Excluding those who were killed, injured, and disabled in battle, as well as those who escaped along the mountain streams, there were nearly two hundred prisoners of the Yinping Diqi.
And the biggest surprise was that nearly four hundred war horses were intact!
Although the horses raised by Yinpingdi are not as majestic as the war horses produced in the four counties of Hexi in terms of galloping speed, endurance and load-bearing, they can still surprise people.
Nowadays, the Han Dynasty has been blocked by the Wei Dynasty from the Guanlong trade route, and war horses are extremely rare.
For example, Ma Dai in Yang'ankou used money, weapons and other goods to lure the Qiang and Hu tribes to drive war horses for trade, but he could only exchange for a hundred horses a year. Even Prime Minister Zhuge Liang sent his servant Fa Miao to use his father's friendship to rebel against Wei Xincheng
Prefect Meng Da has only obtained dozens of horses in exchange so far!
In today's battle, nearly four hundred horses were obtained. How could it not make people happy?
When Yang Ji and others finished counting the horses and came to report, Zheng Pu suddenly thought of giving up and returning.
The plundered before and captured today are enough to make the Xuanwu Army famous!
It can also be expressed to the Prime Minister, saying that it has completed the response to Sun Wu's Northern Expedition.
After all, if the garrisons in Longyou and Wudu of the Anti-Wei Dynasty heard about the results of today's battle, they would definitely send troops to check it out, and they would also think about the intention of the Bashu troops to leave Yinping. Then they went to Luoyang and dispersed the Ni-Wei temples to pay some attention to Sun Wu.
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In particular, Zheng Pu didn't want to fight anymore.
It is not that I am unable to fight anymore, but I am worried that the moon will gain and lose, and that going too far is not enough.
First, it was a last resort for an army commander to use his body as bait.
Now that the results have been achieved, why take risks anymore?
In addition, more than 30 of the white horse Di led by Yang Ji were killed in the battle. More than 20 horses were also damaged when the horses charged and trampled on sharp rocks and small potholes, or were killed in battle.
The cavalry and soldiers need to rest, both morale and physical strength, and cannot fight anymore.
Escorting the horses and prisoners back to Baishui Pass was the last thing Yang Ji could do.
Huo Yi, who had gone out to lie dormant for a long time, set out with eight days' worth of food in order to conceal his whereabouts and not use carriages and other supplies. He calculated that time was about to run out and it was not advisable to wait any longer.
On the other hand, he was thinking about the lives of his soldiers.
Those who attack with military force will inevitably harm themselves if they kill the enemy.
If the garrison at Yinping Bridge is lured out, even if our own army succeeds in ambush, they will still suffer casualties.
The Prime Minister had previously warned in a handwriting not to be greedy for profit at the expense of the lives of soldiers; and attacking Yinping Diqiangduan would not be of much benefit to the Northern Expedition, so why should we be greedy for war and be unwise?
Watching Zheng Pu riding on a white horse, whipping his whip and scolding his captives and returning his horse, he weighed himself in his mind.
Unexpectedly, Yang Ji, who had reported the victory, did not rush to supervise the tribesmen. Instead, he stepped closer and said quietly, "General Zheng, can you step aside to talk?"
Um?
Hearing this, Zheng Pu turned his head and looked around.
But seeing an embarrassed smile on Yang Ji's face, and seeing soldiers constantly coming and going around, he nodded, "Okay."
After wandering to a deserted place, Yang Ji couldn't wait. He smiled and said in a low voice, "Governor Zheng, our tribe has declined. Not only the number of tribesmen has dropped sharply, but there are also very few war horses left. Today, more than twenty or thirty horses were lost.
, I’m afraid it will be difficult to fight for the country in the future.”
It turned out that the war horses from the tribe were to be replenished from war gains.
However, it's not too much.
Although he received an official position from the Han Dynasty, he still had a semi-dependent nature, and he had to provide his own supplies such as war horses.
At least now, the imperial court, which cannot even build cavalry, will not help him supplement it.
