Chapter 621 Xianbei looking for death

Zhuge Liang had seen those crazy war instruments, and he and Huang Yueying even participated in part of the construction.

The giant repeating crossbow named Katyusha by Chen Xi is engraved with an etching seal, and the horizon points to Nadana.

Moreover, every giant crossbow arrow is engraved with explosive etching marks. Even if it doesn't explode after one shot, it won't be a problem to sink a small hill with its speed.

It also contains poison developed by Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo. It is colorless and odorless. Anyone who smells it will have weak hands and feet, and non-elite people cannot stand.

It can be said that basically when a crossbow arrow is fired, the only ones who can continue to fight on the battlefield are elites.

Of course, the Han Dynasty must be equipped with an antidote for this kind of thing, and the two sides can directly create a numerical difference.

However, Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing did not make many such things. If it were not for the sake of fighting the Northern Huns, they would not even be able to take out these things.

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As the real sun rises, the war has come to an end.

The battle damage was not big, and even the serious injuries were only over 20,000, but because they were all elites, they seemed particularly distressed.

After all, Goryeo's side was basically restrained in all its methods, and the battle damage occurred only in the last ditch. This battle damage already made Guo Hao feel distressed.

After all, even if thousands of people were not killed but were only seriously injured, it was already certain that they would withdraw from the war to encircle and suppress the Northern Huns.

All other directions are considered normal battle losses, and there is no undead life in a war.

However, the main source of battle losses was the direction in which Zhang He and Gao Lan were responsible. Their abilities were indeed far behind those of a qualified commander.

Guo Hao sighed, but he still did not kill the two men as commanders. He only temporarily removed the two commanders' positions, each of them took charge of a headquarters, and the rest of the troops were handed over to Xue Rengui.

This can be regarded as a helpless compromise. For the sake of harmony within the Han Dynasty, each major state must cultivate some leading figures. It can also be regarded as appeasement for them when they were under Yuan Shao's hands.

Just like Tang Zhou and Zhou Cang, they must always be in front of the stage so that the people who were once Yellow Turbans can believe that the court will not pursue the past again, which is a guarantee for them to feel at ease.

However, Yan Liang, Wen Chou and Yan Liang didn't have the talent to be handsome, so Gao Lan and Zhang He were already the last choices.

In addition, Yuan Shao has no famous people under his command. Instead of cultivating them from among the people, it is better to hope that Zhang He and Gao Lan can make further progress.

If that doesn't work, we can only define the two as generals, and hope that they can make great progress together as generals.

"Damn it, Zhang Julu, was it you?"

Guo Hao still wanted to reprimand the two of them, but his expression suddenly changed and he looked at Zhang Jue beside him with annoyance.

Suddenly, another legion was attached to the national destiny, and the manifestation of destiny was directly a yellow headscarf. How could we not know what was happening?

"Huh?" Zhang Jiao looked innocent, but then he smiled bitterly.

He also discovered what happened. The imperial will originally planned by Guo Hao to level up the Sun Cavalry was actually instilled into the Yellow Turban Warriors by the instinctive gathering of the Nine Scepters.

Well, maybe for the sake of distinction, we can call them Golden Armored Warriors.

Just like the relationship between the trapped camp and the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, the Flying Bear Army and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, they are legions that have entered a new realm.

After all, they are now a semi-military soul-level unit, and due to basic reasons, they basically have all the abilities of a normal military soul as soon as they are promoted, except for the ultimate military soul move.

But the Golden Armored Warriors and the First Dead Warriors are the same. Neither legion needs the so-called ultimate move.

Especially the Golden Armored Warrior, which is basically a super unit that implements strength. For any military soul ultimate move, the Golden Armored Warrior only needs to level A.

I think it was the Yellow Turban Hercules who blocked the miraculous path of the Sun Cavalry in the first place, and now it was the Yellow Turban Warrior who blocked the path of the Sun Cavalry's military soul.

Guo Hao is now ready to kill Zhang Jiao. Although they are all Han troops, they are all fighting for the country now.

But if you do this, wouldn't you just be a disgusting person?

"The giant deer is willing to be disposed of by the general!" Zhang Jiao smiled bitterly. The nine-section staff was originally created by him to carry the will of the Yellow Turban Empire.

The yellow mud fell into my crotch, and it was useless to say anything.

"Go down and teach Tang Zhou!" Guo Hao took a deep breath, but he still didn't have an attack.

The promotion of the Yellow Turban Warriors to the Golden Armored Warriors cannot be considered a good thing. At least the former Yellow Turban Warriors are completely at ease this time.

They are all fighting for the country, so how can they be separated from each other? Moreover, this was also his mistake. He did not gather the will of the empire immediately. Instead, he cleaned the battlefield and counted the losses first, which led to this mistake.

"Forget it, the opportunity has not come yet, you can't force it!"

The episode on the battlefield cannot affect the overall situation. With the official defeat of the royal city of Goryeo, Goryeo was officially destroyed, leaving only small towns and counties.

Guo Hao entrusted Gao Xianzhi, a local, with full authority to handle the matter. This was also a test for Gao Xianzhi.

If they can settle the remaining areas of Goryeo before they deal with the Northern Huns, then they can consider temporarily letting him serve as the governor of Goryeo.

If not, they will be recruited from within the country. This is also to appease the remaining Goryeo people.

