Early in the morning of February 5, 426 of the Great Jin Dynasty, in a felt bag in the original Wuheng Heng camp in the north outside Chengyin City, Liu Ji and several generals gathered here, Liu Ji did not sleep long last night, but he was in very good spirits, and said with a smile on his red face to Su Lie, Le Yi, Hua Xiong, Wei Xiaokuan and Zhao Ben: "I didn't expect that just arrived in Chengyin County, we made a good start, thousands of coalition troops of 13 tribes of the Wuheng tribe were defeated by us with one blow, and countless trophies were captured, it was definitely a big victory!" ”

The results of last night's sneak attack on the Wuheng Heng camp have been counted, with more than 900 beheaded, and more than 1,300 Wuheng cavalry captured. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

These captured Wuheng cavalry were all finally surrounded in the camp by Liu Ji's four foot soldiers, and when they saw that they could not escape, they took the initiative to put down their weapons, knelt on the ground, and chose to surrender to the Jin army.

Fights and even wars often break out between various ethnic groups and tribes in the grasslands, for pastures, for food, for women, and for various reasons, and every time there is a fight or war, a large number of prisoners of war will appear.

The various tribes on the grassland basically directly absorbed the captured cavalry of the same clan into their own tribes to enhance the strength of their own tribes.

As for the captured cavalry of different races, they will not be killed under normal circumstances, but will turn them into war slaves of their own tribe to help their own tribe fight.

These war slaves in each tribe, the status and slaves are definitely not on the same level, there is no need to worry about being tortured by the master, of course, compared to the tribe's own cavalry, but it is far behind, the capture of war slaves on the battlefield, all need to be handed over to their masters, how much the master can give the war slaves, completely depends on the master's mood.

Most of the more than 1,300 Wuheng cavalry captured in last night's battle were war slaves of 13 tribes, and the combat effectiveness of these war slaves was not weak, but the will to fight was not strong.

Last night's largest capture of the border army in World War I was to collect more than 8,000 war horses at once, you must know that the elite cavalry of various tribes on the grassland generally carry more than two war horses in battle, and the cavalry with only one war horse during the battle is generally the war slaves of various tribes, and the nine thousand cavalry of the 13 Wuheng small tribes, the number of war horses brought to the outside of Chengyin City even exceeds 15,000.

In addition, Liu Ji's border army also captured more than 400 pieces of iron armor, more than 2,500 pieces of leather armor, more than 4,000 bows, more than 5,000 pieces of various weapons, and not many pieces of grain, grass, gold and silver.

However, these captures are enough to make Liu Ji excited, especially more than 8,000 war horses, the Dajin cavalry is not as extravagant as the grassland Hu cavalry, generally a cavalry is equipped with a war horse, more than 8,000 war horses, enough to form 8,000 cavalry, if you count the more than 1,800 war horses in Liu Ji's hands before, Liu Ji can even form a cavalry corps of 10,000 people, of course, the premise is that Liu Ji can recruit 10,000 people who can be cavalry.

The results of last night's battle were so great, but the losses under Liu Ji's command were not much, mainly because the coalition of the 13 Wuheng tribes did not expect that there would be reinforcements in Chengyin City, and they were caught off guard, plus the 13 Wuheng tribes each had their own ghosts, and after the camp outside the Yin City was raided, all the tribes fled in order to preserve their strength, and they did not organize effective resistance at all.

Last night, only the infantry under Liu Ji's command participated in the battle, and in the end, the five infantry soldiers combined with more than 300 casualties, and only 169 people were killed.

