Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 378
The horse manure in the grass was moist and had a trace of residual temperature, Chiuba threw down the horse manure in his hand with a cold face.

"They left overnight! And from one man and one horse to one man and two horses."

At this moment, Chiuba and the 300 most elite people are in the camp where Gao Deshu is temporarily stationed.

On the ground in the center of the camp, a hundred small packages of food were stacked neatly.

This is the surplus of the food that Meng Xiaowan brought from the Central Plains last year, just enough for two meals for Mo Bahu's 3000 people.

A sign written by Xu Jidao in Beibei characters was inserted on the grain pile.

"Ahead, by the river, a decisive battle!"

Chiwuba didn't like the enemy's attitude of being in control. The provocations of the Central Plains people couldn't provoke him, but the Central Plains people's self-confidence made him have some concerns.

"Such enemies are the most annoying!"

The wooden sign split in half by Chiwuba and the food were sent back to Mo Bahu at the rear.

The wooden sign was thrown into the burning fire by Mo Bahu, and he told the people below coldly.

"Starting tomorrow, the scouts will be changed to one person and three horses, and they will be released for thirty miles."

He turned around and asked in front of several warriors.

"how do you feel?"

These few voluntarily tried to see if the food left by the Central Plains people was poisonous, and four horses also ate the food at the same time.Everyone on the prairie knew that horses would be fine if they ate some food, but people would die if they ate it, so Mo Bahu arranged for four people and four horses to eat the food.

"My lord, the food of the people in the Central Plains is quite good!" Several Beibei warriors who ate the food talked and laughed freely, which infected other soldiers around.

"Let's grab those Central Plains people!" The soldiers started booing.

Mo Bahu smiled and nodded.

"Yes, we went to grab them!"

Turning his head, Mo Bahu began to give orders, and the whole army rushed south the next day.

"The Central Plains people seem to be planning something. We need to speed up and attack them in advance before they finish their arrangements."

Mo Bahu was excited by the initiative of the Central Plains people.

As for the riverside mentioned by the other party, Mo Ba couldn't think of anything that the Central Plains people could rely on.

Maybe the Central Plains people are deliberately scaring themselves, maybe those Central Plains people have good water skills and can swim across the river after failure?

On the bank of the Banjiang River, with the efforts of the soldiers, a strong camp appeared here.

The thick fence with the mouth of the bowl and the braces behind the fence, as well as the unique barbed trenches of the Central Plains camp, are all available.

And on a high ground four miles away from the big camp, a smaller camp was also erected here, which was full of ox carts.

Inside the big tent of the Chinese army in the big camp.

Zhang Zhe was silently filling out a form on a piece of paper.

This is a comparison table about the strengths and weaknesses of the two sides.

"The Beibei people have the upper hand in maneuverability; the Beibei people also have the advantage in cavalry warfare; the grassland terrain is favorable to the Beibei people, so the terrain is not up to me. Our advantage is Renhe, with 20 soldiers on horseback; The logistics are also superior; of course, the equipment is also superior to ours; in the end, the [-] people led by Sanqi have a total of five Wuren chickens, and the information on the battlefield is relatively unilaterally transparent.”

Zhang Zhe looked at his own advantages, and then picked out a few more.

"There are three advantages of our side that the Beibei people don't know. First, our military strength; second, equipment, Yungang weapons; third, and the biggest advantage now, the opponent's actions are all under control."

Putting down the form, Zhang Zhe rubbed his eyebrows.

This was the first time he commanded a frontal battle. Although he had seized the initiative on the battlefield, he still felt a little nervous.

The expedition of the prairie people often took their troops and cattle and sheep on the road together, but the professional cavalry directly under the royal court often took a certain amount of rations and luggage on the road, which was conducive to their mobility.Therefore, after a fire burned Mobahu's food and grass, the mobility of the Beibei people was greatly reduced.

They can only choose to go directly south or retreat immediately.

If the Beibei people used their mobility, Zhang Zhe would not be able to find these elusive Beibei cavalry even with a hundred Wu chickens.

Mo Bahu came, and he came very quickly. Fortunately, Zhang Zhe's arrangement had already been completed.

The strong camp and the seemingly dangerous highland deputy village are actually traps left by Zhang Zhe for Mo Bahu.

Two miles away from the highland camp, a few Beibei scouts boldly pointed at the camp.

They did this out of the habit of fighters, and wanted to increase the psychological pressure on the people inside.

Mo Bahu almost followed Gao Deshu's ass to the bank of Banjiang River.

The Beibei people did not set up a village, but directly slept ten miles away from the highlands, ensuring that they could maximize their mobility at any time.

