Chapter 254 The Battle between Han and Hungary in Hexi
When the news of the war came back to the Xiongnu rear, in the big tent, the chieftain King Tu and the great Chanyu Yizhi slanted their hands and trembled, with anger, unwillingness, and mixed emotions.
Why do we end up with a losing streak in a battle situation with a large army and a well-prepared situation?
Huo Qubing actually attacked the front army head-on, then joined forces and defeated the rear army.
This is very different from the previous judgments of Yi Zhixie and others.
"The victory has not yet been decided. Huo Qubing is pursuing all the troops under my command, and we will only get further and further away from the Western Region.
We still have a lot of people and horses, and we will definitely win." King Tu Tu gasped.
His eyes were bloodshot, like a gambler who was desperate to lose.
Yi Zhixie snorted coldly: "As long as the third group goes smoothly, we will get back the advantages Han has accumulated before."
They have high hopes now, and only the last line of troops is left!
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The Great Shaman personally accompanied the army and went south from the Xiongnu rear area many days ago.
Their team, with the great shaman's grace and edict, and several shamans from various tribes joined hands to block the marching momentum.
The entire team consists of half of the Tianhun tribe and half of the elites of the royal tent, totaling more than 26,000 soldiers.
The Tianhun elite are led by Feng Ti, a general under Yudu, and Qimu Lougai, one of Yudu's lieutenants.
Qimu Lougai has been with Yudu for many years. She is a strong Huns man who is beside Yudu and almost accompanying him.
He was born with a different appearance, with long reddish-brown hair, tall and strong body, and eyes like copper bells.
Also in the team was Yi Zhixie's close confidant Luotang Gu.
These people attacked together, and their troops were strong.
The Luotang clan has been a royal family of the Xiongnu for generations, and the position of Great Chanyu must come from his clan.
Yi Zhixie's battle for this purpose was also to take out the inheritance of the Luotang family, which had been buried under the grassland for many years and nourished by the luck of the grassland, that is, the bones of the ancestors.
One of the ancient blade-like artifacts is said to have been passed down by the shaman god back then and contains mysterious power.
Their march was protected by the Great Shaman's ancestral weapons, and they were kept secret along the way. However, they followed the route Huo Qubing took when he entered the Western Huns, that is, from the direction of Yanzhi Mountain and Wushaoling, in the opposite direction from north to south.
Western Region Corridor.
This route serves as a link between past and future.
Moreover, because Huo Qubing had passed by before, it was dark under the lamp, which was relatively unexpected.
From the north to the south of Wushaoling and Yanzhi Mountains, there is the Qilian Mountains, close to the Western Qiang.
The soldiers and horses followed the Qilian Mountains on the south side of the Han-to-Western Region Corridor, and then headed westward, which was their marching direction.
The mountain road is difficult to travel, and you must be careful to avoid Han army sentries and maintain sufficient privacy.
The Xiongnu tribes are now increasingly wary of Huo Qubing, so they move very cautiously.
The marching speed is never fast.
However, we still arrived at the scheduled location on time.
This 'on time' refers to the timing of cooperating with another Huns army.
That is to say, the former army that was originally preparing to enter the Western Region was led by Ba Liexian.
The two planned to use both overt and covert actions to reverse the Han army's previous advantage.
The soldiers and horses led by the Great Shaman, Feng Ti, and Qi Mu Lou Gai finally arrived at the Xiling Mountains of Qilian Mountain.
This location is opposite the Dunhuang camp that Huo Qubing seized from King Hunxie and the Xiutu tribe, across the mountain, forming a vertical line, one south and one north.
Yudu's plan was indeed well made, it was a counter-raid.
Regardless of the route or strategic significance, if it can be fought out, it can be compared to Huo Qubing's previous attack on the battlefield of the Western Huns.
They first marched in hiding and came to the west of the Qilian Mountains. From here, if they continue to go west, they can enter Loulan, and if they go north, they can raid the Dunhuang camp.
