Chapter 719: Mo Nan (5)
Throughout the history of the Hu people's warfare, many great victories have been achieved by using high-speed maneuvering speed, and the long-distance endurance unique to nomads to drag down their opponents and drag them down, and then turn back and defeat the enemy who is extremely tired mentally and physically.
The war between the Chinese nation and the Hu people has always been a long process, the grassland is too big and vast, the Hu people do not have a fixed settlement of the city, the Hu people's national nature and habits are constantly moving, many times the difficulty of fighting with the Hu people is not that they can't fight, but they can't find where the Hu people are, and they can't find what to exterminate them?
If you want to annihilate them at one time, unless you block them in a small area and let them lose the superior mobility brought by the war horse, what is now in front of Lu Zhe is such an opportunity, and the vanguard Xu Zhi and Wang Ben, who clearly understand Lu Zhe's intentions, are even more unwilling to let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Found the main vanguard of the Hu people south of the fertile field? Of course, Xu Zhi and Wang Ben had to report to the east as soon as possible, and at the same time, they also had to transfer troops to continue southward according to the actual situation, they either had the luxury of saying that they would use the existing forces at hand to play a heads-up with the main force of the Hu people, or they wanted to bite the tail of the Hu troops that had been discovered, so that those "tails" would tell them the location of the main force of the Hu people.
Within a month, reinforcements would enter the fertile field, and the current garrison of the fertile field is only about 50,000. If the Hu people rushed straight over, Xu Zhi and Wang Ben were not sure that they would be able to stop it, and it was very likely that they would be blocked for a while and then be broken through, so they would only make an emergency call for help when they found that the main force of the Hu people was moving in the direction of Woye. In addition, Xu Zhi also discussed with Wang Ben and decided to send a certain number of troops to contain him, or to call him block.
Batches of Han troops began to move south from the fertile wilderness through the narrow strips sandwiched by the desert on both sides, each batch of a Qu system, Xu Zhi and Wang Ben had very simple requirements for these Qu, and some of them stared at the Hu people who had been discovered. The other part is exploring.
The so-called exploration is reconnaissance on the terrain and enemy tracks. In addition to the topography, the exploration of terrain is also a place where you can pause in the search for water sources and when you have to rest. Reconnaissance on the ground is even simpler, in fact, it is already being done when exploring the water source.
Lu Zhe's Imperial Military Academy in Nanling is not open in vain, there may be many subjects that have not appeared, and it may be that some subjects are not suitable for contemporary use, but more subjects are extremely useful, such as terrain reconnaissance and painting, and for example, inferences about landforms. Even if they are sent back to the troops, they will be placed in unimportant positions.
The people who can become officers of the main force, they are all officers who are considered qualified by the Imperial Military Academy, and usually once they are recognized by the Imperial Military Academy, then they must also master at least one subject. For officers below the rank of military officer, the main training subject is to identify and draw the terrain, which is also because the understanding of the terrain is a skill that must be mastered as an officer.
The society is closed and backward because of the same layer, and the army will also be completely unin line with the trend of the times because of its complacency, and any progress means new changes, so Lu Zhe does not like to toss the army to repeatedly reorganize and reorganize. Repeated reorganizations and reorganizations are aimed at improving the army.
Isn't it because Lu Zhe attaches great importance to the training of grassroots officers that the Han army has been able to gain advantages in many battles since its formation? Imagine an army that even the commander of 250 men can judge what kind of terrain will be advantageous to his side, and such an army will face a group of enemy troops who do not even know what the favorable terrain is. How much of a bargain?
The Hu people who retreated from the Kunxi tribe could naturally find that there was a small team of Han troops following behind, and they should also be able to understand that it was very bad to follow the tail, and they were sure that there was only a small team of Han troops behind, and 2,000 people against 500 people were beaten with less fear. Finally made a proper counterattack.
The Han army that followed behind the defeated Hu people did not come desperately, and in the face of the Hu people rushing up, they were very quick and immediately distanced. After all, everyone is on horseback, and they really want to run up to whoever can catch up so easily.
The Hu people of the Kunxi tribe are destined to not be able to catch up with the Han army that followed, and after a battle, the Hu people of the Kunxi tribe have discarded too many war horses, and many of them are currently in the situation of one horse and two people. And what about the Han army that pursued them? Because of the victorious side in that encounter with the Han army, the victor was able to clean up the battlefield and obtain the spoils of war, and many Han troops were already extravagant to the point of three horses or even four or five horses.
