Chapter 500: Burning the Grassland
"Medium!"
Huang Zhong took the lead in turning around, and directly took his bow and arrows and shot three arrows in a row at Gu Jin, and the three generals around Gu Jin fell off their horses one after another.
This brought great psychological pressure to Gu Jin and his subordinates.
is a Han arrow with unparalleled arrows, and it is so good at archery, even among them Xianbei people, there are not necessarily a few who can compare.
"Kill, kill him!"
Gu Jin is considered to be a relatively brave person in Xianbei, and the more frustrated he becomes, the more courageous he becomes, the more he arouses his belligerent heart.
So he urged the horse to rush straight towards Huang Zhong, and soon the two of them were close, and Gu Jin waved a big bone stick and knocked it towards Huang Zhong's Heavenly Spirit Gai.
Huang Zhong crossed his knife and raised it slightly.
"Boom!"
After a short handover, the two horses missed, and then Huang Zhong crossed his knife and slashed diagonally towards the back of Gu Jin's head.
Gu Jin consciously wanted to avoid it, but his reaction was a beat slower, and he saw the knife falling, pulling a long hole straight out of the back of his head.
Gu Jin fell off his horse with a snort in pain, and then was crushed by the strong and hard hooves of the Han army.
As soon as Gu Jin died, the morale of his troops plummeted, and in the face of the Han army that could fight with free hands, few people could resist, either being cut down and stabbed off their horses, or fleeing out of the place of battle.
Xu Ding and Huang Zhong rushed back and forth and kept wandering, killing the Xianbei army who was still stubbornly resisting.
Those Xianbei soldiers and herdsmen, women and children who fled were all besieged and captured by Xu Huang's people.
This time, there were more seizures, which made the Wuhuan departments smile and cheer.
Now they know the real combat effectiveness of the Han cavalry.
Six thousand against six thousand, only a few hundred people were killed and wounded, and won by an absolute margin.
Sure enough, they can't compare with the Wuhuan people.
The various departments carefully put away their careful thoughts, and complimented Xu Ding and the generals of the Han army even more.
"As the captives said just now, the Gujin Department is nearby, in order to prevent them from escaping, Gongming, you will bring 5,000 Wuhuan soldiers and horses to encircle and suppress them." The Suli Department was solved, and there was still the Bone Advancement Department around it, so as soon as the battle stopped, Xu Ding immediately asked Xu Huang to lead the troops to destroy the remaining men and horses of the Bone Advancement Division.
Xu Huang took the order and left.
When he returned the next day, the Gujin Department was wiped out, and a large number of cattle, sheep and horses were also captured.
He also sent a part of his men and horses to escort the captives and booty back to the Liaodong vassal state, and Xu Ding led everyone to continue to sweep the grassland.
In the next two days, many tribes were wiped out, but the Micah tribe was never found.
In the end, it was learned from the captives of a small tribe that the Micah tribe heard the news and moved north.
"Master Hou, are we going to chase?" Badon asked.
These days, sweeping the eastern Xianbei has made the Wuhuan tribes taste licking their heads, and for the Mica Department of the three major Xianbei tribes in the east, Badun and others are coveted.
Xu Dingdao: "No need, it is estimated that Kebineng and others will withdraw soon, and then we will fight with its main force, save some strength!" ”
Badun, Nanlou, Sha Mo Khan, Pulu and others regretted that the last piece of fat slipped away like this.
"Of course, it can't be so cheap, Micah, come and set fire to me and burn the northern grassland!" Xu Ding stretched out his hand to feel the change in wind direction, and immediately gave an order.
Set fire to the grasslands!
The hearts of the people such as Badun, Nanlou, Shamo Khan, Pulu and others were shocked.
It's a desperate plan.
The grassland tribes rely on the grassland the most, and a good grassland is the foundation of their survival.
Although it is the autumn and winter season, and the grass and trees are yellow, it is a pity to set fire to them, which is a devastating damage to next year's growth.
The grass burned by the fire has declined, and the carrying capacity of livestock has been reduced, and even if it can still graze and survive here, it will not be able to grow and grow.
Without grassland, water conservation and soil conservation will lead to flooding, drought, mudslides, landslides, sandstorms and other natural disasters.
This is the one thing that the steppe tribes are most afraid of.
Of course, this is also the most common trick used by the Central Plains Dynasty when it withdraws its troops when attacking the steppe tribes.
If you can't find an enemy in the vast grassland, then destroy the grassland and force the grassland tribes to migrate and reduce the threat of the border.
Anyway, the Han people don't need to survive in the grassland, and if the grassland is bad, the grassland will be bad, and it doesn't matter much.
The problem is that in the past, this kind of trick would only be used when the south retreated to the country and returned to the border, and now it is still fighting with Kebineng and waiting for the main Xianbei main battle.
He hurriedly said: "Master Hou, isn't it too early to set fire at this time, the wind on the grassland is almost erratic, and the fire of 10,000 people goes south with the wind, and we will also be extremely passive." ”
Don't burn north and kill the fleeing Micahbe, turn around and burn south, and burn yourself to death.
Fire attack has always been used with extreme caution.
Nanlou, Shamo Khan, Pulu and others also echoed it.
On the one hand, they are also worried that the change of heart will burn on them, and on the other hand, they are also pity for this grassland.
What a good land, it's a pity to burn it, kill the Xianbei people, they migrated here to be nomadic, and the Wuhuan tribes can develop rapidly, so of course they don't want Xu Ding to set fire.
However, Xu Ding's iron heart was about to burn, and he refused to say: "It's not early at all, it's just right, the wind direction will be northward in the next few days, don't worry about the fire going south, do as ordered, give me a wide range of fire, I want to point the entire northern border." ”
Of course, Xu Ding knew the careful thoughts of Nanlou, Shamo Khan, Pulu and others, but he just wanted to break their thoughts, and at the same time increase the hatred between him and Xianbei.
Dare to go against the big man, dare to go against him Qingzhou Pingzhou is this end.
According to the current geographical location, it is inferred that he should be out of the Inner Mongolia line in the future, and the fire will burn to the north, so there is no need to worry about burning to the east of the Daxianbei Mountain and implicating the large and small Xing'an Mountains.
As for the first line of Outer Mongolia, it burned to the Wolf Juxu Mountain, and it was his business.
Or burn farther to reach the realm of Ding Lingren, which is naturally better.
How is this possible, the next few days will be a north wind, but now it is autumn and winter, and the most blowing is the north, which is southward.
Nanlou, Shama Khan, Pulu and Bandun didn't believe it, and they wanted to persuade him, but seeing Xu Ding's look that could not be refused or opposed, they had to do as ordered.
The flames burned the plains, boundless, and the smoke that rushed into the sky struck the north like a black dragon, and after nightfall, it lit up half of the sky.
When the Xianbei army, which was returning from Gaoxian City, Kebineng and others who were returning from Gaoxian City, received this news, they all beat their chests and feet, and howled and cried.
"Bastard, the Han people actually set fire to the north, my tribe!" Miga, who was glad that his subordinates had escaped, heard the news of the Han army's burning of the grassland, his eyes were red, and he looked up to the sky and howled frantically.
"It's ruthless! What a big Han Weihaihou, I will defeat you and make you kneel on the ground and repent! Kebineng didn't expect the Han army's revenge to be so strong, let alone Xu Ding's attack.
Didn't you just beat your Gaoxian City in Xuantu County, as for the suppression of all the Xianbei tribes in the east, even the Mica Department who fled north did not let go, and set fire to the entire northern grassland and completely cut off our roots.