Youdu expected that when Huo Qubing led his troops to fight, the camp would be empty.
The commander-in-chief attacked and planned to recapture this strategic location.
At the same time, cooperate with the Xiongnu front army.
The problem was that although Huo Qubing could not accurately judge the march route planned by Yudu, he knew its strategic intention.
Take control of the Western Region and regain the camp.
Only these two points are the strategic core of both parties.
Otherwise, the Xiongnu will always be controlled by the Han.
Therefore, after Huo Qubing sent troops to defeat two Xiongnu armies, his main strategic idea was to be fast enough, and the essence of blitzkrieg remained unchanged.
The Great Shaman and others rushed to the combat position. According to the plan, it was the time when the Western Huns' front army entered Pulei and prepared to launch an offensive in the Western Region.
However, the Great Shaman and others arrived at the designated location and contacted the outpost entering the Western Region.
Only then did they realize that Huo Qubing defeated the two front and rear armies of the Xiongnu in one day.
At present, the Han army is chasing the defeated Xiongnu army and has reached hundreds of miles away from the northern front.
Loulan was defeated by the Han people, and the Han general Gongsun Ao followed up and completely controlled it.
The great shaman was stunned after hearing this.
Turn around and look at Feng Ti, the Qi Mu Tower, and the Luotang Valley.
The three of them were also dumbfounded.
There are two groups of troops in front and behind of the Western Huns. As long as we can fight for some energy and join forces with them, we can form a strategic advantage.
The difference between before and after is only one step late.
In other words, the champion is playing too fast.
Conventionally speaking, it is normal to fight a war involving tens of thousands of armies, with two armies confronting each other, and the war lasting for several days.
Some large-scale national wars may last for several months. You come and I go.
In the hands of Huo Qubing, he attacks like the wind and breaks the formation like lightning.
The reason why he went to great lengths to mobilize the crossbow chariots was that he had to use the crossbow chariots to attack with arrows, rush into the formation with all the advantages, quickly defeat the Huns' front army, and leave the whole road unencircled, allowing the Huns soldiers to flee.
It has the effect of fighting as fast as the wind.
The Huns' front troops were routed in one morning.
They fought again in the afternoon and joined Zhang Cigong's troops. They fought until nightfall and defeated the Huns' rear army.
If so, both armies were defeated and retreated.
The Great Shaman and others arrived at the battle site and the battle was over.
The cold meal was not eaten, and everyone started clearing the table and cleaning up the situation after finishing their meal.
What to do?
The Great Shaman, Feng Ti, Qi Mu Lou Gai, and Luotang Valley unanimously decided that they would still have to fight along the way.
If we can retake the Dunhuang camp, we can still contain half of the Han Dynasty and the Western Regions, shaking the Han army's advantage.
"In this battle, our grassland tribes must not lose. Otherwise, we will lose the energy accumulated for hundreds of years and be completely suppressed by the Han."
The great shaman's old face was wrinkled and he said viciously: "You lead your army north to seize the camp.
If the main force of the Han army pursues and flees, the camp will be empty. You can seize the camp with the elite of Tianhun Department.
Luotanggu and I commanded the troops and horses of the king's account headquarters and continued to advance westward.
The Han army took Loulan away, and if we take Loulan back again, the Western Region will still be ours."
Feng Ti and Qi Mulou both agreed with what the great shaman said.
There were 26,000 elite troops from both sides, so they divided their forces and marched all the way north and all the way west.
The troops heading north rushed out of the Qilian Mountains in the dark and headed towards the Dunhuang camp occupied by the Han army.
The team heading west is expected to travel quickly for two days to approach Loulan.
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"Dadou, I didn't expect that the champion would let us stay in the camp."
In the Dunhuang camp, the speaker was Hu Lianmin, a subordinate of King Hunxie.
Huo Qubing used Han troops to attack the Xiongnu this time.
The Hunxie King's tribe who surrendered will be responsible for staying in the camp.
