Chapter Twenty-Five: Cleaning Up the Xianbei Tribe
Because of the advance arrangement, more than 10,000 Xianbei captives returned to their original tribes. Gongsun Kang is equivalent to more than 10,000 eyes, ears and internal responses.
Therefore, Gongsun Kang is well aware of the military situation, station, population, economy and other aspects of the various tribes in the eastern Xianbei.
Murong Ke took away most of the small and medium-sized tribes, but there were still some tribes that followed behind the butts of the three major tribes and kept plundering Youzhou villages.
Gongsun Kang was determined to completely clean up the eastern Xianbei and let at least half of the countries of the Wuhu and Sixteen Kingdoms be removed.
He led 60,000 Liaodong soldiers into the grassland, wanting to settle the situation in a war.
Unexpectedly, the leaders of the three big tribes of Murong Ministry, Yuwen Ministry, and Duan Bu were extremely cunning, and they actually played guerrilla tactics with him.
Gongsun Kang felt that he was still too kind. He gave the order to kill.
Since the eastern Xianbei tribe that feared him had been taken away by Murong Ke, the rest of the tribe would follow the rules of the grassland: kill all the men who are taller than the wheels!
Gongsun Kang is going to stand up, and he doesn't even plan to ask for free slave labor.
Here's how:
First of all, Gongsun Kang selected 6,000 Xianbei system armor soldiers, and divided them evenly among the 60,000 Liaodong soldiers. Basically, one person can be assigned to every ten people, and as a soldier of these systems who are familiar with the combat habits of Xianbei life, they are used as guides and assistants to the chief.
Their position is the chief of the army, and most of the chiefs are the first soldiers of the various ethnic systems selected before, both sides are equally loyal to Gongsun Kang, and they are both produced by the system, and they are born with tacit understanding.
At this time, under Murong Ke's command, the population of the directly subordinate tribe has a population of more than 600,000, which can fully support Gongsun Kang's selection base, otherwise he is really powerless.
Then, Gongsun Kang left 20,000 Liaodong iron cavalry as a large army. The remaining 40,000 Uheng cavalry and Goguryeo cavalry were divided into 20 teams as mobile squads. Each team has 2,000 people and can carry out tasks alone.
The leaders of these 20 teams are: Gao Lan, Jiang Qi, Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang, Cen Bi, You Junda, Xie Yingdeng, Qi Guoyuan, Ruan Xiaoer, Ruan Xiaowu, Ruan Xiaoqi, Yan Qing, Zhang Shun, Dong Pingren.
Gongsun Kang took 20,000 Liaodong iron cavalry, and the remaining 20 cavalry as the flanks, starting from Youzhou, arranged and distributed in a range of 100 li.
Advance in parallel and implement a dragnet strategy.
The Xianbei tribes within the scope of the big net, the size of the tribe, are all wiped out!
The small tribes sent only one cavalry; There were only a few teams of large tribes, and more than a dozen teams of cavalry went up together.
They all used flying pigeons and harrier eagles to communicate with each other, and they kept moving in sync, and no one group of cavalry was allowed to venture alone.
This tactic is very much the essence of the iron-walled encirclement of the Japanese invaders in later generations.
Gongsun Kang adjusted according to the central government, and issued the dispatch order of the day every day according to the detailed reports made in various tribes. Basically, if you catch one accurately, you can definitely find the place where the Xianbei people live.
Let's talk about Gao Lan, with 2,000 Wuheng cavalry. On this day, he received an order to annihilate a small tribe attached to the Ubun Ministry.
Along with the order, a series of information was transmitted: the tribe's station, next to a brook with abundant water and grass. There should be 13 warriors in the tribe. The connector's name is Merella. The tribe has a population of more than 10,000 people. Among them, there are more than 3,000 warriors who can fight. The rest were the elderly, children and women, as well as frail shepherds.
According to the information, Gao Ran quickly arrived near the tribe and met the long-awaited internal response.
With the Xianbei system armor soldiers, language communication is not a problem.
Gao Ran asked the three internal guides to bring the clothes of the Liaodong soldiers. and asked about their family placements.
They replied: There was a red fox skin hanging outside the tent, and that was the tent where their family was staying. It has been concentrated in several large tents, guarded by another 10 warriors, which are easy to identify.
Gao Ran ordered the whole army to hang the tent with red fox fur outside, which was his own people, not to attack, let alone rob and kill.
Under the leadership of Nei Ying, in the blue sky and white day, Gao Ran and they came to this small tribe a few miles away.
Gao Ran ordered, uncovering the cloth wrapped in the horse's hooves. Start charging!
Wuheng warriors, turned over and got on their horses, holding a repeater in one hand and wielding a Xiangyang iron knife in the other. Ula Ulla screamed excitedly and rushed towards the unsuspecting Xianbei tribe.
War means that there are possessions to loot and women to distribute. There are men who can kill and satisfy their desire to kill.
Countless crossbow bolts were fired at the Xianbei warriors, who were well-trained and quick to pick up their weapons: scimitars and arm shields. He took out his horses and whistled and began to assemble and resist.
But after all, the enemy attack was caught off guard, and many Xianbei warriors were shot down by continuous crossbow arrows before they could get on their horses.
The Wuheng cavalry, who had shot all the crossbow arrows, cut through the tent with an iron knife, picked up the burning brazier in the tent, and began to set fire everywhere.
When it comes to killing people and setting fires, Wuheng people are equally proficient in Xianbei people. After all, they are all sons and daughters of the prairie!
When the children of nomads grow up, the cost of living is also lower than that of farming people. This herdsman has almost nothing to do except graze cattle and sheep in spring and summer, and has little to do in the rain and snow in autumn and winter. Since he was a child, he has been riding horses and shooting and is good at living in the wild.
Then it is possible for him to travel around the outside world and realize his childhood dream of "making a fortune and marrying a woman through adventure." When he and his fellow herdsmen found luxury goods and beautiful women dressed in the agrarian people, they immediately became aware that he wanted to rush home, and that he had no rules and precepts to follow in the agrarian people. It just so happens that this agrarian people is weakened by the emphasis on literature and light on military force or because of many social contradictions, and the herdsmen will succeed.
With the first time, there is a second time. Of course, when the army of the farming people arrived, the herdsmen still knew how to retreat. The herdsman has no city and can run away, and his family has little property and can ride a horse, so he can run faster than the farming people. When the army retreated, the herders returned.
Once he encountered a powerful agricultural army such as the Han and Tang Dynasties, he didn't have so many worries about killing himself, preserving his integrity, and just calling himself a minister. They can also go with the army to plunder wealth and women elsewhere. When he met the Song Dynasty, he immediately turned into a wolf, of course, he didn't have so much integrity to worry about.
In fact, the nomads are the wanderers outside the Guan.
Now, the Wuheng cavalry is a nomadic people who follow the Han people and help the abuse.
Gongsun Kang satisfied their desire to kill, and was able to go with the army to plunder wealth and women. Therefore, they completely recognized and admired Gongsun Kang, and showed their martial arts in front of the Xianbei people to their heart's content.
The professionalism and bravery of the Wuhuan people surprised Gao Ran. He took hundreds of his Han guards and began to follow the example of the Wuhuan people, killing people, setting fires and robbing.
(End of chapter)