When the news of the war came back to the Xiongnu rear, in the big tent, the chief Tu Wang and the eldest Shan Yu Yizhi had their hands trembling with their hands trembling, angry, unwilling, and mixed emotions.
The army is pressing down on the situation and the battle situation is well prepared. Why does it end in a losing streak?
Huo Qubing actually attacked the front army head-on, then joined forces and defeated the rear army.
This is very different from the previous judgments of Yi Zhixie and others.
"The victory has not yet been decided. Huo Qubing is pursuing all the troops under my command, and we will only get further and further away from the Western Region.
We still have a group of people and horses, and we will definitely win. "King Tu Tu gasped.
His eyes were bloodshot, like a gambler desperate to lose.
Yi Zhixie snorted coldly: "As long as the third group of troops goes smoothly, we will get back the advantages Han has accumulated before."
They have high hopes now, and only the last line of troops is left!
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The great shaman personally accompanied the army and went south from the rear of the Xiongnu many days ago.
Their team, with the great shaman's grace and edict, and several shamans from various tribes worked together to block the marching momentum.
The entire team consists of half of the Heavenly Soul tribe and half of the royal army's elite, totaling more than 26,000 soldiers.
The Tianhun elite are led by Feng Ti, a general under Yudu, and Qimu Lougai, one of Yudu's lieutenants.
Qimu Lougai has been with Yudu for many years. She is a strong Huns man who is beside Yudu and almost accompanying him.
He was born with different appearances, with long reddish-brown hair, tall and strong body, and eyes like copper bells.
Also in the team was Yi Zhixie's confidant Luotang Gu, who was under Wang Ting's tent.
These people attacked together, with strong troops and horses.
The Luantang family has been a royal family of the Xiongnu for generations, and the position of the Great Chanyu must come from his family.
Yi Zhixie's battle for this purpose was also to take out the inheritance of the Luotang family, which had been buried under the grassland for many years and nourished by the luck of the grassland, that is, the bones of the ancestors.
One of the ancient blade-like artifacts is said to have been passed down by the shaman god back then and contains mysterious power.
Their march was protected by the Great Shaman's ancestral weapons, and they were kept secret all the way. However, they followed the route Huo Qubing took when he entered the Western Huns, that is, from the direction of Yanzhi Mountain and Wushaoling, in the opposite direction from north to south. Western Corridor.
This route serves as a link between past and future.
Moreover, because Huo Qubing had passed by before, it was dark under the lamp, which was relatively unexpected.
From the north to the south of Wushaoling and Yanzhi Mountains, there is the Qilian Mountains, close to the Xiqiang.
The soldiers and horses followed the Qilian Mountains on the south side of the Han-to-Western Region Corridor, and then headed west, which was their marching direction.
The mountain road is difficult to travel, and care must be taken to avoid Han army sentries and maintain sufficient privacy.
The Xiongnu tribes were now increasingly wary of Huo Qubing, so they moved very cautiously.
The march was never very fast.
However, we still arrived at the scheduled location on time.
This 'on time' refers to the timing of cooperating with another Huns army.
That is to say, the former army that was originally preparing to enter the Western Region was led by Ba Liexian.
The two planned to use both overt and covert actions to reverse the Han army's previous advantage.
The soldiers and horses led by the great shaman, Feng Ti, and Qimu Lougai finally arrived at the western ridge of Qilian Mountain.
This location is opposite the Dunhuang camp that Huo Qubing seized from King Hunxie and the Xiutu tribe, across the mountain, forming a vertical line, one to the south and one to the north.
Yudu's plan was indeed well made, it was a counter-raid.
No matter the route or strategic significance, if it can be fought out, it can be compared to the process of Huo Qubing's previous attack on the battlefield of the Western Huns.
They first marched in hiding and came to the west of Qilian Mountain. If you continue west here, you can enter Loulan, and if you go north, you can raid the Dunhuang camp.
