Chapter 270: Big Victory!
Duan Wenyang is dead! Murong Diao is also dead!
The Xianbei people no longer have the heart to resist, they scattered and tried to escape from this nightmare-like battlefield, but unfortunately the enemy and us have long been you and me, I have you, if you want to retreat from the battlefield, how easy is it!
Even if the main force could not escape, there were still a small number of Xianbei people who did not have their lives to flee to the north or west. For these people, the Jin army did not intend to let go, and the light cavalry of the Xiang army was specially responsible for the Xianbei people who fled alone. Once the Xianbei people are caught up, there is no other way out but to be killed or captured.
The battle continued until the evening, and the Jin army was once again victorious, except for Qiyanlou who fled with thousands of cavalry, most of the main forces of Xianbei were killed by the Jin army. Even Murong Diao was defeated and killed because of this, and as soon as this battle that shocked Liaodong ended, it swept through Liaodong like a tornado.
When King Michuan learned of the defeat of 60,000 Xianbei cavalry and the killing of Murong Diao, the Goguryeo people who were still struggling immediately surrendered to the Jin army! At this point, the right flank of the Liaodong Jin army has completed most of the pre-war goals.
"Haha! Victory, finally victory! After this battle, in the entire Liaodong region, no one will be able to stop the advance of our Jin army! ”
Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, he finally put his heart in his stomach when he joined the army, and he couldn't help laughing after he relaxed. Although the final results have not yet come out, this time the Jin army has undoubtedly won a big victory again, completely inflicting a heavy blow on Murong Xianbei, and laying a solid foundation for the next plan.
The Murong tribe that crisscrossed Liaodong, and tens of thousands of troops gathered in Xiangping before. The momentum was amazing, but in less than a day, except for the Seven Difficulties Building that fled with 3,000 remnants of the defeated generals, the reinforcements sent by the two Xianbei departments, including the Duan clan and Yuwen, all disappeared.
At this moment, on the battlefield, the Xiang army is counting prisoners and cleaning up the battlefield. Although this battle was a big victory, the losses of Tao Kanbu were not small. However, the final battle damage. We will not know until we have specific statistics.
Until the time of the evening. Tao Kan only got the statistics prepared for the preparation, and the entire army lost nearly 8,000 people, of which 7,000 were killed or seriously wounded, and only more than 1,000 were slightly wounded. The Xianbei people launched a counterattack at the last moment, causing the Jin army to suffer a lot of losses. However, the loss of the Xianbei people is even greater. Among the 70,000 Xianbei people who participated in the war. Among them, as many as 25,000 were killed in battle, nearly 40,000 were captured, and less than 5,000 escaped the pursuit of the Jin army.
What's more, Murong Diao's death in battle is the biggest result of this battle. Therefore, compared to the results achieved, the losses of the Jin army were insignificant. Without Murong Diao, the strength of the Murong tribe will drop a lot. Murong Diao had already registered in the intelligence department of the Great Jin Dynasty, and before the war, Emperor Sima Shu repeatedly demanded that the other party must be caught.
"Haha, a big win! My lord, I have captured so many Xianbei people, and now I finally have an explanation to the court. Especially Li Fushangshu, in order to compete with other departments for prisoners of war, he filed a complaint in front of His Majesty. Looking at the black captives, I was very happy to join the army.
"Hehe, yes, Li Shangshu is making every effort to build the North-South Canal, and the previous tens of thousands of Sanhan prisoners were just a drop in the bucket for the huge manpower demand, and now tens of thousands of Xianbei people can finally relieve the temporary pressure." Tao Kan also smiled and nodded, at present, the most lacking thing in Dajin is labor, and the price of hired workers in various places is rising again and again, and now the beggar industry is basically extinct under the rule of the imperial court.
Soon, the news of Liaodong's victory spread quickly in various places with a gust of wind, and the Han people were naturally rejoicing, while the Hu people everywhere were like mourning.
In order to prevent the Xianbei captives from making trouble, the Jin army quickly distinguished the Xianbei nobles from ordinary soldiers. Those die-hard nobles were all dragged out by the Jin army and killed, and the remaining ordinary Xianbei people were all guarded in Xiangping.
Speaking of Xiangping, after the defeat of the Xianbei people, the Xianbei defenders in the city fled in a hurry, and then the Jin army easily took this important town in Liaodong.
The captives were imprisoned in the city of Xiangping, and when the time was right, they were sent to various parts of the Central Plains to do heavy and dangerous work such as road construction or mining, as a way to atone for their previous sins. As for how many people will survive in the end, it is not what the Jin army cares about.
With the continuous implementation of large-scale industrialization and large-scale manual work in the Great Jin Dynasty, the demand for labor in the imperial court also increased sharply. Especially with the implementation of national education in Dajin, more and more people have become scholars with status, which has caused fewer and fewer people to be willing to engage in manual labor.
Even though Sima Shu got the cabinet to raise labor pay and promote various benefits, it still failed to attract more people to manual labor. This caused the need for prisoners of war in the Great Jin Dynasty to be extremely hungry, and the use of prisoners of war could greatly reduce production costs. For example, if a project employs people from Dajin, it not only has to pay high salaries, but also is responsible for providing various welfare systems, which makes the labor cost often inflated.
