Gathering some of the Western Xiongnu people and letting them return to the original Xiutuze area can contain the strength of the Xiongnu central army and form a peripheral defense line in the Western Regions and the Western Pass of the Han Dynasty, which is of great benefit to the Han Dynasty.
Wei Qing has always advocated and implemented the method of using Hungary to control Hungary.
What is consumed is the Xiongnu, and the strength of the Han people is saved.
The main purpose of Huo Qubing's attack was to contain the population of these Western Xiongnu and unite them with the central Xiongnu army.
Huo Qubing looked at the kneeling King Tu Tu: "Do you know what it means if I accept your surrender?"
King Tu Tu bowed his head and said: "I know, it means that the champion has to resist the follow-up reinforcements from the Xiongnu who are about to attack. With us, we can't go fast. We have to kill the reinforcements from various Xiongnu tribes before we can leave."
He added: "In return, if the Marquis accepts our surrender, we, the Western Huns, will obey the Marquis' orders from now on and will never regret it.
I can take them to swear an oath in the name of their ancestors."
In the Xiongnu, ancestors are part of the belief system and one of the most important oaths.
Surrounding them, other Western Huns followed King Tu, kneeling on the ground in darkness.
On the grassland, the law of the jungle is the law, and tribes fight for better habitats, and there are many vendettas against each other.
They understand surrender better than the Han people.
It is natural for them to rely on the strong, and they do not feel that surrender is humiliating.
Not far away, the Han army swung their swords and killed the defeated but undead prisoners of the Xiongnu tribe in large numbers. Blood flowed freely.
Huo Qubing said: "Get up first, and we will use you as bait later."
Chief Tu Wang said: "Let the champion command."
Huo Qubing asked his troops to rest in place as soon as possible, and deployed military formations to cover the surrounding area, using his military strategy to speed up the recovery of physical strength of his troops.
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The sky is bright and thousands of horses are galloping on the grassland.
It is a coalition of Xiongnu tribes, with a strength of 50,000 to 60,000 people.
Previously, Qimu Lougai led his troops to provide reinforcements first.
The Tianhun tribe also has a method similar to the Han people's marching method. When marching, black air permeates the air, and the speed is far faster than that of ordinary Huns.
So they went ahead and rushed to the battlefield.
The subsequent coalition forces gathered around the royal court due to the death of the great shaman, and then set off. However, their marching speed was far slower than that of the Tianhun Department, so they did not approach the battlefield until dawn.
Halfway through, they first met the Huns who were defeated by the Han army and evacuated from the battlefield.
Including only a thousand soldiers and horses from the Tianhun tribe, as well as the Wangzhang tribe under the command of Luotanggu.
Luotanggu changed into the clothes of an ordinary Huns soldier and hid in the ranks of the soldiers, and was able to escape.
When he saw the reinforcements from various ministries, he hurriedly rode closer and the two sides merged.
"Luotang Valley, you disguised yourself as a soldier in order to escape for your life. You have completely disgraced me, the Luotang clan."
Leading the reinforcements was Luo Taichun, King Zuoxian of the Xiongnu.
He controlled the various tribes of the Xiongnu army east of the royal court.
Because Wei Qing attacked Dragon City, the left wing of the Xiongnu was defeated and their power was greatly reduced.
Therefore, Luo Tanchun has almost no sense of existence in recent years.
He led his troops to huddle in the northeast of Langjuxu Mountain east of Ulaanbaatar, belonging to the Huns' rear area.
Luo Tanchun was born with a square face and a long and slender scar on the right cheek, which was injured by Wei Qing's arrow.
"How many people are there in the Han army?" Luo Taichun asked.
"At least two thousand people."
"They are very powerful. The Han champions, Hou Tongbing, Qimu Lougai, and Feng Ti, were all killed on the spot. When I left, King Tu was captured alive by the champion, and he might... want to surrender to the Han."
There was still a slight hint of panic on Luotangu's face.
