Chapter 395: Harvesting the Qiang Clan

Originally, 50,000 Qiang people were scattered in more than 20 tribes, and four or five thousand were killed by Wei Xuanjun in half an hour after the war began, and then more than 5,000 were taken away by the burning geese, plus those who went into the city to hide. More than 30,000 people were left to flee like a herd of rabbits being chased by hunting dogs at the same time.

Wei Xuan didn't expect that these Qiang people were really a rabble, if tens of thousands of people died, even if he won, he would have to pay a very painful price, and now he fled in such a hurry, and it was the Qiang people who had to pay the price.

Wei Xuan quickly conveyed his military order: "Zhao Yun, Du Peng, and Weitong Department each pursued with their own men and horses, and the cavalry of Taishi Ci and Zhang Ji was mainly pursued by Zhang Xiu, and Guan Hai was the auxiliary army, and Zhang Liaobu pursued separately according to the needs of the battlefield." The goal must be to make the Qiang tribes afraid and submit.

In addition to war horses and grain and grass, it is not allowed to loot other goods, and try not to kill prisoners unless necessary! ”

Wei Xuan wants to deter the Qiang people, but he can't just be a butcher or a virgin. The hatred caused by the massacre was too great, and the Qiang were too weak to be easily seized by the Xiongnu in the Western Regions or in the north???????????????? But people can not be killed, but the war horses must be robbed, and he believes that with the issuance of his order, the virtue of those under his command will definitely satisfy him.

After the generals got the order, they began to act separately, Zhang Liao was not ambiguous, and directly A Jing's heavy cavalry was divided into three parts, and he and Zhang Fei and Guan Yu each led one to chase the Qiang people. The combat power advantage of the heavy cavalry has the bonus of the generals, as long as it is not ambushed by several tribal alliances, no one will be able to get them. In this situation, the tribes are unable to protect themselves, and there is no time to connect them in tandem, waiting for them can only be harvested, and some unlucky eggs may be looted by several waves at the same time.

About two quarters of an hour later, the noise outside Yunwu City gradually quieted down, and the remaining 6,000 infantry of Zhang Ji's department, more than 12,000 people from Taishi Ci's department, and more than 6,000 people from Zhao Yun's department were divided into three phalanxes to reassemble, and camped outside the city to still besiege Yunwucheng.

Although Wei Xuan had not retreated, Han Sui felt relieved inexplicably, although he knew that after Wei Xuan's slaughter this time, it would be difficult for the Qiang people to gather on such a scale in the next few years, but Han Sui felt that there were still more than 20,000 people in the city, and there was also a Ma Teng who had not arrived on the battlefield as foreign aid, even if Wei Xuan's cavalry came back, he would not be able to help him for a while.

Suddenly, he felt that he shouldn't have put the cavalry in a decisive battle with Wei Xuan, but if the cavalry was not placed outside the city, would they all stay in the city? Not to mention whether these Qiang people obeyed their orders when defending the city, the security of these 50,000 people in the city alone is a big problem. There should be an excellent Jiang Ling with a thank you rabble wandering around Jincheng to contain Wei Xuan, he really regrets it, regrets listening to the deception of the father and son of the family and gave his elite and son-in-law to Wei Xuan, there is no regret medicine in the world, in the end it is still an unsolvable problem.

To Han Sui's surprise, Wei Xuan did not immediately order the three infantry to attack Yunwu, although the Wei Xuan army was all elite and there were many of them, but after all, Han Sui still had a certain advantage in fighting against the Wei Xuan army with Yunwu's city wall. Wei Xuan only needed to keep an eye on Han Sui and wait for the cavalry to come back from sacrificing the Qiang tribe.

The two sides confronted each other in this way, waiting for news that the cavalry of the Weixuan Army was pursuing the Qiang people. A day passed, not a single cavalry turned, and two days passed, and the news came back from all the departments, but only scouts were sent back to report the itinerary.

Three days have passed, although Wei Xuan has always gotten good news, Nan Mian is a little worried about these guys, he is not worried about the fall of these warriors in the Qiang tribe, as long as he is not drugged, even if he is surrounded by several times the geothermal heat, he has a chance to escape. Wei Xuan was worried that these guys would kill the Qiang people too heavily with their equipment and combat power advantages.

On the fourth day, there were still a few heralds who came back occasionally to report the movements of the various departments, and from the news that the heralds came back, it seemed that these guys really moved very quickly, which also had something to do with the fact that everyone in front of the station was familiar with the map, and after the capture of the father and son, many local guides were selected.

On the fifth day, a herald came back and said that several of them had begun to turn. On the seventh day, people finally came back one after another, and then Han Sui on the city wall was dumbfounded, because these people were obviously very happy, but they did not bring a single prisoner, but carried a large number of war horses, and the war horses were dragging grain!

With the more ???????????????? The more people who came, even Wei Xuan, who was now in the air, was not calm, because basically every cavalry brought back at least one war horse, and it was already ten days after everyone turned back. Wei Xuan was sure that his cavalry had robbed the entire Qiang tribes close to Liangzhou.

Forty-five or six thousand people pursued, basically no losses but brought back more than 80,000 war horses! Wei Xuan estimated that these guys not only took those captured war horses for themselves, but also took away the war horses that could definitely be seen everywhere they went.

Wei Xuan finally doesn't have to worry about the war horse now, but he has to worry about grain and grass. Because these war horses are too edible, it seems that in the future, only some of them can be left to graze in Liangzhou, and some of them will be sent to the north of Bingzhou to rob the grassland with the Huns, otherwise these war horses will soon eat him.

