Chapter 119: The Sorrow of the Evil King
The Battle of Hexi came to a complete end with the battle at the foot of the Qilian Mountains.
Huo Qubing led the army to repair at the foot of Qilian Mountain for two days, led the army to return to the court, this time the Han army recovered the entire land of Hexi in one go, and destroyed the living forces of the Xiongnu in Hexi, but ..... Although Huo Quai's army achieved great results, the performance of the rest of the Han armies was unsatisfactory.
Gongsun Ao did not participate in the final decisive battle because he lost his way.
Li Guang and Zhang Qian, who went to block the reinforcements of King Zuoxian, also suffered great losses.
Especially Li Guang's department, because the distance from Zhang Qian's army on the right wing was too far, resulting in the opportunity to be caught by King Zuoxian, a full 40,000 Xiongnu elite cavalry surrounded Li Guang's 4,000 cavalry, if it were not for Li Guang's good fight, and Zhang Qian led his troops to come to aid in time, Li Guang's 4,000 people are estimated to be eaten by King Zuo Xian in one fell swoop.
But Rao is like this, Li Guang and Zhang Qian also paid the price of thousands of lives before they could withdraw to the Han Dynasty, while the loss of King Zuo Xian was only half of that of the Han army.
It's a big defeat.
However, when Li Guang was surrounded by King Zuoxian, there was a young man's performance was very conspicuous, when the army was surrounded, he led dozens of cavalry to rush out of the battle formation, all the way to fight, and successfully killed back in front of Li Guang, not only that, this young man also patted his chest and told his father, telling those Han soldiers who were already desperate, "The Huns are not enough." ”
It was precisely because of his heroic performance that the morale of the army was stabilized, and Li Guang's troops were able to hold on to the moment when Zhang Qian led the army to help.
This young man is Li Guang's son, that is, ....... Li Kang.
Although the Han army did not achieve all the victories this time, the victory of Huo Quai's army has already determined the overall situation, Hexi returned to the embrace of the Han Dynasty, after that, the Han army can go out of Hexi anytime and anywhere to attack and kill the main army of the Mobei Xiongnu, and also opened the road to the Western Regions, it can be said that the Silk Road was opened by Huo Quai.
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The First World War in Hexi, the Second World War in Hexi, and the two major wars in succession, Huo Quzhi, a nineteen-year-old boy, has completely become the god of war in the eyes of the Huns, and under Huo Quzhi, a man who their Huns cannot defeat for the rest of their lives, all the Huns finally understand a fact thoroughly.
The days of and peeing on the neck of the Han Dynasty and bullying at will are gone, in the hands of this young god of war, the Huns, the general trend is gone, they will be defeated, they will die!
Because of the loss of the Hexi Plain, those Huns who were five big and three coarse, and did not leave any precious culture, actually sang a lamentation that has been passed down for thousands of years under the sharp sword of Huo Quzhi.
"The death of my Qilian Mountain has made my six animals restless; Lose my Yanzhi Mountain, so that my women have no color! ”
The Huns who wept bitterly, the king of Hexi who was full of despair, everyone felt a deep fear of Huo Quzhi, a young man who was born out of nowhere, and they were afraid from the bottom of their hearts!
The day of destruction is not far off.
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After the end of the Hexi War, Huo Qubing was ordered to lead the army back to Chang'an, this time, Huo Qubing walked very slowly, along the way with the army under his command to enjoy the scenery of Hexi, walked for about ten days, Huo Qubing came to the Yellow River, but when he led the army across the Yellow River not long after, probably only a day later, Huo Qubing suddenly learned a news.
At the moment of learning the news, Huo Qubing immediately ordered that the army stay where it was, and there was no need to continue to return to the court.
And he himself rode a wind-chasing BMW that could travel hundreds of miles a day to rush back to Chang'an, this time, Huo Qubing did not bring any personal soldiers and soldiers, because their war horses could not keep up with him.
It is unimaginable that Huo Quai, who was still more than 1,000 miles away from Chang'an at that time, only took two and a half days to return to Chang'an under the stars.
can exhaust a sweaty horse, you can imagine how fast Huo Qu's illness was in those two and a half days.
And for Huo Qubing to rush back to Chang'an so anxiously, something big must have happened.
Yes, something big did happen.
The five kings of Hexi were defeated, and the Hexi Plain fell, fearing that he would be killed by Yi Zhixie to vent his anger, and made a decision a few days ago.
Surrender to the Great Han!
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The third day after the end of the First Battle at the foot of the Qilian Mountains.
The evil king who led his few armies to hide behind Yanzhi Mountain finally received a handwritten letter from Yi Zhixie on this day.
There were only three words on Ichicher's handwriting.
"Come to Mobei!"
The moment he saw these three words, the Evil King turned pale, and he staggered and sat directly on the ground.
Although Yi Zhixie only asked him to go to Mobei in the handwritten letter, and did not say anything else, the Evil King still read a murderous aura and anger from those three words.
