Chapter 183 Capricious
At night, the camp set fire to various collected woods.

Black Bear inspected everywhere and saw that the fine feed brought by the army had been opened. This was the last fine feed for the war horses of the entire army.

People eat little, and the dry food they carry can last for four or five days.

The hastily recruited Xiongnu volunteer knights have also been reorganized, and this reorganization was mainly based on trickery.

Each Guanzhong knight was assigned a righteous knight. Given the background and experience of these righteous knights, it was easy for them to rebel.

The Guanzhong Knights can complete the rebellion without the need for Black Bear to go out personally.

When the entire army was feeding the horses, the weapons they carried with them were also distributed to the Free Knights.

The armor and equipment of these volunteers were very simple, and even their horses could only be called horses.

Around four o'clock in the morning, the entire army crossed the wooden bridge after a full meal.

At this time, the sky was about to brighten, and the cold dew was heavy on the riverside and fields.

Like yesterday, the morning was foggy.

The entire army marched four or five miles along the northern bank of the Sushui River and found a fruit forest that seemed like a landmark.

The entire army was immediately divided into six teams of 1,000 men and marched towards the predetermined target.

Each team of 1,000 men was equipped with two drum carts to ensure that the scattered soldiers could be gathered during combat.

Black Bear didn't know whether each team could successfully attack, he could only guarantee the team he led.

With the Yin Gan horse, he can quickly mobilize support and mobilize the teams.

The fog obscured his vision, so he couldn't see the Taoist soldiers assigned to each team, let alone remote control commands.

It can only be recalled, but no new instructions can be issued.

It is estimated that the sun rises at about six o'clock and the fog dissipates at about eleven o'clock, which takes five hours.

During these five hours, we must destroy Huochuquan’s camp in order to disintegrate the organizational structure of the Xiongnu camps on both sides of the river.

The Free Knights were leading the way, and when they were about to approach a camp by the river, they heard the barking of dogs in the camp from afar.

"Bang the drum!"

Black Bear shouted to those around him, raised his hand and waved, "All troops charge!"

The two burly drummers on the drum cart immediately beat the cowhide war drums. The sound of the drums vibrated, and it seemed that even the surrounding fog vibrated along with it.

As the drums sounded, Lu Bu, who was at the front of the team, had already galloped into the Hun camp. There were no fences or trenches, only various tents and vehicles stitched together with leather.

These tents and vehicles were arranged in a circle, with the herds of animals surrounding the middle area.

There was no large-scale guard force, and when Lu Bu broke in, he knocked over several Huns who rushed out of the tents, and he went straight to the largest tent.

The knights from Guanzhong and Yicong who were following closely behind Lu Bu saw that Lu Bu was wielding his Fang Tian Ji like a madman, and they all dodged while their morale surged.

The sound of shouting and neighing of horses rose up.

The drumbeats advanced towards the Hun camp, and the surrounding soldiers followed the drumbeats.

Soon Black Bear arrived at the camp and saw the chaos and immediately recalled Lu Bu.

Under the cover of fog, Lu Bu, who has no friend-or-foe identification function, will attack anyone who meets the attack conditions.

When he arrived, Lu Bu had already rushed into the largest round tent surrounded by leather and felt.

The surrounding tents were also torn apart one after another, and the Huns inside were either killed when they rushed out of the tents, or were crushed by the collapsed tents, covering their heads and torsos.

There was no mercy at all. The soldiers who took part in the attack either stabbed the people under the tents or allowed them to be trampled by the passing cavalry.

Except for the slaves who were in tattered clothing, unkempt and unarmed, everyone else was under attack.

Without the whip of their master, even the strong armed slaves would try to avoid it.

"Kill the armed men!"

A supervisor of a hundred men led seven or eight cavalrymen to march back and forth and shouted. There were six or seven hundred people in this camp, and he was still worried that tribal warriors might gather their own people to form a resistance node.

Seeing that the situation here was already decided, Black Bear immediately led Lu Bu and ran wildly towards the nearest place where the drum sounds were heard.

After arriving, they saw that this small Hun camp was also in chaos, but dozens of tribal nobles gathered together and were still resisting.

Lu Bu was released immediately, and Lu Bu played stably, not afraid of a hundred men on horseback rushing to break through this small battle group.

There was no need for Lu Bu to turn back and fight again. The Guanzhong knights who followed Lu Bu in the charge took advantage of the gap and trampled and defeated the resistance group in one go.

