Chapter 713: After the Break

After evacuating the Xiongnu camp, Gao Yuan rushed back to the place of departure with a group of men and horses, at this time there were four groups of men and horses back first, and after a short time, several other groups of people and horses also arrived one after another, and the plateau converged. After a simple count, in this sortie, a total of twelve soldiers were killed, and another forty-three people were wounded, but fortunately, they were not seriously injured, and fifteen wolves were also killed.

Although there are no statistics on the results of the killing of Hun soldiers, the Dai army are all battle-hardened soldiers, so it is roughly estimated how many Hun soldiers were killed. The results of the debate were certainly not as good as the previous night attack on the Xiongnu's front army, but Gao Yuan was still very satisfied with the results of this long-distance attack. After all, the main purpose of this adventurous assault was not to kill and injure the living forces of the Xiongnu army, but to provoke the Xiongnu army and lead them to launch a full-scale attack on their own station. And this goal has obviously been achieved.

So Gao Yuan also immediately ordered the whole army to set off and return to the camp overnight. The soldiers of the Dai army all changed their horses, and then, under the leadership of the plateau, they beat their horses and whips, and took advantage of the night to rush to the direction of their own camp.

In this raid, the army was prepared according to one man and three horses, raided the camp of the Huns, the soldiers only rode one horse to fight, and two-thirds of the horses stayed at the place of departure, and these horses were fully rested, and they were able to rush at full speed on the way back. Therefore, the speed of the return journey of the army was extremely fast, and by the time dawn it had already traveled for more than an hour, and almost ran a distance of nearly 100 miles, and more than a dozen war horses that participated in the raid were killed in the middle because of their lack of health.

Although the whole army was very tired at this time, the plateau did not let the soldiers stay and rest, after all, this time it was to bypass the front army camp of the Huns, and directly attack the camp of the Huns, but after the front army camp of the Huns learned the news, it was very likely that they would intercept the army halfway, so the army was not safe at this time, and it was necessary to rush back to the camp in one breath before the front army of the Huns learned the news. So Gao Yuan ordered the soldiers to change their horses again and continue on their way.

Although the replaced war horses also followed the army for nearly a hundred miles, they had rested well before, and they were empty, so the consumption of the body was not large, and there was still enough spare strength to advance, of course, the speed of the whole army was still reduced a lot.

So the group walked for more than five hours, and in the afternoon, they changed their horses twice, and finally arrived at the camp. At this time, the whole army had been running for more than eight hours in a row, and after running 2670 miles, they were already sleepy and lacking horses, and more than 100 horses were killed on the way. Four other wounded soldiers died in the waves. Many of the soldiers dismounted and were unable to stand on their feet.

Gao Yuan didn't feel tired, so after dismounting, he immediately arranged, first let the people left in the camp arrange for the soldiers to rest, and then let the women of the Bailing tribe treat the injured soldiers, and then asked the people left behind to ask what had happened in the past few days.

Overall, during the time when the plateau left, there was nothing major happening in the camp, Yun Yao would send letters to the camp every day, reporting the progress of the construction of the fortifications, and now it was basically formed, so Zhong Gongqi thought that the plateau could lead the army to retreat, and at the same time sent six hundred heavy armored cavalry to meet them. In addition, just yesterday, two Hun cavalry squads approached within ten miles of the camp, although they were driven away by the Dai army, they must have found the camp of the Dai army, but the camp of the Xiongnu front army has not moved.

After listening, Gao Yuan also thought that it was time to set off and join the brigade, because now the Hun army could be killed at any time, but the soldiers were already very tired after days of running, and they had to rest at least one night before they could set off again, so Gao Yuan also decided to set off early tomorrow morning.

After resting for the night, although the exhaustion was not completely recovered, the body of the men and horses was also mostly recovered, and the camp set up by the large group of men and horses was only more than a hundred miles away from here, so it would definitely take a day to arrive. Gao Yuan also felt that there was no need to hurry to the road, and it would take some time to clean up the camp, and he did not rush the army, so it was not until after the three strokes were made that everything was cleaned up.

But at this moment, a scout came to report that a Hun army was marching in the direction of the camp, less than twenty miles from the camp.

It turned out that the main general of the Xiongnu front army, Kalugu, was Mao Dun's henchman, and he was very loyal to Mao Dun, he was originally responsible for finding the whereabouts of the Bailing brigade, and after the front army was attacked by the Dai army at night, he did not dare to be careless, collected the defeated soldiers of the Long Front Army, camped in the same place, and strengthened the vigilance, in case of being attacked by the Dai army again, only sent a large number of scouts to look for the Dai Army's camp.

In fact, Kalugu didn't know that at this time, he was only more than a hundred miles away from the large camp of the Dai Army. This distance may be considered a safe distance on the battlefields of the Chinese countries, but in the grassland, it is not far at all, and if the fast horse gallops, it can be completed in just over an hour.

