Hu Yanyu looked in astonishment at the younger sister Hu Yanjunyao who did not hide the confusion in her beautiful eyes, and instinctively thought about everything that had happened these days.
Feeling the gentle breeze at the bottom of the valley, Hu Yanyu's expression changed from stunned to somewhat enlightened, with a little doubt mixed with the enlightenment.
Such a reaction showed that Hu Yanyu gradually realized something, but could not accurately figure out the key reason.
Hu Yanyu came back to her senses and looked at her younger sister Hu Yanjunyao silently: "What does the Great Khan mean?"
Huyan Yunyao gently tore the dried meat in his hand: "If you think carefully about what happened in the past ten days or so, Dalong's soldiers and horses encircled us one after another, it can be said that it will not stop."
"Let's not talk about the distance, let's talk about Zhang Kuang and his Long Wuwei today. We just got rid of them in less than half a day, and they followed the traces left by our horses and caught up with them."
"Since they have found our traces, why don't they send a message from the golden eagle to the nearby Dalong soldiers and horses in Qizhou and the Dalong soldiers and horses in Yanzhou to surround us?"
"this..........."
"Could it be because we are all cavalry, and they knew that even if they launched an encirclement, they would not be able to annihilate us all, so they did not act like this?"
Huyan Yunyao shook her head silently, fumbled for a silk map from her arms, pulled it open, and handed it to Hu Yanyu under the bright moonlight.
"Second brother, look, judging from Zhang Kuang's position and our position, as long as Zhang Kuang informs Qizhou, Yanzhou's Dalong soldiers and horses will encircle us. With the terrain where we are, we have no chance of retreating.
possible!"
"The terrain there is extremely complex. The three armies and horses can show their horns and cut off all our escape routes. Even with the blessing of the wolf god, we will not be able to rush out with even one out of ten troops."
"But they didn't do this. What does this mean?"
Hu Yanyu stared at the map and thought for a while, then his eyes suddenly widened: "It means they are not confident enough to encircle us and leave all our troops behind."
Huyan Yunyao's slender jade fingers flicked heavily on the silk map: "That's right."
"Dalong's soldiers and horses simply don't have enough troops to encircle us and completely surround us!"
Huyan Yunyao rolled up the map and put it away in Huairu, his eyes shining with shrewd light.
"It's not that Zhang Kuang and the others don't want to contact Yanzhou and Qizhou's soldiers and horses to encircle us, but they are afraid that once Yanzhou and Qizhou's troops come out and are delayed by us, other soldiers and horses will wait for an opportunity to rush out.
The boundaries of Yanzhou and Qizhou thus retreated northward to the outside of the Pass and fled far away."
"In other words, it's not that they don't want to come out, but they don't dare to come out."
"If you think about it carefully, whether it is in Qizhou, Hanzhou, Fengzhou or Tanzhou, the situation is exactly the same as what is happening in Qizhou today."
"It's not that they don't want to try their best to eat any of our soldiers and horses that come into their mouths. It should be said that they want to eat up the military exploits that come into their mouths more than anyone else. But they don't dare because they don't want to make a small mistake.
big!"
"The troops in the twelve cities from Yanzhou, Qizhou... to Tanzhou have constructed a strong blockade. The purpose is to prevent our troops from withdrawing northward."
"On the other hand, if any group of their troops comes out to surround us, it will open a gap for us to leave!"
Hu Yanyu began to think seriously. After a long time, Hu Yanyu looked at his younger sister in surprise: "Why do the dragon soldiers and horses do this? Aren't they known as a million-strong army? They can completely surround us with great fanfare!"
Huyan Yunyao didn't know whether Hu Yanyu was really confused or pretending to be confused, so she looked at her second brother helplessly and sighed.
"My good second brother, why haven't you figured it out yet?"
"If Dalong's troops really had millions of troops, how could they try every means to block our evacuation? They would have launched an annihilation operation against us one by one."
"We have all fallen into brother's plan again. The troops in northern Xinjiang now definitely do not have a million troops. At most, they only have troops that can stop our hasty retreat north. It is not enough to encircle and kill us one by one.
"
"It is precisely because of this that they chased us all the way, but they did not dare to make a big move to surround our lone soldiers."
"Except for a small number of troops that they could encircle and annihilate, most of the powerful troops retreated safely under their pursuit!"
"Everything shows that the dragon does not have as many troops as we expected. It is all because we are scaring ourselves."
