I, Liu Bian, Sanxing Han Dynasty

Chapter 553: The Western Regions
Mo Hou was furious when he heard this and asked, "Didn't I tell him not to fight the Han army but just to contain them?"

I only heard the reply: "Sir, it's not that Qi Li is incompetent, it's just that the Han people are too cunning."

"Although this place is vast, when the Han Chinese defeated A Luoduo before, they sent people to drag some bushes to create smoke and dust in the distance, making Qi Li think there was an ambush by the Han Chinese. In the end, he had to fight with the Han Chinese. Moreover, the Han Chinese charged very quickly..."

Mo Hou had no choice but to accept this cruel fact.

He looked at the generals around him again. Two groups of 2,000 Xianbei cavalry had already been defeated by the more than 1,000 Han troops outside. Although the tribesmen fled in all directions after being defeated and then regrouped, the actual casualties caused by the Han people were not that great, but the loss of two famous warriors in the tribe was also a big blow to morale.

Mo Hou became more cautious. He said, "The Han army there has fought twice. Even if the soldiers are not tired, the horses must be tired. Whoever is willing to go there, just hold them back!"

After all, the Xianbei people are a people of the grasslands, and there are many brave people among them. Not long after Mo Hou finished speaking, someone still volunteered, "I am willing to go to Medog!"

Mo Hou also knew that he could not suffer losses at the hands of nearly a thousand elite Han troops again, so this time he simply gave the enemy three thousand Xianbei cavalry.

At the same time, he ordered people to gather two groups of troops that were defeated by the Han cavalry.

This is also the characteristic of the Xianbei people or most grassland ethnic groups in warfare - when they have an advantage and see the rewards after victory, they will rush forward ferociously, one after another, in order to obtain more spoils. But once they face a strong opponent and cannot gain an advantage, each of them will cherish their own life as survival is their first priority.

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Xu Huang was observing the enemy situation. He stood outside the chariot formation and commanded his cavalry to move forward from time to time to relieve the offensive pressure on the chariot formation. The archers in the chariot formation could also provide him with assistance, and when necessary, he could also lead the cavalry to retreat into the chariot formation.

You can advance to attack and retreat to defend.

While observing, Xu Huang asked a young military officer beside him: "Mancheng, the Xianbei people are more powerful than our army. In your opinion, where can we defeat the Xianbei?"

Li Dian has actually been thinking all the time.

After following his uncle Li Qian to Liangzhou to guard the border, he understood very well that this might be the only chance in his life to change his destiny.

He had to catch it.

"General, I have some superficial ideas. I hope you can correct me."

"tell me the story."

Li Dian analyzed with a serious face: "In my opinion, although the Xianbei people have a large number of troops, their people are not united."

"First, the Cheshi soldiers who attacked the chariot formation were obviously forced to attack by the Xianbei people. And the soldiers attacking in the front, if my guess is correct, should be the soldiers of the front of Cheshi. I heard that there were six divisions in Cheshi before, but only the front and back divisions were left. The relationship between them must not be harmonious."

"Secondly, when the Xianbei attacked the elite troops led by General Zhang, once they showed signs of defeat, they fled in a hurry and had no intention of fighting hard. This shows that the prestige of the Xianbei Lord is not enough to make his subordinates die for him."

"The hidden dangers within it may be possible to take advantage of them."

After hearing this, Xu Huang affirmed, "Mancheng has good eyesight!"

"The place where the Xianbei leader Mo Hou is located seems to be surrounded by the army, which is the place where his army is the strongest. But the cavalry is not as good as the infantry, and they have the ability to hold their ground. The more he is surrounded by people, the more likely it is that as long as we break through to him, we will win!"

As soon as Li Dian heard this, he knew Xu Huang had made up his mind, and he immediately bowed and said, "I am willing to follow the general into battle."

Seeing the high-spirited Li Dian, Xu Huang praised him, "Good boy, you will be by my side tomorrow!"

tomorrow?

Li Dian thought for a moment and understood why Xu Huang chose to attack tomorrow - Zhang Fei, as the main force, had led his troops in several battles that day, and the troops were a little tired and needed to rest for a night. In the chariot formation, the Han army must feel more secure than the Xianbei people.

After making the decision, Xu Huang began to prepare for the battle tomorrow and even tonight. At the same time, he sent someone to contact Zhang Fei, ready to complete the battle in one fell swoop the next day!
When Zhang Fei received the message from Xu Huang, he was dealing with the newly arrived 3,000 Xianbei cavalry.

He found that these Xianbei people were really weaker than each other. The man at the beginning dared to fight with him, but now the Xianbei people on the opposite side clearly had three times as many people as him, but they chose to retreat from beginning to end in the face of his attack.

That's it?

After thinking about it, Zhang Fei gave the order: "Don't pay attention to those tails for now, go to the direction of Mo Hou first, and see if they chase you... If they dare to chase you, we will come back!"

He then sent out an order to the officers in the army, stressing: "This trip is only to lure out the enemy behind us. Don't let anyone be so blind as to charge at that Xianbei master!"

