At noon, we set up the important border city in the north of Xiang.
Wei Qing looked far away, looking at the grassland outside the city.
When the wind blows, his robes look like the banner of the Han army at the top of the city.
"uncle."
Huo Qubing came up from the city and walked to Wei Qing's side.
"Are you feeling well?" Wei Qing turned to look at his nephew.
"It's not a problem at all."
Huo Qubing said: "When does uncle plan to start the war?"
Wei Qing's eyes were far-reaching: "The wind direction has been abnormal on the grassland these days. The Huns frequently send out their cavalry to provoke the border. They seem to be luring our army into the grassland and taking the initiative to fight."
"Guess what I will do?"
Huo Qubing calmly said: "If the Huns want to plot against us, then they should follow their plan and annihilate them! The Xiongnu may have prepared some means for this battle, so why don't we, the Han army, do the same?"
“Since the founding of our country by our great ancestor, our Han Dynasty’s armaments, force, and national strength have been developing rapidly.
The Xiongnu are no longer the Xiongnu of the early Han Dynasty, and I, the great Han, are no longer the great Han of the early Han Dynasty."
The smile on Wei Qing's face spread: "I heard that you can only lead thousands of troops into battle?"
"A thousand troops are enough."
For what Huo Qubing wants to do, at this stage, Qianjun is just right, there is no need for more.
It is enough to bring a thousand elites to their fullest potential.
If he insists on asking for more troops and horses, the emperor will definitely agree, not if he doesn't come.
But it’s true that he has never been on a large battlefield. How will those veterans who have been on the battlefield think of leading the army alone?
The current army of thousands is exactly the number that suits him best.
"This is the first time you have led troops to participate in the main battlefield of the Han and Hungarians. Do not be impatient. I will order you to be the right vanguard of the front army. How about it?"
Huo Qubing was well prepared and said, "Why don't my uncle make me a ranger captain and allow me to lead my own troops to harass the Xiongnu?"
Generally speaking, ranger captains mostly serve as scouts and have a larger scope of activities and autonomy.
Wei Qing didn't think much about it and nodded in agreement: "I know that you are knowledgeable in military affairs, but you must not underestimate the enemy recklessly and rush forward in a hurry."
"Don't worry, uncle." Huo Qubing's lips curled up slightly.
The next day, the sky was a little cloudy.
Before the expedition, Wei Qing's generals Gongsun Ao, Gongsun He, Su Jian, Li Guang, Li Ju, Zhang Cigong and other generals each led their troops, with a total of more than 100,000 cavalry, preparing to go out to Dingxiang to attack the main force of the Xiongnu.
Before the war, outside the border city north of Dingxiang, the army was about to leave.
Tens of thousands of people gathered together, wearing armor and armed with sharp weapons, fighting like a forest of spears, and the aura of fighting and iron horses suddenly arose.
A murderous aura has spread for hundreds of miles without a fight, and there is even a sonorous metallic sound in the air. Even the clouds in the high altitude have been dispersed and cannot be gathered together.
The muscles on the war horse's body were all twitching with excitement, and the horse's hooves were tapping the ground frequently.
Huo Qubing is wearing a Han army general's armor and is located in the front army array.
The standard armor of the Han army is divided into different styles. The armor leaves worn by soldiers are larger, so there are relatively larger gaps.
The armor worn by generals has denser leaves and better defense.
The shoulders and arms of the armor are made of one piece, made of metal bones and covered with cowhide. They have excellent wrapping feel and toughness, but are quite heavy.
Huo Qubing's men are all skilled riders, and even the horses have leather armor on their faces, which can withstand the impact of horse battles to a certain extent.
Each of his thousand horses wore only light armor, and there were two sharp blades and a horse war spear hanging from their waists and necks.
The soldiers also had small arm shields on their hands, and crossbows and longbows on their backs.
Huo Qubing sat proudly on the horse, with Yao Zhao and Zhao Ponu on his left and right at the front of the queue.
He put on a helmet for the first time, and the armor leaves on both sides wrapped his stern face, making him look heroic.
"All the generals are brave. Over the past hundred years, the Huns have repeatedly invaded our Han territory and massacred our Han people..."
Wei Qing, dressed in military uniform, gave a pre-battle speech on the wall with a solemn expression.
This is a process that motivates soldiers and improves their morale.
Wei Qing was a humble man and was highly respected by his soldiers. As soon as he finished his words, an astonishing response came from below like a roaring mountain and a tsunami: "The Han will win, and the slaves will lose!"
"The Han will win, and the slaves will lose!"
"The Han will surely win..."
The sound was like a tide, shaking the sky.
Then the generals of each department will also give instructions on how to lead the troops to the expedition.
When it was Huo Qubing's turn, he just waved his hand and said: "Everyone, follow me to win the battle!"
It's that simple, just say that and ride away.
In an instant, nearly a thousand cavalry were roaring and following him, looking up from his horse's head, it was like a sharp arrow piercing the grassland.
