I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 172, Scapegoat

Just when Xie Yan was about to kill Qu Po, another 5000 cavalry rushed out of the Huns' formation, ready to intercept Xie Yan's pursuit!
Seeing this situation, Niu Gui immediately ordered Jin to withdraw his troops. This victory was already a surprise for him. He didn't want Xie Yan and the others to be plotted against by the Huns!

"Ding, ding, ding!" Ming Jin's voice of withdrawing troops spread throughout the battlefield. Xie Yan heard it, and immediately pulled back the horse. When he saw the cavalry of the Huns, he knew that it was impossible to wipe out the cavalry, so he could only say helplessly. : "Let's go back!"

The first battle between Niu Gui and Xubu Guduhou is over!

After half a day of fighting on this unknown grassland, 3000 soldiers from both sides died here!

The Huns lost 2000 soldiers, and although Xie Yan was the victor, thousands of soldiers fell here!

After counting the casualties, the coaches of both sides felt the difficulty of their opponents.

Niu Guijun's camp!

All the generals above the commander of the army are gathered here!
After seeing Xie Yan, everyone laughed and said: "Brother, this battle can be regarded as destroying the morale of the Huns. If they hadn't fled back, I'm afraid they would be wiped out by my brother!"

But Xie Yan smiled wryly and said: "It's just a lesson to win the first battle. Yunzhong County is newly occupied, and the militia system has not yet been fully established. The troops are not as strong as Mayi's. The young and strong have not even completed a military training. This time, if I hadn't had a clever idea and relied on crossbows to suppress the Huns, I'm afraid I would be the one who would run away!"

Then Xie Yan said to Niu Gui: "General, we are still not as good as the Huns in terms of hard power, and the number of troops is not as good as the Huns. If we want to deal with the Huns, we must focus on defense. If the Huns make such a big move, Mayi will definitely increase our troops. Yunzhong County, as long as we can hold on for more than half a month, reinforcements will arrive, and then we can take the initiative!"

Niu Gui also watched this battle, and naturally knew that he could win this time thanks to Xie Yan’s tactical suppression of the Huns, but he would not have such good luck next time. Compared with hard power, the Huns are better than them, and their defense is not good. unacceptable thing.

So Niu Gui said: "Xie Yan is right. The Huns are stronger than us. We will focus on defense and wait for reinforcements!"

But he also said: "The low combat effectiveness of soldiers is also a problem. We still need to find ways to increase the combat effectiveness of soldiers!"

The captain said strictly: "If you want to increase your combat power, you can increase it faster than the battlefield! As long as you continue to fight with the Huns continuously like today, the combat power will naturally be too little!"

Niu Gui thought for a while but gave up and said, "This is just to let them die, it's better to use other methods!"

He wanted to agree just now, but he suddenly thought that these 3 soldiers are almost all the strong in the entire Yunzhong County. Don't want to develop the county anymore, the young and strong are all dead, and there are still people to develop there!

At the same time, the Huns camp!
The big and small leaders of the Huns also gathered together!
Marquis Xu Bugu was concerned about Qu Po: "King Zuoguli, are you not injured?"

Qu Beer shook his head and said, "The Rattan Armored Army didn't hurt me, but I was unwilling to lose. Obviously we had the advantage! If it weren't for their strong armor and rain of crossbow arrows, we should have won!"

Marquis Xubu Gudu comforted, "We'll just learn the lesson from this time!"

Captain Right Lan Buwu thought for a moment and said: "Judging from today's war, even if King Zuoguli's army is stronger than the Tengjia Army, it still doesn't have much advantage, and they have 3 people. There are 4 people, so it can be said that we do not have an absolute advantage, even if we defeat them, I am afraid that we will have to pay a small half of the troops, such a war is not worthwhile for us!"

Xubu Guduhou also said solemnly: "Yunzhong County has 3 troops, which we did not expect before, but now that we have crossed the Yellow River, even if the enemy is strong, we must find a way to eliminate them, otherwise When Lei Gong's reinforcements arrive, we will have no way to conquer Yunzhong County!"

