Eastern Jin Dynasty: My powerful father

Chapter 177 Xianbei, Hexi

This battle was destined to be without suspense from the beginning. After all, Huan Xi faced nothing more than a group of nomadic infantry.

Xie Ai was ordered to count the seizures, but in his mind he was still recalling the terrifying suppressive power of the Huns' cavalry on the Xianbei infantry.

Of course, such an effect could only be achieved because the main cavalry of Qi Xianbei was not present. Although there were a large number of archers in the formation, they suffered a loss in terms of shooting range. The threat of lance cavalry made them dare not attack. Therefore, Qi Qi Fu Xianbei simply did not have any effective means of counterattack.

Xianbei's begging tribe had a total of 40,000 tents. Except for the 30,000 cavalry far away in Guzang, the rest were all captured.

Xie Ai counted the results and reported to Huan Xihui:

"Liang Gong, a total of 140,000 people and nearly 500,000 livestock were captured in this battle."

Because there were so many seizures, Huan Xi waited from day to night before Xie Ai arrived.

There were 140,000 prisoners. If we add the 30,000 cavalry and the thousands of infantry who died in this battle, the total population of the Qifu tribe was close to 180,000. Taking tents as a unit, each tent had about four to five people.

As for the plundering of 500,000 livestock, it is equivalent to approximately 12 livestock per household.

But by the time they are brought back to Xitao Grassland, it is estimated that there will only be more than 300,000 left.

After all, even prisoners had to eat and drink along the way, and Huan Xi had only brought seven days' worth of food when he left Yinchuan, but now it was all gone and he had to slaughter the livestock.

There are 140,000 prisoners and 10,000 soldiers, that is, 150,000 mouths waiting for food. However, it is impossible to move fast with so many prisoners.

When Huan Xi came, he traveled more than a hundred miles a day for six days. When he returned, he took a group of old, weak, women and children with him. He traveled no more than 40 miles a day, and the journey was 660 miles, which took about seventeen days.

A sheep can only produce about fifty kilograms of meat. Therefore, it is not unimaginable to take 150,000 people on a 17-day march and eat more than 100,000 livestock on the way. After all, they are traveling every day and consume a lot of energy. Food intake will also increase accordingly.

Of course, cattle produce more meat than sheep, but Huan Xi was reluctant to kill cattle.

After listening to Xie Ai's report, Huan Xi couldn't help but smile and said:

"Very good, it was finally worth the trip."

Even if Si Fan refused to surrender, he only had to wait for Huan Xi to send the people and animals back to Yinchuan, and then he could mobilize his army to attack Liangzhou again.

Therefore, for Huan Xi, it was naturally a happy event for Si Fan to surrender to Gu Zang City and surrender.

Even if he resists stubbornly, it will only cost him more time.

Deng Xia said excitedly next to him:

"Gong Liang, I have heard that there are Siyin, Chulian, and Tulu tribes in Xianbei who are begging for help. They are nearby. They are only a day or two away. I would like to ask Duke Liang to divide my army. I will plunder them for Duke Liang." of humans and animals!”

Huan Xi shook his head and smiled:

"It should be far away, but going too far is not enough. Let's take these humans and animals back for now.

"When Guzang is recovered, I will divide your army into one and wipe out the other three for me."

The Siyin, Chulian, and Tulu tribes had a total of 30,000 tents. Based on the four or five people in each tent of the Qifu tribe, the total population was between 120,000 and 150,000.

Of course Huan Xi wanted to swallow up the other three tribes in one go, but he only had 10,000 soldiers around him, and he had to look after 140,000 captive people and 500,000 livestock, which was really stretched.

Moreover, he was also worried that Qifu Si Fan would resist to the end and lead his troops to pursue him, so naturally it would be better to leave as soon as possible.

He had already learned from Qifu Dahan that before the battle started, Dahan had sent envoys to the other three tribes to ask for help. If it weren't for the fact that there were too many people and animals captured and it was inconvenient to travel at night, Huan Xi would have evacuated long ago. There is no solitary mountain in the wheat field.

