Xuande

Chapter 305 Liangzhou Ruler
After marching for five days, a group of more than [-] Han knights with fat bodies and red faces descended in front of the Western Xianbei Yanliyou Office with high spirits.

Without further ado, they rushed forward as a group, catching Yanliyou's troops by surprise and suffering heavy losses.

It can be regarded as Liu Bei's luck. The Yanliyou Department held a high-level banquet the day before their attack. To celebrate Yanliyou's birth of a son, everyone rejoiced, drinking and having fun together, drinking from day to night, and from night to night. to daytime.

When the Han army attacked, the ordinary people were of course sober, but the high-level leaders were basically lethargic and had not yet sobered up.

So no one was able to organize a counterattack and defense when the Han army just launched an offensive. When someone was finally shaken by his subordinates to figure out what happened, the Han army's offensive was already unstoppable.

By the time the senior leaders who figured out what happened wanted to launch a counterattack, it was too late.

The Han army rushed and fought like gods descending from the earth, setting fire and killing everywhere.

The wind assisted the fire, and the entire tent cluster ignited a raging fire, which was out of control. Everyone was screaming and running for their lives. Shocked by the fire and the Han cavalry, they were completely unable to organize to fight.

The cavalry of the Han army killed everyone they saw, leaving no one behind.

Liu Bei also personally led the guard cavalry to the place with the densest and largest number of tents, fighting bravely like a tiger entering a flock of sheep. I don’t know how many high-level leaders of the Yanliyou Department were killed by the Han cavalry in their sleep. , Trampled to death.

Yan Liyou 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 when he reacted and wanted to organize a counterattack, it was too late.

Liu Bei has launched a charge and fire attack on the core area of ​​the tribe, and the people's hearts are scattered. Basically, there is no possibility of a successful counterattack. The real thing is to run away as soon as possible.

Yan Liyou originally wanted to persevere, but after hearing the Han army shouting to kill, he lost the courage to resist.

In panic, Yan Liyou didn't even care about his family, so he was pushed onto the horse by his guards and led him to run wildly to the north. A group of people fled with Yan Liyou, trying to escape from birth.

But Liu Yong noticed the rush of this group of people, and he immediately chased after them, shooting arrows while chasing, and many people fell off their horses under a flurry of arrows.

Although Yan Liyou was not shot, his horse was shot in the ass under his crotch. The horse suffered from pain and swayed. Yan Liyou's body, which had just woken up from a hangover, couldn't hold it up. He was thrown out and flew several meters horizontally , fell heavily to the ground, broke his neck, and died.

Yan Liyou was dead, and the whole tribe was almost dead. Some people persisted in resisting, and many people fled in all directions, but all this was meaningless when the Han army's cavalry was galloping freely.

After the battle was basically over, Liu Bei led the troops to clean up the battlefield. Liu Yong dedicated Yan Liyou'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 chased him fiercely. , killed him.

Afterwards, it was identified as a big fish, and it was Yanliyou, one of the Western Xianbei masters.

Liu Bei was very happy, praised Liu Yong, and gave him a great credit.

After that, Gai Xun, Xu Huang, Pang De and others also made meritorious service respectively. Even Jia Xu also made military exploits because he followed Liu Bei to protect him——

Although this old boy is no longer young, he is still good at his hands. He can ride a horse, shoot an arrow and chop with a knife. Cutting people's heads is as common as eating and drinking. He is such a martial artist.

As for the specific results, they are also very gratifying.

Liu Bei successfully wiped out Yanliyou's troops by relying on a surprise attack. Except for those who escaped and were killed, he took about 15 prisoners of war.

The cattle, sheep, horses and other grazing livestock are roughly estimated to be in the millions. It is said that they just defeated another tribe before this battle and took their wealth, so they are so fat.

It was directly cheaper for Liu Bei.

There are countless other gold, silver, pearl, jade, bone products, fur products and the like.

Like the tribe of Zhijianluoluo, Liu Bei found a huge number of exquisite handicrafts made of gold, silver, copper and jade from the seized items, which obviously came from the Han Empire, but he didn't know whether they were rewards, trades, or seizures.

Many of them seem to be old, and they can be regarded as antiques at present, and they are probably worth a lot of money.

From this point of view, the tribe of Yanliyou is obviously richer and stronger than the tribe of Zhijian Luoluo. If they are really to be fully equipped to start a military struggle, Liu Bei estimates that at least [-] troops will be needed to defeat them. Get such a result.

But this time, it was really lucky.

With a full harvest, Liu Bei was very happy to announce that he was a class teacher. After destroying and burning all the traces of life in Yanliyou's department, he built the heads of the Xianbei people killed in this round and left a stone tablet to commemorate them. A show of force.

Afterwards, Liu Bei's army swaggered southward from Yanliyou's tribal location and returned to Liangzhou. What remained on the grassland were two Jingguan and two stone monuments.

Perhaps the deterrent effect of Jingguan was very strong. Along the way, the captured Xianbei people were hungry and full, and had nothing to eat, but few of them dared to escape. A few of them were captured by the Han army , beheaded in front of everyone, and exposed the corpse to the wilderness, thinking it was shocking.

Xianbei people are afraid of the strong, dare not resist, kneel down and submit.

On June 29th in the fourth year of Zhongping, Liu Bei led his army to enter Han territory along the Zhangye vassal state and Zhangye Juyan vassal state, then arrived at Dunhuang County, and then set off from Dunhuang County to Hanyang County.

His purpose of taking such a detour was to complete the several counties and vassal states in the Hexi Corridor, so that the officials and people in places not controlled by his people could witness the might of the army and the endless number of war prisoners, so as to declare His bravery has 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 concept of the jungle, the effect of this is very good.

When the captains and other officials of the Zhangye Kingdom and the Zhangye Juyan Kingdom visited Liu Bei, they did not dare to look up at Liu Bei. The people along the way looked at the majestic Liu Bei riding forward with awe.

Liu Bei was riding on a horse, and the captain and his subordinates stood by the roadside to meet him and saluted.

The prefects of Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Zhangye and their subordinates all had the same attitude.

Knowing that Liu Bei's army was triumphant, he prepared ox wine early to reward the army. They all went out of the city for thirty miles to meet him.

Liu Bei maintained a dignified expression, did not get off his horse, and put his foot forward.

The prefect of Zhangye was even willing to lead the horse for Liu Bei.

In order to welcome Liu Bei's triumphant entry into the county, he led Liu Bei's horse and walked three miles. He was sweating profusely, and his official uniform was sweating, but he still didn't dare to stop.

When they arrived at the gate of the city, the low-status flattery officials didn't even dare to stand, and walked forward on their knees to welcome Liu Bei's arrival.

After the victory of the war, Liu Bei's power in Liangzhou has reached this point.

Therefore, Liu Bei not only successfully cleaned up the Xianbei scourge on the prairie north of Liangzhou, but also successfully established a strong authority over the three counties and two vassal states in the Hexi Corridor area. Since then, no officials in Liangzhou dared to violate Liu Bei's decree exist.

Liangzhou people also deeply felt Liu Bei's strength, and regarded him as the number one hunk in Liangzhou. They respected and even worshiped Liu Bei, and regarded Liu Bei as the absolute ruler of Liangzhou.

(End of this chapter)