Yes, even after losing battles, the entire Hexi Corridor was subdued by the Han army, and he, the former head of the kings of Hexi, now has to hide in his homeland in Tibet, such a defeated general, such a waste person, how can Yi Zhixie not be angry, how can he not be angry.
'M afraid...... If he really went to Mobei, he would inevitably be given death by Yi Zhixie.
Losing his right palm, the Evil King who knelt on the ground like a lost soul blinked his pair of bitter eagle eyes, kept sighing, and after half a sound, he slowly stood up from the king's tent, walked to his throne and sat down heavily, lying on his back on the throne, the Evil King waved his right hand without a palm, and said in a false voice.
"Let King Hugh Tu come to me."
Silence, deathly silence, after waiting for a long time, the evil king did not hear the sound of the word "obey" from the soldiers outside the tent, and the puzzled evil king stood up, lifted the tent curtain, and walked out of the king's tent, wanting to see what was going on.
When he walked out of the tent and saw the scene in front of him, the Evil King was stunned.
The court of the evil king of Nuoda was full of tattered tents, and the wails of the wounded soldiers came from within them, and everywhere was filled with the air of ruin.
Groups of Hun cavalry gathered in front of several piles of bonfires, drinking wine with a sad face, scimitars were thrown aside at will, some even lost their knives, and the whole royal court could not see a few erected battle flags, either trampled under their feet, or staggered to the side, and a small wind blew, it was blown to a .......
Even the war horses that were grazing on the grass outside the royal court were all drooping their ears, and even the evil king saw the word decadence from the war horse.
Alas, this is true of all animals, let alone people.
At this moment, the most resounding sound in the entire royal court was probably the sigh.
The Evil King looked at all this speechlessly, if it had been a change in the past, the Evil King would probably scold these soldiers loudly, and let them all put up the battle flag for themselves, and staggered like something! Also, find your weapons for this king, who of you has ever seen a soldier who can't even keep his own weapons!
These words, the Evil King of Hun no longer has the courage to say them, and he does not have the face to say them.
The soldier can't even keep his weapons, how can he, who is the king, not even keep his homeland, and now, what face does he have to reprimand ordinary soldiers, isn't it himself who caused today's situation?
The Evil King is right, it is none other than him who is causing today's situation.
If he had defeated Huo Quai's Han army at the foot of Gaolan Mountain that day, if he hadn't besieged Li Tian that day, how could he have lost the battle of Gaolan Mountain? How could Hexi lose it so quickly!
And their own people....... And how could there be such heavy casualties?
Yes, since the end of the battle at the foot of the Qilian Mountains, although Huo Quai's army withdrew from Hexi, more Han troops poured in from the border passes, and under the leadership of Gongsun Ao, they continued to sweep and pursue the tenacious elements in Hexi.
But Rao is like this, and the evil king of Hun also suffered a devastating blow from Gongsun Ao's department.
Not long ago, when the battle at the foot of Qilian Mountain had not yet started, there were still more than 100,000 people and more than 30,000 troops by the side of the Hun Evil King.
But when the first battle at the foot of Qilian Mountain was defeated, the Hun Evil King lost the hundreds of thousands of people, and the 30,000 army also died more than 5,000 people in the past few days of fleeing.
If this momentum continues, it is estimated that it will not be long before the Evil King will become a loner.......
The hundreds of thousands of people were abandoned by the evil king on his own initiative, and he had no way not to abandon them, how could he run away with so many people? How to escape the pursuit of the Han army.
He is not Liu Bei, he does not have the courage to run away with hundreds of thousands of people, in his eyes, those people are a burden, a burden on his way to escape, so he resolutely abandoned the hundreds of thousands of people who begged him and begged him to take them with him.
There is actually nothing wrong with the evil king doing this, he abandoned these people in order to make a living for them, otherwise everyone will be together sooner or later they will be wiped out by the Han army, and when the time comes, it is not surprising that these hundreds of thousands of people will die in the chaos.
On the contrary, if the Evil King took the initiative to abandon these defenseless old and weak women and children, although his own actions were a little shameful, those people could at least survive a lot, right?
The Han army would not be so stupid to slaughter the Xiongnu people.
Discarded more than 100,000 people, the speed of the march of the Hun Evil King and the army under his command was raised, but it was still useless, under the overwhelming encirclement and suppression of the Han army, the Hun Evil King was on the verge of danger several times, look at the wounded soldiers and even the Hun cavalry who lost their weapons to know what kind of life the Hun Evil King has been living these days.
Speaking of which, some people may ask, hasn't the Evil King already fled, why did he come back?
Hehe, if he doesn't come back, where can he go?
Will Izhiche of Mobei take him in?
Will the Han army let him go?
Looking at the world, it is not the territory of the Han army, or the tribe of the Huns, where is he going?
Western regions? Do you have that life, and if he really goes, Yi Zhixie will think that he will lead his troops to defect, and it is a trivial matter to bring tens of thousands of troops to encircle and suppress him, and those big countries in the Western Regions may still help Yi Zhixie to clean up his water dog.
At present, almost in one sentence, the current situation of the Evil King can be described.
Although the world is big, there is no place for him to be an evil king.