Mo Bahu's scouts were extremely bold. In addition to approaching and observing the stockade on the high ground, they also gathered hundreds of people to roar past in the narrow area between Zhang Zhe's camp and the high ground stockade.

"The children found a lot of rut marks on the grass between the highland and the Central Plains people's camp, and some people found a little scattered grain foam. It seems that the stockade on the highland is the granary of the Central Plains people."

A few stones were randomly placed on the grass, and Chiuba pointed to two of them and reported the situation to Mo Bahu.

"Some guys ran along the river for forty miles. The area with the slowest water flow is the section behind the Central Plains people's Dazhai. They saw a few Central Plains people riding horses directly to the other side of the river."

Mo Bahu rubbed his chin, looking at the layout of the people from the Central Plains, he also had a headache.

If he wanted to attack Yunshang County, he had to cross the river, but the Central Plains people blocked the main force by the river and built a camp that didn't look easy to mess with.Or he can choose to directly annihilate the opponent's main force here, but no matter what he chooses, he must capture this big village.

But as long as the granary on the high ground is there, even if the Central Plains people lose a big village, they can immediately build another big village again.

"If we directly attack the other side's Liangzhai," Mo Bahu sneered and pointed at Dazhai's location, "they can kick my ass."

"Regarding the strength of the Central Plains people, how is the investigation going?"

"When they were lighting a fire and cooking at noon, our warriors once rushed to their Dazhai, and ran back with a few arrows hanging from their bodies. Those Central Plains people gathered ten people around a stove, and the people in their Dazhai There are almost three hundred shares of smoke, so there should be 3000 people, and there seem to be a lot of horses. There are only one hundred shares of smoke in the grain village, and there should be 1000 people."

"These Central Plains people actually have 4000 people?" Mo Bahu smiled, and then tapped the position representing the Liangzhai with a horsewhip.

"They should have moved Dazhai closer to the high ground, instead of guarding the entire place where the river can be crossed. The open space between the two camps gave us a chance of victory. Chiuba, if I give you With 1000 people, how long will it take you to take down this grain village?"

"My lord, up to two days!"

"But you will kill half of the warriors!" Mo Bahu shook his head, "I want you to feint to lure out all the Central Plains people in Dazhai, and then I will lead the rest to defeat them on the grass. Our Food is limited, so you have to make a splash within half a day."

"Look at mine, my lord!"

Zhang Zhe stood on the wooden building with binoculars and looked at the thousands of Beibei cavalry approaching Liangzhai, but his heart sank slightly.

Gao Deshu, who has just escaped, is in charge of guarding the "grain village". He has hundreds of bows and more than 100 crossbows.

His big camp is not the 3000 people shown, but a full 5000 people.Standing by his side is Xie Lun's troops who arrived here not long ago.He handed over the defense of Yunshang County to Chen Jiong and tens of thousands of old and weak.

The other two thousand Beibei people were not in Zhang Zhe's telescope.

They hid in the distance, waiting for reinforcements from Dazhai to come out.

Zhang Sanqi had discovered the remaining 500 Beibei people and divided them into two parts.Among them, [-] people were hiding more than ten miles away from the camp, and hundreds of elite scouts blocked the possibility of detecting them.

The other 500 people had already quietly circled to the west of the camp. It seemed that Mo Ba was not only preparing to raid the reinforcements from the camp, but was also preparing to take the opportunity to capture the camp.

Chiuba's attack looked extremely terrifying. Nearly a thousand horses surrounded the high ground, firing bows and arrows from time to time. After a while, hundreds of people reined in their horses and jumped down to charge towards the high ground for a certain distance.

Thousands of people almost created the momentum of 5000 people.

But the two camps of the Central Plains people have been quiet all the time. Only when Chiwuba's people rushed into the range, would a rain of arrows shoot out of the Liangzhai, shooting down or driving away the approaching Beibei people.

"There are at least three hundred bows!" Chiwuba realized that he underestimated these Central Plains people again.

The guarding force of the grain village exceeded expectations, and Master Mo Bahu's plan to encircle the spot and aid seemed somewhat unworkable.Unless, he really started to attack!
Chiuba didn't send anyone to ask Mo Bahu for instructions. As a veteran general, he still has this bit of sense and right.

Five hundred Beibei people brandished bows, arrows and ropes, and rushed towards the high ground on horseback, while the other 500 people began to jog around the high ground on horseback. Seek a breakthrough in one direction.

Soon, Chiwuba discovered that those people from the Central Plains had left a hand.

Just when his 30 warriors braved the rain of arrows and rushed to the front of the Liangzhai at the cost of more than [-] casualties, the Central Plains people threw more than a hundred bows and crossbows into the slaughter of the attackers.

