Chapter 458: Follow Me with Meat to Eat
The old warrior sighed, Da Khan couldn't swallow this breath, then he had to fight, but the tribe's soldiers and horses were far less than the Central Plains army, and the outcome was unpredictable!
Before leaving, he said: "Da Khan, to start a war with tens of thousands of Central Plains troops, you have to pay attention to some resourcefulness, it is better to attack their grain and grass, as long as their grain and grass are burned, they lack provisions, then we just follow them closely, keep harassing, we can drag them out, and when they are about to collapse, we will rush to kill them in one fell swoop, and we will win a complete victory!" β
Ashinada hummed and said, "I know, this is a common method used by our steppe army to deal with the Central Plains army, I used to be in front of the Khan army, I also saw other Khan kings use it, but that was many years ago!" β
In recent years, the Turkist Khanate and the Dafang Empire lived in peace, and there were no large-scale wars between the two countries, except for occasional border clashes. Ashinada thought about whether the battle caused by himself would lead to a war between the two countries, and he was also unsure in his heart, he was deeply afraid that he would be held accountable by the Sudden Khan, but he couldn't swallow this evil breath in front of him no matter what.
When he saw that the old warrior was leaving, he suddenly asked, "If the two countries fight each other because of our affairs, will the Khan hold me accountable and deprive us of our people and territories?" β
The old warrior thought for a while, shook his head and said: "No, the Khan is a reasonable person, this time the Central Plains army entered our territory and started a war with us, no matter what, it was the Central Plains army, they bullied our family, don't we fight back, so the Khan will not pursue it, but will help us!" β
Ashinadake nodded and said, "Then I'll rest assured, I'm not afraid of the army of the Central Plains, no matter how many of them are, they will go to the grassland." It won't be our opponent, I'm afraid that someone around the Khan will say bad things about me, alas! With that, he sighed.
The old warrior knew that he was talking about the Prince of Sudden Jue, and the Prince of Sudden Jue had always been at odds with Ashina, so he had to comfort: "The prince's position as the prince is unstable, it is not certain whether he can become a khan, King Khan, you don't have to worry, as long as we take care of it, then he can't do anything to us!" β
After speaking. He rode away and went to find Ashinadako's brother.
Ashinadake looked up at his two-headed black wolf battle flag, and thought, "Yes, I am in charge of this matter, as long as I am in charge, no one can do anything to me!" β
According to the rules of the grassland, whoever has the fastest knife will be justified, and Ashinada doesn't think that he provoked this matter at all. Even he thought that the Central Plains army would pass by his territory and collect some tolls by himself, shouldn't it, it's only thirty times. The fact that the Central Plains army refused to even send this money obediently shows that they are unreasonable, so I am justified and I am reasonable. I'm going to kill people and set fires, that's all right!
To be on the safe side, Ashinadak waited until his men had packed their belongings. Driving the cart and driving the cattle and sheep away, he took two thousand sudden soldiers and chased after Yang Ze's Right Shenwu Army from behind.
This time, the Sudden Awakening soldiers brought enough bows and arrows, and one person and three horses, and brought enough dried meat and water, they can definitely cope with half a month's march, the Sudden Awakening soldiers are ready, they are going to use the old way this time, the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy retreats and I chase, constantly harassing, burning grain and grass, just like a wild wolf on the grassland, until they chase the prey tired, they show their fangs again, give the prey one last bite, put the blood away, and then eat meat!
Yang Ze had already rushed to the hill with his army, but the place they arrived at was not the place where the imperial guards had scouted, but the other side of the hill. Yang Ze climbed the hill, looked around, and said angrily: "How can this be a radius of forty miles, I'm afraid there is no ten, if I told sΓΉ that this place is not big, then what else will go around, just go through guΓ² or not!" β
A radius of ten miles, refers to the area, if you just look at the straight-line distance, that is, the place where the right Shenwu army needs to climb the mountain, at most more than three miles, over two mountains on the line, there is really no need to detour, even the front team has climbed the mountain, the back team has not climbed the mountain, what is the danger to say!
The captain of the imperial guard was embarrassed, and he didn't think that he would come here again, so he had to bite the bullet and say, "Maybe the place you see is different, so there is an error." Also, although the road is not far, the mountains are steep, there is no road, and it is difficult for the wagons loaded with armaments to ...... when the army marches."
"Okay, you just don't want to contribute to open the way, you can't do this in the future, and there will be a next time, plus the time you are late, two sins...... If you don't punish you for three crimes, I will have to beat you with 900 sticks to see if your butts are made of iron! Yang Ze glared at him and scolded.
The lieutenant hurriedly said: "How dare there be a next time, this time I will cause trouble for General Yang, and the last general will never dare again!" β
Quickly bowed his head and admitted his mistake, he also knew that he was to blame for this, but he didn't dare to make more excuses, so as not to cause Yang Ze's temper to come up, he didn't need to be punished for three crimes, he only needed two crimes and six hundred sticks to kill him, he hadn't practiced iron ass skills!
Yang Ze asked the soldiers to pull the cart and baggage into the mountain first, and then left a thousand people at the mountain pass, Yang Ze ordered the soldiers to make more torches, do as much as they could, and then pick up some firewood, prepare more firewood, and light a bonfire at night, so that the sudden soldiers could not calculate how many soldiers and horses they had!
