Chapter 20: The War of Merging States
The Huns can be said to have not underestimated the enemy, and sent 10,000 iron cavalry to exterminate the Han army, but their 50,000 army was still slaughtered by 3,000, and the 10,000 people had to face it but were fully prepared with 4,000 people, and the result can be imagined, less than two hours into the footsteps of the 50,000 army, and the death was extremely aggrieved, and the Shenwei battalion only lost more than 30 people.
The four men of Pang De, who had won a great victory, immediately returned to the Xiongnu royal court, and the four thousand troops arrived at the edge of the moon bubble only fifty miles away from the royal court in the evening, but they were not in a hurry to attack, but rested and waited, the purpose of which was to lure the enemy to take the initiative to attack, in order to achieve the purpose of breaking one by one.
At this moment, sitting in the royal court is Zuo Xianwang, one of the leaders of the Hu anti-Qiangqu people, and the second son of the former Xiongnu Shan Yu Qiangqu, the current puppet Shan Yu Xubugu. The two first got the news that the 10,000 army was completely annihilated, and before they could react to what was going on, the bad news came again, the 50,000 army of Tu Gehu was wiped out, and the king of Zuogu Li Tu Gehu died in battle, and the Han army was resting in place, ready to send reinforcements to attack the Han army in the royal court.
When King Zuo Xian heard this series of bad news, he immediately sat down on the bed with a pale face. The puppet on the side, Shan Yu Bugu, was full of schadenfreude, and couldn't help but sarcastically: "King Zuo Xian knows that he is wrong now, right? If you had supported my father and the king, and enjoyed the glory and wealth in An'an, how could my Huns come to this calamity? Now 60,000 troops have been destroyed, I heard that this Han army is fierce and abnormal, almost kill people when they see them, rob livestock when they see them, my Huns have always been favored by the gods, but now they have summoned such a catastrophe, and they are also guilty of waiting. β
"Shut up!" King Zuo Xian was furious, suddenly pulled out the short knife at his waist, and shouted: "The Han Dynasty has already suffered a great injury after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and it is no longer able to conquer my Huns, and the Han army is only lucky to win one or two battles." My Huns still have 100,000 iron cavalry to attack Bingzhou, and killed Zhang Yi, the assassin of Bingzhou, captured Yanmen, plundered its money and grain, if it wasn't for Xiliang Ma Teng's sudden troops, how could it have fallen to such a point? If Huangkou Xiao'er dares to talk nonsense again, this king will immediately behead you, and he will be set up as a single Yu in Naidi Tian Hukang. β
Xu Bugu snorted coldly and did not answer, and after King Zuo Xian asked the spy about the number of Han troops and the way they fought, his face was full of disbelief, and he muttered, "How is it possible? This is still difficult for my Hun cavalry to do, how can Han Dog do it? Could it be that the sky is going to die, and I can't do it? β
Xu Bugu was also shocked, if what the spies said was true, then the Hun cavalry really only had to be slaughtered, unless a large number of archers were prepared to fight with them on the spot, otherwise there was only a dead end.
At the time of life and death, the two did not care about grievances, and after careful discussion, they decided to let the remaining nearly 10,000 cavalry prepare bows and arrows, refuse horses and other things to stick to the royal court Dazhai, and then sent people to ask for help from the leader of the 100,000-strong army who attacked the state.
When Pang De and the four of them rushed to the royal court with their troops, they found that the Huns, who had always been arrogant, had become a shrunken turtle at the door of their homes, and no one was willing to go out of the village to meet the battle. In order to avoid excessive casualties, Pound decisively ordered to set up camp, and at the same time sent someone to ask Brother Pony for instructions.
The next time, Brother Xiao Ma was on his way to enter the royal court when he encountered a scout who delivered the news, and after finishing the situation, he couldn't help but sneer, and said to himself: "Do you want to be a turtle with a shrunken head?" Lao Tzu has to let you jump out of the turtle shell automatically! Then he shouted: "Pass the order, the army will advance at full speed, be sure to meet General Pang and others before dark, and kill them tomorrow." β
But it was said that Baima Tong, who was attacking Bingzhou, was also shocked when he suddenly got the news that the backyard was on fire, and the battle ahead was going well, and he had captured Yanmen, the land of the two emerging counties, and Zhang Yi, the assassin of the state, was killed. If it weren't for the fierce generals under the command of the new Bingzhou Assassin Shi Dingyuan, I'm afraid that the Bingzhou would have already changed hands.
