However, Xin Sheng's Longxi Army was only following the group at the front.
Dozens of other small fire dragons criss-crossed in the middle of the prismatic shape. Except for Xin Sheng's 50,000 Longxi Army who fell at the rear, the rest of the small fire dragons quickly approached the prismatic shape after running for a while.
The three most prominent points of the shape.
And deep in the distant Yunzhong County, a slightly smaller fire dragon is running quickly from east to west. If this fire dragon continues to move forward, it will cross with the much larger fire dragon running towards the northeast.
However, of course, the most likely possibility is a collision.
After all, in the dead of night, as long as you are close to more than ten miles away, the sound of tens of thousands of horses galloping can be clearly heard. No matter what the reason is, Wang Qian will go over to check if he is one of his own.
Obviously, Xin Sheng's 50,000 Longxi Army was following at the rear, while the fire dragons fleeing in three directions were the Huns cavalry. Coming from the depths of Yunzhong County from east to west were Wang Gan's 20,000 troops. The Suzaku Army.
Dozens of small fire dragons gradually approached the three groups of huge fire dragons that were running wildly.
Bang!
A thick fire pillar with countless bright sparks soared into the sky from the plain shrouded in darkness. Countless sparks that were still making crackling sounds scrambled to break through the sky and leave, rising higher and higher. Gradually it seemed like A pair of golden pillars intended to connect to the sky.
This golden pillar can be clearly seen dozens of miles away.
Seeing this pillar of fire that suddenly appeared in the dark night sky, the Longxi Army and the more than 300,000 cavalrymen following Meng Tian were in a commotion at the same time. Have they finally discovered the trace of Mao Dun?
Meng Tian, who was among an army of more than 300,000 men, was shocked when he saw this pillar of fire.
It's in the West!
Not in the north!
If Mao Dun doesn't flee from the north, is he still trying to fight back?
When the army pursued Mao Dun, it had been more than two hours since Mao Dun retreated to the direction of Yunzhong. This time was enough for Mao Dun to run hundreds of miles away. Although the horses would be tired, the pursuing Qin army and The horses of the Donghu people will also get tired.
Coupled with the darkness, in the end the army could only follow the traces left by the galloping cavalry. However, no one expected that Mao Dun would unknowingly run to the west.
This distance does not seem to extend the Qin army very far.
Perhaps the worry in Meng Tian's heart had not gone away. Immediately afterwards, another pillar of fire rose into the sky, and this time the direction of the pillar of fire was in the east. This was not the end yet.
Just when the army saw the commotion of another pillar of fire becoming more obvious, the third pillar of fire reaching the sky appeared again in the vast wilderness, but this time it appeared in the north.
The three pillars of fire are like three golden-red pillars reaching the sky, standing between heaven and earth.
The pillar of fire in the north is the farthest away from Meng Tian, nearly a hundred miles away by visual inspection. It is also sixty or seventy miles away from Xin Sheng's Longxi Army. The two pillars of fire in the west and east are the closest to the Longxi Army, less than fifty miles away. , it seems to be sixty or seventy miles away from Mengtian.
The three pillars of fire could not have been lit by the Huns. They could only have been lit by the elite cavalrymen of the Jiuyuan Army who had spread out to detect the traces of the Maodun Huns cavalry and reported the traces of the Huns to Meng Tian who was following behind.
As expected, Mao Dun divided his forces! And one division meant three groups! Meng Tian frowned slightly.
Mao Dun divided his troops and then Meng Tian seemed to be the best choice. As long as Mao Dun didn't have water in his head and knew that the Qin army would definitely pursue them after they eliminated the Donghu people, only then could he have a chance to escape and ascend to heaven.
I just don’t know if Mao Dun knows that the Donghu people not only did not fight with the Qin army, but chose to join the Qin army? Also, is Mao Dun necessarily one of the three Xiongnu armies?
Or are these three armies a trick used by Mao Dun to deceive others and confuse the Qin army so that he can escape easily? Meng Tian was thinking rapidly in his mind while issuing orders one after another.
