Chapter 176 The Dawn of the Huihe People
Li's plan was actually very simple, which was to let the five villages raise smoke when the enemy arrived.
This was originally a not-so-savvy trick, but here, the Uighurs hadn't seen popularity along the way. Their desire for popularity would make them ignore a lot of things.
Moreover, at almost the same distance, smoke from cooking fires rose from five villages. What Li wanted to make the Uighurs feel was that their solid walls and cleared the fields to the end. Going forward, people began to become popular, which of course was also a paralysis for the enemy.
What is even more vivid is that according to speculation, the five men and the others arrived in these villages at least two days earlier than the Uighurs.
In the past two days, Li Yan asked them to live in the village houses like the people before, and cook as usual, but they should strengthen their vigilance for several miles around.
In this way, it’s not just a show of doing things, but there are people in these villages who really make fires and cook. According to Li Qing’s idea, isn’t this true and false, and false are true?
Li Yu was indeed ready, but Mou Yu Khan was not as relaxed as before. After entering the territory of the Tang Dynasty, what Mou Yu Khan never expected was that the village here was also transferred away by Li Yu.
He scolded Li Qing as a turtle, but this did not affect the less food his soldiers carried with him.
Faced with such a situation, Mou Yu Khan himself was also anxious, but naturally he could not show it. He could only pretend to be calm and inform the soldiers that as long as they leave quickly, they would naturally be better when they arrived in Yuyang.
At the same time, Mou Yu Khan was constantly asking Shi Siming where there was a village in Hebei Road where he could find food, and kept asking the scouts to go forward while searching.
However, at this time, Mou Yu Khan still had no idea of returning. The only thing he was worried about was that Li Yan would stay in the city and his food would be consumed.
Even if this happens, Mou Yu Khan is not afraid. The main forces of the enemy's troops are all in the city. At least he can walk more roads to escape Yuyang and always find a place where people are.
As long as there is a village in the Tang Dynasty, he will come to a village directly, and sooner or later he will be able to force Li Yan out.
So what Mou Yu Khan has always wanted to solve is just the problems they are facing. As long as they solve the food, he needs a hundred ways to get Li Yan out, then destroy his troops and take over Hebei Road.
In other words, Mou Yu Khan couldn't even regard Li Yan as his real opponent, because in his eyes, the methods used by Li Yan to blindly dodge are not only stupid methods, but also ways that will make the soldiers under Li Yan lose their morale. At least he wouldn't do this.
On this day, according to the rewards of the generals under his command, the dry food and jerky that the soldiers carried with them could only last for up to three days. After three days, they would face a very terrible problem, and the entire army would have no food.
Hearing this news, Khan Mou Yu did not dare to be arrogant. He quickly found Shi Siming in front of him and asked a few questions straight to the point.
"Can we get outside the city within three days?"
"This... if you only sleep for three hours a day and spend the rest of your time rushing, you can still arrive!"
"Okay! Then do it like this, go and send an order, so that the soldiers must even the food they carry into four days. After four days, we will definitely have some replenishment!"
Seeing that Mou Yu Khan gave such an order, Shi Siming originally wanted to say something, but when he spoke, it turned into the word "good".
As a result, the day passed quickly, and just when Mou Yu Khan felt difficult to calm down, he finally got the first good news since he sent troops.
A scout returned to him with an excited look on his face. When he saw the scout's eyes, Mou Yu Khan felt relieved. It was also because it was the bloodthirsty look unique to their Uighur cavalry. This only shows one thing: he discovered the prey.
"Khan! It seems that King Jianning of the Tang Dynasty could not withdraw too many people in the past few days. Twenty miles further from here, we found five inhabited villages one after another. It is almost certain that we will walk twenty miles to Yuyang City, so we don't have to worry about our food and drink!"
After hearing this, Khan Mou Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that he had bet right this time, but he still asked in detail how they discovered these villages.
When I learned that there were at least five villages at almost equal distances, and after two or three hours of observation, smoke had risen in the village, and there were faint shadows of people entering and leaving at the entrance of the village. Everything showed that there were people living here.
After the discovery was confirmed, Mou Yu Khan immediately gave an order. He could no longer wait for all his army to rush over because he ordered the reduction of the army's food. Moreover, the weather was already very cold at this time, and the combat effectiveness of the cavalry who could not get enough food was declining very strong. He now had to loot these villages immediately so that the soldiers could recover their strength before they could talk about other things.
"Go! Each village sent thousands of people to bring me all the food in the village!"
"Khan, where are the people in that village?"
"The old rules are all killed, and the same is true for the villages where people are seen again, until Li Yan goes out of the city to fight me!"
Soon, all five teams set out, and the teams that were robbed were almost all of the Uighurs' own elite soldiers.
Everyone knows that slaughtering the village is a good job. Not only does it contain wine and meat, but there must be young villagers. This cannot be cheap. Those who are pulled over to be cannon fodder, right?
What they didn't know was that Li Ren and others who were lurking in villages had already made plans. If it hadn't been for the arrival of a certain number of the enemy's 100,000 elite troops, Li Ren and the others would have come yet.
Mou En and Konoha lurked in the village with their tribesmen, and they were extremely nervous. After all, they were about to face the Uighur cavalry that they had almost never won over the years. And under Li Qing's order, they understood that unless there were more people coming from the enemy than them, even if they fought to the death, they would have to wipe out all the enemies.
This battle is too important for them. If they don’t steam buns, they have to fight for their breath! If they lose all this battle, they will not be able to fight this war.
Chapter completed!