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The Wind Rises in Chang'an Chapter 255 The Huns Escape

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    The Huns retreated, abandoning the food and baggage they had collected, the Han slaves they had plundered, and even the cattle and sheep they brought from the north. The Hun nobles were unable to take away most of their daily necessities, and the Hun royal tent was burned to the ground.  They only came in a hurry to take away the women and children, each accompanied by three horses. The children over eight years old were tied to the horses to follow them, and they left quickly in the night.  +¡ô The Han army only retreated after chasing for fifty miles. Further north is the Monan grassland outside the mouth. There are at least 50,000 Xiongnu troops guarding the grassland. They are the reinforcements ordered by the military minister Shanyu to go south to encircle the Han army.  Before they could enter the mouth in a hurry, they were attacked by the Han army at night. The fact that they happened to camp outside the mouth was a life-saving straw for the Huns.  With the physical reserves of the Han army, fighting all day long and into the middle of the night is an extraordinary performance. It is impossible to chase out and fight with the Xiongnu reinforcements until dawn. Even the strongest horse cannot run for sixteen hours without stopping.  No matter how strong a person is, he will still get tired.  After fighting for a whole day, the 300,000 Han soldiers were exhausted. The cavalry just circled the mouth and returned in a hurry. When the army temporarily set up camp in the Xiongnu camp, the sky gradually turned white.  Cao Shi stayed up all night. Counting beheadings, collecting trophies, and checking the wounded were all top priorities, and each of them was inseparable from the presence of him, the commander-in-chief of the army.  The Huns fled in embarrassment, leaving behind 8,000 corpses who died in the chaos. The Han army also paid a heavy price with more than 3,000 killed in battle. The losses were concentrated on the two wings. The Northern army's cavalry guarding the two wings were very tired and had no feathers.  The heavy armor of the Lin cavalry does not have a strong physique, and the training intensity and food rationing are even worse. Some cavalry still suffer from night blindness.  ??At night when visibility is very low.  Fatigue and obstructed vision were almost obvious injuries, and the resistance against the Royal Cavalry who did not suffer from night blindness was very low.  The morale was severely damaged by the barren rain of arrows. Instead of turning into a mess, we had to rely on the Huns.  The king's cavalry did not dare to penetrate deeply into the Han army's position easily, for fear that the lone army would be detained by the Han army if it penetrated deeply. The Huns would quickly collapse if the spearhead they relied on most was lost.  Facts have proved that the caution of the Royal Cavalry was correct. The rapid entry of the Southern Army caused the Royal Cavalry to retreat quickly. They only fired arrows from a long distance to maintain slight contact. The Huns did not expect that the Northern Army's combat effectiveness on the opposite side was less than the usual.  Fifty percent, even if the King's Cavalry had a delicate mind and guessed that the Northern Army's cavalry was very weak in combat, they did not dare to charge indiscriminately. The black-armored cavalry guarding the middle gate was still a fear they could not erase from their hearts.  The Huns¡¯ close combat was really poor. Due to the times, the Huns lacked smelting technology.  With the help of craftsmen from the Western Regions, only low-quality iron knives can be made. Most of the weapons of the Huns herdsmen are short swords and daggers. These two weapons are just fine for guarding against wolves on the grassland. They are simply a daydream for killing people in close combat.  .  The losses of the Han army were not small. Among the proportion of wounded soldiers, chariots suffered the least losses, followed by infantry and cavalry. The infantry was sparse in number and there were very few gun formations. The main purpose was to block various arteries and intercept the Huns.  The routine of the defeated soldiers running in three directions: south, east, and west, surrounding three palaces and giving people a chance to survive has been known for many years.  We can't let the Huns feel that they have no way to escape and choose to fight to the end. There are 280,000 Huns cavalry. Fighting to the end will destroy the Han army. In the end, the snipe and the clam will fight for the fishermen's profit.  Isn't it a waste of effort?  The Yulin Cavalry was the least injured among all the troops. In this raid, only more than 100 people were killed and more than 1,200 people were injured.  