Chapter 210: Aggression is like fire
On the grassland, a team of horses is marching rapidly.
In the direction of the caravan, a tribe of thousands of people had been reduced to ashes, and all the adult males of the tribe had been beheaded by the iron-blooded soldiers of the caravan.
The rest of the old, weak, sick and disabled, under Wang Yu's order, although they were not slaughtered, only left a few days' rations for them.
This is not Wang Yu's mercy, in the war between races, Wang Yu is not qualified to show mercy, the reason why he left a few days of rations for those old and weak is just to add trouble to the Huns.
These old, weak, sick and disabled people could not move their bows, and for the Huns, they were just extra burdens out of thin air, and if the Twins were willing to feed them, they would inevitably consume a lot of supplies.
If they are regarded as a burden and left to fend for themselves, then the Xiongnu, a force gathered by many steppe tribes, will definitely collapse into a pool of scattered sand, not to mention the direct collapse of the army.
Either of these two possibilities was extremely beneficial to Wang Yu, so when he broke through the tribes along the way, Wang Yu did not kill them all at once.
For Wang Yu's conspiracy, the overlord of the grassland, the Huns led by the Twin Clan, are very headache at the moment. The opinions on the handling of these drags in the account of the Xiongnu kings are also inconsistent.
If these herdsmen who have lost the protection of the tribe are in ordinary times, they are the treasures that all the tribes on the grassland covet, not to mention, for fear that their power is not big enough to be suppressed by their opponents, the three of Laoshang, Maodun, and military ministers are definitely willing to accept these old, weak, sick and disabled among those healthy and not yet grown up 'slaves'.
But now the timing is not right, and there is a big problem in terms of quantity.
The Great Periphery Army wanted to break through the Yinshan Pass and recapture the Hetao area, which was intolerable to the entire Xiongnu Empire.
When the Great Zhou Dynasty obtained the Hetao completely, he could get rid of the congenital deficiency of the lack of war horses, and truly accumulate the power that could endanger the Xiongnu.
Therefore, even if Lao Shang, Mao Dun, and the military ministers have already torn their faces for the sake of Shan Yu's position, they sent soldiers to meet each other, and in the face of the possibility of being breached by the Yinshan Pass, these three heroes of the twin clan still briefly put aside their prejudices and sat together.
"Mao Dun, military minister, the Anbei army that has penetrated deep into the grassland has reached the point where it has to be taken seriously, and if they are allowed to slaughter those small tribes so unscrupulously, the foundation of the Twin Clan's rule will be shaken. "The oldest and highest-ranking Xiongnu Zuoxian Wang Laoshang was the first to break the deadlock in the royal court tent.
Mao Dun and the military ministers, who are each on one side, cannot deny the words of the old man.
"I also know that the Anbei Army can't stay any longer, but the key now is that we can't find their traces at all. They come and go like the wind in the steppe, and they are more like natives who grew up on the steppe than we Huns.
Moreover, although the number of this Anbei army is small, its strength is extremely strong, and the ordinary tribe of 1,000 people can be taken down with a single charge, and the tribe of 10,000 people can't resist them for an hour.
A large tribe of 100,000 people with names and surnames will suffer heavy losses even if they are not exterminated. Although Mao Dun also wanted to quickly take down the Anbei cavalry led by Wang Yu, the fact is that the main forces are not in this area, and he really can't touch the traces of this Anbei cavalry.
After each other looked at each other, Lao Shang and Mao Dun looked at the most ugly military minister.
At the beginning, after the death of Yi Zhixi, in order to balance the forces of the three parties, Touman divided Yi Zhixi's territory into three and allocated it to the three of them.
Among them, the military minister, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, swallowed the most under Touman's arrangement, and won all the ointment.
The tribes that Wang Yu wiped out all the way north this time were basically ruled by military ministers in name.
"I know how the Left and Right Wise Kings are looking at my jokes, but I want you to give up this idea in the coming days.
According to the statistics in my king's tent, the Anbei tribe riding on the grassland has already broken through hundreds of tribes of thousands of people.
The 10,000-strong tribe was trampled by him far more than the number of his hands, and the Black Stone tribe and the Tiege tribe of the 100,000-strong tribe also fell into the hands of that cavalry.
In other words, the Anbei cavalry has not only killed hundreds of thousands of warriors on the grassland, but also left us with nearly a million old, weak, sick and disabled. Is this number growing rapidly with each passing day?
With the background of my Xiongnu Empire, it is simply a fool's dream to feed nearly a million old, weak, sick and disabled people out of thin air, but if these nearly a million old, weak, sick and disabled people are allowed to starve to death on the grassland, then even if my twin clan's prestige on the grassland is monstrous, there is only one way to decay.
Therefore, the three of us must work together to dispatch the elite of our own clan to the grassland to specifically encircle and suppress the Anbei army.
In addition, according to accurate reports, the leader of this Anbei army is likely to be the Anbei general of the Great Zhou. ”
Hearing that the military minister said that the leader of the Anbei cavalry was likely to be the Taishou of Yanmen County and the general of Anbei, Wang Yu, who had nothing to do with himself, and hung up his posture highly, and the old man and Mao Dun suddenly put away the expressions on their faces.
"Are you sure? If the leader of the Anbei cavalry on the grassland is really the county guard of Yanmen County, then God will really help me Huns.
His status in Yanmen Pass is equivalent to Lao Shan Yu's status in our Huns, once this person's head is cut off and handed over, then the Zhou border army under Yinshan Pass will inevitably be scattered.
When the time comes, we can even take advantage of the victory to pursue, with the help of the accumulated advantages to break through the Yanmen Pass in one fell swoop, with the wealth and accumulation of the Zhou people, not to mention the nearly one million more slaves, even the number of more than twice can be easily done. ”
Just when the three most honorable people of the Xiongnu Twin Clan were discussing in the royal court, a figure covered in blood rushed into the Xiongnu king's tent: "Tell the king, Zhelan clan reported to the royal court, they encountered that Anbei cavalry."
In the head-to-head confrontation with the Anbei cavalry, although they were not defeated by the tribe, they also suffered heavy losses, most of the most elite 10,000 cavalry under the command of the Zhelan clan were killed and wounded, and the cannon fodder 10,000 cavalry composed of slaves was almost wiped out.
Although the Anbei cavalry performed well in this encounter, it also suffered heavy losses, and the 1,000 iron cavalry that came and went like the wind were almost all wounded, and 100 of them were completely wiped out......"
Looking at the eyes of the nearly 900 people in front of him who were so tired that they couldn't open them, Wang Yu silently estimated that he was away from the intended goal, and finally gave up waking up these Anbei iron horsemen who were sleeping on the ground like war horses.
Out of the fortress for more than ten days, they have been walking a tightrope all the time to make risks, and now the Anbei cavalry has been tense to the limit, and they will not rest for a moment, I am afraid that the only remaining nine hundred Anbei cavalry will have non-combat attrition.
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