Chapter 928: Stratagem
The whole world knew that Zhou Shaoyu had set out on an expedition, and the Turks naturally knew about it. Most of the Turkic generals thought that Zhou Shaoyu's high profile was just a bluff, and there was no need to deal with it, and it was necessary to concentrate their forces to destroy the Youwang first. Either directly send heavy troops to destroy it quickly, or avenge the old khan.
If you change your brain, you can't say that you really did it! And Ashina Huqin is obviously not.
As a murderous and narrow-minded existence that is indeed good at planning, suspicion and suspicion have naturally become one of his main characters.
Zhou Shaoyu claimed to have sent 30,000 troops over, that is, to bluff people who didn't know what to do, and when he looked at the number, he thought it was really 30,000, but the spies sent by Ashina Huqin made it very clear that the team that really moved forward would die 10,000, and the logistics grain and grass transportation team would not be much more.
Then the question is, with more than 10,000 troops, all of them are infantry, why are you here? Is it a drop in the bucket?
How can it be!
Ashina Huqin is very arrogant, and he thinks that his ability is far beyond that of his father Ashina Falcon, but he will not deny that Ashina Falcon is very weak, how can he have a certain ability, otherwise how can he lead the Ashina family to rise and dominate the grassland?
In this case, how could Zhou Shaoyu, who had defeated Ashina Falcon, be a mediocre person.
Well, in fact, it was not Zhou Shaoyu who defeated Ashina Falcon to be exact, but who made him the head? Naturally, the name was on his head.
The so-called abnormal things must have demons.
It's obviously impossible to send them to death, but people just brought such a few people over, and they made it so high-profile!
Fraud? Quite possibly!
"Mo Li, lead your Lost Division, as well as the Subalam, Geluo, and Meno Divisions, as well as the 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Xialiang Battalion to defend against the enemy, remember, be cautious, observe, and do not rashly launch an attack, beware of deception."
As Ashina Huqin's loyal ironcore, he will naturally not disobey his orders, but he will inevitably wonder, the four soldiers and horses are already 20,000 cavalry, and if you add the Xialiang battalion, this is 50,000. Just be cautious, isn't it too important?
Soon, the marching army suddenly divided 50,000 soldiers and horses to break away from the reroute, which made Ashina Huqin's headquarters less than 30,000 soldiers and horses, and 10,000 troops of the Xialiang battalion.
However, Ashina Huqin doesn't care, these soldiers and horses are all brought out by him from Yunjing, in addition to these troops, the troops who have retreated from the front line to encircle and suppress the Youwang are about to meet, and the total strength will easily reach 100,000 at that time, and I am afraid that I will not be able to suppress a small Youwang? If he really had the ability, how could he lose Youzhou so quickly.
Of course, Ashina Huqin didn't plan to go to the city of Youwang in person, what does it mean to be a man, or the empress is more expected.
A few days later, Huofeng's scouts finally found out the information that Ashina Huqin had gone to the front line in person and would arrive soon.
This news made Huofeng a little confused, how could it be so good, Ashina Huqin came here directly? Let's not mention his ability for the time being, but based on his identity alone, the soldiers and horses around him must be elite, which means that once they are matched, they are quite difficult to fight.
Frowning and pondering, Huo Feng took out another thick letter and pondered it carefully, and finally made a decision.
The letter was written by Zhou Shaoyu, and Zhou Shaoyu was going to send troops to the battle, so he would naturally say hello to her, and contact her more so that they could cooperate with each other.
And the content of the letter is far more than that, otherwise it would not be a thick one, which explains the current situation, Ashina Huqin's character analysis, and the tactics currently adopted by Huofeng in a comprehensive and detailed way.
It's like Zhou Shaoyu sending troops in a high-profile manner, firstly, in order to attract attention and make Yang Miaozhen more covert to go out to the grassland. The second is to target Ashina's suspicious temperament, so that he can be cautious, which can not only delay time, but also delay a large number of soldiers and horses.
There is actually nothing wrong with the way Ashina Huqin responded, it is impossible to send heavy troops, unless Zhou Shaoyu can be solved as quickly as possible, otherwise, if the time is delayed a little, the rear will definitely be disturbed.
And if there are fewer soldiers, if it is not good, it will be to send food to Zhou Shaoyu, not only can it not be defended, but it will also give away the head in vain, why bother.
It is the safest way to solve Zhou Shaoyu by not having many people or not, not seeking victory, but only not attacking, waiting for something else, and then concentrating forces to solve Zhou Shaoyu.
