While they were discussing this issue, the war also had a clear winner. Led by a group of fierce generals who looked like wolves and tigers, an even more ferocious army swarmed forward and completely tore Qiu Liju and his Wuhuan rebels into pieces.
The bodyguard cavalry led by Qiu Liju himself was even worse. They were defeated by Zhang Fei and his bodyguard cavalry. Qiu Liju himself could only run away in embarrassment with five or six of his subordinates, but he did not run far. Suddenly, a young general Zhao Zilong with a white horse and white robe came out.
Zhao Yun held up his spear and shouted loudly. He pierced Qiu Liju's body with the spear and dismounted. Qiu Liju looked up to the sky and spat out a mouthful of blood. He died without even having time to scream.
Then Zhao Yun got off his horse, chopped off Qiu Liju's head with a knife, mounted his horse with his head in his hand, and rode away amid the cheers of dozens of guards who were also riding white horses around him.
Zhang Fei, who was not far away, witnessed this scene.
Originally, he had already held the spear and was ready to sprint, but Zhao Yun's sudden attack caused the hot blood in his body to degrade into cholesterol, causing him to almost lose his breath.
But there was no way, Zhao Yun snatched the head in front of him, killed Qiu Liju, and took him away in a show of force.
Zhao Yun galloped on his horse, holding up Qiu Liju's head and shouting loudly. A group of people on white horses galloped with him, shouting for Zhao Yun's achievements in killing Qiu Liju. They galloped so passionately that they almost forgot about this. The war is not over yet.
But it happened to be their behavior that let the Wuhuan cavalry who were still resisting know the news that Qiu Liju was dead.
Their immediate boss is dead, so why are they fighting?
This is a battle destined to fail. There is no need to continue fighting. They can stop fighting.
So, with the cheers of the Han soldiers, the battle came to its end.
Liu Bei was very happy to see Zhao Yun and his guards galloping, pointing at Zhao Yun, and laughing at Cheng Yu beside him.
"The more I look at him, the more he looks like me ten years ago! Just as high-spirited and high-spirited! What a white horse general, Zhao Zilong! Hahahahahahaha!"
Cheng Yu also looked at Zhao Yun galloping with a little envy, and couldn't help but wonder in his mind if he could have met a hero like Liu Bei twenty years earlier who was willing to use talents in an eclectic way, would he have been so high-spirited? when.
It's a pity that he is already forty and half of his body is already buried in the ground. He doesn't know how long he can hold on.
But no matter what, he will not waste this precious opportunity.
At the end of the war, Gongsun Du, the governor of Liaodong, opened the city gate to respond to Liu Bei, attacked from inside and outside, and destroyed Nanlou.
Zhang Fei finally got what he wanted. He held a spear and launched a final charge with red eyes. He pierced Nan Lou's body with a spear and nailed him to the ground. He let out a fierce breath that he had not been able to release just now. , I can finally sleep well tonight.
Otherwise, Zhang Fei really felt that he would be suffocated to death by this bad breath.
After Nanlou died, the battle ended with the Han army's complete victory.
Thirty thousand Han cavalry defeated the Wuhuan cavalry, which numbered more than 40,000, and achieved a hearty victory.
Lord Wuhuan of western Liaoning and the leader of Wuhuan in Youzhou during this period, Yangqiu Liju, was killed. The military power of the Wuhuan people in Youzhou was basically destroyed. The Wuhuan people in Youzhou faced the Han The military cavalry no longer had the power to resist.
This day is the first day of February in the first year of Jian'an.
After defeating Qiu Liju, Liu Bei's army not only captured more than 5,000 soldiers, but also captured more than 30,000 prisoners. They further wiped out the Wuhuan tribe who followed Qiu Liju's army and captured 200,000 men and women. There are more than one million livestock of various types, and the remaining seizures are too numerous to be counted at the moment.
Because the results of the battle were too great to be digested at once, Liu Bei immediately sent people back to mobilize Xu Huang's Huben Army to Liaodong County to help deal with the spoils. He also asked Liaodong County Governor Gongsun Du to lead the Liaodong County soldiers to help guard them. Dispose of the loot.
Previously, when dealing with the Xianbei people who went south, Liu Bei captured more than 150,000 men and women. This time when facing Wuhuan, he captured more than 200,000 men and women. In total, more than 300,000 men and women were captured. It is a very huge military exploit.
Despite this, Liu Bei did not intend to stop.
He wanted to go north to the grassland and go straight to Xianbei's home base in the east to show them some color.
Gongsun Du was shocked when he learned of this situation.
"General, at this time of the Northern Expedition to the Grassland, will this... make the soldiers feel too tired? General, the soldiers have been fighting for a long time, and the soldiers have become exhausted. Should they rest more?"
