Chapter 22: The Battle of Huahan
When the horse returned, Wei Qing's 200,000 troops were densely assembled in the valley. The general, Xian Yushun, had a cruel smile on his face. He, like many pro-soldiers, are fleeing orphans, and his sister Xian Yumei depended on each other, fled with the fleeing army to the upper valley, was placed in an orphanage, two sisters and brothers entered the school to study, in the selection of pro-soldiers Xian Yushun was selected, after layers of training and selection, and finally passed the assessment, became an excellent pro-soldier, once did a horse exploration, in training and actual combat have outstanding performance. was appointed as a prince, and many times Ouyang Xuan asked him to become a general in the army, but he politely declined. Willing to be a small soldier in the pro-military camp. He, like other generals who came out of the pro-military camp, continued to enjoy the treatment of pro-soldiers and enjoyed the benefits of hail energy, and his sister Xian Yumei married the secretary of the Ministry of Rites of the current dynasty.
When he heard that the Wei Qing army was camped with the valley cluster, Xian Yushun thought of the two valley annihilation battles in the Xiongnu. But he didn't want to use fire, but in a more ruthless way. Ordered people to go to the surrounding herdsmen's homes to buy a large number of yak cattle with grain, and each cow had several steel knives tied horizontally on its legs and backs, and the most important thing was that two delayed seals and 1 medicine bag were tied to the back of the cow. A loud firecracker was tied to the tail of the ox. Taking advantage of the darkness, he sent elite soldiers to clear the surrounding Han army to explore the horses, quietly drove the cattle from the mountain road and trail to one side of the mountain beam, and then took 5,000 refined soldiers to attack the entrances and exits of the valleys on both sides at night, and arranged tens of thousands of jumping mines.
In the darkest hour before dawn, Xian Yushun ordered the firecrackers on the ox's tail to be lit, and the explosion sounded almost simultaneously, and the herd was overly frightened and rushed down the hillside, taking advantage of the terrain to speed faster and faster. When the firecrackers sounded, the Han army had already begun to reorganize its soldiers and horses to guard against stealing camps and robbing villages. When I saw the herd of yaks galloping outside the wall, it was too late to hide. The crazy bullock broke through the wall and began to collapse the camp, if it was just the mad cow herd it would be easier to do, and the sturdy steel knife tied to the cow could not stand it, the ditch and road that were originally used to prevent fire now provided a good road for the cattle to run in a herd, thousands of crazy cattle ran rampant in the Han camp, because the Han army was black and red, the bright red trim kept swinging, providing the cattle with more crazy anger. When the fish belly white appeared in the east, the crazy cattle herd had already turned the Han army camp upside down. There were countless casualties among the Han troops, and Xian Yushun, who watched the battle on the mountain beam, initially estimated that at least 30,000 people died in the bull running array. As the bull gradually calmed down, the explosive packet on the back of the killed bull exploded violently when the seal in the protective tube burned to the end. Due to the scattered running bulls in the crowd, the explosion covered almost the entire Han military camp, and the strong echo echoed repeatedly in the valley. When the smoke cleared, and then looked at the Han army camp, there was already a crater like the surface of the moon, full of craters caused by explosions. A hundred paces away, there were mountains of Han corpses lined up in a regular row, and the shock wave of the explosion blew these corpses into concentric circles with the ring pit. The loud sound of the explosion caused many Han soldiers who were not threatened by the explosion to bleed to death, and the miserable scene in the valley was like hell.
The other Chinese soldiers who watched the battle on the mountain beam were all vomiting wildly, and Rao had seen the more tragic Xian Yushun, and he was also vomiting. Forcibly enduring the discomfort in his abdomen, he ordered the regular 60 artillery to start bombarding. With the opening of the 60 cannon, the soldiers who could still stand in the Han army camp gathered on the north side of the mountain beam under the leadership of their respective princes and lieutenants, which provided a target for the second correction of the 60 artillery. After bombarding three rounds again, Xian Yushun ordered to draw an arc from both sides of the mountain beam and continue to return to Sanshuiguan from the path. The Han army, which had been assembled in the face of artillery fire, divided its troops into two routes and rushed towards the mouth of the valley from both sides. They were greeted by an even more brutal challenge, tens of thousands of jumping mines were constantly detonated, but in a short distance of 1,000 steps, nearly 80,000 Han soldiers fell, and the wounded soldiers who fell to the ground caused thunder jumping one after another, and so on repeatedly, and finally less than 20,000 Han troops came out of the valley alive. After three rounds of blows, the 200,000-strong army was finally assembled with just over 30,000 left, and the wails of the wounded soldiers made morale even lower.
