Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 333

Yanbei Grassland
Xiliao River (Wuhuan River)
"Report! The Huns are migrating south!"

"Report! The Xiongnu tribe is found ahead!"

A mixed army of chariots and light cavalry was moving up the river.

The chariots marched on both sides to prevent the enemy's cavalry from raiding, and then there were many cavalry on the inside, and each cavalry was equipped with three horses. The innermost part was the baggage cart for transporting grain, grass and crossbow arrows, and there were hundreds of cavalry scattered around. Sentinels.

At the front of the troops, there are the vanguard troops to check the road conditions, and at the end there are rear troops to prevent the troops from being singled out and preventing the enemy from stealing their butts.

A standard marching array, without any tricks.

This army is a joint force of the three families of Wang, Zhang, and Li. The commander is Wang Kuan, and the deputy is the young master of the Zhang and Li families. In addition, there are many temporarily appointed officers such as Captain Sima Jun, Captain Hou, and other officers.

On the basis of the Great Han Dynasty, the Wang family optimized their army establishment and made regulations on the soldiers under the command of officers at all levels.

For example, the captain was canceled and only the corporal was retained, and the number of captains was limited, etc.

There are 5 corporal leaders, and the corporal leaders have no flags and use whistles to command subordinate soldiers;

There are 25 captains, and the captain holds a single flag and a bell;
There are 125 military marquises, who hold double flags and bronze gongs;
Sima 625 people, Sima holding three flags, copper foil;
Xiaowei 625~3125, Xiaowei holds four banners and bronze drums.

There is no limit to the number of coaches, and they hold five banners and horns.

The above establishment may not be full, so the actual situation is not determined by the number of officers.

[Coach: Wang Kuan
Deputy Marshal: Zhang Lan, Li Tao

Captain of Strong Crossbow: Xu Rong

Captain Qingche: Gongsun Du
Captain Xiaoqi: Tai Shici]

For this expedition, the Wang family sent 3000 troops, and the Zhang and Li families sent [-] troops, a total of [-] troops. Taking advantage of the opportunity when the main force of the Southern Huns went south to attack Gongsun Zan, they attacked Shan Yuting.

Tai Shici had served the Wang family not long ago and was reused by Wang Kuan.

This is the first time that Liaodong has taken the initiative to attack the grassland. In the past, it relied on the passive defense of the city, or used the troops of the imperial court to attack the grassland.

This is the first time to attack the grassland with only Liaodong's own strength!
The main force of Gongsun Zan had gone south to compete with Yuan Shao for territory, so the Southern Huns had the opportunity to go south to steal Gongsun Zan's lair, so the Southern Huns' own lair was also empty, and Liaodong had the opportunity to steal the Southern Huns' lair.

Cao Cao stole Tao Qian's ass, Lu Bu stole Cao Cao's ass, Yuan Shao wanted to steal Lu Bu's ass, Gongsun Zan stole Yuan Shao's ass, Southern Huns wanted to steal Gongsun Zan's ass, Liaodong also stole Southern Huns' ass.

You sneak attack, I also sneak attack, you change house, I also change house.

A butterfly in Xuzhou flapped its wings, which led to wars here in the Southern Huns.

"Captain Taishi!"

"exist!"

"Immediately lead your [-] cavalry to attack in advance, and quickly intercept the herdsmen of the Southern Huns who want to escape!"

"Yes!"

In order to prevent the herdsmen of the Southern Xiongnu from running away with their livestock and cubs, which prevented the Wang family from robbing livestock and slaves, Wang Kuan asked Tai Shici to take light cavalry to intercept them first, delaying time, and waited for Wang Kuan to bring this main force to support.

After Tai Shici led [-] cavalry out of the main force, thinking about the Southern Huns Shan Yuting galloping away, Wang Kuan ordered again: "Switch to march!"

"Switch the quick march!"

"Switch the quick march!"

The two deputy commanders hurriedly conveyed Wang Kuan's military orders to the messengers and school lieutenants, and at the same time, a military standard bearer took out the military flag representing "urgent march" from a carriage and kept waving it.

The school lieutenant also sent his own messengers to convey the military orders.

Gradually, the whole army marched faster.

The purpose of marching slowly before was to save energy, and the saved energy was marched quickly at this time, catching the Huns and herdsmen by surprise.

half an hour later

Tatata!
Tai Shici brought eight hundred Qingqi to Shanyuting of the Southern Huns.

