Gao Yuan shook his head and said, "I think there is fraud in it."

Yuan Xuan said: "There is fraud, what is the fraud?" ”

Gao Yuan said: "The Huns began to raid this earthen fort last night, although the Huns did not bring siege equipment, but they raided at night, and it is reasonable to say, but since there is no raid, and the Huns do not have the equipment to attack the city, so now they should either retreat, or they should turn to attack elsewhere, but the Huns did not do it, and just ran around the city wall and shot arrows, until now, isn't it strange?" ”

Yuan Xuan was stunned for a moment, thought about it carefully, nodded his head, and said, "What the lord said is good, is it indeed a little strange?" ”

Ling Feng said: "Maybe the Huns didn't know the situation here because they thought that we were still a former village, so they didn't bring the siege equipment, and when they arrived here, they found that this area was full of such earthen forts, even if they were transferred to attack other places, but the Huns were not willing to return empty-handed, so they had to spend it like this." ”

Gao Yuan said with a smile: "Although the Huns have not gone south in a big way for many years, there are small groups of men and horses attacking every year, so it is impossible not to understand the situation here, since this time there are more troops than before, it must have been carefully prepared, either it is to raid at night, or it should bring some siege equipment to prepare for a strong attack, and it will never be like this." ”

Ling Feng said: "Why is that? ”

Yuan Xuan and Gao Yuan glanced at each other, and Yuan Xuan smiled and said: "I see, it seems that the Huns are a little clever." ”

Gao Yuan also said: "It's really a little clever, but it's a pity that it's too obvious, this is called wanting to cover up." ”

Ling Feng was confused when he heard this, and said, "What Xiao Congshu, what is it that wants to cover up, what is going on?" ”

Yuan Xuan glared at him and said, "You have been in the army for four or five years, why can't you even see such a little trick?" Didn't the Huns understand how to lure the enemy deeper? They are now besieging this castle and not fighting, just waiting for our reinforcements to arrive, I bet that in the distant woods, there must still be a lot of Huns in ambush, as long as we attack the Hun army, they will immediately come out of the woods and catch us off guard, so the Huns are a little clever. ”

Only then did Ling Feng come to his senses and said, "So that's the case, so what should we do?" Do you want to send someone into the woods to investigate? ”

Gao Yuan shook his head and said: "No need, you see that there are many birds in the woods, which means that there must be a large army in and out of the woods, and the Huns must have people and horses ambushed in the woods." Therefore, we still follow what General Yuan said, divide the troops into three routes, and flank this Xiongnu army. ”

Ling Feng said: "Since there is an ambush of the Xiongnu army in the woods, then why do we still send troops to flank the Xiongnu army. ”

But Yuan Xuan laughed out loud and said: "I understand, the lord is really resourceful, and this time the Huns are afraid to suffer a big loss." He turned his head to look at Ling Feng and said, "Do you want to know what's going on?" Let's take a look. ”

As he spoke, everyone rode back to the brigade, and Gao Yuan immediately ordered the cavalry of the Jinyong Army to attack first, according to Yuan Xuanjian, divided into three ways to attack, with 500 men and horses on the left and right wings, and 1,000 men and horses in the middle, to attack the Xiongnu army besieging Tubao.

Sure enough, seeing that a representative army was charging over, the Hun army turned their horses' heads one after another and was defeated in the direction of the woods. Although the first half of the Xiongnu army ran out of the attack range of the representative army, the second half was intercepted by the representative army, and at this time the Xiongnu army was in retreat, which was not conducive to combat, so it was cut into two sections by the representative army.

When the first half of the Xiongnu army found out that the situation was wrong, the second half of the men and horses had been surrounded by the Dai army and fell into a bitter battle, and the first half of the Xiongnu army was also in a dilemma at this time.

As Gao Yuan expected, this Hun group was indeed on the task of luring the enemy. It turned out that after the defeat of Yinshan, the Xiongnu suffered heavy losses, and the population of more than 100,000 was lost at once, and it also became the most tragic defeat after being defeated by Li Mu that year.

After the Huns suffered this big loss, they did not dare to go south in Qingyi, and at this time, several grassland tribes of Yueshi, Ding Ling, Hun Yu, Qu She, Qi Kun, and Xinli formed an alliance, headed by Yueshi, united to fight against the Xiongnu, and also restrained most of the energy of the Huns, so in the past few years, the Huns have been fighting fiercely with various parts of the grassland, and it is true that they do not have much energy to go south to plunder.

However, the strength of the grassland tribes is still inferior to the Xiongnu after all, after several years of fierce battles, finally defeated by the Xiongnu, the strongest Yueshi withdrew more than 2,000 miles to the northwest, so in the entire grassland, there is no longer a tribe that can compete with the Xiongnu, and in the past few years of conquest, the Xiongnu also annexed more than a dozen small tribes, obtained hundreds of thousands of people, more than 100,000 cattle, sheep and livestock, and greatly increased the strength.