When asked to understand what happened, not only did Bai Ma Tong not believe it, but the other Hu chiefs also didn't believe it, but King Zuo Xian personally wrote the letter here, so they couldn't believe it. The chieftains discussed and decided to divide the troops to rescue the royal court, after all, it was the base camp of the Southern Xiongnu, and the jewelry, gold and silver and other valuables plundered by the Xiongnu for many years were left in the royal court, and there was absolutely no room for loss.
At that moment, Bai Ma Tong led an army of 50,000 to continue to attack Bingzhou, and Hu Chief Huhan led 40,000 cavalry back to the royal court.
You must know that although the Xiongnu are menacing and capture the land of the two counties, Zhang Yi is not a vegetarian, and decisively implemented the tactics of clearing the wilderness, except for the three counties that were burned and plundered by the Xiongnu at the beginning of the war, the people of other counties have withdrawn into the hinterland of Taiyuan County and Jinyang County. The Huns who did not have much grain and grass could only feed the war with war, and only by constantly attacking could they obtain money and grain to maintain the consumption of the army, at this time 70,000 iron cavalry were stationed in Taiyuan County, and attacked Taiyuan County several times without success.
As soon as the 40,000 troops left, the new Bingzhou Assassin Ding Yuan got the news, and combined with the rumors from these two days, Ding Yuan immediately concluded that the backyard of the Southern Xiongnu was on fire. It is likely that the Xiliang army, which invaded the Xiongnu, won a great victory, and even threatened the Xiongnu royal court, so that Baima Tong had to be saved.
After Ding Yuan discussed with the military officials under his command, he decided to take advantage of the unstable heart of the Xiongnu army to send troops to attack the camp. At that time, Lu Bu, Zhang Liao, and Hou Cheng were each sent with 5,000 wolf cavalry to attack the Xiongnu camp, and personally led Gao Shun, Cao surname, and Wei Xu to attack Yanmen and Xinxing County with 30,000 foot soldiers.
The 40,000 Xiongnu army had just walked a short distance on the front foot, and that night, Lu Bu, Zhang Liao, and Hou Cheng led troops to attack the camp. The strength of the two sides was already equal at the moment, but Bai Ma Tong was not well prepared and the army was unstable, and as a result, he was defeated in the hands of Lu Bu, and he almost lost his life under Fang Tian's halberd, and after losing 5,000 cavalry, he decided to retreat to Xinxing and hold on.
LΓΌ Bu then covered up and chased to Xinxing City, and Bai Ma Tong joined the 3,000 cavalry defending the city in the city, closed the city gate and held it. Lu Bu's troops are all cavalry, and the cavalry is not good at attacking cities, so it is helpless to take white horse bronze for a while. Fortunately, not long after, Ding Yuan, Gao Shun and others led 30,000 infantry troops to arrive.
The army began to attack the city after resting, Xinxing was originally a small city, and the walls were low, not to mention that even the moat was about to be filled with mud and sand. The Hun cavalry, who were good at field battles and long-distance attacks, did not know how to defend the city at all, and only lasted for half a day before abandoning the city. The army then covered up and killed, and after several battles, there were casualties on each other. The white horse Tong, who had lost the advantage of troops, saw that he could not conquer Lu Bu's Bingzhou wolf cavalry, and there was no food and grass supply, so he could only give up the land he had gained, and decided to withdraw his troops to return to the royal court.
If it weren't for the butterfly effect brought by Little Pony, I'm afraid the Battle of Merge would have ended here like the original history. But now that Xiliang Tie is riding on the grassland, and even the Huns have to be rescued, Ding Yuan is not a fool, how can he give up such a good opportunity for revenge. At that moment, Gao Shun was ordered, Wei Xu and others recovered the lost territory and appeased the people, and he took Lu Bu, Zhang Liao, and Hou Chengsan to lead more than 10,000 wolf cavalry to chase and kill the Hun cavalry while taking advantage of the victory, and went straight to the Hun court to kill. Vowed to join forces with the Xiliang army that was fierce on the grassland to attack the Xiongnu iron cavalry, wound its roots, and make it unable to invade the state.