That devil-like black shadow flashed through my mind, with four arms, killing people by tearing them apart with their hands, it was so terrifying.
"Let's go over and have a look!" Luo Tanchun ordered.
The opponent's two-man army fought all night long. Their number was more than double, and they were a fresh force, so naturally they would not be afraid.
The Xiongnu reinforcements immediately pushed forward.
Near noon, they approached the battlefield last night.
The people who migrated to the Western Huns are retracing their steps and going back in the direction they came from.
Because of the large number of people, it took a whole morning to clear the place but they were still not cleared.
When the Xiongnu reinforcements arrived, they could still see the retreating tail of the Western Huns in the distance.
"Sure enough, the Han people surrendered!"
When Luo Tanchun saw the Western Huns turning around and walking back, he knew that they had indeed surrendered to the Han Dynasty, and his face was gloomy.
He rode and led the army to the battlefield, and what he saw in front of him made all the Huns feel furious.
The bodies of the Xiongnu soldiers killed last night were piled up neatly by the Han army.
In order to show off martial arts, the corpses of enemies were gathered and sealed with earth. The high tomb was called Jingguan.
There is no seal in front of me, but it obviously means Jingguan.
The piles of corpses are shocking.
In the Han Dynasty, there was no theory of Jingguan.
But before the Han army left, they piled the corpses of the Huns together, and some of the Huns' heads were hung on their own wooden spears.
The other end of the wooden spear is stuck in the ground.
When the wind blows, the heads of the dead Hun soldiers sway in the wind.
Stacked corpses, countless heads stuck on wooden spears.
This scene was extremely insulting. The Han army obviously didn't take them seriously and walked slowly and still had time to arrange the battlefield.
All the Huns who had some blood and blood were filled with strong anger, their faces turned purple, and they had the idea of fighting to the death to defeat the Han people.
Clang!
Luo Tanchun drew out his long sword, his face full of murderous intent: "Catch up and kill those Han troops. We will not stop until we die, and we will not retreat until we die!"
"Kill! Kill!"
The Huns' breath was burning and their anger was boiling.
Since the Western Huns surrendered, the Han army must be with them.
You can still see the retreating traces of the Western Huns at the end of your sight.
The Xiongnu armies held their sabers high and were trampled by the hoofbeats of tens of thousands of people. The sabers reflected the sunlight, and the sky and the earth were covered with swords.
Boom boom boom!
Horse hooves flying.
Just when the army pressed forward and the migrating team of the Western Huns was clearly visible, Luo Tanchun and several big Dang households rushing in front felt a sense of crisis and their hearts tightened.
They were chasing the direction in which they were galloping, and suddenly Han troops came out from the flank.
These Han troops didn't leave, but they dared to set up an ambush to ambush us... A thought crossed his mind.
As soon as the Han army came out, they drew their bows and set arrows, and arrows rained down like rain.
Only by defeating this wave of Xiongnu soldiers can we achieve the strategic purpose of this attack, otherwise we will not be able to take away these Western Xiongnu people.
Tsk!
Huo Qubing personally took out the Nightmare Bow and rode on his horse to shoot at his opponent.
He was shooting arrows at this time, using a series of tricks to create things out of thin air and hide the truth. The arrows he shot only showed their murderous aura at the last moment when they were close to the target.
Although the Han army was elite, the Huns were chasing after them in large numbers.
Moreover, the Han army fought hard all night long. Even if they waited for work and increased their recovery speed, they were still not in full strength.
If you want to defeat the enemy again, you need to seize the enemy first and hunt down the enemy chief. Then rely on changes in military formations to eat away at the opponent, save consumption, and achieve the goal of defeating more with less.
So in the first round, Huo Qubing personally went into battle to kill the enemy, and his target was Luo Tanchun!
The cold arrow that suddenly appeared in front of him made Luo Tanchun break into a cold sweat.
