20demayo Chapter 302: War Begins on Wangyu Plain
Chapter 302: War Begins on Wangyu Plain
On the shore of Sirius Lake, at the easternmost end.
Liu Feiyun gathered all his forces again and reorganized them.
At this time, the number of the Xuehen Army had exceeded 50,000, and it claimed to have 100,000.
There were more than 800 people in the original Yunliu Camp, but now there are only about 500 people left!
Liu Feiyun distributed more than 400 people to the five divisions of the Xuehen Army as officers at all levels. At the same time, he carefully selected 600 to 700 people from the tens of thousands of people who were rescued to supplement the Yunliu Camp.
Although he now has tens of thousands of troops under his command, only about 16,000 of them can really be considered capable of fighting.
Even among these fifteen thousand men, no more than four thousand could reach the level of Anping County militia, and several hundred of them were of barbarian origin!
Liu Feiyun has a headache:
Next, the safest option is to lead these tens of thousands of people to quickly run southeast and retreat to Jinzhou. This route is the most conservative, but also the least risky.
However, Liu Feiyun was really unwilling to do so.
It was because on his way west, he saw too many miserable conditions of Chen people's slaves!
These barbarians did not regard these Chen slaves as human beings at all, and even regarded them as less than their livestock.
The barbarians plundered the border areas for three consecutive years, and captured no less than one million people from the Chen Dynasty! However, after these enslaved Chen people arrived in the Northern Wilderness, a large number of them died of exhaustion, starvation, and freezing almost every year. To this day, the death rate of these Chen slaves is at least more than half.
In other words, of the more than two or three million Chen people who were captured over the past three years, only a few hundred thousand are left now.
Liu Feiyun was very heartbroken and very angry!
Now, he has the opportunity to rescue more compatriots, so naturally he is unwilling to give up easily.
However, if they continue to move westward and go deep into the hinterland of the Sirius Lake area, they will inevitably encounter the real remaining troops of the barbarians!
By then, would it be possible to defeat them with just the mob of firewood in my hands? I'm afraid it would be difficult! If I'm not careful, the whole army will be wiped out, and even my life will be lost!
But he was really unwilling to retreat like this!
Just when Liu Feiyun was hesitating, a message came:
Tiankong was sweating as he led an army of 100,000 to raid the army of tens of thousands of Cangmang Empire. As a result, the Cangmang Empire was defeated and tens of thousands of troops had already fled to his side!
Liu Feiyun was overjoyed and made a decision immediately. The entire army set out immediately and continued to march westward to sweep away the various tribes of the Cangmang Empire!
However, perhaps because they had received the news in advance, the Cangmang Empire also organized tens of thousands of people to come and fight.
Liu Feiyun judged that the area around Sirius Lake was neither big nor small, and it was impossible to concentrate all the remaining troops in one place. Moreover, the number of troops would not be too large, and would not exceed 50,000 at most.
Of the tens of thousands of people who came to stop him, I'm afraid less than 30% were real barbarians! The rest were still just there to make up the numbers and support the occasion.
Soon Liu Feiyun formulated a battle plan: use the main force of 49,000 people to fight the enemy head-on, and send another 2,000 elite troops disguised as barbarian cavalry to attack the barbarian camp from the rear in order to disrupt the morale of the army!
The reason why Liu Feiyun did this was because the density of the barbarian camps on the shores of Tianlang Lake was too high and too crowded! The main battlefield where the two armies fought was only a few miles away from the nearest camp.
Wangyuyuan is a wide open plain only seven or eight miles away from Tianhu Lake.
The armies of both sides slowly approached in a disorganized formation.
When the leader of the barbarian army saw tens of thousands of people rushing towards him, he cursed in his heart: Which bastard said that the revenge army has at most 10,000 people! This is really a lie!