Leaving this camp of great strategic significance to them for garrison seems to be a matter of trust.
King Hunxie stood in the Chinese army tent in the camp with his hands behind his hands, looking at the moonlight.
He also just received news that Huo Qubing defeated two Xiongnu armies in succession, helping the Han Dynasty gain a huge strategic advantage in the northwest.
As long as Huo Qubing returns to the camp, the Han can eliminate a few minor troubles in the Western Regions, and then rely on this camp to build a city, they will be able to hold the Western Regions in their hands.
In this way, the territory of Han Dynasty nearly doubled, and the Xiongnu lost the Western Region. This was a great decline.
The power of the Han and Hungarians will be reversed and fundamental changes will occur.
The Han Dynasty was strong and the Hungarians were declining.
King Hunxie said with emotion: "The champion of the Han Dynasty is indeed an unparalleled divine general. His battlefield battles and strategic layout are far superior to us."
He was increasingly in awe of Huo Qubing.
However, I was a little surprised that he entrusted this camp to his care.
It seems like you trust him too much.
Since Gongsun Ao's troops went to Yumen and marched west from Yumen to Loulan, there were almost no Han troops in the camp. Even the Han ink workers who had been transferred earlier were transferred to the Yumen camp. p>
At present, in this camp, except for the soldiers and horses of Hunxie's tribe, there is no Han Chinese. King Hunxie feels like he is staying in a fake camp.
He vaguely felt that something was not right.
In the middle of the night, King Hunxie discovered that he had a crow's mouth.
His feelings became real.
Feng Ti and Qi Mu Lou Gai led the troops of Tianhun Department to suddenly attack.
King Hunxie was originally very afraid of the Heavenly Soul Department in Yudu. In addition, after defecting, he felt somewhat guilty towards his old master, the Huns.
I heard that the Tianhun Department was coming to kill.
King Hunxie is very cold.
At this time, when the Han army had firmly gained the upper hand, another group of Xiongnu soldiers came out to fight.
King Hunxie was defenseless.
Without much hesitation, he ordered the Hunxie Division to conserve their strength and withdraw from the camp.
At the same time, the words Huo Qubing said to him when he left the camp also flashed through his mind:
"Letting you stay in the camp is a strategic mission.
You have to remember that what is real is what is imaginary, and what is defended is what is imaginary. If something unexpected happens, there is no need to cling to it!"
At this time, I remembered that the champion seemed to have already suspected that the Huns might come to seize the camp, but he was just not sure.
In order to defeat the other two armies of the Xiongnu as soon as possible, he had to mobilize all the Han troops, so he left the Hunxie tribe here to guard the camp. If something unexpected happened, the Han troops would not be the ones to lose.
Damn it... King Hunxie ran even faster after suddenly realizing it.
The meaning of Huo Qubing's words is very obvious, just run away without taking responsibility.
Feng Ti and Qi Mu Lou Gai successfully captured the camp without expending much effort.
When the two of them checked the camp afterwards, they looked at each other, as if they had taken an empty camp.
There was almost no baggage in this camp. Apart from rushing in and killing many Hunxie soldiers of the same clan in the past, not a single Han army was encountered.
Huo Qubing led his troops to attack and penetrate deep into the Western Huns. While pursuing the deserters, he wiped out all the Western Xiongnu tribes along the way.
In the process, the Han army killed a total of 50,200 heads of the Xiongnu army, and captured alive the Xiongnu leaders, 59 kings, queen mothers, and princes, as well as 63 prime ministers, generals, and households.
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More than five thousand dignitaries from various Xiongnu tribes surrendered.
Let the strength of the Western Huns suffer a devastating blow.
In the original second battle of the Battle of Hexi, Huo Qubing's route was as far as the lakes south of Junji Mountain, across the Juyan Sea, across Xiao Yuezhi, and finally circled back to the Qilian Mountains, making a loop. p>
Now, because the Dunhuang camp has been occupied in the first battle, the distance from the camp is closer, and the fight goes deeper into the Western Xiongnu, sweeping through various tribes along the way, killing a lot of people.