Now that this is true, it has strengthened the convincing of this letter.
Huofeng led his troops to slowly encroach northward, adopting the strategy of steadily attacking the camp, after all, recovering the lost territory is just a pretense, and it is true to attract some Turkic soldiers and horses, so that the king of Youwang can do more things on other people's territory.
However, this seemingly turtle-like strategy also has fatal omissions.
The north has little rain, a lot of dryness, and a lack of water. The camp is basically built of wood, and when a round of rockets comes down, it is basically finished.
It is not impossible to paste a layer of mud for fire prevention, but although the camp is not large, the number is a bit large, and the amount of work can not be completed for a while and a half. In other words, most of the camps that have been built at present will be forced to be abandoned.
But in this way, isn't it a waste of effort? Moreover, if the number is small, it will not form a favorable barrier, and it will not be able to better defend the cavalry. It's not good or even easy to be surrounded.
In response to this, Zhou Shaoyu also gave some suggestions, as for whether to adopt it or not, that is Huofeng's business.
On the same day, Ashina Huqin arrived at the front line, and a strange thing happened.
According to Ashina Huqin's original idea, he casually ordered a part of the Xialiang battalion to tentatively launch an attack to see the situation, and the situation was normal so far, the attack of the Xialiang battalion was strongly defended, and after attacking for a long time, there was no sign of breaking through any camp at all.
On the contrary, the camps and villages help each other, which is a headache.
"Musa's and Barr's troops attack, prepare more rockets and fire attacks." Ashina Huqin looked at the sky, then at the flag fluttering in the wind, and determined that the wind direction was also beneficial to his side.
After a short time, more than 10,000 cavalry set out, skillfully lit fire arrows on horseback, and just waited for them to enter the firing range, and then fired ten thousand arrows in unison.
Unexpectedly, when it was far from the shooting range, the camp at the front of the Huofeng army retreated on all fronts, directly abandoning the camp and fleeing backwards until it reached the relatively larger camp in the rear.
On the one hand, the Turks looked at each other, and they couldn't understand it, did they fight such a war? The ready-made camp was given away in such a good condition?
It's not suspicious, that's weird, okay.
Examine! You have to probe well!
"Report, there is nothing unusual in the vicinity within a radius of thirty miles."
"Explore, the range has expanded to fifty miles!"
"Report, there is nothing unusual about the camp abandoned by the enemy, and there is not much left, and it should be a planned evacuation of the camp."
"Have you found a lot of fire flammables?"
"Neither!"
That's amazing, isn't it?
Ashina frowned suddenly, since it was a planned evacuation, there must be some conspiracy, otherwise the good camp would be abandoned like this?
Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he gave a few orders, and immediately a group of cavalry galloped to the abandoned camp in front to investigate again.
"Report, as the Khan guessed, the abandoned camp was covered with wet mud in the back row, and the middle camp was only half completed, and the camp close to our army had not yet been completed.
In this way, it makes sense.
The camp is firmly built, and they are close to each other, which is really a good location for defense. It is no wonder that in the face of the stubborn resistance of the attack of the Xialiang battalion, and as soon as the cavalry fire was out, it immediately withdrew, presumably because it was thought that once it was attacked by fire, it would become a turtle in the urn, and it was bound to be defeated, so it was better to simply abandon it.
After all, even if these are lost, there are still many relatively larger camps in the rear, and all of them have made fire prevention projects.
In this way, the empress was also a resolute person. Interesting, interesting. Ashina Huqin was even more interested, his mind was full of fire phoenixes, and he couldn't wait to get his hands on it.
Ashina Huqin had long seen that with Huofeng's position, the current war was not about victory, but about delay, so even if the ready-made camp was thrown into his own hands, it didn't matter, because he didn't think about counterattacking at all.
This also better explains why Huofeng is so decisive in abandoning the camp and funding the enemy in disguise. Although the Turks are good at attacking and not defending, but a good camp is placed here, how can it not be used? After all, even the tent was left there and didn't move.
Since it was certain that there was nothing unusual, Ashina Huqin, who thought he had seen through the truth, immediately ordered the army to settle in.
This is basically inevitable, otherwise such a large wave of small camps will be blocked between the two armies, which will not be conducive to the attack at all, and as for destroying them all, it will be time-consuming and labor-intensive.