Wei Qing, whose leg was scratched by shrapnel, looked lonely, and attacked China several times in his life, all of which were defeated by unknown young generals. Looking at the remnants of the soldiers, Wei Qing pulled out Liu Che's imperial sword in his waist and wanted to commit suicide, but was hurriedly pulled down by the soldiers next to him. Wei Qing, who was already old, was even weaker and ordered the withdrawal of troops back to Gaoping. Here, the Han army had just retreated south, and Xian Yushun led 10,000 Chinese soldiers to follow and kill. Under the pursuit of strong bows and crossbows, there were less than 10,000 Han troops left alive to Gaoping, and Wei Qing finally followed his wish and was killed by random arrows.
When the news of the near-annihilation of the Northern Fifth Route Army reached Chang'an, Liu Che was holding an internal small court meeting in the side hall. When he heard the fast horse urgently, he sat down and stepped on. When Ouyang Xuan received the news, he was on the march, he just smiled and scolded: "It's all ruthless enough, why don't you have to leave some soup for the reinforcements", the rewards after meritorious service have always been abundant in Huaxia. When Huyan Leopard received the news, he almost didn't squirt out the milk tea he was drinking, and there was not even a slag in the two directions of his reinforcements, and when the military order was not changed, he still had to reinforce according to the military order. Peng Fei was full of confidence and thought of a plan to annihilate 100,000 Han troops, but when he received the news, he scolded Zhao Meng for not being a human being, and that a defense could completely annihilate the enemy army, and he didn't even leave a single soup left, so he could only continue to march to Shangshui Pass according to the military order.
Ouyang Xuan marched to Sanshui and issued a reward order, and at the same time ordered Huyan Leopard to attack from Shanggu and occupy the area north of Liang State and Yingchuan County; Peng Fei sent troops from Shangjun to occupy Taiyuan County, Shangdang County, and Hangu Pass, cutting off the connection between Chang'an and Luoyang, echoing with the Huyan Leopard of Yingchuan County and besieging Luoyang. Ouyang Xuan planned to come to Chang'an City this time to mourn for Liu Qi.
According to Ouyang Xuan's orders, all the military horses in China attacked the city all the way, and the power of the fire 1 weapon was not something that the Han army could resist. Ouyang Xuan led the Yulin Army and marched to the foot of Gaoping City, before Ouyang Xuan attacked, the county magistrate of Gaoping surrendered the city. Advancing all the way, under Chencang City, Ouyang Xuan used artillery to blow up the city wall, and was the first to rush to the gap. The sword was used together to clear a vacuum for the follow-up Yulin Army. General Chen Cang was the reinforced Zuo general Xun Yu, a tiger general under Liu Che, who saw Ouyang Xuan coming single-handedly and led thousands of Han troops to kill. In order to prevent injury to 1 horse, Ouyang Xuan jumped down from the horse, holding a long sword in his right hand, holding a knife in his left hand with a backhand, slashing left and killing right, using both swords and swords, killing a vacuum, Xun Yu held a long sword on the horse, and the horse galloped over. Before he got close, he bent down and slashed at Ouyang Xuan from the bottom to the top, Ouyang Xuan didn't pay attention to it, after stabbing down a soldier, he kicked up a wall brick with his foot, and went straight to Xun Yan's right shoulder, the strength was very strong, when there was a bang, Xun Yan was hit in the shoulder, the long sword in his hand fell to the ground, saying that it was too late and that was fast, Ouyang Xuan turned around, and after the shield in his left hand blocked the attack of several spears, the long sword brushed over Xun Yu's horse's belly, piggybacking on Xun Yan's right leg, and the horse fell to the ground after less than five steps. At this time, the soldiers behind had already arrived, in a group of five, quickly cleaning up the surrounding Han soldiers, Ouyang Xuan walked to Xun Yu who was struggling to get up from the horse, the blade was on his neck, his wrist shook hard, the sword blade forward, and the sword flashing with a cold blue cold light quickly passed through Xun Yan's neck. It's a pity that Xun Yu's talent, originally Ouyang Xuan was also a Yulin captain trained in the Han Dynasty, because of his family reasons did not move north with Ouyang Xuan, and was later reused by Liu Che as the left general, originally in history he and Yang Fu went to North Korea, the first fiasco, the second time due to internal reasons in North Korea to occupy North Korea, because of the merit of the private capture of Yang Fu was killed by Liu Che. The main general was killed, and the Yulin army took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and occupied Chencang in less than an hour. After a little rectification, he went to Chang'an to cover up.