Liu Bei sneered and said: "Rest? There will be plenty of time to rest in the future, but I have been here since I came to this land in Liaodong. I can't continue to fight north and expand the results. How can I swallow this breath? Kou can go, so can I. Go! If they dare to ravage Youzhou, I will raze their hometown to the ground!"
Liu Bei was full of murderous intent, which severely shocked Gongsun Du.
The man from heaven was right in front of him, and for the first time in his mother's womb, Gongsun Du felt that he couldn't hold him at all.
With a war effort of more than 300,000 people, he defeated three armies of Yuan Shao, Xianbei and Wuhuan people in succession. Why don't you stop with such a huge war effort?
Is this to create a record of Dou Xian's achievements in the Northern Expedition to the Grassland?
Although both of them are generals.
Seeing the fierce man from heaven standing in front of him, even the ambitious Gongsun Du felt that his own situation was too small, and he sincerely admired the man in front of him.
"The general is proud and ambitious, and I admire you. If the general has such ambitions, I am willing to follow him in the Northern Expedition!"
"So good!"
Liu Bei nodded and agreed to follow Gongsun Du, and then organized his troops, logistics, and sent people to explore the route and collect information on the route in preparation for the Northern Expedition.
After Gongsundu provided help, Liu Bei received help from many business travelers in Xiangping County. They were familiar with the round-trip trade routes to the Wuhuan and Xianbei tribes. This time they encountered a disaster and were rescued by Liu Bei. They were willing to help Liu Bei. for a pittance in return.
So the most difficult direction problem was solved.
On the sixth day of February, five days after the army had been reorganized, Liu Bei left more than 2,000 cavalry to guard a large number of prisoners of war, and then led 30,000 cavalry in the official northern expedition.
And their logistics...are an equally large number of hundreds of thousands of livestock, as well as thousands of outstanding Wuhuan herdsmen with herding skills and cooking skills who are willing to join Liu Bei in exchange for a chance of survival——
Talents with special skills always get special treatment. Liu Bei needs them and they are willing to join him, so the two sides will hit it off.
It seems that after a long period of struggle, the grassland regime gradually understood that the reason why the Central Plains repeatedly defeated them was that they had advanced technology and their craftsmen were particularly good, so every time they went south to rob, they would spare the lives of skilled craftsmen.
Even if everyone in the city is killed, the craftsmen who master the skills of forging iron and making crossbows can always survive.
Therefore, it is important to master a technology.
Their Northern Expedition route was from Liaodong County to Xuantu County, leaving the northern part of Xuantu County, and then marching all the way west, making a circle and ruthlessly defeating all the Xianbei, Wuhuan, and Huns encountered on the route. , then turn southwest and return to Zhuojun.
This time, I wanted to kill everyone who saw them. I slapped every dog on the roadside twice. I dug out all the earthworms in the soil on the roadside and split them into two sections.
A bloody storm swept across the grassland in the early spring of the first year of Jian'an.
Speaking of which, the Xianbei forces in the east were not actually the largest after the death of Tan Shihuai, nor were they the largest in number. The major tribes lived separately, and no one with sufficient strength and appeal stood up to unify them.
Therefore, they could only lead their respective tribes and fight alone with their respective tribe leaders as leaders. This invisibly reduced their combat effectiveness and deterrence, which was completely different from when Tan Shihuai was still there.
Based on the intelligence provided by the traveling businessmen, Liu Bei learned the news, and then made the decision to divide his forces and complete the Northern Expedition as soon as possible. He also defined the goals of the Northern Expedition as "total annihilation of the eastern Xianbei" and "crippling of the central Xianbei". .
He appointed Zhang Fei and Pang De to each lead a force, and he himself led a force. It was the same action method as the three-way Northern Expedition launched by Liu Hong, but both the internal and external situations were completely different.
On February 11th, the Tiger Cavalry Army led by Zhang Fei discovered a Wuhuan tribe in the north of Xuantu County. Without saying a word, he rushed up and wiped out the tribe, killing all those who resisted and those who surrendered as a large army. "Logistics equipment", brought it.
On February 12, Pound discovered a small Xianbei tribe in the northeast of Xuantu County, launched an attack, and won a complete victory.
On February 14, Liu Bei's Central Army discovered the tribe of Moriqi, one of the eastern Xianbei masters, on the grassland in the northern part of Xuantu County. They launched a surprise attack and defeated the tribe in one fell swoop. They captured two thousand people and captured more than five tribesmen. Ten thousand, a large number of war horses and other livestock were seized, and logistics reserves were greatly increased.
The Han army's attack was as unstoppable as a blazing fire.
(End of chapter)