But it was said that Brother Xiao Ma led the army to the royal court and Pang De, and after the four of Wang Shuang rendezvous, they did not attack the royal court, because the Huns defended Dazhai with bows and arrows, and if they attacked, even if they could take it, they would lose most of it.
After thinking about it carefully, Xiao Ma Ge decided to encircle the point to send reinforcements, on the one hand, he sent a large number of scouts to pay attention to the Hun cavalry in the direction of Bingzhou, and on the other hand, he sent Ma Dai, Meng Da, Wang Shuang, and Ma Tie to continue to burn and loot in the prairie, and hurt the vitality of the Huns as much as possible. And he took Pang De, Ma Xiu and 3,000 cavalry to besiege the Xiongnu Wangting Dazhai, neither attacking nor retreating.
In this way, it was cool, and the Hun cavalry in Bingzhou was more than 1,000 miles away from the royal court, and it would take two to three days for the cavalry to rush with all their might, plus the time when the messenger was on the road, and the cavalry of the Xiongnu who returned to the palace did not arrive near the royal court for 400 miles until the fifth day. And in the past five days, Xiao Ma Ge's Shenwei battalion killed the Huns within 500 miles around the royal court, and Ma Teng sent 10,000 receiving troops to rush over, and the Shenwei battalion, which had no worries, became more and more crazy.
In fact, it is no wonder that the population of the Southern Xiongnu at that time did not exceed 1.5 million at most, except for the 100,000 cavalry who attacked Bingzhou and the 60,000 cavalry who were annihilated by the Shenwei battalion. The rest of the tribes scattered throughout the grassland are basically composed of old and young women and children, and the elite cavalry is still no match for the Shenwei battalion, and these old and young women and children naturally only have to be slaughtered.
As a result, tens of thousands of livestock, Han slaves, and Xiongnu women were taken to Xiliang in batches, and it is conservatively estimated that at least 300,000 Huns died under the butcher's knife of the Shenwei camp. Of course, in order to alleviate the negative impact of the killing of soldiers, Xiao Ma Ge is still very humane, and selected a lot of young and somewhat beautiful Hun women from the captives to form a temporary military battalion of 1,000 people (the reason why Xiao Ma Ge dares to do this is also grounded, because in Chinese history, the military record appeared in the Western Han Dynasty during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Although it was not too popular at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was by no means a miracle! οΌγ Soldiers must not be annihilated when they go into battle. Silver Hun women, but the team that gains the most after returning in the evening can go to the Junji camp to release it to their heart's content.
This move immediately aroused the cheers of the soldiers of the Shenwei Battalion, and the Shenwei Battalion had to leave 3,000 people to sit in the royal court, and the remaining 4,000 people went out to burn and loot. Since the establishment of the military camp, the soldiers have rushed out to fight, and several commanders have no choice but to draw lots to decide, those who catch it are elated, and those who can't catch it are depressed.
Of course, there were also soldiers who ignored the military order, stripped off the clothes of the Hun women in the process of going on the expedition, and did things that should not be done. As a result, Brother Xiao Ma was furious, and dozens of soldiers were beaten with sticks, and the flesh and blood of the beating were blurred, and then he returned to Xiliang with the follow-up troops to be injured.
For this reason, Brother Xiao Ma also specially gathered the soldiers together, and said in front of dozens of people who were beaten with military sticks: "Brothers of the Shenwei Battalion, it's not that I, Ma Mengqi, am unsympathetic and unreasonable, but in fact, we are soldiers, the officers and soldiers of the Han Dynasty, we are not thieves, let alone bandits." Soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty, you burn, kill and loot are done according to orders, with a clear conscience, even if there is infamy, I will bear it alone, but you will annihilate. The silver woman is not right, sending troops to the Huns is only our first step, and we will also put down the chaos in the territory of the Han Dynasty in the future. The silver Hun woman will be able to be annihilated in the Han Dynasty. Silver Han woman, in this way, won't I, Ma Mengqi, become a sinner?"