Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1072 It's all a trap

Baturmu's face was ashen. The messenger said that the troops transferred to the three places plus the 20 troops in the west to guard against the Black Khanate, now the [-] cavalry of the Xizhou Uighur Kingdom are not enough, which means that they will not There were no reinforcements, but he suddenly thought of another question, his expression changed suddenly, and he said, "These fifteen tribes are all those tribes."

The messenger said one by one, Baturmu thought for a while, then his face changed again, he threw himself on the table, pulled the map on the table, stared at it with wide eyes, and kept sliding his fingers on the map .

After a while, Baturmu said with an extremely ugly face: "These fifteen tribes are all tribes on our way of retreat, that is to say, not only did we not have any reinforcements along the way, but we also raised food and grass very quickly. Now it seems , Yuhe Kingdom has colluded with Xiangfu Kingdom, and the five thousand horse thieves were transformed by the cavalry of Xiangfu Kingdom led by Stone Wolf, and all this is a trap. There is a secret plan by Xiangfu Kingdom, they don't want Shazhou, they want to destroy our Xizhou Uighur Kingdom."

"Notify the king immediately!" A general next to him said hurriedly.

Baturmu shook his head and said: "No need, His Majesty must have known what we know by now, and what we can think of, His Majesty must be able to think of it, and it will only be more than we can think of. Right now we What needs to be done is how to successfully withdraw from Huang Dongqiu's hands!"

"That's right, let's retreat quickly, General!" A general said, "Since we know this is a trap of Xiangfu Kingdom, there is still time for us to retreat now!"

"Is it too late?" Baturmu shook his head, and said in a deep voice: "Huang Dongqiu will never let us retreat smoothly, he will definitely try his best to stick to us until our son and the horse are hungry and have little energy, and then They just fought with us head-on, not to mention that the 5000 people led by Stone Wolf don't know where they are, although the king sent 2 people, but on the wasteland, they may not be able to surround them."

"The current plan, we just need to retreat to a place where we can replenish food and grass as soon as possible, and we can fight any enemy without starving." All the generals roared.

Unexpectedly, Baturmu shook his head and kept staring at the suggested map.A general looked at the place Baturmu was looking at on the map, and couldn't help but change his face, and said, "General, you don't want to kill Guazhou in Xiangfu Kingdom!"

"General, with the army withdrawn to the country, we can still raise food and grass as soon as possible, but if we fight back against Xiangfu Kingdom, we will not be able to raise food and grass for a while. Wouldn't it be a dead end?"

"Yes! General, we don't have enough food and grass for three days."

"General! We can't take this risk!" All the generals were anxious when they heard this, and dissuaded them one after another.

Baturmu slapped the table heavily, and said, "Shut up, judging from the current situation, everything about us is in Huang Dongqiu's calculations, and our retreat must have been expected by them. There must have been traps laid along the way. The current plan can only be done in the opposite direction, and the situation can be broken by surprise. What's more, don't forget that the Volunteer Legion also needs food and grass. I have sent people to find out the route of food and grass they sent from Guazhou in the past few days. Originally, we wanted to send people to cut off their food supply and force them to go out of the camp to fight with us, but now these food and grass may become our life-saving food and grass. As long as we have more than ten days’ worth of food and grass, we will not be afraid of anyone. We can go into Guazhou, and we can retreat back to the country. But if we withdraw directly at this time, let alone how many traps are waiting for us along the way, if we can't find food and grass within three days, we will only have a dead end. So , this may be our only way out."

The generals had been persuaded by Baturmu, and they all shouted: "Okay, general, we will follow you!"

A general said: "It's just, general, how can we hide it from the other side, so that they don't know our true intentions, otherwise they will pester us tightly, or send fast horses around in advance to inform their grain team to hide in Heifeng Mountain It is also difficult for us to grab their food and grass."

Baturmu pondered for a while, and said: "Starting tomorrow, we will increase the intensity of provocative attacks. Use all the long-range weapons that have been built in the past few days."

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On the opposite side of Baturmu, Huang Dongqiu stood at the gate of the camp and glanced through binoculars at the wolf guards who were attacking from the east, west, south, and north directions regardless of casualties.
Huang Dongqiu smiled coldly and said, "Batu Ermu must be running away!"

Yelu Hanye, the deputy head of the army next to him, said with a sinister smile, "I just don't know which of the three paths he will choose."

Huang Dongqiu said: "No matter which one it is, their fate is already doomed."