Youdu expected that Huo Qubing would lead his troops to fight, and the camp would be empty.
The commander-in-chief attacked and planned to recapture this strategic location.
At the same time, we cooperated with the Huns' front army.
The problem was that although Huo Qubing could not accurately judge the marching route planned by Yudu, he knew its strategic intentions.
Take control of the Western Region and retake the camp.
Only these two points are the strategic core of both parties.
Otherwise, the Xiongnu would always be controlled by the Han.
Therefore, after Huo Qubing sent troops to defeat two Xiongnu armies, his main strategic idea was to be fast enough, and the essence of blitzkrieg remained unchanged.
The great shaman and others rushed to the combat position. According to the plan, it was the time when the Western Huns' front army entered Pulei and prepared to launch an offensive in the Western Region.
However, the great shaman and others came to the designated location and contacted the outpost entering the Western Region.
Only then did they realize that Huo Qubing defeated the two front and rear armies of the Xiongnu in one day.
At present, the Han army is chasing the defeated Xiongnu army and has reached hundreds of miles away from the northern front.
Loulan was defeated by the Han, and the Han general Gongsun Ao followed up and completely controlled it.
The great shaman was stunned after hearing this.
Looking back at Feng Ti, I saw the Qi Mu Tower and the Lulu Valley.
The three of them were also stunned.
The Western Huns have two armies at the front and rear. As long as they fight for some energy and can join forces with them, they can form a strategic advantage.
The difference between before and after is just one step later.
In other words, the champion is playing too fast.
Conventionally speaking, it is normal to fight such a war involving thousands of armies, with two armies facing each other, and the war lasting for several days.
Some large-scale national wars can last for several months, and you come and go.
In the hands of Huo Qubing, he attacks like the wind and breaks the formation like lightning.
The reason why he went to great lengths to mobilize the crossbow chariot was that he had to rely on the crossbow chariot to attack with arrows, charge into the formation with all the advantages, quickly defeat the Huns' front army, and leave the whole road unencircled, allowing the Huns soldiers to escape. It has the effect of fighting as fast as the wind.
The Huns' front troops were allowed to flee in one morning.
They fought again in the afternoon and joined forces with Zhang Cigong's troops. They fought until nightfall and defeated the Huns' rear army.
In this case, both armies were defeated and retreated.
The Great Shaman and others arrived at the battle site, and the battle was over.
The cold meal was not eaten. After everyone finished eating, they started to clear the table and clean up the battle situation.
what to do?
The Great Shaman, Feng Ti, Qi Mu Lou Gai, and Luotang Valley unanimously decided that they would still fight this way.
If the Dunhuang camp can be recaptured, half of the Han Dynasty and the Western Regions can still be contained, and the Han army's advantage can be shaken.
"In this battle, our grassland tribes must not lose. Otherwise, we will lose the energy accumulated for hundreds of years and be completely suppressed by the Han."
The great shaman's old face was wrinkled and he said viciously: "You lead your army north to seize the camp.
If the main force of the Han army pursues and flees, the camp will be empty. You can seize the camp with the elite of Tianhun Department.
Luotanggu and I led the troops and horses of the king's account headquarters and continued to advance westward.
The Han army took Loulan away, and if we take Loulan back again, the Western Region will still be ours. "
Feng Ti and Qi Mu Lougai both agreed with what the great shaman said.
The 26,000 elite troops on both sides then divided their forces and marched all the way to the north and all the way to the west.
The troops heading north rushed out from the Qilian Mountains in the darkness and headed towards the Dunhuang camp occupied by the Han army.
The team heading west is expected to travel quickly for two days to approach Loulan.
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"Doujiao, I didn't expect that the champion would let us stay in the camp."
In the Dunhuang camp, the person speaking was Hu Lianmin, a subordinate of King Hunxie.
Huo Qubing used Han troops to attack the Xiongnu this time.
The Hunxie King's tribe who surrendered were responsible for staying in the camp.
