Chapter 255: The Huns Escape

The Huns retreated, they abandoned the grain and grass they collected, abandoned the plundered Han slaves, and even abandoned the cattle and sheep brought from the north, most of the daily necessities of the Hun nobles were not taken away, the Xiongnu king's tent was burned, they only came to take away the women and children in a hurry, each accompanied by three horses, and the children over eight years old were tied to the war horses to follow, and left quickly in the night. +◆

The Han army only chased out fifty miles before withdrawing, and then to the north is the desert grassland outside the mouth, there are at least 50,000 Huns on the grassland to guard, they are the military ministers Shan Yuzhi ordered the reinforcements to go south to encircle the Han army, and before they had time to enter the mouth in a hurry, they bumped into the night attack of the Han army, and it happened to appear outside the mouth to camp and camp is simply the life-saving straw of the Huns.

It is impossible to fight all day to midnight with the physical reserves of the Han army, and then chase out and fight with the Hun reinforcements until dawn, even the strongest horses cannot run for sixteen hours without stopping, no matter how strong people are, they will be tired.

After fighting all day, 300,000 Han soldiers were sleepy and tired, and the cavalry just went around in a circle and hurried back, and waited until the army temporarily set up camp in the Xiongnu camp, at this time the sky gradually became white.

Cao Shi didn't sleep all night, counting the beheadings, collecting the loot, and checking the wounded was a top priority, and everything was inseparable from him, the chief general in the army.

The Huns left behind 8,000 corpses that died in the chaotic battle and fled in disarray, the Han army also paid a heavy price of more than 3,000 deaths, the losses were concentrated in the heavy damage on the two wings, the cavalry guarding the two wings of the northern army was very tired, neither the heavy armor of the Yulin cavalry nor the super physique, the training intensity and rations were even worse, and some cavalry still had night blindness.

At night when visibility is low. Exhaustion and obstructed vision were almost well-known wounds, and resistance to the royal tent cavalry, which had no night blindness, was low. Attacked by the barren rain of arrows, the morale was hit hard, and it was not a mess of porridge, but also the light of the Huns. The cavalry did not dare to go deep into the position of the Han army easily, for fear that the lone army would be retained by the Han army, and the spearhead that the Xiongnu relied on the most would quickly collapse as soon as it was lost.

Facts have proved that the caution of the royal tent cavalry is right, the rapid entry of the southern army makes the royal tent cavalry quickly retreat, only let the arrows shoot far away to maintain slight contact, the Huns will not expect that the combat effectiveness of the northern army on the opposite side is only less than fifty percent of the usual, even if the royal tent cavalry has seven tricks to guess that the northern cavalry combat strength is very poor, and they dare not rush indiscriminately, the black armored cavalry guarding the middle gate is still the fear that they can't erase in their hearts.

The close combat of the Huns was too poor, and the reasons of the times led to the lack of smelting technology of the Huns. With the help of craftsmen in the Western Regions, they can only make inferior iron knives, and most of the weapons of the Xiongnu herdsmen are short swords and daggers, which are okay with wolf defense on the grassland, and it is a pipe dream to use them to fight melee combat and kill people.

The losses of the Han army were not small, in the proportion of wounded soldiers, the losses of the chariot soldiers were the least, followed by the infantry and the cavalry, the infantry was sparse in number, and the gun arrays arranged were also very few, the main purpose was to block the main roads to intercept the defeated Xiongnu troops to run in the southeast and west three directions, and the routine of encircling the three ques and releasing the opportunity to live has been known for many years. Can't let the Huns feel that there is no way to escape and choose to fight to the death, that is 280,000 Hun cavalry, and the death battle will make the Han army follow to the end, and in the end, the snipe and clam compete for the benefit of the fisherman. Isn't it useless work?

The Yulin Cavalry was the least wounded of the various units, with only more than 100 killed in the raid and more than 1,200 wounded. More than ninety percent of them are very tricky arrow wounds in positions that cannot be taken care of by armor, and I have to say that the warriors of the Hun King are very powerful. On a night with poor moonlight and low visibility, he could aim at the black-armored cavalry two or three hundred meters away. It is also necessary to shoot the weakest part of the armor's protection, not only does it require extremely strong archery skills, but also good luck, and if you are unlucky, a thousand arrows will not hit the target.

More than 100 Yulin riders who died in the battle, most of them were shot by the warriors of the royal tent and died, most of them were shot into the neck with the weakest protection, the Mingguang armor did not match the neck armor, the hideous and terrifying black mask was equipped by the Han army, and the neck between the mask and the breastplate left a gap to become the breakthrough of the warriors of the royal tent.

Fortunately, Yulin rode the fastest, picked up the blue and black felt robe to cover the weakness of the neck, rode and galloped as much as possible to bend over and lie on the horse's back, and then the probability of being injured and killed was greatly reduced, only a few horses were unfortunately shot blind by the warriors of the king's tent and died, and most of the cavalry were safe and sound.

Cao Shi's requirements for the Yulin cavalry are low battle losses, rapid cultivation of hematopoietic extremes and soldier replenishment system, the death of a supplement to the speed of the fast run-in to be good, three months to basically meet the tactical training requirements of the cavalry, half a year to become a qualified Yulin cavalry, one year to have the quality of elite Yulin cavalry, these three standards he set for the Yulin cavalry, must be strictly implemented.

Sun Qi walked in, he was the captain of the guard of the shogunate of the chariot general, in addition to leading the Hou Mansion Doctor's Yulu, he could also legally get a piece of the Yulu given by the imperial court, and the elite guards of the Hou Mansion drew out two hundred people If the guard, Princess Yang Nobunaga specially selected three hundred people from the outstanding veterans who retired from the Northern Army to fill the personal guard for the safety of her husband, forming the five hundred guards of the Che Cavalry General.

