Chapter 51: The Big Picture Has Been Decided
The most beautiful April day in the world, even in the desert of yellow sand, there are still grasslands full of green.
It's just that Huchuquan is going to say goodbye to the grassland.
The real source of power of the Southern Xiongnu is naturally the strength of the soldiers and horses of the Tu tribes, but since ancient times, the Xiongnu left and right Xian Wang, the left and right Guli kings as the four corners of the Xiongnu, is the real combat power of the Southern Xiongnu. In other words, only when the Xiongnu had the support of the four corners, did they have a strong force as a support.
The current situation is extremely unfavorable to Huchuquan, and the Zuoxian Wang's troops moved to Shangjun, although they said in words that it was to avoid the plague, but in fact, who didn't know that they were to avoid the military disaster? Liu Meng, the commander of the leading army of the Youxian Wang's department, became the humerus of the Hun royal court in this battle, but now this strongest upper arm bone was taken down by Yanbei and smashed towards Hu Chuquan's head as a weapon.
With the defection of Liu Meng's right Xianwang department, the Xiongnu army, which was still evenly matched with Yanbei, was very different from Huchuquan.
For a time, the leaders of the various departments that originally only relied on power to gather under their command were unstable, and there were many surrenderers who surrendered when Liu Meng was the pioneer and charged northward, so that the northern army of Yanbei had not yet engaged, and the right side of the Xiongnu alone had many victories when fighting with the Tu tribes, and the various cities heard that the great Sima of the court had a personal expedition, and they closed the city gates and defended them tightly, and it was difficult for the Huchuquan Department to collect supplies, and it was worth the rout to the north.
After Shanan and Lingling were attacked by two encirclements, there were only more than 7,000 soldiers and horses left in Huchuquan, and the Xiongnu who had been monstrous in a hurry could not care about fighting, and the soldiers and horses fled to the north only one way. His riders needed to replenish the water supply, otherwise they would not be able to escape far before they would be caught up by the Han army behind them.
If Yanbei does not have Liu Meng's help, the cavalry is very few, and the tired army can still win the battle, but now Liu Meng's Huns have nearly 10,000 Hun cavalry, which is not at all what Hu Chuquan can stop, and after running to Shaling to replenish the water source, in order to get rid of the Han army, Hu Chuquan resolutely led the Huns to the southwest Xiongnu Shan Yu Wang Ting in the direction of the desert in the clouds.
Yanbei was only two days late, and the traces on the edge of the desert were blown away by the wind and sand, as if there had never been any visitors here since ancient times. Liu Meng was also helpless about this, and thousands of Hun cavalry set up camp around the edge of the desert, and the idea of not wanting to go deeper was obvious.
"Da Sima, although we were born in this land, we are not in the desert, and we are only ...... him."
Liu Meng was reluctant to enter the desert to pursue, and it was inevitable that the soldiers and horses would be killed and injured during the military battle, but if the current situation called him deep into the desert, the soldiers would be in trouble if they got lost. What's more, with the same root and the same species, it is Yanbei's business that Yanbei is willing to go into the desert to pursue Huchuquan, and he is not willing to kill Luan Tihuchuquan.
Think about yourself in the first half of the night and think about others in the second half of the night, if you march and fight, Hu Chuquan loses to himself, that's another thing, and now he forces Shan Yu to this, and he will have to worry about what others think in the future.
Yan Bei didn't think much about this matter, and there was no need to be harsh on Liu Meng, which was just one of them. He himself would never lead his troops into the desert, and sent a message to Cao Xing, who stayed in Wuding to recuperate from his injuries, to move the headquarters to defend Shaling, leaving him with 300 forest cavalry to patrol the edge of the desert in case Huchuquan came out, and then took the soldiers and horses south to attack the Xiongnu royal court.
"Hu Chuquan fled into the desert Yan can't do anything about him, but he always has to go back to Shan Yuting, and Yan is waiting for him there." When he said this, Yan Bei on the chariot sneered and said, "If he doesn't even want Shan Yuting, why not let Yan let him live!" ”
Without Shan Yuting's Huchuquan, what is Shan Yu, if he is not a Xiongnu Shan Yu, Yanbei and him will not have much to do with him.