Under his and Xu Huang's training, this elite force obeyed orders absolutely and took action immediately.

Otherwise, it could be said that Besieging Wei to Save Zhao was an open conspiracy. Motuo led 3,000 cavalrymen and watched the Han army showing off their power in front of him. In fact, he was full of anger.

Seeing the Han army rushing towards the direction of Lord Mo Hou, he could not help himself. He used the armor of the Han army and the war horses under his mounts as trophies, and encouraged his Xianbei soldiers to attack with him.

The Xianbei people more or less knew that some of them had been defeated by the Han army before, but this time they were outnumbered, and the Han army had already fought twice... they could not stop being greedy...

"My lord, it's bad, Motuo has been killed!"

This time, without anyone notifying him, Mo Hou had already known the news of Medog's killing, because when he first saw the Han cavalry rushing towards him, he had already sent people to lead the troops and prepare to charge forward.

But unfortunately, before the elite troops arrived, the Han army turned back, broke through Medog's troops, and withdrew.

"The Han people are really cunning!" Mo Hou said fiercely.

At the same time, he continued to order people to urge the Cheshi people to increase the intensity of their attack!

On that day, after suffering more than 2,000 casualties and leaving behind hundreds of corpses, the Cheshi people were ultimately unable to open any gaps in the chariot formation, even with the help of the Xianbei cavalry behind them.

As it grew darker, Mo Hou could only order the attack to be stopped.

However, he was sure that the enemy would not be able to escape.

That night, in the tent, Mo Hou counted the results of the battle. In order to deal with the nearly 1,000 elite Han cavalry, he had sent out a total of 7,000 cavalrymen, but the casualties were less than 1,000. Thinking of this, he was very angry. Unable to sit in the big tent, he went out to inspect the tents. Not long after, he suddenly heard someone chatting and talking about the bravery of the Han generals during the day. He said with fear and admiration: "I didn't know what it meant to be an enemy of ten thousand people before, but today I understand..."

After hearing this, Mo Hou secretly thought that it was not good. He forgot to provide separate accommodation for the more than 6,000 troops who suffered the defeat today.

Just as he was about to deal with it, he heard someone shout, "Enemy attack!"

Just at this moment, a fire broke out outside his camp.

Mo Hou was not afraid of this. He had made arrangements in advance and was not afraid of the enemy's night attack.

But this night attack was just the beginning. The enemy would often retreat after one strike, but if we let our guard down, they would try to attack from time to time.

Mo Hou was a little annoyed at first, but he soon remembered that in this battle, there were 40,000 of them against more than 20,000, so the advantage was in his hands!
The enemy has dispatched such a large army to carry out night attacks everywhere. How can we deal with his attack tomorrow?

He immediately mobilized the Cheshi people and a small number of Xianbei people to guard the periphery of the camp, while he himself stayed in the camp with most of the elite troops and ordered them to rest assured.

Just like that, the night passed.

The men on night watch were naturally exhausted, but Mo Hou was in high spirits. He felt that they could defeat the enemy today!

By then, the Western Regions will be his world! By using the power of the Western Regions to plunder the Han people's Hexi, why would he worry that he could not become the common leader of the Xianbei after Tan Shihuai?
On the other side, Xu Huang and Zhang Fei also rested well.

Hu Zhen, on the other hand, was exhausted after a day and night of fighting, with bloodshot eyes. This night was not only physically exhausting, but also mentally exhausting.

Hu Zhen bowed to Xu Huang and Zhang Fei and said, "The success or failure of our country's operations in the Western Regions rests in your hands today."

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "Just take a rest, just like I did yesterday. When you wake up, I will fetch Lord Mo's head and offer it as a sacrifice to the officials and people of Haitou City!"

Xu Huang also said so.

Hu Zhen bowed again, and after settling the elite troops selected from the coalition forces of various countries who had returned from the night attack, he went to rest.

After this victory, he still has to save his energy to pursue the enemy!
On that day, Xu Huang brought out all the coalition forces he could, except for leaving behind the necessary troops to guard the chariot formation. He and Zhang Fei led the elite Han troops to the front.

Before setting off, Xu Huang entrusted the important task of speaking to boost the morale of the coalition forces to Zhang Fei, who had a golden voice, although most of the Western Regions soldiers could not understand what Zhang Fei was saying.

However, they all felt Zhang Fei's momentum.

As more and more people translated Zhang Fei's words, the morale of the coalition forces was greatly boosted!
——"Yesterday, the general of the Han Dynasty had already found out the strengths and weaknesses of the Xianbei people... they are just chickens and dogs. Today, we just need to follow the Han army and charge!"

The Western Regions countries are so used to taking advantage of the power of others that they are very good at it.

Xianbei camp.

Mo Hou had already decided to break through the chariot formation today. However, just as he had organized his troops to leave the camp, he received a report that the enemy troops were almost out in full force.

How dare the Han people challenge him to a decisive battle?

Mo Hou just felt that he was underestimated.

The Cheshi King Ami Zha suggested: "Sir, since the Han army has come out in full force, why should we take this opportunity to divide our troops and attack the chariot formation to confuse them?"

