As the saying goes, husband and wife are like birds in the same forest. When disaster strikes, they fly separately.
What's more, there shouldn't be too many half-hearted people in Gaoque City now.
Before Gaoque City collapsed, many people were already trying to escape. What a joke. The Han Dynasty people smashed the city with huge rocks hundreds of steps away.
Every stone that hit the city showed astonishing destructive power.
If a stone hits it, it will immediately be shattered into pieces and turned into minced meat.
In other words, as long as the Han Dynasty wanted to use this siege weapon to attack the city for a month, Gaoque City would not be able to hold it back.
What's more, the slaves and herdsmen at the lower level have already become frightened birds.
After the boulder struck, many people trembled and ran back to their domes, put their heads on the ground, and kowtowed slightly to the emperor's god tablet and a wooden sculpture carving the image of the Han Dynasty's god knight.
Pray and ask for mercy.
For these people, the Han Dynasty's attack had gone beyond their imagination and their perceived reality, and was a method of ghosts and gods.
How dare people fight against ghosts and gods?
So, at the moment when Gaoque City was destroyed.
The Han army had not yet responded, and the Huns themselves were the first to respond.
I don’t know which tribe the man was from, but he suddenly shouted: “The Divine Cavalry is coming, everyone, please run for your life!”
On the grassland, there are currently two contradictory legends about the divine cavalry of the Han Dynasty.
Some people say that the divine knights of the Han Dynasty were cannibals and would eat the heart and brain of a Huns with every meal. Otherwise, how could they be so strong?
But some people say that the divine cavalry of the Han Dynasty are heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals who do not eat the fireworks of the world. As long as they worship sincerely, they will do nothing wrong.
But, no matter which way you say it.
On the front side, anyone who confronts the Divine Cavalry will definitely die.
And he will die very, very miserably.
Those Zhelan, Aries Cavalry, and the redeemed nobles all told others in unison: It was the devil's army, and it was invincible to mortals.
All the survivors who saw the Han army's divine cavalry take action and finally ran back to the grassland.
Whether it was the Zhelan people who were once famous for their ferocity, the Aries people who were famous for their calmness, or the Huns' cavalry, they all went crazy in the end because they could not bear the blow.
Some people even committed suicide after reporting the news.
They dare not and cannot accept the terrible fact in their memory.
The nobles who were later redeemed took advantage of the nobles' strengths.
In order to cover up their incompetence, these guys had no choice but to exaggerate the strength of the Han army and add fuel to the fire to further deify the Han army's cuirassiers.
Until now, no Huns in the entire Munan area dared to face the Han army's breastplates.
As long as the breastplates are lined up, the Huns will flee in all directions.
Then, the Han army had to watch them escape.
This exposed the shortcomings of the cuirassiers in long-distance attacks.
However, the concept of the Han Dynasty's invincible divine cavalry was firmly established in the hearts of the lower class herdsmen and slaves.
If it weren't for the invincibility of the Han Dynasty's divine cavalry, then why did the gentlemen run away as soon as they saw it?
Since even the gentlemen and the vulture shooters have fled, what can we little shrimps do to fight against it?
Better run!
If you really can't run, just surrender!
Therefore, when Gaoque City was broken, the entire lower-level psychological defense collapsed immediately.
Even the armies of many tribes were immediately in an uproar.
In their minds, there is a very simple concept.
Even a fortified city like Gaoque City that could not be captured could not stop the Han Dynasty!
We are just mortals, flesh and blood, how dare we resist the footsteps of the divine knights!
At the moment when Gaoque City was destroyed.
Immediately, hundreds of herdsmen suddenly broke through the city gate on the other side of Gaoque and fled out of the valley road.
Because this side was not the focus of defense, and the whole city was shocked by the scene on the other side of Gaoque City, the gatekeepers could not react at all, and watched helplessly as hundreds of horses rushed out.
Panic and despair, like the plague, instantly infected every Huns who saw this scene.
Many soldiers guarding the gate looked at the guys who were running away, and hesitated for a moment. Then, they jumped off the city top one after another, mounted their horses and fled.
The Hun nobles who controlled and supervised them had no time to stop them.
In fact, no one wanted to stop it.
"Run quickly..." said a noble from another tribe wearing a Guduhou felt hat: "We have to return to the tribe quickly and take away the tribe's babies, women, children and livestock!"
Gaoque City has been broken, and the terrifying Han Dynasty army will go straight into the vast hinterland between the rivers and reach the Yinshan Mountains.
