Chapter 66: Liu Xuande's lone army went deep into the Wusun tribe and was attacked
"Wenhe, since this is the case, let's think about it carefully, how to deal with it, after all, the lord is still acting in accordance with our established general policy, but it is a little troublesome for the two of us, is it not okay, we can still retreat into the city and rely on the city wall to defend." Tian Feng thought for a moment, and then spoke.
"Indeed, it is true, but I am really worried about the safety of the lord, you must know that the Wusun country has assisted Qiuzi and Yanqi with a total of 100,000 troops, but there are more than 700,000 people in the country, and because it is a nomadic family, the young and strong can all empty strings, a certain thought, there should be at least more than 100,000 empty strings in Wusun, but the lord will only lead 12,000 people, how to stop it?" Since he has begun to give advice to Liu Bei to protect himself, Jia Xu has become a qualified strategist and a qualified subordinate.
"Don't worry about Wenhe, the reckless people of the lord's expense must have their own ideas, and besides, Wusun lives in the grass, as long as he doesn't mess with the big tribe, the lord must not worry." In the end, after following Liu Bei for a long time, Tian Feng still has a lot of confidence in Liu Bei, and the main thing is to know that Liu Bei is not a reckless person.
"It can only be so, I came to Yuan Hao here, and I saw that Gongming and the hidden people outside the camp tent had set up thirteen wooden camps, it seems that Gongming and Yuan Hao are not small? Seeing this, I was worried and went halfway, you only have 10,000 troops in your place, and if the coalition forces really want to fight, they will attack here first. However, seeing your arrangements, there must be no worries, and a certain person also rushed back to the camp as soon as possible to arrange defense, so that the coalition forces will not return. β
After the two conspired and discussed for a long time, Jia Xu took advantage of the night to rush back to the camp outside Shule City again.
Due to Jia Xu and Xu Huang's strict sealing of the news, as well as the large number of scouts sent to hunt down and kill the coalition scouts, most of the allied forces did not know about Jia Xu's trip.
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Liu Bei's army has entered the Wusun Kingdom, and the goal this time is not to transit from the south near the Western Regions, but to choose the northern border with Dawan to transit, the main reason is that the south of Wusun is to pass through the capital of Wusun State, Chigu City, and there are many cities in the south, while the north is basically full of nomadic people. The tribe is used as a unit of residence.
So Liu Bei sent a large number of scouts to explore the surrounding tribes, and demanded that no matter how big the tribe was, it was necessary to confirm the surrounding environment of the tribe, how far away the tribe was from this tribe, the population of the tribe, the number of empty strings, whether there were hidden mountains and forests, and so on.
Half a day later, when it was close to evening, the scouts came back to tell that there was a tribe of about 20,000 people thirty miles away from Liu Bei, and the entire tribe had 8,000 empty strings. The nearest tribe is thirty miles away, and there is no hiding place around the tribe.
In addition, there is a tribe of more than 10,000 people, fifty miles away from Liu Bei. In the end, Liu Bei decided to attack the tribe of 20,000 people thirty miles away overnight.
"Fengxian, Zilong, after nightfall, we will set off and send scouts along the road to hunt down and kill all those who have left our army in Wusun, so as not to reveal the whereabouts of our army. At the same time, I and Zilong led the tiger and leopard to ride in front, and Feng pressed first. At that time, the raid mission will be completed by me and Zilong, and Feng Xian will lead the army to wander outside, and no one will be allowed to escape. Liu Bei set a general policy.
After that, he ordered all the soldiers to eat, rest, and wait until nightfall, and then set out with his army.
Liu Bei took the lead with Zhao Yun to lead the tiger and leopard to ride in front, and at the same time all the horses were wrapped in hooves, and along the way Liu Bei continued to suppress the speed of the war horse, save the physical strength of the war horse and the soldiers, after seizing more than 2,000 war horses in Dawan, Liu Bei tiger and leopard rode all the materials into more than 2,000 war horses camel load, greatly liberating the combat power of the tiger and leopard horse.
In a short period of thirty miles, he walked for two hours, and it was not until the time of the hour that Liu Bei's army could reach a place seven or eight miles outside the tribe, and then he led the crowd to disperse, slowly forming an encirclement, and then led the tiger and leopard cavalry with Zhao Yun to start, run, and gallop.
This is actually the junction of Dawan and Wusun, two or three years ago there were occasional wars, but although the land of Dawan is not as good as Wusun, but the population is not less than Wusun, a few years of conquest will have their own victories and defeats, and gradually all have the idea of mutual conquest, and turn to the same Shule, Gumo, Qiuzi, Yanqi and other countries.
