20demayo Chapter 226
Chapter 226
The barbarian tribe of Barit was very lively today, and almost all the young and strong barbarians were mobilized.
"Pass on this general's order, leaving 300,000 troops to garrison the tribe, 100,000 troops to escort food and grass, and ensure the needs of all the troops. The remaining 700,000 people will carry food and grass with me and go ahead."
"Barit, the rear matters are left to you, and you must ensure that the supplies are transported to the front line in time."
Huo Qubing immediately started to act after receiving Long Tian's order.
Huo Qubing was anxious. There were 100,000 Han cavalry led by Wei Qing and 600,000 troops led by Yuwen Chengdu on the front line. Once they took the lead in attacking, he would not be able to grab the first credit.
It's just that so many troops need to be prepared a lot. Not only must they ensure the needs of their own army, but they must also ensure that Yuwen Chengdu's army has enough military supplies.
Even if this battle is for the purpose of attack, it can rob the Liang army of military supplies, but it will never last long.
After all, the Liang army has a large number of people and will be short of supplies. Once the war starts, they can't rob the people of their food, not to mention military supplies, especially bows and arrows, which can't be replenished from the people.
The barbarians are good at shooting, and the main military supplies are horses and bows and arrows. Horses are okay, the barbarians have no shortage, but the reserves of bows and arrows are obviously limited.
After taking down the Balite tribe, Long Tian has already paid attention to this aspect, organizing some barbarians and the rescued Xia people to carry out emergency production, which is now useful.
"General Huo, please rest assured, I will definitely ensure the needs of the front line."
Balite has been living a very comfortable life recently. Not only has the scale of the tribe expanded several times, but the lives of the people have also been guaranteed, and they no longer have to worry like before.
If Balite doesn't want to lose his current life, he must perform well and reflect his value. As for serving the Xia people, it is nothing to Balite.
As long as Xiaguo can guarantee his safety and his people are not liquidated or enslaved by the barbarians, Barite doesn't care who he works for. This is also the idea of many barbarians. As long as they can survive, they don't care so much.
The entire Barite tribe is full of busy figures, and many people are involved in preparing food for the army.
In order to prevent changes, Huo Qubing secretly left behind masters of Shadow and Night Prison. Huo Qubing didn't trust the barbarian high-level officials, so necessary precautions were still necessary.
After these were prepared, Huo Qubing began to act.
This action was different from Wei Qing and others. Huo Qubing did not hide the whereabouts of the army, and went directly to the South Courtyard of Liangguo.
This is to race against time, before Liangguo discovered and prepared, to start a war.
At the border of Liangguo, Wei Qing and Yuwen Chengdu also knew that Huo Qubing was coming, and they didn't want to wait and were ready to act immediately.
In order to prevent the exposure of the relationship between the northern border and the barbarians, the two were not together. Wei Qing led the army to the vicinity of Dingyuan City and prepared to attack from this direction.
However, under Long Tian's order, Wei Qing did not take action immediately, but waited for Yuan Chonghuan to arrive, and the two cooperated to attack Liang State.
Yuwen Chengdu did not have to wait and took the lead in launching the attack.
"Order the army to attack, target the border of Liang State."
This was Yuwen Chengdu's highlight moment. As the Tianbao General of the Sui Dynasty in his previous life, Yuwen Chengdu has always been a bodyguard. This is the first time he has led an army to act, and it is a full 600,000 people.
Yuwen Chengdu is unwilling to miss this opportunity, otherwise it will be difficult to have such an opportunity in the future.
Liang State Xuyu City, with a similar role to Xia State Guangning City, exists to prevent the attack of the barbarians.
There are 100,000 troops stationed here, and at the same time, there is an elite intelligence force, mainly targeting the barbarians.
During this period, Xuyu City has suffered a lot of losses in intelligence personnel, which has made the general guarding the city realize that the barbarians may take action.
Although this season is not the best time for the barbarians to attack, out of caution, Xuyu City has increased its reconnaissance efforts and reported the situation here to King Nanyuan.
On this day, Xuyu City seemed to be normal as usual.
Suddenly, a horse galloped in the distance, attracting the attention of the soldiers.
"What's going on? Is it a wild horse?"
"No, it's a scout. There is someone on the horse. Save him quickly."
A fast horse came. From a distance, there was no one on the horse, but there were still sharp-eyed people on the top of the city who recognized the origin of the horse and vaguely saw someone on the horse.
Something happened, almost everyone subconsciously thought, and then someone rode out to meet the scout.
Soon, a figure with a serious injury and almost full of feather arrows came into view.
Few scouts who had left the city recently returned, and the soldiers guarding the city had a premonition that these peopleI'm afraid something has happened. Now a seriously injured person has returned, and he may bring important information.
A group of people came forward to control the warhorse, helped the man down, laid him flat on the ground, and immediately fed him water, hoping to wake him up.
With everyone's efforts, they soon achieved results. The man slowly showed signs of waking up.
"Brother, what happened?"
A small leader came forward to ask.
"Quick, report it quickly, the barbarians, the overwhelming barbarians are coming towards us."
The man said weakly and with difficulty, and then closed his eyes.
"Not good, it seems that the barbarians are really going to attack us. Quick, bring the people back to the city and report to the general immediately."
Even a fool can understand this scene. The war is coming, and through the words of the scouts, the people present understand that the barbarians seem to be serious this time.
Everyone hurriedly got the people into the city. Some people hurried to report, while others closed the city gates. The atmosphere of panic spread all of a sudden.
Just as everyone was nervously waiting for orders, a dark mass of horses came in the distance, and even Xuyu City felt the vibration.
"No, the barbarians are here, everyone prepare to fight."
Experienced veterans knew from the vibration that the barbarians would have a lot of troops this time, and they quickly roared for everyone to defend.
Swish, countless arrows attacked, which was exactly the way the barbarians were best at attacking.
In order to break into Liang State and completely disrupt the Southern Courtyard of Liang State, Yuwen Chengdu did not divide his troops, but gathered all his forces to attack Xuyu City directly.
As long as he took this place and successfully entered the Southern Courtyard, he could quickly take more cities, and there was another benefit, which was to force the Liang army to fight.
The barbarians were best at field battles, not at defending cities. As long as the Liang army was attracted, the Liang army would have to leave the strong city, which was extremely beneficial to the barbarians.
But the Liang army dared not not come. Once the barbarians went crazy, it would be disastrous, and the people of Liang knew this very well.
Yuwen Chengdu's plan, which was not a conspiracy, was indeed very practical. It turned the passive situation into the active one and would completely tear apart the Liang State's deployment.