Chapter 647: Perdition Xianbei
The cavalry on both flanks fiercely shot arrows at the Xianbei people, causing great casualties to the Xianbei people.
However, the Tuoba Desert could no longer care about casualties at this time, but urgently ordered the soldiers to launch a collective charge towards Gaoshun directly opposite, otherwise, they would all die here, so the Xianbei people were desperate as soon as they came up.
In the consciousness of the Tuoba Desert, the casualties on both wings were nothing.
Gao Shun put a row of bed crossbows in front of the formation, and when the Xianbei people entered the firing range, the sharp arrows of "whoosh" and "whoosh" shot towards the Xianbei people.
The sharp arrows fired from the bed crossbow could pierce the neck of the horse with a single "thud", and inflict heavy blows on the cavalry behind them, or string them together with the cavalry; Although the speed of the bed crossbow was slow, but in the face of the dense Xianbei cavalry, they were all killed with one blow, and the killed war horses and Xianbei soldiers were soon piled up in a long row, and then the Xianbei cavalry could not contain the war horses, and they crashed into it fiercely, and the piles of corpses blocked the pace of the Xianbei army.
It was very dangerous for the cavalry to lose its speed advantage.
Xianbei people feel very aggrieved, they have not yet engaged in frontal combat, the army has suffered heavy casualties, no wonder their ancestors were all beaten and wiped out or fled far away, the original combat effectiveness of the Han cavalry is not inferior to the cavalry of their nomads, and even stronger, plus the Han army's equipment is too much better than them, they are even more unable to resist.
The cavalry on the left and right flanks gradually narrowed the encirclement of Xianbei, tightening it tighter and tighter.
There is no hope of breaking through the front, and the Tuoba Desert wants to tear a hole from the flank and escape first; At this time, the cavalry he led had lost at least nearly 10,000 people, and if he did not break through, the whole army would be annihilated.
Tuoba Desert finally set the goal of breaking through to the north, and he thought to himself that if the breakthrough was successful, even if they could not make peace with the tribe, they could go and attack the tribes of the Ding Ling or Jiankun people, rob their women and livestock, and continue to reproduce without being wiped out; If you break through to the south, you will easily be surrounded by the Han army again.
The Xianbei people still did not pay much attention to the protection of the flanks, and concentrated their efforts to kill to the north.
The north immediately descended into hand-to-hand combat, which was the most brutal and suffered heavy casualties on both sides.
Gao Shun did not want his officers and soldiers to suffer too many casualties, so at a critical moment, he released 5,000 high-ranking infantry, equipped them with crossbows, and fired wildly at the Xianbei army.
Coupled with the previous 10,000 cavalry shooting with bows and arrows, the rain of sharp arrows flew towards the Xianbei army.
And the 10,000 cavalry on the south side are also crazy about killing the flanks of the Xianbei army, and in this direction, it is very easy to kill.
However, the encirclement was too large, and the number of Han troops was too small; In the end, Tuoba Desert concentrated all its forces on one point, tore a hole in the defensive line, and led thousands of people to break through to the north.
Tuoba Desert ran for dozens of miles, feeling safe, but without logistical baggage, how could they survive in the vast grassland? Hunting alone can't feed so many people.
Gao Shun closely monitored the dynamics of the Xianbei tribes on the system map, and when he saw that they were relatively stable, he killed the Xianbei tribes and livestock again. Without livestock, the Xianbei people would not be able to survive on the grassland.
The tenacious vitality of the steppe nomads made Gao Shun nervous, and in just a few decades, they had bred so many people, no wonder the nomadic harm had never been cut off in history, and lasted for thousands of years, and in his lifetime, such things would never happen again.
However, he was not sure whether this was good or bad, if the Han people had been under the protection of his wings, could not understand the pain of war, did not realize the dangers of the nomads, and were used to being comfortable, after he left, it would definitely bring disaster to the Han people.
In nearly ten days, the Xianbei camp was finally wiped out, and Tuoba Liwei had quietly died before Gao Shun and others killed his big tent.
