Chapter 251: Shiler's Choice

The Great Jin Dynasty was overwhelmed in various battlefields in the north and achieved great results. Except for Murong Diao and Tuyuhun, who had established a cooperative relationship with the Great Jin Dynasty earlier, all the Hu people entrenched in the north were all taught a hard lesson by the Jin army. Especially the artillery fire in the sky made the Qian, Xiongnu, and Xianbei people frightened.

Although the Hu people still have a certain advantage in terms of total strength, as long as anyone with a little insight can see clearly, the Hu people are destined to lose this northern war. As for what will happen in the end, it depends on the mood of the Jin people.

Especially in the battlefield of Bingzhou, since the elimination of the Xiongnu forces in Shangdang, the Xiongnu in the entire Bingzhou region began to become panicked. After a short period of recuperation, the Jin army launched a new offensive again on April 20 of the fifth year of Hongwu, and the focus of the Jin attack was on the three counties of Xinxing, Xihe, and Leping.

Not to mention the other two counties, Shi Le, who was stationed in Xinxing County, also frowned in the face of the menacing Jin army. Now in front of Shi Le, there are a full 20,000 Jin troops, and his own strength is only a little more than 60,000, of which 20,000 are the elites he recruited from the Qi tribe, and the rest are other Hu people to form the Hu coalition army.

Now, no matter how powerful Shi Le is, he will not think that he can stop the Jin army's hurricane with this little force in his hand, and with the Jin army's successive victories, the Hu people in Bingzhou have long been panicked. In the beginning, most of the Hu people thought that they could easily defeat the Jin people, but now it seems that the complete defeat of the Hu people is not far away.

"General, this is an urgent report from the front. The Jin army has captured Leping County, the county governor's office, and now half of Leping has fallen into the hands of the Jin army, and it will not be long before the Jin army will attack my Xinxing County. One of the eighteen horsemen, Kui An, walked into Shile's room with an urgent report. This Kui An was one of Shiler's early followers, a man of astute and brilliant talent, not only in military insight, but also in political affairs, and second to none in Shiler's work.

Because of Sima Shu's relationship, Zhang Bin, who helped Shile the most, not only did not take refuge in the other party, but defected to Sima Shu ten years in advance. This caused a fault line in Shiler's talent, and it was in this situation that Kui An became Shiler's most relied on subordinate.

"Alas, it's finally coming, back then, a certain and Ji Sang Mu Shuai thought that Hu people should be prosperous in the world. Only then did he decide to follow the Huns and prepare for a career. Who knows that the hegemony has not been achieved. Ji Sang Mu Shuai failed to succeed and was killed by the Han general Gou Xi in one fell swoop. Since then, the great cause of my Hu people has been declining day by day, and now it is even weaker. Even a tyrant like Shi Le said such depressing words, which shows how much pressure the fierce Jin army brought to the northern Hu people.

Kui An couldn't help but be gloomy when he heard this. No one expected that it would take about ten years. The general trend of the world has become clear and clear again. At the beginning, Emperor Hui ascended the throne. The heroes of the world are ready to move, especially the Hu people of all ethnic groups in the north, who are all ready to take advantage of the decline of the Han people's power.

But who would have thought. Since Sima Shu came to power, the Han people have regained their disadvantage little by little, and now they have completely gained the upper hand! Originally, the Hu people thought that it would be another situation like the early Han Dynasty, who would have thought that Sima Shu would become the 'Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty' in the blink of an eye, do you think this Hu people can not be depressed?

How can these Hu people understand the changes brought about by technology, if it weren't for Sima Shu's insistence on technological innovation over the years, I am afraid that the situation facing the Jin Dynasty today is not much better than that of the early Han Dynasty. Some people may be puzzled why Qin Shi Huang was able to defeat the Huns in one fell swoop after unification, but when he arrived in the Han Dynasty, Gaozu could only make peace.

Aside from the emperor's own talents, in terms of national strength alone, the early Han Dynasty could not be compared with the Qin State after unification. The population alone was more than four million less than that of Qin at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, plus Qin plundered a lot of money from the six countries after the unification, plus the army that had experienced a hundred battles, naturally there were rich people, and they had the ability to defeat the Huns.

But what about the early Han Dynasty? In addition to an army that has experienced a hundred battles, all that is left is the devastation after the war, and even if Qin Shi Huang is reborn in the face of this situation, he may not be able to do anything.

Similarly, the Western Jin Dynasty, which was also led by Sima Shu, was not much better than the early Han Dynasty, and even more critical than the situation faced by Liu Bang. In terms of population, the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty were even more unbearable than those of the early Han Dynasty, with a total population of more than 16 million and more than 2 million less than those in the early Han Dynasty.

In this situation, faced with the threat of nearly 8 million Hu people in the north, Sima Shu had to rely on technological innovation to make up for the gap in strength. The effect of this is very obvious, don't you see that more than 200,000 all-firearms Jin army beat more than 600,000 Hu cavalry troops to the point of urine?