If you don't rush home and collect your belongings, are you going to wait for the Han Dynasty to kill them and capture all the livestock, women and children?
The Huns often conquered and plundered other people, so they knew very well what would happen to the children and women of their tribe if they fell into the hands of the Han Dynasty.
Women will all become reproductive tools, children, men will be slaves forever, and women will be reduced to maids from generation to generation.
The tribe's livestock will be slaughtered and eaten.
In this way, the tribe will be completely cut off from the future.
The escape of these people left the entire northern gate of Gaoque City wide open.
Countless tribal cavalry and nobles swarmed towards the narrow exit.
They even fought for exports.
This is very normal, and this has happened countless times in human history.
Even two thousand years later, similar events have never stopped.
When a crisis occurs, the panic of the crowd will infinitely amplify the effect on the group.
For a chance of survival, human beings will cruelly take away other people's chance of survival.
Even in fact, as long as you think about it calmly, you will know that you can escape in an orderly manner.
But the problem is that this kind of thing cannot be solved by the calmness of one or two people, but can only be solved by group thinking.
And now, the crowd's idea is to run!
Moreover, those who took the lead were elites from various tribes.
Those nobles who are usually aloof, those fully armed troops!
Within half an hour, the order in Gaoque City no longer existed.
Even the Xiongnu's cavalry, in such panic, completely lost order and was disorganized.
At this moment, the flaws of the Xiongnu army were fully exposed.
Compared with the strictly disciplined and well-organized Han army, their military discipline and military laws only had a few articles.
Their soldiers have never received any systematic training.
They fight purely by relying on experience and tacit understanding, rather than military law and discipline.
Not to mention the Huns, even the Mongolian cavalry was like this in the early days.
The description of the prairie cavalry in history books is always inseparable from the saying that "victory is like a gathering of birds, defeat is like a cloud of disintegration".
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"General Zuo, let's go..." Dozens of loyal Huns warriors surrounded General Zuo Huyandangtu who refused to leave Gaoque: "Let's leave quickly before the Han Dynasty attacks. Chi
It’s too late!”
Each of these warriors took out their sabers and weapons and looked around solemnly.
In the past half hour, the Huns were not only disorganized but also had a great collapse.
There was even a terrible wave of escapes.
The fleeing wave doesn't just include people who want to escape.
There was even a traitor who wanted to kill a high-ranking Xiongnu nobleman so as to give the Han people a welcome gift.
This kind of thing is simply too common!
Not to mention the Xiongnu, in Chinese history, once the army is defeated, even the close followers of the army will immediately emerge with countless careerists!
In the Xiongnu, the situation was even more terrifying.
When the failure of the Huns was confirmed, countless ambitious people, tribes and slaves who had been exploited and oppressed by the Huns without saying a word or uttering a word, and suffered in silence, finally waited for this person to demand repayment of their blood debt from the Huns.
Chance!
This blood debt can be his own, or it can be the blood debt of his unknown ancestors.
On this grassland, defeat is the original sin!
Guilty as well as innocent!
Not to mention the Xiongnu’s heavy blood debt!
Huyan Dangtu refused to leave. He looked at the collapsed city wall and the boulder that hit the ground, creating a deep pit. He knelt down and said, "I, Huyan Dangtu, am guilty! Shanyu
You have given me the elite troops of Mu Nan, a total of 110,000 horses, but they have been defeated again and again in front of the Han Dynasty people, and you have lost the face of the Xiongnu. How can you still have the dignity to meet the Shanyu?"
The destruction of Gaoque City destroyed Huyan Dangtu's last chance.
Once Gaoque fell, Beihe and Yangshan fell under the control of the Han Dynasty.
This means that the Xiongnu have no danger to defend before the Yinshan Mountains.
And Gaoque has fallen, how long can Yinshan hold on?
What's more, if Gaoque's defenders were defeated like this, they would infect the entire Munan with their feelings of defeat.
No one would dare to stop the Han Dynasty's cavalry from advancing.
This means that within a few days, except for the Yin Mountains, all the other lands controlled by the Xiongnu in this river will all be reduced to lands controlled by the Han Dynasty.
The Huns will be like bereaved dogs, fleeing from their birthplace and ancestral home in disgrace.
After losing this place, Huyan Dangtu, even if he escaped, would he still have the dignity to meet Shan Yu?
In fact, a sinner like him would probably be tied to the altar in Dragon City, his skin and muscles would be peeled off, his head would be made into a chamber pot, and he would be nailed to the pillar of shame forever.
