Chapter 63: The Hunter's Prey

The fierce fighting on the banks of the Fushui River lasted for less than two moments, and in just two moments, more than half of Zhang Nian's subordinates were killed and wounded in the process of blocking the enemy on the river beach, and they were unable to continue the attack, and were forced to retreat to the trench.

With the passage of time, the advantage of occupying the trench and relying on the geographical advantage gradually disappeared, the enemy gathered more and more, and at the same time, there were more and more Xianbei warriors crossing the Fushui River, those cavalry were the backbone of the Xianbei tribe's battle, and the movement on the river beach was more flexible and numerous, and the assault or cavalry shooting were enough to suppress the soldiers of the Zhanglian Division in the trench.

Continue to retreat.

At the very beginning of the battle, although the riverbank raid was discovered by the Xianbei people because of the collapse of the soldiers, the earliest water-repellent battle Zhang Mill was still able to exchange three or four hundred soldiers for as many as eight hundred casualties in Xianbei, but the further back, this number was constantly leveled, and in the end, each line of defense could only hold out for less than a moment, and even did not dare to retreat to a farther place to let the trench be used as a tool to slow down the enemy's speed.

In just one hour, counting the battle, Zhang Nian retreated for more than ten miles.

When you look back, you can see the Jundu Mountains in the distance.

Zhang Nian is less than ten miles away from Jundu Mountain, but these ten miles are separated from birth and death. The speed of the Xianbei people is getting faster and faster, and the moat can only delay the speed of the cavalry, but for the foot soldiers, they are the same as the speed of the Han army of the Zhangnian Division, and even those Xianbei infantry soldiers who are poor and cannot have war horses are running faster than the Han army of the Zhangnian Division.

Even against an equal number of Xianbei warriors, the Han family Erlang could only rely on armor to occupy a slight advantage in the field, not to mention that the number of Xianbei people far exceeded that of the Han army. Every time they pursued, as long as they were caught up, they would be killed, and the pursuit gave the Xianbei soldiers more courage.

Although Zhang Nian and several living military marquis did their best to maintain the formation, their military formation could hardly be called orderly, and all they could do was to flee in a hurry.

River beaches, ditches, rocky beaches, fields, dirt slopes, village ruins...... Battles take place on a variety of landscapes, and since ancient times, if the two sides have equal advantages, there is never a small victory over more. When the Xianbei people pursued and completed the siege from three sides, those who waited for Zhang Yan could only flee for their lives.

The soldier's physical strength was not enough, Zhang Nian was not much better, his armor had a few more scratches, his stray wheel was shot away by stray arrows, and his favorite Changge was also broken when he stabbed the third Xianbei cavalryman. Now he looked a little embarrassed, and he led his soldiers with a notched ring knife to kill the enemy foot soldiers besieging on the flanks and cross the trench again.

There are more than ten Xianbei people who have fallen into his hands, but even if they are brave, they don't know if they can escape to the bottom of the military capital mountain alive. He was full of 4,000 subordinates, and at this time it was roughly estimated that there were only more than 2,400 left, and not enough to make up six songs including the wounded soldiers.

"Captain, the enemy is not chasing!"

Crossing a rejecting horse position again, suddenly his subordinate military marquis pulled Zhang Nian to look northwest, and the Xianbei people no longer pursued in the undulating horn horn, which made Zhang Nian stunned.

"Let's leave them alone, it's a good thing not to chase, it's not far from Jundu Mountain, they have no other way to go, rectify the soldiers and reorganize the formation, and retreat to Jundu Mountain!" Zhang Nian didn't think that the enemy army found out that this was their lure or something, the enemy general Kebineng was the leader of the grassland for a long time, just by these trenches to resist horses, a fool could see that they had been preparing for a long time, "Unless he wants to go around one hundred and forty miles, there is only one way to go in Jundu Mountain!" ”

It's just that in the sound of the horns and golden drums of the Xianbei army formation, Zhang Nian felt a deeper fear than the pursuit.

Kebi can have a calmness beyond ordinary people, and he is not happy with the results. If it is not surprising, the Xianbei army should have been fragmented during the long pursuit, and the purpose of Kebi to stop and reorganize the army was to keep the army sufficient to guard against possible ambushes and reinforcements in various places.

More often than not, people prefer to fight with fierce fools than with such a general who is always sober.

Kebi Neng looked at the Han army of Zhang Nian, who was fleeing farther and farther away, and frowned slightly, could it be that his idea was wrong, this Han army did not have reinforcements? Or is it that Zhang Nian himself is not trying to lure the enemy?

Otherwise, seeing that his army was stagnant, how could he withdraw to the southeast without a little hesitation.

"It's because this Han general and his subordinates are too weak!" The Xianbei nobleman beside him laughed loudly, causing the generals of the various departments to laugh. They have the qualifications to be proud, although there are many of them, but most of them are just pursuing, and the number of people who really put into battle is about the same as the Han army, but in this battle they killed nearly two thousand Han troops, but they only had more than a thousand casualties, most of them were slave soldiers who could be ignored, and the real Xianbei warriors had only four hundred casualties. "If that Yan Zhongqing is also so unbearable, Lord Kebineng, why don't we occupy Youzhou?"

Although the tribal nobles said so, they had a lot of resentment in their hearts about Kebineng's caution. Their central tribesmen studied the art of war of the Han people all day long, and it is undeniable that the Golden Drum Queue did play a significant role in the continuous wars of Xianbei in the unification of the central Xianbei, but what is the use of it now? Don't you see that these Han people don't need golden drums? Since you are poor, you should catch up with them and capture them...... These Han soldiers were the best slaves.

Two legs are faster than four, and you can run!

"Don't let the small results blind your bright eyes, this battle has just begun, and we haven't touched the shadow of Yanbei yet." Kebi Neng frowned secretly, these tribal nobles were his cronies, he was very happy to see the vulgar arrogance of other tribal nobles, but he didn't want his minions to be like this, and said expressionlessly: "Don't forget, it was the four thousand people you pursued just now, relying on Juyong Pass to block our army for four whole months, if they are weak, then what are we in these four months, lambs!" ”

The Xianbei nobles who were originally giggling all felt their faces sneered and did not dare to speak.

The soldiers and horses had already reorganized their formation, but Kebineng was not in a hurry to march, and ordered the whole army to open tents and burn hot meals. Their rations differed from those of the Han army, and they never paid attention to the fact that the soldiers ate the same food as their bodies, and the nobles slaughtered the lambs that were grazing with the army, while the ordinary soldiers ate the dried meat or dry and chewy cakes they carried.

In a short time, the cavalry who explored the path returned from three directions, bringing not so pleasant news.

"For more than ten miles from east to west, there are no other roads, all blocked by mountains. Vertical and horizontal six miles, full of ditches to resist horses, hounds found buried human dung, this place once stationed tens of thousands of Han people...... Lord Bineng, who is supposed to be a Han man, and our riders have also found abandoned farm tools. The rider bowed to the ground and said slowly, "I'm afraid we can only follow the direction of the Han army's departure to reach the Han city." ”

Kebi Neng put down the food in his hand and looked at the towering Jundu Mountain in the southeast, which looked like a young and unruly face from a distance, shrouded in a long stretch of yellow sand and mist. But Kebi can know that the owner of the face must be Yan Zhongqing!

He could feel that this was not a hunt, this was a fight between two of the top hunters in the north of the world.

See who's more sophisticated!