0105: General Fly
The breeze was blowing on his face, with a strong smell of blood, and in the Alibuda tribe, the shouts of killing had disappeared, replaced by cursing, cries, and begs for mercy.
"My lord, in this battle, only 16 of our people were slightly wounded, 206 were killed, and 275 were captured. In addition, 404 sheep, 348 horses, and 164 cattle were seized......" Lu Bu walked to Li Yi's side and kept reporting, his tone was very excited, obviously he didn't expect that just by defeating a small tribe of more than 400 people, he could capture so many horses, cattle and sheep.
Speaking of which, the Alibuda tribe also lost a little unjustly, because the Han people had not appeared outside the Saiwai for a long time, so that they had no defense against the south at all, and Li Yi acted very carefully, sparing a large circle and arranging the encirclement before starting to close the net, which eventually led to more than 400 people in the Alibuda tribe, and almost not many people escaped.
Listening to Lu Bu's report, Li Yi nodded with satisfaction, he was not surprised by this result, because he had long known how rich these Hu people were. Well...... It is also not right to describe it as wealthy, because the Hu people did not cultivate the land or anything else, and all the property was embodied in these livestock.
Perhaps these livestock can be exchanged for a lot of money in the Han Dynasty, especially in Yuzhou, Yanzhou and other places, but in the grassland, they are not so valuable. It's like when Yanxi was eight years old, Duan Cheng broke the Qiang tribe and captured more than 8 million horses, cattle and sheep, but only 7 or 80,000 Qiang people were beheaded and captured.
After Lu Bu finished his report, Li Yi turned his head and looked at everyone and said with a smile, "Yes, although our army has various advantages in this first battle, the result still makes me more satisfied." ”
In a word, Dian Wei and the others were immediately overjoyed, but they were very worried that Li Yi would blame them for this. Because in their opinion, 5,000 cavalry fought a small tribe of more than 400 people, and it was a surprise attack, and there were even 16 people who suffered some minor injuries, which is unreasonable.
Seeing this, Li Yi didn't say much, but just ordered Lu Bu to record the statistics of the battle exploits, and then turned his head to look at the prisoners who had been gathered.
Of the 275 captives, most of them were old men, women and children, and almost all of them, except for children who were too young, were wounded to some degree. Among those who died in the war were men, women, the elderly, and children.
"No wonder they all say that the Hu people are all soldiers, and it's really ......," Li Yi thought helplessly. He suddenly understood why once the Central Plains Dynasty began to decline, the Hu people in the north began to rise up, and there were many soldiers! Such a tribe of more than 400 people can jump out of about 300 warriors when it is raided, and each of them seems to be fearless to death. Not to mention that among them, even women and children can bend bows and shoot arrows.
"It's a pity that the endless grassland is their natural barrier, even if all the strength of the Central Plains is poured, it is impossible to kill them all......" Li Yi sighed in his heart. If it weren't for what I set up at the beginning, God knows how much these people would have escaped.
Shaking his head and throwing aside the emotion in his heart, Li Yi looked at these people carefully, while those captured Hu people glared at Li Yi with hateful eyes. Obviously, they had understood that the young man in front of them, who didn't look very old, was the culprit.
"Ask them if they're willing to surrender." Li Yi said to Lu Bu in a flat tone.
"Yes!" Lu Bu responded, and immediately called a soldier who knew nonsense, but after the soldier finished asking, the expressions of the group of prisoners became even more excited.
"Hehe, it seems that I am unwilling to surrender~" Li Yi chuckled when he saw this. "Then so be it, women under the age of 25 and over the age of 12, choose a good-looking woman to stay, and the others ......" Saying that, Li Yi shook his head, but Lu Bu and the others obviously understood what Li Yi meant.
In a short time, there were screams and more vicious curses in the Alibuda tribe. It's just that for Li Yi, these so-called curses are not much different from the insects and birds that used to go hunting, "This is the benefit of not knowing Hu Yu~" Li Yi thought quite proudly.
Later, after resting for a while, Li Yi ordered Chen Jing to lead 100 men to escort the booty back to Manbo, while he continued to lead his army to find other tribes.
"By the way, do you think I'm cruel to do this?" Li Yi was about to leave when he suddenly asked Lu Bu and the others. It's just that this question didn't get a response from the generals, but only saw a stunned look.
"When I didn't ask." Li Yi pursed his lips and muttered.
He originally thought that killing prisoners, killing women, old people, and children might make some people feel uncomfortable, especially in Li Yi's memory, which should belong to the sympathetic Zhao Yun, Tong Fei, Gao Shun and others. It's just obvious that Li Yi still underestimated the hatred between Han and Hu in this era.
In other words, even if there was no hatred between Han and Hu, just by virtue of the continuous southward raids in the previous ten years, it was enough to make all those who had experienced it have an indelible hatred for the Xianbei people. These hatreds can only be slightly mitigated by the corpses of the enemy.
In the following time, Li Yi led the Duliao camp to be frequently active outside the Saiwai, from Shuofang County to Yanmen County, and the entire northern part of Bingzhou directly became Li Yi's hunting ground. It was as small as a tribe of only a few dozen people, a tribe of thousands of people, and even once when I was looking for the Xianbei tribe, I met a tribe of 10,000 people who were migrating. In the face of these enemies, Li Yijun won an overwhelming victory, but in just three months, he wiped out more than a dozen tribes of Xianbei people and captured countless booty.
Li Yi plundered so frequently, it was naturally impossible for the Xianbei royal court not to know, but it was just a small move in the secret of King Xian, and the yin and yang of the nobles everywhere disobeyed, so that Putou did not have the leisure time to take care of Li Yi's affairs at all.
Moreover, although Li Yi is a Han army, judging from the information obtained by Putou, Li Yi's use of troops is completely like the wind, and he runs away when he robs it, and does not give Hu Ren a chance to lead people to rescue and encircle at all.
In this case, even if Putou really led the army to attack, what could Li Yi do? The almost endless prairie is a natural protective barrier for all people on the grassland, not just for the Hu people.
Unless Putou Xuehe Company directly led the army to attack Bingzhou, but if this was the case, Putou dared to guarantee that the two Xian Kings who had been ready to move for a long time would definitely immediately lead the army to rebel, and even send someone to tell Li Yi about his whereabouts. However, it was impossible for Putou to do nothing, so he ordered the tribes close to Bingzhou to start retreating north, and since there was no way to deal with Li Yi for the time being, then hide.
It's just that in this way, many people suddenly felt that Putou was afraid of Li Yi, and even many Xianbei people gave Li Yi the title of General Fei.