Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 540 The tribe that suddenly appeared

First, all the 1000 people left to guard the 4000 elite were killed, and the [-] elite disappeared mysteriously.Fortunately, Li Guangrui's attack on Fangdang's clan went smoothly, and another [-] people were conquered, and the troops, food and grass were supplemented to a certain extent.Otherwise, the overall strength loss will be great.

Although the disappearance of five thousand elites made Li Guangrui feel a little uneasy and angry, and knew that there was a powerful behind-the-scenes manipulator behind the scenes, but this did not dispel his determination and great cause to conquer and unify the party. He still has nearly 5 cavalry , the strength still has an absolute advantage.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that the subsequent battles would become more and more difficult.

When he led the army to attack the Yeli clan, the Mi Qin clan and the Tuoba clan unexpectedly learned of his exact marching route in advance, and each led 1 cavalry to attack from behind suddenly.Although he ultimately defeated the San Clan's alliance by relying on superior forces, his side also suffered heavy losses, with more than 2000 casualties, which far exceeded his budget.The Nakanoli clan of the third clan was maimed, and the Mi Qin clan suffered huge losses. More than 6000 people escaped, and nearly [-] elite soldiers from the Tuoba clan escaped smoothly.The most important thing is that the tribes of the Tuoba clan and the Miqin clan have migrated to other places and are missing.

The Hengshan wilderness is vast and boundless. In the snowstorm, Li Guangrui led the Xiazhou cavalry to march irregularly. The distribution of the seven clans is not in a line or in one direction. They are also located in all directions. Li Guangrui knew that as long as his army did not reach within a hundred miles of the other side, it would be difficult for any tribe in the Dangxiang Seven Clan to notice where he was leading the army.That is to say, it is normal for the tribe that I am leading the army to deal with to be able to discover them some time in advance, but my whereabouts were known in advance by other tribes, and the Yeli clan, Mi Qin clan and Tuoba clan joined forces To deal with him, this was almost impossible in his previous deduction.

In fact, there is only one possibility for such a situation—one's whereabouts have been under the control of the other party.

And the process of chasing and killing the Mi Qin and Tuoba clans proved this point even more. Every time he was about to catch up with the remnants of the enemy army one or two hours before, the latter would always be able to get accurate information, and from his scattered Successfully found a gap in the encirclement formed by the multi-route army and escaped.

Li Guangrui knew that there was a black hand manipulating everything in the dark, and in his opinion, there were only two forces or two people who could do this.One is Yufeng, the head of the temple, and the other is Ye Chen, the chief commander of the Huaxia Weifu in the Great Song Dynasty.Moreover, after his analysis and judgment, both Yufeng and Ye Chen had this motive.Being targeted by these two most difficult people in the world, Li Guangrui was extremely annoyed and fearful at the same time.

But things have come to this, if he can't completely defeat the Mi Qin clan and the Tuoba clan, he won't be able to unify the Dangxiang clan at all, and he won't be able to completely deter the entire Hengshan grassland, making hundreds or even thousands of the Dangxiang clans apart from the Dangxiang seven clans The small and medium-sized tribes of the party surrendered to him.And now the Dangxiang Wu clan he has conquered will always have two hearts and may rebel at any time.Such a result is definitely not what he wants to see when he is the lord of a country.

Therefore, even though he was faintly worried about the situation in Xiazhou City, Li Guangrui still persisted, still thinking about completely defeating the Mi Qin and Tuoba clans.

A spy walked up to Li Guangrui and said respectfully, "Patriarch, the spies found the traces of the remnant army of the Mi Qin family, located at the foot of Hequan slope fifty miles to the east."

Li Guangrui turned a deaf ear, still staring at the map with his hands behind his back. A general beside him snorted coldly, "It's the fifth time I've found out that there's another bird. Before we pass by, they'll notice it again and run away. Now The key is to be able to find the hiding places of the Miqin and Tuoba tribes. There are a lot of old people, children, women, cattle, sheep, and food in the tribes. As long as we can find them, there is no need for us to circle around with their troops. , Go straight to their tribe’s hiding place, they can only come out and fight us head-on, and with the tribe’s drag, they will definitely lose.”

The spies didn't dare to answer, but just looked at Li Guangrui, and seeing Li Guangrui's calm old face, he understood that what the general said meant what the patriarch meant, so he bowed and retreated.

Li Guangrui was very anxious. This dispatch of troops was probably his best chance to realize the great cause of founding a nation, and he knew the significance of completely defeating the Mi Qin and Tuoba clans.However, he led an army of nearly [-] people around for seven or eight days. The food and grass he grabbed before was not bad, and the soldiers still had frostbite. Every time, the spies were able to find the remnants of the Mi Qin and Tuoba clans. But they didn't even look at the shadows of these two tribes.

