Chapter 542 Killing two birds with one stone
For several days, Yang Biao seemed to be going crazy, frantically attacking one city after another.
Because the Xiongnu's troop deployment in various places has been mastered by Yang Biao.
Therefore, corresponding troops can be sent to attack every time, so basically two or three cities can be attacked every day on average.
Although cavalry is at a disadvantage when attacking a city, the Huns are also cavalry, and they have little experience in defending a city.
In addition, everyone knew that the Han army was in Loulan. Although they had not moved their nest for several months, the Huns still did not dare to be careless.
After all, if you are careless, you may lose your life.
So everyone is staring to the west.
When Yang Biao's troops came out, the Huns fled instantly.
At the beginning, some people who got the news and were a little farther away still had the heart to pack up the loot, and then slowly evacuated, leaving the Han people with an empty city.
But then the style of painting changed.
The Han people attacked two or three cities a day, with the same frequency for several days in a row, which frightened the Huns.
If they continue like this, the Han people will probably surround them before they even leave the city.
So the Huns behind them could only take some light trophies and flee quickly.
Yang Biao's madness not only frightened the Huns, but also brought him a lot of benefits.
The area they live in is still stuck in the era of slash-and-burn farming.
The biggest feature of this farming method is that the land planted looks like a dog gnawing, one piece at a time.
Moreover, their harvest speed is also very slow and the time is slightly late, because there is almost no management of farming.
This also led to the fact that when the Huns retreated, even if they wanted to set fire to the food, they could not do it.
If the harvest is over, just use a fire to solve the problem.
If there is detailed management, just like Loulan, it is nothing more than setting off two more fires and directly destroying the food in the ground.
But now, this is no longer a matter of one person and two people.
They want to destroy the food and grass, but basically everyone may not be able to do it even if they stay for three or four days.
But within three or four days, before they could finish destroying it, the Han people came.
So, don't bother, just run away as quickly as possible.
Therefore, these grains became cheaper for the Han army.
Although the yield was not high, it was better than nothing. Yang Biao also acted shamelessly and ordered them to harvest as soon as possible and then give half of the harvest to the Han army, otherwise they would be dealt with by the Huns.
The frightened natives of the Western Regions instantly forgot about their laziness, and obediently went to the fields one by one to start harvesting, and then began to hand over the grain as required by the Han army.
At the same time, in order to facilitate reception and respond to some unexpected situations.
Yingbu was not idle either.
The troops did not rest in place, but continued to move closer to the west to shorten the transportation distance of the loot, thereby saving manpower and time.
Ten days later…
Yang Biao, who had been outside for ten crazy days, also felt very tired.
After all, running to two or three cities every day is quite energy-consuming.
There is no problem at all in describing the current Yang Biao as being exhausted.
Fortunately, these ten days allowed Yingbo's main force to take a short rest, and the energy and morale of the troops gradually recovered.
Although I haven't fully recovered yet, I'm much better than when I first came here.
At least Yingbo's main force now has the energy to fight.
Yang Biao also followed the request and withdrew with his cronies.
Of course, the troops were not withdrawn. They were dispersed to various cities and towns, and then the troops divided from Yingbo would replace them.
"I have tried my best. Some things cannot be done too well, otherwise things will not be easy to deal with in the future..." Yang Biao's first words when he saw Yingbu were to express his attitude.
"Of course I know that you have tried your best and the results are pretty good. However, I can't wait here anymore. I must go north as soon as possible. In addition, you can't stay here for too long. Next, continue to search and store the food and grass first.
If I didn't catch up with the main force of the Huns in the north, I wouldn't have starved to death on the grassland." Yingbu nodded.
I can see the madness of fifteen thousand people.
Although the army's food and grass are still being consumed, without reducing the rations, only five days of food and grass are consumed in ten days. Isn't this still satisfying?
Anyway, Yingbu felt that he was satisfied, and he couldn't say any curse words at the moment.
After thinking about it, I still feel that our soldiers are reliable, unlike those bastards like Zhao Tuo who are very thieves.
The front person seemed to be afraid of this and that, but after Yang Biao went out to open up, he followed behind and continued to deploy people to take over various places.
You can be as shameless as you want. When the report comes next, if I don’t read your book in front of Your Majesty, I will take your last name!
"To be honest, it's a bit difficult..." Yang Biao thought about it seriously and decided to remind Yingbu.
"Of course I know it's difficult, but there's nothing we can do now, right? We can only hope that the main force of the Huns won't run away..." Yingbu shook his head.
What can he do?
The situation reported by the scouts was that based on what they learned on the road, the main force of the Huns was probably about ten days away from them.
This is all information obtained through inquiring. Where is the main force of the Huns?
No one knows now, maybe they can only wait another ten days for the scouts to come back and tell them the results.
But this is obviously impossible.
The grain and grass did not support them at all, so they could only take advantage of the troops to recover a little bit of vitality and quickly go north to find the main force of the Huns.
No matter what, let's get a group of livestock first, then he can slow down and recover little by little.
"General, actually I have an idea!" Yang Biao said again.
"Oh?" Yingbu became interested instantly. As long as he could get food and grass, he didn't care about anything else.
"Although we have captured many cities these days, the Huns did not fight us. They all ran away in advance."
"And according to what I learned, they should be gathered together, and they are not far from us."
"The location of the main Xiongnu force in the north is unknown. Maybe they have been moving north, maybe General Han has already started a war with them. These are all unknown."
"The army rushes northward. What if we don't encounter the enemy?"
Chapter completed!