After marching for five days, a group of more than 8,000 fat Han knights with red faces arrived in front of the Xianbei Yanliyou headquarters in the west with high spirits.
Without saying a word, they charged as a group, catching Yanliyou's troops off guard and causing heavy losses.
Liu Bei was lucky. The day before their attack, Yanliyou's headquarters held a high-level banquet to celebrate Yanliyou's birth of another son. Everyone rejoiced and drank together from day to night, and then from night to night. to daylight.
When the Han army attacked, of course the ordinary soldiers were awake, but the senior leaders were basically asleep and had not yet sobered up.
Therefore, no one could organize a counterattack and defense when the Han army just launched its attack. When someone was finally shaken awake by his subordinates and figured out what happened, the Han army's offensive was already unstoppable.
By the time senior leaders who figured out what was going on wanted to fight back, it was already too late.
The Han army rushed in and fought like gods descending from the earth, setting fire and killing everywhere.
The wind helped the fire, and the entire tent settlement burst into flames. It was out of control. Everyone was screaming and running for their lives. They were frightened by the fire and the Han cavalry and were completely unable to organize to fight.
The Han cavalry killed everyone on sight, leaving no one behind. They waved their gleaming ring-headed swords again and again, extremely fiercely.
Liu Bei also personally led the cavalry guards to the densest and most densely populated area, fighting fiercely like tigers rushing into a flock of sheep. I don't know how many senior leaders of the Yanliyou Department were killed by the Han cavalry while they were sleeping. , trampled to death.
Yanliyou was lucky because he was old and didn't drink too much. When the Han army started to attack, he was shaken awake by his subordinates. It took him a while to wake up and figure out what happened.
But by the time he reacted and wanted to organize a counterattack, it was already too late.
Liu Bei had already launched a charge and fire attack on the core area of the tribe. The people were distracted, and there was basically no possibility of a successful counterattack. It was really important to escape as soon as possible.
Yanliyou originally wanted to hold on, but after hearing the Han army's shouts of killing, he lost the courage to resist.
In the panic, Yanliyou didn't even take care of his own family, so he was pushed onto his horse by his guards and led to the north. A group of people fled with Yanliyou, trying to escape.
But the running of this group of people was noticed by Liu Yong. He immediately chased them wildly, firing arrows while chasing. Under a burst of arrows, many people were hit by arrows and fell off their horses.
Although Yanliyou was not shot, his crotch horse was shot in the butt. The horse was in pain and swayed. Yanliyou's body, which had just woken up from a hangover, could not hold up and was thrown out, flying several meters. , fell heavily to the ground, broke his neck, and died.
Yanliyou died, and the entire tribe was almost gone. Some people persisted in resisting, and many people fled in all directions, but all this was meaningless with the Han army's cavalry galloping freely.
After the war was basically over, Liu Bei led his troops to clean up the battlefield. Liu Yong offered Yanliyou's head to Liu Bei. He didn't know who it was, but he knew that a group of people were protecting him and escaped, so he thought it was a big fish and pursued him fiercely. , and killed him.
Later, after being identified by others, it turned out to be a big fish. This was Yanliyou, one of the Western Xianbei adults.
Liu Bei was very happy and praised Liu Yong and gave him a great credit.
Later, Gai Xun, Xu Huang, Pang De and others also made meritorious service respectively. Even Jia Xu also made meritorious service because he followed Liu Bei to protect him——
Although this old boy is no longer young, his skills are still good. He can ride horses, shoot arrows, and chop with a knife. He can cut people's heads as easily as eating and drinking. He is a good strategist of the martial arts faction.
As for the specific results, they are also very gratifying.
Liu Bei relied on sneak attacks to successfully eliminate Yanliyou's troops. In addition to those who escaped and those who were killed, Liu Bei obtained about 150,000 prisoners of war.
The number of grazing livestock such as cattle, sheep, and horses is estimated to be in the millions. It is said that they had just defeated another tribe before this battle and seized their wealth, so they were so fat.