"The reason they are so fierce is not to give us a chance to breathe, so that we can't calm down and think about these things."
"That's why we are in a stalemate now."
"In less than half a month, we were pursued and intercepted by them, but we didn't actually lose too many troops. All we lost were just a few small groups of soldiers and horses that their pursuers could annihilate."
"That's why my little sister said that they seem to be menacing, but they always have a feeling of being strong on the outside and strong on the inside. This is because of this."
Listening to Hu Yanjunyao's speculation, Hu Yanyu took a breath of cold air. If it was really as the little sister guessed, Brother Liu's control over people's hearts would make people's hair stand on end.
Although he obviously didn't have that many troops, he was able to force him to attack a million-strong army. He also made himself and others fall into his plan, making people mistakenly believe that the reason for their fierce offensive was all because of the soldiers.
Because of the large number of generals.
Hu Yanyu breathed out a soft breath: "In other words, all the actions taken by the Dalong soldiers and horses now are to curb our retreat to the north and try their best to surround us in their circle.
Waiting for their true army of millions to unite in one place, and then eat up our scattered troops one by one!"
Huyan Yunyao nodded lightly with complicated eyes: "Yes, nine times out of ten, this is the reason. It is not ruled out that this is the strategy of senior brother and Yunyang to catch us all in one fell swoop, but this possibility is very slim."
"Although the troops of our two countries have lost more than 100,000 soldiers and horses due to the strategies of our senior brothers to defeat them one by one, there are still at least 650,000 troops currently running around in various prefectures in the Northern Territory of Dalong."
"On the other hand, Dalong, think about it carefully. In the fierce battles between us and Dalong these days, the flags of all the soldiers and horses are all familiar to us. The six guards of the Northern Xinjiang, the six guards of the enemy under the command of senior brother, and the soldiers of the Western Regions.
The flags of reinforcements from all walks of life abound, but have you ever noticed that the flags of a troop of soldiers and horses are unfamiliar?"
Hu Yanyu thought for a while and slowly shook his head: "It is indeed as you said, which means that as of now, Dalong's 300,000 new recruits have not rushed to Dalong's northern border to join this melee. Doesn't this mean that,
Dalong's troops currently encircling us are no more than tens of thousands more than us."
"This... this is too insidious. We have been fighting for a month and we haven't even figured out the enemy's true strength. It would be unreasonable for us not to be suppressed and fight!"
Huyan Yunyao put the dried meat in her hand into the bag on her waist and patted the meat scraps in her palm.
"Alas, we once again fell into the trap of our senior brother!"
"My younger sister is from the same school as him, and I know him very well. Senior brother never fights a battle that is uncertain. If he really had a million-strong army, he would have surrounded us and cannibalized more than half of our two countries' armies. So what?
It will be the current situation of chaos and war."
"Seven hundred thousand troops, more than 600,000 troops, can almost be said to be a one-on-one situation. One man only wants to retreat and has no intention of fighting for a long time. In a one-on-one situation, we want to rush out, how can he stay?
You can live in it.”
"If we want to stay, at most we will only keep some of our troops."
"Senior brother's military skills include too many things, which are completely different from what I studied and studied in military books."
"It seems that my little sister finally lost to him!"
"In comparison, the younger sister seems to be a little bit of an armchair strategist."
Hu Yanyu looked at the little sister's somewhat lonely expression and sighed, then raised his hand and patted the little sister on the shoulder.
"Don't be discouraged. He fought on the battlefield a few years earlier than you, and his experience is naturally much more sophisticated than yours. This does not mean that you are inferior to him."
"On the other hand, Wanyan Chizha and Yeluha, two people who were at the same time as Wu Guogong Wan Buhai and have been famous for many years, didn't they fall into the trap set by Brother Liu step by step?"
"As long as we can retain our strength this time, there will be more days of comeback in the future. As long as our foundation is still there, we, the Turks, will surely be able to embark on the road to world hegemony again under your leadership."
Huyan Yunyao's lonely and pretty eyes gradually brightened as she listened to her second brother's comfort.
"That's right, as long as the foundation of my little sister is still there, there will definitely be a time when she can make a comeback to compete with her senior brother. Let's get over the current difficulties first!"
Huyan Yunyao took a few breaths, calmed down her turbulent mood, took out the map and started looking through it.
After a long time, Huyanjunyao put away the map with bright eyes.
"Send a message to all the soldiers and horses that can be contacted. Listen to this Khan's order and quickly assemble towards Qingfeng River in Tanzhou."