Chapter 710: Attack Again (2)
Mao Dun was about to drink a glass of wine, but at this moment he heard a great commotion outside the big tent, and people were screaming and neighing, and the sound was noisy.
Hearing the noise, Mao Dun put down the wine glass again, frowned, and said, "What's going on outside, why is it so noisy?" ”
At this moment, I saw a guard running into the big tent almost with a roll, and said: "Report to you, something is wrong, our camp has been attacked, and someone has attacked us. ”
Mao Dun's heart trembled, the wine glass in his hand suddenly fell to the ground, and a glass of fine wine was all spilled on the woolen carpet, and at this time, Fu Gongyan could still calm down, and immediately asked: "Who attacked us, do you see it?" ”
The guard shook his head and said, "It's too dark, so I can't see it." ”
Mao Dun was furious, grabbed the wine jug with one hand, and smashed it at the guard, saying, "Useless things, I can't figure out such a trivial matter, what else do you want you to do?" ”
The guard couldn't dodge, and was hit on the forehead by the wine jug, and was immediately smashed to the head bleeding, and several slave girls who were waiting for the two also screamed in fright and dodged left and right. Fortunately, Fu Gongyan was still stable at this time, and said busily: "Just to calm the anger, it is unknown who attacked us now, even if you are angry, it will not help." ”
Mao Dun could still listen to Fu Gongyan's words, and he also knew that it was useless to get angry at this time, so he didn't suppress his anger and said, "Mr. is right." Then he said to the guards, "What are you doing here?" Get out, get out of here and see me again. ”
When the guard heard this, he immediately covered his wound with his hand and ran out of the big tent, and at this time Fu Gongyan said: "Shan Yu, we can't wait in the camp now, let's go out and have a look!"
Mao Dun also nodded and said, "Just Mr. Yi, I'll go out and have a look." When I looked left and right, I saw that the four slave girls were hiding in the corners of the tent, and all of them were pale with fright, curled up, and trembled.
In this era, the Chinese countries have basically achieved feudalization, the number of slaves has also been greatly reduced, and the general nobles rarely kill slaves at will, but the nomads in the grassland are still mainly slaves, slaves are basically attacked by other tribes and plundered, the status is only equivalent to talking livestock, plus the Huns' character is more rude, a word is not right, or a thought, the slaves will be killed at will, sometimes because of anger, even kill several slaves to vent their anger, They even use slaves as live targets to compare their marksmanship. Therefore, when they saw Mao Dun getting angry, several female slaves were suddenly frightened, but they did not dare to escape from the tent, so they had to hide in the corner, for fear that Mao Dun would make them angry.
At this time, Mao Dun roared angrily again, and said, "What are you still hiding over there for, quickly put on my armor." ”
When a few female slaves heard this, they could only tremble and come over to help Mao Dun get dressed and put on armor, but Mao Dun didn't have the heart to be angry with them now, so he put on his armor and picked up his saber, and walked out of the big tent with Fu Gongyan, and several female slaves breathed a sigh of relief, and they all collapsed on the ground.
The two hurriedly walked out of the big tent, only to see that a lot of Hun soldiers had gathered outside the tent, as well as Feng Yi, Yunqi and other Bailing people also came out, and the noise was louder, mixed with a lot of shouting and screaming, looking at the left and right directions, it seemed that there was that side, and there was fire everywhere.
Maudun's head couldn't help but sweat a little, and he muttered, "How many people are attacking us, why are they everywhere?" ”
At this moment, only to hear a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the southwest direction, followed by a series of Hun soldiers' screams, a cavalry army killed in front of them, although the number of knights is not much, only about two hundred people, but they are all one-color bronze helmets, bronze sheet armor, armed with spears, machetes, arrows and crossbows, the knight is a red giant horse, obviously taller than the others, there is a big wolf with white hair next to the horse, very conspicuous.
When Feng Yi saw it, he couldn't help but be startled, and hurriedly came to Mao Dun and Fu Gongyan's side, and said, "Shan Yu, Mr. Fu Gong, the one who rides the red horse is the plateau. ”
Mao Dun and Fu Gongyan glanced at each other, and they both showed expressions of disbelief, will Gao Yuan lead the men and horses to kill here?
It turned out that Ah Ran Shi begged to build a night attack on the plateau and launched another night attack on the remaining men and horses of the Xiongnu front army, but the plateau thought that it was of little significance to launch a night attack on the front army of the Xiongnu, although from a tactical point of view, although the Xiongnu army strengthened its vigilance, the chance of victory on behalf of the army was still very large, but from a strategic point of view, it was very likely that the gains outweighed the losses.