In Chang'an City, Liu Che completely messed up this time, Wei Qing was killed in battle, Hangu Pass was lost, Changsha Kingdom in the south fell, the king of Changsha fled north to Runan, and the soldiers pointed directly at the Lujiang River. In the southeast, the Guangling Kingdom was lost, the king of Guangling was killed, Linhuai, Surabaya, Jiujiang and other counties fell one after another, and the troops pointed directly at the line of Lu'an and Lujiang. In the northeast, Zhongshan first fell, the king of Zhongshan fled to Luoyang, Hejian country, Bohai County, Zhending country, Changshan County, Xindu County fell one after another, the soldiers pointed directly at Qinghe and Pingyuan County, and the west two roads of people and horses all the way to capture Tianshui County, south successively captured, Wudu, Jiange Pass, the soldiers were divided into two roads, one way pointed to the counties of Shudi, the other way to capture Hanzhong and went straight to Nanyang, Ouyang Xuan personally led the way, captured Gaoping, Chencang and other dangerous passes, straight to the right to support the wind, the soldiers have reached Xianyang City. Now Liu Che has no troops to send, and all the 50,000 Gate Feather Forests have been lost under the Sanshui Pass. There are still 100,000 southern troops who have been pinned down and Hangu Pass, and all other troops have been lost. There were only 50,000 northern troops left in Chang'an City, and there were 5,000 garrisons in Xianyang.
After two days and two nights of negotiations with Liu Che, the princes of the court and China had to send envoys to ask for peace. Liu Che was very helpless, not that the Han army was not strong, but that the opponent was a little super strong. It was able to quickly extinguish the Xiongnu and force the Xiongnu to move westward, and it only took one year to incorporate the countries of the Western Regions into the territory. Not to mention the soldiers, I don't know what method Ouyang Xuan used, all the generals under him are generals who can fight well, and a battle to defend the city can be turned into a battle to annihilate the enemy, and Ouyang Xuan's firearms are used perfectly. Firearms, the Han army is not without them, Ouyang Xuan left a lot of firearms for the Yulin Army back then, but those Han generals denounced those weapons as flood beasts that lost the dignity of soldiers, and they have always refused to use them. Xun Yu originally brought a lot of explosives and rifles this time, but he was killed before he could use them on the battlefield, and the whole army was wiped out.
Ouyang Xuan met with the envoys under the city of Xianyang, and had no opinion on the negotiation and Ouyang Xuan, and the condition he put forward was that the Han family would call the ministers and pay tribute in the future, and at the same time mourn for Liu Qizheng's name, and draw the river in the south as the boundary, and the north along the Great Wall as the boundary. After several round-trips by the messenger, Liu Che finally had to agree to all the conditions. In December 112 BC, two months after Liu Qi's death, under the supervision of Ouyang Xuan's heavy troops, he was buried for Liu Qi's scenery, and was called Emperor Xiaowen. From beginning to end, Ouyang Xuan refused to see Liu Che. After 49 days of filial piety for Liu Qi in Yangling, Ouyang Xuan returned to Xia Gu with the soldiers and horses. People from all walks of life also withdrew to the headquarters one after another with fruitful results. The world has returned to its former tranquility, but the clouds have always shrouded Liu Che and shrouded the Han family.
Liu Che ordered the formation of a new army in July 111 BC, recruited men aged 18 to 40 from all over the country, and used Luoyang, Runan, and Xianyang as bases to find the old people of the original Yulin Army, and trained the new army according to Ouyang Xuan's previous training method of the Yulin Army. Although it was strongly opposed by the Confucian scholars in the court, he emphasized benevolence, righteousness and morality in the court, and he must convince people with reason and morality. Liu Che was furious, and he punished several people before he stopped the wind of persuasion. The new army also officially began to be put into training, and the original Yulin soldiers who were left behind have been greatly improved, and Ouyang Xuan's operational concept and tactical thinking have been fully implemented to every soldier. In December, Liu Che ordered the selection of 200,000 elite men to form the Dingfeng Army, stationed in Xianyang, and the northern and southern armies finished to defend Chang'an. At the same time, he secretly sent more than a dozen henchmen to Huaxia University in Xia Valley. He ordered people to find soldiers who had participated in the attack on China, recorded the battle process in detail and in detail in the vernacular used in Huaxia on paper rarely used in the Han court, and repeatedly studied with the newly appointed generals, and summed up a set of countermeasures. He also began to organize some craftsmen to study the art of gunpowder, and purchased firecrackers and fireworks from Huaxia in the hands of merchants and used them as raw materials for repeated research. It was originally a secret research, but it was made public by a small explosion in the workshop, and was strongly opposed by Confucian scholars, who demanded that the court should stop offering on the grounds that the art of gunpowder was against the way of heaven and was a strange * ingenious technique, and it was not allowed to enter the hall of elegance. This time, it was only under Liu Che's strong order that Confucianism shut up, but the people scoffed at this craftsman who developed the art of gunpowder. As a result, there were fewer and fewer people engaged in gunpowder, and finally there were only a few craftsmen left to make a living. This is also a major reason why the development of gunpowder has stagnated after the Song Dynasty, and Confucianism believes that gunpowder is against the way of heaven.
