Chapter 27 The Pu Tribe
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At about two o'clock in the morning, the residents and soldiers of the vast Xupu tribe fell into a deep sleep.
On the dark grassland, a little bonfire illuminates the land that occupies a radius of more than ten miles, and several bonfires on the aisle of the Xupu tribe are still burning gently, and from time to time there is a crackling sound from a few bonfires burning wood.
The howl of the wolves in the distance echoed in this dark world, and the sheep that were locked up in the sheepfold could not help but tremble when they heard the wolf howl, because there was no moon tonight, and there was nothing to see in the night when I couldn't see my fingers, and it was dark.
The Pu tribe, with a total population of 160,000, is a large tribe in the true sense, not only that, but also has more than 5,000 elite Hun cavalry here, benefiting from the training of the leaders of the Pu tribe, the combat effectiveness of the 5,000 elite cavalry is stronger than the combat effectiveness of the 3,000 cavalry of the Wulu tribe.
Just by looking at the branches of the tribal tents and the construction of various fortifications, we can know that the combat power of the Hun cavalry here and the commanders of the local generals are enough to be called the most powerful soldiers and horses in the entire Hexi vassal country, and even the ace cavalry under the command of the Hun Evil King and others can fight.
If you look at the Xupu tribe from the sky at this moment, you can clearly find that the Xupu tribe is perfectly divided into three parts, there is a high walled wall in the outermost part of the Xupu tribe, about three meters long, and hundreds of patrolling Hun archers have been stationed on the walled wall for many years, and the whole walled wall is circular, stretching for dozens of miles, firmly protecting the entire Xupu tribe inside.
In this circular protective wall, is the same circular branch of the tent, one after another, the hierarchy is clear, in the outermost tent is the Hun cavalry lived, in a circle, is the barracks, and behind the residents tents are 500 meters apart, with the distance to cut the barracks and the dwellings, this is the first part of the Pu tribe, here there are 2,000 Hun cavalry lived, only the Hun cavalry.
At the rear of the barracks, there were more camps than before, but much simpler, standing on the ground in a circle, and these tents occupied almost eighty percent of the area of the Xupu tribe, and all the people living here were ordinary people, that is, the second part.
In the center of the tribe is a tall round tent with a golden roof, which is where the chief of the province lives, and it is arguably the most luxurious tent of all the vassal states to date.
There is a tall walled wall at the outermost part of the tribe, followed by the first barracks, then the dwellings of the common people, and then the golden-roofed tent of the leader of the Pu.
The whole tribe formed into a circle, guarding the golden-domed tent, and in fact, near the tent of the chieftain of the Pupu, a third line of 500 meters separating the dwellings from the barracks appeared, and the last 3,000 Hun cavalry were stationed here to protect the safety of their leader.
This is the branch of the Pu tribe, layer upon layer, very spectacular.
With the help of the evil king, the Xupu tribe built a high wall, and the soldiers got precious weapons, and the leader of the Xupu himself was not a good thing, and he liked to rob, so under his bandit-like style of acting and strong military strength, many ethnic minorities in Hexi had suffered from his plunder.
Over the years, there have been many tribes that have been bullied by the Xupu tribe, including the Invite Zi tribe.
And the old leader of the Invite Zi tribe also told Huo Qu in detail about the defense of the Pu tribe and the distribution of soldiers and horses, all in all, the Pu tribe is completely transparent in Huo Quzhi's eyes, he knows everything, even the leader of the Pu tribe likes to drink, and he knows what he drinks.
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At two o'clock in the morning, this time is when people are sleeping deeply, and the entire Xupu tribe is silent, even the soldiers standing guard on the wall are sleeping, it can almost be said that the entire Xupu tribe is asleep.......
Although at ten o'clock, the leader of the Pu tribe, Le Bumei, learned about the surprise attack of the Han army, but he didn't pay much attention to it, looking at the leader of the Wudi tribe who fled from the Wulu tribe like a lost dog, Le Bumei comforted him a few times in line with the idea of appeasing the dog's legs, and asked the old leader of Wuxi not to worry, he will have a good rest here today, and tomorrow he will send someone to report to the evil king of Hun that he will be able to get rid of this group of Han troops as soon as possible.
Le Bumi is a military general, he still knows a lot about military affairs, through the description of the old leader of the Wulu tribe, he immediately concluded that this group of Han troops is a lone army in depth, without any backup, even more than 10,000 people in the sky, since this is the case, with the five thousand elite horsemen in his hands to drag them for three or four days should not be a problem, and by that time, the evil king of Hun has already brought troops to help, and with the joint efforts of the two parties, there is no problem in annihilating these Han troops.
