??Chapter 188: Recover three counties and massacre aliens
In the dark night, Qin Hao stood solemnly on the low and dilapidated city wall with his hands behind his hands, looking up at the dim night sky, where endless goose-feather snow was slowly falling from the sky. Novel of nature
In a short time, Qin Hao's helmet and cloak were covered with a thick layer of snow. Looking through the dim firelight, he turned into a solidified snowman.
A full month has passed since Qin Hao led an army of 20,000 to the three counties of Zhongbei, and it is now October of the first year of Zhongping.
In the past month or so, the Central Plains has been undergoing dramatic changes, with smoke everywhere and rivers of blood flowing. None of this has anything to do with Qin Hao, who is far away in the northern Xinjiang. Qin Hao is recovering the three counties in the central and northern areas step by step.
Qin Hao was very lucky. Just after Qin Hao was about to capture the three counties, a moderately heavy snow swept across the northern desert and the southern Hetao area.
Light snow is coming, and heavy snow is not far away. So you don’t have to think too hard to know that Temujin’s life will probably not be easy this winter.
However, this heavy snow has also made it more difficult to rebuild Yanmen Pass several times. The consumption of manpower and materials will increase exponentially, but even so, the repair work cannot be stopped.
If Yanmen Pass is not rebuilt, northern Xinjiang will become unsafe. For the Yanmen Army, nothing is more important than rebuilding Yanmen Pass.
After learning that Qin Hao had led 20,000 troops to conquer the three counties, Temujin offered a token resistance and led his army to withdraw from the three counties and retreat to Hetao.
Of course, before Temujin withdrew, he also took away 30,000 young Huns, and even disgusted Qin Hao before leaving.
Temujin actually wanted to take away all the Huns in the three counties. After all, the Huns suffered too much in the previous battle, and moving them all away could also preserve more vitality for the Huns.
But Qin Hao came too fast. As soon as Lu Bu left, Qin Hao came with his back. Therefore, if they all moved away, there would be no time. Moreover, if the Yanmen cavalry caught up, they would not be able to leave.
In the end, Temujin decisively gave up all the supplies in the three counties and took away only 30,000 Xiongnu elites. These people could become elite cavalry after simple training.
Qin Hao also admired the decisiveness of the strong man Temujin in cutting off his wrist. After all, such a large territory and population could not be given up simply by giving up.
However, Temujin did make the most correct decision. In that case, if the Huns still faced the Yanmen Army, they would definitely die!
Of course, Temujin's withdrawal from the three counties does not mean that there will be no resistance in the three central and northern counties.
There are only 100,000 Han people in the three counties of Central and North China, while there are 200,000 Hu people, including 70,000 to 80,000 Huns and hundreds of thousands of other tribes.
Even if the main force of the Huns was wiped out by the Yanmen Army, other Hu tribes still had some resistance.
These barbarians have been enslaving the Han people for twenty years, and suddenly one day they are ruled by the Han people. Naturally, they will not just surrender.
Qin Hao would naturally not show mercy to these Hu people who continued to resist stubbornly. However, the difference in combat power between these tribes and the Yanmen Army was so great that they were not on the same level at all.
Under the butcher's knife of the Yanmen Army, all the Hu people who dared to resist, including the Xiongnu, were eventually killed in fear. Half of the three counties and twenty-five counties directly opened the city and surrendered.
As for those county towns that still refused to surrender, Qin Hao was not in a hurry. He led the Yanmen army and the losers who had defected to attack one by one. He was also afraid that the labor force to build Yanmen Pass would not be enough!
In this siege, the role of the fierce generals of the Yanmen Army was fully demonstrated.
The Hu troops defending the city were not abundant, but top generals such as Zhao Yunqin, Yue Fei, Qin Qiong, Wei Chi, Gong Guan, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, etc. personally participated in the siege.
With the addition of these top generals, the walls of the three counties, which were not very high to begin with, were like tissue paper to the Yanmen Army, easily broken by a single poke.
In just one month, under the overwhelming offensive of the Yanmen Army, the three central and northern counties had been basically recovered, and the Yanmen Army's own casualties were extremely low.
After all, the ability of these fierce generals to clear troops was too strong. After a city with two thousand defenders was captured, the number of people who died in the hands of the generals alone was estimated to be as high as a thousand.
Of course, another point is that in order to reduce losses and undermine the morale of the Hu people, Qin Hao used the Hu people to deal with the Hu people.
Turning enemies into friends, supporting war with war, and constantly strengthening oneself in the battle, is one of the highest realms of the art of war... one!
What I have to say is that these Hu people were cruel to the Han people, but they were even more cruel to their own people. However, all the people who died were Hu people, and Qin Hao didn't feel bad.
The effect of expelling the Hu and attacking the Hu was very obvious. After a month of siege, the Yanmen Army lost less than 2,000 people, but the result was more than 30,000. Seeing the Hu people killing each other, the officers and soldiers of the Yanmen Army did not mention it. What a pleasure.
Jiuyuan is the hometown of Lu Bu. Among the 25 counties in the three counties of Central and North China, Jiuyuan is the largest and has the strongest defense. It is now the last bastion of the Hu people in the three counties to resist the Yanmen Army.
But this fortress, which was the last hope of all the Hu people, was attacked by a group of top generals of the Yanmen Army and people from the same tribe. It only lasted two days before being breached by the Yanmen Army.
Jiuyuan City was basically filled with leaders and nobles from various tribes who resisted the rule of the Yanmen Army. However, they were usually aloof and aloof, but at this time they were suffering the most tragic ravages and massacres.
Qin Hao could accept ordinary herders among the Hu people, but he could not accept the Hu leader and nobles who fought against the Yanmen Army.
Non-my family, its heart must be different.
If these provocateurs are not cleared away, the three counties of Central and North China will never have peace. Only by killing all these people can the three counties truly return to the embrace of the Yanmen Army!
Moreover, whether it was for the purpose of integrating forces and resources, or to reward his soldiers, Qin Hao had to take action on these barbarian nobles.
Since it is a war, the defeated party should have the consciousness of the defeated. This is both a punishment for the defeated and a reward for the victor.
In this troubled world, the winner is king, and the loser has no human rights!
If you don’t want to die, you have to ask others to die.
If you don’t want to be killed, you have to kill others.
The law of troubled times is that simple!
Within Jiuyuan City, flames shot into the sky, and there was a whirlwind. The screams of men, the moans of women, and the cries of children mingled together.
The Yanmen Army has long formed iron-like and excellent military disciplines, but these military disciplines are only for the Han people, and the Huns and Hu people are not within this scope.
The general ordered the massacre, and the Yanmen army took revenge if they had any vengeance, or even if they didn't have any vengeance. You must know that there are not many opportunities to massacre the barbarians!
Standing at the top of the city and looking at this hell on earth, Qin Hao's heart felt as cold as the ice and snow falling all over the sky.
Mu Guiying walked out from behind, thoughtfully brushed the snow off Qin Hao's body, and put a fox fur coat on Qin Hao.
