Wei Qing adopted the strategy of luring the snake out of its hole.
He had people constantly shouting provocations outside the city gate, and harassing the enemy from time to time. In just one day, the defenders in Dragon City were disturbed!
The defender of Dragon City is not stupid, and he will certainly not fall for such an obvious strategy.
But the problem is, the enemy only has a thousand people, so they dare to come to the city gate to call for battle? Isn't this seeking death?
Credit came first, so he couldn't hold back and took the initiative to open the city gate to meet the enemy.
Needless to say what happened next, Wei Qing fought with first-class bravery. He even defeated 5,000 enemy troops with 3,000 cavalry without even using any strategy!
When the enemy was defeated, Wei Qing rushed into the city and defeated the enemy!
From start to finish, Wei Qing spent less than three days in total!
Great victory in Dragon City!
After entering Dragon City, Wei Qing faced such a problem.
Should we directly occupy Dragon City, or return with troops?
The Han Dynasty is now short of manpower. If they occupy Dragon City, it is very likely that the battle line will be stretched too long and the situation will become passive.
Wei Qing sighed helplessly.
If the other three routes had not been defeated or returned without success, he would not have been so entangled.
But if you capture Dragon City, the biggest advantage is that you can use Dragon City as a base to maximize the Han's influence on the border.
The pass of Longcheng is important or not, but it is not necessarily true that it is not important.
Although this is not an extremely critical pass, as long as the Dragon City is occupied, the Han can advance, attack, retreat or defend.
From this point on, the war between the Han and the Xiongnu can turn from offense to defense, and the offensive and defensive momentum will be different!
Wei Qing thought for a long time and finally decided to give up Dragon City temporarily!
Now that his troops are exhausted, it was a risky move. Taking down Dragon City was a fluke. If he wanted to attack further, it would naturally be impossible.
If he wants to launch another attack, Wei Qing needs to return to Shanggu County to prepare his troops again, and ensure that the supply line from Shanggu County to Longcheng is open.
In this way, we can pose a threat to the Huns!
If you are arrogant now and rush into the hinterland of the Xiongnu, you will be looking for death!
Although reluctant to give up, Wei Qing can only give up Dragon City temporarily.
In order to ensure that he could easily capture Dragon City in the future, Wei Qing decided to completely destroy Dragon City's defense force!
The defenders here had long been defeated, and Wei Qing took the opportunity to capture more than a thousand prisoners!
There were about 6,000 defenders in Dragon City. During this attack on Dragon City, Wei Qing destroyed 2,000 enemies, captured 1,000, and turned the rest into deserters!
I'm afraid it won't be easy to organize the remaining three thousand people again.
The transfer of personnel also takes time.
It only takes a few days to travel from Longcheng to Shanggu County. If you ride alone, you can reach it in one day.
As long as Wei Qing moves faster, he can mobilize manpower in time to take over Dragon City!
After taking over Dragon City, Dragon City will be used as a needle to pierce the enemy's throat, putting the Xiongnu in a dilemma!
Now that he had made the decision, Wei Qing immediately gathered his troops and left Dragon City with the prisoners.
The soldiers are very fast. If the Xiongnu were to react, the fruits of this victory would be wiped out in an instant!
The only thing that makes Wei Qing feel lucky now is that only two of the four armies were defeated. Although the remaining army commanded by Gongsun He did not make any achievements, it did not lose its strength.
In this way, he could cooperate with Gongsun He to limit the Xiongnu's attack range to a certain range.
If Dragon City is not captured, the enemy must be careful of sneak attacks from the rear when attacking!
In this way, the Huns can no longer come and go freely at the border!
On the way back, Wei Qing kept thinking about how to attack next, but when he was halfway through the journey, Wei Qing found traces of the battle on the roadside.
His expression quickly became extremely serious.
After carefully observing the cleaning battlefield, Wei Qing became confused again.
Obviously, his troops who returned to Shanggu County unexpectedly encountered the enemy and were even ambushed by the enemy.
Looking at the traces on the ground, they have been holding on here for at least two days!
In this case, the number of enemies must far exceed the more than a thousand people he has left, otherwise they would never choose positional warfare!
The advantage of cavalry is mobility. Giving up mobility and choosing positional warfare is undoubtedly asking for death!
There was only one possibility for Vice General Chen to make such a decision. He judged that there were too many enemies and would pose a threat to himself, or even completely destroy his attack plan!
As a last resort, they chose positional warfare in the hope of delaying time!
They only need to delay for two or three days to buy Wei Qing enough time to attack Dragon City.
