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Chapter 293 Li Ling's First Encounter with the Enemy (4.4K)

After Liu Ju left, Huo Shan called Cao Zong and Jiang Chong in.

Huo Shan looked at Cao Zong and said directly:

"The car division needs soldiers and horses to garrison, I am going to keep you here."

Cao Zong nodded, he had guessed it.

"I will leave you with four thousand soldiers and horses, two thousand Huns, and out of the two thousand Huangnu, you will lead troops to garrison Che Shi Kingdom, but the soldiers and horses should not stay here.

I need you to clean up the territory of Cheshi, so that there is no threat here, and strictly investigate the territory of Cheshi, and the crossing of soldiers and horses must be thoroughly investigated.

As for how to do these things, you make up your own mind. "

Cao Zong nodded, and Huo Shan looked at Jiang Chong again.

Huo Shan initially brought him under his command because he didn't want him to do bad things, and there were some nasty things he could do.

But after bringing him here, he basically didn't have anything to do, but Jiang Chong was capable.

A person with a famous name in history, even an inconspicuous little character, is not an ordinary person.

Since he joined Huo Shan's army, he has worked hard and done a lot of practical things!

Huo Shan also thought of him this time, it would be a waste if someone left it unused.

Cao Zong's heart is a bit real, but Jiang Chong is a man with many evil hearts and thieves, and his methods are omnipotent in a word.

And don't look at Jiang Chong being honest under his hands now, this guy is very courageous!

"I need you to assist Cao Zong, to help him make suggestions and get everything done."

Jiang Chong immediately bowed and saluted:

"The minister takes orders!"

Jiang Chong was a little excited at this time, and this was after he calmed down outside the account. He felt that this time was an opportunity for him.

"The first thing I want to explain is that the first task of the two of you is to ensure the safety of the driver. If something happens, don't blame me for the military law."

"promise."

Huo Shan gave Cao Zong a look, and then said:

"Go down and get ready!"

Jiang Chong turned around and left after saluting, Cao Zong still stayed where he was.

Huo Shan looked at Cao Zong and said:

"Jiang Chong can be used, don't worry, but be careful, don't be fooled by him, and if you do anything stupid, everything will be stable, and I will leave you fifty shots."

Cao Zong smiled innocently, patted his chest and said confidently:
"Zihou, don't worry, I will definitely stare at him!"

Huo Shan rolled his eyes:
"I'm not asking you to stare at him. I'm asking you to talk to Jiang Chong and think more about it. He's much smarter than you."

Cao Zong was a little embarrassed, Huo Shan directly scolded with a smile:

"Get out now!"

Looking at the back of Cao Zong leaving, he thought of his naive appearance, although he knew that Cao Zong was much smarter than he showed, after all, he was raised by Pingyang, but he still sighed.

Huo Shan shouted out of the tent:
"Tian Qianqiu."

Tian Qianqiu ran in from outside the tent:
"The minister is here."

"Go, let someone bring Jiang Chong back to me, and you go to draw up an imperial edict."

When Jiang Chong was surrounded by clouds and mist, and he came over again with some confusion, Huo Shan handed him a copy of the imperial edict.

"If Cao Zong insists on going his own way and makes unfavorable actions, with this edict, he will directly take away his military power."

Jiang Chong's heart moved, and he immediately saluted and accepted the order.

Huo Shan glanced at him and said:

"I am reluctant to kill Cao Zong's bad things. If you do bad things to me, I will kill you!"

Jiang Chong immediately half-kneeled on the ground:

"I dare not, I will assist Marquis Pingyang, and swear to defend Che Shi to the death!"

"Well, let's go!"

What Huo Shan originally thought was to find someone who was capable and Cao Zong could suppress him. Jiang Chong was suitable in both aspects.

But he suddenly found that some were too much, Cao Zong suppressed it, but some suppressed Jiang Chong too much, Huo Shan was afraid that he would not listen to Jiang Chong.

Giving such an edict is also to prevent Cao Zong from acting rashly.

This was his last battle, Cao Zong knew it in his heart, Huo Shan was really afraid that he would make trouble.

In this regard, Huo Shan still trusts Jiang Chong very much. He is a qualified eagle dog. If the matter is explained, he will definitely do it well.

Anyway, there are a lot of edicts in hand, so adding an insurance is a very simple matter.

Jiang Chong will not and dare not seize power without authorization, and the eagle dog must have the consciousness of the eagle dog.

.........

The next day, Huo Shan led the army to set off directly, still the current [-] Qiang army went first, Huo Shan led the [-] former army, and [-] Yulin Tiger Ben and [-] shots followed.

Cao Zong and Jiang Chong led [-] soldiers and horses to stay in Jiaohe City, but they set off directly after Huo Shan and others left.

They are going to clean up Cheshi's country and the remaining enemy forces nearby.

Their task is not to stay in Jiaohe City all the time, their task is the section of the main road between East Tianshan and West Tianshan, from Cheshi to Dongqiemi.

