There were also some gangsters who were unwilling to surrender, or knew that surrender would be a dead end, and they were also clamoring there, but what they received were either bright silver guns running towards them, or hook arrows, making them feel like they were being attacked. Like gophers whose names were called, they fell to the ground one after another.
One by one, the gangsters became typical villains. Their names were called one by one. The other gangsters were so frightened that they did not dare to shout anymore. They quickly threw away their weapons and squatted on the ground. Some even used weapons on the ground directly. Huang Mu wiped his face, hoping that others would not remember him and forget his identity as a rapist.
The first slave army of 10,000 people all surrendered after killing more than 3,000 people. This was like setting an example for the remaining gang traitors. When the number of slave soldiers increased, they saw that the Huns had already After they had run far away and the rape around them was no longer a problem, they all chose to abandon their weapons and surrender without wanting to die.
The next thing was easy to handle. As everyone chose to surrender, the battle ended quickly. The 10,000 Shanshan Guards cavalry were still a little angry. They thought there were Hun cavalry here and they would have a good practice. The practitioners never imagined that the battle would end without a fight, and they only used 40% of their strength.
"Notify Your Majesty immediately and report the results of our battle here while others clean up the battlefield." Fang Shengqi, commander of the second regiment of the Tiger Brigade, issued the order immediately, which also represented the end of this local battle.
Qiao Xiong was still running away with his army.
He doesn't know the outcome of the battle behind him? He won't care about it anymore. All he can think about now is how to escape back to join the king, and then report to everyone the tragic experience of their Qiao family. He wants to accuse Wei Qianer, it is This woman gave him wrong information, which made them completely unprepared and caused such huge losses.
It's just that they ran too far ahead, and now they want to go back immediately. Even though they tried their best, they only ran 60 miles in half a day, and finally had to stop at the official road at the foot of Huashan Mountain. rest.
What happened during the day left Qiao Xiong still in a state of panic. When he was about to rest at night, Qiao Xiong sent a lot of night guards outside to prevent the Chinese army from catching up and attacking at night. After a busy day, Qiao Xiong , he arranged everything, and when it was almost midnight, he finally fell down in the main tent and wanted to sleep.
He had just laid down and closed his eyes before falling asleep, when he heard the sound of running outside the tent. He was so startled that Qiao Xiong stood up like a reflex and shouted outside, "What's the matter?" Yes, what happened?"
The big tent was opened from the outside, and a centurion who stayed awake all night ran into the tent and said with a frightened look on his face: "Elder clan, the Chinese army is coming, and there are a lot of cavalry here."
"It's the cavalry again? How many are there?" Qiao Xiong asked depressedly and frightenedly.
"I don't know. Anyway, there are many of them. They are holding torches, like an endless dragon. Clan elder, they are already here. The people around us can't stop them for long, so we should retreat quickly." The centurion spoke out his advice.
"Okay, retreat, retreat immediately. In this way, we will leave 30,000 slave troops here to block the enemy, and everyone else will retreat, retreat!" After what happened during the day, Qiao Xiong was already frightened when he learned that the Great Chinese Army was coming. After the attack, the first thought was to escape. The general had no fighting spirit, so the soldiers below had no intention of resisting. After the order was issued, the camp became a mess, and eventually 30,000 slave soldiers were left behind. The others evacuated quickly. Because they were leaving in a hurry at night, they did not have time to take away many military tents and provisions.
The two regiments of the Sixth Flying Dragon Brigade of the Shanshan Guard were responsible for the night attack. They deliberately lit two torches each, making the team of 10,000 people visible from a distance, creating a momentum of 20,000 people. As soon as they appeared , they fought with the 5,000 Huns cavalry waiting on the outside. After paying hundreds of casualties, with the hardness of the armor and the sharpness of the weapons, these 5,000 people were either killed or captured, and in the end they just escaped. Just a thousand people.
Taking advantage of the power of the victory, they rushed to the main camp of the Huns army. Here, the 30,000 slave army only made a symbolic resistance, without even the large-scale resistance during the day, and then surrendered.
Heitian has its own shortcomings. He was unable to assemble the army, which also made more and more common people feel intimidated. Without the supervision of the Huns cavalry, even those who committed crimes could not take care of too many people, and there was a trend of surrender. Once it comes out, no one can stop it.
In just one day, the Xiongnu army of 240,000 people lost 9,000 Xiongnu cavalry and 110,000 slaves.
Only half of the 240,000 people were running forward in the dark night. Under the cover of the night, more than 10,000 slaves took the opportunity to escape. When the soldiers and horses were counted at dawn, there were only 80,000 slaves left in the army. .
More than half of the troops were lost, which made Qiao Xiong's face extremely ugly. What made him even more uncomfortable was that he didn't even know how many Chinese troops he had killed in these three battles. Did he severely damage them? Or not? ?