Wei Xuan immediately ordered all the departments to camp outside Yunwu City and reorganize on the spot, and some of the prisoners who had been taken from the father and son of the Cheng family were arranged to go to Ma Teng, and some were arranged to go to Guanzhong Tuntian, while the elite stayed in the army and just enriched the various departments, and the six departments of Yan Xing who attacked Yan Xing before also captured nearly half of the prisoners.

After detailed screening, Wei Xuan decided to expand Du Peng and the Weitong Department to 15,000 soldiers and horses, and complete the deployment of one person and two horses. In the future, both the annex and the division will need to be a strong light cavalry at all times. The Flying Tiger Army and the Cavalry Battalion are the light cavalry with the strongest mobility ability.

Although Yan Xing was already willing to surrender, before completely defeating Han Sui, Wei Xuan was not at ease to let him lead the troops alone, Wei Xuan planned to make him a lieutenant in Zhang Ji's camp, and Zhang Ji's department would then be expanded to 15,000 people, but the cavalry was controlled within 5,000 people.

The Wei Xuan army outside the city was overjoyed, and even the captives were very happy because their food had increased significantly after being reorganized. But Han Sui in Yunwu City couldn't laugh. Cheng Yin and Liang Xing's temporarily recruited soldiers have quietly fled more than a thousand people in the past few days, and they would rather jump off the city wall than follow Han Sui to defend the city, obviously they have already understood that Han Sui is not the opponent of Wei Xuanjun at all.

Even Han Sui's headquarters were shaken in the face of a siege of 70,000 or 80,000 people. And the reinforcements Ma Teng has not been able to come to him, so Han Sui is not calm. He knew that this time Wei Xuan's victorious return also meant that the Qiang tribes were sacked by Wei Xuan's cavalry. Because of the terrifying combat power displayed on the battlefield and the huge scale of cavalry, more than 20 Qiang tribes are now intimidated. In addition, the war horses were snatched away, and I am afraid that there will be no way to assemble a large-scale army in three or five years. That is to say, for a long time in the future, he will need to face the imperial court alone and face Wei Xuan.

After thinking about it, Han Sui decided the old routine and sent people out of the city to ask for surrender. Han Sui's condition was very simple, that is, he was willing to submit to the imperial court, and hoped to keep the soldiers and horses in Jincheng County and Yunwu City. Of course, Wei Xuan couldn't promise him, if Han Sui was left in Jincheng, then it would be meaningful for him to lead his troops to come this time. Because the father and son of the family and Cheng Yin and the like can't make any waves at all. Only Han Sui and Ma Teng were able to summon the Han people in Liangzhou and the Qiang people.

Wei Xuan's reply was that Han Sui went out of the city and surrendered, and he could go to Chang'an or Luoyang to be an official, and Han Sui's son in Chang'an and his captured son-in-law Yan Xing were ???????????????? It is possible to join the army.

The gap between the requirements of the two sides is too large, so naturally it is impossible to negotiate, and the disparity in strength between the two sides is too great to have any further negotiations, so the next day Wei Xuan began to organize people to attack the city. The main force is naturally Tai Shici, Zhao Yun and Zhang Ji. The other ones just looked at the route of Han Sui's escape in the north and the route of Ma Teng's possible reinforcements in the south.

On the first day of the attack, the waves were not alarming, and the three infantry did not storm and did not erect ladders to climb the city walls, but competed with the strength of the archers. Now there are about 5,000 divine arm archers in the Taishi Ci Division, and under the cover of the heavy infantry, they are lined up at the south gate of Yunwu City, divided into three teams and take turns to throw them at the Yunwu city wall.

Obviously, Han Sui and the defenders of the city also saw the power of the divine arm bow for the first time, and the condescending defender archers suffered a big loss, originally wanted to use the geographical advantage to kill and injure some enemy archers, but were counterattacked, and later had to retreat to the inner side of the city wall. Although the casualties of the archers decreased after the retreat, the morale of the defenders suffered a heavy blow. The infantry without armor did not dare to stand forward easily, and they knew in their hearts that once the officers and soldiers were ready to climb the city wall, they might not be able to stand at the mouth of the wall battlement.

The attack of Zhao Yun and Zhang Ji is much more gentle, mainly because the number of divine arm archers in the two departments is relatively small, Zhao Yun's department is two thousand, and Zhang Ji's department is one thousand and five. However, the east and west two steps under the city wall, still relied on the divine arm bow to sneak attack, killing and injuring a group of soldiers defending the city. At the end of the day, although Wei Xuanjun did not send infantry out of the battle at all, Han Sui still lost more than 1,000 people.

That night, Wei Xuan ordered the construction of siege equipment while discussing the next day's play, and Yan Xing took the initiative to ask Ying to enter the city to persuade Han Sui to surrender. Xi Zhicai was worried that Yan Xing would escape, and Wei Xuan did agree with a smile.

After Yan Xing returned to Yunwu, he also asked to see Han Sui for the first time. In the face of Yan Xing's persuasion, Han Sui made a difficulty in his heart, this Wei Xuan was not one of those pedantic scholars in the imperial court in the past, and he was not allowed to accept Han Sui's requirements, which completely blocked Han Sui's idea of wanting to play tricks. Han Sui understood that if he gave up all his soldiers and horses and went to Chang'an or Luoyang to be an official, he would be really unwilling.