After listening, Zheng Pu understood.
After thinking for a moment, he nodded gently and said with a smile, "Why did Leader Yang say this? In this battle, I only saw Leader Yang's tribe return with some disabled pack horses captured, and none of their own horses were damaged."
Yang Ji was stunned when he heard this.
Immediately, his face showed ecstasy, and his eyebrows were also moved.
"Ji, thank you, Governor, for your sympathy!"
Bowing and bowing, Yang Ji said loudly, "Wherever the governor will need me in the future, I will never forget my kindness today."
Well, what Zheng Pu meant was that he selected his own war horses to replenish the lost ones. Moreover, all the war horses that could no longer go to the battlefield were sent to him to be used as pack horses.
Such treatment slightly violates the laws of the military, but it is also reasonable.
After all, when the Han Dynasty recruited its disciples to fight, they often received trophies to commend their loyalty and hard work.
"Chief Yang's words are serious."
Helping Yang Ji up before stepping forward, Zheng Pu smiled and whispered, "The imperial court is short of war horses. You will replace them as much as you lose. Don't be greedy for more. Well, it's getting late, so go back to Baishui Pass."
"Nuo! Ji knows the seriousness of this and will never let the governor be implicated."
Yang Ji responded loudly, bowed again, then turned around happily and strode away.
Zheng Pu stared at his background, wondering what he was thinking. After a moment, he suddenly laughed a few times, then turned around and slowly returned to the temporary camp.
Inside the camp, the soldiers were already busy in an orderly manner.
There were people carrying water and firewood to burn cauldrons, there were people holding knives to pick up horse carcasses and get meat, and there were also many people who were busy repairing and strengthening fortifications.
It also made Zheng Pu highly praised.
These two hundred soldiers were all selected from Zhao Guang's old soldiers.
The reason is that both luring the enemy and fighting to the death can only be accomplished by veterans who have wandered through life and death countless times.
Otherwise, multiple times of the enemy's army will come, and our morale will collapse before the battle begins.
Zhao Guang, who had entrusted Yang Ji to carry the war horse back to Baishui Pass, was currently scooping water from the river, dripping wet, holding a linen cloth in his hand and gently wiping the blood-stained battle armor.
It is a heavy fish scale armor made up of thousands of small armor pieces.
It can be said to be a very difficult thing to carry.
No need to ask, it was his father, General Zhengnan, who spent all his family money to commission the Ordnance Department to build it for him.
"Yoshihiro is so majestic today. If General Zhengnan hears about it, he will be delighted!"
Before walking over, Zheng Pu smiled and joked.
Hearing this, Zhao Guang kept moving his hands, holding his head high and smiling, "Hey, the military governor is very complimentary. That army is only four to five hundred herdsmen, and they don't coordinate with each other. They are a mob. It is normal to be defeated. My father
What’s so gratifying?”
After a pause, he added, "If we can lure the thieves garrisoning the bridge and defeat them, my father will be able to smile!"
"Although Chiayi is very majestic and majestic."
Looking for a random stone to sit down, Zheng Pu lowered his voice and said, "However, I plan to send someone the next day to inform Shaoxian that he has returned with his army."
"Um?"
With his sword eyebrows raised high, Zhao Guang couldn't help but pause in his hand movements, and his voice was urgent, "Warlord, can't we wait for an ambush?"
Don't blame him for being surprised.
After planning and working hard for so long, Zheng Pu was about to give up when things were about to go wrong.
How can we give up evil halfway like this?
"Well, I gained a lot today."
Nodding slightly, Zheng Pu also sighed with regret, "This time the troops have gone out for the purpose. Moreover, the prime minister has written to me, not to be greedy for merit and only increase the casualties of the soldiers."
At this point, Zheng Pu added, "The conquest of Yinping will not be of much benefit to the future Northern Expedition against Wei."
Well.
Zhao Guang was immediately speechless.
But this was the Prime Minister's order, and he didn't dare to say anything.
"The governor can decide this matter on his own. I am not someone who disobeys the general's orders."