Because even if the night attack of the Dai army was successful, defeating the remaining men and horses of the Xiongnu front army, but still could not change the overall situation, the Xiongnu's strength still occupied an absolute advantage, and the continuous defeat of the front army was very likely to make the Xiongnu army more vigilant, if the Xiongnu therefore switched to safe tactics and advanced step by step, it was quite unfavorable for the Bailing brigade, and now the plateau hopes that the Xiongnu army will launch a comprehensive attack on the defensive position established by the Bailing brigade regardless of a qiē, only so, Only then can the spirit of the Xiongnu army be consumed, the Xiongnu brigade can be completely defeated, the threat will be relieved, and the danger will be relieved, so that he can return to Daijun.
Therefore, Gao Yuan decided to bypass the front army of the Xiongnu and directly attack the brigade of the Xiongnu.
Although this decision seems to be risky, but if you think about it carefully, the success rate is still not small, because the front army of the Xiongnu has been stationed in Wuerlu Lake, so the Xiongnu army will definitely be stationed in Wuerlu Lake, one is that the road is familiar, and the other is close to the lake, there is a water source available, and the scouts of the Dai army have arrived in the area around Wuerlu Lake to explore, the road is not unfamiliar, and the Dai army is all cavalry, coming and going quickly, and this raid can be fully realized.
And because Wu'er Luhu is too far away, there is the front army of the Xiongnu in the middle, so the army of the Xiongnu would never think that the army would bypass the front army and attack the army of the Xiongnu directly, and it would not be prepared, and the possibility of the success of the surprise attack of the army was quite high.
In addition, the purpose of this assault is not to annihilate how many Xiongnu troops, but to provoke the Xiongnu's Shan Yu, or Fu Gongyan, because the main army was attacked by the enemy, and the blow to the whole army was completely different from the attack on the front army. If you can encounter Fu Gongyan on the battlefield, it will be even better, you can provoke the other party face-to-face.
Although the generals felt that Gao Yuan's plan was a bit risky, the effect was indeed much better than that of the front army that attacked the Xiongnu, and they trusted Gao Yuan, so they had no objections and unanimously agreed to Gao Yuan's decision.
So the army immediately took action, still leaving a small number of men and horses to guard the camp, Gao Yuan led other brigades to attack, but before leaving, Gao Yuan still warned the remaining men and horses, if there is a Xiongnu army to kill, immediately abandon the camp, retreat to the camp to join the brigade.
Gao Yuan led the Dai army, after leaving the camp, in order to avoid the spies of the Huns, took the night march, because the last battle captured a large number of war horses, so it can reach the configuration of one person and three horses, as a result, it took only two days, bypassing the front army of the Huns, and reaching the area around Wuerlu Lake.
At this time, the Xiongnu army had not yet arrived, and the Dai army could just rest its troops by the Wuerlu Lake and restore the body. However, the Dai army did not wait long, and the Xiongnu army really came to camp by the Wuerlu Lake. So in the evening, Gao Yuan immediately ordered the army to launch an attack on the Xiongnu camp.
First, the Xiongnu army came from afar, after six days of marching to reach Wu'er Lu Lake, it is indeed a sleepy horse, just want to have a good rest, there is no defense at all, and secondly, whether it is Maodun or Fu Gongyan, I did not expect that the army will pass the front army of the Huns, to attack themselves, so they did not do any precautions, not to mention that there were no fortifications, not even the soldiers on duty at night.
However, after all, the Xiongnu army has 70,000 or 80,000 horses, and the scale is much larger than the Xiongnu army in the previous war, and the size of the camp has expanded nearly ten times, and the total number of the army plus wolves is less than 2,000.
Therefore, Gao Yuan ordered that all the men and horses be divided into eight squads, each team was composed of two hundred cavalry armies, and the warriors and wolves of the Bailing tribe were also assigned to each army, and then from eight directions, they entered the Xiongnu camp, and did not mainly kill and injure the Xiongnu army, as long as they disturbed the Xiongnu camp, set fire to it. At the same time, the plateau also agreed with the various armies that the time of the battle was only one hour, and within one hour, the men and horses of each army must retreat from the camp of the Huns, meet at the place of departure, and then withdraw immediately.
After the assignment was completed, the various armies split up and slaughtered the camp of the Xiongnu army.
Because the Hun army was defenseless at this time, so all the generations of the army were very smoothly into the Huns' camp, and in the dark, the Hun army did not know how many people and horses were killed, and even the people and horses from those were not clear, and they were immediately killed by the army in chaos, many Hun soldiers were still asleep, and they were awakened in a daze, only to know that the battalion had been attacked, and there were many wolves in the army, which made some Hun soldiers think that they were attacked by wolves, and as a result, many people did not care about dressing, Running around the camp shirtless.
And the Dai army while rushing to kill and stab, while setting fire to the camp, after a while in the Huns' camp everywhere lit a little fire, by which it found the stable, the Dai army will immediately set the horse shed on fire, the fire and wolves frightened by the war horses suddenly ran around in the camp, plus the Hun soldiers collided with each other, but also made the Hun camp more chaotic.