At night, the soldiers did not dare to celebrate wildly. They were in enemy territory and there were three tribes around them. No one dared to relax their vigilance.

The next day, it was time to cook at five o'clock, and when dawn broke, Huan Xi immediately led his cavalry and drove people and animals back on their way home. Zhang Shisheng, on the other hand, led more than ten cavalrymen, took a letter of persuasion to surrender from Dahan, left the team, and headed south to Guzang.

Before the war, when Qifusi Dahan asked Qifubudai when the three reinforcements would arrive, Qifubudai claimed that it would take a day.

But Qifu Budai misjudged human nature after all. When he learned that Huan Xi had led his troops to attack the Qifu tribe, none of the leaders of the other three tribes dared to send reinforcements. Instead, they stayed away from Wugu Mountain in the wheat field.

They didn't know how many soldiers and horses Huan Xi sent out, and how they dared to rescue him so easily.

Until the spies reported back and learned that all the Qifu tribe had been captured, the leaders of the other three tribes were all horrified.

Even though Huan Xi had withdrawn his troops, the leaders of the three tribes all knew that after he sent away the captured people and animals, they would eventually return to Liangzhou.

The leaders of Siyin, Chulian, and Tulu gathered together to discuss a way out.

The leader of the company headquarters suggested defecting to other Xianbei tribes in the Hexi region, such as the Bald Xianbei.

There are a large number of Xianbei tribes in the Hexi region. In addition to the known Qifu Xianbei and Xianbei Poduolan tribes, there are also Tufa Xianbei, Yifu Xianbei, Yiyun Xianbei, Qihan Xianbei, Zheju Xianbei, Sipan Xianbei, Chegai Xianbei, Beishan Xianbei and many other tribes.

Among them, apart from the begging Xianbei, the bald Xianbei is the most powerful.

Bald Xianbei and Tuoba Xianbei have the same origin, but due to different transliterations, one branch is called Tuoba and the other is called Bald Xianbei.

In the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty, Bald-faced Xianbei leader Bald-faced Shujineng led various tribes in Hexi to rebel.

It was not until ten years later that the Bald Haired Tree Function was defeated and killed, and the Bald Haired Tribe surrendered to the Jin Dynasty.

Today, the Tufa tribe is nomadic in the southeast of Wuwei County and north of Jincheng County. Its general scope is Yongdeng County, Gansu Province in later generations, and it is also dependent on Qianliang.

Therefore, although Wuwei County once ran from southeast to northwest, the cities were concentrated in the northwest, and the southeast was the nomadic range of Bald Xianbei.

When Huan Xi attacked Zhang Zuo, he was the first to appease Bald Xianbei before marching to the northwest.

As for Yifu Xianbei, their strength is weaker than Qifu Xianbei and Tuoba Xianbei, and they are the northern neighbors of Tuyuhun.

They had a bad relationship with Tuyuhun, who was also a Xianbei force, because of the competition for water and grass.

The leaders of the company wanted to stay in the Hexi area and defect to the other Xianbei tribes, but they were opposed by the leaders of Si Yin and Tulu. They believed that if they stayed in Hexi, they would become the meat on Huan Xi's chopping block sooner or later, so it was better to leave. Hexi, moved back to Monan.

In the end, the leader of the company headquarters was persuaded by the two men, and the three troops decided to move north and return to the Monan grassland.

The departure of Si Yin, Chu Lian and Tu Lu made Huan Xi's plan come to nothing.

He was not trying to deal with Deng Xia, he really planned to conquer these three tribes as soon as he freed up his hands.

But no matter what, the fate of Qifu Xianbei, the most powerful among the Xianbei in Hexi, was enough to shock all the tribes.

At the same time, the messenger sent by Qifuxi Dahan before the war finally arrived in Guzang.

Qifu Sifan learned that Huanxi's cavalry had no Gushan in the wheat field, and finally realized that he had been fooled by his suspicious tactics, and everything was in chaos for a while.

　Next chapter before twelve o'clock in the evening

　　

　

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