Chapter 731: Raging Rouran
Yunzhong, Wuhuan and other three counties are also mostly good men who like to eat meat and drink a lot of wine. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
If these counties are fierce in terms of people's customs, they are still faintly superior to the western frontier, but there are elements of the True God Sect in the western frontier, so it is more complicated to calculate the combat power of the two sides.
The three real people in the alliance of the three counties actually agreed with Ding Qinglian's meaning, 3,000 people entered Rouran, and 6,000 people entered, it was not much different, but it was easier to protect.
But the rangers of the three counties did not agree, 6,000 people went to 3,000 people, who went and who did not go?
They are actually not afraid of death, but they are afraid that it is meaningless to die, there are more than 20 real people, even if they encounter the anti-hunting team, everyone is confident that they will fight, even if they escape, they will not be so embarrassed.
As the saying goes, wine is bold and courageous, and it is not false to have confidence.
At this time, it would be a great shame if anyone was persuaded to stay in Middle-earth: why should I not go if you can, this Nima...... Is it a joke that I'm cowardly? Why don't we do it first?
On the occasion of this kind of big gathering of rangers, if you are labeled as a coward, your reputation will be completely ruined, and even if you go back to your hometown, you will have no face to see anyone.
In order to avoid angering Ding Qinglian, they had to explain to him tactfully: There are many people and few people, it is indeed different.
The range of 6,000 people must be larger than 3,000 people, even if it is less than twice as large, it is still about the same as 50%.
And the materials they plundered were not packed in storage bags - cattle and sheep, if they could be brought back alive, would certainly be better than bringing back beef and mutton, and they could be raised and bred alive.
As for horses, this is even more so, not only is horse meat unpalatable, but in the three counties, basically no one eats it.
This relates to another saying, horses are psychic, and people who have eaten horse meat can feel it.
Therefore, in the three counties and the western frontier, few people eat horse meat, and if they eat horse meat, they can't be warriors, and the horse will instinctively reject you.
It is nonsense to say that nomads have a deep relationship with horses and do not eat horse meat, and there are a lot of people who eat dog meat in Middle-earth, which does not prevent them from raising dogs, but horse meat ...... Only those who don't ride horses very much will eat it.
This is a long way off, in any case, a lot of supplies, and a lot of manpower, can be transported back to Middle-earth.
Ding Qinglian didn't bother to bother with them anymore, and came back to talk to Li Yongsheng, Ding Qingyao and Fang Zhenren, and everyone decided that since this is the case, then 6,000 people will enter Rouran.
Strictly speaking, there are many people who enter Rouran, and it is not a bad thing, the days of Middle-earth are a bit long, and if such days continue, it is easy to wear out people's blood.
It may be a bit anti-human to say this, who also hopes for a peace that will remain unchanged for 10,000 years, but this is impossible, peace is not managed, but fought, as long as there is a struggle for living space, war is inevitable.
Fighting two battles from time to time can not only make people tighten their strings and cherish the hard-won peace, but also properly temper the team.
Moreover, the more people who enter Rouran, the more supplies can be looted, and the greater the damage to Rouran's war potential.
At the beginning of the third day, it was just getting dark, and Li Yongsheng and others quietly rose out of camp.
Twenty miles away, the coalition forces of the three counties also began to pull out their camps, but the rangers were no better than the regular army after all, although they had tried to keep a low profile as much as possible, but there was still a little movement.
It doesn't matter, even if it is detected by the spies, it is now dark, and the Rouran side wants to respond, but it is also trapped in the sky and cannot react in time.
More than 6,000 people quietly came to the Rouran border, but it was already the beginning of Yin, that is, more than three o'clock in the middle of the night, and the border line here was a flat river, and the huge border line could not prevent the 6,000 people from suddenly attacking.
In fact, the border line full of sieves has been a headache for Rouran recently.
In the past, when they plundered Middle-earth, they felt that such a border was really good, and they could enter Middle-earth from any place they chose, which was much better than those borders with strong and dangerous passes.
Now, as the plundered party, they are eager to build a great wall of their own house, leaving only a few passes for people to attack, so that the pressure on defense will be much lessened.
But this is unrealistic, and the poor and weak national strength of the Rouran country cannot afford to build the Great Wall.
However, there is a way to be poor and weak, and what Rouran Country chooses is to stick to the location where several oases are concentrated.
If Middle-earth chooses to attack from these areas, it will encounter strong resistance, and if it knocks from other places, it will face problems with the supply of fresh water.
Of course, there is no way to do it, if Middle-earth prepares a large number of storage bags, food and water will not be a problem.
However, such a predicament is insoluble for the Rouran Kingdom, and it is impossible for them to give up clinging to those oases.
