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Chapter 761 That's a Han Chinese!
In most wars, there are not many fancy things in the battle between the two armies. Some are just that the two armies know the existence of each other. After a series of small-scale trials, the two armies finally meet face to face and start fighting.

The reason why a small number of battles became legends was because of special circumstances or because the commander of a certain side was too stupid, and it was precisely because they were so rare that they became legendary battles.

To understand a convention, only the more difficult things are worth writing about, and only the more precious things will be advocated and mentioned again and again. If everyone can do it, who will record or describe it specially, It's as if no one is going to write an article specifically about how to breathe.

Liu Rui doesn't think that he is a military genius that is rare in a century, and he can't play a battle where the opponent has already spread sentries and scouts, but can approach and make a surprise attack quietly.Nor would he pin his hopes on the premise that the enemy commander was stupid enough to imagine that the enemy would forget to set up sentries or fail to send out scouts if he took the initiative to attack.

Not kidding, let's take Huo Qubing, the famous general who is best at running raids, as an example. He is definitely a genius in commanding cavalry in the history of Zhuxia.But what was the prerequisite for his repeated success? The Huns at that time did not believe that the Han army could run thousands of miles, let alone know the road to the grassland. They did not expect that the Han army knew where they moved to graze. With the above prerequisites, he was able to succeed in repeated raids.But he also had examples of failed attacks. Those failed cases were all discovered in advance. Losing concealment and being unable to achieve the suddenness of a surprise attack meant that there was no need to fight again.

In the early stage of the Han-Hungary War, the Han army could still run for thousands of miles. After waiting for Huo Qubing to do a few sensational careers, the Huns became vigilant and the Han army had no chance, and the war between the two sides entered a period of attrition. , a dozen is a 200 years.

"Enemy reconnaissance cavalry have already appeared around our army." Fan Jin, as the commander of the army, handles all kinds of intelligence. He has just received a report from the scout battalion. !"

They have marched westward for more than ten miles, and they are still about fifteen miles away from the area where the enemy's forwards set up camp.At this time, the enemy's scouting cavalry appeared, and more than one was found. It can only be said that the commander of the Western Regions attaches great importance to the observation of the surrounding enemy.

The Han army has already noticed that there are three groups of enemy troops. It is not clear who is the commander of the coalition forces on the side of the Western Regions. They don't even know who is in command of the three groups.

"There is no shortage of horses in the Western Regions? There are 1 cavalry in [-] enemy troops." Liu Rui led [-] people to fight, and only [-] cavalry in the team. Let's just stop, set up the formation and continue to advance in formation."

In fact, there is no shortage of horses in the Han Dynasty at present, that is, high-quality war horses are basically mastered by the standing army, especially the high-quality war horses of the Huben Army, which are equipped with playing armor and riding equipment.

For semi-official and semi-civilian military organizations like the Western Region Corps, there are some high-quality horses, but the number is really quite small. Furthermore, there is no special standard harness, and knights rarely have armor and weapons that can keep up with the times. Riding equipment does not exist, not even the assault cavalry, it is a very traditional light cavalry.

What is light cavalry?That is, Mongolian horses are the main war horses. There are stirrups and saddles, but they are not professional. Then the knights may have armor, but they can’t charge the formation, especially to attack the dense infantry phalanx. Fight cruising or something.

In fact, the prairie cavalry is a kind of light cavalry, and it is possible to gather knights who can ride and shoot to form a special cavalry archer, but more prairie cavalry belong to the kind that even a dense infantry formation cannot charge.

If the light cavalrymen were really hardened and rushed forward, they would definitely be smashed in front of the infantry formation, and they would even be taught how to behave with bows and arrows before they rushed.Their battles with the infantry have always been cruising and fighting, using their mobility to constantly harass and attack the infantry's food roads, using their movements to pull and wear down the infantry, and occasionally seize the opportunity when the infantry did not have time to form an army formation to kill some.

Infantry against light cavalry, infantry has never been empty in battle, wishing that light cavalry could come to attack their own army formation.The advantage of cavalry over infantry is not to rush into battle, but to fight when light cavalry wants to fight.The disadvantage of infantry against light cavalry is that if they win, they usually get very few small victories, but if they lose, they will be chased behind when they break up to reap their lives.

