Chapter 71: Bad News and Good News
"King Qiyu Khan, according to the news from the royal court, a Han cavalry broke through the royal court, captured the families of the leaders, as well as hundreds of thousands of old and weak women and children in the royal court, and now the royal court has become an empty camp. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
"What? Burst! ”
When Tan Shihuai heard the bad news, he vomited blood on the spot, and when he recovered a little with the support of the maid, he continued to ask: "You say it again." ”
"King Khan, our royal court was served by the Han cavalry for a pot ......"
"Bastard!" Tan Shihuai didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking, he pulled out the treasure knife casually, and killed the soldier who reported the news with one sword.
The tiger was sick or a tiger, and he killed the soldier who reported the news, and he collapsed on the couch with his buttocks, and at this moment, he seemed to be half old.
Before his son was captured and imprisoned in Luoyang, he did his best to raise an army of 500,000 Xianbei and let it go, just to negotiate with the Han after breaking through the city, hoping to save his son.
Unexpectedly, hundreds of thousands of troops were trapped in this place in Jiuyuan County, unable to advance or retreat, and now he heard the news that the royal court had been broken and looted, but he couldn't stand anymore and collapsed on the couch.
After a long while, he said to the attendants beside him: "We must block this news and exclude the elite from going to find out the movements of the Han cavalry, if we can't save these hundreds of thousands of women and children, Xianbei will have no future." ”
The attendant was ordered to go about his errands.
At present, the shortage of military food in the Xianbei military camp has reached the point of killing horses and eating, and the people's hearts have begun to fluctuate, if the news of the royal court being broken leaks out, hundreds of thousands of troops will mutini in an instant, and the scene will be difficult to control at that time.
Looking at his tiger skin throne, Tanshi Huai was worried, and for a moment, he felt that he was a little powerless.
Contrary to Tan Shihuai's mood, when Gao Shun got Su Chen's message, he was so excited that he couldn't control himself, he quickly reported the news to Su Wei, and after the two discussed, it was decided that Su Wei would personally take 10,000 soldiers to answer.
It's not that you can't draw many soldiers, but you don't have many horses, and the training of cavalry is not an overnight thing, these 10,000 cavalry are all patchwork together, and many of them are private soldiers of major families.
Of course, Dong Zhuo also got the news, and when he learned that Wang Ting was broken by a yellow-haired boy, he couldn't believe it, but from then on, he began to face up to the young man his son-in-law Li Ru talked about.
Jiuyuan County quickly released the news, and the morale of the Han army was greatly boosted after hearing it, on the contrary, the Xianbei side was lifeless, and many people heard that their wives and children were captured by the Han army, and where there was still a fighting spirit, they all threatened to take their corporal to save their wives and children.
Tanshi Huai cheered up at this time, and tried his best to suppress the various departments, but finally did not let the hundreds of thousands of troops fall apart, otherwise it would be a complete defeat.
Now there is only one way in front of the Xianbei people, and that is war! War! War!
Only by breaking through the city and entering the hinterland can the losses be recovered, and once the troops are retreated, there is no second way except a dead end waiting for them.
Not to mention whether the Han army will take advantage of the situation to cover up after they retreat, even if they return to the royal court safely, it has become a ruin, and the Xianbei people who have lost hundreds of thousands of women and children are powerless to succeed, and it will not be long before they will be entangled by other forces.
Especially the Huns, Qiang, Wuhuan people, etc., these tribes have been oppressed by the Xianbei people, Xianbei is a tiger, these tribes are like hungry wolves, when the tiger is strong, the hungry wolf does not dare to approach, once the tiger shows its decline, it is the situation of the wolf killing the tiger.
Therefore, there is no way back for them except to fight, only to fight.
The next day, Xianbei really launched an attack on the Han army, different from the previous small fights, this time the Xianbei army was divided into four roads, storming the four gates, in order to break the city in one fell swoop, into the hinterland of the Han army.
There are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, boundless, not to mention hundreds of thousands of troops, Dong Zhuo's subordinates are all cavalry, and they are not good at defending the city.
He had an army of 90,000 and 50,000 soldiers out of the West Gate, led by the Huns, followed by the newly collected Han cavalry, and finally his Xiliang cavalry.
The remaining 40,000 troops were led by Niu Fu and were located at the east gate. The two armies fought each other in close quarters, killing in the dark, and the sun and moon were gone.
The main force of Xianbei is placed at the north gate, so there are fewer soldiers in the east and west, plus the morale of the Han army is like a rainbow, and the Xianbei soldiers have no fighting spirit, and the results of the war are self-evident.
After a day of fighting, the Han army suffered more than 5,000 casualties, and Xianbei suffered 20,000 or 30,000 casualties.
The Xianbei army stormed for three days, and because of the heavy casualties, the leaders of the Xianbei tribes in the east and west suddenly left with the army.
The three Xianbei have always had grievances, and the east and west two have suffered a lot of casualties before, and now they have lost some soldiers, so they don't care whether the Khan will conquer them or not, and they will return to their lair with the army first.
Unlike the central Xianbei, the family members of the leaders of the Xianbei in the east and west are not in the royal court, and as soon as the two leave, Xianbei is suddenly in chaos, and Tanshi Huai is also ill.
After learning that the Xianbei military camp was in chaos and Tanshi Huai was seriously ill, Gao Shun and Dong Zhuo discussed it, gathered superior forces, led by 90,000 cavalry, and 50,000 foot soldiers, and 140,000 troops took advantage of the situation from the north gate to break through the Xianbei camp in one fell swoop.
