Chapter Seven: The Prosperous Age (Nine Parts) This time when they went south, the Ashina family was determined to conquer the Central Plains, so they expropriated vassal tribes and almost reduced the entire grassland by half a foot. In order to quell the resistance of their servants, the Turkic envoys reduced the wealth of the Central Plains.
It blew to the point where mutton could grow on the trees and milk could emerge from the wells. Therefore, many small tribes who were attracted by it almost moved their entire family, carrying all their savings, livestock and tribesmen to follow behind the wolf rider.
In order to ensure the long-term combat capability of the army, Ashina Gutoru unified the baggage carried by each tribe and stored it in the camp and designated the old, young, sick and disabled from all tribes who came with the army to take care of it. As soon as the news of the defeat spread,
The old, weak, sick and disabled, who had no ability to protect themselves, immediately got into trouble. Regardless of what happened, they grabbed enough dry food and dried meat for themselves, mounted their horses and left the camp. The generals who guarded the camp initially tried to suppress the various tribes.
Afterwards, when I saw more and more soldiers returning from the rout, and the brothers under my command becoming more and more chaotic, I had no choice but to pack up a few bags of dried meat and cheese and go over the mountains with my cronies.
After each wave of defeated soldiers returned to the camp, they did not dare to stay longer. They took some dry food to survive on the road, mounted their horses, and left. No one organized a retreat, and no one thought of burning the supplies until Dou Cong entered the coalition camp.
, the old, weak and defeated soldiers who had not yet escaped were blocked. Nearly a thousand people saw the bright red battle flag of the Central Plains Army. None of them dared to resist. They dropped the large and small bags on their shoulders and knelt on the ground to pray for life.
He caught a large basket of small crabs and shrimps, but let go of the big fish that was delivered to him. Dou Cong was in a very depressed mood. Without the head of Ashina Gutolu, the glory of today's battle would be greatly diminished. Everyone in the future
While chatting, I mentioned that the only light cavalry of the Central Plains Allied Forces in this battle did not know how to block the wolf cavalry's retreat when the victory or defeat between us and the enemy was already a foregone conclusion. Instead, it indulged in chopping off the heads of small soldiers to gain credit. This is another example.
Embarrassing laughing stock
"Why didn't you tell me General Li's order earlier?" Dou Cong was extremely angry and asked his soldiers with wide eyes.
"No, I didn't hear the sound of the trumpet over there." The soldier hid in the distance and responded aggrievedly. Today's battle situation had a major reversal at the critical moment of life and death. At that time, almost the brothers from Hedong were crazy with joy. Who was it?
Besides paying attention to the orders of the Chinese army at all times, the general's orders may not have been issued in time. Maybe he himself has forgotten the principle of capturing the thief and the king!
"Trash!" Dou Cong kicked the soldier and scolded him bitterly. He knew that with Li Xu's character, he would definitely not put all the responsibility for Gu Tuolu's escape on himself afterwards. But General Li was the son-in-law of the King of Tang.
The crown prince's brother-in-law, Jiancheng, had great military exploits and was famous for a while. After the two became one, I had to obey his orders. If he had a prejudice against me, my future would be very bad.
"How about we change the war horses and chase after them?" The soldier who was kicked patted the dirt on his armor and suggested with a smile that the Turks should attack the Great Wall on foot. There were countless war horses left near the camp, and everyone took three rides per person.
Even if you risk your life to pursue him, you may not be able to bring Ashina Bone Tolu back!
"Get out!" Dou Cong was so angry that he raised his foot and kicked the soldier again. "What are you chasing? Don't you know how many more horses you are going to bring with you?"
Frustrated, he really didn't dare to chase out of the mountains with only a few hundred soldiers! Firstly, he was not familiar with the terrain and paths outside Yanshan Mountain. Secondly, the supplies of 400,000 coalition troops were piled in front of him. In case of pursuit,
If he failed to reach Ashina Gutuolu and was defeated by the remnants of the troops outside the Great Wall, he would destroy his food, grass and baggage. From now on, he would no longer have the dignity to gain a foothold in the army!
