Survival Three Kingdoms

Chapter 423
After half a year of training, the morale and fighting spirit of Hebei soldiers were ignited again, and food, armor, weapons, and horses were all ready.In May of the 11th year of Jian'an, Qu'a took Liang Guang as the vanguard, Wang Ji and Duan Muling as the staff generals, and Yang Rui as the marching commander Shi Qi sent troops to the south.

The soldiers were less than a hundred miles out of Ningyuan, and the front came to report that King Sufuwan led [-] cavalry to block the way.It happened to be raining heavily, so Qu'a Ling chose a high place to camp and wait for the heavy rain to pass before fighting.

How to fight, Zhou Cang did not explain to Qu A, but Qu A knew that Zhou Cang wanted to fight for real.But how to fight, Qu A convened everyone to discuss.

Although Liang Guang had confronted the Xianbei people before, he had no experience in confronting tens of thousands of people, and he had no other good ideas other than confronting them head-on.Wang Ji wanted to use tricks, but repeated deduction, unless King Xiao was a fool, it would be difficult to break the cavalry.

It seems that there is no other way but to take a direct confrontation as Liang Guang said.This is not typical of Zhou Cang's combat style. When did Zhou Cang face each other head-on?Zhoucang's consistent principle is to exchange the minimum effort for the maximum benefit.Duan Muling, who was transporting food and grass, came and heard everyone's worries, and smiled: "Although the enemy army is numerous, I brought a lot of food and grass this time. Watch me become an army!"

Liang Guang looked at Duanmuling suspiciously. He had only been separated for a few days, so why did he start talking nonsense? Could it be that it was raining and cold?
Duanmuling asked: "The enemy army is all cavalry, let me ask you, what do horses eat?"

"Eating grass." Liang Guang curled his lips.

"Only eat grass?"

"Of course not. How can we only eat grass and supplement it with concentrated materials, and beans should be added to it."

"Damn, it's beans. Let me ask you again, Wuhuan people don't have enough food and grass, how many beans are there?"

"I'm afraid it's not enough to eat."

"That's right again. They don't, but we do."

Liang Guang rolled his eyes. "Scattering beans into soldiers? Show me these beans. From my point of view, they might turn into bean sprouts after it rains."

In a word, everyone laughed out loud.Qu A, Wang Ji and Yang Rui heard a little trick: "You mean to scatter beans to lead war horses to eat?"

"Exactly."

Wu Gang shook his head, "Do you want to launch a surprise attack while the war horse is eating beans? Difficult..."

"Haha, how can it be so simple, I want to add something else in it, such as croton?"

"Where do crotons come from?"

Croton is produced in the south and is rare in the north.Qu'a is naturally understood by southerners.

Duanmuling smiled: "Mr. Hua Tuo said: Croton purifies cold accumulation, clears the orifice, expels phlegm, promotes water flow, and kills insects. It can also be used for external treatment of sores and ulcers, breaking accumulation and detoxification, but it needs to be used with caution. In order to treat sores and sores, So there's a lot of hoarding in Liaodong."

At the end of July, two consecutive months of heavy rain finally passed, and the weather suddenly became extremely hot again, with the scorching sun and no clouds.Qu'e ordered to retreat for fifty miles, while Duanmuling led his men to scatter stir-fried soybeans and crotons in dense pastures.

King Xiao sent out a scout horse and reported that the Jinzhou soldiers and horses had retreated, and there was not a single soldier nearby.King Xiao was overjoyed, Jinzhou soldiers could not stand the heavy rain and the ensuing scorching heat, so they withdrew and immediately ordered to advance fifty li.

The Wuhuan people did not have enough fodder for their horses. The two months of heavy rain had consumed all the hay.When the morning fog dissipated and the dew on the pasture evaporated, the Wuhuan people let their horses out to eat, and some people harvested the pasture to dry.The horse is willing to eat grass, and also eats fried beans sandwiched in the grass. It has been a long time since I have eaten a war horse with concentrated ingredients, but I can eat it vigorously.

On the second day, King Wei received a report that nearly half of the war horses began to loosen.King Xiao was puzzled, how could the weeds have diarrhea when they were not exposed to dew, and besides, they were not eaten for a long time, so how could they react so quickly?He ordered the horses to be herded after noon had passed.After a morning of exposure, there will be no more dew residue.

Another day passed, and King Xiao got a report that the horses that were already loose had become more severe, and half of the horses that were fine yesterday began to loose again.King Xiao was shocked, could it be that he was infected with some kind of plague?But according to various signs, it doesn't look like it, at least Qianqian has never had such a situation.

The soldiers sent out to harvest pastures returned, and they collected a large amount of fried beans. "My lord, when we were harvesting pasture, we found fried beans mixed in the grass, and some unknown beans were among them."

After King Xiao took a closer look, he ordered a group of good horses to do experiments, and fed them hay and these beans. In the afternoon, the horses began to convulse and loosen.King Xiao's face changed drastically, the cunning Han people must have planted these beans to lure the war horses to eat them.

"Come here, send me an order quickly, no more horses are allowed to graze, and the horses can only eat the harvested forage. Also gather the sick horses to a place and retreat fifty miles."

The tens of thousands of sick horses are not so easy to restrain, these horses have long been weak and can't afford to be pulled, and the Wuhuan camp is full of chaos.King Xiao frowned, and once again sent scouts to inquire about Jinzhou's soldiers and horses.

It's a pity that these scouts can't come back.Twenty miles out of the camp, they encountered Jinzhou scouts. These people were all Liaodong visitors, hunters, and horse thieves. One man and two horses, all of them were fierce and fierce, and they were good at riding and shooting. They took Wuhuan with almost no loss. All thirty riders were beheaded.

Near the end of the day, King Wei was restless when he heard the landslide and tsunami outside the camp, how many people were rushing towards the camp, and the earth trembled.King Xiao hurriedly went out to the tent and got on his horses to watch. He saw a group of iron cavalry coming from the north, thousands of people in number. At present, a general was sitting on a red horse with a halberd in his hand, and a man next to him was approaching with a machete camp gate.

Qu A wanted to launch a general attack at dawn, but Wang Ji persuaded the troops to be quick. Wuhuan had already found out in two days that he would definitely respond.Duanmuling and Yang Rui agreed. Their reason was that it was impossible to annihilate the King of Wei in one battle. It would be a great feat to take advantage of the great opportunity to defeat the King of Wei, and it would be more appropriate to fight steadily afterward.

So, at the end of the day, Qu'a and Liang Guang led four thousand cavalry to go first, and Wang Ji and Duan Muling led twenty thousand infantry to follow up and kill the Wuhuan Camp.

The Han army, especially the army of Cao Cao and Zhou Cang, has an iron law that the army must build camp walls, dig trenches, and set up roadblocks to protect the safety of the camp.The Wuhuan Army was not. The king's tent was in the center, and each tribe formed a small camp around it. There were neither roadblocks nor ditches. They thought that would affect the access of cavalry.

King Xiao hurriedly ordered all the ministries to besiege.At this time, all the ministries were firing and preparing to eat, when the enemy attacked suddenly, some had no time to put on their armor, some had no time to get on their horses, and even more the horses didn't listen to their commands. The sick horses were like swinging, their legs trembling and they stood still. .The horses that were not recruited were hindered and could not gather together. The Wuhuan people robbed each other of weapons and horses, and the people in the camp were thrown into chaos.

(End of this chapter)