Wei Ni

For the Wei Guozhong army coming from Luoyang, Ke Bineng's action was earlier than everyone expected.

Just when Qin Lang and Tian Yu had just led their troops northward along the Sangqian River and arrived at Juyang County, they saw seven or eight rangers he had placed on guard on the north bank.

It is said to be a ranger, but each one has thousands of people.

And each of them wandered around indefinitely, sometimes appearing on the riverside, and sometimes turning out behind a sand dune, so that the scouts of Wei State could not and did not dare to know where they would appear in the next hour.

This is also the usual tactic of nomadic tribes.

With strong mobility, it maintained the possibility of launching an attack at any time, so that the soldiers and horses of the Central Plains Dynasty did not dare to relax, and they had to be on guard all the time, which quickly became exhausted.

Now they are waiting for the opportunity to "strike halfway".

This place is the ferry crossing the Sangqian River to Shangping City. If the Wei army intends to cross the river here, it will take a lot of effort and scheduling to ensure a smooth crossing.

It will even fail several times before they can establish a stable camp on the north bank.

The reason is that now is the time of midsummer, when the water level is rising and the current is turbulent.

However, Tian Yu did not give them such an opportunity.

After making the thousand southern Xiongnu rangers who were acting as scouts be on guard, he and Qin Lang continued to lead troops northward and entered Banshi County in Dai County of Youzhou.Relying on the ruins of Banshi's city on the north bank of the Sanggan River, the infantry who crossed the river first could rely on the ruins to quickly find a shelter to block the cavalry's attack, and set up a strong crossbow array to build a foothold to shelter the army that crossed the river later.

This adaptation to local conditions is very effective.

When the Xianbei ranger found out that the Wei army was crossing the river, it was no accident that he immediately sent a message with Ming Di to summon the scattered friendly troops to attack.

However, limited by the terrain, they made few achievements.

In addition to costing the Wei army half an hour more and suffering more than a hundred casualties, they left more than two hundred corpses and left.

Yes, they suffered more casualties.

The Wei army was equipped with powerful bows and crossbows, but they were only wearing simple leather armor and holding cavalry bows with weak range. After the Wei army had a shelter, the harassment war would turn into a one-sided massacre.

Of course, they weren't too far away.

They knew each other's strengths and weaknesses very well, and they had long been accustomed to this kind of casualties, so they still lingered on the side, intending to harass the Wei army while they continued to move north.

And Wei Jun is also used to their practice of driving horses to shoot a few arrows and making a lot of noise from time to time.

To be precise, Tian Yu took it for granted.

When some arrogant cavalry generals of the Luoyang Central Army couldn't stand this kind of provocation, and asked Qin Lang to allow him to lead his headquarters out to chase and kill, Qin Lang didn't say anything and Tian Yu directly refused.

"Before our army defeated Ke Bineng, such harassment was a daily occurrence. I know that the general is brave, and if he leads his troops to pursue him, he will surely gain something. Then, I want to ask the general, is the general not angry today? Please order to go out and pursue, will you be able to persevere for the rest of the day?"

This rhetorical question left the general who requested the order speechless immediately.

Those who can serve as generals in the Luoyang Central Army are not simple-minded reckless men.

If he can't go out to pursue every day, then today's pursuit will be in vain; but if he goes out to pursue every day, then by the time the decisive battle comes, his troops will be exhausted and have no fighting power.

And the other generals present also heard from Tian Yu's rhetorical question that Ke Bineng clearly knew that the ranger was limited to fighting weapons, and that when he got close to the intrusion and was chased by the Wei army, a fight and casualties were inevitable. But the real intention of sending him to die—he just wanted Wei Jun to come out and pursue him!
I want to use the lives of these rangers as a price in exchange for victory in this battle!
Let me ask, if the Wei army couldn't stand the provocation and restrain their anger, and sent troops out to pursue them from time to time, how much energy could they retain until the decisive battle?
Moreover, the time of the decisive battle is in Ke Bineng’s hands~
With the advantage of territorial warfare, he didn't need to worry about the transfer of food and fodder supplies. Taking advantage of the nomadic tribe's advantage that all the people were soldiers, he let the tribes take turns to fight to ensure that the main force recharged its batteries.

As long as the repeated intrusion was delayed for two or three months, the Wei army, which had come all the way from Luoyang, was constrained by physical strength, morale, and food supplies and spontaneously stopped and returned.

And the Luoyang Central Army has returned, can the pitiful number of troops in Bingzhou threaten his survival outside the Great Wall?

"Give the order down, and the whole army is on alert. If you dare to go out against the order, you will be executed!"

After understanding Ke Bineng's intention, Qin Lang issued the order as the general, but after asking each general to go back to restrain the soldiers, he asked Tian Yu again, "Although I know that the barbarian intrusion is to lure me The army is exhausted after going out to fight, but if they are allowed to provoke repeatedly and ignore it, it may damage morale after a long time, I wonder if Prefect Tian has a countermeasure?"

But Tian Yu didn't give him a satisfactory answer.

It just claims that after continuing to move troops to Youbeiping and settling down in the camp, there is no need to worry about the decline in the morale of the soldiers.

