38. Supplies are exhausted
"Report! Da Dan Yu: The Huns drove cattle and sheep without saying goodbye! The herald, who rushed in, interrupted Budugen's nonsense with a shout.
"Wow!" A mouthful of blood that had been dormant for a long time gushed out, and Budu's upright body decayed in an instant, as if several years had passed at once.
Fu Ji stabilized his crumbling body, and Bu Dugen let out a hissing roar: "Continue to tackle key problems tomorrow!" Tens of thousands of Xianbei warriors must not die in vain! Wang Bo child! I will capture the banner ......".
That night, the Xianbei army of more than 10,000 southern Huns was reduced, and the troops were united, and as long as they did not approach the water harassment of the Xinghan army, they also ignored it. Holding back the belief that the mourning soldiers will win, cheer yourself up.
At the same time, the slowed down Budugen, gathered all the leaders of the tribes under his command, and announced in public: Tomorrow to capture the Royal Slave Pass, the ministers will drive straight into Xinghan City, and the plundered property, their own tribes will not take a penny, all belong to the tribes!
The next day, the Xianbei people's attacks were even more ferocious, and tens of thousands of soldiers burst out with extremely strong combat effectiveness.
The cavalry no longer circled, standing upright in the rain of arrows of the Xinghan army, but mechanically shooting arrows at the top of the pass and the upper hidden soldier hole, even sometimes their own people were in the rain of arrows, and they made up as much as they fell, and stood on both sides of the pass.
The infantry formed a shield formation and rushed to the side of the ladder, not looking at the big stones that could not stop falling from above, just like leeches attached to the ladder ants. When they arrived at the upper layer of the cave, many bloodthirsty warriors jumped directly to the entrance of the cave, and they also wanted to fight for the opportunity to reach the top for future generations.
Under such an intense attack, the Xinghan army was also under unprecedented tremendous pressure, and the tragedy was more than one percent higher than yesterday. For an hour before the pass, there were almost no soldiers to garrison, so they could only huddle behind the low wall. The pikemen who were originally used to block the Xianbei people from reaching the top on the ladder suffered heavy casualties in the rain of arrows at all costs of the Xianbei cavalry, and even had no one to defend for a time. Wang Bo had no choice but to bite the bullet and supplement it with the crossbowmen on the top of the pass who could not participate in the battle.
Xianbei rushed to the top of the pass several times, but under the repeated slaughter of Xu Chu and Chen Zhi led by the wolf guards, it was never possible to form a large-scale impact, and each time it lasted less than a few moments, and it ended due to the inability of the successor. The red-eyed Xianbei people still rushed upwards regardless of it, and the blood sprayed everywhere at the head of the city stained the gray stone slabs dark red, and the arrows falling from the ground could slide the careless people into the sky.
Such a fierce battle lasted until the end of the afternoon.
It wasn't until he saw that Budugen, who couldn't be attacked for a long time, ruthlessly sent his elite personal guards, and was slaughtered by the wolf guards, many Xianbei soldiers who were not afraid of death seemed to have been broken their backbones, and their high spirits and spirits suddenly declined, turning into a muddy, numb and deadly appearance.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Liao immediately suggested: When the enemy's momentum is exhausted and the troops are withdrawn in vain, he will lead the cavalry to rush to the battalion, and he will definitely be able to settle the situation in one fell swoop!
Wang Bo stood on the top floor of the gate, concentrating on the enemy camp: the original battalion, which stretched for more than ten miles, after several days of great war attrition, and the departure of the Huns, was not as dense and neat as at the beginning, and in order to quickly transfer troops, a passage was reserved in the middle of the camp, which was just suitable for cavalry to come and go; The small camp on the east bank of the river, which was originally watching each other, was completely abandoned by Bu Dugen after being destroyed by Chen Zhi's wolf guards; Most of the defensive walls along the river were burned down under the attack of the harassment team last night, and Budugen, who was eager to tackle the fortifications, had not yet had time to repair .......
