Chapter 309: The time is ripe
In just one bowl of goat milk wine, two thousand soldiers... Is that gone?
After learning about the battle situation in the camp, Fuyu, Fumeng and Xiao Wulan looked a little dazed.
After a while, Fu Meng reacted first, frowned and said to his brother: "The terrain in Xiaren Camp is narrow and there are many obstacles, which is not conducive to our soldiers' combat..."
Fuyu nodded and looked at the location where Wuyan had just stood hatefully.
Maybe he forgot, maybe he didn't. What the Renwuyan said was to send the soldiers to dismount and rush in, instead of riding in stupidly.
However, it is meaningless to care about these things, because Sheyan and Wuyan had already left, and Fuyu was wiped out by the entire army of two thousand soldiers, destroying the determination to slaughter the Xia army in his heart.
It is undeniable that if they launched a joint attack at this moment, regardless of casualties, they would actually have a great winning rate. After all, the troops they brought today are more than twice that of the Xia army in the South End. The problem is how many soldiers would have to be sacrificed as a price for such a strong attack.
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Fuyu looked at Xiao Wulan, and Xiao Wulan also looked at Fuyu. The two looked at each other without saying a word, and neither of them made up their minds.
After all, including Pilo's men and horses, the Yizhan tribe has lost more than 10,000 soldiers so far. The clan warriors of nearly 10,000 people from several vassal tribes betrayed and surrendered to the Xia people; the Ulan tribe's situation is slightly better, but it has also lost thousands of cavalry warriors, plus Pulan, and was scolded by the nobles of the two clans.
It is no exaggeration to say that the losses of the Yizhan tribe so far have remained equal, even vaguely exceeding the casualties in the war with Loufan two years ago.
The difference is that they fought the war with Loufan for more than a year. The soldiers of both sides chased and fought each other on the vast grassland every day, and more than ten thousand died in battle over time. However, the casualties with the Xia people were too concentrated.
Perhaps the Xia people have long been accustomed to the casualties of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, but the Hu people on the grassland cannot have the scale of war and the number of casualties in the Central Plains.
Maybe it was from Fuyu, Xiao Wulan that he saw the intention of retreating temporarily. Fu Meng lowered his voice and persuaded: "Fuyu, Xiao Wulan, we paid the price of nearly 10,000 slaves today before we attacked this summer camp. Did we retreat like this?"
In fact, Fuyu and Xiao Wulan were also unwilling to accept it. After hearing Fu Meng's words, they looked at each other and nodded: "You are right!"
The two took a deep breath and continued to increase their offense.
However, this so-called increase in efforts is just to force the Hu slaves to continue to die.
Perhaps Fuyu and Xiao Wulan held hopes for those Hu Nu, even if they were willing to use five Hu Nu to exchange for a Xia soldier to die in battle, but unfortunately, Hu Nu could not do this at all - or the sporadic Hu Nu could have lucky enough to kill a coalition soldier, but it is undoubtedly a fool to expect Hu Nu, who is based on tens of thousands, to achieve a "five to one" casualty ratio.
The gap between ordinary people and trained soldiers is too big. In addition, the gap between weapons and equipment is not possible, not to mention five or ten, but the generals of the coalition forces are not fools. They will also rotate soldiers, change exhausted soldiers to the rear, and send physically energetic soldiers to continue to kill the enemy.
Unless Fuyu and Xiao Wulan have the courage to order all 30,000 to 40,000 Hu cavalry under his command to dismount and fight and attack the camp, it would be almost impossible to defeat the 36,000 coalition forces in the southern camp alone by Hu Nu.
But obviously Fuyu and Xiao Wulan did not have the courage. When Hu Nu's casualties were almost 15,000, Fuyu issued an order to retreat.
Looking at the grassland army retreating like a tide, the soldiers of the South Camp cheered.
While cheering, some soldiers also commented on the Hu army coming to attack the camp, and they all said: It’s too weak!
The Yuanli Army and the Wei Army under Long Jia's command had the most experience.
Who was the army that fought with them before?