Captain Right Lan Buwu thought for a while and said, "Shan Yu, the idea of ​​this subordinate is whether we can get the Xianbei to support us. If there are another 2 Xianbei cavalry, we will have a double advantage over Yunzhong County! "

Qu Be immediately objected: "Is it possible for Xianbei people to leave Yunzhong County after they come to Yunzhong County! They already have Shuofang County and Wuyuan County. If they are allowed to occupy Yunzhong County again, wouldn't we help Xianbei people fight!"

The other leaders nodded when they heard Qu Beer's words. Now that the Xianbei people are powerful, if they are really allowed to enter Yunzhong County, they will probably defeat the Tengjia Army in the end, and Yunzhong County will not have their share!They sent out 8 people, could it be that they were trying to gain territory for the Xianbei people? Although the two sides formed an alliance because of Xu Wei's relationship, the decades of hostility could not be changed in a short while.

Qu Beer continued: "Although the Tengjia Army has excellent equipment, we are not without advantages. Our cavalry far surpasses the Tengjia Army. In the next battle, we will use our cavalry advantage to mobilize the Tengjia Army's troops to make them difficult to maintain." Formation, forming a situation of more fights and less, as long as we defeat a few battalions of the Fujika Army, victory will definitely belong to us!"

This tactic can maximize the advantage of their cavalry, Xu Bu Gudu Hou thought about it and agreed.

The next day Xubu Guduhou was going to continue fighting Niu Gui, but he didn't expect Niu Gui to stay behind closed doors!

So he brought people to Niu Gui's fight and shouted: "Niu Gui, you are still a man, do you dare to come out and fight!"

At this time, in the Niugui camp, all the soldiers settled down in their positions to prevent the Huns from attacking the camp!
Niu Gui laughed loudly when he heard Xubu Guduhou's words: "I'm not an idiot. I use infantry to fight your cavalry on the grassland. If you are a man, you can bring cavalry to attack my camp. If you can break through my camp, I say you are a good man!"

It was only at this time that Hou Bugudu looked carefully at Niugui's camp, and dug a trench two feet wide and one foot deep, and outside the trench were filled with horse-repelling antlers to guard against cavalry. Outside the antlers are barbed wire fences, and many archery towers are built around the camp.Anyone who wants to attack this camp will suffer from the arrows shot down from these archery towers!
After reading it, Xubu Guduhou took a deep breath, there was a camp here, it was simply a huge hedgehog!I'm afraid that the defense of the general fortress is not as good as this camp!Are the people in the Rattan Armor Army so greedy for life and afraid of death?

If Xu Wei heard this evaluation from Xubu Guduhou here, he would be very relieved, Niu Gui has learned seven things from himself!
Xubuguduhou could see that the camp was dangerous, and the other leaders of the Huns could also see it.

Lan Buwu asked solemnly, "What should we do with Shan Yu?"

Xu Buguduhou said: "If we can break through from the outside bit by bit, if we can't wipe out this army, we won't be able to occupy the entire Yunzhong County!"

So the 4 Huns surrounded Niu Gui's camp on three sides, leaving only the north side for Niu Gui to escape!

The Huns began to clear the fortifications outside the camp little by little, and what they most wanted to face was the outermost layer of barbed wire.

At the beginning, the Huns didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that it was just vines, tripping ropes and the like used to hinder the cavalry, but when the Huns sent people to clear the barbed wire, what greeted them was Niu Gui and their crossbow arrows, the first wave of attack The Huns were shot and fled around with their heads in their arms, but the barbed wire fences did not move. Only the Huns who approached found that these barbed wire fences had been staked and could not be pulled out at all. Hundreds of Huns died, but none of the fortifications were cleared!

Qu Po said angrily: "Niu Gui is so insidious and cunning, he would even lay down wooden stakes! Damn it, how can this rattan armor army be so rich, and actually use precious iron materials to make tripping ropes!"

