Chapter 244: The Northern Expedition Ends
The situation of breaking through in the north is a bit special, and Mao Dun divided his troops many times, so that the pursuing Qin army could not figure out where Mao Dun was?
No. A ambush address, Mu Guiying led 50,000 soldiers and horses to wait for the arrival of the Hun iron cavalry, and killed the No. A ambush address, the Hun iron cavalry was really tired, the war horse fell to the ground, and the people were also exhausted, such an iron horse, or a real iron horse?
Bang bang bang!
At the beginning of the encirclement and suppression, 50,000 Qin army rifles, against the exhausted more than 100,000 Hun iron cavalry, no need to think about it, the outcome was already doomed.
More than 100,000 Hun iron horsemen completely collapsed after only resisting for half an hour. There's no way, it's so tiring! The body was exhausted and hurried overnight, where there was still energy to fight against the Qin soldiers.
The soldiers of the Qin army waited for the rabbits, nourished their spirits, and waited for the arrival of the Xiongnu iron cavalry. This is to be prepared to fight unprepared, to wait for work.
The next work was very hard, using the airship in the sky to conduct reconnaissance, and when the target was found, he immediately notified the Qin army on the ground, and rushed over at a fast speed.
Fortunately, with the cooperation of airships, the battle looks smooth.
Nest! Nest! Bird Three Call!
I am the Bird's Nest, Bird No. 3, please speak!
Bird's Nest, there is a fleeing Hun iron cavalry in the No. 10 area, with about tens of thousands of people.
Bird's Nest received!
Nest! Bird Six Call!
I'm the Bird's Nest, Bird Number 6, please speak!
Bird's Nest, the thirteenth area found the Huns iron horse, about 100,000 people.
Bird's Nest received!
Ye Tong and Chen Ping sat in the big tent of the Chinese army, and after receiving the report of the airship in the sky, they would deal with it immediately. Arrange for manpower to clean it up.
It's a very busy affair, and the intelligence is time-sensitive and can't be delayed. Once the opportunity is missed, the Huns can no longer be captured.
The soldiers of the Qin army attacked everywhere, and according to the intelligence in the sky, they cleared the ground. Fortunately, there are many airships in the Qin army, so there is no need to worry about not having enough.
After all, the steppe is too big! It's not easy to clean it up completely.
Every day, Qin soldiers escorted prisoners back, and every day Qin soldiers set out. For the infantry, if they want to clear the fleeing Hun iron cavalry, they can only rely on airships. It is not possible to rely on the 11th bus.
Five days later, the Qin soldiers were still fighting, and the statistical work was basically completed.
Ye Tong asked, "How many Huns did it capture?" ”
"General, after a few days of fighting, a total of about 12 million Huns have been captured, and some are on the way back, so I can't count them."
"How sad is our army?"
"There were more than 13,000 casualties, of which more than 3,000 were killed or seriously injured, and the rest were minor."
"What about seizures?"
"He seized 100,000 taels of gold, 300,000 taels of silver, and about 2 million of the original Qin copper coins. There were also some grains and grasses, especially sheep, which were more than 10 million, 100,000 cattle, and countless skins. Horses....... ”
"Needless to say, horses, then don't count the results."
There is no way, the current Qin army does not need horses, and as long as the captured horses are not very good horses, they will basically not stay. Only very good war horses will remain, who has allowed the empire to begin to enter the age of automobiles, and the era of horse transportation is over.
"That, that general, what about millions of horses?"
"Let's go!"
"Let it go! General, let it go! ”
Hehe!
"So what do you say? You can't keep it! The empire has no money to raise horses, and the existing horses are ready to give up some of them, and if they adopt them, they will be overburdened. ”
Chen Ping smiled bitterly: "It's okay to let it go!" There is grassland on the prairie, and it is the best place for horses to live on the grassland. ”
Ye Tong said: "By the way, those confiscated Calais liquor, don't let people drink it, you must destroy it." Remember this, and don't be careless. ”
"Yes!"
"Let the airship send the seriously injured back to the Empire for treatment, and escort the prisoners back to the Empire and hand them over to the Civilization School for processing."
"Yes!"
Chen Ping asked, "Lord, isn't this place going to build a city?" ”
If you want to occupy this place for a long time, it is imperative to build a city. It is impossible to survive without a city, as long as the city is built, the people of the Central Plains can come here to develop animal husbandry.
"Then let's talk about repair! Anyway, there are a lot of prisoners, and it won't take much time to complete. ”
"General, we can't eat those tens of millions of sheep, what should we do?"
Alas!
Those sheep are all food sheep and can't produce wool, so it's really useless to stay. Only sheep that can produce wool are useful. The empire developed animal husbandry, and the new sheep breeds were all produced from the system, mainly for wool production, or for high yields.
"I sent a letter to Xu Cheng and asked her to advertise in the "Focus" and "Imperial Daily", saying that there were a large number of sheep here that needed to be taken out, and the merchants who needed them came here to negotiate. At the same time, tell Xu Cheng to report the Qin army's elimination of the Xiongnu iron cavalry in one fell swoop. ”
"Yes!"
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The next day, Chang'an City.
Sell newspapers! Sell newspapers!
The Qin army finally analyzed the first battle and wiped out millions of Hun iron horsemen!
