Chapter 78 The Current Situation of the Border Counties
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After beheading the 53 captured Xianbei people and leaving the rest to Li Qiang, Gao Shun came to the tent to visit the 3 seriously wounded cavalrymen.
They had already woken up, saw Gao Shun coming, and remembered to salute.
Gao Shun hurriedly said: "Recuperate with peace of mind, no need to be polite." ”
"General, it's useless for us."
"Haha, it's okay, you're on the battlefield for the first time, and you've already performed very well." Gao Shun asked the golden sore doctor again: "How are they injured?" ”
One of the gold sore doctors saluted Gao Shun and said: "General, fortunately no important parts were injured, the arrow has been taken out, and there is no major problem, but it needs a period of recuperation, and you must not do strenuous activities, otherwise it will cause the wound to collapse, and the gods will not be able to save it." ”
This made Gao Shun feel at ease, and said: "I will arrange for someone to send you back to Mayi County, where you can recuperate well, I hope you can recover as soon as possible, return to the battlefield, and personally seek revenge from the barbarians." ”
"Yes, General."
After withdrawing, Gao Shun asked the cavalry Dubo to pack up the supplies in each tent and kill sheep to celebrate his success; Li Qiang, Cao Shan and Zhou Fei were then summoned and 12 rescued people were summoned to a tent to discuss matters.
As soon as the 12 people entered the tent, they knelt down for Gao Shun, "Thank you for the general's life-saving grace." ”
Gao Shun pulled them up one by one and said, "You don't need to be so polite, we are also doing it, everyone sit down." ”
"General Xie!"
"Introduce each of you."
"Yes, General, my name is Xue Yin, a native of Hanoi, the former lieutenant of Yunzhong County, who was attacked by Xianbei and finally captured." According to his judgment, these people were headed by Gao Shun, and what made him wonder was that Gao Shun was too young.
"General, I'm Su Zhi, a native of Shaling County, the former county lieutenant of Shaling County, and Chengpo was captured."
"General, I'm Wang Xiu, the beauty of the words, a native of Jincheng, Liangzhou, and the cavalry under Tian Yan, the former general of Xianbei Zhonglang."
The others introduced in turn, either locals, or Han officers and soldiers who had been captured on the previous expedition to Xianbei, and all of them burst into tears after being rescued.
Gao Shun said: "You are all heroes of the Han Dynasty, you have suffered, please accept my worship." ”
Everyone hurriedly got up and returned the salute.
Xue Yin said with tears in his eyes: "We can survive because we hope that one day we can take revenge with our hands on Xianbei." Thank you generals for coming to our rescue, only more people did not wait for this day. ”
Gao Shun didn't answer his words, but said: "Let me introduce first, we are from Loufu County, Yanmen County, and we also have a common enmity with the barbarians, so we have formed a village protection team to hunt and kill foreign races; Because of the military exploits, a cavalry tuntun chief won the position of the magistrate of Mayi County, a few days ago, Xianbei invaded, and we annihilated a thousand troops; After consultation, everyone decided to take the initiative to attack the Xianbei barbarian Yiluo, gradually weakening their strength. ”
"The general's ambition, I admire it."
Gao Shun said to Xue Yin: "Captain Xue, can you explain the situation in Yunzhong County to me." ”
"The general doesn't need to be like this, silver should not be called a captain, just call silver expensive." Subsequently, Xue Yin fell into a long memory, and after a long while, he said: "The Xianbei barbarians have been plundering for many years, and the border counties have been poisoned by them for no year, and they will run away when the Han army comes, and the Han army will withdraw them and come back, and they will not be able to control them; In the summer of the sixth year of Xiping (177 years), His Majesty the Emperor could not bear it, in order to eliminate the border troubles, he sent a three-way army to attack it, but he was defeated, Xianbei then counterattacked, Yunzhong, Wuyuan and Dingxiang, fell one after another, Yin was captured at that time, it has been many years, and now the specific situation of Silver is unknown; However, from the mouth of the barbarians, I occasionally heard that only Shanan County remained in Yunzhong County, and Wuyuan County was relocated to the south of the Yellow River, and under the protection of General Du Liao, only Wudu and Manbo were left; The land of Hebei is lost, and it is all the land of barbarian herding horses. ”
"Zhigui, what is the situation in Western Xianbei?" Gao Shun asked again.