He didn't care about the death of hundreds of people. What he cared about was that the fortifications of Niu Gui's camp were not destroyed at all. At the same time, he was frightened by the crossbow arrows of the Tengjia Army again. In order to kill hundreds of them, Niu Gui actually shot thousands of long arrows. Throwing valuable iron materials on the ground like this, and using these iron materials to surround the entire camp, Qu Po thinks that all these iron materials are used more than their 4 people, what a prodigal.On the contrary, the Huns kept talking about riding and shooting, but they didn't shoot a single arrow!
Fortunately, the way to defend against crossbows is also very simple. Go to Po and find someone to build a lot of giant wooden shields in front of them. The crossbows can't do anything about them, but Go Po also underestimated the wooden stakes nailed in the ground. Even if the Huns can resist Crossbow arrows, but they couldn't pull out these wooden stakes after a lot of effort. Instead, several people were shot and killed by crossbow arrows because of pulling these wooden stakes out of the wooden shield's defense range!

Facing new-style fortifications like barbed wire, Qu Beer thought about it for a whole day, but he couldn’t think of any way to get rid of these things. If he wanted to pull it out, he couldn’t pull it out. He worked hard all day today to pull out one, and he also found it. The method is to remove the soil around the stakes, which is easier to pull out, but even with this method, it is impossible to pull out hundreds of stakes under Niugui's crossbow arrows without spending a few months!
The Huns in the other two offensive directions also encountered the same problem as Qubeer. This problem can be solved with pressure clamps in modern times, but for the Huns who have no industry, they can't even use a pair of large scissors. No!
In the end, after discussing for a day, the heads of these Huns thought of a solution that was not a solution, which was to cover these annoying barbed wire fences with wooden boards or horse hides!Anyway, hundreds of horses were killed in the last battle, and they were skinned and covered with barbed wire!
It took the Huns three days to finally break through the barrier of the barbed wire fence, and then encountered obstacles such as the horse antlers. At this time, they were already 50 steps away from the camp. In this range, even projectiles can be shot with considerable accuracy. Dead Huns, not to mention that there is a huge trench behind these refusal horses!

If you want to clean up these Juma antlers, you have to fight against the rain of crossbows and arrows from the Rattan Armor Army. It can be said that you have to pay several lives for every antler you clean!

It took the Huns seven days and thousands of people died to finally come to this trench. At the same time, they also bid farewell to the situation of only being beaten and not fighting back, because they can also fight back with riding bows in this range, but the effect is not very good. Well, if the ceramic armor defensive sword is still barely enough, the defensive crossbow arrows are as effective as iron armor. You will die, after all, the power of the crossbow is stronger than that of the riding bow, and the defense of the Huns' leather armor is also relatively poor!

It can be said that this is a comprehensive crushing of equipment!With this exchange ratio, if the fight continues, the Huns will die before Niu Gui dies!
After realizing this problem, Hou Bugudu stopped the offensive for a day and rested his team. After this rest, he realized that the attack in the past few days actually caused more than 5000 casualties among his subordinates. He is only in the early 3s now The troops are gone!
"We can't fight like this anymore. If we continue to attack our tribe, we will perish in the attack!" Lan Buwu shouted. Every tribe suffered heavy losses in the attack these days, but they couldn't even reach the gate of Niugui's camp. I didn't even touch it, which made many people unbearable.

Qu Beer said angrily: "You have suffered a lot, we don't have a heavy loss, leave now, do you think Lei Gong will let us go? Look at what he did to the Xianbei people. The Xianbei attacked the Tengjia army twice, Lei Gong Just annexed 30 tribes of Xianbei people, what can we Xiongnu have left after Lei Gong annexed 30 tribes?"

Going to beer made the leaders present feel depressed for a while. They were living a good life, so why did they attack Lei Gong in Mayi?
It's not that Lei Gong didn't give them a way to survive, and actually said that he killed the chief and divided the cattle and sheep. Who did they offend when they lived well in Bingzhou?Just like that, being bullied by outsiders like Lei Gong!

