Chapter 056 Surprise attack on the base camp
On the night of the retreating Huns, Meng Tian gathered all the generals in the shogunate, and simply arranged the defense and dispatch of horses to leave Xin Sheng and his son to disperse the generals.
After the three of them were silent in the shogunate for a long time, Meng Tian expressed his concerns: "The Huns' soldiers are approaching. Although our army won all three battles, our army is still at a disadvantage in terms of strength. Judging from all the situations of annihilation of the enemy, most of the people killed are the Donghu soldiers and horses newly incorporated into the Huns, and the real elites of the Huns have not yet fought with our army. Now there are less than 200,000 soldiers and horses in Yanmen Pass, and they cannot defend themselves. If you want to find a way to take the initiative, I wonder what strategies do you have to defeat the enemy?"
Xin Tong was about to speak generously, but was stopped by Xin Sheng. After all, Xin Sheng was an old general and was much older. He bowed and said to Meng Tian: "Since the General has already had a plan to defeat the enemy, he is instructed that we will fight for the General to die."
Thankfully, Meng Tian bent down to Xin Sheng and bowed: "Thank you, the old general!"
Xin Sheng hurriedly helped Meng Tian up, and then Meng Tian said, "Good old Qin, let's go to the national crisis together!"
"Even if the general is extremely dangerous, we will never retreat." Xin Sheng's eyes were filled with tears.
Seeing his father and Meng Tian so politely complimented, Xin Tong couldn't understand why.
At this time, Meng Tian slowly said: "In today's battle, I think the major general is brave and fierce, even better than the old general of the Qiang Gang when he was younger than the one in his youth, so he can be a great task to fight against the enemy. I want the major general to lead a top cavalry of one man and three horses to arrange 30,000 troops to raid the Huns' army. The general in the Western Expedition will command the two generals Qian Yi and Yang Hongxi and all the cavalry under his command to support him. Once the major general is surrounded by the Xiongnu army, he will save him. If he can rush to defeat the Huns, he will detour from the west and attack the Huns' rear formation."
At this moment, Xin Tong, who was young and brave and arrogant, also understood the politeness of Meng Tian and Xin Sheng just now. This combat plan was really dangerous.
However, it just aroused Xin Tong's incomparable confidence and desire to make achievements. He immediately stood up and said proudly: "The General trusts the last general so much, and he will fulfill his mission!"
Xin Sheng was originally mentally prepared, but he didn't expect it to be so dangerous. However, in the face of national crisis, he could only abide by the general's orders: "The last general should do his best to drain the last drop of blood for the Qin Dynasty!"
Meng Tian no longer acted politely, so he could take out two maps, indicate Xin Tong's marching route and tactics, and also told Xin Sheng the direction of Qiang Yi and Yang Hongxi's army, asking him to set off immediately and use the transfer order to lead the army into his position.
After the father and son received the order, Xin Tong went out to lead the 30,000 army and nearly 100,000 war horses that Meng Tian had prepared long ago, and headed north overnight.
On the Huns, on the night when the battle ended, Maodun Shanyu gathered all the generals to discuss military affairs. He knew in his heart that the two major casualties were the Donghu soldiers and some Yuezhi cavalry, and the Xiongnu headquarters were less than 10,000 people. If his own Xiongnu elites did not go to fight, it would be difficult to defeat the Qin army, and the morale of the army would soon be lost.
After the discussion, Maodun issued a military order: the left and right wise kings made a large number of engineering equipment. Three days later, the elite Xiongnu and the remaining Donghu cavalry were on the left, and the 200,000 Yuezhi army, with very little casualties, were on the right, attacking Yanmen Pass together, day and night, and be sure to level Yanmen Pass.
The next night, all the explorers sent by the Xiongnu to the north did not come back, but the Qin army at Yanmen Pass suddenly opened the door from the gate to attack the Xiongnu, and also used chariots to set up the "Checheng Round Formation" and tilted crossbow arrows, and no cavalry charged.
By the third update, the Qin army retreated into Yanmen Pass and the Huns slowly fell asleep. At this time, less than a hundred miles north of the Shanyu headquarters army, an extremely elite Jiuyuan cavalry was slowly approaching the Huns army.
After midnight, the cavalry with one man and three horses was divided into three teams, each with 10,000 people. In the second team, Xin Tong suddenly launched a charge to attack the camp of the Xiongnu Chanyu headquarters. The ground suddenly began to shake violently. The nearly 100,000 war horses charged at full speed. It was really like thunder and shouting to kill the sky.
At this moment, the Huns army was sleeping! Awakened by the sound of horse hooves and shouts of killing that were even more shocking than the bolt from the blue. Before they could prepare, the front team's 10,000 cavalry and 30,000 war horses had already rushed into the outer camp. The hasty Hun soldiers were immediately stepped into meat paste, and countless war horses stepped directly from the camp.
Xin Tong led the most elite Jiuyuan cavalry of the Qin Dynasty, killing the Huns' soldiers and horses frantically. The Huns' camp became chaotic in the fire within an hour, and all kinds of tragic voices came from all directions.
The 50,000 elite cavalry guarding the Shanyu king's tent were waiting for their orders at all times, and they were not panicked at all. Seeing the army in the middle being extremely chaotic, chopping and killing like an explosion camp, they remained motionless and waited for Shanyu's orders.