In just a dozen breaths, the dozens of people in the battle group were hacked to pieces.

Recall Lu Bu and Black Bear moves again.

Every time a camp was captured, more than 200 people were left behind to clean up the battlefield and take prisoners.

Now two hundred people form a basic unit, half of whom are Hun sons-in-law or slaves, and are able to identify prisoners.

There is no need for these people. The slaves who can understand what is said can be left behind, and those who can't can be used as finishing blows.

From the moment they captured the first camp, the organization of the Guanzhong knights and the Xiongnu knights was completely disrupted.

Some captured slaves also searched for armor and weapons while cleaning the battlefield, and joined the battle after arming themselves.

As the three small camps on the periphery were breached, the main camp of Huchequan Chanyu appeared in front of Black Bear.

Three teams of 1,000 men arrived one after another. When the first team arrived, they saw that the camp had already started preparing for war, so they did not launch an attack.

When the second group arrived, they saw more Huns in the camp participating in the defense, and the fog affected their vision, so they stopped and began to rest.

Black Bear arrived with the third team and was annoyed when he saw this.

If it were Gan Ning or Pang De, they would have taken advantage of the situation and attacked at this moment.

Fog and the unknown are our best cover!

After a quick observation, he saw that there were no fences, trenches or anything like that in Huchequan's camp, so he released Lu Bu immediately.

Lu Bu charged forward with a halberd in hand, and in just a dozen breaths he broke through the front row of spear-wielding slaves and rushed into the Hun camp with unstoppable momentum.

Black Bear looked at the disturbed defenders through the thin mist, and immediately ordered Lu Bu to charge back and forth, continuing to disrupt the order in the camp.

Feeling the morale of the knights around him gradually rising, Black Bear turned around and shouted to the drum cart:
"Beat the drum!" As the drums sounded again, the drums of the other two teams also followed suit. Whether it was the Guanzhong Knights or the Yicong Knights, they all began to charge on horseback.

Even if we cannot run into the Huns in the camp, we must rush in and disrupt their defensive order at this moment!
The high-speed moving cavalry charged back and forth, and on the limited battlefield, they were always at the advantage of being faster than the slower.

On a limited battlefield, mobility means an expanded contact range, which in turn means an increased attack frequency.

In a nutshell, mobility advantage is equivalent to numerical advantage!
Black Bear followed the drum cart and approached the Xiongnu camp, where he saw hundreds of people gathered around the Chanyu's eagle flag and defending it to the death.

These people generally used extra-long spears and formed a circular formation like a hedgehog.

Among them were dozens of people with superb archery skills, who actually shot arrows at him.

Several arrows broke through the mist and flew past him, and not even the sound of the arrows breaking through the air was heard.

He only saw a fleeting afterimage, or an arrow shot into his chest and bounced off, and then he discovered those elite archers.

The close-range shooting of these archers was quite powerful, and more than a dozen knights had already fallen nearby.

Black Bear immediately mobilized Lu Bu, who was chasing the Huns' cavalry. A dozen breaths later, Lu Bu rushed into the crowd of the elite regiment of the royal court with a halberd in his hand.

The enemy's long spears were stabbing densely. Lu Bu controlled his horse and jumped up, but was stabbed by more than a dozen long spears in mid-air. He lost his balance and fell heavily into the crowd with his horse.

Worried that Lu Bu might be in danger, Black Bear immediately raised his hand and waved the Gao Shun ten-man team card, and it flew towards there.

In the chaos of the battle, these ten people appeared in the battle group, and they chopped and blocked with their iron halberds.
The opponent's super-long lance circular formation has been broken. The lances are too long and difficult to turn.

In the crowd, Lu Bu and Gao Shun's ten-man team all gave up their iron halberds and Fang Tian halberds and stabbed with swords at close range.

The knights from Guanzhong and Yicong who were participating in the siege from the periphery did not dare to approach, and either threw short spears or shot with bows.

Regardless of friend or foe, this elite regiment of the royal court suffered nearly half casualties and finally began to break out.

When they were retreating, they were held tightly by Lu Bu, the order was chaotic, and they completely lost the ability to fight back.

Faced with an enemy without the ability to counterattack, they were immediately attacked by cavalry squads from all directions.

The formation collapsed further and before it could hold out for five minutes it was attacked and trampled to pieces.

