Flying Clouds in Another World

Chapter 313: A Night of Digging and Encirclement

No matter how angry Tamuwuhe was, he still had to face what he had to face.

The main force of Southern Chen has been trapped by him for more than half a month.

Originally, he had no intention of engaging in a head-on confrontation and destroying Chen Jun through frontal combat. After all, doing so would certainly result in heavy losses for himself.

As long as the siege lasts long enough, the Chen army surrounding Wuwei will sooner or later run out of food and grass.

The enemy was defeated in battle. But he had a constant supply of food and clothing from the rear camp, so he naturally had nothing to worry about.

But now, the most important rear base, the royal court by the Sirius Lake, has been breached by the little butcher Liu Feiyun, and his own supply has become a problem.

The original strategy of trapping the enemy and waiting for their food to run out was no longer feasible. Now the only options were to either fight a decisive battle in advance or send a large army to rescue and retake the supplies that had been robbed from the royal court.

After the four barbarian kings discussed with Tamuwuhe, they finally decided to send King Wulang to lead 100,000 soldiers to meet the tribesmen fleeing south and take back the supplies stolen by the little butcher.

These 100,000 men are not the low-powered soldiers left behind in the royal court, but real young and strong warriors with very strong combat power.

Soon after receiving the order, the Black Wolf King Wutaqing led an army of 100,000 and hurried north!

For more than half a month, Tamuwuhe has been launching feint attacks on the besieged Chen army.

The feint attack was not very large, with four directions, each with a force of 10,000 people. Once in the morning and once in the afternoon, it was like thunder without a drop of rain, but at the same time it was just thunder with a lot of noise.

However, he blocked the supply line to the Southern Chen army. According to his calculations, the food and grass in the Southern Chen army would not last for a few days!

According to the original plan, Chen Jun should be starved for at least a month before launching a general attack to minimize losses!

After all, Tamuwuhe was planning to lead his army southward after this battle! This time, he said that he would capture dozens of border counties in Southern Chen!

Dozens of border counties! At least they can get a population of 10 or 20 million! By then, the Northern Wilderness will really have the capital to destroy the Southern Chen.

But now, the appearance of the little butcher has completely disrupted his plan, and the decisive battle has to be brought forward!

"As long as we destroy the hundreds of thousands of elite troops that invaded the Northern Wilderness this time, there will be no decent troops in the entire northern border of Southern Chen that can stop my army from advancing southward!"

Tamuwuhe looked at the Chen army camp not far away and thought to himself.

The movement of the Northern Wilderness Army was soon noticed by Chen Jun.

Soon, a piece of intelligence was delivered to Wang Jue, the commander of the Beijing army.

"A troop of about 100,000 soldiers has headed north! Haha! It seems that the young man from the Liu family has finally led his mob south! Although 100,000 soldiers are not too many, they are not a small number! Next, we have to have a head-on battle! I want to see if these barbarians in the Northern Wilderness have made any progress after getting so many weapons and armor!"

After hearing the intelligence, Wang Jue muttered to himself.

The Black Wolf King Wutaqing led 100,000 lightly armored cavalry all the way north. After only one day, he began to encounter the tribesmen fleeing from the south.

The further north he went, the more people he encountered fleeing south. Later, these people even slowed down his progress northward.

Another day passed, and he received military intelligence that he had never expected.

"What! The little butcher divided his troops! A force of more than 100,000 people headed southeast! Southeast? ... That's the direction from which the Barbarian Bull King besieged the Southern Chen Qinglong Army! Could it be that..."

Wutaqing fell into deep thought!

"Your Majesty! How about we divide our forces? To deal with this mob, I only need four teams of 10,000 people! We can't just watch them mess with the Barbarian Bull King!"

A general asked for a fight!

Wu Taqing thought for a long time before saying:

"Forty thousand people? No! We don't need that many! I think those hundreds of thousands of people must be bait, their purpose is to make us split our forces!"

"What if the little butcher leads his main force of hundreds of thousands of people to attack suddenly? It will be difficult to deal with them with only 50,000 or 60,000 people! We only need to send a team of 10,000 people to follow and monitor! The rest of us should continue to head north!"