The Qin army captured tens of millions of prisoners!
The Qin army continued to advance northward, and it would not stop until the Huns were destroyed!
The imperial news media, led by "Focus" and "Imperial Daily", had front-page headlines full of Qin Jun's successes, and the headlines were terrifying.
The rest of the tabloids reprinted one after another, and the world was shocked for a while.
The Huns, who were the enemies of the Yanhuang people in the Central Plains, suddenly saw the propaganda in the newspapers and suddenly became lively. In many places, the common people organized themselves to celebrate the victory of the Qin army.
When the cabinet saw that it could no longer go to work, it simply took a three-day vacation to make the people happy, and the cabinet also specially organized manpower to hold a celebration party.
In some tea rooms, freshmen professional commentators explain newspaper reports on stage and analyze the feasibility and authenticity of the report.
In fact, there is no need to analyze, it is all truth and things. Ye Tong never engaged in any face-saving projects, nor did he allow others to engage in face-saving projects.
Merit is made by beating, not by blowing.
The feats that are blown out can never stand the test. Only by obtaining combat merits in a down-to-earth manner is the most real, and everything else is false.
In the Jixia Teahouse, several young people were drinking tea and chatting, and the content was definitely the achievements of the Qin army. The Jixia teahouse has now formed a large-scale operation, and it can be regarded as the top teahouse in the Qin Empire.
A young man said: "There will be an election next year, and the general has been taking care of the Northern Expedition, so don't you pay attention to the election of the prime minister?" ”
The young man in green clothes said: "The Northern Expedition is an important event in the empire, and the enmity between the Yanhuang people and the Huns is as deep as the sea. ”
Another young man dressed in white said: "Didn't you destroy the Huns? The general should focus on the domestic situation and stop waging war abroad. Although the empire is strong, it really can't afford to hurt! ”
Hehe!
The man in Tsing Yi shook his head and said, "Ah Qiang, didn't the newspaper say it?" Maudun was not caught, and the war with the Huns could not have ended. As for what you are worried about, it is completely unnecessary. When did the general fight a battle that he was not sure of. ”
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The country is in turmoil, and the front line is still the same, and it is advancing in an orderly manner. The purge of the Huns was also underway. It was a daunting task, and it was impossible to clean it up all at once.
You must know that in the vast grassland, the Xiongnu tribes are scattered, and it takes a lot of effort to clean them up. Fortunately, there were airships in the sky to reconnoitre, and once they found a tribe of Huns, they immediately arranged for people to go there.
If it is cleared by manpower, it is estimated that it will not be completed in a few years. The grasslands are so big, so big that they are endless.
"Where has Mu Guiying's regiment gone?"
"General, General Hua is here."
"How far is Mu Guiying's corps from Beihai?"
"General, about 1,000 kilometers."
Ye Tong knew in his heart that if he could drive the Xiongnu to the west before the end of the year, even if the Northern Expedition was completely over, as long as he took Beihai and built a city there, he could basically be said to control the place.
In July, Ye Tong and Chen Ping arrived in Binghai and saw the huge freshwater lake, Ye Tong was really happy. You know, the empire is not short of water resources at the moment, but the problem of water shortage in the north will manifest itself as the economy develops.
As long as you control the North Sea, you can transfer water from the North Sea to the Central Plains. Along the way, there will be more beneficiary areas. The North Sea is a deep-water lake rich in resources and has numerous fish resources.
After half a year of conquest, the Qin army completely controlled the area within the Beihai Sea, capturing many Xiongnu tribes and sending them to civilized schools.
It's just that unexpectedly, in the area beyond the mountains, the Huns were very powerful, causing huge casualties to the Qin soldiers.
The warriors of those tribes are really powerful. Ye Tong guessed that Mao Dun did not subdue the Huns in some areas.
To put it mildly, the Huns in those areas (whether they are considered Huns or not, Ye Tong doesn't know, and can't figure it out) have strong physical fitness and strong combat effectiveness. Compared to the iron cavalry of Maudun in the past, it is not a level of war at all.
Fortunately, the weapons and equipment that the soldiers of the Qin army replaced, using rifles, were absolutely fatal to the barbarians who still had bronze weapons in their hands.
At the beginning, the Qin army was not mentally prepared and was caught off guard by the local natives. Then he learned a lesson, made steady progress, used the weapons in his hands, and gave the other party key attention, and slowly got better.
After listening to the report, Ye Tong asked, "What are the casualties?" ”
Mu Guiying shrugged his arms and said: "It's a bit big, there are more than 7,000 people in total, including more than 2,000 serious injuries and deaths." ”
Chen Ping was puzzled and said: "Lord, the appearance of those people is different from ours, their skin is white, their noses are high, some of their eye sockets are blue, and their hair is golden. ”
Ye Tong knew in his heart that it was a group of Europeans. It is estimated that they fled here to live, not local residents. After all, this is the North Sea, not Europe.
"Are there a lot of people who look different?"
Mu Guiying shook his head and said, "There are not many, only a few thousand people, and the rest are black-eyed and black-haired." ”
"Where are the troops advancing now?"
Mu Guiying pointed to a place and said, "Here!" ”
Ye Tong looked at it, it was not much more than a thousand kilometers away from Beihai, and he had already begun to advance to the west.
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