Chapter 108: Going north to Liao Kingdom (III)

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The cavalry training of the Northern Expedition of the Hu tribe was completed, and everything was ready. Jin Xuan gathered all the generals and said: Now our army is attacking the Northern Hu, with 20,000 soldiers in one army, focusing on guerrilla strategies.The Northern Hu had many soldiers and horses, and the four alliances had a combination of troops, and their power was very large.His army thought that our cavalry was marching slowly and would definitely design and lure our army to fight to the decisive battle with him.You should be careful of the lives of soldiers, not be greedy for the results of the battle, and do not charge head-on with their main force unless necessary.Remember, ‘The enemy advances and we retreat, the enemy garrisons and we disturb us, the enemy is tired, the enemy retreats and we chase us, and the chance of victory is to be won in guerrilla warfare; advance and retreat with great steps, lure the enemy into depth, concentrate troops, defeat each one, and annihilate the enemy in mobile warfare’.If you are surprised, attack them unprepared; if you make a fuss, you will avoid the real and attack the virtual; if you are not fighting, you will concentrate your superior forces and lure the enemy into the deep; if you are broken, you will be ambushed, intercept the food road, and take tonics; if you can eat it, you will eat it, and if you can't eat it, you will run away.After heading north, plunder enemy horses as backup war horses to increase the speed of marching.

Zhuge Liang was very interested in the guerrilla tactics proposed by Jin Xuan, but he raised objections to the issue of ensuring the logistics supply of the northbound cavalry.

Zhuge Liang believed that logistics supply should be mainly self-sufficiency and was seized as deputy.

Jin Xuandao: The Northern Hu soldiers are different from our soldiers. They are on horseback and dismounted for the people.If our army performs the virtue of kindness in the land of the North Hu, it will bring a large number of casualties from our soldiers.The principle of self-sufficiency cannot be changed.There is a distinction between military and civilians in China, and the Hu Kingdom has never been seen since ancient times.Leave supplies to support the people, that is, leave supplies to support the enemy.Be kind to your enemies is cruelty to yourself.Do not let go of the barbarians.Our army's guerrilla tactics for going to the Northern Hu should be maneuverable and flexible. Eighty hundred thousand light cavalry is the main combat force, while 400,000 heavy cavalry should not go deeper. It only moves around the border counties, and it is important to receive light cavalry.The legions continued to harass and plunder, the strength of the Northern Hu country gradually weakened, and the combat effectiveness of the Hu army decreased. This is the key to defeating the more with less.

The institute has newly developed a signal flare, similar to modern fireworks, with seven colors and visible dozens of miles away. When a large army encounters a crisis, it can use a signal flare to inform friendly forces of the status quo.

In addition to equip signal flares with Northbound Legion, the extremely low-yield Thunder (gunpowder weapons studied by the Institute, similar to modern earth grenades) were rationed in large quantities to the Northbound Legion.

The newly printed terrain map of Beihu was also distributed to the army.

The legions went north to gather in Yecheng. The heads of each legion determined the route of dispatch, studied the issues of mutual cooperation between the legions and other issues, and then swore to the north.

The primary attack target was determined as the territory of the Xianbei Yadan. The Xianbei was weak among the four northern Hu Xiongs. Its territory was closest to the Central Plains. It could quickly get support from border counties when encountering critical situations.

Secondly, the heads of the legions were resentful of the Yecheng tragedy, and the clans would destroy the Xianbei and then quickly.

After the Eighth Route Light Cavalry Army's 800,000 cavalrymen heading north, the Northern Hu herders were robbed unprecedentedly.

All tribes in the southern part of the Xianbei territory were defeated by the Light Cavalry Army, all male members were slaughtered, and the tribes' horses, money, grain, and herds were all robbed.

The Xianbei people finally tasted the pain of the Chinese border people, and lived a helpless life, and fled their homes one after another.

The Chinese cavalry gave up their conventional practices, and the elusive guerrilla tactics made Yadan frustrated.

Yadan gathered heavy troops to block the east and west, but his opponent was the Chinese Light Cavalry Legion, which had a very fast marching speed and was mobile and flexible.

Every time Yadan receives a war report and leads his army to aid, he sees only the tragic situation after the massacre of Chinese cavalry.

The Chinese cavalry avoided head-on confrontation with the Xianbei army, and their flexible tactics of roundabout combat made Yadan furious and helpless.

After the Chinese Light Cavalry Army seized Hu horses, each cavalry had more than three spare horses, and the maneuver power was greatly improved.

The speed of the Light Cavalry Army's advance and retreat exceeded Yadan's imagination, leaving Yadan helpless and watching the tribe being robbed and massacred.

The misery of the Xianbei people made Yadan angry. More than half of the Xianbei tribes were conquered by Chinese cavalry. The population of Xianbei was sharply reduced, its property was halved, and its national strength declined rapidly.

