Chapter 264: Hegemony
After Wang Luo received Li Mu's battle report, he laughed happily in the main hall.
"Wiped out 100,000 Huns in a war, but his own casualties were very small, Li Qing is the widowed Wu Anjun!"
"Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty!" The ministers in the main hall congratulated Wang Luo one after another.
The title of Wu Anjun is very special in Daqian, the first Wu Anjun is Sun Wuzi, who led the Huai army in five battles and five victories, breaking the Yingdu, the second Wu Anjun is Wu Qi, assisting Huai Gong to destroy Chu, and the third Wu Anjun is Sun Bin, attacking the three Jin Dynasty in the north and destroying the West Chu in the west, completely laying the hegemony of the Huai State.
Therefore, Wu Anjun has become a very special title.
Xu Chao was awarded the title of General and Marquis of Wu Cheng after destroying the Six Kingdoms, but he did not obtain the title of Wu Anjun.
Li Mu annihilated 100,000 Huns in a battle, and the remaining Huns were shocked and immediately led their troops to retreat north. At the same time, Li Mu also led his army to the north quickly, and he did not intend to let the Huns retreat so easily.
On the plain, the Huns moved rapidly, and the military formation of Daqian also changed. The last time I was able to destroy 100,000 Huns in a battle, it was because the Huns advanced lightly and were surrounded by Li Mu by seizing the opportunity.
The remaining Huns were furious, and became more and more cautious, Li Mu tried to surround it several times, but the Huns jumped out of the encirclement with the help of the rapid movement of war horses.
Li Mu, who was familiar with the Huns' operations, was not disappointed, and after ten years of garrisoning in the north, Li Mu was well aware of the mobility of these Huns. Especially on the wide, flat plains, it was very difficult for infantry against cavalry.
You set up a military formation, the Huns don't fight with you, they just harass and wander, you attack, the Huns retreat, after a long time, the soldiers are tired, and the Huns begin to harass at this time. Once there was a flaw in the military formation, the Huns would rush up like wolves.
Li Mu had always lured the enemy deep into the north, or gathered cavalry to outflank and infantry to attack the Xiongnu. At the same time, the infantry cooperated with the chariot to block the cavalry impact, and then encircled and killed, combined with a part of the moon formation research to overcome the cavalry.
But the shortcomings of this formation were no less obvious, the movement was slow, and the Huns could easily flee.
As a Xiongnu Shan Yu, after unifying the Xiongnu, Mao Dun encountered such a difficult battle for the first time. The army attacked several times, but they all hit their heads in front of Daqian's crossbow array.
Maudun could only rely on cavalry and shoot in a roundabout way, using this way to attack the Daqian army. Daqian and the Huns suffered casualties to each other, but because of the weapons and equipment of both sides, the Huns suffered higher casualties. The arrows of the Daqian soldiers could easily penetrate the leather armor of the Huns, while the bone arrows of the Huns could not pierce the iron armor of the Daqian at all.
Only a unlucky soldier who is shot in the face or in a gap in his armor can inflict casualties.
After entangled with the Daqian army for a while, Mao Dun soon discovered that his own casualties were even greater. As an excellent king, he is very clear-headed, this time the attack on the big cadres is to obtain benefits, when the payment is too large, after the benefits are small, he will immediately retreat.
The Huns retreated continuously, wanting to let Daqian stretch the logistics and transportation. Mao Dun is very clear about his advantages, he now wants to stretch the logistics supply line, and then rely on the mobility of the cavalry to cut off the grain and grass of the Daqian army.
Therefore, he lost one after another on the frontal battlefield, but still refused to retreat north. It's a pity that what he didn't know was that his thoughts had already been guessed by Li Mu.
Seeing the continuous retreat of the Hun army, Li Mu pressed forward step by step, completely looking like he had fallen into its trap.
Just when Morton felt that the distance was far enough to cut off the grain route, Li Mu's other two cavalry finally came from the left and right and appeared in Morton's rear.
Seeing the two cavalrymen that suddenly appeared, Morton was so frightened that he couldn't figure out where these two armies came from. Seeing that Daqian was surrounded by three roads, Morton did not dare to stay for a long time, and led the army to break through directly.
Li Mu saw the two cavalry coming, and immediately said loudly: "Sons, breaking the enemy is today!" Kill me! ”
The Great Qian's three-way army was dispatched and began to strangle the Xiongnu army, Morton deserved to be the hero of the Xiongnu, and in the face of the siege of the Great Qian's three-way army, he was still able to make the Xiongnu defeated without being defeated. In the end, under the strangulation of the army, the Huns fled with their tails cut off.
In the end, Daqian killed 20,000 Huns, captured 40,000, obtained 100,000 war horses, plus 100,000 Huns who surrounded and annihilated, and the Huns killed and wounded more than half of the soldiers in this battle.
The battle suffered so many casualties that it almost split the Xiongnu once again in the unity of Maudun. Mao Dun fled for hundreds of miles in one day and one night, and was relieved after making sure that Daqian did not chase him.
After confirming the safety, Mao Dun immediately took the lead to show the decisiveness and ruthlessness of a generation of heroes, and directly beheaded several unruly tribal leaders in the name of revealing the whereabouts of our army to the cadres, and then annexed their tribes and men.
As a result, although he suffered heavy losses in the south this time, it also allowed Mao Dun to integrate more mountain forces in the Xiongnu, not only putting the responsibility for the defeat on others, but integrating forces, and his strength was not weakened, but stronger.
However, after Li Mu's heavy losses here, after not being fully sure, Mao Dun did not dare to go south.
After the Xiongnu withdrew, Li Mu led the army back to the land of Yanzhao after cleaning up the battlefield. Although the Xiongnu were defeated in this battle, he knew very well that the northern steppes were not so easy to occupy.
The climate here is cold, which is not conducive to farming, and the cost of controlling it here is too high.
Li Mu asked the army to be stationed in the key places in the north, and after arranging the defense, he led the army back to the Central Plains.
Wang Luo gave Li Mu a very high courtesy, and let the prince go out of the city for ten miles to greet him, and only Xu Chao, who had destroyed the Six Kingdoms, had this treatment.
In the main hall, the atmosphere is warm. Everyone was happy with this big victory over the Huns.
"Zhuqing, the general of the expedition to the north attacked the Huns in the north and destroyed more than 100,000 Huns, the Hu people did not dare to go south to herd horses, and protected the peace of the north, so they deserved a heavy reward!"
"Your Majesty is wise!" Qunchen said.
"Feng Li Mu is Wu Anjun, and he will eat thousands of households! Carry hussar general! ”
"Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to the Hussar General!" The ministers shouted.
After the banquet, Wang Luo privately summoned Li Mu to ask about the strategy to deal with the Xiongnu, Li Mu wrote that the three kingdoms of Yan, Zhao and Qin in the north left many Great Walls, which could be connected and set up more beacons to resist the Xiongnu. Wang Luo thought about it, this was indeed a way, so he appointed him to supervise the construction of the Great Wall.
And the supreme ancestor, the ancestors of the aftermath, vibrating the long whip and the imperial universe, swallowing two weeks and dying princes, performing the supreme and controlling the Liuhe, the power of the four seas. Take the land of Baiyue in the south, thinking that Guilin and Xiangjun are the counties; The king of Baiyue bowed his head and tied his neck, and entrusted his subordinates. It was to make Li Mumengtian build the Great Wall in the north and guard the fence, but the Xiongnu were more than 700 miles, and the Hu people did not dare to go south and herd horses
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