Chapter 513: Surrender
In response to the defeat of the Huns, Cao Liang immediately ordered Du Pre and Wang Jun to lead their troops to pursue and cooperate with the Yue cavalry battalion to fight.
Although the infantry did not have an advantage in speed, if the Hun cavalry wanted to escape, it would be really difficult for the Wei infantry to catch up.
But there is a Yue cavalry battalion in front of the interception, it is completely different, Deng Ai before launching an attack, sent Sima Xu Hui and Ding Qi each to lead a group of men and horses to ambush on the road that the Huns must pass to retreat, and when the Huns retreated, to block.
In this way, there are interceptions in front and pursuers in the back, and even if the Hun cavalry wants to escape, there is no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the ground.
When the speed advantage of the cavalry could not be brought into play, the Huns became a live target, and were jointly besieged by the Wei army's infantry and cavalry, and were divided, and finally a small piece was eaten away.
Liu Yue, under the protection of his own soldiers, fought desperately to fight his way out and broke through.
But the others were not so lucky, and either died in the battle with the Wei army, or chose to surrender. Although there were many Huns who would rather die than give in and fight bloodily, in despair, most of the Huns still chose to surrender.
Because the Xiongnu did not unify the dynasty, there is no concept of allegiance, more often, it is to fight for survival, when the north and south Xiongnu were divided, the southern Xiongnu moved south and surrendered to the Eastern Han court, so in the body of the Xiongnu, there is no so-called integrity at all.
If you can win, you will fight, if you can't win, you will run, and if you can't run, you will surrender, which has undoubtedly become the three steps of the Huns, and at this moment you must not be able to fight, and you must not be able to run, so the only way left for the Huns is to surrender.
Therefore, when the first Hun soldier threw away the knife in his hand and surrendered to the Wei army with his hands held high, many Hun soldiers began to follow suit and surrendered one after another.
At first, it was the behavior of individual soldiers, but it developed later, a large number of Hun soldiers lined up to surrender, and the scene was extremely spectacular.
Even Mondu, one of the four leaders, was forced to raise his hands and surrender.
Mengdu retreated far later than Liu Yue, and when he received the order to withdraw the army, he was about to lead the army to retreat, but was surrounded by the Wei army.
In the end, there was no way, and Mondu also gave up resistance, handed over his war horse and weapons, and joined the surrender team.
During the Battle of Pingyang, the Wei army also captured some Xiongnu soldiers, but after all, it was only a few, and now in Xiliulin, the surrendered Huns are in the thousands.
Originally, Deng Ai, Du Pre, and Wang Jun were ready to kill and fight a good battle with the Huns, but they didn't expect the Huns to admit it so quickly, and the real battle had not yet begun, and the Huns had already surrendered in groups.
Such a result was naturally unexpected by Deng Ai and others, on the battlefield, once they were not afraid of fighting, but dealing with prisoners was not their strong point, Deng Ai and others had to fly to Cao Liang, and he would decide the life and death of these Huns.
When Cao Liang heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, didn't he say that the Huns were fierce and invincible, why did they become soft bones one by one as soon as they came into contact, these Huns were too spineless, right?
Cao Liang complained and complained, but then he will undoubtedly face a more difficult problem, that is, how to deal with these surrendered Huns?
Due to the difficulty of transportation, in this era of war, in fact, the most lacking is not soldiers but grain and grass, the difficulty of logistics support, has always restricted the development of the number of troops, Cao Liang often watched the Romance of the Three Kingdoms when he was a child, and the battle of 700,800,000 soldiers and horses made people look at the blood and blood and was very excited.
But when he grew up, Cao Liang clearly realized that it was just Lao Luo's blindness there, under the constraints of low productivity and transportation capacity in the Three Kingdoms era, if there was really an army of 700,000 and 800,000, it would be difficult to solve the problem of grain and grass alone, and without waiting for the enemy to attack, the daily expenditure on grain and grass alone would be enough to drag this army down.
In the heyday of Cao Wei, he only had five or six hundred thousand troops, and these five or six hundred thousand were the total of all Cao Wei's troops, scattered throughout the country, but in fact, there were not many.
Cao Wei and later the Western Jin Dynasty, in the operation to destroy Shu and Wu, only dispatched 180,000 and 200,000, not that they had no troops to adjust, but the cost of feeding an army was too high, and if there were many people, it would become a burden.
Now Cao Liang's Pingbei Army is going north and the state to quell the rebellion, the grain and grass allocated by the imperial court is a quota, and it is completely rationed according to the establishment of 10,000 people in the Pingbei Army.
Three to five thousand troops surrendered, which was enough to consume half of the grain and grass sent by the imperial court to the Pingbei army every day, could it be that the Wei soldiers would go hungry to "help" these enemies?
Even more troublesome than eating was the question of how to place these surrendered troops, and if they were to be imprisoned, then the Wei army would have to send a considerable number of soldiers and horses to ensure that there would be no problems.
But sending troops to act as guards, it is bound to make the Pingbei Army, which is already insufficient, even worse, the Pingbei Army is about to enter the state to fight, facing them, is a larger number of more powerful Xiongnu other four divisions, if the Pingbei Army with such a drag oil bottle into the state, I am afraid that it will already lose a few points without a fight.
As for the inclusion of the Huns in the ranks of the Wei army, Cao Liang did not dare to think that those who are not of my race will have different hearts, even if their submissions look respectful and sincere, Cao Liang does not dare to take this risk.
These Huns were cunning and cunning, extremely brutal when killing Han Chinese, and they were not at all soft, and once the war was unfavorable, they were better than anyone else in pretending to be grandsons, and when the situation was again in their favor, they would not hesitate to rebel again.
This kind of white-eyed wolf, that is impossible to raise.
What's more, the imperial court gave Cao Liang a staff of 10,000 people, and it was expanded without the permission of the imperial court, which was tantamount to rebellion, so it was impossible for Cao Liang to put himself on the fire to roast in order to pity these Huns.
I don't know how many pairs of eyes are staring at Cao Liang and making mistakes in Luoyang City.