In this battle, Xuanqi paid the lives of more than 1,700 cavalrymen, in exchange for shooting the Xiongnu general Gongsun Leopard and annihilating 23,000 enemies. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Although the Xiongnu army outside Jingzhou City was not completely annihilated, this battle was the first victory of the Celestial Empire army since the Xiongnu entered the pass.

When the news spread along the banks of the Yangtze River, the morale of the Celestial Empire army was suddenly high, and the Hun cavalry, which seemed to be invincible, was not really invincible. It can be said that although the results of this campaign are not large, the impact is extremely far-reaching.

The weather in May is already extremely hot. At this time, Xuan Qi was beginning to deploy troops and prepare for the next big war. The lack of cavalry is Xuan Qi's biggest headache. Without cavalry, the Celestial Empire army could not take the initiative to attack at all, and could only rely on the natural danger and the city wall to resist the attack of the Xiongnu army, and was in a passive situation.

Xuanqi dispatched troops on his side, and Helian Yinshan, who was defeated for the first time, was very angry. The three generations of the Li family, from Li Hu and Li Xing to Li Sheng and Xuanqi, do not know how much suffering the Xiongnu have suffered, and there are already hundreds of thousands of Xiongnu troops buried in the hands of these people. Helian Yinshan swore that he must take the head of Xuanqi, in order to relieve the hatred in his heart, north of the Yangtze River, more than sixty percent of the Xiongnu troops have begun to assemble towards Jingzhou.

And just when all localities were trying to concentrate the cavalry in Jingzhou, countless people in the rivers and lakes heard that Xuanqi was out of the mountain, and they were constantly rushing towards Jingzhou City. Xuan Qi decided to take advantage of the arrival of soldiers and horses from all over the country to give the Hun army a dismount. Thousands of masters of the rivers and lakes were selected and quietly dispersed in two directions, east and north.

Helian Qing, the eldest son of Helian Yinshan, who originally occupied Jiangcheng, with 70,000 cavalry, was rushing west along the Han River to Jingzhou City. The sky was about to darken, and Helian Qing had no choice but to order to set up camp by the Han River and go on the road tomorrow.

At midnight, the military horse camp on one side of the camp suddenly burst into flames, and countless startled horses rushed out, and most of the horses were tied with flammable forage on their tails. The pain of burning the horse's tail made the startled horse unable to contain the horse's hooves at all, impacting the entire camp. Countless Hun soldiers who heard the sound of horses' hooves and had just rushed out of the camp died under the horses' hooves.

It wasn't until dawn that the chaotic camp fell silent. Helian Qingtie's face was blue, listening to the reports of the generals in the big tent, but his face became whiter and whiter. In the riots in the middle of the night, more than 6,000 Huns were killed, but 27,000 were wounded. And the focus is on the life of the cavalry, the war horse, a full 100,000 war horses, only less than 20,000 remained, and few were burned, but more scattered and fled.

The Huns without their horses are like a butcher who has lost his sharp knife and a hunter who has lost his bow and arrow. Helian Qing had to order the whole army not to advance for the time being, and first find the war horses that escaped from the barracks. The scattered Hun soldiers began to look for war horses, while the three hundred masters of the rivers and lakes led by Xuan Qi were waiting for them in the wilderness.

The interception and killing are constantly carried out on the south bank of the Han River, and the Xiongnu soldiers who are alone or have a small number are not the opponents of the masters of the rivers and lakes at all, and often three or five masters of the rivers and lakes dare to make a move against the Huns of more than ten or twenty people. When the Huns arrived, these masters of the rivers and lakes had long since disappeared.

By noon, there were more than 3,000 horses recovered, and more than 1,000 Huns were intercepted and killed. Helian Qing, who was like thunder, had no choice but to let the Huns gather in groups, and they didn't dare to leave the camp without thousands of people. It's just that in this way, the speed of searching for war horses slowed down, and in the whole afternoon, only seven or eight hundred war horses were found.

After nightfall, Xuanqi changed to another way, every half an hour, the sound of gongs would sound outside the Hun camp. When the Huns rushed out of the camp, the gong beaters had long since disappeared, and in this dark night, they didn't know where to chase. Such a painful night finally passed, and when the Hun soldiers got up to the shouting and scolding of the generals, most of them had black circles under their eyes. Almost a day and two nights without sleep, coupled with the occasional fright, these Hun soldiers have long been weakened.

At the same time, the generals of the military horse battalion walked into Helian Qing's tent tremblingly. But it turned out to be an extremely well-defended military horse camp, but it was still sneaked in and mixed countless crotons with the forage. Of the 20,000 war horses, 178,000 began to have diarrhea after eating croton. The stench of horse manure from the military horse camp spread throughout the camp.

The furious Helian Qing took out his waist knife and slashed the general of the military horse battalion to death, but he could only order the military doctor to start treating the horses, and the Hun soldiers who were looking for the war horses could basically only rely on foot.

The Hun soldiers, who were already very tired and had weak legs, drove out of the camp in groups, but they couldn't go far at all, they were already out of breath and their eyes were black. The team began to be stretched involuntarily, and long snakes formed on this vast plain.

The interception began again, in the reeds, bushes, and small hillsides on the shore of the Han River, the elusive masters of the rivers and lakes would take away the lives of one or two Hun soldiers every time they appeared. When the arrows in the hands of the Huns were hit, these people quickly disappeared.

The attacks day after day made Helian Qing furious, but he was helpless, so he simply gave up his plan to find horses and pulled out the camp and marched west. It's just that in this way, the Hun soldiers who have no horses can only basically rely on foot, but the speed is much slower.

As usual, the situation was staged at the same time among the Xiongnu troops who went to Jingzhou in various places. When Helian Yinshan, who personally led an army of 100,000 troops, went south from Xiangyang all the way to the outside of Jingzhou, he waited for several days, but there was no trace of the rest of the Xiongnu armies. Helian Yinshan, who was so angry and ruined, had to send a large number of scouts to investigate.

At this time, Xuan Qi and Gao Xingshu each led 5,000 cavalry and galloped on the vast plain, and the scouts sent by Helian Yinshan all fell into the hands of the cavalry of the Celestial Empire who were waiting openly. Seven full days passed, and Helian Yinshan, who had no news from him, simply stopped waiting and began to attack Jingzhou City. When Helian Yinshan rushed into Jingzhou City, he saw that the city was empty, and there were countless official ships lined up on the opposite side of the river.

At this time, Xuan Qi had already joined forces with the happy scholars, bypassed Helian Qing's army, and galloped towards the east along the Han River. Jiangcheng along the Yangtze River to the west of a hundred miles, 100,000 troops are also methodically starting to cross north, but there are 60,000 cavalry, it is Xuanqi mobilized from all over the country to rush to Jingzhou. It's just that Xuan Qi suddenly changed his mind and made the reinforcements change the direction of travel.