After waiting for a long time, until it was almost dark, the Sudden Awakening Soldiers did not chase after them, Chang Chenggong was a little anxious, and asked: "General, did the Sudden Awakening Soldiers not dare to come over, or did General Fu and General Tan expose their whereabouts, so the Sudden Awakening Soldiers went to fight them first?" β
Yang Ze snorted and said, "If you want Fu Bingrong and Tan Zhengwen to expose their whereabouts, it's too difficult, they would rather go around a huge, you can't imagine such a big circle, and they won't let the Sudden Awakening Soldiers find them!" β
After a pause, he said again: "It is estimated that the Sudden Awakening soldiers let the troops evacuate first, and they were afraid that the troops would have an accident, so they waited until the troops arrived in a safe place, so they came to us to retaliate." However, don't worry, since you want to take revenge, you must be fast, so they will be there tonight! β
As if in answer to his words, a black line appeared on the horizon in the distance, and it was a large group of sudden soldiers, and after a few moments, the sound of rumbling horses' hooves was heard. Ashinadake has arrived with the army!
Yang Ze immediately called a horse thief who suddenly realized it, asked the interpreter to translate, and asked, "There must be about five or six thousand people here, is there so many people in that tribe?" β
It's too far away, he can't see clearly that there is no one on the horse, and the sudden awakening soldiers are one person and three horses, it doesn't look like there are thousands of people, quite imposing!
Of course, the horse thief knew about the Dake Ministry, and he also knew how many troops the other party had, and listened to Yang Ze's question. He replied: "Counting the old and the young, all the troops of the Dake Department are only more than six thousand, less than seven thousand, and these people who have come, judging from the dust raised, should be only two thousand, one man and three horses, they are here to harass you, first drag down your army, general." And then when you can't beat it, they'll pounce on you! β
is also a sudden person, and he is very familiar with the tactics of the sudden awakening soldiers, and he looks at the opponent's formation. The thief had told all of Ashinadako's plans, and he had not been ashamed at all for betraying his countrymen. Instead, his eyes were full of anticipation, wanting to get some rewards from Yang Ze's hands.
Yang Ze sighed and said, "Dakebu." The king of the Khan of that ministry is called Dake? His tribe is not big! β
The horse thief hurriedly said: "His surname is Ashina, he is a distant relative of the Khan, and he is a nephew, but his eldest brother's tribe is nearby, and it is a tribe of more than 20,000 people, which is the largest force in this grassland." β
Yang Ze nodded, and asked again: "I see that you seem to know something about marching and fighting, but you have been a soldier before?" β
The horse thief smiled and said, "We suddenly realized that there is no such thing as being a soldier or not a soldier, when there is no war, it is a life of grazing, and when there is a war, we take a sword and gun to fight for the Khan kings." The villain used to herd cattle in the Khan's tribe and knew something about war, but then he committed an accident, so he had to escape and eat on this steppe! β
Yang Ze said: "Okay, you can learn some Chinese in the future, and then you can eat with the general, the general can give you money, cattle and sheep, pasture, and women, whatever you want, as long as you take a knife to fight, the general will give it all to you." Come, give him a hundred pieces, and a set of armor, a good sword, a good gun, and the best horse of all, well, bring him two jars of wine, and give him a reward now! β
When the interpreter translated the words, this horse thief was so happy that he almost fainted, the reason why he wandered around on the grassland was because he had no backer, and now he was able to take refuge in the general of the Central Plains, this was really an unexpected joy, thinking that he could go to the Central Plains to live in that flower world, the horse thief immediately knelt on the ground, thanked him for his five bodies, knelt down to Yang Ze, and loudly reported his name, his name is Enda, he has no surname, it seems that he used to be a slave-like storage zΓ i!
Yang Ze rewarded him heavily, in fact, this little reward is really nothing, he just wanted to figure out GuΓ² Enda, sue those horse thieves, as long as you are willing to follow me and give me your life, then I have a good thing here, although I can take it, but the premise is that you must die for me, whoever I ask you to kill, you have to kill whoever you want, including your Sudden Awakening compatriots.
Enda happily went down to receive the reward, and when the other horse thieves saw that he had made a fortune, they all envied their eyes red, and they all wanted to learn from Enda's appearance and eat with the general of the Central Plains, but unfortunately Yang Ze didn't call them, they could only wait, waiting for Yang Ze to think of them.
While speaking, Ashinadake took the Sudden Awakening Soldiers, and they had arrived at a place two miles away from the mountain pass, and the Sudden Awakening Soldiers stopped to look and recuperate, at this time it was already dark, Yang Ze ordered the Right Shenwu Army to light a bonfire, and hundreds of large fires burned, illuminating the entire mountain.
Ashinadake looked up at the mountain and said to the warriors around him: "The Central Plains man who led the troops will not fight, he lit a fire in the middle of the night, isn't this to show our arrows the direction, as long as we shoot arrows randomly, we will shoot him to death!" β
In the night battle, whoever lights the fire first will attract the attack first, but Yang Ze not only lit the fire, but also lit it all over the mountain, in the eyes of Ashina Dake, of course Yang Ze is a person who can't fight!
However, hundreds of big fires, that means there are at least tens of thousands of people, Ashina Dake is wrong at this time, thinking that the entire Central Plains army is all here, never thought that the Right Shenwu Army is only 2,000 people, and there are a large number of baggage, if there are no these fires, he really dares to rush into the mountain pass and burn those baggage.
The warriors around him nodded together, all loudly agreeing with Ashina Dake's words, and laughed at Yang Ze casually, but no one realized that they had fallen into evil! (To be continued......)