Wan Dugui laughed: "Hahaha······ Junsheng is a bright person, so let's make it clear first, so as not to have a dislike between us! In this way, General Ben will give you young people a chance, this battle will not be the main general, this combat strategy was thought up by Mulan, let him be the main general, Junsheng, what do you think? ”

Of course, Zhao Junsheng would not compete with Hua Mulan for the position of the main general, and immediately agreed: "Okay, let Mulan be the main general!" So how is the loot distributed? ”

Wandu calculated and said: "Distribute according to the number of troops, one cavalry is three infantry, you have 5,000 foot soldiers and more than 3,000 cavalry on your side, and there are more than 3,000 cavalry on Huaishuo Town, and the general will not take advantage of you. ”

"That's it!" Zhao Junsheng hugged his fists, didn't talk nonsense, and galloped towards his own team.

Zhao Junsheng sent a personal soldier to ride three horses and gallop to Nantian Fort at the fastest speed, and asked Li Bao, who remained in Nantian Fort, to lead 5,000 foot soldiers to set up an army formation on the plain outside Nantianbao Pass.

Not long after the personal soldiers were sent out, Gao Xiu sent a cavalry after the break to report to Zhao Junsheng: "Dutong, the Rouran people have caught up, and the distance between them and our army is less than five miles!" ”

Rou Ran really caught up, it seems that the Rou Ran people were provoked, they must have been angry when they were woken up at dawn, where did they let the Wei army withdraw so easily? Naturally, we have to pursue it fiercely.

"Order, everyone change horses, speed up and retreat! You, go and tell General Wan and General Hua, just say that the Rouran people are catching up, and you must speed up and distance yourself from them! ”

"Yes, General!"

After getting Zhao Junsheng's report, Wan Dugui was not allowed to order a change of horses, but this time the change of horses was not obvious because the horses were tired and the speed was not obvious.

In this case, Wan Dugui gritted his teeth and forcibly ordered: "If you speed up again, you can't be caught up by the Rouran people, even if you are tired and foaming at the mouth, you have to rush to Nantian Fort, it is impossible for the Rouran people to attack when they arrive at Nantian Fort, right?" Their horses are not gods, and after more than forty miles of pursuit, the generals don't believe that they can still attack! ”

After the order was given, all the horses of the cavalry in Huaishuo Town were so tired that they gasped for breath, and they were sweating like rain.

After a lot of sky, Zhao Junsheng, Wan Dugui, and Hua Mulan finally brought the team back.

Li Bao's movements were also very fast, and in just over half an hour, five thousand infantry arranged a phalanx outside the Nantianbao Pass.

According to the agreement, Zhao Junsheng led the cavalry to deploy in the right front of the infantry phalanx, while Wandugui and Hua Mulan led the cavalry of Huaishuo Town to deploy in the left front of the infantry phalanx.

As soon as the two cavalry and infantry phalanxes had completed their convergence and completed the deployment of the Crane Wing Formation, the Rouran cavalry caught up, but they stopped three miles away.

Dana had to give the order to stop, the horses of the cavalry under his command had been exhausted after more than forty miles of rapid pursuit, but fortunately there were still two horses per person, and one horse could not catch up at all.

If you want to fight, you can only wait for the horsepower to recover some before fighting, and in the current state, I am afraid that the war horse will have to fall down weakly during the battle.

The cavalry has been handed over to Gao Xiu to command, Zhao Junsheng came to the middle of the infantry phalanx, the first few rows of the infantry phalanx are the Modao team, wanting to block the charging of the Rouran cavalry, but not limiting the action ability of the infantry phalanx, Zhao Junsheng felt that there was no other way than to put the Modao array at the front.

There were five hundred people in the Modao formation, arranged in four rows; Behind the Mo Sword Formation was a phalanx of sword and shield soldiers combined with spearmen, this phalanx had a total of 3,000 people, and the entire phalanx was densely arranged, and it was impossible to disrupt its position unless the enemy cavalry surrounded it with constant guerrilla cavalry firing.

Behind the phalanx of sword and shield soldiers combined with spearmen were fifteen hundred archers, also densely arranged.

As the main general of this battle, Hua Mulan rode to the middle of the infantry phalanx to join Zhao Junsheng.

Zhao Junsheng smiled and said: "Mulan, you are now the main general, you give orders, I will listen to you!" ”

How do you know that Mulan doesn't give face at all, and scolds with a serious face: "What are you laughing at?" Be serious! ”

"Huh?" Zhao Junsheng was quite embarrassed, reached out and rubbed his face, and his face immediately became serious.

Hua Mulan observed for a while and ordered: "It seems that the horsepower of the Rouran people has also lost a lot, and they will not be able to attack for a while, so I ordered the defenders of the pass to bring food to the infantry, let the soldiers stand and eat, and let the cavalry also eat dry food and feed the horses!" ”

Zhao Junsheng scolded the herald next to him: "Did you hear that? Go to herald! ”

"Yes!" The herald agreed, muttering in his heart, you were angry with Mulan, but you poured your anger on me, hum!

The men came with steamed cakes with poles and baskets, and distributed them to the soldiers one by one, and the soldiers took the steamed cakes and gnawed them in large gulps, and the cavalrymen also took out dry food and gnawed it, and fed the horses with bean feed while gnawing on the dry food.

Zhao Junsheng gave an order to a herald: "Go and tell Gao Xiu to deploy the second and third thousand cavalry on the inside, and the first thousand cavalry on the outside!" ”

"Yes!" The herald clenched his fists and agreed, beating his horse and leaving quickly.