So he was not in a hurry, and he was not worried at all.
But Le Bumi didn't expect that in the face of Huo Qu's illness, let alone three or four days, he couldn't even hold on for two hours......
When the old leader of the Wulu tribe came to report the news, it was already ten o'clock in the evening, at that time Le Bumei was drinking wine, after receiving the news of the accident of the Wulu tribe, Le Bumei calmed the leader of the Wuxi, and after pacifying, he asked people to take the leader of the Wulu and his party to rest, after that, he drank three jars of mare's milk wine in the big tent alone, and then he hugged his wife and fell asleep deeply.
Tonight, he didn't arrange for anyone to strengthen vigilance, and even drank boldly with peace of mind, there was only one reason, he didn't believe that Huo Qubing could appear in front of him tonight, because he heard what the leader of Wulu said, when these Han troops launched an attack on the Wudi tribe, everyone was a servant of the dust, presumably they had been marching for a long time before this, although they defeated the Wuli tribe by surprise, but they were not people? Don't they need to rest?
Le Bumei calculated, he is about one hundred and sixty miles away from the Wudi tribe, the leader of the Wuli led people all the way to run all the way for five hours to come to him, of course, there is time to rest, and the Han army will definitely spend a lot of time in order to clean up the mess of the Wuli country, and today will definitely not continue to send troops, and according to the marching speed of the Han army, it will not stop all the way, and it will take about three or four hours to arrive here.
Le Bumi expected that Huo Qu would not be able to appear in front of him until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest, and now he was more at ease, Le Bumi made up his mind, he had to rest well tonight, and tomorrow he was reorganizing the army and had a good fight with the Han army!
Lebumi made a big mistake, this mistake...... It seems that a person will commit it, because the current Huo Qubing is not a blue wolf for the Huns, just a nameless person, no one knows this rookie of the Han army, let alone what his combat style is.
Huo Quzhi's combat style, obviously, simply put, is four words, the soldier is fast, what he is best at fighting is a long-distance run, so as to suddenly launch a blitzkrieg, to deal with such an enemy, his opponent should be ready to fight all the time, even if you get the news one second he is still a hundred miles away, the next second, I don't know if he has already waved his knife in front of you.
Yes, it's already here.
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Huo Qubing was an attack on the Wulu tribe at about 12:50 p.m., it took more than two hours to capture all the fleeing captives, and ordered people to rest for two hours, and then embarked on the journey again, the leader of Huo Qubing thought that Huo Quai's army could reach the Wupu tribe at least eight hours, but Huo Qubing gave him a big surprise, he only took six hours to arrive at the Pu tribe.
That is to say, Huo Qubing led people all the way to the vicinity of the Xupu tribe at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and when there were still ten miles away from the Xupu tribe, Huo Qubing ordered the soldiers to dismount, advance carefully, and never be discovered by the Hun patrol sentry.
Contrary to Huo Quai's expectations, until he led people to the position three miles outside the Xupu tribe, he still didn't see a Xiongnu sentry, and the defense of the Xupu tribe was really not ordinarily low.
That's right, now is not a war period, there is only one Han army in the entire Hexi, and the Xupu tribe is still the most powerful Xiongnu vassal state in the entire Hexi land, and no one will have the courage to trouble them.
With the help of the cover of night, Huo Qubing and his 10,000 soldiers lurked on a grassland three miles away from the Pu tribe.
In order to prevent the Huns from escaping after the battle began, Huo Qubing divided his soldiers into two parts, each with 5,000 people, lurking in the two directions behind the Pu tribe, staying for two hours, that is, at two o'clock in the morning, after the Huns really fell asleep, the army launched an attack from both directions at the same time.
It is true that it is very sturdy to build the wall built by the Huns, and if it is attacked during the day, it may have to pay a lot of price, but this is at night, and it is easy to break into it...... And as long as he guards the front and back gates, these hundreds of thousands of people will not become turtles in the urn? There's nowhere to run.
Le Bumi never dreamed that the sturdy wall he had people build, instead of protecting himself at a critical moment, would become a prison to imprison him, which is really unpredictable.
However, during the attack, Huo Qubing also issued a military order, that is, he was not allowed to shout loudly at will, and he should treat himself as a group of mutes who only knew how to kill.
When Huo Quzhi gave this order, he mainly looked at what Zhang Taishu said, for fear that he would open his voice and hurt him, he didn't want the Huns to react so quickly, after all, there were still three thousand elite horsemen in the center of the Xupu tribe.