After Dragon City was defeated, Wei Qing had no worries anymore.
Because at this time, whether he is stationed in Dragon City or returning home, Wei Qing will definitely be able to discover the enemy's traces early.
In this way, he could calmly return to Longcheng and send people back to Shanggu County to ask for help.
With three thousand soldiers and horses, it is not a problem to hold on for a few days. When support arrives, these people will naturally be the turtles in the jar!
They can't choose to harass, they can only choose to drag the enemy here.
Because if you choose to harass the enemy, not to mention the role that these more than a thousand soldiers and horses can play, harassment cannot stop the enemy at all!
These Huns will only stay at night for a day or two at most, but when they discover the traces of Wei Qing's attack on Dragon City, they will definitely choose to speed up and support Dragon City!
Therefore, their only option if they want to hold back the enemy is to engage in positional warfare!
Wei Qing was proficient in military affairs and could analyze the direction of events just from clues on the battlefield.
But what he didn't understand was that according to common sense, those 1,800 soldiers and horses gave up the mobility of the cavalry and chose to fight the enemy in a positional battle, even stationed for two days. There was absolutely no reason to survive!
Moreover, Wei Qing also discovered that the enemy even used kerosene catapults, lathes, crossbows and other siege equipment!
He couldn't imagine what psychology the Huns had in using siege equipment against a group of cavalry who had lost their mobility!
What puzzled him the most was naturally the traces left on the ground!
After the battle, one of the two warring parties clearly cleaned up the battlefield.
In this battlefield, Wei Qing rarely saw the corpses of Han soldiers, as if all the corpses of Han soldiers had been taken away!
But the dead Huns were buried in piles to prevent the plague!
Wei Qing even found traces of fire and rocks on the Xiongnu corpses that were accidentally scattered.
This made him feel extremely ridiculous!
If the Huns had won, they would certainly not have treated the enemy's corpse like this.
The fact that this happened can only mean that Vice General Chen won the battle and brought back the bodies of his comrades!
Only this result can explain the current situation.
Wei Qing couldn't believe it. What kind of tactics could allow more than 1,800 Han troops to defeat the Xiongnu who were several times larger than himself? And it’s a positional battle?
What made it even more difficult for him to understand was why the enemy had so many catapults and traces of flames burning on them!
It was as if it was not the attacking Xiongnu who used the siege equipment, but the defending Han army!
How could these cavalry carry siege equipment?
This is also the most difficult thing for Wei Qing to understand!
Unable to figure it out, Wei Qing simply speeded up and rushed back to Shanggu County.
Everything happening here was very strange and difficult for him to understand.
On the way back, he couldn't help but think more. Could it be that there were some masters among the Xiongnu?
It's no wonder Wei Qing thinks so. Who would have thought that Qin Tian is the only master in this world?
Wei Qing hurried back to Shanggu County and was relieved to see that Shanggu County was safe and sound.
As soon as he entered the city, Wei Qing immediately inquired about Vice General Chen and wanted to know what happened.
After learning that Vice General Chen not only returned safe and sound, but also brought back thousands of prisoners, Wei Qing was surprised and felt very lucky at the same time.
Fortunately, Vice General Chen escaped successfully, but also surprised that Vice General Chen was able to escape from this desperate situation and even captured enemy soldiers.
Wei Qing immediately summoned Vice General Chen.
As soon as Vice General Chen saw Wei Qing, he knelt down and said, "General, I don't trust the general. I actually cost half of my brothers!"
As he said that, Vice General Chen burst into tears.
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. It's good if people can come back."
Wei Qing asked about Vice General Chen's experience and kept nodding.
Everything at the beginning was consistent with his judgment, there was no difference at all!
When he heard that Vice General Chen was in dire straits, Wei Qing couldn't help clenching his fists and breaking into a cold sweat for Vice General Chen.
But things changed suddenly here.
"Wait, you said you met an immortal?" Wei Qing couldn't help but interrupt.
"Is that immortal dressed in white..."
Vice General Chen nodded repeatedly: "The general is really a master of calculation. He even knows what the immortal looks like and wears!"
He looked at Wei Qing with admiration, but in his heart he was thinking that the immortal was invited by the general?
Wei Qing rubbed his eyes and smiled helplessly.
"My big man and this immortal are really destined to be together..." Wei Qing rubbed his eyes: "That's all, go on."
When he heard that Vice General Chen and others were willing to die, Wei Qing couldn't help but cheer.
Wei Qing was also surprised when he heard about the immortal's methods.
