Chapter 119: Intimidation

Author: Gongsun Wujiu

Chapter 119: Intimidation

When the frontal battlefield collapsed, Tu E was leading his army into a fierce battle with Kong Zhang's troops.

Seeing that the situation was not good, he did not dare to delay and immediately ordered the troops to withdraw.

Fortunately, he ran fast and just broke out of contact with Kong Zhang's Han army.

Zhao Guanghan led his cavalry to kill him.

Tu E had clearly seen the battle just now, and naturally knew that it would be difficult to resist the soldiers with low morale in his hands.

So he turned around and ran away with the soldiers. After Zhao Guanghan chased for 7 or 8 miles, he found that he couldn't catch up.

He cursed, "It can run faster than my mother's rabbit!" and then retreated.

Although the Han army retreated, Tu Er did not dare to stay longer. He ran all the way back to the territory of Yanqi State before he dared to stop for a while.

Looking at his subordinates who had lost their armor, Tu E wanted to cry but had no tears.

There was originally a complete Qianqi team, but now there are less than half of them left.

In particular, the Xiongnu elite cavalry directly under his command only had 172 cavalry left.

…

Beside the Kuqa River, the Han troops who had won the battle were all in great spirits.

The laughter of soldiers was everywhere. They laughed and harvested the enemy's heads and drove the captured enemy soldiers together.

Guo Kai was happily standing on a damaged carriage at this time, directing the soldiers to pack the loot.

"Second and Third Sons, quickly bring those horses over..."

"And armor! Armor! Throw away that broken sword first..."

"Marquis Guo!"

At this time, a messenger came to him.

"Marquis Guo Jun, I ordered you to lead your troops and march to Yancheng immediately..."

"promise!"

Guo Kai agreed and immediately jumped up.

"Second and Third Sons, the deal is coming, gather quickly..."

The soldiers knew something good was coming as soon as they heard this.

Not caring about packing up the spoils, they quickly gathered together under the leadership of their respective experts.

In today's battle, Bingqu, commanded by Guo Kai, suffered relatively few casualties. Excluding the dead and injured soldiers, there were actually 433 soldiers still able to fight.

This is also the main reason why Zhang Yue gave him the task of deterring Yancheng.

"Second and third sons, let's go!"

After the assembly was completed, Guo Kai immediately gave the order to set off.

With more than 400 Han troops and more than 1,000 horses, the momentum is still quite large.

Guo Kai's actions immediately caused commotion among the people watching the battle on the other side.

Many people quickly rode away with their entourage.

"Hahaha!"

Looking at the panicked crowd, Guo Kai couldn't help laughing loudly.

"Hahaha……"

Affected by Guo Kai, his soldiers also laughed loudly.

"Second and Third Son, send troops to Yancheng!"

Guo Kai did not drive away the panicked crowd. The Han army needed their mouths to let the countries in the Western Regions know how powerful the Han army was.

He headed towards Yancheng with his people and roaring horses.

"A true hero!"

The Khotan prince looked at Guo Kai who was riding away and couldn't help but sigh!

"Prince, do we want to visit Marquis Yunyang?"

Prince Khotan thought for a moment and then said, "It still can't be done..."

It took a whole day for the Han army to finally clean up the battlefield.

The bodies of the fallen soldiers have all been packed up and begun to be transported back to Luntai in batches for burial.

The corpses of the Hu coalition forces have also been piled up, and Zhang Yue's order is awaiting how to deal with them.

"Jingguan!"

Zhang Yue jumped up in surprise!

In the military tent, Li Si and Han Jiang took the lead in requesting the construction of a temple in Beijing to deter the Hu people.

"Your Majesty, the barbarians are afraid of power but not virtuous. Today our army has won a great victory. We should build a palace in the capital to praise our achievements in order to frighten other countries..." Li Si advised.

"Your Majesty, please build a temple in Beijing...to scare the barbarians..."

Everyone asked again.

The name Jingguan sounds nice, but in fact it is bloody and terrifying.

"Jingguan", also known as "Martial Army", is where enemy corpses are piled on both sides of the road and covered with earth and compacted to form a pyramid-shaped mound.

Whether it is the East or the West, this habit has been around since ancient times. It's just that the names are different.

There are two main purposes for doing this.

One is to show off one's force value and military exploits after victory.

Because the corpses of the enemy soldiers were scattered on the ground, it was hard to tell how many enemies had been killed.

Once it was built into a "pyramid" shape, it gave the rulers at that time an intuitive sense of shock.

The second is: to frighten the enemy and demoralize the enemy's troops before fighting.

When the enemy saw the Jingguan built with his own head, they would naturally be angry, but mostly fearful.

By making the enemy feel that their opponent is a devil, you can break the enemy's will, bring your own side closer to victory faster, and reduce casualties.

The Han army and the Huns also had the tradition of building Beijing temples, but they had not yet used them in the Western Regions.

The participation of Gumo and Yanqi in this battle, as well as the Qiuchi people's dominance, made the Han army in Luntai believe that it was necessary to strengthen the deterrent against the countries in the Western Regions.

In fact, Zhang Yue knew the benefits of building Jingguan, but he still felt it was too cruel and couldn't bear it.

Zhang Yue thought for a moment and then ordered, "Han Jiang, please take the heads of slaves and build a palace beside the road to watch the other countries..."

"slow!"

Zhang Yue thought for a while and said

"Bring Dinghu Fort and Tiannan's slave head together..."

"promise!"

Han Jiang agreed and left quickly.

At this time Cai Ting also sent in the capture and casualty statistics of this battle.

"Your Majesty, this battle is truly a great victory..."

Cai Ting reported excitedly:

In this battle, our army beheaded 2,728 people, captured 4,786 pieces of swords, guns and equipment, and 2,543 horns and bows...

Two thousand three hundred and seventeen pairs of leather armor and 755 pairs of bronze armor were seized.

In addition, there were 1,214 shields and 4,705 fine war horses captured...

Everyone around them was smiling when they heard this, only Zhang Yue and Li Si remained silent.

"What are the casualties of our soldiers?" Zhang Yue interrupted Cai Ting's report.

Cai Ting felt something was wrong and restrained her smile.

"The casualties of our army are not small. There are 377 soldiers killed and 659 injured. Seriously injured...slightly injured..."

After hearing what he said, Zhang Yue sighed heavily. With so many soldiers casualties, the casualties actually reached two songs.

"Everyone, follow me for a walk!" He then stood up and looked outside the tent and walked away.

"promise!"

Everyone agreed and quickly followed.

Zhang Yue led everyone to the temporary wounded soldiers camp to visit the injured soldiers.

Before entering the wounded barracks, I heard bursts of shrill shouts coming from inside, as well as the smell of blood and medicine.

"Your Majesty, we are ashamed!"
To be continued...