The vast grassland is filled with heavy snow. If one wanted to hide and avoid fighting, millions of people would disappear immediately after entering. It was even more difficult to find the hiding places of the Miqin and Tuoba tribes.

The more Li Guangrui thought about it, the more anxious he became, and he turned around suddenly and said: "The snow is so thick that the army is inconvenient to move. The Mi Qin family and the Tuoba family can flee freely, and it is always difficult to fight. The commander has decided that from now on, he will no longer hunt down the Mi Qin family and the Tuoba family. The remnants of the Tuoba clan are directly trying their best to find their tribe's hiding place."

"Li Guangmu and Liu Yongyuan led the army and supplies and then proceeded slowly. Zhang Yu, Wang Dongzhi and the commander each led 5000 fine cavalry, echoed each other, searched forward, and fought immediately when there was a small group of enemies. When there were large groups of enemies, they immediately called for reinforcements to respond Otherwise, they will be fooled by the enemy, and it will be difficult to find the hiding places of the Miqin and Tuoba tribes!"

The cold wind was howling, and the snow was fluttering. A cavalry team of more than a thousand people trudged forward in the heavy snow against the cold wind that could make it difficult for people to walk.Their faces were also covered with thick felt scarves to protect them from the wind and snow, only a pair of eyes were exposed, and their eyebrows and hat brims were covered with a layer of hoarfrost.

"Where is the front...?"

A little leader reined in his horse and stood on a high place, looked around, pulled off his scarf and asked a spy next to him.Because the wind was too strong, the gust of wind poured into his mouth as soon as he opened his mouth. After he only said two words, he turned sideways quickly and managed to finish the sentence.

"General, this is us"

The spy took a closer look. The snow dancing silver snake, the original galloping wax figure, the wind and snow roaring, and the world was vast. He spent a long time, but he couldn't see where it was. There was a black shadow appearing, the black shadow staggered out from behind a low hillside, and was moving slowly to the west, and couldn't help shouting happily: "General, look there is someone there!"

Since Li Guangrui ordered the division of troops to search for the hideouts of the Miquan and Tuoba tribes, more than 3 people from the Xiazhou army wandered on the snowfield for another seven days. Except for some small tribes who were reluctant to part with their own tribe's food, cattle and sheep, they had almost nothing to gain. , suddenly heard someone appearing, the leader couldn't help being excited, he looked carefully, and found that the black shadow was indeed a group of human beings. From a distance, the number of people was about three to four thousand, and he immediately ordered: "How many people are there?" Get closer, find out the details, and I will report to the patriarch!"

"As ordered!"

Several Xiazhou spies made gestures to each other, and quickly ran towards the dark shadow in the distance in several directions. The Xiazhou spies' military uniforms are very particular. It has been snowing heavily for the past few days, so they turned their clothes inside out and put them on. It turned into a whole body of snow white, and their horses also specially chose light gray and white, which are the best protective colors when the wind and snow are confused, and they will not be easily discovered.

The group of people who appeared was trekking hard in the snow field, including old people, women, children, cattle, sheep, and cart tents. This was obviously a migrating tribe.The Dangxiang tribe on the grassland at the foot of Hengshan Mountain started to store everything for the winter as early as early autumn, including food, winter clothes, salt tea, dry grass, etc., everything they needed.When the cold wind blows, some Dangxiang tribes will learn from the Han people to use weeds and snow to build a windbreak wall to ensure that the whole tribe can survive the winter safely.

No one would discover any defects in the grazing land at this time, or lack of winter preparations, and be forced to migrate to other places, because the whole process of migration during the cold winter will leave many old people, children and their dependents in the tribe. The surviving cattle and sheep were sent to freeze to death.

However, the tribe in front of them was migrating in the twelfth lunar month of winter, and today's weather was so bad that they refused to find a leeward place to rest for a while, which was even more suspicious.

Seeing that the situation is not right these days, some ordinary small and medium-sized tribes in the party have announced their surrender to Li Guangrui in Xiazhou, but there are also some tribes that were originally close to the Miqin and Tuoba clans and migrated with these two big tribes. Li Guangrui has always If you don't surrender and submit to him, as long as you meet him, all the soldiers will be killed, and other old people, women, children and all the supplies in the tribe will be grabbed.

The leader personally sent the news to Li Guangrui. Li Guangrui heard that a tribe of more than 3000 people was migrating in the snow. On the other hand, even if the tribes migrating at this time are not members of the Tuoba clan and the Miqin clan, it is very likely that they have a lot to do with these two tribes.

In order to prevent the tribe of more than 3000 people from taking advantage of the vast grassland area, heavy wind and snow, and the dangerous environment with unclear vision to break out and escape, Li Guangrui sent someone to quickly notify the other two teams patrolling the left and right to surround on both sides of the periphery, and he himself Before they could arrive, they resolutely led [-] elite cavalry to launch an attack after delaying for half an hour.

(End of this chapter)