Chapter 202 Worship
The sun should have risen long ago, but the sunlight cannot penetrate the fog yarn that covers the river valley.
It had been six days since the morning when Gu Luo decided to withdraw his troops. Six days later, on the seventh day, Gu Luo was still at his seat six days ago. Their camp last night was stationed two miles opposite the damn Sui army. You can clearly see the Sui army archers shaking in the Sui camp on the mountain walls on both sides. The winter solstice has passed, and in early winter, it is already a cold season outside the frontier, and the sunlight has become much weaker. Although the wind is whirling, the thick fog in the rivers and valleys of the Shehe Rivers does not seem to be dispersed at all.
The remaining eight thousand Gu Luo, the leader of the Luo cavalry, gently patted his slightly uneasy mount with his palm. This handsome cavalry has lost a lot these days. If this continues, this good horse will be ruined. This is not the first time Gu Luo has participated in the war, but he has fought countless wars, but he has never fought such a war. He has fought with other tribes of Tiele, even the Blue Turks, the barbarians of Shiwei, the Jun people, the Xi people, the Khitan people, the Mushi people, the Goguryeo people, and the Han people. He has won and lost, but he has never fought a frustrated battle like this time. It is like falling into a swamp. No matter how you pull your legs, you are constantly falling, the deeper you fall, and the deeper you struggle, the deeper you fall. Now he feels like he is, with those damn dams.
The Sui people fought for several days, but they had less than 300 heads, but they had suffered nearly 2,000 casualties. What's even more, he was still trapped here. He couldn't move forward or retreat for six days. Every time he retreated, these damn Han Xi cavalry were stuck on like maggots attached to bones. They kept harassing, but you turned around, but he turned and ran away, not fighting with you at all. They went back and forth, stopped and stopped, and did not go twenty miles a day. By the night, it was when these Han people were rascally attacking. Gu Luo tried his best to stay behind the palace, pretended to be defeated and lured the enemy. He set up an ambush, but he didn't succeed. The final result was that six days passed, and they returned to the place where they set out six days ago, and the Sui people got into the camp again. The whole army was filled with a turbulent atmosphere, and everyone was about to have enough.
The sound of horse hooves came from behind, and a scout full of leather armor appeared.
"Wait for Jin, there was no sign of Han people leaving the camp."
In fact, even if there was fog, Gu Luo had already seen the Sui soldiers in the Han camp opposite clearly. Last night, Gu Luo asked his subordinates to wait for the battle, thinking that the Sui people would launch a large-scale attack on the camp as before, but they waited carefully all night, except for a war drum horn and a shout of killing about half an hour. The Sui people did not have any substantial action at all, and they made them stay in the cold night for a night in vain. As soon as the sky was dawn, Gu Luo had already asked his subordinates to set up the camp and prepare for retreat. This time, he was really ready to withdraw at all costs. He saw that the Sui army was planning to harass them like this, but they would not really fight them head-on.
"What are these Han people playing? Why are there any movement?" Gu Luo felt a little uneasy. These days, the Sui army chased and bit them like mad dogs, which made them extremely impatient. But now they are ready to retreat. However, the Sui people did not immediately leave the camp to harass and pursue them as before, but the camp was extremely quiet. This made Gu Luo feel guilty. He was now scared by the damn Sui people.
"Maybe this heavy fog has helped us a lot," said Sian, the commander of the thousand-time master. "This kind of thick fog is not conducive to marching, but it is even more unfavorable to pursuit. If the fog is too strong, we can easily get ambushed, and they will be ambushed if they are accidentally."
Gu Luo smiled and said, "He laughed at himself for being so nervous these naive things, and even forgot about it. "This fog fell from the heaven of immortality and helped us evacuate." The march in the heavy fog was very unfavorable, but now he was marching in a valley that was only a few miles wide, but he didn't have to worry about getting lost. However, as Si'an said, if the Han people dared to pursue such heavy fog, they would just ambush them with the fog. It is estimated that the Han people did not dare to catch up with them after seeing this.
"Send orders, withdraw troops!"
As the sound of the horn echoed in the valley, the eight thousand Tongluo cavalry slowly retreated eastward, and soon all disappeared in the thick fog.
On the Sui Camp in the west of Gu, the provost who had been observing the movements of the Hu people immediately waved the red and blue flags into the camp and conveyed the news in the words of the flag.
Gukou Camp, a camp that originally housed more than 10,000 people, although the tent was still the same, most of them had already been vacant. In Yi Feng's tent, several generals left behind had already gathered together.
"Report, the Tielites have withdrawn!"
Zuo Sima Zhang Liang smiled, "Hu Gou has been tortured by us these days, and now he is probably swearing while running away."
"Are you not chasing me?" Even if the cavalry battalion general Shan Xiongxin was in the camp, he was still armored.