Goryeo has been destroyed, and there is no need to exterminate the remaining people. On the contrary, these people are still a very important labor force, which will be used to develop the Northeast Plains in the future.

As time passed, the three armies of the Han Dynasty began to take up their positions.

Xu Rong was in charge of the army on the west route, blocking the Xiongnu's way of escaping westward.

The army in the middle was led by Guo Hao himself and was responsible for dealing with the main force of the Xiongnu and the decisive battle with the Xiongnu.

As for the army on the easternmost side, Han Shizhong was the commander, and he brought several cavalrymen including White Horse Yi Cong, Red Blood Cavalry, Yue Cavalry, Tun Cavalry, and Yuyang Cavalry to sweep behind the various tribes of the Northern Xiongnu.

The Xiongnu's living space was reduced to the minimum.

This is also the reason why they are all cavalry, to prevent them from being caught by the main force of the Northern Huns.

If it is infantry or something like that, the probability of outperforming the main force of the Northern Huns on the grassland is too low.

The Han Dynasty was limited by the long supply line, and the progress was not very fast. It could even be said to be slow. After all, it was on the prairie.

In this kind of war, the value of counselors skyrocketed. The Han Dynasty relied on its abundant manpower to calculate the best supply gathering points.

After all, both sides were old enemies, so the Han Dynasty still highly recognized the capabilities of the Northern Huns.

Although everyone was mysteriously confident that they could annihilate the Northern Huns, when the fight was about to begin, no one actually knew what to do.

This kind of large-scale planning must be promoted layer by layer. Throughout the ages, the only person who can accomplish this kind of cross-regional combat is Duke Wei Li Jing.

The Han Dynasty is now relying solely on this logistical hard work to build semi-permanent fortifications directly at the supply point to make preliminary preparations for building a city on the grassland in the future.

Leaving aside the logistics aspect, 90% of the civil and military personnel who went north came with the attitude of fighting for the moment.

In their view, as long as every war is won, then annihilating the Huns is a matter of course.

As for the other group of forces on the grassland, the Hu people, neither side took it seriously. They simply killed those who refused to surrender and that was the end of it.

Don't look at the millions of barbarians, the numbers are quite shocking, but a hundred thousand reorganized Han troops can make millions of barbarians go around.

This was more than three million Han troops. All the Hu people on the grassland who heard the news were frightened.

In this era, the Han Dynasty never paid attention to these barbarians. Once they got serious, all the barbarians would definitely run as far as they could.

Of course, they are not all cowardly Hu people. In the eastern part of Bingzhou, the Xianbei tribe could not restrain their inner restlessness.

From the perspective of the Xianbei tribe, in the past the Han Dynasty could only resist their invasion with the help of geographical advantages, but now that it was on their territory, they had nothing to fear.

What a million-strong army, they didn't believe that the Han Dynasty would bring so many people to the grassland.

Bu Yuyi, the leader of the Yi tribe, was originally very cautious. After all, Dong Xianbei, which was further east, was destroyed during their last attack on Youzhou. He was still a little afraid of the Han Dynasty.

But after they contacted Xi Xianbei, they no longer had any scruples.

In their opinion, the two armies combined had more than 300,000 elite troops, and they were all cavalry. The Han army could never be their opponent, and they even planned to break through Yanmen Pass and penetrate into the Central Plains.

"Report, signs of Xianbei mass gathering have been found in the north. Preliminary estimates are that there are about 300,000 people."

When the messenger reported the news to the middle camp, everyone was silent.

They never expected that at this time, someone would dare to twist the tiger's beard in the Han Dynasty.

"Could it be that the Northern Huns wanted to use Xianbei to test the strength of our army?" Zhao Yun saw that all the counselors were silent and stood up immediately and said.

Under the adoring eyes of the generals and the looks of his advisers looking like they were mentally retarded, Zhao Yun sat down slowly. He thought it was quite reasonable. Why did everyone look at him like this?

"Zilong, why don't you change your armor? Sitting with you would be detrimental to our counselor's style!"

Fazheng couldn't restrain his desire to complain and stabbed Zhao Yun in the chest.

"Zilong, you should put on your armor. If this continues, you will be incompatible with us and the generals. You are so unique!"

With a smile on his face, Zhuge Liang continued to stab Zhao Yun on the chest.

After seeing that the counselors, including Li Ru, all nodded incomprehensibly, the Zhao Yun sank directly.

"Zilong, so you are really a civil servant?" Lu Lingqi whispered to Zhao Yun. He did not expect that Zhao Yun, a guy with enough fighting power to compete with his father, was actually a civil servant.

Zhao Yun looked up at Lu Bu, who was a good man, waved his hand silently, put away his Confucian robe, and put on his own tiger head armor.

Finally, Chen Xi sighed helplessly and began to explain the connotation to a group of generals who didn't understand.

The first stop where the Han and Hungarians raise their flags, no matter who loses or wins, will have a great impact on the subsequent battle situation, and it will also be an important signal for the barbarians on the grassland.

Regardless of the strategic level between the two sides, the outcome of the first battle alone will greatly affect the situation between the Han and Hungarian sides.

If the Northern Xiongnu suffered a disastrous defeat, it might cause the Hu people on the grasslands to defect to the Han Dynasty in large numbers.

Although the fighting ability of these barbarians is rubbish, after all, the grassland is their territory, and it is impossible to ignore it.

Although both Han and Hungary look down on Zahu, both sides still attach great importance to these off-field factors.
To be continued...