The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 318

Xu Bu turned his gaze to the north.

Since armies appeared on the east, west, south, and south sides at the same time, he had reason to believe that there might also be a tribe waiting for the Huns in the north at this time, and they were even advancing towards the south.

Spread the net on all sides and surround it from all directions.

The Yellow Turban Army didn't want to leave a way out for the Huns.

At this time, in the east, west and south, the news of the Yellow Turban Army's three-way attack has also spread.

The transmission of the news was not stopped by Xu Buneng. Those tribes with a slightly larger scale all received news from within the tribe.

The Yellow Turban army was pressing down on the territory like a broken bamboo, and the news that they were approaching the royal court had already been known to them.

Some people even received more detailed news than Xu Bu.

Xu Bu stood silently in the palace.

He had only sat on the throne that supported Gutu Shanyu for a few days, so he was about to give up.

The enemy army was approaching the royal court, and Xu Bu's rationality told him that the royal court was doomed to be unable to hold on, and holding on to the royal court would only damage the Huns' military strength in vain. Once the enemy completed the encirclement, the Southern Huns could only perish.

Information about the attack on the Yellow Turban Army from Yanmen and Xihe counties was also sent to Xu Bu.

In Xu Bu's hands, the silk scroll seemed to weigh a thousand ounces.

Those well-ordered and well-trained heavy infantry have already proved in the battle of Taiyuan County that even the impact of tens of thousands of Hun cavalry is of no avail.

The more than [-] white-robed cavalry from Xihe County made Xu Bu feel very troublesome.

That weird cavalry is far superior to the Huns' cavalry in both riding and shooting and melee combat.

They are equipped with solid armor, armed with strong bows and long spears, and their morale is even more frighteningly high.

The Xiaoqi Battalion in Yanmen County was even more brave, but the Huns who fought against it were all defeated and collapsed.

If it's just that, if it's just the Yellow Turban Army, Xu Bu thinks he can still handle it.

But just to the west, there is still a large Qiang cavalry and Xianbei cavalry approaching the direction of the royal court.

Although there is no news from the north.

But since the Yellow Turban Army can persuade the Qiang people in the west, it is impossible to guarantee that they will not persuade the Huns in the north. If there is an army waiting for them in the north.

Xu Bu didn't dare to think about it any more.

Unknowingly, the Xiongnu were already on the side of the cliff, and they were about to reach the verge of extermination, and they had reached the end of the road.

……

Zhongping five years, March [-]th.

The last Xiongnu trilogy staying in Meiji was also annihilated by the white robe army under the city of Meiji.

Under the command of Xu An, the Yellow Turban Army entered the royal court of the Huns, and the khaki-colored banner flew over the royal court of the Huns.

Although a large number of Huns were captured, there were also cattle, sheep and livestock.

But Xu An didn't have much joy of victory on his face.

Because the main force of the Huns has fled.

Xu Bu had fled with most of the Huns before the arrival of the Yellow Turban Army.

The Yellow Turban Army chased and lost the enemy.

No one can teach Xu An how to fight on the grassland and how to find the enemy.

Since the Han Empire failed to fight the Xianbei in the sixth year of Xiping (177), it lost a large number of experienced and skilled generals, and thus lost the courage to go out of the fortress.

Those generals and schools who surrendered to Xu An's command were basically young people who had no experience in fighting outside the fortress.

There is not much experience in fighting outside the Great Wall.

The suspicious array deliberately set up by the Huns disturbed Xu An's thoughts even more.

However, Xu An still knew the general direction of the Huns' escape.

If the Huns did not think about annihilating one of the four armies, then they had only one way to go.

That is the northwestern part of Bingzhou - Shuofang County.

The Liangzhou army's attack route was to cut in from the north of Shangjun, while Xu Huang's army attacked Yunzhong County according to the predetermined plan, cutting off the Xiongnu's intention to retreat eastward.

