Chapter 499: The Huns Collapse
The Huns did not dispel the thought of escaping Guanzhong because of the sudden beacon on the east bank of the river. They didn't even bother to take a breath and began to organize people to cross the river. Soon, hundreds of cowhide bags were blown up, and then they tied dozens of cowhide bags into one group, forming a cowhide raft that could carry five or six people.
In less than half an hour, hundreds of cowhide rafts had been laid and put into the water. Three thousand selected Xiongnu elite soldiers boarded the cowhide rafts and led their respective war horses to cross the river. The Huns generally did not know how to swim, so they had to use cowhide rafts, while most of the war horses would float, so they could cross the river by just being led.
The process of crossing the river was not smooth. Although the sections selected by the Huns were the smoothest nearby, they were only relatively speaking. In general, the river water near Helan Mountain was still very turbulent. During the process of crossing the river, at least twenty cowhide rafts were washed away by the turbulent water flow, and at least two hundred Huns fell into the water and drowned.
After more than half an hour of attack with the Rapids, the exhausted Hun cavalry finally stepped onto the east bank of the river.
Then the Huns who stayed on the west bank pulled the cowhide raft back to the west bank through ropes. The second group of 3,000 Hun cavalry boarded the cowhide raft again and began to cross the river. But at this moment, the Hun cavalry on the east bank of the river suddenly became turbulent, and a faint black line appeared on the eastern horizon, and the Han cavalry arrived!
Under the afterglow of the setting sun, at least tens of thousands of Han cavalry swept across the mountains and fields.
Although the Hun cavalry crossed the east coast had only three thousand cavalry and were exhausted, they still spread their formations and met them fearlessly. The Han cavalry waited for their hard work. And they attacked the widows with crowds. The Hun cavalry quickly defeated and came to the battle. In less than two quarters of an hour, the Hun cavalry was completely dispersed.
When it was getting dark, 20,000 Han infantrymen also arrived.
As a last resort, the Huns had no choice but to give up crossing the river. Most of the first three thousand Hun cavalry who crossed the river were wiped out. Less than a hundred cavalry fled in all directions and rushed into the nearby mountains.
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Late at night, Bai Mo also rushed from Lingwu to the crossing point.
He said to Zhou Guanfu and Bai Mo: "Win, although the Huns' crossing of the river failed during the day, they will never give up easily. They will definitely smuggle at night tonight, so you must be vigilant."
Zhou Guanfu pressed the hilt of the sword and said solemnly: "Prime Minister Don't worry, Mo Jiang has sent dozens of patrols along the river bank, patrolling continuously for twelve hours. Whether it is day or night, as long as the Huns dare to take action, they will definitely not escape our suspicion. In addition, Mo Jiang has also sent scouts to Hexi."
The purpose of sending scouts to Hexi is self-evident. It is to monitor the movements of the Huns army. Once the Huns army leaves this place and turns to another section of the river, the scouts on the west bank of the river can be warned in advance, and the Han cavalry and infantry on the east bank of the river can be advanced and ready to fight.
"Okay." Bai Mo nodded happily, "I still have to persevere for a long time."
"Yes!" Zhou Guanfu replied with a loud bang. "It's only if you don't humiliate your fate."
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As Bai Mo expected, Gu Nuoyan, Gao Aduo and Kayitu were indeed planning to smuggle.
Gu Nuoyan drew a line on the ground with his sword, placed a small stone at each of the two bends, and pointed to one of the small stones and said, "I have repeatedly surveyed before dark. The water flow in this river bend is relatively gentle and is most suitable for smuggling. However, there will definitely be Han cavalry patrolling the other side, so some movement must be made in other sections of the river."
"Leave this to me." Gao Aduo pointed at another small stone with his sword and said, "I will take people here to cross to attract the attention of the Han army on the east bank." After a pause, Gao Aduo said again, "However, after nightfall, I found many scouts of the Han army on the west bank of the river, and our actions may not be hidden from them."
"Leave the Han army scouts on the West Bank to solve the problem." Kayitu said.
"Okay, then that's it." Gu Nuoyan waved his hand and said, "Let's take action separately."
Gao Aduo and Kayitu were about to leave, but Gu Nuoyan's tent was suddenly lifted open. Then a strong Hun man rushed in. After entering the tent, he only called the Youxian King, and then fell to the ground and fainted.
"Isn't this the Iron City Protective Admiral?" Gu Nuoyan recognized the strong Hun man who broke in at a glance, rushed to help the Iron City with two steps, and asked sternly, "Iron City? Is it easy to wake up, aren't you staying in Iron City? Why are you here? Yan Shu, you're going to say a few fucking words!"
Gao Aduo and Kayitu also looked at each other. Could it be that something happened in Mobei?
Uncle Gong said he arrived after hearing the news, and reached out and pinched Yan Shu's Renzhong acupoint. Yan Shu, who fainted, woke up quietly. He hugged Gu Nuoyan's thigh and burst into tears. While crying, he screamed: "Youxian King, it's over, it's over, it's over, Shanyuting and Datiecheng were attacked by the Chu army. It's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over..."
"What did you say?!" Gu Nuoyan's surprise was really extraordinary, "Chu army attacked?!"