Of course, the Allied Forces of the Western Regions discovered the attacking Han army, and the intelligence on the cavalry was quickly sent back.

"About [-] Han soldiers. About [-] cavalry, and the rest are infantry." Luo Xia sounds like a Han name, but in fact he is a white-skinned man with round beard and blond hair and blue eyes. people.He is from Kucha and is the commander of the [-] forwards of the coalition army: "The route is basically a grassland, and there is no environment for hiding and setting up an ambush. They must know this."

Large-scale ambush warfare in the grassland is a cold joke. Not only the grassland people know this, but anyone who has enough knowledge of the grassland knows it.

Everyone in the tent waited for Luo Xia to finish speaking, then looked at a yellow-skinned, black-haired, blue-eyed middle-aged man named Chi Zhelu.

Chi Zhelu is a Hun with one-eighth of Han blood. Like many Huns living in the Western Regions, they are actually horse thieves who lead a group of people active in the Gobi and grasslands.People like them have long stopped thinking of themselves as Huns. The reason is that their bloodlines are so messed up, and because they are in a complex area and have absorbed too much culture. They really don't have any obvious characteristics, so they are gradually called Tiefu people.

There are a lot of Tiefu people who are targeted. Generally, their fathers are from the grasslands, but they marry women from other regions or ethnic groups and give birth to mixed-race children.Another type of Tiefu people are men who marry women from the grasslands. The grasslands also call their sons-in-law Tiefu.

Tiefu is currently a general term, used to refer to individuals and also to a tribe.The Tiefu tribe, which is not an important role now, if the history has not been changed, a huge force has been created later, and Helian Bobo's origin is a certain Tiefu tribe.

Who is Helian Bobo?It was the Tiefu tribe of the Xiongnu whose real name was Liu Bobo. After he rose up, he started to build cities. It was the Tongwan city where it was considered inappropriate to kill a large group of people if the inspection project was invested.

Now all kinds of Tiefu people or Tiefu tribes are regarded as all kinds of scum and thief tribes. When Chi Zhelu appeared in the camp of the coalition army, it was the Qiuci people who paid for his entire team of horse thieves.He himself is very familiar with this area, and he is very good at leading cavalry.

"There is nothing to say, give me a thousand cavalry." Chi Zhelu stood up when he spoke: "Try the Han army well, and then decide how to deal with it."

Without any hesitation, Luo Xia made a decision: "In addition to your headquarters, I will give you a thousand cavalry." He said and looked at a white-skinned man with brown hair: "This is the border of Shanshan, you should dispatch. The rest The cavalry... then sent out the Sogdians."

Shanshan was Gu Loulan. The person named moved his lips, obviously hesitant, but he did not dare to object.

As a country, Shanshan has long existed in name only. After the Han people’s power in the Western Regions declined and they left, they were ravaged countless times by neighboring countries because of the cooperation of the Han people in the Western Regions. The king was slaughtered. The following city-states and tribes have established themselves one after another. Up to now, there is no recognized king, and only 1000 people participated in the coalition, including only [-] cavalry.

There is no country called Sogdia in the Western Regions. As a country, Sogdia had already perished in the Western Han Dynasty.But the Sogdians are still extremely active in the Western Regions, and the Sogdian beauties are the most widely circulated, while the men are basically horse thieves.

The so-called Sogdians are actually one of the "Nine Surnames of Zhaowu". After the demise of a country, they can still be active in the Western Regions because the members of the Sogdian Kingdom in the Western Regions are from a plateau further west, and they are actually Iranians.

Chi Zhelu refused to command the Shanshan and Sogdian cavalry at the first time.

As long as you stay in the Western Regions, you will be familiar with the Shanshan people and the Sogdians. The Shanshan people are famous for their soft-legged shrimps, and the Sogdians are simply famous for all kinds of girls. Anyway, they are not a nation that is good at fighting.

"Old rules, whatever the reward should be, that's the reward." What Luo Xia was talking about was the reward offered by Qiuci to the heads of the Han people.He looked at Chi Zhelu with a smile and said, "If you can win, there will be another reward."

Kucha is rich, very, very rich. They offered rewards for the heads of the Han people, which not only attracted countless horse thieves, but also attracted a large group of surrounding tribes. Otherwise, how could the coalition force exceed 10? Thousands of people?