Shanggu Wuhuan also launched a fierce attack on the Huns in Wuyuan County a few days after the Yellow Turban Army attacked. The northern area of ​​Wuyuan County and the Huns' tribes have been defeated by Shanggu Wuhuan.

Xu An's plan of spreading the net on all sides and encircling all directions still allowed the Huns to seize a glimmer of life.

Shuofang County is the only weak point of this strategy.

The northern part of Shuofang County is the territory of the Xianbei people, and Xu An has no connection with the Xianbei people at all.

The Wuhuan and Liangzhou armies in Shanggu were unwilling to be the first target of the Xiongnu's attack, which made them all choose to delay the attack, and then proceeded to march after the Yellow Turban army launched an attack.

The consequence was that the Huns ran out of the gap.

However, this was also within Xu An's expectations.

Yan Zhong and Xu An had discussed this matter long ago.

The trapped beast is still fighting, not to mention the danger of extermination, the rabbit will bite people when it is anxious, not to mention the Southern Huns with tens of thousands of people who control strings.

In fact, it is common sense that the Liangzhou Army and Shanggu Wuhuan would not do their best.

Eliminating the Southern Xiongnu will not benefit the Liangzhou army. They only need to occupy part of the territory of Bingzhou to have a place to trade with the Yellow Turban Army.

There is no need to intercept a Southern Huns who are in a hurry to jump over the wall.

Now the main force of the Southern Huns, if they were all gathered together, would add up to nearly [-] people, and the counterattack of dying is not so easy to stop.

As long as the Liangzhou army gets their share, fulfilling the promise is enough.

And Nanlou also thought in the same way, expelling the Huns, taking down the habitats with abundant water and grass, and capturing those small and medium-sized tribes who had no time to escape, was enough.

There are only so many people in Shanggu Wuhuan, why should he fight to the death with the main force of the Xiongnu? What Xu An can give him is not worth such a sacrifice.

Xu An, who had considered this point long ago, also had a countermeasure for it.

Xu An didn't pin all his hopes on Shanggu Wuhuan and Liangzhou Army.

According to the intelligence of Yingwei Tiqi and the information of the subordinate tribe, Xu An also learned that a total of tens of thousands of Huns had gathered near the Southern Huns royal court, and two-thirds of them were young and strong. There are about [-] to [-] people.

Xu An's revised plan was to gather cavalry troops and chase down the fleeing Southern Huns.

This is also the reason why Xu An expanded the cavalry part almost crazily.

There are [-] people in the white robe army, and [-] people in the Xiaoqi battalion.

During this period, craftsmen in Bingzhou worked almost day and night to forge weapons and armor.

The White Robe Army and the Xiaoqi Battalion are almost equipped with the best armor and the best weapons in the entire army.

Xu An also promoted horse riding in the army, and let the soldiers directly under his command learn to ride horses as much as possible. They don't need to be skilled in riding, as long as they can ride horses and march.

In this battle, Xu An gathered almost all the available horses in Bingzhou to serve as soldiers marching and as a logistical guarantee.

Under Xu Huang's order, the Xiaoqi Camp and the Ruishi Camp had already gone south and arrived at the royal court of the Southern Huns.

The Xiaoqi Battalion and the White Robe Army totaled [-] cavalry.

There are more than [-] infantry in the three battalions, including the yellow angels, who can march on horseback.

Counting the personal guards of the generals and schools, there are more than [-] people in total.

The remaining soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army who could not ride horses were left behind to defend the occupied city together with the soldiers who were originally stationed on the front line of the Great Wall.

Since the southern Huns fled, some of them had to protect the old and weak, women and children, and some had to drive away cattle and sheep.

Then the remaining ones are at most twice as large as the Yellow Turban Army.

However, the Huns, who lacked weapons and strong bows and crossbows, could not defeat the Yellow Turban Army on the grassland with only twice as many troops.

This is something that has been proved in the battle of Taiyuan County.

(End of this chapter)