Xue Yin also saw that Gao Shun and the others were profound, the movements of those cavalry were uniform, the war horses were extremely tall and strong, and the quality was very good, otherwise there would not be so few soldiers and horses who would dare to sneak attack the Xianbei people's towns, so he tried to consider it comprehensively when answering. "General, there are about twenty large tribes in Xianbei in the west, some small tribes are dependent on the protection of the big tribes, the strongest tribes live in the areas with the best grazing conditions such as Yunzhong, Wuyuan and Shuofang, each of which has a minimum of 10,000 and more than 20,000, and the other tribes are slightly weaker, all of them are a few thousand young and strong; We don't know any other details; However, the general should note that the number I am talking about is only young and strong, and in wartime, the barbarians are all soldiers, and they can organize several times as many armies as this. ”
"Then tell me about the situation of this tribe."
"Yes, General, this tribe has a total of nearly 20,000 young and strong people, and nearly 100,000 Xianbei people, which is a relatively powerful tribe; Among the captive Han Chinese, there were elders who could make iron, weavers, carpenters, brewers, etc., and were gathered by the tribe lords in Yunda, where many workshops were established to make iron, make weapons and equipment, make wooden carts, make felt, and make wine, etc., and each Yi fell to trade once in the middle of each month; The tribal lords also cultivated some farmland there, which was cultivated by Han Chinese slaves; Salt was brought from salt lakes further west, and was also an important commodity for the various settlements to trade; Those of us who could only fight were assigned to various towns to take care of livestock, gather grass for forage, etc., because of the high labor intensity, the poor food, the poor physical strength, and the weak willpower have all left, and the rest are strong and strong, and when the body recovers, they must be good cavalry players. ”
Gao Shun thought to himself, this Xianbei person is too cunning, it is becoming more and more difficult to deal with, and after taking the three counties Taishou, he will fight the Xianbei tribe with all his might, and he will have no worries when he goes south to fight for hegemony in the future.
Li Qiang was the most anxious and asked, "Everyone, are there other Xianbei tribes around?" ”
Xue Yin thought about it for a while and said: "Yunzhong County belongs to the pastoral area of Lord Xianbei Yan Liyou, it lives in Yunzhong City, and there are small tribes and affiliated tribes such as his clan brothers, all of which are separated from each county, and then they are each Yiluo, scattered grazing, each of which has a Yiluo ranging from 10 to 30, and each Yiluo has a relatively fixed grassland, according to the distance of each migration, I estimate that each Yiluo is separated by more than 10 miles; We just followed the migration, and we haven't been out of the city for many years, so it's hard to know the exact details. ”
Gao Shun found no trace of other Xianbei people on the map, and it is estimated that the distance between Xianbei Yiluo is even farther than Xue Yin said, and the pasture occupied by each Yiluo is at least 100 square kilometers.
"Why are there so few people in this town?" Li Qiang estimated that the number of people in this settlement was far lower than the average number Xue Yin said.
"General, the two handsome brothers in this town are not in harmony, and they just separated last year, so their strength is much weaker, and they are squeezed out to graze in a distant place here. There is also competition within the tribe, and the powerful towns occupy the periphery of the county seat, or are close to rivers and other places with abundant water and grass, and the weak have no choice. Could it be that the general still wants to sneak attack other towns? ”
Gao Shun was secretly shocked by these words, if it was a city of 200 people, if he wanted to eat it completely, he would definitely pay more casualties, and he was secretly happy.
Li Qiang said: "Of course, it's not easy to come out once, you must kill a lot, how many people have you killed?" ”
Xue Yin suggested: "General, this is the best season to hunt a single alien race, they are scattered and grazing during the day; If it is said that the encirclement and annihilation of Xianbei are to be carried out, either before the grazing begins in the morning, or after the cattle and sheep return to the pen in the evening; Today, the general is very lucky, in another half an hour, cattle, sheep and horses will be driven to the pasture to eat, at that time it will be difficult to achieve total annihilation, in case there is an escape, it will inevitably attract the siege of the Xianbei tribe cavalry, it is difficult to retreat with all his body. ”
Su Zhi glanced at Xue Yin and said: "General, I am a local, according to my judgment, this place belongs to the junction of Shaling County, Jiling County and Chengle County, and it is not in the fertile plain area, and it is close to the Great Wall, it belongs to the most remote place, only the weakest Yiluo grazes here, so the number of Yiluo will not be very large, and the strength of each Yiluo will not be very strong." ”
Li Qiang said very excitedly: "Haha, thank you County Lieutenant Su for providing such timely information." The number of settlements here is small and remote, so it is not easy to leak news, which is just convenient for us to sneak attack a few more settlements,"
Xue Yin said: "General rest assured, in recent times, the Xianbei people have been busy stockpiling forage for the winter, harvesting and drying pasture grass every day, and few people go out, and the chance of news exposure has been reduced a lot." ”
Gao Shun said secretly, God help me!