Chapter 269: Maudun's Trail
Later historical books record this one that took place in August of the first year of Great Qin II, and it can be said that it was the last real war between the Xiongnu and Great Qin.
August 20 of the first year of Great Qin II.
The Xiongnu Mao Dunshan led 200,000 Xiongnu control soldiers and 300,000 Donghu servant cavalry, from the steppe south of Yinshan with a thunderous momentum, that night, 500,000 Xiongnu and Donghu coalition troops from the Great Wall into Jiuyuan, deep into the territory of Daqin.
August 23 of the first year of Great Qin II.
The Xiongnu and Donghu allied forces were in Linhe County, Jiuyuan County. The Jiuyuan army abandoned the city and retreated in order to preserve its strength, and the Huns occupied Linhe County without much effort, and wantonly looted the Linhe County that had been empty, and waited until the Xiongnu left, Linhe City was almost in ruins.
August 24 of the first year of Great Qin II.
Mao Dun led 500,000 Xiongnu and Donghu allied troops to Jiuyuan County to govern Jiuyuan City. After some temptation, the Jiuyuan army killed nearly 20,000 enemies, and the Xiongnu immediately withdrew their troops and stopped attacking. That night, several Xiongnu 10,000 teams left the Xiongnu camp in Maotun, crossed the Jiuyuan City, and went to Yunzhong and Yanmen to kill the generals.
August 25 of the first year of Great Qin II.
The Xiongnu and Donghu allied forces withdrew their troops from Jiuyuan City, bypassing Jiuyuan City and marching towards the location of Yunzhong County behind Jiuyuan. The 80,000 foot soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army and 40,000 elite cavalry soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army who were stuck in Jiuyuan City went out of the city and chased after the Maodun army.
An earth-shattering battle unfolded less than ten miles outside the city of Jiuyuan. In the past two hours, the 80,000 infantry soldiers of the original army withstood the 200,000 Donghu cavalry and did not take a step back.
The war was in full swing, and reinforcements from the Longxi Army arrived. Nearly 200,000 Donghu cavalry under the Xiongnu rebelled and attached to Daqin. Mao Dun led more than 100,000 remnants of the Huns to flee to the clouds.
It is said that the Great Qin Taibao, Jiuyuan Hou, and the great general Meng Tian led the emperor's personal army with 50,000 elite cavalry of the Vermilion Bird Army to Jiuyuan City, and hundreds of thousands of troops went out of Jiuyuan to chase and kill Maotun who fled to the clouds.
On the night of August 25 in the first year of Great Qin II, Wang Qian, the Marquis of Wucheng and the general of Suzaku led 20,000 Suzaku troops to defeat the 50,000 Xiongnu barbarians who fled to the direction of Yunzhong City, killing more than 10,000 people and capturing more than 30,000. The general Meng Tian personally led the Suzaku army to flee to the 50,000 Xiongnu barbarians in the western part of Yunnan under the command of the Xiongnu Zuo Da Danghu.
Longxi general Xin Sheng, led 50,000 Longxi elite cavalry, chalk battle for more than an hour, killed the Huns Mao Dunshan Yu personally guarded 10,000 cavalry Changlan Wanqi and more than 20,000 Xiongnu elite cavalry, captured thousands of Xiongnu barbarians, and the rest fled.
The Huns were alone and disappeared.
This happened in the northern frontier of Great Qin, and it was not until nearly 100,000 Xiongnu prisoners were taken into Guanzhong and sent to Xianyang City that it gradually became known to the whole world. At that time, more than a month had passed since the Great War.
And these 100,000 Xiongnu captives were delivered to Xianyang together with the emperor's protégé, the Marquis of Wucheng, and the Vermilion Bird general Wang Gan personally led more than 70,000 people of the Vermilion Bird Army and 100,000 Donghu troops to go deep into the grassland, and rushed thousands of miles to attack the holy land of the Xiongnu clan, and returned with a great victory and captured countless news.
If the capture of 100,000 Xiongnu barbarians is another great victory of Great Qin against the Xiongnu barbarians who have invaded the frontier for hundreds of years after a lapse of more than ten years, then Wang Qian's thousands of miles to attack the Xiongnu holy land of Wolf Juxu Mountain and capture countless victories and return is an unprecedented event in the entire Central Plains for hundreds of years.
The world is shocked!
