The Rebellious Officials and Traitors of the Late Han Dynasty

Chapter 376 Fire
Tadun knew that the two Xianbei thieves would never give up this opportunity. There could only be one overlord on the grassland, either Wuhuan or Xianbei.

Now that the Xianbei have hooked up with the Han people, how could they let me go? Now there are hundreds of thousands of enemies around me, and these enemies are about to rush over and kill me completely, turning my people into slaves of the Xianbei.

This kind of situation happens frequently on the grasslands. The Wuhuan did the same thing to other tribes of the Linhu in the past, and now the Xianbei people will do the same to themselves.

The only way to solve this problem is to withdraw to the grassland.

Only when we return to the grassland will the Han troops withdraw, and then we will only have to deal with the Xianbei people.

Those damn Xianbei dogs, Tadun has made up his mind that after he returns to the grassland, he will teach the Xianbei people a lesson. They once submitted to him, but now they dare to attack him. This revenge must be avenged.

"Withdraw the troops and ignore them."

Although Tadun was unwilling in his heart, he still ordered his troops to withdraw, and hundreds of thousands of troops slowly evacuated to the Bailang Mountain area.

He looked at the White Wolf Mountain in front of him with a look of joy on his face. After crossing the White Wolf Mountain, he would leave a group of men behind to resist the enemy's attack so that he could retreat safely.

"Khan, the enemy is still twenty miles away from us. There is a large group of troops coming from the west, about fifty miles away from us." At this time, a scout came running over, and Tadun was immediately very grateful.

If he was a little slower, the enemy would have surrounded him, and he wouldn't know whether his 200,000-strong army could return to the grassland safely.

"Pass the order down, the army will quickly enter White Wolf Mountain."

Tadun immediately gave the order, and the twenty armies, under the command of the enemy, headed straight for Bailang Mountain.

"My lord, the Xianbei troops are still fifty miles away from Bailang Mountain."

"My lord, the Wuhuan troops have entered Bailang Mountain."

Teams of scouts came running and reported the situation on the battlefield.

"Prime Minister, our troops have arrived. Now is the best time to attack."

Ke Bineng showed joy on his face and spoke loudly.

"Prime Minister, Budugen is willing to lead his troops and take the lead in launching the attack."

Budugen also spoke loudly.

"My lord, if we attack at this time, we will be met with a frenzied counterattack from the enemy. I think we should set fire to Bailang Mountain first to cause chaos in the enemy, and then launch an attack." Pang Tong glanced at the two men.

Although both are fire attacks, the results are different depending on the order of setting the fire first or attacking first. Setting the fire first can cause the Wuhuan army to become chaotic, and then the army can take the opportunity to attack, thus reducing losses.

Attacking first and setting fire later will put the enemy in a desperate situation.

Since they were going to die anyway, they might as well fight the enemy. If they defeated the enemy, they would still have a chance to survive. Budugen and Kebi Neng obviously had other plans, and they even wanted to use the Wuhuan people to consume the strength of the Cavalry Army.

"Send a signal and let Yan Rou set fire to the mountain." Qin Shou glanced at the two of them with a calm expression.

If these two bad guys want to fool me, they still lack some skills.

"Yes." Dian Wei behind him nodded and went down to pass the order without saying anything else.

A moment later, there was a smoke signal rising up. It could be seen for miles around and it stretched far away.

Tadun, who had already entered Bailang Mountain, also noticed something strange behind him, and a look of horror suddenly appeared on his face. Smoke signals could only be a way for the Han people to communicate. "Quick, speed up the march and pass Bailang Mountain quickly." Tadun immediately ordered.

Although he didn't know what the enemy's conspiracy was, it was definitely very disadvantageous to him. The only thing he could do at this time was to get out of Bailang Mountain immediately and prevent the enemy's conspiracy from being realized.

"Fire, fire, Khan, there is a wildfire ahead."

At this time, the forwards brought news that a forest fire had broken out.

"Khan, we have received news from the rear that there is thick smoke in the mountains. It seems someone has started a forest fire."

Just as he was preparing to retreat, news came from the rear team.

"Does the Cavalry want to burn itself to death?" Tadun suddenly became nervous and looked around. The soldiers around him all had fear on their faces, and even chaos began to appear in the place.

"Khan, let's retreat! The enemy must have an ambush ahead. Once we charge over, we will fall into the enemy's ambush." ​​The guards beside him shouted.

"Great Khan, we cannot retreat. A large group of cavalrymen are charging towards us. The soldiers have no intention of resisting. Even if the rear team becomes the front team, they will not be able to resist the enemy's attack. The only way to survive is to fight forward with all our strength."

Another general suggested.

After hearing this, Tadun felt very regretful. He should have sent people into the mountains to search carefully. Otherwise, such a thing would not have happened.

Now we are in a dilemma and can neither advance nor retreat.

"Khan, give the order! Even if we have to die, we must die heroically. It would be too humiliating if we are burned like this." A tribal leader said loudly.

"Break through." After hearing this, Tadun finally gritted his teeth and decided to continue breaking forward.

He never imagined that Qin Shou would be so ferocious, setting fire to the mountain and preparing to burn himself and others to death. Didn't he know that this would be against the harmony of nature?

But now Tadun had no time to care about these things. He whipped his horse hard and galloped away.

If he had not already entered Bailang Mountain and it was inconvenient to retreat, he would definitely return to fight Qin Shou again.

"Qin Shou is an incompetent man after all. If he had set up ambushes on both sides, releasing half and taking back the other half, I would have died here today." Tadun felt the thick smoke and flames around him. Although it looked dangerous, in fact, the fire had just started. The front army had no casualties, and the central army was also safe. Only the rear army was the most dangerous.

Tadun, who was about to escape, no longer cared about so many things. It was already great that he could jump out.

Looking back at the raging mountain fire behind him, Tadun laughed loudly and said to the generals around him: "The Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty is incompetent after all. If he had ambushed a group of troops here, I'm afraid we would have died today."

Everyone nodded, with a look of relief on their faces.

Heat waves rolled behind them, and the entire White Wolf Mountain was on fire. Faint screams could be heard from the mountain, and everyone's faces changed instantly.

It is impossible for all 200,000 troops to escape. At least tens of thousands of them are trapped in the mountains, and only death awaits them.

"Let's go! We will definitely avenge this." Tadun clenched the whip.

He knew that he would soon face not only Han cavalry, but also attacks from the Xianbei people.

Now is just the beginning of the disaster, and the situation in the future will be even more difficult.

(End of this chapter)