In less than an hour, all 30,000 Qiang soldiers were wiped out!
Only two thousand Qiang people were left to transport the baggage. They arrived belatedly. When they saw the fire in front of them, they dropped their food and grass and fled along the way. Feng Ta caught up with a group of people half an hour after the battle and brought back all the prisoners.
It was not until dawn the next day that the Qin army began to clean the battlefield.
Wu Jian glanced around and said, "Is there any fish that slipped through the net?"
The general bowed and said: "No! Everyone was killed! The former general has already gone after their baggage team."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Feng Ta slowly coming with a group of people and dozens of carts of food and grass.
When they met, Feng Ta said happily: "General, this time the entire Qiang army was wiped out. Our army killed 25,000 people and captured 5,000 people. No one escaped alive!"
Wu Jian frowned and said, "How many casualties have we suffered?"
Feng Ta suppressed his smile and said solemnly: "Seven hundred people are injured, three hundred people are seriously injured, and two hundred people are dead!"
Wu Jian nodded and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's not easy! The cavalry of the Qin Dynasty fought against the cavalry of the Qiang people, and five hundred people were killed or injured. If it weren't for your majesty's wisdom and prowess, we might not even dare to dream!"
Feng Ta smiled and said: "Yes, Your Majesty is truly a god in this world!"
Wu Jian suddenly remembered something, turned around and asked, "Where is Hu'ermu?"
The general held his fists and said, "Hulmu probably wanted to cross the river and escape, but he didn't expect that we had set up an ambush on the east bank, so he wanted to turn around and flee north. Unexpectedly, the Qiang soldiers were already jealous and pushed him into the river. , was trampled to death by countless horse hooves!"
Wu Jian sneered: "It's your own fault!"
Then he ordered: "Three things. First, for this great victory, I ordered people to report to Your Majesty immediately and send Hormu's head to Xianyang;
Second, order people to fish the bodies of the Qiang people out of the river and bury them with other corpses 200 steps away from the valley water. Our brothers who died in the war were buried generously on the southern slope of Hongya Mountain. At the same time, people were sent to inform people along the lower reaches of Gushui that people and animals should not drink the river water in the near future;
Third, with the food and grass in Huermu, we don’t have to go to Yongzhou to get food. After clearing the battlefield, they immediately set off and camped two hundred miles west to wait for the caravan. "
Three days later, in the Xianyang Palace of Xianyang Palace.
"Yu He has finished the matter in Lingnan, and now he is starting to investigate the officials, starting from Lingnan. The ministers of the DPRK..."
When I heard Feng Jie reporting on the investigation of corruption, I was not in the mood to listen to his nagging.
I have been a little absent-minded in the morning these past few days, except for worrying about the cavalry led by Wu Jian.
As for the caravan led by Zhang Gou, to be honest, even if they were completely wiped out, they could just go with another group of people. But if those 30,000 cavalry were gone...
While Feng Jie was chattering incessantly and I was wandering away, a shouting sound suddenly came from outside, but it was far away, so I couldn't hear clearly what it was about.
Xianyang Palace has strict rules. No one would dare to make such a noise on ordinary days, except for... military reports!
I stood up immediately, ignoring Feng Jie's surprised look, and quickly walked down the first seat and walked out of the hall.
Feng Jie looked confused and looked at his friend Meng Yi. Meng Yi shook his head slightly and said that he didn't know what was going on.
Everyone in the hall saw me rushing to the door and heard someone shouting.
After a while, the voice gradually became clearer.
"Great victory in Gushui! Great victory in Gushui!"
The steps of Xianyang Palace are too high, so you can only hear sounds but not see people. I quickly walked two steps, and when I reached the edge of the steps, I saw a soldier carrying a corner flag with the word "military" running up from the bottom. He kept shouting: "Great victory at Gushui!"
Li Si and others also followed him out of the palace gate. Most of the ministers saw the soldiers running and didn't know where the victory was. Only a few people including Li Si, Feng Jie and Zhang Han knew about Wu Jian's expedition.