However, after several days of searching, the Huns' spies finally found the location of the camp of the Dai army, so Kalugu also ordered someone to pass the news to Mao Dun overnight, and asked Mao Dun to quickly lead the army to come, but on this day, Kalugu received a reply from Mao Dun, only to know that the original Xiongnu camp was attacked by the Dai army, and Mao Dun also almost died, and Mao Dun ordered Kalugu to immediately send troops, rushed to the vicinity of the Dai army's camp, and firmly stared at the Dai army, this time the Dai army must not be let go.

After Kalugu received the order, he was also taken aback, and he didn't expect that the Dai army actually bypassed his camp and went to sneak attack Shan Yu's army, which was not more than three hundred miles, and it was not much worse. And he didn't even have a sense of it, although it was said that the grassland was conducive to such a large-scale detour of the cavalry, but such a long-distance raid by the army was rare. At least Kalugu doesn't think he has the guts.

However, he did not dare to disobey Maudun's order, but he was afraid of being raided by the Dai army again, after all, the realization of the Dai army's performance was too unpredictable, who would have thought that the Dai army would bypass his camp and attack Maudun's army? Moreover, Kalugu has participated in the battle with the Dai army outside the Yanmen Pass, and knows that the Dai army is well-equipped, the armor is strong and the spear is sharp, the riding skills are skillful, the training is well-trained, and the combat effectiveness is strong, and it is not under the Hun army at all, so now Kalugu does not dare to underestimate the Dai army at all, and the Dai army is at war, and anything can happen.

After collecting the defeated troops of the previous army, there are now about 15,000 men and horses under Kalugu, so Kalugu came up with a way, first send 5,000 men and horses, and rush to the vicinity of the camp of the representative army to monitor the representative army, if there is an ambush on the way, either retreat back in time, or wait for reinforcements in the same place, and if there is no ambush on the way, he will lead the rest of the men and horses to rush there.

Knowing that there was a Hun army approaching the camp, Gao Yuan thought about it for a while, and thought that it was still not to be taken lightly, and he had to leave a team of men and horses behind, after all, he was in the midst of retreating, and it was indeed a very dangerous thing to leave a Hun army behind him. In case it is bitten by the Hun army, although it is not difficult for the Dai army to get out, I am afraid that it will still suffer considerable losses, but now the Dai army cannot afford such losses.

So Gao Yuan decided to let Ling Feng lead the men and horses first, and he and Ah Ran Shi Qiqi, Shui Xinyue, Chun Yu Zhongxiu, and Xiaobai stayed behind to stop the pursuing soldiers, and left with them to break the rear army, including three hundred Fan brave troops, three hundred heavy armored cavalry and one hundred scouts, a total of seven hundred people, each with three war horses.

After Ling Feng received the order, he had to lead the rest of the men and horses first, while Gao Yuan and the others stayed in place, waiting for the arrival of the Xiongnu army, and at the same time, Gao Yuan also released two kestrel in the sky to observe the movements of the Xiongnu army and prevent the Xiongnu army from bypassing them and pursuing Ling Feng's brigade.

However, the camp of the Xiongnu army that the Xiongnu army had previously explored was here, so they did not make a detour to pursue, and still marched towards them, and the scouts also continued to report the location of the Xiongnu army to the plateau, so that the plateau knew the movements of the Xiongnu army well.

In a short time, the Hun army appeared on the horizon of the steppe, and gradually approached. The Dai army also quickly lined up, and the three hundred heavy armored cavalry soldiers were already dressed in heavy armor, lined up in five rows, each row had sixty cavalry, and spread out horizontally, reaching more than one hundred and twenty steps, and on the left and right sides, there were one hundred and fifty cavalry of the Fan Yong Army, and the scout army was behind the heavy armored cavalry.

At the front of the queue, Gao Yuan, Ah Ran Shi Qi, Shui Xinyue, Chun Yu Zhongxiu, and Xiaobai, four horses and one wolf, stood in a row.

After getting closer, the Hun army also saw the array of the Dai army, although the number was small, but the queue was neat, the military appearance was solemn, and at a glance it was a well-trained army, plus the Hun army was raided by the Dai army twice before, before sending troops, Kalugu also repeatedly told them that in the face of the Dai army, do not be careless, and must be careful of the attack of the Dai army. Now seeing that the Dai army has already arranged the array and is ready for battle, the Hun army also subconsciously stopped the war horses and did not dare to advance.

The men and horses on both sides were separated by a distance of two or three hundred paces, and they held each other.

At this time, the plateau also saw very clearly, the number of the Hun army was about four or five thousand people, of course, much more than themselves, although the lineup was scattered, the people and horses were uneven, the clothes and ornaments were different, but every Hun soldier was quite fierce, and it also showed that the grassland nomads were all soldiers, and everyone was an excellent soldier.

After ten minutes, neither side launched an attack on the other side, the Dai army was usually trained strictly, so that they didn't feel anything, but the Hun army gradually became a little unbreathable, and many people rode horses in circles.