Qu Beer continued: "I dare say, this time we have retreated, next year Lei Gong will definitely attack our Meiji, and then you will watch Lei Gong lead your troops to hang you to death, and kill your wives, cattle and sheep. Divide those slaves! Just like he did on White Sand Mountain!"

Qu Beer said viciously: "If we are all dead, what's the point of keeping the tribe, and even the existence of the Xiongnu means anything to us!"

Some of these words were rebellious, but they woke up the leaders present!

That's right, if you don't defeat Lei Gong now, then Lei Gong will take his own tribe to hang himself to death. At that time, the tribe will not belong to him, so what's the point of keeping the tribe!
"Yes, we can no longer procrastinate like this. Even if all the troops are exhausted, we have to conquer Niu Gui's camp! Otherwise, when Mayi's reinforcements arrive, we will be the ones who will die!"

So Niu Gui was surprised to find that after a day of rest, the Huns all seemed to go crazy.

Qube on the opposite side of Xie Yan didn't care about the casualties of his troops. He launched more than a dozen attacks in one day. The camp continued to attack, and the strings of Xie Yan's men's crossbows were almost broken, but they still couldn't stop Qu Po's attack on the camp. It seemed that Qu Po and they didn't care about the casualties of their own troops at all!

After the fight, blood flowed into rivers around the camp and there were corpses everywhere. The blood stained the whole camp red. The Huns were so desperate that the casualties of the Tengjia Army also increased.

At the end of the fight, Xie Yan even had to hold his saber to fend off these crazy Huns.

"Kill all the Tengjia troops!" To boost morale, Qu Beer also personally rushed to the front line with a sword and a leather shield!The Huns opened the gate of the camp with ropes.

Then go beer and rush to the camp with 1000 soldiers!
At this time, Qu Beer was full of anger, with a ferocious face, like a ghost from hell, and the sword in his hand was like thunder. As long as the fighters standing in front of him were bound to be killed by him, without exception, he seemed to be from now on. The killing Shura from the sea of ​​blood is average.

Encouraged by Qu Beer's bravery, the Huns' morale was greatly boosted. Everyone risked their lives to fight, even if they were severely injured, they would die together with the soldiers of the Tengjia Army!
The Hun soldiers led by Qu Beer fought so desperately that the soldiers of the Tengjia Army were beaten and retreated steadily.Qube quickly occupied the gate of the camp and led the Huns to continuously expand their advantages!
After Xie Yan discovered this scene, he immediately led his personal guards to block it!Even he himself met the ferocious and invincible Go Beer!

Xie Yan rushed towards Qu Po, and the two swords collided, creating a dazzling flash of lightning!

Qu Po found out that it was Xie Yan and sneered: "I didn't expect to meet you here, just to avenge the last time!

Qu Beer looked at Xie Yan fiercely, Xie Yan's power was not as strong as Qu Beer's, he was blown away!
Seeing Xie Yan in a state of distress, Qu Bei sneered and said, "I want your life!"

After speaking, use all your strength to chop again!

But at this time, Xie Yan's two personal guards pounced on them, but their martial arts skills were low, and they were dealt with by Qu Po!

"Go beer, you dare to kill my brother, I want you to pay in blood!"

Xie Yan slashed thirteen knives in one go with a vicious aura, and sparks came out from the intersection of the knives of both sides. On the chest, the iron armor and the steel knife wiped out a flash of lightning, but Qu Beer could feel that he hadn't cut Xie Yan's body!
Qu Beer cursed secretly: "What a tin can!"

Then kicked Xie Yan away!
At this time, Niu Gui led thousands of reserve troops here. With this new force, the situation on the battlefield quickly improved. Qu Beer also consumed a lot of energy in the battle just now, so it is better to be brave just now. The people directly drove them out of the camp, and at this time night fell, the horns for the retreat of the Huns also sounded, and Qupier could only lead the people to retreat.

Niu Gui didn't start to clean the battlefield until he saw the Huns retreating. He found Xie Yan who had been repulsed and asked, "Are you all right?"