The soldiers came to my steps, bowed, and held up a dark yellow military report in their hands.
I grabbed the military newspaper and read it eagerly.
The soldiers reported a briefing at the foot of the stairs: "Your Majesty, a great victory at Gushui! Our army faced off with the Xiongnu vanguard Qiang soldiers. We killed 25,000 of the enemy and captured 5,000 of them. We killed the leader of the vanguard, Huermu, and Wanqi Chang. Forty carts of food were obtained! Our army only suffered serious injuries of 300 people and killed 200 people!"
The ministers behind him were suddenly surprised and started talking.
"What? Our army killed more than 20,000 Qiang people? Only 200 people were killed? Is there something wrong with my ears?"
"Incredible! Incredible! Since the Qin Dynasty unified the world, how has it ever defeated the Qiang people with such an advantage? Or is it the vanguard of the Xiongnu?"
"Could it be that the entire frontier army was dispatched? That's impossible. Let's not talk about who will guard the Great Wall. Rong Di's cavalry came and went without a trace. Even if the entire frontier army was dispatched, it would be impossible to achieve such a result!"
While everyone was talking about it, they suddenly heard me saying "Hello" three times in succession!
"Okay! Okay! Okay! Hahahaha, our Great Qin Cavalry finally fought a decent battle with the Huns! Okay!"
After saying that, I turned around and returned to the palace, and everyone quickly followed.
Then Qi Wan read the contents of the military report to everyone, and then everyone knew that Da Qin actually had such an elite cavalry.
Thirty thousand people versus thirty thousand people, not to mention the enemy's total annihilation, he only suffered less than a fraction of casualties.
Li Si took the lead and said loudly: "Congratulations to your Majesty, congratulations to your Majesty. Our Qin Dynasty has this iron cavalry and two young heroes. It is just around the corner to defeat the Huns!"
Everyone was very excited and said in unison: "Your Majesty, the Qin Dynasty will last ten thousand years!"
The smile on my face never faded.
"Okay! Li Xiang is right, young hero! Hahaha."
I waved my hand: "Pass on my edict! All the soldiers who participated in the Battle of Gushui will be promoted to the first level of nobility on the basis of merit and rewards; Wu Jian will be promoted to the third level of nobility, and will be rewarded with a hundred golds and twenty pieces of cloth; Promoted to two ranks, rewarded with fifty gold pieces, and ten bolts of cloth! Soldiers who died in battle will be given twenty acres of fertile land at home, and will be rewarded with ten pieces of gold!"
"In addition, delete the news related to the victory of the Qin Army in Gushui, and announce it to the world, and the envoys in Xianyang will hear about it! Announcement to the head of Xianyang, Guizhou, today the curfew will not work, and the streets and markets will not be closed!"
After the notice was posted to the four city gates of Xianyang and the palace gate, the whole Xianyang was excited!
People in Xianyang rushed to tell each other.
Forty years! Never had Da Qin ever achieved such a great victory against the Xiongnu! Since the Great Wall was built, people all over the world thought that the emperor had forgotten the land of Yongzhou.
Yongzhou is a place that cannot be forgotten for these Qin people whose ancestors lived in Guanzhong. That is the origin of the Qin State, and it is also where the ancestors of these Qin people lived.
Since the world fell into disputes among various countries, Yiqu once occupied Longxi and approached Yongcheng. Yongcheng is called Yongcheng, but it is 1,500 miles away from Yongzhou, the ancestral home of Qin.
Although Empress Dowager Xuan of the Qin Dynasty drove Yiqu to the Qilian Mountains and became the Northern Qiang clan, she could not ignore the threat of the Six Kingdoms and then divide her troops to take Yongzhou back. After the First Emperor unified the world, facing the Baiyue, Xiongnu, and the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, he was unable to conquer the grasslands again, so he had to build the Great Wall for defense.
Now that His Majesty has won the great victory over Gushui, where is Gushui? The end is in Yongzhou!
The return of the place where our ancestors lived to the Qin Dynasty is of great significance to the Qin people!