Hua Mulan couldn't help but ask: "What's the point of such a deployment?" ”

"There is nothing particular about it, the 2,000th cavalry is armed with spears as the main weapons of battle, equipped with a bow and a pot of arrows; The 3,000 cavalry were armed with knives as their main weapons of battle, and were also armed with bows and arrows; The 1,000th Cavalry is equipped with bows as the main combat class, and knives as the melee arms! ”

Hua Mulan knows that the weapons equipped by the soldiers are different, the combat methods will be different, and the roles they can play are also different, it seems that the 1,000th cavalry should be long-range cavalry, and they will not easily engage the enemy at close range.

Hua Mulan turned her head to look behind her and said to Zhao Junsheng: "Although there is Nantian Fort in our rear, once the big array moves forward, the back will be exposed, if the Rouran cavalry sends a cavalry around to attack the back of our army, we will not be able to stop it!" It is necessary to transfer a cavalry to protect the back, the soldiers and horses in Huaishuo Town have spent too much strength in retreating, I see that your cavalry seems to have spare strength, so I will send a thousand people from your cavalry to protect the back, how about it? ”

Zhao Junsheng promised: "No problem, who will let the capable be more imprisoned!" He immediately ordered the reserve to be transferred to protect his back, and then three hundred men were drawn from the three thousand cavalry to join in, making a thousand cavalry.

The Rouran cavalry formation three miles away on the opposite side had been deployed at this time, and the general of Rouran on horseback was observing the Wei army's side, the distance was a little far, and he couldn't see it clearly, so he had to send a few scouts to run to a close place to observe.

Gao Xiu, who was gnawing on dry food, saw a few Rouran cavalry running on the opposite side, and immediately judged that the other party was here to investigate the military situation, and immediately sent scouts to expel him.

Although the Rouran Scout was expelled, it took some military intelligence with them.

"Qi Yu Dashuai, the small ones have detected that the Wei army has set up a formation in the shape of a wild goose, they are now eating, and they are feeding beans to the horses!" The scout panted and reported to the Great Na.

After listening to that, he slapped his thigh and said very annoyedly: "The chase is too hasty and too urgent, I didn't even bring dry food, I didn't bring a water bag, and now the horsepower has not recovered, I can't launch an attack, wait for the horsepower to recover a little, the Wei army is full one by one, and my sons and daughters are hungry, hungry and thirsty, how is this good?" Fooled, fooled! ”

As everyone knows, if he is not fooled, the sneak attack of the Wei army will be successful, and at this time, he is afraid that he will have already become a prisoner of the Wei army.

At this time, the shaman wizard suggested: "Dashuai, at this time, the horsepower of the Wei army has not yet recovered, our army has time to retreat at this time, fight to scrap some horses, first withdraw to Shengle City, we still have a lot of horses in Shengle City, as long as we return to Shengle City, we can change horses, we can let the sons eat, even if they are killed by the Wei army, we also have the strength to fight, and now the sons are hungry, how can we have the strength to fight?" ”

As soon as the big one heard that it made sense, taking advantage of the fact that the horsepower of the Wei army had not recovered, as long as he could return to Shengle City, the situation would return to the original state, and he would not be as helpless as he is now.

Dana immediately ordered: "Withdraw!" At the fastest speed, regardless of whether the horse can withstand it or not, give Ben Shuai a full speed retreat! ”

Seeing the Rouran cavalry move from a distance, the ground trembled, and Hua Mulan and Zhao Junsheng and all the other Wei generals found that the Rouran cavalry had retreated.

What's going on? Why did the Rouran cavalry retreat without even fighting?

Gao Xiu sent a cavalry to ask: "Dutong, the Rouran cavalry seems to be retreating, is our army pursuing?" ”

Zhao Junsheng touched his chin, now that Mulan is the main general, he can't give orders without authorization, so he can only turn his head to look at Mulan and ask, "Mulan, to chase or not to chase?" ”

Mulan pondered for a moment and asked, "Do you still have any cavalry horses left?" If you are in pursuit, can you catch up? ”

"If the Rouran people do not hesitate to retreat at full speed, desperately running away from the horses, the cavalry under my command is afraid that they will not be able to catch up, and when they catch up, they will also run back to Shengle City, if they continue to flee north, my cavalry will definitely be able to catch up, and they can't outrun the cavalry under my command for a long time!"

Hua Mulan quickly made a decision: "Since this is the case, then we are not in a hurry to pursue, the worst situation is just to restore the status quo ante, we will approach Shengle City with 6,000 cavalry and 5,000 foot soldiers, carrying dry food for two days and two days, if they want to fight, we will fight, if they retreat to Shengle City, we will besiege and attack!" I'm just worried that they'll leave Shengle City and run away! ”

Zhao Junsheng shook his head and said with a smile: "I have ordered Cao Jiao to take two hundred people to take a detour to Baidaoling to block the valley leading to the north of Yin Mountain, they can't escape!" Besides, running away without a single fight, this is not the style of Da Na! ”

"So I'm relieved, let the guys prepare dry food, prepare more horse food, maybe we will attack the city!"

An hour later, the Wei army of 11,000 men and horses, led by Wan Dugui, Hua Mulan, Zhao Junsheng and others, advanced towards Shengle City.

After another two hours, when the Wei army's brigade arrived near Shengle City, the five thousand Rouran cavalry had already set up a position outside Shengle City under the command of Dana.

Seeing that the Rouran cavalry had already prepared, Hua Mulan ordered the whole army to set up a military formation in the original formation, and the army had been traveling for such a long time, and the men and horses needed to rest a little.

At this time, the Rouran people couldn't help it, and took the lead in attacking under the command of Da Na.