"I didn't expect that the immortal looks gentle and elegant, but he has thunderous methods." Wei Qing sighed with emotion.
Knowing what happened, Wei Qing finally felt relieved.
Since it was an immortal who took action, there was no doubt about it.
"You are truly worthy of being an immortal!" Wei Qing sighed with emotion.
It's a pity that I can't see the immortal now, otherwise Wei Qing would have thanked him profusely.
Soon, Wei Qing regained his energy, ordered his troops and horses, and prepared to go to take over Dragon City.
With so many captives in hand, and thousands of them having seen the Xian family's methods, management should not be too simple!
These people can completely serve as labor force and be thrown out to open up wasteland to make up for the shortage of labor force in Shanggu County.
Land reclamation can really kill people! Naturally, ordinary people cannot be used to open up wasteland.
As long as someone is assigned to watch over them, they are not afraid of any disturbance caused by these people. They have long been frightened out of their courage by the immortals!
If just seeing the scene of the sky filled with fire and rain was nothing, the effect wouldn't be as good as it is now.
But through the Xiongnu's mouth, Wei Qing and Vice General Chen learned that the leader actually thought that the immortals were just a cover-up for the Han people, and even specially invited a high priest to deal with them.
Now it's fine, the high priest is done with it, and they have been completely dispersed.
Now all the Huns have no doubts about the majesty of the Immortal of the Han Dynasty. They are afraid that the Immortal's wrath will fall on their heads, and they can't be more honest!
Send out manpower to take over Dragon City. This is a perfect victory!
Wei Qing immediately wrote the battle report into an envelope and sent it back to Chang'an!
…
Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, stood in the garden with a sad face.
The border battle was really not going well. First, the Huns harassed the border. He thought it was time to launch a counterattack against the Huns, but he did not expect that the counterattack would be so unsatisfactory at the beginning!
The four armies, less than a month after the war started, were defeated by two armies in a row!
The only remaining road is unable to attack and can only be stationed under the enemy's siege!
If you attack rashly in this situation, you will only be surrounded by enemies and be easily eliminated!
How can Liu Che be happy in this situation?
Recently, Liu Che has been thinking more about tea than food, and he is so anxious that several bubbles have formed on his tongue.
He now desperately hopes that even the slightest bit of good news can come from the border!
If the army is not successful, I am afraid that if we try to use troops against the Xiongnu again, we will not be able to consolidate such a powerful momentum in the country!
If it fails again, Liu Che can't even imagine how domestic public opinion will change!
Anyway, it was all about the marriage before, so why not continue the marriage now?
Liu Che felt agitated when he thought of such words.
He wanted to make great achievements, wanted to accomplish great things that his predecessors could not do, and wanted to eliminate the troubles of the Huns in one fell swoop!
But now that the start is unfavorable, Liu Che is really irritated!
Just when he was about to go back to the palace to rest, the eunuch ran in anxiously: "Urgent news from the border, urgent news from the border, a great victory in Dragon City!"
"What did you say? A great victory at the border!" Liu Che's face was full of joy, and the depression in his heart instantly dissipated a lot.
"Quick, bring me the battle report!" Liu Che was overjoyed and hurriedly asked someone to hand over the battle report.
He glanced ten lines at a time and swept through the battle report in just a moment.
"Capture three thousand enemies and capture Dragon City!"
"Okay, well done, Wei Qing, my General Wei! I really did pay right!" Liu Che burst out laughing after reading the battle report.
"Hurry up and get the map and let me see where this Dragon City is!"
Comparing the battle reports, Liu Che used a sand table to match Wei Qing's advance route with Dragon City's geographical location.
This time he read it extremely carefully, and it took him half an hour to think through this short battle report of a thousand words!
"Okay, okay, it couldn't be better!"
Liu Che looked up to the sky and laughed wildly!
With this victory, the Han Dynasty will have less excuse for the next war against the Huns.
"I want to take a look. Who dares to say that the Huns are invincible?" Liu Che snorted coldly and slammed the battle report on the table!
With the victory of Dragon City, there will naturally be a second victory, and then there will be more victories!
Liu Che seems to have seen a rising empire that has never been powerful appear in his hands!
"Huh? Why is there such a long letter?" Liu Che muttered and opened another thick letter.
"It was sent back together with the battle report. What important thing can General Wei report to you? It's so urgent."
"You don't want to ask for a reward, do you?" Liu Che smiled slightly: "General Wei is still a little impatient. You have made great contributions, can I not reward you?"
(End of chapter)
