When Ma Chao saw that everyone had shot almost five arrows, he immediately waved his horse's head and shouted: "Retreat" The Han cavalry came and left quickly, and soon disappeared, and the sound of horse hooves became smaller and smaller.
In the Xianbei camp, Yuwen Guiyi was stunned and said to Su Li: "Khan, they just left like this."
Su Li said with a gloomy face: "You are not deaf yet."
"This is wrong, how could they come and fire a few rounds of arrows and then leave?
Did they find out that an ambush had been set up in the camp, so they changed their minds and evacuated temporarily?"
Yuwen Guiyi asked.
Su Li stood up and said: "It's not impossible.
The Han army has always been cunning and full of tricks.
Pass the order and ask the ministries to count the casualties just now and send them up."
"Yes, Khan" Soon, the casualties were quickly counted.
Yuwen Guiyi reported to Su Li: "Khan, they just fired a few waves of arrows, and we lost more than 400 people, and one person died in several camps.
"Nothing left" Su Li was very calm and did not get angry.
He ordered: "Let the men be divided into two groups.
One group will fall asleep and the other group will continue to ambush.
We are not sure whether they will come again, so we need to be fully prepared."
"Yes, Khan" The order was quickly passed on, and half of the people began to fall asleep while the other half continued to ambush in the camp.
Yuwen Guiyi had just finished conveying the order, and was soon called back to the tent by Su Li.
"Khan, the order has been conveyed, and half of the sons have gone to bed."
Su Li waved his hand and said: "Well, I called you here because I want to hear your thoughts.
Others don't know, but you and I both know that half of us are old and weak.
With our current combat power, we can fight the Han army head-on.
What do you think our chances of winning are?”
Yu Wen Guiyi thought for a while, shook his head and said: "Khan, I don't want to exaggerate the strength of the Han people.
The Han people are indeed strong.
They wiped out the Tuoba Xianbei people, which shows how strong they are.
We soldiers and horses are the only ones who can compete with the Han people.
In a head-on confrontation, the odds of winning are slim, not more than 30%.
If we want to defeat the Han people, I think we must find other ways."
"Tell me what you think.
We can't touch eggs with stones.
This is asking for destruction."
"Yes."
Yuwen Guiyi agreed and said: "Khan, now we have found out that the Han army has about 20,000 people.
They should also have found out the number of our troops.
It seems that the two sides have equal strength, but in fact they are quite different in strength.
No matter how we fight, if we don't dispatch all our troops, they will definitely not dispatch all their troops, even if we hide.
Part of the troops will wait until the two sides start fighting, and take advantage of the battle between the two sides to send out the ambush troops to make a surprise attack.
They should have reserved some troops in advance to deal with emergencies.
Moreover, they occupy high ground and are surrounded by detection sentries.
We separated When the troops are dispatched, they will have an unobstructed view.
They will discover it as soon as possible and dispatch the reserved troops to intercept and block."
"In terms of fighting methods, we have no choice or choice.
There is endless grassland and flat land here.
They can find anything we do.
Our only way is to take the risk of driving away their cattle and sheep and burning their food.
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Only in this way can we win. opportunity" After listening to Yuwen Guiyi's words, Su Li immediately asked: "How to go specifically?"
"Their livestock and food should be not far to the north of that highland.
Taking advantage of the darkness now, we sent a group of troops to ambush in the north overnight.
When we dispatch a large army to fight the Han people tomorrow, this group of troops suddenly Kill them quickly to disperse their livestock and burn their food and grass.
When their soldiers get the livestock and are dispersed and their food and grass are burned, the morale of the army will definitely be in chaos.
That’s when we rise up and fight back."
Su Li was a little hesitant.
Yuwen Guiyi's idea seemed feasible, but in fact there were many uncertain factors that affected the success rate, but he also knew that this was the only way he could think of at the moment.
"Let Ben Khan think about it.
You first take people to patrol the camp and don't let those who are ambushing doze off," Suli ordered.
"Yes" Yuwen Guiyi agreed, stroking his chest, turned around and walked out.
Su Li was not a decisive person.
He walked around the camp alone and thought about it for a long time without making up his mind.
At this time, the sound of horse hooves was suddenly heard outside the camp, followed by a large number of shouts of killing.
Moreover, the direction of the sound of horse hooves and the shout of killing was different from before.
Su Li immediately went outside the camp to check.
A large number of black shadows moved quickly outside the camp.
Arrows fell from the sky.
The tents in the camp were shot through, and screams were heard from many tents.