It actually gave Liu Bei a direct advantage.
There are countless other gold, silver, pearls, jade, bone products, fur products and the like.
Like Zhi Jian Luo Luo's tribe, Liu Bei found a large number of exquisite handicrafts made of gold, silver, copper and jade from the seized items. They obviously came from the Han Empire, but he didn't know whether they were rewards, trades, or seizures.
Many of them look old and can be regarded as antiques at the moment, and they are probably worth a lot of money.
From this point of view, the tribe of Yanliyou is obviously richer and more powerful than the tribe of Zhijianluoluo. If they were to launch a military struggle with all their troops, Liu Bei estimated that it would take at least 20,000 troops to defeat them. obtain such results.
But this time, I was really lucky.
With a lot of seizures, Liu Bei was very happy to announce that he would destroy and burn all traces of the lives of Yanliyou's troops. Then he built the heads of the Xianbei people killed in this round into the city and left stone monuments as a memorial. Show off force.
Afterwards, Liu Bei's army marched southward back to Liangzhou from the location of Yanliyou's tribe. What was left on the grassland were two Beijing temples and two stone monuments.
Perhaps the deterrent effect of Jingguan was very powerful. Along the way, the captured Xianbei people were hungry and had nothing decent to eat, but few of them dared to escape. A few who dared to escape were captured by the Han army. , he was beheaded in front of everyone and his body was exposed in the wilderness as a shock.
The Xianbei people were afraid of the strong and did not dare to resist, so they knelt down and surrendered.
On June 29, the fourth year of Zhongping, Liu Bei led his army into the Han territory along the Zhangye vassal state and Zhangye Juyan vassal state, then arrived at Dunhuang County, and then set off from Dunhuang County towards Hanyang County.
His purpose of deliberately taking a long detour was to visit several counties and vassal states in the Hexi Corridor, so that the officials and people in these places not controlled by his people could witness the military power of the army and the vast and endless war captives, so as to declare His bravery established his unquestionable strength and authority in the hearts of Liangzhou people.
For Liangzhou people who have a weak sense of etiquette and a strong sense of the law of the jungle, the effect of this is very good.
When the captains and lower officials of the Zhangye vassal state and Zhangye Juyan vassal state paid homage to Liu Bei, they did not dare to raise their heads and look directly at Liu Bei. The people along the way looked at the majestic Liu Bei riding his horse forward with awe in their eyes.
Liu Bei was riding on his horse, and the captain and his subordinates stood by the roadside to pay their respects and saluted him.
The governors of Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Zhangye and their subordinate officials all had the same attitude.
When they learned that Liu Bei's army had returned triumphantly, they prepared cattle and wine to reward the army early. They all went out of the city for thirty miles to welcome him. They did not dare to look directly at Liu Bei, but only dared to lower their heads and listen to his instructions, obeying him to show their respect.
Liu Bei maintained a majestic and solemn expression, did not dismount, and maintained a full posture.
The governor of Zhangye was even willing to lead Liu Bei's horse.
In order to welcome Liu Bei's triumphant entry into the county, he led Liu Bei's horse and walked for three miles. He was sweating profusely and even his official uniform was soaked with sweat, but he still did not dare to stop.
When they arrived at the gate of the city, the low-status greeting officials did not even dare to stand and knelt forward to greet Liu Bei's arrival.
After winning the war, Liu Bei's power in Liangzhou had reached this point.
As a result, Liu Bei not only successfully dealt with the Xianbei scourge on the grasslands north of Liangzhou, but also successfully established strong authority over the three counties and two vassal states in the Hexi Corridor area. From then on, no official in Liangzhou dared to disobey Liu Bei's orders. exist.
The people of Liangzhou also deeply felt Liu Bei's strength and regarded him as the most powerful man in Liangzhou. They respected and even worshiped Liu Bei, and regarded Liu Bei as the absolute master of Liangzhou.