Three days later, Huo Qubing adopted a large circuitous route, making a semicircular trajectory from east to west from the Xiongnu, and circled back to Pulei.
At this time, Pulei had been occupied by Gongsun Ao's troops, and it formed two corners with Zhao Ponu of Loulan, one in the south and one in the north.
When Huo Qubing came back, he and the great shaman entered the Western Region. Because Loulan and Pulei were both controlled by the Han army, they were unable to defeat the enemy's soldiers and horses.
The two sides fight again.
At this moment, the Han army was winning consecutive battles, and their fighting desire and edge were unstoppable.
Together with Gongsun Ao's troops, the force reached more than 50,000.
Just looking at the military power, the great shaman knew that there was no victory but defeat, so he retreated quickly.
He still wanted to scheme against the Han army again. When retreating, he first asked the scouts to return to the camp to inform Fengci and prepare an ambush in advance.
The Great Shaman and Luotanggu led their troops to retreat towards the Qilian Mountains, leaving Feng Ti and others to ambush in the mountains in advance, hoping to prevent an ambush from the Han army.
Unfortunately, Huo Qubing saw through his intentions and went straight to attack the Dunhuang camp.
Instead, it was the Great Shaman's turn, and Feng Ti and others hurriedly returned to the camp to garrison.
Huo Qubing's troops followed closely.
King Hunxie also came to join him and report the details.
Huo Qubing smiled and said to the Mo Gong on the side: "Let's get started."
Two-quarters of an hour later, the Dunhuang camp burst into flames.
Since Huo Qubing had some speculation about the Huns attacking the camp, the situation at that time required that troops and horses must be mobilized to defeat the enemy.
The camp cannot be left to the Huns for nothing.
As the camp was first built, it would not be a pity if it was destroyed. It can be rebuilt.
He then ordered the Mohist workers to use Mohist methods to hide and lay out Mohist formations under the ground in the camp, hiding fire and saltpeter.
When the new Xiongnu army entered the camp, they did not know enough about the situation in the camp. In a short period of time, they did not discover the fire and salt arrangements carefully hidden underground by the Mohists. They were caught off guard by the flames that rose up after being ignited.
The fire soared into the sky.
The Huns' casualties were not heavy, but they were unable to hold on and had no choice but to withdraw.
The Han army had been waiting outside the camp for a long time and was blocked.
The Xiongnu tribesmen left the camp when the fire hit them. Their horses and part of the baggage they carried were all set on fire.
When the Han army was in panic and engaged in battle, the situation can be imagined.
The Xiongnu tribe fought and retreated, while the Han army chased after them.
The two sides fought all the way, from the territory of the Western Xiongnu to the area under the jurisdiction of the central Xiongnu royal court, and the confrontation stretched for thousands of miles.
During the pursuit and escape that lasted for more than ten days, the great shaman was also shot in the shoulder blade by Huo Qubing with a bow during the chaotic moment of the fight. The shoulder was pierced, and a burst of energy exploded, wiping out half of his body.
In the following days, the great shaman was carried back to the Xiongnu rear area while he was dying.
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As time enters May, the Battle of Hexi is really coming to an end.
News of the battle losses, victories and defeats between the two sides were sent back to the Xiongnu and Chang'an respectively!
Yi Zhixie and King Tu were almost collapsed upon hearing this.
King Tu fell to the ground and wept, saying sadly: "Losing my Qilian Mountains will make my six animals unable to live; losing my Yanzhi Mountain will make my married woman colorless."
It means that the loss of fertile soil in the Qilian Mountains and Yanzhi Mountains has caused us to lose good pastures and livestock cannot reproduce. We will live in poverty, and women will live in poverty, and they will no longer have good looks.
How desolate we are, what will we do in the future!
However, when the Han people heard the news, they cheered and the whole country was excited. They rushed to tell each other.
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