Chapter 220 Northern Alliance
The result of the ambush at night was even better than expected, and it even surprised the coalition forces, the Khitan and Tiel.!
After dawn, the battle was completely over, and the Tieler army had no escaped. However, the very different from the Battle of Shehechuan was that the Tieler people were defeated very quickly this time. Under the siege of the coalition forces, they were defeated too quickly. Even after dawn, when these Tieler people were tied into strings and escorted into temporary prisoner camps, they still found it difficult to accept the fact that the entire army was wiped out in just one night. Many Tielers had the first reaction to be impossible, and the second reaction was still impossible. They kept thinking about how this was possible. These fierce, fierce but simple-minded Tielers could not accept such a defeat. They were actually at the junction of Khitan and Xi.
The land was ambushed by a Han army that was originally far away from the south, and they could not have appeared here at all. What is more difficult than the sudden appearance of the Han people in the Central Plains on the Sui border and so far away from them was that the brave Tiel tribe soldiers were wiped out in less than half a night after being ambushed by the Han people. Even though these Han people joined forces with Xi and Khitans, they were ambushed in advance in advance, and then attacked the Khitans inside and outside, with a total of as many as 70,000 to 80,000 people. However, the two Tiel warriors and their sectarian servants combined were more than 20,000, and the entire army was completely wiped out in half a night.
But that's the case. The Tiele Army, which had nearly 20,000 people, only persisted for less than half an hour under the impact of the Wuzhou Army, and then collapsed.
The servants of the sect conquered by the Tielites were not sincerely surrendered to the Tielites. When the coalition forces came out like a tide in the dark night, they immediately recognized the situation and quickly abandoned and betrayed these former conquerors. Many sects began to surrender directly to the Wuzhou army. They were very active and immediately gave the Tielites a blow behind the back, and they turned against each other in front of the formation and fought back. It was these sects
The rebellion, coupled with the death counterattack of the Khitans who had almost swallowed them, finally made the originally fierce and fierce warriors of Tiele completely confused and completely stunned. In addition, the interception of the chariot battalion and infantry battalion, the Tiele people who were scattered by the cavalry could not even organize the decent counterattack and breakout, and finally fell into a vast ocean, cut into pieces and were finally eaten.
The more than 20,000 Tiele army, in the battle last night, the squad turned against each other, and the originally nearly 15,000 Tiele people. In the end, in addition to the unlucky people who died in the battle before and later died in chaos, there were more than 14,000 people. At this time, all of them had their weapons and horses and squatted a large area in the open space surrounded by the chariot camp. The two parts of Bayegu and the squad had about 8,000 cavalry Tiele soldiers, after the battle last night, there were more than 7,000 captured at this time.
In that battle last night, few people were killed or injured. Less than a thousand people died, and only hundreds of people died. The Khitans also suffered less than a thousand casualties. As for the Han Xi coalition, they only suffered minor losses of more than a hundred deaths in battle and more than 200 serious injuries.
Yi Feng was extremely happy. Because he won so easily and suffered such small losses, he was in a good mood and even was very kind to the prisoners. He asked the people in the baggage camp to slaughter the horse broth made after the horse was killed and injured, and also sent to the prisoners so that they could eat enough.
Wei Zheng, the consultant, hummed a tune all the way, followed Yi Feng happily, constantly reporting post-war statistics. If the Khitan casualties and even subtracted the casualties of the Kumo Xi army, then the great victory of the more than 20,000 Tiele last night, the Wuzhou army had only a few dozen soldiers, and dozens of seriously injured, which added up to more than one hundred. Among the tens of thousands of Wuzhou troops, the proportion of the war was less than one hundred. If the Battle of Shehechuan was already a complete victory, the Battle of Raolehe would be even more perfect. As Yi Feng's chief staff advisor, Wei Zheng couldn't help but be happy. The battle was too easy to win, but the results were huge.
"The Bayegu tribe captured more than 2,700 prisoners, the Pugu tribe captured more than 4,200 prisoners, and the other 14,300 prisoners who turned against each other in front of the formation were more than 14,300." Wei Zheng looked through the memorial in his hand and looked up and continued: "Because the Tielite people's arrogant underestimation, they did not have a rear army or a camp left behind, all the people and horses were here, and even the materials they robbed were basically with the army. Last night, we defeated the Tielite people and put their supplies into the net. According to Kuba statistics, the harvest was very rich. Just their own war horses and robbery.