Entrusting them with the garrison of this strategically important camp seemed to be a matter of trust.
King Hunxie stood in the Chinese army tent in the camp with his hands behind his hands, looking at the moonlight.
He had also just received news that Huo Qubing defeated two Xiongnu armies, helping the Han Dynasty gain a huge strategic advantage in the northwest.
As long as Huo Qubing returns to the camp, the Han Dynasty can eliminate a few minor troubles in the Western Regions, and then rely on this camp to build a city, they will be able to hold the Western Regions in their hands.
In this way, the territory of Han Dynasty nearly doubled, and the Xiongnu lost the Western Region, which was a great decline.
The power of the Han and Hungarians will be reversed and fundamental changes will occur.
The Han Dynasty was strong and the Hungarians were declining.
King Hunxie said with emotion: "The champion of the Han Dynasty is indeed an unparalleled divine general. His battles on the battlefield and strategic layout are far ahead of us."
He was more and more in awe of Huo Qubing.
However, he was a little surprised that he entrusted this camp to his care.
It seemed like she trusted him too much.
Since Gongsun Ao's troops went to Yumen and marched west from Yumen to Loulan, there were almost no Han troops in the camp. Even the Han ink workers who had been transferred earlier were transferred to the Yumen camp.
At present, in this camp, except for the soldiers and horses of Hunxie's tribe, there is no Han Chinese. King Hunxie feels like he is staying in a fake camp.
He felt vaguely that something was not right.
In the middle of the night, King Hunxie discovered that he had a crow's mouth.
His feelings became real.
Feng Ti and Qi Mulou Gai led the troops of Tianhun Department to suddenly attack.
King Hunxie was originally very afraid of the Heavenly Soul Department in Yudu. In addition, after defecting, I felt somewhat guilty towards my old master, the Huns.
I heard that the Tianhun Department was coming to kill.
King Hunxie was very cold.
At this time, when the Han army had firmly gained the upper hand, another group of Xiongnu troops came out to fight.
King Hunxie was defenseless.
Without much hesitation, he ordered the Hunxie Division to conserve their strength and withdraw from the camp.
At the same time, something that Huo Qubing said to him specifically when he left the camp flashed through his mind:
"Letting you stay in the camp is a strategic mission.
You have to remember that what is real is imaginary, and what is defended is imaginary. If something unexpected happens, don’t hold on tight! "
At this time, I remembered that the champion seemed to have already suspected that the Huns might come to seize the camp, but he was not sure.
In order to defeat the other two armies of the Xiongnu as soon as possible, he had to mobilize all the Han troops, so he left the Hunxie tribe here to guard the camp. If something unexpected happened, the Han troops would not be the ones to lose.
Damn it... King Hunxie, who suddenly understood, ran faster.
The meaning of Huo Qubing's words was obvious, just run away without taking any responsibility.
Feng Ti and Qi Mu Lou Gai successfully captured the camp without expending much effort.
The two of them checked the camp afterwards, but they looked at each other, as if they had taken an empty camp.
There was almost no baggage in this camp. Apart from rushing in and killing many Hunxie soldiers of the same clan in the past, not a single Han army was encountered.
Huo Qubing led his troops to attack and penetrate deep into the Western Huns. While chasing the deserters, he wiped out all the Western Xiongnu tribes along the way.
In the process, the Han army killed a total of 52,000 heads of the Xiongnu army, and captured alive the Xiongnu leaders, fifty-nine people including the Yan family, kings, queen mothers, and princes, and sixty-three people including prime ministers, generals, and householders. .
More than 5,000 dignitaries from various Xiongnu tribes surrendered.
Let the strength of the Western Huns suffer a devastating blow.
In the original second battle of the Battle of Hexi, Huo Qubing's route was as far as the lakes south of Junji Mountain, across the Juyan Sea, across Xiaoyuezhi, and finally circled back to the Qilian Mountains, making a loop.
