Chapter Twenty-Six: Xianbei's War Book
With the help of crossbows and Xiangyang iron swords, the Wuhuan cavalry quickly gained the upper hand and defeated the Xianbei people.
The Xianbei head who has a flexible mind led people to start running away, preferring to leave the family behind.
If a woman has no more, she can rob it again, if she has no children, she can regenerate, and if her life is gone, it is really over, and everything is gone.
Gao Ran led people to chase them out for 20 miles, and killed a group of Xianbei warriors, so he stopped his horse and turned back to the Xianbei tribe to clean up the battlefield. Let a group of people escape.
This is what Gongsun Kang explained to the leaders of each team in advance, there is no need to pursue continuously, and when they are gathered together, they will be directly smashed into pieces with platoon ballistas in the decisive battle. Killing is more efficient.
The task of each team is to destroy the garrisons of the tribes, capture the old and young women who cannot escape, seize their cattle and sheep, and uproot all their roots.
The tribe eventually ran away from more than 1,000 tribal warriors, but not a single one of the old people, children, and women ran away.
More than 2,000 Wuhuan soldiers drove all the people of the tribe together.
Gao Ran ordered: Kill all the men who are taller than the wheels! Kill all the old people!
The Wuhuan cavalry grinned and waved the butcher's knife again and again. Killing people is a very happy thing for them, and the cells all over their bodies tremble with excitement.
In the fight just now, the Xianbei warriors who had the ability to resist were all killed.
Now the people who are killed are half-grown children, frail herdsmen, and sick and disabled old people.
These Xianbei people scolded and cursed, but there was no use for birds. A head rolled to the ground.
There were special Wuhuan cavalry, carrying wicker baskets to collect heads. It is not for the purpose of repaying merits, the Liaodong army has another set of cumbersome methods for recording merits, and it does not look at the heads of ordinary soldiers.
They are purely a hobby of art, and then the whole army will start to build these heads into a Jingguan. Put it on the grassland, after a few decades, the skin and flesh are removed, and only the white bones remain, which can be regarded as an artistic landscape.
The 13 family members who should be meticulous in their work, standing on the side of the victors, watched all this indifferently. The steppe peoples, who joined another tribe, but fought against the original tribe, there are many people. Survival is the last word, they always follow the most powerful khan, and there is no shame of betrayal at all!
After the people are killed, the next step is to distribute the spoils.
Without Gao Lan's orders, the lieutenant of Wuhuan led people to divide the finances into 20 parts.
Their estimates of the various gold and silver items were astonishingly accurate, and the value of the 20 piles of goods in the book was comparable.
Ten of the piles of belongings were mixed together and were to be handed over to headquarters. No one will swallow them, and it is a shame to be greedy for ink.
There was a captain who put a pile of belongings into a wicker basket. Let the two soldiers lift up and lift them up in front of Gao Ran.
The lieutenant, with his right hand on his chest, bowed deeply, and said with respect: "Respected tall general, this is the spoils you deserve, please accept it." ”
Gao Ran didn't understand their distribution principle, but he still accepted the property sent by Captain Wuhuan.
In the case of Han Chinese soldiers, after the war, when they returned to the army station, the military judge distributed the spoils.
The Wuhuan, Goguryeo, and Samhan cavalry have always been distributed on the spot. Gongsun Kang also acquiesced to the fact that they could do so.
The Wuhuan Lieutenant continued: "There are more than 3,000 women captured this time, after killing the old women who are old and decrepit. As the leader of this army, you have the power to pick two beauties first. ”
Gao Ran's face flushed, but he asked with interest: "Don't you need to hand over the champion Hou?"
The Wuhuan Lieutenant explained earnestly: "After all our soldiers are selected, there are still more than 1,000 women left, and these people will be handed over to the army headquarters. If General Gao wants to present a beautiful woman to the king himself, then he can choose first. However, the king's eyes are very high, and ordinary beauties can't look at them. Only beauties like our Wuhuan Pearl Qiqige and Qimuge are worthy of being offered to the king. ”
Gongsun Kang accepted Qiqige and Qimuge as concubines. It seems to have become the proudest thing for all Wuhuan people, and they have to show off if they have something to do.
Gao Ran was speechless, but his heart was also very itchy. He is not a decent gentleman, and he has three or five concubines in the family.
simply let go, went down in person, selected two sturdy and beautiful Xianbei girls, and brought them to a tent that did not burn to enjoy.