After being silent for a long time, he carefully wiped the blood on his armor, and comforted himself with regret, "At least I can kill the enemy on the spot this time, so I can count as something. But Shao Xian, hey! All my hard work was in vain!"
"Heh~~~~~"
Zheng Pu couldn't help but shake his head and laugh, "Shao must hear this first, and he must draw his sword and fight you for three hundred rounds!"
"Hahaha~~~~~"
Zhao Guang also laughed happily, "Then let's fight! I'm not afraid of evil!"
Yinping, garrison at the head of the bridge.
The huge Chinese army tent was filled with the sounds of various quarrels.
There may be those with red faces and red eyes, baring their teeth and roaring, and shaking their fists as if they are about to fight to the death; or there may be those with high heads and leering, with disdain hanging from the corners of their mouths, and they may sneer at the corners of their mouths; or there may be those with clear eyes, arguing based on reason.
The person sitting in the chief position is the chief garrison officer at the bridgehead, Fu Zhang.
Originally the Di king in the south of Wudu, he was also one of the seven Di kings who responded to Ma Chao in the battle of Xia Bian in the past.
However, the Han army was defeated by Cao Hong and Cao Xiu, so he abandoned Ma Chao and returned to his tribe.
Later, when the late Emperor Liu Bei took Hanzhong, he was worried about being held accountable, and was unwilling to move to Tianshui County and become a Li Shu citizen who was registered as a registered household against the Wei Dynasty, so he simply went south to Yinping to join forces with King Di.
This year has passed my fortieth year, and my body is not over seven feet tall.
He has a gray beard, a protruding forehead and pointed jaw, a sparse beard, and a long and flat nose, which makes his already deep-set eyes look even deeper.
With such a body and appearance, in the Di tribe where bravery is respected, to be respected as the chief of the tribe and to be appointed as the chief garrison officer at Yinping Bridge, he must be unique.
In fact, he is one of the few people among the many tribes in Yinping who can be called a "wise man".
The King of Di forced him to appoint him as an official, not only because his tribe had more than 5,000 young men and was quite powerful. He also valued his ability to coordinate large and small tribes, to deal with the Han army at Baishui Pass carefully, and to prevent Yinping from falling into two sides as much as possible.
Line combat.
Of course!
The main force of the Di King Qiangduan was stationed at the western border of Yinping and Dian Di Road.
Since he excused Yinping's difficulties and stopped paying tribute to rebel against Wei, Guo Huai, the governor of Yongzhou, withdrew all the Wei troops stationed in Yinping to Longyou. The reason he claimed was that the four counties in Hexi and the Qiang and Hu who moved to Longyou were frequently in turmoil.
, the Wei army was poorly defended.
In this regard, Di Wang Qiangduan could not refute.
Because there is no prevarication in what Guo Huai said.
Just indignant.
The Wei army no longer garrisoned troops, so the Baima Qiang and Shenlang Qiang in the northwest of Yinping (northwest of Jiuzhaigou Valley) felt they had an opportunity.
In recent years, there have been frequent border raids and plunders!
It made him tired of dealing with it and extremely annoying.
Therefore, Fu Zhang, who knew King Di Qiang Duan's intention, was drooping his eyes and frowning in thought.
There was a lot of noise in the check-in room, but I couldn't hear it.
What these tribal chiefs in the tent were quarreling over was how the Han army should dispatch and respond to the White Horse Di invaders.
It seems that everyone is expressing his or her own opinion, but in fact, everyone is seeking their own interests.
The chief of the tribe whose pasture and fields were close to Baishuiguan spoke forcefully and claimed that he would send troops to attack Xiaoxiao.
The chieftain, who lived in the Qiaotou garrison area and had no worries about being attacked, emphasized that he should not send troops easily to avoid being ambushed by the Han army on the road.
In fact, in their hearts, they are waiting for the damaged tribes to decline and take advantage of the situation to annex their tribesmen and pasture lands.
As for the tribal chiefs who live here, they are not helping each other.
