Chapter 393: The End Fades
Wuyuan City was surrounded by more than 100,000 troops, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, Li Tiezhu, Hu Chuquan, Wu Anguo and other generals took turns to take their troops to fight against the Xianbei people who rushed out of the city at the risk of death, which not only achieved the purpose of training, but also deepened the communication and cooperation between each other, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
Among the coalition forces, the biggest harvest is naturally the Qingxu soldiers who fought as volunteers. After more than two months of actual combat training, these soldiers, who already had a certain foundation, radiated vigor and vitality, and gradually took on the style and habits of the Bingzhou Army.
There are also 20,000 Xianbei soldiers who have joined the state. They not only won the recognition and acceptance of the officers and men of the Zhenbei Army through practical actions, but also mastered the use of various large-scale weapons, and came into contact with the advanced army management and training concepts of the Zhenbei Army, laying the foundation for playing a more important role in the future.
The 80,000 Xianbei warriors who followed the Xianbei leader to the south have been left with less than 60,000 after continuous attrition. In other words, there have been 20,000 Xianbei people who have thrown their bodies into the wilderness, throwing their lives in the analogy of merging states, and it is difficult for even their souls to return to the northern prairie after death.
The dozens of decisive charges launched by the leader and his subordinates were undoubtedly defeated, and almost as many people were killed as many as they were dispatched, and they became the sparring partners of the hundreds of thousands of allied troops outside the city without spending money. Now, there is no food left in the city, and the Xianbei people have begun to kill horses to keep them alive. Even if they can barely cope with it for some more time, but in the long run, the Xianbei people without war horses will only starve to death in Wuyuan City.
The leader's heart was mixed with remorse and unwillingness, and he was in a trance all day long, becoming more irritable and suspicious. Several times, the chief's own soldiers saw him holding a scimitar, waving it in the air like a mad man in the big tent, and muttering some nonsense to himself. Needless to say, in the face of such a huge danger as the extinction of the species, no one can be calm.
Counting the losses suffered in the hands of Zhao Xing before, this time the leader was besieged in Wuyuan City, which was already the third fiasco of the Xianbei people in ten years. These alien races, full of wolf nature, always do not like hard work, but are keen to attack and invade constantly, and it is not tolerated by heaven to end up like this. If it weren't for Zhao Xing, it is not known how many Han people in the north would have been displaced and their homes destroyed. Therefore, for the invaders, Zhao Xing and the soldiers of Bingzhou have never been afraid of a trace of compassion and sympathy.
Kindness and tolerance towards the enemy is the greatest crime against one's own country and nation!
The leader, who was already desperate, was really afraid that all the clansmen who followed him south would all die in Wuyuan City, so in the end he could only compromise with the state. He sent his capable subordinates to carry a white flag from the inside of Wuyuan City to the Union of Prefectures outside the city, and the act of surrendering and negotiating peace was very obvious.
Li Tiezhu was responsible for receiving the envoy sent by the Kuitou, and expressed the position of the Zhenbei Army in the shortest possible time -- the Kuitou must apologize for his own punishment in order to save the lives of the 60,000 Xianbei in the city. The lives of 60,000 Xianbei people can be saved, but after surrendering, they can only be freed after serving at least ten years of labor in the mines of Bingzhou!
Li Tiezhu's arrogance and arrogance made the envoy of the head very dissatisfied, and the envoy jumped up on the spot and scolded, saying that Li Tiezhu was just a hairy boy, and what qualifications did he have to make such a decision on behalf of Zhao Xing. Li Tiezhu was not ambiguous, and directly asked the soldiers to cut off the heads of this group of Xianbei people who came out for peace talks in front of the head of the city, and then shouted loudly to the head of the city: "If you want to surrender, then send someone to come out to talk reasonably, Grandpa Li is too busy to bother with this kind of stupid bird!"
The head of the city, who was so angry that he almost jumped off the tower, could only endure this evil breath in the end, and once again sent a few timid and clever messengers to come out for peace talks.
The Bingzhou coalition still appointed Li Tiezhu as the plenipotentiary envoy in charge of the peace talks, and mercilessly ripped off all the fig leafs on the Xianbei envoy. Li Tiezhu continued to be arrogant and domineering, and he still did not back down in the slightest from his demands.
The helpless Xianbei envoy returned, and told the leader of the request of the coalition army of the state, thinking that it would provoke the head of the leader, but he didn't expect that the leader who heard this paragraph just smiled miserably, as if he had already expected such an outcome.
"If you go out again, you'll say I agreed......," the leader said to the envoys in a bit of a trance.
"Big boss, you must not do it! They are trying to make our Xianbei warriors cattle and horses, and there will be no future days! We still have 60,000 people, and it is a big deal to fight with the Han people!" Several young Zhuang generals in the tent shouted loudly, resolutely disagreeing to such harsh conditions.
"Don't say it anymore, if I can exchange my death for the lives of 60,000 people, it will be worth it. Don't waste your lives in vain, we can't break through, the Han people have long been prepared, how many people we rush out will fall under the arrows and butcher's knives of the Han people......" The head stopped the conversation and did not let everyone continue to talk.
"Go out, all of you, and leave me alone for a while. The chief gave an order to everyone in the tent to go out, clearly to make a break with himself. The Xianbei people in the tent slowly withdrew from the tent with red eyes, and after a while, they heard a mournful howl from the leader of the tent: "I'm not reconciled, I'm not reconciled!" and then there was no movement.
The generals rushed into the big tent to take a look, and found that the leader had drawn his sword and killed himself, and the corpse was on the spot. Since the big boss has made a self-judgment in accordance with the requirements of the Han people, and then it is natural that he has no choice but to surrender and beg, the once invincible Xianbei people have finally ended up with a tragic end of being bullied and manipulated by others, which once again verifies an old saying of the Han people: belligerence will die.
The begging envoy of the Xianbei people, according to Li Tiezhu's request, cut off the head of the leader, put it in a special wooden box, and sent it out of Wuyuan City. Subsequently, the hungry Xianbei people threw away all their blades and rushed out of Wuyuan City in groups wearing only thin clothes, and many fell headlong as they walked, never to wake up again.
After receiving the head of the head sent by Li Tiezhu, Xu Huang immediately ordered someone to send the head to Crouching Tiger City overnight. For Zhao Xing, it is most suitable to use the stinky head of the kui head as the end symbol of the war of merging states. Zhang Tang of the Western Han Dynasty once said: Those who commit strong men will be punished even if they are far away! Now Zhao Xing can also release a bold statement: Those who commit crimes and merge states will be punished from far and near!
With 60,000 Xianbei people being tied up and sturdy, let the Han soldiers lead them to the mines and forests all over the state one by one, and the battle of Bingzhou, which lasted for half a year, finally came to an end, leaving only many popular examples and heroes, left for future generations to slowly evaluate and elaborate......