Taking into account various interests, Dou Cong could only focus on the immediate situation and ordered his soldiers to close the camp gate tightly. He led the captives who had just gathered and brought out the crossbows, horses and other weapons that the Turks had no time to use, and placed them layer by layer.
Behind the simple camp wall, to deter the defeated army and prevent them from attacking the camp
Before he could pack up the defense facilities, a wave of Xi tribe warriors had already rushed over. Seeing the red Sui battle flag raised on the joint camp's Diao Dou, the warriors were stunned for a moment, then stamped their feet and shook their heads, rushing
Dou Cong protested loudly in the camp that Dou Cong could not understand any of the language of the fortress, and immediately ordered his brothers to fire arrows in a burst, knocking down hundreds of Xi warriors. The remaining thousands of warriors saw that the situation was not good, and turned around.
Then he fled towards the battlefield for more than a hundred steps, and ran into another wave of defeated troops. The two sides got into a mess and rushed towards the military camp. Under the command of Dou Cong, the soldiers and prisoners of the Central Plains fired another burst of arrows. The warriors
Once again, dozens of corpses were left behind. While crying, he gathered the livestock that had escaped outside the military camp into a pile and hurriedly dispersed outside Yanshan Mountain.
The third wave that retreated was a group of Mohe hunters who saw that the baggage left in the camp had been taken away. They immediately became furious. Under the command of the tribal leader, they even tried to recapture the camp. Dou Cong closed the camp door tightly and used force to
The bows and crossbows couldn't be defended. The Mohe hunters attacked half of the incense sticks but couldn't get any advantage. They had to pick up a few scattered cattle and sheep and left with curses.
The fourth wave and the fifth wave of defeated troops arrived one after another. Seeing Dou Cong guarding the camp tightly and the shouts of killing coming from behind, he had no choice but to imitate the previous waves of allies and try his best to collect the remaining soldiers outside the camp.
They didn't plan on carrying the baggage, and they didn't kill all the scattered livestock. They watched each other go away through the wooden fence without firing a single shot.
The sixth wave of defeated troops was from the group of Wei shepherds. They were short in stature but extremely thick in build. They saw the battle flags fluttering in the military camp from a distance. They did not dare to rush over to fight like the Xi tribe and Mohe warriors, and there were no cattle nearby.
The sheep were ready for collection. He stopped and wandered outside the camp for a moment, and began to sing softly under the leadership of a shaman.
The singing was melodious and long, mixed with sighs. When the captives in the camp, who were escorted by the Hedong soldiers and served as the transport team, heard it, they all burst into tears. Dou Cong did not even understand the Turkic language, let alone the long songs of the Shiwei people.
For fear of causing trouble among the prisoners, he ordered his brothers to quickly greet them with arrows
The Shiwei shepherds were shot down by arrows and dozens of people were killed. They fled in a hurry and then slowly gathered into a group again. Following the shaman, they slowly walked up a mountain ridge, singing and singing slowly in the wind and smoke.
disappear
Before the singing of the Shiwei people had gone far, the Xiongnu King Liu Jizhen had already chased him with more than a thousand horse thieves. Dou Cong, who was holding a handful of cold sweat in his hand, quickly ordered his people to open the camp door and called his allies to come in to help defend Liu Jizhen.
He clenched his teeth and looked nervous with sweat on his head. He couldn't help but bend down and laugh.
"What are you laughing at, General Liu?" Dou Cong was puzzled by Liu Jizhen's laughter. He touched his helmet and asked loudly
"Haha, haha, I was laughing at you because you don't know how to fight!" Liu Jizhen laughed out of breath as if he had picked up some treasure. "How can you be so nervous to deal with defeated troops? Look, look around you.
These prisoners, look at these prisoners..."
"Prisoners?" Dou Cong became more and more like a monk two feet tall. He walked around and responded. Since he entered the camp, all the surrendered prisoners have been helping the Hedong soldiers who were nearly half the number to carry supplies.
No matter how happy the broken soldiers were outside the camp wall, not a single prisoner tried to cooperate inside and outside!
"You fool, General Dou doesn't know the rules on the grassland!" Shangguan Bi was kind-hearted. Seeing Dou Cong's blank eyes, he stepped forward and kicked Liu Jizhen, yelling loudly.