The Huns who were moving were panicked. Their warriors followed Shan Yu to attack Gongsun Zan, and those who stayed in Shan Yu's court were old and weak women and children.

"Only kill the ones who run away at the front." Tai Shici knew that a person like himself could not fight a hard fight, although he could fight a hard fight, but he would suffer heavy losses.

The Wang family came to make money, not really to eradicate the Huns. If the losses were heavy and resulted in a loss, then it would be better not to fight this battle.

After the continuous killings, the Huns gradually realized that only those who ran away would be killed, and those who stayed where they were were fine.

Therefore, more and more Huns stayed where they were, but there were also a small number of old Huns and children who took spears to stab Tai Shici's cavalry troops.

The Huns no longer have cavalry, so they can only fight on the grass.

Not only that, drinking fine nectar for decades has drained the energy of the Huns, and all of them have purple faces, black seals, and weak limbs.

After another half an hour passed...

Rumble!
In the distance across the river, many flags appeared, indicating that Wang Kuan's main force had arrived.

Because it is autumn, the sun is in the south, and it is afternoon, the sun is in the west, and the Liaodong army is coming from the east.

In order not to be dazzled by the sun, the Liaodong army did not charge directly. Instead, they marched to the southeast corner of the Shanyu Court of the Southern Huns, and then charged against the sun from the side to minimize the negative impact of the sun's glare on knights and horses.

Seeing the arrival of the main force, Tai Shici breathed a sigh of relief. 800 of them had to guard hundreds of thousands of Xiongnu herdsmen, but they couldn't take care of them at all. Many people were missed, and many Xiongnu herdsmen escaped.

Fortunately, the Huns did not have adult horses, they could only run on two legs, so most of the Huns herdsmen were left in place.

"Go around to the west of them and drive them to Liaodong in the east!"

"Now they still have strength, don't capture them, the risk is too great, wait until they run out of strength, then capture them!"

"During the expulsion process, just kill those who run in other directions, and don't worry about those who run east."

Wang Kuan, the governor of Qingzhou, specially handed over the work of the governor to his subordinates, and returned to Liaodong to dispatch troops. He wanted to replicate the practice of his ancestor Wang Jian to drive away the Wuhuan people, and drive out the Southern Huns in the same way.

During the detour, Wang Kuan's army also passed the northern foot of Yanshan Mountain, and saw five stone statues, one of which is very familiar, which is Confucius, and the other four stone statues are Wang Bian, who exterminated the Wuhuan people. .

"Is the stone statue of that woman Wang Mingyu, one of the 28 generals in Yuntai?" Tai Shici looked at the stone statue of the woman, admiring him very much. After all, they had heard their elders tell stories about those ancient civil servants and generals since they were young.

However, because the Wuhuan people hated Wang Bian and others too much, the stone statues of Wang Bian and Confucius were deliberately destroyed by the Wuhuan people, and the stone statues were smeared with feces and dirt.

Tai Shici was in charge of the west, Xu Rong was in charge of the north, and Gongsun Du was in charge of the south. The standard encirclement was three and one was missing, leaving only the east escape route for the Huns to escape.

Three thousand Liaodong cavalry drove more than 40 horseless Huns to flee eastward on foot, just like wolves driving sheep.

There were old people and children lying on the spot panting and unable to run.

In order to prevent the soldiers from consuming too much energy due to cutting people, Wang Kuan specially let the old people and children go to fend for themselves on the grassland, but continued to drive the Hun women to Liaodong.

In the end, because there were too many slaves, Wang Kuan couldn't find any extra manpower to drive and control them. Hun women kept fleeing in the chaos. When these slaves were driven to the valley of the Xiliao River, there were only more than 3 slaves left, of which 2 were women. There are more than [-] people, thousands of children, and none of the elderly, because no elderly can run for such a long time on foot.

At the other end of the valley, the private soldiers of the three major families waited for a long time. A total of a thousand crossbows blocked the other end of the valley to death.

After being shot and killed 800 people, the remaining Southern Huns surrendered one after another.

On the cliffs of the valley, many bones that have not been completely weathered can still be seen.

It was left behind when Wang Jian, Zhang Yuliang, Lu Yiran, and Li Chengyou chased and killed the Wuhuan people.

After this battle, 1000 women were captured in Liaodong, thousands of Hun children in the valley were all slaughtered, and [-] young livestock were captured.

These [-] livestock and young were almost all the livestock of the Southern Huns, and their original livestock had long been emptied by fine wine.

(End of this chapter)