The horse battle that the Hu people were proud of allowed the Chinese cavalry to fully demonstrate.

China's war horses gradually increased. After leaving behind backup war horses, the Light Cavalry Legion sent the rest of the war horses back to the country, solving the dilemma of lack of military and horses in the country.

The guards of Chinese border counties were quickly training cavalry after they had sufficient horses.

Zuo Xian Shanyu, Midang King, and Cheriji heard about Yadan's embarrassment and sent troops to support him.

Due to the greatly improved mobility of the Chinese light cavalry and the marching speed has exceeded that of the Northern Hu army, although the four heroes have many troops, they have no strength.

Under the continuous attacks of the Chinese light cavalry, the Xianbei quickly declined, and its strength became the last of the four northern Hu Xiongs, and its soldiers were also reduced to 600,000.

Yadan has been looking for the main force of China and wants to fight to the death with him. Suddenly, he heard from the report of the scholars and found Lu Bu's army nearby.

Yadan was overjoyed and notified the Allied forces of the three routes to gather heavy troops to pursue him. Lu Bu's army lured the enemy for 500 miles and then left.

When Yadan was fully out of its main force, Guan Yu and seven other light cavalry corps concentrated on conquering the Xianbei royal court, massacred more than 100,000 people in the royal court, and snatched all the money, grain and animal husbandry.

Hundreds of relatives, including Yadan's wives, concubines, children, younger siblings, etc., were all killed in this battle.

Yadan returned to the royal court, witnessed the tragedy, was furious and lost his mind, gathered the country's troops of 600,000, abandoned his foundation and went to attack Yecheng.

Cheriji, Zuo Xian Shanyu and others received the information and hurriedly sent an envoy to persuade him.

The messengers were intercepted and killed by Chinese light cavalry halfway through.

The Xianbei tribe army drove towards Yecheng in a mighty manner, but unexpectedly it was falling into the trap carefully set by the Chinese cavalry.

The two legions of Sun Ce and Zhang Liao appeared, luring the Yadan army to accelerate.

The Chinese light cavalry retreated when they fought, and the powerful crossbow showed great power. Xianbei soldiers had never fought and had lost many soldiers.

Although Xianbei soldiers were equipped with bows and arrows, the light cavalry of Sun Ce and Zhang Liao were not injured or killed because the range of the strong crossbows was too large.

Yadan fell into a trap and was furious, and ordered the troops to pursue with all their might.

Guan Yu and Lu Bu led 200,000 light cavalry to appear in the northern part of the Xianbei region, attacked the tribes in the northern part of the Xianbei region in turn, slaughtered males, snatched a large number of horses and herds, and escorted to Luoyang.

The 400,000 heavy cavalry of the Fourth Legion of Xiahou Chun, Xiahou Yuan, Ma Teng and Zhao Yun gathered at 100 places north of Yecheng City to face the Yadan army head-on.

The 400,000 light cavalry of the Fourth Legion of Huang Zhong, Cao Zhang, Zhang Fei and Taishi Ci followed behind the Yadan troops, preparing to attack with the heavy cavalry army to annihilate the main force of the Xianbei.

Xiahou Chun and other heavy cavalry had already set up military formations. Sun Ce and Zhang Liao led their troops to bypass the military formation from both sides and set up formations behind the heavy cavalry formation.

Confronting the Xianbei troops head-on, Yi Yi and others will exert great power.

Seeing that the heavy cavalry formation blocked the way, Yadan gathered troops and rushed forward in an orderly manner.

The heavy cavalry army began to fight according to the army formation.

The cavalry of the heavy cavalry corps either holds a spear or a big sword.

Their mission is to attack, and the Xianbei cavalry's sabers cannot exert lethality at all against soldiers holding long weapons.

The bows and arrows of the Xianbei cavalry did not pose much threat, and the iron armor of the heavy cavalry and horses blocked the attack of the bows and arrows.

The heavy cavalry attacked according to the military formation, and the Xianbei soldiers fought desperately.

Xianbei soldiers quickly threw down dead bodies on the ground, bloody.

The heavy cavalry relies on the military formation to maintain strong offensive power.

The lethality of heavy cavalry depends on the physical strength of the front row soldiers. Long weapons consume a lot of energy, and the military formation cleverly makes up for this shortcoming.

When the front cavalry was about to run out of strength, the soldiers in the second row came up from the gap and joined the attack. The soldiers in the first row remained still, until the entire army was on the front, and then followed the team in an orderly manner to become the last row.

With this cycle, the heavy cavalry's physical strength has enough time to recover.

The first time the Xianbei soldiers encountered such powerful cavalry, their attack could not really threaten the Chinese soldiers, and there were only a few hundred thousand soldiers left in the Xianbei front army.

The second echelon of the second echelon led to the top.

The Xianbei soldiers faced not ordinary scattered soldiers, but a combination of tacit cooperation between 400,000 troops. The soldiers in front of the military formation were always very physically strong.