Xie Yan said: "I can't die, I don't know what's going on today, I'm so brave, I guess you, the boss, are no match for him!"

Among the rattan armor army, if Xu Wei is the well-deserved number one general, Niu Gui is the well-deserved second general!Most of the senior members of the Tengjia Army were from refugees, and they had no chance to learn martial arts at all, that is, they learned some martial arts by eating well in the past few years and fighting on the battlefield.

But Niu Gui was born as a ranger, and he has learned martial arts for more than ten years, not to mention how advanced he is, but he has a better foundation than Wang Lei and the others. Niu Gui is also the martial arts instructor of the Tengjia Army.And the younger brothers around Niu Gui can more or less know some martial arts, so they like to hit the front line!
It's just that this time Xie Yan really lost the confidence to be beaten by Qu Beer. He and several of his personal guards have never beaten a Qu Beer!
Niu Gui was also surprised, but after thinking about it, he smiled and said, "They should be dying. They have been attacking Yunzhong County for more than 10 days. With the speed of our Tengjia Army's support, the reinforcements may have already entered Yunzhong County. , That's why they fought so fiercely. We only need to save these few days, and then it will be the turn of the Huns to escape!"

Although Niu Gui did not guess the reason correctly, he was right in saying one thing. Wang Yong's army had already arrived in Chengle, and the Huns could not last for a few more days!

As night fell, the campfires of the Huns were brightly lit, and all the leaders gathered in the big tent of the Chinese army to report their battle losses!In the end, they calculated that this battle cost them 3000 soldiers!

This result made all the leaders take a breath of air!If the battle of this intensity had to continue two more times, the tribe would probably rebel.

Everyone didn't know what to say for a while, the whole big tent was deserted!
At this time, Tan Ma ran in and knelt in front of Xubuguduhou and said, "The reinforcements of the Fujia Army have entered Yunzhong County, and there are 6 reinforcements. The commander is Wang Yong, the vanguard of the Fujia Army!"

Lan Buwu lost all hope and said: "It's over, it's over, the reinforcements of the Tengjia Army are here, we failed, and it was a disastrous defeat! We quickly fled back to Meiji and begged the Han emperor for mercy, now only he can protect us! "

Lan Buwu didn't want to fight anymore. Now they are only in their early 8 warriors, and their morale is not high, while the Tengjia Army has as many as [-], of which [-] have high morale. How can we fight?Continuing the fight is not asking for death!

"Before the Tengjia Army has surrounded us, we will immediately cross the Yellow River and return to Xihe County. We have the natural danger of the Yellow River, and the Tengjia Army will not enter Meiji so easily!" The other leaders also panicked, don't look They were as firm as they said yesterday, but if they could live for a few more days, they were still willing to live by idling, and if they continued to stay in Yunzhong County, I'm afraid they would all die under the knives of the Tengjia Army.

"Marshal Lan Buwu is right. We begged the Emperor of Han for mercy. He needs our warriors to help him conquer the world. He will forgive us!"

"Yes, yes! The big deal is that we ask the emperor of the Han people to change a piece of land for us. Even if we go to Xiliang to face the Qiang people, it is okay. Now Xiliang is not rebelling. We go to Xiliang to help the emperor of the Han people to quell the war. The emperor of the Han people must willing!"

"Yes! When we arrive in Xiliang, it's not easy for Lei Gong to follow!"

Wang Yong's 6 reinforcements completely defeated the confidence of these Hun leaders in victory. They couldn't win with 3 people. Now there are 8 to 9 Tengjia troops. How can they fight?
The leaders present all knew that they had no chance of winning, and now they had to find a way to save their own lives!
Xubugudu Hou heard this, but his face was ugly. The other leaders could surrender to the emperor of the Han Dynasty, but it was obviously impossible for him, the one who killed Qiangqu. It was obvious that everyone was dissatisfied with Qiangqu and rebelled together. But looking at these people now, it seems that they want to push all the responsibility on themselves and make themselves a scapegoat. How could Hou Bugudu be happy at this time!
(End of this chapter)