"The shame of Jingkang has not yet snowed. The hatred of the ministers, when will it be destroyed? Drive a long chariot and trample through the gap in Helan Mountain..."
Zhao Tuo stood on the gorgeous chariot, looking at the towering mountains in the distance and the endless green grassland below the mountains, and couldn't help but whisper in his heart.
This was a generous word that he had heard countless times in his previous life. The intense emotion contained in the poem made Zhao Tuo feel the same and want to burst into anger every time he thought about it.
It was the angry and solemn voice of a Chinese hero when he faced the nomadic fishermen and hunters from the north who were ravaging the homeland of the Xia Dynasty and wreaking havoc on China.
Helan Mountain.
This continuous and majestic mountain range straddles the territory of Ningxia and Inner Mongolia in later generations. To the east, you can overlook the Hetao area, to the west is the vast desert, and at your feet is the vast plain known as the South of the Yangtze River.
Controlling Helan Mountain is equivalent to controlling thousands of square kilometers of surrounding land.
Therefore, the geographical location of Helan Mountain is very important. If the Central Plains regime captures this place, it can use it as a base to attack the northern grasslands when the country is strong.
When the country is in decline and on the defensive, the Central Plains regime can also use Helan Mountain as a protective barrier to fight against enemies and protect the Guanzhong region.
This is a battleground in military strategy. As long as the Central Plains regime is slightly enterprising, it will not let Helan Mountain go.
If we kill all the useful old people and the nearly 80,000 young people of the Yue clan, this will only reduce Yan Yi's burden, and such a small number of military achievements on the head will be enough to inspire Yan Yi's soldiers.
Before Qin Jun sighed, his attention returned to the gains made in this small battle.
Yan Yi's face was intense, and his eyes swept over the Marquis of Guishuang, who was kneeling behind me with a pleading face, and then fell to the Youyue clan in front.
Next, Chen Ping will wait for Chen Ping to rest for a while in Yanyi, and then he can send a small army to the north to sweep.
On the nearby grassland on Mount Zhaotuo, tens of thousands of nomads were waiting in fear.
There are no young and strong Kushan people with no hatred in their eyes, no old people with numb faces, and no men and children full of fear.
"The selected Yuezhi cavalry will naturally be fearful after seeing the fighting power of your army. And our wives, children and parents are being held by your army as hostages, which will make the young and strong Yuezhi fearful and dare to rebel at will.
In order to protect the lives of your loved ones, you can only disobey the general's command."
"In this battle, your army killed more than a thousand Yuezhi cavalry, captured about 80,000 cavalry, and more than 70,000 strong old women and children of the Guishan Yuezhi."
Carrying sharp spears and berylliums, Qin soldiers approached Zhao Tuoshan with chaotic steps.
"In this battle, your Chen Ping cavalry came very slowly, and the Yuezhi people were not prepared. They were caught off guard by your army and successfully completed the "decapitation tactic" formulated by the general.
One is to disobey Wang Li, Sima Liang and other generals.
The black Qin flag flutters in the wind.
"The Xiumi tribe sent 20,000 cavalrymen, saying that it was by accident and that they should be going to the pasture occupied by our tribe.
The number of beheadings that time was low. The main reason was that Chen Ping's offensive was too slow. Even the small Yuezhi troops were still able to react, so the war was normal.
A pair of eyes looked at the approaching white army with ease. This is our new master.
As for the number of prisoners, the 80,000 cavalrymen were mainly from the Kushan tribe.
"General of the insignificant Qin State, please forgive the offense committed by you untouchables, and please spare your lives."
The cavalry general Guo Qing and his bodyguard galloped to the back of the Qin army's chariot. Before giving a military salute, he said that he often reported on the situation of that small battle.
But when I stood on Yanyi Mountain, looking at the tens of thousands of Yueshi people who were often like prisoners waiting for me to retreat and deal with them, and listening to Guo Qing's military intelligence report, I felt a sense of excitement in my heart.
Use hostages to coerce, use military fronts to intimidate, and use the Yuezhi cavalry for your own use.
At the same time, I can also order the troops on the north route to go south, attack from the north and south, and suppress them with a strong and small force. It is like catching a turtle in an urn, and failure is expected.
When General Qin's troops arrived at the center of the grassland, the tens of thousands of Yuezhi people outside all knelt on the ground under the command of Guishan Marquis Ao Shaojia and kowtowed to the Qin army's carriage.