Unlike prisoners of war, for Hu prisoners of war, employers do not need to pay anything at all, they just need not to starve to death, let alone provide welfare benefits. Since the Jin army transported prisoners of war to various parts of the Great Jin Dynasty several times, prisoners of war have now become the most popular coolies within the Great Jin Dynasty.
The next day, the Jin army, which had completed the preliminary rectification in Xiangping, did not stop, Tao Kan sat in the base camp, and commanded the Xiang army to take advantage of the panic in various parts of the Liaodong Peninsula to go to various places to recover the city. At the same time, the Marine Corps, which was in charge of the southern raiders, also accelerated the pace of action after learning the news of the victory in the Battle of Xiangping.
After a day and a night, Qiyanlou fled to the Great Thorn City with 3,000 defeated soldiers. When a group of remnants of the defeated army entered the Great Thorn City, it immediately caused panic in the entire city. When he set off, he was tens of thousands of horses, but when he came back, he didn't even have half of them, and more importantly, even Da Danyu was gone, how could this not make the Xianbei people panic?
By this time, all the Xianbei people realized that they had been defeated, and they had been defeated completely! Many small tribes and small forces that were once attached to the Xianbei people packed their bags and prepared to flee when the situation was not right. Especially those Wuhuan and other tribes, they secretly made a secret communication to the Jin army in Youzhou and threw flattering eyes again and again to show their loyalty.
The defeat of Xiangping led to the turmoil of the Xianbei army, and when they set out at Murong Diao, most of the Xianbei people felt that even if they could not defeat the Jin army, they would not be defeated. But now such an ending makes all Xianbei people full of fear of the Han people for the first time. Especially think about the Han people, in order to take revenge on the Huns, they slaughtered nearly 200,000 Hu people, and now when they think of the Jin army coming to the city, how can they not make Xianbei feel uneasy.
After Murong Han, who stayed in the Great Thorn City, saw the miserable Seven Tribulation Towers, he was stunned. I saw that his face was full of disbelief, and he grabbed the shoulders of the Seven Tribulation Towers with some gaffes, and asked while shaking: "Lord Changshi, is this ...... This...... What's going on? I...... What about my father Khan? Army? Why are only so many people coming back? ”
"Young master, my Xianbei clan is dead! Da Shan Yu has been killed in battle, and he let you inherit the Murong tribe. Qiyanlou looked at the young Murong Han and said in a choked tone.
"What? What did you say! Yes! After Murong Han heard the news that Murong Diao had died in battle, he screamed and fell to the ground.
"Young master! Young Lord! Everyone hurriedly helped him aside, and poured water and massaged him. Fortunately, Murong Han was just angry, and with the help of everyone, he slowly eased up.
"Long history, what the hell is going on? Why did our army come back with a defeat? Could it be that the people of the Duan clan are dragging us back? Murong Han couldn't accept the fact that there were only a few thousand people left in the tens of thousands of troops, so the first object of his suspicion was the people of the Duan clan, after all, the relationship between the three departments was not harmonious before, and who could guarantee that the other party would not secretly make ghosts on the battlefield.
"Young master, this time I don't blame the Duan family, their 10,000 people are basically exhausted, and even Duan Wenyang died on the battlefield. The main reason is that the Jin army is too powerful, and our three Xianbei are not their opponents even if they are united. Qiyanlou sighed.
Then Qiyanlou told Murong Han everything that happened on the battlefield in detail, of course, he focused on highlighting the power of the heavy cavalry of the Jin army, "Young master, have you seen it with your own eyes. The heavy cavalry were simply invincible, the cavalry and mounts were all armoured, and once they were charged, no class could stop them. ”
"Alas! The turning point of the battlefield occurred at the moment when the heavy cavalry appeared on the scene, and these heavy cavalry easily cut through the left flank of our army. Young master, if the Murong tribe rises again in the future, please be sure to develop heavy cavalry! "Seven Tribulation Towers couldn't help but tremble when they thought of those steel monsters.
"Young Master, now that the Murong tribe has reached the most dangerous time, Da Shan Yu asked us to pack up all the materials and quickly evacuate Youzhou, and even give up all the foundation and return to the foot of Da Xianbei Mountain with his troops to recuperate. Young master, Da Shan Yu is right, after this battle, there is no longer any force in the Liaodong region that can stop the Jin army's advance, we must avoid the enemy's edge, and only by fleeing away from the plug can it be possible to avoid the pursuit of the Jin army! ”
"Good! Just do what Father Khan said! Changshi, it's all up to you this time! "Although Murong Han is young, he can be regarded as experienced in a hundred battles, of course he knows that after the defeat, the entire Murong Xianbei is already under the front of the Jin army, if he doesn't make a decision again, I am afraid that he will really die.
At that moment, Murong Han didn't dare to delay any longer, and immediately asked people to pack up all the supplies and prepare to evacuate. At the same time, more and more Xianbei people learned the news of the defeat, which caused a panic among the Xianbei people in Liaodong, in short, all Xianbei people realized that their end had come! (To be continued......)