Now that the Dunhuang camp has been occupied in the first battle, the distance from the camp is even closer, and the fight will go deeper into the Western Huns, sweeping through various tribes along the way, killing a lot of people.
Three days later, Huo Qubing adopted a large circuitous route, making a semicircular trajectory from east to west from the Western Huns, and circled back to Pu Lei.
At this time, Pulei had been occupied by Gongsun Ao's troops, and it formed two corners with Zhao Ponu of Loulan, one in the south and one in the north.
When Huo Qubing came back, he and the great shaman entered the Western Region. Because Loulan and Pulei were both controlled by the Han army, the soldiers and horses were unable to defeat the enemy head-on.
The two sides fight again.
At this moment, the Han army was winning consecutive battles, and their fighting desire and edge were unstoppable.
Together with Gongsun Ao's troops, the force reached more than 50,000.
Just looking at the military power, the great shaman knew that there was no victory but defeat, so he quickly retreated.
He still wanted to scheme against the Han army again. When retreating, he first asked the scouts to return to the camp to inform Fengci and prepare an ambush in advance.
The Great Shaman and Luotanggu led their troops to retreat towards the Qilian Mountains, allowing Feng Ti and others to ambush in the mountains in advance, hoping to counter the Han army's ambush.
Unfortunately, Huo Qubing saw through his intentions and went directly to attack the Dunhuang camp.
Instead, it was the Great Shaman's turn, and Feng Ti and others hurriedly returned to the camp to garrison.
Huo Qubing's troops followed closely.
King Hunxie also came to join them and reported the details.
Huo Qubing smiled and said to the Mo Gong on the side: "Let's get started."
Two-quarters of an hour later, the Dunhuang camp burst into flames.
Since Huo Qubing had some speculation about the Huns attacking the camp, the situation at that time required that troops and horses must be mobilized to defeat the enemy.
The camp cannot be left to the Huns for nothing.
As the camp was first built, it would not be a pity if it was destroyed, as it can be rebuilt.
He then ordered the Mohist workers to use Mohist methods to hide the Mohist formations under the ground in the camp, hiding fire and salt.
The new Xiongnu army entered the camp and did not know enough about the situation in the camp. The fire, salt and other arrangements carefully hidden underground by the Mo family were not discovered in a short period of time, and they were caught off guard by the flames that rose up after being ignited.
Fire shot into the sky.
The Huns' casualties were not heavy, but they were unable to hold on and had no choice but to withdraw.
The Han army had been waiting outside the camp for a long time and blocked them.
The Xiongnu tribe left the camp when the fire hit them. Their horses and part of the baggage they carried were all set on fire.
In a panic, they fought with the Han army, and the situation can be imagined.
The Xiongnu tribe fought and retreated, while the Han army chased after them.
The two sides fought all the way, from the territory of the Western Xiongnu to the area under the jurisdiction of the central Xiongnu royal court. The confrontation stretched for thousands of miles.
During the pursuit and escape that lasted for more than ten days, the great shaman was also shot in the shoulder blade by Huo Qubing with a bow during the chaotic moment of the fight. The shoulder was pierced, and a burst of energy exploded, wiping out half of his body.
In the following days, when the great shaman was dying, he was carried back to the Huns' rear area.
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Time entered May, and the Battle of Hexi was really coming to an end.
News of the battle losses, victories and defeats between the two sides were sent back to the Xiongnu and Chang'an respectively!
Yi Zhixie and King Tu were almost collapsed when they heard this.
King Tu fell to the ground and wept, saying sadly: "The loss of my Qilian Mountains has deprived my animals of their ability to feed; the loss of my Yanzhi Mountains has made my married woman colorless."
It means that the loss of fertile soil in the Qilian Mountains and Yanzhi Mountains has caused us to lose good pastures and livestock cannot reproduce. We will live in poverty, and women will live in poverty and lose their good looks.
How desolate we are, what shall we do in the future!
However, the Han people cheered when they heard the news, and the whole country was excited and rushed to tell each other.
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