"Kui'an, this is the will sent by the Great Khan, strictly ordering us to hold Xinxing County, ensure the safety of the rear of Taiyuan County, even if we can't hold here, we must fight with the Jin army to a single soldier." After Shi Le finished speaking, he casually threw this will aside, without the slightest respect, and as most of the annexed states fell into the hands of the Jin army, Liu Yuan's threat to the Hu people of the various tribes became smaller and smaller.

"General, not to mention the will of the Great Khan, what do you personally plan?" As Shi Le's henchman, Kui An naturally would not take Liu Yuan in his eyes, and their group of brothers were naturally headed by Shi Le, and they did not think about accompanying the Huns to their lives.

"Plans? What else can you do now? Shiler's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, worried about the situation in front of him on the one hand, and worried about his uncertain future on the other. As for the life or death of the Huns, even his subordinates did not care, let alone himself.

"General, how can the Great Khan do this to us? He's going to send us to death! In the past two years, our Qiang people have saddled up the horse for the hegemony of his Huns, even if there is no merit, there is hard work, I didn't expect the other party to calculate us so much! Kui An complained unhappily.

He was originally a Qian, and in the eyes of the Hu people, there is no saying that if he becomes an official of the Huns, he will die for the Huns, and their own fate is the most important. If the Huns inevitably perished in the end, then Shile and they would definitely abandon the Huns, and even step on a few more feet.

"It's useless to say this now, if you want to survive, you have to block the attack of the Jin army. You've always been resourceful, what do you think we should do this time? Shi Le looked at Kui An eagerly and asked.

"General, I have to tell you frankly, don't look at our reorganization, we also have nearly 100,000 troops. However, in the face of the fierce offensive of the Jin army, there was still no confidence in Xia. With a huge number of artillery, the Jin army can easily destroy all the defensive lines we have arranged. We are no match for the Jin people at all! If possible, let's surrender! Kui An replied with some frustration.

Since the defeated army of Leping State withdrew to Xinxing County, many Xinxing soldiers also learned from them about the 'powerful' of the Jin army, and many soldiers visited the tragic situation of the soldiers who were injured by the bombing. I have long lost the courage to confront the Jin army, if it weren't for the 20,000 Qiang clan elites riding on it, I'm afraid that the troops of Xinxing County would have dispersed long ago.

"Surrender? Do you think it's possible? As soon as he talked about surrendering Shile, he couldn't help but want to scold his mother, if it weren't for the fact that the Qian people were too much to oppress the Han people in Bingzhou, he would have thrown himself to the side of the Jin people, but unfortunately now he and the Qian people have no way out.

Listening to Shi Le's rhetorical question, Kui An couldn't help but be silent, even he himself had abused the Jin people, not to mention the others in the Eighteen Horsemen. Hu people like them would not end well even if they surrendered to the Great Jin.

"General, or let's escape! Since we can't defeat the Jin people, we might as well completely avoid the edge of the Jin army. After thinking about it for a long time, Kui An decided to come to life after death.

"Run? Where to escape? Of course, Shile also wants to escape from the dead place of Bingzhou, but the key is where to flee. You must know that there are hundreds of thousands of Qiang people behind him, and if he can't leave with his own people, even if he and his brothers escape, they will become rootless.

"General, in my opinion, if we want to escape, we must flee far away, at least not let the Jin army find out for a short time, so that we can recuperate." Since Kui An decided to escape, of course, he had already thought about everything.

"General, now that all the people of the Qianmen are concentrated in the northeast of Yanmen County, I think that the general can give up everything in the state, and immediately go north to Yanmen with 20,000 elite horsemen, and then lead the people out of the Great Wall to the north. After arriving at the grassland, the territory that passes through the southern part of Tuoba is the Mobei grassland, don't look at the strength of the Jin army, but the other party definitely does not have the strength to expedition the grassland in the north in a short period of time, this is our opportunity. ”

"Shhh In this way, even if the Huns in Bingzhou are completely finished, and our 10,000 cavalry of the Qian tribe left in Taiyuan County may not have a good result. Although Shi Le's heart was a little moved, he still looked reluctant in his mouth.

"General, those who do great things should be informal, in order to give nearly one million people of the Qiang tribe a chance to live, the sacrifice of the 10,000 Qiang cavalry in Taiyuan County is valuable."

"Alas, that's the only way, Kui'an, you go and find all the other brothers, and let's discuss the escape plan. And don't spread this matter to the outside world for the time being, especially not to let the Xiongnu generals in Xinxing County know. After making up his mind, Shi Le immediately played his true character, never dragged mud and water, and acted neatly.

"Please rest assured, in order not to make the Huns suspicious, we will also create the illusion of defending Xinxing County with great fanfare. Hehe, General, this time the custody will shock the whole world! I'm afraid that Jin Jun would not have thought that such a situation would occur. Kui Anxin turned around and went out satisfied, he wanted to plan carefully. For the sake of the Karma clan, he gave it up this time. (To be continued......)