Also, on the way to report to the main army, will we encounter other Chinese armies?
"Elders don't have to worry. We lost half of our troops, and the Chinese army will not be easy off. Even if they can win, it will be a miserable victory. Even if they win, so many prisoners and corpses are enough for them to clean up. It's been a while." Qiao Tai came to Qiao Xiong's side and comforted him.
Qiao Tai was lucky. He was in charge of the rear, unlike Qiao Rong who was in the vanguard and died early in the battle.
Listening to the clan brother's consolation, Qiao Xiong's face looked better. "Yes, we have lost hundreds of thousands of troops, and the Chinese army will obviously not be easy. Well, but we still can't stop and have to retreat. , and also, have all the people sent to contact the king been sent out?"
"Don't worry, clan elder, people have been sent out a long time ago, and they have sent out three batches. They will definitely contact the king." Qiao Tai said in a comforting tone.
"Okay, that's good." Qiao Xiong nodded, then rode on his horse and continued to retreat towards Yuzhou.
At the foot of Huashan Mountain in late July, the weather was very hot. We could not advance more than forty miles before someone fell to the ground due to heat stroke.
The escape was too hasty this time. Many people just put on their clothes and ran away with their weapons. They didn’t even have water bags. And because they didn’t even drink soup from midnight to noon, some people finally suffered the physical toll. If you can't load the load, you'll fall out of line.
At first, those who fell were slave soldiers, and Qiao Xiong didn't take it seriously. But later, when even the Huns cavalry fell off their horses due to the heat, Qiao Xiong knew that he couldn't continue walking, at least not at noon. When walking, avoid the hottest time of the day.
"The order goes down. The whole army stops advancing and rests for two hours. In addition, let people light up the fire to cook. By the way, there is not much food. We will only come with our cavalry first." Qiao Xiong rode his war horse to a place under the shade of a tree. , after giving this order, others also jumped off their horses and took off the sweaty armor on their bodies.
It was finally time to rest. The 110,000-strong army seemed to be paralyzed and fell on both sides of the official road. Especially under some big trees, it was filled with soldiers. The morale of the army dropped to freezing point at this moment.
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The Xiongnu army stopped, and the news was quickly reported to the imperial tent at the foot of Mount Hua, twenty miles ahead.
That's right, Tang Ao is here.
The so-called Battle of Zhangcheng was nothing more than heavy thunder and light rain. It was not the main attack direction of the Great Chinese Army at all. Otherwise, how could a mere 50,000 Xishu Army block the front of the Great Chinese Army?
It was just a play performed by Tang Ao, just for others to watch. Now it seems that the Huns, including Wei Qian'er who is good at conspiracy and tricks, were indeed fooled and sent troops towards Shaanzhou, which she thought was under control.
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Little did he know that Tang Ao had already calculated this step and came to Huashan first. Not only did he come, he also transferred the Fourth Wild Wolf Brigade of Shanshan Guard outside Zhangcheng. At the same time, he was
Also secretly transferred to Shaanzhou were the 1st Tiger Brigade, the 6th Feilong Brigade, the 2nd Firearms Brigade of Shanwei Guards, two regiments, 30,000 people from the 1st Returned Army, and 45,000 people from the 2nd Field Army, totaling 130,000 troops.
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Yesterday, the armies took turns to attack, each attacking at the original ambush point, and all achieved excellent results. Now, Tang Ao was at the foot of Huashan Mountain ready for the final attack and encirclement.
The birds in the sky have been watching every move of the Huns, including the three groups they sent out at night. They were all discovered and intercepted to ensure that the battle situation here would not be known to the Huns who arrived later.
Before waiting for the main force of the Xiongnu to appear, Tang Ao's goal was to wipe out the vanguard of the Xiongnu army.
"What? They stopped?" Tang Ao, who was hiding under a few big trees, frowned slightly when he heard that the Xiongnu army had stopped advancing and stopped twenty miles away.
"Your Majesty, will they discover us?" Ye Fan, the deputy chief of staff who came from the rear, said suspiciously.
"No, we have birds. It's only for us to find them. They can't find us." Tang Ao shook his head firmly, and then said with an extremely sure tone, "It's noon now, the weather
It’s hot, they probably can’t stand the heat and that’s why they didn’t leave.”
"Oh, if that's the case, should we wait?" Ye Fan also nodded after hearing this, obviously he also agreed with this view.
"We can't wait, we can't give them a chance to relax. Don't the Tiger Brigade still have a light cavalry regiment that hasn't moved? Arrange them to go around the enemy's back, then launch an attack, and drive them into the encirclement. In short, they can't let them rest.
." Tang Ao raised his head suddenly, punched the sand table in front of him, and made a decision.