The two soldiers beside him reacted very quickly and tried to block the arrows for him, but they struck the air with their swords because the arrows were moving too fast.
Luo Tanchun tried his best, but he could only turn his head to the side, and then a sharp arrow penetrated the left side of his face.
Huo Qubing fired several arrows in succession, and several Hun generals who were leading the attack fell down one after another.
These few arrows woke up the other Xiongnu generals, and they all retreated in front of everyone.
Huo Qubing was followed closely by elite pro-army troops.
The Han troops led by Zhang Cigong came out from both sides.
Huo Qubing's horse was so fast that he was in close combat with the Xiongnu tribe in a blink of an eye.
The moment the two sides were about to come into contact, two Xiongnu soldiers came over and stabbed.
Jinan's horse, which was galloping, lowered its legs and slumped its shoulders to the left. Then it kicked the horse's hoof and shifted its body to the opposite right.
Two Huns soldiers stabbed at the war spears on the left side, but missed at the same time.
Jin'an turned sideways, his front legs stuck on the ground, his hind legs flew up and kicked backwards, kicking the heads of the two opposing horses from the flanks.
Click!
On a microscopic level, the faces of the two horses collapsed, half of the horses' faces were twisted, and blood splattered.
The two Hun soldiers on horseback were also kicked in the chest in the next moment. The huge force caused their sternums to break, and bone stubble pierced from their shoulders and left and right ribs.
Jin'an put down his hind hooves, tilted his head and arched his body forward, knocking over the other two Huns horses.
Relying on its extraordinary strength and extremely strong body that far exceeded its peers, it rushed into the Huns' formation. After kicking the front hooves, it kicked the rear hooves, and then the rear hooves kicked the front hooves. It seemed like there were springs on its waist, and it tumbled back and forth like a bullfight.
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Several Xiongnu soldiers slashed at it with swords, but they were not as fast as it was and were hit by a horse's hoof first.
And Huo Qubing on its back disappeared from the horse the moment it entered the crowd.
From a distance, one can see a stream of people advancing at high speed in the Xiongnu queue, with people falling over wherever they pass.
Huo Qubing walked with blessings at the top, as fast as a stream of light, and the spurge in his hand flashed with cold light. The ordinary soldiers could hardly see his movement, and they were provoked one after another.
Behind him, Xiao Qisheng tried his best to follow, but he could only watch Huo Qubing rush straight into the Xiongnu formation.
The Han troops on the left and right columns had already begun to engage the Xiongnu tribe.
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The blocking battle between the Han army led by Wei Qing and the Xiongnu Tianhun tribe was very brutal.
The Han army on their side was different from the surprise battle fought by Huo Qubing.
The frontier army led by Wei Qing faced the main force of the Tianhun Department, although there were only 15,000 people.
However, Wei Qing's blockade brought only 20,000 frontier troops.
The two sides fought from late yesterday night until dawn.
At the rear of the battlefield, where Wei Qing was, the bright banners of the Han army were fluttering in the wind.
On the battlefield, the originally bright armor on both our and enemy sides was stained with scarlet blood.
The swords struck each other, and the thunderous sound was mixed with miserable howls, and everyone was killed in silence.
Staggered knives and spears fell scatteredly next to the corpses. Some of them still held long knives tightly in their broken arms. The spears were stuck diagonally on the ground, with their tails pointed straight into the sky, and the cold light was cold.
Even the steps of the war horse seem to have become heavy, and they have no strength to run.
Both the Han and Xiongnu soldiers were covered in blood, and blood was constantly dripping from their armor.
The eyes of some tribesmen began to show fear, and their throats uttered low moans that were almost desperate. But more of the faces of both the enemy and ourselves still flashed with hatred.
Wei Qing also mastered the magical military strategy of waiting for work, and his troops have always fought for a long time.
And he was well prepared in order to stop the Heavenly Soul Department.
Just when both sides were exhausted, the sound of hoofbeats sounded in the wild wilderness in the distance.