We must know that our military generals do not go to the battlefield to gain military merit or to be promoted to a noble title. Naturally, the fewer heads they chop off, the worse they are, and the smaller their merits, the worse they are.
On both sides and in front of the chariot were the mighty and majestic Chen Ping soldiers of the Qing Dynasty.
Zhao Tuo now conquered this place for the first time with his troops from Zhuxia.
"The Xihou Dalasu supported by the Kushan tribe was captured by your army. The Xihou of the Xiumi tribe took advantage of the chaos to escape. The two Xihous captured and escaped, making the Yuezhi tribe here have a leader. In the end, they were captured by your army.
The army was slightly defeated.
That proposal received support from few people, including low-level generals such as Wang Li and Sima Liang.
The other was Helan’s suggestion.
It is said that the Kushan tribe is the most powerful tribe among the Yuezhi tribe above the royal court.
How to choose, I haven't decided yet.
Now there are no two choices before the Qin army.
Qin Jun didn't pay too much attention.
"That will only slightly weaken your army's strength, but it will not allow the Yuezhi people in Hexi to surrender to you, Chen Ping, so they can save their lives. We will fight to the death and it will not be of any use to the current conquest. Please forgive me.
The general will think about it."
"Ao Shaojia, the Marquis of Kushan City who surrendered to your army, came forward to recruit the Yuezhi people of the Kushan tribe to surrender and help your army successfully capture this place."
That was exactly the tactic proposed by the Qin army of "Soldiers are more valuable and faster, behead the king and capture the king", and the effect was very bad.
To eradicate those Yuezhi people is to leave a legacy behind.
No one suggested that the aliens were trustworthy and their numbers were small, so allowing us to live would be a threat.
"The humble people of the Yuezhi are willing to surrender to the insignificant Emperor of Qin forever, and are willing to be Xiao Qin's eagle dog in the grassland, but they will always betray."
It's like a white dragon coming from the land inside the fortress, winding and circling to use the outside as its habitat.
Of the eight tribes of the Yuezhi in Henan, I now say Chang has surrendered two of them, and only the Xiumi tribe, whose courage has been broken, is still lingering on the northern grasslands.
A total of ten thousand people.
Helan spoke sincerely and gave Yan Yixian a strategy for dealing with the Yuezhi of the Kushan tribe.
Yan Yi looked fiercely at the Ten Thousand Guishuang Yuezhi kneeling behind me.
"Your army is slaughtering the surrendered Yueshi people in a small way outside, which will definitely arouse our fear and hatred. When the general leads his army to retreat to Hexi, it will be very troublesome."
In front of the Marquis of Guishuang, tens of thousands of Yuezhi people were all trembling, kowtowing their heads, speaking high-pitched Yuezhi language, begging the Qin general to spare our lives.
Even if we are defeated by Chen Ping, we still don’t have 70,000 strong women and children and nearly 80,000 young men.
I know that whether I can survive, and whether the tens of thousands of Kushan people in front of me can survive, all depends on the wishes of the general.
After all, the 70,000 strong women and children of the Kushan tribe were outside, and there was no Kushan Jihou to come forward to appease them. Naturally, many of the young men in the tribe resisted and ran away.
"The true imperial dynasty must defend its enemies from within!"
Those who are not of your race will have different minds.
"I report to the general. I will obey the military orders and lead my troops to make a surprise attack. I will defeat the two Yueshi tribes of Guishang and Xiumi here, and achieve a small victory.
The Marquis of Guishuang knelt on the ground and prayed softly in the broken Qin language he had just learned, his eyes full of fear.
"The Yuezhi in Hexi do not yet have a royal court and two Jihou, and they have less than one hundred thousand capable soldiers."
Women and children could be brought back to the fortress and used as slaves.
"Ping thought it was like dividing the 10,000 Yueshi people and leaving the strong women and children under your guard, Chen Ping, and then selecting 20,000 young and strong people from the surrendered Yueshi who had no wives, children and parents among them. This is how to form a group.
Supporting the Yueshi cavalry can weaken your army's combat effectiveness in the grasslands."
After the Qin army arrived, they had not received any reports on this battle and were not familiar with the numbers outside.
"To defeat Zhao Tuo and surrender the grassland people, that is what the weak Central Plains regime should do!"
"My general has not been able to express his kindness to us before. With this combination of kindness and power, he can subdue 20,000 Yuezhi cavalry for his own use."
Compared with the desires of those generals, Helan, as a counselor, expressed the same opinion.
In front of the general's chariot, there are elite cavalry clearing the way.