Chapter 52: The Hero
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In the fifty-second year of the Great Qin calendar, on September 26 of the second year of the Second Dynasty, because the reinforcements of the Jiuyuan Army arrived in advance, and the Xiongnu Shan Yu Maodun vomited blood and fell into a coma, under the order of the 30,000 elite Shan Yu and the chief of the 10,000 cavalry, hundreds of thousands of Huns who came in a hurry with 80,000 remnants of the army hurriedly escaped from the Wolf Juxu Mountain, all the way to the west.
It was also from this retreat that the Xiongnu nobles led by Mao Dun never returned to the holy land of the Huns, Langjuxu Mountain, and the Xiongnu were driven out of the steppe by the Central Plains people hundreds of years in advance and began to travel westward into Europe.
At the same time, it also marked the official inclusion of the vast grasslands and lands of the Wolf Juxu Mountain and the further north into the territory of Daqin.
This war, which lasted only four days, caused the worst casualties in Great Qin's foreign wars in recent decades. Among them, more than 60,000 were killed and more than 30,000 were wounded in the Donghu Department of Hu Zhong, the commander of Pingyi County;
And the Huns retreated in such a hurry that they didn't even have time to clean up the soldiers and wounded soldiers who died in the last battle. But in this battle alone, the Huns killed more than 5,000 people and wounded more than 4,000.
It can be seen that in this war, where the difference in strength between the two sides is not too great, even if the casualties of the Huns are a little better than those of Hu Zhong's Donghu, they will not be too different.
Meng Hao did not pursue Mao Dun, because he led the cavalry of the 10,000 Ninth Yuan Army to travel more than 300 miles in two days. With stirrups, saddles, and horseshoes, the cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army has increased its combat strength more than doubled, but on the one hand, the cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army is also exhausted, and on the other hand, the emperor did not order him to pursue the Huns.
Hu Zhong was really relieved after seeing the appearance of the Jiuyuan Army.
At this time, needless to say, the Donghu people also knew why Mao Dun would retreat, obviously because Mao Dun's scouts found that the Great Qin cavalry in the rear came to help, so they chose to retreat to save their lives at the critical moment when they were about to defeat the Donghu cavalry.
Although the Jiuyuan army is only 10,000. But the combat power of 10,000 people can fight even against 50,000 Hun cavalry. Because the Jiuyuan Army is not the Donghu cavalry. Not to mention the quality of the soldiers, just in terms of equipment, the gap between the two sides is very different.
On the surface, the armor and armament of the Jiuyuan Army and the Donghu Cavalry are no different or different, but only the craftsmen of Shangfang understand what is inside.
What's more, the Donghu cavalry did not have the most basic equipment of the Qin army, the Qin crossbow! Not to mention the large repeating crossbow machine, there are also no small hand crossbow Donghu cavalry.
The difference between the Qin crossbow and the bow and arrow of the grassland peoples is like the difference between the earthen artillery of the Qing army and the new cannon of the Europeans in later generations.
The appearance of the Jiuyuan Army made the gratitude of the Donghu people to His Majesty the Great Qin Emperor who was far away in Xianyang reach its peak in an instant. Although this war was actually given to them by the emperor.
But so what? For the first time, the Donghu people felt it. They are no longer the grassland people who live and die in pursuit of water and grass, but the safe and secure people of Daqin who live under the wings of the powerful empire of the Central Plains.
The Donghu people's sense of belonging to Daqin has also reached a new height because of this war. This was something that Hu Hai, the initiator, did not expect.
With the Jiuyuan Army here, the Donghu people, who had been worried for several days, were finally able to truly settle down.
Although many people died in the war, many more survived. The deceased is gone. The lives of those who are still alive go on. The Donghu people began to clean up the battlefield and looked forward to their future lives.
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Two hours after the Huns retreated, Mao Dun, who vomited blood and fell into a coma, woke up.
Regarding the matter of sub-procuring the army at a critical juncture, Mao Dun was naturally furious. But this thunder is loud and rainy. Even the basic punishment was not given to the Subu page.
The Xiongnu nobles, who had suffered a great loss of strength, couldn't help but wonder if they were embarrassed to order the withdrawal of their troops, and deliberately did so. Let the black cauldron be memorized by the Mustu Baba page, and then act as a good person yourself.
You know, if Mao Dun let his personal guard iron ride out on the first day, cooperate with the 150,000 attacking Hun cavalry. I am afraid that Mohuer would have been beheaded under the horse a long time ago, and now they are afraid that they are already sitting in the felt tent, enjoying the women of the Donghu people, drinking mare's milk wine.
This. The Xiongnu nobles did guess correctly. But it's true that Maudun vomited blood.
30,000 elite guards are the foundation of Maodun's life. How could Mao Dun take out the things he had made up for when his prestige was greatly damaged and the Hun nobles were all looking at him?
What's more, this trip to the south is called the capture of Wolf Juxu Mountain, in essence, it is not Mao Dun taking the opportunity to weaken the strength of the Xiongnu nobles who have already been a little disobedient to him
What did you do?
Only when the cavalry under the Xiongnu nobles is damaged, can their position be secured! This is something that Mao Dun knows better than anyone else.
After waking up, Mao Dun summoned a group of Xiongnu nobles before the already complaining Hun nobles did not react, of course, this convening was not to explain his mistakes, but to order all the young and strong people of each tribe to be gathered and placed under his own account to directly command.
Some people thought that Mao Dun was weakening the strength of himself and others, but they didn't expect that Mao Dun alone was so impatient that he started to do it on the way to escape.
Naturally, Maudun's order was resisted by most of the Xiongnu nobles. Everyone knows that Mao Dun is a desperate trick to play. Putting all the young men and women of each tribe under their own accounts is equivalent to putting all tribes under the Maudun clan. Without cavalry, there would be no capital to survive on the steppes. Who would want to?
The reaction of the Xiongnu nobles was expected by Maudun, but at this moment, 30,000 Maudun personal guard cavalry had besieged Maudun's big tent under the leadership of Subu.
When the fierce and vicious Mao Dun guards appeared in the big tent, all the Xiongnu nobles reacted at this time, perhaps from the time when Mao Dun used the cattle, sheep and women of the Donghu people to come to this wolf Juxu Mountain, Mao Dun had made all the preparations.
Regardless of whether the cattle and sheep and women of the Donghu people are theirs or not, at least the cattle, sheep and women in their tribe are now all a meal on the plate.
The bloody carnage lasted only a moment.
It was naturally impossible for Mao Dun to kill all the Xiongnu nobles, but since the Battle of Jiuyuan, he was extremely dissatisfied with Mao Dun, and secretly colluded with many Xiongnu tribes to overthrow Mao Dun and replace the Lan clan by Mao Dun.
The men were killed, and the women, cattle and sheep were all rewarded by Maudun to buy and appease the Xiongnu nobles.
Dead friends don't die poor!
With a cow, sheep and a woman in hand, she can still save her life, who will dare to resist Maudun? At first, the Xiongnu nobles handed over the few remaining cavalry of their tribe to the Maodun tent.
In the 52nd year of the Great Qin calendar, the Xiongnu Shan Yu Maodun used strong means to abolish the original restrictions between the Xiongnu tribes in the process of fleeing to the west, and integrated the Xiongnu tribe into a whole.
This rectification laid the foundation for the victory of the Xiongnu clan in the westward march in the future.