Those Han cavalry just kept firing arrows outside the camp, but did not rush in.
After a few rounds of arrows, they left quickly without any delay.
Su Li heard the soldiers in the camp screaming repeatedly, and there must have been heavy casualties.
He clenched his fists angrily, and wanted to send troops to pursue them, but he was worried about being ambushed at night, and finally had no choice but to let the Han cavalry leave.
Soon Yuwen Guiyi came over with someone, and Su Li asked: "How much more have been lost?"
Yuwen Guiyi stroked his chest and replied: "There were more than 300 casualties in total."
Several times in a row, Ma Chao led his men and horses to harass him for a while and then left quickly.
Even if Su Li wanted to send people to chase him, it was too late.
It was not until late at night that the Xianbei people lost more than 1,400 people in total.
Su Li finally couldn't bear it anymore.
He decided to send Yu Wen Guiyi to lead 3,000 elite cavalry out of camp overnight to hide dozens of miles north.
Get up and wait until the decisive battle with the Han army tomorrow, then suddenly attack to scatter the opponent's livestock and burn the opponent's food and grass.
Yuwen Guiyi accepted this task, and he took 3,000 troops and quickly headed north after Ma Chaogang left with his men.
As soon as Yu Wen Guiyi left, Su Li immediately ordered all the Xianbei people to mount their horses and wait.
As long as Ma Chao came back with his people, he would immediately greet them with arrows.
He must not let Ma Chao easily harass and lead his people away.
"Coming, coming, southwest, southwest, everyone pay attention, the Han army is coming from the southwest" a messenger shouted in the camp.
The Xianbei soldiers quickly moved their horses and faced the southwest, preparing to attack the Han army.
As expected, the Han army came from the southwest.
Under the leadership of Ma Chao, there were still so many people.
After so many attacks, almost all the soldiers were able to use this tactic with ease.
"Hey, the enemy seems to be ready to counterattack.
No matter what, let's fight first and let me shoot the arrows."
Ma Chao said, flipping the horse's head and shooting the arrows as soon as the horse turned.
"Swish, swish," waves of arrows were shot out.
After turning, the war horse ran parallel to the outermost edge of the camp for a distance, which allowed the soldiers to shoot several arrows in succession.
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The arrow fired by the cavalry galloping at high speed has a speed boosted by the horse.
The boost speed plus its own off-string speed can make it fly farther.
"Ah" The first few rows of the cavalry in the Yuwenbu camp were hit by a large number of arrows, and they fell one after another.
However, none of the arrows fired by the Yuwen cavalry hit the Han cavalry.
It was not that the accuracy was insufficient, but that the distance was too far and the range of the bow and arrow was insufficient.
Because the Han cavalry has a sprint speed boost, it can shoot arrows more than ten meters further, while the Xianbei soldiers sit still on their horses, so the range is naturally insufficient.
"How could this happen?"
The Xianbei people in the middle were shocked.
Someone saw that the Han army was almost finished shooting, and immediately shouted: "Khan, let's chase them out and kill them all.
We can't let them bully us like this anymore."
"Kill out," someone shouted again.
Then many people shouted to fight out and kill all the Han troops.
Seeing the morale of the army, Su Li knew that he could not hold him down forcibly, otherwise something would happen.
He immediately ordered a leader to take charge of the affairs of the camp, and he personally led two thousand troops to attack quickly.
Ma Chao didn't expect that the Xianbei people really chased them out of the camp in the dark night.
He turned his head and looked at the Xianbei people behind him holding torches.
He deliberately slowed down a little, but never let the Xianbei people catch up.
After chasing for four or five miles, Su Li felt something was wrong.
He immediately reined in his horse and stopped, looked around nervously, and gave the order loudly: "Get back, get back quickly."
Before the Xianbei people had completely completed their retreat, there were a lot of shouts of killing from the left and right, countless torches suddenly appeared, and a large number of Han cavalry came to kill them.
"Quickly retreat!"
Su Li let out a shrill roar, took the lead and beat the horse with all his strength and ran towards the camp.
The Xianbei soldiers behind him also knew that they were ambushed, so they beat the horse and ran wildly.
Although Su Li discovered something was wrong in time, he was still attacked.
The thousand Xianbei cavalry at the rear suffered a devastating attack.
The Han army attacked from both sides, and no one was spared.
The corpses were spread all over the ground, and the horses were scattered everywhere.
When Su Li returned to the camp with less than 2,000 people, he was still frightened, and all the Xianbei people who escaped also felt like they were surviving a disaster.