Their task is not to always be stationed on the main roads of the plain. The cavalry cannot stay in the city all the time, nor can they be stationed in one place all the time. They need to be mobile at any time.

Especially them at this moment.

They need to wander around to ensure that this main road is not occupied by the enemy, and then clean up the enemy soldiers and horses entering the territory of Che Shi Kingdom, as well as unknown soldiers and horses.

So their tasks are still very busy, and they need to wander around all the time.

And they are the only force to guarantee this important path, Huo Shan will not send other forces to guard it.

The soldiers and horses that Dongqiemi was going to leave behind were going to deal with the countries in the west, and they would not involve this place.

Besides, Dongqiemi is still two or three hundred miles away from the main road here, which is a bit too far.

This main road doesn't need to be completely occupied, and it doesn't need to be occupied by the enemy, as long as it has its own strength.

In this case, even if there are soldiers and horses who want to block the road on the west side of the main road, these four thousand soldiers and horses are a very big deterrent.

Generally speaking, the methods of cavalry and infantry are different. If it is infantry, Huo Shan will definitely garrison the main roads.

But the cavalry cannot be stationed, they have to move, and the running cavalry is the most deterrent.

Because you don't know where this cavalry will come out and give you a fatal blow.

.........

And just as Huo Shan was heading east and catching up, Li Ling had already passed the Eastern Tianshan Mountains and was chasing the Huns, less than two hundred miles away from the Xiongnu soldiers.

However, the soldiers and horses of the Huns who were repulsed by Li Ling were not killed, and some of the part that returned the same way had already returned to the Huns' army.

The speed of the Huns' large-scale troops is still relatively slow.

Of course, that was compared with Huo Shan, who traveled lightly and traveled two hundred miles a day, but the Xiongnu were dragging their families, and traveling a hundred miles a day was already very good.

This is also the main reason why Huo Shan was able to catch up with the Xiongnu. If it hadn't been for the destruction of the two countries during the period and the delay of a day, he would have arrived in Dongqiemi long ago.

Today is the fourteenth day of the eighth month, Huo Shan is less than [-] miles away to the east, and the Xiongnu's soldiers and horses still need nearly [-] miles to arrive.

This also has something to do with the fact that the East and Mi are to the south, and Huo Shan's side is closer.

Huo Shan was a hundred miles closer, and the Xiongnu was a hundred miles farther away. Together, the distance between the two was two hundred miles.

These seven hundred miles cannot be counted as seven hundred miles, but four hundred miles are about the same.

Because Huo Shan was going to destroy the four countries near Dongqiemi, the coverage area was only three hundred miles, so four hundred miles was about the same.

As for the remaining countries, they are farther north and east, and there is no time. Huo Shan is going to put the battlefield there. Anyway, none of your ten countries can escape.

And the journey of four hundred miles would take at least five days at the speed of the Huns.

Even if they learned that the situation was speeding up, there was still Li Ling holding back, so it was impossible for them to go too fast.

So these four hundred miles will take at least five days, precious five days, how much can Huo Shan do!
Arrived at Dongqiemi in one day, destroyed the four countries in two days, and had two days to prepare, perfect.

And this requires Li Ling's delay.

.........

"How do you feel, Shaoqing?"

Li Ling heard Su Xian's words, thought for a while and said:

"I think it's okay. We have to speed up. Now our army is 140 miles away from the Xiongnu soldiers and horses. Some are too far away. We can't bite them. We have to get closer."

Su Xian also nodded in agreement.

"That's it, I will take one first, and you will take the second one later, hide first and go to the north. If I get entangled, you will continue to chase.

Even if you can't hold back all the Huns, you have to involve some of them. "

"Row!"

The [-] rear troops under Li Ling's command began to divide their troops, and one under the leadership of Li Ling began to speed up and chase forward.

Under the leadership of Su Xian, the second part did not speed up, but maintained the original speed, and began to shift to the north.

After half a day of chasing, the rear army gradually drew closer to the Huns' army, and their own scouts had spread not far from the Huns' army.

"Report~"

A soldier with a flag on his back rushed into the army and came straight to Li Ling. When he came not far from Li Ling, he took the reins and simply cupped his hands and said:

"Report to the general that most of the Xiongnu have not stopped, and they sent troops and horses to our army. The number is about [-]."

Li Ling is indeed a general, but he was appointed by Huo Shan, but he has an imperial edict in his hand, which is the same as that of Liu Che.

Not only Li Ling, Zhao Chongguo was also named a general.

Li Ling is General Xiaoqi, the title used by his grandfather Li Guang, this title is different from later generations, it is just a title.

Just like General Qingche and General Material Officer, there is no distinction between high and low.

But it's not enough to move Li Ling, the general can't be given the title lightly, let alone the title his grandfather used.

And Zhao Chongguo is General Yingyang. This is really Huo Shan's creation. It has never appeared before. The earliest record is in the Three Kingdoms period.

After hearing what the scouts said, Li Ling quickly asked:
"How many Hun soldiers and horses are there, can you find out?"