And there has been no war for several years, although this is the border, it is also relatively peaceful, plus this time the monarch of the Wusun State sent troops to the Qiuci country, and formed an alliance with the Qiuci country and Yanqi and other countries, and did not transfer the young and strong here, and the tribes here are still in a peaceful living environment.
However, all this peace was broken by the dull sound of horses' hooves. When the sleeping herdsmen heard the sound of horses' hooves and walked out of the gentle township, the two thousand tiger and leopard riders were already within reach, and they didn't care about putting on their war armor and stepping on the war horses, and the tiger and leopard riders had already stepped on the outermost camp tent, and at this time, the old and weak women and children also heard the sound, looking at a torrent in front of them that could not be seen in the dark night, and they were helplessly running around, however, the young and strong men were still unwilling, and began to form one war group after another to prepare to resist this torrent.
Under the impact of the tiger and leopard riding back and forth, regardless of men, women and children, they can no longer resist this steel, and they all flee like the periphery, and the fast ones even grabbed a war horse and ran outside, but all it was in vain, when they saw the cavalry roaming around, all the people couldn't help but fall into the trough.
There are some knights who are not afraid of death, or do not believe in this evil and want to force their way out, but in the end they find that before the powerful and well-trained and well-coordinated Hundred Battle Horse, trying to escape is just to add some more combat merits to the Hundred Battle Horse, or to add some more fertilizer to the prairie.
After several rushes and killings, all the people in the tribe knelt to the side, and those who were still resisting in the middle were mercilessly killed.
However, to Liu Bei's surprise, there was a large part of the residents who were about 1,000 people, but they didn't move anywhere at all.
After everything calmed down, Liu Bei gave priority to inspecting this place, and when he walked in, Liu Bei found that these people were all chained, and there was not a single old man, all of them were young and strong women and children or children.
After inquiry, I learned that these people were all people who were tied back from the war with Dawan a few years ago, and they were used as cattle in Wusun, and their status was even inferior to that of war horses, cattle and sheep. Young women and children are the tools of the Wusun nobles to vent, and the young and strong and the children are the slaves of Wusun, and they are miserable, a year ago there were 2,000 people, and now there are only more than 1,000 people left.
After the count, there were 400 young and strong people in the remaining population, and the remaining 700 or so people were all couples and children. Fortunately, these people stay in the nomadic name all year round, and each of them can ride horses.
At this time, all the Wusun people have been concentrated, this night attack, the entire tribe originally totaled less than 20,000 people, after this battle only a little more than 10,000 remained, the rest were trampled to death in the chaos, or killed by the tiger and leopard cavalry and the hundred battle army.
After counting again, Liu Bei decided to kill all the rest except for some babies who were still in swaddling clothes, and not one of them was left, because this time he couldn't leave with any prisoners, and the most important thing was that if he didn't kill them all, it might have an impact on Liu Bei's future rule of Wusun. At this time, Liu Bei did not plan to have any wind flowing out of the grassland.
After that, everything was simple, arranging for the 400 young men of the Dawan Kingdom to be responsible for beheading the prisoners of the Wusun Kingdom, while the remaining women and children took care of the more than 100 infants in the Wusun Kingdom, while LΓΌ Bu sent a thousand cavalry to collect the horses, cattle and sheep and wealth.
At first, the four hundred Great Wan Qingzhuang did not dare to make a move on the Wusun people, but after they had no choice but to start doing it, they vented the hatred in their hearts at once, and in less than half an hour, they killed all the 10,000 Wusun people.
As a modern person, Liu Bei still can't bear it in his heart, in his previous life, as a special soldier, he could die on the battlefield and kill all enemies, but he was absolutely not allowed to sell unarmed people, let alone the old and weak, women and children. But in this particular era, Liu Bei must not make this decision, there is no doubt that this plan to make trouble with Wusun will fail, and the 12,000 cavalry led by himself may be wiped out.
This time there is no choice at all, and for a period of time in the future, Liu Bei will not have a choice, as long as he encounters a tribe, he will exterminate this tribe, so concealed for three or five days, when he walks half the way, maybe everything will not be too much of a problem.
And now once it is known by Wusun Guo, it will be intercepted along the road, and Liu Bei and his party will be in great difficulty, and even the whole army will be wiped out. That's why Liu Bei endured to give such an order.