Chapter 1316: Attack on the Camp (Part 2)

When Hu Yandu got the news and rushed over, three cavalry units had gathered outside several camps. One of the leading captains saw Hu Yandu and said quickly: "General, we have gathered nearly 4,000 soldiers and horses. Let's take over these camps!"

"Snap!"

Hu Yandu whipped the horse whip in the air and cursed the captain who asked for a fight: "Asshole, have you forgotten what we are here for?"

As he said, he pointed at the soldiers of the mixed Hu coalition army running around: "You left so many soldiers alone and prepared to attack other people's well-defended camps. What's wrong with you? "Has your son been bitten by a dog?"

"Leave a part of the troops to monitor them, and the rest of the troops will quickly clean up these scattered soldiers, and at the same time collect as many scattered horses as possible, and evacuate after a quarter of an hour. Since you want to attack them so much, then leave your troops to monitor these people. Remember, I asked you to monitor them, not to attack. If you give me a soldier, you will be punished by the army!" Hu Yandu pointed to the captain who came to ask for a battle and attack, and ordered;

"Ah..." The captain was stunned for a moment, and was about to beg for mercy, but was whipped back by Hu Yandu with a horse whip.

"Execute the order!"

"Yes..."

When the other few heard it, they immediately led their soldiers and horses away with a whistle.

A quarter of an hour later, a rocket flew into the air in the chaotic camp, followed by two more rockets, and then three more. This was the retreat signal agreed upon by Hu Yandu and the cavalry soldiers before the attack. In the chaos of the night, the sound of the gong might cause the soldiers in the melee to miss it, but this rocket would not happen.

Soon, the cavalry in the melee stopped killing the miscellaneous Hu soldiers around them, and instead gathered the ownerless horses around them and rode to the pre-arranged place. In less than a quarter of an hour, there was no sound of fighting on the entire battlefield, leaving only the howling coalition soldiers and the wailing of injured horses.

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Five miles east of the coalition camp, behind a forest, Hu Yandu and a group of cavalry rested here. After leaving the coalition camp, they gathered the soldiers and horses and left quickly, and then came to this forest, which was the place that Shi A's Shadow Guard had found before.

Hu Yandu sat under a tree and looked at the general next to him and asked, "Have you counted how many soldiers and horses were lost?"

Beside him stood two captains, one of whom answered, "Reporting to the general, there are about 9,000 soldiers gathered at present, but there are also some soldiers who have strayed, so our losses in the attack on the camp just now should be around 500 people."

Hu Yandu nodded, this number was still acceptable. He then asked: "What about the number of war horses?"

When the number of war horses was mentioned, the generals around were all happy: "The harvest of war horses is huge. When leaving the city, the soldiers each had two horses. When leaving the coalition camp just now, all the soldiers brought back a few horses, and the most people drove back more than ten horses. Now there are nearly 50,000 horses in the entire 9,000-strong army."

"Okay, select the best war horses, send out scouts, and carefully monitor the movements of the enemy camp. We have harvested enough tonight, and it is estimated that there will not be much more results. Order each soldier to keep a spare good horse, and the rest of the war horses will be driven back to the city by the injured soldiers. We will stay to attack the enemy camp and create opportunities for the cavalry in the second half of the night."

"Yes!"

After the generals left, they immediately got busy. A quarter of an hour later, hundreds of elite scouts rode away on horseback. Not long after, more than a thousand soldiers drove tens of thousands of war horses away and headed for Baitu City in the south, leaving only eight thousand soldiers and 16,000 war horses carefully selected by them at the camp.

As Hu Yandu expected, after the first attack, the defense of the next coalition camp would be much stronger. Hu Yandu sent troops to try to sneak attack but failed to find an opportunity. Fortunately, everyone was mentally prepared.

Facing the enemy camp that was already on high alert, the cavalry failed to hit and immediately fled away. This went back and forth. Although they failed to sneak attack again, it also caused headaches for the mixed Hu coalition.

In the Xiongnu camp, Huochuquan and a group of Xiongnu generals gathered in the big tent. After the midnight harassment by the Tang cavalry, the Xiongnu generals had understood the intention of the Tang army, so under Huochuquan's order, they also responded. Among all the soldiers and horses, only 30% were left on duty, and the rest were arranged to rest in the tent in order to prepare for tomorrow's battle. However, what they didn't know was that the Tang army responsible for harassing outside the camp had already been replaced by 10,000 Xiongnu cavalry led by Liu Bao.

At five o'clock in the morning, the Tang cavalry, which had been harassing all night, suddenly launched an attack on the coalition camp in the southeast direction. The coalition forces of Pingding and Baitu cities, led by the Xiongnu Chulian, stationed in the southeast direction, were mostly Xiongnu people.

What Liu Bao did not expect was that his raid did not cause much loss to the soldiers in the camp, but his inadvertent exposure of his identity caused many Hun soldiers in the coalition to defect. In the end, when Liu Bao's army left, the 10,000 Hun cavalry had become more than 10,000 people. Combined with the soldiers lost in the raid, the reduction in the number of soldiers caused by Liu Bao's troops was not less than that caused by Hu Yandu's raid in the first half of the night.

Now, after one night of harassment, the allied forces lost nearly 10,000 soldiers, and tens of thousands of war horses. In addition to the food and supplies lost in the melee, it can be said that the coalition's losses have reached almost 20% before the war has even begun.

The next day, until almost noon, the coalition reorganized their troops. The result after the calculation embarrassed everyone. There were only more than 40,000 soldiers in the 50,000-man army before the war. If some of these soldiers were left to guard the camp, then the soldiers who attacked the city would be no more than 30,000.

After everyone discussed, they simply took all the soldiers and food, and the whole army stopped only two or three miles away from Baitu City, and then began to prepare for the siege.

In contrast to the situation outside Baitu City, Huangfu Chaobo and his men in Baitu City were very happy. They did not expect that their army's night attack would have such a good effect, directly causing the enemy to lose nearly 20% of its strength. Not only that, the sneak attack last night also put a group of miscellaneous Hu generals in a difficult position. This can be seen from the fact that they had mobilized their entire army and were ready to attack the city with all their might. This was exactly what Huangfu Chaobo wanted to see. He wanted Baitu City to wipe out all the elite soldiers of these miscellaneous Hu troops. Only in this way could he more easily control the entire Hetao area.