Looking at the dead and silent rear army camp of the Xianbei Army, Wang Bo, who was thinking about it, turned his head and gave the order to take the initiative to attack the pass.
Xu Chu led the wolf guards to take the lead, and after the Xianbei army issued the order to withdraw the army, he immediately opened the gate and killed the generals. After rushing into the enemy camp, he did not entangle, and after directly penetrating the enemy camp, he turned back to break the big tent of the Chinese army and captured Budugen alive.
Zhang Liao and Niu Feihu led 5,000 Xinghan iron cavalry, followed closely in two ways, and scattered the hastily assembled cavalry of the Xianbei army.
Liao Hua and Chen Zhi led all the infantry of the Xinghan army to sweep the enemy camp in the last group of charging battle arrays, advancing with all their might, and the Han army rode on the side to respond, and must defeat the Xianbei army with a thunderous battle.
In the end, Wang Bo ignored everyone's opposition and personally led the personal guard battalion, as well as thousands of auxiliary soldiers to press the rear formation.
After arranging in one go, and consulting Zhang Liao, Liao Hua and others about any omissions, the generals took advantage of the enemy's gradual slowdown and successively withdrew the Imperial Slave Pass to prepare.
As time went back, more than an hour passed, and the Xianbei people's offensive became weaker and weaker, and they almost posed no threat to the Imperial Slave Pass, and turned into a one-sided massacre. The spears and arrows shot by the Xinghan army on Guan also weakened a lot.
Bu Dugen reluctantly raised his pale face, opened his bloodshot eyes, looked at the group of tribal leaders in the tent, and waved his right hand weakly: "Give the order to withdraw the troops first!" Then he fell crooked on top of his tiger skin.
"Woo ......" A low horn sounded, and the tired Xianbei people regained a trace of vitality like a spring breeze. Throwing away the weapon in his hand, he rushed all the way to his camp without hesitation.
And this horn also injected vitality into the Xinghan cavalry that stood quietly inside the gate. In the sound of armor and weapons intersecting, the murderous aura that soared into the sky suddenly filled, and with the slowly opening of the door, it hurricaneed towards the front and poured ...... thousands of miles.
The lucky Xianbei man, who was running with his head down, didn't care to look back, and judged from the screams of the cavalry beside him that danger was approaching. Then he used his strength to feed, and he wanted to stuff a foal ...... under his feet. But after all, two legs can't run four legs, and it doesn't matter if you throw away the leather armor on your body or the broken shoes on your feet.
Before I saw the camp gate from the gap in front of me, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves behind me told the Xianbei people who had been with horses since childhood a cruel reality: the chasing horses' hooves stepped on their heels next! In desperation, many clever people held their heads in their hands, curled up as much as possible, and plunged to the ground, hoping to get the mercy of the Xianbei God and escape this catastrophe. But more often than not, driven by the Xinghan wolf guards, they went deep into the Xianbei camp lifelessly along the wide passage in the middle, until they couldn't run or died.
The thousands of Xinghan iron cavalry behind the wolf guard, forming an impact surface that is each other's horns, under the slash of the horse, swept countless Xianbei foot soldiers, broke through the Xianbei cavalry, stepped on the camp tent, and wrapped up countless Xianbei people who did not have time to lead the horse, all the way to the Chinese army tent where Budugen was, leaving a mess behind him.
Countless Xianbei soldiers who had just recovered from the frightened horses' hooves, from the hidden place while getting out, while glad that they had escaped again, before they could find all the armor and step on their horses, they were shocked by a group of murderous Xinghan soldiers.
In front of the heavy shield soldiers against the big shield to open the way, countless shining cold spear heads stretched out in front of the shield, mixed with a lot of small arm shields in the middle of the sword, the archers behind under the officer's order, kept throwing the arrows in their hands in batches, and the Korean people were dense to throw out ....... With the heavy footsteps of the clanging and the deafening shouts of killing, they swept across the Xianbei camp.