Not to mention whether Hu Chuquan encountered changes in the desert, even if the road was smooth, it was not as fast as Yanbei's soldiers, and he arrived at Shan Yuting first. This is a truth that everyone knows, and it can also be seen that Huchuquan was forced to a desperate place by Yanbei, otherwise he would definitely not plunge into the desert with his head.
As for the court, the rest of the matter will be much easier. On the way over, Yanbei had already sent someone to the imperial court to ask for an edict, and when he went to the royal court, he sent Liu Meng's troops to kill the royal court...... At present, the Xiongnu royal court is empty, and the athletes who can fight are all requisitioned away by Huchuquan, and now the dead are running away, and there are only some women and children in the royal court and old soldiers who can't get on the horse with old injuries, but there are only more than 3,000 warriors, and the people who can be in charge are only two thousand long.
Without even having to spend effort to surrender, Liu Meng's cavalry charged and shot the defenders of the royal court to pieces, killing them into the royal court of the tribe.
The reason why Liu Meng worked so hard for Yanbei was that Yanbei promised his father to go to Hun Shan Yu. In fact, he doesn't care if Lao Tzu can do Shan Yu, what he cares about is to go to Humility to do Shan Yu, and the Right Xian Wang's Ministry will all fall into his hands, he is also the Xiongnu Right Xian King, not to mention the canonization of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, which further increases the legitimacy and justifies it.
Seeing the sturdy Dugu warriors holding the women and children of the royal court tied up in a long line, and the skins, bones, gold, silver and jade in the felt tents were put into the car, Liu Meng's heart did not have a sense of sadness for the dead rabbit and the fox. But he didn't ask what would happen to the women and children of the slaughtering tribes, as if what he didn't know wouldn't happen.
In fact, the fate of these women and children of the Huchuquan Department is very easy to guess, and their men participated in the battle against the Han army in the Liao Division, which is equivalent to rebellion. They will be escorted by cavalry to the mines of Gongxian and Bohai counties in Guanzhong, digging mountains and rocks in the dark, and spending the rest of their lives tired and depressed.
But this is not over, just when the overall situation of the royal court has been decided, Liu Meng thought that he could lead the troops back to the tribe to be his right king, Yanbei's order was sent again, let him lead the Hun soldiers to the tribe of the king of Guli on the left and right, and also take the families of the rebels who were attached to Huchuquan into Taihang Mountain.
This was not unexpected by Liu Meng, but Yanbei's order was too ruthless. Even if Yanbei did not have such an order, after the Han army left, he would also lead the army to the left and right of the Guli Wang Department to kill Huchuquan's cronies and cleanse the entire Xiongnu Department, in case Huchuquan did not trap the desert and resurrect it, but Yanbei's order was completely different from the starting point and result of his cleansing of the Xiongnu...... His purge is to only get rid of Huchuquan's cronies, while Yanbei's purge is indiscriminate and exterminates the entire tribe.
Since ancient times, the Xiongnu have twenty-four tens of thousands of people, with the left and right virtuous kings as the most, the big ones will ride thousands of people, and the small ones will ride thousands. With Yanbei's order, he wanted to raze the strongest left and right Gu Li Wang's troops to the ground, and such an order made Liu Meng have the heart to refuse, but he did not dare to disobey.
The situation is compelling, not to mention that there are more than 20,000 troops stationed in Yanbei in Shan Yu Wangting, and more than 400 warriors such as Cheng Lian beside Liu Meng alone can put him to death at any time!
The war wiped out the slaughter of all the tribes and the left and right valley and the king's department.
And the previous plague also caused the remaining Zuoxian Wang Department, the left and right generals, the left and right commanders, the left and right big bosses, and the left and right bone marquis.
Standing in the Hun court with thick smoke everywhere, Liu Meng's heart was full of sourness...... The strength of the Xiongnu in the past is probably no longer there from this time on.