Chapter 174: Zhang Chaoyang's head

In order to curry favor with Concubine Chen, officials at all levels of the Great Yan Kingdom mobilized to meet the number of rescue troops who broke through Yonggu City are unknown, but the generals privately ventilated that there were still 30,000 to 50,000 soldiers, and everyone knew what was going on with the so-called 150,000 troops on the books.

These 350,000 soldiers, plus the tens of thousands of people who were requisitioned, together exceeded 100,000.

Regardless of whether these people have combat effectiveness or not, whether they are thin and malnourished, at the very least, these people are all men who are lacking everywhere in the entire Great Yan Kingdom!

But these 100,000 men are now in great chaos under the surprise attack of 800 barbarian cavalry.

There was fire everywhere, people running around everywhere, and the barbarian cavalry didn't care about slashing and killing, they only rode horses and set fire everywhere.

Even if there were soldiers of the Great Yan Kingdom who had unconsciously gathered together, once they were discovered, they would be dispersed by the barbarians' horse team, and the entire defense area collapsed in an unbelievable way......

The generals' family soldiers have some combat effectiveness, and they practice a lot on weekdays, but in the case of nearly 100,000 people running frantically, it has become a luxury to protect their masters from leaving safely, let alone organize any decent counterattack.

The barbarian armies in the rear finally arrived one after another, and the defense area of the reinforcements completely turned into a purgatory on earth.

The shouts of killing, the cries of the swords, and the special sound of the saber slashing through the body did not stop all night......

It wasn't until dawn came, the sky turned white, and all kinds of chaotic sounds slowly subsided in the camp that stretched for dozens of miles.

When the morning sun completely rose, the entire camp of the army of the Great Yan Kingdom had turned into a huge ruin, the flames that had not been extinguished were still burning, and the burned camps and baggage were emitting thick black smoke.

In the huge camp, there was a foul smell everywhere, and from time to time a few wails suddenly appeared, but soon there was no sound.

The reinforcements transferred by the Great Yan State, plus the people requisitioned, show that there are nearly 250,000 people, and the actual number is about 100,000...... Now, except for some who died in the chaos last night, the remaining thirty or forty thousand people have all become captives of the barbarians.

Originally, in the eyes of the barbarians, the Han people captured by them were a kind of wealth, after all, as long as they brought these people back to their own territory, they were the best slaves.

But now, because there was no leader in last night's attack, each tribe went its own way, a large number of grain and grass were burned, and the barbarians found that so many captives could not afford to feed themselves!

As long as these people live, even if they only eat a mouthful of food every day, it is a huge expense.

Let these Han people leave on their own...... More impossible!

Thirty or forty thousand captives, plus the Han people who had been plundered before, it was impossible to bring them all back to the grassland.

How to deal with so many captives suddenly became a difficult problem.

Several tribal leaders got together, reached a consensus without much deliberation, and then split up to gather their own men and start the action.

With the successful evacuation of the Xuanzi battalion, most of the boats and boats accumulated at the pier a hundred miles away from Yonggu City left, and as the reinforcements' defense area not far away was breached last night, the few remaining small boats also hurriedly fled.

At three o'clock in the morning, a large number of Han captives were driven to the docks, and these people were like sheep driven into the slaughterhouse, without resistance or any thought of escaping, but only numbly following the footsteps of the others, stepping from one hell to another.

When nearly 30,000 captives were crammed around the docks, the barbarians began a bloody slaughter.

Bows and arrows are shot indiscriminately, human lives can be harvested, no need to aim, as long as the bow is pulled mechanically and arrows are released, arrows do not need to be saved, there are a large number of slaves, and when these prisoners who can't be taken away are killed, the slaves will collect the arrows again.

The steel knife was raised and then chopped, and it didn't take long for the blade to be blunt, and the weapons created by this southern barbarian were getting worse and worse, so he would kill the blacksmith in the clan to vent his anger when he went back!

There were less than 3,000 barbarians involved in this one-sided slaughter, and in the face of the prisoners huddled together, these wolves from the steppe felt that they were too powerful to deal with, and there were too many prisoners to dispose of, so they could only drive the war horses under their crotches to trample wildly in the crowd.

Countless people jumped into the river either actively or passively, and naturally drowned if they couldn't swim, and even if they could swim, they could not escape the fate of drowning under the pull and drag of others.

A large number of captives were driven into the river, and the barbarian soldiers simply stood on the bank and drew their bows and arrows, shooting only those who had a chance to live......

On that day, the surface of the river outside the pier was dyed red, and the river downstream was filled with floating corpses......

The soldiers and the reinforcements of the whole 100,000 people, in the end, less than 8,000 survived as slaves to transport supplies, and less than 2,000 escaped by taking advantage of the chaos.

And the 8,000 people who served as slaves could not escape the fate of being tortured and dying miserably.

In an attack with no tactics at all, the Great Yan Kingdom lost 100,000 young people!

This battle shocked the world!

This battle completely tore off the fig leaf of the Great Yan Kingdom!

This battle made the barbarians begin to re-examine Dayan, a neighbor who was regarded as a granary!

This battle completely broke the backbone of the civil and military nobles of the Manchu Dynasty of the Great Yan Kingdom!

Since then, no one dares to speak of swords!

Since then, the barbarians have asked for something, they don't need to send a large army to Koubian, they only need to send a messenger, and they can proudly ask the Great Yan Kingdom for everything they need!

Since then, there is no upper limit to the annual supply, everything depends on the needs of the barbarians!

The Manchu civil and military forces panicked and were afraid.

The official family living in the deep palace panicked and was afraid.

So the imperial court sent several envoys to negotiate with the leaders of each tribe, and took the initiative to send the women with goods, only to ask the barbarians who were full of harvest to take the initiative to leave the Great Yan Kingdom and return to their own territory.

After hearing about this kind of thing, many small tribes struggling to survive on the grassland went into battle together, and the sheep and livestock were gone, and they rode horses and hurried wildly, just to rush into the Great Yan Kingdom to participate in this gluttonous feast.

There were no more defenders on the border, and barbarians on horseback came and went freely.

A cake-sharing activity began among the leaders of the barbarian tribes, and even distinguished people came from the steppe to discuss the distribution of benefits.

Under the analysis of the nobles, everyone first set the general direction of retreating to the grassland.

Although the territory of the Southern Barbarians is good, it is not a good time to completely occupy it at the moment, and it is far more suitable to let these weak grass chickens feed the warriors of the steppe than for the warriors to get off their horses, put down their swords and bows, and become a rich man.

Naturally, there is no shortage of goods, the southern barbarians are rich, and if they don't slaughter them fiercely, I'm sorry for the warriors who died in the grass valley this time.

As for the end, it is natural to avenge the dead warriors...... The defenders of Yonggu City killed thousands of grassland warriors, and even more so that Tuoba Dewang, the eagle of the Tuoba family, had no choice but to go into danger, and finally died unexplained, this hatred needs the blood of a person with enough identity to wash away.

The nobles from the grassland thought that the head of Zhang Chaoyang, the commander with the highest status in Yonggu City, was a good gift for the Great Yan Kingdom to express its sincerity.