Amid the chaos, Huochequan, under the protection of his guards, put on slave clothes and hat, took off his leather boots, ran barefoot and grabbed an ownerless horse.

Just as he was about to get back on his horse, a group of knights who were charging together passed by. One of the followers recognized Huochuquan's fine, thick beard and raised his hand to stab him with a spear.

Huchuquan was wounded in the shoulder and fell off his horse, and several guards came forward to rescue him.

Soon another assault team came from behind, and the two guards were unable to dodge and were knocked over, instantly injuring their bones.

Before they could stand up, a group of militiamen on foot approached and stabbed them with spears and halberds, killing the two guards instantly.

The remaining guards could only drag Huochequan and continue to hide, but they were soon caught up by the walking volunteers.

No matter what language Huochequan shouted, these followers rushed to chase him and tried to chop off Huochequan's head.

Huchuquan was stronger than these foot volunteers and he was not wearing any armor, so he ran away quickly, covering his injured shoulder.

He was disturbed from time to time by the shock knight squad, and he didn't run far before a Guanzhong knight who was unaware of the truth chopped off his head with a knife.

The pursuing infantrymen were about to snatch the head, but the Guanzhong knights came back and demanded the head they had captured.

After defeating the elite regiments of the royal court, collective headhunting had begun throughout the camp.

Whether they were Yicong or Guanzhong knights, even if they were injured, they were all chasing for horses or heads.

Around ten o'clock, the Hun camp gradually calmed down.

The wounded were gathered together, and the remaining people collected supplies. The Yicong troops continued to improve their own weapons, rescued the captives and slaves they knew, and distributed armor and weapons.

The stripped, headless bodies were dragged out of the camp without any time to bury them.

The visibility in the fog was about a hundred steps at this moment. Black Bear checked Lu Bu's mount and found that the horse had broken its leg.

There is no other choice but to upgrade with great pain.

After investing twenty points of black mana, the Yin-Gan Steed was upgraded to level three, with a shoulder height of nearly nine feet.

It is more than two feet taller than the common and majestic warhorse; if the horse's neck and head are included, the Yin Gan horse is more than three feet taller than the ordinary warhorse.

But the original vest seemed a little small and tight.

Now when Lu Bu rode on it, the proportions between man and horse immediately seemed much more harmonious.

At around ten o'clock in Wenxi City, as the sun became warmer, the fog dissipated faster.

Yuan Tan looked out over the fields east of the city and saw the northern shore, from both sides, chasing after the scattered cavalry.

Some Huns could only ride their horses into the icy water and move closer to the camps where their cattle were grazing on the south bank.

Without waiting for the Huns on the south bank to unite or discuss anything, the knights who were resting in various camps on the north bank, each riding two horses, gathered to the shore and ate and rested there.

Wang Xiu narrowed his eyes and looked over: "Black Tiger Fang has betrayed the alliance and attacked. I'm afraid it will be difficult to gain the trust of the Xiongnu, Qiang Hu and Xianbei in the future."

Yuan Tan looked calm. Facing a man who had spent more than two months pacifying Guanzhong, it was not surprising that the other party instigated the Huns to counterattack overnight.

After all, the three thousand gold coins were delivered to the Hun servants last night.

It was not a difficult choice to choose between staying in Guanzhong with the gold, marrying and having children, or returning to the tribe to work like a slave.

Yuan Tan thought about it again and again, but was still puzzled: "The Xiongnu have never invaded, so why would he do this?"

This time the Huns were completely offended. First, a group of noble leaders were killed at a banquet, and then the camp was attacked, killing another group of upstarts.

In the future, the Huns will inevitably become Guanzhong’s mortal enemies.

Wang Xiu didn't know why the black bear attacked, and he couldn't even believe it was true.

Yuan Tan was in a hurry to return to the city yesterday and closed the city gates as soon as he returned because he was worried that something like this would happen.

Wang Xiu originally thought that Yuan Tan was worrying too much, but he didn't expect that Yuan Tan actually guessed it right.

The traitor was Cao Cao, not the Huns, so this battle left Wang Xiu confused.

Not only him, but Huochequan was also confused.

Just as Yuan Tan and Wang Xiu were wondering and watching, four or five thousand infantry and cavalry from the five tribes on the south bank unexpectedly surrendered collectively in the afternoon.

(End of this chapter)