It is the Qin army! Shaoliang's Dongliang army! There are also Shaoliang's strange soldiers!
Although the Yuanli Army "submitted to the enemy" and surrendered to Shaoliang, they, who were born in the Hedong Army of Wei, struggled to survive on the cruel battlefield in Hexi.
Hexi is definitely the most intense battlefield in the entire Central Plains War. It is this most intense and cruel battlefield that trained the three most bloody armies of the Qin army, the Wei Hedong army, and the Shaoliang army. In comparison, the Korean army is not weak and has the ability to attack the "Three A" but the Korean army is not as bloody as the above three armies.
Compared with the strong army we encountered before, the Hu people's army is really not strong, it can only be said to be "strange". Based on the Central Plains army's "strange" of the Hu people's cavalry tactics, once the Central Plains army understood the fighting style of the Hu people and thought of a way to restrain themselves, the Hu people's army was actually that's the case.
In the final analysis, it is because the Hu people's "infantry" is too weak, and those vulnerable Hu Nu are not considered infantry at all.
After the war, the three teams of Yuanli Army, Long Jia Army and Lin Zhan Army had a total of about 9,000 casualties, with only eight or nine hundred casualties, with a death rate of less than 10%. Most of the wounded soldiers were only slightly injured, such as arrows on their arms and thighs, and they could be cured after pulling out the arrows for a period of time.
As for killing the enemy, it is estimated that it will kill 15,000 enemies. Unfortunately, Hu Nu is basically not worth killing. The only real valuable gain is the Hu cavalry of two thousand people who rushed into their camp to seek death for some reason.
Of course, even so, today's battle is undoubtedly a great victory. What's more important is that it severely slapped the arrogance of the grassland coalition and made the other party realize that it was just a dream to defeat his coalition.
After roughly counting the casualties in their respective troops, Zheng Hou, Long Jia and Lin Zhan took a chariot and went to Kushishi to his death.
When the three of them came to the Nancheng Gate of Fushi, they met Wei Wuzhu Qian General Wei Shi, who smiled and said, "If I had known that you three would come to report, Doctor Ziliang would have been waiting on the city tower."
As he said that, he gave the three of them a thumbs up and praised him, "Be beautifully guarded! He severely slapped the Hu people's arrogance."
Long Jia valued his posture, nodded slightly and said nothing, but Zheng Hou ignored this and asked with a smile: "Did you see it?"
"Of course I saw it."
Wei Shi smiled and said, "When you started fighting, all the generals ran to the city to see it. Gong Shuchi asked if he needed support. Doctor Ziliang said you can handle it yourself."
"ha!"
Zheng Hou and Lin Zhan smiled, and Long Jia also looked complacent.
After chatting with Wei Shi for a few casual words, the three of them climbed up the city wall and arrived at the city gate tower.
At this time, in the city gate tower, Li He was chatting and laughing with Gongshumeng. There were also a surrendered general such as Fang Han, Gongsun Chi, Hu Hai, Pu Lan, Cheng Han, etc. in the tower.
He looked up and saw Zheng Hou and others strode into the house. Li He stopped talking and laughing with Gong Shumeng, and stood up and smiled: "Ha, the heroes of this great victory today are here."
Gongshumeng, Gongshuchi, Fang Han, Wu Kang and others all smiled and agreed. Even Hu Hai, Pu Lan, Chi Yu and other surrendered generals nodded to express their attitude.
Zheng Hou hugged Li He and said with a smile: "The hero of today's victory is Hua Jia, who is in command. The three of us are just standing behind to watch the battle."
Li He smiled and signaled the three of them to take their seats.
Seeing this, Gongshuchi got up and sat next to his father. Fang Han also gave up his seat and sat beside Wu Kang.
After the three of them took their seats, Li He nodded and praised: "I saw the Battle of Nanying. The persistence of your three armies can be said to have severely destroyed the arrogance of the Hu people..."
"It's not a question of perseverance." Zheng Hou said with a smile: "In fact, Master Hu did not pose any threat to our three armies from beginning to end..."
From the side, Long Jia continued: "In fact, I was surprised. What confidence does the Hu people have to dare to attack the camp."