His own soldiers and Wuhuan cavalry laughed and laughed, and walked towards the Xianbei women, each of whom went to choose his favorite.
Of course, there won't be many beauties, but when you go out to fight, your head is pinned to the waistband of your pants, and it doesn't matter if she is beautiful or not, you can have a woman to let yourself relax.
If it feels good, stay there; If you don't feel good, you can sell it back, and it's a lot of income.
The same thing happens every day. All 20 squads have loot. Including the 20,000 Liaodong iron cavalry directly under Gongsun Kang, they also took turns to go out to hunt wild food.
After each return to the camp to hand over the order, the booty, including women and children, were sent back to Youzhou in time, and finally returned to Liaodong after being summarized.
Everyone's trophies, including women and children, are hung with the names and addresses of Liaodong warriors, and they will never be confused.
After more than two months of cleanup, there are fewer and fewer affiliated tribes of the three major tribes of Xianbei in the east, and they have basically been uprooted by the Liaodong Iron Cavalry.
More and more warriors who have lost their tribes have joined the three great tribes. It seems that this is also the reason why the three major tribes deliberately let the Liaodong cavalry clean up the small tribes.
The three tribes have swelled unprecedentedly, and the rapid growth is still full of sturdy warriors. This made the heads of the three departments overjoyed.
However, when things come to this day, it is not possible not to face them directly. For the first time, the leaders of the three tribes began to cooperate, sincerely united, and wanted to fight to the death with Gongsun Kang.
They chose the site of the decisive battle, which was in the grassland near a large river.
The grassland is very flat, you can see the sky at a glance, there is no ambush, only real collisions, battles.
The Xianbei envoy who came to deliver the war book was very humble. There is no imaginary pride.
He is also a China expert and is exceptionally fluent in Chinese. The words are so humble that it is impossible to grab his pigtails and cut off his head.
"Dear Champion Hou, our leader is forced to fight you in a decisive battle. Please agree. The Xianbei envoy bent down, and had never straightened up since he entered the big tent.
After reading the challenge, Gongsun Kang did not express his position, but he was very interested in this Xianbei envoy, and he asked, "Whose subordinate are you?" ”
"My lord's name is Yan Rou," the messenger replied respectfully. He didn't think Yan Rou was famous, so he didn't have any pride.
But Gongsun Kang really knows this Yan Rou.
Yan Rou was a captive in Karasuma and Xianbei since he was a child, and later became close and trusted by him. Xianbei helped Yan Rou kill the captain of Wuhuan and Xing Ju replaced him.
In 195 A.D. (the second year of Xingping), Liu Yu's old department of the former Youzhou Mu Xian Yufu, Qi Zhou, Xian Yuyin, etc., because of Yan Rou's fame and elected him as Wuhuan Sima, and got Xianbei's help to fight against Gongsun Zhan, who killed Liu Yu, and Gongsun Zhan's general Zou Dan fought in the north of the Lu River, broke his army, and killed more than 4,000 people including Zou Dan.
In 199 A.D. (the fourth year of Jian'an), Yan Rou won the heart of Wuhuan and was favored by Yuan Shao to comfort the north.
Now that Yuan Shao is dead, according to history, Yan Rou should go and surrender to Cao Cao. Then, in accordance with the principle that having milk is a mother, she helped Cao Cao to attack and crusade against the Wuheng tribe that raised him as an adult, and helped him seek to protect the Wuheng tribe of the captain of Wuhuan.
It's a pity that in this life, Cao Cao was too unlucky, not to mention the unification of the Central Plains, and was driven to Guanzhong and the Western Regions by Gongsun Kang.
So Yan Rou and the Xianbei people are hanging out, and they haven't separated yet.
Speaking of Wuhuan, it is actually divided into three parts. The Wuhuan tribes in eastern and western Liaodong have been cleaned up by Gongsun Kang. Now Yan Rou is undoubtedly leading the Wuhuan tribe in the Youzhou part.
This is also the last Wuhuan tribe, including the tribes of Shanggu, Yuyang, and Youbeiping.
So Gongsun Kang smiled coldly and asked the envoy, "Is Yan Rou going against me too?" ”
The messenger was stunned and did not dare to answer.
Gongsun Kang didn't embarrass him, just waved his hand and said, "I will answer this decisive battle." It's just that three days is too short, and we don't want to rush to the road. Wait a minute. In a week, we will be there! ”
(End of chapter)