Chapter 332 The two sides
"Governor, the barbarian general who led the 10,000 team this time is called Kuha."
"Report to the governor, the barbarian team is less than a hundred miles away from Yunzhou."
"Report to the governor, the barbarian cavalry slaughtered and robbed along the way, and the victims of Jizhou were killed and injured."
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In the camp of Yunzhou, the Hussars who went out to investigate continued to return to report the news they received.
"Bang!" Many news came, and Lu Fei smashed the table hard and said angrily: "Governor, the barbarians are fighting for tooth, and are ready to use the same method as on the grassland to harass the fief."
Niu Ben looked solemn. He finally understood why a team of 10,000 people broke away from the main force of the barbarian cavalry and came towards Yunzhou.
"Kuha, this name is a bit familiar?" Luo Xin suddenly frowned, "I will remember that Wang Xuan once mentioned it."
Niu Ben suddenly remembered when he heard this, and said, "What is this savage general under Chagatai? It was just that the last time I led the cavalry into the grassland, attacking his tribe, killing all the men, women, and young and old in his tribe."
Wang Xuan has always been responsible for collecting information on grassland tribes, and the information on the generals on the grassland has now been provided to the Qingzhou Army.
"If this is the case, it will be even more dangerous. Kuha will inevitably take revenge on our people crazily." Lu Fei was worried.
The other generals also showed a worried look.
Niu Ben pondered for a moment, and he said, "The barbarians have been collecting intelligence in Qingzhou. I believe they know that I led the troops to destroy his tribe. Kuha came with hatred. If he knew that I led 10,000 infantry to support Jizhou, would he come to take revenge?"
"Kuha's violent personality may not be possible, but it's too dangerous for the governor to do this." Lu Fei said.
"It may not be dangerous. Kuha didn't know that the Qingzhou army had installed flintlock rifles. His Highness said that we should take advantage of the strangeness of the barbarians to make an unexpected attack, so we may not lose."
Luo Xin nodded, "We found that Kuha's 10,000 team has lost the opportunity. Perhaps we can set up a hollow square formation on the road that Kuha must pass and set up a condom for Kuha."
Niu Ben nodded, he looked at the map, pointed to the place thirty miles away from Yunzhou City and said: "The Hussars have surveyed this place. The road is very wide. There are grasslands on both sides of the road. There are woods outside the grassland. If Kuha wants to enter the hinterland, he must take this road."
The Great Yu Kingdom is different from the grassland. The grassland is wide and the cavalry can walk whatever they want on the grassland.
However, in the country of Dayu, the living custom of agricultural civilization is to set up cities in transportation fortresses. Barbarian cavalry can go around the city without attacking the city, but must walk on a spacious official road.
Of course, barbarian cavalry can also choose to take the path to avoid the official path and go straight to the rear city.
However, when you are unfamiliar with the place, few generals will choose this kind of risky behavior. After all, if you don’t pay attention to the army, you will face the danger of getting lost.
Based on this, Niu Ben decided to place the army on a wide official road.
After demarcating the combat location, Niu Ben immediately ordered the musket team, chariots, artillery soldiers, and artillery to go to the designated location to prepare for combat.
After receiving the order, Lu Fei and Luo Xin immediately dispatched troops.
Now Kuha is only one hundred miles away from Yunzhou City. According to the barbarian marching speed, you can reach outside Yunzhou City tomorrow, and this is based on the barbarian marching at full speed.
In fact, horses are animals with poor endurance and can sprint, but horses must run for a while before stopping and resting, otherwise they will only kill the horses.
However, the barbarians often have one man and four horses, so this time the bull ran assuming the fastest marching speed of the barbarians.
That night, Qingzhou City left the city overnight and set up a formation on the official road outside Yunzhou City, waiting for Kuha to come.
At the same time, taking advantage of the reconnaissance, Niu Ben sent Hussars to inquire, and hung his flag very high, deliberately luring Kuha to come.
At this time, fifty miles away from Yunzhou City, Kuha was leading a cavalry brigade to Yunzhou City along the official road.
The scouts kept bringing the collected news.
The plan to bypass Yunzhou and directly take Qingzhou City was formulated by Chagatai, and he was the first to undertake this offensive plan.
After losing all his tribe members, hatred spread in his heart day by day.
As long as he can take revenge, Kuha is willing to lose his life.
"Captain Wanfu, we found the Qingzhou army twenty miles away. They seemed to have set up a formation and were waiting for us." The scout said.
Kuha frowned, "Why can the Qingzhou Army discover us in advance every time?"
The scout was silent, he didn't know that he hadn't even discovered a scout from Qingzhou Army now, but the Qingzhou Army seemed to know their whereabouts, and he didn't understand either.
After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Ignore them. This time we will bypass Yunzhou City and take Qingzhou directly to rob the food and grass near Qingzhou City."
The chaos in Jizhou gave them the opportunity. Last year, the severe cold on the grasslands froze to death, and the Golden Horde had food problems for the first time.
For this reason, tribes sold a lot of slaves to save food, and more slaves were killed to save food.
The most important task of their journey south this time was to plunder.
But when they passed by Jizhou, they saw only barren land, hungry and crazy disaster victims, and they could not find food in Jizhou.
After discussion, Chagatai asked him to go to Qingzhou for tooth.
"It's just that we have no other way to go except the official road." The scout said.
"Idiot, won't you catch a local citizen and ask for directions? Why don't you go quickly?" Kuha said angrily.
The scout left, and then another scout came again and said, "Captain Wanfu, the Qingzhou army in front is all infantry and chariot soldiers, only a small number of cavalry, and the words "oxen and run" are written on the military flag in the middle."
"Niu Ben!" The name instantly made Kuha's eyes red.
Now they have learned who was robbing the grassland at the beginning, one was Lu Fei and the other was Niu Ben, and Niu Ben was his enemy.
"I'm going to kill him..." Kuha's chest was undulating violently, and he was about to rush out with a bridle.
At this time, a commander of thousands of men said, "Kuha, this is probably a trap. We cannot fall into the trick of the people of Dayu."
Kuha gasped violently, and after a long time he calmed down his anger and calmed down and continued to wait for news from the scout.
An hour later, the scout heard that there was no one in the village outside Yunzhou City, and all the people fled.
Kuha felt a manic in his heart when he heard this, and then another scout came to report that there were only more than 10,000 Qingzhou troops blocking the road ahead.
The food and forage consumption in the marching days were very huge. If the soldiers and horses were delayed here for a while, they would all go hungry.
After learning that Qingzhou army had only more than 10,000 people and was far away from the city in the wild, Kuha finally made up his mind and "send scouts to inquire if there were ambushing the woods on both sides, and the rest of them came with me."
Chapter completed!