"The Suzaku Army listened to the order and immediately sent out all the scouts, each with two horses, to search for any traces of the Huns barbarians within a radius of two hundred miles! Once any traces of the Huns were found, they immediately set fire to report! At the same time, someone sent an order to General Xin, the general of Longxi, and ordered him to immediately Pegasus caught up with the Huns who were fleeing to the north, and after defeating them, they immediately rushed to the east to support them."
"Here!"
"Mohu'er listens to the order and orders you to select one of Donghu's most capable generals. Donghu's 100,000 cavalry will immediately go to pursue the Huns barbarians in the east. Once you catch up, you don't have to fight to the death, just entangle the Huns immediately. The army will have reinforcements later.
Go and help you! Remember, you must entangle the Huns and barbarians, and do not let go of any soldiers or horses."
Meng Tian stared at Mohuer closely and said.
Naturally, there was an interpreter nearby who could speak Donghua and told Meng Tian's military orders to Mohu'er. After hearing the translator's stammering words, Mohu'er imitated the behavior of the soldiers of the Suzaku Army and bowed respectfully to Meng Tian on his horse.
He said "Yes!".
"Hurry up and make arrangements. I will personally lead the Suzaku Army and you to pursue the Xiongnu cavalry on the west route."
"As you command!"
As orders were issued, Meng Tian's more than 300,000 Chinese troops instantly split into two groups. One hundred thousand Donghu cavalry roared and whipped their horses and chased the Hun cavalry on the east road.
Meng Tian, however, led a coalition of more than 200,000 Suzaku troops and Donghu people toward the west road.
Although he was not worried about Mo Huer playing tricks on him, Meng Tian still made preparations and brought more than 100,000 Donghu cavalry with him, including Mo Huer, who also stayed with him. There were 50,000 Suzaku troops, even if the Donghu people
If he really wanted to trick himself, Meng Tian would be sure to escape unscathed. Of course, this is just due to Meng Tian's always cautious character, and there is no reason for the Donghu people to do this.
One hundred thousand Donghu cavalry were chasing the Hun cavalry on the east road alone. With the garbage fighting power of the Donghu cavalry, Meng Tian didn't think they could really defeat that route of Hun cavalry. What's more, he didn't know how many Hun cavalry there were in that route. Moreover,
He could not leave the Donghu people with the same idea as Mao Dun, so Meng Tian said that the 100,000 Donghu people who were chasing on the east road did not have to fight with their lives, but only needed to entangle the Huns cavalry along the way.
That’s it.
If nothing unexpected happens, the Longxi Army should be the first to resolve the battle. Although the reputation of the Longxi Army in Da Qin is not very good because the former general Li Xin underestimated the enemy and failed to destroy Chu, Meng Tian is well aware of the combat power of the Longxi Army, which is hard-working and courageous.
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What's more, Xin Sheng is the leader!
Of course, the most important thing is that Wang Qian's 20,000 Suzaku Army who entered Yunzhong County will definitely be able to see the pillar of fire lit by the Jiuyuan Army if nothing happens. It is not clear how Wang Qian led the army, but it is far and near.
Wang Qian still understood.
Regardless of whether he knew there were Huns there, he would understand what was going on when he saw three pillars of fire that suddenly lit up. Wang Qian was the one Meng Tian said went to support Dong Hu's 100,000 cavalrymen who were killing the east road.
The army ordered Xin Sheng to destroy the Huns cavalry on the north route and then go to Donghu to support them. This was just for safety reasons.
The three fire dragons galloped towards the place where the three fire pillars were lit, and the thundering roar of horse hooves resounded throughout the prairie.
The three pillars of fire were burning there all the time, but the Huns did not choose to extinguish the three pillars of fire. It was obvious that the Huns at this moment knew very well what had happened, and they wasted no time in fleeing.
Yunzhong County!
Wang Qian did indeed see the three pillars of fire rising into the sky just as Meng Tian thought! (To be continued...)
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