"General, the total number of prisoners counted is three hundred and twenty-five, and they have no time to take away the wounded who have been forgotten on the battlefield."

"How disabling is it?"

"The serious injuries and disability have all been resolved, leaving behind the minor disabilities that can be recovered."

Sun Qi compared the action of cutting, the Han and Hungarian confrontation for 60 years, the only major war can be traced back to the siege of Baishan Mountain, the war Han and Hungary did not fight at all to reach a collegiate agreement, and then almost 60 years of basic peace to maintain, although the Xiongnu will launch a large-scale invasion every ten years, but every time the Han army goes out, the Huns are scared away.

This process can be understood as the Huns are afraid of the Han army, and the objective facts also prove that the Huns are indeed a little afraid, regardless of national strength, armament, technology, and population occupy an absolute advantage in a large and huge empire, and have a huge advantage in dealing with a backward and barbaric nomadic empire, but it is not that the Huns retreat represents a blind fear, and the Han people are very dissatisfied when they look at the Huns.

It's a bit like a play, I pounced on the air and only pounced on the air, retreated and was constantly harassed, and then I couldn't bear it anymore and pounced out again and again, for the sake of the overall situation of economic development, I endured the humiliation again and again, and finally endured it for more than 60 years, and the emperor of the Han family was unwilling to continue to be a turtle with a shrunken head.

Therefore, the Han army was particularly ruthless, many Huns who still had a breath were beheaded, and the seriously injured who had the possibility of treatment were mended, and the slightly lighter heavy disabled could not escape the mending knife, so that more than 300 people died by the mending knife.

"The lightly injured ones should be kept and sent to the Yulin Cavalry Camp for re-education, and it is necessary to pull these Huns out of the original camp and be loyal servants of the Han army, and persuade them to contribute to the overall pattern of permanent peace among the tribes, and not blindly become the lackeys of the Huns." Cao Shi gestured with brainwashing.

"Understand, we will try our best to educate, and it may take a little longer."

"Within three years, this is the limit of time I can tolerate, and if I feel that I don't have enough time, I will arrange for people to train around the clock, and I must screw them back."

Cao Shi sighed, after all, he crossed the threshold of the siege of Mayi, without him inserting a pole ghost to know what the siege of Mayi was collecting, whether the emperor who was full of self-confidence would be angry, and whether he would come up with strange new tricks because of the failure of the siege of Mayi, not only tossing the civil and military officials but also the people of the world.

Fortunately, with him, the emperor finally realized that fighting the Huns was not a family, not a large army to surrender to the wind, and the grassland desert in the north was very different from the tropical rainforest in the south.

Sweeping the preliminary statistical data, the melancholy between Cao Shi's eyebrows was swept away, and he immediately smiled happily, the Huns lost a lot this time.

The important resources such as grain, grass, population, gold and silver plundered by the Huns from Yanmen County, Yunzhong County, and Shanggu County for several months were all abandoned, and even the panicked Xiongnu nobles abandoned the Xiongnu army and ran out of the grain fields, and even the bureaucrats who destroyed the grain ran away, and it was a little difficult to expect the panicked Xiongnu nobles to remember that the grain was not burned at the critical moment.

It is not easy to think of relatives and women and children at a critical moment, Liu Bang retreated from the defeat of Pengcheng and fled all the way to safety, and once left the prince and Princess Lu Yuan in the carriage to protect themselves, but Xiahou Ying's temper was stubborn and he carried the sisters and brothers back to the carriage, and what grain, grass, armaments, cattle and sheep tents were all under control, and the Han army was close at hand, and he did not run but waited to be a prisoner.

The Huns played a thrilling escape, and in the middle of the night, they rode horses and fled desperately to the north, so they left behind two million cattle and sheep from Shan Yuting and Zuoxian Wangting, plundered 1.17 million stone corn from the people of Yanmen County, Yunzhong County, and Shanggu County, and miscellaneous pots and pans plundered back like scavenging, which looked like looted trophies from the homes of the people in the border counties.

The Han people in the border counties were very unlucky, cattle and sheep were robbed, grain stocks were robbed, pots and pans were robbed, gold and silver silk were also snatched away, and even their wives and children and themselves were robbed as slaves.

"Send people to contact Yanmen County, Shanggu County and Yunzhong County Taishou immediately, and ask them to bring the officials and household registration numbers, last year's tax payment information to Daying to take away their own county people, do things according to the rules and make up for the losses of all the border people, and the dead people must also pay pensions to the bereaved relatives, the people of the Han family can't just die in vain, protecting our people is the sacred duty of every Han official, if you can't do this duty, don't talk about loyalty to the Son of Heaven, don't talk about believing in Tai Yishen!"

Cao Shi put down his cruel words, he didn't believe that Yanmen was too guarded by Guan Fu, Shanggu was too guarded by Li Guang, and Yunzhong was too guarded by Cheng and dared to fool the people casually in front of the Han army.

The Huns went too panicked, the cattle and sheep left behind to save grain to the second, the gold and silver silk is the big head, especially the gold and silver extraordinarily, the currency of the Huns is not developed, up to the Xiongnu nobles down to the Hun herdsmen are still bartering life, gold and silver are purely in exchange for the valuable trading goods of the Han merchants, the value of gold and silver just shows that the initial military ministers Shan Yu has great flexibility in strategy, but was carried away by the initial victory before the defeat and loss.

"General! Your Majesty will come to the camp every day to inspect it, so please be ready to receive it. ”

Cao Shi took the messenger's report and sighed distressedly: "I should come or come." (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and faster!)