The Xianbei people who survived looked at each other with their legs that were somewhat weak. I don't know which timid hand shook, and the unclenched saber fell to the ground, which immediately caused most people to follow suit, and there were also stunned young people who were not afraid of death, roaring and rushing up, and the next moment it turned into a steaming corpse .......
The Xianbei people who threw down their weapons, under the whipping of the Han cavalry, knelt in the open space with their heads in their hands, and then were searched by the Xinghan auxiliary soldiers who caught up, tied into a large string, and stood along the river bank and the foot of the mountain, waiting for the fate of the victors after the war. And the Xinghan army didn't look at the excited Han army cavalry on both sides, and continued to rush forward quickly to kill .......
On the river, the Xinghan Army's water harassment team all dispatched, and more than a dozen intact water boats were mighty, no longer caring about their own injuries, and rushed all the way to the nearest place to the river bank in the Xianbei rear camp.
In the Xianbei tent, the extremely tired Budugen took advantage of the post-war interval to lie down in a daze for a while, and was awakened by the earth-shattering shouts of killing in a trance, a spirit sat up, and was just about to ask a question, when the entourage outside the tent rushed in: "The big thing is not good!" Shan Yu! The enemy has entered the camp! ……”。
Hearing this, Bu Dugen, who was furious, struggled to get off the ground, and was about to personally drape himself to meet the enemy, and then was dragged and dragged by the retinue generals who saw that the situation was not good, and fled to the rear camp .......
The hearty rout battle came to an end, which lasted less than two hours, and the smooth process was beyond Wang Bo's expectations.
Originally, he still thought that he would go into battle himself, and if he encountered a situation where the war did not go well, he could cheer up and cheer up, but it seemed that he still underestimated these generals of the Three Kingdoms. But after thinking about it: Zhang Liao, Xu Chu, Chen Zhi, Liao Hua...... Our lineup is also luxurious, slaughtering tens of thousands of Cypriot Wilders, isn't it a piece of cake? If you can't even do this, just climb up to the slave pass and jump into the river and drown!
Looking at the wolf-like Xinghan army and the Hu captives shivering in the cold wind on both sides, Wang Bo called Niu Er on the side, instructed a few words, and then tightened the fur cover on his body, moaned comfortably, and turned his horse back to the slave pass before the war was over.
After returning to the big tent in the gate, he gave a rough explanation, and then fell asleep.
When I woke up, it was already three o'clock the next day. got up and stretched, turned around and kicked Xu Chu, who was sleeping next to him, and scolded in his heart: This second-class bodyguard! Sleeping dead than me? Just your vigilance? You don't even know if you let someone else carry it away and bury it alive! It seems that it needs to be trained well. Then he walked out with his head held high.
The results of the battle came out: several days of fierce fighting, a total of more than 16,000 Hu were beheaded before and after, and nearly 30,000 prisoners were taken in the last battle. The Xinghan army lost 1,003 soldiers, and minor injuries were not counted; The casualties of auxiliaries and young men reached more than 3,000; The casualties of the Han cavalry brought by Zhang Liao were not large, but there were more than 100 people.
The battle loss ratio between the Xinghan army and the Xianbei people reached an astonishing 1 to 10, which can be called a big victory.
The material losses were innumerable, the iron and arrow war materials accumulated in the early stage were almost exhausted, and the food was almost exhausted because the caravan did not travel for a month; Fortunately, under the great victory, a lot of captures were made: countless armor, bows and arrows, grain, cattle and sheep, and more than 30,000 war horses, most of which were carefully domesticated, and even more pack horses.
The first thing Wang Bo did when he woke up was to cut off the heads of more than 10,000 Hulu, in addition to being used to rebuild the Jingguan destroyed by the Xianbei people, all the rest were arranged along the foot of the valley road outside the Imperial Nu Pass, and the sharp wood was inserted into the ground every few feet, which stretched for more than ten miles, and was named "Jingguan Road". and explained to Zhou Xiu: After the completion of the work, escort all the captives to observe closely, and give them a wonderful ideological lesson, so that they will no longer dare to resist at all.