So at this time, the leader of the Xiongnu, Mandanyu, moved the idea of going south to plunder. Because the Xiongnu have always lived by plundering, and after there is no object to loot on the grassland, they naturally target the south; Second, the Chinese nation is mainly agricultural, many things are needed by the Xiongnu, which is grain, cloth, ironware, bronze utensils, etc., are sought-after goods in the Xiongnu tribe, generally speaking, robbing a village of 100 households, harvesting more materials than robbing a tribe.

But the defeat of Yinshan a few years ago, still made Tou Manshan have palpitations, although on the surface, the territory and population of the Xiongnu have increased greatly, but most of the population has been added to other tribes, and it is still very unreliable, and although the other tribes have fled thousands of miles away, but for the grassland peoples, thousands of miles away is not too far, they can definitely make a comeback, so if the Huns experience another defeat of Yinshan, then the seemingly huge Xiongnu Empire may soon collapse.

After discussing with the magnates of the Xiongnu, Tou Mandan decided to send Tou Mandan Yu Zhi, the king of Zuogu Li, to lead the left and right generals of the Xiongnu, and allocated 5,000 men and horses to plunder in the south, and it was also a test of the strength of Yanmen Pass.

Mao Dun was the eldest son of Touman Danyu, and although he was not very old, he was a famous warrior among the Xiongnu tribes, he was good at riding and archery at an early age, and even more brave as an adult.

A few years ago, the Xiongnu had formed an alliance with the Yueshi tribe, and the leaders of the two sides exchanged hostages with each other, so Tou Mandanyu sent Mao Dun to the Yue tribe as a hostage, but soon after, the Xiongnu and the Yue tribe had a bad relationship and started a fierce battle, the proton of the Yue tribe was killed by the Xiongnu, but Mao Dun killed the guards in the Yue tribe, stole a good horse, and fled back to the Xiongnu overnight.

Tou Manshan was very happy to see Mao Dun's wit and bravery, and named him the king of Zuogu Li, and ordered him to lead ten thousand horsemen to fight with him. In the subsequent battle of the Xiongnu to conquer the grassland, Mao Dun made great achievements and established a great reputation on the grassland. Therefore, this time, Tou Mandan Yucai ordered Mao Dun to lead 5,000 men and horses to the south to plunder.

In recent years, the Xiongnu tribe has a small group of people and horses to plunder southward every year, and there are caravans to come and go, so there is still a certain understanding of the situation in Yanmen Pass, knowing that the Zhao State has perished, and now the ruler of the Daijun and Yanmen areas is called the plateau, I heard that he is the son of Li Mu, the famous general who defeated the Xiongnu in Yanmen Pass, and a few years ago, it was he who led the army, raided Yinshan, and defeated the Xiongnu again. And in Yanmen and outside the recruitment of many grassland tribes to settle, and built a large number of earthen forts, these earthen forts made the Hun cavalry very headache.

Therefore, Mao Dun did not dare to be careless, after thinking twice, Mao Dun finally came up with a plan, he divided a thousand men and horses, ordered the left general to support the Luo commander, and attacked an earthen fort at night, if it can succeed, it is naturally good, if it can not succeed, it will feign an attack, induce the army to come to help, and Mao Dun and the right general Kalugu led the remaining 4,000 men and horses, ambushed in the woods near the earthen fort. When the reinforcements of the Dai army came, Fu Huluo immediately led the Huns to retreat in the direction of the woods, leading the Dai army closer to the woods, and then Mao Dun and Kalugu led the army to kill, and they could defeat the Dai army in one fell swoop.

And after defeating the Dai army, you can wait for the opportunity to move, if you have the opportunity to conquer the earth fort, you can loot for a while, and if you can't capture the earth fort, you can withdraw the army and go back, anyway, you can win for a while, and you can also explain to Tou Manshan Yu when you go back.

However, although Mao Dun's idea was good, the process of the battle was not under his control, and Fu Huluo, who was originally serving as a lure to the enemy, failed to retreat with his whole body, and the second half was cut off by the cavalry of the Dai army and fell into encirclement.

What shocked Mao Dun even more was that the tactics of the Acting Army Cavalry were clearly the usual tactics used by wolves when hunting. It turns out that in the legend of the Huns, the Huns are the grandsons of the wolf clan, so they take the wolf as a totem and know the habits of the wolf very well.

When the wolves are hunting, they are not blindly following and chasing, because there are many animals on the grassland whose running speed is not below the wolves, so when the wolves are hunting, they are accustomed to using this kind of rear tail chase, left and right flank outflank tactics, and later the Huns also learned this tactic and applied it to the battle. It's just that how can the Dai army also use this tactic?

In fact, this kind of frontal attack, outflanking left and right, is one of the most basic tactics of the cavalry, of course, it is similar to the wolf pack hunting tactics, but in this era, this is definitely an advanced tactic.

Of course, tactics are not a big problem, but what makes Mao Dun a headache is what to do now? Because of the encirclement of a part of the Hun army, the Dai army does not seem to plan to pursue anymore, first destroy this part of the encircled Hun army, and now the Dai army is still three or four miles away from the woods, if it is killed at this time, it will lose the effect of the surprise attack, but still do not move, then the Hun army surrounded by the Dai army will definitely be wiped out, so Mao Dun also feels in a dilemma.