Yelu Hanye smiled and said: "This time, His Majesty has set a general strategy. The Ministry of Security has made every effort to collect information on the Uyghur Kingdom in Xizhou. The head of the army led our Volunteer Army to study, deduce, plan and prepare for a whole winter before we planted such a big one. Although it is not impeccable, it is more than enough to deal with these Xizhou Uighurs."

Huang Dongqiu said: "There are three main reasons why the Xizhou Uyghurs were so easily fooled. First, we have the strong intelligence support of the Ministry of Security. We know them far more than they know us. Second, we The level of sophisticated weapons and equipment far exceeds their understanding. No matter how powerful Baturmu's army is in fighting, he will only make wrong judgments when facing weapons and equipment far beyond his imagination. The last one used His Majesty said that the strategic thinking is not at the same level, how can they beat us."

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Regardless of the realistic offensive of some damage, the illusion created by the blood of soldiers naturally cannot confuse Huang Dongqiu.But although Huang Dongqiu knew that Baturmu was about to withdraw, he didn't know when the latter would withdraw, not to mention that he had to guard against Baturmu's sudden and desperate counterattack after deliberately tricking him out of the camp. So even though Huang Dongqiu knew that the opponent might withdraw at any time, he couldn't easily leave the camp to pursue him.This is not to say that Huang Dongqiu has no confidence in the Volunteer Army, but to minimize his losses as much as possible while basically ensuring victory.

After two days of continuous attack, more than 1000 people were lost. That night, in the camp of Baturmu's army, Baturmu recruited his generals.

"Everyone, while we are attacking regardless of losses, I have sent a large number of rangers to drive the reconnaissance cavalry of the Volunteer Legion five miles away from our camp, so tomorrow we will start to evacuate in batches!" Baturmu said. "The order of retreat is as follows!" Baturmu waved his hand, and a general next to him began to read the order aloud.

The voice of this general was still lingering in the tent, and when a general named Sadiq was finally read, the general's face suddenly turned pale, but under Batur's wolf king's eyes, he wanted to He stopped talking, and finally knelt down and said, "Don't worry, general, your subordinates will obey."

Baturmu nodded, smiled slightly, and said, "Sadiq, it's my trust in you to hand it over to you after the breakup. Afterwards, I will ask the king to divide the grassland on Nanyang Slope to your tribe."

Because the morale of the retreat is not high, if you are not careful, you will be defeated, so you must have a broken army during the retreat.And the broken army is basically sent to death, and a narrow escape is considered the best ending. In most cases, the entire army is often wiped out.But upon hearing Baturmu's promise, Sadiq's face brightened and he said loudly, "This subordinate swears to stop the pursuers."

Baturmu glanced at Sadiq and said, "Sadiq, attacking regardless of damage these two days will confuse Huang Donglai to a certain extent, plus we retreated suddenly and Huang Dongqiu dared not go out to fight with us in the field Judging from it, Huang Dongqiu will worry that it is us luring them out of the camp to pursue, so Huang Dongqiu will hesitate, but this time will not be too long. Judging from these days, Huang Dongqiu is an extremely cunning general. Withdraw, he will not hesitate to send out his whole army to pursue us. But they have only 1 cavalry. And Sadir I will give you [-] warriors. Our failure these days is because of their despicable use of those powerful The long-range attack against us also shows that they are not our opponents in melee combat. So, Sadir, don't you have the confidence to defeat their ten thousand cavalry with five thousand wolf guard warriors?"

This Sadir obviously liked Baturmu's imminent method, and the timidity on his face disappeared, and instead he shouted loudly with a fighting spirit: "What kind of bullshit Volunteer Legion, I will come and end it, general, don't worry, I will definitely Let them see how powerful our son is, and defeat their [-] cavalry with five thousand sons!"

"Okay!" Baturmu said: "Good job Sadir, tomorrow, I will personally command the army to launch an attack again, and the rest of the troops will retreat in sequence. The troops that will not leave tomorrow must prepare to attack again. The 5000 troops under Sadir's command will start tomorrow to recharge their batteries."

"The last general obeys the order!" All the generals stood up abruptly, clasping their fists in obedience.

Seeing all the people walking out of the big tent, the relaxed expression on Baturmu's face suddenly disappeared. He just said some things selectively, and the situation he guessed was more serious than what he just said. Now he only thinks about being able to bring back those [-] core elites in iron armor.

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The sky had just turned pale, but the sky was still gloomy. Before Huang Dongqiu got up, he was awakened by the sudden sound of killing, and jumped up from the bed. With the help of the soldiers who ran in, Huang Dongqiu put on his armor, Step out of the tent and onto the command platform.

(End of this chapter)