The implication is that the nomadic tribe's usual tactic of exhausting soldiers is a conspiracy and has no solution.

Regardless of whether Wei Jun pursues or not, it will be affected.

In this regard, Qin Lang had no choice but to hope that after arriving in Youbeiping, through the previous strategy, he could successfully force the Xianbei tribe to come to the decisive battle with the "slash-and-burn" tactic of dispersing the cavalry against Kebi Neng's territory.And Ke Bineng really did what he wanted.

Just when the harassing cavalry general Wei's army crossed the river in Banshi County and did not go directly north to Pingcheng, but continued along the east of the river to Youbeiping, Ke Bineng immediately decided to lure all the tribesmen south.

There are three reasons.

First, he and the tribal leaders in his territory knew Tian Yu too well.

In the past, Tian Yu, who was only the captain of Wuhuan and did not have many soldiers, dared to lead his troops to Macheng to fight against Kebi Neng's territory. Now that he has the help of the Luoyang Central Army, he intends to go to Youbeiping Isn't it obvious?

Therefore, after hearing the news, the leaders of the local tribes came forward one after another to ask for troops to go south, and when Tian Yu was not allowed to attack the women, children, cattle and sheep on the tribe's ranch, Ke Bineng had no choice but to follow his wish.

On the other hand, the coalition forces of the Xianbei tribes have also ushered in the incomprehensible Wei army's conspiracy.

After discussing with Tian Yu, Qin Lang has already implemented Xia Houhui's divorce strategy, and the effect is better than expected.

When the promise of Wei Guo's conclusion to Bu Dugen that "if he stumbles for a while, he can be attached again" came to Pingcheng, Bu Dugen immediately expressed his feelings to Ke Bineng, and swore in the name of Changshengtian that he would not The same goes for the Wei State again.

And Ke Bineng also seemed very generous.

To put it bluntly, this is Wei's strategy of alienation, and the usual tactic of the Central Plains Dynasty. Not only did he comfort Bu Dugen with good words, but he also ordered the leaders of the ministries under his command not to talk about this matter, or use this matter to question Bu Du during the war. root.

In this regard, the tribal leaders who were loyal to him all took the order, and they swore in the name of the sun and the moon that they would not attack Budugen for this.

For a while, the various ministries and alliances of Xianbei had an atmosphere of working together.

But it was this kind of dedication that made Bu Dugen doubt himself.
To be precise, it was because of Xie Guini's doubts that Bu Dugen felt that this atmosphere of fighting against each other was too weird.

Xieguini is a very traditional Xianbei leader.

He didn't have any ambitions, and he was calm about the custom of killing each other in Xianbei today and shaking hands the next day to make peace. That's why his father Fu Luohan was killed by Ke Bineng, but he was willing to fight for Ke Bineng.

However, after he betrayed Kebineng, he was not optimistic about Bu Dugen's betrayal of Wei and went to the fortress to join forces with Kebineng, and he held very firm objections.

"Kebi can't be trusted. My father was killed back then because of an oath made with him."

When he defected out of the fortress, he refuted it in this way, bluntly saying that Ke Bineng's sincerity in making an oath with his relatives was unbelievable.

But he couldn't hold back Bu Dugen's mind.

Now, seeing that Kebi could restrain his tribal leaders not to fall into the trap of the Wei State, he went to Bu Dugen privately after nightfall and asked bluntly, "Uncle, don't you think the promises made by the tribal leaders today are too straightforward?" Yet?"

This question made Budu's hair stand on end.

That's right, how could those tribal leaders who were loyal to Ke Bineng promise so readily?

In the mutual attacks in the early years, there was already an irresolvable hatred between each other, and since Bu Dugen migrated to Wei State, the original territory was divided up by these tribal leaders, how could they want to see Bu Dugen? Dugen returns to Pingcheng?
Pastures, tribesmen, horses, cattle and sheep are the foundation of every tribal leader's life.

As long as this kind of thing is involved, even the former Xianbei co-leader Tan Shihuai can't get the tribal leaders to compromise. How did Kebi Neng make his subordinate leaders willingly give up their interests without any grudges?

This situation is too weird!

It’s incredible!
It was so strange that Dugen felt that these tribal leaders were confident - for example, after Kebineng defeated the Wei army, he would betray his oath and kill himself, and divide his tribe, cattle and sheep equally among them.

Only this explanation can conform to the customs of the Xianbei tribe and make them readily promise without "selfishness".

Of course, self-doubt is self-doubt, and it is impossible for Bu Dugen to break with Ke Bineng at this time.

Under Xie Guini's persuasion, he felt that he must be on guard against others.

On the second day, I found a reason to move my camp farther away from Ke Bineng, and also asked the people to be on guard against the movements of the tribal leaders who are loyal to Ke Bineng, so as not to be completely unaware when they are attacked. Backhand power.

This move allowed Kebi to know the trust between himself and Budugen, and there was an irreparable natural moat.

But he didn't pay too much attention to it.

The root cause is also the third reason why he led his troops south.

No one knew that after hearing the news that the Wei State had sent the Luoyang Central Army to Bingzhou, he sent envoys to Mobei to gather tribes who were willing to migrate to Monan to thrive! (end of this chapter)