You know, once the Oasis is occupied by the Middle-earthers, it is not only about providing food and water to the other side, but when the Middle-earthers evacuate the oasis, there is a good chance that they will destroy the pastures and poison the water sources.
That's right, even if they want to leave, they will not leave their resources intact and destroy the enemy's war potential as much as possible, which is what every qualified general understands - the cruelty of war is here.
There is no virgin in the Xuanqing plane, no virgin, no virgin!
Just like during the Great Patriotic War, when the Crescent Kingdom evacuated Middle-earth, it made a mess of Middle-earth's luck.
If the country loses the oasis on the border, it will also suffer heavy losses, and it will not be able to slow down at all in three or five years -- the recovery of the oasis will not happen overnight.
However, it is really amazing that such a small country, a small country with not very good border defense, has repeatedly provoked Middle-earth...... How can you just die?
At the right time, when the vanguard troops approached the border, a firework was raised, and on the border line of more than two hundred miles, the rangers of the three counties launched a comprehensive attack on the Rouran Kingdom.
The three points of breakthrough they chose were all weak points in the defense, and not only did they completely annihilate the patrolling defenders, but also eliminated two small reinforcements, each with more than a hundred men.
When the guards were attacked, they immediately issued a warning, and Rouran recently forced the Middle-earth rangers to flee in all directions, and their hearts were inevitably a little swollen, so they sent two teams of 100 people to come and see what was going on.
In fact, it's no wonder that they take it big, the rangers cross the border from Middle-earth, and they usually sneak in quietly, and they will fight when they are discovered.
They had no interest in fighting the garrisons, and were interested in plundering civilians and armed herdsmen with a half-army.
This method of warfare is rather despicable, but in previous years, when the Rouran people raided Middle-earth, they also did it, and to put it mildly, it was still learned from the Middle-earth people.
Moreover, quietly crossing the border has another advantage, that is, it is not easy to be discovered, it is very troublesome to track, and the herdsmen are defensive and passive.
Such a large-scale forcible border crossing is really rare for Rouran Kingdom.
When the two hundred-man teams arrived at the border, they saw a large number of people and horses under the pressure of the black, and they didn't think about it, so they turned their horses and ran away with a strange scream, and at the same time released a warning signal: There is a large group of Middle-earth people attacking.
But when they came, the noise was too loud - it was supposed to give the guards confidence, but now they were exposed, and it was too late to run.
Countless Middle-earth rangers have been killed from all directions, and two teams of 100 people have not escaped one person or one horse.
Li Yongsheng and the others were in front, and they were also silently observing the battle, and everyone ignored those warning fireworks.
This was also discussed in advance, and the section of the road they forcibly attacked, almost fifty miles away, there was a strong garrison camp with more than 10,000 people stationed in it.
If these fireworks can bring out some of the defenders, Li Yongsheng and the others don't mind giving the other side a head-on attack - in fact, it is more like an ambush than a blockade.
Unfortunately, half an hour passed, and only shouts could be heard on the other side of the camp, and warning signals kept coming out, but there was no army to help.
Li Yongsheng couldn't help but sigh, "This Rouran people are also very stable when they fight, and when the military situation is unknown in the middle of the night, they resolutely do not send a large number of reinforcements out." ”
"They were beaten like this once," someone next to him replied with a grin, "It was the first time the Youzhou Ranger entered Rouran, and everyone discussed it and made a cover for them......
The one who spoke was a guide sent by the coalition forces of the three counties, and there were six of them.
This was originally a Rouran man, because his father offended the nobles, the family killed the old and the young, and the rest were enslaved, he was still young, he ran out of the hole, trekked hard for five days and five nights, and ran to Middle-earth.
All his life, he has been working hard to block Rouran.
The battle he spoke of was the only time the rangers worked together.
At that time, the rangers who arrived at the border of Rouran had already exceeded 20,000, and everyone was gearing up to do a big job.
Then, it is very necessary to give the Rouran defenders a dismount first - only by hurting them can everyone take plunder and brush their heads with peace of mind.
Don't ask how the people of Middle-earth learned it, the Rouran people have done it before...... Of course, even before that, the people of Middle-earth had done the same.
In that battle, the rangers from Shuntian took the lead, and the Rouran defenders sent 3,000 cavalry to help, but they did not expect to encounter an ambush of more than 10,000 rangers halfway.
When it comes to fighting as a whole army, the rangers are inferior to the army, but their individual combat effectiveness is too strong, and the 3,000 cavalry who came to help only fled back to a few hundred or so horsemen.
Rouran people have suffered such a big loss, of course, they must pay attention to this kind of reinforcement tactics.
That sincere cooperation, in addition to bringing a lot of loot to the rangers, also benefited them a lot in the subsequent battles, and in the following days, they galloped across foreign lands, burning and plundering to their heart's content.
And the Rouran people can only silently shrink into a ball, passively defending their opponents.
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