Zhang Liang nodded, "The general had already sent a reply two days ago. He had arrived at the east entrance of the Shehe River. We have delayed the two-day retreat time of Tieler people in the past two days. It is enough to make them happy for a while, and wait for them to retreat to the east entrance of Sichuan, and then let them fall from the mud from the clouds. We just need to guard the western Sichuan camp in accordance with the order of the general and close the door and beat the dog."
"It's cheaper for them."
Qin Qiong smiled and said, "Actually, we have been pestering Tiel people these days. The brothers are also tired and tired. They have lost about 300 brothers in the past and afterwards. If they continue to fight, they are afraid that the casualties will be even greater. After the past few days, Yi Shuai has already built a solid camp waiting for the Hu people to come to the door and get bleeding. We have guarded here and completed the task. After the war, our cavalry battalion will be a must-have for great achievements."
"Well, hand over the battalion defense mission to the brothers of the infantry battalion, let the brothers of the cavalry battalion take off their armor and rest, keep the spirits and feed the horses. In two days, I guess there will be a chance to hit the dog in the water after a pain." Uncle Zhang said with a smile.
The generals and captains of the battalion were very relaxed. If it were in a plain, even if the Sui army had 20,000 troops, it would be difficult to get a good deal against ten thousand Tiel cavalry. Even if it was not defeated, it could defeat the opponent, but most of them could only be defeated but not annihilated. But now, at a very small price, they successfully trapped ten thousand Tiel cavalry in this valley with the strategy of Yi Shuai, and closed the door and beat the dog. I guess the Tiel people would never have thought that the Sui army, which had been chasing and biting them in the past few days, was actually the vast majority of the combat power in the Sui camp. They even unexpectedly, the tens of thousands of Sui troops had detoured behind them and blocked their retreat.
Gu Luo took the eight thousand and the two Luo cavalry to retreat eastward, and stopped and stopped. He did not dare to retreat directly, but divided the eight thousand people into eight thousand teams and alternately covered them. However, until dusk, they had withdrawn fifty miles and had not seen the soldiers and horses pursued by the Sui people. Gu Luo finally breathed a sigh of relief, but he still did not dare to be careless. He even couldn't wait to leave this ghost place, and he didn't want to stay for a moment. After the troops had been resting for half an hour, he ordered the army to continue to march, and the whole army set a torch to retreat in the dark. He was afraid that after camping here for a night, the damn Sui people would catch up again.
The march overnight, no accidents occurred.
By dawn, they were about to walk out of the She River Valley.
"I found the Han army ahead!"
The screams from the front came one after another, and with fear, they reached Gu Luo's central army's main formation.
The commander of the thousand-man cavalry team, Si'an, sent a message from the cavalry to ride horses to report that there were Han cavalry scouts in the fog ahead.
"Five miles further ahead is the exit of the Sichuan Valley, which is the Songshan Tent Plain, an open plain area. Whether it is resting in the Songshan Tent or returning to Tiel immediately north along the Luomaheyuan Road, it is already close. Within five miles, we can leave this damn place, how could there be a Han army there?" Gu Luo murmured, a little unbelievable. But he thought that it should be just a small team of scouts and cavalrymen of the Han people, at least he was expecting in his heart.
The troops slowed down and continued to move forward.
The distance between five miles was not far, and the Tieler cavalry soon reached the entrance of the valley.
A gust of north wind blew, blowing the thick fog at the entrance of the valley.
One after another, a burst of exclamations sounded, "Han Army!"
"Han Army!"
Si'an, the commander of the former army riding on the horse, looked at the entrance of the valley, stunned and murmured in disbelief: "Han Army Camp, no, it is a castle of the Han Army, how is this possible!" At this moment, he suspected that he was dreaming. A few days ago, they passed through the entrance of the valley. At that time, there was only a piece of ice and snow, with nothing but ice and snow and dry trees. But after a few days, they came back, and a tall castle stood in front of them and intercepted the entrance of the valley that had come out of the river. Above the high fortress, a huge white tiger flag was floating in the wind, clamoring!
Not only was Si'an so shocked that he couldn't speak, but the Tiel cavalry were all shocked by the sudden appearance of the castle. Some people even thought it was a miracle for this magical castle, so they rolled off their horses and knelt in the snow and knelt down.
In the vast snow, the eight thousand Tieler people were shocked by the castle in front of them. More and more Tongluo cavalry dismounted and knelt in the snow. They believed that it was impossible for human power to build a fortress in this wilderness within a few days. All this shows that this is a miracle of God. Faced with this great power, they were intimidated, feared, and worshiped!
ps: I have been hospitalized in the hospital these days, with neuralgia and pain, so I couldn't sit still and write. I got better today, so I endured the pain and wrote a chapter first.
Chapter completed!