The scout looked distressed:
"Back to the general, never before, there are too many, boundless, all of them are Huns, but it is estimated by visual estimation that it is not under 15."

Li Ling didn't blame the scouts either. The marching army was indeed difficult to detect, especially the Huns who drove cattle, sheep and horses.

If you want to investigate, you have to wait for them to stop and count the tents.

Li Ling's face became a little more serious, but he also breathed a sigh of relief.

If the Huns have more soldiers and horses, the pressure will be great for this side, but for the military households, the pressure will be much less.

Possibly without stress, which is nice.

After thinking about it, Li Ling gritted his teeth and shouted:
"The whole army is stopped, all schools are called to come and obey orders!"

After a while, all the army stopped marching, and four school lieutenants ran over with their deputy.

One is divided into four schools, one school has 500 people, so he now has four school lieutenants under his command.

"General, why did you stop marching?"

Li Ling glanced at the captain of the fourth school coldly, but did not speak to him. After looking at the terrain, he directly began to give orders:
"The first school lined up on the spot and prepared the god arm crossbow to wait for the enemy to attack. The second school went to the five miles north of the position to stand by, the third school went to the ten miles north of the position to stand by, and the fourth school went to the five miles to the south of the position. Stand by and leave now."

The other three school lieutenants took orders and started to set off without saying a word, only the fourth school lieutenant did not take orders, but said:
"Why did the general stop the army? The enemy is about to attack. I have more soldiers and horses than me. I am invincible. The front row of crossbow arrays, the enemy will collapse as soon as they charge!"

Li Ling remained unmoved:
"I have my own plan in my heart, so I just obey the order!"

"General, don't go your own way!"

Li Ling turned his head instantly and stared at him coldly:
"Listen, Ling!"

"General..."

"Come here, drag this man who disturbs our army's morale to me and cut him down!"

The fourth school lieutenant was taken aback for a moment, then looked at the Shesheng soldiers rushing over and shouted loudly:

"You can't cut me!"

There are two main reasons for his objection. The first one is because he refuses to accept Li Ling. There is always no shortage of self-proclaimed people in the world.

Envy, envy, hate!

The second reason is that he felt that it was indeed inappropriate to do so.

But he forgot one thing. In the army, as long as an order is issued, you only have to execute it. Even if you are asked to die, you have to go.

So now that Li Ling was about to kill him, he was in a hurry!

It is true that Li Ling has no right to kill him, that is Huo Shan's business, but Li Ling still wants to kill him today, as long as he wins, nothing will happen.

And it's just a school lieutenant, it won't matter if you cut it off!
The main reason is that these soldiers and horses are all Huns, they only recognize Huo Shan, and it doesn't make much difference if they change generals.

After a puff and a click, Li Ling instantly felt a lot quieter in his ears, and he said to his assistant:

"You are the captain of the fourth school, and lead the troops to set off immediately."

"The last general takes orders!"

The Fourth Colonel did not object for the sake of objecting. Normally speaking, his objection was justified, and very reasonable.

The Xiongnu's [-] soldiers and horses came to attack. They either attacked against each other, or ran and guerrilla. For this moment, the latter is the safer method.

But Li Ling, he likes to take risks, but although his risks are very risky, the rewards will be great if he succeeds.

How could a [-]-strong position be able to withstand the impact of [-] cavalry!

But it also depends on the actual situation.

Li Ling came up with this method after observing the terrain.

First of all, the land at the foot of the first school is higher, and there is still a long slope in front of it.

Although the cavalry can come up easily, some less obvious rocks in the middle of the road will slow down the speed and trip two Hun cavalry, which is better.

However, due to the terrain and gentle slopes, the first school will not face too many enemy troops, and the magic arm crossbow can exert its greatest power.

This will greatly increase the defense and resistance of a school.

And he released the other three schools, this has two plans.

The first one is very simple, the protection is a horn.

The other is to let the soldiers and horses of the Huns choose. Which of the four schools do you choose?
Whether to choose the other three schools, or the weak-looking school, the terrain of the first school is just a gentle slope, and the cavalry that hedges against it is nothing, and the terrain is not easy to detect.

After all, Li Ling was betting that they would choose a school as the main direction of attack.

And there are only 500 god arm crossbows in his army, and the remaining [-] five god arm crossbows are on Su Xian's side, so only [-] people are needed to line up.

And there are [-] soldiers and horses left in the first school as backup.

If you choose one school as the main attack, then my thousand hidden soldiers can go to the other three schools to help deal with the enemies you sent to guard against the other three schools, and then go straight to your main attacking army.

You know, the cavalry charge very powerfully, but after being slowed down, it is difficult to charge again.

The first school actually acted as a bait. This method is very risky. If the first school can't stand it, it will be gone immediately, and the other three schools will also be in danger.

But now that the order has been issued, Li Ling can only pray that the Xiongnu will choose a school, and the school can successfully resist it.

(End of this chapter)