Chapter 354: Captive Kebineng

No one knows exactly how many people, how many livestock, and how much property was burned in this fire. In this era of human life, no one is interested in this question to do this thankless research, of course, even if someone is interested and wants to do statistics, it is impossible to get an accurate answer.

The fire was so great that it swept almost the entire fusiform area, and later, not only the 1st Brigade was setting fire, but the two regiments of the 2nd Brigade and the 3rd Brigade also joined the ranks of mending the fire and mending the knife, and their footprints were all over this fusiform area, setting fire to all the grass that had not yet been burned, and killing all the Xianbei people who were not burned to death.

After this catastrophe, this fusiform area is almost devoid of grass, even if there are lucky Xianbei people who escaped their lives, they will not be able to graze here in a short time, and they will definitely not survive this winter.

The Xianbei people fled all the way to the south, and finally, about 50,000 Xianbei people fled to the north of the Inner Great Wall. Seeing that there was no way to retreat and that there were pursuers (fires) behind them, they had to beg the Han army guarding the city wall to surrender.

Most of these Xianbei people who can escape here are young and strong, because only these former Xianbei elite cavalry have the ability to escape the double pursuit of the fire and the Han army. In this way, the hundreds of thousands of Xianbei people who originally lived in this area have almost been exterminated.

For these 50,000 Xianbei people who asked to surrender, Guan Xing is very contradictory, it is said that these people have formed a blood feud with themselves, and it is easy to be eaten by them if they are not handled well, but this is 50,000 young and strong, and it is an elite cavalry, if it can be recovered and used well, it can play a great role, and it will be of great benefit to the imperial court.

There was not much time left for Guan Xing to think, because the fire was not far away, and in the end, Guan Xing finally agreed to the request of these Xianbei people to surrender, opened the gate of the pass and let these Xianbei people enter the south of the inner Great Wall to avoid the fire.

Of course, it was impossible for him to let them in full arms, otherwise, with only one regiment of troops in his hands now, he would definitely not be able to suppress them.

Guan Xing proposed several steps to let these Xianbei people enter the city gate: first, everyone laid down their weapons and stacked them in the designated place. This is the proper meaning of the question, since the Xianbei people are willing to surrender, they have the psychological preparation to be disarmed. Everyone obediently threw their weapons aside, and the scimitars were piled up in a hill.

Second, let Kebineng's family enter the Inner Great Wall first. At this point, Kebineng was a little hesitant, worried that he would lose the protection of the elite and would be poisoned by the Han army. But the situation is critical, and he can't think about it much, if he doesn't enter, he can only wait for death, and there may be a glimmer of life if he enters.

Besides, even if he wasn't the first to go in, he would become a prisoner himself in the future, and life and death would still be out of his control, anyway, he would be a prisoner, what was the difference between doing it earlier and doing it later? In the end, he had to give in, gritted his teeth, let the others retreat first, and led dozens of family members to the south of the inner Great Wall through the pass, and was the first to be taken prisoner, and also the first to escape the fate of being burned to death.

As soon as they entered, they were immediately restrained and taken away from the neighborhood to be guarded. The purpose of this is to prevent the Xianbei people from playing any more tricks. If the Xianbei people want to make trouble, they will definitely find a way to save Kebineng first, otherwise the snake will not be able to do it without a head, and without Kebineng, no one will have enough prestige to order all the Xianbei cavalry.

And now Guan Xing is hiding Kebineng secretly, and Xianbei people don't know where to save him even if they want to save him. Then the third step was implemented, which was to let the remaining Xianbei people dismount and lead the horses on foot into the inner Great Wall in batches. Only a hundred people can enter at a time, and the others must retreat to a long enough distance first to prevent the Xianbei people from rushing in when they open the gate of the pass.

And those Xianbei people who entered the inner Great Wall were tied up as soon as possible, and then rushed to a place to concentrate on guarding, and the place of custody was full of explosives~, once there was a riot, the soldiers guarding would not hesitate to ignite the explosives~ and blow up these Xianbei prisoners into the sky. Their horses were herded to another place and placed in centralized management.

The separation of man and horse, and the distance between man and horse, made it impossible for them to get horses in time even if they wanted to make trouble. The Xianbei people without horses and scimitars are a flock of lambs to the slaughter.

He has too few troops at hand now, only one regiment, and the number of Xianbei people is dozens of times that of himself, if they really want to fight for their lives, they can't suppress it at all with the deadly firing speed of the rifle. At this time, Guan Xing couldn't help but think of the so-called "machine gun" that the little emperor once mentioned that it can fire ~ dozens or hundreds of bullets in one breath.

If you have a few of these big killing weapons in your hands, no matter how many Xianbei people you come, you don't have to worry as much as you do now, and you can calmly accept these 50,000 captives.

Fortunately, these Xianbei people have all been frightened, and it is already fortunate that they can escape with their lives, no one dares to make a mess at this time, one by one, they are like quails, they are tied behind their backs, squatting on the side and dare not speak, completely losing the fierce and violent appearance of the grassland Hu people.

Of course, the Xianbei people are not people who respect the old and love the young, they cannot be polite to each other, and their meek performance is that after entering the city gate, when they are on the north side of the inner city wall, they are not good citizens who are in order, lined up one by one.

In fact, north of the Inner Great Wall, the scene is still quite chaotic, and the main reason for the confusion is that people from different tribes, and even people from the same tribe, are vying to enter the inner city wall first. The result of not giving in to each other is a fight, and in this most primitive way, the order of entering the city gate is decided.

With so many people fighting, it will naturally be damaged, and there is no way to know how many lives have been injured, the Xianbei people just want to enter the city gate as soon as possible to avoid the fire, and they don't care about the lives of their compatriots at all, and the Han army will not be nosy.

The Han army would not care about these Xianbei people killing each other, but once these fighting crowds approached the pass, the gate of the pass would be closed by the Han army, and the Han army on the city wall would shoot to suppress them. In this way, even if the Xianbei people outside the city want to fight, they do not dare to get too close to the city gate.

No matter how fierce and fierce you are outside, how you fight, in short, when you reach a hundred steps near the city gate, you can only dismount and walk, and the number of people cannot exceed 100, you cannot carry weapons, and those who do not meet any of these three conditions will be shot and killed by the Han soldiers on the city wall.

These conditions had been communicated to them in advance, and they had tried many times, and found that only by complying with these conditions could they get close to the city gate and escape the fire south of the inner Great Wall, otherwise they would not be able to approach the city gate at all.

In this way, no matter how fierce these Xianbei people are outside the city, no matter how fierce the competition is, once they want to enter the inner Great Wall, they have to obey the rules, so they all became docile when they approached the city gate, and under the threat of the muzzle of the Han army's black hole ~ hole, the steppe wolf just now instantly turned into a little lamb to be slaughtered.