Chi Zhelu got out of the army tent, called Agappa and Labadie to stop, frowned and said, "I won't intentionally consume your manpower, don't just pick anyone."

Agappa laughed together: "The most elite fighters will definitely be selected."

Labadie shrugged and said nothing.Although these Sogdians were horse thieves in the Western Regions, they only attacked some small tribes and small caravans (people), and they really didn't want to touch any tough things.They did horse thieves incidentally, and their job was actually to sell female slaves.

Chi Zhelu looked at the backs of the two leaving, frowning deeply.He has one-eighth of Han Chinese blood. When the Han Chinese ruled the Western Regions, they actually took advantage of it. The area of ​​​​the activity is on the border of Shanshan, so he is very clear about the urine of Shanshan people.He didn't meet many Sogdians, but knowing that the Sogdians were famous for pimping, he really didn't expect too much from the Sogdian cavalry.

It took more than three hours from the time the order was issued to the assembly of the manpower, and the sky had already darkened by then.

"Let's go!" Chi Zhelu is the leader of horse thieves, and he is good at operating in the dark.He told Agappa and Labadie who were on the side: "Let your team follow closely."

Chizhelu's horse bandits consisted of more than 1000 cavalry, counting the [-] Shanshan cavalry and the [-] Sogdian cavalry, the total was [-] two hundred cavalry.

To say that there is no shortage of horses in the Western Regions depends on who they are. Chi Zhelu and his group of horse thieves are relatively good. Each person is equipped with at least two horses, most of them have a leather armor, and most of the guys in their hands are also iron; Shanshan was too much influenced by the Han family. The cavalrymen all wore uniform-colored battle robes, but each of them only had horses under their buttocks. Few people wore armor, and they had all kinds of guys in their hands; The seven hundred cavalry were dressed in chaos and looked colorful. Some had only one horse, and some had as many as four.

Chi Zhelu must have wanted to understand the quality of the Shanshan cavalry and the Sogdian cavalry. He found that the notoriously weak Shanshan cavalry could still keep the order of the team when marching, while the Sogdian cavalry could only use a "disorderly cavalry" "Words to describe.

[After all, I have received training from the regular Han army, so I still have some background. 】What Chi Zhelu knows, what Shanshan people are not good at is mentality, that is, lack of self-confidence.He didn't have much hope for the Sogdian cavalry: [The horse thief is like this, and the Sogdian horse thief is also the worst horse thief among many horse thieves. 】

"General, we..." Agappa frequently looked around in the darkness, and his ears were filled with the sound of horseshoes: "Are we going to surprise the Han army at night?"

"Raid?" Chi Zhelu showed a joking expression, but Agappa couldn't see it in the dark: "That's the Han army that reunited the 'Middle Kingdom'. The Jie people were all killed, and the Xianbei people Was killed and fled to the ice field, did you think it was the army of the Western Regions?"

Agappa asked in an incomprehensible tone, "Then shall we march overnight?"

"It is impossible to reunify the army of the 'Middle Kingdom' without scouts around us. Maybe there are scouts from the Han army watching around us." Chi Zhelu was thinking about the most powerful direction of the Han army, and did not intend to hide it. My own plan: "Don't even think about any raids, sneak attacks, etc. What we can do is the old practice, cruising and looking for opportunities to come suddenly, and the number of kills is counted. Most of the Han troops are Infantry, if they are too arrogant, they might be able to wipe out the pursuing Han army."

Alapa immediately breathed a sigh of relief. What he was afraid of was that Chi Zhelu would go head-on with the Han army.

"That's how it should be." Labadie didn't care whether the Han army would approach his own camp and start a battle, he said: "We are here for the bounty, and it is enough to be able to gain more safely, but Don't be foolish enough to fight head-on."

Of course Chi Zhelu knew that this style of play was very cowardly, at most it would slow down the marching speed of the Han army a little, but they were facing the Han army.

"I heard that the general has Han blood?" Agappa lowered his voice: "The Han people could easily sweep the entire Western Regions hundreds of years ago. Although they have been weakened for a while, they have now wiped out the Jie people, and defeated the Xianbei and other people. If the family escapes, it must be difficult to deal with."

Chi Zhelu frowned. He knew that the various tribes in Shanshan had united and sent people to the east, so he had to guess what Agappa meant by those words.

(End of this chapter)