Mo Hou thought about the possibility of Ami Zha's suggestion and rejected it, saying, "It would be easy for the Han people to see through our plan if we divide our forces. It would be bad if they hide in the chariot array again... However, when the battle breaks out and they can't get away, we can divide our forces and cut off their retreat!"

"Now, we, the Xianbei warriors, should use our mighty power to crush the Han people!"

After hearing Mo Hou's words, the generals and warriors beside him were all excited. This emotion quickly spread to more Xianbei people, making more Xianbei people eager for the results of victory.

However, Mo Hou forgot to take into account at this moment. Those Xianbei people in the army who had seen Zhang Fei's ability to defeat ten thousand enemies yesterday seemed to have some doubts in their hearts.

The two armies faced off again, but this time the Han army did not rely on chariot formations for defense. Compared to the Xianbei, the Han army was undoubtedly at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, but Xu Huang and Zhang Fei had no fear in their hearts.

This time, the attacking party was the Han army.

Zhang Fei led his armored cavalry in the front. Behind him, there was a soldier holding the flag that frightened many Xianbei people yesterday.

Facing the "provocation" of the Han army, Mo Hou was not afraid at all. In his opinion, the Han army could only have these nearly a thousand people who could be called elite!
He immediately sent out his most trusted brother to lead more than 10,000 cavalry to fight, and at the same time ordered his generals to be ready to attack the enemy's flank at any time.

With superior military strength, in a head-on battle, the Han army only has the advantage of armor and weapons. How can they defeat them?
Mo Hou thought so, climbed up the temporary pile of earth and watched the battle.

But the facts seemed somewhat beyond his expectations.

His brother's ten thousand cavalrymen were unable to resist the brave Han general, and the Xianbei cavalry were actually divided into two!

However, Mo Hou was not in a hurry, because although the thousands of troops behind the nearly 1,000 elite Han troops were able to keep up, the coalition forces of the Western Regions countries could not keep up and had been surrounded by his army.

As long as there are two more rounds of clashes, he doesn't believe that the enemy will not be defeated!

Wait, Mo Hou suddenly discovered that the Han army seemed to be coming towards him!
He sneered, showing no fear at all.

Xiao Shuai, who was originally prepared to use for the fatal blow, was immediately put to use.

This time, they were much closer. Mo Hou rode his horse and stood on a mound of earth. He saw with his own eyes the Han army's mighty enemy hacking and killing people in the army like cutting melons and vegetables. With the protection of his personal soldiers at the side, the Xianbei warriors dared not match him.

Mo Hou was a little surprised. Originally, when he heard his subordinates talk about ten thousand enemies, he thought that they were ignorant. But after seeing him today, he was surprised that there really were such brave warriors in the world?

While being amazed, Mo Hou noticed that the other party looked over here.

He suddenly clenched his hands holding the reins and found that his palms were sweating.

Mo Hou immediately called another general beside him and ordered him, "Take the remaining 3,000 cavalry and go over there. Don't worry about others, just kill the Han general!"

It was not until then that he realized something was amiss. Why didn't the ten thousand most elite cavalry led by his brother return in time? Instead, nearly half of them went to besiege the weak coalition forces of the Western Regions?

No, where is his brother?

Mo Hou was more panicked than ever before.

Looking at the nearly two thousand cavalrymen left around him, Mo Hou suddenly had the idea of ​​escaping directly back to the camp, but reason told him that once he fled, the entire army would be defeated.

Therefore, his great standard still stood on the mound.

Fortunately, the two waves of blocking troops finally took effect.

Especially the last targeted wave, which firmly restrained the bravest Han general.

Even if he is the so-called enemy of ten thousand, can he defeat a hundred with just one person?

Mo Hou calmed down again, and laughed at himself for being too cautious.

Just as he was about to send someone to urge the more than 10,000 cavalrymen who had set out first to return for support, he suddenly noticed that on the flank of the Han general, there was another group of troops with hundreds of people, led by another brave general, who suddenly attacked and invincible wherever they passed.

We are about to get out of the fight.

Mo Hou had a choice to make: lead the remaining 2,000 cavalry to join the battle, but this also meant that he would face the enemy directly.

Or escape?

This means that he will lose the qualifications to become a Xianbei leader.

After hesitating for a while, Mo Hou finally made up his mind to attack because he was the adult who unified this area!
Xu Huang was originally worried that Mo Hou would run away, which would make him break his promise to Hu Zhen. However, he did not expect that Mo Hou would actually rush straight towards him.

Li Dian beside him was even more excited. In his eyes, Mo Hou was not a human being, but a shining military achievement!
As soon as the two sides fought, Mo Hou regretted it.

At this moment, he suddenly understood what kind of pressure his troops were under and why some of the more than 10,000 cavalrymen at the beginning were unwilling to turn back.

But it's too late to regret.

At this point, he couldn't leave.

In this battle, General Xu Huang killed the Xianbei leader Mo Hou in battle, causing the Xianbei and Cheshi troops to flee. The Han army led the coalition forces of the Western Regions to pursue them all the way to Liuzhong City.

(End of this chapter)