"Khan, if the Han army attacks at night again, how should we respond?
We can't be beaten all the time without being able to fight back."
Su Li thought for a while and gave the order: "Let everyone gather in the middle of the camp.
If they rush into the camp, we will fight back.
If they don't rush into the camp, they can't hit us just by firing arrows outside."
"Yes, Khan" What puzzled Su Li was that he and his Xianbei people waited until dawn and never waited for Ma Chao to arrive with his troops.
They waited in vain for more than two hours.
At dawn, many people were about to doze off and were extremely tired.
Su Li ordered that no one be allowed to sleep and immediately arranged for food.
After eating and drinking, he would order his troops and horses to march towards the highland where the Han army was located.
It is not the style of the prairie people to kill in a mighty manner and be beaten passively.
After eating and drinking, Suli left three thousand old and weak men to guard the camp and guard the cattle, sheep and horses.
He led twelve thousand men and slowly marched towards the high ground where the Han army was located.
Twenty miles was not too far, but he deliberately slowed down and did not arrive several miles away from the Han army's camp until three hours later.
"Lord, they are coming" Zhang Liao reported to Liu Cheng.
Liu Cheng looked at the Xianbei soldiers and horses in the distance and asked: "How many people do you think they have here?"
Zhang Liao looked at it carefully and said: "The distance is too far, so we can only roughly judge.
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According to the size of their formation, it seems that there are 20,000 people, but I dare to say that there are definitely not 20,000 people here, and at most 13,000 or 4,000 people."
Liu Cheng nodded and said: "You're right.
Su Li deliberately let people raise the banner of 20,000 people.
In fact, there must not be that many people.
If nothing else, let's just say that last night, Ma Chao caused no less than 2,000 people to them.
Human casualties.
Besides, if he comes out with men and horses, the cattle and sheep in the camp will always need to be guarded.
At least 2,000 men must be left to guard the camp.
After calculation, he only has 16,000 men who can use Zhang Liao at most.
You bring 10,000 troops to meet Su Li.
The opponent has no formation, and the cavalry duel is not too big.
You have to be careful, just kill them directly, and the other party won't be able to do any tricks in a head-on battle."
"Yes," Zhang Liao agreed, clasping his fists and riding away.
Ten thousand horses, led by Zhang Liao, rushed down from the highland, row after row, and the entire highland and hillside were soon covered with cavalry.
There were huge vibrations on the ground, and the scene of thousands of horses galloping could be seen clearly from the high ground.
When Su Li saw that the Han army had rushed down, he immediately ordered an all-out battle.
Under his leadership, all the troops rushed towards the Han cavalry coming from the opposite side.
In this battle, the Han army also adopted a large-scale group charge against the Xianbei people's integral phalanx, and did not divide the troops into left, center, right or other formations.
The Xianbei people have too many soldiers and horses.
Any single soldier and horse rushing in will be easily surrounded and eaten.
A large group charge is the best way to deal with this kind of lack of formation.
It depends on whose soldiers are well-trained.
Whose soldiers have strong coordination ability depends on whose lion fighting ability is strong alone.
"Boom, boom, boom" the two cavalry finally collided together, and countless people died at this moment.
A large-scale fight began, with swords and swords slashing, spears thrusting, blood flying, heads rolling, and broken limbs falling everywhere.
The roars were heard frequently, and the screams made people's scalp numb.
This was a struggle for the power of life and death.
In such a brutal duel, either you die or I live.
The battle lasted for more than an hour, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.
The Han cavalry were well-trained, and their individual combat capabilities and collective technical and tactical levels were very high.
However, the Xianbei people were not vegetarians.
They all knew that this was a relationship.
This is a battle of life and death for the entire clan.
At this time, there is no longer any talk of courage or lack of courage.
The timid people have been killed in the first time, and the rest are those who risk their lives and fight hard.
At this time, it depends on who is more fierce.
Who is stronger.
Liu Cheng saw it clearly and couldn't help but sigh: "The Xianbei people are working hard."
Chen Qun asked from the side: "My lord, do you want to send someone to support me?
Zhang Liao's numbers are not superior, and my subordinates are worried that they will suffer a loss because of their small number.
After all, this is a battle related to the life and death of the Yuwen Department.
They They will never be timid, they will try their best to do so."
Liu Cheng thought for a while and waved his hand: "No, I always feel that the Xianbei people still have some troops that they haven't sent out yet.
It's impossible for Su Li not to know that he has little chance of winning in a head-on battle.
Let's wait and see."