Chapter 298 East China Sea Falcon
The snow in the corridor at the entrance of Shuofang City had been shoveled to both sides, clearing out a corridor in the middle. Li Su remained silent and walked around the entrance of Shuofang City. The sparse soldiers were also watching the city at the entrance of Shuofang City. When they saw him approaching, they greeted him with military salutes.
Widths of smoke rose in the city, and the Huns' families in the city did not know that most of their fathers and brothers were dead. The soldiers were sparse on the city.
Li Su looked up at the bright sun in the sky again. When the snow melted and reinforcements were not yet available, Shuofang City would be out of protection.
Suddenly, a row of small black dots appeared on the skyline of the white snowy field outside the city, and then the sound of trumpets came slowly. Li Su and the soldiers and generals of Shuofang City were very aware of this sound, which was the trumpet of the Xianbei people.
Li Su thought to himself: "Ke Bineng, you are so anxious. Unfortunately, it is impossible for the ice and snow to attack Shuofang City without the melting of ice and snow."
Of course, Ke Bineng was anxious. He knew that every day that time passed, the possibility of Liang's support would increase. If he could not capture Shuofang City full of food, cattle, sheep and horses in time, his trip would be in vain.
Even the nomadic peoples on the grassland have their own costs. If they don’t get anything, they will lose a lot, at least the harvest of the Xianbei tribes for half a year. In that way, each tribe will feel dissatisfied and pose a threat to the dominance of the Xianbei lord.
So before the snow melted, Ke Bieneng led his army back again. However, when he arrived near Shuofang City, he was stunned and saw a layer of shiny ice shell wrapped around the walls of Shuofang City. It would be impossible to attack with the traditional method of hooking the city by the Xianbei people.
Ke Bineng had no choice but to settle down in the ice and snow, waiting for the ice and snow to melt.
When the snow melts, it is colder than when it snows. Kebineng's big tent is burning with charcoal basins, and ordinary Xianbei soldiers can only curl up in the tent, rubbing their hands and feet to keep warm.
A horse galloped outside the camp, and the horses' four hooves raised snowflakes. It was the Xianbei outside who came to explore the horse. As soon as he entered the camp, he jumped off the horse and panted, and ran towards Kebineng's big tent.
As soon as he entered the tent, he said angrily: "The Great Shanyu... no... no. Han people, the reinforcements from the Han people have arrived. When our six companions encountered each other's scouts, they ran back and I was alone!"
The Great Shanyu is the title of Kebineng. The Shanyu, a noble title among the Huns, was abused in the Xianbei. The leader of a small Xianbei tribe would also call himself the Shanyu. Therefore, people who ruled various tribes like Kebineng had to add the word "big" before the Shanyu.
When Ke Bi could not hear the Liang army's reinforcements coming, he felt a thrill in his heart, but he was calm and calm and scolded: "Why are you panic? You're talking carefully. How many people have come? Whose flag is used to attack? How many cavalry are there? How many infantry are there? Are there any baggage with the army? How far is it?"
Ke Bi Neng was confused by the Xianbei explorer's horse's questioning series, and replied stammeringly: "Well, this... I found that the enemy's companion was dead. The youngest only knew that the other party was full of cavalry, and should... I should not have the baggage. They are only five miles away from here."
Ke Bi was so angry that he pulled the whip beside him and whipped it away. A blood mark immediately appeared on the face of the poor Xianbei horse, "Waste! They are all a bunch of waste!"
Several tribal leaders in the same tent as Kebien asked in unison, "Great Shanyu, what should we do now?"
Ke Bi Neng thought for a long time before saying, "They are only five miles away from here, and it is too late to send a horse to find out their details. We can only retreat first and find out the details of the other side's reinforcements before talking about it."
Then he shouted loudly: "Transfer our military orders, everyone will get on the horse, evacuate here immediately, and leave some other horses to find out the exact enemy's strength!"
Kebi was known for his steadiness among the Xianbei people, and generally he would not rashly face the enemy without understanding the situation.
Under his order, the Xianbei people rushed out of tents, pulled out horses from the horse's circle, and rode their horses away under the leadership of their respective tribe leaders. In order to hurry, they only loaded the food and grass in the camp away, and even took the tents.
Li Su on the city wall could see these actions of the Xianbei people clearly. He guessed that his reinforcements must be coming soon, but according to what Zhang Liao told him before, it is unlikely that there would be many reinforcements to urgently support Shuofang.
Why did the Xianbei people rush to retreat? Those were tens of thousands of cavalry. Li Su looked into the distance, and thousands of Xianbei warriors left like a tide. Suddenly, he realized that this must be because Ke Bi was unaware of the military situation of the Liang army and was afraid that the army would come to help, so he hurriedly evacuated.
Li Su thought of this and immediately ordered his left and right, "Send the scouts to come and listen to the order, and all scouts will come."
One hour after the Xianbei army withdrew, a Liang cavalry unit appeared on the horizon of the snowfield, and accompanied the army with ten carts of supplies. This was the heavy cavalry camp of the Huaxiong Army.
The two cavalry battalions and a scout team came to the rescue first. However, when they were about to arrive in Shuofang, they were stopped by thirty scouts sent by Li Su.
After the scouts talked with the reinforcements, the light cavalry Feiyu and dozens of scouts, they divided into dozens of scouts into dozens of scouts and rushed to the east and west wings of Shuofang City. Each share was led by at least one or two scouts.
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Behind a hill not far from Shuofang City, two Xianbei soldiers were hiding. They were the horses that Ke Bi Neng stayed to investigate the Liang army's forces. One of them leaned out from behind the hill to check.
But they didn't notice that a falcon appeared above their heads at some point, hovering over them.
It was not an ordinary falcon, but the East China Sea peregrine falcon newly introduced by Liang Guoshuang Eagle. It was from Yizhou and was brought back by Sun Wu's general Wei Wen. However, in Dongwu, the people of Wu used it as an ordinary falcon and did not know its potential strengths. After Liang Guoshuang Eagle was introduced with a lot of money, they showed its strengths.
This kind of peregrine falcon has the ability to recognize people, that is, you can search for people in the wilderness, or even find people wearing certain clothes.
Before letting them fly, let them "know" the dummies wearing specific clothes. After letting them fly, if people wearing similar clothes are found on the wasteland, they will circle high altitude. The Liang army scouts can therefore locate the enemy's hiding places.
A Xianbei detective said to another person: "I have been waiting for so long, why haven't I seen the enemy coming yet? Is the information wrong? Grandma's, my hands and feet are almost frozen!"
The other person ignored him, and the man said angrily: "I'm talking to you..." Then his chin fell out in shock, and his companion's neck had been penetrated by an arrow, and he collapsed into the snow. The blood had dyed the nearby snow red.
A dozen cavalrymen were running towards him quietly, and with the sound of arrows breaking through the air, more than a dozen arrows shot towards him...
Chapter completed!