The Xianbei soldiers were already in a mess, and in the face of the Han army that suddenly came out, they immediately panicked, rushed around, and even mutinied.
This battle was fought from dark to dawn, and after a night of fighting, the Xianbei tribes fled in a hurry, leaving only an empty camp.
The Han army captured tens of thousands of prisoners, and when the results were counted, it was found that tens of thousands of war horses, countless weapons and armor were captured in this battle, and more than 50,000 Xianbei soldiers were captured.
Dong Zhuo's cavalry is now coming in handy, and the generals under his command have each taken their subordinates and soldiers to chase and kill for hundreds of miles for the sake of military merits, and have been chasing the Xianbei people out of a hundred miles before they stopped the pursuit.
The battle was a complete victory, and the battle of Jiuyuan County came to an end slowly.
According to the news from the scouts, Tan Shi Huai died in the process of fleeing, but the body was not grabbed by the Han army, and after the death of Tan Shi Huai, the Xianbei soldiers attacked each other for the Khan position, and they were in a mess, and there was no threat to the Han Dynasty.
Su Chen also encountered a lot of defeated soldiers along the way, some of them were trapped, these defeated soldiers only had the share of delivering food, and it was also from the mouths of these defeated soldiers that he learned that Wuyuan County had won a big victory, and his hanging heart was finally put back in his stomach.
Two days later, his large army and Su Yu's reinforcements finally connected and slowly escorted hundreds of thousands of Xianbei women and children back to Jiuyuan.
A month later, the large army finally returned to Jiuyuan County at a turtle marching speed, and at this time, Dong Zhuo and Gao Shun jointly sent a copy of the merit to the Bingzhou Assassin History Office, and a copy was secretly sent by Dong Zhuo to the hands of the Ten Standing Attendants.
Liu Hong, who was far away in Luoyang, heard that he had won such a great victory, especially the Xianbei court, and when the team escorting the spoils arrived in Luoyang, he was personally greeted by the emperor out of the city.
Dong Zhuo was very majestic this time, and the emperor warmly received Dong Zhuo and Gao Shun Su Yu, while Su Chen stayed in Jiuyuan to deal with the aftermath.
After the emperor inspected the Xiliang cavalry, Longxin was very happy, and named Dong Zhuo as the captain of the division on the spot, and increased the number of households by 1,000, a total of 1,500 households.
Gao Shun was crowned as the Marquis of Pingju because of his official duties, 500 households in the city, and moved to protect the Xiongnu Zhonglang General, which was because of his ability to deal with foreign affairs.
Because of Su Chen's merits, Su Wei was promoted to the general of Duliao and was in charge of the northern military, and the former Taishou of Wuyuan County was served by Guo Wen, the county commander.
Wei Huang became the new county of Wuyuan County, and Su Wu became the long history of Wuyuan County.
Su Chen has a lot of credit, but because he is too young, most of the credit has been shared between Su Yu and Gao Shun, as well as Dong Zhuo, otherwise Dong Zhuo would not have become a high-ranking official in the imperial court like Si Li's lieutenant all of a sudden.
But despite this, the imperial court did not treat him lightly, but gave him the title of Marquis of Broken Captivity, a hundred households, and at the same time served as the official position of the captain of Wuhuan, Guan Yu and the six strong generals all became his subordinates Wei Cheng and Sima of other departments, and Tian Heng was the main book.
In this war, the Su family, the Guo family, and Dong Zhuo have all become the biggest winners, as for the matter of Zhou Jian, the general of Duliao, it will not be resolved after feeding the ten permanent servants, even if someone wants to give advice to the emperor, they will not be able to do it.
Gao Shun and Su Wei have now become high-ranking officials of 2,000 stones, and they are also officers with real power, which can be described as a spring breeze.
The position of Taishou of Wuyuan County fell into the hands of the Guo family, Su Chen had expected it, after all, the Taishou everywhere at this time was a real fat shortage, and they were generally representatives of the great family.
Although he is also a member of the family, he is still a lot worse than the Guo family, and he is still very happy to cooperate with the Su family in the Guo family, plus the commanders of the county and Changshi Naizi are all officials of the Su family, Su Chen is also very relieved.
There are 400 people under the command of Sima of the other department, and the six strong generals have become Sima of the other department, obviously the number is not enough, Su Chen asked him to select the most elite soldiers among the newly recruited 100,000 recruits, and the six departments are fully organized and led by the six Simas.
Guan Yu was responsible for commanding 40,000 alien cavalry, and 500 wolf cavalry as his personal guards, of course, the number was less than 500.
Su Yu took the 40,000 people under the command of General Duliao, selected 10,000 cavalry, and went to the post with 50,000 troops.
As for Gao Shun, in addition to trapping the camp, he also brought 30,000 recruits, and there were a lot of horses from the Xiongnu tribe, and these 30,000 people were assigned to him by Su Chen to train 30,000 people into an elite cavalry.
Su Chen brought back hundreds of thousands of people, and he didn't plan to stay in Jiuyuan, but planned to take them to Ningcheng, the ancient county, that is, the place where Captain Wuhuan was governed.
As for the 40,000 cavalry of various tribes, and the captured 50,000 Xianbei iron cavalry were also brought to Ningcheng. Let the Xianbei and Wuhuan clans live together and contain each other, only in this way can he control this group of fierce alien races.
However, when it comes to the resettlement of hundreds of thousands of people, he can't help but be a little blind, at this time he has already felt the shortcomings of internal affairs, and after some entanglement, he finally decided to go out to travel to see if he can gather a few talents.