Can't catch up, can't leave, that feeling is as bad as it gets, especially in the past, the Hu people were all playing the role of other nationalities, and now if they don't run quickly, they are very likely to be chased and annihilated by a large Han army, and when they run, they follow the tail, how aggrieved and embarrassed they are.
"The Han army wants to follow us and find our main force."
"What? A large Han army may surround us at any time, why don't we go back and sacrifice ourselves to stay where we are? ”
"I didn't mean that, I said that it was better to send someone out of the brigade and go back to inform the leader first."
"Then do it!"
Let the Hu people do the things of sacrificing themselves? That's a big joke! The culture and nature of the Hu people have always been self-centered, and if they can sacrifice others, they will never lose themselves, they call themselves wolves, and the most vicious and brutal people are heroes and heroes in their eyes, such as the Chinese civilization will sacrifice itself for others, in their eyes it is absolutely hopeless fools.
The remnants of this Kun Evil tribe thought of sending someone back to inform them first, perhaps because they were afraid that the camp would be attacked, but more because they understood that if the large army was attacked and defeated, they would also be finished, as it was right, but what was the original intention...... In the end, it is to save yourself.
"The Hu people have divided their troops, and each share is more than fifty people."
"Send a signal to the surrounding allies to move closer in this direction and hand over to the enemy forces that have been separated."
That's right, how could it be that there was only a team of fifty horsemen chasing the defeated soldiers of the Kunxi tribe? After all, the defeated army of the Kunxi tribe still had a small 800 people, and the Han army should have thought in advance that the enemy army would disperse, and it must have made corresponding arrangements.
"Woo-woo-woo-"
"Woo-woo-"
The horn sound was blown first, and there was a response in the distance, and several Han cavalry that were originally just small black dots from here changed direction and moved closer, and their figures were getting closer and closer.
Discovering this action of the Han army, the Kunxi tribe also sounded the desolate horn sound with almost no frequency, and the result was that the Hu people, who had originally broken away, ran back to fight with the large army.
It must be explained once again that the Hu people of the Kunxi tribe, who had experienced a crushing defeat, had already abandoned quite a lot of war horses because of their hasty escape, and many of them even needed to ride together on the same war horse, so that they could not outrun at least one person and three horses of the Han cavalry.
Officially in this most basic common sense understanding, as soon as the Hu people of the Kunxi tribe found that the Han army around them was approaching, they immediately gave up the behavior of scattering out that must be sent to death, and the Hu people knew that they would die, but they didn't have the great sentiment of sacrificing themselves, so it was better to huddle together again to keep warm.
One side deliberately did not annihilate, and the other party wanted to chase away the tail that followed, but could not do it, so they chased and ran. They don't always go straight south, and there are occasional turns in between, but generally they are always facing south.
"It's really strange, there are no coordinates that can be recognized, how do Hu people remember the road, and how do they identify the direction?"
"After years of living in the endless grassland, they naturally have their own way. Many of the soldiers have lived in the grasslands of Longxi since childhood, if you are curious, go back and ask. ”
The one who spoke in front was the Han army from the south, and the back was the original Qin army that was reorganized in Yanmen County. The Han army from the south is actually from Zhaodi, that is, the people of Zhao can not have much language barrier with the Qindi, but some words and slang need to rely on Lianmeng and guess, but there is no big problem in communication.
It is also said that the Hu people have grown up in the endless grassland since childhood, and their water and grass in a certain place must be migrated by the grazing animals, and which grassland to go to is something that has long been known in their hearts, which proves that the Hu people have the concept of identifying the area. If this is the case, of course, they also have the ability to discern the direction and the path, so how do they discern the direction and the path?
Every nation has its own life skills, which are not innate instincts, except for breathing and eating, which are innate instincts, the rest are skills and habits that have been learned over the years in a certain environment since childhood.
"We have been following the defeated army for six days in the front, and we have initially found that they are moving in a southwesterly direction, and some of them have bypassed the rout and jumped forward to reconnoitre, and the number of Hu cavalry encountered as they move further southwest."
"Yes, there have been three Qu to the rear to give back more than one battle with the Hu people, especially in the direction of Kunlun Mountain, the most encounters."
The so-called Kunlun Mountain is actually the Tianshan Mountain. In some myths and stories, Kunlun Mountain is the place where the Queen Mother of the West lives, the top of the perennial icy and snowy mountain range heard that there is a place called Tianchi, and there are also planted peaches, which are also divided into 10,000 years, 3,000 years, and 1,000 years.
Whether the myth or legend is true Xu Zhi and Wang Ben don't know, and they don't have any interest in knowing for the time being, and now what they want to know most is whether the main force of the Hu people is in the direction of Kunlun Mountain. (To be continued......)