Jin'an's horse's face was even more excited than Huo Qubing's. The horse's eyes were wide and it scanned all the surrounding horses. It looked like I was the overlord among the horses. Is there any horse that dares to come out and run with me?
Its horse hooves, bigger than the bowl of the sea, stamped on the ground, and the ground exploded, showing its arrogance and domineering to the extreme.
Suddenly, Jinan let out an ear-splitting roar and rushed forward.
On the top of the city, Wei Qing glanced at his nephew who was marching away from the Xianjun army. He smiled and said to Gongsun Ao beside him: "Everyone raises different horses. Your majesty's horse Jin'an has been given to cure the disease. It is really suitable!"
All the generals laughed.
The army marched out one after another.
By this evening, we had only traveled fifty miles to camp on the first day.
The generals met in Wei Qing's commander's tent to discuss combat tasks. They were about to separate the left and right front troops and other units to go deep into the grasslands and fight the Huns!
After the discussion, it was already dark.
Wei Qing left Huo Qubing at the end: "Remember not to run too far, and you must cooperate with the rear army..."
Huo Qubing agreed and left the tent.
In the middle of the night, the sound of hooves in the military camp was like thunder.
Scouts went out to investigate, which was a common thing in the military camp, and no one paid any attention to it.
Unexpectedly, someone came to Wei Qing to report after a while: "General, Huo Qubing, the captain of the Yao School, took the military flag alone and left the camp."
Wei Qing had just gotten up, and was looking at the marching map with his clothes on. He didn't take it seriously: "It's up to him to decide whether to leave the camp or not. There is no need to worry about it."
"General, it doesn't seem right for Huo Yao and Yao to leave the camp this time!" the soldier said.
"Huh?" Wei Qing raised his head.
"Huo Yaoyao's team left with one horse and three horses. It didn't look like they were out of camp to explore the road."
Wei Qing stood up suddenly.
One cavalry with three horses is a configuration only used by cavalry on expeditions. It is for the purpose of running thousands of miles and not getting tired for a long time.
One rider carries the load, and the two riders alternate.
During the Han Dynasty, there was still a time when one rider was equipped with four horses, in order to reach the combat target as quickly as possible.
Because Huo Qubing was proficient in magical marching strategies and could increase horse power, he used three horses to run faster and farther than other teams with four horses.
Wei Qing's heart skipped a beat when he heard that he had left the camp with three horses before dawn.
From this moment on, the traces of nearly a thousand cavalry commanded by Huo Qubing became a mystery.
No one in either army knew about it.
In the following days, the Han army advanced rapidly on the grassland, preparing to meet the main force of the Xiongnu.
And a strong wind began to blow on the grassland.
The Han army soon discovered that the wind was strange and disorienting, making it difficult to distinguish north from south in the wind.
Moreover, the wind seemed to be particularly strong only where the Han army was.
The Huns did not know what force they had mobilized, causing the strong wind to rage on the grassland.
"This is what the Huns rely on!" Wei Qing's face was a little solemn, but there was no fear.
…
In the Battle of Dingxiangbei, which is widely rumored in later generations, Huo Qubing used a large detour blitzkrieg, commonly known as stealing home, to directly penetrate the defensive blank area of the opponent's heart.
This time, the house will still be stolen, but it will not be just the house.
Huo Qubing's route in the Battle of Dingxiangbei was an almost spoon-shaped battle route. Because he had less than a thousand men under his command, he perfectly avoided the main force of the Huns. After leaving Dingxiang County, he went straight to the northeast and detoured, and then went all the way to
North, hit the rear of the Xiongnu's lair.
Then from the north to the west, the important tribes distributed by the Huns along the way and the remaining soldiers and horses were torn to pieces.
He fought a destructive war and was known as the originator of blitzkrieg in the history of thousand-year wars. The important Huns officials he encountered on the way were either captured or killed.
At this moment, after Huo Qubing led his troops to leave the camp, they still followed this route.
…
Behind the grassland, the Xiongnu Great Chan Yu Yi Zhixie and others were surrounding a wolf-skin map.
There was actually a wind mass swirling on the map. When the great shaman Enchi took action, the wind mass adjusted its position according to his wishes.
All the Xiongnu generals were staring at the map and said with great joy: "The stupid Han army will definitely lose this time."
"After eating these 100,000 Han troops, the Han will no longer have any elite cavalry to fight against the Huns."
"The border of the Han people will soon be broken."
Even Yi Zhixie looked surprised and encouraged the generals: "The great shaman induced the once-in-a-century wind and sand on the grassland to help the battle. Our army will definitely defeat the Han army."
Shaman Enzhi stretched out his hand and gently touched the wolfskin map in front of him.
On the map, where the Han army was located, the wind continued to increase.
ps: The classics of the Battle of Dingxiangbei will be retained, but not all. On a reasonable basis, there will be other exciting performances.