The rest of the matter is to rein in the comrades who died in battle, sort out the trivial matters of the captured materials, and let them not mention it for the time being, just talk about Zhang Liao.
Zhang Liao led the Xinghan Iron Cavalry to join the wolf guards, chasing and killing the retreating Xianbei people all the way, leaving all the prisoners who laid down their arms behind. However, the number of Xianbei army's attacks this time was too large, and in order to survive, the leaders of the Xianbei tribes who were holding Budugen constantly sent the soldiers gathered around them to block the Xinghan army that was chasing after them. As a result, the Xianbei soldiers who gradually gathered continued to disperse, and most of them became prisoners of the Han cavalry that came later, and sometimes only a dozen Han cavalry dared to watch hundreds of Hu prisoners, which really made the originally cowardly Han cavalry majestic.
With the rout and the blocking of the Hu people's personal guards after the break, the wolf guards and Zhang Liao did not catch up with the Budugen in front until they crossed the gateway into the clouds: Wujin County. Finally, he received a strict order from Niu Er to bring Wang Bo, so he rushed back unhappily. Zhang Liao temporarily led the army into the empty county town of Wujin, waiting for the follow-up Chen Zhi to lead the infantry to the garrison.
After receiving the report that Zhang Liao was stationed in Wujin, Wang Bo was very happy, and immediately ordered Zhou Xiu and Wang Qi to lead some auxiliary troops and young men to rush to the mountain pass next to Wujin County and into the Yunu Guan Valley Road, and build a garrison camp according to the mountain situation, which can form a horn with Wujin County, which is conducive to defense.
After dealing with the post-war affairs of the Imperial Slave Pass, a few days later, Wang Boliu Chen and Niu Feihu were stationed in Wujin County, and he led the victorious Xinghan army, carrying tens of thousands of Xianbei prisoners, carrying the coffins of the fallen soldiers, and embarking on the road back to Xinghan City, which had been away for more than a month.
On the way, Wang Bo saw that there were a lot of soldiers who died in this battle, and their morale was a little dull, so he thought about it and took the lead in singing his favorite song in his previous life, an impassioned song, but while plagiarizing, he changed the lyrics slightly:
The wolf smoke rises, the rivers and mountains look north,
The wind rolls, the horse neighses, and the sword aura is like frost;
The heart is like the Yellow River, the water is boundless,
How many years, between vertical and horizontal, who can resist?
Hatred, where the long knife goes,
How many siblings are buried in their bones.
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I am willing to defend the territory and reopen the territory, and the dignified man will let the Quartet come to congratulate!
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At first, the soldiers felt very awkward about Wang Bo's strange tune, and when they understood the meaning, they also liked the catchy and easy-to-understand tune. After singing, the soldiers had already burst into tears, but they still hissed and ...... exhausted.
Before I walked to Xinghan City, I saw countless people standing on the side of the road outside the city from a distance, and almost all the soldiers and civilians left behind went out to help the old and the young go out for several miles, warmly welcoming the heroes who returned from the battle.
Zhang Ning is surrounded by all the women, and the scenery with outstanding demeanor and anticipation is particularly eye-catching, but everyone does not dare to pay attention for a long time, even if it is the usual biggest, Pinghan and Xu Chu, who have no scruples about doing things, after seeing Zhang Ning, they all glanced at it secretly, and then grinned happily. Because Zhang Ning is not only the "Yellow Turban Saintess" in the eyes of the generals, but also the future Duchess in their minds.
A few days after returning to Xinghan City, dealing with some trivial matters accumulated before, and after pacifying and arranging matters after the war, Wang Bo received a report: The Southern Huns attached to Shuofang and other places in the western part of Bingzhou sent an envoy to Xinghan City to meet Wang Bo.