As Wutaqing continued to move north, he was soon attacked by Liu Feiyun's troops.

The two armies, each with nearly 10,000 light cavalrymen, repeatedly harassed the tribes fleeing south and Wutaqing's main force.

To be honest, the combat power of these lightly armored cavalry is only enough to bully the tribesmen fleeing south, but once they come into contact with the elite cavalry of the barbarians, they will often retreat after a single battle.

After more than a dozen battles, big and small, all the captains under Wutaqing requested orders to chase after these annoying flies.

But Utaqing disagreed.

"No! Don't you see that these guys are trying to trick us into splitting up our forces again?"

"I finally figured it out! The little butcher is coming for us! He just wants us to keep dividing our forces so that he can eat the fat cow like an ant!"

Don't pay any attention to them! Just chase them away! After we kill the little butcher, we can swat these annoying flies to death!"

Not far away, Tuoda Jun and Hu Yanping met up.

"How's it going, Brother Hu Yan? You didn't get the upper hand, did you?"

"You act as if you have gotten the upper hand! Alas! It seems that our fighting power is still far inferior to the elite cavalry of the barbarians!"

"Of course! After all, we Northern Wilderness people grew up on horseback! Next, I'm going to look for Qin Jiu and the others! What about you?"

"I won't join you in the fun! I'm going to Rabbit Tail Plain and wait for my chance!"

"Okay then! See you later!"

"See you later!"

On the fifth day after Wutaqing marched north, he finally encountered the vanguard of Liu Feiyun's group two hundred miles away from the Sirius King's Court.

The so-called vanguard of the brigade is actually a brigade of the Yunliu Division and 50,000 so-called elite troops selected from the civilian militia.

However, these people are all wearing armor, and they look quite realistic!

Wu Taqing looked at the setting sun and gave the order:

"Send two teams of 10,000 people to block the two wings, and the rest of the people will set up camp on the spot. Let's have a good rest tonight, and wait until tomorrow to completely wipe out the little butcher's mob!"

"Alas! It would be great if the butcher could be sent in the morning! Even at noon, but this is the time when people are tired and exhausted!"

"Fortunately, this little butcher has nearly a million people behind him. Even if he is just a mob, he doesn't have any decent soldiers! Even if he wants to run, he can't outrun our elite cavalry! Sooner or later, he will be our fat meat!"

After hearing Wutaqing's words, all the generals burst into laughter.

On the second day, when Wutaqing was preparing to launch an attack, he found that Liu Feiyun had set up a huge camp overnight.

A huge circular trench that trapped nearly a million people.

The trench was about half a foot deep and ten feet wide. All the excavated soil was piled up on the inside, forming a steep slope about ten feet high that connected directly to the bottom of the trench.

"Hahahaha! This little butcher, he wouldn't think that he can stop our army's attack with just this shallow trench!"

A captain of ten thousand men laughed.

Wutaqing frowned slightly, and then sent out a team of a thousand people to launch a tentative attack.

Thousands of barbarians in light armor rushed towards the trench.

However, when the thousand lightly armored cavalry rushed to within a hundred steps of the trench, dozens of them lost their horses' hooves and fell down.

"Hey! This is... a horse trap!? No, a horse trap shouldn't be this small!"

A barbarian general said doubtfully.

Thousands of cavalrymen kept charging forward, and horses kept falling. When the front cavalrymen rushed to only a few dozen steps away from the trench, nearly a hundred cavalrymen had already fallen.

It was at this time that countless arrows were shot from behind the trench, forming a rain of arrows, splashing towards the charging soldiers.

The rain of arrows was so dense that more than a hundred people were shot and fell to the ground in an instant.

"I see! Call it a day! Let's have some archery with this bunch of rabble first!"

Wu Taqing gave the order as if he had realized something.

When the exploratory team of a thousand men retreated, leaving behind two or three hundred corpses, Wutaqing led the generals to ask the injured captain in detail about what had happened.

The captain said angrily, "Reporting to the king, within a hundred steps in front of the trench, the damn Chen people dug many deep pits about one or two feet deep, just enough to accommodate the horse's legs, so the horses fell! Moreover, the Chen people's arrows were too dense! Even if we were wearing armor, we could not avoid casualties!"