There were about 40,000 war horses coming. In addition, we still got more than 40,000 horses, camels and other animals, nearly 10,000 cattle and sheep, and countless cars, tents, food, gold and silver, cloth, etc. These Tiel people snatched from the northern tribe to the Xi border, and they had a lot of harvest, but now they all became ours at once. Killing, setting fire to the golden belt, and robbing is indeed the easiest to make a fortune." In front of the rich spoils, even Confucian disciples like Wei Zheng couldn't help but exclaim.
"No one can make money without windfall, and no horse can be fat without night grass." Yi Feng was surprised to hear this. War has always been like this. As long as you can win, the benefits of war will be huge. Otherwise, when the cannon fires, there will be tens of taels of gold. Especially for the fierce Hu people like Tiel, they are not called war at all, but robbery more appropriate. Tens of thousands of strong Mobei cavalry robbed those scattered Eastern tribes. They robbed the scattered small tribes and made it smoothly. They didn't even have time to send these spoils back. As a result, they all made wedding clothes for Yi Feng at once.
"It's a pity that this battle was not fought by our family, otherwise we won't be divided." Wang Bao, the general of the infantry battalion, said with some pain. This also reminds everyone that there are not only Wuzhou troops here. In addition to the Wuzhou troops, they also have an ally, Kumo Xi army composed of soldiers and horses from the five Xi tribes. In addition, the Khitans who were rescued by them last night can also be considered half of their allies. These were fought side by side last night. If the three families had not fought together, such a good result would not have been achieved. Of course, in addition to the Khitans and Xi people, there are more than 10,000 slaughter people in the camp now.
"By the way, how do those Xi people deal with it?" After all, these people turned against each other in front of the camp last night and gave the Tiel people a blow, otherwise they would not have won the battle so easily. Moreover, the Hu people did not belong to the Xi, the Turks. They are quite independent Eastern tribes and are closer to the tribes such as Wei Moe, the Xi Khitan clan.
"You know that as soon as we launched an attack last night, the people of the Crown immediately turned against each other anyway, and they even helped us a lot. My principle has always been rewarded for me. We have to treat the Crowns separately from the Tiole people." Yi Feng smiled, "Although we have defeated the Tiole army three times and have won, in fact we still remember that these are just a small part of the Tiole people. Tiole is the largest group in the grassland, with a household registration of more than one million households, and a population of more than tens of millions. Even if the Tiole tribe is numerous and is spread all over the east and west of the grassland, it is like the Tiole tribes such as Luo, Pugu, Bayegu, etc., following the followers.
One of them can also bring out tens or 20,000 strong cavalrymen. What's more, the grassland is now the king of the Turks, and Tielle is just one of the surrenders to the Turks. There is a saying that a hero has three gangs, a fence and three stakes, and multiple friends and multiple roads. Compared with powerful forces like Tielle and Turks, our Wuzhou army is still too weak. Friends who can win over should be won over as much as possible. Although the Junren was not our friend before, the enemy's enemy was a friend. Since the Junren was an enemy with the Tielle and now he turned against us and helped us in front of the battlefield, of course we cannot regard them as enemies anymore, but should turn them into our friends."
"Xi, Khitan, Shiwei..." Wei Zheng pinched his chin with a beard with a short chin and smiled. "These three tribes were once vassals of powerful grassland forces, and have always been the easternmost part of the northern grassland forces. Since the founding of the Sui Kingdom, the Turks have split and their power has gradually weakened. The northeastern tribes such as Xi, Khitan, Shiwei, and Mohe have paid tribute to the court, turning into the vassals of the Great Sui Dynasty and even a barrier to the north. Now we are rooted in the outer wilderness of the Great Wall. This Xi people are a barrier to our north, but Xi is too weak. If we can pull Khitan and Shiwei into our alliance, it will make our northeast direction much more stable."
"That's true!" Yi Feng nodded.
"We have already had good cooperation with the Xi people. Taking this opportunity, we can take the opportunity to cooperate with the Khitans and the Wu people."
Although Yi Feng is behind the Great Sui Dynasty, this does not allow Yi Feng to rest assured. Being in the northern part of the Great Wall, this has always made the strategic situation of the Wuzhou Army very passive. Turning Xi, Khitan and Wu into allies can not only enhance their own strength, but also reduce risks. After all, if they do not become allies with tribes such as Xi, Khitan, etc., they may become enemies. Between the enemy and friends, Yi Feng would rather have more friends than more enemies.
After determining the tone of the relationship with Xi Khitan, there will be guidelines for the subsequent handling of this battle.
The Xi, Khitan and the Wushu tribes are all friends of the Wuzhou Army, and they will even be allies. Of course, there are also their trophys.
Chapter completed!