The casualties of 500 people in the frontal attack reached hundreds of people at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Damn! Where did these Central Plains people get so many bows and arrows? Could it be that the Central Plains official brought these weapons?" Chiuba's eyes began to turn red.Before setting off, the Eagle Officer of Wang Zhang told them that Dazheng had a strong control over bows and crossbows. According to Chen's information, the Central Plains people who left the pass had no record of getting bows and crossbows from various treasuries.

As a veteran general, Chiwuba did not hesitate at all, and immediately led another 500 people to rush forward from behind the Liangzhai.

It was at this time that Chiuba discovered that the range of bows and arrows of the Central Plains people was also hidden before.Hundreds of bows and arrows were immediately transferred to Chiwuba's attacking direction. When the Beibei people were two hundred steps away from the camp, the Central Plains archers began to shoot.

"Damn it, it's a big loss this time!" Chiwuba waved his carbine and swung away the bow and arrows that had been shot. There were already 20 people around him who fell off their horses.

Although the loss was a bit large, Chiuba was still full of confidence in winning the Liangzhai.

He found that the fence on the side of the Liangzhai close to him was not very high, and he and dozens of elite war horses could jump into it in one fell swoop.

Although Chiwuba guessed that there might be a trap in the camp, as long as he saw the escape path of those Central Plains people and followed them.

The development of the battle was just as Chiuba had judged, and he leaped into the Liangzhai with a few arrows and more than 20 people.Those archers ran fast, and even set fire to the tents around them, in order to stop the pursuit of Beibei war horses.

"This is a group of idiots!" Seeing the Central Plains people set themselves on fire, Chiwuba laughed loudly.

But the next moment, something happened that made him dumbfounded.

Thousands of war horses rushed out from the other side of the Liangzhai, and the people from the Central Plains left the Liangzhai that started to smoke and fled? !
"Quick! Damn it! Don't chase them! Go to the fire, all of them, there's food here!"

Mo Bahu had led 500 people to the edge of the battlefield quietly, but the distance between him could not stop the [-] Central Plains people on horseback who were determined to flee back to the camp.

Chiwuba actually relied on two real charges to take down the crucial grain village!
Mo Bahu was not in a hurry to dispatch, he was betting that the Dazhai of the Central Plains would immediately organize troops to retake the high ground.People in the Central Plains who have no food will be more passive than before.

Soon, Mo Bahu realized something was wrong.

Chiwuba's people were obviously fighting the fire, but the fire was getting bigger and bigger, and then with a few explosions, the whole grain village suddenly burst into flames, and a huge cloud of smoke surged into the sky in an instant, which was extremely frightening.

All the Beibei people and horses who rushed into the Liangzhai were covered with a kind of flame that could not be extinguished.

A mixture of gasoline, sugar, and match powder ignited everything in the grain village.

Chiuba and all the soldiers who entered the camp rolled desperately on the ground, but the flames on their bodies seemed to be melted into his blood, and they couldn't be extinguished at all.

The miserable howls of humans and the mournful neighing of war horses resounded through the entire highland.

Mo Bahu's palm was bloody drawn by his nails.

Chiuba's 700-man team lost hundreds of people during the attack, and nearly 100 people were trapped in the sea of ​​fire. There were only more than [-] cavalry who fled back in a hurry.

The next moment, the [-] Central Plains cavalry who had just "fleeed" to the gate of the camp also turned their heads and pursued the more than [-] Beibei remnants who had fled.

Mo Ba didn't hesitate at all, he immediately went out with his whole army, ready to defeat the "main force" of the Central Plains cavalry.

When Mo Bahu's [-] riders appeared, the Central Plains people who were chasing them immediately stopped their horses and lined up, without seeming to panic at all.

Mo Bahu's cavalry hadn't been able to join the hundred or so remnants when they suddenly found a large number of horses rushing out from behind the Central Plains people's front line.

In front of him, there are at least 500 Central Plains cavalry.

"This is impossible!"

Mo Bahu gritted his teeth, and led the Beibei cavalry to immediately draw an arc on the grassland, avoiding the front of the Central Plains people.

If you rush in like this, you may be stopped by too many Central Plains people, and then fight together, which is too bad.

But this didn't stop Mo Bahu from wanting to kill these Central Plains people. He planned to use his superior riding skills to surround these Central Plains people and wait for an opportunity to defeat them.

At the same time, several loud arrows flew into the sky, and several Beibei scouts hovering on the edge of the battlefield immediately galloped away in another direction.They went to inform the 500 people to start a sneak attack on Dazhai of the Central Plains people immediately.

(End of this chapter)