Chapter 845 The Eve of the Decisive Battle
The battle plan to send the militia back had already been proposed in the plan before the attack on Qingqing Gorge. The purpose was naturally the same as this time, to let the militia repeat what they did in Qingqing Gorge.
But of course it was not about smuggling weapons of clan soldiers and grassland soldiers, but to instigate more militia to revolt, and then turn against them, and take back their families and food. After all, this was the condition agreed upon when the Han tribe agreed to their surrender.
Another point is that the Han army can take advantage of the time when the militia go back to plant more spies in Qingquan Valley to monitor the high-level officials of the Xin tribe and prevent them from running away.
Of course, it is not so easy to send the militia back, otherwise how can they successfully infiltrate the enemy?
So the play that should be performed still has to be performed.
There are four guards in total in the Han army that have reached Qingqing Gorge. Yingyang Guard and Baotao Guard are temporary external guards, and their training time and combat effectiveness are much lower than other guards in the Han tribe, so these two guards are currently only responsible for garrisoning Yashan County and Chaoyang County. The
remaining Xiaoqi Guard is a full cavalry unit with strong mobility, so it is temporarily stationed in the plain area in the middle of Zhudao, that is, Xinhua County. While responsible for the defense of Xinhua County, it is also responsible for supporting the war in other counties.
Due to the active withdrawal of the Xin tribe, Xianfeng County and Guanhai County now have basically no population in the jurisdiction of these two counties, leaving only bare land, and naturally there is no need for garrison, so the Xiangjian Guard and Hailang Guard that were originally planned to be stationed here all followed the main force to Qingqing Gorge.
In addition to the main force Feixiong Guard that was originally prepared for the decisive battle, and the main force of the main force, Huben Guard, the Han tribe currently has four guards that can be deployed in the decisive battle, totaling 12,000 people.
The Huben Guards were the central army, responsible for guarding the central army camp. Naturally, they could not participate in such a thing as acting, so Xue Tu directly arranged for the Feixiong Guards to cooperate, and the Xiangjian Guards and the Hailang Guards followed in the second echelon, and finally completed the confrontation with Qingquan Valley, waiting for the Huben Guards and the central army camp to arrive, and then choose the opportunity to launch a general attack.
As a result, a strange scene appeared on the 30-kilometer road between Qingqing Gorge and Qingquan Valley.
Elder Jin Tiezhen led more than 3,000 militiamen to escape in front, and the 3,000 soldiers of the Feixiong Guards were chasing them desperately behind. The two sides performed a double act, and on the two sides of the Feixiong Guards, Xiangjian Guards and Hailang Guards were also following closely on the left and right, but their positions were relatively backward, and the marching speed was also slower.
The mighty armies of both sides ran on the mountain. There were basically no horses on both sides. Except for the important generals, the rest were on foot. After all, the Feixiong Guards were originally positioned as heavy armored infantry.
But since it was acting, they had to act more realistically. The Han tribe was so powerful, it would be too fake if they couldn't catch any of them. So when the two sides were chasing, they ran for a while and rested for a while. The militia led by Tiezhen in front really ran with all their strength, but there were still people who were exhausted and fell behind. This part naturally became the "captives" of Feixiongwei.
They were called captives, but in fact, they were picked up by Feixiongwei behind because they ran too much. Feixiongwei didn't blame them, but carried them away for treatment.
In this way, the militia of about 3,000 people ran and fell behind all the way. When the other side ran to the outskirts of Qingquan Valley and was successfully picked up by Xin tribe, there were only about 1,700 people left in the end, which seemed very real.
After picking up the remnants of Elder Jin Tiezhen, the corps and militia of Xin tribe originally stationed in Qingquan Valley did not choose to fight with Feixiongwei, but quickly retreated back to the interior of Qingquan Valley after firing a few rounds of arrows for cover.
The Feixiong Guards seemed a little hesitant. After wandering around the entrance of Qingquan Valley twice, they took the initiative to retreat three miles to set up camp, forming a blockade of the valley entrance and confronting the Xin Tribe Corps.
That night, the second echelon that followed closely also arrived at their respective mission locations and blocked another entrance to Qingquan Valley, forming a comprehensive blockade of Qingquan Valley.
As for whether the enemy would be able to escape from the mountain ridge across the valley?
The Han Tribe scouts will find out!
On the second morning after the end of the Qingqing Gorge War, the Huben Guards were still slowly carrying various supplies on their way to Qingquan Valley, and Elder Jin Tiezhen and his remaining soldiers had successfully mixed into Qingquan Valley. The
more than 1,000 militiamen brought by Tiezhen first went to find their respective families, wives and children, and told them about the Han Tribe's policy of accepting prisoners and after surrender, and then asked the families of these militiamen to go to the family circle to publicize and strive to win the support of all the families of the militiamen.
On the other side, the elite scouts of the Han tribe who had 'escaped' from the militia also dispersed and began to monitor the activities of the Xin tribe's top leaders. In order to avoid unnecessary exposure, they did not get too close to the targets they were monitoring. Anyway, they were just preventing them from running away. As long as the targets were still within the monitoring range, they did not care what the targets were doing.
And those militiamen who had been turned against by the Han tribe, in the gap before receiving the new order, they began to go to other militia teams to start the rebellion plan. The so-called rebellion plan was nothing more than the same old routine as before, first spreading the 'truth' of the matter, alienating the relationship between the militia and the Xin tribe's top leaders, and then promoting the various people-friendly policies of the Han tribe in the future. I believe that under the strong pressure released by the Han tribe, they all know how to choose.
The situation of the Han tribe can be said to be very good, and the current plan is also progressing steadily, while the opposite Xin tribe is much more miserable.
In late summer and early autumn, the Xin tribe formed a total of five mixed corps, each with 2,000 soldiers, half of which were clan soldiers and half were grassland soldiers, totaling 10,000 people. Three of these five corps have now been captured by the Han tribe.
In other words, there are only two regular army corps equipped with bamboo armor and iron weapons in Qingquan Valley, and nearly 4,000 unarmored militiamen with their own farm tools, and the rest are the families of the militiamen.
However, the actual composition of the forces is not like this, because according to the Han tribe's plan to incite rebellion, the 4,000 Xin tribe militiamen in Qingquan Valley, the 1,700 rebel militiamen brought in by Tiezhen, and the families of the militiamen will soon be incited to become the forces of the Han tribe.
In this way, not counting the four Han army guards outside Qingquan Valley, the Han tribe has already formed a military advantage in Qingquan Valley alone. 5,700 rebel militiamen, plus nearly 20,000 militia families, against the 4,000 regular troops of the Xin tribe?
With such a superior force comparison, coupled with the infiltration of the Jinwu Guard and Huben Guard scouts, the Han tribe can almost be sure that the Xin tribe will be killed. There is no second possibility.
Today
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