When Ouyang Xuan returned to Xia Valley, he still handed over the power to the crown prince, and took Du Liba and his own soldiers to patrol everywhere. At present, the railway and highway networks have completed the construction of the backbone, and the branch lines are being built. The construction of the section of the Western Great Wall from the Ural Mountains and the section from the Caspian Sea to the Ural Mountains has been completed, and the section from the Caspian Sea to the coast of the Arabian Sea is being constructed. The Great Wall is 50 meters high, and it is made of heavy mountain stones that are hoisted, and it is 40 meters wide, so it can easily run 1 horse. Originally, he planned to use the Caspian Sea as a defensive barrier, but after reading it, Ouyang Xuan decided to build the Great Wall on the east bank of the Caspian Sea, so that the north and south of the Great Wall could be connected. Facilitate defense, set up permanent fortifications and artillery bases at important passes. It seems to be Ouyang Xuan's handiwork, but it has made a great contribution to resisting European invasion in the future.
In the southern states, due to the improvement of climate and living conditions, the population has increased dramatically, and there are now three cities with a population of one million and more than 100 cities with a population of 100,000. The city of Tattoo in the state of Ma 1 (present-day Indonesian archipelago) is already the core city in the south, with a population of 2 million. In the whole of Huaxia, Ouyang Xuan only allowed Chinese language teaching, and children under the age of 15 must be proficient in Chinese and Chinese in order to enjoy various benefits. Intermarriage between ethnic groups is encouraged through taxation. After years of development, the entire Chinese country has a population of 50 million, distributed in Eurasia, Australia, Massachusetts, Kezhou (New Zealand), and Songzhou (Philippine Islands). After a round of inspection, it was the autumn of 110 when I returned to Summervalley City.
briefly inquired about the prince's state affairs, focusing on Liu Che's activities, and when he heard that Liu Che was training the new army, he just smiled. He ordered the border garrison to take strict precautions and not to send troops without authorization, and ordered the prince to move the population of the occupied counties of Wuling, Changsha, Yuzhang, Danyang, and Huiji to the south to Guangdong, Guizhou, Minzhou, and Dian Prefecture, stop building infrastructure, and destroy those that had been built. Looking at the confused prince, Ouyang Xuan said slowly: "After all, we are the people of the Han family, and it is also the right thing to leave some face for the Han family." To build a Great Wall across the east and west of Lingnan as a frontier for the future". "It's just that the father and the emperor have made all the counties rich in grain, so I am afraid that the courtiers will not want to give it up."
"If you have nothing to do, you can do what I want, and I will be responsible for the construction of the Great Wall, and there is no need to work for the people." "No, son-in-law will do it."
"You have been this prince for a long time, and in a few years, when the state affairs are stable and the foundation is perfect, I will give you this throne. It's just my pro-army, and I have to keep it."
In 105 BC, in the thirteenth year of Huaxia, Ouyang Xuan, without warning, took the Zen throne and the crown prince Ouyang Hong. With the queen and 20,000 Yulin troops, he disappeared from the Huaxia Kingdom. In accordance with Ouyang Xuan's requirements before leaving, the country name is still used and cannot be changed. When the news reached the Han court, the Chinese martial arts of the DPRK were all overjoyed and asked for battle to attack China. Liu Che was even more excited, under the strong pressure of Ouyang Xuan for more than 20 years, he didn't dare to breathe. Now that Ouyang Xuan is in the position of Zen on his own, how can he not be excited, and immediately arrange a plan with the new generals to send troops, and a new ** battle is about to begin.