Liu Jizhen had never been able to offend her, so he quickly put away his smile, pointed at the prisoners and explained to Dou Cong: "On the grassland, the strong are always respected! They have been defeated, how can they dare to fight you for real? Bluff and escape.
Just keep eating, General Dou. Let's raid the formation here and see how I deal with them!"
Having said that, he took the horse thieves with him and rushed out of the camp wall again. He actually set up a long snake formation full of holes on the flat ground, blocking the retreat of a group of nearly 5,000 soldiers. It was strange to say that.
Although there were many soldiers in the group, no one dared to take the lead in charging into the battle. Liu Jizhen shouted to them in Turkic dialect. The swords were shining brightly outside the camp gate, and the soldiers actually threw their weapons into a pile and squatted on the ground.
, let the horse thieves slaughter you
Liu Jizhen led the horse thieves to surround him. When he saw a strong prisoner, he patted the prisoner on the head and ordered him to pick up a knife. Following him, when he saw a weak prisoner, he kicked the prisoner and ordered him to somersault.
The prisoners who rolled to the side and lined up, whether they were favored by the horse thieves or kicked over by them, actually seemed to have received great favors, and they obeyed the horse thieves and obeyed their orders.
In an instant, the screening of the five thousand defeated soldiers was completed. The Hun King Liu Jizhen immediately led a group of horse thieves and the prisoners who were favored by everyone to intercept another wave of defeated soldiers. The warriors who picked up their swords again cheered up and rushed after Liu Jizhen.
His previous robe did not hesitate even for a moment.
Dou Cong, who was watching the battle inside the camp gate, had his eyes wide open, and he could almost stuff a whole goose egg in his mouth. There was a precedent in the Central Plains of containing prisoners to fight for him, but transforming a soldier from the enemy into his own robe
, it will take at least three or four days to put down the weapons like this before, and then pick up the weapons again. Even if the scene in the courtyard is changed, Dou Cong has not only never seen it, he has never even heard it.
Rubbing his eyes vigorously, he was once again convinced that what he saw was not an illusion. Then he bowed humbly to Shangguan Bi who was standing at the gate of the camp watching the battle, and asked in a low voice: "Is this how Brother Liu can safely lead them to fight?"
,Aren’t you afraid that someone will pretend to surrender?”
"General Dou doesn't know. All the enemy's food, grass and baggage are in your hands. If these defeated soldiers refuse to follow Liu Jizhen, even if they can escape to the mountains, they will not be able to find any supplies. The grassland is vast and sparsely populated, and they have no cattle around them."
Sheep, if they don’t have enough bows and arrows in their hands, they will most likely starve to death on the way home, so they might as well surrender sincerely so that they can continue to live!” Shangguan Bi sighed and responded in a low voice.
No supplies? Dou Cong could hear a breath of air-conditioning. According to Shangguan Bi, more than half of the herdsmen who escaped from him before would probably starve to death. In this way, his contribution to this killing was huge. Even if there were not ten
There are tens of thousands of people, even thirty to fifty thousand people may not be able to defeat it!
Dou Cong unintentionally killed tens of thousands of enemies, but Dou Cong, who was used to seeing corpses and blood, felt no joy in his heart. He only felt that the long tunes sung by the Shiwei people before were becoming clearer and clearer in the mountain wind, as if the group had never gone far.
He has understood the full meaning of the song. The Shiwei people who have lost their supplies are singing an elegy. In the following days, they will sing elegy to themselves and go to their deaths in groups.
But before they were defeated, they were as fierce as a group of beasts! Dou Cong, who was in a state of confusion, found various reasons to comfort himself. As a military commander, the most taboo thing was that he had this kind of woman's kindness and weakness in his heart, which would have a great impact on him.
to their future
"On the grassland, the weak have always been preyed on by the strong. There is no room for survival for the weak. General Dou does not need to feel sorry for them. Since they dare to come, they should think of this day!" Shangguan Bi's voice came again in a low voice, with a bit of confusion and regret.
"But who can be the eternal strong one?" Amidst the shouts of death, there is no answer to this question.