There was actually another fresh force of the Han army coming to kill them.
When Wei Qing came to attack, he ambushed a group of troops. It was a kind of inner battle that was enough to destroy the opponent's fighting spirit.
The dark soldiers surged in like a tide, accompanied by shouts from across the air.
The Han army who was fighting on the field saw their companions coming to help, and their strength increased greatly. With the heroic spirit of fighting to the death, they brandished their blood-stained weapons.
With the Tianhun Department's perseverance and fortitude developed through many years of fighting in Yudu, when the killing force was almost reaching its limit, and the second wave of Han troops appeared, their inner defenses were loosened and they were on the verge of collapse.
The leader of this Heavenly Soul Division is Lian Duo, another deputy general under Yudu's command. He is forty-one years old and sits on a horse with his back straight.
When he first engaged in the battle last night, he originally planned to defeat the Han army and then continue to complete the attack order given by Yudu.
But the Han army's resilience and powerful combat capabilities were unexpected.
At this time, seeing the second batch of Han troops coming out, Lian Duo scanned the battlefield and saw that the number of people from the Tianhun tribe lying dead in a pool of blood was no less than that of the Han troops.
Lian Duo finally ordered his troops to blow the horns and announce the withdrawal.
The Tianhun tribe made some preparations and quickly retreated while the new Han army rushed into the battlefield.
Their attack ended in vain, and they were intercepted by Wei Qing halfway, causing great losses.
Wei Qing stood behind him with his hands behind his back, feeling a little pity that he could not defeat all the opponents.
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On the battlefield at the junction of the Western Xiongnu and the Xiongnu Royal Court, it was not until the afternoon that the confrontation between the two sides came to an end.
The Han army used four horse positions, one retreated and the other advanced. They used the most common hob formation to form a formation to fight with the opponent.
This is the simplest formation and relatively saves physical energy, but it is difficult to use in actual combat without training day after day.
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If you are not careful and are hit during the advance and retreat, the formation will become chaotic and give your opponent an opportunity to take advantage of it.
But if it is used well, it will be like a sword-horse formation rolling forward between advance and retreat, a row of spears to resist the enemy, and a rear row of swords to kill the opponent. The rolling forward has the same name as the scissors formation, but it is more suitable for the current situation.<
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On the open grassland, once a horse falls, the body will be rolled under the horse's hooves, the head will be broken, and the blood will seep into the soil, giving off a black and red color.
The armor on Huo Qubing's body was also stained with blood.
The number of men and horses pursued by the Xiongnu tribes was many times greater than theirs, but on the one hand, they were not as elite as the veteran soldiers under his command, and on the other hand, Huo Qubing's tricks gave the Han army a blessing, making the Han army's combat effectiveness even higher.
Xiongnu tribe.
The coalition forces of more than 50,000 Xiongnu troops finally fled in confusion.
If it weren't for the gathering of various Xiongnu tribes and the constant reinforcements, the losses of the Xiongnu pursuers would have been far more than this.
When the opponent took the initiative to retreat, the Han army also fought fiercely continuously, and it was time to withdraw its troops.
The harvest this time was so great that the emperor thought that what Huo Qubing brought back was the Hunxie tribe, but didn't he know that it was the entire Western Huns.
It’s time to return to Chang’an.
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Chang'an, evening.
"Pingxian, you haven't received any news about your illness in the past two days? Why don't you come and report to me?" The emperor found his sister and asked.
In the past, this sister came to me twice a day to talk about Huo Qubing.
But in the past two days, there has been no news at all.
"Qu Bing sent me a message and asked me to keep his whereabouts secret from Your Majesty first." Liu Qingdao.
"Huh? Even I dare to hide it, how bold! Did he make a meritorious deed or cause trouble?" The emperor's heart moved slightly.
Liu Qing's eyebrows were crooked: "I'm about to come back after recovering from illness. Your Majesty, please ask yourself."
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