It is fun to just sit back and watch the other two parties argue if the matter has nothing to do with them.
Everyone has their own selfish motives and has been arguing for half an hour, but nothing achieved has been accomplished!
well.
Opening his eyes slightly, Fu Zhang glanced at the various chiefs in the tent, and couldn't help but sneer in his heart.
He didn't expect these people to get along with each other or come up with insights.
Let them make noise here, just let them vent their anger.
Because he had already made a decision in his mind.
In other words, those four to five hundred Di cavalry were originally sent by him secretly to encourage the alliance and let them test the strength of the Han army and whether there were ambushes along the way.
After all, what the Han army did was very strange.
More than a hundred people riding white horses, relying on two hundred Han troops to guard the road, dare to provoke?
For the Qiaotou garrison with 1,600 elite infantry and cavalry, isn't it like coming to die?
Therefore, he thought and let the herdsmen try it.
Anyway, these herdsmen were not from his tribe, so it didn't matter that they were ambushed and killed.
The freed acres and pastures allowed him to better coordinate the various chiefs and form a rope to fight against the Han army.
Maybe, these damaged tribesmen feel that their chieftain cannot protect them, so they will turn to his command and seek protection from the powerful leader!
The northwest Qiang Di tribe still worships the wolf gene in their bones.
Follow the survival rules of the wolf pack.
Every chief is a wolf. When he cannot lead the wolves to prosperity, he will be abandoned by the wolves.
For example, Yang Ji, who came to harass him like this, was the most powerful Di king in Wudu County before. However, after his defeat, countless of his subordinate tribesmen abandoned him and panicked and sought shelter from other tribes.
Fu Zhang also thought that one day he would return to Wudu and become the most powerful King of Di!
Instead of today, we condescend to take orders from the strong.
However, although he had his own calculations in his mind, the Han army came out of the pass. As the chief garrison officer at the bridgehead, if he just sat back and watched the Han army show off its power, he would not be able to give an explanation to the strong end.
He is currently waiting for his eldest son Fu Jian to return. [Note 1]
Fu Jian was sent by him to watch the results of the battle of the four to five hundred mounted herdsmen.
Let's also explore the scenic valley road, and there are mountain passes where ambushes may be found.
However, he had already ordered the generals to put on armor and prepare to go and kill all the two hundred Han troops!
In order to obtain the sophisticated military equipment of the Han army, he showed his martial arts skills and made other tribes willing to surrender to him.
"Report, the young chief is back."
While he was thinking deeply, the guards outside the tent opened the curtain and reported loudly.
Suddenly, Fu Zhang's eyes flashed, "Send him in quickly!"
"Father!"
A strong man, more than seven feet long, with a light beard, about twenty years old, walked in among the crowd. He said happily, "There is no ambush in the Han army! And Yang Wanwan has also returned to Baishui Pass!"
"Very good!"
Fu Zhang laughed.
A quarter of an hour later, the gate of the garrison at the bridge opened wide, and five hundred cavalry, led by Fu Jian, galloped out.
The following six hundred infantry were led by Fu Zhang himself, carrying three days' worth of food and slowly heading towards Baishui Pass.
The remaining chiefs galloped back to their tribes and hurriedly gathered their clansmen, and a combined force of nearly eight hundred people followed them.
Zheng Pu, who had already asked his soldiers to pack their baggage and other belongings, and was preparing to withdraw his troops after meeting with Huo Yi the next day, was slightly surprised when he saw countless cavalry galloping towards him.
I thought it would be useless to continue fighting, but you actually sent me battle achievements?
No coincidence.
Huo Yi, who had just received the order to withdraw his troops, was feeling disappointed when he saw the rebel army coming out in great numbers.
I couldn't help but feel grateful in my heart, just like the victory in battle came over me.
Well, he is dormant on the top of the mountain!
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[Note 1: In the 14th year of Jianxing in the official history, Fu Jian, the king of Wudu, led his troops to annex Shu, and his younger brother led 400 households north to annex Wei. 】
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