Uncle Gong was also in a panic and gasped in a terrifying manner, screaming with extreme disrespect: "Impossible, this is impossible. The Chu and Han countries were stalemate because of their alliance. The rest of Han, Zhao, Yan, and Qi were also involved. At this time, how could the Chu army unite with the Han army to use troops against our Huns?"
After saying that, Uncle Gong said he grabbed Yan Shu again and asked, "Yan Shu, can he be a Donghu person?"
"What Donghu people are clearly the Chu army and the Yan army!" Yan Shu's eyes were blasting fire and hissed, "What are the Donghu people? How could they have sharp iron weapons and excellent cavalry bows? And how could the Donghu people have such powerful combat power? They are the Chu army, and they are the Chu army!"
Uncle Gong said that he was feeling air conditioned, and suddenly he thought of another question. The Shanyu court was over, so what about the little Shanyu Junchen? He asked again: "Where are Yanshu, Junchen and Yi Zhixie?"
"I don't know." Yan Shu shook his head and said sadly, "According to the defeated guards who fled to the Iron City, after the Shanyu Court fell, Junchen and Yi Zhixie also disappeared from the chaos army. The Chu-Yan coalition army was extremely vicious. They killed people when they saw them and burned them when they met the tent. The two little Shanyu had probably suffered misfortunes."
"Ah?!" Uncle Gong screamed in surprise and fell to the ground in depressed manner.
Gu Nuoyan, Gao Aduo and Kayitu's eyes could not stop a trace of joy. Military ministers and Yi Zhixie died in the chaos. Even if the Great Shanyu tribe was absolutely amazing, the new Shanyu could only be produced among the three of them.
But soon, Gu Nuoyan and the other two thought of a very serious problem. Shanyuting and Datiecheng are two major nests of the Zhuli Tribe. Now the two places have been lost one after another. All the women and children are killed by the Chu army, and all the cattle and sheep are abducted by the Chu army. The Zhuli Tribe will immediately face the crisis of survival and reproduction!
The dozen or so Xiongnu little kings who came here also had different expressions. Several of the slightly stronger Xiongnu little kings had their eyes flashed, and they had different thoughts in their minds.
You should know that the Huns are not a unified nation, but a tribal alliance composed of hundreds of tribes of all sizes. In this tribal alliance, the Zhuli tribe is in an absolute dominant position. The entire Huns are about one million people, and the Zhuli tribe has more than 600,000 people, and they occupy the most lush aquatic grasslands such as Lugong River and Yuwu River.
But now, Shanyuting and Datiecheng were blood-stained by the Chu army. All the women and children left in the nest of the Chu army have been killed by the Chu army. The women and children who went to the battle with the army are also killed by the Han army in Juyanze. In this way, although the hundreds of thousands of men in the Chuli tribe are still there, their women and children are gone, and they are already dead!
On the contrary, the small Hun tribes, because they could not occupy the lush water and grassland, escaped in disguise and retained some women, children, cattle and sheep. Now, as long as they protect women, children, cattle and sheep, the tribe will definitely become stronger. One day it is not impossible to replace the Zhuli tribe and dominate the entire desert.
A few of the Huns' Kings who had a quick thought slipped away immediately.
When Gu Nuoyan and the others realized that they wanted to block the news, it was too late. Several Huns' kings had already taken their respective tribes to set off their camps overnight, and the remaining hundreds of tribes of all sizes were also moved. Gu Nuoyan, Gao Aduo and Kayitu saw that the situation was wrong, and immediately drove the army to attack the small tribes.
At this time, Gu Nuoyan, Gao Aduo and Kayitu couldn't care about so much. What we need to consider now is how to make the Zhuli tribe survive and reproduce. There were only a few women, children, cattle and sheep on the grassland, and Guanzhong could not get in for a while, so the Zhuli tribe could only make its decisions on the small tribe.
However, these small tribes are not easy to mess with. A single small tribe certainly cannot afford the powerful Zhunli tribe. However, when hundreds of tribes of all sizes unite, their strength is not much weaker than the Zhunli tribe. In an instant, the army of more than 300,000 Huns was divided into two camps and fought desperately in Hexi.
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Zhou Guanfu accompanied Bai Mo to the observation deck on the top of the mountain, and asked the guard school and said, "What's the situation?"
"It's not clear what the situation is." The on-duty school shook his head and pointed to the Xiongnu camp in Hexi and said, "About half an hour ago, the torches suddenly appeared in the Xiongnu camp in Hexi, and countless Xiongnu people flocked out from it, and then began a melee in Hexi, which continued until now."
Bai Mo and Zhou Guanfu looked in the direction of the little school's finger. Sure enough, they saw the bright light of fire in Hexi, and teams of Hun cavalry were fighting endlessly without formation. Although they were far apart, they could still hear the faint sound of killing. Obviously, the Huns were not acting, but were really fighting.
"How could this happen?" Zhou Guanfu said in surprise, "It shouldn't be."
"Why shouldn't it?" Bai Mo smiled slightly and said, "If I was wrong, my junior brother should have completed the feat of plowing the temple and sweeping the caves. The Huns learned the news, so they began to fight for survival and reproduction." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!