Chapter Eighty-Three: The Counteroffensive Begins
When he left Xiang Dong's station, Xiang Dong's troops were already nearly 30,000!
Wen Bufan still doesn't know the situation on Luo Wu's side, but like this, Luo Wu's side will not have fewer troops!
Although Wen Bufan was mentally prepared, after coming back, Wen Bufan was still taken aback when he heard Luo Wu's report!
There are now more than 80,000 people under Luo Wu! Among them were nearly 20,000 old border troops. According to Wen Bufan's previous orders, Luo Wu stationed these troops in five places and acted separately.
"What's going on in Liangzhou?" Wen Bufan looked at Luo Wu and said.
"The new alien general is called He Guda, and it is said that he was sent because no one wanted to come to Liangzhou! There are 50,000 defenders in Liangzhou City, all of whom are cowering in the city! Luo Wu said.
"He Guda!" Wen Bufan thought about it, and he hadn't heard of this person before.
On the cliff ancient temple, Princess Changping looked at the handwritten letter brought by Wei Xia, with a happy smile on her face.
Xin Chinese Bufan told Princess Changping that she had to stay in the south for a while, and everything was going well in the south. The border army generals Luo Wu, Ouyang Fengbu, Cheng Chong, and Xiang Dong are all actively recruiting! When the time comes, Wen Bufan will start a counteroffensive in the south!
After reading the letter, Princess Changping wrote a reply letter and asked Wei Xia to bring it back.
After watching Luo Wu's army, Wen Bufan was finally ready to start acting!
After He Guda came to Liangzhou, he basically didn't do anything, and he asked for soldiers and horses from above, but he didn't ask for any of them. The reply given above was that the main force was facing off against the troops of Daxiguan and Yanshan, and there were also large and small resistance armies in other places, so they could not send troops to support Liangzhou. He also told He Guda that the resistance troops outside Liangzhou City were all remnants of the defeated army, and they couldn't organize any effective siege at all!
After spending a few months in Liangzhou City, He Guda felt that what the upper echelons had said was very reasonable, and that the resistance forces outside the city could only attack some smaller grain storage areas. So He Guda completely transported all the grain, grass and military materials outside the city to Liangzhou City.
At the beginning, He Guda was still cautious after He Guda, but then no one came to harass Liangzhou, and He Guda's heart gradually relaxed. It turns out that comfort always makes people lazy! He Guda has nothing to do in Liangzhou City, so he naturally sings and dances every day, and doesn't care about political affairs!
But there will always be a day when the grain and grass will run out, and the grain and grass outside Liangzhou City have been robbed by Luo Wu and them, and the grain and grass transported to the city can only last for a few months.
There was not much grain and grass, so He Guda could only send troops to urge the upper echelons, but the answer he got was very simple, raise it by himself!
He Guda threw that will to the ground fiercely! scolded: "The soldiers don't give the soldiers, the food doesn't give the food, this city can't be defended!" ”
But scolding is scolding, and food always has to be eaten. So He Guda could only send troops out to rob it!
Wen Bufan was waiting for He Guda to send troops out!
Whether it is Luo Wu or Xiang Dong, although they can recruit soldiers, they do not have large-scale siege equipment, if they attack Liangzhou, no matter what the result is, they will inevitably suffer heavy casualties! So, the only way is to lure the enemy out of the city!
As a result, He Guda came out on his own!
Looking at the three thousand cavalry sent out by He Guda, Wen Bufan smiled. There aren't many horses, so someone is coming to deliver them!
"Put this cavalry team farther away before you do it, don't hurt the horses! They are all good horses! Wen Bufan said.
"Don't worry! The brethren are horse lovers! After Luo Wu finished speaking, he personally led the team.
"General Wen, this He Guda is quite cunning. You see! Ouyang Fengbu pointed to the other gate of Liangzhou City and said.
Wen Bufan saw that about three thousand cavalry came out of another gate in Liangzhou City and went in another direction.
"It looks like there's a real shortage of food!" Wen Bufan said: "General Ouyang, these three thousand horses will be handed over to you!" ”
"Good! The end will go and go back! Ouyang Fengbu said.
"No hurry! Put them a little farther away, too! Wen Bufan said.
"Good!" Ouyang Fengbu also led the troops.
He Guda sent two lines of cavalry and asked them to go to different places to loot grain and grass. These cavalrymen have always been in the old business of looting! So He Guda is not worried! No arrangement was given to these cavalrymen! Grab whatever you want, go wherever you want! Come back when you want!
And since these cavalry invaded Donglai Kingdom, they have not lost a single battle! So when they saw a small resistance in front of them, they didn't hesitate to chase after them! The farther you go!
The 3,000 cavalry on the other side were similarly chasing the small resistance forces in front!
He Guda waited in Liangzhou City for three days! Of the two cavalry sent out, none of them came back! He Guda had no choice but to send two more cavalry to loot, looking for the previous cavalry by the way. But three days passed, and the two cavalry sent out after that were like stones sinking into the sea, and there was no news at all!
Only then did He Guda realize that something was wrong! This time, He Guda did not continue to send a large group of men and horses, but sent dozens of scouts to let them go out to find the whereabouts of those cavalry!
After Wen Bufan got the news that the horses were out of the city, he said lightly: "Don't move any of these horses, let them return to Liangzhou City safely!" Inform Xiang Dong that he can come! ”
"What! None were found! He Guda looked at the returning tanma and asked. As the horses returned, He Guda did not receive any news about the cavalry.
That's more than 10,000 cavalry! How can there be no news at all? He Guda muttered in his heart, could it be that these cavalry ran away? Back to the North?
Otherwise, how could the cavalry of the Northern Regions, which was so strong in combat, have no news at all? The more He Guda thought about it, the more he felt that these cavalrymen must have run away! Now that this Liangzhou City is short of soldiers and food, those cavalry are not their subordinates, and it is normal for them to run away!
Although He Guda couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, there was no other way!
The last few scouts also returned, although there was still no news of the more than 10,000 cavalry, but they brought a piece of news that made He Guda excited.
A scout accidentally discovers the Resistance's secret grain storage ground!
He Guda's eyes lit up, this news is so exciting! What is missing, what comes!
"How many people are watching?" He Guda asked
"About a thousand people!" The scout said.
"A thousand! Hey! He Guda seemed to see that all the grain and grass had been transported to Liangzhou!
"But those 1,000 men look pretty tough! Like the main force of the Resistance! The scout said.
"And what about the main force! This time, I personally led the team, just a thousand people, what a lot of worry! Just wipe out the main forces of those resistance forces in one fell swoop! He Guda sneered, "Sooner or later, all that grain will be ours!" ”
(End of chapter)