More importantly, it will also implicate Shan Yu and his brothers.
A defeated general who lost his army and humiliated his country still had the nerve to come back?
Those who have been dissatisfied with him for a long time will definitely jump up and attack and attack Shanyu.
"No!" said a nobleman following Huyan Dangtu: "You must go back!"
"If you die in battle here, it will not only bring shame to the Huns, but also become a symbol of the Han Dynasty to show off its martial arts!" The nobleman said: "Yin Zhixie died in Mayi in the battle, and his body was taken by the Han Dynasty.
He was hung up and hung on the top of the city of Mayi and blown into a skeleton... His head was soaked in lime and then passed to the soldiers and civilians at the Han Dynasty's border fortress to watch. Finally, it was sent to the Imperial Ancestral Temple of the Han Dynasty and sacrificed to the Han Dynasty.
Ancestor of the Han Dynasty! Even his tribe's large banner was trampled by the cavalry of the Han Dynasty and their families, and the mud and excrement stained the wolf-headed banner of King Youxian..."
"Do you want to see the Huyan clan's banner trampled on by the Han Dynasty people? Do you want your body to become evidence of the Han Dynasty people boasting about their martial arts?" the noble asked.
"But if I go back, I will only bring trouble to Shanyu..."
"No!" The man said seriously: "When you go back, you will not implicate Shanyu. Instead, you will tell Shanyu the failure experience of Gaoque City and Hejian Land!"
"Even if you die in the end, it will be worthy of Shan Yu!"
"Moreover, it can also let the tribes see your loyalty and bravery, and maybe there will be a turn for the better!"
At this time, in the distant Han Dynasty military formation, the first batch of troops appeared in formation and rushed over.
The war flags of the Han Dynasty were flying high, and the sound of war drums resounded throughout the world.
"Let's go!" Huyan Dangtu finally made up his mind, stamped his feet, led these warriors on their horses, took the tribe's banner, and headed towards the northern city gate.
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Two hours later, under the afterglow of the setting sun, Yi Zong and Cheng Bushi entered Gaoque City side by side.
On this occasion, the fortress built by King Wuling of Zhao finally returned to the embrace of China.
However, after this battle, the fortress was almost disabled.
The Han army's attack caused the foundation of the entire city wall of this fortress to shake, and even led to its collapse.
What was even more serious was the subsequent collapse and cannibalism of the Huns, which caused the city's internal environment to be almost completely destroyed, with smoke and burning wood everywhere, and a large number of mutilated limbs and dead bodies everywhere.
More than a dozen tribal leaders and their tribesmen knelt on both sides of the road, holding the heads of some Hun nobles.
"Prepare to write a memorial to Your Majesty..." Yi Zong said to Cheng Bushi: "The Huns are no longer able to stop our army in front of the Yin Mountain..."
However, it is unlikely that the Han army will continue to pursue.
Because, according to phenological records, in a few days, no more than ten days at most, the blizzard weather will begin.
In the weather with negative numbers at noon, it was difficult for the Han army to defend themselves, let alone attack.
Fortunately, a large number of livestock were seized in Heyin and Yiliang, so there is no need to worry about food for the time being.
The success of Gaoque City also allowed the Han army to get a good place to protect themselves from the cold, without having to retreat hundreds of miles to Ziling to escape the wind and snow.
However, another problem also highlighted the captives...
Yizong and Cheng Bushi both frowned and looked at the kneeling prisoners all over the city.
Before the war, there were about 40,000 to 50,000 Gaoque defenders (troops plus civilians), of whom about 30,000 either ran away or died.
And the rest are kneeling in front of the Han army!
Referring to the experience of the Mayi War, these captives will become wealth in the future.
They will either become guinea pigs in imperial experiments, or become civil servants of the Han family's engineering team, and then be brainwashed and eventually join the Zhongyong Army.
And the technical talents among them will become the treasures of the Han family!
As long as they are good at grazing and taking care of livestock, they will become employees of the Shaofu and become members of the Han Dynasty ranch.
Now, the Han family has thirty-six official horse farms and tens of thousands of herdsmen, half of whom are nomads who were surrendered or defected to the Huns.
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I'm not feeling well lately, so I'm sorry.
I had a fever for the past two days, and it went away today~
Well, if I wait for another day of drinking water tomorrow, I should be almost able to revive~
It will definitely explode next week! (To be continued.)