More than 90% of them are arrow wounds in tricky locations that cannot be taken care of by the armor. It must be said that the warriors of the Huns' tent are very powerful.  On a night with poor moonlight and low visibility, it can target the black-armored cavalry two to three hundred meters away.  To hit the weakest part of the armor's protection requires not only strong archery skills but also good luck. If you are unlucky, even a thousand arrows will not hit the target.  Most of the more than a hundred Yulin knights who died in the battle were shot to death by the Wangzhang warriors. Most of them were shot in the neck, which had the weakest protection. The Mingguang Armor did not come with the neck armor and the terrifying black mask.  Equipped separately for the Han army, a gap was left on the neck between the mask and the breastplate, which became a breakthrough point for the warriors of the king's tent.  Fortunately, Yu Linqi reacted the fastest. He picked up a green and black felt robe to cover the weak spot on his neck. He rode and galloped as much as possible and bent over the horse's back. Then the probability of being injured and killed was greatly reduced. Only a few horses were unlucky.  He was shot blind and died by the warriors of the king's tent. Most of the cavalry, including men and horses, were safe and sound.  The requirements set by Cao Shi for the Yulin Cavalry were low battle losses, rapid cultivation of hematopoiesis and a troop replenishment system. It was better to run in quickly if one died and another was replenished. The cavalry's tactical training requirements could basically be met in three months, and qualified in half a year.  The Yulin Cavalry has the quality of an elite Yulin Cavalry for one year. These three standards he has set for the Yulin Cavalry must be strictly implemented.  Sun Qi walked in. He was the guard captain of the Chariot and Cavalry General Shogunate. In addition to receiving the salary of the official of the Hou Mansion, he could also legally receive a salary from the court. The elite guards of the Hou Mansion took out two hundred people as personal guards. Yang Xin  PrincessIn order to protect her husband's safety, she specially selected 300 outstanding veterans from the Northern Army to serve as personal guards, forming the 500-man guard of the general's cavalry.  "General, the total number of prisoners counted is three hundred and twenty-five. They were too late to take away the wounded who were forgotten on the battlefield." "What is the degree of disability?" "The seriously injured and disabled have been dealt with, and the remaining ones have been dealt with.  It is a minor disability that can be recovered. "Sun Qi gestured to cut. Han and Hungarians had been at odds for sixty years. The only major battle was back at the siege of Baishan Mountain. In that war, the Han and Hungarians reached a consensus without even fighting.  Sixty years of basic peace have been maintained. Although the Huns would launch a large-scale invasion every ten years, the Huns were scared away every time the Han army was dispatched.  This process can be understood as the Huns being afraid of the Han army. Objective facts also prove that the Huns are indeed a little afraid. Regardless of national strength, armament, technology, and population, this huge empire has an absolute advantage. It has a huge advantage against a backward and barbaric nomadic empire.  But this does not mean that the Huns' retreat means blind fear. The Han people were very dissatisfied when they looked at the Huns.  It feels a bit like a joke. I pounce and only hit the air. When I step back, I am constantly harassed. Then I can¡¯t bear it anymore and I pounce again but miss again. I have endured the humiliation and burden again and again for the sake of economic development. Finally, I can bear it.  After more than sixty years, the Han emperor no longer wanted to be a coward.  That's why the Han army was particularly ruthless in its attacks. Many Huns who were still alive were beheaded, and the seriously injured ones who could be treated were treated with last-minute hits. The slightly more severely disabled ones could not escape the last-minute hits, so they were counted as dead by last-minute blows.  There were more than three hundred people.  "The slightly injured ones were recuperated and kept, and sent to the Yulinqi camp for re-education. We must pull these Huns out of the original camp and become loyal servants of the Han army. We must convince them to serve as permanent members of the tribes."  Contribute to the overall situation of peace, and don't just be the lackey of the Huns." Cao Shi made brainwashing gestures.  "Understood, we will try our best to educate, but it may take a little longer." "Within three years, this is the limit of time I can tolerate. If you feel that there is not enough time, we will arrange for people to educate and train around the clock, and be sure to get them back.  " Cao Shi sighed. After all, he had crossed the threshold of the siege of Mayi. Without him intervening, no one would know what the siege of Mayi would look like. Would the emperor who was full of self-confidence be so angry that he would get angry? Would he be angry because of this?  The failure of the siege of Mayi led to strange new tricks, which not only tormented the civil and military officials but also the people of the world.  Fortunately, he was the only one who finally made the emperor realize that fighting the Xiongnu was not about playing tricks, nor was it about the army surrendering after watching the wind. The grasslands and deserts in the north were very different from the tropical rainforests in the south.  After scanning the preliminary statistics, Cao Shi's sadness disappeared and he immediately beamed with joy. The Huns had made a big loss this time.  The Huns had worked hard for several months to plunder the grain, grass, population, gold and silver and other important resources from Yanmen County, Yunzhong County, and Shanggu County. All the important resources, such as grain, grass, population, gold and silver, had been abandoned. There was even an oolong incident in which the Huns nobles abandoned the food areas where the Huns were stationed and ran away.  Even the bureaucrats who destroyed the food were all gone. It was difficult for the panicked Hun nobles to remember that the food was not burned in the critical moment.  It is not easy to think of your family, women and children at critical moments. When Liu Bang was defeated in the Battle of Pengcheng, he was in a hurry to escape. He even threw the prince and Princess Lu Yuan from the carriage to protect themselves. However, Xia Houying had a stubborn temper and forced the two siblings to escape.  After being carried back to the carriage, there was nothing to worry about such as food, grass, armaments, cattle, sheep and tents. The Han army was right in front of us. If we didn't run away, we would have to wait to be captured.  The Huns embarked on a thrilling great escape, desperately escaping north on horseback in the middle of the night, leaving behind two million cattle and sheep from Shanyuting and Zuoxianwangting, and plundered them from Yanmen County and Yunzhong County.  , 1.17 million stones of corn were collected by the people of Shanggu County, and there were also miscellaneous pots and pans that were looted like scavengers. They looked like trophies snatched from the homes of the people in the border counties.  The Han people in the border counties were very unlucky. Their cattle and sheep were robbed, their grain stores were robbed, their pots and pans were robbed, and their gold, silver, and silk were also robbed. Even their wives, children, and themselves were robbed as slaves. The Huns were like passing through the border.  Wherever the locusts go, no grass grows.  "Send people to immediately contact the prefects of Yanmen County, Shanggu County and Yunzhong County, and ask them to bring their officials, household registration numbers, and last year's tax information to the camp to collect their county residents, and follow the rules to eliminate the losses of all border residents.  After the supplies are returned, the deceased people must also pay pensions to their surviving relatives. The people of the Han family cannot die in vain. It is the sacred duty of every Han family official to protect our people. If you cannot do this duty well,  Don¡¯t talk about being loyal to the emperor, don¡¯t talk about belief in Taiyi God!¡± After Cao Shi¡¯s harsh words, he didn¡¯t believe that the governor of Yanmen, Guan Fu, the governor of Shanggu, and the governor of Yunzhong, Cheng Bushi, dared to fool the people in front of the Han army.  , with the three elders of the village personally supervising, there will be no shortage of work to compensate the people.??Efficiency.  The Huns left in a panic. The cattle and sheep they left behind to store food were second to none. Gold and silver silk and silk were a big deal, especially gold and silver. The currency of the Huns was not developed. From the nobles of the Huns to the herdsmen of the Huns, they still used things.  In the life of bartering, gold and silver were purely used in exchange for valuable trading items from Han merchants. The valuable gold and silver just showed that the initial strategy of the military minister Shanyu was very flexible, but he was only dazzled by the initial victory.  It's just a big defeat.  "General! Your Majesty will come to the camp for inspections every day. Please be prepared to receive him." Cao Shi took the message from the messenger and sighed in distress: "You have to come when you should." (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature,  The novel is better and updated faster!
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