Gao Shun and others killed nearly three million livestock in total, except for the better quality war horses left for the soldiers to ride, the rest were all killed; There are more than 30,000 unmarried girls, ranging in age from five or six to fifteen or sixteen; There are also more than 20,000 married young women, ranging in age from 20 to 30, and some young women with one or two little girls.
The Tuoba Desert was not reconciled, he sent people to contact the large troops in the south and let them go north to make peace, and he moved north with thousands of people, one to expand the scope of hunting, and the other to avoid the pursuit of the Han army.
The army then marched westward, preparing to encircle the remaining Xianbei army.
At this time, the Xianbei army was divided; The Tuoba Desert left, and the remaining 60,000 Xianbei troops were controlled by the eight major families of the Tuoba tribe, who had different opinions and almost caused internal strife.
Some families are willing to surrender and live in troubled times; Some families hope to break through to the north and make peace with the Tuoba Desert; Some families returned to Datuoba Mountain and never came into contact with the Han people again; Other families wanted to break through to the south, where the Han Chinese had weak defenses, and then to the west, to occupy the vacant pastures left by the Huns.
Now there are more than 100,000 Han troops on the periphery of these Xianbei people, and no matter where they break through, they will suffer heavy casualties.
Gao Shun left Li Qiang and others to surround the Xianbei army, and it was best to persuade them to surrender and bring them back to China as slaves; Now that a large number of Han Chinese people in China have migrated to the newly established kingdoms, there is a shortage of labor, and the price of slaves is high, so these people can be used as slaves for labor.
Gao Shun, together with Zhou Fei and Feng Yong, only brought a few dozen guards to destroy the Tuoba Desert.
The scouts sent by the Tuoba Desert were all easily eliminated by Gao Shun, and when Gao Shun and the others approached the camp in the Tuoba Desert, he was not aware of it.
Gao Shun suddenly released 10,000 cavalry, and 2,500 cavalry rushed into the Xianbei camp and slaughtered on a large scale; Another 7,500 were on the perimeter to block the scattered escapees.
In less than an hour, most of the Xianbei have been wiped out; Only a few hundred people survived by hunting around, but Gao Shun didn't want to let them go, so he sent an army to search all around, and be sure to destroy all the Xianbei people.
It was difficult to hide in the vast prairie, and after a day of searching, there were less than ten people who missed the net, Gao Shun didn't pay much attention to it, and then went south to make peace with the army.
Faced with the heavily surrounded Han army, coupled with the persuasion of the envoys sent by Li Qiang, the Xianbei Eight Clans finally decided to surrender on the condition that the continuation of their eight families be maintained; As for the interests of the 60,000 Xianbei soldiers, they were not in the scope of their consideration.
Li Qiang readily agreed to their request, only eight families, how can they make waves in the Central Plains?
When Gao Shun returned, all the Xianbei people had laid down their arms, handed over their horses, were all captured, and were grouped, each of ten people was a team, tied into a string with a long rope.
Li Qiang immediately reported the results to Gao Shun, and Gao Shun was very satisfied with Li Qiang's methods, so that not only did he not use the battle damage, but also easily captured 60,000 slaves and hundreds of thousands of war horses.
As for the eight Xianbei nobles, Gao Shun planned to place them in Taoyuan Fort and imprisoned them for life.
Gao Shun is in a very good mood now, firstly, he has eliminated the barbarians on the grassland, and secondly, he has captured a huge amount of more than 100,000 captives, nearly 100,000 young girls and young women, and more than 100,000 war horses.
More importantly, the threat from the north has been temporarily eliminated, and it is believed that the border will not be threatened for several decades.
So, Gao Shun announced two days of Daqing, and then went south.
At this time, Gao Shun's mood is very complicated, how should he deal with himself? Going to Luoyang?
And Li Qiang and the others didn't think too much, they were concerned about the battle territory so much, can they be upgraded to another level now?