Seeing his arrogant look, Li He felt a little funny.
After all, in September and October last year, Long Jia and Fang Han were harassed by Erqi, Buzhagan, Hu Hai and others from Chiyi and were harassed by four thousand Hu cavalrymen, and even dared not leave the camp. Now that they have figured out the Hu people's tactics and have a restraining method, they are inevitably a little proud.
However, given that the other party is currently his general, Li He didn't say much, nodded and said, "Yes, the advantage of the Hu people lies in the maneuverability and flexibility of the cavalry. It is indeed not wise to attack Nanying like today and fight a position with us..."
"It must have been stimulated by the surprise soldiers last night. I felt that I couldn't swallow this breath, but I thought I couldn't beat the enemy, so I took the Nanying to attack, trying to shock our coalition forces, but I didn't expect that I would lose all my face instead." Fang Han analyzed from the side.
"I think so, too."
Li He nodded, then looked at the generals and said, "Although today's great victory was unexpected, it was undoubtedly beneficial to our coalition forces. Originally, I planned to let the surprise soldiers kill the Hu people outside the city again, but I have achieved this when I see the victory of the Nanying, and it is even better than sending surprise soldiers again. Therefore, I decided to launch an attack on the Hu people outside the city in advance..."
When he said this, he raised his right hand, clenched it tightly, and said at the same time: "...it will be determined by a fight!"
Hearing this, the generals in the room put away their smiles, changed to a serious look, waiting for Li He to issue orders, including Hu Hai, Pu Lan, Cheng Han and other surrendered Hu generals.
That night, Shaoliang's soldiers still launched sneak attacks and harassment on the Hu people outside the city like yesterday. Even the five camps they attacked yesterday were still attacked.
Until around the next day, Fuyu, who was sleeping without any intention, could still hear the vague shouts of killing.
"Dirty Xia people, will they just sneak attack?"
Fuyu, who was disturbed by sleepiness, cursed in the sleeping shop.
No matter how much he scolded, his confidence was no longer as full as before. Just as Li He said, today's battle in the Baizhou South Camp was really a serious impact on him and the soldiers of the grassland coalition.
They had obviously used Wanhunu's body to open the road to attack the camp, but they just couldn't attack. In other words, considering the casualties, they did not dare to let their soldiers dismount and fight in a field and forcefully attack the camp.
In fact, after returning to the camp, he also regretted that he should be decisive and defeated the Xia army in the southern camp regardless of casualties, so that the Xia army in Fushi City could see their friendly troops destruction with his own eyes - if the other party dared to fight out of the city to support, it would be just right to fight with him.
However, after thinking about it, he still couldn't make up this decision in the end. After all, according to his estimate, if he wanted to defeat the 30,000 to 40,000 Xia troops in the Southern Camp, the soldiers of his grassland coalition would probably have to pay corresponding war losses. Such heavy casualties could not be afforded by his Yizhan tribe, nor by the Ulan tribe.
"It's better to siege the city..."
Fuyu murmured to himself, as if he was persuading himself: "Hold Fu Shi and sent soldiers to cut off the Xia army's food. Within more than a month, the Xia army in Fu Shi could not hold on..."
At the same time, in the west gate tower of Fushi City, Li He, wearing armor, was sitting in the main seat, gnawing on a large piece of mutton.
Next, except for Gongshumeng, who stroked his beard and closed his eyes to rest, the other generals such as Li Ying, Fang Han, Peng Chou, Fox, Gongshumeng, etc. were all silently eating mutton. The entire city gate tower seemed to be filled with a solemn aura.
Suddenly, Hu Ben strode into the city and hugged Li He and said, "Doctor Ziliang, it's ugly!"
Hearing this, Li He put down the sheep bone in his hand, picked up the cloth on the table, wiped his hands and mouth, and then stood up and threw the cloth on the table.
"Start! Deal with them in one battle!"
He took the sword and walked out of the building first.
"yes!"
Except for Gongshu Meng, the other generals also put down their food, wiped their hands and stood up, and took their weapons and walked out.
Chapter completed!