Chapter 303 Fish on the chopping board
At the top of Zhenbeicheng, Wei Feng, deputy commander of Zhang Liao's army, patrolled back and forth. His heart was rising and falling, because at this moment, there were only more than a thousand Zhenbeicheng Cultivation Army in Zhenbeicheng, plus a baggage battalion of the army.
The remaining forces of the entire army, including the two cavalry battalions sent by Huaxiong, were all pulled out by Zhang Liao. At that time, all the generals and officials in the army expressed confusion about Zhang Liao's decision. Wei Feng was no exception.
Zhang Liao said that he wanted to take his main force to set up an ambush in the gully area of the south of Zhenbei City to intercept the Xianbei Army. But why did Zhang Liao conclude that Ke Bineng's main force was to raid Shili Mine?
Even if Ke Bi can really do this, why should we conclude that the other Xianbei army will not attack Zhenbei City with all its might? Moreover, if Zhenbei City is lost, wouldn’t the craftsmen and equipment transferred to Zhenbei City all fall into the enemy?
Zhang Liao said to everyone with confidence: "The war is imminent now, and I don't have time to explain it in detail to you. Just follow the military orders!"
Although everyone was puzzled, seeing Zhang Liao's confident look made people believe it, and the military orders were as good as a mountain, they had to make promises.
Only Wei Feng was really worried and insisted on staying in Zhenbei City and personally led the remaining reclaiming troops and the battalion of supplies to defend the city. After hearing his request, Zhang Liao said, "Well, brothers Wei Feng, you can personally defend the city and guard the house. This will make me even more worried."
Then, Zhang Liao waited for the others to walk away and whispered in Wei Feng's ear: "There is nothing 100% guaranteed in this marching battle. If..., if someone miscalculates, the enemy will break through the city. What should you do?"
Before Wei Feng could understand, he was stunned and said dumbly: "If the city is broken, I will fight to kill the enemy and sacrifice my life for the country."
Zhang Liao said with a cold expression again: "If the city is broken, you will kill the craftsmen who are centrally placed first and destroy all the documents and equipment that have extracted naphtha. This is a forced sacrifice. But this is just in case, it will hardly happen. Someone is already verified that Xianbei will not attack the city at all!"
After hearing Zhang Liao's words, Wei Feng opened his mouth wide in surprise and couldn't react for a long time.
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After the rolling Xianbei cavalry crossed the Great Wall, they walked southwest. After a while, they met the Great Wall again. Ke Bieneng called Shi Biao and pointed at the Great Wall with a horse whip and said, "You take five thousand cavalry and walk along the city wall and you will reach Zhenbei City."
Shi Biao opened his mouth wide in fear and said in his heart: "I want me to take the five thousand war cavalry to attack Zhenbeicheng. Isn't this going to die?"
Ke Bi Neng seemed to see what he was thinking and said with a smile: "Don't worry, you don't want you to attack Zhenbeicheng, you just need to set up a formation in the suburbs of Zhenbeicheng. Your main task is to attract the forces of Liang's troops from Zhenbeicheng and a nearby camp. Of course, they may leave the city, but the Zhang Liao army of Liang State has only four battalions and two thousand cavalry. In the countryside, it should be no problem for you to intercept them and win."
Shi Biao then felt relieved and bowed, "Sir, obey the order."
After a moment, the Xianbei army was divided into two groups, one led by Shi Biao and headed to Zhenbei City along the Great Wall. The other main force was led by Ke Bineng personally and headed south.
Kebineng's Xianbei army has entered the Loess Longyuan. It seems flat, but in fact there are thousands of ditches and terrain and complex terrain. If a person who is not familiar with the road will be blocked by a deep ditch and dangerous ravine while walking on the plain, he has to find another way to cross it.
In order to prevent the enemy from setting up ambush on such a terrain, Ke Bien had to search for the stone ore as soon as possible. So his 15,000 Xianbei war cavalry had to be divided into several strands. This is also the reason why he had to bring so many troops to come.
These cavalry teams support each other and search around the ridge. When a cavalry team is marching at the bottom of the ditch, there are often other cavalry teams supporting each other on both sides of the ditch edge of the ridge to prevent the enemy from setting up ambush on the ditch edge.
Ke Bineng knew in his heart that this kind of terrain and the Liang army had "divine fire", the consequences would be unimaginable once it was hit.
But there was a Xianbei cavalry team as a vanguard who was eager to seek merit and advanced alone, and soon distanced from the rest of the troops. The leader of the leader compared the rough hand-painted map and searched all the way, passing through one ravines and one ridge after another...
Ke Bi Neng personally led a cavalry team of 3,000 people to search the southwest. He suddenly heard a squealing sound of an arrow. The arrow that was definitely not a Xianbei people, and he said in his heart: "Not good!" He hurriedly led the team to follow the direction of the sound.
Ke Bi Neng rode his horse for a while and found a 500-strong light cavalry in the Liang army not far away. Strangely, these light cavalry were all off the horse, some were pulling bows and arrows, and some were throwing fireballs. And a miserable wailing sound came from below. Ke Bi Neng immediately understood what was going on.
When Ke Bi was able to get closer, he found a deep ditch in front of him. A Xianbei cavalry team was attacked by the Shangliang Army on the opposite ditch at the bottom of the ditch. At the bottom of the ditch, corpses filled with arrows were everywhere, and countless groups of flames were burning.
"Take the bow and shoot the enemy on the other side!" Ke Bi Neng shouted loudly. But when his Xianbei soldiers took out the bow and arrow, the opponent had stopped attacking and boarded the horse and quickly retreated.
The blue veins on Kebineng's forehead roared and shouted angrily: "Find a way, chase after you cross the ditch!"
A quarter of an hour later, his soldiers finally found a passage to bypass the gully. Just as Kebi Neng was about to urge the army to chase the enemy's escape, a personal soldier beside him exclaimed: "Miracle! Miracle! The gods have come down to earth!"
Kebi Neng followed the soldier's gaze and saw several huge objects floating high in the air. There were no objects in front, back, left and right. Obviously, this was not a fool, but was actually floating in the air.
At this time, the soldiers beside Kebien knelt down and bowed to the floating objects. Kebien looked at them and found that there was a hanging basket under the floating objects, and there were two Liang soldiers inside, chanting flags.
There are a few rope-like things under the hanging basket. Because the distance is long, if you don’t observe carefully, you will be almost invisible to the naked eye.
Ke Bi Neng shouted: "A bunch of idiots, all of them are up. This is not a god's appearance, this is just a skill that Liang Jun won. Didn't you see that there are still people in the hanging basket below? There are things under the basket to support them. They all come up and chase me!"
The soldiers then rolled and crawled back on the horse and chased towards the floating object. This floating object was naturally a hot air balloon for Liang's reconnaissance. It was originally built by Yibin Workshop. Feng Yu configured several sets for Zhang Liao's army, and they all used them today.
At present, the Xianbei army distributed on the ridge is like fish waiting to be slaughtered on the chopping board. Zhang Liao knew their every move.
Chapter completed!