When he saw that the Turkic army really lived in the camp abandoned by his family, Huofeng was also a little surprised, this was inevitably a little smoother? Because even in the letter, Zhou Shaoyu bluntly said that this method is not very graspable, or even very small, because Ashina is arrogant and at the same time, he is indeed a cautious person. The reason why it is still so recommended is also because it can't be kept anyway, and it must be retreated, since this is the case, it is better to try, there will definitely be losses, but it will not be too big, and once it succeeds, it will be a big profit.
It's just that Zhou Shaoyu and Huofeng would have thought that the reason why Ashina Huqin took the bait was not because he was not cautious and smart enough, but because he was 'the first to be sexual'! But isn't it, my mind is full of impatience to capture the fire phoenix.
In the middle of the night, it stands to reason that both armies should be out of rest, and with such a tight camp defense, no one would be stupid enough to think that a night attack could be successful. In this case, while patrolling and guarding are strengthened, others can rest in peace.
I never thought that the fire phoenix didn't play cards according to common sense at all.
In the middle of the night, the army assembled, and actually took the initiative to arrange troops in addition to the camp, not only that, but also beat the war drums with great fanfare, and it was difficult not to pay attention.
What does this mean? Directly start Armageddon on the first night? Could it be that there are reinforcements? But the uninterrupted spies only reported at twelve o'clock, and there was no shadow of other armies in the surrounding area for dozens of miles.
Ashina Huqin only felt more and more suspicious, but the matter has come to this point, it can't be regarded as not seeing, the response must be made, what if people really fight?
Riding on a tall horse, Ashina Huqin still couldn't figure it out, but the fire phoenix's side did put on an offensive posture.
Not only is the front of the camp lined up, but even the camp is densely packed, as for why it can be seen so clearly in the middle of the night......
Nonsense, the number of torches is uncountable, and the light is bright, and it is strange that the two armies can't see it clearly at such a distance.
"Could it be that there is a trap at this distance?" Ashina Huqin stared at the flat terrain between the two armies and observed carefully, but he really couldn't see why, at least his own spies had found out that there were no traps on the side close to him.
As for the fire phoenix, it was a little uncertain, because the spies couldn't get by, and as soon as they got close, a bunch of arrows were shot.
But seeing that the Fire Phoenix army did not attack in a single formation, and was waiting for you to attack, Ashina Huqin felt more and more that the possibility of a trap was very high.
So, this confrontation directly confronted each other for an hour! With such a high intensity, stay vigilant, even if you sit dry, you will be tired early. Especially the army brought by Ashina Huqin, on the first day of rushing over, the people were sleepy and tired, and they didn't have enough rest at all.
On the contrary, it was the fire phoenix side, a large part of them had already rested during the day, and they didn't see a fight in the abandoned camp in front of them, but in fact, it was just a part of the people.
"Let the Xialiang battalion be the striker and attack it." Ashina Huqin ran out of patience, anyway, in his eyes, human life is not a matter, what if there is a trap, it's a big deal to fill it with human life, anyway, it's not a Turk.
Of course, there were no traps, and the soldiers and horses of the Xialiang battalion easily rushed to the front, and the two soldiers fought one after another.
It's just that the Fire Phoenix Army, which is relatively full of spirits, has an obvious upper hand in the battle situation, and almost suppresses the Xialiang Battalion to fight again, but the Fire Phoenix has also made a bloody investment, and put its own most elite army on the front line, which is not surprising with this result.
The unexpected was Ashina Huqin.
No traps? But if it weren't for that, where would Huofeng have the courage to fight a decisive battle with him? Could it be that there are other back-ups?
The more he thought about Ashina Huqin, the more suspicious he became, seeing that the Xialiang battalion in front of him was about to be defeated, at this time he either ordered a general attack or Mingjin signaled to collect the troops, and under the hesitation of the guest, Ashina Huqin did not react immediately.
To be honest, Ashina Huqin admits that he has fought a lot of wars, but it is the first time he has encountered such a strange war that is not right everywhere.
In fact, Zhou Shaoyu also made it clear that no matter whether it succeeds or not, it is estimated that similar tricks can only be used once.
Hesitating, Ashina snorted and smelled a burning smell, at the same time, there was a lot of commotion in the army, and he turned his head, but saw that the camp in the rear had already ignited a fire, and new flames were still burning.
Doesn't that mean there are no flammables? Ashina's face changed drastically.
"Charge the whole army!" The empress drew her sword and shouted angrily, accompanied by the horn of the charge, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were like rainbows, shouting and killing and going straight towards the Turkic army!
(End of chapter)