When Shanyu, who was in the tent, heard the message from various generals, he finally understood that the people who came out from Yanmen Pass in the past two days were bait against him, and the purpose was to cover the attack of this elite cavalry tonight.
He knew very well that the Qin Dynasty was short of military strength and needed such a surprise attack to harass him. He ordered the 30,000 Eagle Shooters cavalry in the king's tent to set out overnight with him, immediately heading north, and detour to the rear of the attacking enemy troops, and then start attacking the tired Qin army after dawn.
Xin Tong led the elite of the Jiuyuan cavalry to kill wildly in the Xiongnu camp, and chopped and slashed for two hours with great joy. When he was just about to lose his life, he accidentally saw the white Qi Mingxing in the east. It was almost dawn and remembered Meng Tian's instructions that the sneak attack must be at night and must be avoided in the daytime, so he quickly ordered the entire army to retreat north.
Half an hour later, Xin Tong's army all withdrew from the Huns' camp and retreated north. When they were less than half an hour, the whistle horses in front reported that there were tens of thousands of cavalry in the north waiting for the order, and the whistle horses behind also reported that the Huns began to gather more than 100,000 cavalry to chase their own troops.
Xin Tong immediately stopped the army and began to shout to the army: "Brothers, we made immortal achievements last night. Now the Huns bullied us and wanted to eat us. Do you have the confidence to kill them again?"
After the bloody baptism last night, the entire army lost only more than a thousand people. When the morale was very strong, they were extremely enthusiastic and shouted: "Kill all the Huns!"
Immediately, Xin Tong ordered the entire army to turn south and speed towards the Huns' northward army. The Huns' army originally wanted to surround the exhausted Qin army and kill them, but they thought that they suddenly turned south and rushed towards them.
Just as the Huns were stunned, the cry was like thunder and yelling to kill the sky again. Just like last night, the devil-like Qin troops came to their sight again.
The Huns' army rushed to fight and was in a panic by nearly 30,000 elite Qin troops. After an hour of tragic frontal slashing and slaughtering, the entire Huns' army was defeated, unable to form an effective counterattack, and unable to organize an orderly retreat. The entire army immediately began to be defeated and fled...
Maodun Shanyu received a report from the horse probing. The Qin army that had attacked last night went north and ordered the entire army to prepare to charge. But he couldn't see the Qin army!!!
The horse explorer once again reported that the Qin army had fled south, and Shanyu felt very relieved. Because he had deployed 100,000 cavalry, he went north to surround the Qin army that was attacking at night.
Just when Maodun Shanyu was complacent, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from the north, and the shouts of killing were heard for miles, and everyone was shocked.
The news came from the horses that it turned out that a group of tens of thousands of Qin cavalry in the north were rushing south wildly. When Shanyu thought that the Qin army was fully prepared for this attack, he was worried that he would be surrounded, so he hurriedly ordered the entire army to retreat westward.
Xin Tong was full of luck, and he should not have died. If this most elite cavalry of the Huns went south directly and fought with the Qin army, even if Xin Sheng came to take over, the outcome would be unpredictable.
Xin Tong's troops defeated the Huns' army and retreated, and he also lost 10,000 troops. Most of the Qin army was exhausted and ordered the army not to chase and retreat north immediately.
Half an hour later, he met Xin Sheng's army who came to pick him up. Xin Sheng saw his son covered in blood and the more than 10,000 cavalrymen with red eyes, and she burst into tears.
They all knew that they could not stay and rest at this moment. Once the Huns army organized again to surround him, they would be unable to escape. Xin Tong ordered the entire army to rest for a while, and changed their horses, and quickly retreated eastward into the Great Wall.
Xin Sheng led a 50,000 army to march westward according to Meng Tian's general order, and detoured to attack the Huns' army. After a night of fierce fighting, Xin Tong's 30,000 army lost about 11,000.
The Huns trampled and were chopped and killed in the evening, losing more than 40,000 troops. After dawn, the Huns lost more than 20,000 troops and horses, which lost nearly 60,000 troops in total. This was not much for the more than 600,000 troops and horses of the Huns, but this time the Huns were attacked and killed by the Qin army, and the morale of the Huns fell to a low point, which made the morale of the army even more turbulent.
Meng Tian was very pleased when he received Xin Tong's battle. He immediately came to reward Xin Tong's army and submitted a letter to the court to reward him.
Then Meng Tian issued a general order: He ordered Cheng Zhiyi, who had been ambushing for a long time, the crossbow arrow army led by the Meng army, Bai Long, and Zhao Sheng to prepare to cooperate with the battle tonight; he led Li Xi's army to attack when he saw the Hun army heading north, and must attack and entangle him and not let him escape.
Maodun Shanyu was defeated by the Qin army twice. He was extremely angry and immediately ordered his full strength to attack Yanmen Pass. There were two situations in the left and right wings that were attacking the front. The main force of the Huns participated in the left wing attack, while the main force of the Yuezhi attacked the right wing in feints and did not do his best to attack.
After this day, Yanmen Pass remained unmoved. The former army supervised the battle and ordered the army to stop attacking the key points, and he wanted to report Maodun Shanyu to solve this dissonance between the left and right.
After receiving the report from Zuo Xianwang, the Shanyu decided to punish the Yuezhi people and ordered that if he did not work hard tomorrow, he would order the family members of the Yuezhi cavalry to be slaves.
Chapter completed!