As soon as Liu Ji's words fell, Su Lie said with a smile: "Lord, through the inquiry of the captured Wuheng cavalry, the 13 Wuheng tribes besieging Chengyin County, the grasslands are all near Chengyin County, and the 13 Wuheng tribes have lost a lot of money in the past two days when they attacked Chengyin County, and they were stabbed by us again last night, and the strength of the 13 Wuheng tribes has been weakened a lot at once, which will be very beneficial for us to gain a foothold in Chengyin County!" ”

Wei Xiaokuan followed and said: "Not only that, the strength of these 13 Wuheng tribes has been hit hard, leaving us with the opportunity to take the initiative, we have just arrived, if we want to gain a firm foothold in Chengyin City, food is the key, and the cattle and sheep in the 13 Wuheng tribes can just be used by our army." ”

Liu Ji nodded approvingly and said: "What Xiaokuan said is reasonable, not only the Hu people can rob our Dajin, but our Dajin can also go to the grassland to rob things, and when we settle down in Chengyin County, we will go to the grassland to be a robber, I believe the harvest will be good!" ”

Le Yi said at this time: "Lord, the fact that Chengyin County was not destroyed by the Hu people of the grassland is also good news for us, but seeing the situation of the defenders of Chengyin County resisting the siege of the Wuheng people yesterday, my subordinates are worried that it will not be so easy for us to integrate the defenders of Chengyin County." ”

"We now have a decree issued by the imperial court to the lord, which clearly says that the lord will take over the military affairs of the entire Chengyin County, and if the defenders of Chengyin County dare to resist the decree, we can forcibly incorporate it." Zhao Ben immediately suggested.

"Whoever dares to disobey the lord of the defenders of Chengyin County will be cut directly!" Hua Xiong said indifferently, at this time, the five generals Su Lie, Le Yi, Hua Xiong, Wei Xiaokuan and Zhao Ben in the felt bag, according to the intelligence value, Su Lie, Le Yi, Wei Xiaokuan and Zhao Ben can all be counted as smart generals, only Hua Xiong's intelligence value is low, and he can only be regarded as a brave general.

However, Hua Xiong's force value is there, so Liu Ji usually discusses anything and lets Hua Xiong attend.

Wei Xiaokuan also nodded and said: "Lord, what Zhao Ben said is reasonable, we have the will of the imperial court, and the righteousness is here, if the defenders of Chengyin County do not know each other, it is not impossible to take thunderous measures." ”

Liu Ji touched his chin and said: "I don't know what the situation is in Chengyin County yet, let's do it after we enter Chengyin County!" We defeated thousands of Wuheng cavalry in a battle last night, and I believe that the defenders of Chengyin County should know the truth that those who know the times are Junjie! ”

After a pause, Liu Ji said again: "Now there is one more matter, I want to discuss it with you, that is, how to deal with the captured more than 1,300 Wuheng cavalry?" Among the more than 1,300 Wuheng cavalry, many of them are war slaves of the 13 Wuheng tribes, do you think it is possible for us to take these war slaves for our own use? Everyone also knows the weakness of our cavalry, if we can turn these Hu people, who have lived on horseback since childhood, into our own cavalry, then our shortcomings can be made up! ”

As soon as Liu Ji finished saying that he wanted to subdue the captured Hu war slaves, Zhao Ben said: "My lord, my subordinates think we can give it a try, but those captured war slaves are also Hu people in the final analysis, loyalty is a problem, we must be on guard, if there is a sudden defection on the battlefield, then we will suffer." ”

"The Hu people on the grassland, generally do not have a strong sense of belonging to their own nation, and it can even be said that they do not, but they have a strong sense of belonging to their own tribe, these captured war slaves are equivalent to having lost their own tribe, as long as we use both grace and power, it is not impossible to subdue these war slaves who have no sense of national belonging, but loyalty is indeed a problem, and these war slaves cannot be the same as those Jin cavalry in our team." Su Lie also agreed with Liu Ji's idea.

Speaking of the issue of loyalty, Liu Ji touched his chin and nodded thoughtfully, he had a rough plan in his heart, maybe he could solve the problem of loyalty of those war slaves.

Le Yi followed and said: "The grassland has always been the law of the jungle, the more than 1,300 Wuheng cavalry we captured, in addition to the war slaves, even if it is the elite cavalry of the Wuheng tribe itself, if we want to recruit them, I think they will agree, but the subordinates suggest that those ordinary Wuheng cavalry can be collected for our own use regardless of previous suspicions and expand the strength of our cavalry, but for those officers and nobles in the Wuheng cavalry, we must not stay!" ”