Even King Zhao Wuling, Li Mu, Meng Tian and others, what they have done in the past hundreds of decades is only to expel or defeat the Xiongnu barbarians or nomadic tribes that are ravaging the frontier, and no one has ever been able to really go deep into the prairie and approach or figure out the holy land of the Xiongnu Wolf Juxu Mountain, let alone go deep into the Xiongnu and the Vermilion Bird Army for thousands of miles and go straight to the Xiongnu holy land Wolf Juxu Mountain.
Everyone has automatically ignored the 100,000 Donghu soldiers who followed Wang Qian as a guide.
The emperor's protégé, the Marquis of Wucheng, the Vermilion Bird General Wang Qian, and the Vermilion Bird Army were suddenly famous all over the world! If you add to the good news of the three major legions of Qinglong, White Tiger, and Xuanwu, which were led by the emperor himself as the absolute main force in the battle to quell the chaos in the south, the four legions built by Hu Hai have been completely well-known to the world.
The four of the Qinglong general Xu Chuang, the White Tiger general Du Teng, the Vermilion Bird general Wang Qian, and the Xuanwu general Weng Zhong gradually became the invincible generals recognized by the Great Qin military and even the whole world as second only to the great general Meng Tian.
It was precisely because of the incomparable performance of the four of them, especially Wang Qian and the Suzaku Army in the First Battle against the Xiongnu, that Meng Tian, who really commanded the 200,000 troops who completely annihilated the Xiongnu and entered the territory of Great Qin, lost a lot of color. Of course, this does not affect Meng Tian's position as the number one player today.
The unparalleled performance of the four protégés and the four legions created by himself also completely pushed His Majesty the Second Emperor of Great Qin to the altar.
Of course, that's all for later.
The elite count of the three fleeing Hun cavalry was 160,000 people, and in the face of Meng Tian, who gathered 70,000 Suzaku troops, 50,000 Jiuyuan troops and more than 200,000 Donghu troops, it was only a few hours before the whole army was wiped out, if you add the more than 10,000 Hun cavalry that were completely annihilated by Wang Qian around Yunzhong City and the 30,000 Hun cavalry that were defeated, it is equivalent to saying that the 200,000 troops who followed Mao Dun south are basically finished.
However, none of this matters. The most important thing is that the Xiongnu Shan Yu Maodun and hundreds of Xiongnu nobles have disappeared without a trace.
It doesn't matter how much the Hun nobles run, as long as Mao Dun can catch or kill. Now that the Hun army has been captured alive, the killing has become the military exploits of the Great Qin soldiers, and Morton is gone, how can Meng Tian explain to the emperor?
In fact, when Meng Tian's three-way army surrounded and suppressed the three fleeing Hun cavalry, the dragon guard of Jiuyuan City had already received three consecutive red letters from Xianyang. The contents of the three letters were similar, except that Wang Gan led the army deep into the grassland to rescue the Donghu clan who were detained by the Xiongnu, and ordered Meng Tian to capture or kill Mao Dun alive at all costs.
It's an edict, not an order!
Now in Great Qin, except for Emperor Hu Hai, basically no one can give orders to Meng Tian!
Therefore, when Meng Tian was cleaning the battlefield, the three edicts from Hu Hai had all been sent to Meng Tian.
In the endless wilderness of Yunzhong County, the thick darkness covering the heavens and the earth, the sound of fighting that resounded in the night sky, and the roar of horses' hooves that shook the sky, finally gradually fell silent.
The crescent moon with a crooked surname didn't know when it had quietly opened the dark cloud tent, revealing a bewitching figure with a sense of surname, and sprinkled pieces of pure moonlight like water onto the earth.
If it weren't for the pungent bloody smell that filled the air, it would be a beautiful moonlit night.
White tents appeared in unison on the vast wilderness under the moonlit night, as if they were about to fill the whole wilderness. Mercedes-Benz fought hundreds of thousands of troops all day, and after some indiscriminate dinner, they all got into the tents and fell into a deep sleep.
But in a huge tent in the middle of the camp, the lights were shining at the moment!
Dozens of generals at all levels above the rank of lieutenant gathered in this tent! Standing on the tent with his hands behind his back is the soul of the Jiuyuan Army, the Great Qin Taibao, the Jiuyuan Hou, and the Great General Meng Tian!
Looking at the vast area at the junction of Yunzhong County and Jiuyuan County on the map, Meng Tian's gray eyebrows were tightly wrinkled together. He'd been looking at the area for nearly a cup of tea.
Where the hell is Maudun? From which direction will it run away?
Meng Tian seems to want to find out from this map!
(To be continued)